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Streetline, a startup based in Foster City, California, uses mobile sensors, web applications, and analytics to collect, transmit, and analyze data from parking meters and parking spaces. The company is transforming parking operations into digital ecosystems to the benefit of the cities, the drivers, parking lot operators, and local merchants.
At FedEx, an evolving digital operating model allows customers to stay in continuous contact with their packages and to initiate changes to their shipments and other orders previously viewed as strictly internal operations. The operating model also supports the efforts of business partners to create new services using FedEx information.
And AT&T is transforming its network into a permeable digital platform with software interfaces that third-party developers can use to tap into network capabilities to create applications and services that add value for customers, the third parties themselves, and AT&T.
All three examples (detailed later) illustrate how leading companies are capitalizing on digital ecosystems that are expanding due to the confluence of social networks, mobile computing, analytics, and cloud computing (SMAC).1 SMAC challenges enterprises to take advantage of the positive disruptions it portends, while they operate at the rapid pace of innovation and change that SMAC demands.
When talking to colleagues in the IT organization or to technology providers about ways to participate in the digital ecosystem, you'll hear the term API. It is the acronym for application programming interface, a technology term that means the specifications for how software programs are able to exchange information with each other even if designed and run by different organizations.
APIs are everywhere. The Google Maps API, for instance, is an interface used by developers to add content on a map of any region. Businesses can also embed the maps in their applications or services.
There are several types of APIs, but the one worth noting to a business audience today is a RESTful API, which stands for representational state transfer API. Although not appropriate in all use cases, RESTful APIs have changed the economics of performing software integrations by sharply reducing the associated cost and complexity. This change creates the potential to rethink IT architectures for scaling integrations and pursuing strategies that take advantage of them.
Today, web companies and social networking providers are heavy providers and users of RESTful APIs, which is how they quickly connect to so many data sources and services and let others rely on the data and services they provide. Google, Facebook, and Twitter are examples of companies that quickly became providers beyond their own services through the use of RESTful APIs.
By using and offering APIs, you do not forgo the ability to control or manage users of them. An API may be exposed internally or externally, and designed so only those with valid credentials can transact through them.
SMAC and other emerging technologies create the possibility for new ways to develop products, interact with customers, partner with others, compete, and succeed. More than a strategy for any individual technology trend or for combining more than one of them, companies need a systematic approach to engage with these technologies. Companies that have the most success engaging with SMAC are, in PwC's view, rethinking their business and enterprise architectures and emphasizing three fundamental changes.
First, they acknowledge the SMAC trends are the strongest signal yet that business ecosystems are becoming more digitized, where information content accounts for a rising proportion of the entire value of any product or service. Second, they understand that successfully tapping the new drivers of value requires a digital operating model, a model attuned to participating in or integrating with expanding digital ecosystems. And third, successful companies are adjusting their business and enterprise architectures to become what PwC calls the permeable enterprise.
Permeable means the use of open software interfaces on modular capabilities to allow easy digital connections with other capabilities, the way web-based companies do. (See Figure 1.) Specifically, leading companies use application programming interfaces (APIs)—especially RESTful, or representational state transfer, APIs (see the sidebar, "What is an API?" on this page)—as interface-oriented abstractions of enterprise capabilities. In doing so, they rethink their assets as platforms for co-creation, maintain persistent digital relationships with customers and partners, and reorganize for speed.
Figure 1
A permeable enterprise exposes modular capabilities with open software interfaces to enable interactions (internally and externally) in digital ecosystems
Permeability and successful engagement with SMAC improves overall performance. PwC's fourth annual survey of enterprises' digital IQ—the way companies use digital technology and channels to meet customer needs as well as the needs of employees and business partners—finds that top-performing2 US organizations show greater mastery in how they leverage the digital technologies of SMAC to plan, innovate, measure results, interact with customers, and ultimately create value.3
This issue of the Technology Forecast describes ways that enterprises can engage with SMAC trends by using RESTful APIs to become a permeable enterprise and participate in digital ecosystems. The issue details the rise of RESTful API management technology from new vendors (see the article, "Consumerization of APIs," on page 34) and examines how the CIO should think about permeability as it impacts the IT organization (see the article, "Embracing open IT," on page 54).
The notion of the digital company has been around for years. Gains in operational efficiency can be credited to a more expansive use of IT to make the business run faster and more effectively. That's a powerful benefit of IT. However, few companies outside the pure web space have become truly digital companies in which information and the ability to act on it creates significant economic and competitive value.
The examples of Streetline, FedEx, and AT&T suggest what a company can do when it starts to realize that information itself is a product or service. Some, including Rob Carter, CIO of FedEx, use bits and atoms as an analogy to highlight the growing value of information (bits) to complement the value of the physical product or human-delivered analog service (atoms).4 The confluence of SMAC trends is driving this shift in business value. PwC anticipates that information associated with products and services will increasingly account for a rising share in the customer's experience of value delivered, as illustrated in Figure 2.
Figure 2
The confluence of SMAC trends creates a shift in value drivers, as the value from bits (information content) grows faster than the value from atoms (the physical product or human-delivered service)
Parking spaces and parking meters have always been part of the atoms world. One space was available to one car, and a meter was a simple device with a coin slot, a timer, and sometimes a credit card capability. The user and the owner dealt with the meter in a one-to-one relationship and had to be physically present to use or manage it.
Now, Streetline5 digitally manages parking spaces and meters in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and several other cities. It embeds sensors in parking spaces on the street and in municipal and privately owned garages to collect information about availability and wirelessly transmit the data via a mesh network to Streetline's servers. "We use this information to create a smart parking ecosystem," says Mark Noworolski, CTO of Streetline.
Figure 3
The Parker app from Streetline helps customers navigate to open parking spots.
The bits bring new value to a formerly atoms-only parking ecosystem. Drivers can use Parker, a mobile application available from app stores, to identify and navigate to an open spot, get alerts on meter expiration, or reserve spaces. (See Figure 3.) Parking enforcement officers no longer need to patrol for violations; they can go directly to the spot of an expired meter. Cities can implement demand-responsive pricing6 and establish federated payment systems across jurisdictions.
Because the information is no longer trapped in the meter, local businesses can become value-added partners by paying to give their customers priority access to nearby meters or by subscribing to the meter data for inclusion in navigation services. The app also reduces traffic and pollution as fewer drivers need to circle for parking. All this new value emanates from the world of bits made possible by digitally transforming the parking ecosystem and liberating analog information from the atoms world.
