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"Large corporations want more visa, they claim, because of a shortage of dirt cheap IT talent"
There, ftfy
Many people like to claim that they lack talent with the relevant skills for the particular jobs. I think some of this is true, but most is BS. What it really means is that they don't want to spend even a minute training anyone. They'd rather have the person with the particulars already on the resume than hire someone who might need some minimal introduction. Ie, any older programmer is going to be able to figure out your new fad language of the year very quickly, and will be able to program it far better than your entry level worker who peppers the resume with buzzwords.
This is where age discrimination comes in, and it's very subtle, and the people doing the discrimination don't even realize they're doing it. Managers want the exact match for a job, HR people are filtering based on keywords, executives want to give out lowest possible salary. It all adds up.
The visa system is up for abuse, and it is being abused. Those execs who disagree about this should be made to step up and prove that no other suitable workers could be found.
It's worse than that. They identify the foreign workers they want to import, and then taylor the job descriptions so those workers are uniquely qualified for the job.
This is as relevant now as it was when it was made. [youtube.com]
I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first. Not that I'm holding my breath.
I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first
The politicians are already doing that. CEOs are also Americans, isn't it so? Some of the profit is donated to politicians; that's how the feedback loop is operating.
Or perhaps you meant some other Americans, like those peons in IT? How much do they donate [memegenerator.net] to Congressmen?
This political system is the best the money can buy. If you don't like its results then perhaps the system ought to be replaced with something else. It would be otherwise foolish to expect a different result.
From the POV of many CEOs, american workers are overpaid, underexploited, and too pampered with benefits. Foreign workforce - who often comes from countries that we do not associate with widespread wealth - is willing to work on terms of pseudo-slavery. The american worker might just as well curl up and die, he is not needed anymore, aside from a handful of highly educated workers. The american worker cannot even be a customer because he has no job and no income to pay for things. In this aspect a rice farmer in China is a better customer, he has an honest income and can buy a gizmo once in a while. The words "customer" and "employed" are synonyms.
It's all about supply and demand. Unless you're a corporation. Look, I would love to work as cheap as an H1-B or an off-shored worker, but guess what? I have to pay American prices for American things for American living. While a corporation might be able to pull from the labor pull of *THE ENTIRE PLANET*, I have to pay whatever price milk is for milk in my city and whatever the rent rate is for rent and whatever health care costs are for health care in my area. I can't farm out my expenses to the same plac
The H1-B workers are living here, too. They pay American prices for American things too. They pay the same price for milk that you do, and the same rent that you do, and the same health care costs. AND, they often send a big chunk of change home to support their families. So, how are they able to do it making so much less, while you can't?
The H1-B workers are living here, too. They pay American prices for American things too.
They live in that situation temporarily, saving as much money as possible because that money is going to buy so much more once they are back home.
They can live 8 - 12 in a rented house designed for 4 for 4 years because the end game for them is more money than they could have made in a decade at home.
But someone who is staying here permantently, lives 8 - 12 in a house designed for 4 and after 4 years he'll have sav
Yes, a shortage at the nice price. That is what this has always been about.
Industry groups have been bellyaching about shortages since the 70s. Dire predictions of shortages are regularly made. Only now, they may finally be right. So many citizens have been displaced for so long, the H1-Bs may be the industry's best source of technical talent. It's a self full-filling prophecy. They may have run off so many older citizen engineers, developers and what have you that the young ones see that and opt for a more stable career path. So they may have produced the shortage they've been predicting for so long.
The sickening thing is, when your business is an IT business, why would you do this to yourself? It's like a dissonant behavior where "prescribed action" doesn't even reflect upon the world it's being acted in.
Let's say you do indeed get good value out of your Indian H1B workers (you don't, but let's just say you do). Great. This is the best possible outcome of H1B workers. But in the meantime, you're stagnating domestic IT salaries, which means talented people will not look to work for you or will leave the field. And suddenly, your domestic company is 100% dependent on foreign labor, which you need government regulation to acquire.
And you have no hope of hiring a local, talented or otherwise, because you've effectively priced yourself out of the market - all while handing industrial expertise to foreign nationals.
What, you thought only the manufacturing base could outsource? Think again.
Workers unionise. IT workers obfuscate their code.
Senior IT workers obfuscate using an encryption scheme termed "cobol".
Yes, much better that we remain isolationist. After all, market distortions only improve the longer you leave them in place!
Kidding aside, the silver lining here -- and it is a substantial one -- is that the follow-up story should be (and is): "Aging IT Workers Returning as Higher-Paid Consultants to Fix Fuck-Ups of H-1B Visa Workers".
It is a form of bondage though, as those workers have no freedom to move to a different company on that visa. They are tied to the company. Therefore, they have to accept a lower wage because there is no threat of them leaving for a competitor.
The company doesn't have the incentive to increase salary because the barrier to switch jobs for the employee is very high. The employee could grow in experience and skill to be "Senior" while making an entry-level wage (which is still higher than back home). But the employee must work to increase their abilities or the corporation might cancel their visa and hire someone more capable.
If H1B visa holders were allowed to find other jobs then there is no point in issuing H1B visas, just issue s regular work visa.
That is totally fine. Let's cancel the H1B visas and issue work visas instead.
I had worked for a major software company that was not Microsoft but worked in the virtualization area.
Over the last few years saw anybody over 50 terminated and then subsequently replaced with immigrant workers for lower wages. The workers terminated had alot of experience and could do the job more correctly and faster than staff subsequently hired -- suspect longer vacation time and higher wages made them targets for termination.
This has happened consistently over 3 years.
This is wrong.
Many American businesses hate their workers.
American workers are too stupid to hate them in return.
Hiring Pinkertons to shoot workers is no longer fashionable, but don't think for a second our rulers and their rich puppet masters give a shit about any of the expendable peons they grind under their Juggernaut.
I don't know that it's a race to the bottom. A news story this morning mentioned that wages had remained stagnant since 2001. Except 2001 you could be trained chimpanzee that knew HTML and make $100k a year. So maybe we're just finally purging all of the bullshit employees from the dot-com employment orgy.
All together I don't have that much sympathy. Most of those graybeards are libertarians who don't believe in any protectionism so... welcome to the free market.
I don't know that it's a race to the bottom. A news story this morning mentioned that wages had remained stagnant since 2001. Except 2001 you could be trained chimpanzee that knew HTML and make $100k a year. So maybe we're just finally purging all of the bullshit employees from the dot-com employment orgy.
All together I don't have that much sympathy. Most of those graybeards are libertarians who don't believe in any protectionism so... welcome to the free market.
You're out of date and off the mark. The dot-com drones long ago left the building. IT wages have actually been rising (modestly) and the IT unemployment rate is half what it is for most other professions.
Hardly the heady days of pre-Y2K. but things have been on the uptick for some time and it's a rare day when I don't get calls and emails from headhunters.
It is ALL US workers.
I have personally seen a downsize where ALL US workers were let go and ALL of the H1-Bs were retained.
This is not a joke or a tall tail.
And Note that US workers were at or even better in the skills that were retained.
I've been observing a downward spiral in quality of web applications, sites and services for some years now. Old school programmers/developers wouldn't make some of the bone-headed mistakes I keep encountering. How can we suddenly have so many incompetant people doing this work? Easy - they know how to write code, but do not have the wisdom to avoid drop-through logic, non-intuitive interfaces, extremely fragile code, etc.
Gotta be a mill somewhere, cranking out code monkeys who are paid by the deadline, not but the quality of their work.
This is an older video, but it shows just how companies manage to avoid hiring qualified Americans just to flood the market with cheap H1B laborers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU [youtube.com]
Mod parent up. Yes this is a very old problem. Pre Y2K and years prior to my 40th birthday I saw the writing on the wall. I saw how friends with H1Bs were treated as indentured servants, sometimes earning little more than 1/2 what their US-born colleagues earned. I saw how people from certain countries were assumed to have magical mystical IT talent and how people with dubious certificates and knowledge of hot software products (VisualBASIC, DBase 3...), were given the same "irreplaceable" specialized H1B treatment as brain surgeons and PhD level scientific experts.
