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Office Wars 3 – How Microsoft Got Its Office Monopoly
September 10th, 2007
Daniel Eran Dilger
Microsoft's Office monopoly gives the company more revenues and delivers nearly as much profit as its Windows software. How did it gain such a powerful position in productivity applications? The history of Office is rooted in decisions Apple made in the 80s with the Lisa and Macintosh, and also has an interesting correlation to Apple's iPhone strategy today.
Office Wars 1 – Claris and the Origins of Apple's iWork
Office Wars 2 – Microsoft's Outrageous Office Profits
Office Wars 3 – How Microsoft Got Its Office Monopoly
Office Wars 4 – Microsoft's Assault on Lotus and IBM
The Origins of Office.
While Microsoft has overwhelming power in desktop productivity applications today, it entered the market late. In the early 80s, Microsoft principally sold language software and struggled to license copies of AT&T's Unix under the name Xenix.
In 1981, Microsoft teamed up with IBM to license a copycat version of CP/M as the DOS for IBM's new PC. Microsoft didn't really get started in applications until Steve Jobs approached the company that same year with a proposal to develop for Apple's new Macintosh.
Entrusted with prototype Mac hardware and inside access to Apple's development tools, Microsoft made an agreement with Apple in 1981 not to ship any mouse-based products of its own until a year after Apple introduced the Mac.
In exchange, Apple promised to give Microsoft a rare opportunity to enter the competitive desktop applications market using its entirely new Mac platform as a launching pad.
[SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1970s]
[SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1980s]
Software Sells Systems!
Prior to the Mac, Apple had released the Lisa as its first graphical desktop computer. Since developing new graphical apps for the Lisa was very different and required special training, Apple delivered its own complete productivity suite for the Lisa. It planned to open up the Lisa platform to third party development at some point after the initial launch, but the immediate focus had been to deliver a unique set of applications to demonstrate the power of Lisa's new graphical interface.
Recalling the software focus of the Lisa development team, reader Jim Hoyt emailed me several months ago in response to "Why Apple Bounced Back," an article crediting Apple's recent internal software development efforts with a large role in the company's turnaround over the last decade.
Hoyt wrote, "In 1979, John Couch, the soon-to-be head of the Lisa project, was in charge of all software at Apple Computer. He commissioned this poster: Software Sells Systems." I've been meaning to publish the otherwise long since lost to history poster, so here it is, belatedly. Thanks Jim!
Apple Delivers Lisa Suite Seven Years Ahead of Microsoft Office.
The poster's premise was obvious: the Lisa wasn't going to sell itself; it needed practical software applications to usher in the future of the graphical desktop.
Apple developed an entire suite of seven productivity applications that shipped with the Lisa system in 1983, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, drawing, graphing, project management, and terminal emulation programs.
It was seven years later before Microsoft would first package its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications together as Office 1.0 in 1990.
In his February 1983 review of the Lisa for Byte magazine, Gregg Williams concluded: "As you can tell, I am very impressed with the Lisa. I also admire Apple for deciding to make the system without being unduly influenced by cost or marketing constraints. The Lisa couldn't have been developed without such a deep commitment, and no other company I can think of could afford such a project or would be interested in doing it this way (the Lisa project reportedly cost over $50 million and used more than 200 person-years of effort!). In terms of the actual, as opposed to symbolic, effect it will have on both the microcomputer and the larger-computer market, the Lisa system is the most important development in computers in the last five years, easily outplacing IBM's introduction of the Personal Computer in August, 1981."
A year later, Lisa ended up being replaced by the much less expensive Macintosh, which delivered much of the Lisa's functionality at a quarter of the price. However, the Mac did not include the Lisa's expensive megabyte of RAM, its hard drive, or its productivity application suite. The Mac only shipped with a word processor and painting tools. [Update: Bruce Hoult notes that the original Mac also shipped with MacDraw, MacProject, MacTerminal, and MacBASIC.]
Why Apple didn't port its Lisa applications to the Macintosh is a confounding riddle, because it had more than a half decade of opportunity to do so. The main reason for this was a paranoid fear of alienating outside developers, along with jitters related to IBM's rapid poaching of the desktop computing world after the arrival of its PC in 1981.