Today, many everyday products and services, such as shoes, wristbands, golf clubs, appliances, and cars, include sensors to collect and transmit information that can enhance the user experience in a digital ecosystem. For example, Nike augments select running shoes with an embedded sensor—called the Nike+ system7—that allows athletes to track running habits, assess progress against personal goals, collaborate with other runners, and improve performance, thereby enhancing the running experience. A wristband from Basis8 has multiple sensors to track heart rate, physical activity, sleep patterns, and galvanic skin response (through perspiration) for personalized tracking and feedback on physical conditioning.
Figure 4
The emerging domains of value are driven more by bits (information content) than atoms (physical product)
Where should a company look to create value from information? Figure 4 shows a high-level taxonomy of potential sources of value spanning atoms and bits. A general way to think about information value-add is that it directly engages the customer's experience of the product or service by surfacing data about that experience. Once data has been collected, it can be used for multiple purposes by the customer, the vendor, or other interested parties.
There are many reasons why emerging domains of value are based more on bits than on atoms. Some reasons include the following:
Bits are increasing—With a phenomenon such as the Internet of Things,9 products become smarter through embedded sensors, which produce digital representations of the analog activities. Sensors convert any type of analog signal, such as temperature, pressure, or acceleration, into electrical signals that digitize that information. These sensors are increasingly ubiquitous, and their usage grows as they continue to become cheaper and smaller. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, sensors and actuators are the smallest semiconductor market segment but showed the highest year-to-year growth of any segment, at 15.5 percent to $8 billion in 2011.10 Today, sensors are in a wide range of devices and environments, including wristbands, toothbrushes, appliances, cars, homes, and parking meters. This increasing instrumentation, connectivity, and digitization deliver more and more bits into the value system.11
Bits are fungible and limitless—They can be repurposed, reused, duplicated, or deployed in any number of use cases without being "used up." This flexibility multiplies the options created by bits for ongoing innovation and value extraction. The value of the bits increases the more that multiple parties exploit them, as demonstrated by Streetline.
Bits can be linked—As RESTful API technologies gain wider adoption, an information network made of information nodes likely will develop internally and externally to an enterprise, much like the network of devices on the Internet. (See Figure 5.) ProgrammableWeb, which tracks externally published APIs, already reports more than 6,000 APIs, and the number is quickly increasing. (See Figure 6.) Such growth manifests the advantage of Metcalfe's Law,12 which recognizes that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the entities in the network.
Figure 5
The ability to link information nodes (bits) in an information network means value rises quickly as the number of nodes increases (Metcalfe's Law)
Figure 6
Use of APIs to interact in digital ecosystems has been growing and has accelerated in the past few years)
Bits persist over time—Whereas a consumer eventually replaces a car or shoes, the information accumulated around that product will persist beyond the life of the atoms. As new hardware endpoints arrive, bits can be adapted to new values and new endpoints. The value accumulates over time.
Table 1
The interdependent and complementary roles of SMAC in doing work
While each SMAC technology has its own unique impact, the technologies are complementary in support of work getting done. The cloud increasingly contains more of the information and applications that people use. Mobile devices give people access to the cloud, to other data sources, and to each other. Analytics help them make actionable sense of all that data. Social media helps people find colleagues with whom to collaborate and co-create. The collective impact of SMAC on the enterprise operating model is so broad that it helps to think about the SMAC technologies as an integrated whole from a strategic viewpoint. (See Table 1.)
But as a collective whole they also represent an unusual, perhaps unprecedented challenge: how to embrace the comprehensive challenge they create at a technological level without being overwhelmed. Leading companies are overcoming this challenge by adopting what PwC calls a digital operating model. This model is inspired by the open linking tradition evident in the web marketplace that is accelerating, driven by SMAC trends. To be successful, web companies had to solve a fundamental problem: linking to and being linked by other web properties at scale. The solution was open, self-describing APIs communicating over standard HTTP13 protocols—in short, RESTful APIs.
Despite decades of technology investments, most companies do not have a digital operating model today. Many feel overwhelmed by the demands from SMAC trends. The problem for most companies is that they cannot scale their existing integration architecture and methods to the demands created by a digital ecosystem. (See the sidebar, "Scalable integration strategy," on page 14.)
So far, companies that have acted on the digital ecosystem in a big way tend to be web-native enterprises, such as Facebook, Google, and several other companies offering mobile or social apps. Web-native companies extend their capabilities and their reach almost as a matter of course by exposing their capabilities via APIs to others. In many ways, the web is the genesis of the SMAC trends. The web marketplace has become known for constant, unpredictable change, robust innovation, agility, modular capabilities, and co-creation of value. The web is inherently digital and organized around an architecture that facilitates these dynamics. With RESTful APIs, all companies have the opportunity to bring these capabilities to their operations. And this is the inspiration for a digital operating model, which should have the following key characteristics:
When talking to colleagues in the IT organization or to technology providers about ways to participate in the digital ecosystem, you'll hear the term API. It is the acronym for application programming interface, a technology term that means the specifications for how software programs are able to exchange information with each other even if designed and run by different organizations.
APIs are everywhere. The Google Maps API, for instance, is an interface used by developers to add content on a map of any region. Businesses can also embed the maps in their applications or services.
There are several types of APIs, but the one worth noting to a business audience today is a RESTful API, which stands for representational state transfer API. Although not appropriate in all use cases, RESTful APIs have changed the economics of performing software integrations by sharply reducing the associated cost and complexity. This change creates the potential to rethink IT architectures for scaling integrations and pursuing strategies that take advantage of them.
Today, web companies and social networking providers are heavy providers and users of RESTful APIs, which is how they quickly connect to so many data sources and services and let others rely on the data and services they provide. Google, Facebook, and Twitter are examples of companies that quickly became providers beyond their own services through the use of RESTful APIs.
By using and offering APIs, you do not forgo the ability to control or manage users of them. An API may be exposed internally or externally, and designed so only those with valid credentials can transact through them.
Having adopted IT solutions to drive automation and efficiencies for decades, many companies will argue that they are already digital. Their back-office processes, in particular, are likely to be highly digital, and they pay increasing attention to digitizing information about customers and suppliers. However, at most companies the digital footprint is uneven.
Extending digitization depends on making connections digital, which in turn depends on integrating tasks, activities, and processes. Therefore, the central issue that keeps IT from meeting the demands of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) or having a digital operating model is the long lead time and high cost of integrating one piece of software with another. IT investments of the past did not anticipate the need for scaling integrations.
