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Living life one day at a time as a family of six...3 busy and bouncy boys and 1 Ukrainian princess. Our third son Joaquin was our unexpected blessing who came to us with a little something extra called Down syndrome and inspired us to adopt Sofia an orphan we fell in love with through Reece's Rainbow. We hope that our story will help open people's eyes to the beauty and gift that ALL children are. We are all more alike than different!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Those Eyes...Again!
So....I'm needing my blogging family and friends to help me out a bit. Am I being overly sensitive? I think so...
I've noticed lately that I'm a bit more sensitive when people strike a "funny" face for photos and more often than not people love to cross their eyes and stick out their tongue to make this face. I realize lately that the face is somewhat the face of a person with Down syndrome or any other brain injured person. Joaquin obviously has a strabismus so his eyes are crossed most of the time and occasionally his tongue rests on his lower lip when he is overly tired or relaxed.
I realize people...adults and children...mean absolutely no harm in making this face but when I see the crossed eyes I just cringe a tiny bit thinking they are making fun of themselves and looking "silly" or "dumb" but they are doing this by making their face resemble the face of someone with a strabismus. Do you think this goes back to the whole "retard" thing....looking and acting "retarded" to poke fun at oneself.
Just a random thought for the day. Silly I know but just sharing some of the thoughts that I have. It's not like I expect people to stop crossing their eyes when they make a face for the camera or for fun, it's not that. It's just I wonder where that ever came from or started from. I've grown to love and adore my boy's little crossed eyes but yes, we will be doing the surgery to straighten them later this year and we'll see how successful the surgery is for cosmetic and medical reasons. Will having straight eyes help Joaquin to be more mainstreamed and less made fun of in the future? I don't know. Will it help people see beyond his disability if he doesn't "appear" to have DS or doesn't have the strabismus? I don't know. Does it bother me? I don't know. Will this bother Joaquin someday? I don't know.
I think I'm just having one of those overly sensitive days. I'll get over it...
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I've been feeling the same way lately. My 4 mo. old has DS & I have noticed things like that, too. Your thoughts are valid & I am with you. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I dont see this at all... as a photographer, I take pics of kids all the time - even from a small age (where they have no idea of the concept of making fun of someone else) - they will do this...ReplyDelete
Think about it this way... say you were asked to make a silly face - using only your face.... your eyes and mouth/tongue are really the only things you can control, right? well, what the easiest thing to do with your eyes - cross them, and your mouth? stick out your tongue... ahhh, also, sticking out your tongue is also a (almost universal) gesture that means you dont want your picture taken
just my two cents... :)
I think we all have our sensitive days, and I can understand where you're coming from. Personally, I don't have an issue with "funny faces." In fact, I often make funny faces at my kids to get them to laugh. My daughter with Down syndrome gets the crazy-giggles when I do it. I've never associated it with anything more than a goofy contortion of the face. Some of my faces look like the Wicked Witch of the West and some of them make me look like a frog... but I have never associated funny faces with the beautiful faces of our chromosomally enhanced children. That's just me. I can not say what goes through the heads of others and as with everything, there will always be those who are just hateful and ignorant for no particular reason at all.ReplyDelete
Oh, mama. It's so hard not to take these things personally. I wish I had an answer...Are they poking fun at people with disabilities? I don't necessarily think so. Still, it doesn't make it anymore right than when people say "but when I use the "R" word, I don't mean it like *that.* It still hurts and people just don't think.ReplyDelete
We just need time...Time for our skin to thicken.
Love you.
Hi Jen, I hope my photo of Greta and JM didn't prompt your feelings! It's OK to feel sensitive, we all have our triggers. Mine is when people outright mimic someone with a disability or use the R word. My thought with a silly face is that it's an exaggerated expression and just being "silly" or funny rather than trying to look "dumb" and nothing more. Again, I hope we didn't hurt your feelings! HUGS!ReplyDelete
There are no easy answers and I think we all feel overly sensitive at times. There are pros and cons for having the 'look' of Ds. At least people know what they are dealing with, and our kids are extra cute :) I'd be fixing the eyes too- can't be that comfortable for Joaquin. You have a gorgeous boy.ReplyDelete
If it bothers you, it bothers you. Doesn't mean you are being overly sensitive. There are a lot of things that we have all looked at differently since having our children with Ds. I believe that it is all a part of our lifelong education.ReplyDelete
Jen, I know exactly, where you're coming from. I have the same feelings. I find myself cringing even when my kids make silly faces. And I KNOW that they're not making fun of Finn or anyone else for that matter, just being silly.ReplyDelete
Obviously, having children like Finn and Joaquin have made us more aware and more sensitive. I'm not sure what to do with these feelings. In some instances, I think these feelings can be used to advocate, which is a positive thing. But sometimes feelings are just feelings, and they're neither good nor bad, and perhaps not even useful in any way, just a heightened awareness of things, you know?
I don't have any answers for you, but I wanted you to know that I do understand.
My oldest, Nathan, went through a stage where he was making goofy faces, including sticking out his tongue and flailing his arms about. It made me sick to my stomach, but I knew he'd outgrow it so I didn't bother saying anything. I seriously have no idea where he learned it (camp this summer?). He would say, "Mommy, laugh... I'm being silly." Ugh. Not sure what to tell you. We have a lot of educating to do.ReplyDelete
I am not as sensative to the whole "funny face" thing as I am to the short bus comments, the slang use of the word retarded, or people hitting themselves in the chest with their wrist in an effort to look handicapped as a joke. My "typical" child is in first grade, and has just recently started coming home and telling me "look mom, I can cross my eyes, and do the taco tongue at the same time". For her it is a silly thing to do, and she is not conjuring up in her mind a person with disabilities and making fun of them. It is understandable that because you love your child you are sensative to what might hurt his feelings. We are all like that. I am sensative to people talking about overweight people. I am overweight, yet I have people (friends) who will discuss another person who is overweight in a very negative way right in front of me and I'm thinking "hello, fat person here" but they aren't thinking that (I believe). Instead they are not even paying attention to my roundness because they love me. (Not that I appriciate the tone of the negative conversation either) But... I feel like I am rambling. Someone will always find a reason to make fun of someone else no matter what is my point. It doesn't make it right. And if your son can be helped that is great, and if it doesn't work to make him look a certain way there will still be people to love him and accept him just for the way he is crossed eyes, tongue out, whatever. He is Gods child. :-) {{HUGS}}ReplyDelete
Jennifer, I think it about it sometimes. It often hits me when we are sitting and reading or watching a show together and she gets this look...not sure how to explain it. But it's this look where her head is tilted back a little. But it quickly goes away.ReplyDelete
My kids still think it's funny to do that in pictures. And I try to tactfully tell them that that's not the best 'funny face' to do in pictures. We were taking a family picture when Morgan was just a few weeks old and my oldest, 5 years old at the time, crossed his eyes in the pictures. I quickly said, "Quit crossing your eyes. You look retarded!" Then I looked at my sweet little newborn and realized what I was saying. I vowed to never use that word again. Sad that it took me having a child with special needs to realize the hurtful nature of that word.ReplyDelete
i know what you mean. i think it is us as momas just trying to protect our sweet babies. i used to love the movie 'multiplicity' with michael keaton before we had miss maggie. i honestly never thought anything about it...until now. the thought of him playing the character where he is a copy of a copy(so he is not so clear i believe they said) with his tongue sticking out and not speaking clearly, well i can now say no one involved with that movie must have ever loved anyone that was delayed in any way. it may not be right but now i do not ever want to see him act in anything! we just love our babies and want to protect them as much as we can for as long as we can :) and the recent pics of sophia and her big brother,too cute!ReplyDelete
I've wondered about this too- enjoyed your post and the replies, thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
You know... I was at dinner with a bunch of friends and family and someone made "that face." I was instantly (and quietly) offended. I know I was probably being more sensitive than necessary. I KNOW my family would NEVER do anything to hurt me or Justin. Some days it just hurts. Loves and hugs my friend...ReplyDelete
I find the word stupid offensive and know there are a lot of better ways to describe our mistakes. I've been trying to avoid describing myself as crazy and a host of other similar "better" character and choice of words that have maybe bothered me some but my heightened awareness adds to that list.ReplyDelete
Silly face is a good ways to relax kids. How about silly POSE with arms held high or in different places. I'll start that in my area, baby steps!!
Or what about fun super happy face to emphasize happiness not different or unique odd features!??ReplyDelete


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Warhead wrote:Ok, here's what I was thinking.
