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After the jump, some of the best general interest articles from the Nation Network this week. Topics include (but are not limited to, he said in a lawyerly, small print voice): Justin Schultz, whether older players get worse over the course of a long season (don't break a hip, Ryan), the best bargains in the NHL, Hall of Fame inductees Pavel Bure and Barrie Stafford, the best and worst in jerseys, a player who isn't happy with his NHL '13 rating, and of course the lockout.
Justin Schultz: Sensational and sensationalized. Reflecting on what the absence of Justin Schultz might mean for the Vancouver Canucks, and pointing out that – despite what the headlines said – his comments the other day were pretty reasonable. [Canucks Army]
Do older players break down over long season? The point production of older players, month-by-month, over an 82-game season is surprisingly consistent. So… Ryan Smyth needs to start doing whatever it is that Jaromir Jagr does. [NHL Numbers]
First to worst Calgary Flames jerseys. Hockey by Design's John van der Woude stops by Flames Nation to rank the best and worst Calgary jerseys by aesthetic merit. Don't worry Oilers fans – he'll be doing a similar piece on Oilers Nation soon enough. [Flames Nation]
Using goal differential to predict the future. How much does a team's goal differential (i.e. plus/minus) change from season-to-season? What does that mean for the Edmonton Oilers' rebuild? [NHL Numbers]
NHL and NHLPA: Out of touch. It's getting awfully difficult to feel much sympathy for either side in the current NHL labour dispute. [Oilers Nation]
The one-percenters. Which player, signed to a contract that takes up less than one percent of his team's salary cap space, provides the best return on the dollar? [NHL Numbers]
Are the Philadelphia Flyers leading the charge to end the lockout? Reportedly Flyers owner Ed Snider – who also has a significant interest in television stations that air NHL games – is hoping for a quick end to the lockout. [Oilers Nation]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Lockout. A wholly remarkable book, by the wholly remarkable Graphic Comments. [Canucks Army]
Reference Library: Regression and variance. A collection of some of the blogosphere's best work on a really important concept. [NHL Numbers]
Three Flames fans take out the lockout. I cAnton Lander be the only Ricard Persson pleasantly surprised by Theo Peckham production value of this Cal videO'Reilly. [Flames Nation]
The NHL and their big four. A former player talks about the impact on NHLPA constituents if the league gets its way. [Oilers Nation]
Setting lines in the sand for Mark Jankowski. The most interesting pick of the 2012 NHL Draft might have been the Flames selection of Mark Jankowski; how good does he need to be this season for Calgary to believe he can be an NHL scorer at some point? [Flames Nation]
Friends with numbers podcast: the pilot. The debut episode of a new podcast here at the Nation Network. [NHL Numbers]
Some recognition for Pavel Bure. Bure was officially inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame last week, and he earned more than a little recognition on the Nations as a result. [Canucks Army/Oilers Nation/Canucks Army]
And some recognition for Barrie Stafford… With much less fanfare than the player inductees, long-time Edmonton Oilers equipment man Barrie Stafford entered the Hall of Fame too. [Oilers Nation]
And since we're at it, Jari Kurri too. The Oilers Nation profiles series continues with one of the greats: Jari Kurri. [Oilers Nation]
Billy Sweatt doesn't like his NHL '13 rating. Though he acknowledges that they at least gave him credit as a decent skater. [Canucks Army]
Jumping to conclusions mat: NHL lockout edition. Everybody's favourite fictional board game, is now out in a new flavor: NHL lockout. [Canucks Army]


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By Sarah Morgan
Eastman Kodak Co.'s once bright colors have been fading for years, but the news that the storied company is headed for bankruptcy is a reminder, market observers say, that no company stays on top forever — especially these days.
Before its recent struggles to keep up with a changing market, Kodak (EK) was a blue chip stock. The company was part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1930 to 2004, when it, AT&T Corp. (T), and International Paper Co. (IP) were replaced by Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), and American International Group (which itself was swapped out for Kraft after receiving a government bailout in 2008). Theoretically, corporations can live forever, but in practice, they don't, says Richard Sylla, a professor of financial history at New York University's Stern School of Business. "This shows even the most famous and iconic companies can fail if they don't adjust to change," Sylla says.
Historically, it's most common to see financial firms go bust, Sylla says. "Even an ordinary bank is levered 8 or 10 to 1," he says. Manufacturing or industrial firms, on the other hand, tend to borrow less money and have more tangible assets, so they're less likely to implode, he says. But a case like Kodak's can serve to remind investors that competition and technological change continually reshape all industries, Sylla says. "Things like Apple and phones with digital cameras, they creatively destroyed Kodak," he says. "What's the greatest company in one era is unlikely to be the greatest a half a century later."
In fact, research has shown that industry leaders tend to underperform their competitors. As SmartMoney has previously reported, research by Robert Arnott, a money manager, found that stocks that are sector leaders in one year will lag their peers by an average of about 3% a year in the next 10 years. The better bet for investors is a company that's improving its competitive position, not the one that's already on top.
Particularly in today's volatile markets, investors can't simply buy a company that seems solid and plan to hold it forever, says Tommy Williams, the president of Williams Financial Advisors. "You can't just do the old buy and hold and hope," Williams says. "You've got to be much more proactive," he says.
Williams Financial Advisors now holds stocks for an average of only about seven or eight months, meaning they turn over positions much more often than they used to, Williams says. His firm reviews its portfolios every week and looks to sell stocks when they no longer meet the criteria that made them a buy in the first place. Reviewing positions can be labor-intensive for an individual investor, but "having a sell discipline is really the key," Williams says. "Be ready to sell things that at one time you were in love with," he says.


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#1 Japanese Tempura!01-09-2011, 08:21 PM
Deep frying Japanese style! First off the secret to a good tempura is the dipping sauces. These worked well for our playoff football sunday!