["The Lisa Computer System" Reprinted from Byte, issue 2/1983]
[The Lisa, Apple's First GUI-Based Computer System – VAW]
[How Apple Keyboards Lost a Logo and Windows PCs Gained One]
Apple's Lisa vs the Third Party Mac Platform: 1980 – 1984.
Competition inside Apple between the Lisa development group and the Macintosh team led to a different software strategy for the Mac. Since the smaller Mac group didn't have the resources to develop a full suite of applications in advance of its launch, it planned to leverage third party development in the same way as the Apple II had.
Sales of Apple II computers had exploded in 1979 with the release of Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc spreadsheet software. That success was a large reason why IBM decided to get involved in the microcomputer business with the PC in the first place. It wasn't until 1984 that Apple began making lots of money selling AppleWorks, its word processing, spreadsheet, and database package for the Apple II. It continued to sell the software with only limited updates well into the early 90s.
Apple management failed to see the potential for delivering its own suite of Mac applications as it had on the Lisa, and as it very profitably would later do for the Apple II. Instead, it became increasingly enamored with the idea of partnering with third party software developers and delegating away the work–and the profits–of creating its own Mac software.
Motivated by fears of inhibiting a third party software industry like the one that had grown up around the IBM PC, Apple intentionally stifled its own internal software development efforts and later spun them off into the Siberian gulag of Claris. That move would prove to be a devastatingly expensive mistake that would nearly destroy Apple over the next decade.
Incidentally, three of the most important products Apple would release during that decade of decline were software products:
- the profitable AppleWorks for the Apple II in 1984.
- the free 1987 HyperCard for the Mac.
- the free 1991 QuickTime for the Mac.
[HyperCard: Apple and the Origins of the Web]
[1990-1995: Planting Software Seeds]
[QuickTime: The Secret Weapon Inside iTunes]
A Fearsome Future VisiOn for the PC: 1981 – 1983.
Another contributing reason for Apple's rush to embrace third party developers on the Macintosh may have been related to the fear of VisiCorp's new mouse-driven VisiOn graphical desktop environment.
VisiOn originally appeared on the Apple III in November of 1981, but the complete commercial failure of that new machine after the delivery of IBM's PC prompted VisiCorp to announce moving its support to the PC in 1982, with a promised release target of mid-1983. Apple was still scrambling to release the Lisa and the Mac, both of which had slipped repeatedly.
While clumsy, slow, and expensive–the base VisiOn software and a mouse cost $790, each application cost between $250 and $400, and it required a $5000 hard drive upgrade on top of a $2000 PC–VisiOn was backed by the legendary VisiCorp, the company that had helped launch the Apple II to fame with VisiCalc.
VisiOn also tapped into IBM's "up is down" PC, which despite its high price and low level of performance and innovation, had cut deeply into Apple's business expansion plans, almost entirely due to IBM's reputation and its monopoly position in business computing.
After witnessing its first big failure with the Apple III, and then seeing a tepid response to the $9,995 Lisa in 1983, Apple was no doubt very concerned about IBM's PC being converted into an ugly frankenstein Mac knockoff with that $7,500 VisiOn upgrade bolted on, cheered on by a press giddy at the prospect of being bamboozled by IBM's overpriced and under delivering PC.
The only way to compete with the threat of such a graphical system for the PC would be to deliver the new Macintosh as quickly as possible at a much lower cost with lots of applications from a variety of third party developers. Fortunately for Apple, VisiOn also slipped several months and wasn't delivered until the end of 1983.
Right up until it completely fizzled, the press hailed VisiOn as a promising competitor to Apple's Lisa and the forthcoming Macintosh.
By 1983, VisiCorp had fallen apart; its star development manager Mitch Kapor had left to found Lotus Development. Kapor's new spreadsheet product, Lotus 1-2-3 for the DOS PC, destroyed the remains of VisiCorp and its VisiOn.
[VisiCorp VisiOn – Toasty Tech]
[1980-1985: 8-bit Platforms]
Frying Pan to the Fire: Apple Runs to the Arms of Microsoft: 1981.
Finding developers willing to commit to investing in Apple's next new platform was difficult after the failure of the Apple III and the wildly successful launch of the PC. Apple later found that its developer relations would suffer at the release of the "no other software needed" Lisa.
For the Mac, Apple decided to copy the PC model by directing the majority of its efforts into courting third party developers and downplaying its own software releases, which were only intended to serve as basic placeholders. Even so, many PC developers planned to take a 'wait and see' approach to supporting the Macintosh.