I saw where US IT jobs were going-- so I followed my outsourced IT career out of the country. And no, I don't particularly miss the short vacations, high taxes, high medical costs, high education costs, long drives and terrible job security many US workers have to put up with. If US companies continue to abuse the H1B system as a cheap labor pool, American workers should consider emigrating to countries where real IT experience is still valued as being worthy of more than a living wage. (e.g. all of Europe, Brazil, most of Asia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand...)
As in, cost to much to pay older workers. Why? Because with corporations, greed matters I mean, the bottom line matters. Why should they pay people $60k a year when they can outsource it/hire cheaper foreigners in the states for $30k a year?
Corporate Greed, giving your job to someone else for cheaper.
Seriously. Any administration who promises to deal with unemployment, and yet allows this to happen, is just incredibly misguided.
We have enough problems with unskilled citizens unable to get jobs, let alone trucking in some guest workers to now make the skilled citizen IT workers unemployable.
That's socialism!
(Yes some asshole will say this and it won't happen even if it makes fucking sense and would 100% without a doubt save the US economy and it won't happen)
Is there any other business with such an age bias, beyond sports and teen pop idols. You don't see lawyers or accountants being treated like this, nor architects or mechanical engineers. There is no reason whatsoever for a youth culture in IT and programming, experience is more valuable than anything else in this business, moreso than most other businesses.
Is there any other business with such an age bias, beyond sports and teen pop idols. You don't see lawyers or accountants being treated like this, nor architects or mechanical engineers. There is no reason whatsoever for a youth culture in IT and programming, experience is more valuable than anything else in this business, moreso than most other businesses.
The problem is, if you're a lawyer or an architect, what you learned in school is fundamentally going to be the same as what you need to know 30 years later. People don't perceive IT that way. New languages, new paradigms, new hardware. There is a common thread, if you stick with it long enough. Like the way apps have bounced between central and distributed systems over and over through the years. But superficially, it looks like all that old tech is "obsolete". Much of it isn't. It just resurfaces in a new form.
New languages, new paradigms, new hardware.
OK, tell me what new languages are more than different syntax on the same old constructs? I see procedural, OO (class-based and/or prototypical, with and without multiple inheritance), set/array based (APL and descendants, SQL), logic (out of favor right now), functional, and macro. That's it. And those were explored thirty years ago. Everything else is library and syntax. BFD.
New paradigms? Well, you have web and virtual cloud. One's a boiled over client-server architecture, the other's been done since OS/360.
New hardware? Well, if you've seen one assembler, you've seen them all. Some hardware has additional SIMD functionality (video cards, high-end bespoke processors), and you can make a Beowulf cluster but, other than that, there's nothing that wasn't there (again) thirty years ago.
The real question is why computer science research has stagnated for the past thirty years, and why companies don't see that people who have been around for the past thirty years can pick up any of these things in about three days (having seen all of this crap for 30+ years).
In the end, the only answer is that it's all cost. And then people wonder why no one wants to go into software.
job based health care hurts having older people work for companies.
That and using temp workers calling them contract but not paying contract wages.
Thus avoiding paying for benefits and vacations.
It's like the trucking industry "driver shortage" an illusion promoted around a business model that uses up (abuses) young drivers.
So can I make money hiring underemployed older IT workers and marketing their labor for top dollar?
And R.X. Cringely has a nice piece that explains why it still happens:
Of course it is, but for corporations > a certain size, the risk * cost of punishment is insignificant compared to the benefits of ignoring corporate law. Back in the early 90s, a company was blocked from $2 Billion in contracts because of a bribery scandal, they still came out ahead. BP probably came out ahead after the oil spill, AIG, Bernie Madoff, horse meat scandal... Sorry, but we don't live in a world where the "fictional person" of a US corporation has a non-fictional conscience.
Too hard to enforce. You just give the cheaper worker a title that has a lower pay grade. Ie, you make "Software Engineer 1" do the same work as "Software Engineer 3". If for some bizarre reason this causes problems then you just say "oh, we're doing a title and pay re-evaluation next month, we're just a little behind is all". But don't even worry about that, the Labor Department isn't sending out inspectors, and the H1-B visa holder is in not going to rock the boat and risk being departed.
Of course not everybody older is actually better. Older folks that have refused to learn will be on par or worse than the younger people. But older folks that have kept up are invaluable. True, young programmers can generate a lot more lines of code for the same price, but once you take quality into account and things like design and architecture, most code by young programmers sucks badly. Not their fault, but quite a bit of experience is required for good coding. Unfortunately, incompetent management cannot understand that (and most management is incompetent with regard to IT). What would be needed is something that other engineering disciplines have mastered: Qualification levels, and required minimum qualification levels of personnel used to protect you from becoming liable for software failures. While this may sound old-school, there really seems to be no other way. If electricians were the mixed bag that "programmers" are, houses would burn down all the time and many people would die from electrocution.
If electricians were the mixed bag that "programmers" are, houses would burn down all the time and many people would die from electrocution.
If being an electrician were as difficult as being a programmer....
Anyone here on H-1B should be allowed to seek any job anywhere for the duration of their H-1B stay. They just need to negotiate with the new employer during the 3 year visa term to provide pro-rated compensation to the company that pre-paid to put the H-1B through. That eliminates the indentured servitude and opens the free market to the technical talent, as it should be.
Anyone here on H-1B should be allowed to seek any job anywhere for the duration of their H-1B stay. They just need to negotiate with the new employer during the 3 year visa term to provide pro-rated compensation to the company that pre-paid to put the H-1B through. That eliminates the indentured servitude and opens the free market to the technical talent, as it should be.
During one of the Clinton era H1B reforms, this was the proposed policy. I always assumed it was made into law, but when I emigrated to seek better IT employment, I stopped worrying about the fine print of US H1B law, companies rarely obeyed even easy-to-enforce clauses such as the prevailing wage requirement.
Age discrimination is illegal. You can read the law [eeoc.gov] yourself, where it specifically states:
It shall be unlawful for an employer-
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age;
(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's age; or
(3) to reduce the wage rate of any employee in order to comply with this chapter.
It's very clear language, and there's no legitimate reason that the companies who are doing this should not be in court right now about it.
Age discrimination is illegal. You can read the law [eeoc.gov] yourself
True. Now try to prove it in court. (a) where will you get the money or find a lawyer to take this on a contingency basis? (b) what do you rate your chances of success, absent a smoking gun memo from some C-level exec located (if they've kept the required email archives) after extensive discovery?
Firing your most skilled employees in a highly specialized and difficult field is beyond stupidity. This will end badly for them. Fortunately for the rest of us this means that there will be some talent freed up. So snatch them up while you can.
This headline will just serve as an excuse for people to post rants about how their talent is being overlooked because of the foreigners invading our shores while ignoring the fact that many people who try to work as programmers are just terrible (see: fizzbuzz).
Don't forget rants about how you're expecting to get competent talent for $17K/year.
Some large fraction of the slashdot crowd enjoys characterizing anti-illegal immigration types as 'racists.' Illegal immigration wiped out meat packing unions. It lowered the wage floor for tens of millions of workers.
Don't bitch about H-1B pressure if you have no patience for textile workers whinging about their 'jerbs.' Your degree doesn't mean shit; now you're just as fungible as Sally Mae and her meat cleaver, and you have less cause to complain; the H-1B guys are at least legal.
So don't be racist. Our borders and your job must be open to all... only racists say otherwise.
And the clueless MBAs strike again. Business school graduates forget that the basis of capitalism is capital, not short term profits. You build capital when you care about the company sticking around for a long time, when you intend people to buy your products because of the reputation of your brand, and when you genuinely care about making the world a better place one awesome toothbrush at a time.
