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.. and I know this will get -1 troll.. but I have to say it...
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and of course.. FUCK!!
.. and I know this will get -1 troll.. but I have to say it...
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck..
and of course.. FUCK!!
But how do you really feel.
.. and I know this will get -1 troll.. but I have to say it...
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck..
and of course.. FUCK!!
But how do you really feel.
I suspect they may be holding something back... possibly some repressed displeasure...
.. and I know this will get -1 troll.. but I have to say it... fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.. and of course.. FUCK!! But how do you really feel. I suspect they may be holding something back... possibly some repressed displeasure...
Help! Help! He's being repressed!
But how do you really feel.
I really feel you should have ended that sentence with a question mark.
the CRTC really proved who has the pants in the family.
effectively, the ruling says "all we have to do (as ISP's; and let's not forget there are really only 3 flavours here) is provide notice that we are doing...everything we are already doing, and can now do it in a more legitimized way. thanks CRTC, the cheque is in the mail."
this really doesn't bode well for any new competition in any communications arena, including cell phone services, as the only players are the one's mentioned above.
for anyone mentioning that 'they own the pipes, let them do what they want". the canadian taxpayer subsidized the development of the networks involved, they were not privately funded. at the same time, money provided via a service charges on all bills was to go into a further system upgrade. the money seems to have never made it, and the companies continued to charge the fee and pocket the money the entire time AFTER the goverment had told them to stop it. it finally took a supreme court decision (yep, they fought it the entire way) to force them to spend the money on more than just fresh decorating the their offices.
I am surprised that no coverage on slashdot for this:
http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Details is on the site.
This is a online petition for Canadian who are dissatisfied with our CRTC. Currently there are 8495 signatures and need another 1505 to go before this petition is submitted to the minster in charge of the CRTC.
Contrary to the name, this petition is aimed at getting a new CRTC from people that cars about Canadians. It is not about removing it let things go to hell as it is already.
>The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was created for the purpose of ensuring broadcasting and telecommunications systems serve the Canadian public and ensure that Canadians have a wide variety of options to create and view works of media or communicate across the country and the entire world.
>We, the undersigned, believe that the CRTC has become a burden on the Canadian public and are failing to perform their duties in the interest of the Canadian public and that of a fair and unbiased telecom policy.
From Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-657: (emphasis mine)
44. The Commission notes that Canadian ISPs have used certain ITMPs for the purposes of network security and integrity. Specifically, these ITMPs have been employed to protect users from network threats such as malicious software, spam, and distribution of illicit materials. In the Commission's view, such activities are unlikely to trigger complaints or concerns under the Act and are a necessary part of an ISP's network operations.
P2P (Legal or otherwise) are not a network security thread. So when they talk about network security they most likely talk about (d)dos attacks such as sym flood and similary attacks.
the Canadian taxpayer subsidized the development of the networks involved, they were not privately funded
Same here in the USA. Since the 1990s, it has been estimated that the Telcos (& Cable Companies) have received in excess of $200 Billion dollars, specifically for laying Fiber to yours and my home. None of which was done. The telcos made promises, in order to receive money + additional taxes on bills + additional fees on bills (many of which, if not all fees & taxes are still being collected) that they would put fiber to our homes.
Worth repeating, The telcos received American tax revenue to put fiber to our homes and apartments. They have been receiving this money since the 1990s. They still receive money today.
Where's the Fiber? (Think 80s Wendy's commercial, Where's the Beef? and you have the right idea)
In addition, they spend in excess of $1.8 million per week to lobby our elected officials against net neutrality, to prevent being forced to run fiber to our homes, to prevent losing their monopoly/oligopoly tiered pricing system, to prevent being forced to provide enough upstream bandwidth so that Americans can watch IP TV, Videos and "rich" content via the Internet. All because they want to force to you pay for content via their Cable system ONLY.
This has been going on for over 20+ years.
The telcos were asked to provide fiber to homes in Wilson N.C., but refused. Based on their refusal the local politicians decided to get fiber for their community and invited Greenlight into the community. Greenlight put fiber to people's homes and charged $100 per month for 100Mbps / 100Mbps (synchronous, not throttled) service to their customers.
The Cable Company / telco response was to lobby the state legislature in North Carolina in order to prevent Greenlight from doing business and to prevent other communities from providing decent fiber service to themselves. The public record is there for all to see. It started last session and will continue next session. Citizens of North Carolina, do something before its too late, let your politicians know that they need to force open the market and invite businesses in to put fiber all the way to people's homes. Nothing less is acceptable.
It's been 20+ years if American providers wanted you to have fiber you would have had it by now. Stop defending the FUD and them. They do not deserve anything but your contempt.
FIOS charges $119 for 50MB/5MB. At least its Fiber.
In Japan, they have had 100Mbps/100Mbps for less than $55 per month as of 2000, thanks to government deregulation of NTT and fiber to homes. (Americans would have had this had the telcos been prevented from watering down and making un enforceable, The "Telecommunications Act of 1996". The telcos lobbyists were very effective. One can only imagine the parties held at Cable Company / Telco boardrooms all across the country at putting one over on American citizens.)
In Japan, by 2006, those same consumers were getting 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps (again synchronous service, not throttled or shaped) for less than $52 per month. Unlike in America where politicians (primarily Republicans) keep touting Market competition, it actually exists in Japan, not here in America. In America corporate monopolies and oligopolies prevent competition.
If the market would or could work, it would have. Face facts Americans, the market is NOT working. We have a 20 year proof and history. Other markets that are not working are obvious as well...wake up Americans, its already too late!
One might ask how the Japanese could give more bandwidth to consumers while lowering prices at the same time.
Very good question as here in America, the telcos/cable companies try to lie and tell Americans that bandwidth is scarce. It is not. This is a lie, it is FUD. Just look at the conversations they have with investors to get the truth of the
"the canadian taxpayer subsidized the development of the networks"
OK... I see this statement now and then but never with any support. Does anyone have a specific reference for direct subsidies to BELL, Shaw, Rogers, TELUS, etc from govts to build their IP networks?