For this reason, lessons from web companies are relevant. With business motivations to integrate with as many other web companies as possible—and with limited resources—web companies have naturally moved to a low-maintenance, self-describing, open communication style of integration facilitated by RESTful APIs, which are a scalable way to integrate.
Using a loose taxonomy of back-office, front-office, and middle-office systems and applications, Figure A depicts how, as integration scales, digitization can spread in an enterprise. Historically, the integration technologies were entirely point to point, as shown in Figure A1. These integration points grew organically without concerns or considerations for reuse, consistent architecture, or agility. They also required external documentation, demanded a deep understanding of data types and logic on both sides of the connection, and moved data in binary form unreadable to programmers. As the integrations proliferated to number in the hundreds, a new approach became necessary.
This need led to the emergence of an approach to internal integration that adopts architectural principles, usually referred to as a service-oriented architecture (SOA). (See Figure A2.) Adoption of SOA can address many of the issues surfaced in Figure A1 by conforming to its principles of loose coupling, abstraction of services, modularity, and reusability. While this approach has greatly reduced the unintended complexity of the early days of integration, scaling for and coordinating with a digitizing business ecosystem remains burdensome as SOA has largely remained internally focused.
RESTful APIs, an architectural and programming model that sharply reduces the cost and complexity of integrations, deliver a scalable approach for both internal and external use. (See Figure A3.) Many companies will start by exposing data and services using RESTful APIs to their external digital ecosystem of partners and customers. But a RESTful API approach for internal integration creates many of the same benefits of highly scalable linking and coordinating of business processes at very low cost.
Figure A
Despite decades of IT investments, most companies do not have a digital operating model because they could not scale integrations easily, an opportunity possible today with RESTful APIs.
There are other characteristics, and Table 2 contrasts the prevalent traditional operating model to a digital operating model. Companies embracing a digital operating model organize themselves around atoms plus bits as the source of new value.
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Key characteristics of the digital operating model contrasted with the way many companies typically operate
FedEx has organized around information from its inception. "In the late 1970s, our founder and CEO Fred Smith said, 'The information about the package is just as important as the package itself,'" says David Zanca, senior vice president of IT, customer access, and revenue systems at FedEx Services. "It's a vision that has given our company a culture that values information, and that uses it in all we do."
FedEx's journey to a digital operating model is decades old. "Information about the package helps us run our business better. That comes from a digital operating model where all our assets are connected and surface information to increase overall value to us and the customer," Zanca says. "Almost every piece of our business is instrumented; it has some degree of intelligence and automation on it. Our planes are all intelligent, and they tell us where they are. The trucks, the couriers, the knowledge workers, the hubs—almost everything has technology embedded in it and tells us where it is or what its state is."
FedEx has used a transportation logistics information system called COSMOS (Customer, Operations, Service Master On-line System) since 1979 to keep track of all packages. While it used the information to allow dynamic management of its delivery system, it also innovated many times to present an interface to its customers and bring them into the FedEx digital ecosystem.
In 1984, before the web, FedEx released PowerShip (now part of FedEx Ship), which used modems over circuit-switched telephone lines to allow high-volume customers to link with COSMOS, so they could place shipping orders electronically and print air bills. In 1994, fedex.com was the first site to give customers the ability to monitor shipments on the web.
FedEx also maintains a website for developers (FedEx Developer Resource Center14), where third parties can tap into FedEx capabilities offered as modular web services for shipping, office and print services, and other tasks.
FedEx layers the customer experience services on top of the enterprise services with the help of RESTful APIs.
With its new SenseAware product line, FedEx has recently driven the digital operating model deeper into the customer's context. "Not only do our customers want more information about the packages, but they also now want more interaction with FedEx and expect us to react to changes and resolve problems if they occur, " says Thomas Wicinski, vice president of digital access marketing for FedEx Services. Customers can request operational actions such as return shipment, reroute, reship, and repackage. Its digital operating model gives FedEx the flexibility to adapt to these requests.
The digital operating model enables what PwC calls the permeable enterprise, in which latent capabilities and assets inside the enterprise are permitted to reach outside and be combined with other assets and capabilities. External innovators also can reach into the enterprise and tap into its capabilities to create new value. Both are facilitated by the sharply lower cost of interactions in a digital ecosystem.
A company will need to develop many new capabilities to adopt a digital operating model and become a permeable enterprise. As Figure 7 shows, these new capabilities address partner strategies, assumptions about the frequency and intensity of customer engagement, and a business and enterprise architecture built for speed, all while balancing their use internally and externally.
Figure 7
Enterprises will require a digital operating model to tap into the shift in value drivers that results from SMAC. The digital operating model on the inside will enable the permeable enterprise on the outside
Until recently, organizational structures and IT systems were designed to support the enterprise as the sole creator of products and services. In a world of value co-creation, these structures and systems often do not work well. Too much knowledge about how processes work must be acquired before anything can be added. This barrier can be significant for third parties, even if huge latent value is inside the enterprise. Reducing the learning curve requires a new strategy. "If you are going to operate at a pace at which the external market is moving, you have to take capabilities, industry specific or not, and make platforms from them," says John Donovan, senior executive vice president of technology and network operations at AT&T. By allowing third-party developers to tap into its network capabilities, AT&T has transformed its network into a digital platform. (See the sidebar, "APIs: An architecture for speed," on page 21.)
The platform approach is a different way of thinking about value. It requires a step back from the product or service's obvious value and an assessment of how others might add value if they had access to attributes beyond the immediate ones. "The ability to create self-service interactions, enable co-creation, and provide a vehicle where information is flowing from a leaf node to every other leaf node radically transforms our ideas about how to organize production, innovation, and transactions," says Ted Shelton, managing director in the PwC Advisory practice. Product design, development, and customer service must take into account the growing possibilities for surfacing and using information.
In this context, the word platform means programmable interfaces or APIs. "APIs are the building blocks of the digital economy," says Laura Merling, senior vice president of the application enablement business unit at Alcatel-Lucent. APIs become the language with which interactions and communication occur in a SMAC-driven digital ecosystem, supporting permeability.
AT&T seeks to expand the value realized from its telecommunications network and associated services. Jacob Feinstein, executive director of new technology at AT&T, says AT&T asked itself, "If we architect our network so that it comprises a number of loosely coupled modules connected through open interfaces, could we expose those interfaces to third parties to foster openness in a broader sense, leading to greater innovation, and ultimately get more apps on more devices on our network?"