MBAs on the other hand, only care about the company's survival until the next bonus time, believe that people will only buy something if they are tricked and brainwashed into it, and have no interest or knowledge of what the company actually produces.
And when you do not care about the products you make, why would you want talented employees to make them? If quality is irrelevant, all you need is a bunch of cheap warm bodies to make whatever garbage marketing can sell. It is amazing how fast you can ruin the economy when you only intend to stay on your job until the company dies, rather than until you retire from it.
KASTE: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages for computer programmers have stagnated. In fact, between 2001 and 2011, the mean hourly wage didn't even keep up with inflation. It's still less than $40.
Why would this be surprising? 2001 was the end of the tech bubble when salaries were ridiculously inflated. Why would one expect them to keep up with inflation?
Why not compare 1994 to 2011? That would been more appropriate (although I don't know what it would show!)
After the bubble burst, it was rare to give an employee a pay cut to reflect the new market realities because of concerns about employee retention and morale. Either you laid them off because you couldn't afford them anymore or you didn't give them raises. Of course, workers who were hired to back-fill attrition or for new projects tended to get lower salaries -- but not dramatically so in part because of the salary inequities that would have caused (only unions seem willing to categorically accept dramatically lower compensation for everyone starting after date X than for those starting on or before date X - odd "good old boy's club").
This is a little like saying that housing has not kept up with general inflation -- by comparing 2006 prices to 2013 prices instead of comparing 1990 prices to 2013 prices.
Ever had a conversation with these guys about how they do their jobs? They think in the short term and quantitatively, not quantitatively. They figure if they can get 2 subpar H-IBs at the same price as a 50 year-old, it evens out in the end.
Short story, I had a great conversation with one of these guys years back who was a manager of a chain restaurant. He was explaining to me the glorious logic of shorting ingredients to save money. How, by removing one pickle from a sandwich you could save millions a year. He was wildly enthusiastic about how powerful a management tool that shorting ingredients was. Now, as I listened to this my thoughts were on the long term effects of this policy and the promotion he was angling for.
So, Joe the manager cuts one pickle, saves the company $10 million a year and gets promoted up. Kelly takes his place and wants to move up too. So, she decides to make the buns 1 ounce smaller. She saves the company mad money and gets promoted up as well. And so on and so on until a premier chain restaurant starts looking more like McDonalds quality. But, none of those guys care because by the time the shit hits the fan they're probably cashed out!
... I wonder what other people of my age have been doing so wrong that they still need employment - they've had careers with salaries and conditions that noone is ever going to get in the future and ought to have been banking that while the going was good.
On the rare occasion I stray back into a "real" business to do a bit of consulting, I feel like I'm walking into a kindergarten: it's all competitive attention seeking and fingerpainting (sorry, Powerpoint).
I would feel desperately sorry for a younger generation if they thought they were going to have to be in that environment all their lives - but mainly because it would demonstrate a lack of ambition and foresight. You really ought to have some control over your own destiny by the time you reach your 50s. If you haven't, you've wasted the last 30-odd years.
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Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have a continuing challenge to improve their Quality of Life and therefore reach out to various sources to help them make the choice about their next step: more pills, different combination of pills, time interval changes, more rest, etc. For some, the next step may be a surgical therapy: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Traditionally, the two most common surgical sites are the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and the globus pallidus interna (GPi).
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October Financial Fitness Challenge--Tune In to Spending Triggers/ October 4th, 2010
Just when you think you have a handle on your spending, you can find yourself blindsided by a spending binge. And I'm not talking about the unexpected broken tooth or kaput water heater. Some situations trigger surprise spending. Once you think about these events in advance, you're far less likely to be caught off guard. I got thinking about this recently when a friend retired. This was a long-anticipated happy occasion. Charlie had worked in a physically demanding job for 34 years and was more than ready to slow down and enjoy the fruits of decades of labor.
Reward turns sourNot unlike other new retirees, Charlie planned to buy a tangible reward that he now would have time to enjoyfor him it was a sauna. What a treat! He'd put it into a corner of his large garage. In his working years, he'd turned for electrical needs to a handy co-worker. The price was right, but for the saunahis special indulgencehe wanted to make sure everything was done correctly. He called in a licensed electrician. Good call. But as it turns out, a costly one. The electrician discovered, first, that the electrical service needed an upgrade to handle the sauna. But he also found that years of previous amateur electrical work were not up to code, to the point of threatening safety. The solution? A compete overhaul of the electrical service.
Lots of events trigger surprise, or at least unaccounted for, payouts.Charlie is relieved to know that the work is being done properly, but this became a significant surprise expensetriggered by one soberly planned and budgeted expense. For years, people approaching retirement have counted on lower expenses once they stop working. You've likely seen suggestions that you'll be spending about 60% to 70% of your preretirement income once you hang up your work hat. It turns out that's not such a good guideline: Consumer Reports says "new retirees often find that their expenses rise at first, as they indulge pent-up fantasies such as travel and redecorating." The editors suggest planning to spend as much as 100% of your preretirement expenses once you retire. If you actually spend less, you'll have no worries.
"Watch out" expensesThere are lots of planned expenses that trigger surprise, or at least unaccounted for, payouts. For example, I seriously underestimated the true cost of buying a CD player about 20 years ago. I researched it for sound quality and price and chose a model I thought would be a good buy. It was; I still use it and enjoy it every time I do. It also was perhaps the single most expensive thing, after houses and cars, I ever bought. Plan A had been to keep using the old audio cassettes I'd had for many years. Plan B turned out to be spending a small fortune buying replacement CDs as well as new CDs, especially in the months right after I got the player.
If it fits in your budget and doesn't jeopardize other financial goals, you're good to go.Today's parallel might be a Kindle, Nook, or other e-reader. Once you decide to buy the device, the expense has just begun: You'll potentially be spending hundreds of dollars more as you feed the device with reading material. The same can be true for an iPod or MP3 playerthose downloads add up. And that may be fine. The point is just to look a bit down the road and anticipate how one expense might trigger others. If it fits in your budget and doesn't jeopardize other financial goals, you're good to go. As we said last month, all money is for spendingthe only question is when.
Financial Fitness ChallengeThe people at your credit union bring you this Web site and other tools, such as personal finance coaching, to help you make the most of your financial resources. The Financial Fitness Challenge continues to look at ways you can make better financial habits no matter what condition the economy is in. Each month we randomly select five winners to receive $50 Visa gift cards; we choose each month's winners only from that month's entries, so enter often. Remember to register for the Financial Fitness Challenge. ST
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Overland Storage and Tandberg Data could become a single company if the investment company with a stake in both companies has its way, a move solution providers said could be good for the channel.
Overland Storage, the San Diego-based developer of disk- and tape-based primary and secondary storage solutions, Tuesday officially confirmed reports that it has received a proposal from Cyrus Capital Partners, an investment firm that owns Tandberg Data, to combine the two companies. Cyprus Capital Partners reported a 19.99 percent stake in Overland Storage in February of this year.
Overland Storage said in a statement that it is evaluating the proposal.
[Related: Overland 'Snaps' Up Some NAS Business]
The statement comes after Overland Storage earlier this month said during its fiscal third-quarter 2013 financial report that it and Cyrus Capital Partners had been discussing a possible business combination between Overland Storage and Tandberg Data.
Overland Storage is no stranger to acquisitions. The company in 2008 acquired the Snap NAS line from Adaptec in a $3.6 million cash deal.
The company has since then continued to beef up the Snap NAS line with many of the features found in enterprise-class storage lines.
Eric Kelly, president and CEO of Overland Storage, said during his presentation for the quarterly financial report that the two companies have been in discussions. During the presentation, according to the transcript available from Seeking Alpha, Kelly said the transaction could create "a stable foundation for increased revenue and profitability, as well as accelerating our strategy of becoming a global leader in the end-to-end data management and data protection marketplace."