The POTS/TDM side was rooted in the natural monopoly system which saw large revenues from long distance get fed back into building of infrastructure. We also, at one time, had government ownership in the public communications arena but that is
Nothing in this policy limits network providers from managing their networks in any manner they deem fit. If anything, it could work to prevent complaints. The complaint against Bell about P2P traffic management in a wholesale service fell through when it was determined that Bell had taken appropriate action and had not violated any rules. If Bell had published the ITMP, the complaint would likely have been killed sooner with less publicity.
Also, this is policy and not legislation. In Canada, government
the canadian taxpayer subsidized the development of the networks involved
Can anyone provide a source for this. I said it in a previous thread and someone called me on it. The two of us couldn't find any real evidence that this is the case. Bell was a government sanctioned monopoly with complex ties to the (publicly funded) railways throughout it's history; but no direct subsidies. I think Rogers may have purchased some formerly public infrastructure but, so far as I can tell, it purchased it with straight
It's bull. You can't find any confirming evidence because
There was some public money to provide internet connectivity to schools and libraries in Canada*, but it wasn't paid to the telecos or cable operators.
There has never been any taxpayer cash paid to ISPs or Telecos, aside from the fact that, like everywhere else, they enjoy a kind of utility monopoly provided they follow some rules, on
"It's bull. You can't find any confirming evidence because
Telus was formed out of a merge between BC Tel and Alberta Government Telephones (AGT). Both Crown corporations that went 'public'.
Rogers became through CNCP telecommunications, another Crown Corp that used to be part of CN rail and CP rail.
That's just off the tip of my 'tongue'. Remember kids, just because you can't find it in Google; doesn't mean it didn't happen!
I only researched Bell myself and, as I mentioned a post ago, I found that it was a government supported monopoly but not subsidized. Rogers purchased CNCP's infrastructure but did it with private money, so it's a stretch to say it's taxpayer money. You're right about Telus, it's privatized public infrastructure. (I always forget about Telus, probably repressed memories due to hours and hours spent on the phone trying to find out why they arbitrarily disconnected my internet).
And it's quite a stretch to include CNCP in this at all; although CN was a public company for a while, it was formed from a series of bankrupt private railways, and then eventually returned to the private sector.
CNCP was a joint venture between CN Rail and CP Rail (which is, and always has been, a private company) to amalgamate their telegraph business
What does forming a company and selling it to private investors who, unless they are idiots, value it for what it is, have to do with subsidies?
Subsidies are collected from the public and paid to the private. If you are a Crown, you are not a private company, anymore than NASA is a private company.
But, if after a firm becomes privately owned, whether closely held or trading on a public stock market, you then give it cash collected from the taxpayer, that's a subsidy.
All of your examples, by the way, were pr
You bitch, but its better than what you have now. Right now they don't have to even tell you.
This doesn't seem to preclude having a different law requiring it to be fair. This is just to make sure it is disclosed to you.
You bitch, but its better than what you have now. Right now they don't have to even tell you.
Frankly, I must say I don't quite understand what happened in the network neutrality debate. IIRC, it began several years ago when some US ISP's wanted to blackmail content providers or just companies that could afford to be blackmailed by threatening to throttle their own customers access to specific sites (like Google) unless they paid.
That should have resulted in a quick and simple 'no-no' against discriminating
I've been following this and there's really no difference to what telco/cablecos are doing right now. It's all spin factor you see:
"We're adding* protective measures* to ensure your regular* internet use* remains at high level of quality you've come to expect from Bellusawtron."
* at at additional $1.99/mo to your bill
* that prevent legitimate technology use that might be used for criminal/copyright infringrment purposes... like your computer
* Checking your @Bellusawtron.com email and browsing the telco/cableco news potal
* Which is 3-4 times per week for less than 30 minutes per session
Simply put, nothing's changed. Companies are now required to provide the spin letters they've been doing for years. Service is being fundamentally limited, but in a way that a majority of users won't understand relates to the message sent.
The funny/sad part is the fiber market has both improved and dropped in price tremendously with competition where I'm from, but just you try getting above a 1mbit connection to your home, or even a 1mbit who's QoS doesn't go to crap when you hit 60% usage.
I trust you already contacted the CRTC and representatives in your area? Maybe made donations or volunteered for parties that oppose this? Perhaps started creating ways to convince the general population this is a bad idea?
Or did you just post 37 expletives and forget about it?
And of course the big ISPs get what they want, all they have to do is tell us first. How is this net neutrality?
The same way the Sedition Act wasn't supporting sedition;(
And innovation takes another giant leap backwards.
If it weren't for oligopoly, publication of their rules would become a bargaining point that would allow us to shop around.
ISPs will be required to inform retail customers at least 30 days, and wholesale customers at least 60 days, before an Internet traffic management practice takes effect.
Most locales have de facto ISP monopolies. This ruling will just give customers 30 days warning of a rape, with no practical way to avoid it. Arguably better in theory, but no different in practice.
"world wide web" isn't synonymous with "internet"
my internet is netscape where do i get world wide web
how do i shot web?
The sad thing is, the last person I know who said something like that said it literal years ago. These days it's all "my internet is the blue e where do i get world wide web" or worse, "my facebook is the blue e where do i get internet"
Honestly? I don't know the difference between WWW and the internet. I could guess, and I'd probably get close to correct, but how does it affect my every day browsing? I sure know what traffic shaping is though.
The World Wide Web [wikipedia.org] is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks.
Wait hang on. ISPs are demolishing houses to lay down cables now?
At least it opens a debate.
A few months ago it was really unclear that the CRTC would ever lean ever so slightly in the direction of the consumer, all indicated the contrary. A previous preliminary ruling for Bell traffic shaping of its wholesalers gave almost all authority in the hands of Bell. I'm amongst what is I'm sure a lot of fellow Canadian slashdotters that petitioned against it.
Also remember that the CRTC is an old organization that is not very adapted nor flexible enough to take a real stand in
no, it just that the same poeple that own the 3 major ISPs in Canada happen to also control TV, radio and newspapers.
An ISP would therefore need to seek the Commission's approval before it implemented a practice that would:
* block the delivery of content to an end-user, or
* slow down time-sensitive traffic, such as videoconferencing or Internet telephone (Voice over Internet Protocol) services, to the extent that the content is degraded.
So ISPs can't slow down time-sensitive traffic without prior approval by the CRTC, but there's no restrictions on slowing down other kinds of traffi, perhaps even to the point where the link is useless without being completely blocked? That's exactly the reason why I fear traffic shaping. Far too often it's used as a way to cripple people's connections rather than provide clients with true "quality of service".