For example, because AT&T exposed its Internet Protocol telephony capabilities to web developers, its users can initiate an online phone session from a restaurant review website to make a reservation, potentially driving more business to AT&T's network. AT&T could provide access to different quality-of-service levels that provide a range of service options for third parties, letting them offer, for example, premium connections for a higher fee, in which AT&T might share the extra revenue.
Because of SMAC, a new consumer reality is emerging, defined by an any-where/anytime/any device expectation of accessibility and engagement. Consumers have the ability to be online all the time and expect what PwC calls persistent digital engagement with whomever they conduct business. "To address the new consumer state of persistent digital engagement, companies will need to develop fluency in digital product development and social technologies, and they will need to create collaboration across groups that have often worked separately from one another," PwC's Shelton advises.
Enterprises must reorganize in a manner that puts customers at the center of the digital operating model, instead of thinking of them only as end-of-the-chain recipients of delivered value. Figure 8 shows this distinction between a product-centric and customer-centric enterprise.
Figure 8
The digital operating model promotes a customer-centric approach over a product-centric one
Customers are already altering the dynamics of their relationships with providers through their rapid adoption of new technologies that move them toward the center. "The customer is able to have a tighter, longer-lasting relationship with the business even though the way they interact with that business might change," says Sam Ramji, vice president of strategy at API management solution vendor Apigee. Bits allow stickier relationships in the value network because their mutability means they can persist even as they are adapted to new services and use cases.
Speed is essential in the digital ecosystem to meet the pace with which the business environment is changing. Speed was a driving force in AT&T's RESTful API program, Donovan says. By exposing RESTful APIs, AT&T has cut the time it takes developers to place new capabilities on the network from months to hours. The API program is a key pillar in AT&T's broader innovation strategy. (See the sidebar, "APIs: An architecture for speed," on page 21.)
Establishing a business and IT architecture around RESTful APIs is not just about speed. It is the best way to prepare for future waves of change in technologies, products, and business strategies. "Agility and accessibility will make the successful organization of the future," Shelton says. "With APIs modularizing every function at the right level of granularity, one can enable more agility and more accessibility."
The SMAC trends provide strong signals that business ecosystems are moving toward digital ubiquity. As this digital ubiquity evolves, information (bits) will make up a growing proportion of the overall value that customers experience from any product or service (atoms). Successful companies are adjusting their business and enterprise architectures to be more attuned to participating in or integrating with these expanding digital ecosystems. Companies leading in their engagements with SMAC are adopting a digital operating model, which supports the permeable enterprise.
Few enterprises are completely ignoring SMAC developments. However, the demands SMAC creates on IT can overwhelm CIOs and other business executives. In part, that's because business executives are accustomed to viewing technology opportunities through the old lens of being responsible for all the end-to-end application logic and performance. This approach does not scale when engaging with SMAC, as described in the sidebar "Scalable integration strategy." They need a new model—one based on lower integration and interaction costs—similar to the one web companies have been using.
A key transformation is to make a company's value-add capabilities addressable in digital ecosystems. This transformation is possible by understanding and using RESTful APIs and API management technologies. (See the article, "Consumerization of APIs," on page 34.) Companies that apply modern APIs and PwC's proposed digital operating model thinking have the opportunity to gain competitive advantage through reduced friction in co-creating new value, building persistent digital engagements, and increased agility.
Leading software companies have long known that being the dominant platform for an ecosystem creates direct and indirect demand for their offerings and long-term competitive advantage. SMAC trends suggest that every company is, in part (or should try to be), like a software company in how it creates and engages with a digital ecosystem.
Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model, one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer. It means taking advantage of the interconnectedness and the rise of empowered customers who will engage actively with a company if it lets them. It's time for more companies to become like a software company within their habitat of the digital ecosystem. And perhaps in some new habitats.
1 Our use of the term SMAC includes the four technologies called out here as well as related emerging technologies that take advantage of them, such as the Internet of Things.
2 Top-performing organizations are defined as those rated in the highest quartile for annual revenue, growth, profitability, and innovation as well as those that have revenue growth of more than 5 percent in the last 12 months.
3 Raising your digital IQ, PwC's 4th annual digital IQ survey, 2012, http://www.pwc.com/us/digitalIQ.
4 Rob Carter, CIO of FedEx, keynote address at Location and Beyond Summit, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljs28Rokwnk.
5 http://www.streetline.com/manage-parking/for-cities/.
6 http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/pricing/.
7 http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/.
9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things.
10 Caroline Kazmierski, "Semiconductor Industry Posts Record-Breaking Revenues Despite 2011 Challenges," Semiconductor Industry Association, February 6, 2012, http://www.sia-online.org/news/2012/02/06/global-sales-report-2012/semiconductor-industry-posts-record-breaking-revenues-despite-2011-challenges/.
11 See the article, "Consumerization of APIs," on page 34 for more details on sensors.
12 Although initially defined in relation to telecommunications networks, Metcalfe's Law today applies to all networks, and it states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of nodes in the network. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law for more details.
13 HyperText Transport Protocol is the standard for transmitting information on the World Wide Web.


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First round victory keeps Bansley and Maloney in contention on World TourBRASILIA – Olympic hopefuls Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto launched their 2012 season in impressive fashion on Tuesday as they won their opening match at the first stop on the FIVB beach volleyball World Tour circuit.
Bansley and Maloney, chasing for an Olympic spot on the circuit, defeated Karla Borger and Britta Buthe of Germany 21-19, 21-19 in the first round. The German pair had denied Marie-Andrée Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., and Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, Que., a berth in the main draw in Monday's qualifying.
''We played really consistently in that first match,'' said Maloney in her third season with Bansley. ''It's what we needed to do to get this tournament off to a great start.''
In the second round, Bansley and Maloney faced Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh of the U.S. The Americans, the reigning Olympic champions and the top-seeds here, took the match 22-20, 21-13.
''They play the same way we do, so it was anybody's match,'' said Maloney. ''We were very aggressive and confident. We certainly made them earn their victory but we were hoping to fare better.''
The Canadians however are still alive in this double elimination tournament and go through a repechage-style bracket on Wednesday in which they could play as many as three matches.
Last season Bansley and Maloney made their first major impact on the international stage with four top-10 finishes on the World Tour circuit and 17th place at the world championships in Rome.