Sweet and spicy:
Simmer together 1/2 cup white wine vinegar, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of brown sugar for 5 minutes on medium heat stirring often.
Meanwhile mash 2 cloves of garlic with 1/4 t of kosher salt with a knife to form a paste.
Off heat add the garlic paste and 2 t of crushed red pepper flakes, stir good and let get to room temp.
Asian flavored Aioli:
1/2 cup mayo
2 T minced shallot
2 T hot chile sesame oil
1 T soy sauce
1 T brown sugar
1 T chopped fresh cilantro
1 t dijon mustard
1/2 t anchovy paste(or just mash up 2 anchovies with some sugar)
1 clove garlic minced
juice of 1/2 lime
Combine all ingredients, whisk until smooth, chill until ready to serve
Gingered soy sauce:
!/4 cup soy sauce
3 T water
1 T minced ginger
2 t brown sugar
1 t hot chile sesame oil
1 scallion sliced, green and white parts
juice of 1/2 lime
Combine all ingredients, mix well and let stand at room temp.
on the left is Asian aioli. the middle is gingered soy and the right is sweet and spicy!
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this powerful memory gave the white South a unique sense of national meaning, purpose, and destiny. The civil religious perspectives of everyone else, meanwhile, have gone unnoticed.
Arthur Remillard fills this void by investigating the civil religious discourses of a wide array of people and groups—blacks and whites, men and women, northerners and southerners, Democrats and Republicans, as well as Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Focusing on the Wiregrass Gulf South region—an area covering north Florida, southwest Georgia, and southeast Alabama—Remillard argues that the Lost Cause was but one civil religious topic among many. Even within the white majority, civil religious language influenced a range of issues, such as progress, race, gender, and religious tolerance. Moreover, minority groups developed sacred values and beliefs that competed for space in the civil religious landscape.
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According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, cops discovered Adams' mangled black Jeep Wrangler ... right near a downed electric pole ... around 4:27 AM.
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P.S. How can he lust over someone who he's never even seen a picture of?
That's Ken.
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Maybe you've heard the Gazette's windows were boarded up last week; we certainly heard about it.
Maybe you've heard the Gazette's windows were boarded up last week.
We certainly heard about it.
Startled people would come in to pay for their subscription renewals, and say, "Oh, you're still here!"
Several people asked me while I was out and about what was going on with the Gazette's windows covered with sheets of plywood.
They usually were careful to not make eye-contact with me until they had gotten a definite answer.
The answer is simple: drive by the Gazette offices today, and you'll see a new wall inset with three smaller windows.
One of our previous 1970s-era nearly-floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows got damaged earlier in the year. When we investigated, we discovered it would cost several thousand dollars to remove and replace just that one window.
Then if that replacement window got broken, we'd get hit with having to pay for that same expense all over again.
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I see advantages and disadvantages to this new remodeling.
• Maybe I won't be blinded by cars parked in front of GuidePoint Pharmacy any more.
On cloudless mornings, when the angle of the sunlight hit the cars' windows juuuuuust right, the photons from the sun's core would travel 92 million miles just to bounce off a piece of tempered glass at the last nano-second and zap me right in the eyes when I was sitting at my desk.
Hopefully the new wall will reduce that.
• The front half of the Gazette offices should be warmer during the winter months.
• Less sunlight.
I don't know about you, but I can only sit in an office without sunlight for so long.
For the past week, the Gazette staff has been dealing with dark green and blue plastic sheets hung up to protect us from dust in the air. As a result, most of us sitting at our desks can't see any sunlight at all.
We've gone from having a good view of life out on S. Washington Street to feeling as we're siting in a submarine four miles under the ocean.
Once I spent a couple years working in an office that had only one sliver of sunlight visible from my desk. Other than that one narrow slice of window, it was just overheard fluorescents everywhere you looked.
I'd take the fluorescent for as long as I could, then lean back in my chair and crane my neck to see that little sliver of sunlight visible through two panes of glass in another room.
It was like being splashed with cool water after a day sweltering in the desert.
It's a small thing, but it's huge to be able to know if it is cloudy or sunny at that moment, or approximately what time it is from the angle of the sun outside.
• One other disadvantage of the new wall: I won't be able to see when someone walks their dogs by at night.
Now that's just cruel.


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All police officers in eastern Connecticut have been trained to respond to a shooting incident like the rampage in Newtown, but local law enforcement officials say the tragedy "opened everybody's eyes" and will lead to changes in training and tactics.
"I hate to say it's a lesson learned, that sounds awful, but it's a reality, it happened and we have to learn from the reality of the massacre that took place," said Peter Reichard, deputy chief in New London. "No one's expecting a person to bring military-style weapons in an elementary school. It's unimaginable."
The tragedy that left 28 dead is the latest in a long list of mass shootings, dating back to a 1997 public shootout in California, that have changed the discourse in the law enforcement community, Norwich Police Lt. Chris Ferace said.
"When you get an incident of this magnitude, we say let's take a step back and see what we can do to improve," he said. "Unfortunately, law enforcement learns the hard way. Every time there's an incident, there's a hard lesson."
Ferace introduced a version of "active shooter" training for Norwich police in 2007, which was expanded and, with the help of Lt. Dave Burton in Waterford, introduced regionally in 2008. Now, every member of 23 eastern Connecticut departments, members of the Law Enforcement Council of Connecticut, train together throughout the year to become proficient in what Ferace called "Immediate Action Rapid Deployment."
The training includes shooting scenarios in "high-traffic areas" like schools, hospitals, malls and office buildings across the region.
Ferace said one of the first major changes to law enforcement came in 1997, when two heavily armed men robbed a North Hollywood bank. Officers were held at bay for 45 minutes, Ferace said, as the men, armed with high-powered automatic rifles and wearing body armor, tried to make their escape.
Both suspects were killed, and police officers and others were injured in a shootout that ensued.
