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New Report Added in ResearchMoz Reports Database Cable Modem Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018
New Study Set Top Boxes: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 382 pages, 109 tables and figures. Worldwide set top box markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the next generation TV Internet systems provide a way to improve bundled channel video services. Set top boxes support entertainment, business, educational, and healthcare video services delivery in the home. Channels and Internet capability will be accessible from the same handset. Gateways will be used to implement multiple device access in the home in some cases. Cloud systems proliferate.
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According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, "Set top boxes bring Internet to the home. They are evolving the capability to be used by the cable and TV entertainment industry to deliver Internet services. The cloud represents the preferred Internet delivery model so that services from bundled channels and the Internet can be accessed from one single remote TV selector."
New types of entertainment and sports oriented services are coming into the home. Bundled channel video is being extended as people achieve Internet access capabilities over the HD TV. Enhancements to the current bundled channels promise significant growth to the cable industry. The ability to enhance channel access with HD TV Internet access promises to have broad appeal. The Internet promises to enhance sports programming with information about the game and players delivered over a devices while a channel is being watched. Information at the same time as a program will be enticing. Others watch programs using a single network available on different devices supporting moving to different parts of the home. New cloud services open more efficient ways to deliver those capabilities to everyone. Set top boxes play a continuing key role in enabling HD TV bundled channel services delivery.
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Set top boxes support bundled video channel services delivery. Bundling continues to have widespread appeal as a way to fund the creation of video entertainment that has broad appeal. Next generation set top boxes and home IP gateway devices offer significant IP based functionality to the home.
Set top boxes are useful particularly in the US where there is widespread adoption of the cable TV services delivery. With the cable video business model spreading worldwide bundled programming is anticipated to continue to have appeal. Markets are poised for significant growth. Video content is proliferating.
The channel offerings bring compelling content that can only be produced under the current business model. They provide a valuable connectivity between the cable services provider content and the home HD TV. While it is nice to think that everyone will pay for a media player or media gateway that offers more functions, in truth, the separate set top box is functional, low cost, and performs a valuable services delivery vehicle.
At the high end, set top box markets are migrating in part to next generation solutions with an integrated multimedia device offering entertainment to the entire home. A cloud model is different. The cloud is very appealing and being implemented by several services providers, assuring continued proliferation of set top boxes for a long time to come.
Bundled channels of video have been a compelling business model replacing broadcast TV free channels with bundles of paid channel packages. This bundled programming model is anticipated to continue to thrive as Internet services are added to the TV set.
Video communication is increasing in importance. Video content is replacing voice, data, text, and print media in many instances. Educational video is evolving a more significant place in the teaching of students. News video is proliferating. Video is being used to accomplish remote healthcare services delivery. These uses of video over the Internet will leverage HD TV devices, complementing the current bundled entertainment programming business model.
Set top boxes will last for a long, long time with the addition of Internet access capability. The issue is whether bringing Internet protocol (IP) to the set top box will destroy the proprietary bundling of channels for TV. The value of bundling is likely to create persistence of the cable industry business model as it exists now.
Bringing IP to the TV set is not significantly different than having the Intent available on the PC or cell phone. IP TV brings more content, particularly health services as new content, but it is not anticipated to disrupt the existing bundled channel services entertainment and sports model that cable providers bring now.
Set top box dedicated device markets at $8.7 billion in 2011 are anticipated to reach $15.6 billion by 2018 as next generation gateways and cloud computing are introduced to manage Internet connectivity to HD TV devices in the home.
Table of Content
1. Set Top Box Market Description and Dynamics
1.1 Sustained Economic Weakness And Volatile Credit Markets
1.2 Digital Revolution
1.2.1 Home Networking
1.2.2 Cable Industry Overview
1.2.3 Cable Industry Conditions
1.2.4 Growing Demand for Bundled Services —
1.2.5 Digital Video Recorders
1.2.6 Content Providers Increasingly Offer Personalized Content
1.2.7 Television Has Become More Interactive And Personalized
1.3 Release 3.0 of DOCSIS® Is Current Governing Standard For
Data Services in North America
1.4 Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination System
1.4.1 Fixed-Access Layer Termination
1.4.2 Home Network Physical Layer
1.4.3 MSO Residential Gateway
1.5 Standard Technologies Like DOCSIS
1.5.1 Cable Television Industry Dramatic Technological Change
1.5.2 Cable Operators Demanding Advanced Network
Technologies and Software Solutions
1.5.3 Cable Industry Few Key Customers
1.6 Internet Advertising
1.6.1 Advertising Dollars
1.6.2 Consolidation Of Vendors
1.7 Cable Operator Business Services
1.8 Cable Modem Connections
1.9 Internet As Cable Industry Infrastructure
1.9.1 ARRIS Touchstone® Customer Premises
Equipment Solutions
1.9.2 Residential E-MTA
1.9.3 DOCSIS 3.0 Solutions
1.10 Small-Medium Business Solutions
1.11 Wireless Gateways
1.11.1 Wireless Telecom Trends
2. Set Top Box Market Shares and Forecasts
2.1 Cable Industry and Set Top Box Device Market Dynamics
2.1.1 Cable TV IP Industry Interrupt-Based Advertising
2.1.2 Cable Industry Bundling
2.1.3 Set Top Box Market Driving Forces
2.1.4 Cable Industry Conditions
2.2 Set Top Box Market Shares
2.2.1 Pace PLC
2.2.2 Pace
2.2.3 Cisco
2.2.4 Google Motorola
2.2.5 Arris
2.2.6 EchoStar Digital Set-Top Box Products
2.2.7 Netgem
2.2.8 Netgem
2.2.9 Technicolor Set Top Boxes
2.3 Set Top Box Market Forecasts
2.3.1 Cable Industry Challenges
2.3.2 Total Global Broadband Subscribers
2.3.3 US Cable Industry Statistics
2.3.4 Set Top Box and Next Generation
Home IP Gateway Market DOCSIS 3 Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide,
2.3.5 Set Top Box Industry Competition
2.3.6 Cable TV Cell-Site Backhaul
2.3.7 Cable Industry Market Growth Factors