Under the Cyrus Capital Partners proposal, Overland Storage would acquire Tandberg Data on the basis of a "merger of equals," with shareholders from both companies owning 50 percent of the new company.
The resulting company would be a major provider of NAS, tape and RDX removable hard disk technology with a solid channel focus, Kelly said.
Pat Clarke, CEO of Tandberg Data, said an acquisition by Overland Storage would make sense.
"It would result in a stronger company and a stronger channel," he told CRN. "It would also help develop a complete product portfolio, especially for the SMB and SME [small and midsize enterprise] marketplace, and help cause our cash flow to grow.
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Did you make New Year's resolutions this year?
"Sustainability" is the theme for my resolutions this year. The Environmental Protection Agency defines sustainability this way:
"Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations."
If we don't get "sustainability" right, nothing else will matter. So what can one person do?
Spend time advocating for sustainability with elected representatives. The federal government must lead global initiatives to combat climate change, protect the food supply and develop alternative energy technologies. At the state level we need strict regulations on hydraulic fracturing, including outright bans in residential and environmentally sensitive areas. At the local level we need action on congestion, transportation and housing issues.
Drive less. Walk and bike more. Aside from the obvious reduction in greenhouse gases, walking and biking contribute to overall fitness and happiness.
Eat less animal products and buy food locally when possible. Factory farming methods, including the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, is bad for the environment. It is also bad for our health. Locally grown, organic food is delicious, better for the planet, and helps the local economy.
I am a hypocrite. I live in a big house, drive a gas-guzzling car and buy stuff I don't need. But this year I resolve to do a little better than last year.
Judy Amabile
We, the regulars who use the East Boulder Recreation Center several days a week know that during early months of the year the place is overwhelmed by fellow citizens who are seeking to live up to their New-Year resolutions.
Like on Jan. 1, when the center was open for six hours and nearly every machine was in use throughout the day and each swimming lane had bodies in it. It was also clear that many mothers were left home preparing the appropriate festive meal while fathers were told to take the children to the "gym."
We, the regulars, smile and make informal bets on how long before the resolutions will be forgotten and the center will be back to its "normal" load. Based on experience a good guess is mid-February although some of us remember that once the wave didn't fade until mid-March.
The scholars who study people and their resolutions have determined that 88 percent of folks who set New Year's resolutions fail them. This is an interesting number because the same scholars report that 52 percent of those who participated in the study were confident of their success at the beginning of the survey.
Now it would seem that 22 percent of the men achieved their goals but women did better than men when they made their resolutions known to friends.
I like what the ancient Babylonians promised their god Janus at the beginning of a new year. "I will return all borrowed objects and pay my debts."
Marc Raizman
I did not make one resolution on New Year's Day, and I haven't for decades. Though I know that a lot of people do. For example, on Jan. 2, the Louisville Recreation Center is a madhouse of strange faces. On Jan. 3, not so much so, and there is an exponential decline in strange faces subsequently. But on Jan. 2 every machine is occupied and every weight station is in use. The parking lot resembles nothing so much as the Boulder Whole Foods' lot. The big difference is that in Louisville parking spaces are so big that you can fit an entire car in one. So at the Louisville Rec, we regulars squeeze ourselves in and wait, and
in a week or so we see the same old faces.
Instead of making grand resolutions on one day of the year, I try to make spontaneous little improvements throughout the year. It is less onerous. For example: I finally got an electric toothbrush and food processor. I will cook more at home, eat less in restaurants, hopefully lose a bit of weight, and then more effectively perform basic dental hygiene.
This reminds me of a puzzling fact of life. The good habits are hard to get into and easy to get out of. The bad habits are easy to get into and hard to get out of. What if this were reversed? I guess the Whole Foods' lot would have no cars.
Steve Fisher
People in Boulder might be posting New Year's resolutions on their refrigerators such as fighting a higher dam at Gross Reservoir (thus encouraging Denver to improve conserving water), reducing pollution/traffic by not driving a car one day a week, having local growth and development pay its full cost, getting fit, reducing personal debt, making new friends, writing a member of Congress each day, starting a veggie garden or perhaps lobbying for cleaner, if any, oil and gas fracking. These all have merit.
There will be no new resolutions for me this year because I am still working on those of last year. Please don't think I have come to the conclusion that I have no need for improvement, nor that I have run out of steam for needed changes. Why would someone invent new promises or goals for 2013 when goals from last year are indeed "work in progress?" My plate seems pretty full and continuing work is needed on more fly-fishing, more biking, and more kale production.
I have observed friends who have made and followed through with resolutions that seem to be very fulfilling. They include volunteering at the Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFFA), Community Food Share, Habitat for Humanity, Mother House, and the Boulder Homeless Shelter. Others have done an overseas work trip in a third world location. Reducing waste, consuming less and helping others in need seem to bring happiness that is least expected.
Spense Havlick
Nothing prompts the urge to purge old habits like an extended season of partying with folks we should get along with better, feeling harried by gift giving and its financial strain, all topped off with tinsel mania and ubiquitous Christmas music. Holiday season in America is costly and overstimulating so naturally people rush for the door of Jan. 1 seeking a more focused chapter of life.
And hence our annual fetish for announcing New Year's resolutions.
But resolutions prompted by an yearly sell-by date come from the head and usually don't make for lasting change. A day of the year is too arbitrary, and the frenzied holiday exercise is entirely external to who we really are, so they cannot motivate us in any depth.
The only change that takes a real hold is that which comes from a change of heart, a sober awareness of why change is needed and what it should look like. We need to ask what strengths and weaknesses we bring to the goal. What new tools and support do I need to teach new habits? Are there people who will be an obstacle because they have a vested interest in my staying the same? Indeed, am I that obstacle who benefits by staying the same?
For change-seekers the best step is to go inward first, meditating on what's true, what's valuable, visualizing success and overcoming the hardships. Its takes a lot more than a New Year's buzz.
Anne B. Butterfield
(The Camera's editorial advisory board members are: Judy Amabile, Lou Barnes, Anne B. Butterfield, Ed Byrne, Dave Ensign, Clay Evans, Steve Fisher, Spense Havlick, Cinda Kochen, Marc Raizman, and Rusty Staff.)


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Pool matches will be played at the impressive Fédération Française de Rugby (FFR) headquarters in Marcoussis, before moving to Stade Jean Bouin - the home of Stade Francais - for the semi-finals and final.
With strong ticket sales for the knockout stages, demand is anticipated to be high for the pool stages with tickets from €5 to €7.
Click on the below links to buy tickets for Ireland's pool games at the Women's Rugby World Cup:
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Tickets for the knockout stages range from just €5 to €20 for the semi-finals and from €5 to €25 for the final day at Stade Jean Bouin.
The top 12 teams in the world will play three pool rounds on August 1, 5 and 9 with the semi-finals on August 13 and the final on August 17.
IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset said: "Women's Rugby is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup in Paris is set to cap another fantastic year for Women's rugby following a record-breaking second season of the IRB Women's Sevens Series.
"The 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup in England was a game changer that put Women's rugby on the global sporting map.
"I have no doubt that this year's event in France will raise the bar even higher with a strong broadcast platform and attractive ticketing programme providing the stage for what promises to be a highly competitive event."
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Swansea City star Michu has hailed the setup in south Wales, which he believes is ideal for players aiming to make an impact on the international scene.
Jonathan de Guzman has recently received a call-up to the Netherlands squad, while Ashley Williams has been installed as Wales captain, which the former Rayo Vallecano man believes is testament to the work done at the Liberty Stadium.
He told Swansea's official website: "When we see a lot of our players being called up for their national team that is a very good thing for Swansea.
"I think the club can be very proud of that, because I don't think it had many players in the national teams before this time.
"Already we have Ash and Michel [Vorm] who are always in their national teams, but this season you see De Guzman earning his place in the Dutch squad, and that is a compliment to both him and the club."