The battle can be run in separate stages, acts if you will. Each act has certain objectives and uses certain parts of the Fortress and may have limits or restrictions on troops or reinforcements etc. Each Stage lasts a pre-determined amount of turns each.
Each act will have different players, surviving players or key players will be prevalent throughout most acts.
Stage 1: Panic - The Invasion is unleashed and as the Gamma Corps prepares it's defences the populous seek shelter from the orbital deluge and roving Immortal Trooper landing parties. Immortal Troops on Death Buggies race to intercept and kill as many fleeing factions as they can before the reach the walls of Fico.
Players: (most of these guys have infrequently on or not here anymore).
Elmagnifico - Gamma Corp (A few guards on the wall with reinforcements).
Silent Sig-Fig - USA (His entire faction outside the wall trying to reach safety)
Massam - Post Apoc Survivors (All the same units in ZZD with others trying to reach safety as are the USA troopers).
Unknown - Immortal Troopers in Death Buggies
End Turn: Fico Defenders get to roll for all casualties inside Fico on a D6. 1-3 = KIA. 4-5 = Serious Wound Hospitalised. 6 = Light Wound Ready for action.
Stage 2: The Wall - After suitable orbital bombardment the Immortal send in the first wave. The Forlorn Hope, supported by Immortal Aircraft.
Elmagnifico - Gamma Corp - No troop restrictions but fort and weapon defences are damaged.
Silent Sig-Fig - USA
Massam - Post Apoc Survivors
Reinforcements: ShadowScythe - (Scythian Marine Drop Pod Landing)
Piltogg - Akkadians with Siege Engines
RoC - 45th Union with Armoured Support
End Turn: Fico Defenders get to roll for all casualties inside Fico on a D6. 1-3 = KIA. 4-5 = Serious Wound Hospitalised. 6 = Light Wound Ready for action.
Stage 3: Foothold - The Immortals begin to capitalise on the few gains made in the first wave. They send in the second wave. The defenders go toe to toe with Immortal Maniacs and the remains of the Akkadians and 45th Union troops within the fortress walls. The Gladiator Slaves escape and fight for their freedom, and generally get in the way.
Stage 4: Storming the Palace - With most of the Wall having fallen to the Immortals the Gamma Corps fall back to the Palace. The remains of the previous attacks are reinforced by Immortal Elites and a mighty Immortal Nightmare Siege Tank to force a breakthrough into the Palace.
Stage 5: End Game - The Palace has fallen, the slaughter begun, The Magnifico fights a delaying action trying to buy time to evacuate the remains of his troops to the last transport. Then Warhead arrives leading his personal guard and the Terrorkhan. (At this point Warhead and the Gamma Coprs Hero Codename: Aegis face off against each other in an ultimate duel. Warhead is beheaded by a Nova Sword, resulting in the splintering of his personality but the act costs Aegis his life none the less). Elmagnifico escapes with the remnants of his shattered Coprs.
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Could Verizon finally show off the Samsung Odyssey? Maybe AT&T will pick up the ATIV S and we'll definitely get a closer look at the Ascend W1 from Huawei.
While nothing makes your tech gland salivate like a new device, we'll probably also have accessories to get most excited about (excluding a long shot by Sprint). That may sound lame, but we're looking forward to seeing more add-ons for Windows Phone, gadgets and gizmos that include wireless charging, NFC magic, headphones, speakers, etc. You can be positive that we'll sniff out anything that might appeal to you from the showroom floor.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
i2 kills off its SRM business
In a move to strengthen its financial position, i2 is selling its Content and Data Services (CDS) unit for about $30M U.S. to IHS, Inc. The sale is a sad end to i2's supplier relationship management (SRM) business, which it initiated through its acquisition of Aspect Development in 2000.
I've been corresponding with some former employees of i2 and Aspect Development about this deal, and most of what appears in this post reflects their insights. They tell me that the deal with IHS has been a long time coming as i2 employees in the CDS unit have been migrating to IHS over the last 12 months or so. IHS is now acquiring all remaining personnel.
i2 originally bought Aspect Development an all-stock deal of over $9.3B (that's billion), making it at the time one of the largest--if not the largest--deals in the software industry. Aspect was a leader in component and supplier management (CSM) software and services. CSM services help companies, such as electronics and automotive manufacturers, maintain critical data on parts and vendors. Aspect's clients also included some of the largest energy companies in the world, such as Shell and Exxon. i2 is now selling what's left of that business now for a mere $30M.
Over the years, Aspect's products and services were lost in the swelling portfolio of i2's applications. Based on feedback from former Aspect employees, it appears i2 never really knew how to manage and grow Aspect's business.
One former Aspect/i2 employee confirmed that i2's sale of the CDS unit effectively kills what's left of Aspect's business for i2:
- On the software side, i2 didn't make it easy enough for clients to upgrade. It didn't invest in the technology from the client perspective. Today, most if not all of the clients have migrated or are in process of migrating to competing products, such as product lifecycle management tools from vendors such as Agile, which hired many former Aspect employees. A telling sign of how badly i2 served this market: i2 hasn't sold a new SRM license in over two years.
- On the content side--providing data concerning vendors, parts, and product attributes--i2 made similar mistakes. The content side was the only profitable part of the business that was left. The databases and schema are valuable assets, but i2 never fully understood or embraced the business. Services account for roughly 10% of this business, but it is difficult to manage. The money is in the proprietary content, not the services. But the services are required in order to make the sale and keep clients buying the content. The sale of i2's content services effectively kills its SRM business, since content was the only real thing that differentiated i2's SRM offerings.Content services are crucial to a successful component and supplier management (CSM) application because they set up the database. In other words, the content services were necessary to clean up and classify the commodity hierarchies and technical attributes for parts so that procurement and engineering users could effectively search them. If i2 is selling the content services, it is giving up on all of CSM.Compounding i2's problems is the fact that large players have entered this market, such as IRI, which was founded by Romesh Wadhwani, the original founder of Aspect Development. Verisign also competes here, with its Supply Chain Team selling RFID services and POS data stream subscriptions along with Verisign's infrastructure. Both IRI and Verisign are strongly industry-focused and tough competitors, with substantially more resources than i2.
i2 also faced increasing competition from the major ERP players, such as Oracle and SAP, both of whom have taken a huge bite out of i2's business. All of the SCM players have had difficulty competing against SAP and Oracle, but i2 got hit harder than the rest.
In related news, Click Commerce has just acquired Requisite Technology. Requisite's Bugseye is a competitor to the content services that i2 is selling to IHS. Click's press release mentions that Requisite's software is embedded in "one of the world's largest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provider's solutions." It doesn't mention who the ERP provider is, but my sources tell me it's SAP.
Update, 6:00 p.m. Jason Wood, a hedge fund manager, alerts me to his post yesterday on i2's sale of its CDS unit to IHS. He said that he considers it, "the final nail in the coffin of the B2B bubble in supply chain." He also writes,Last time I checked...$30 million < $9.3 billion, right? That's 0.32% of the price paid for Aspect some five years ago. I guess it's better than writing the thing down to zero, but not by much.Good point.
Update, Nov. 23. Another former i2/Aspect employee responds.Amazing how fast a blog can focus insights to events quickly. The "$30M" still stuns me. Aspect actually sold their applications/services deals before the i2 acquisition for $5-10M (about 60-70% software). Siemens deal was in excess of $20M. Wow.Related posts
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Burgum pushed aside as head of Microsoft Business Solutions
The other shoe has fallen at Microsoft. Doug Burgum--former CEO of Great Plains, who remained in the top spot when the Microsoft Business Solutions group was formed from Microsoft's acquisition of Great Plains--is being replaced.
Microsoft is dressing up the change as a promotion of Burgum to a newly created "Chairman" position. But make no mistake: the new position is a figurehead. Burgum will continue to report to Jeff Raikes, head of the new Microsoft Business Division. But they will now be recruiting or identifying a new head of MBS who will be responsible for the performance of the unit going forward.
Microsoft reorganized itself last month into four divisions, and Burgum moved to report to Raikes. He had been reporting directly to Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer. At the time I said that there was no way to interpret the move except as a demotion for Burgum. Today's move reinforces that interpretation.