2.3.8 Cable Industry Trends
2.3.9 Adoption of HD TV for Telemedicine
2.3.10 Adoption Of Voice Service
2.3.11 Video Key To Offering Compelling Triple-Play Services
2.3.12 MSOs Begin To Adapt
2.4 Broadband Set Top Box Enabling the Visual Network in the Home
2.4.1 Internet Video Traffic
2.4.2 Over-The-Top (OTT) Video Content
2.4.3 Wireless Phones
2.4.4 Residential Video Gateway Sector
2.4.5 Modems and Residential Gateways
2.4.6 MSO Service Convergence
2.4.7 MSO Open Network Capabilities & Web Integration
2.5 Set Top Box Regional Market Segments
2.5.1 US Home Networking
2.5.2 Arris Net Sales by Regional Segment
3. Set Top Box Product Description
3.1 Pace PLC
3.1.1 Pace High Definition PVR Set Top Box
3.1.2 Pace DZC5000
3.1.3 Pace TDC865
3.1.4 Pace HDC7240
3.1.5 Pace Cable Set-Top Boxes
3.1.6 PaceDZC5000
3.1.7 Pace HDC7240
3.1.8 Pace High Definition
3.1.9 Pace DZC3000
3.1.10 Pace DC840
3.1.11 Pace DC830
3.1.12 Pace DCR6230
3.1.13 Pace DZC2000
3.1.14 Pace DCR2230
3.1.15 Pace C5300 Gateway Value Added Services
3.2 Google Motorola Set Top Boxes
3.2.1 Motorola QIP7216 Set Top Box
3.2.2 Motorola DCT6416
3.2.3 Motorola DCT700
3.2.4 Motorola DTA100
3.2.5 Google Motorola Telelynx TT-9601LT & TC-9601LT
3.2.6 Google Motorola Telelynx TC-9512-PVR
3.3 Cisco Scientific Atlanta
3.4 ARRIS Media Gateway Whole Home Solution
3.4.1 ARRIS RFoG Solutions
3.4.2 ARRIS Whole Home, DOCSIS® 3.0, Multi-Screen
Set Top Box Solutions
3.4.3 Arris nABLE™ Set Top Apps
3.5 Thompson Technicolor Set Top Boxes
3.5.1 Technicolor Full 3D HD Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband
3.5.2 Technicolor TWG870
3.6 Echostar
3.6.1 EchoStar Digital Set-Top Box Products
3.6.2 EchoStar Technologies Digital Broadcast Operations
3.7 Microsoft Enters The Living Room
4. Set Top Box Technology
4.1 Video Media Cloud
4.1.1 Cloud Computing Leverages Networks To Share Video
4.2 IPv6 Leverages the Cloud to Gain More Addressing Space
4.3 Set-Top Box Technologies
4.4 Ethernet:
4.4.1 Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)
4.5 Video Architecture
4.5.1 End-To-End Architectural Approach
4.5.2 Cisco VXI Desktop Virtualization And
Collaboration Architectures
4.5.3 Cisco IOS Cable Modem Remote-Query Command
4.6 Understanding Online States
4.6.1 Registration and Provisioning Status Conditions
4.6.2 Non-Error Status Conditions
4.6.3 Error Status Conditions
4.7 Cisco Support Community - Featured Conversations
4.8 Wireless Device Proliferation
4.9 Cable Industry Regulatory issues
4.10 Home Network Standards/Technologies
4.10.1 Cable Modem Termination System
4.10.2 Fixed-Access Layer Termination
4.10.3 Home Network Physical Layer
4.10.4 MSO Residential Gateway
4.10.5 Microcells, Picocells, And Femtocells
4.10.6 Deployment
4.10.7 Small-Cell Benefits
5 Set Top Box Company Profiles
5.1.1 Arris Revenue
5.1.2 Arris Broadband Communications Systems (BCS)
5.1.3 Arris CMTS
5.1.4 Arris CPE
5.1.5 Arris Access, Transport & Supplies (ATS)
5.1.6 Arris Media & Communications Systems (MCS)
5.1.7 Arris Product, Services, and Regional Revenue
5.1.8 Arris Revenue Q1 2012
5.1.9 Arris Revenue
5.1.10 Arris Strategy
5.1.11 Arris Radio Frequency Products
5.1.12 Arris Supplies
5.1.13 ARRIS Company Overview
5.1.14 Arris Strategy Focus on Enabling Convergence of
Cable Services on A unified IP Platform
5.1.15 Arris Acquisitions: BigBand
5.1.16 BigBand Networks Applications For Targeted Advertising
5.1.17 Arris BigBand Video-Networking Platforms
5.1.18 Arris / BigBand Third Quarter 2011 Revenue
5.2 BendBroadband
5.3 Broadcom
5.4 CableLabs
5.5 Casa Systems
5.5.1 Casa Systems Investment Partners Liberty Global
5.5.2 Casa Systems Investment Summit Partners
5.5.3 Casa Systems CMTS Supports Rollout of
Wholesale Broadband Access Services
5.6 Cisco
5.6.1 Cisco Forecasts Mobile Data Traffic
5.6.2 Cisco Creating Long-Lasting Customer Partnerships
5.6.3 Cisco Information Technology
5.6.4 Cisco Virtualization
5.6.5 Cisco Addresses the Competitive Landscape In The
Enterprise Data Center
5.6.6 Cisco Architectural Approach
5.6.7 Cisco Switching
5.6.8 Cisco NGN Routing
5.6.9 Cisco Collaboration
5.6.10 Cisco Service Provider Video
5.6.11 Cisco Wireless
5.6.12 Cisco Security
5.6.13 Cisco Data Center Products
5.6.14 Cisco Other Products
5.6.15 Cisco Systems Net Sales
5.6.16 Cisco Systems Revenue by Segment
5.6.17 Cisco Telepresence Systems Segment Net Sales
5.6.18 Cisco Tops 10,000 Unified Computing System Customers
5.6.19 Cisco Customer Focus
5.6.20 Cisco Tops 10,000 Unified Computing System
Customers: Captures 53 Industry Benchmark World Records
5.7 Comcast Business Services
5.7.1 Comcast Cable
5.8 CommScope
5.8.1 CommScope / LiquidxStream Systems
5.9 Com21
5.9.1 COM Twenty One Converged Communication Solutions
5.9.2 COM Twenty One Application Servers,
Storage & Data Centre Solutions:
5.9.3 COM Twenty One Surveillance and Integrated Security Solutions
5.9.4 COM Twenty One Connectivity
5.9.5 COM Twenty One Network, Security, Content
and Bandwidth Management Solutions:
5.9.6 COM Twenty One Turnkey Software Projects
5.9.7 COM Twenty One Business Continuity Planning
5.9.8 COM Twenty One ISP Data Services
5.9.9 COM Twenty One Document & Content Management
5.10 EchoStar
5.10.1 EchoStar Set-Top Boxes
5.10.2 EchoStar Delivery Products For Television Experience
5.10.3 EchoStar Equipment Revenue
5.10.4 EchoStar Technologies Satellites
5.10.5 EchoStar Technologies Satellite Anomalies
5.10.6 EchoStar Technologies Owned Satellites
5.10.7 EchoStar Technologies Satellite Fleet
5.10.8 EchoStar Technologies Satellite Fleet Recent Developments
5.10.9 EchoStar Technologies Leased Satellites
5.10.10 EchoStar Technologies Long-Lived Satellite Assets
5.10.11 EchoStar Technologies Segment Reporting
5.10.12 EchoStar Technologies Segment
5.11 Ericsson
5.11.1 Ericsson Net Sales (Share Of Total)
5.11.2 Ericsson First Quarter Report 2012
5.11.3 Ericsson Market Share Estimates
5.11.4 Ericsson Market Position
5.11.5 Ericsson Go-To-Market Model
5.12 Google
5.12.1 Google / Motorola
5.12.2 Google Search
5.12.3 Google Advertising
5.12.4 Google YouTube
5.12.5 You Tube
5.12.6 youtube.com Statistics
5.12.7 YouTube Partner Program
5.12.8 youtube.com Monetization
5.12.9 youtube.com Product Metrics
5.12.10 youtube.com Content ID
5.12.11 youtube.com Social
5.12.12 YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011
5.12.13 YouTube Play
5.12.14 Google Mobile
5.12.15 Google Local
5.12.16 Google Operating Systems and Platforms
5.12.17 Google Apps Enterprise
5.12.18 Google Q4 Revenue
5.12.19 Google Organizes The World's Information to
Make It Universally Accessible.
5.12.20 Google Business
5.12.21 Google Search Advertising
5.12.22 Google Display Advertising
5.12.23 Google Mobile Advertising
5.12.24 Google Tools for Publishers
5.12.25 Google / Motorola
5.12.26 Motorola Mobility
5.13 Harmonic
5.13.1 Harmonic Cable Solutions
5.13.2 Harmonic is Comprehensive Video Delivery Platform
5.13.3 Harmonic Highly Integrated Digital Video Gateway
5.13.4 Harmonic Cable Edge
5.14 Huawei
5.14.1 Huawei Intelligent Hotel UC Solution
5.14.2 Huawei FTTH
5.14.3 Huawei Softswitch Certified by CableLabs®
5.14.4 Huawei Cloud Platform: Innovative Foundations
5.14.5 Huawei Building Intelligent Pipes: Performance Leverage
5.14.6 Huawei Telecommunication Solutions
5.14.7 Huawei Videoconferencing System for Shenshuo
Railway Co. Ltd.
