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Paul Williams, who in 1966 founded and published America's first periodical dedicated to the serious coverage of rock music, has died at 64. The longtime San Diego County resident, who was also one of the world's foremost Bob Dylan scholars and authors, was 64. The author of at least 36 books, he had been under hospice care in North County at the time of his passing.
Williams' death was disclosed Thursday by his wife, noted singer-songwriter Cindy Lee Berryhill, on her Facebook page. In a post, she wrote:
"Rock-writer Paul S. Williams, author and creator of CRAWDADDY magazine, (and my husband), passed away last night 10:30 p.m. PST while his oldest son was holding his hand and by his side. It was a gentle and peaceful passing."
No official cause of death has been cited yet. However, in 1995 Williams sustained a serious head injury in a bicycle accident. While he appeared to quickly recover, he began suffering from early onset dementia by the time his son, Alexander, was born in 2001. Williams' condition steadily declined in the years since then.
A Boston native, Williams was considered one of the music world's foremost experts on Dylan and the Grateful Dead, appearing as a featured speaker at symposiums on both. His three-volume "Bob Dylan: Performing Artist" is considered to be one of the definitive works on the transcendent troubadour, written by a tireless author who estimated he saw Dylan perform in concert at least 100 times.
"In 1986, I started writing what has turned into a huge body of work about Bob Dylan's music, specifically his performances -- meaning, in the studio and on stage," Williams said in a 2002 U-T San Diego interview. "The enduring appeal is his strength as a performing artist who is creating something on stage, in front of an audience ... even when he plays songs he's been playing for 20, 30 years, they keep changing from show to show and tour to tour."
Williams was only 17 when he launched Crawdaddy! in 1966 — 18 months before Rolling Stone began publishing. His combination of artistic insight, precocious writing skills and infectious passion for his subject matter helped create a template that inspired other budding rock critics, and readers, near and far.
His introduction to the first issue of Crawdaddy! in early 1966 read:
"You are looking at the first issue of a magazine of rock and roll criticism. Crawdaddy! will feature neither pin-ups nor news-briefs; the specialty of this magazine is intelligent writing about pop music. Billboard, Cash Box, etc., serve very well as trade news magazines; but their idea of a review is a hard-driving rhythm number that should spiral rapidly up the charts just as (previous hit by the same group) slides. Crawdaddy! believes that someone in the United States might be interested in what others have to say about the music they like."
Williams also had a keen ability to discover and nurture promising young writers. Crawdaddy!'s early stable of contributors included such soon-to-be-nationally prominent scribes as Richard Meltzer and Jon Landau (who went on to become Springsteen's manager). But it was Williams himself who stood out as perhaps Crawdaddy's most gifted talent.
"This is a devastating loss for music fans everywhere in the world," veteran San Diego musician and critic Bart Mendoza said Thursday. "I consider Paul to be the father of music journalism and he was a huge inspiration. He was a really, really nice man and he's going to be missed."
Williams' legacy was formidable, but he always put the music front and center, not himself or his writing.
"He had unbridled enthusiasm for the music and he was (like) Paul Bunyan for many people," said noted music author Harvey Kubernik, a 1973 SDSU graduate.
"And he wasn't in it for the money. His ultimate legacy is that, probably without really realizing it, he was bringing in a do-it-yourself ethos to music criticism. He started off on mimeographed sheets, (writing) purely for the love of music, and he touted albums and artists, not sales figures."
That love of music was unmistakable when Williams attended a live performance.
This was demonstrated firsthand for this writer at at Humphreys Concert by the Bay double-bill in the mid-1990s. The show featured solo acoustic sets Richard Thompson and by former San Diegan Chris Hillman, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee for his work with The Byrds. From my vantage point in the seat directly behind Williams', I watched and smiled as he quietly sang along to some selections and listened intently to those he had not heard before.
During Hillman's version of The Byrds' classic "Eight Miles High," Williams seemed as if was about to levitate out of his seat. After the headlining set by Thompson, whom he was hearing live for the first time, Williams turned around and beamed. "I'd follow him!" he said of Thompson.
It was the ultimate accolade, coming from a lifelong Dylan fan who once happily followed Dylan across much of Europe in order to attend as many concerts by him as possible. One suspects Williams was one of the few writers whose deeply felt appraisals of Dylan's music probably struck a chord with Dylan himself.
In 1966, Paul Simon was so impressed by Williams' astute review of a Simon and Garfunkel album in Crawdaddy! that he personally phoned to thank him. Williams took Simon's call on a pay phone in the hall of a dormitory at Swarthmore College, where he was then enrolled.
While still in his teens, Williams began to champion the work of noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. He also contributed harmony vocals to John Lennon & Yoko Ono's classic 1969 recording of "Give Peace a Chance." When The Doors' needed someone to stand in front of a microphone and cock a rifle for their recording "The Unknown Soldier," Williams was given the honor. The first joint he smoked was offered to him by head Beach Boy Brian Wilson while Williams was interviewing him.
Williams stepped down as the publisher and editor of Crawdaddy! in 1968, the same year that he moved to Marin County and became the campaign manager for Timothy Leary's bid to become the governor of California. Williams went on to write for Rolling Stone and other publications. Crawdaddy! folded in 1979.
In the early 1970s, Williams did an in-depth interview for Rolling Stone with Dick, The resulting article helped introduce ths science-fiction visionary to a young new generation of fans. Following Dick's death, Williams was selected to be his literary executor.
In 1993 Williams re-launched it as a subscription-only publication, via his Web site, and continued until 2003 when his publication was purchased by Wolfgang's Vault. More recently, the rights to the Crawdaddy! were acquired by Paste magazine. In 2002, Williams published "The Crawdaddy! Book (Writings and Images From the Magazine of Rock").
Yet, even when Williams was out of the public eye -- as he was since early in the last decade, as a result of his declining health -- his impact was deeply felt. When punk-rock pioneer and acclaimed author Patti Smith performed at San Diego's House of Blues last fall, her guitarist, Lenny Kaye, spoke at length from the stage about what an inspiration Williams was to him. It's a view shared, no doubt, by many others, whether they knew Williams personally (as Kaye did) or only through his impassioned writing about the music he loved so much.
Williams is survived by his wife and son, as well as by a son from a previous marriage. No memorial service has been announced as of this writing.
By coincidence, Williams and his pioneering work were saluted Sunday at Boo-Hooray, a gallery in new York City's Soho district. It was billed as "A Celebration of Legendary Hep-cat Paul Williams." Berryhill and son Alexander were both scheduled to perform at that Sunday event, along with Kaye.


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Body Massage -- HIV risk?
Jul 25, 2000
Recently I was foolish enough to have a wet body massage in Thailand. This involved the girl sliding her naked body over mine, with the help of some soapy water. No sex occurred and I don't think there was much, if any, direct genital/genital contact. Would this be a risk for HIV transmission (possibly via vaginal secretions if there were any ??)? thanks a lot.
Response from Mr. Kull
Read through Rick Sowadsky's responses to Frequently Asked Questions and some of my recent responses on this site. Also look through answers to questions about Transmission (Sexual) and Transmission (Non-Sexual).
No cases of HIV have been reported to be transmitted outside of anal, vaginal and oral sex. No cases of transmission have occurred through receiving oral sex, fingering (finger-fucking), mutual masturbation, massage, lap dancing, handshakes, touching, rubbing, wrestling, and the like. HIV is not transmitted by casual contact. Look at Rick's Casual Contact list to get an idea of what constitutes casual contact.
Try to look at the facts and separate them from the circumstances. If you are engaging in contact other than oral, anal, and vaginal sex, it is irrelevant if the person was a prostitute or a lap dancer or a gay male. It's the behavior (fluids coming into contact with mucous membranes) that adds up to HIV risk.
Get to know Rick's and my responses. It might be helpful to anticipate what we would say in response to your story. It's more often low-risk than not. If you still have trouble working through your anxiety, you might consider talking to a counselor.
Hope this helps.
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His Life in His Own Wordsby Elizabeth Morton, Assistant Professor of Art • August 24, 2010 Share:
When Mike Atwell, director of the College's Eric Dean Galleries, asked me what I thought about bringing Lamidi Fakeye to campus, I was thrilled. Lamidi was one of 20th century Africa's most respected and famous artists. I had never imagined getting to meet him.