Hoping to prime an early and explosive business success for the Macintosh in the same way VisiCalc had launched sales of the Apple II, Steve Jobs made plans with Microsoft to deliver a graphical Mac interface for its struggling Multiplan–a VisiCalc spreadsheet clone–and a new Chart application.
Microsoft had also secretly begun another Mac app initially called MultiTool Word, based on the Bravo word processor developed by Xerox PARC's Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie; Microsoft hired both in 1981.
The company didn't tell Apple about its new word processor project because the Mac team had already started developing a word processor for the Mac called MacWrite.
[A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox – Folklore.org]
[An Office User Interface Blog – Microsoft's Jensen Harris]
Apple's Problematic Partnership with Microsoft: 1981 – 1985.
Next to IBM, Apple was among the first companies to realize that getting into a business partnership with Microsoft was a really bad idea. Throughout 1983, Microsoft employees began intense discussions with Apple about how the Mac system software worked internally, involving issues unrelated to desktop application development.
The reasons for this became obvious when Microsoft made a surprise pre-announcement at the Comdex trade show in November 1983 of a clone of Apple's Mac environment for the PC called Windows, along with the release of a text-based Word for DOS using a mouse.
Apple had previously worried about VisiCalc's independent VisiOn appearing for the PC, but now its own partner had taken its internally developed graphical desktop work to deliver a competing product on IBM's platform. Microsoft had discovered a loophole that allowed it to ignore its exclusive agreement with Apple because the contract had tied the year-long waiting period to the Mac's planned ship date in 1982; that contract date wasn't updated as the project slipped into 1984.
It turned out that Word for DOS wasn't very popular, since DOS PC users didn't see much benefit from only using a mouse with a single application. It also turned out that Microsoft couldn't deliver on its promise to ship Windows 1.0 by early 1984; it wasn't actually available until 1985, and even then was a complete joke of a product and fully unusable.
However, the problems Apple would suffer for trusting Microsoft were only just getting started. Windows 1.0 wasn't much to look at, but it did offer an advancement beyond the neanderthal text interface of Word for DOS. Apple also had reason to worry when it found Microsoft was directly collaborating with IBM in 1985 to deliver a new DOS replacement called OS/2.
[1990-1995: The Race to Deliver The Next New Platform]
[Mac Office, $150 Million, and the Story Nobody Covered]
Apple Grows Dependent upon Third Party Software: 1985 – 1990.
Apple's partnership with Microsoft continued to worsen. Microsoft finally shipped its spreadsheet for the Mac in 1985, but threatened to also release it for the PC as well, prompting Apple CEO John Sculley to sign away rights to a variety of Mac system software details to Microsoft in 1985 in exchange for exclusive Mac development of the graphical Multiplan for two years.
Microsoft's Multiplan and Chart applications for the Macintosh were among the strongest software features Apple touted in its 1984 advertising. (Click to view full size).
A very young Bill Gates appeared next to Mitch Kapor of Lotus Development in Apple's Mac ads to observe, "To create a new standard takes somethings that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that captures people's imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard." Were he not trying to sell Windows Mobile today, he might say the same of the iPhone!
Sculley had been arrogantly dismissive of Bill Gates' July 1985 suggestion that Apple work quickly to broadly license its Mac technology to Northern Telecom, Motorola, and AT&T. Instead, Apple sought to retain control of the unique Mac desktop as a way to sell its hardware.
At the same time, Apple grew increasingly reliant upon Microsoft to deliver updates to its applications for the Mac, and worried about threatening any of its third party Mac developers with its own internal application software efforts.
However, in 1984 Apple had released AppleWorks for the Apple II. That program rapidly became the top selling software title of any computer platform, despite Apple's minimal efforts to market it. It was nearly an embarrassment for Apple, which wanted to push the graphical new Macintosh, not a text-based 8-bit program.
By 1987, Apple had spun off its own apps–including AppleWorks, MacWrite, MacDraw, and MacPaint–into the Claris subsidiary. Claris went on to profitably develop and acquire a suite of Mac productivity apps, but operated at an arms' length distance from Apple.