5.14.8 Huawei Telepresence Benefits
5.14.9 Huawei Emergency Management Videoconferencing
System for Shandong Electric Power Corporation
5.14.10 Huawei Emergency Management
Videoconferencing System Requirement Analysis
5.15 Netgem
5.15.1 Netgem Strategy
5.15.2 Netgem Customer Profile
5.15.3 Netgem Revenues
5.16 Pace PLC
5.16.1 Pace PLC Revenue
5.16.2 Pace North America
5.16.3 Pace Latin America
5.16.4 Pace Brazil.
5.16.5 Pace Europe
5.16.6 Pace Rest of World
5.16.7 Pace Competes Effectively With Satellite Operators
5.16.8 Pace High Definition
5.16.9 Pace Micro Technology
5.17 Sequans
5.17.1 Sequans Communications
5.18 Skyworth Digital Holdings Ltd
5.19 Technicolor / Thompson Set Top Boxes
5.19.1 Technicolor
5.19.2 Technicolor Q1 2012 Revenues
5.19.3 Technicolor Q1 2012 highlights
5.19.4 Technicolor / Thomson Consumer Products
5.19.5 Thomson Professional Products / Thomson Broadcast
5.19.6 Thomson Video Networks
5.19.7 Technicolor / RCA Products
5.19.8 Technicolor / Speedtouch
5.19.9 Technicolor / Grass Valley
5.20 Teleste
5.20.1 Teleste Projects:
5.20.2 Teleste Network Planning and
Technical Management Services:
5.20.3 Teleste Strategic Direction
5.21 Teleste Strategic Targets And Actions
5.21.1 Teleste Revenue
5.22 Ubee
5.22.1 Ubee Ships 2 Million DOCSIS 3.0 Units
5.22.2 Ubee Interactive Adopts Sequans' LTE
Semiconductor Solutions
5.23 Zoom Telephonics
5.24 Selected Cable Modem and Set Top Box Companies
List of Table:
Table ES-1 Set Top Box Market Driving Forces
Figure ES-2 Set Top Box and Residential Gateways Market Shares, Dollars, 2011
Figure ES-3 Set Top Box Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018
Table 1-1 Cable Television Industry Dramatic Technological Change Impact
Figure 1-2 Internet As Cable Industry Infrastructure
Figure 1-3 Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) Architecture
Table 2-1 Set Top Box Market Driving Forces
Figure 2-2 Set Top Box and Residential Gateways Market Shares, Dollars, 2011
Table 2-3 Set Top and Gateway Boxes, Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
Figure 2-4 Set Top and Home Gateway Boxes Market Shares, Units, Worldwide, 2011
Table 2-5 Set Top and Gateway Boxes Dollars, Units Worldwide, 2011
Figure 2-6 Cable Modem Market Shares Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
Figure 2-7 Set Top Box Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018
Table 2-8 Set Top Box Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018
Table 2-9 Cable Services Delivery Businesses Challenges
Table 2-10 Cable Services Delivery Business Positioning
Table 2-10 (Continued)
Cable Services Delivery Business Positioning
Table 2-11 US Cable Industry Statistics, 2011
Figure 2-12 Enabling Cable TV Industry Convergence
Figure 2-13 Cable TV Addressable Market
Table 2-14 Factors Likely To Create Shift To Telemedicine
Table 2-15 Telemedicine Adoption Rate Issues And Concerns
Figure 2-16 Internet Video Traffic Growth
Figure 2-17 Set Top Box and Residential Cloud Regional Market
Segments, Dollars, 2011
Table 2-18 Set Top Box and Home IP Cloud Regional Market Segments, 2011
Figure 3-1 Pace Set Top Boxes
Table 3-2 Pace Set Top Box Market Segments
Figure 3-3 ace Set-Top Boxes
Table 3-4 Pace Set Top Box Benefits
Figure 3-5 Pace DZC5000 High Definition PVR
Figure 3-6 Pace DZC5000
Table 3-7 Pace DZC5000 Product Summary
Figure 3-8 Pace TDC865
Table 3-9 Pace TDC865 Product Summary
Figure 3-10 Pace HDC7240
Figure 3-11 Pace HDC7240 Product Highlights
Table 3-12 Pace HDC7240 Product Summary
Figure 3-13 Pace High Definition PVR
Figure 3-14 Pace DZC5000
Figure 3-15 Pace DZC3000
Figure 3-16 Pace DC840
Figure 3-17 Pace DC830
Figure 3-18 Pace DCR6230
Figure 3-19 Pace DZC2000
Figure 3-20 Pace DZC2000
Table 3-21 Pace C5300 Product Highlight
Table 3-22 Pace C5300 Gateway Product Summary
Figure 3-23 Motorola‑DCX‑Set‑Top‑Box
Figure 3-24 Motorola Set Top Box B2C_AOP_DCX3400
Figure 3-25 Motorola VIP1216 is an IP-Based Set Top Box With DVR and HomePNA
Figure 3-26 Motorola QIP7216 hybrid QAM/IP dual tuner HD DVR set top
Figure 3-27 Motorola QIP7218 Ser Top Box for Verizon HDRV
Figure 3-28 Motorola QIP7218 Set Top Box
Table 3-29 Motorola QIP7218
Figure 3-30 Cisco Scientific Atlanta IPN330HD and IPN430MC Set Top Box
Figure 3-31 Arris ConvergeMedia™ XMS Mini
Table 3-32 Arris ConvergeMedia™ XMS Mini Features
Table 3-33 Arris nABLE Set Top Applications Functions
Table 3-34 Arris nABLE Set Top Applications Increased ROI
Table 3-35 Arris nABLE Set Top Applications
Figure 3-36 Thompson Technicolor DXI807
Table 3-37 Technicolor Full 3D HD Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband
MediaServer Features
Table 3-38 Technicolor Full 3D HD Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband MediaServers
Table 3-39 Technicolor MediaServer Broadband & VoIP Show Section
Figure 3-40 Technicolor TWG870
Table 3-41 Technicolor TWG870
Table 3-42 EchoStar Technologies Digital Set-Top Box Products
Table 3-43 EchoStar Technologies SD Digital Set-Top Box and HD Digital
Set-Top Box Functions
Figure 4-1 Public Cloud and Private Cloud Converge with Hybrid Computing
Figure 4-2 Cloud Computing Enables Interconnected World
Table 4-3 Cloud Computing Ecosystem Partner Solutions Features
Figure 4-4 IPv6 Connectivity Through the Cloud
Figure 4-5 Cisco Poised to Support Transition to IPv6
Table 4-6 Types of Set-Top Box Technologies
Figure 4-7 Cisco Medianet Video Architect
Table 4-8 Cisco Media-Net Functions
Figure 4-9 Cisco Media-Net End-To-End Architectural Approach Supports
Cloud Computing
Figure 4-10 End-To-End Video Architectural Approach
Figure 4-11 Cisco Virtualization Infrastructure (VXI)
Figure 4-12 Cisco VXI Desktop Visualization Journey
Figure 5-1 Arris Revenue Q1 2012
Figure 5-2 Arris Strategic Rationale
Figure 5-3 Arris DOCSIS 3.0 Modem Positioning
Table 5-4 Arris Strategy
Table 5-5 ARRIS Company Overview
Figure 5-6 Arris Strategy Focus on Enabling Convergence of Cable
Services on A unified IP Platform
Figure 5-7 Arris Strategy of R & D Focus on Enabling Convergence and
IP Platform
Table 5-8 Arris Video Strategy
Table 5-9 ARRIS Differentiation
Figure 5-10 Arris Video In the Home to Any Device New IP Devices
Create New Opportunities
Figure 5-11 Arris Moxi Whole Home Solution
Figure 5-12 Arris Cable Edge Router Technology
Figure 5-13 Arris and BigBand Converged Cable Access Platform
Figure 5-14 Arris Product Opportunity for Growth
Table 5-15 Casa Systems Cable Edge Device Services Supported
Table 5-16 Cisco Target Markets
Table 5-17 Cisco Business Model And Foundational Priorities
Figure 5-18 Cisco Forecasts 10.8 Exabytes per Month of Mobile Data Traffic by 2016
Figure 5-19 Cisco Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast by Region
Table 5-20 EchoStar Technologies Satellite Fleet Consists Of Owned And Leased Satellites.
Figure 5-21 Ericsson Go to Market Metrics
Table 5-22 Google Strategic Business Initiatives 2011
Figure 5-22 Harmonic Universal Data Plane Solution
Figure 5-23 Huawei Telepresence Solution
Figure 5-24 Huawei Hardware And Software Videoconferencing System
For Shenshuo Railway Co. Ltd.:
Figure 5-25 Huawei Emergency Management Videoconferencing System Solution
Table 5-26 Netgen Customers
Figure 5-27 Pace Broadband Strategic Positioning
Table 5-28 Pace Product Portfolio
Table 5-29 Pace Portfolio
Table 5-30 Technicolor Brands Supported
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The Windows computing platform is in a genuine crisis. Windows computers are being attacked, every day, by an international army of digital criminals who seek to spy on users, turn their own computers against them and deface, corrupt or destroy their data.
There have long been computer viruses, but until the past couple of years, they were mainly a nuisance. Now they have grown into a serious problem — by one account there were 5,000 new Windows viruses discovered in the first six months of 2004. And the virus plague has been trumped by a new type of malicious software, spyware, which can track your activities, bombard you with unwanted ads, even steal your identity.
Spam has also grown exponentially, clogging e-mail boxes and carrying with it malicious software. For some people, e-mail has become a curse.
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So for consumers and small businesses — everyone without a large IT department to manage security — the Windows computers they use have become huge burdens instead of helpful tools. If you do get a severe virus or spyware infestation, you may have to spend hundreds of dollars and many hours to wipe your hard disk clean and start fresh, quite possibly losing crucial data in the process.
And prevention is almost as painful as the disease, because the computer industry has so far come up with only half-baked and piecemeal solutions to these threats. You have to watch every move you make online and install a bunch of security programs, which require monitoring, constant updating and, often, annual fees.
Each of these security programs deals only with a narrow slice of the problem. Firewalls can keep out invaders, but they don't stop viruses, spyware or spam. Antivirus programs don't catch most spyware. Antispyware programs don't stop viruses. And neither stops spam. For that, you need anti-spam software, which does nothing about viruses or spyware that invade your system through avenues other than spam.
You can buy "suites" that combine all these programs, but they are really just bundles of separate applications of widely varying quality stuffed into the same box.
It's as if you needed a separate burglar alarm system, each with its own control panel, password and monthly fee, for every door and window in your home.
What users need is a simple, all-encompassing security service that would deal with all these threats with minimal user involvement. For now, though, you'll have to do it yourself.
So here's my quick guide to Windows security measures. Some of the products I recommend below are free, but others cost money. I like free stuff as much as the next guy, but I don't believe security is an area where price should govern. You don't want to entrust your computer's security to some unknown software author, or even to a well-meaning individual or very small outfit that lacks the resources to keep up with the threats.
Download and install all the security fixes Microsoft issues for Windows. If you have Windows XP, set it to automatically fetch and install these patches (you can do this by clicking on the "Automatic Updates" or "Security Center" icons in the Windows control panel). You should also probably install the massive Service Pack 2 revision of Windows XP, which plugs many security holes. But back up your data first. A significant minority of users have reported big problems with SP2.
Stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, which has become a four-lane highway for malicious invaders. I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org [http://www.mozilla.org]. I use it all day, every day.
Windows comes with a firewall program, designed to keep out hackers. But in most versions of the operating system, it's hard to turn on and configure. Even the improved firewall in the new SP2 revision of Windows XP is inferior to several third-party products. I recommend, and use, ZoneAlarm, a free firewall from Zone Labs, available at www.zonelabs.com [http://www.zonelabs.com]. There are some fancy paid versions of ZoneAlarm, which are also fine, but if you want the free one, you'll have to look hard on the Web page.