In an interview on Microsoft's website, Burgum was asked whether he was satisfied with the performance of MBS over the past five years. He replied,From a current year standpoint, we are absolutely pleased. From an overall growth perspective, at US$181 million this quarter, Microsoft Business Solutions is up 16 percent compared to where we were last year. In terms of software revenue during the quarter, we are up 18 percent thanks to our solid, dynamic line of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and CRM solutions and services. License growth is up 21 percent and enhancement revenue has jumped by 16 percent compared to last year.Note that Burgum talks revenue, not profit. In a market where Oracle and SAP--even smaller players like Lawson, SSA, and QAD--are profitable, MBS has never shown a profit in the five years since its inception.
Here's some free advice for Raikes. Don't consider anyone you know from your past life selling shrink-wrapped Microsoft products. And don't stop with replacing Burgum. Go outside to recruit some of the best talent that has been displaced by Oracle's acquisitions. Look at some of the former PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards executives. Sure, the best of them already have new jobs, but they'll still be open to your offer. Don't forget the Siebel guys. Find some that know how to develop and sell enterprise business software. Find some that know how to build a VAR channel for enterprise systems that have long sales cycles and complex implementation requirements.
CNet has more on the story.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Oracle/Siebel bid: U.S. DoJ throws in towel
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicated it will not fight Oracle's plan to acquire Siebel. The DoJ lost the last battle with Oracle, to stop its hostile bid for PeopleSoft. The Siebel deal, being a friendly takeover, would be even more difficult for DoJ to oppose.
The acquisition still needs to be approved by the European Union. But the EU is unlikely to oppose it. Oracle and Siebel believe the transaction will close in Q1 2006.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
ERP Graveyard
Ned Lilly, the main man behind the quasi-open source OpenMFG ERP system, has started a blog, ERP Graveyard, in which he tracks ERP vendor mergers and acquisitions. The thought behind it, of course, is that if you go with open source, you don't have to worry as much about your vendor going out of business.
What's best, however, is that Ned has put together a map of ERP vendor acquisitions over the past several years. I took a quick look and it appears complete.
Ned calls it the ERP Graveyard Scorecard, which is a mixed metaphor, but you get the point.
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Monday, November 14, 2005
Open source: turning software sales and marketing upside down
It doesn't take a PhD these days to figure out that it's getting harder and harder for the majority of enterprise software to make money. Now Larry Augustin points out that the traditional model of selling software licenses really means that the vendor charges the customer to sell to him.The problem is that the traditional enterprise software business model is broken. A rabid search for new customers and revenue growth has caused sales and marketing costs to spiral out of control. In fact, Rick Sherlund at Goldman Sachs estimates that in 2005 software companies will spend 82 percent of new license revenue on marketing and sales efforts. That's up from 66 percent in 2000.Augustin is the creator of SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source software development community. He also serves on the boards of directors of open source vendors JBoss, SugarCRM, Pentaho, Medsphere, and the Open Source Development Lab, which is the keeper of the keys for Linux.
This quest for additional revenue has created an untenable cost structure for the industry - one that doesn't serve vendors or their customers. In essence, vendors spend a lot of money to convince customers to buy, and then charge them a lot of money for the license which covers the sales and marketing costs. We're charging the customer just to sell to them.
So, as you can imagine, Augustin's solution for this problem involves the open source model. But whether you agree that open source is the answer, it's hard to argue with Augustin's depiction of the problem.
Read the whole essay on Sandhill.com.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Bill Gates pushing Microsoft toward software-as-a-service
The Wall Street Journal has released excerpts from internal Microsoft correspondence in which Bill Gates is calling on Microsoft to jump with both feet into the trend toward software applications being delivered as a service over the Internet.
Whether referred to as Internet services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), or software on-demand, the idea is the same: instead of buying and installing software applications, users simply access such apps over a network. There's no software to buy. Instead, the application is either paid for on a subscription basis or supported by a third party, such as advertisers.
Analysts are comparing Gates's memo to his call in the 1990's for Microsoft to embrace the Internet (leading to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and MSN online services), and to his call earlier this decade to embrace web services (leading to Microsoft's .NET framework).
Interestingly, Gates quotes heavily from an internal memo by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's CTO, who has been on board only a few months. Ozzie is a big name in information technology. He is best known as the inventor of Lotus Notes, which was later acquired by IBM. Microsoft's catch of Ozzie was a big scoop, and Gates's memo shows how influential he is within Microsoft in a short time.
Whether Microsoft can make this transition will be interesting. Microsoft's core business--make no mistake, Windows and Office--is the antithesis of software as a service. The previous two "call to arms" by Gates were easily layered on top of that core business. But to truly embrace Internet services will require a willingness to cannibalize sales of Windows and Office--not something that is going to come easily to Microsoft shareholders, or to Microsoft decision makers whose compensation is tied to Microsoft earnings.
The technology press is all over this story. So rather than cover it further, I'll just point to the Wall Street Journal article (free access this week) and this Computerworld article that gives a good summary.
Update, Nov. 11. Bob Cringley thinks that Gates' email and Ozzie's memo were written as PR documents, and planned to be leaked. The fact that at least three news organizations all received them at the same moment is suspicious.While ostensibly written solely for internal discussion, the documents from Bill Gates and new Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie were clearly supposed to be leaked. These are external marketing documents -- the equivalent of those ubiquitous white papers -- only Microsoft is pretending they aren't. We won't see any witch hunt at Microsoft trying to find the leaker, because I'm sure he or she was just following orders.Here is a copy of Bill Gate's full email. And here is a full copy of Ray Ozzie's memo.
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Monday, November 07, 2005
Infor to swallow half of Geac
There seems to be no let up in the ERP vendor consolidation trend. The latest target is Geac Computer Corp., a software provider, based in Canada, with a broad portfolio of applications, including its SmartStream financials system, which it picked up in 1996 from Dun & Bradstreet, and its System21 ERP suite, a well-regarded (at the time) process industry system, which Geac picked up in its acquisition of JBA in 1999.
Geac is now being acquired in a friendly transaction by Golden Gate Capital, the investor firm behind Infor, which has been on its own acquisition binge for several years. Golden Gate will pull Geac's ERP offerings, such as System21, Runtime, RatioPlan, Streamline, and Management Data, and will move them to Infor as part of Infor's application portfolio.
What happens to the rest of Geac? Golden Gate plans to create a new company--separate from Infor--to manage these products, including Geac's Enterprise Server, SmartStream, Anael, Extensity and Comshare products. The CEO of the new company will be named prior to closing the transaction.
After picking up a string of acquisitions, most recently Lilly Software Associates and MAPICS, it's hard to know what to think about Infor's roll up program. I'm hoping to get some more information later this week.
There's a long press release on the deal--which is quite complicated--on Infor's web site.
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Sunday, November 06, 2005
Vote for me!
The second annual Blog-X awards are open for nomination over at Techweb. This blog was one of 10 finalists last year, when the award was known as the 2004 Readers Choice Awards. I've got a limited advertising budget, so the publicity is nice.
If you think the Spectator is worth reading, please hop over to http://www.techweb.com/blogawards and nominate the Spectator as follows:Title: The Enterprise System SpectatorThanks in advance!
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Friday, November 04, 2005
Sainsbury pulls the plug on Accenture outsourcing deal
I've been following the outsourcing problems at major UK retailer Sainsbury for some time, and it looks like the firm has finally decided to call it quits.
It's tempting to say that Sainsbury's action is a sign of a trend away from outsourcing (backsourcing, as some call it). After all, over the past 12 months, Sears ended its outsourcing agreement with CSC, and JP Morgan Chase gave the boot to IBM. But, as I reported previously, Sainsbury's experience is a case study in how NOT to outsource IT. Although Accenture has to bear part of the blame, Sainsbury no doubt bears more.
Ziff Davis has the story on Sainsbury's latest move.
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Thursday, November 03, 2005
Oracle plans free version of database
Here's a good move by Oracle. It plans to release, by year end, a free version of its 10g database. Dubbed Oracle 10g Express Edition, the free version will run on 32 bit Windows and Linux systems. Use of the free version is limited to 4GB of data, 1GB of memory, and one processor servers.
No, Oracle hasn't suddenly gotten generous. It needed to do this to counter Microsoft's similar program for its Sequel Server database, and especially to counter the open source MySQL database, which is widely used by developers at the low end of the market--and increasingly is moving up into higher end applications.
Furthermore, developers tend to stay with tools they learn when they are young, and there's no doubt that many students, hobbyists, and small development firms are getting to know MySQL a lot better than Oracle these days.