By 1990, Sculley realized the vast profit potential in application software. Apple had two solid platforms: the Apple II and the Mac. The company's minimal efforts to market any software for them was clearly a huge mistake. Sculley subsequently decided to retain Claris as part of Apple rather than spinning it off, but that late decision shattered the subsidiary because its employees and managers had been given the expectation that a Claris IPO would make them rich. Many left in disgust.
[Office Wars 1 – Claris and the Origins of Apple's iWork]
Microsoft Becomes an Applications Company: 1985 – 1989.
At the same time, Microsoft's graphical Multiplan for the Mac–which ended up being combined with the Chart app and renamed as Excel in 1985–became a huge seller for Microsoft. In contrast, the textual DOS version–which retained the Multiplan name–couldn't compete with the top selling Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC side.
Two years later in 1987, Microsoft's deal with Sculley expired and the company released Excel 2.0 for the PC, along with Windows 2.0, which copied more of the Mac desktop, including the basic ability to display overlapping windows. No OEMs shipped Windows 2.0 on their PCs, but anyone buying the new Excel got a copy of Windows and a taste of the graphical Mac environment, albeit with Microsoft's garish colors and its horrific MDI-style interface.
Apple Sues to Stop Graphical Copycats, But Only On the PC: 1985 – 1988.
While a number of companies delivered graphical environments in the pattern of VisiOn for various computer systems of the time, Apple was only threatened by those that promised to deliver the Mac look on the PC.
For example, Apple ignored Berkeley Systems' mouse-based, windowing GEOS environment, offered initially for the Commodore 64 and later Apple's own Apple II systems.
However, when CP/M maker Digital Research introduced its GEM/1 for the DOS PC, Apple sued and won an injunction that forced the company to remove certain features Apple had originally developed for the Mac, the most obvious of which was its use of graphics regions to draw sophisticated overlapping windows.
At the same time, GEM/1 was also being sold for the 1985 Atari ST, but Apple completely ignored that product, enabling Atari to deliver a system so similar to the Mac it was commonly called the Jackintosh, after Atari CEO Jack Trammell.
Apple also ignored overlapping windows in the 1985 Commodore Amiga, and a similar graphical desktop in the 1987 RISC OS developed by Acorn Computers. Apple was certainly aware of the British Acorn's RISC OS, as the two companies had partnered to form ARM in order to develop a new generation of RISC based processors powering Acorn's RISC PC and later, the Newton. Those same ARM processors now power iPods, the iPhone, and the vast majority of all mobile devices.
[Origins: Why the iPhone is ARM, and isn't Symbian]
However, Apple went ballistic upon the release of Microsoft's Windows 2.0 in 1987. One reason was that Microsoft was pointedly using the product as a way to move its Mac applications to IBM's PC, a move Apple correctly feared would quickly erode the unique value of the Macintosh.
Additionally, Microsoft was also describing Windows as the basis of a new interface for IBM's promised OS/2. Apple was livid that the trusted partner it had launched into the applications business would immediately sell it out and migrate those same applications to directly benefit its main hardware competitor.
Despite the fairly insignificant sales of Windows 2.0, Sculley's Apple sued Microsoft in 1988 over the use of Mac software details it had taken from Apple in its 1985 agreement. It also sued HP over a Windows 2.0 add on pack called NewWave, which supplied additional Mac-like features to the PC.
Meanwhile, sales of Excel on the PC gradually began to grow and Microsoft worked increasingly hard to replace its Mac partner and then destroy it, using Windows as a tool to port its Mac applications to the PC instead.
[Apple's Billion Dollar Patent Bluster: Patent vs. Copyright]
Apple Loses Jobs, Opportunities: 1986 – 1988.
In 1986–as Apple's panic over Microsoft moving its Mac apps to the IBM PC was just getting started–Steve Jobs' plans to rapidly move the Macintosh into the business and server arena were getting shot down by the more conservative minded Sculley. Apple's board feared that increased investment in the Macintosh might spread the company too thin.
[Steve Jobs and 20 Years of Apple Servers]
Jobs subsequently left Apple in frustration to form NeXT, Inc, and develop his own ideas for business oriented workstations. Sculley replaced him with Jean Luis Gassée, who shared Sculley's vision for dabbling in impractical technology ventures like the Newton and keeping Mac models configured for high end markets.
Apple continued to make outstanding profits from increasing sales of the Mac and continued sales of the Apple II, but the company had made a grave mistake in ignoring and avoiding the software business. Even worse, it was now dependent upon a rival company to maintain key software titles for the Mac.