As we prepared for his visit and Mike curated an incredible show, I started thinking about documenting Lamidi's visit and how important this could be given that, at age 81, this would probably be his last visit to the United States.
I thought it would great to film him, an opportunity possible only because Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and film artist Kristen Wilkins had acquired high-definition equipment and professional filmmaking software. More importantly, she had been teaching students in how to make films and could advise us on all technical matters.
Everything came together when Joe Reese '12, who plans to attend graduate school in filmmaking, came to me to discuss directing a film documentary about Lamidi. Aaron Cantu joined our team, and so we had a small film crew.
Aaron and Joe read books about Nigeria and Lamidi and together we met the artist on at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We followed Lamidi and filmed lectures, carving demonstrations, and interviews with experts on Lamidi's culture, the Yoruba. Then we drove Lamidi back to Wabash for a weeklong visit, where filming and interviews continued.
All-in-all Aaron and Joe filmed Lamidi and many other experts, collectors and friends for about two weeks straight. Their energy was infectious, and we all knew this was a truly worthwhile endeavor. They also probably learned more about Africa in this time than I could teach in a year.
In Madison we had enjoyed hours-long friendly conversations and cheerful meals with Lamidi. By the time we got to Wabash, we all felt like old friends. When we said our goodbyes after his residency here, Lamidi asked Joe and Aaron to come to Nigeria as honored guests and jokingly offered Joe the hand of one of his beautiful daughters and a house. Little did we know that this would be the last time we talked or that we would take the last film of him.
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN a student's talents and goals perfectly complement a professor's own work. A documentary would have been only a passing thought had it not been for my student Joe Reese. At the same time, when he came to Wabash, he was concerned he wouldn't be prepared for film school later. So as we continue to collaborate, aiming towards an April premiere of this documentary at the Africa Network Conference, I am once more reminded of how important these experiences beyond the classroom are.
As I write this I am gathering written sources, photographs, and musical recordings from as afar as an Irish Mission archive, the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, and from collectors and friends of Lamidi. Joe is supervising other Wabash students as they go through about 28 hours of footage to begin piecing together this documentary. If all goes as planned, we should be able to release a documentary this year, produced by the Wabash College Art Department, allowing Lamidi Fakeye to explain his life's work in his own words.
Assistant Professor of Art Elizabeth Morton is the College's art historian and an expert in the art of Africa: firstname.lastname@example.com
In photos: (top) Fakeye greets Aaron Cantu '10 with a hug upon the artist's arrival at Wabash. Cantu, Reese, and Professor Morton had spent the previous week filming the master wood carver in during his visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (At right, above) Joe Reese '12 films Lamidi Fakeye in the College's Eric Dean Gallery: "He was so congenial; he would call us 'friends,' " Reese recalls. "We caught a lot of interpersonal moments with him when we were filming—I hope to include some of those interactions in the final cut."
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Linux software maker Red Hat is quietly developing an open source portal that aggregates applications from mainstream sites such as Flickr and Rhapsody, reports
Internet Financial News
The Mugshot.org site, which has been operating on a limited user trial basis since May, aims to allow users to publish and share their blogs, music, photo collections and other media from a single location.
For example, it currently allows users to display their iTunes song history on their MySpace profile.
In its FAQ, the site says it "is intended to work with 'social networking' sites, not replace them," although it does look like it will provide an alternative starting point for users of online media. It also says it won't just be targeted at techies.
Being developed through an open source community project, the site says it works with "mainstream applications like iTunes, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Music Engine, Firefox and Internet Explorer and currently supports Windows XP and Linux platforms, with limited support for Apple's OS X."
The FAQ adds that it is currently developing a set of social networking features around TV and video.


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Like when you kill an enemy and gear drops, it'll actually fit your toon.
Or that a kite will carry you great distances.*
Or that you can have almost nothing on and still be able to climb that frozen mountain peak.**
Yeah, I know, if you're playing a Fantasy MMO (or SF MMO, in the case of The Old Republic) it can be kind of silly drawing the line at whether armor fits your character when there are dragons in the sky. But still, I think it's a matter of risk/reward more than immersion. If you were playing a Dwarf, for example, and you had to wait for Dwarf sized armor to drop, that could really suck if the drop rates were based upon the percentage of people playing a Dwarf. It was bad enough waiting for gear you could use to drop, but having to add the extra problem of having it fit you?
Back in the day, the old Moldvay D&D Basic Set had a rule of thumb that any armor found was human-sized unless it said otherwise. The reason was because there were level limitations on races other than Humans because those races had additional abilities that Humans didn't have. (This was back when you could select "Elf" or "Dwarf" as your class, before AD&D introduced multiclassing.)
|Maybe I'm showing my age, but this was my first RPG.
Courtesy of a Christmas present.
If your DM were running a homebrewed campaign --which, back then, formulated the majority of such campaigns-- they would often generate treasure and whatnot randomly, but still they'd be careful to make sure you'd find gear your player character could actually use. Even so, the published campaigns had gear and weapons that the enemies themselves would be wielding. Unlike, say, Bronjahm when he drops Robes of the Cheating Heart in The Forge of Souls; you won't see him wearing those robes.***
But a DM can be picky, while an MMO has to handle a wide range of races and classes.
Remember the "good old days" of Vanilla WoW, where you'd go on a 40-man raid of Molten Core as the Horde and you'd get Pally gear as the drop? MMOs have gotten better at the sort of gear that drops, tailoring it toward keeping the player going forward rather than wasting weeks at a time.
So, some of the immersion in the game suffers, but it is balanced out by enabling players to improve themselves in a matter of weeks rather than months. And in an age when I can no longer devote a lot of time to playing video games, I'm grateful for that.
And could you imagine a female Night Elf trying to fit into armor made for a Gnome?
On second thought, forget I said that.
*Just the other day, I was taking a flight point to the Alliance's PvP vendors when my son stopped by to watch what I was up to. "A kite?" he asked. "How are you able to fly on a kite?"
"Just accept it," I said. "Makes no sense, but just accept it. If it is big enough, it could turn into a glider, but that kite is far too small to be a glider."
"Just accept it," I said. "Makes no sense, but just accept it. If it is big enough, it could turn into a glider, but that kite is far too small to be a glider."
**Courtesy of Age of Conan's social clothing.
***Unless Bronjahm does a turn as the Preacher in Blues Brothers Goes WoW. Yes, the Sex Machine himself was the inspiration for Bronjahm.


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By working with a network of projects and partners, who operate within the GreenChoice Framework, CSA's GreenChoice Alliance aims to create a favorable environment for sustainable agriculture and to support the scaling up of sustainable agricultural production and fisheries initiatives across South Africa.
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The GreenChoice Alliance aims to:
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The Green Choice Partnership was founded by Conservation International South Africa, South African National Biodiversity Insitute, Botanical Society of South Africa, CAPE, CapeNature, Endangered Wildlife Trust, WWF South Africa, Cape Leopard Trust, Flower Valley Conservation Trust, Landmark Foundation and the Wilderness Foundation.


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I am not surprised at the voting numbers for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, but I am stunned at there being a total shutout and disappointed at the reasoning of some writers.
For just the second time in four decades none of the candidates were elected, and that is wrong. Craig Biggio, who was on my ballot, had 3,000, which had been an automatic ticket – save PED user Rafael Palmeiro – to Cooperstown.
One explanation I heard, which I vehemently disagree with was this reporter made it a policy to never vote for somebody on the first ballot that is totally off-base. It is a responsibility to vote, and I believe it is irresponsible and an abuse of power to exercise that logic.
Every player's case should be judged on its own merits and not voting for a player on the first ballot penalizes him as it disregards what he did on the field. Biggio deserves to be in regardless of whom else appeared on the ballot.
I left off Bonds, Clemens and Sosa, and had my reasons for voting for Mike Piazza, Jack Morris, Fred McGriff and Edgar Martinez.
For Piazza, he failed no drug test, did not appear on the Mitchell Report and was never accused on the record. His only linkage to steroids was rumors.