As I noted last month, Oracle is also countering MySQL's popularity by acquiring Innobase, a tiny firm that is the primary developer of the open source InnoDB, which is used as a storage engine by MySQL to provide higher end features such row-level locking. It's still not quite clear what Oracle plans to do with InnoDB.
Computerworld has more on Oracle's freebee.
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Oracle CFO out the revolving door
Oracle tri-President and CFO, Gregory Maffei, resigned today after only four months on the job. He is reportedly looking to take a job as CEO of another company, not yet named.
Maffei claims his departure doesn't have anything to do with Oracle. In a press release, he says, "My resignation from Oracle is not a reflection on the company, its executives or employees."
Still, after only four months? The Wall Street Journal, in an email alert, points to conflict at the top at Oracle.The people close to Mr. Maffei say his new job offer may be appealing because it gives him a chance to run a company -- something he now believes may not be possible at Oracle. When Mr. Maffei joined the Redwood Shores, Calif., software maker, he became one of three "co-presidents" working for Mr. Ellison.Not a moment that inspires confidence in Oracle.
The other executives are Charles Phillips, a former Wall Street research analyst, and Ms. Catz, a former investment banker to whom Mr. Ellison is believed to be very loyal. People familiar with the matter say Mr. Maffei and Ms. Catz clashed over some issues during his short tenure.
Update, Nov. 4. Maffei's departure is looking more and more like a simple personality clash in the executive suite. According to Marketwatch,At Piper Jaffray, analyst David Rudow echoed other analysts' views that the CFO's departure doesn't signal "any fundamental issue at the company or any potential negative accounting issue."Interestingly, Oracle's stock is up today on the news.
"We think Mr. Maffei's departure was more of a cultural or personality fit with other management team members," Rudow said, based on his conversations with software industry insiders.
"The culture at Oracle appears to be intense, to say the very least," the Piper Jaffray analyst commented in a research brief. He rates the stock outperform.
Update, Nov. 4. Today's Wall Street Journal online has more:Some analysts said the high rate of executive turnover at the company lately -- and the fact that its top managers were being recruited from the outside, instead of from within -- raised questions.Red Herring has an article with lots of analyst comments on the interpersonal issues.
"It makes you wonder a little bit about what the whole succession strategy is, and what it says about an organization that isn't able to promote somebody to the top and have them stay," said Drew Brosseau, an SG Cowen analyst.
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Fairfield students discuss sex-assault bill
FAIRFIELD -- It's no secret that victims of sexual assault are often unwilling to come forward. That's as true in college as it is anywhere else.
On Monday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., spoke in front of nearly 200 students at Fairfield University. His aim was to get feedback on pending federal legislation he co-sponsored, which intends to make sure fewer campus sex assaults go unreported.
There are many reasons student victims of sex crimes might stay quiet, Blumenthal said. One of the biggest is arguably the fear that they won't be taken seriously.
"People don't trust the system," Blumenthal said. "They don't expect it to be fair."
Campus sexual assault has been a hot topic of late: In the spring, the Obama administration released a list of 55 U.S. colleges and universities -- including the University of Connecticut -- that are under investigation for mishandling sex-assault complaints.
This was the senator's second visit to Fairfield U. to discuss campus sex assault. He came to the university in March, months before the bill was introduced, seeking information on the campus climate and student concerns.
Blumenthal cited Fairfield University as an example of an institution that does a good job at both preventing sexual assaults and handling complaints.
But there are still obstacles that prevent many from reporting campus sex crimes. A report released in January from the White House Council on Women and Girls shows that only 12 percent of college students who are victims of sexual assault report the crime to law enforcement.
The federal legislation, introduced in July, has several provisions intended to change the culture around sexual-assault reporting. For one thing, the legislation alters the way assault complaints are investigated.
"In some universities, if an athlete is involved in a sexual assault, the decision (about how to proceed with the investigation) is done by the athletic department," Blumenthal said.
The new legislation would forbid a subgroup, like an athletic department, from investigating complaints against its members. Other provisions include conducting annual surveys at all U.S. colleges and universities asking students about their experiences with sexual violence. The results would be published online, so that prospective students and parents could see them.
After a brief presentation on the legislation, which Blumenthal hopes will pass by the end of the year, the students were able to ask questions. A few asked whether the bill does anything to encourage those who witness or suspect a sexual assault to report it. The bill does include a provision stating that students who admit to underage drinking or other violations in the process of reporting sexual violence won't be punished.
Sophomore Erica Osowkiski, 19, asked Blumenthal what the legislation does to encourage bystanders to come forward.
Blumenthal said that while the legislation would provide support for bystander-training programs, it doesn't require universities to have them.
"We think that the decision should come from the universities," he said.
This school year, Fairfield University will launch its own bystander program, called Step Up Stags, which educates students on how to intervene if they see an assault or potential assault.
"It educates students to step in if they see something," said Thomas Pellegrino, Fairfield University's vice president for student affairs.
After the presentation, Osowkiski said it's "a little discouraging" that the federal legislation won't require bystander training. But she liked the idea of not sanctioning students who admit to drinking while reporting a suspected assault.
"By saying in this legislation `If you say something, you're not going to get in trouble' -- that's huge," Osowkiski said.
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I'm not sure exactly what would be the best or at least a good way to do multi texturing just yet so I figured I'd ask some advice.
It seems like the most obvious choice would be glActiveTexture and all that goes with it but is this really good for texturing entire terrains with many different textures. Some textures would be blended, others wouldn't or would require a different kind of blending(like stone path to grass would be goofy to blend together). It seems that it's also limited in the amount of textures I'd be able to load into the terrain aswell which would be kinda sad because I would want the option to easily add more textures later.
Another option could be to use large textures that cover the terrain but it seems like this would require a huge amount of memory.
Any advice on this subject would be much appreciated.


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Riley Grace
Riley Grace is an up and coming singer/songwriter with a rock edge who is about to launch her new album and take the world by storm. Think metallica meets fionna apple meets the twilight movies series. Riley is a strong and powerful singer with a good mix of strength and vulnerability. We have attached an mp3 track so you can get a better idea of the artists genre.
Our target audience is a young and edgy music lover. The typical fan will be from the ages 15 - 30 year old and will appeal to both men and women. Also a typical fan would be the type of person who is also a fan of the Twilight and Underworld movies series.
The requirements of this project is to create a header graphic for the RileyGrace.com homepage. The dimensions of the graphic need to be exactly 950px in width, and anywhere from 275px to 300px in height.
Attached are the homepage design (.psd file - ignore the current header) we are going to use, as well as 3 different .psd's (and 1 .eps if you need it) for examples of the logo we want to use and also an image of Riley Grace herself.
The overall mood should really follow the image that we captured of Riley Grace, but needs to also incorporate the logo and fit with the colors of the homepage design. Specifically, we really would like the logo to pop out but NOT with too much frills around, but more with the use of background lighting and drop shadows. Additional graphics should be used to add to the overall tone, but not be too distracting from the logo or the image itself. Also, logo should be to the left side of the image.
In addition I have listed some keywords that represent what we are and aren't looking for:
- Seductive
- Elegant
- Forbidden
- Mystical
- Gothic
- Scary/Freightning
- Evil
The sky is the limit with this and we are looking for a really creative look that sets apart the brand for the artist from the rest.
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Newborn Hearing Screening
Effective January 1, 2002, state law mandates screening the hearing of all infants born in Missouri. The Missouri Newborn Hearing Screening Program provides support to facilities and professionals who undertake the pediatric care of newborns in an effort to identify hearing loss, collects information about hearing screenings in order to provide figures for program planning and evaluation and assists families in getting the services they may need. The following pages will provide information and answer questions you may have about testing for hearing loss in infants.
The purpose of Missouri's Newborn Hearing Screening Program is to identify infants with hearing loss and link them with early intervention services by six months of age. It is important to detect a hearing loss in the earliest days of a baby's life. A baby begins to understand language and speech at birth. Your baby needs to hear in order to develop speech and language skills. Early identification and treatment of hearing loss are essential so that speech, language, communication and learning can develop as typically as possibly.
In the hospital or clinic where your child was born, a quick, painless, screening test was performed. There are two types of screening methods:
- The Otoacoustic Emission (OAE): In this type, a tiny earplug is inserted into the ear. The earplug sends soft sounds into the ear and a computer reads the echo that is returned from the baby's ear.
- The Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR): In this instance, small headphones are placed over your baby's ears. The headphones send soft clicking sounds into your baby's ears. Small sensors are placed on the head, neck and shoulder to measure your baby's response to the noise.