Apple was also losing key engineering talent to Jobs' NeXT, which by 1988 was delivering the first release of what Apple itself should have been working on: its next generation of hardware and software.
[Newton Lessons for Apple's New Platform]
[Why OS X is on the iPhone, but not the PC: The History of NeXT]
Sculley's Apple Bungles Office Applications.
While Sculley's Apple fought Microsoft's Windows in the courts, it did little to effectively compete in the marketplace, either with the Mac as a platform or in the applications arena to take on what would become the Microsoft Office suite in 1990.
To deliver Office, Microsoft simply paired Word and Excel with PowerPoint, a Mac presentation application Microsoft acquired in 1987. Had Apple simply ported its Lisa applications to the Mac, it would have had a head start of several years to develop and refine its own applications suite, and could have maintained them as unique to the Mac without giving away its crown jewels to Microsoft in 1985.
After ten years of trying, even Microsoft could eventually deliver a good enough copy of the Mac with Windows 95 in late 1995. After that, Microsoft pulled the plug on Office development for the Mac and didn't release another update until 1998.
[Office Wars 1 – Claris and the Origins of Apple's iWork]
Apple's Squandered Opportunity in Software Sales.
The bizarre thing was that Apple was making money selling AppleWorks on autopilot, and continued to do so from 1984 into the early 1990s. Additionally, the new ClarisWorks for the Mac easily captured the top spot in Mac software sales from Microsoft's Works within its debut year in 1991.
Even so, Apple did little to capitalize upon the discovery that software would indeed sell systems, just as Couch had foreseen back in 1979. Apple had a printing press for creating money, but simply left it idling while Microsoft delivered low innovation software titles and raked in millions of dollars in Mac software revenues.
Sculley's Apple essentially sat back and granted Microsoft full opportunity to clean out its entire business model without a fight, hoping that the law would rush in to correct the inequities at some point in the near future. Instead, the court deliberated for a tech eternity until 1994, and then threw out Sculley's "look and feel" lawsuit, largely on the basis that Sculley had earlier granted Microsoft limited rights to Mac ideas back in 1985 in his desperate bid to keep Microsoft as a Mac developer.
The bitter irony was that between 1985 and 1995, Microsoft needed the Mac at least as much as Apple needed Microsoft. Even in 1997, Steve Jobs could get Microsoft to agree to a half decade of continued development of Office for the Mac by simply adding Internet Explorer to the Mac desktop. Jobs turned down the hardball demand that Apple kill QuickTime, and even got a public relations coup out of the deal by having Microsoft announce a $150 million investment in Apple.
Sculley's penny wise, pound foolish conservative greed destroyed Apple and directly transferred the vast potential wealth of value Apple had originated at great expense for its 1983 Lisa graphical office suite to Microsoft, which subsequently ran with it and deserted the company.
[Mac Office, $150 Million, and the Story Nobody Covered]
[Apple's NeXT Server Offensive on Microsoft]
Microsoft Betrays IBM and Uses Office Against OS/2.
Apple wasn't the only partner Microsoft exploited, turned on, and then tried to drive out of business. The earliest and most obvious example was IBM, which had launched Microsoft into significance as a reseller of DOS.
Microsoft betrayed IBM in the development of OS/2, first by pulling out of the operating system partnership, then by canceling Office for OS/2 after shipping an initial version for it in 1992.
IBM later bought up Lotus and worked to compete against Microsoft's growing influence with Office. Microsoft responded by using its new monopoly positions to punish IBM in various moves documented in the Microsoft monopoly trial. That story follows in Office Wars 4 – Microsoft's Assault on Lotus & IBM.
Using the Office Monopoly Against NeXT.
Jobs carried lessons learned from watching the implosion of Apple under Sculley to NeXT. His initial goal for NeXT was to build a software platform. However, nobody was shipping hardware up to the task of running an advanced operating system, so NeXT began following the business model of Apple, selling new hardware with advanced software.
While Jobs had found it challenging to find software partners for the Mac at Apple, the task was even more difficult at NeXT, which Apple had forced into the ultra high end of the workstation market using a non-compete agreement.