This year they would like to qualify for the Olympic Games directly by cracking the top-16 in the FIVB Olympic rankings at the end of June. They are currently 21st.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Shamel Bratton tied a career high with five goals and added an assist for a career-best six points, leading the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers (5-1) to a 14-6 triumph over the Vermont Catamounts (3-2), Tuesday night, inside Klöckner Stadium. Colin Briggs also had a career night with three goals and four total points in the triumph.
Virginia goalie Adam Ghitelman added to his career win total, pushing him into a tie for the all-time ACC mark of 42 victories. The current ACC mark is held by Duke's Dan Loftus, who accomplished the feat over five seasons from 2004-08. Ghitelman and Loftus now share the No. 7 all-time mark among NCAA Division I goalies.
"I wasn't pleased with how we played in the first half," said Virginia head coach Dom Starsia. "I thought we started very slow, very sloppy in the beginning of the game. Our kids dug down a little in the second and we played much better after halftime. We defended them almost the whole way and started to hit a few shots. In the end it's a good "W" for us."
Shamel Bratton wasted no time putting UVa ahead, 1-0, with an unassisted goal 2:09 into the game. Goals by Vermont's Drew Phillie and Ahmad Zachary put Vermont ahead, 2-1. Shamel Bratton pulled UVa even with another unassisted score with 6:33 left in the first period, but Vermont quickly answered with a Kyle Sminkey goal, giving the Catamounts the 3-2 advantage. That was the last time UVa trailed.
Mark Cockerton and Steele Stanwick scored goals, giving UVa a 4-3 lead entering the second stanza. Vermont scored on a Connor McNamara goal, starting the second quarter scoring and tying the game at 4-4. Vermont didn't get any closer as UVa went on a 10-2 run to close the game, including scoring five-straight goals.
"Its good to get the win," said Starsia. "We are going to have our hands full with a very good Cornell team on Saturday but I thought in the second half we made some progress - we just want to get better and I think we made some steps in the right direction today."
Shamel Bratton led UVa with five goals, matching a career best that was set against Johns Hopkins in the 2009 NCAA quarterfinal round. Chris Bocklet, Rhamel Bratton and Chris LaPierre added solo goals to the cause. Cockerton was third on the team with two goals.
McNamara led Vermont with two goals, while Philie added a goal and an assist in the losing effort.
Virginia returns to action on Saturday in Inside Lacrosse's Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic. UVa faces No. 14 Cornell at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The contest will be televised live in HD on ESPNU and faceoff is slated for 1:30 p.m.


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However, last year's major work stoppages idled 148,000 workers, more than the 113,000 in 2011. The number of idle work days because of major work stoppages totaled 1.13 million, also higher than last year's 1.02 million days, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
One of the 19 strikes took place in Texas (Fort Worth). Three other strikes or lockouts occurred in other states, but were against Dallas-based companies.
The longest work stoppage was between Lockheed Martin Corp. and the International Association of Machinists Local 776 in Fort Worth. Over 48 days from April to June, 3,600 striking workers idled the factory for 172,800 days, the BLS reported.
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The Glendale women's basketball team continues Western State Conference play this week with a home game Saturday against Santa Monica City College in the Verdugo Gym at 5 pm. Ther lady Vaqs fell to West Los Angeles College 62-49 Wednesday night to fall to 1-2 in conference play and 5-14 overall.
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Must-see sports events in 2014
US Figure Skating Championships: Jan. 5-12
Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir are two of the stars who will compete in Boston at the US Figure Skating Championships. The event is the final one before the US determines the skaters who will compete at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Boston last hosted the event in 2001. Next
Super Bowl XLVIII: Feb. 2
NFL officials must be simultaneously excited and terrified at the prospect of staging the league's biggest game in one of the country's largest metropolitan areas (East Rutherford, N.J.) in the middle of winter. Let it snow? Next
Sochi Winter Olympics: Feb. 7-23
Dozens of New England hopefuls, from snowboarders hockey players, will participate in one of the premier television sporting events of the year, Next
FIFA World Cup: June 12 to July 13
United States national soccer team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has the Americans playing some of their best soccer heading into the tournament, but the US is in the "Group of Death" along with Germany, Portugal, and Ghana. Next
Red Sox Opening Day at Fenway Park: April 4
The defending World Series champions — let that sink in for a minute — host the Milwaukee Brewers in the first home game of the season at Fenway Park. Next
Boston Marathon: April 21
Given the tragic events of last April, the 2014 Boston Marathon will be an emotional day for those in the region and anyone personally or otherwise affected by last year's bombings. Next
NCAA men's basketball tournament: March 18 to April 7
This year's NCAA Tournament could have a strong local feel, with Tommy Amaker's Harvard Crimson poised to make another run to the Big Dance, UMass looking strong for a spot in the field, and several other New England schools in serious contention to get in the bracket. Selection Sunday is March 16. Next
NFL Draft: May 8-10
The NFL moved its annual draft from late April to early May because of scheduling conflicts at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Next
Stanley Cup playoffs: Starting April 16
The Bruins are poised to make another run at a Stanley Cup, but so are the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks, who eliminated Boston in six games in 2013. Next
NFL opener: Sept. 4
The defending Super Bowl champions, whoever they may be, are expected to host the league's opening game on Thursday, Sept. 4. Next
NBA Draft: June 26
Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins is one of a handful of super prospects expected to be eligible for the next NBA Draft. Might the Celtics land one of these franchise-altering players? Next
NASCAR in New Hampshire: July 13 and Sept. 21
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series comes to New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon twice in 2014. Next
Head of the Charles: Oct. 18-19
The annual regatta returns to Cambridge just as the leaves are changing in the fall. Next
Harvard vs. Yale football: Nov. 22
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The Crusaders built on a phenomenal set-piece performance to claim a 19-14 Super Rugby win over the Stormers at Newlands.
The Crusaders built on a phenomenal set-piece performance to claim a 19-14 Super Rugby win over the Stormers at Newlands on Saturday.
The visitors became the first team to win at Newlands in 2012 as they dismantled the Stormers' line-out, the key weapon in the Cape Town side's arsenal, snatching no less than six of the home side's throw-ins.
It was an all-round tactically astute performance from the seven-time champs – who led 13-11 at half-time – with Man of the Match Tyler Bleyendaal pulling the strings masterfully at fly-half in the absence of Dan Carter.