If your baby does not pass the hearing screening, you will be referred to a pediatric audiologist for diagnostic testing. The audiologist will use equipment designed to accurately determine your baby's ability to hear sounds. Harmless to your baby, this testing is much more in depth than the initial screening.
If your baby is diagnosed with a hearing loss, a MOHear service coordinator from the Newborn Hearing Screening Program may contact you about follow-up services. Your baby's doctor and audiologist can also assist you in obtaining appropriate connections for your baby. If you are planning a home birth, be sure to speak with your midwife or your doctor to find where you can have your baby's hearing screened.
The Department of Health and Senior Services carries out this program via a program manager, two follow-up coordinators, a data management coordinator, an information systems manager and five MOHear service coordinators. The follow-up coordinators are responsible for follow-up of infants who did not have an initial hearing screen, did not receive a pass result on the initial hearing screen, or who are found to be at risk for later development of hearing loss. MOHears provides specialized service coordination to help you find effective, early intervention services that will enhance your child's communication, thinking and behavioral skills needed to achieve academic and social success.


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On the fourth day of our Peruvian Amazon River Cruise with International Expeditions, we made our way deep into the remote heart of Peru's Pacaya-Samiria Reserve– deeper than any other tour operator is able to go. The further into the reserve we went, the more animals we saw. The trip was a birdwatcher's dream come true: This brilliant Orange-Backed Troupial (the national bird of Venezuela) was one of several hundred birds we saw, and the first of many excellent wildlife species we spotted that day.
In all my world travel experience, I've only ever seen one owl in the wild during daylight hours (in the Galapagos Islands). Had our eagle-eyed naturalist guides not pointed it out, I'm fairly certain none of us would've spotted this Great Potoo either. It was so well camouflaged against a tree in the early morning hours, it was only when our skiff hit this angle that we were able to make out the feathers and beak of his side-profile.
We made our first stop of the day at Pacaya-Samiria Reserve Ranger Station #1.5, where we had a chance to use the restroom and meet some of the volunteer park rangers who work to protect the area's rich wildlife from poachers. The open-air thatch hut was buzzing with bugs that laughed at our pathetic attempts to spray them away, which made us even more impressed by the rangers' dedication to the wildlife conservation cause.
Taking photos of tropical flowers from a moving boat tends to be an exercise in futility. But, when we visited the ranger station bathroom, Mary and I noticed these Amazon Passion Flowers rising from the waters behind it. We loved its vibrant red color, the curled tendrils of the vine, and the black bees busily harvesting its nectar. So Mary held on tightly to my shirt as I leaned out over the water, 400mm zoom lens in hand, to get the angle on this shot.
We've seen quite a few howler monkeys in our travels (particularly in Costa Rica), but this was the first time we'd seen Red Howler Monkeys, which can be found throughout the Western Amazon Basin. These beauties typically live in groups of 5-7 (we actually saw one mama carrying a baby monkey from a distance), with one dominant male responsible for leading the group to new food sites and defending them from rivals. Their distinctive howling calls are amazing, and can be heard up to 5 km away.
It's bizarre to find yourself in an Eden-like environment where parrots, parakeets and macaws can be spotted as frequently as bluejays and cardinals in our back yard. These Chestnut-Fronted Macaws were among our favorite Amazon bird species, with their white faces, brown patches on their head and chin, and blue and red patches on their wings providing a nice splash of color. But their somewhat aggressive nature, which begins at puberty, earned them the species name Ava Severus (or Severe Macaw).
Here's an even better close-up shot of the crazy-looking Saki Monkey, which was previously featured in our Day 2 Photo Gallery. Doesn't he kind of look like he's wearing a Gene Simmons wig? Sakis are actually frugivores, with a diet that consists of over 90% unripe fruits and seeds supplemented by leaves, flowers and insects. Whatever this guy was eating, he was clearly engrossed by it, as he and his monkey pals took virtually no notice of our skiffs despite our relative proximity.
Around lunchtime, we finally arrived at our ultimate destination– the Pacaya-Samiria Ranger Station #2– which is the deepest point in the reserve travelers are allowed to visit. This is literally as far in the Peruvian Amazon as you can go, and we were excited about having lunch there and getting a chance to explore the area. Little did we know what an amazing surprise the rangers had waiting in store for us…
See that handsome fella there on the left, glaring at Mary out of the corner of his eye as she lines up the shot? He's almost a dead ringer for our 4-year-old Aussie Shepherd/Beagle mix Huckleberry, whom we miss like the dickens every time we travel. So I was delighted to spend some "face time" with him and his more affectionate sibling, both of whom seemed to be in desperate need of attention (and food). We're die-hard dog lovers, and not being able to take our dog everywhere we go may be our biggest obstacle to doing long-term travel.
All week we'd been struggling to get good photos of Peruvian fishermen working from traditional dugout canoes, but without much success. Either we were moving too fast, the light was too low, or the angle wasn't right. So, when we saw this guy repairing his fishing net as we walked upstairs to enter the ranger station, we were thrilled with the perfect balance of the angles, colors and lighting. This is one of my favorite shots we took in the Amazon.
How cool is this? WE'RE SWIMMING IN THE FREAKING AMAZON!!! Words cannot even begin to express how much I was looking forward to this experience, or how much I enjoyed floating in the cool river water after days of being baked by the sun. Mary was a little worried about piranhas or caimans in the area, but our guides assured her it was safe. I loved it so much that the first suggestion I made to International Expeditions after the trip was that they add more opportunities for swimming. Thanks to our friend Glenn Doonan for snapping this shot.
I was out on the porch alone, taking photos of a Pink-Toed Tarantula, when one of the rangers quietly mentioned that they had a surprise for us. I quickly grabbed Mary (who grabbed our GoPro), and as a result I believe we were the only ones in our group who got to see the ranger pulling this Baby Amazon Endangered Manatee (a.k.a. South American Manatee, the smallest manatee species) out of the huge canoe in which he'd been hidden to wait for our arrival. Amazon Manatees are a highly endangered manatee species due to poaching and habitat loss, and are so rare that our veteran guides had never seen one in the wild.
As they lifted this adorable little fella out of the water to be weighed and measured, we heard how he'd gotten there. The rangers had rescued him from poachers the day before as he was being taken to be sold to the highest bidder (Amazon manatees are highly prized as a valuable food source). Knowing that our group was coming, with a representative of World Wildlife Fund and two journalists, they decided to keep him there overnight so that we could share the story of their fight to preserve this rare wildlife species. We will have some incredible video of this baby manatee's release back into the wild coming soon!
To use my daughter's favorite word, our fourth full day in the Amazon proved to be completely magical, with one thrilling highlight after the other. From the monkeys and puppies to swimming in one of the world's most mythical rivers and an up-close encounter with one of the Amazon's most endangered animals, it was one of those picture-perfect days you simply wish would never end. But when the day did draw to a close, it was with one of the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen– an otherworldly vision of rich orange, pink and purple hues. Or, as they call it in the Amazon, Wednesday. –photos by Bret Love; photos by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett
If you enjoyed reading The Peruvian Amazon, Day 4- Endangered Manatee, you might also like:
Day 1- Piranha, Iguana, & Hotter than a Sauna
Day 2- Parakeets, Punk-Rock Birds & Pimp Monkeys
Day 3- 3-Toed Sloth, Toucan Sam and the Elusive Pink Amazon River Dolphin
PHOTO GALLERY: The Faces of Peru


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WinDbg, distributed as a part of Debugging Tools for Windows, is a user-mode and kernel-mode debugger with a graphical interface. It can also be used to debug user-mode crash dumps. It uses the Microsoft Visual Studio debug symbol formats for source-level debugging. more...
Debug messages (logs) generated by kDebug() and kWarning() are not visible on MS Windows unless application is compiled in so-called CONSOLE subsystem. To show these messages also in WINDOWS subsystem, you can use DebugView tool, coming from SysInternals (currently acquired by Microsoft). more...
kioslaves on windows are started by klauncher (or kio) as separate kioslave processes. The kioslave executable then loads the related kioslave dll dynamically.
To debug kioslaves:
set KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_WAIT=file
If the kioslave is requested the next time, a debugger will be started and attached to the kioslave process immediatly before the kioslave's kdemain() function.
On mingw platform gdb is launched and connected to the kioslave process. On msvc platforms the currently installed just-in-time debugger is used. This may be msvc's IDE or the WinDbg debugger. The latter could be set as jit-debugger by running 'windbg -I' command.