Software to stop spyware is still in its infancy, so I suggest keeping two or three anti-spyware programs on hand. Each program will likely find spyware the others miss. But I recommend relying most on the one I use, Webroot's Spy Sweeper, available at www.webroot.com [http://www.webroot.com]. It costs $30, including a year of updates, and runs all the time to block incoming spyware. To back up Spy Sweeper, go to www.download.com [http://www.download.com] and get two free programs: Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy. Use these for manual scanning.
I recommend Norton AntiVirus from Symantec. It costs $50, including a year of updates. But it works well and has a good automatic updating system. I have been receiving many reports of problems with Symantec's customer service, so I may have to change my recommendation down the road. But for now, I prefer Norton, and I use it myself.
No antispam program I have tested is wholly satisfying, but I suggest one of two. The first is MailFrontier Desktop, available for $30 at www.mailfrontier.com [http://www.mailfrontier.com]. The second is SpamSubtract, from Intermute, available for $20 at www.spamsubtract [http://www.spamsubtract]. com. They are very different, and each has its strengths and weaknesses. I oscillate between the two every six months or so.
Beyond installing, monitoring and updating all this software, you need to be careful online. Don't open email attachments you don't expect and that come from strangers. They may contain viruses or spyware. Don't download software unless you really need it and are 100 percent certain of the author's trustworthiness. It could be an infection in disguise. Never click on a link in an e-mail purporting to be from a financial institution, even if it's your own bank and it looks official. It could be a scam to steal your identity.
And if you're totally fed up with the security crisis but want to continue using your computer for common tasks, consider dumping Windows altogether and switching to Apple's Macintosh, which uses its own operating system, called OS X. There has never been a successful virus reported on OS X, and there is little or no spyware for the Mac.
In my view, Macs have better hardware, a better operating system and better bundled software than Windows PCs. They are as good as, and often better than, Windows PCs at e-mail and Web surfing; at word processing and other productivity tasks; and at handling digital photos, videos and music. And most popular Windows file types open right up in Mac programs, without the need for any conversion or translation.
Stay safe out there.


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Long water views from sprawling shoreline create an oasis of beauty for this stunningly renovated waterfront estate, a masterpiece designed by celebrated Palm Beach architect John Volk, whose legacy includes not only elegant private homes but also the Palm Beach Town Hall, Bath and Tennis Club, Poinciana Plaza and Playhouse, and much of Worth Avenue. Originally built as the South Florida home of noted twentieth-century modern artist Orville Bulman, this elegant estate underwent a top-to-bottom renovation in 2003 and stylish updates in 2016, creating a true jewel that brings impeccable modern taste and luxury to the elegance and grace of the timeless design. Picturesque panoramic views look all the way up the placid harbor-like waters from 258± feet of shoreline, equipped with boat dockage, surrounding this magnificent site that drew Bulman to its idyllic island-like scenery and gave inspiration to his artistic works.
In the home's light and airy wings, many rooms open to outdoor spaces along the waterfront and in the romantic pool area that creates a resort-like setting for outdoor entertaining and also serves as the entry into the charming turret-style foyer. Originally Bulman's art studio, the light-bathed front-to-back living room invites an indoor/outdoor flow to a waterfront terrace where the fire-lit verandah provides a relaxing spot by the pool in this alluring oasis hidden behind privacy walls adorned in espaliered vines.
The four bedroom suites feature luxurious master quarters that have the space and privacy of the entire upper level. If desired, additional bedrooms could be converted from the office and cabana suite, currently a yoga studio. The seemingly endless array of amenities also features a high-tech media room and connoisseur's wine cellar preserving the original stone wall from France's Corton wine region. Creating its own private world, leaving nothing to be desired, this one-of-a-kind estate is a waterfront paradise of special appeal.
Audubon Causeway, Manalapan, Florida. Hidden away in Old Florida serenity, Point Manalapan is an exclusive guard-gated enclave on Hypoluxo Island, surrounded by the Intracoastal Waterway, with the ocean beach just across the causeway. Manalapan residents enjoy deeded privileges at the Five-Diamond Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa and its La Coquille Club.
Embraced in island-like beauty on 258± feet of waterfront, this elegant estate gives long-range views up the expansive waters and is served by a dock with 5,000-pound boat lift. Originally built for artist Orville Bulman, this Volk-designed masterpiece is picture-perfect after a complete 2003 renovation by award-winning Perez Design and stylish updates in 2016. Entered from the beautiful motor court on carefully groomed grounds with LED landscape lighting, the walled garden courtyard's outdoor entertainment space centers on the graceful pool with spillover spa, next to which is a summer kitchen/bar that serves the fire-lit dining verandah.
Comfortably proportioned in light-filled wings, the grand total of 7,373± square feet has six bedrooms that include an office and yoga studio, five full and two half baths, walk-in closets, and a two-bay garage. Amenities include impact-rated windows and exterior doors, and a full-house generator. Exotic imported marble and granite finishes are featured along with furniture-grade custom cabinetry.
First Floor: Entered off the turret-style marble foyer, the bright airy living room opens to a waterside terrace and, on the other side, the verandah. Leading to the waterside terrace, the dining/wine tasting room has serving/storage built-ins and a climate-controlled 600-bottle wine cellar. Updated in 2016, the beautifully architected kitchen uses exotic Brazilian granite in the counters and sinks. Chef's appliances include the six-burner Viking gas range with oven, another microwave/convection oven, dual Sub-Zero refrigerators/freezers, and Miele dishwasher. Open to the kitchen in a light open flow, the inviting breakfast room leads to a waterfront terrace, while the custom-fitted family room joins to the lanai. Powder rooms are placed off the kitchen and next to a full-service wet bar across from the media room with Control4 electronics and six reclining seats. Three bedroom suites, two overlooking the water, include a second master suite. Overlooking the veranda, the office connects to one of the baths, while the cabana/yoga studio opens by the pool and has its own kitchenette and full bath; both of these rooms could be converted into bedrooms if desired.
Second Floor: A haven of privacy and luxury, the serene master suite is entered through a sitting room with marble-topped morning bar. Glorious water views are the focal point of the peak-ceilinged bedroom, sun deck, and Carrara marble bath with soaking tub, shower, marble vessel sinks, and private water closet. Two custom-fitted wardrobe rooms complete this full-floor suite.
- Agent: Pascal Liquori & Son
- phone: 866.502.5441
- Year built: 1965
- Type: Single-Family Residential
- Status: Sold
- Location: Intracoastal/Deepwater , Manalapan
- Living Sq. Ft.: 5,938 sqft
- Total Sq. Ft.: 7,373 sqft
- Beds: 6
- Baths: 5.2
- Garages: 2


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Laura's paintings are described as beautifully imperfect, and have the ability to stir powerful emotions, speaking to an inner voice often ignored. Often large in scale with strikingly bold colours and texture, each piece offers discovery. Her process is rooted in memory and imagination, and her emotions are palpable. When she's at work, Harris becomes utterly engrossed in her practice. It's a fully physical task with music turned up loud and paint flying. Exuberant, sensual, and often surprising, Laura's images are known and prized for their irresistible energy. Her relationship with light in her landscapes has been compared to that of Turner.


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Home latte art: Coffee drinkers show their latte love with artistic creations
Posted by TheShot on 19 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Home Brew
Today the Daily Herald (Chicago suburbs) republished a Wall Street Journal story (no subscription required!) covering the growing consumer interest in home latte art: Daily Herald | Coffee drinkers show their latte love with artistic creations. The article notably takes a San Francisco bias in its choices for interviewees. However, it properly cites the founder of Seattle's Espresso Vivace, David Schomer, as the father of modern latte art.
The article also notes how coffee shops are now offering classes in creating latte art designs and how the latte artists themselves are organizing contests (events that have been around for some time, but with new, prosumer players). But while the article fusses over the prices of home espresso machine models, it makes no mention of the equally important role of a decent grinder.
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Last year we expressed how latte art is about as relevant to coffee quality as, say, bathroom towels are to a good restaurant meal. (Unlike Wikipedia, at least we don't liken latte art to a nuclear holocaust.) So what resonated with us most in the article were closing comments from Chris Baca — barista at SF's Ritual Coffee Roasters and winner of the 2008 Western Regional Barista Competition. The article cites Chris saying that he's "tiring of latte-art buzz": "It's part of what we do, but we like to focus more on the coffee. You could have a drink that's totally beautiful with the most amazing design – and tastes like garbage."
Coincidentally (?), it's this very emphasis on image over substance that has saturated the consumer market for home espresso machines with good looks and yet useless designs.
Don't get us wrong: aesthetics do count. When my wife attended an advanced boot camp at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) last month (her class was also written up in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, btw), the instructors made a big point about how you eat with all of your senses — and that you typically always start with the eyes. This is why all our ratings have Presentation scores.
But coffee as a medium for art almost as an ends to itself? When we really want to perfect our art at home, we'll skip the rosettas and leave the coffee as a drinking medium. For a legitimate art medium, paper and charcoal or pen and ink wash still do just fine.
