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CST Chevy Steering UpgradePosted in How To: Suspension Brakes on May 27, 2012
Over the past year we've enjoyed cruising the coastal beaches and local southeast trails with our mildly built '04 Chevy Tahoe. Though we wouldn't consider our Bow Tie wheeler a hardcore crawler, it does serve as an excellent backwoods explorer and daily commuter. Overall, the Chevy has been "like a rock" in many ways, but we've been a little concerned about the factory IFS steering tie rod links. In the stock configuration the links are fine. It's when you add the leverage of a meaty, oversized tire and rugged terrain that the thin links become a potential point of failure.
Sure, ditching the IFS setup altogether for a beefy solid front axle sounds like a great idea, but it would be an expensive and, in our case, unnecessary upgrade.
Fortunately CST Performance Suspension has created a simple steering upgrade for late-model GM pickups and SUVs. The CST Extreme Duty tie rod replacement kit comes with a set of complete (inner and outer joints) tie rod links that are designed to be twice as strong as the factory units. The CST links are easy to install, as they bolt in place of your factory links and will work with both stock and most aftermarket suspension systems. The install takes roughly an hour and doesn't require any specialty tools, though you will need a torque wrench to fasten the outer joints to spec. For more information and to see a complete application list visit www.cstsuspension.com.

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Bärbel Hopf is a Clairol Professional session colorist. Since 1999, Bärbel has owned her own salon and hairdressing training school, Pro Haar, in Zwickau, Germany.
Bärbel trained to be a hairdresser in London, Milan and Paris – some of the world's top fashion capitals. Hairdressing is in Bärbel's blood, as her mother was also a hairdresser and the two worked together for several years until Bärbel opened her own salon.
During her successful career, Bärbel has trained stylists from all around the world and says the best part is seeing the success her trainees go on to achieve over the years. She is integral to Clairol Professional events, shows and photoshoots and has worked all around the world, including in Poland, Hungary, Russia, Denmark and South Africa.
Bärbel now has 30 years experience in the hairdressing industry and for 18 of those years, she has been an ambassador for Clairol Professional.
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MetroTube for many Windows Phone users is the be-all, end-all for your mobile YouTube experience. With a slick design and excellent performance there's little wonder.
Here at BUILD we were able to catch up with the developers behind MetroTube (and the new Windows 8 Twitter app Tweetro) for quick look at the upcoming update that will bring some new Windows Phone 8 features, including doublewide tiles and a new preloading feature (basically downloading for offline viewing).
In addition, we got a preliminary look at MetroTube for Windows 8 RT, which we can confirm is now officially in the works for your Surface.
Finally, we got to play with the new Tweetro Twitter (tweetroapp.com) app for Windows 8, one of many Twitter apps that are now on the Windows 8 Store. We happen to like Tweetro a lot due to its ease of Tweeting and great design. But check out our video and you and take a look for yourself.
You can pick up MetroTube for Windows Phone here in the Store and Tweetro for Windows 8 here. We'll of course keep you posted on when the new update for MetroTube goes live in the Store.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. home prices rose in December, and saw the largest year-over-year gain since 2006, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index released Tuesday. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite posted a nonseasonally adjusted 0.2% increase in December, following a 0.1% decline in November. After seasonal adjustment, home prices rose 0.9% in December. "Home prices ended 2012 with solid gains," said David Blitzer, index committee chairman at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Looking at longer-term trends, December's prices were up 6.8% from the same period in the prior year -- the largest annual gain since July 2006 - with increases in 19 of 20 cities. New York was the only city with a year-over-year decrease, falling 0.5%. Low inventories and increasing demand have supported prices over the past year. Despite housing-market gains, prices remain about 29% below a bubble peak in 2006, according to Case-Shiller data.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend, a particularly accurate quote that can be used to describe the Coalition,
The Anti-Caspian Coalition, ACC For Short, is a Military Alliance of the Remaining major Powers in the BSS that was Founded in G.R 2012 to Counter the Expansionist Caspian Empire.
The Sokolov Conflict in February G.R 2012 marked the end ofthe third era, During the Conflict, a Colonel from the Caspian Federation 3rd Army by the name of Naumova, Left his duties in pursuit of personal fortune, He was Summarily Ejected from the Military. Disgraced, Naumova began to convince several of the more radical and extremist Political and Military Leaders in the Federation that the current leadership had caused the state to stagnate, and was incapable of ending the war.
Several Federation Systems defected and joined the Inssurection, The Naumova Rebellion lasted only two months before it was Crushed, Naumova was Executed, and most of the traitor politicians were imprisoned. However the Rebellion would have a lasting impact on the Caspian State, The Leadership admitted that it had become too laid back and stagnated, Shortly after the Rebellion, the Federation began invading Volkan, Kamazian and Protoxan Systems en masse, quickly becoming an radical expansionist state. The Federation renamed itself the "Caspian Empire", hellbent on becoming the sole ruling power of the BSS, By any means necessary.
After Months of being hammered by the New Empire, the Principle opposing powers grew tired of a constant loosing battle, for they were also at war with each other. Historically, the Kamazian and Volkan states were once allies, but circumstances drove them apart. The VDR and Kamazian Union elected to unite once again against their common enemy, The Protoxan State had historically been a friend of the Caspians, but eversince the Sokolov Conflict, the Caspian state sought to rub it out, as they felt it wasn't worthy of owning the territory it held for such a small nation.
The ACC is a Coalition of the Kamazian Union *Red*, Volkan Democratic Republic *Black* and the Holy Protoxan State *Blue*, Each member state's military functions interdependently, Armies frequently combine in larger engagements with the Empire, however each State retains it's own essensce as they each develop their own forces.
Combined Arms of the ACC
Kamazian Vehicles
Kodiak Heavy Battletank - Rugged Kamazian Main Battletank
Kamazian FAV - Light Fast Attack Vehicle,
Roshenko APCs
Varlamov MCV - The Kamazian's General Purpose Combat Vehicle is Larger than most, Rivaling the size of dedicated APCs *Stock Set*
Lemko Military Car - General purpose transport vehicle used for light duties
Volkan Vehicles
MSW-2012 MCV - General Purpose Combat Vehicle, Much Smaller than the Kamazian Counterpart *Stock Set*
MSW-150 APC - Heavily armored, unarmed APC
MSW-200 II APC - Medium Armored, Armed APC
The Earlier MSW-200 I, that carried signifigantly less armor.
MSW-10VT - Designation for the Aging Volkan Variant of the aging Battlemaster series
MSW-1000 "Mastodon" - Super Heavy APC / Assault Vehicle
Protoxan Vehicles
Pandora Combat Truck
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I don't know anybody who enjoys dry cleaning. If you want a really funny story about dry cleaning, you can check out my friend, Vicky, at the Pursuit of Normal here.
But besides the fact that dry clean only clothes are typically more expensive, cost more to clean than washable fabrics, and require a time investment to drop them off and pick them up, it turns out that dry cleaning is also bad for your health.
The main culprit is a chemical known as tetrachloroethene. If you have ever walked into a dry cleaning shop, you have likely noticed a very strong, almost sweet, odor. That particular fragrance comes primarily from this chemical.
Just because you don't personally work in a dry cleaning shop, that doesn't mean that you are not at risk. The chemical's residue remains in your clothing items. As you wear them, that residue is laying against your skin. And even if you're using a dry cleaning bag until you're ready to wear the items, the chemical evaporates into the air and permeates throughout your closet and home. There have even been high levels of the chemical found in vehicles transporting items picked up from dry cleaning shops.
Tetrachloroethene mostly causes damage from inhalation. According to the National Resources Defense Council, some of the symptoms include dizziness, headaches and nausea. Long term exposure can cause damage to the liver, kidneys and central nervous system.
Tetrachloroethene can also be released into the ground. If allowed to reach the water table, it is possible to be exposed each time we drink water, wash dishes or shower. Municipalities are encouraged to test tetrachloroethene levels in their water supply but those who have wells would require independent testing.
The EPA considers tetrachloroethene a Group A carcinogen, which means it's potentially carcinogenic to humans, and definitely hazardous to plants and fish. According to the Parkinson's Institute, exposure to this solvent, can increase a person's "risk of developing Parkinson's disease by nearly sixfold".
If you would like to investigate "green" dry cleaners in your area, go to www.earth911.org and put in your zip code. The best practice will always be to refrain from buying dry clean only clothes in the first place, but if you must, do your part to help preserve your health and the environment in the process.