I do not understand how a writer can leave off Bonds, Clemens and Sosa this year as a punishment, but vote for them next time. It is our responsibility as a voter to vote with our conscience, but it becomes abusive to say, "I'm punishing him for this year.'' You are either against a player using PEDs or not.
I would change my thinking if a player's steroid-aided statistics were denoted with an asterisk and his plaque mentioned his use of PEDs.


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BayCare implemented a Breast Milk Donor Program to provide nourishing human breast milk products to ill, premature babies in BayCare Neonatal Intensive Care Units and NICUs around the country. Eligible mothers within the community can now donate their excess breast milk to help premature infants in need. BayCare partnered with Prolacta Bioscience to provide standardized and pasteurized human milk-based formulations for these little babies.
Often with mothers of premature infants, their own breast milk does not come in as early as their babies arrive. Breast milk provides protection against many illnesses, and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breast milk for the first year of life. These human milk products produced from the BayCare Donor Milk Program will provide the benefits of a 100% human milk diet to premature babies.
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November 2007 4x4 Readers' RidesPosted in Features on November 1, 2007
Send us a picture of your ride if you've never done so. We keep a surplus of Readers' Rides submissions, but only one submission per person, and we love all off-road vehicles so send in your entries whether your rig is stock or not. Please use the new e-mail address shown below. Make sure each digital image is at least 1600 x 1200 pixels (or two megapixels) and saved as a TIFF, EPS, or maximum-quality JPEG file.
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Vehicle: '87 Dodge Power Ram 50
Owner: Daniel Heatley, Vancouver, WA
Tires & wheels: 35x12.50 Wildcats on 15x8 steel
Suspension: 2.5-inch torsion-bar lift
Drivetrain: Stock
Performance Mods: Welded front and rear spider gears
Other Doodads: Lower gears from Montero third members
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Passing a group of heavily modified solid-axle rigs on the trail with my IFS truck
Does Everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything to add?: It's still my daily driver
Vehicle: '81 Jeep Scrambler CJ-8
Owner: Dan Lock, Garden City, MI
Tires & wheels: 42x15 TSLs on 15x10 MRW bead locks
Suspension: Custom brackets with Rubicon Express springs, Bilstein 5100 shocks
Drivetrain: 5.7L TBI, TH350, twin-stick NP205, front and rear Dana 60 axles, 5.13 gears, lockers
Performance Mods: K&N air filter, single 3-inch exhaust, Flowmaster muffler, performance chip
Other Doodads: Custom 3/16-inch rocker guards, Optima battery, fuel cell, full hydraulic steering
Does Everything work the way you want?: Yes
Vehicle: '87 Suzuki Samurai
Owner: Charley Price, Houston, TX
Tires & wheels: 31x10.50 BFGoodrich ATs on 15x10 aluminum
Suspension: 4-inch spring-over axle, Ford shock mounts up front
Drivetrain: Stock
Performance Mods: Hedman header, forklift carburetor
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Attempting to drive over a large pile of small rocks. Talk about high-centering!
Does Everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Lower gears, lockers, and fuel injection
Vehicle: '89 Chevy chassis cab
Owner: Scott Nixon, Phoenix, AZ
Tires & wheels: 35x12.50x16.5 BFGoodrich M-Ts
Suspension: 8-inch Skyjacker
Drivetrain: 6.2L, TH400, NP205, Dana 60 front, 14-bolt rear
Other Doodads: Rear Detroit Locker
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Smashed two rims on the same rock
Does Everything work the way you want?: No, my Warn 8274 winch is broken
Anything you would change?: Seats are too nice for a beater truck
Vehicle: '85 Toyota 4Runner
Owner: Jason Bishop, Westerville, OH
Tires & wheels: 37-inch Goodyear MTRs on 15x10 Outlaw IIs
Suspension: 5-inch All Pro front springs, 63-inch rear Chevy spring pack with 1-inch block and shackles
Drivetrain: Four-cylinder 22RE, Marlin Crawler dual transfer cases, ARB Air Lockers, Longfields with chromoly inner axleshafts, 5.29 gears
Performance Mods: Four-wheel disc brakes, transfer-case brake, snorkel, beltdrive air compressor, Warn M8000 winch, interior cage
Other Doodads: Truck nuts
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Losing my wedding ring on the trail one month after my wedding, then destroying my truck in the process of finding it
Does Everything work the way you want?: Yes, I love the dual cases
Anything you would change?: My wheelbase is too long and I would like to add rear steer
Vehicle: '48 Willys CJ2A
Owner: Rob Heddleston, Petersville, KY
Tires & wheels: 31x10.50 Centennial Mud Campaigners on 15x8 chrome
Suspension: 11-leaf front spring pack with homemade shackles, 10-leaf pack in rear with stock shackles
Drivetrain: T-90, Dana 18 transfer case, Dana 25 front, Dana 41 rear, 5.38 gears
Performance Mods: Stock L-134
Other Doodads: Saginaw steering conversion with a Chevy steering column
Funniest Wheeling Incident: I was out fixing the fence on the farm when I buried it to the frame in mud and covered both my daughters with mud
Does Everything work the way you want?: Not yet
Anything you would change?: Needs a cage for safety, Dana 44 to replace the 41, and a locker
Anything to add?: Real Jeeps have flat fenders!
Vehicle: '87 Nissan Pathfinder
Owner: Sean Fischer, Rapid City, SD
Tires & wheels: 42x15 TSLs on 15x10 America Racing wheels
Suspension: 5-inch All Pro springs, Rancho RS 9000 shocks, custom solid-axle swap
Drivetrain: Dana 44 front axle, factory Nissan rear axle with spring over, 4.88 gears
Performance Mods: 3.0L V-6
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Getting stuck on a snow bank at the Wal-Mart parking lot after the plows came through
Does Everything work the way you want?: Steering works excellent off-road, but on road it is a little sloppy
Anything you would change?: Motor swap and 2 1/2-ton Rockwells someday!
Vehicle: '79 Ford F-150
Owner: Matthew Grubb, Elk Creek, VA
Tires & wheels: 36x11 TSLs
Suspension: Inboard rear leaf springs with stock Ford leaves and 2-inch add-a-leaves, 8-inch shackles, extended front radius arms, CAGE off-road 4-inch coils, shock hoops with crossover bar, 15 inches of travel
Drivetrain: NP435 transmission, NP205 transfer case, twin stick, Dana 44 high-pinion front axle, 760x universal joints, Warn hubs, Ford 9-inch rear, spool, 4.10 gears
Performance Mods: 351ci, 0.060 over, Speedpro flat tops, E7TE ported heads, Comp Cams extreme 4x4 cam, ARP fasteners, GM HEI distributor
Other Doodads: Dovetailed bed, tube doors, custom front bumper
Does Everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything to add?: This truck was built by me and friends for less than $6,000
Vehicle: '90 Isuzu Amigo
Owner: Mike Maquet, Layton, UT
Tires & wheels: 37-inch BFGoodrich Krawlers
Suspension: Custom three-link front with 12-inch Fox remote-reservoir coilovers, custom four-link rear with 12-inch Race Runner coilovers
Drivetrain: Factory transmission, stock transfer case with Tera 4:1 low, Dana 60 front with spool, Dana 60 rear with Detroit Locker, 7.16 gears
Performance Mods: Stock four-cylinder
Other Doodads: MileMarker 9,000-pound winch mounted in the front, Champion 2,000-pound winch mounted in the rear, weld-on bead locks
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Rolling it before I even paid anything for it
Anything to add?: When in doubt, cut it out
Vehicle: '69 Mercedes-Benz Unimog 404.1 Swiss-Radio Unimog
Owner: Joshua Bell, Elizabeth, CO
Tires & wheels: 10.5/20 Firestones (37-inch)
Suspension: Factory coil-sprung
Drivetrain: Stock axles with factory selectable lockers
Performance Mods: M180 2.2L six-cylinder
Other Doodads: 100w Halogen headlights, Eberspacher forced-air heater system for radio (camper) box, 5,000w generator, 800w AC inverter, 8-ball shift knob
Anything you would change?: The factory average highway speed is 30 mph


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The C & O Canal was part of a grand vision of western expansion. Although it never fulfilled its goal of connecting the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River, it did have a remarkable impact on the settlement and development of the Potomac River Valley. The canal was one of the nation's most ambitious 19th century industrial experiments, and it served its region well for nearly a century. The following activities will help students understand the impact of canals and other forms of transportation.