The 26-year-old has impressed many this season by scoring 19 goals in all competitions, however he was quick to admit that it will be difficult for him to break his way into Vicente del Bosque's Spain squad.
He added: "Of course, I would love to play for my country, but it's not so easy when your country is the best in the world.
"All I can do is just try my best and play as well as I can for Swansea, and then see what happens."


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|?CHS looking for former Clark County girls basketball players and coaches
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? Charlestown High School is looking to get in contact with some former Clark County female basketball players and coaches.
With this being the 33rd year for the oldest girl's tourney in the state with the same four teams they would like to recognize some of the past players and coaches.
Charlestown High School officials will be introducing these women and gentlemen on Monday, December 22 between the first and second game of the Charlestown Girls Holiday Tournament.
Please help them get in touch with these past players.
Past MVP's
1978- Rhonda Blanton, Silver Creek
1988- Kelly Adams, Charlestown
1998- January Darnall, Charlestown
Past All-Tourney Members
Janet Popp, Silver Creek
Lisa Goode, Clarksville
Chinky Holmes, Clarksville
Ann Renfroe, Providence
Lacey Leverett, Charlestown
Charity Somerville, Charlestown
Beth Conley, Clarksville
Kim Page, Clarksville
Teresa Page, Clarksville
Lindsay Morgan, Providence
Kaelin Hall, Charlestown
Crystal Judd, Clarksville
Lisa Kleinert, Silver Creek
Lindsey Tobey, Providence
Former Championship Coaches
Silver Creek- 65 Clarksville- 26
Matt Thomas
Charlestown- 59 Clarksville- 51
Rhonda Smith
Charlestown- 63 Silver Creek- 49
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Sophomore right-hander Evan Beal retired 14 consecutive batters at one point and combined with three Gamecock relievers for a one-hit shutout as sixth ranked South Carolina defeated Rider 2-0 on Friday night in game one of a three-game series at Carolina Stadium. The Gamecocks improve to 11-2 with Rider now 6-2 on the year.
In only his second career start, Beal was outstanding as he went six-plus innings and limited the Broncs to just one single in the second inning. Beal struck out a career-high six batters and walked just two to earn his first win of the year. He is 1-0 on the season. Senior left-hander Tyler Webb posted his fourth save after pitching 2.1 perfect innings of relief with four strikeouts. Rider starting pitcher Tyler Smith was effective on the mound as well as he went the distance allowing seven hits in eight innings of work. He struck out eight and walked just one. He is 2-1 on the year.
South Carolina broke ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the third inning with an unearned run off of Smith. George Iskenderian reached base with a one-out single up the middle. With two outs and Iskenderian on first base, Graham Saiko knocked a hard grounder that Rider third baseman Adam Wayman snagged. Wayman would throw low though over to first base with the ball getting past first baseman Justin Thomas. Iskenderian, who was running on a 3-2 count, kept hustling and scored all the way from first base after the throwing error to give the Gamecocks a one-run lead.
Carolina increased the lead to 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth. Three consecutive one-out hits led to the run as Saiko reached on an infield single, advanced to third on a perfectly executed hit and run with Chase Vergason and scored on Joey Pankake's RBI base hit through the left side.
Rider's best chance to score came in the seventh inning. Consecutive walks to Adam Wayman and Justin Thomas opened the seventh inning. With Forrest Koumas in relief of Beal, the Gamecocks would get two outs on a 5-4-3 double play off the bat of Justin Thomas. With two outs and runners on the corners, Webb relieved Vince Fiori and struck out Greg Fazio to keep Carolina ahead by a pair of runs.
South Carolina had seven hits in the contest. Saiko and Vergason each went 2-for-4. The shutout victory marked Carolina's third shutout in the last four games.
Game two of the series is scheduled for Saturday at 4 p.m.
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Indianapolis is in, Pittsburgh is out, and Colts interim Coach Bruce Arians has to be pinching himself.
Arians, fired as Pittsburgh's offensive coordinator after last season, has coached the Colts to a wildly improbable playoff berth one season after finishing 2-14. It might have been Arians' last game this season as interim coach, as leukemia-stricken Coach Chuck Pagano has been cleared to return.
"Mission accomplished. That's all I can say," Arians said. "Without getting emotional again, knowing that Chuck is going to be back Monday, the workweek shouldn't be as stressful."
As the Colts (10-5) were hanging on Sunday for a 20-13 victory at Kansas City, the Steelers were on their way to a 13-10 home loss to Cincinnati. The Bengals (9-6) grabbed the AFC's final playoff spot.


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2012 Women's soccer
Women's Soccer hosts overnight visit
January 14, 2013
The Bluffton University women's soccer team will be hosting an overnight visit for prospective soccer players on February 1, 2013. A multitude of exciting activities will kick off at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1. Below is a tentative itinerary for the evening. If you would like to schedule a visit or if you are interested in more information, please contact Assistant Coach Abby Skoda at email@example.com.
Friday, Feb. 1
5:30 PM - Meet at Marbeck Center for dinner
9 PM - Indoor soccer play
Overnight - Time with soccer players in residence halls
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9-10 AM - Breakfast


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(By Delegate C. Miller)
[Introduced January 11
, 2012; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §62-12-29, relating to probation and parole; and adding certain sanctions for violations of probation and parole.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §62-12-29, to read as follows:
§62-12-29. Swift and certain sanctions.
(a) Definitions.-- In this section, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:
(1) "Agency" means:
(A) The state agency responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation by the courts or serving a period of parole or post-release supervision from prison or jail; and
(B) Any regional, local or county governmental agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation by a court or serving a period of parole or post-release supervision from prison or jail, provided such agencies receive state funding.
(2) "Chief supervision officer" means the highest ranking field probation or parole administrator in each judicial circuit.
(3) "Court" means a court of record having original criminal jurisdiction.
(4) "Community supervision" means:
(A) The placement of a defendant under a continuum of programs and sanctions, with conditions imposed by a court for a specified period during which:
(i) Criminal proceedings are deferred without an adjudication of guilt;
(ii) A sentence of imprisonment or confinement, imprisonment and fine, or confinement and fine, is probated and the imposition of sentence is suspended in whole or in part; or
(B) The placement of an individual under a continuum of programs and sanctions after release from prison or jail, with conditions imposed by the releasing authority for a specified period.
(5) "Supervision officer" means a person appointed or employed by the agency to supervise individuals placed on community supervision.
(6) "Supervised individual" means an individual placed on probation by a court or serving a period of parole or post-release supervision from prison or jail.
(7) "Graduated sanction" means any of a wide range of nonprison offender accountability measures and programs, including, but not limited to, electronic supervision tools; drug and alcohol testing or monitoring; day or evening reporting centers; restitution centers; forfeiture of earned compliance credits; rehabilitative interventions such as substance abuse or mental health treatment; reporting requirements to supervision officers; community service or work crews; secure or unsecure residential treatment facilities or halfway houses; and short-term or intermittent incarceration.
(8) "Positive reinforcement" means any of a wide range of rewards and incentives, including, but not limited to, awarding certificates of achievement, reducing reporting requirements, deferring a monthly supervision fee payment, awarding earned compliance credits, removing supervision conditions such as home detention or curfew, or asking the offender to be a mentor to others.
(b) Policy on Community Supervision.-- It is the policy of this state that supervised individuals shall be subject to:
(1) Violation revocation proceedings and possible incarceration for failure to comply with the conditions of supervision when such failure constitutes a significant risk to prior victims of the supervised individual or the community at large, and cannot be appropriately managed in the community; or
(2) Sanctions other than revocation and incarceration as appropriate to the severity of the violation behavior, the risk of future criminal behavior by the offender, and the need for, and availability of, interventions which may assist the offender to remain compliant and crime-free in the community.