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NEW YORK (AP) More than 10 years after her son was gunned down on the
Brooklyn Bridge, Devorah Halberstam celebrated the grand opening of the Jewish Children's Museum today with a dedication to the memory of her slain child.
Halberstam called the museum ``the answer to terrorism.'' The ribbon-cutting, timed to coincide with the first night of Hannukah, was created to memorialize Ari Halberstam, a 16 year-old who was shot and killed in 1994 when a Muslim gunman opened fire on
a van of Hasidic students crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
One of the musuem's aims is to promote peace and understanding among children of all backgrounds. It is located in Crown Heights, the neighborhood where rioting erupted in 1991 after 7-year-old Gavin Cato, who was black, was struck and killed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish driver. Three hours later, a group of angry blacks shouting
``Get the Jew!'' stabbed Jewish scholar Yankel Rosenbaum, who later died.
The museum's opening was attended by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor Rudolph Guliani and other elected officials and
community leaders.
About 100 children played in the museum, which includes a 12-foot spinning top, called a dreidel, ``matzoh balls'' the size of volleyballs, and an indoor minature golf
course with lessons on ``major Jewish life events.''
Ten-year-old Tafari King of Brooklyn said ``it seems more fun than a regular
The museum aims to speak to children on their own terms. Instead of a standard
exhibit explaining kosher food, the museum has a model kosher grocery store, where children can pretend to shop for food. A game show room features a trivia game called
The building, the result of 10 years of planning and construction, cost more than $30(M) million dollars and features computer labs, a library, a movie theater, more than 80 different activities, and a community center.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Rimini Street to Oracle: don't expect us to roll over
As everyone knows by now, Oracle won a huge ($1.3 billion) judgment in its lawsuit against SAP/TomorrowNow (TN) for copyright infringement. SAP had acquired its now-shuttered TN unit to provide third-party support for some Oracle business applications in hopes of winning those customers over to SAP. SAP is considering an appeal of the jury verdict, the largest ever in a copyright case.
In the meantime, Oracle has a lawsuit pending against another third-party support provider, Rimini Street. At first glance, Rimini Street "looks like" TN in that both are/were providers of third-party support for Oracle applications. Furthermore, Oracle's lawsuit makes similar allegations--some of it appears to have been cut and pasted from its suit against SAP.
So it would be easy to assume that Oracle's hand against Rimini Street has been strengthened by its win against SAP.
Why Rimini Street isn't TomorrowNowIt would be easy, but it would be wrong. Here's why:
I suspect Oracle would like to have these two lawsuits run together in the mind of customers, prospects, and the general public. But, Rimini Street appears determined not to let that happen.
- Admission of liability. Nearly from the start, SAP admitted that something was wrong down at its TN unit. By the time the case went to trial, SAP had basically thrown in the towel, admitting not only that TN had violated Oracle's copyrights but that SAP itself knew about the illegal behavior.
In contrast, Rimini Street is making no such admissions. It has from the beginning steadfastly rejected all allegations that it is violating or has violated Oracle's IP rights. In several interviews I've conducted with the firm's executives over the past three years, it has claimed to have established clear policies and standards to prevent such misuse and has offered to have Oracle audit its practices. Oracle has refused such offers, choosing instead to file a lawsuit. So much for allowing Rimini Street to compete fairly.
- Counter-punching. From the start, SAP was playing defense against Oracle's allegations. It never counter-sued or alleged misdeeds on the part of Oracle.
In constrast, Rimini Street is fighting back. In a statement sent to me by Rimini Street last week, the firm writes, "While SAP chose not to challenge Oracle's allegations of liability, Rimini Street is aggressively challenging Oracle's allegations and prosecuting its own claims against Oracle."
It goes on, "While SAP chose not to challenge Oracle's allegations, Rimini Street has countersued, accusing Oracle of defamation and using illegal and unfair practices to stifle competition for the lucrative support and maintenance business. Rimini Street intends to stop what it believes are Oracle's illegal actions and is seeking to hold Oracle responsible for its conduct."
In other words, if Oracle thought Rimini Street would simply roll over, it thought wrong.
SAP's hands were tied against OracleThe ironic part of the Oracle v. SAP/TN case is that SAP couldn't mount a vigorous defense without shooting itself (forget about the foot!) in the head. SAP, like Oracle, is addicted to its lucrative maintenance business. It is baffling why SAP chose to acquire TN in the first place, for some tactical advantage in converting a few Oracle customers to SAP? While undermining its whole business model for sustaining revenues from its installed base? What was SAP thinking?
So, when Oracle filed suit against SAP, what was SAP supposed to do--counter-sue Oracle for restraint of trade and unfair competition, and thereby conceding to any large hungry system integrator or competitor (think, IBM or HP) that its own installed base maintenance revenues were ripe for picking? Of course, SAP had to defend itself. But it couldn't defend itself too strongly, lest it wind up giving legal precedent to the third-party support industry. As it turns out, as the case proceeded through discovery, Rimini Street announced it would begin offering third-party support services for SAP's customers in addition to the services it was offering to Oracle customers. So, SAP was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Rimini Street has no such baggage. It can and appears to be willing to mount a vigorous defense of its own rights to offer third-party support services, based on the contractual rights of customers to self-maintain their licensed software, while respecting the IP rights of OEM software vendors.
Why Rimini Street's case is importantAs Rimini Street stresses in its statement this week, "both Oracle and SAP have acknowledged that third-party support is legal." I covered this point back in 2008 in a post entitled, Legal basis for third-party ERP support industry. In a little-noticed letter filed by SAP as part of pretrial discovery, TomorrowNow strongly asserted its legal right to offer third-party support for PeopleSoft customers, and PeopleSoft backed down from its claim that such support was illegal. Furthermore, to my knowledge, Oracle has not gone so far as to argue that TN had no right to offer support. Only that it did so by stealing Oracle's IP.
Rimini Street is strongly claiming not to be infringing on Oracle's IP. If it can back up that claim in court, then, in my opinion, a strong legal precedent will be established for the third-party support industry. Furthermore, if Rimini Street is successful in its counter-claim against Oracle, it will strongly restrict the attempts of vendors to prevent customers from seeking third-party support--which, ironically, SAP itself appears to have tried to do in 2009!
Strange, isn't it? SAP was defending itself as a provider of third-party support for Oracle customers, while at the same time apparently trying to prevent its own customers from using third-party support.
So, SAP was fighting Oracle with one hand tied behind its back. As Rimini Street's statement now points out, "Had SAP availed itself of the claims and defenses pleaded by Rimini Street in its case against Oracle, SAP would have placed its own policies and third party revenues in jeopardy. "
So, why is the Rimini Street case important? Because the rights of customers to not be locked into a single source for maintenance and support needs to be preserved. As I've written many times in the past, when you buy a Lexus, you have the right to take that Lexus to any third-party repair shop. Lexus cannot try to stop you or threaten to void your warranty if you do so. If they tried, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and 50 state attorneys general probably would file suit. Why should the enterprise software industry be any different?
DoJ is reported to be looking into the Oracle/SAP matter. If so, and while it's learning about this industry, it should also take a look at the restraint of trade and antitrust implications of both SAP and Oracle's behavior in attempting to prevent a viable third-party support industry.
Statement from Rimini StreetHere is the full statement from Rimini Street, sent to me last week.While SAP chose not to challenge Oracle's allegations of liability, Rimini Street is aggressively challenging Oracle's allegations and prosecuting its own claims against Oracle.Update, 1:40 p.m.: Dennis Howlett has a good post on the long-term implications for customers if vendors can get away with squashing the nascent third-party maintenance industry.
We believe the resolution of the Oracle vs. SAP case does not impact Rimini Street's case against Oracle and does not change anything in the fast-growing third-party support market.
A few key facts:
Both Oracle and SAP have acknowledged that third-party support is legal. Oracle's claims relate to the specific processes and procedures used to provide support for their products. The processes and procedures used by Rimini Street are very different from those used by SAP.
The only substantive similarity between the offerings of SAP/TN and Rimini Street is that they both provide third party support at 50% off the software vendor's annual fees. As clearly articulated in the court documents and the thousands of pages of process documents provided to Oracle by Rimini Street, every other aspect of Rimini Street's operations is significantly different that the operations of SAP/TN. Oracle knows this to be true.
We believe the magnitude of the damages award is a result of SAP's peculiar decision to concede liability and ultimately not challenge Oracle's claims. It bears noting that SAP, like Oracle, derives many billions of dollars from maintenance and update services to its customers with profit margins not unlike Oracle's.