At the time, Ferace said, police were armed with pistols and shotguns. Only SWAT team members had more powerful weaponry.
"A military caliber assault rifle was taboo prior to that," Ferace said. "In patrol cars, it was too complex of a tool. Now, for the majority of agencies in eastern Connecticut, a patrol rifle is the standard for a shoulder-mounted weapon."
But that doesn't mean they've replaced the shotgun, he said.
"Just because you get a crescent wrench, you don't throw the socket wrench out the window," Ferace said.
In 1999, the shooting at Columbine, a Colorado high school, presented new complexities, he said. There were armed school resource officers on scene, he said, but law enforcement tactics then dictated that officers set up a perimeter around an active shooting scene and wait for backup and SWAT teams. Additional people were killed as a perimeter was set, Ferace said, prompting one of the biggest changes in law enforcement training.
"Had (Columbine) happened now, the same scenario, the school resource officer would have engaged the suspects until he stopped them, or he was stopped," Ferace said.
News reports about the Newtown shooting indicate that Adam Lanza took his own life as law enforcement closed in on Sandy Hook Elementary School. Ferace said responding officers have three choices during such incidents: arrest the suspect, isolate and contain them, or, if fired upon, return fire.
"It's exclusively dictated by his response to our presence," Ferace said. "We have limited choices based on his actions. It's not unlike any other confrontation with a violent individual."
Training for IARD is funded by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant. Officers from the 23 departments, in groups of 24 to 30, train together so "we're all on the same page," he said. That way, officers from Stonington responding to an incident in Putnam have the same tactical knowledge and understanding to use outside of their jurisdiction, Ferace said.
Departments in the region vary in size from small to the 99 sworn officers in Norwich. But the equipment and training all officers have available means teams can engage a shooter before a SWAT team or specialized unit arrives.
"In an incident of this magnitude, it can be over in two minutes," Ferace said. "Very few go 20 minutes, so the first, most accessible responders are patrol officers that are trained in these tactics."
Focus on schools
Each year, police officers go through hours of training, from concepts in a classroom to shooting practice that includes real-life scenarios.
Even before the Newtown tragedy, Ferace said, schools were a major focus of training exercises. A vacant school building is used during some of the trainings, he said, and by coincidence, Ferace was overseeing a lockdown drill at John M. Moriarty Elementary School the morning of the Newtown shootings.
"We've created training programs for the schools in case of a hostile in the school," he said. "We have a very good working relationship with the Norwich school district."
In Waterford, where clusters of malls and shopping centers are spread throughout town, Chief Murray Pendleton said he can "rest assured" officers have been properly trained to respond to an incident.
"I'm sure there's no comparison between southeastern Connecticut and New York City, but in this particular area, we have more than our fair share of high traffic areas, soft targets and logistically challenged businesses," Pendleton said.
The Newtown shooting has brought immediate changes to certain strategies and plans, said Reichard, the New London deputy chief. The Sunday after the shooting, Reichard and other police administrators met with city fire department officials and New London Superintendent of Schools Nicholas Fischer to iron out any "lapses in communication."
Reichard said many officers did not know the layouts of the city's schools but now will have hard copies of floor plans and access to the schools' electronic blueprints via their in-car computers.
"We're making arrangements for officers to take a walk-through of each school so they know first-hand what each school looks like," he said.
Reichard said that firearm training normally held in May and June has been moved up to March. The administration also is working to create even more life-like training situations where officers respond, with sirens blaring and lights flashing, to an "active shooting," Reichard said.
"We want them walking into the unknown, just like a real scenario," he said.
The eastern district's training program is so highly regarded statewide, Ferace said, that he recently was contacted by officers in the Hartford area for advice and training techniques.
"I refer to law enforcement as the one profession where there is no such thing as plagiarism," Ferace said. "If you like something, share it."
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Neighbors still not enamored with project
An assisted living facility on the corner of Black Point Road and Route 1 that has residents up in arms has again appeared to meet the approval of the town's Planning Board.
At the Planning Board meeting on Monday, Aug. 6, Andrew Johnston, a civil engineer from SMRT and Tom Gorrill, a traffic engineer with Gorrill and Palmer Consulting Engineers, presented the latest proposal by Wegman Companies to create an 81- unit assisted living facility next to the Citgo station.
The Planning Board gave the project preliminary approval in January, but did not officially act on the latest proposal because the board is waiting for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to complete its review. That is expected later this month.
Scarborough Town Planner Dan Bacon said the meeting was an opportunity for the applicant to showcase any new changes to the plan and for the public to voice any concerns they had with the project proposal. The plan includes the construction of a 59,000- square-foot facility with 81 single bedroom and studio apartments. The facility will also have a 20-room dementia care unit.
One group of citizens, The Friends of Oak Hill, continues to oppose the prospect of the facility moving into the neighborhood due to traffic and environmental concerns.
Jay Phelps, who lives across the street from the site, said he is most concerned about how stormwater and groundwater would run off the property if it were to be developed. The property, he said, has a difficult time stopping the water run off from Route 1 as it is. Adding more impervious surfaces, including a 65- space parking lot, facility driveway and access road around the property, would only make that worse. The water run off, he said, continues past the property into the properties further down on Black Point Road and the nearby streets.
"It is an environmental issue that's been pushed into a traffic issue," said Phelps, who came to the meeting with his daughters Jillian and Ruby and held a bottle of water he collected from flooding in his basement.
Johnston said the plan presented will help the problem — not make it worse — due to the bio retention ponds and collection basins on the property and the roof drip strip to collect water that flows from the facility's roof. Peter Tubbs, a civil engineer retained by the town, concurred with Johnston.
"I think SMRT did a good job with stormwater management and what would happen pre and post development, Tubbs said.
Carol Rancourt, who lives at 23 Black Point Road, said her concern is with the layout of the facility, which is proposed to face Black Point Road.