(c) System of Graduated Sanctions.--
(1) The agency shall, by January 1, 2012, adopt a single system of graduated sanctions for violations of conditions of community supervision. The system shall set forth a menu of presumptive sanctions for the most common types of supervision violations, including, but not limited to: Failure to report; failure to pay fines, fees, and victim restitution; failure to participate in a required program or service; failure to complete community service; violation of a protective or no contact order; and failure to refrain from the use of alcohol or controlled substances. The system of sanctions shall take into account factors such as the severity of the current violation, the supervised individual's previous criminal record, the number and severity of any previous supervision violations, the supervised individual's assessed risk level, and the extent to which graduated sanctions were imposed for previous violations. The system also shall define positive reinforcements that supervised individuals will receive for compliance with conditions of supervision.
(2) The agency shall establish by rules an administrative process to review and approve or reject, prior to imposition, graduated sanctions that deviate from those prescribed.
(3) The agency shall establish by rules an administrative process to review graduated sanctions contested by supervised individuals under subsection (e) of this section. The review shall be conducted by an impartial agency employee or representative who has been selected, appointed and trained to hear cases regarding graduated sanctions for violations of supervision conditions.
(d)Conditions of Community Supervision.-- For individuals placed on probation, the judge of the court having jurisdiction of the case shall determine the conditions of community supervision and may impose as a condition of community supervision that the agency supervising the individual may, in accordance with subsection (e) of this section, impose graduated sanctions adopted by the agency for violations of the conditions of community supervision.
(e) Authority to Impose Graduated Sanctions.--
(1) Notwithstanding any rule or law to the contrary, the agency may:
(A) Modify the conditions of community supervision for the limited purpose of imposing graduated sanctions; and
(B) Place a supervised individual who violates the conditions of community supervision in a state or local correctional or detention facility or residential center for a period of not more than five days consecutively, and not more than thirty days in any one calendar year.
(2) A supervision officer intending to modify the conditions of community supervision by imposing a graduated sanction shall issue to the supervised individual a notice of the intended sanction. The notice shall inform the supervised individual of the technical violation or violations alleged, the date or dates of the violation or violations, and the graduated sanction to be imposed.
(3) The imposition of a graduated sanction or sanctions by a community supervision officer must comport with the system of graduated sanctions adopted by the agency under subsection (d) of this section. Upon receipt of the notice, the supervised individual shall immediately accept or object to the sanction or sanctions proposed by the officer. The failure of the supervised individual to comply with a sanction shall constitute a violation of probation, parole or post-release supervision. If the supervised individual objects to the imposition of the sanction or sanctions, the individual is entitled to an administrative review to be conducted by the agency within five days of the issuance of the notice. If the agency affirms the recommendation contained in the notice, then the sanction or sanctions shall become effective immediately.
(4) If the graduated sanction involves confinement in a correctional or detention facility, confinement must be approved by the chief supervision officer, but the supervised individual may be taken into custody for up to four hours while such approval is obtained. If the supervised individual is employed, the supervision officer shall, to the extent feasible, impose this sanction on weekend days or other days and times when the supervised individual is not working.
(5) A sanction that confines a supervised individual in a correctional or detention facility for a period of more than five consecutive days, or extends the term of community supervision, may not be imposed as a graduated sanction, except pursuant to an order of the court or the releasing authority.
(6) A notice of a graduated sanction may not be issued for any violation of probation, parole or post-release supervision which could warrant an additional, separate felony charge. Notwithstanding this, a notice of a graduated sanction may be issued for a positive drug test.
(7) Upon successful completion of a graduated sanction or sanctions, a court may not revoke the term of community supervision or impose additional sanctions for the same violation.
(8) If a supervision officer modifies the conditions of community supervision by imposing a graduated sanction, the officer shall:
(A) Deliver a copy of the modified conditions to the supervised individual;
(B) File a copy of the modified conditions with the sentencing court or releasing authority; and
(C) Note the date of delivery of the copy in the supervised individual's file.
(f) Monitoring Graduated Sanctions.-- The chief supervision officer shall review confinement sanctions recommended by supervision officers on a quarterly basis to assess any disparities that may exist among officers, evaluate the effectiveness of the sanction as measured by the supervised individuals' subsequent conduct, and monitor the impact on the agency's number and type of revocations for violations of the conditions of supervision.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to add certain sanctions for violations of probation and parole.
§62-12-29 is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.


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The Mets 40-man roster is now full - it stood at 39 after the Mets designated Justin Hampson for assignment.
Schwinden was 0-1 with a 12.46 ERA in three games, two starts with the Mets earlier this season.
The Mets designated Schwinden for assignment on June 1, and he was claimed by the Blue Jays on June 2nd. Toronto DFA'd Schwinden on June 5 and the Indians claimed him off waivers on June 6.
After spending 23 days in the Indians organization, Cleveland DFA'd Schwinden and he was claimed by the Yankees on June 29.
The Yankees designated Schwinden for assignment yesterday.


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In celebration of the racing series' tenth anniversary in October, the crew from developer Polyphony Digital threw a party in New York City in which some Sony displays let players try out versions of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in 2160p resolution and at 240 frames per second.
The high-resolution display and the super-smooth display, which were separate demonstrations, each used four PlayStation 3 consoles in tandem to produce the on-screen image.
The 2160p screen used the systems to each draw one quarter of the screen at a normal HD 1080p resolution, and the images were combined on the fly using a high-end Sony digital cinema projector to show a high-quality image on a 220-inch screen.
As for the 240 frames per second demonstration, a Sony prototype screen using FED technology combined four PS3 systems each running 1080p at 60 frames per second. Consecutive frames were staggered across consoles, allowing the display to show 240 frames in one second, providing what was described as a very life-like display.
All the demonstrations went down at an event called Downshift Session 2008, which fans at NeoGAF cleverly noticed. Polyphony has not announced whether the technologies will be used in future editions of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue or the eventual final release of Gran Turismo 5.


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Bands of the 2010 Beard Ball
It has been said that behind every great song there is a strong beard (or perhaps that's what Max from Quiet Loudly stated in our interview that made us hug him). Recently, the staff at Build-A-Beard had the opportunity to sit down with three incredible bearded bands who have graciously donated their artistic time and effort to playing The 2010 Beard Ball for free - in hopes to raise awareness and funds for RightRides. As a reminder, you can purchase tickets ahead of time (which is highly recommended) as these bands rule & the event itself is surely going to sell out (our Facebook event RSVPs do not lie).
9:00 p.m. Transatlantic FM.
BAB: Transatlantic FM, when did your band start? Did everyone have a beard at this time? If not, what made you start growing one?
TFM's Matthew Sapp: This band started last March when I moved up to Brooklyn from Athens, GA. I had been friends with my band mate, Blake, for years and he and I had discussed starting another project together. After months of hard work, blood, sweat, tears, and PBR; we finally decided on a name. Then we learned how to play our instruments (more or less), tossed together a few songs and put a couple of them up on the Information Superhighway.
BAB: We like your beard, Matt.
Sapp: Confession - I am the only bearded band member. Blake couldn't grow facial hair to save his life but, in his heart, he has a beard that would put ZZ Top to shame. Our drummer, Mark, was letting his scruff grow, but emergency foot surgery has sideline him from the show. As such, our multi-talented friend, Sean Hutcheon, will be filling in on percussion (in addition to providing his services as a photographer) for the Beard Ball. I have a feeling that he will be sporting an impressive display of facial foliage by February 4th.
BAB: As the only proud beaded member, did your prepubescent band mate give you grief (prob out of jealousy) for growing one?
Sapp: I have worn a beard seasonally for the past couple of years and my band mates have always been very supportive of my bearded lifestyle choice. They have even marched with me in the National Facial Hair and Biscuit Enthusiast Day Parade in Kooskia, Idaho last Spring. You know, it really brings a tear to your eye when you see a vast expanse of bearded and non-bearded people marching down Myrtle Avenue, holding hands and chanting: "We're here. We're hairy. Get used to it!"
BAB: Will you ever shave?