SAP's practices and conduct in their attempts to chill growth of third party maintenance are similar to Oracle's. Had SAP availed itself of the claims and defenses pleaded by Rimini Street in its case against Oracle, SAP would have placed its own policies and third party revenues in jeopardy. SAP abandoned these claims and defenses at its own peril, as the size of the damages award illustrates. While SAP chose not to challenge Oracle's allegations, Rimini Street intends to stop what it believes are Oracle's illegal anti-competitive actions and will hold Oracle responsible for its actions.
While SAP chose not to challenge Oracle's allegations, Rimini Street has countersued, accusing Oracle of defamation and using illegal and unfair practices to stifle competition for the lucrative support and maintenance business. Rimini Street intends to stop what it believes are Oracle's illegal actions and is seeking to hold Oracle responsible for its conduct.
Related postsSAP and third-party maintenance: good for me but not for thee
Legal basis for third-party ERP support industry
Oracle slams Rimini Street with lawsuit over third-party maintenanceby Frank Scavo, 11/29/2010 07:07:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
Reader Comments:Frank -
I would have liked to see some mention on the links between TomorrowNow and Rimini Street, e.g., Seth Ravin. Seth is CEO and President (and Founder) of Rimini Street, and was Founder of TomorrowNow and self-described architect of the service. In fact, if you read this detailed interview http://www.cio.com/article/333313/The_Man_Behind_Half_Off_Third_Party_Software_Maintenance, you'll see he says things that imply that Rimini Street is a carbon copy of TomorrowNow - e.g., "Our basic model for TomorrowNow customers is that you're going to get the same kind of savings. What we're offering is on top of what they're used to, which is the vanilla offering that I actually assembled—because it hasn't changed much from what I put together at TomorrowNow several years ago when we were launching the company. So what we provide is extended coverage beyond that, as part of what I built at Rimini Street. ... You can't take the facts away of the history because our histories have run together. There's no way to separate it. ... You cannot take us 100 percent apart and say we have nothing to do with each other."
In his own words ...
Oddly, in his bio http://www.riministreet.com/senior_management_team.htm on the Rimini Street web site, he does not mention that he was founder of TomorrowNow. He alludes to it but never mentions the name TomorrowNow in his bio.
I have yet to see a description of how Rimini Street identifies bugs, creates fixes, tests the fixes, and deploys them to customers. It's hard to imagine that Rimini Street does this with a small staff lacking access to the core product developers and the entirety of the products' source code.
I look forward to hearing how this is done. Everyone should aspire to a more efficient deployment and maintenance of enterprise software, but not if it means IP theft, as SAP confessed to in its case with Oracle.
Thanks, and keep up the great research and analysis!
- Dennis Moore
Thanks, Dennis. I'm sure those quotes you dug out will ultimately be presented by Oracle, if this case ever reaches trial. On the surface, I can see how someone might draw the conclusion that Rimini and TN are birds of a feather.
As I indicated in the main post, I have queried Rimini Street on this point at least twice, maybe three times over the past three years. Each time, Rimini Street has been very clear that they have established strong policies, procedures, and controls to prevent misuse of Oracle's IP. I have not personally audited those controls, however, and can only relay what Rimini has represented to me.
If this case moves forward, I'm sure we'll have a chance to see the kind of detail you are looking for. I hope it does move forward, because as I said, I would like to see a clear model and precedent for doing 3PM properly. That would create a more healthy marketplace for enterprise software, with a more even balance of power between buyers and sellers.
I believe third party support/maintenance is here to stay thanks to the steady hand of the DoJ and equivalent government bodies around the globe. Third party providers will get smarter at avoiding IP theft and enterprise vendors will get smarter at controlling access to their IP.
The question is how much market share third parties will hold over time. The percentage will provide a valuable measure of customer dissatisfaction. Enterprise vendors will form their own view on what amount of third party share is tolerable to them - and take pricing and product decisions to influence this.
I don't buy the idea that customers (on third party maintenance) are happy with their mature and stable enterprise solutions. Instead these customers have been stung by the complexity and cost of enterprise solutions and have run for cover. Inside each customer is a large group of managers and an even larger group of staff who are dissatisfied with their dinosaur solution and wonder why it has fallen so far behind the consumer apps they have on the personal smart phone. Yes this isn't a fair comparison – for various reasons – but it makes the point that there is much room for improvement.
Many of these companies have themselves to blame as much as they do enterprise vendors, but given the situation they now find themselves in, seeking a lower cost model is a wise move - or the only viable move in the short term. Some customers have resorted to no support at all.
So, assuming these customers do in fact want to improve their solution, this begs the question of where do they go from here? Developing on third party support might be a good option for a number of years but in the long run leads to a dead end thanks to the proprietary technology. Instead they must either reconnect with their original vendor or seek out a replacement proprietary vendor, open source vendor, or build their own system using either proprietary or open source technologies.
Personally I think those customers in or seeking third party maintenance are good candidates for an open source solution - because they are willing to deal with the same sort of fragmentation or "fork" issues that come with open source development. For this reason if I were in Rimini Street's shoes, I would consider acquiring an open source enterprise vendor, or form a strategic alliance with an open source enterprise vendor – and offer a "safe passage" program similar to what SAP tried to do with TomorrowNow.
Going back to the big proprietary enterprise vendors, I think that by increasing openness and interoperability, they will be able to address much of the rot that has set in. They can still control the high ground (platforms and infrastructure) while opening the floodgates for consumer tech to flow into the corporate application landscape.
Matthew, I agree with you regarding the factors that make 3PM appealing to customers. I also believe that even in the bulk of customers do not go with 3PM, the fact that they *can* do so puts some much-needed balance of power into the customer/vendor relationship. In other words, it puts some pressure on vendors to improve their quality of service and moderate their pricing.
As you may know, I happen to be an advocate for open source solutions, generally. However, I don't think Rimini Street has any interest, nor should they, in offering any solution. They are a services business pure and simple. There's something to be said in favor of focus.
I interviewed with Rimini Street 2 years ago when they were planning to start their SAP practice and I asked some tough questions and wanted to see how they can provide support without source code. I wanted to see how Rimini Street identifies bugs, creates fixes, tests the fixes, and deploys them to customers. It's hard to imagine that Rimini Street does this with a small staff lacking access to the core product developers and the entirety of the products' source code.
As I expected the EVP from Loas Angeles had no clue and he danced around the issue. I immediately suspected some thing.
Funny thing was they wanted me to sign a NDA even for an interview which I refused to sign ! EVP not knowing that I had not signed an NDA, called me over the phone for interview and said his business model is confidential and ehnce he wanted the NDA etc. When I said your business model is nothing different than Tomorrow Now business model, he immediately shut up.
Hi Jay, two things: first, can you let us know what you do for a living, and what your relationship is with SAP, if any?
Second, is Rimini Street able to provide its services while respecting Oracle's IP rights? That is the subject of Oracle's lawsuit. You indicate you were not able to learn much about Rimini Street's processes without signing an NDA. Well, if this case goes to trial, I suppose you'll get your answer one way or another, right?
My company has now spoken to Rimini Street about both PeopleSoft and SAP support. Both times we were never able to feel comfortable about their answers for how they build and source patches. They always said Oracle wouldn't sue them but here we are. What if SAP decides to sue as well? Be interesting to see how it plays out.
Rimini Street told us they will only use our own patches that we are entitled to and they download while we are a paying support customer. They feel if they download for us while on support we have rights in the future to all that material available if we downloaded it before support ended. Our license agreement seemed to say we do have this right but our lawyers said it could be a lot of exposure if we were proven wrong down the road. In two years if Rimini goes "kaput" imagine what will happen to us if we need to go back to Oracle or SAP.
What really worried us the is in the future they will provide NO security updates, NO tools fixes, NO database updates, etc. It seemed the longer we stayed on an old release the more we will end up boxed in due to changing technology, we have all seen what happens when browsers chang. They claim workarounds exist but couldn't/wouldn't share tme with us now If we discover a new issue they create a one of patch just for us, there are no proactive updates available.
We also never felt comfortable knowing there was a chance they could use our downloaded material for another customer they were supporting ala TN. They say they won't but if they did would we be responsible if Oracle/SAP came back to us as the original licensee and we didn't protect the downloaded material?