Activity 1: Living Beside a Canal
Most school or public libraries have works on canals that students might wish to use. Especially helpful are Elizabeth Kyle, Home on the Canal (Cabin John, Md., and Washington, D.C.: Seven Locks Press, 1983), which contains the memories of men and women who lived and worked on the C & O Canal; and Harry Sinclair Drago, Canal Days in America (New York: Bramhall House, 1972), which discusses most of the major canals constructed during the 18th century.
Activity 2: Canals or Railroads?
Activity 3: Transportation and the Local Community


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IWA EC "Zero G Tournament" Sat, July 22; Greg Iron, Mathis, More
This Saturday, July 22, IWA East Coast heads to the Action Sports Complex, 2400 Kanawha Terrance in St. Albans, WV.
Meet and greet with wrestling stars Gregory Iron, Ron Mathis, Facade, Jason Gory, and more starting at 6 pm! Live event 7:30 pm!
Announced to fight in round one of the Zero G Crown include:
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Katy Perry Plays Chess, Shows Shiny Hair in GHD Ads
Katy Perry has dyed her hair several shades of the rainbow, and some of these hues are not found in nature. She has colored her locks at least a half dozen times this year, going from blue to pink to purple. All that processing and stripping of color can do a number on strands, making them dull, lifeless, brittle and dry. However, Perry's black locks are lush, luxe and shiny in her new ads for hair tool/product brand GHD.
Perry has been repping GHD for a bit and the new print ads are simple and shot in black and white, featuring the singer (and reported new GF of John Mayer) playing chess and generally looking like a hair model. There's also an aura of sophistication to the images, since we're used to seeing Perry in candy-colored and shaped outfits. We've gotta say that the result is stunning. She's a grown up.
"It's a pleasure working with Katy," stylist Danilo, who created her face-framing styles, featuring wavy locks and a beautiful side ponytail for the ads, said in a statement (quotes courtesy of Fashion, Etc). "She's a young, vibrant artist who is really OK about being confident and seeing herself in different ways— extreme, vulnerable, kooky, sexy, expensive-looking but playful. She's a beautiful woman so it's inspirational."
Danilo really nailed the essence of Katy Perry. Here, she's traded kooky for subtle, sleek and sexy glam. An earlier campaign saw the singer as a mermaid, which was more in keeping with her onstage style and persona.
There are so many sides to Katy Perry and these new GHD shots display one of our faves.
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A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
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The intention is to create a professional logo and banners to promote sexy underwear
eStore to targeting, Wedding Lingerie, bridal underwear and related garments. http://www.mybrastrap.com
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Woodzer needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 39 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
TestSenz is an application for running the software test process. It's a hosted service that's accessed via a browser only. The application allows for the creation and maintenance of projects, teams, versions, test plans and various other bits and pieces that go along with the whole testing effort.
The TestSenz application is targetted primarily at those running software testing efforts.
I require some additional icons for TestSenz. These icons will be used for attachments within the application. To explain that, various elements within the application can have files uploaded and attached to them. The types of files attached can vary considerably but will include the likes of word processor documents, images, zip archives or other binary content. In terms of the application we're going to divide the attachments into three types - documents, images and binary. I need 1 icon for each of these attachment types. In addition, it's possible that some of the attachments will open a new browser window when selected, so a version of each of these icons that indicates that it will open a new browser tab/window would also be required (I'm assuming this would be a minor variation on the original but the variation would be consistent across all 3 icons).
I require that the icons created fit in with the existing icon set and the overall look and feel of the TestSenz application. To get some idea of the existing icon set and the application look and feel visit http://www.testsenz.com (check that galleries on the features page in particular). I'd like the icons in 32x32 and 48x48 size and provided in the GIF and JPEG formats (at a minimum).


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THE PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL & WEEKLY ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, April 9, 1783
* Rare 18th century American title
* Great masthead engraving for display
One of the most displayable newspaper of the Revolutionary War era given the large & decorative engraving in the masthead (see). The front page is filled with advertisements, including a quite lengthy one: "Thirty Dollars Reward" for two runaway Negro lads, with details (see). The back page has an ad by: "Haym Salomons" a leading Jewish financier of the day who did much to secure the finances of the nation during the war.
An interesting item on page 2 notes: "As exhibited at Room's tavern the corner of the Fly Market, New York, on the 18th of March, 1783, in consequence of the arrival of the packet with (to them) the dreadful tidings of Peace and Independence to this country. A committee was chosen for the sole purpose of determining the fate of those miscreants who have avowedly been enemies to their country, & persecutor's of its own friends, whenever in their power..." with much more (see). Also of significance is an item from Boston noting: "The British king...says, 'I lost no time in giving the necessary orders to prohibit the farther prosecution of offensive war upon the continent of North America---I have pointed all my views & measures...to an entire & cordial reconciliation with those colonies..." with more (see).
Page 3 has: "We are assured by recent accounts from New York that no packet is yet arrived there to announce the news of a general peace. Many of the loyalists affect not to believe our accounts of it...The offers of land in Nova Scotia, the promise of six months provisions & other tokens of royal favour have no influence in dispersing the melancholy gloom which has taken deep impression on their faces...". There is also an item: "By the United States in Congress assembled, April 4, 1783. Resolved, That the several States be required to suspend all enlistments for any regiment or corps in the army of the United States until the further order of Congress." (see) Plus there is even more content relating to the end of the Revolutionary War in America.
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Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
The psychology program at Chatham University is organized in a common structure for the baccalaureate curriculum:
- a required introductory course
- three methodology courses
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We know and respect our students and expect the best from them, providing the support and encouragement they need to become professionals. We take pride in our teaching and make our courses rigorous, challenging, interesting, and innovative. Our courses are consistently highly rated by students.
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After a day of semifinal upsets, all was right in the WTA/ATP world. Venus avenged her 3 match skid against Flava Flav, beating her 76(1) 62. This is Venus' first WTA title of the year.
Guess what, Venus? You get a puppy!
This win puts Venus in great position to get that last YEC spot.
And in the Battle of the Birds (Baby Owl vs. The Muzzard) Andy came out on top, though it looked for a second there like Commodus was going to stage yet another comeback. But Andy held him off to win 64 76(6) for his second Masters shield of the year and further cementing him as a solid #4 and challenger to the Rafa/Fed monopoly.
Your reward? An opportunity to be a completely awkward doofus around pretty girls with boobies:
Which obviously led to this:
But before we leave Zurich and Madrid, can we just give a shout out to our runner-ups, Flava Flav and Commodus?
Flavs who ended JJ's win streak and stormed on to the finals.
And Gilly, the comeback kid, who scratched and clawed his way to the final, beating Rafa along the way. Those are two awesome feel-good stories.


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Hughes denied 15th win with Royals' late rally
KANSAS CITY -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire shook his head, tossed his chewed gum into the dirt below the top of the steps where he was perched, then ambled into the back of the dimly-lit visiting dugout.
It was an appropriate response for the completion of an immensely maddening six-run eighth inning that gave the Royals a 6-1 win on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire shook his head, tossed his chewed gum into the dirt below the top of the steps where he was perched, then ambled into the back of the dimly-lit visiting dugout.
It was an appropriate response for the completion of an immensely maddening six-run eighth inning that gave the Royals a 6-1 win on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium.View Full Game Coverage
"Unfortunately for us, it's just one of those frustrating innings, frustrating games that we're not going to be able to get back," said Twins starter Phil Hughes, who took the brunt of the misfortune by allowing five hits in the eighth.
The frame began with so much promise, as Hughes took the mound after seven scoreless innings and with Minnesota up 1-0. He had allowed just two singles, walked zero and used 70 pitches to that point. The right-hander looked destined for his fifth straight start allowing one or zero runs.
"I think regardless of how the inning transpires, it's the same level of disappointment," Hughes said. "Trying to go out there and protect a one-run lead going into the eighth, knowing my pitch count's in good shape to probably finish the thing off -- that part's frustrating, regardless of how they do it."