NeXTSTEP pioneered advanced rapid development frameworks to make it easier for third parties to deliver software for the new system. When Jobs discovered that Lotus was working to deliver a new spreadsheet paradigm for OS/2, he gave the Lotus team a NeXT system and got involved in refining the software to show off the features of his new platform.
In contrast, Microsoft used the productivity applications monopoly it had been handed by Apple to impede adoption of NeXT. When asked about writing software for NeXTSTEP, Microsoft's Bill Gates famously fumed, "Develop for it? I'll piss on it."
Gates also announced plans to immediately deliver his own advanced operating system with object oriented development frameworks called Cairo, which turned out to be a vaporware lie Microsoft repeated from 1991 until NeXT was acquired by Apple in 1997.
[1990-1995: Microsoft's Yellow Road to Cairo]
Microsoft's Murderous Partnerships.
Microsoft helped to ensure that neither NeXT nor OS/2 could acquire a broad enough computing platform to drive a self-sustaining software business. Apple was able to maintain a struggling niche platform on the Mac, but fears of stepping on third party developers' toes actively prevented the company from actually building on that potential until the late 90s.
Ironically, Microsoft did just that, by developing its solo PC platform with Windows and then using it to destroy third party developers it viewed as competitors. By tying its Windows and Office products together, Microsoft could strangle its own former partners–the top developers of MS-DOS applications–including WordPerfect, Lotus' 1-2-3, database and developer products from Ashton-Tate and Borland, and really every major developer on the PC that in any way challenged Microsoft.
Microsoft's coldly calculated murder of every rival DOS application developer and later many of its Windows developers, from Novell to IBM and Sun to Netscape, is an oddly public fact treated as a taboo secret by Windows Enthusiasts, who avoid all mention of it as they talk about how Apple "can't work with partners" in the rich, supportive way Microsoft supposedly has.
Any competition between Apple and third party developers–even with shareware programs–is paraded through the insufferable blogs of ZDNet and the pages of IDG's InfoWorld/PCWorld/Computerworld and described as unconscionable conduct. This is from writers who all witnessed first hand Microsoft's massacres of any and all "partners" the company decided no longer suited its fancy. Have these wags all been brainwashed, or are they just lying for money?
As a side note, the Office Wars and Microsoft's monopoly position in applications provide interesting insight into how Apple is deploying its iPhone software strategy, which the next article examines: Six Reasons Why Apple May Never Open the iPhone.
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Growing healthy food, people, and communities . . .
2013 NAACP Image Awards nominee for autobiography/biography.
Goodreads Choice finalist for best food book of the year.
The Good Food Revolution is the story of Will Allen's personal journey, the lives he has touched, and a grassroots movement that is changing the way our nation eats. The son of a sharecropper, Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, he cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot just outside Milwaukee's largest public housing project.
Despite financial challenges and daunting odds, Allen built an urban farm, a food and educational center that now produces enough produce and fish year-round to feed thousands. Employing young people from the community, Allen's organization, Growing Power, shows how local food systems can help troubled youths, dismantle racism, create jobs, bring urban and rural communities closer together, and improve public health. Today Growing Power helps develop community food systems across the country.
"What Allen does with a small plot of land and a lot of determination is nothing short of inspiring... A moving story of one man's success in producing healthy food for those who need it most." --Kirkus Reviews
"Allen gives readers the personal, moving account of a man whose family became part of the last century's great migration of African Americans out of the South. Of a man who traded a successful life in the corporate world for the economic uncertainties of a small farmer... The Good Food Revolution is inspiring." -- Los Angeles Times
"From the plots of his Milwaukee urban farm to low-income communities across America, Will Allen has shown us a new type of heroism. Through The Good Food Revolution, Allen recounts his effort to reclaim his family's heritage and, in doing so, confront lingering disparities in racial and economic justice. As the champion of a new and promising movement, Allen is skillfully leading Americans to face one of our greatest domestic issues – our health." – Former President Bill Clinton
DU Common Read Goals:
Enhance the academic climate for first year students
Provide a common intellectual experience
Foster a sense of shared experience among DU students, faculty, staff, and external communities
Other Resources:
- Growing Power, Inc.