Support seemed to be pretty good from the checking we did, but they were quite evasive on the SAP side about how many resources they have and if they could really support P1 issues from multiple customers if they occurred at the same time. We didn't think there was a true global support infrastructure that could respond to multiple customers having high priority issues at the same time. They seem to be playing the odds that this won't occur.
In the end it seemed almost all of their customers were using them while preparing to move to another platform or they were in some sort of drastic cost cutting mode. We didn't feel like 50% savings would be enough when you weighed all of the potential exposure and questions about what to do in 3-5 years when we might have to make a change. The ROI seemed ok until you factored in the stuff they didn't want to talk about as their ROI won't look nearly as good as the spreadsheets they send out with your data.
And to the first poster- LinkedIn is great for checking on people and we noticed the same changes to the CEO's biography and past statements about his role at TN. TN was a pretty small company, kind of hard to be out of the loop if you were an executive there.


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Saturday, November 13, 2010
The New and Improved Penrose Blood Family Blog
We do have some work to do. I would suggest we focus a bit on telling short stories and anecdotes and reproducing documents and such in addition to just commenting on the blog posts, though the latter comments are important. We need to encourage family members who are members of the extended Blood family to feel at home on this blog. I also encourage readers who visit our blog who are not members of our family to share their experiences in developing family blogs and the benefits their families have received from their blogs. Finally, we need a major streamlining of the categories to make it easier to archive similar material. I hope that in the next year or two, heaven willing, that we can compile one or a series of family printed books from archived material. I hereby resign from fiddling with the blog. If I could learn HTML I could likely post our own photo on the side backgrounds and maybe in the next life I will be shown by some kindly young person how to do that.
Thank you all for your patience with me and for your continued interest and participation in this blog. I think we have all found a home here and that we have been blessed with closer contact than we would ever have experienced without Penrose Mornings. The future of this blog is limited only by the ingenuity of our participants and readers. I would like to think we would be smart enough to take family blogging and family history blogging to a new and higher level that would not only benefit us, but also be of help to countless others who are considering starting such a blog, or who have started one and then seen it languish. The benefits are simply too great, the family ties too important, and the heritage to be passed on too valuable and fleeting, to not take this project seriously. Cheers, dmb
6 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
Very good - and since I got to "tee-hee" and "haw-haw" with you yesterday, I get to respond first. We will persevere. There are so many stories and pictures and other things to share. As I look back on the blog, there is much history there, as well as an increased appreciation for our heritage. And, if we do some occasional re-runs, it doesn't matter- just brings events back to remembrance. (By the way, pansies were one of Mother's favorites. Much better than the books.)
- November 14, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- Steve Blood said...
I miss the books.
- November 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Judy said...
I want strawberries. Can't you find strawberries?
- November 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM
- Steve Blood said...
So many trouble makers, so little time.
- November 15, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- Ann said...
Books? What books?
It is always fun to open up the blog and see what is new. As I am copying the blog over to create a PDF document, I have to say that some of the funnest stuff is the running commentary on what begins as a very innocuous posting. Please don't stop with the comments. They will provide a great insight to anyone who may read the copy and not know us, or for us as we all get older and forget about funny stuff - in the comments we become our true selves.
In an attempt to be diplomatic,I must admit I miss the color in heading photo. I know you are tired of messing with this, but another thought is the title of the blog gets really lost on my computer - maybe if I had a MAC I wouldn't have that problem. It will be interesting to see how the larger font copies over, but I suspect I can change the font in my copy once it is pasted into the new document. Any suggestions?
- November 15, 2010 at 11:31 AM
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The tally of exoplanets—planets outside the solar system—continues to climb, with more than 900 cataloged as of this writing. All but a handful of those alien worlds have turned up orbiting stars that, like our Sun, are isolated, rather than stars in the crowded stellar groupings known as open clusters. Most stars originate in clusters that quickly break apart. Particularly dense starry swarms, however, can persist for billions of years thanks to the mutual gravitational attraction of their thousands of constituent stars.
Given the lack of exoplanet detections in long-lived open star clusters, astronomers have assumed those chaotic environments to be hostile to worldrearing. And that is in keeping with the core accretion model, the leading theory of how planets arise, which holds that planets slowly form, piecemeal, from aggregating grains of dust in a delicate disk around young stars. That model requires "peace and quiet," explains Søren Meibom of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lead author of a new study on small-planet occurrence in open clusters. In tightly packed stellar quarters, gravitational tugging and pulling by nearby stars can disrupt planet-forming disks and fling developed planets out of orbit. Furthermore, open clusters often spawn the biggest, hottest stars. The radiation spewing from those behemoths—as well as their explosive demises as supernovae—makes planetary formation seem an even tougher proposition.
So it came as a surprise when astronomers led by Meibom discovered two exoplanets in the billion-year-old open cluster NGC6811. NASA's Kepler space telescope spotted the planets crossing their stars, dimming out a tiny fraction of starlight. This so-called transit method of detection enables astronomers to estimate a planet's size. The new planets, the first revealed in a cluster by this method, are also the smallest seen in a cluster: larger than Earth, but not quite Neptune-size. Prior to their discovery, only four planets, all of them giant, had been found in star clusters.
The fact that those smallish planets can form and survive in such a roughand-tumble place challenges our understanding of planet formation while
suggesting that all across the cosmos, planets are hard to root out. "The result is telling us that the process of forming planets is more robust than we had believed it was," said Meibom. "This is good news for the idea that planets like the Earth should be everywhere." (Nature)


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The theme of youth in society and the Church has been taken up in several documents. The title of today's GDC section references a good handful: General Catechetical Directory 82; Evangelii Nuntiandi 72; 1977 Synod of Bishops, Message to the People of God 3; Catechesi Tradendae 38-39; Christifedeles Laici 46; Tertio Millennio Adveniente 58. Keep in mind we are still on the topic of people of ages pre-adolescent to young adult as we read:
182. The Church, while regarding young people as "hope", also sees them as "a great challenge for the future of the Church" (Gravissimum Educationis 2; Christifedeles Laici 46) herself. The rapid and tumultuous socio-cultural change, increase in numbers, self-affirmation for a consistent period before taking up adult responsibilities, unemployment, in certain countries conditions of permanent under-development, the pressures of consumer society—all contribute to make of youth a world in waiting, not infrequently a world of disenchantment, of boredom, of angst and of marginalization. Alienation from the Church, or a least diffidence in her regard, lurks in many as a fundamental attitude. Often this reflects lack of spiritual and moral support in the family and weaknesses in the catechesis which they have received. On the other hand, many of them are driven by a strong impetus to find meaning, solidarity, social commitment and even religious experience.
Why are young people important? Because these years are formative, socially and psychologically. And also because they are formative from a religious view. People who fall away from faith often do so during times of alienation. Clearly, this sense drove a good portion of the personal mission of Pope John Paul II. It should be a concern to all believers.
183. Some consequences for catechesis arise from this. The service of the faith notes above all the contrasts in the condition of youth as found concretely in various regions and environments. The heart of catechesis is the explicit proposal of Christ to the young man in the Gospel; (Cf. Mt 19:16-22; Parati Semper) it is a direct proposal to all young people in terms appropriate to young people, and with considered understanding of their problems. In the Gospel young people in fact speak directly to Christ, who reveals to them their "singular richness" and calls them to an enterprise of personal and community growth, of decisive value for the fate of society and of the Church.(Cf. Parati semper 3) Therefore young people cannot be considered only objects of catechesis, but also active subjects and protagonists of evangelization and artisans of social renewal.(Christifedeles Laici 46; General Catechetical Directory 89)
The Apostolic Letter to Youth Parati Semper is referenced for the first time. I looked for a direct link to it, but didn't locate it. If you have one, post it in the comments, please.
One very positive statement I see in GDC 183 is the notion that young believers are called to be active in evangelization and "artisans of renewal."
Comments on this? Too much attention given to youth? Too little? Or just enough?


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I had a blast shooting the event last year, and didn't even know anyone there then, so I was excited to see the festivities again this year. I showed up kind of late last time, not knowing how long it would take and making the foolish choice to depend on the bus part way, oh so slow in traffic, but cross town bike commuting on unfamiliar streets was still intimidating to me then. This year I showed up before hardy anything had been set up, so I lent a helping hand setting up banners and bike parking racks. Things were slow at first, bike culture is notoriously late, but before long the masses started rolling in and it started feeling like a party.
With the streets blocked off from cars, and a growing audience, some BMX kids took it upon them selves to kick off the entertainment with freestyle moves and bar jumping. A tall bike rider rode laps around the block, and although he couldn't bust any tricks, who doesn't love the presence of a tall bike.