Raul Ibanez blooped a single into center, breaking a streak of 18 straight batters Hughes had faced without allowing a hit. Pinch-runner Lorenzo Cain swiped second base, a key play that forced the Twins' infield out of double-play depth and into the shift for Mike Moustakas. The Royals' third baseman beat it with a weak single to second base, something that frustrated Gardenhire after the game.
"We talked about it, we've got to move in there, we've got to shorten it up a little bit ... that's two times where it's happened to us where we just need to shorten up and get an out there," Gardenhire said.
Two batters later, Jarrod Dyson laid down a perfect bunt to score Cain. Nori Aoki put the Royals ahead, 2-1, when he slapped a single over the outstretched glove of Eduardo Escobar. A final well-placed single by Alcides Escobar spelled the end for Hughes, as left-hander Brian Duensing replaced him.
Duensing walked Alex Gordon, bringing on Casey Fien, who surrendered the final four runs -- a two-run single by Billy Butler and a two-run triple by Salvador Perez.
"The bullpen came in and had a hard time," Gardenhire said. "Casey was overthrowing the ball, it looked like he was trying to throw 100 miles an hour and a couple of big hits [against] him, and there you have it."
The first seven innings played out precisely as they did in the Twins' 2-1 loss on Tuesday: both pitchers shutting down the opposition in the first six frames, then Minnesota breaking through with an RBI hit in the seventh.
It was Joe Mauer on Tuesday, providing the go-ahead single. Oswaldo Arcia stepped up on Wednesday with an RBI double in the right-center gap off Royals starter Liam Hendriks to score Kennys Vargas for a 1-0 lead.
Hendriks, who was with the Twins from 2011-13, logged seven solid innings in a no-decision. Coincidentally, it was the offseason acquisition of Hughes in 2013 that forced Minnesota to cut ties with Hendriks.
"I was designated for Phil Hughes," Hendriks said. "When [general manager] Terry Ryan called me on the phone, he said it was a numbers thing and we would love to have you back if you clear [waivers] and everything like that. But we just signed Phil Hughes and we need a roster spot. It's really funny how it works out."
Hughes allowed zero walks with four strikeouts. The last time he issued more than one walk in a game was June 1, 16 starts ago. He made it three straight starts without issuing a free pass on Wednesday.
"[The loss] doesn't take away from what Phil Hughes did, he threw the ball great," Gardenhire said. "We have scored two runs in two games here and that's not going to win very many games."
Jackson Alexander is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Microsoft: selling enterprise software is a "humbling experience"
PeopleSoft's antitrust lawyer Dan Reback summarizes the videotaped testimony of Microsoft senior VP Orlando Ayala, regarding Microsoft's experience in selling enterprise applications, such as Great Plains and Axapta.Orlando's testimony hammered home the points the Government has made about Microsoft's effect on the high-function software market for HR and financial services. The witness testified:Over two years ago, I first begain writing about the difficulty Microsoft would face in selling major enterprise applications (see related posts below). It's interesting to see this now confirmed directly by Microsoft.
- Non-established vendors have no sales opportunities with the largest customers, as it takes many years and substantial investment to enter the up-market, even if the vendor has a technically capable product;
- On the other hand, Oracle, SAP, and PeopleSoft, which are established in the up-market, have substantial opportunities;
- Microsoft's Axapta product is not capable of meeting the needs of multinational customers;
- Microsoft has scaled back its marketing messages in order to avoid overselling its product and producing failed implementations;
- While Microsoft may occasionally get a large customer, Microsoft's offerings are not suitable for all such customers;
- Microsoft has over-emphasized its business software, and its real-life experience in trying to break into even the mid-market as an application vendor has been "a humbling experience."
The DoJ lawsuit to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft is bringing out all sorts of interesting information about the dynamics of the enterprise systems marketplace--stuff that you won't read in vendor press releases. I'll write more shortly, if I can find time to dig through all the documents.
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Microsoft Business Solutions is setting the stage for big-time channel conflict among resellers
Microsoft's move into enterprise applications may have unintended consequences
First look at Microsoft's Axapta ERP systemby Frank Scavo, 6/29/2004 07:38:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
Influence peddling?
Well, maybe the press is noticing. The Wall Street Journal today (subscription required) is reporting on documents unearthed in the Oracle trial that call into question the independence of consulting firms in recommending software products to clients. Once again, Accenture is involved, this time in an engagement to assist Cox Communications in justifying a new financial reporting system.In September, documents in the case show, an Oracle sales representative asked his superiors to approve a payment to Accenture "for their assistance and influence." He suggested a payment of $125,000, if Oracle signed Cox to a deal for such software of at least $1.5 million by November, or $100,000 if the deal closed by May 2004. "We need Accenture's continued support and influence to secure this win and they expect to be compensated for this help," the sales rep wrote in his request.Hmm..."paying an influence fee." So, would it be too much to say that some consulting firms are involved in influence peddling? Well, according to this definition, that's exactly what it is.
Chuck Phillips, Oracle's co-president, adds in an interview that "paying an influence fee is customary in the industry." If a consulting firm is "the contractor and we are the subcontractor, you have to pay to play."
When choosing a consultant to help with a software selection, executives should rule out any firm that peddles its influence to software vendors.
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Consulting firm bias toward software vendorsby Frank Scavo, 6/24/2004 09:48:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Consulting firm bias toward software vendors
There's an aspect to the DoJ antitrust lawsuit against Oracle that's not getting any attention--that is, the explicit relationships between major consulting firms and major software vendors.
Generally, when a company hires a consulting firm to advise them on a software acquisition, they assume that the consulting firm is on their side, serving their best interests. But check out this e-mail from Craig Conway, CEO of PeopleSoft, which was introduced as evidence in the DoJ's antitrust suit against Oracle (underlining mine).From: Craig Conway, 11/02/2003 09:23 PMThis is a clear example, in writing, of what insiders have known for years: major consulting firms partner directly with software vendors to promote their products in return for those vendors endorsing the services of the consulting firm. We're not talking about subtle biases here. This is a direct conflict between the interest of the client and the interest of the consulting firm toward its software vendor partners.
To: [various executives at IBM]
Subject: Accenture and SAP
Friday I spoke with Steve James, President/COO of Accenture, and learned some disturbing news.
You may recall a few weeks ago that Accenture announced a relationship with SAP directed at the financial service industries. At the time, Steve indicated that the agreement related only to vertical applications. Specifically, Accenture had a number of "transactional applications" directed at banks and insurance companies, and SAP also has some newly developed applications. The announcement was that both companies would fund further development of these applications and promote a joint solution to the market. Steve assured me that agreement did not extend to ERP.
However, Friday Steve called to let me know that the agreement was in fact much broader. Accenture will recommend SAP to the financial service industries for both vertical applications and ERP applications. In return, SAP will recommend Accenture to FSI [the financial services industry] for ALL enterprise software implementations. It is quite a wholesale endorsement.
We should discuss what this agreement means to IBM and PeopleSoft. Clearly it does not bode well for our relationship with Accenture and should not bode well for your relationship with SAP. On the other hand, both PeopleSoft and IBM are stronger in the financial service industry so there should be an opportunity for both of us.by Frank Scavo, 6/23/2004 03:51:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Oracle slams PeopleSoft by comparing it to...
At the DoJ trial against Oracle, the government introduced into evidence an Oracle sales training presentation on how to compete against PeopleSoft..."PeopleSoft has no magical product, they have bugs, product deficiencies, demo disasters, resource and morale issues, account losses, and horror stories in the press to deal with," the presentation said. "Just like we do."That's from a San Jose Mercury News article on the trial, which has been also revealing how deeply the major software vendors will discount a deal when they really want the win.
A Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) has a lot more about the cutthroat tactics that have been revealed so far in the trial
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Software vendor secrets finally revealedby Frank Scavo, 6/22/2004 01:14:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Monday, June 21, 2004
Software vendor secrets finally revealed
Here's some interesting stuff. PeopleSoft has publicly released a white paper that it previously submitted in response to a DoJ request earlier this year. Since this document, which PeopleSoft originally considered highly confidential, has been referred to in the DoJ's antitrust lawsuit against Oracle, PeopleSoft has now decided it can be made public.