I don't have a list of ISPs, but I've read several posts by ISP employees (on a public forum that caters to ISPs) discussing and even bragging about crippling P2P applications and doing so in a way that leads users to believe the problem is with the peer's connection rather than the client's connection.
in a filing cabinet with a sign saying "beware the leopard"
Well, at least its not locked, and in a disused lavatory in the basement where the lights and stairs have gone.
You can forward shaw.ca e-mail addresses to your personal email elsewhere.
The US and Canada are so far behind in internet infrastructure it's pathetic. I forget the report I read recently but it said somthing like it would take 10 years or more for us to upgrade our infrastructure to even come close to Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan.
Many of these ISP's were subsidized by the government (at least in the USA) in agreement that they would upgrade their infrastructure so we could be on par with the rest of the world technologically. Many of our tax dollars paid for this 'upgrade' but in the end we got nothing. It is one of the biggest overlooked schemes ever.
The idea that traffic shaping should even be considered is total crap. North America should already have the infrastructure to handle the traffic at speeds far beyond what we're used to. I smell another 20 years of slow very incrimental speed increases all while we are sucked dry $49.00 a month for "High speed internet!! 50 times faster than dialup!!!!! Can't you believe that?? 50 times faster than DIALUP!"
The problem is that it would appear that other companies did not build a neighborhood node structure. This put them years behind the US in delivering the Internet but once they did it was a lot faster. Problem in the US is we have 1000 homes hung off a single neighborhood node which is supplied by a fiber connection to the head end. This pretty much is how both DSL and cable work.
So you can give the homes "up to 20Mbit" access because the fiber link was upgraded from 256Mbit to (maybe) 2Gb. We are proba
Can't reach _any_ Michael Geist sites (from either my cable and DSL conns). Coincidence? I think not!!!
But ISPs should be required to validate the shaping. ISPs should be required to provide a web interface to allow users to see if shaping took place. The amount of shaping, what traffic was shaped, and why it was required should also be provided upon request. And overall statistics should be posted to ensure that the ISPs do not rely on shaping as a replacement for infrastructure investment (typically funded by the government).
Without this information there is no way to keep the ISPs honest. So require that is is available. And the legal right for an ISP to shape traffic should be preserved just in case it is occasionally required.
As is stands, this is not required. Net neutrality just died in Canada.
Network neutrality has been dead everywhere ever since Big Content bribed its way into the inner circle.
How is traffic-shaping necessary? Oh, right... it's necessary when you have a bunch of customers you're selling 3Mbps DSL circuits to who are very nearly saturating your backbone architecture and maxing out your peering agreements THEN you decide to "upgrade" your customers to 4Mbps service. You do that to "compete" with those other guys on cable who have just raised their advertised service rates. Of course, you don't actually upgrade your back-end... that's expensive. You just adjust a port rate limit
Really, why would the U.S. Army's Cold Regions Test Center [army.mil] give a rat's ass about net neutrality?
(aka: Watch when you use acronyms. U.S.-centric acronyms are one thing,
You're the first to do it, and bringing up an obscure sub department of Army R&D is very very stretching it.
The ruling is a big fat nothing. No seriously CRTC, could you have made any ruling that said less than this one? "Do what you want, but we reserve the right to not like it. Just give your customers warning so that they can also not like it and not do anything about it."
At least they could have said, "we don't give a flying fuck about net neutrality one way or the other so we're not going to regulate," but they didn't. They simply tried to come as close as possible to not actually making a decision. Even if you choose wrong at least have the balls to decide something.
Slashdotters see a "Net Neutrality" debate, which is a borrowed phrase that encompasses a lot more than "can an ISP use packet analysis to throttle BitTorrent", which is what Bell, Rogers, etc, customers see this as.
What this ruling is about, however, goes back to how smaller ISPs were created in the first place in Canada. Basically, the CRTC said, about 20 years ago, something that might be summed up as:
Because you (the Telecos) enjoy a Utility status you have to, at the same price it costs you to transmit data across your lines, sell connectivity to smaller ISPs across those same lines, and do so in a manner that doesn't discriminate against them to your competitive advantage.
You can't offer your own customers access to a pipe that you don't also offer these independents.
You cannot say no to an ISP who wants to set up shop and needs what is on your poles and cables.
We are making you do this because we made it easy for you to build those poles across public and private land a long time ago, so there is a public interest in that infrastructure.
We do this because we think competition amongst a large number of providers is better than handing you the whole shebang to screw with like you did the phone system for about a hundred years.
Come around 2007 or so, and these independent ISPs complain that the telecos are throttling the lines they sell to these independent ISPs by the use of packet sniffing technology hunting for P2P data, and they go to the CRTC, who sets these rules, and complain that the telecos are not living up to the bargain outlined above. What they wanted was for the CRTC to say the teleco can do whatever it wants to their own customers, but the pipe to the indy ISPs must be as fat and unencumbered as ever.
The telecos respond saying "we have to, or our network will be overwhelmed".
The indy ISPs did not get what they wanted
They did, however get what they were promised a few decades ago (see above). A lot of the noise over this last ruling comes from people who have accounts with ISPs and wanted a ruling saying "you can't throttle my BitTorrent traffic".
The fundamental issue, however, was addressed: This ruling says telecos cannot throttle anything they sell to these indy ISPs that they don't throttle to their own customers. They leave it up to the telecos to manage their network, but let it be known they won't tolerate the telecos doing something to the indy ISPs unless they also do it to themselves in exactly the same way and under exactly the same circumstances.
I may need it for the speed
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This is a shout-out to all governmental boards and staff in Grundy County, including municipalities, county, schools, libraries, fire districts, townships and more:
You don't want to miss Friday's "Funding for Local Units of Government" at the Grundy County Growth Conference. It is to be held from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26 at First Christian Church, 455 W. Southmor Road, in Morris.
Economic times are tough for tax-supported units of government in Grundy County. Will the economy rebound? How does the economy affect the income and revenue streams of local governments? How do local taxing bodies do more with less? What resources can assist with making tough decisions? How do trustees know they're making the right decisions? How do TIFs work?
Decisions made by one governmental body can often affect another, so it is helpful (if not necessary) to understand the decisions (and reasons behind them) made by your peers. The public is also invited to attend in order to learn how leaders come to make the decisions they make.