Great parties can be made or broken by their music, and the DJ's did not disappoint. From Noon till sundown it was sonic bliss with spontanous dance parties in the street before and in between events.
Food courtesy of Pure Luck in the form of delicious vegan wraps were available for satiating the hunger. They also made a delightful little drawing for advertising at their booth.
The highlight of the afternoon was by far trick cyclist Ines Brunn, who's highly acrobatic performance while spinning around on a bicycle, was one of the most amazing things I have witnessed with my own eyes. The physics of of what was happening did not even seem real, it felt as though I was seeing into some other world. Truly breathtaking.
After Ines's performance began the games, testing the skills of the fixed riders. The first event was skids, which is a competition where cyclists sprint up to speed and lock their rear wheel to see who can skid the furthesest distance. Although it didn't happen as much this year, skids competitions often produce epic crashes. Next came the track standing competition, where participants have to balance in place on their bike with the difficulty increased over time, by eventually going one handed, then no handed, and then finally with one foot and no hands.
Following track standing came foot down, the only competition of the afternoon with a few freewheel bikes, and consists of going in tighter and tighter circles at slow speed without taking any feet off the pedals. If a foot comes off or you fall over, you're out. Last but not least, backwards circles finished off the games. Another domain exclusive to fixed gear bikes, is the ability to pedal backwards to move in reverse direction. Most people could do or 2-4 backward circles before losing balance and falling over, but Alex of Orange 20 destroyed everyone by doing 31 backward circles and gave the impression he could do more but was bored and content with one upping the announcers claim that Alex could do 30.
With the sun setting thing were finally winding down, but to finish off the evening with a bang, Ines retuned for an encore preformance, adding even more awesome to what had already been an amazing day.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Have You Hugged an Energy Worker Lately?
Following Hurricane Ike, the big job was removing storm debris from the yard (and the oak tree from our roof). I found that when I needed to rest and rehydrate, quilting was my respite. It felt like the only "normal" thing in my life for a while. I haven't blogged for a while, so here are a few pictures of what I've been working on. I don't work on a single project; I seem to thrive on working on several projects at a time... including some that aren't even in the photos. The items pictured will eventually show up as patterns, so be on the lookout: when I finish each of them, I'll post new pictures. Quiltmaking makes me so happy!
First, here is the second Bouquets for a New Day that I am quilting for Ricky Tims' and Alex Anderson's online quilting community, The Quilt Show. I needed a second quilt that could hang at the Houston quilt show, because the first Bouquet quilt resides at my local quilt shop. Cross-hatching across all of those stems and berries may not have been my brightest idea - it is incredibly slow work.
You've seen this quilt before - it's Lily Rosenberry. I'm making it in pink and green on a chocolate background -- I am a glutton for punishment with all those berries! The only thing I have left to do is to sew the berries on two borders and then assemble the blocks and borders. It will be a thrill to have this one finished!
Here's a brand new quilt that I've started -- I saw an antique quilt block that had a ring of triangles around it; it was very eye-catching. Naturally, I sat down and designed the block so I could reproduce it in today's fabrics. This will be a paper-pieced quilt and it will be fast and fun to make!
And finally, another quilt that I've started is an Antique Rose quilt. I designed a variation of an antique whig rose block and will put a dozen of these blocks, already basted and ready to applique, on point. I designed the pattern earlier this year and one of my guild's bees made the quilt for the guild auction (see photo on the right); the only problem was that I liked the quilt so much that I decided I needed to make one for myself! I had no sooner cut out all the pieces for the blocks, than the purchaser of the auctioned quilt made me an offer I couldn't refuse: she would give me the quilt if I would quilt a couple quilts for her. I was thrilled - so now I'll have a pair of Antique Rose quilts!
Take care, hug your loved ones, and thank your energy company for power.
(c)2008 Susan H. Garman
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beautiful work-inspiring , in fact:)ReplyDelete
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I was saying I'm glad to here you are ok. I wondered if you lived in the area that got hit.
Your two first quilts are not showing (Bouquet and lily Rosenberry)
Hope things get back to normal for you Texans soon.
Hurricane recovery is slow. It never gets back to the old normal. A new normal comes into existance. I still tear up when I remember seeing the convoy of trucks coming to help us and that was in 1989. My heart goes out to everyone involved in the storm recovery.ReplyDelete
Glad you are safe and look ford to you next TQS initiative.
Power and water... definitely unappreciated until they're gone.ReplyDelete
Beautiful work... and you'll always remember what was going on in your life during the process of creating such beauty.
Sue I have bought that pattern through the guild that was sponsoring you and had the quilt tickets. I have that on my list..I just love this Lillyberry quilt. Your pink and chocolate mix is my favorite choice in color.. I may have to copy that!! Deb in Toronto.ReplyDelete
I would like to thank you for all your patterns the insentive is overwhelming.
WOW you are an awesome quilter...we just had Alex Anderson today in Maine (Weds)...she is so special...your quilts are very inspiring..we have a gal who has a quilt that will be in Houston...she is a designer..MaineReplyDelete
Sue, how did you quilt your first TQS quilt in the borders? I'm currently crosshatching (by hand) mine in the blocks. I had already decided to do that before I saw that's what YOU did! Now I'm wondering what you thought about the borders?ReplyDelete
Lynn, Sugar Land (met you at QuiltFestival)
The work is really inspiring and very beautiful.ReplyDelete
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HAC needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
***UPDATE***: Our capability statement is around 8 pages long. We want to see lots of different design concepts, and we also don't want to waste your time, so we are going to run this contest a bit differently:
1. Please upload a 2-page preview of your design for the capability statement.
2. We will rate the designs and provide feedback.
3. Toward the end of the competition we will privately contact the shortlisted designers for a fixed-price quote to design the rest of the capability statement (see zip file - it is around 8 pages in total).
4. We will choose the contest winner based on design quality and quoted price. The prize money will be awarded.
5. We will privately engage the winner to design the remaining pages of the capability statement and deliver the final document at the quoted price.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Brand name: "HAC "
Slogan: "Smart solutions for a carbon constrained future"
We are a young dynamic firm with both corporate and government clients. We are active in a number of sectors, providing a broad range of energy and sustainability services. Check our website for more information about our company. http://www.hacaustralia.com .
The capability statement you produce will be downloadable from our website, it will be printed and distributed, and we will carry it with us when we go to meet new clients.
Text and basic layout are supplied, but feel free to get creative with any aspect of this (colours, layout, emphasis).
Please download the zip file from our website: http://www.hacaustralia.com/downloa…esigns.zip . The zip file contains:
1. An example powerpoint file
2. Our logo in .psd and .jpeg formats
3. Staff photos
Our Logo is fixed, but the proportions can be changed and the slogan layout can be changed, as we have done with the logo on page 2 of the powerpoint file.
PLS NOTE: We'd like your creative ideas on combining the words we have circling the logo on page 2 – if you've got something better than our logo to use as a centre-point, pls use it!
Note: We do not have usage-rights for the burning-earth image at bottom-right of first page. This is an example only.
•A4 landscape
•Take into account the 3-4mm non-printable area around perimeter of page.
•If you want to use pictures, they must be royalty-free. If you find a great royalty free image that you have to buy, use the preview image they give you for the design and if we pick your design we'll buy the hi-res one. Please indicate how much the image costs.
• The successful designer will deliver the final product in PDF format, and will also supply the source files (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, etc). We may engage the successful designer privately to make changes in the future.
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•Our focus is strongly commercial, rather than strictly environmental, so please keep use of leaves, trees to a minimum.
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On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, my friend and I finally found the time to go together to C&C Sales in Marion, Wisconsin. Now for those of you who don't know what C&C Sales is, it is an Amish grocery/dry goods store, where you can buy things like flour and sugar and other baking stuffs and groceries for a very reasonable price. Once we arrived, and Tim was able to go in and "jones" around as we like to refer to it. We discovered that not only do they carry a variety of grocery items they also carry some furniture, handmade rugs and other items. One of those items being fresh fruit, it happened to be cherries that day. You can place your order and C&C Sales will contact you once the fruit arrives, and of course we had to order fruit, more on those adventures later.