On his blog, Gary Reback, an antitrust lawyer for PeopleSoft, introduces the white paper, in part, as follows:The white paper begins by quoting from an internal Oracle email about how "proud" the Oracle executive was when they first announced the tender offer, because they had "certainly wounded" PeopleSoft. The first part of the white paper goes on to explain our belief that Oracle is using the hostile takeover process to hurt a competitor that they are having trouble competing against. The white paper quotes speeches made by the Oracle CEO, as well as hard questions industry analysts have asked Oracle, and customer complaints about Oracle.In addition, the white paper gives many details of deals where Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Lawson, or Microsoft have been in head-to-head competition. If you work in the enterprise systems business, you ought to take a look at it.
The PeopleSoft white paper is on the NASDAQ website.
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Blogger in the courtby Frank Scavo, 6/21/2004 06:08:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
EDI alive and well
Computerworld reports on the recent UConnect Conference in Anaheim, sponsored by Uniform Code Council (UCC).Don't believe reports you might hear about the death of electronic data interchange. Not only is EDI alive more than 20 years after its birth, it's also thriving at companies that use it to exchange purchase orders, invoices and other information with trading partners.The article points out that contrary to popular belief, adoption of EDI is not declining in favor of XML or web services. Actually, "...EDI represents 80% to 90% of the total business-to-business traffic, and the number of EDI transactions is growing 3% to 5% every year."
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Wal-mart suppliers face October deadline for Internet-based EDI
Buzzword alert: Web services
Walmart still pushing its suppliers to Internet EDI
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Friday, June 18, 2004
Second thoughts on Geac and Intentia
Last month, I wrote about Intentia's new CEO, Bertrand Sciard, who came from Geac and speculated that Geac might be an acquisition target for Intentia. However, one reader, who is familiar with Sciard from his days at Geac, wrote to me with a different perspective,I came across your website because I was looking for information about Bertrand Sciard's move from Geac to Intentia....From what I know of Bertrand, I think Intentia have got themselves a good CEO.I'm not sure that an acquisition by Intentia is out of the question from the financial perspective. Both companies are in the $400M USD revenue range, although Geac is currently profitable and Intentia is not. However, because the writer is closer to the situation at Geac, I'll give some weight to his opinion and say that an acquisition by Intentia is probably a long shot, at least until Sciard can accomplish a turnaround at Intentia.
However, I am puzzled by your suggestion that Intentia might buy Geac. Surely Geac is much stronger financially than Intentia, and if there was any deal between the two companies it would be the other way around. I am sure that Geac has looked at Intentia in the past, but after the way that the JBA deal turned out I think they started to be more careful. These days they are using S21 and the old Dun & Bradstreet software as "cash cows" to finance investment in Business Intelligence and related software.
I suppose there is a small chance that Geac could sell the System21 business to someone, but I doubt that Intentia could afford it. Bertrand will also know that one of the things that brought down JBA was an over-ambitious strategy in the States, and I don't think that he would want to make the same mistakes again!
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Intentia, MAPICS, SSA, and Geac--what's the deal?by Frank Scavo, 6/18/2004 05:56:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
Blogger in the court
PeopleSoft's antitrust lawyer Gary Reback is sitting as an observer in the courtroom during the DOJ's lawsuit against Oracle. No surprise there. But he's also writing up his observations, day by day, and posting them to a blog on the PeopleSoft website.
There is a decided slant toward PeopleSoft's interests in Reback's writing. But it provides a level of detail that is missing in the business press. For example, on June 16th proceedings he writes:Yesterday, the government presented evidence about Greyhound's procurement to show a situation in which a complex enterprise customer actually tried to consider a bid from Lawson, only to find that Lawson's product was inadequate for a complex enterprise. Today was a rerun, but featuring Microsoft rather than Lawson. North Dakota tried to solicit a bid from Microsoft, only to find, after careful examination, that the Microsoft product met only 20 percent of the state's technology needs. Indeed, during the bidding process, Oracle itself complained in writing that Microsoft's product was inadequate for a large, complex enterprise. Nowhere did Microsoft dispute the point; one of the Microsoft executives jointly signed a letter with a state official, agreeing that the Microsoft product was inadequate. Of course, none of this has stopped Oracle's lawyers from telling the press in the hallway outside the courtroom that Microsoft is a competitor in the market.Check out Reback's blog on PeopleSoft's web site.
Once Microsoft was disqualified, the North Dakota procurement turned into a bidding war between Oracle and PeopleSoft. The original bids were between $35 and $40 million, but faced with direct competition from PeopleSoft, Oracle eventually dropped its bid to $18 million. PeopleSoft won with a bid of $21 million because it scored better in other categories.by Frank Scavo, 6/17/2004 06:16:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Microsoft and SAP: the merger that didn't happen
Talk about an industry restructuring! Based on pretrial discovery in the Oracle antitrust lawsuit, it's now come out that SAP and Microsoft discussed a possible merger late in 2003. According to Microsoft, the talks were called off because of the complexity of the transaction and subsequent integration. SAP has confirmed the story.
It's not clear that the deal would have passed antitrust scrutiny. But if it had, and the deal had gone through, it would have made Oracle's pitch for PeopleSoft look like a used car offer. A Microsoft/SAP combination would have married the world's largest software developer, with a virtual monopoly on desktop operating systems, with the world's largest provider of enterprise systems to large organizations. The merger would have immediately turned Microsoft's applications group from a provider of business systems to small companies (with its Great Plains and Navision acquisitions) into the premier provider of complex enterprise-wide systems to the Global 1000.
Although merger talks ended, Microsoft and SAP later formed an agreement regarding integration of products via Web services and an agreement for cross-licensing of certain patents. These agreements were announced in May at SAP's SAPPHIRE conference in New Orleans.
It always intrigues me that technology companies like Microsoft and SAP can compete fiercely at one level and cooperate with each other on another level. For example, as I wrote earlier this year, SAP has been developing a deeper relationship with Sybase to provide an alternative to Microsoft's SQL Server database. At the same time, apparently, they were talking to Microsoft about a merger.
Line 56 has more on the story.
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An intriguing analysis of SAP's partnership with Sybase
Clash of the titans
SAP looks to Sybase as alternative to Microsoftby Frank Scavo, 6/08/2004 07:22:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Monday, June 07, 2004
SSA promotes extended enterprise apps, files for IPO
SSA is tweaking its organizational structure to create a "strategic solutions team" to give more focus to so-called "extended enterprise" products. "Extended enterprise" is an amorphous term, but it generally refers to enterprise applications that provide major chunks of functionality outside of the core ERP focus. SSA is using the term as an umbrella to include its offerings for supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), supplier relationship management (SRM), and business intelligence. As I've written previously, SSA has picked up some world class products in these areas, such as EXE's warehouse management products and Baan's SCM, PDM, and CRM products. Without some additional focus on these products they are likely to get lost in the jumble of ERP systems that SSA now owns, such as BPCS, PRMS, Infinium, and a bunch of others.
As far as I can tell from the press release, the extended enterprise products will still be sold by the field sales organization but the "strategic solutions team" will most likely provide product expertise to help sales reps on individual opportunities. The new team will be headed up by Jim Handy, with the title of President Strategic Solutions, reporting to Graeme Cooksley, EVP, who is responsible for SSA's worldwide field operations, marketing, support, and product management.
Interestingly, Handy came to SSA last year from Geac, where he was responsible for the Smartstream and Enterprise ERP businesses. (For more on Geac, see the link at the bottom).
Separately, SSA announced that it has filed with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering. According to the registration statement, SSA would like to raise up to $200M from the offering, with proceeds to be used to repay debt, fund general operations, and provide money for more acquisitions. Also revealed in the filing: for the year ended July 2003, SSA had earnings of $51.9M on revenues of over $294M.
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In an Internet News article, Laura DiDio at Yankee Group points out that many companies have been putting off major IT expenditures since the late 1990s, when they were doing upgrades for 2K remediation. Now, many of these companies can't put off major investments much longer."In terms of IT spending, we really hit rock bottom last year, so our polls indicate an average increase of 7 percent to 8 percent over the next 12 to 18 months," DiDio said. "But some are ramping up spending as high as 25 percent; not because they want to, but because they have to. They simply can't afford to put off these major upgrades for much longer. Their infrastructure is porous, exposing them to security threats, and their hardware is just not adequate to support today's applications."Related posts
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BioWare will be livestreaming some of the upcoming Mass Effect 3 downloadable expansion Omega at 1:30 pm ET today. You can watch it in the player embedded below.