- Will Allen Press Kit (PDF)
- Bill Clinton: Why I Became a Vegan- AARP The Magazine
- An Urban Farmer Is Rewarded for His Dream - New York Times
Calendar of Events:
-Thursday, Sep 5, 2013: Book Discussion at Caledonia Branch Library
-Tuesday, Oct 8, 2013: NorthWest Initiative at the Lansing Campus (A non profit organization working to solve food system issues in the Lansing area)
-Monday, Oct 14, 2013: Book Discussion at Kentwood Branch Library
-Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013: Book Discussion at the Lansing Campus
-Friday, Nov 1, 2013: Book Discussion at the Lettinga Campus
Books on This Topic from DU libraries:
Albritton, R. (2009). Let them eat junk : how capitalism creates hunger and obesity. New York: Pluto Press.
Bittman, M. (2010). Food matters : a guide to conscious eating with more than 75 recipes. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Carolan, M. (2011). The real cost of cheap food. New York: Earthscan.
Desrochers, P., & Shimizu, H. (2012). The locavore's dilemma : in praise of the 10,000-mile diet. New York: Public Affairs.
Gibney, M. (2012). Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.
Hauter, W. (2012). Foodopoly : the battle over the future of food and farming in America. New York: New Press.
Hewitt, B. (2009). The town that food saved : how one community found vitality in local food. Emmaus, Pa: Rodale.
Keith, L. (2009). The vegetarian myth : food, justice and sustainability. Crescent City, Ca: Flashpoint Press.
Roberts, P. (2008). The end of food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Robin, M. (2010). The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply (G. Holoch, Trans.). New York: New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution.
Books On This Topic Available at Other, Non-DU Libraries:
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace by Vandana Shiva (Jul 1, 2005)
Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oran B. Hesterman (May 31, 2011)
Feeding the Planet: Environmental Protection through Sustainable Agriculture (The Sustainability Project) by Klaus Hahlbrock (Feb 1, 2010)
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson (Sep 14, 2006)
It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer by Bill Heavey (May 7, 2013)
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre by Brett L. Markham (Apr 1, 2010)
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems (Community Resilience Guides... by Philip Ackerman-Leist and Deborah Madison (Jan 31, 2013)
Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair by Carlo Petrini, Clara Furlan, Jonathan Hunt and Alice Waters (May 8, 2007)
Subsistence Farming: A No-Fluff Guide To Feeding Your Family With Sustainable Crops And Animals by James Rockwell and Simple Self-Sufficiency (May 5, 2012)
Sustainable Agriculture: A Christian Ethic of Gratitude by Mark E. Graham (Jul 1, 2009)
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters (Feb 22, 2010)
The Mustard Seed by David Tracey (Jul 1, 2012)
The Rules That Shape Urban Form by Donald L. Elliott, Matthew Goebel and Chad Meadows (Nov 16, 2012)
Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Communities by Kimberly Hodgson, Marcia Caton Campbell and Martin Bailkey (Apr 1, 2010)
Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution by David Tracey (Apr 26, 2011)

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Seeking to raise its profile on Capitol Hill and beyond, Pax Christi USA is moving its national headquarters from Erie, Pa., to Washington.
The move will allow the U.S. arm of Pax Christi International, the international Catholic peace organization, to more readily address issues related to global conflicts, nuclear disarmament, justice for the world's most vulnerable people and environmental concerns.
"We're at a point where our voice needs to be heard on a much more national scene," said Sister Josie Chrosniak, a member of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary and chairwoman of the organization's national council. "We need to be where it can have the most effect.
"We need to speak to people in positions that can create change in the government as well as in the church," she told Catholic News Service from Cleveland. "As we grow and as we get stronger relationships with some of the other organizations speaking truth to power, in a sense we really need to be where they are and many are in Washington."
Executive director Dave Robinson will continue in his position.
The organization has worked for nearly a decade to increase its Washington presence. It opened a Washington office in 2002 and more recently expanded that presence by moving to the Center of Concern and starting an internship program.
Ursuline Sister Dianna Ortiz coordinates the Washington office.
Pax Christi USA opened its national office in Erie in 1986 thanks to the support of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie. While Pax Christi eventually bought its own building and expanded staff and activities as its membership grew, the location proved to be less than ideal in working with government officials and other national and international organizations.
Sister Josie said the organization is grateful for the support the Erie Benedictines offered early on and over the years.
Expect Pax Christi USA to broaden its message to include environmental concerns as well.
"Somebody has to speak to the violence that is happening to the earth. We need to … speak on how to stop that violence," Sister Josie said.