Sapp: Of course - but probably not my face.
BAB: Favorite bearded musician and/or hero?
Sam Elliott in Roadhouse. Hands down. No contest.
10:00 p.m. Quiet Loudly (Sal Garro- drums, back-up vocals and Max Goransson- guitar, vocals)
BAB: Was it a band-decision to all sport beards? Did anyone resist the idea initially?
Sal: Our beards were definitely not the result of any conscious decision within the band-- It just kind of happened. I think our faces just feel naked without them.
Max: It wasn't a band decision so much as something we just knew we had to do without ever even talking about it. Really, it was as obvious as picking up our instruments at band practice. You come to play with a beard or you just don't come at all. I mean, it's one of the elements that magically intertwines us.
BAB: What does your band's beard say about you?
Sal: They say: 'We have beards.'
Max: They say: "We're here to work, Goddamn it. And to get down."
BAB: Favorite bearded musician and/or hero?
Sal:Most recently, Jason Finn from The Presidents of the United States of America grew out his beard and it is by far one of the most immaculate I've ever witnessed in person. But in terms of all time beard hero, even though John is by far my favorite Beatle, Paul McCartney's monstrous beard from the rooftop show is downright inspirational.
Max:Gotta go for the "All Things Must Pass" era George Harrison. To this day, it is still unclear whether the album inspired the beard or vice versa. But what we've learned is that there are no coincidences. Just beards and tunes. Behind every great song there is a strong beard (except for in the case of talented women, of course).
-- BAB: Good answer, Max... good fucking answer.
11:00 p.m. Julius C
BAB: Your beards are pretty amazing. Did everyone have a beard when you started? If not, what made you start growing one?
Jason from JC: I might be mistaken but... I believe, at first we were just a bunch of dudes who really liked facial hair. We would get together and discuss grooming techniques... the music was an afterthought. On a serious note, only Mike and John had facial hair when the band started, and without any discussion, it just ended up that we all had beards sometime last year.
JC: The beard? It is a life decision, not a band decision! Yes, there were a few who resisted... but they are... how shall we put this... no longer with us.
BAB: What does your band's beard say about you?
JC: I'm pretty sure our facial hair styling mean something specific to each us.
Jay's says: "Oh, hey there, don't mind me."
Jason's says: "I play jazz."
John's says: "Fee Fi Fo Fum."
Mike's says: "I would look way younger without this."
BAB: How do you feel about shaving? It doesn't look like you guys have touched a razor in years.
JC: Mike shaved once - for money. He cried a little on the inside. Jay goes back and forth with the beard, but we know that the beard makes his face look better... (Don't tell him we said it though).
BAB: Do you have a bearded hero? Musicians of interest?
JC: Jimi Hendrix/John Lennon... no explanation needed.


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What I am saying is that IMO Woody is OK with Rex getting another season to try turn the team around. But if he sticks with Sanchez for much longer, Woody will decide that Rex Ryan's stubornness has become a detriment to the team, and therefore he needs to go.
I am also saying that by changing the QB a lot of those problems you mention will go away. Truly good QB's elevate the play of the surrounding players on the football field. That's what good QB's do.
Sanchez is NOT a good QB as evidenced by 4 pathetic seasons in the league. Sanchez does not elevate the play of the other players, never has. They follow him right down the toilet.
Are there any good QB's for us to go with? Doubtful. We know Tim Tebow is not the answer. However, the wildcard is Greg McElroy. No one truly knows what he is capable of. At the very least I can see some positive coming out of it. 1) We get to see if McElroy is starting material or if he a competent backup QB. 2) He is NOT Sanchez. I think the mere change of the QB would get the players working harder. The players are not blind, they know Sanchez is killing the team also.


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Bernie Leadon will rejoin the Eagles for their upcoming tour. Singer Don Henley revealed that a former member was coming back to the group in a February radio interview. But he said it would not be Don Felder.
Now, Joe Walsh has told Billboard that it will be Bernie Leadon. "Bernie's brilliant," Walsh said. "I never really got a chance to play with him, but we've been in contact. We see him from time to time, and I'm really glad he's coming because it's going to take the show up a notch, and I'm really looking forward to playing with him, finally."
Leadon was a member of Dillard and Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers before becoming a founding member of the Eagles. He was with the group only until 1975 when he reportedly became disillusioned with the AOR direction the band was taking, away from their country-rock roots.
Even so, the Eagles' Greatest Hits (1971-1975), one of the biggest selling albums of all-time, covers the years that Leadon was guitarist with the band.


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DWIGHT, Ill. — Kathryn Darlene Janssen, 81, Dwight, Ill., passed away early Monday morning, Jan. 21, 2013, at Heritage Manor.
Born March 23, 1931, in Crescent City, Ill., Kathryn was the daughter of William and Loretta Zehr. She married George H. Janssen Sept. 24, 1950, in her hometown.
Kathryn was retired from the William W. Fox Developmental Center.
She very much enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren.
Survivors include two sons, Steven (Marcia) Janssen of Dwight, Ill., and Larry Janssen of Cullom, Ill.; grandchildren, Jason (Shannon) Janssen, Michael Janssen, Kathi (Adam) Wieties and Kylie Janssen; and great-grandchildren, Nicholas and Nathanial Janssen, and Madison, Kaleb and Lucus Wieties.
She was preceded in death by her parents and sisters, Mary Helen Zehr, Alma McCarter, Lois Probasco, Jean Adams and Wilma Manahon.
Cremation rites have been accorded.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, with a one hour visitation preceding at the Dwight United Methodist Church. Rev. Lance Leeds will officiate.
Inurnment will follow at Round Grove Cemetery.
Hager Memorial Home, 201 W. Mazon Ave., Dwight, Ill., 60420, is in charge of arrangements. For more information, call (815) 584-2666.
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DWIGHT, Ill. — Kathryn Darlene Janssen, 81, Dwight, Ill., passed away early Monday morning, Jan. 21, 2013, at Heritage Manor.


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You might want to try the 1.3.6 version (latest stable), or, if you're adventuresome, the 1.4.0 in CVS. LyX is NOT designed for short documents, such as very quick notes or things of that nature. But it's phenomenal for long documents (several page letters, technical notes, books, theses, and, with the beamer class, even presentations which knock the crap -- admittedly not a difficult task -- out of PowerPoint).
I can vouch for the power of Lyx.
I love LyX. And I did a majority of my college papers in straight LaTeX because of its beautiful output and because I just wanted to learn it (using octave + gnuplot to make "pslatex" graphs using the beautiful LaTeX font was a colassal pain but very pretty).
But if LaTeX does something wrong... its a pain to fix. And debugging a document is absolutely no fun. So, LyX is very nice... don't usually need to debug (unless you messed up an imported pslatex file), but has the same limitations of LaTeX where
LaTeX is more than capable of the vast majority of document typesetting needs
That's an understatement — TeX is Turing-complete.
That's an understatement -- TeX is Turing-complete.
That's a non-statement - Postscript is also Turing-complete (for example), but neither does Turing-completeness matter when all you want to do is create good-looking text documents, nor does Turing-completeness actually say anything about the usability of a language. (Sure, there are people who write web servers in Postscript, for example, but that's just the exception that proves the rule)
Of course, that being said, I *do* agree that TeX/LateX are cl
The principal reasons LaTeX hasn't taken over the world are that it is almost unlearnable, and that the instant feedback of WYSIWYG is lost. I've been using LaTeX for almost 15 years, and still feel like there's a lot I don't know and can't do.
That said, the idea that one wouldn't write letters or a CV with it is just silly. My CV and resume are in LaTeX, and it is what I write letters with. It's way easier to get a document that doesn't look like a ransom note, and to get consistent formatting with different content, with LaTeX than with a WYSIWYG word processor. Trust me: when I evaluate the horribly-formatted
In short, the vast majority of word processor use is for manipulating, organizing, and retrieving text-based data in a format rapidly parsable by human eyes as part of a workflow or thought process.