While you're getting ready, here a few details about it that you might want to know:
- It's a single-player adventure.
- It will be accessible to anyone who has gotten past the Palaven's Moon mission.
- It involves trying to liberate the Omega station from Cerberus forces.
- The player controls Shepard but cannot bring along any of their regular ally characters.
- Instead, they'll team with Omega's boss, the ruthless Aria T'Loak, and a mysterious female Turian insurgent who has some sort of history with Aria and seems to have more of a conscience.
- It has a lot of combat but will also include some decision-making, according to a BioWare producer who chatted with us about the DLC.
- And it won't be Mass Effect 3's final single-player DLC, despite that "Omega" name.
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The PLOS "Speaking of Medicine" blog highlights a number of new articles published in the current issue of PLOS Medicine. "Amanda Mocroft and colleagues conclude that late diagnosis of HIV infection and entry into care remains a substantial problem across Europe," and "Bertran Auvert and colleagues report that the rollout of voluntary male circumcision services into the community of Orange Farm, South Africa, is linked to reductions in HIV infection levels," according to the blog (9/3).
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Switching Keyboards on Om 2007.2
From Openmoko
Fix Default
Due to a bug, the default keyboard supplied on the 2007.2 doesn't allow you to enter the "/" or "\" characters, which should be on the same key (0?) as "+". You can instead add these characters to other keys, in this example ">" and "/" are added to the 1 key. You may also insert the tab character \t, which provides tab completion. The | character may also be useful. Edit /etc/multitap-pad/im-multipress.conf:
[keys] KP_0 = +;=;/;\\ KP_1 = .;,;/;>;-;?;!;@;:;(;) KP_2 = a;b;c;2 KP_3 = d;e;f;3 KP_4 = g;h;i;4 KP_5 = j;k;l;5;\t KP_6 = m;n;o;6 KP_7 = p;q;r;s;7 KP_8 = t;u;v;8 KP_9 = w;x;y;z;9 KP_10 = A;B;C;2 KP_11 = D;E;F;3 KP_12 = G;H;I;4 KP_13 = J;K;L;5 KP_14 = M;N;O;6 KP_15 = P;Q;R;S;7 KP_16 = T;U;V;8 KP_17 = W;X;Y;Z;9
The buggy key is KP_0 in the above file.
The ; character is also missing. You can add this character by adding ;\; to any of the lines above.
Matchbox keyboard
Another keyboard is available: matchbox-keyboard. It is a full QWERTY keyboard. This howto is based on a blog entry which can be found here
What does the keyboard look like?
- All keys can be generated
- Takes up less space than the keypad (multitap-pad), leaving more space for the application
- You pretty much have to use a stylus. With difficulty you can hit keys with the corner of a fingernail.
How to install it?
If you use a ScaredyCat release (http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/) or Om2008.4, use the following:
opkg remove -force-depends multitap-pad opkg install matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod opkg install matchbox-keyboard-im opkg install matchbox-keyboard-applet
Otherwise, you'll have to download the ipk files from here. Assuming you have a working internet connection on your Freerunner, you can do the following:
cd /tmp mkdir matchbox-keyboard cd matchbox-keyboard wget http://www.ginguppin.de/files/keyboard-ipk.tar.bz2 tar -jxf keyboard-ipk.tar.bz2 opkg remove -force-depends multitap-pad opkg install matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod*.ipk opkg install matchbox-keyboard-im*.ipk opkg install matchbox-keyboard-applet*.ipk cd .. rm -rf matchbox-keyboard
After that you'll have to restart the X server:
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart
To add a button to enable showing / hiding the keyboard, edit /etc/matchbox/session. In the list of applets after --end-applets, add keyboard, and restart your X server
How to switch between matchbox-keyboard and multitap-pad
If you want to keep the multitap keyboard, but also be able to start up the matchbox-keyboard, you can follow these ugly instructions:
First you must install matchbox-keyboard.
opkg install matchbox-keyboard
Do the following (from the terminal or an ssh session with DISPLAY=:0.0):
killall multitap-pad matchbox-keyboard > /dev/null 2>&1 &
(If you type the above commands with multitap, you have to leave off the redirection of matchbox-keyboard output, since several of the keys you need are missing.)
Caveats: When you start the matchbox-keyboard, it stays up all the time. This will (among other things) prevent you from unlocking, since the keyboard covers the openmoko logo at the bottom of the lock screen. You will need to:
- nohup multitap-pad -d &
- killall matchbox-keyboard
to close it down, and at least get the matchbox keyboard going again. You should do that any time you're going to leave the neo alone for any length of time, so you can unlock it later.
To make sure you don't end up removing all your keyboard input capability, you can create a new .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ for starting and closing the keyboard. This is pretty easy to do by copying and editing an existing .desktop file.
Modified Matchbox Keyboard: finger friendly
There is a modified Matchbox keyboard available on http://wiki.harnir.net/openmoko:keyboard-compressed . The keyboard can be controlled without stylus and also includes everything needed for terminal-use.
Download one of the files below, uncompress and put it in /usr/share/matchbox-keyboard/ on your Neo FreeRunner:
* general keyboard layout * Polish keyboard layout
If you want, you can change the name of the file to keyboard.xml or make a symlink to it. This way, matchbox-keyboard will use it automatically after next restart of the X server.
Note: I've installed keyboard layout from [[1]] before making this one. Please inform me if my layout works without these modifications, or if they are needed.
How does it look like?
Default layout
* ^[ - Escape * ⇑ - Shift * ⌫ - Backspace * ⇔ - switch layout to the alternate * ^C - Control * ◆ - write a digit or symbol * ↵ - Enter
Default Polish layout
Shifted Polish layout
* ⇒ - Tab * ⇑⇑ - Caps Lock
If you use general layout, special characters from the top row stay the same in the shifted layout.
Digits and symbols
When you select a desired key in this layout, keyboard immediately returns back to the alphabet keys.
Alternate kayboard layout
This layout is "persistent" - when you select a key it won't disappear by itself - you need to use the <key>⇔</key> key in the bottom-left corner of the keyboard to return to the default keyboard.
Alternate layout is meant for easy writing of medium or long numbers (decimal or hex, hence the A-F letters), IP and MAC addresses, RGB values, etc. You can find here also direction keys (↑, ↓, ←, →) for easier movement operations.
Switch back to the original Openmoko keypad
If you for whatever reason need to switch back, here are the steps:
opkg remove matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod matchbox-keyboard-im matchbox-keyboard-applet opkg install multitap-pad
Comment or delete the following lines in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules :
#"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/libmb-im-invoker.so" #"matchbox-im-invoker" "Virtual Keyboard" "" "" "*"
Now restart the xserver:
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart


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Perfect Article On The Kobe/LeBron vs MJ Comparisons
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 10:14 am
Just read this article and thought it was the most concise and spot on take of the "Will Kobe and/or LeBron reach what M.J did?"
This is exactly why I believe LeBron is/will be the closest to M.J.........due to the fact he just hasnt had the team-mates that Kobe has had..............and look what happend with Kobe's Fakers with Tomjanovich, and then the return of Phil but post Gasol.
Simply put, LeBron has taken weak ass teams, with little or no supporting cast to 2 conference finals and a finals.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/ ... AHeadlines
This is exactly why I believe LeBron is/will be the closest to M.J.........due to the fact he just hasnt had the team-mates that Kobe has had..............and look what happend with Kobe's Fakers with Tomjanovich, and then the return of Phil but post Gasol.
Simply put, LeBron has taken weak ass teams, with little or no supporting cast to 2 conference finals and a finals.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/ ... AHeadlines
The next time you see one of those innovative Kobe-LeBron puppet commercials, savor it, because it may be the only matchup we get this season between the game's two biggest and best stars.
With LeBron's Cavaliers on the brink of summer vacation and Kobe's Lakers in a dogfight with the Denver Nuggets, who knows if we'll get to see the real deals try to one-up each other with the same passion as their marionettes?