Guest speakers include Rick Mattoon of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, Nancy Hill and the team from the Ehlers municipal finance consulting firm, and a team from the Illinois Government Finance Officers Association.
Registration is $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Refreshments will be served.
Mattoon will present the Midwest economic outlook plus give an update on a study that UIC and the National League of Cities are doing to look at the fiscal response of cities to the business cycle. The goal of the study is to help identify the relative volatility of differing revenues and how cities can structure themselves to best handle economic downturns.
In addition, all presenters will share their expertise, answer questions and discuss scenarios such as:
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The 7th annual Grundy County Growth Conference is hosted by the Community Foundation of Grundy County as part of our Communityworks Land Use & Protection project. Please call (815) 941-0852 or email email@example.com to register or ask questions about the event.


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Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 09:27 am
Polls show half of voters disapprove of Quinn's performance
For the first time since taking office, a new Rasmussen Reports poll of Illinoisans shows that more than half of all voters disapprove of Gov. Pat Quinn's performance in office.
The poll of 500 likely Illinois voters taken Oct. 14 found that 53 percent disapproved of Quinn's performance while 45 percent approved. That's a six-point switch from August when Rasmussen had Quinn's approval at 47 percent and his disapproval at 49 percent. Back in June, Quinn's approval was measured at 57 percent while his disapproval was 41. In April, Rasmussen had Quinn's approval rating at 61 percent and his disapproval at just 37 percent. There's an obvious trend.
Quinn's disapproval rating has been climbing across all demographics this year, including among Democrats. Just 26 percent of Democrats disapproved of Quinn's performance in June, but 38 percent of Democrats disapproved this month. Independent voters have been a lot more unforgiving. In April, 36 percent of independents disapproved of the governor's job performance, but Rasmussen's latest October survey has 59 percent of independents turning thumbs down.
The governor most assuredly was viewed extra positive by voters in the wake of Rod Blagojevich's ouster and the fresh start given Illinois politics. Quinn has since unsuccessfully pushed for an unpopular tax increase and has been unable to make good on promises to enact strong campaign finance reforms and also couldn't balance the budget. The constant crises are most definitely taking their toll, as they are with many other governors around the country.
The poll was taken near the start of the current TV advertising blitz being conducted by Quinn and his Democratic primary opponent Dan Hynes. Rasmussen rated Hynes' favorables at 46 percent, with 28 percent saying they rated him unfavorably and 26 percent were unsure. Quinn's favorables were 50 percent, with 41 percent saying they had an unfavorable view of him and 8 percent weren't sure.
The Rasmussen poll also shows Illinois Democrats have a significant advantage in the "generic" gubernatorial ballot, with 43 percent saying they'll vote for a non-specific Democrat and 37 percent saying they'll cast their vote for a Republican candidate for governor. Rasmussen has the national generic congressional ballot at just the opposite, with 42 percent Republican and 37 percent Democratic, but those Illinois numbers may be less strong for Democrats than you might expect in a state which has produced such gigantic Democratic majorities in the past decade.
The Republicans also have a big lead among senior citizens 65 and over, with 40 percent saying they'll take a Republican ballot and just 33 percent saying they'll cast their vote for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate. The Democrats have consistently won the senior vote by 10 points over the past two election cycles, so this is a very worrying result for that party and worth a closer look. The poll, by the way, has a margin of error of /- 4.5 percent, but that's higher for individual demographics.
Meanwhile, a recent Paul Simon Institute poll found that 65.5 percent opposed an increase in the state income tax from 3 percent to 4.5 percent — a proposal pushed by Gov. Quinn throughout the year. Less than a third supported the idea. Quinn's income tax hike plan has been a focal point of Comptroller Dan Hynes' TV ad campaign and the Republicans have been salivating at the chance to run against it next year.
Hynes has pushed an alternative plan to raise income taxes only on the wealthy. That proposal wasn't polled by the Paul Simon Institute this year, but they did poll it last year.
Asked how they felt about "a proposal to add brackets to the state income tax structure so that higher-income residents pay higher taxes," 66 percent said they favored it. Just 29 percent opposed it and 5 percent didn't know.
That's the only tax hike Illinoisans supported last year, so it's little wonder why Hynes would favor it this year.
Hynes appears to have the far better political positioning on the tax issue than Quinn, and doesn't have the baggage of incumbency, which is becoming increasingly toxic throughout the nation. But none of it means quite yet that he'll win the primary. Democratic voters won't speak until Feb. 2.
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Host Michel Martin remembers American artist Elizabeth Catlett, who died this week at the age of 96. Catlett is known for integrating social justice activism in sculptures and prints. That activism caught the eye of the U.S. government at the height of McCarthyism. For years, she was banned from entering the U.S. from her adopted home of Mexico.
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It looked better in print.
Yes, back in 1940 you could see the thickness of lead in the linotype output, which was indeed a volume. That sounds good, but it might not be right because I just made it up. I do, however have a jar of old lead letters about that old for fun and props. No linotype blocks though.
If you want to get really hoary, I'll bust out my old IBM typewriter, hook it up to WP 4.x and show you proportional fonts that are all about areas instead of volumes. Then we can party like it's 1
You seem to be using non breaking spaces for a purpose different from its intended one. Non-breaking spaces are designed to be used—well...—when you want to disallow a line break at a space, in situations like "A. U. Thor" or to keep words together where it'd be awkward to have them separated—a good typographer will not let a short word like 'a' be left alone at the end of a line but join it with a non-breaking space to the word following it, for example.
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If Scott were more of a geometry wonk, he'd have dubbed it the Law of Optical Areas rather than volumes, but that doesn't sound as imposing.
Because 'Volumes' let you go up to 11.So why 'Volumes', not 'Areas'?
I'd use mod points, but I'm a designer (Web and print) and this has to be set straight. Besides, who on
Waa-aay back on the early printing presses, characters were steel/pewter "shots" and held together with molten lead. The shots were lead-alloy and would break-away from melting the pure lead once the print-run was complete.
The letters each occupied a rectangular space, since the shots were forged from rectangular molds. When the shots were fitt
True, PDF documents have kerning in them, but the hinting used to display glyphs in PDF documents on a 70 to 120 DPI screen without blurring the crap out of the glyphs distorts the spacing balance.