Video: Taking the concept of latte art to its next natural (and ridiculous) stage of evolution…
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8 Responses to "Home latte art: Coffee drinkers show their latte love with artistic creations"
Schomer isn't the father of latte art. He himself learned it during a visit to Italy. He'll also acknowledge people like Luigi Luppi were doing it and mastering it long before he was.
But Schomer is the person who brought Latte art to North America, no doubt about that.
PS – read the original article – it's much more filled out, with comments by the Hoff and others:
In my opinion thats a terrible analogy regarding the likeness of latte art, to a restaurant bathroom towel. A more apt analogy would be comparing a coffee shop bathroom towel to a restaurant bathroom towell.
Also more apt would be comparing the latte art in a coffee shop, to the presentation of food in a fine restaurant. If you go to to macdonalds they just dump it down in a cardboard container, however if they did this in a fine restaurant, you'd leave. Whilst it may not play any relation to the quality of the food directly. It does give an insight into the passion and effort put into the aforementioned food.
Well I guess its good to stick to your guns.
However, whilst latte art may not be a be all and end all regarding the quality of the coffee.
Firsty, milk has to be well microfoamed to pour good latte art, secondly, the crema has to be thick, compact, and not overly bubbly, a sign of good crema.
Whilst I appreciate you can pour latte art with bad coffee, it would take a lot of experience that would come with a good barista, thus rather paradoxically the coffee wouldn't be bad…


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It can be difficult to get your company to break through the clutter of content that invades social media every day and boost lead generation. Social media is becoming increasingly visual, requiring you to go beyond text in order to get your message across. With this in mind, here are five visual ways to help generate leads for your business and increase the effectiveness of your social media efforts.
- Pictures – A picture is worth a thousand words. We've heard this phrase over and over again, but there's no denying its validity. Pictures provide a lot of information immediately and have become a big part of social media. A recent article in Fast Company by Intel's social media strategist Ekaterina Walter, points to a 2012 study by ROI Research, which found that "44 percent of respondents were more likely to engage with brands if they post pictures than with any other media."
- Infographics – Visual graphs provide immediate information that is easy to interpret. Social media experts like Jeff Bullas and lead generation experts like Matt Ford often use such graphs in their blogs to clearly illustrate their point. In the past, it was hard to create infographics unless you had a graphic designer on staff. Today it's much easier. In a PC World article earlier this year, Angela West describes how to get started and the tools you will need to create effective infographics that get the attention of your perspective leads. "By combining images with data, infographics get much more mileage than text or graphics alone."
- Company Website – Your website is perhaps the most important aspect of your company's social media outreach. The website is the first place people go to when looking for information about your company, so it must grab the attention of your target audience and encourage engagement immediately upon entry. With this in mind, choosing the right images is essential when building your website. Designer and writer Andrew Beck sums it up nicely in The ROI Factor, "A well-constructed image will be infinitely more effective than any description a copywriter can add."
- YouTube – Where do the masses go when they want to watch the latest video? That's right, YouTube. A YouTube video is a great way to not only capture the attention of your target audience it can capture the attention of everyone. YouTube videos can get played over and over again, and even go viral, bringing that much more exposure to your company's story. According to an article by Melanie Perk on ViralAdNetwork.com, "YouTube can be one of the most effective and inexpensive ways of generating traffic for to your website."
- Webinar – A webinar is a great way to get your message out to the masses, and there are a variety of ways to use a webinar platform (like AnyMeeting) to increase your company's visibility. Webinars provide a forum for you to show and discuss your product or service to a large audience (in multiple geographic locations), live, in real-time. Attendees can also participate with questions and comments. Webinars can also be recorded, so those who are not able to attend your presentation can still see and hear your story. Also, "webinars get linked to more often," according to Matt Anderson, a marketing expert who contributes to MojoMediaLabs, "the more backlinks you have, the more authoritative your site is."
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so use visual components to your advantage. Social media provides a terrific outlet to get the word out about your company and its innovative product. Using visual components as part of your company's social media strategy can help you rise above the clutter and quickly grab your target audience.


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Scholarships for the European Forum Alpbach 2014
From August 13 to 29, 2014 around 4,000 participants from over 60 countries will come to the Tyrolean mountain village of Alpbach to discuss the latest contemporary issues – among the participants there will also be students and recent graduates. This year the Forum will again be issuing scholarships to enable youngsters to participate in this fascinating and long-established event.
The European Forum Alpbach 2014 will give its participants a choice of 16 one-week seminars which will analyse the manifestations of "At the Crossroads" in a great variety of academic fields. A large number of panel discussions offers the opportunity to debate the most burning current issues in the fields of healthcare, technology, economics, international politics, law, spatial planning and financial markets. Summer Schools for European Law and Health Care, as well as a rich cultural programme, complete the agenda.
The aim of the Forum is to give as many young people as possible the opportunity to take part in the entire event. The European Forum Alpbach Non-Profit Foundation under Private Law makes scholarships available to students and recent graduates of any discipline who would not otherwise be able to participate in this event from their own funds and who have not yet had their 31st birthday.
Detailed information on the scholarship programme: http://www.alpbach.org/scholarships
Extended deadline for applications: April 14, 2014 (date of postmark)


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Shelter helps find the animal of your dreams
IF YOU'RE single this Valentine's Day and looking for a lovable companion to share your life with, why not consider adopting a dog or cat?
Animal Welfare League of Queensland Ipswich staff will play Cupid on Thursday, by matching prospective owners with compatible pets.
The shelter will also offer a 20% discount on all adult cats and dogs adopted by singles on the day.
AWLQ spokeswoman Brooke Whitney said the drive was a "tongue-in-cheek way" of promoting rehoming of animals waiting for a second chance.
Ms Whitney said pets were there for their owners "no matter what".
"The shelter will undergo a 'love' overhaul. Our aim is to make it the most romantic and happy place to be this Valentine's Day," she said.
Rehoming staff will be happy to play Cupid, Ms Whitney said.
"If you are not sure what sort of a pet you are after you can list the qualities you find attractive in a companion and the rehoming staff will do the rest," she said.
Ms Whitney said the special offer would also free up space in the centre for more animals, particularly kittens.
"The cat enclosures are packed to the rafters. It is always a busy time of year with un-desexed cats breeding due to warmer weather," she said.
"We hope this campaign will help create some space in the kennels and enclosures."
AWLQ Ipswich will open from 10am on Thursday and is at 6 Hooper St, West Ipswich.
Dixie the cat, pictured on our front page, is one of the animals available for adoption, and her price will go down from $100 to $80 on Valentine's Day. View other AWLQ Ipswich animals at awlqld.com.au/adopt-a-pet.


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Djin Kwie Liem thought only of his fish.
Forced to flee when the power vanished, black smoke swirling from the roof of the Wah Mee building, the tiny old man, still blessed with a child's smile, recalls saying to himself, "Oh my God, I just got them, shipped from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan: 5,000 fish, maybe more! Ten thousand dollars!
A wise yearly investment, Liem knew, for Chinese families would venture to his crowded little pet shop during the Christmas holiday and carry home in plastic bags the Japanese coy and the comet-tailed goldfish, in time for the arrival of Chinese New Year the following month.
"They are a sign of prosperity, of plenty," Liem says, sipping black tea at Duk Li Dim Sum on a cold, rain-soaked morning last month. "It is our custom to keep fish in our homes to send away the bad luck. Some will buy the less expensive fish and release them into the lake. It is a do-good gift, an offering to God."
It was late afternoon, Christmas Eve. Under leaden skies and a weepy rain, the flames flickered atop the long-abandoned top floor of the building at 665 South King Street—the geographic heart of Chinatown. The cause of the fire may never be known, though arson is suspected. Maybe, as some speculate, the building is haunted—the ghosts of Washington's deadliest-ever massacre still stir in the basement, home to the inglorious Wah Mee Club.
Liem was in his store, at ground level, chatting with customers—many of them older patrons, the ones who remember the frantic squawk of exotic birds after Liem, newly arrived from his homeland of Malaysia, opened the store in 1979. In those early days he sold small boa constrictors and pythons from Thailand, scorpions and African turtles and monkeys—and silky green iguanas that the braver children would let crawl up their skinny arms when brought here on school field trips.
"Sometimes the snakes would get out. The kids would forget to put the lid back and they'd end up on the streets. People very frightened," recalls the 77-year-old Liem, smiling at the memory. "I did this not to make money. It was my hobby."
Liem stood alone on the street that dark night as sirens screamed and tired cooks from nearby restaurants, heavy with greasy odors, smoked cigarettes and looked on as water from fire hoses flooded his store, damaging it beyond repair. The electricity gone, Liem's fish, once skittering bright in a hundred tanks, went belly-up, their heat and oxygen supply lost.
"My heart broke," Liem says, wiping a cloud of film from his heavy glasses.
Liem lives by himself in Lake City. Since the fire, he comes each day to Chinatown, wandering through one of Seattle's most fragrant and colorfully diverse neighborhoods, with a population of nearly 4,000.