"I do support the project and I am glad it's coming in, but I still have some reservations about the site and the direction of the facility itself," said Rancourt.
Rancourt said she would rather see the facility face either the back of the Citgo station or the vacant "widow's walk" property next door. This, she added, would reduce the pollution, noise and aesthetics issues for people passing on Black Point Road.
Johnston said he looked at a number of different orientations and layouts for the building and found the current proposal impacted the wetlands on the property the least. It also keeps the Scarborough facility in line with others Wegman Companies operate.
"The building design is being used at other facilities very successfully," Johnston said. "This is the most practical, most feasible design and works best for the site."
Lisa Ronco, of 17 Black Point Road, said the Friends of Oak Hill group would like the entrance to the facility, which is 300 feet from the Oak Hill intersection and across the street from her property, reconsidered."We are in stringent opposition to the entrance and exit on Black Point Road," Ronco said.
"Our hope is the town and Wegman will devote time and discuss the issue and come up with a better access to the facility," she added.
Rancourt said an entrance off Route 1 across from Hannaford Drive makes sense.
"I still think the Route 1 entrance makes the most sense for the people of Scarborough," she said. "It is a signalized entrance, but would have its own issues because there would be some wetlands impacted.
Several years ago, when another developer was interested in the property, an entrance off Route 1 was proposed, but never materialized. Doing so, Johnston said, would have been cost prohibitive and made too much of an impact to the wetlands on the property.
Stephanie Ruel, a resident of the nearby Fairfield Road, said because the entrance is so close to the Oak Hill intersection and Amato's, one of the busiest eateries in town, the project will impact the traffic that moves along Black Point Road.
Craig Marston, of Woodrock Drive, said he has seen the traffic congestion only get worse on the road.
"I used to pull into my street and not have a problem. Now I have to sit and wait 5 or 10 minutes," he said. Over a five-day period May 17 to May 22, close to 80,000 vehicles were counted on Black Point Road.
"There are 16,000 cars a day on one of the oldest roads in Scarborough, which has only had the bare minimum of improvements over the years," Ruel said.
Planning Board member Ron Mazer, who said he travels Black Point Road 10 to 15 times a day, is not convinced traffic is an issue here. Gorrill said the project is expected to create 12 additional trips in the peak morning hour and 14 in the peak afternoon hour. Bill Bray, the town's traffic engineer, told the board he feels comfortable with Gorrill's numbers.
"There is a problem with traffic. No one is denying that. There is no simple answer to the issue. However, I don't see how the project adds to the problem," Mazer said.
If passed, the Wegman project may actually help traffic on the road as a result. Wegman has agreed to widen Black Point Road to include a left turn lane for vehicles turning onto Route 1 and another left turn lane for vehicles turning into the property. A sidewalk would also be constructed in front of the property.
"To me the key is the road improvement that is being done by the applicant in that intersection," said Planning Board member John Chamberlain. "I like the design and the landscape. I think this will be a very desirable project for the town."
"We can't expect one applicant—the last one through the door—to solve all the world's problems. I think they are going above and beyond what we would reasonably expect them to do and are expediting some improvements that would not happen for quite some time," said Planning Board member Cory Fellows.
Planning Board Chairman Allen Paul said the project is not an issue, as long as stormwater and groundwater can be properly managed.
"This applicant is doing a lot to help the town and doesn't need to," Paul said. "I really think the applicant is trying to be a good neighbor."
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From crashed tin to showroom gold—and it only took 38 years
It was 2005 when this Daytona finally saw the light of day after resting some 30 odd years in the back of a Quonset hut. It was covered with years of dust and bags of "stuff."
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Engine: In 1969, this one was delivered to the dealership with a 440 under the hood. The same numbers matching 440 is still under the hood, but Mike Ege, of Mooresville, North Carolina, handled the rebuilding chores. The only deviation from stock is the .030-inch overbore, and the addition of oversized pistons. The rest of the engine was rebuilt to factory specs.
Transmission: Mike Mancini and his crew rebuilt the Daytona's original 727 to as-good-as-new condition.
Rear: It's a basic 8-3⁄4 with a Sure Grip and 3.55 highway gears—it works and makes the car a blast to drive.
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Suspension: Again, going for Gold means factory correct, so N.O.S. parts fill the undercarriage after the rebuild
Brakes: It's hard to believe that something built for the speeds this car is capable of was delivered with manual drums on all four corners.
Wheels/Tires: Again, with a Gold rating being the goal, correct and original F70-14 Redlines wrap the restored 14-inch Road Wheels.
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Paint/Body: It's perfect. Not the over-restored kind of perfect, but the perfect that is required to be factory correct. The Single-Stage W1 Alpine White was applied by the crew at American Muscle Car Restorations in Rhode Island. The Red butt stripe and wing makes a great contrast.
Interior: All interior fabrics in the red gut are N.O.S. and hand stitched to make the seat covers, headliner, and door panels.
Factory: Tony tells us that he has documentation that only two Daytonas left the factory with this color combination.


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The Best TV Characters of 2011
When Showtime's celebrated Homeland wrapped up its first season earlier this week, many critics were upset with its final twists. But AV Club's TV editor, Todd VanDerWerff, wasn't one of them. He took to Twitter to stick up for the show, noting that its detractors were largely upset about the plot while its defenders lauded its character development and concluding, "If you're watching long-form TV for plot, it will disappoint you." In fact, it's always fascinating and multi-faceted characters, and the way they grow over time, that hooks us on a show for the long haul. So, with an eye to how vitally important they are to the overall success of a series, we've rounded up the year's best TV characters. Since we can't watch everything, you'll want to add anyone we missed in the comments.