The main reason why it is much harder to produce a good looking font on a screen is due to the low dpi factor of screens. In print, you can get a much higher dpi and as such some fonts like Times look great. But on the screen they look like crap because the screen only has so much resolution. You can play a few tricks with current lcd technology and anti-aliasing but compare it to anything in print and there's no comparison.
I certainly wouldn't mind higher resolution displays to display crisper fonts. A
Having all the typefaces look *exactly* right is one of those things that only printers really care about. Don't get me wrong, it's worth the trouble, for the *printed page*.
Look at the Slashdot banner at the top of the page. What do you see? Kerning. And if it wasn't kerned, it would look like crap.
On the other hand, look at the Wired logo in the article, in which they brag about how it follows their law of readability. It looks like unreadable crap.
Well I guess that would be more profitable than just offering aTo see and appreciate the Law in action beyond our logo, you'll need to pick up a copy of the magazine.
The term you're looking for is Picard's Syndrome [lewrockwell.com].Also the simple fact that many people like the freedom of being able to actually hold and move around the thing they are looking at.
Kerning adjustments seem pretty low on the list of reasons IMHO.
You are partially correct. Kerning alone won't make print more attractive than web documents. However, kerning is only one part out of many things one can do to text (justification, hyphenation, smaller line-lengths, line-spacing, judicious use of emphasis, indentation, ligatures, etc.) to make it more readable, i.e. typography. The sum of all these adjustments, while not consciously visible to the reader, most definitely has an effect on the
I think the biggie is vastly higher resolution. Typical screens are what, 72-100 ppi? It's simply tiring to keep scrolling about. Letter size paper or a larger newspaper fits more information and lets the reader scan about without much effort.
Also, something about being able to easily add color seems to make everyone want to do it. Those thick, darkly colored bars of slashdot headings sharply contrast with the black-on-white text and in many cases activate the negative space between the bars.
If you're referring to METAFONT-style fonts, then there is some supplementary information you can encode in the font file to indicate kerning between specific pairs, and also some moderately flexible ligature support. It's nowhere near as powerful as what you can do with Opentype, but suffices for reasonable quality when setting Roman alphabet languages. It can also be adapted, if you try hard enough, to support more complicated scripts like Devanagari. The nastiest limitations for that sort of work usually
I do wish the LaTeX group could pull up their socks. Version 3 is being "worked on" (read: the mailing list occasionally has sparks of life), but the need for an underlying engine that does all of this properly seems clear to me.
Adding layers on top of LaTeX only goes so far, if the underlying engine has flaws. If TeX can't do kerning adequately any more, then fixes above it will simply be implementation-dependent - which is largely what happened when LaTex 2 broke down a
I'm trying to imagine that. You would need strong eyes, I think.ever try to put up a 100 foot long, 12 foot high cinder block wall using just your eye?
so I find PDF manuals distasteful. Books: Grab, flip open, crawl inside... quickly, wherever
I find books distasteful. PDFs: Double click, ctrl-f, put in some text, click next a few times...done.
To be somewhat less sarcastic, perhaps you should look into a widescreen monitor that you can swivel and put into portrait mode. I find that makes reading PDFs and web pages much more natural.
Maybe it's long habit, but considering the e-book flop, I 'spect I'm part of a majority.
I would say e-books flopped because
I thought someone might finally have come up with some serious research showing how to objectively improve readability, but it's just a summary of kerning.
Why is this area so bare of real scientific results? There have been a few studies into on-screen readability, typically measuring things like reading speed, accuracy of recollection afterwards, and subjective approval of the document by the reader. However, there are so many variables that people don't seem to control that it's hard to see any general patterns. For example, changing the font from 10pt to 12pt on screen may well not just scale the size by 120%, but also make the dominant strokes two pixels wide rather than one. There is little consistency among conclusions about optimal font size for reading across fonts or whether serif or sans-serif fonts are more readable, perhaps because there are so many variables.
Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait a bit longer for comprehensive research.
The irony, of course, is that the latest versions of Windows support Opentype pretty comprehensively, the latest fonts from MS support some Opentype features, pretty much all of the serious, commercial, professional-grade fonts you can buy these days come as Opentype (at least from sources like Adobe), Opentype features are far more powerful than anything in the TeX/METAFONT world, yet Microsoft were too busy revamping their UI again to add support for these features in Word 2007. So much for BillG's claims about readability on the screen being important.
Actually, the optimal line length for extended reading has more to do with the angle through which yours eyes must rotate to get back to the start of each line from the end of the one preceding it. It happens that for typical typefaces, text sizes and reading distances, this works out at around 4–5", or 1.5 alphabets, or whatever your preferred practical rule of thumb is.
Unfortunately, Web fonts don't allow custom kerning pairs, so you can't work the same magic online as in print.
They don't? What the hell are you talking about? A TrueType font contains a kerning table. If the font rendering does not kern properly, it just means the rendering engine is a piece of shit. There is nothing about "web fonts" (what the hell does that mean?) that preclude proper kerning. It just means that the fonts which are typically installed have shitty kerning tables.
...is that nobody seems to care about margins.
In so many websites (and yeah, Slashdot, I'm lookin' at you) every square inch of screen space seems to be cram-jam full of content, pictures, navigation menus, adds, sidebars, logos...
Stop. Please... just stop.
...is that nobody seems to care about margins.
I agree. Whitespace is very important. I prefer to have decent margins and padding when I create web pages and I tend to use san-serif fonts for readablity. Also fixed-width is very important too. It's harder to read wide columns. Another good place to start is A List Apart [alistapart.com], but there are other good resources as well.
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Tuesday, September 9, the New Jersey Devils held their fifth annual alumni golf tournament at the Ballyowen Golf Course in Hardyston, New Jersey. The course is majestic, laid out on 250 acres of incredible terrain nestled into the Appalachian Mountains and is one of the best golf courses in the state. Each foursome consisted of three guests and a Devil. Several from the Stanley Cup-winning roster came out to play, and were joined by special assignment coach Larry Robinson and alumni including Aaron Broten, Tom Chorske, Bruce Driver, Randy McKay, Kirk Muller and Chico Resch. Proceeds from the tournament went to the Children's Miracle Network in the New York/New Jersey area.