Sometimes Liem will gaze out upon a smattering of seniors practicing tai chi in Hing Hay Park, or breathe in the smells of grilled meat from the Green Leaf, or perhaps fetch a bowl of wonton soup, capped with sprigs of cilantro, at the Fortune Garden. Liem's Pet Shop, you see, was a fixture on Maynard Alley. It was his life, his social center.
"He's a lost soul now," says Anita Woo, whose family owns the 105-year-old building and who rented the space to Liem for just $450 a month. "He wants to come back and open again, but that won't happen now. Too much damage, and so much loss."
For Liem, not even 5,000 fish could fend off bad luck.
The Woo family, after repeated consultations with architects and city structural engineers, determined in March that nearly half of the building destroyed in the blaze must be torn down—that is, the entire west wall of the structure facing Maynard Alley: Liem's home away from home for 35 years.
Early next month, the demolition of the wall and clearing away the debris will begin.
The mystery fire robbed many others as well of their livelihood, at least until demolition and reconstruction are complete. Part-owner Tanya Woo says it will take two months to shore up the west side of the structure, and up to two years for the building to be fully restored. Whatever the case, stresses her brother Timothy Woo, the place his uncle Paul Woo bought more than a half-century ago will remain an integral part of Chinatown.
"We will preserve as much as we can," Timothy says. "The building is too important not to. It has done good things for this neighborhood, for our community. You know, we never made any money out of the building. It's been like a family heirloom."
The Sea Garden restaurant, on the east side of the Wah Mee—famous for its whole crab in ginger sauce—remains shuttered and deemed too dangerous to enter until repairs are made. Same with Palace Decor & Gifts, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and the Yuan Sheng Hang medicinal herb store, whose owner burst into tears and broke a teacup while carrying away as much as she could after being told by the fire department she had 30 minutes to gather her belongings.
Closed too, at least for now, is the famous Mon Hei Bakery.
"When it opened in 1978, the Mon Hei—it means 'a thousand years of happiness'—it was Chinatown's first bakery," says Aaron Chan, whose family has run the place from the beginning." This is where people came for pineapple buns and egg tarts, moon cakes, rice cakes, pound cakes, and sponge rolls, all glistening in rows behind a storefront window.
"It was like Krispy Kreme when it opened. There were lines around the block," marvels Chan. "My grandfather, Hung Fok, ran a pastry school in Hong Kong. One day, Paul Woo came into his school. He was on his honeymoon, and he'd heard about my grandfather. So he tracked him down and implored him to come to Seattle and open a bakery in his building."
The closing of Mon Hei has been tough on his parents. "This is their lifeblood. It is all they have ever done. They have no other skills."
After a lengthy pause, the 30-year-old Chan ruminates, "It was disheartening, I have to say, when after the fire all that the media mentioned was that this was the place of the Wah Mee massacre, and nothing else. There was little or nothing about all the good things that this building has meant for the community."
It began as a boarding house, built in 1909 by three Scandinavian men, who named it the Nelson, Tagholm & Jensen Tenement. Later it became the Hudson Hotel, and soon after the Louisa Hotel: 120 rooms for Chinese, Japanese, and thousands of Filipino immigrants—"Alaskeros," they were called—who would stay in Seattle before being dispatched by labor contractors to work in Alaska's sardine and salmon canneries.
The thrilling prospect of unearthing gold brought a wave of Chinese into the neighborhood in the late 1800s. They called America "Gold Mountain," but they endured simmering resentment and discrimination by white laborers in Seattle when a nationwide depression took hold in 1873.
As local historian L. Kingston Pierce wrote, " 'The Chinese must go' became a rallying cry—one that intensified after passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, forbidding further immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States and denying citizenship rights to those already settled here."
The Louisa was something of a sanctuary, and in the 1920s and 1930s, Chinatown throbbed with excitement. Paper lanterns and glowing neon hung from the stoops of apartment dwellings. Children pitched baseball cards in Canton Alley. Adults gathered in social clubs, tucked away in basements and backroom parlors, for card games, and feasted on platters of chaswei, sweet barbecued pork, boiled peanuts, black sesame-seed soup, and good-luck oranges for a sweet, long life.
The hotel, with its orange brick facade and windows with cast-stone sills and lintels, boasted a second-floor billiard room where seven two-story bay windows allowed light to stream in. Rumors persist that a secret casino with a surreptitious passageway may also have been on the second floor. Gorgeous floor-to-ceiling hand-painted murals, destroyed in the Christmas Eve fire, depicted comforting scenes from the Chinese homeland.
The Chinese Community Billboard, now a Seattle historic landmark, was plastered to a wall outside, where it remains today, next to the Sea Garden. It provided, and still does, a public forum for news and messages, especially for seniors who read no English. Since the fire, it languishes behind the cyclone fence that circles the forlorn Wah Mee, the board devoid of anything new save a notice of a January public hearing about the future of Hing Hay Park.
The rooms at the Louisa were small, made of wood and plaster, a communal shower down the narrow hallway on each floor. Men slept on hard cots. Of course there were mah-jongg tables, and at night one might hear, on bustling King Street below, the clack-clack of ivory tiles washing against one another.
"People don't think of the history and the beauty that was in this building," muses Anita Woo. "This was a special place. It meant so much to the early immigrants. It is a huge part of the history of Chinatown."
Says Rebecca Frestedt, the city's historic-preservation coordinator for the Chinatown International District: "This building is not yet a landmark, but it is so much a part of the fabric of the larger historic district."
As Roosevelt's New Deal put a few dollars in people's pockets, Jackson Street, which runs through the neighborhood, emerged as the hotbed of Seattle's jazz scene. The Northwest Enterprise, a Seattle-based African-American newspaper, penned this about Jackson Street in the early 1930s: "[I]t attracts persons from all sections of the city and numerous migrants who are attracted by the bright lights and allurements. And there are allurements, if you know where to find them . . . Jackson Street might be called the 'Poor Man's Playground.' Here all races meet on common ground and rub elbows as equals. Fillipinos [sic], Japanese, Negroes and whites mingle in the same hotels and restaurants and there is an air of comradeship."
Or as Steve Griggs, a local music writer and member of the Jazz Journalists Association, put it recently, "Asian businesses welcomed the African-Americans, and African-Americans appreciated having access to their restaurants."
University of Washington history professor Quintard Taylor, for an article in the Great Depression Washington State Project at UW, said that the Jackson Street clubs "were the only places where well-to-do white businessmen and socialites met black and Asian laborers and maids as social equals."
Noodles Smith, owner of the Black and Tan, where Duke Ellington played, sensed a thirst for a sophisticated Great Gatsby–like club, and opened the Ubangi inside the Louisa Hotel in the mid-'30s. It was a glamorous joint, awash in potted palms and exquisite African-themed decor. Music and dance acts flew in from Los Angeles. Cab Calloway played the Ubangi. Nearby was the Congo Club, the 411 Club, the Blue Rose, the Entertainer's Club—where pianist Jelly Roll Morton performed—and the Bucket of Blood, a rowdy joint which earned its name after someone was murdered following a police raid.
As historian and writer Paul De Barros, in his book on Seattle's speakeasies, Jackson Street After Hours, wrote, "Imagine a time when Seattle . . . was full of people walking up and down the sidewalks after midnight. When you buy a newspaper at the corner of 14th and Yesler from a man named Neversleep—at three in the morning. When limousines pulled up to the 908 Club all night, disgorging celebrities and wealthy women wearing diamonds and furs. When 'Cabdaddy' stood in front of the Rocking Chair, ready to hail you a cab—that is, if he knew who you were."
Of all the gambling joints in Chinatown, none rivaled the Wah Mee Club in terms of sheer elegance. It was one sexy place in its time—and what a run it had. From its earliest years in the 1920s, when it was called the Blue Heaven, through the 1950s, the Wah Mee, secreted away in a spacious basement space in the Louisa Hotel, reeked of delightful decadence.
There was dancing, and boozing at its long, sumptuously curved bar; mah-jongg and pai gow, and stacks of silver dollars on gambling tables beneath dimly lit ornamental lanterns and rich deep carpets. Smoking Lucky Strikes, people of all races partied hard into the night, their waiters clad in white suits and black ties.
"The Wah Mee was host to some of the highest-stakes gambling in Seattle," notes Todd Matthews, a local journalist who spent a decade researching and writing an e-book about the Wah Mee massacre, which he published in 2011. "Winners," he wrote, "went home with tens of thousands of dollars after a single night of gambling. Indeed, gambling was so popular at one point that, according to Jerry F. Schimmel, an authority on coin collecting and author of Chinese-American Tokens From the Pacific Coast, the Wah Mee Club issued its own brass token for gamblers—a 39-millimeter-wide gem with the club's name written in Chinese characters."
The place operated illegally, like at least 40 other illicit clubs in the Chinatown area, police estimate. Security was strict and required those entering to pass through a series of doors where private members were "buzzed" in through each door. The conspicuous gambling den was often raided, and in the early 1970s, the Wah Mee, whose English translation is "beautiful China," fell on hard times—as did the rest of the former hotel.