Alternatively, you can set KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_POPUP variable instead of KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_WAIT. This will display a native message box so developer you can attach the debugger to the KIO slave process and click OK. No DebugBreak() is invoked. Just click OK without attaching to continue using the KIO slave without debugging.
Dependency Walker is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules. more...
Let's assume you're using command line tools (typically CMake) and want to use MS Visual Studio environment for just debugging. You don't need to create msvc project for your KDE application to be able to start debugging.
If you have your application is already running, you can attach to it and then start debugging.
You can create a macro that automates the task. See [2].
If you are using the debug heap, memory is initialized and cleared with special values. Most interesting values are:
See also: [3]
You'll probably want to avoind stepping into lower-level functions like QString constructors or operators while debugging step-by-step. Here's the detailed (unofficial) instruction for various msvc versions.
From the msvc docs: "While debugging, Data Tips and items in the Watch and Variable windows are automatically expanded to show their most important elements. The expansion follows the format given by the rules in this file. You can add rules for your types or change the predefined rules." (example screen)
MSVC 2005: To add support for expanding Qt data structures like QString of QRect, edit {msvc_installation_directory}\Common7\Packages\Debugger\autoexp.dat file and paste definitions after [AutoExpand] line.
CONSOLE subsystem is the one that displays console window (used for standard output and error streams) in addition to application's windows. WINDOWS subsystem redirects standard output and error streams to system debugging subsystem that can be displayed if needed in DebugView or debuggers like msvc or WinDbg.
Hint: To remove CONSOLE subsystem from already built .exe file, type
editbin /subsystem:windows file.exe
Note: Qt's qmake syntax supports console and windows parameters of the CONFIG variable, so CONSOLE subsystem can be enabled by specifying CONFIG += console in the .pro file, windows subsystem can be enabled with CONFIG += windows.
Running a VC++2005 SP1 app on another computer: manifest files are needed. See [4] and [5].
The hints above are for release builds (or ReleaseWithDebugInfo). Moving Debug versions of binaries to other computers is only allowed (and technicallu possible) if you have Express Edition installed there, as there is no redistributable package for Debug versions provided and even the license disallows distribution of any debug binaries (even your own).
WARNING: If you are having crashes when starting applications via gdb beware of certain applications (mostly anti-virus software) that could cause problems like "Embassy Trust Suite", for example. See this post.


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Food & Folkways: Heirloom Memories from Europe, South Russia & the
Great Plains
By R M H Gueldner
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota, 2002, 224 pages, Softcover.
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is pleased announce publication of Rose Marie Gueldner's outstanding book, German Food & Folkways: Heirloom Memories from Europe, South Russia & the Great Plains.
Crispy Bratkartoffeln, succulent brathuhn, creamy Kopfsalat, tasty Knöpfla, brilliant Borscht, savory Strudel, plump Holubsti, Eintopfgerichte that can make a feast, invigorating Hochzeit Red Eye - you'll find more than 400 recipes for these historic foods titled in English and German with comments on how dishes varied within this seemingly homogeneous ethnic group. It's about family recipes for everyday and for holidays. It's about the farm butcher, the farmhouse cook and gardener, the home vintner. German Food & Folkways is about food and drink that has nourished and nurtured for centuries. And if too much time has gone by since you savored wholesome and delicious foods or just thought about those early times, this is the book for you.
Rev. William C. Sherman, Grand Forks, ND, author of Plains Folk and Prairie Mosaic, writes: "This is not just a compilation of recipes - it is a genuine survey of foods which are unknown to some, exotic to others and delightfully routine to many who have Eastern European roots. The book is history, geography, ethnicity, and the passage of time, all combined; a treat for the mind, a treat for the taste buds."
Dr. Timothy J. Kloberdanz, North Dakota State University, Fargo, a well known German-Russian researcher and author writes: "Although there are German-Russian cookbooks currently on the market, this one is quite unusual because of the way it interweaves background history, ethnic heritage, and so many mouth-watering Old Country recipes. If the German-Russians have a Martha Stewart anywhere in North America, it may very well be Rose Marie Gueldner!"
Brother Placid Gross, German-Russian folklorist at Assumption Abbey, Richardton, ND, writes: "This book is the crowning achievement of all cookbooks. It is a great and wonderful tribute to our pioneer mothers who knew how to hold body and soul together with hard work and creativity to make a banquet with the simplest of basic ingredients."
The Author
Rose Marie H. Gueldner, a descendant of Germans from Russia pioneers, has worked as an educator, professional cook, writer, journalist, and businesswoman. She spent years researching history, traveling to ethnic communities, visiting cooks, and gathering data for this book.
Gueldner shares in the Introduction: "My research in writing German Foods & Folkways involved not only cooking, tasting, and reading; but traveling and interviewing. Most of all, it involved listening to a variety of people - home cooks, botanists, butchers, historians and farmers. Of the five years spent on this book, four of them were research and one was writing."
Related Articles:
Gueldner, Rose Marie. "German Food & Folkways." South Dakota Magazine 18, no. 2: July/August 2002.
Phillips, Mark. "Gueldner Authors Historical Cookbook, An Endless Project." Herald Press, 6 April 2002.
Hvidsten, Nicole. "A Learning Experience." Star Tribune, 11 July 2002, T3.
Paulsen, Nikki D. "Learning History Through Cooking: Anamoose Woman Writes German Cookbook." Minot Daily News, 20 May 2002.
Gilmour, Deneen. "Of Holubtsi and Heritage: New Cookbook Shares Germans from Russia Recipes, Memoirs and History." Forum, 27 February 2002, B1.
Schock Cowerd, Gwen. "German Food & Folkways." Germans from Russia Foodways & Traditions (Facebook).
Book Review by Ingeborg W. Smith.
Tinker, Allan. "Searching for Germans from Russia Heritage." McClusky Gazette, 9 May 2002.
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Standard contracts have been approved by the President, appropriate Vice President, and the Office of the General Counsel. Using a standard contract will greatly expedite the review and approval process.
Criteria for use of a standard contract
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Mankind boasts an impressive list of inventions, but nowhere is this innovative spirit more recognizable than in the remote control.
Early humanity was responsible for creating things like the wheel, fire, fashionable hairpieces made of large bone and the notion of dinosaurs. In the past century alone technology has reached dizzying heights.
If you need proof just look at the advancements of audio devices, it reads like a genealogical Bible passage. Telegraphone beget Phonograph beget Record Player beget 8-Track beget Cassette Tape beget Compact Disc beget iPod beget Cell Phone.
Still, I place all my money on the remote control. You can have the Gutenberg press or the Internet; nothing will ever top the remote control. A remote control provides endless entertainment right at your fingertips — and you barely need to lift a finger to use one.
I won't sit here and pretend like I know how a remote control works. I have no idea. For all I know it could be magic. I don't care. All I know is I press a button, a little red light blinks on the remote and the channel changes from bull riding to professional wrestling. Everybody is happy. I am like a dog that comes across a delicious casserole, I don't ask questions.
Don't believe me? All right, you're entitled to your own stupid opinion, moron. All I ask is that you indulge one request. For the next day I want you to manually switch stations. If you don't like what is on one channel or the volume is too low I want you to drag your sorry carcass across the living room floor and manually change the channel or volume. Now do that for the rest of your life, and then tell me the remote control isn't the best invention of all time.
Frankly, if I had to physically get up each time and manually press the buttons on my television I wouldn't even bother tuning in.
I have never had a truly universal television remote control before. Up until recently I had three different remotes (two of which purporting to be universal) on my coffee table. One remote controlled the cable box, the other the television and the third was the only remote that adjusted the volume of my speakers. There was a fourth remote, which was for the VCR, but I rarely used it since VHS begets DVD begets Blu-ray begets ...
Last week after a cable package upgrade I received a new cable box and a brand-new remote control that I was assured was universal, easy to program and wouldn't shatter into thousands of little Made in China pieces when I inevitably knocked it on the wood floor. Durability has always been a strong selling point for me, and it would be for you as well if you were as forgetful, jerky and clumsy as I am.
Getting a new cable remote could not have happened sooner. My old remote was in a terrible state. It was bound in duct tape, covered in a thick coat of grime and had all of the words rubbed off of every button. Sometimes it worked, and when it did I would have to point the remote directly at the cable box and press down with force to change the channel. It was out of (remote) control.