The result is the Crusaders' third consecutive win in Cape Town, and their fourth in a row over the Stormers. It also sees the Crusaders climb to fifth in the overall standings while the Stormers are left trailing in tenth place.
The Stormers ran up an 11-0 lead after 22 minutes, courtesy of two Joe Pietersen penalties and an unconverted Siya Kolisi try but the touring New Zealanders turned the match around midway through the first half and then held a vice-like grip on proceedings for the rest of the encounter.
Flanker Matt Todd scored the Crusaders' only five-pointer while Bleyendaal added the conversion and two penalties to edge the visitors ahead at the interval.
Pietersen and Bleyendaal traded penalties after the break to leave the Kiwi side 19-14 ahead at the death with the Stormers camped on their line, but unable to unlock the resolute defence.
The Crusaders failed to capitalise on a promising start, which saw them take play up to the Stormers' 22-metre territory, and they spurned more opportunities after the hosts lost three line-outs in the first eight minutes.
Despite their line-out woes, the Stormers raced to an 11-0 lead after 22 minutes as their attacking play posed problems for the Crusaders at the breakdown. But George Whitelock's side bounced back superbly with a 13-point burst to wrestle the lead for the first time in the match.
They started their fight back in style with a 22nd-minute try under the sticks by Todd. Tom Marshall slipped through the Stormers defence and although he was stopped, the Crusaders recycled and Todd found a gap to score.
The score was converted by Bleyendaal and just four minutes later he registered another penalty, before the visitors took the lead three minutes before the break after Deon Fourie was penalised at the ruck.
On their return, the Crusaders continued where they left off and pinned the Stormers down for a six-minute passage of play, but without reward.
The home team bravely weathered the storm with desperate defence, which stopped the Crusaders just short of the try line at least four times.
Stormers number eight Duane Vermeulen was yellow-carded in the 55th minute for lifting Zac Guildford over the horizontal, and the teams exchanged penalties in quick succession to retain the two-point margin.
Unable to regain the initiative, the Stormers watched on as, ten minutes from the end, Bleyendaal rounded off the scores with a 35-metre penalty, consigning the Stormers to their third defeat of the season.
The scorers:
For Stormers:
Try: Kolisi
Pens: Pietersen 3
Yellow card: Vermeulen
For Crusaders:
Try: Todd
Con: Bleyendaal
Pens: Bleyendaal 2
Stormers: 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Gerhard van den Heever, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 De Kock Steenkamp, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Pat Cilliers.
Replacements: 16 Martin Bezuidenhout, 17 Brok Harris, 18 Don Armand, 19 Nizaam Carr, 20 Nic Groom, 21 Damian de Allende, 22 Jaco Taute.
Crusaders: 15 Tom Marshall, 14 Johnny McNicholl, 13 Robbie Fruean, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Tyler Bleyendaal, 9 Willi Heinz, 8 Luke Whitelock, 7 Matt Todd, 6 George Whitelock (c), 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Corey Flynn, 1 Wyatt Crockett.
Replacements: 16 Ben Funnell, 17 Joe Moody, 18 Dominic Bird, 19 Jordan Taufua, 20 Andy Ellis, 21 Adam Whitelock, 22 Shane Christie.
Venue: Newlands Stadium, Cape Town
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Stuart Berry (South Africa), Linston Manuel (South Africa)
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)


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Imagine for a moment a world where automotive manufacturers don't adhere to industrial standards and specifications - where concern for the consumer is nil and buyers are treated like captive audiences.
In this world, each automotive company has their own measurement system. Wrenches that fit one brand of vehicle won't fit vehicles of another brand. Even the most basic parts, like nuts and bolts, are entirely non-interchangeable. And parts are so heavily patented by the manufacturers that it entirely inhibits 3rd parties from producing compatible parts at any reasonable cost.
Fluids are brand specific too. Gas manufactured for one brand cannot be put into the brand of another. Oil, engine coolant and other fluids are the same - they must be purchased from the original automobile maker.
In this imaginary world, the automobile industry is dominated and oligopolized by a handful of monolithic companies who easily trample emerging competition with massive civil suits over trivial patent violations. This ensures their continued stronghold on the industry.
Consumers are told that these "limitations" are actually the result of positive innovation and aren't bad things at all. With a dependence on the automobile and no viable alternatives (or knowledge of the problem), the consumer cedes and continues to do business with the industry.
In the real world, specifically the office software industry (word processing, spreadsheets, database connectivity, presentations, etc), many of the same problems exist - standards are largely ignored at the detriment of all consumers. The difference, however, is that the problem isn't as obvious. Many computer users aren't even aware that there is a problem.
The problem is that there are only a few dominant office productivity suite makers - and virtually all of them have opted not to adopt industry standards (particularly open file formats). Instead, they continue to use proprietary file formats that can only be fully opened, read and interpreted with their software.
Consumers are told that new features and other innovations require the use of their formats. While this might be partially true, these software makers fail to acknowledge that most of these new innovations are unused and unwelcome to most consumers, which only care about basic features and functionality.
It has been documented that most word processing users, for example, are content with the features that were present in most word processing programs developed in the late nineties. The percentage of users who find the latest word processing feature additions are very slim, and account for a very small portion of the market.
These office suite makers have been accused more than once of vendor lock-in. Essentially, vendor lock-in is a method in which a software maker will hold consumers captive via predatory pricing, unfair market influence and restrictive technical strategies (like using proprietary file formats) to make it difficult for consumers to switch to an alternative product. Such consumers are often forced to upgrade periodically to ensure continued access to their own files.
In other words, if users aren't forced to upgrade, they won't.
The fact is, people must come to the realization that their documents will outlive the software used to create the files. Down the road, when the original piece of software is gone or no longer available, how will you open those files? Its an issue computer users are going to deal with.
Some may argue, "many programs can open or save to alternative file formats." This is often true. For example, one can open a Corel WordPerfect document in Corel's WordPerfect word-processor and save a copy as a Microsoft Word file. Unfortunately, this isn't without many potential problems. Such conversions are never perfect and will never maintain 100% compatibility. Why?
1) Most proprietary file formats are encumbered by a myriad of software patents, which often inhibits other software makers from creating or developing compatible products due to threat of litigation.
2) Software producers have little interest in the details of file formats other than their own. The primary focus is on their own file formats, not on formats created by someone else.
3) Such capabilities are often done by reverse engineering the proprietary format, by dissecting files to see how they are structured, and how they operate on the inside. This process can only guarantee partial success at best.