The second part of our day was stopping at Pigeon River Brewing for a bite to eat. I have heard that their menu is very good, and we were not disappointed. The service as well as the food was outstanding. Blair and I split a black and blue burger and some of the best homemade fries I have ever tasted. Seasoned just right. Tim ordered a pizza, which of course I had to sample a piece and it was yummy as well. Tim's brother Thomas ordered a burger and fries and his was very tasty as well. I am not a person who knows much about beer or the brewing thereof. However I know enough to know that when you find people who are passionate about what they do, so much so that they want to share it with the world, that is a winning combination, and that is what Pigeon River Brewing has in spades. So kudos to two gentleman for having a passion for brewing beer and let's raise a toast to dreaming of big dreams. http://www.pigeonriverbrewing.com/
The third part of our day was to stop at Dupont Cheese on the way back to Manawa from Marion. I never tire of seeing all the different types of cheese and how delicious it is. Dupont is no exception. They have many varieties of beautiful cheeses to choose from. Many of the dairy farms surrounding Manawa and Marion is where the cheese begins its journey as milk. At Lindsay House Bed & Breakfast, we do our level best to keep the farmer's in business. Dupont is just a few minutes from Manawa on Highway 110. http://www.dupontcheeseinc.com/


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|S.M.S. Medical College and Attached Hospitals Jaipur
Sawai ManSingh Medical College (SMS Medical College) is a medical college in Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India and was established in 1947.
It was the 15th centre for medical education in India. Its first principal was Dr. G.N.Sen and the Medical Council of India recognized the college in 1952, in the same year PG courses for M.S. and M.D. started here.
There are 32 departments and six hospitals attached to this medical college. The college has three boys' and one girls' hostel. The medical college runs Bachelors, Post Graduate, Diploma, M.Ch., D.M, M.Sc(Med),PhD, and Nursing courses. The college has a large library.
MBBS,BDS, Anaesthesiology, Biochemistry, Dermatology, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Radio-Diagnosis, Radio-Therapy, Chest and TB diseases, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Biochemistry.
Palliative and supportive care
Separate departments of Radiation oncology, division of medical oncology. IGRT, two Cobalt, one HDR brachytherapy, and bone marrow facility. Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching nursing
University teaching hospital: Radiation oncology (clinical oncology): Two Cobalt, HDR brachy, IGRT and a day care chemotherapy centre.
Medical oncology: All, types of chemotherapies, haematological malignancies treatment and bone marrow transplant soon going to start.
Surgical oncology: All major and supra major oncosurgeries.


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«Goals must always exist and efforts to achieve them shall never cease.»
How do you define success?
Success is the achievement of balance. Perhaps a task of more complexity than growing wealth is the ability to allot time to enjoy it. The marriage of the two delineates success. Presupposing that experience is living, then success plain and simple to me is the ability to live.
Do you have a key sentence/motto about success?
A key motto that I tell myself before every job and after every award is, "you do not deserve this." The idea of which branches off a further philosophy that I have about life. All to often it is easy for those downtrodden on their luck to attribute the bad to external forces beyond their control, only to own the victories when their luck returns. My faith tells me that both were destine.
What inspires you? And where do you find your inspiration?
Inspiration in art is everywhere, and its source is often concealed. It can be a calm glass of wine, a sunset over the ocean or a drive on a winding road that inspires me to create, to live. I believe inspiration is of quantum nature, in that observation of it is impossible. What I find most important is not the search of its source, but the willingness to be inspired when it comes along.
Could you tell us about your success? What is the short-story of your success?
My success began with a father sitting down on the couch with his son to help teach him about photography. At the time I was in high school and it was for a class, however early on there was passion for the art. My first sacrifice for this career came when I was to choose between having a car, and having a camera. I chose the camera with the reasoning that it would someday afford me a nicer car. The day my father sat down on the couch with me, he gave me my first camera. Ten years later, I was speaking for that camera company.
Do you have "5 rules" to follow and keep on being successful?
I don't know if I have five rules per se, but the guidelines that are most important to me are:
- Always treat the client with respect
- Always treat your crew with respect
- Be grateful for every job
- Go home tired from having given your all
- Be a good husband
Do you have a ritual that you follow everyday?
Rituals are very important, as I never know what city I will be in on any given week. I like to be one of the first people in the studio so that I can put on my headphones and walk the set while planning the lighting for the shot. From there I meet with my crew, give instruction, and then say a quick prayer before the shoot. After we wrap I have a glass of wine with those on set to celebrate the day.
What do you avoid to continue being successful?
In order to be successful I avoid complacency. Goals must always exist and efforts to achieve them shall never cease.
Do you have advice for the younger generations?
If there were any advice I could give to those aspiring to what I do it would be to always give back. Our careers are derivatives of those that have lifted us up. To go this far and not have given to the future is to never have achieved at all.
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How important is time in your life? And what does time represents for you?
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How do you deal with time questions in your work?
As a photographer, my work is not an existence of seconds, but a reality of fractions within. My career exists 1/250th of a second at a time. My next success rides upon my timing, and in the time that it takes to exhale I could have my next portfolio piece. Time is everything.
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text: The first in a series of evaluations of the impact of school meals concludes that meals have helped boys and girls get into and through primary school and even on to secondary school. But the school meal is not enough to reverse the negative trend in drop-out rates as the students approach puberty, especially for girls in rural areas. Enhancing the cross-sector collaboration between agencies is necessary to maximise the gains of school meals. The Government of Kenya has taken important steps in this direction and WFP is in a key position to support this further.


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Clifton E. Haley, '61, President Emeritus
Elected 1997
Clif Haley, a 1961 Detroit College of Law graduate, has been a member of the board since 1997. He was elected vice president in 1998 and president in 2001. He served as Law College president until assuming the role of board chair. Haley stepped down as chair in 2013.
During the 10 years he served as president, Haley led the Law College in advancing the long-term strategy of achieving Big Ten Law School reputation and reach and building a substantial endowment. An early advocate for affiliation, he worked with former MSU President M. Peter McPherson and then-Provost Lou Anna Simon in 2004 to negotiate a major academic change in the affiliation that resulted in Detroit College of Law becoming Michigan State University College of Law, a constituent college of the university.
Haley chaired the Board Integration Committee that recommended an historic transformation to strengthen the affiliation by providing that MSU's president also would serve as president of MSU College of Law, with responsibility to manage and direct all academic, administrative, and financial affairs of the Law College. The change was approved by both the university and Law College boards and took effect July 1, 2011.
In addition to his Juris Doctor degree, Haley received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from MSU College of Law in 1993 and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Michigan State University in 2014. More than 40 years after earning his Juris Doctor degree, he joined his three daughters and two grandchildren when he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary humanities in 2003 from the MSU College of Arts and Letters. Haley uses his business experience to teach Mergers & Acquisitions as an adjunct faculty member at the Law College.
Haley is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Budget Rent-a-Car Corporation. From 1961 to 1977, he held a variety of domestic and international management positions at Ford Motor Company. Haley currently is president and owner of the Drummond Island Resort and Conference Center on Drummond Island, where he lives with his wife Carolyn, a lifelong educator. The island is located at the eastern-most point of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.Haley is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the American Bar Association. He is an adviser to Altus Capital, an East Coast private equity firm, and is a board member and legal advisor for the DeTour Reef Light Preservation Society.


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"My work does not come from a market motive," explains Chestnut Hill abstract artist Carol Philips. "It comes from an exploratory and somewhat spiritual motive."
Philips, who does not want her age mentioned, has never been one to follow the profit motive. Several years ago she was teaching art courses for adults at Vermont College and for college-age kids at the University of Vermont, but she learned that Howard Gardner, whom she admired greatly, was teaching at Harvard University.
"He was the leading person in the country for using art to change people's lives, not just art for the sake of art itself," recalled Carol, "so I decided to go back to school in order to study with Dr. Gardner."
After enrolling in a Ph.D program at Harvard, Carol would drive from Vermont for three hours and 15 minutes, one way, at least once a week to attend classes at Harvard and usually stay there for a few days. It would have been too complicated to move to the Boston area, she explained. Carol did earn her doctorate degree in education (Ed.D) after six years of making those three-hour-and-15-minute excursions, one-way, to classes. She then became a teaching fellow at Harvard, instructing doctoral students and developing a seminar on higher education.
In addition to teaching art at universities and to individuals, Philips has facilitated creativity and healing workshops from coast to coast, for example, at the Canyon Ranch resort in Arizona. (Have art, will travel!) After her many years in Vermont, she has connected with galleries, programs and arts education venues in Philadelphia, where she has lived for three years. She has exhibited locally, among other venues, at the Nichols Berg Gallery in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy Art Garage. "One thing I've discovered is that there are a lot of lovely, welcoming people in this area," Carol said.