The March 20, 1970 Ozark Hotel fire at 2038 Westlake Ave. claimed the lives of 21 people. A year later, 12 people were killed at the Seventh Avenue Apartments. Both tragedies led to major city code changes, mandating that every building three stories or less have fire-resistant stairways and door, or a sprinkler alternative.
The new ordinance proved too costly for many Chinatown hotel owners—including building owners Minnie Nelson Harrison and her brother William "Billie" Nelson. They sold the building to Paul Woo, who'd make his nut renting to ground-floor retailers (though for generously low sums) and leaving the top two hotel floors vacant, as they'd been for years—too expensive to repair and abide by the new fire code.
To this day, at least six Chinatown hotels and apartment buildings sit idle, notes Maiko Winkler-Chin, director of the Seattle Chinatown International Preservation and Development Authority—the Eclipse Hotel, the Hip Sin Association Building, the Kong Yick Apartment, and the Gee How Oak Tin Hotel among them, save for some street-level retail outlets. "It has been a problem for a long time here. It's a cultural thing; the owners don't want to take on debt, because they're not sure whether they'll recoup their investment," observes Winkler-Chin.
By the 1980s, the Wah Mee Club had lost all vestiges of its former glory. It was just another cocktail lounge, as Todd Matthews details in his book Wah Mee—a dive bar, really, with old couches, cheap plastic ashtrays, and a map of mainland China tacked to the wall, near a framed portrait of a race horse and a Chinese lunar calendar.
On the night of February 18, 1983, one of the most infamous chapters in Northwest history began to unfold when Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, a club regular, arrived at the notorious nightclub just before midnight. He'd lost a lot of money gambling and he wanted it back. He brought two friends, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng and Benjamin Ng. They managed to get past the guards carrying semi-automatic weapons.
Patrons were ordered to the floor, hogtied, and robbed. Thirteen people were executed. Mak and Benjamin Ng were ultimately sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Tony Ng was charged in the murders, but claimed Mak forced him to participate in the mayhem. The jury found in Ng's favor and convicted him of robbery. Ng was released by a state parole board last October, after 30 years in prison.
"The Wah Mee," says Winkler-Chin, "cast a pall over the district for a good while. It was a scary place to go."
The club's doors have been padlocked, and no one has entered the gambling parlor since the massacre. It is a tomb now, a time capsule.
Says Tanya Woo, "In respect to the families, we sealed the door after that night. Everything there is untouched, the patrons' cups, jackets, the doorman's lunch."
There are many stories in Chinatown, and many secrets. No other place in Seattle feels so palpably foreign. So much has changed, and yet so much remains the same: the smells and vibrant colors; the buildings with parapet walls, many of them ornamented with signs in Chinese and Japanese; the historic gate across from Union Station, with upturned eaves and bathed in lucky red to welcome people to old Chinatown.
"There is much tradition here, and we've held on to our traditions," reflects Anita Woo. "The young take care of the old. Yes, we have changed as a community, but we stay together. We always stay together."
Harry Chan owns the Tai Tung, the district's oldest Chinese restaurant. On any given day, you'll catch him at the counter, where behind him menu items written in black magic marker on separate pieces of paper are taped to the walls.
He's lived all of his 66 years in Chinatown, and sometimes pines for the past. `"A lot of the old people have moved out," he begins. "There used to be so many social clubs for gambling. Now they go to the casinos. The casino buses stop here and take them away. They get coupons for free buffets. That hurts business.
"Oh, yes, it used to be so busy. People out at night, drinking and eating. The old people miss that. Everyone knew each other," Chan continues.
After bringing a huge, steaming plate of chicken chow mein to a couple of construction workers, Chan adds, "But there are good changes here now. You know, we have the pinball museum, a pizza place [World Pizza], and many new young people are coming, too. This is a good thing."
Up the street, on South Weller, the sweet smell of fortune cookies permeates the cold air on a brilliant blue February morning. Tim Louie sits in his tiny office at the Tsue Chong Company, which his grandfather opened in 1917. With 40 employees, it's one of the largest noodle and fortune cookie makers.
"I'm still using Grandma's cooking recipe for the cookies," says Louie, 52, whose company turns out 80,000 cookies a day. He's a popular man in the district, a funny, garrulous sort whom many in the neighborhood call "the unofficial mayor of Chinatown." Asked who writes the fortunes, Louie replies with a wink, "A very wise Chinese guru."
Louie turns serious now. He's got something on his mind. "We got some changes going on here. Not good ones. Parking is bad. My suppliers hate it. They get tickets all the time. They tell me, 'Tim, I can't afford to come here.' There's a lot more street people here now, too. More crime, it seems. [City Councilman] Tom Rasmussen was down here a while ago. People were coming up to him, asking for money."
Still, Louie is hopeful. He and many others in the community realize the neighborhood will retain its place as a regional hub for Asian/Pacific Islander culture and commerce. The street cars, light rail, new apartment buildings, and the conversion of old historic buildings into bustling mixed-use developments will lure a new generation of Asian immigrants into the heart of the city.
For now, though, Louie is thinking about his fortune—fortune cookies, in particular. Grabbing a carton of hundreds of thin paper fortunes, he confides, "My dad comes down here every day. He's 89, but he wants to keep busy. My mom does too. She comes down and stacks the fortunes and puts them in little boxes."
"How come they don't call Ballard the International District?" asks Brien Chow—son of the legendary Ruby Chow, a three-term King County councilwoman who in 1948 opened Seattle's first Chinese restaurant outside of Chinatown. (As a high-school kid, Bruce Lee worked for a time at Ruby Chow's, in the Central District at Broadway and Jefferson.)
Chow's mocking comment is representative of the feelings of many in the local Chinese community who to this day bristle at the hybrid moniker adopted by the city of Seattle in 1998: Chinatown–International District. Some still maintain that that designation was intended to disguise or diminish their historical leadership in the area.
The controversial name evolved slowly. In essence, the ID, its often-used shorthand moniker, is essentially three boroughs pressed together. Chinatown comprises the blocks around King Street; Little Saigon centers on 12th and Jackson; and Japantown, or Nihonmachi, is in the vicinity of Main Street, anchored by the Panama Hotel—where in a dimly lit basement remain worn steamer trunks, kimonos, and random piles of household belongings, all left behind in April 1942 when Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 shipped thousands of Japanese-Americans from here to Idaho's Minidoka internment camp.
In the early 1900s Nihonmachi had numbered 6,000 residents, but after World War II it never regained its stature, and the area became more diverse. This is one reason that on July 23, 1951, Seattle Mayor William F. Devin decreed a new name for the neighborhood—"International Center"—and praised, according to a Seattle P-I story at the time, "the mix of citizens of Negro, Japanese, Chinese, and Philippine ancestry." (According to 2010 census numbers, 35 percent of Chinatown–International District residents are Chinese; 15 percent Vietnamese; 5 percent Filipino; 3.5 percent Japanese; and 2.7 percent Koreans and Asian/Pacific Islanders. The Caucasian population is slightly more than 20 percent; African-American, 15 percent.)
Despite this diversity, the name International District "implies we are one big happy Asian family," fumes Betty Lau, a longtime teacher at Franklin High School and board member of the Chong Wa Benevolent Association, an organization established in 1915 to present a united voice for Chinese Americans in Washington state.
"Excuse me," sniffs Chow, "we don't all look alike. What we want to call it is Chinatown–Japantown–Little Saigon, because that's what it is."
"The Chinese here have always felt a slight when they hear it called the International District," concedes Don Blakeney, who heads the Chinatown–International District Business Improvement Area.
Says Anita Woo: "This is Chinatown. Nothing more."
"There has always been a tug-of-war here as to what is our cultural identity," says Ron Chew, former director of the Wing Luke Asian Museum, named in honor of Luke, who in 1962 won a seat on the Seattle City Council—at the time the highest elective post held by a Chinese-American in the continental U.S. "I think of lot us believe that the happy medium was to call it the Chinatown–International District."
The District has a history
of coping with disruption. The 1960s saw the construction of Interstate 5, which sliced through it, many older Asian-owned buildings demolished in its wake. Then in the '70s, change came again when the Kingdome was built, then imploded in 2000 to make room for Safeco Field and CenturyLink.
"For a long time, the city never gave a shit about this neighborhood," says Bob Santos, a Filipino-American who grew up in the NP Hotel in Japantown. "They put a freeway on the east side of us, and then they put the Kingdome on the west side of us. Now we're surrounded by concrete.
"They wanted to put up a prison at Eighth and Dearborn, and we killed that. Some tried [in 2004] to put in a McDonald's at Fifth and Jackson and we killed that. Now they got the street car that's going to run down Jackson, and a spur line on Eighth that's going to disrupt the neighborhood."
Santos is not to be trifled with. Eighty years old, crusty, outspoken, and well-respected, he spent many years as executive director of the International District Improvement Association. Every Tuesday night, karaoke night, he closes down Bush Garden, belting out song after song.
He goes on, "We've been fighting a long time to preserve this neighborhood. After the Kingdome, we started building housing so people wouldn't be displaced. We renovated the Bush Hotel. We know the old owners don't want to renovate their buildings, but their children do."