4) Many software makers are deterred from adding compatibility support for alternative formats to their software because it often requires paying large royalty fees to the creators of the alternative formats.
4) Additional labor and planning costs often deter companies to add support for alternative formats.
The big question is, what happens when your office software is no longer recognized or supported by the maker of the software? What happens when your new PC won't run your old PC's office suite, and the latest office software won't read your existing files? If your files cannot be properly opened and interpreted, the contents are not available to you.
Open formats don't guarantee that your office productivity suite of today will be available tomorrow. What it does guarantee is that there will be software of tomorrow that will be able to successfully open and read your files of today.
So what should users do about this problem now? Consider switching to alternative programs that support open, unencumbered file formats. When possible, save your files in non-proprietary formats (although exchanging files with people who use proprietary formats makes this difficult).
PDF is a very open standard, and good for archiving. However, PDF is not good for files that may need editing in the future. A number of programs have PDF support, including OpenOffice.org 2.0.
For office productivity file formats (word processing, spreadsheets and the like), ODF (Open Document Format) is a good format because it is unencumbered by patents, and is not owned by any single software maker. OpenOffice.org 2.0, as well as KOffice (for Unix/Linux), AbiWord and several other office productivity suites already have good support for ODF. Corel has also promised to include ODF support in a future version of WordPerfect.
By adopting open formats, you can help guarantee your files are still available in the long haul.
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An act of arson ignited a fire near the town of Morwell, Australia on February 9, 2014. In hot, windy conditions, the fire spread into the Hazelwood Mine, an open-pit coalmine south of the town, where it continues to burn. The top two images, both from the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite, combine infrared and visible light to show the extent of the burned area and the glowing fire in the mine. In this view, both the newly burned land and the exposed coal are red. A comparison of the top image from February 23 with the middle image taken on February 7, a few days before the fire started, makes it possible to differentiate between burn scar and coal. Actively burning fires along the northeastern rim of the mine are orange.
Though the flames no longer threaten the town directly, the fire has blanketed the community with choking smoke for weeks. The lower image, a natural color version of the February 23 scene, shows plumes of smoke rising from the mine and drifting over Morwell. For nearly 20 days, the town has experienced extremely poor air quality from the ash, carbon monoxide, and other particles in the smoke. Concerned about ongoing exposure, on February 28 health officials advised vulnerable people to leave, including young children, pregnant women, elderly, and people with lung diseases. The fire is expected to burn for at least another two weeks.
- ABC News (2014, February 28) Morwell mine fire: Premier Denis Napthine backs Victorian health officer's decision on warning. Accessed February 28, 2014.
- ABC News (2014, February 26) Police hunt arsonist as the battle to contain the Hazelwood mine fire continues. Accessed February 28, 2014.
- The Australian (2014, February 28) Anger erupts as authorities advise relocation from smoke-hit Morwell. Accessed February 28, 2014.
- The Guardian (2014, February 28) Morwell mine fire: vulnerable residents advised to relocate. Accessed February 28, 2014.
- The Guardian (2014, February 27) Morwell mine fire 'beyond comparison', Victoria's health officer says. Accessed February 28, 2014.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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By JASON BAILEYSun Advocate/Progress Webmaster
Spreadsheets are very common in the computing world, especially among the business community. Spreadsheets have many uses, from calculating basic amortization schedules and analyzing budgets to general statistics. As a spreadsheet application, OpenOffice.org Calc will do all these things, and more.
Like its commercial alternatives, Calc can generate colorful charts & graphs to reflect different kinds of quantitative information, which are great for visual comparison. It also has strong mathematical, statistical and logistical analysis capabilities.
OpenOffice.org Calc has a strong Microsoft Excel influence. Visually, the program shares the same look and feel as Excel. Many of Calc's tools are positioned in similar places, and many of the keyboard hot-keys are the same. Navigation among rows, columns and cells highly similar as well.
Calc's built-in functions use the same names and syntax as those in Microsoft Excel, for best compatibility. For example, both Calc's and Excel's functions begin with an equal sign (=). Both programs name their standard deviation function stdev. Both program's fv (future value) functions take the same set of parameters (which happen to follow in the same order).
As a result, compatibility between OpenOffice.org Calc and Microsoft Excel is outstanding, and makes Calc a viable alternative because it means Calc users can stay interoperable with the majority of the computing world.
The biggest lack of compatibility with Excel is in macros. This is because OpenOffice.org Calc does not use Visual Basic to power its macros, as Excel does. Instead, it uses its own macro scripting language, OpenOffice.org Basic. Although Calc can interpret some Excel macros, complex macros may not function properly, or function at all.
Some have criticized OpenOffice.org Calc because it does not use Visual Basic, and quick label it an inadequacy. On the contrary! By using an open language that isn't specific to Windows, OpenOffice.org Calc macros can be played or executed on virtually any platform (Linux, Windows, OS-X, etc.).
Like its other siblings, OpenOffice.org Calc uses the OASIS OpenDocument file format by default. Unlike the Excel format, OpenDocument is not specific to any one piece of software, or controlled by any single vendor - it is a truly open standard. However, the program can be configured so new documents will be automatically saved as "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP" files - useful for those that frequently share files with Microsoft Office users. This setting can be found by selecting "Options" from the "Tools" menu at the top. Once the options box appears, expand the "Load/Save" section and select "General." Under "Document type," select "Spreadsheet" from the first drop-down box, and select "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP" from the next drop-down box.
Another great thing about Calc is its database connectivity, supporting both ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) standards. This gives Calc the ability to analyze sources of information stored outside the actual spreadsheet - in a database server, for example.
Like OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc also has an "Export to PDF" feature. Once the PDF has been created, it can be opened in any PDF-compatible reader, like Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.
Calc also makes use of styles, like Writer, which can be applied, edited or managed via the Stylist (F11 key).
For many, OpenOffice.org Calc provides everything they will ever need in a spreadsheet. It can be downloaded, free of charge, from www.openoffice.org.
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By Brendan Conway
After a few minutes of frantic selling, the gold market's reaction to the latest word from the Federal Reserve is something along the lines of Nothing new here, move along, please.
On the chart, you see a modest seize lower to the right around the 2 p.m. release of the minutes from the Fed's July policy meeting, then, a blip higher.
Gold's price is up 0.3% to $1,377 shortly after 2:30 p.m. ET, and the second-quarter gold fire sale — which came in the context of fears of rising interest rates — is nowhere to be seen.