Carol Philips has now been making art for over 30 years. Throughout this time, some aspects of her work have remained consistent: a love of color, an obsession with composition, and the use of nature and mystic texts such as the Jewish Kaballah for inspiration. Others have changed; whereas her scale was once quite large, it became smaller and smaller. "Finally," she said, "I thought I might wind up painting postage stamps, so now my work is getting bigger again."
Texture has become a predominant concern for Carol, and while her work was once representational — landscapes, still-lifes, etc. — her imagery has become increasingly abstract. Finally, her medium is no longer paint. Rather than painting, she creates mixed media work using both paint and other materials — from nature, such as leaves and petals, to "craft," including glitter, sequins and ribbons, to office supplies and found items. All of these are combined as needed to discover and create a piece's meaning.
"The work and the life of the artist can be maddening and frustrating as well as joyful," said Carol. "Making art gobbles up many many hours that could alternatively be dedicated to, say, making a living. It also costs lots of money to make; think studio and storage space and a couple of hundred bucks or so at art supply, craft and fabric stores every few months, as well as to share; think framing, photography, and website costs, just for instance …
"Several years ago many artists moved to Philadelphia from New York, but with the economy the way it is today, the art market is collapsing. To make it now, you have to be long-dead and Picasso … And in schools, because of the economy, art classes are the first thing to go. Art is seen as a frill that is easily disposable."
Carol grew up in Queens, New York. Her father was a dress buyer ("so I got used to color combinations"), and her mother, Evelyn, who now lives at Springfield Residence in Wyndmoor, was an editor at a paper called the Roslyn News in Long Island. While there she also was a stringer for the New York Times for 10 years.
"My parents were great for taking my sister and me to museums and shows in New York City," Carol said, "so we were definitely exposed to lots of culture growing up."
In 1983 Carol married Bill Levine, whom she had met in high school on Long Island. Levine went to the University of Pennsylvania and later to Antioch University in Keene, New Hampshire, where he earned a doctorate degree in psychology. Today he has a private practice in Chestnut Hill.
Cariol and her husband have two daughters, Rose Levine, 27, a teacher at a small private school in West Philadelphia, and Ruby Levine, 22, a recent graduate of McCallister College in St. Paul, Minnesota. A resident of Minneapolis, Ruby is also a social and environmental activist who started a non-profit organization with a group of colleagues called Grand Aspirations. They have 12 sites across the country, and they call themselves "Solutionaries." So Carol boasts, "I'm the mother of a solutionary."
According to Carol, who has not done commercial art, "I've been thinking about people recently buying my work as gifts for themselves and for others, thought about those who have done so over the years, and of the art that I myself have been given and bought. How different art is from mass-produced commodities, regardless of their marvels. Art provides the opportunity to see through another's eyes, mind and heart. One individual's exploration for meaning, beauty or whatever else s/he seeks is transferred to another who derives these same qualities from it. Perhaps for this reason, art tends to be kept for a lifetime."
Carol said she expects to be scheduling workshops in this area soon for budding artists. Her work can currently be seen at Nichols Berg Gallery. For more information, visit www.carolphilipsart.com


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Favorite restaurants on Maui, Hawaii Island and Kauai
Must try: Holuakoa Gardens and Cafe (Hawaii Island), Honu (Maui), The Banyan Tree (Maui), Josselin's Tapas Bar and Grill (Kauai.)
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For a lot of us, Neighbor Island dining is about the past, visiting perfectly preserved institutions seemingly untouched by time: Sam Sato, Hamura's Saimin, Manago Hotel, where the pork chops are as tasty as the side of nostalgia. "When I go back to the Big Island, I go where the food hasn't changed since I was a kid, where the pork katsu is huge and there's gravy all over everything," a friend says, in a tone that asks me not to judge.
I get it. There's nothing like the kind of place where the auntie running the eatery is as essential to the dining experience as the food.
But we all ought to get out more. Plenty of Neighbor Island restaurants look to the future and live in the wired now, where culinary ideas are exchanged fast and furiously. Chefs are traveling and bringing back influences from all continents to create modern, only-in-Hawaii restaurants.
Big Island: Holuakoa Gardens and Café
76-5900 Old Government Road, Holualoa, (808) 322-2233, holuakoacafe.com.
Price range: Appetizers $5.50 to $13.50; entrées $16.50 to $32
"I'm a no-name chef in the middle of nowhere," says Wilson Read, chef at Holuakoa Gardens and Café. Maybe so, but his brisket certainly deserves a name: amazing. Generous slices of soft, soft braised beef in a caramelized onion jus that tastes like French onion soup, on a medley of local summer squash, turnips, white and orange carrots, and cherry tomatoes. (Only in Hawaii could all these be local and in season at the same time.)
This "no-name chef" grew up on an 80-acre farm bounded by two rivers in Maine and, the way Read tells it, he had the romantic agrarian lifestyle to match. His family grew its own food, fished, harvested mussels and clams; his grandmother baked delicious-smelling things like cornbread and cranberry scones. "It was a Martha Stewart-type of lifestyle," he says. "I always knew about food and the importance and joy of communing at the table. That was part of my family."
For those of us who did not grow up in a Barbara Kingsolver memoir, we must settle for eating at Holuakoa Café, where responsibly-sourced meats and vegetables are served on its outdoor terrace, under trellised vines intertwined with white Christmas lights. No river runs through it, but a trickling koi pond does. It is like the lanai I've always wanted to host dinner parties on.
All the meats served are local—quail, chicken, fish, beef, pork. Read even has someone in Honaunau raising Muscovy ducks for him. I can't think of any other restaurant in the state that can boast an entirely local meat menu (even places like Town and Salt make concessions and import chicken and seafood such as mussels).
If Read can't get the protein locally, he doesn't serve it. The compromise, then—if you could call it that—is perhaps a slightly less varied menu. Over the course of two meals (a dinner and brunch), we indulge in three preparations of pork of all different cuts. Smoked pork shoulder melts softly into risotto, as comforting as turkey jook (rice porridge) the day after Thanksgiving. Pork belly confit, cooked in its own fat and then fried to a crisp, is balanced with a succotash of sweet corn, green beans and tomatoes. A slab of headcheese is less fatty than most, cut thick like meatloaf, and wears a crisp fennel and walnut slaw.


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While she was a student at the University of Arizona, Patty Fernandez never had a chance to intern. But two decades later, she's doing just that.
Laid off from her copy-editing job last summer at Standard & Poor's and seeing her freelance work dwindle, Ms. Fernandez applied for an unpaid internship at the website start-up company wowOwow.com, an online community for women. "I was really attracted by the possibilities and being able to do something that I didn't necessarily have experience [in]," she says of the Internet-publishing venture.
Perhaps it's a sign of the times. The internship role, once reserved for college students and entry-level candidates, is attracting mid-career professionals eager to retool their skills. With 7 million jobs lost since the beginning of the recession, internships are becoming a sought-after way to reenter the job market.
"There are a lot of adults who are out of work, a lot of adults who want to transition into second careers – and an internship is the best way to get a foot in the door and ... learn about a new industry," says Lauren Berger, founder of InternQueen.com, a website devoted to college internships.
An internship allowed Linda Franklin to blaze a new career path after 22 years on Wall Street. At age 50, Ms. Franklin applied for an internship at New York's public radio station WNYC. For the next two years, she lived off her savings while she worked – unpaid – recording sound bites at press conferences and from pedestrians on city streets. The experience, at first, was a hit to her ego.
"You're running around in snow, rain, cold, and I would be standing on a subway platform saying 'What am I doing here? I used to send people out to do errands for me,' " says Franklin, who formerly ran a trading department for an investment firm. "You really have to get over that."
The training developed her writing skills and, eventually, allowed her to launch a website for mature women – TheRealCougarWoman.com – host her own Internet talk-radio show, and write a book to be released in the fall.
As the recession has deepened, the need for nontraditional internships has gone up.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, for example, professionals looking to reenter the science and technology fields can enroll in the Career Reengineering Program, a 10-month part-time curriculum that requires students to take a class in the fall and complete an internship in the spring. Over the past year, inquiries about the three-year-old program have increased 50 percent, says Dawna Levenson, associate director of the program.
Though most internships cater to the college crowd, Ms. Berger is slowly starting to see the intern role shift to include adults. Now, rather than turning away résumés she receives from adults, she's passing them along to companies offering "alternative internships."