After photos were taken with players and the Stanley Cup, everyone retired to the pavilion. There was a raffle and an auction of memorabilia, including a painting of Arnold Palmer and Bob Hope signed by both. A few of the players had to be torn away from the bubble hockey game to eat their meal of chicken, pasta and burgers. A great day; an outstanding cause!
That evening, Scott Niedermayer asked for, and was granted permission, to take the Stanley Cup to visit a ten-year old boy who is courageously battling terminal cancer. Scott had tried to meet with Jesse earlier in the summer, but schedules didn't mesh, so wanted to make certain he got over to see him before the season started. It was a huge thrill for the little guy from New City, New York, and Scott was great, sitting on the edge of the bed, talking hockey and signing autographs for his new buddy.
The Captain took the Cup for the afternoon. Scott Stevens and his family like to feed the deer that frequent their property, and one day several years back, Scott dropped by the Nettie Ochs Cider Mill in Livingston, New Jersey, looking for apple mulch for the deer. There, he met owner Robert Ochs, and the two became friends. Robert and his wife sell seasonal vegetables, smoked cheeses, pies, honey and freshly-pressed cider from their mill, and were thrilled that Scott would bring the Stanley Cup by the 137-year old Nettie Ochs Cider Mill. Robert, who is the fifth generation of Ochs to own the mill, had forty friends by to enjoy a drink of cider from Lord Stanley's mug.
After leaving the Nettie Ochs Cider Mill, Scott Stevens took the Stanley Cup to Forte Pizzeria in Caldwell. A few of the Devils go there every gameday, sit at the same table and enjoy a casual lunch, then head off for their respective homes for their pre-game naps. Stevens ordered the lentil soup and a sandwich and thanked the proprietors for their regular hospitality by signing some autographs and having photographs taken with the Stanley Cup in the restaurant.
On his way home, Stevens first dropped into the Essex Fells Post Office, then the police station to show the staff the Stanley Cup. "You've got to show the local police department," implored Stevens. "It's important."
The boys all departed for the start of a new season, showing up for their physicals on Thursday, September 11. The next day, while the New Jersey Devils took to the ice for the first time in anticipation of this 2003-04 season, the Stanley Cup was taken over to the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, New Jersey. There, on the campus of Montclair State University, better than 300 fans dropped by to see the Stanley Cup on display.
Yogi Berra was a part of ten World Championships with his beloved New York Yankees, more than any other player in the history of major league baseball. He was selected to the All-Star team fifteen times, and was Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player on three occasions. In 1972, the catcher was inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame. But there is one trophy Yogi can never lay claim to, and that is, of course, the Stanley Cup. A big hockey fan, the 78-year old Berra visited with Scott Stevens and the Stanley Cup earlier this summer when the New York Yankees paid tribute to the champion Devils at Yankee Stadium. The Stanley Cup was also in attendance at Yogi's annual golf tournament, which raises money for special needs scouts.
Just like Yogi might say in regards to travels with the Stanley Cup, "It ain't over 'til it's over!" Come back to the Stanley Cup Journal on September 30 and find out all about the New Jersey Devils' visit to the White House.
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The good: Calif., Sonoma Valley, Wellington "The Duchess" 2011, a blend of Marsanne, Roussanne and Chardonnay. 13.6% alcohol, $9.95 at the winery.
A very pleasant blend, and one heck of a QPR. I enjoyed it over three meals, and then used some dregs for cooking. If you like Marsanne/Roussane, you'll like it, but I know that not all people are enlightened to the more interesting Rhone whites.
I only bought one bottle, enamored at the tasting room. It was much better in the more relaxed setting at home, and I regret that my overcrowded cellar was weighing on my thoughts.
Next time I go back, I'll see what they have.
The badly ugly and just plain bad: Calif., Russian River Valley, De Loach "O. F. S." Pinot Noir 2006. 14.5% alcohol, $38.00 at the winery.
This was early in the resurrection of the De Loach name and tasting room after Cecil went belly-up. I didn't much like the wines when I went there in August 2008 to see what was going on, but somehow I ended up buying two bottles.
The first bottle, just before Christmas 2009, I noted: Surprisingly weak flavor. Nice clear ruby color, but washed out by a veal chop! Better but not overwhelming after the meal. Overall, disappointing.
Having made that note, the other bottle lingered on my "ignore" list, but finally, last night, I opened it. Again with a veal chop, this time covered with fresh chanterelles in a Madeira cream sauce. The veal and sauce and everything else were fine. This bottle caused the meal to descend from very, very enjoyable to just Ok. Nice dark strawberry/light cherry color, reasonable aroma, but sweet soup in the mouth. Horrible stuff. I tasted it again this afternoon and poured the rest out. I haven't found a bottle that bad in years.


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- 1/2 cup white wine or chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 pound sirloin lamb roast, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 6 medium fresh mushrooms
- 1 medium zucchini, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1-1/2 cups hot cooked couscous
- In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Pour 1/3 cup marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; add lamb. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Pour 1 tablespoon marinade into a small bowl. Stir in yogurt; cover and refrigerate. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade for basting. Drain and discard marinade from lamb. On two metal or soaked wooden skewers, alternately thread lamb, mushrooms and zucchini.
- Grill kabobs, covered, over medium heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until lamb reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a thermometer should read 145°; medium, 160°; well-done, 170°), basting frequently with reserved marinade. Serve with couscous and yogurt mixture. Yield: 2 servings.
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"We had this on the grill tonight with chicken (it was on hand)- I had the chicken on their own skewers and zucchini and red bell pepper together. Served it in grilled pita bread with the yogurt sauce and a mix of green onions on the bias and chopped italian parsley and cilantro.It was a HUGE hit- hubs loved it and he's pretty hard to please. My 2 year old ate a bunch on rice."


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Six people were shot to death at a rural family's home and a 16-year-old girl is said to be missing with her infant daughter Wednesday as authorities searched for a motive and witnesses.
District Attorney John Andrews said the bodies of the victims, including three teen-age boys, were discovered inside and outside a tin-roofed wooden house and a nearby mobile home after sheriff's deputies were called about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night.
Andrews said there were no suspects and there was no official comment on what might have provoked the violence. No arrests were reported. Authorities also said they were looking for two people described as potential witnesses.