Once I got the new remote I took the old one around the back of my shed, distracted it with a gesture of kindness and shot it in the head, "Old Yeller" style.
Rest in pieces.
This new state-of-the-art remote control is the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas, the ant's pants, the fly's thighs, the kipper's knickers and other 1920 slang terms expressing sheer delight. It might have 62 buttons on it, and I might really only ever use or understand four of those buttons, but it controls every device in my home entertainment arsenal.
And this remote only serves to embolden my claim that remote controls are the best invention of all mankind.
So what's my second favorite invention of all time?
Why it's the television, of course.
Now if you don't mind, I need to turn over on my other side. These bedsores aren't going to heal on their own.


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Burke hits out over leaked coal mine document
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has accused the New South Wales Government of leaking confidential information to improve the election chances of the Federal Opposition.
In a letter sent to the NSW Government before Christmas, Mr Burke flagged his intention to approve Whitehaven's Maules Creek open-cut coal mine, near Boggabri.
The letter was leaked by NSW Resources Minister Chris Hartcher, who is now accusing Mr Burke of delaying the mine's approval for political gain in the lead up to the federal election.
The mine is one of three in the Leard State Forest that will together form a mega mine complex, which will clear at least 5,000 hectares of land and produce 23 million tonnes of coal annually.
Mr Burke's assessment of the project under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act - the final hurdle in the approval process - was due on February 7, but he deferred his decision until the end of April.
He says leaking the letter was an extraordinary move.
"For the New South Wales Government to take an extraordinary step like they have, misrepresent the situation, effectively lie to the people about the situation, and then in doing so, breach the publication of commercially sensitive information, is an extraordinary thing," he said.
"Barry O'Farrell needs to decide if he is running a government or a PR machine."
Mr Burke says will no longer send confidential information to the NSW Government.
"Because they contain commercially sensitive information, no state government up until today has ever breached that confidence," he said.
"This is probably the last time I'll be able to responsibly share any of that information with [New South Wales], but that's a call they've made."
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, mining-rural, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, boggabri-2382, nsw
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Pulsations 1.27.14
Here's a new batch of Pulsations, links to fresh stories and visuals about Japan, shout-outs to fellow bloggers and highly clickable stuff that we think you might enjoy.
In no particular order . . .
職人の本気を感じるスマホスタンド「食品サンプルスタンド」4種類は観るだけでお腹がすいてくるクオリティ (from Gigazine): That's a lot of Japanese for non-speakers, but the photos are what you're clicking through for! How about propping up your iPhone on a super-detailed food model like the ones they use at restaurants?
Interview with graphic designer Ryo Ueda of Commune (from designboom): "Good identities might look simple on the surface, but are often the result of deep thinking. To err here and just create a simple things for the sake of it is very dangerous. because a superficial, simple design becomes immediately obsolete."
Tomopinion: Land of the Setting Sun (from Tomopop): Chris Seto gives a state of the Japanese figure industry address and blames the lack of innovation on the fans.
In Japan, Being Mickey Mouse Is a Part-Time Job (from Kotaku): The guy who does the Japanese voice of Mickey Mouse has a full-time job as a university professor.
Why deciding whether or not to help a crying girl is complicated in Japan (from RocketNews24): Can getting involved get you in more trouble than minding your own business?
Japanese Company Turns Font types into Glasses (from japanese streets): Now you can rest Helvetica or Garamond on your nose.
Video Pulse
Adam Magyar's high speed footage from a train sliding into Shinjuku Station has been making the rounds, but if you haven't seen it yet, prepare to get sucked in.


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WiP Wednesday #35
Lee's block for String Me Along
Megan's block for {Sew} Beautiful
do.Good.Stitches blocks
Still going:
Kaleidoscope QAL - I've finished up my quilt top, only to find that none of my photos turned out well at all, so I've got some diagrams to help you guys through this last step. I'm also starting to think about some quilt back options, which I'll share in next week's quilt-along post. We're in the final stretch here, folks!!
Warm/Cool QAL - I finished up the quilt top this weekend...but then I decided that I'm not entirely finished. I want this quilt to be bigger. Inspired by Lindsay's recent conversion of her Bottled Rainbows quilt to a bed-size, I'm seriously considering adding some big time borders to this quilt to make it bigger. Or adding additional HSTs - maybe some more rows, and some more columns to increase the size. But, in the meantime, I am adoring how the top is looking.
Farmer's Wife QAL - I'm sixteen blocks in at this point and thoroughly enjoying myself. These blocks are the perfect little pick-me-up when I need a quick finish, and I look forward to working on them every week. So far, this little long-term project is really agreeing with me!
4x5 Modern Quilt Bee - Now that all of our hives are sorted out, I'm working on coming up with a fun block to make for the girls in my beehive. A part of me is seriously considering doing some x and + blocks for my beehive, I really enjoyed doing those, so we'll see.
Special Delivery - I'm working with my diamond die to make a fun, offset, argyle-inspired pillow with some AMH Good Folks scraps I had lying about. I'm hoping to wrap this one up and share a simple tute with you guys on Friday :)
Birdie Stitches - Would you believe that I accidentally used my disappearing ink marker for tracing the pattern on this one? I did, and naturally, a week has gone by, and the ink is 110% gone. Argh. I'll have to start over on this one.
Seriously? I have UFO's?
Single Girl quilt
Super secret project - The ambitious side of me is making more out of this one than I initially intended, but I hope to have something to share soon, if nothing but some seriously tease-y photos :)
String Me Along bee quilt - Waiting on one more block and one more package of fabric to make it to me, and then I've got some plans for this one!
For the Love of Solids - Sign-ups open TODAY for our first round! Hop on over!
WiP Wednesday #35 Recap:
Last week's total: 10
Finished: 3
New: 1
This week's total: 8
What are you waiting for? Hop on over to Lee's to link up your progress this week and find some other awesome inspiration!
33 comments:
I am absolutely in love with the warm/cool quilt top! It's gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Your warm/cool quilt is stunning!!!ReplyDelete
Great decision to go bigger!
Look at you, busy girl! Your kaleidoscope is lovely!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Elisabeth! I love both of your quilts - they will be adorable! I would love to make similars! Thanks again for inspiration and energy you send to us!ReplyDelete
xxx Teje
Love your kaleidescope quilt! Hoping to get my blocks finished this week too! Any ideas on how you will quilt yours?ReplyDelete
Love all your work, beautiful. Good luck with what I call 'growing your quilt', I do it all the time!!! LOL!ReplyDelete
Seeing all those DS fabrics in your beautiful kaleidoscope quilt is making me think I might do the same with my stash (and did you see the sneak peak she released on fb yesterday of the next Joann's set that's coming out in August? Maybe even prettier! whee!) And I am SO in love with that warm/cool quilt - wondering how it would look done in all solids with some Kona charm packs...thanks for all the inspiration!ReplyDelete
wow that is a lot of on-going projects. I would be at a loss of what to work on if I had that many going on. This is where I blame the 5 and 3 year olds for distracting me way too often.ReplyDelete
You've been super busy. Makes me feel like I need to find some extra hours in the day. If only that were possible. All of your projects look great. I'm a big fan of your warm/cool quilt.ReplyDelete
Your Kaleidoscope looks great! So excited to put my blocks together! And I love your warm/cool! Very nice!ReplyDelete
Both your quilts look stunning!ReplyDelete
ohhh your warm cool quilt is stunning! I love how you arranged the HSTs in small diamond shapes, the colors really pop! Those diamonds are looking super fun :-)ReplyDelete
I fall in love with your kaleidoscope quilt top,awesome.ReplyDelete
Your warm cool quilt remind me the rainbow,it stunning.It beautiful!!