You can't blame Nike for pushing the potential dream matchup, and the roommate concept was a nice touch.
It was also right on the money. Figuratively speaking.
LeBron and Kobe are indeed roommates, living under the same roof built by Michael Jordan. Let's call it a mobile home -- one that's, of course, crazy mad plush -- because everywhere they go, the ceiling of their Jordan-constructed digs travels with them.
Everything they do on the basketball court is compared to Jordan. Obviously, that's a compliment to their great skills, but it's also a near-impossible standard that often clouds the judgment of their critics.
I mentioned to LeBron a few weeks ago that he's always being compared to Jordan. His response was a healthy one that I'm sure allows him to keep his sanity.
"Man, there'll never be another Michael Jordan," he said. "You'll drive yourself crazy trying to be the next Michael Jordan."
I'm not saying it's wrong to compare these guys to Jordan, mind you. In every field of endeavor, we compare today's best to the best ever, so this is quite natural.
My point is just that Jordan changed the standard by which NBA superstars are measured, and that can often diminish the achievements of the great ones who follow him.
For instance, with Jordan winning six titles without a dominant big man and with just one perennial All-Star teammate (Scottie Pippen) and with such nondescript guys as Stacey King, Bill Wennington, Will Perdue, Jud Buechler, Randy Brown, Steve Kerr, John Paxson, B.J. Armstrong, Scott Burrell, Luc Longley, Jason Caffey and Scott Williams playing key roles, a title is not just a title anymore.
It's no longer enough for a truly, truly great player to win just a title; he must win multiple titles. Then, even if he wins multiple titles, we analyze who he won them with and how good his teammates were.
That's why people seem to have forgotten that Kobe already has won three championships. We always belittle Kobe's three rings by saying, "But he had Shaq."
Yeah, and?
It's like Kobe has to win a championship without Shaq to validate himself.
He can thank Jordan for that.
And if the Cavs fail to defy history by rallying from their 3-1 deficit in the East finals versus Orlando, LeBron will take hits in some quarters for not being Jordanesque enough.
Never mind that he's scored more points in the first four games of a conference finals series than anyone else (including Jordan); LeBron is averaging 42 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists on 50 percent shooting. Or that he hasn't had one teammate score 20 or more points in this series, a sad reality that hasn't happened in a conference final since MJ's Bulls lost to Detroit in 1989. Or that he has just one other starter hitting at least 44 percent of his shots. Or that the Cavs are the only team left standing that doesn't have at least two legitimate stars. Or that he doesn't have anything close to a Pippen or a frontline stopper like Dennis Rodman.
But such is life After Mike.
The legends we lift up and adore from the B.M. (Before Mike) days weren't held to nearly as high a standard.
First of all, before Mike, perimeter players weren't measured by their championships, because no matter how good you were, you needed a big man to win big.
Oscar Robertson, whose triple-double play we laud (and rightly so), won only one title, and that was as a 32-year-old, 11-year veteran playing with a young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yet Robertson, who averaged 19 points and 8 assists as a champion rather than the 30-12-11 we praise him for, is still viewed as possibly the best guard ever not named Jordan.
The Logo, Jerry West, played 10 seasons with a healthy Elgin Baylor and four with a healthy Wilt Chamberlain and won just one ring. He lost seven times in the NBA Finals before winning his lone championship (and eight times overall) yet he's nicknamed "Mr. Clutch."
I hesitate to write this next line because it feels sacrilegious, but it's true: If West were being held to the same standard as Kobe and LeBron, he'd be known as "Mr. Clutching His Throat."
Larry Bird won three rings, but none without Top 50 All-Time teammates Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, not to mention the scores of other solid Celtics he played with over the years, including Hall of Famers Bill Walton and Tiny Archibald.
And though Magic Johnson's five rings all came with Kareem, I've never heard him questioned because he never won one without the game's all-time leading scorer. Of course, Magic also had guys like James Worthy, Byron Scott, Jamaal Wilkes, Norm Nixon and Michael Cooper to finish his no-look dimes.
See, that's how good Jordan was. Before him, conventional wisdom was that you couldn't lead the league in scoring and lead a dynasty, that you couldn't lack a dominant big man and build a dynasty.
Can Kobe and LeBron ever reach MJ's rarified air?
We'll see. But if not, they're still in some pretty lofty company.


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It's pretty clear we've been spoiled.
Last season's outrageous crop of rookie quarterbacks succeeded beyond anyone's imagination, but this year's class of prospects is low on star power. After four quarterbacks went in the first round in 2012, it's anyone's guess where we'll be in April.
Here in late January, NFL.com's Daniel Jeremiah sees just one sure-fire first-round signal-caller.
"I really only feel good -- confident -- in one guy," Jeremiah, the former NFL scout, said Tuesday from the Senior Bowl. "I think (West Virginia quarterback) Geno Smith's going to be a first-round pick no matter what happens going forward. But when you watch Geno Smith, it's almost like all these guys. I watch them on tape, I get excited, I like what I see. I go to the Pinstripe Bowl: He struggles, takes bad sacks, has a couple safeties, you question his awareness.
"Then I go down and watch him work at the IMG Academy and you see all the arm talent, you get back excited again, but it's just kind of a roller-coaster ride, and it's like that with all these quarterbacks. It's just hard to find a consistent performer."
These young passers have plenty of time to change perceptions, and nobody rises likes quarterbacks in the draft. If recent history is any indication, Geno will have company when it's all is said and done.
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On Our Radar: How J.C. Penney Can Be More Like Apple
Why do companies still give out corny "employee appreciation" awards that amount to little more than junk? Columbia Business School professor Ray Fisman argues that we actually value those little souvenirs — pens, picture frames, embossed pocket knives — more than cash, in this Slate article. –Leslie Kwoh
Why did J.C. Penney's attempt to re-brand itself in the image of Apple fail completely? This item in The New Republic argues that, like most brick-and-mortar retail outlets, it was out of step with the "aspirational, I-want-to-be-part-of-that brand-centric shopping" that Apple has cultivated. — Allison Lichter
A brain scan study out of MIT's business school and neuroscience department found that entrepreneurs were more likely to use both sides of their brains when solving problems, Fast Company reports. Managers, meanwhile, "mainly stuck to the left side, which is associated with logic and structured thinking. The right side, on the other hand, is associated with creativity and emotion." — Rachel Emma Silverman
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer has banned working from home, but one law firm depends on experienced lawyers who are also stay-at-home moms, according to Washington Post. The business matches clients that need hourly legal advice with lawyers who prefer to work remotely. –Leslie Kwoh
And finally…
Fewer people report being chronically stressed today versus last year, reports the Journal. But women still feel the impact of stress more than men. — Allison Lichter


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Brazil Nuts: Nutrition . Selection . Storage
Nutrition information for Brazil nuts and tips on how to
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select, store and prepare them.
Brazil nuts grow in tropical South America inside hard, woody coconut-sized shells that weigh about 5 pounds each and contain 15 to 25 nuts. There are very few commercial plantations and most of the nuts are still harvested from the wild.
How to Store
Store shelled Brazil nuts in an airtight container in a cool, dry place up to one month.
Freeze shelled nuts up to one year.
Nutrition Benefits
Sodium free; excellent source of magnesium, copper, selenium and phosphorous; good source of manganese, vitamin E and thiamin (vitamin B1).


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Statement of Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future:
"We are very pleased that President Obama has used his Constitutional powers to appoint Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB). The Bureau needs to be up and running at full steam to protect consumers. Now the CFPB can be a watch dog on both banks and nonbanks and can work with its full powers to protect consumers. Republican lawmakers have tried to obstruct the Cordray appointment and the president's nominations to other essential government bodies like the National Labor Relations Board — agencies established by law but whose function they have been trying to hobble by refusing to allow a vote.
"Now the President should move quickly to use his recess appointment powers to appoint Members of the National Labor Relations Board (NPRB). The NLRB's work is vital to protecting workers in this country. In an economy where more and more is expected from workers, the NLRB plays a vital role in worker protection. Activists from all over the country will be urging the President to appoint members to the NLRB. Republicans and the business lobby have worked to hobble the NLRB, but the president must push back against the business lobby and stand up for workers."
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