The district attorney did not identify the victims. But Coleman Ball of nearby Greenville said law enforcement officials told him they were all members of his family.
He said his mother, 62-year-old Mila Ruth Ball who lived in the house, was killed, as was his sister, 35-year-old Joann Ball who lived in the mobile home. He said the other victims were Joan Ball's sons -- 18-year-old Jerry Ball, 16-year-old Tony Ball and 14-year-old John Ball -- and Willie Hasley, whose age and hometown were not known, was related to Joann Ball by marriage.
Coleman Ball said Joan Ball's daughter, 16-year-old Janice Ball, and her baby were missing. They lived in a second mobile home at the site, and he said she had a boyfriend who sometimes visited her there. Authorities would not confirm if the 16-year-old and her boyfriend were the two potential witnesses being sought.
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- 1 package (16 ounces) cubed fully cooked ham
- Bring broth and water to a boil in a large saucepan. Add noodles; return to a boil. Cook for 8-10 minutes or until tender. Meanwhile, place vegetables and cheese sauce in a Dutch oven. Cover and cook over medium heat for 13-15 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally.
- Pour noodles and cooking liquid into vegetable mixture. Stir in ham and heat through. Yield: 6 servings.
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Quoting IGN, Australia's ratings body "cited several high impact scenes in the game, mostly focusing on drilling into and severing body parts."
In a rather graphic description, "one scene in particular that was highlighted as a problem involved Alex (the main character) having a drill forced into his right eye socket, which caused a lot of blood to spray out."
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To be fair, the image quality in our tests was perfectly adequate for using on YouTube. The levels of sharpness and detail were good considering the relatively low resolution, and the tiny microphone proved to be surprisingly effective. And, to keep the young 'uns happy, there's a series of special effects, such as a sepia filter, a thermal imaging look, motion blur and even a Terminator PoV look, that you can add to your clips as you shoot them.
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Windows support is a bit lazy, though. Video clips can be imported into iPhoto on a Mac – rather than iTunes – but there's no version of iPhoto for Windows, so Windows users will have to manually drag-and-drop the files onto their hard disk and then use a third-party video app such as Premiere Elements to organise and edit their clips.
And with no on-board Wi-Fi - unlike the iPod Touch, rumoured to be getting a camera too, though it missed out this time round - you can't upload footage direct to YouTube.
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The Nano's 240ppi screen has grown by 0.2in to 2.2in, with a similar increase in resolution from 320 x 240 to 376 x 240. The display sits in the same curvy, oval-section case design as before.
There's an FM radio built into this model too. It's something of a 'me too' as most of the Nano's rivals already have a radio. But then they've done so for years and it hasn't bothered Apple thus far. Why the change of mind? Apple isn't saying, but it's nonetheless one more tick Apple can add to the Nano's feature list.
Getting and organising clips is easy on a Mac, less so on Windows and Linux
There is one nice touch, though: an option that allows you to pause and rewind up to 15 minutes of a live radio broadcast so that you can skip back and catch anything you might have missed. We found the indoor reception to be pretty ropey, though, so the radio is really a toy for the great outdoors.
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HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. - Officials at Sumner County schools say students will no longer be allowed to take field trips to religious venues.
The Tennessean reports the move comes after a complaint from the stepfather of a Hendersonville High School student.
The school said it has offered an honors class in world studies for a decade in which students learn about different religions including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hindu and Islam. They then visit religious venues.
Mike Connor said he complained after learning during an open house that the field trip for his stepdaughter would include only a mosque and a Hindu temple.
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The first day of summer, aka the Summer Solstice is just around the corner and people everywhere are trying to figure out how they want to enjoy the longest day of the year. Well if you will happen to be in the Mendocino County area that day, why not stop out to RIVINO for the first annual Wine and Swine Roast? The name may raise a few eyebrows but trust us when we tell you that you'll want to hear more about this great event.
Taking place on June 21st, this boutique family winery located right along the Russian River will open its doors for an evening of wine, music, fun and of course, pork. But before any of that, there will be a ton of night-before preparation in order to ensure that all event-goers are presented with a delicious meal that next day. So what exactly does that entail? Well RIVINO is taking the roasting process to a whole new level, choosing to start the fire at around 2am the night before. That means that the whole Magruder Ranch pig will have an entire 14 hours to slow cook and tenderize. Is your mouthwatering yet? We know ours are!
Top that off with a side of wood-fired roasted vegetables, corn, salads and refreshing RIVINO wine and you've got the perfect way to welcome the Summer Solstice. After you've enjoyed your meal and settle into your food coma, just sit back and relax as you enjoy the fun-loving accordion and guitar playing of Monty & Jay. Hopefully it won't take you long to get up on your feet and dance the night away.
This event will take place between 5pm and 8pm at the RIVINO Winery and is priced at $95 total, or $65 for Wine Club Members. For more information, visit the official RIVINO website. We hope to see you soon!
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The National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association met with federal mediators for the first time on Wednesday in an attempt to spur negotiations towards a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
"A small group of NHLPA staff and players met today with two experienced FMCS (Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service) mediators. We expect that these discussions will resume on Thursday," said players' union executive director Don Fehr after those meetings commenced.
The league also confirmed that meetings will continue, but declined to issue a statement.
Mediation by a third party was also sought out twice during the 2004-05 lockout; once as a last-ditch effort to save the season in February of 2005, and once more during the following summer, with no positive outcome. The hope is an objective party will help get the negotiating process on track.
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Course Catalog
MBAD6500 - International Financial Mgt
Spring 2013
This course is a study of international financial markets with the purpose of providing an understanding of the tools available to financial managers of international corporations. The focus is on corporate decision making in an international context and the expansion of basic principles of financial management to reflect the complexities of global operations. Topics include letter of credit, banker's acceptances, exchange rate hedging, etc.
Prerequisite: MBAD6043
3 Credits
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Could you imagine this bullpen in a playoff series.
Could you imagine this bullpen in a playoff series.
Brox smash puny Buccos.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Knocking Ondrusuck back to the "B" squad........finally.
16th best reliever at forcing ground balls. Marshall is 13th. This bullpen is amazing.
How 'bout Cairo's fill-in work at 2nd tonight? Bravo. BP he ain't, but he's played a fine game in the field.
Rounding third and heading for home...
who pitches the 9th?
Ol broxy may know how to pitch a little bit.