Among them:
•Last fall, Sara Lee Corp. in Downers Grove, Ill., launched a "returnship" program and hired 10 adults for three to six months.
•New York banking firm Goldman Sachs last year ran an eight-week pilot internship program from September to November, offering 11 women a chance to return to the finance industry.
•Since April, Babyboomers.TV, a website start-up company featuring articles geared toward baby boomers, has hired four mid-career interns, offering each a $100 weekly stipend.
Nonprofits are also offering internships to mid-career professionals, among them: Sightline Institute, a think tank in Seattle; Earthwatch Institute, an international nonprofit group with US offices in Maynard, Mass.; and the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C., which will host a mid-career professional in its internship program this summer.
Training programs are also gaining momentum. Civic Ventures, a San Francisco-based think tank focused on baby boomers, spearheaded an Encore Fellows pilot program in 2008 for experienced technology sector employees ages 50 and up. The goal is to train them for management positions in the nonprofit world.
Hiring interns is "a great way to test-drive somebody without investing huge salary benefits in them," says Nancy Valene, content manager for Babyboomers.TV. The decision to pick mid-career professionals makes sense because of the nature of the website's content, she adds.
The same can be said at wowOwow.com, where "executive interns," all over the age of 40, work remotely from home and attend meetings in the New York office to learn about social networking, search engine optimization, and how to write and edit for the Web.
These women "are our demographic. They've been able to help us connect with our audience," says Randi Bernfeld, senior editor at wowOwow.com.
Not all companies welcome adult interns with open arms. "A lot of companies ... don't even want to consider the adults," Berger says. Because most company policies require interns to receive college credit, adults are often disregarded. Another potential concern, she says, "is that [adults] are going to have a larger sense of entitlement and that they won't want to do normal intern things or filing or doing very basic administrative tasks."
Smaller, start-up companies seem more willing to take on experienced interns who can offer insight from their previous career path, Berger says.
When he applied for an internship at Babyboomers.TV, Aaron Grossman told his tale in his cover letter. Laid off from his market-research job in May 2008 and after "a dark period of job searching," Mr. Grossman, 58, was ready to try something new.
His story made a lasting impression. Out of 100 applicants, he was selected to be one of four interns in April. Every day, Grossman works from his home office in New York, writing articles for the website. Interning, he says, has allowed him to pursue his passion – writing – full time.
But following his passion hasn't been easy. Grossman, once the breadwinner of the family, faces an uncertain future while his wife works full time.
"It's uncertain as to whether this is going to evolve into a full-time job," he says. But he is trying to remain optimistic. At the completion of his internship, full-time positions will be offered to three of the four interns. He hopes to be one of them.
Interning has also been difficult for Fernandez. Though her husband works full time, and she is able to obtain free-lance work on the side, she says the unpaid work has been "a challenge" because New York City is so expensive. Still, she sees the internship as a way to boost her résumé.
"I just love the idea of being able to get an opportunity only students get," she says. It's an "opportunity to learn how to translate my print media skills into digital media skills. I really just see the upside."


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JACKSONVILLE – A poor first half shooting performance by the Lipscomb Lady Bisons compounded by a strong transition offense by Jacksonville allowed Jacksonville to take a 12-point halftime lead on their way to a 66-48 victory Thursday evening in Veterans Memorial Arena.
It was the 13th consecutive road loss for the Lady Bisons stretching over exactly 365 days.
Lipscomb connected on just five of their 23 first half field goal attempts. Lipscomb shot 30.6 percent on the evening.
Freshman wing Hannah Philips provided the only offensive spark for the Lady Bisons finishing with 13 points on five-of-ten shooting. She also had four rebounds, three assists, and two steals in 26 minutes of action.
"Hannah took the ball to the basket and also got some offensive rebounds," Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett said. "She had another strong game for us."
Freshman post Kaitie Fritts delivered her strongest performance as a Lady Bison with career-highs of six points and five rebounds. She was four-of-four from the free throw line.
"Kaitie is really playing hard around the basket," Bennett said. "She's aggressive going to the basket and on the boards as well."
Lipscomb committed 26 turnovers which Jacksonville turned into 29 points. Jacksonville had 16 fastbreak points. While the Dolphins turned the ball over 23 times, Lipscomb was only able to capitalize 14 points off them. Lipscomb had just four fastbreak points.
"Tonight seemed to be a typical post-Lipscomb-Belmont letdown," Bennett said of the Lady Bisons who are 1-9 in games after facing Belmont over the last five years.
"I would throw this game out, but we have to understand that the next game is a very important game to play well going against teams we are competing with for spots in the A-Sun tournament. It's too bad that we didn't understand that in this game, but we have to understand it next game and respond."
Jacksonville took a ten point lead, 15-5, seven minutes into the game. Lipscomb opened the game shooting two-of-nine and committing seven turnovers before Phillips hit a jumper at the 11:20 mark.
She hit a three a minute later to cut Jacksonville lead to five points.
Despite shooting 21.7 percent in the first period, the Lady Bisons remained within striking distance until the last two minutes of the half.
Jacksonville went on a 7-0 run to take a 30-18 lead into the half as Lipscomb committed three turnovers and missed two field goals.
The Dolphins made it an 11-0 run making a second chance layup and hitting two free throws to open the second period.
With the Lady Bisons down 16, Phillips drained a trey, Jenna Bartsokas had a steal which she converted into a fastbreak layup, and Kaitie Fritts hit two free thows to bring the game back to single digits, 36-27, with 15:48 left.
Jacksonville worked its lead back into the low double digits before Taneskei Richardson and Courtney Jackson hit 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to give the Dolphins a 57-37 lead with 8:49 remaining.
Jacksonville took its largest lead of the contest, 21 points, when Ashanti Williams made a jumper at the 6:51 mark.
The teams combined to shoot one-of-11 and commit eight turnovers over the final six minutes of the game.
Jacksonville held a 37-30 advantage on the boards. Richardson paced Jacksonville with eight rebounds while Fritts' five led Lipscomb.
Lipscomb returns to action Saturday against North Florida. Game time is 3:30 p.m. CT inside UNF Arena.


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Before she took a job in the veterinary field, then in the real estate industry, and before she modeled at The SCORE Group, Dixie Devereaux was a titty-shaking exotic dancer, one of the most noble of all professions, as productive to society as being a doctor, a teacher or a nurse. Sez us. "I'm a bit of an exhibitionist, and the money was great, but I got burnt out," Dixie revealed. "I guess I would have done it longer if I hadn't been doing it every day. I really like the idea of guys looking at me naked onstage, and, of course most guys were really into my boobs. It probably should've been more of a hobby for me instead of a job." What did Dixie think about before she came here" Did she think about co-workers she once knew seeing her now in all her glory" "I thought about it once. I was like, 'Holy shit, what if one of my old bosses or co-workers sees this"' They would know it's me. But then I thought, 'What the hell" You only live once.' If they do, they'll want to spank it and get the pages stuck together, so let them. So you guys out there who know me, happy spankings, guys! This is what my tits look like under my shirts." And on the subject of jobs, here's Dixie as the dean of a college in her office supervising the student body. Nice body!


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so all of the businessers are in unlimited hell
where they buy and they sell and they sell all their trash to each other
but they're sick of it all and they're bankrupt on selling
Really quite apropos. There are a few different songs on that album that offer a critique relevant to the moment we find ourselves in (I've posted about them before).
Anyway, I'm off on a bike camping trip (w/ Aron) to Harpers Ferry, WV tomorrow morning, taking advantage of the long weekend (for the government, anyway). At about 60 miles, it's a bit farther than I've ever ridden in one day, so wish me luck.


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OAKLAND — An AC Transit bus was struck by gunfire early Saturday morning, authorities said.
No one was shot, but four passengers on the bus were injured when the bus moved quickly to escape the gunfire, according to AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson. The nature of the passengers' injuries was not known, but they were not believed to be life-threatening, he said.
The shooting was reported about 12:19 a.m. near the intersection of 55th Avenue and International Boulevard. About a half-dozen rounds hit the Line 1 bus, breaking its rear window, Johnson said.
"The bus operator did as he was trained to do, and tried to get the bus out of harm's way," he added.
Johnson said he did not have any information about possible suspects or arrests.
An AC Transit bus was struck by stray bullets from a nearby shooting Jan. 25 near the intersection of 73rd and Bancroft avenues, but was not believed to be the target of the shooting. Two passengers were treated at the scene for minor injuries from broken glass.
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