I love your Kaleidoscope! It's beautiful! Can't wait to see the results of your AMH pillow! It's amazing what you can do with scraps, isn't it?ReplyDelete
Your warm/cool quilt is so awesome! I just love it.ReplyDelete
Love all of this!! How do you find the time? Wish I could be as productive!ReplyDelete
Yes. You absolutely NEED to make the warm/cool quilt bigger for your bed. It is just too awesome not to! Kaleidoscope looks AWESOME! I can't wait to put mine together!! Yea!!ReplyDelete
Totally love your warm/cool quilt. It will be gorgeous on a bed!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love your warm-cool quilt! And yay, for so many finishes! :)ReplyDelete
Your Kaleidoscope looks great! Argh...I'm so behind on that! I had really hoped to keep up on this one. :(ReplyDelete
I think it would be fun to add a solid color border to the cool/warm quilt and then a border of larger HSTs. :)ReplyDelete
ooo i'm liking the offset argyle! can't wait to see how it turns out!ReplyDelete
That warm/cool quilt along quilt is gorgeous! I don't blame you for wanting to add more!ReplyDelete
I love your warm/cool quilt - so bright, colourful and cheery!ReplyDelete
Love your quilt tops!!ReplyDelete
Everything looks so great, Elizabeth! I'm especially loving your Kaleidascope quilt and your Warm/cool quilts. Wow!ReplyDelete
liking the colors in the kaleidoscope and the warm/cool quilt. both of them are very effective.ReplyDelete
Your quilt along quilts look lovely!ReplyDelete
It's been fun to see a lot of kaleidoscope quilts in the WIP photos from today--all due to your tutorial. I love seeing all the variations of this wonderful block.ReplyDelete
Your warm/cool is as lovely as YOUR kaleidoscope block!
Elizabeth E.
Love your two quilt tops - they both look awesome! That is fun that you are going to make the warm/cool bigger, it seems like it will really be a favorite so its worth it to go big! I am finally working on my Kaleidoscope and hoping to get somewhat caught up this week :)ReplyDelete
A most impressive WIP Wed report! Lots of eye candy. I'm all about the eye candy.ReplyDelete
Love that warm/cool top!!ReplyDelete
Oooh, can't wait for your diamond pillow tute! That looks fab. As do all your other WIPs, of course! I'm jealous of your completed kaleidoscope top! I think I'm coming around to the yellow though. Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday. : )ReplyDelete
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Morris bowled its highest three-game varsity girls bowling series of the year with a 3,578 Tuesday, defeating Kaneland in the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference at Echo Lanes.
Taylor Warwick had game totals of 246, 232 and 214 and a 692 series for the Redskins, who collectively bowled games of 1,256, 1,208 and 1,104. Savannah Strange bowled 224, 206 and 201 games for a 631 series, and Imelda Garcia's 203, 222 and 194 equaled a 619 series.
Minooka 3,335,
Plainfield South 2,633
A 702 series from Zach Segatto, which included game totals of 248, 259 and 195, paced Minooka on Tuesday in the Southwest Prairie Conference. Kai Devine bowled a 671 with games of 224, 180 and 267, John Kaufmann a 651 with games of 245, 233 and 173 and Alex Guglielmucci a 633 with games of 255, 199 and 179.
Morris 121,
Fenton 43
Morris won all three relays Tuesday. Its teams consisted of Justin Lizalek, Jimmy Meridieth, Jordan Ramirez and Jake Beaudin in the 200 medley (1:57.99); Beaudin, Sean Smith, Meridieth and Ramirez in the 200 free (1:46.13); and Stephen Motter, Jon Smyk, Smith and Lizalek in the 400 free (4:11.53).
Individual Morris winners were Beaudin in the 50 free (23.11) and the 100 free (53.98); Meridieth in the 200 IM (2:33.92) and the 100 breast (1:10.75); Smith in the 200 free (2:16.41) and the 500 free (6:13.63); Lizalek in the 100 back (1:10.05); and Ramirez in the 100 fly (59.42).
Second-place finishers from Morris were Marcus Schluntz, Motter, Kevin Sheridan and Jon Smyk in the 200 free relay (1:58.88); Jacob Kozinski in the 200 free (2:40.24); Lizalek in the 200 IM (2:39.32); and Ramirez in the 50 free (23.87).
Morris vs. Knoxville, Princeton
Morris defeated Knoxville 71-6 and Princeton 65-18 on Tuesday. Cody Decker (145 pounds), in 1:59 and 2:50, and Dalton Ness (220), in 1:11 and 1:29, each won twice by fall for the Redskins.
Other Morris double winners were Tony Menozi (106 pounds), by forfeit and by technical fall 16-0; Kenny Baldridge (132), by forfeit and by fall in 22 seconds; A.J. Vota (138) by decision 2-1 and by fall in 3:27; Emmet Chouinard, (160) by major decision 14-4 and by forfeit; Trevor Allbert, by fall in 3:29 and by forfeit; and Victor Toussaint (195), by forfeit and by fall in 1:08.
Redskins who won only against Knoxville were Andrew Smith (113 pounds) by major decision 16-8; Jarred Bernard (120) by fall in 4:27; Dominic Byerly (126) by fall in 3:44; Merrick Hairapetian (152) by fall in 5:20; and Mason Dryfhout (285) by forfeit. Winners against only Princeton were Ian Bernard (113); Josh Skrapits (152); and Andrew Fought (285), all by forfeit.
Seneca vs. Peotone, Sandwich
Seneca was swept Tuesday, falling 42-18 to Peotone and 60-24 to Sandwich. Double winners from Seneca were Tommy Lovett (182 pounds) by injury default and by fall in 2:43, and Dayton Coyle by decision 9-4 and by fall in 1:00. The Irish also got wins against Peotone from Tyler Williams (120) by forfeit and Bryce Coyle (152) by fall in 2:48; and wins against Sandwich from Kyle Sigmon (132) by fall in 1:28 and Lucas Altobella (152) by fall in 2:22.
Southside Baptist 36
Families of Faith Christian Academy received 30 points and 12 rebounds from Josiah Blan and 11 points along with a program-record 10 assists from Cody Blan. Brandon Cline and Vincent Dorantes had nine points each for the Eagles (12-2) on Tuesday.
Wilmington 51,
Fourteen points each from Tristan Noonan and Kyle Robison and eight points from Blake Marks led Gardner-South Wilmington (3-4) on Tuesday as it failed to maintain an early 9-0 lead.
"We didn't get beat tonight, we beat ourselves," GSW coach Chris Gibson said. "Our mental approach to the game was disappointing and that showed up in the form of a loss at the end of the night."
Clifton Central 65,
Dwight 48
Triston Dircks led Dwight (3-3) with 13 points and five rebounds Tuesday. Jace Kennedy had eight points.
Southside Baptist 19
Alli Wills had 16 points and 17 rebounds, Destiny Villalejo had 16 points and 14 rebounds and Natalie Robertson had 10 points for FOFCA (6-4) on Tuesday.
Coal City 50,
Seneca 23
Blake Harseim had 15 points, Sean Micetich had seven points and Jake Krug had six points Tuesday for the Coal City eighth-grade boys.


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Made with an old, defunct, tv set, this makeshift bar adds a heck of a lot of character to any room, and might work well, for those in need, in a tiny house or cabin.
So I got an email, pretty recently, from a guy who was looking to build a tiny house (10' by 15' was the plan), and he was concerned about entertaining people, as it was something he did a lot of. "Deek, I'm looking to put a BAR in my tiny house, any ideas"?
Well, in terms of space, you'd certainly be limited with a house that is only 150 square feet, so as I got thinking about it, a felt a traditional bar wouldn't make much sense, but then I stumbled across this gorgeous photo on pinterest, and thought this might be fun route to take.
While this doesn't really have the traditional counter space a normal bar would, it has a few things a run-of-the-mill bar might not….
1. Its a heck of a focal point in a room
2. Its a conversation starter
3. Its made from otherwise useless recycled goods
4. It'd cost almost nothing to make
5. It doesn't take up an insane amount of space
Additional drink mixing (if need be, as you do have the tv top already) could be done on a fold-down (from the wall) table of sorts, but in terms of liquor storage with a twist, this project is pretty incredible! Not to mention incredibly easy….
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TeddyF needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 91 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
NYC Knitwear
This is a retail fashion manufacturing company based in New York City whose parent company is headquartered in China. This company manufactures knitwear apparel (sweaters in particular) for women.
The attached image is from the parent company and it will usually appear alongside the new logo on all printed material and company collateral. The new logo should stand out from the parent company's logo but not overwhelm it and vice versa. It would be helpful for the NYC part of the new logo to stand out and be somewhat different from the "Knitwear" portion. The logo should "say" by looking at it that it represents New York and western culture while the Knitwear portion represent fashion and creativity. OR one part can be cursive and ornate, while the other part be in block bold lettering. Use these ideas as guidelines, but do not allow them to stifle your creativity. I look forward to seeing your ideas. One last note: The company has 2 different variations at the end of its name: "Inc." and "Group Inc.". Maybe designs can have placeholders for both variations so that they can be used interchangeably or simply leave them out if your design cannot accomodate it. Thank you!
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