For such things, LaTeX, troff, or any other text formatter... sucks. In fact, it isn't even appropriate for the task.
Neither is Word. The appropriate program for such things is WordPad (in Windows world) or gedit (in Gnome world). Word is too complex, and its many features get in the way and become distracti
I'm not saying this is true. I doubt even Microsoft thinks it's true. However, as long as the masses are convinced of it, Microsoft will use/abuse this for marketing and PR. Every time someone uses Linux or OOo, Microsoft will paint them as fanatics and crazy people, out to get Microsoft.
If they have a monopoly, or a near-monopoly with no real competition, then they can do what they want. As soon as there's a real competitor, they need to actually compete. There's generally less money when you have to actually compete.
I understand your worries, but fortunately I am able to put your mind to rest: KOffice is in fact not related to StarOffice or OpenOffice. It is a completely separate product, and a very fine one at that. One of our team members, David Faure, was an active party in the creation of the OASIS OpenDocument standard, and KOffice was the first office suite that publicly announced support for it.
KOffice, or anybody else for that matter would probably have better served their cause by not responding at all to this.
KOffice team quite simply pointed out a false statements made by a Microsoft executive about their applications, and in the process they grab some good PR as well. I think they payed better attention to the PR course than you did
I think they are just waiting for both QT4 & KDE 4 before doing a complete port. Ports using Cygwin and Colinux are being worked on in the meantime.
I'm still amazed that Microsoft is acting like this is a sudden event. The tide in Massachusetts has been turning this way for a long time. Didn't they wonder about Massachusetts being the only state that didn't cave in and settle in the MS monopoly case? Didn't they wonder about the ramifications of the Massachusetts "Open Source Software Trough" when it was first instituted some years ago? Didn't they see the writing on the wall in local Massachusetts community sites like Saugus.net [saugus.net] that have been promoting free software [saugus.net] and open standards since the '90s? Haven't they noticed that recent Massachusetts-based projects (like the local Teaching American History Grant participation [saugus.ma.us] have been embracing open standards?
Wake up Microsoft. This shouldn't be a surprise. What's more, other states have been following Massachusetts' example regarding the open source trough, so I expect that they may also take a good hard look at what's happening here now.
Does anybody know wether there are plans by Apple?
I don't know what Apple's plans might be, but it's certainly an idea I'd support.
I wonder, however, how difficult it would be to create a stand-alone transformation package. Pages uses XML. OpenDocument uses XML. There are XML Transformation tools out there. Someone only need describe the transform, and you should be all set.
I really don't understand Microsoft's attitude on this one. Their reasoning for not implementing OpenDocument in Office just isn't sound. Sure, there may be areas where Microsof
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Microsoft itself will be forced to submit documents to the EU in ISO-approved OpenDocument. Hilariously, Microsoft will have to use OpenOffice.org to do so.
Or they can use another product with a similar codebase, such as KOffice
And no, I didn't read the article.
Beware, the evil web PDF! Here is the full text of Alan Yates' letter, in good ol' HTML. And yes, it is a very long letter.
September 8, 2005
Secretary Eric Kriss
Executive Office for Administration & Finance
State House, Room 373
Boston MA 02133
Mr. Peter Quinn
Chief Information Officer/Director
Information Technology Division
200 Arlington Street
Chelsea, MA 02150
Re: Proposed Revisions to Information Domain-Enterprise Technical Reference Model
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972


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All the fuss at the G7 and the G20 about whether Japan should be condemned for attempting to end decades of stagnation by easing monetary policy, with the effect of driving down the yen, makes for good copy, especially as the various G7 spokesmen put on a Keystone Kops performance after the meeting.
One said the agreement to let markets set exchange rates was aimed at Japan, its new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, having talked its currency down by 20% against the dollar since September. Then another spokesman said it wasn't aimed at any particular country.
No matter: those hurling the first brickbat had to be careful. Both Britain and America have presided over policies that have driven down the value of their currencies. In the UK's case, this has sterling sitting at a 15-month low against the euro.
Regardless of what a G-something communiqué says, Japan has no intention of preventing a further fall in the yen; Britain is delighted sterling has fallen against the euro; Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke will continue printing money that has the unintended (?) effect of keeping the dollar lower than it would otherwise be; and the bleats of François Hollande about an overvalued euro are falling on deaf ears in Berlin. When it comes to policies that affect the exchange rate, politicians will do whatever they believe will increase their nation's growth rate and lower its unemployment rate.
The more important question concerns whether the world is always better served by international economic co-operation of the sort that is supposed to result from G-meetings and other such gatherings, or by competition among nations for economic advantage. The unfortunately complicated answer is that it all depends.
Consider the financial sector. Since Lehman Brothers imploded, we know the effects of failure here are tsunamis rather than ripples. When it comes to banks we are indeed all in this together. Inadequately capitalised banks in one country are a threat to the stability of the entire international banking system, because their IOUs prove worthless or because a bank failure shakes investor and depositor confidence in others.
Then there is an interconnectedness that becomes visible only in a crisis—some dicey mortgage loans by American banks can create real problems for banks around the world that buy mortgage- backed securities. Not quite the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Brazil that might change the weather in Texas, but close. So here is an area in which co-operation of regulators, banks, and other institutions—co-operation that does not extend to cartel behaviour, however—serves a useful purpose.
So too with some, but not all, environmental problems. Without co-operation from other nations, it avails a country nought to reduce its carbon emissions, unless satisfying some ideological green politician is considered a public good. International co-operation is required lest cuts in emissions by, say, Britain and the United States are more than offset by the construction of new coal plants in China, India and, lately, Germany. All in all, 1,000 new coal-fired power stations are being planned worldwide, unless Beijing's recent sooty cloud has caused a rethink by the regime.
Taxes are a different matter. When it comes to fraud, cross-border co-operation of law enforcement authorities is useful. But in setting tax rates, competition among nations serves the public better than would a tax-setting cartel. Were it not for the threat of an exodus of transactions from the EU, the so-called Tobin tax on all trades would already be in place. And were it not for its low corporate tax rates, Ireland would not be on the cusp of a recovery. Moans from Paris, London and Berlin: Dublin is saying to international companies, come here and keep more of your earnings for your shareholders rather than turning them over to some government. The solution for countries that have chosen a high-spending, high-tax model is to lower taxes, but they prefer to try to force more competitive jurisdictions to join their high-tax cartel.
Then there are cases that require a mixture of co-operation and competition, among them competition policy itself. It is important for enforcement authorities to keep each other informed of studies of various markets, to share data when they can, and generally to co-operate in developing an understanding of how complex markets work. But it is equally important for them to compete with each other in developing ideas as to what constitutes market dominance and anticompetitive behaviour. Thus, when antitrust enforcement lacked vigour during the reign of the elder George Bush, the European Commission continued its pursuit of anticompetitive acts, to the consternation of many American politicians. Competition among competition enforcers proved to be a good thing for the consumer.
So, too, in trade. Co-operation is required to set the rules, but competition is required if consumers are to benefit from the efficiencies that flow from having the nation with the best, most competitively priced products win the game. Thus, it might be a good idea for nations to co-operate in setting health standards to govern trade in foodstuffs, or safety standards for cars. But it would be a bad idea for them to co-operate in determining which country will be allowed to sell which food and which car products, and at what prices.
Which brings us back to currency wars. Nations try to lower their exchange rate when they think that by devaluing their currency they make their goods cheaper in foreign markets. That, they reason, will encourage exports and spur economic and job growth. And they are right—until their trading partners retaliate, or the cheaper currency drives up the cost of imports, hitting consumers in their pockets. As one British merchant told me last week, if the cheap pound means he can sell more to foreigners, he won't complain about paying more for imported cheese and wine. The teacher who has nothing to sell, but likes a bit of imported cheese and wine, might see devaluation a bit differently.


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