George Christopher, Bored to Death
RIP Bored to Death. As much as we like the Jonathan Ames character and love Zach Galifianakis, it is Ted Danson's aging (former) magazine editor, George Christopher, who we're most upset to never see again. Both a father figure to Jonathan and Galifianakis' Ray and a big, spoiled kid himself, George was a bundle of contradictions, a helpless womanizer, a stylish clotheshorse, a generous friend, a hilarious stoner, and a guy whose heart was genuinely in the right place. We think this charismatic character would make an excellent late-night host, and we'll totally forgive HBO for canceling Bored to Death if they'll simply give him his own daily show.


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1. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Sep 6, 2009 1:27 PM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
I think the previous replies to the same request have already said it all.
2. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Parampampam Sep 10, 2009 11:56 AM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
It is really important question.
I work in Debian and to me is strongly necessary photoshop in it. I know that to many designers who as well as I work in linux, it is necessary to use analogues of a photoshop which are much weaker.
Whether it is necessary to wait Linux version?
3. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Sep 14, 2009 6:28 PM (in response to Parampampam)
Read the existing threads asking the same question. The answers haven't changed.
4. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?CyberxTremer Sep 15, 2009 12:14 AM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
One of the reason i dont switch to linux is because of photoshop. It will be a great step for millions of users ")
5. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?djaighkub Sep 24, 2010 2:37 AM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
In response to "all the previous posts" discussions, which I've read through a large chunk of them:
Some key logic is missing...
"Microsoft's trial period has expired, and they are FIRED!"
The grudge harbored against Microsoft by power users, tech guys and many users has been nursed from a raptor egg hatchling into a full grown killing machine. With each new OS release, Microsoft shoots both users and developers in both feet.
The workers and contibutors are forced between a simplified and scope-locked OS (Mac) and a very change volatile, insecure and unstable OS (Windows).
key point:
The pool of stagnate users that hate both OS choices for commercial products keeps growing. At what point will companies realize that people want to give mac and windows the finger and switch to linux?
"If you build it, they will come."
Microsoft is completely fired from my world but I'm forced to keep it running on a computer for: photoshop, flash and solidworks.
Ambitious Adobe Manager Project:
Business is business. There are X number of licensed Adobe product users.
Group A uses Mac, Group B uses PC.
Group C don't like either OS and would readily use a linux distro (such as Ubuntu) if they could.
Group Z has switched to linux completely and without Adobe love. They tolerate GIMP and outsource Flash development and such.
Domination Scheme 462:
1. Add a "poll section" to Adobe forums where every licensed Adobe user can specify their preferences.
2. Using inside business math, the "profitability point" can be reasonably well estimated.
3. Let the world see the numbers. Once conditions are specified to the public for something to come to market, it'll create support. When people have options, they will usually find themselves more discontent with what they have. If this frame of mind were established, I would guess it'd take 2-3 years to get full blown public support and other companies ready to invest in linux as well. (If Adobe put a $ amount on the project, I wonder if some rich investor would front the money, just to see what happens? ;-))
4. Math is math, once the numbers make sense, it only makes dollars to port the power to linux ;-)
(Obviously there is more to it from an internal management perspective. But lighting the fire of public support isn't too hard, especially when people are heaping up the fuel for you. The first big developer in the linux pool gets the spotlight, the stage and whatever else they want. What will be the first big fish? Linux is the one thing that can't go away. Talk about infinite returns on investment with little to no support.)
6. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Sep 24, 2010 3:48 PM (in response to djaighkub)
Again, we've done the research. The profits aren't there -- very few Linux users are willing to pay for commercial software.
And the cost of entry is still high because of the fragmented Linux landscape.
The Linux world has to change before commercial software will have reason to invest in Linux ports.
And we haven't seen much real change in the Linux market in several years.
7. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?sparetimedesign Oct 11, 2010 7:27 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
You say you've done the research, and yet you seem to be frustrated by the number of requests calling for Adobe to port Photoshop to Linux - clearly there is a market for it! Here's an interesting article: http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=480 - it demonstrates that Linux users will pay for software, and in the case given pay more than their Mac or Windows counterparts!
I'd move away from Windows in a shot if I could only buy Photoshop for Linux (specifically Ubuntu). The world's leading image manipulation software + a stable (free) operating system? Seems like a no-brainer! I'd be willing to bet there would be a ton of people willing to switch over night if the option were there.
As far as I can see it's a stalemate that neither side wants or feels they can afford to break. On the one hand software companies who won't take a gamble for whatever reason and on the other users who won't move to a platform that won't entirely meet their needs. I'm sure Adobe have less to lose and more to gain by breaking that stalemate first!
8. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 11, 2010 9:15 AM (in response to sparetimedesign)
There is a big difference between calls for something, and a market willing to pay for that thing.
Think about how many people want an Italian sports car, versus how many are willing to actually pay for them.
Sadly, people willing to pay a few dollars for small games does not translate into professionals willing to pay hundreds of dollars for desktop software.
Yes, Adobe would have a lot to lose: everything it spent on making the port, advertising money spent, etc. And it is not a stalemate -- the ball is in the Linux court. Linux developers and users can pick the ball up and join the game, or keep playing solo.
9. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?sparetimedesign Oct 12, 2010 4:33 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
There is a big difference between calls for something, and a market willing to pay for that thing.
Think about how many people want an Italian sports car, versus how many are willing to actually pay for them.
I think that raises a totally different point, namely the prohibitively high cost of buying into Adobe products. As I say, another matter entirely... besides Photoshop is hardly a luxury product like a Ferrari - more a necessity for many designers.
I agree that the purchase of professional creative software can't be compared to low-cost games, but I think the principle is there. I'm merely saying the argument against developing for Linux as there is no-one willing to pay for it seems to me (and many others) to be invalid.
Strategically, it could be good for Adobe - helping to foster the design and development community on an open platform - and could really stick it to Apple (possibly not a priority for Adobe). Besides, Adobe taking a punt on the Linux market doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing effort does it? Maybe Adobe could dip their toe in the water with Fireworks? On second thought...
10. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 12, 2010 5:15 PM (in response to sparetimedesign)
The cost doesn't appear to be "prohibitively high" for people using Photoshop professionally. And Photoshop is a professional product, not a consumer product.
The fact that Linux users are not will to pay for software is quite valid, and backed up by a lot of market research. A few anecdotes don't change that fact.
Again, the Linux developers and users need to step up to make Linux a viable platform for commercial software. It has to make some business sense before a business will invest anything in the effort.
11. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?RhodriM Oct 21, 2010 10:02 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Chris Cox wrote:
The fact that Linux users are not will to pay for software is quite valid, and backed up by a lot of market research. A few anecdotes don't change that fact.
I think perhaps you underestimate the importance and influence of your product there.
Die-hard open-source advocates who've used linux forever probably aren't very willing to pay for software.
But what about users who are less strong-minded about free software, or even which OS they use?
I have often got the impression that hardcore photoshop users care far more about photoshop than they do which OS it runs on. If such 'killer apps' were available on linux, then surely linux would be far more attractive to more people - particularly the ones who aren't so averse to paying for software?
Chicken and egg I guess, must still be a big risk.
Personally the lack of certain pieces of commercial software on linux is the reason I still keep a copy of Windows. Ho hum.
12. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?mr.ubuntu Oct 25, 2010 3:43 AM (in response to RhodriM)
Chriss, are you aware of the new Ubuntus purchase section in their software center?
There are about 15-20 Million Ubuntuusers out there which you can reach at once,
offering your software in the new purchase section of Ubuntu´s software center!
For sure there would be a market for Photoshop, since there is no free software
for professional 16-bit photo editing. Lots of users would be ready to switch to
Ubuntu, if there would be Photoshop, which you don´t have in your statistic.
Linux users are willing to pay for professional software, for example for the raw converter
Bibble 5 from Bibble Labs.
Think about it, or even talk with Canonical.
13. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 25, 2010 9:52 AM (in response to mr.ubuntu)
Yes, we've asked about users willing to switch.
Really, there aren't that many.
But we'll keep asking, and hoping that the Linux community develops.
14. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?mr.ubuntu Oct 25, 2010 10:46 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Thanks Chris,
and what about Ubuntu? 15-20 Million users available at once with
the purchase section of the software center. Can you imagine what
15 Million users at once could mean?
Is it so hard to develop Photoshop for Linux? If its already written
in .net, you could easiely convert it using mono.
Are you aware, that your competitor, Bibble Labs, is selling Bibble 5
also for Linux and many Linux users are ready to pay for it since there
is no other professional raw converter for Linux?
Photoshop wouldn't have a competitor on Linux, since Gimp does not
support 16 bit per channel, nor CMYK or Lab*
Am Montag, den 25.10.2010, 10:52 -0600 schrieb Chris Cox:
Yes, we've asked about users willing to switch.
Really, there aren't that many.
But we'll keep asking, and hoping that the Linux community develops.
15. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 25, 2010 11:30 AM (in response to mr.ubuntu)
Is this a robo-posting? You're just repeating the same stuff you said before (which still makes no difference: next to nobody is buying commercial software on Linux, which includes the ubuntu distribution).
16. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?mr.ubuntu Oct 25, 2010 11:38 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
you are also repeating the same stuff
You are definitly wrong with your statment but I understand that it
makes no sence trying to convince you. I hope others of Adobe will
read this posts as well.
Anyway thanks for answering and have a good time.
Am Montag, den 25.10.2010, 12:30 -0600 schrieb Chris Cox:
Is this a robo-posting? You're just repeating the same stuff you said before (which still makes no difference: next to nobody is buying commercial software on Linux, which includes the ubuntu distribution).
17. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 25, 2010 3:38 PM (in response to mr.ubuntu)
Yes, I'm having to repeat myself because posters don't seem to understand the basic facts of the situation (and that they really aren't changing much over time).
You don't have to convince anyone here -- you just need to make Linux a better place for application development (develop some standards, fix the problems, etc.), and develop a market of users willing to pay for commercial software.
18. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?sparetimedesign Oct 25, 2010 4:33 PM (in response to Chris Cox)
I hope you don't think we're trying to antagonise you Chris, I think it's interesting to have a debate about it. I'd be interested to know (if you don't mind divulging this information) what your capacity at Adobe is? Is there any published research by Adobe to support what you're saying?
Now I'm no expert when it comes to application development, but I think there would be quite a few Linux devs who would find those comments difficult to swallow. What standards should be developed to make Linux a better place? What problems need to be fixed?
A friend informed me that Photoshop has an old codebase (apparently around 20 years old) and built with a variety of languages across different architectures. If that's true, then that's an understandable reason for not producing it - but not a reason to blame Linux for not being up to scratch.
19. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?sparetimedesign Oct 25, 2010 4:35 PM (in response to sparetimedesign)
Seems Adobe had a bash at it once:
20. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 25, 2010 6:57 PM (in response to sparetimedesign)
Me? I'm a Senior Engineer on the Photoshop team.
Photoshop's codebase is 20 years old, but constantly cleaned and refactored. Our codebase is C++, and pretty portable. That has nothing to do with not porting to Linux.
I doubt that the research is well published, since marketing research is usually perfomed by well paid research companies (and they want to keep getting paid). I see the research done every year or two, and the results barely change with respect to Linux users.
Linux still lacks standards for color management or fonts, and just barely has standards for printing. Things like tablet support are more than a little hacked, and drivers are still a nightmare. And that's just the problems I can see from occasional use, I'm sure there are more. And where is the standard UI toolkit (currently you can pick from 6 or more bad choices based on the mistakes of X Windows)?