Santos believes good days are ahead for the International District: the expansion of Hing Hay Park, for one; the rehab and conversion being undertaken by Uwajimaya to remake the Publix Hotel into new market-rate apartments and active street-level retail space; and the $29 million affordable-housing project called Hirabayashi Place—named in honor of civil-rights leader Gordon Hirabayashi, who stood up against mass incarcerations of Japanese-Americans during WWII—which had a festive ground-breaking at the end of January.
"We have and will continue—Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and so—to retain our identity, our cultural values. We are proud of our heritage," says Santos. "This used to be a 24-hour neighborhood. We need to get that vitality back again. This is the International District. That's what I call it."
"There's a passing of the torch going on in the International District," says Chew, who now leads the International Community Health Services Foundation, a clinic that each year serves 20,000 people speaking 50 different languages. "It is going to be up to the young here to keep the old Chinese businesses going. I just hope that we'll be able to retain our cultural uniqueness.
"It's not about freezing things in time, but about taking some elements of what's special and making it fresh again."
The Woos had hoped to get permission from city inspectors to allow me a peek inside their building, perhaps a glimpse even of the Wah Mee Club. But no luck.
Todd Matthews, though, in an act of pure serendipity, got to see the club with his own eyes. It was October 2011, and a production crew with Travel Channel's Hidden City was in town to film a segment on the Wah Mee Club. "They contacted me for an interview, and I met them in Hing Hay Park," Matthews recalls. "Shortly before we began filming, the host [Chicago crime writer Marcus Sakey] and I walked over to Maynard Alley and the Wah Mee Club.
"Now, the Wah Mee Club has been padlocked and off-limits to the public pretty much since the murders. I had seen photographs of the inside of the Wah Mee Club, both after the murders and in historic photographs from the 1950s, but I had never been inside myself. The doors had always hung slightly ajar, but they were held back by a thick chain and padlock.
"When we turned off King Street and headed down Maynard Alley, we were both surprised to find the club's sealed double doors wide open. Standing in the alley, we could look inside and right into the club. There was a lot of junk stored inside the entryway, but we could also clearly see the curvy bar, the bar stools, a few folding tables, the steps leading down to the lower gaming area—everything! The host turned to me and said, 'That's pretty rare, isn't it?' I was stunned and said, 'Yes, it is.' "
The fire all but extinguished the Wah Mee Club. The ceiling collapsed on what was once the bar area, while the wall in the basement under the club has buckled and brick has fallen from the center of the wall.
"It is too dangerous now," says Timothy Woo. "But we want to bring it back, at least close to the way it was." He means the building, not the club, for nothing in the nefarious gin mill will be restored or enshrined.
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Will DISH Be Swallowed Whole by DIRECTV?
Satellite-television giant DIRECTV has employed Latin America as its growth driver over the past couple of years, and it's been a wonderful partnership. The company has gained millions of subscribers in the region while its North American business faces the same challenges felt by competitor DISH Network and other service providers. Recently, DIRECTV courted Vivendi-owned GTV, a Brazilian broadband player with 10% of the market share. However, the deal recently crumbled over disagreement on price. This left some analysts thinking now may be an appropriate time for DIRECTV and DISH Network to join forces. What would that look like?
A history of not merging
The DIRECTV-DISH merger is not a new concept at all. The two companies actually tried to do it back in 2002, but regulators determined it was not in the best interest of free markets. This wouldn't be the same situation today, though, given the formidable competition from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon.com, in addition to traditional cable companies.
But why would the two companies want to merge? DIRECTV CEO Mike White said the two companies do, in fact, have strong potential synergies.
Two different strategies, same goal
Both DISH and DIRECTV have taken significant, though very different, strides to navigate the changing tides of content distribution. DIRECTV has taken what I consider to be a more traditional, risk-averse strategy of expanding into emerging markets -- mainly Latin America. This has, as I mentioned, led to explosive subscriber growth quarter after quarter, even if ARPUs have suffered because of low price points and exchange rates. DIRECTV's shares are currently trading at an all-time high.
DISH, on the other hand, took the risky road, and it has yet to pay off. The company has been aggressively attempting to build out its own broadband network, with some degree of success. But what it really needs is a partner. The company recently made an offer for Clearwire that came in at a premium to SprintNextel's offer, but most believe Clearwire will ultimately go to the latter. This leaves DISH in a tricky position -- it has billions invested in valuable spectrum, years of regulatory shuffling and positioning, and meanwhile, lackluster subscriber numbers in its U.S. market. If DISH is eventually able to launch its wireless network and compete head-on with telecoms, it would be a major value driver going forward, but this leaves little to be excited about in the short term.
So by merging with DIRECTV, DISH would solve its core business stagnation. The resulting company would easily be the satellite-television overlord of the Americas, with plenty of cash flow from both its higher ARPU North American subscribers, and its rapidly increasing Latin American operations.
DIRECTV, on the other hand, would get the spectrum and broadband play, possibly even more valuable than its proposed acquisition of GTV.
Many, including Investment bank Macquarie, think this merger makes more sense now than ever and could be right around the corner.
Good, bad, indifferent?
Some of the benefits to the proposed company, and hopefully its stock, would be the typical increased operating efficiencies and scale. Marketing spend could be reduced and cutthroat pricing may be alleviated, though the company would still need to stay competitive with cable and streaming options.
But the real benefits of this merger are long-term implications. DISH Chairman Charlie Ergen mentioned that the power in this business currently lies with content providers over distributors. This leaves the satellite and cable companies in a difficult position -- a mature market with commodity like properties facing fierce competition from the infinite ability of the Internet. Even DIRECTV, a company I have been a long time fan of, doesn't have the exposure it needs to this disruptive force to remain competitive over the long term.
The immediate winners of the merger would be DISH shareholders, who would probably see a sharp premium to the current stock price. Macquarie analysts think DIRECTV would pay as much as $50 per share for DISH, compared with today's price of less than $35. DIRECTV shareholders may have to wait much longer for their own benefits.
While this proposed merger may be the best for the businesses involved, I would prefer to own cash-flow-winning DIRECTV today and for a few more years, without DISH.
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A busy day for team Greenpeace in Belgium yesterday. At 8 in the morning activists blocked traffic on the Ring around Brussels, the busiest traffic 'knot' in the country. After safely re-routing traffic, 30 of them unrolled a 180 square meter green carpet on the road and used it to visualise the alternatives for the planned road expansion of the Flemish government. In the run up to regional elections in June, they wanted to put these road expansion plans on the political agenda.
The message was clear: continuing to expand road infrastructure does not match with the urgency of climate change, and will not lead us to a good result from the Copenhagen climate summit at the end of this year. Emissions from road traffic are still rapidly increasing, and to turn this around we need not only fuel efficient cars but also less traffic on our roads.
In fact, several studies show that expanding road infrastructure does not solve congestion problems anyway, because new capacity is overtaken by an increase in new cars on the road in just a couple of years.
Governments need to invest in a modal shift, in order to get more cars off the road.
If they fail, the road ahead will start looking like the highway to hell.
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What do you know about the Wesleyan-Arminian position concerning entire sanctification?
In their book God, Man and Salvation, Nazarene theologians W.T. Purkiser, Richard S. Taylor and Willard H. Taylor write of "the possibility of entire holiness", "a change subsequent to conversion," "a crucial experience of sanctification", and "enter[ing] decisively into a higher level of Christian experience." These authors assert that "Christians may be holy without being entirely holy."
In their view what the twelve disciples needed was "a consecration and yieldedness to God that would make them totally available to the deployment of the Father and completely subject to the control of the Holy Spirit ... A holiness ... which was real rather than fictitious, thorough rather than partial, and which cleansed the heart from the lie that is latent in the carnal mind."
Wesleyans teach that individuals should seek a crisis experience, subsequent to conversion, in which they become entirely sanctified and never sin again. The only way that they can maintain such an illusion is to redefine sin as some kind of lapse which is not fundamentally displeasing to God.
Over against this view the Westminster Standards teach that "Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness" (WSC 35).
"This sanctification is throughout, in the whole man; yet imperfect in this life, there abiding still some remnants of corruption in every part; whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable war, the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh" (WCF 13:2).
The truth is that the sincere Christian will struggle against sin all his life and will be entirely delivered only in death.
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1 John 1:8).
"And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body" (Rom. 8:23).
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure" (1 John 3:2-3).
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The purpose of the OPC website's "Questions and Answers" is to respond to biblical and theological questions. Matters of church discipline, disputes, or debates go beyond the scope of our work. We recommend that you present your concerns in these areas to the appropriate judicatory. In most cases this will be to a local pastor, elder, or session. We do not want the website to replace personal involvement in, or commitment to, the local, visible church.
While we will respond to every serious questioner, we are not bound to give a substantive answer to every question, should we deem the question to be beyond the scope of our purpose or our own ability to answer.
You will receive an answer by e-mail. Please be patient as many of our respondents are busy pastors. The response to your question may take up to two (2) weeks. Some of the questions submitted will be chosen to be posted here, along with the corresponding answers.
Note that the "Questions and Answers" posted on the site have been editedall personal references are removed, Scripture references or from some source may be added, and sometimes portions are expandedto make the questions and answers more useful to a larger audience.
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