It's left SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) with a 0.5% gain, at $133.15. Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) are down by 1.4% and 0.5%, respectively. iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is a bright spot (again), gaining 1.3%.
The minutes from the Fed's July policy meeting appear to give no new guidance on when central bankers plan to begin reducing their bond-buying efforts — read my colleague Mike Aneiro on that subject here.
"The latest FOMC minutes suggest the Fed wants to keep us on tenterhooks over the timing of tapering its bond-buying appetite," writes Miller Tabak & Co. strategist Andrew Wilkinson in an afternoon client email."
"In conclusion we remain as informed as we were ahead of the FOMC release and it is equally fair to state that the market has by and large digested the message about its decision-making process ahead as more data becomes available," he writes.
So it appears traders' view at the moment is, No disaster here, so the path of least resistance must be higher.


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By PAUL L.YOUNGSt. George
Dear Editor,
Our State Legislators in their 1995 legislative session cut funding to the department of health which is over the food inspection in every business that sells food or drink products consumed by you, the general public.
At this time, by law, all of these food dispensing outlets are inspected twice a year. Southern Utah Health Department has two inspectors whose coverage area is Washington, Iron, Beaver, Garfield, and Kane counties, with a total population of 90,000. In 1995, there were 193 food dispensing facilities, which were inspected twice a year.
Case in point: Today there is, in Washington County alone, more than 116,000 population, an increase of more than 139 percent.
The five counties have over 600 food eating facilities, and still only two inspectors, who now inspect these food eateries every four years. I am certain the other four counties population has increased perhaps not as much as Washington, but to nearly 200,000. Still two food inspectors.
Our state legislators must increase the funding to the department of health for more food inspectors.
I hope they and their families do not become victims of e'coli, dysentery, diarrhea or hepatitis all transmitted by the improper handling of food in cafes, restaurants, and etc. With rapid increase in population growth our inspectors now inspect these food dispensing outlets every four years and some never.
These inspectors have cafes, restaurants, drive ins, service stations that dispense drinks and food, senior citizen dinners, hospital cafeterias and kitchens, school kitchens, rest homes and nursing homes and others, and to be included septic tanks and swimming pools. Still, all of our department of health districts have the same number of food inspectors the department had in 1995.
The food inspection of these food serving facilities in Utah is very, very, serious.


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Framework to cover switches
Materials: Lack table + Lillivi cloth
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Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
The Gospel according to Luke 9:28-36
At that time, Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And as he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became dazzling white. And behold, two men talked with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, and when they wakened they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" - not knowing what he said. As he said this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silence and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.
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Skip to comments.Michigan House passes right-to-work measure in defiance of angry unions, minority Democrats
Posted on 12/06/2012 5:01:27 PM PST by Nachum
LANSING, Mich. Michigan House passes right-to-work measure in defiance of angry
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Elections have consequences.
Unions? Angry? Never...
Michigan GOP approves right to work amid protests
It is a fallacy that RTW brings more jobs to states. Good not to be forced to pay union dues, but the cause and effect has not been proven.
Edit to me: Hopefully there won't be any people caring for family members that will be paying union dues. What a joke that was.
I wish all of you well. I hope things begin to turn around and prosperity can gain a foothold once more.
You did realize it used to be in Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Indiana and Wisconsin ~ right?
It moved!
That had to be the most absurd requirement ever foisted on households.
Excuse me? Big labor has virtually taken over California- turned it into a one party state. The unions have helped to destroy our economy here, ruin the election process and have proven that they would rather see the state go down in flames than concede even one penny of their big fat pensions.
The big 3 will almost undoubtedly remain largely unionized but it sure frees up the smaller suppliers.
When I was a kid in Detroit, the Labor Day celebrations were by far the biggest of the year.
RTW in MI is beyond hugh and series. Unbelievable.
Threads have nuts ? That's gotta hurt when they get pulled.
Big BUMP!
Gonna be a crowbar shortage from all of us Michigan people having to pry the grins off our faces.
Obviously the Republicans elected have a clear mandate to pass laws in the interest of their constituents.
Damn right it hurts. It's happened to my threads before too.
With the maxed out taxed out businesses in the State of California, there's soon to be a mass exodus of businesses there.. I think the Socialists WANT private sector to leave California so that they can make it a 100% government-operated State that will spread out from there and eventually connect with the East.
Now in my state, you and I could get married and legally smoke dope. ;>)
I am happy for you....
Sooner, rather than later, the water works will fail and they'll all die.
Well actually, it has been empirically shown that, ceteris paribus, higher rates of unionization results in higher unemployment. This also follows from economic reasoning.
That margin of 6 in each chamber isn't enough though. They need a 3/4 majority so they can constitutionalize RTW else someday the Democrats will slip back into office and screw everything up.
That's why those industries are going to forge ahead with their move to Indiana! Michigan's people will need to show some staying power.
Otherwise I'd allow myself a glimmer of hope from the developments in MI.
No matter how they vote, their DUES support Democrats.
Congratulations to your state on this momentous step. Wanna cigar? I have some premium sticks to send ya.
This will be incredibly damaging to democrats in Michigan.
Factual, and succintly well stated.
Words that warm the heart and puts a smile on one's face.
What it did for me, personally, I'm ROFLMAO!
Tell that to those in NY and NJ who suffered during the Sandy fiasco. Out of town workers with equipment turned around and sent home! Non union workers cars/equipment stolen or damaged.
So it's not true? It did NOT pass?
It did, they put the post back up...
Two America's.
Went to the News and Free Press web sites, FP the law includes an appropriation, so it's referendum proof.
Bad news from the Det. News, law won't go into effect until April 1st.
Well guess I'll still have to pay union dues for a few more months.
Boy I'd really love to know the inside story about what caused all this to go down the way it has.
Democrat Fleebaggers overplayed their cards in IN over RTW.
Pat Bauer lost his leadership job and Democrats now enjoy a veto-proof Republican majority and Republican Governor because of their childish opposition.
Thanks. Whew! I went from high-to-low too quickly
Some Judge will screw things up, just wait!
Was a great moment tonight when the news of the passage in the Senate was sent to me as the gavel fell. When I interrupted our Ottawa County convention this evening to make the announcement of the Senate vote, the caucus erupted into cheers and applause. Then back to the process of the making sausage. Always a sight to behold.
Tell that to the auto workers in TN and MS!
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