Stabilizing the OS and adopting standards would make Linux more attractive to ports (and to write anything more complicated than command line apps). It would also be far more attractive when code can run on more than one distribution of the OS without major effort.
Yes, Linux devs without experience on other platforms might find the facts hard to swallow. But Linux is not a single OS, but a kernel used in many fragmented OSes with few standards.
And, AGAIN, the primary reason for no Photoshop on Linux: there is no market. Linux users are still not willing to pay for commercial software. You have to solve that problem before you'll get serious commerical applications.
Solving the standards problems would make Linux more attractive to developers, and then you might get more users. Right now, the sets of Linux users and developers are overlapping a little too much (when app tutorials start with "download these 8 packages and build them", you've got a problem).
21. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Mark_8647 Oct 28, 2010 1:25 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
In our company we use Linux (Ubuntu) and Photoshop a lot. Only our designers use Windows because they work with the Creative Suite software all the time. But they would love to switch to Ubuntu as well. So please don't tell that all Linux users are not willing to pay for software. We would LOVE to pay for Linux Creative Suite licences. The market may be too small for Adobe, but it does certainly exist.
22. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Chris Cox Oct 28, 2010 10:17 AM (in response to Mark_8647)
Sure there are some Linux users willing to pay for software, but as you noted: most of them already do pay for Photoshop on a different OS.
So, how many new sales would be generated to pay for the Linux port? Just moving existing licenses between OSes would not justify the cost involved.
And that number is vanishingly small.
So, to make the port feasible you have 2 factors available: increasing the number of users willing to pay for software, and lowering the barriers to making a port (reducing the cost). The barriers aren't super high, but reducing them would help bring in other developers. But the lack of paying customers: that's a killer problem.
23. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?fantasticfoxmr Nov 2, 2010 9:50 AM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
Photoshop on Linux would obviously be great for those of us who have already started to make the transition off Mac and Windows, and for a lot of other designers who are unhappily stuck on one of those platforms. I hear what Adobe's saying, though. They're just not in a financial position to port their software to a new platform without being virtually guaranteed success. It's much safer for them to stick to incrementally upgrading Mac and Windows, which presents only the small tradeoff, at least in the short-term, of some of their more tech-savvy customers losing interest in purchasing those upgrades. Long-term, let's hope the Linux community does whatever it takes to make Linux an attractive platform for Adobe, if it continues to be relevant.
24. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?mr.ubuntu Nov 3, 2010 5:42 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Simple example Chris,
a friend of mine was about to buy a professional raw converter.
His favorite candidates were Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
and Bibble 5 from Bibble Labs.
He bought Bibble 5 in the end, because this software works also
on a Linux system, since he uses Windows and Linux computers.
Am 28.10.2010 19:17, schrieb Chris Cox:
Sure there are some Linux users willing to pay for software, but as you noted: most of them already do pay for Photoshop on a different OS.
So, how many new sales would be generated to pay for the Linux port? Just moving existing licenses between OSes would not justify the cost involved.
And that number is vanishingly small.
So, to make the port feasible you have 2 factors available: increasing the number of users willing to pay for software, and lowering the barriers to making a port (reducing the cost). The barriers aren't super high, but reducing them would help bring in other developers. But the lack of paying customers: that's a killer problem.
25. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Copyprint_ Nov 6, 2010 4:47 AM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
I use linux at home since 2000, and I use Debian Unstable because I love to spend some of my free time to contribute to help developers or package mantainer to make packages working fine or to suggest software changes. As you may know, linux community takes all ideas and suggestion and bug report seriously and the feedback time is really short.
In the place where I work i use Windows XP with SP3 and we bought recently Photoshop CS5. In two weeks I noticed several bugs and several ways to improve the UI. The most relevant bug is in the print dialog and this is out from MAY, we are in NOVEMBER. And Photoshop run in Windows XP that is a "well tested" (ok, I will stop to laugh....) OS, or at least it grant support to developpers and have lots of API to be used. And Photoshop still have serious bug.
Now imagine Photoshop on linux... every lib version have something different from the previous and Adobe programmers does not seem fast to rewrite part of software or to recover serious bug, or to give a real customer support service. This is why I won't buy a Linux license of Photoshop it there were one.
It isn't a Linux fault, it is an Adobe fault. What I have seen is a group of developer that does not care about user request, that does not study the reason of a bug passing the bug responsibility to the OS API or to drivers producers. The only way to take in serious consideration a Linux version would be an opensource version of photoshop, with a commercial license, but with sourcecode visible for everybody to see where it is wrong and to repair problems in the linux time.
What I really think is that the Adobe programmers are not so skilled as one may think and therefore I really think that the price of Photoshop should be decreased by a 30%, or new programmers hired, a serious bug-report system implemented and more customer assistance given to user.
I don't want to blame programmers, they maybe have too many task to do every day, but a delayed assistance is not an assistance, is just mantainance, and mantain on the market a product with known serious bug (even if the press does not talk about them... just talk about new stuff... and I wonder why) is take advantage of the software name instead of its quality.
Linux users want a good software, so in my humble opinion as a linux user, I am happy to have not such a buggy program at home.
26. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Mark_8647 Nov 7, 2010 1:36 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Chris, I do understand your reaction on a commercial point of view. But on the customer care point of view I do not understand it at all. Basically you say: "We are not helping you, existing customer, with a Linux version. You are already a customer, we already have your money, so why would we put any effort in helping you at all?"
I think that's not how a company should operate...
27. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Chris Cox Nov 7, 2010 4:48 PM (in response to Mark_8647)
Mark - how would we pay for the effort to port to Linux? Selling to people who already buy the product won't make additional money needed to make the port, much less support a new platform. Even from a customer point of view: you already have the product, and are using it, so there is nothing to gain from a Linux port.
Think about it a bit more.
28. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Mark_8647 Nov 8, 2010 12:11 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Chris, I have thought about it but apparently your point of view is miles away from mine. I think you make a lot of money with Photoshop, and that's fine. You could use just a small bit of it to serve your existing (and future) customers wit a Linux version. You don't do this because you want to be 100% sure that all development costs will be covered by new Linux licenses immediately. I still think that's very strange, am I allowed to?
And how can you say that I have nothing to gain by a Linux port? I am not using Photoshop myself, my colleages do. They have to use Windows with all the trouble only for Photoshop (and other C.S. software). We pay a lot for Windows licenses, antivirus software, etc. Every now and then a designer's PC is infected with a virus (despite the antivirus software), Windows gets broken, PC's have to be reinstalled, etc. etc. All problems that do seldom (never, in fact) occur with our Linux workstations.
So yes, we have a lot to gain from a Linux port!
29. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?SAFAD_Soft Nov 8, 2010 2:44 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
i really still think that photoshop on linux will make too much money to pay for your developers
you can ask crossover for how much they get from selling their software
asking S2games for how many players buy their game (Heroes of Newerth) will give you more info
and even asking team goo for how much did they get from selling their (world of GOO) game in linux platform
don't forget that indie humble made great sales on linux before mac and windows !
still there is much more software that are getting much money from multi-platform
Best regards
30. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Copyprint_ Nov 8, 2010 7:25 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Mr. Cox says:
(when app tutorials start with "download these 8 packages and build them", you've got a problem)
Thinking about (and hopefully solving) the bugs pending on CS5 instead of waste your "engineer" time to talk about linux?
31. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Chris Cox Nov 8, 2010 12:22 PM (in response to SAFAD_Soft)
you can ask crossover for how much they get from selling their software
We do talk to them, and other Linux developers, periodically.
Unfortunately, they still support my point.
32. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Chris Cox Nov 8, 2010 1:35 PM (in response to Mark_8647)
I still think that's very strange, am I allowed to?
If you want to make money and stay in business, you pretty much have to think about it as I explained.
If you want to lose a lot of money, then your approach might work.
33. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?fantasticfoxmr Nov 8, 2010 2:19 PM (in response to Chris Cox)
That depends on whether your business is financially prepared to innovate. If it is, investing in long-term development isn't such a sure route to disaster. From this thread, though, it seems increasingly clear the position Adobe is in. It's a shame, because Photoshop has been a great product and I don't think any of us want to see it fade into irrelevance.
34. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?Chris Cox Nov 8, 2010 2:30 PM (in response to fantasticfoxmr)
I don't think any of us want to see it fade into irrelevance.
I'm not sure how failing to support a non-existant market equates to fading into irrelevance.
Long term development would be great - if there was SOME promise of the market developing, some sign that it was actually growing and willing to pay for software. And that just isn't happening for the Linux desktop market.
35. Re: $$$drrtybylf Nov 10, 2010 8:12 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
The standards argument is somewhat moot, considering:
-Linux supports widely used type formats: OTF, TTF, etc.
-Adobe could easily port to one nix desktop and make it a system requirement
-Color management and printing profiles have, and always will be, somewhat chaotic and problematic
The reality is that there is no money in porting Creative Suite to Linux until desktop penetration reaches around 15%.
What's that you say? Apple has less than 10% of the desktop market? History and usership tells us that an overwhelming chunk of that platform buys Adobe products.
-Cost to port ($)
-Cost to maintain/update parallel versions ($$)
-Cost to successfully market CS availability to the nix market ($$$->$$$$)
Sadly, Adobe is really the only game in town when it comes to reliable results for professional imaging, vector editing software, and Flash development (of course).
For Linux users, the perennial options are to:
-Use OS X/Windows to run CS products
-Dump development time into improving usable alternatives. Look at how Openoffice.org is beginning to replace MS Office.
36. Re: Photoshop For Linux ?RickardLiljeberg-x5J6Z3 Nov 20, 2010 3:57 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
There is one possibility overlooked here. There are some big companies out there who wants to see Linux succeed or maybe rather Microsoft fail.
But they might simply be willing to shell out for a port of photoshop to linux :-)
37. Re: PhotoShop For Linux ?Manny B. Nov 21, 2010 10:37 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
"But we'll keep asking, and hoping that the Linux community develops."
first i've been a adobe/photoshop client.
I havent upgrade past cs2 because thats the only 1 that wine supports at the moment.
Ok, now Lets be straight and talk REAL CASH FIGURES here.
How much exactly you need / want for that initial port?
500k, 1 million, 2, 3 , 4 , 5 mill?
Be straight, i dont want to read anything else about market share blah blah.
What you want is the money, you dont care about anything else.
If you give us straight numbers, we can certainly arrange this.
we've gathered hundreds of thousands for many crappy things over and over, so getting what you want for PS wont be a problem.
Its the chicken and the egg dilema...
While our user base may be smaller than other platforms at the moment (in part your fault), doesnt mean we cant movilize and organize in ways that you will never see Ever in any other of those platforms.
We are NOT sheep like other OS users, we dont purchase things because of fad or dumb things like that (remember the pet rock fad?), we're highly organized, intelligent, motivated and may i say very "powerful community" that will do anything for its OS to become adopted by the world. Adobe is making this more dificult than it needs to be, it certainly is a road-block, you guys are the egg.
Test us and you will be surprised with our power to movilze resources and workforce.
So why not give us those numbers? You have nothing to lose and surely millions to gain. I can not make this more simple for you, is like a blank check staring at your face.
Anyway, am sure i'll hear another excuse from you guys.
so in reply to that same statement:
"But we'll keep asking, and hoping that the Linux community develops."
In conclusion it seems you havent asked loud or clearly enough!
And it is not a stalemate -- the ball is in the Linux court. Linux developers and users can pick the ball up and join the game
Note this is nothing personal Chris, so we would appreciate if you guys can work with us here. So yes, now The Ball is on your court.


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