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It looks like Wyoming Area School District teachers will be walking the picket line this Tuesday.
Union and school district negotiators were back at the bargaining table Thursday, but the last ditch effort to avoid a strike failed. The teachers union, the Wyoming Area Education Association, announced in June teachers would go on strike without a new collective bargaining agreement.
State law requires the strike to end when 180 days of school cannot be completed by June 15. The strike would have to end Sept. 30, school district solicitor Jarrett Ferrentino said.
"We are at our limit," Ferrentino said after Thursday's bargaining session. "We have moved substantially since June."
John Holland, regional field director for the Pennsylvania State Education Association, agreed about progress since June, but he described Thursday's offer from the district as "a shell game" and an attempt to "shuffle cards."
"He's wrong," replied Jack Dean, the district's chief negotiator. "We offered more of a raise."
The teachers are in their fourth year since their last collective bargaining agreement expired, and since then, the only pay increase they received was for advancing a pay step in 2010-11. The salary scale has 16 steps based on tenure and educational credits.
"The teachers are very much disappointed," said Melissa Dolman, a teacher and union president. "The last thing we want to do is go out on strike."
The average annual salary for a district teacher last year was $52,239, and the average salary for a teacher in Luzerne County was $60,305, according to the state Department of Education. The Wyoming Area Education Association represents roughly 160 teachers.
A sticking point in negotiations has involved a retroactive pay increase for moving up a pay step in 2011-12. The district agreed to recognize the step advancement that year but doesn't want to increase pay for the step movement, officials said.
The district on Aug. 13 offered a $750 pay increase in 2011-12 to all teachers, including those who were already at the top pay step. The union proposed a 2.55 percent increase for a step advancement that year and a $500 pay increase for employees at the top step. The two sides have offered percentage increases for step advancements in subsequent years.
"They haven't moved off the mark," said school board director Frank Casarella, a retired teacher and administrator who worked in the district for more than 30 years. "We have given in quite a bit to be honest. We need that freeze in the second year. I don't know what else we could have done."
Casarella said he opposes the district's decision to stop insisting that the teachers pay a portion of health-care premiums. The last teachers strike in the district was in 1978, Casarella said.
Under state law, teachers may strike twice in one school year. A second strike can take place after nonbinding arbitration and must end in time for students to get 180 school days by June 30. Wednesday was the first day of school in the district.
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The Rev. Earl Joseph John Cote, the retired pastor of a Pikesville Roman Catholic church, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 27 at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was stricken while driving on Putty Hill Road as he headed to say daily Mass for the School Sisters of Notre Dame. He was 68.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Robb Street, he attended St. Bernard School and was a 1961 Loyola High School graduate.
He decided to enter the priesthood and studied at the old St. Charles College in Catonsville and at St. Mary's Minor Seminary on Paca Street. He then earned a degree at St. Mary's Seminary at Roland Park, where he studied with Scriptural scholar the Rev. Raymond E. Brown. Cardinal Lawrence Shehan ordained him at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in 1969.
"He had a love for the Scriptures and it showed in his homilies," said Monsignor Richard W. Woy, vicar general of the Baltimore Archdiocese and a friend for many years. "He was bright and well read and had the ability to understand the human dimensions in life. He was a great champion of the underdog."
He said Father Cote had a strong personality, was compassionate to others, and was known for his quick wit and sharp tongue.
"He was also devoted to his parishioners and those he cared for as a priest," Monsignor Woy said.
According to a biography supplied by the archdiocese, Father Cote was first assigned as an associate pastor to St. Peter's Parish in Westernport. In 1975, he was assigned to St. John the Evangelist in Frederick and later served at St. Margaret in Bel Air.
"He kept a huge library of works on the Scriptures and theology," said a longtime friend, James H. Dowdy Jr. of Stevensville. "He was one of the best preachers in his class at the seminary, and he poured his heart and soul into what he was saying."
He said his friend was a "gracious host" and a cheerful, upbeat person who was also a "private person."
He recalled his ready wit and decidedly unsanctimonious style of speech, which often included salty expressions. "He had a comeback for anything you could say," Mr. Dowdy said.
He was named pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Pikesville in 1987. He stayed at that post until becoming an associate at Immaculate Conception Parish in Towson in 2000.
Betty Schmedes, a friend from Pikesville, said, "He had an extraordinary way with people. His sense of humor carried his conversations. When he spoke, he spoke from experience, and you could feel it."
She said his sermons were popular because they were concise. "You were never bored," she said. "He spoke straight and to the point. He had such a knack of preaching that people looked forward to his talks."
She said that Father Cote was an excellent listener and adviser. She said people sought his counsel in times of personal tragedy, death or suicide.
"His compassion was well known and after a traumatic situation, he would call you daily to see how you were doing," she said.
He was the chaplain to the School Sisters of Notre Dame at Villa Assumpta in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County from 2003 until his death.
"The first thing he would say to our sisters in the health center would be, 'Is there anything I can do for you?'" said Sister Bernice Feilinger of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. "He was kind and considerate and was well loved by those he served."
She said his knowledge of the Scriptures was evident in his preaching. "He always began his homilies casually, saying, 'Just a thought.' He could blend the Old and New Testaments together skillfully."
Friends said that Father Cote enjoyed nights out at a steak house with a meal of beef, potatoes and onion rings.
Father Cote donated his body to the Maryland Anatomy Board.
A memorial Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Feb. 10 at the Villa Assumpta Chapel, 6401 N. Charles St.
He leaves no immediate survivors.


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Narrow The Focus
VMware's Frank Rauch
I guess my advice to any partner would be really around sustainability. I think the tendency right now is to go after the bright and shiny object, and to be, you know, maybe it's big data one day, maybe it's cloud another day, maybe it's devices another day, etc. You need to be able to have a plan. You need to be able to monetize the plan, and you need to be able to sustain. I think the same thing can be said around line cards as well because again you have a number of companies that are starting to develop probably at a more rapid rate than we have seen over the last three or four years, and they are starting to appear. A lot of them are here, and you are starting to see new guys at these events, etc. I still think there is an opportunity with all of us to be able to minimize, to be able to consolidate the line card. If you consolidate the line card, then I think a lot of the financial risk and startup costs are mitigated to some degree by going with some of the vendors that have been around for a while.