The move is scheduled to be completed this summer.


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Wabash Runs Over The Gatorsby Howard W. Hewitt • September 28, 2013 Share:
MEADSVILLE, Pa. – Revenge? Redemption?
Or was it just taking it one game at a time?
Wabash (3-0, 2-0 North Coast Athletic Conference) dominated winless Allegheny here Saturday in every phase of the football game. The 65-0 score might have been the least impressive statistic. The Little Giants clearly wanted the satisfaction of thumping the Gators after last year's 20-17 Gheny upset.
Dominating can be an overused adjective in sports but not so for this game. Wabash out-rushed the Gators 385-3. The difference in first downs was 19-2. Total offense was just as lopsided, 495-55. Allegheny (0-4, 0-3 NCAC) crossed the 50 just once against Wabash's defense, and that was due to a penalty. The homecoming hosts were 1 of 15 on third down conversions.
"This was redemption," said junior linebacker AJ Akinribade, who led Wabash with six tackles. "This was us taking back what was taken from us last year. We know what happened last year was last year and we shouldn't worry about it but those guys took what belonged to us. We wanted to come in here and get it back. We shut them down in all phases. We let them have it. We let them have it."
Wabash scored on a blocked punt, an interception, a bad snap to the quarterback, on long runs and long drives.
"We talked to our guys about redemption all week, not revenge but redemption," Coach Erik Raeburn said. "They obviously beat us last year. They out-coached us, out-played us and out-hustled us. And we didn't want that to happen again.
"I think our guys are doing a pretty good job of staying focused. I hope we obviously learned our lesson from last year."
From the outset it was clear the Little Giants would play with a purpose.
Quick scores from Mason Zurek running and an Andy Walsh to Houston Hodges 14-yard score set the pace. But then things got a little weird for the hosts. A center snap sailed past the quarterback who was still barking out signals and ended in the hands of Cody Buresh who carried it into the end zone, 21-0.
Anthony Stella scored on a three-yard run to open the second period. That was immediately followed by a Delon Pettiford 25-yard return of an interception --- his second of the season. Ian MacDougall hit a 34-yard field goal and then Zurek hammered the final first-half nail in the Gator's coffin. The sophomore burst up the middle for a 70-yard run and a Wabash 45-0 halftime lead.
"That long run was nothing special," Zurek insisted. "I just saw the hole and no one was there. And I just started running, fast."
Indeed, the sophomore who was stepping in for the injured Tyler Holmes had a huge day. He gained 158 yards on 12 carries with the two touchdowns.
"It felt pretty good," he said of his first collegiate start. "It was nice to get more confidence under my belt with Tyler out. I was nervous and didn't get a lot of sleep last night. It was nice to come out, run a few plays and score."
Offensive and defensive starters saw just one series apiece in the second half. The first offensive series ended with another MacDougall field goal of 30 yards.
The Little Giant underclassmen then took over with little drop off. Freshman quarterback Connor Rice, making his first appearance, took off on a 50-yard scoring run with a beautiful cut back across mid field.
Brock Smith picked up a blocked punt and carried it for 26 yards. The scoring ended with at 2:42 when freshman backup placekicker Andrew Tutsie hit a 31-yard field goal, 65-0.
"The guys we started the game with played fantastic and built us a sizable lead," Raeburn said. "We gave them one series to start the second half to get used to coming out after halftime. We put those young guys in on defense and I thought they did an incredible job. The young guys up front blocked well, did a good job controlling the line of scrimmage and we continued running the ball and the clock.
"We're real proud of how hard those young guys who got in there the second half played and how they executed."
Besides Zurek's big numbers, Stella rushed 7 times for 60 yards, Matt Gibson carried nearly every down of the fourth quarter for 13 attempts and 56 yards. Walsh, getting the start in place of Michael Putko, finished with 10-13 passing and 96 yards. Putko was sitting out with a suspension for violation of team rules. Cameron Belton was 2-2 for 14 yards. Hodges caught six passes for 54 yards. Jon Laird had two catches for 20.
Nate Scola and Cody Buresh backed up Akinribade on defense with five stops apiece.
The Little Giants will stay on the road and travel to the College of Wooster next Saturday.
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SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – A plan to fire powerful sonar devices and map seismic fault lines off California's central coast near a nuclear power plant received key approval on Monday from state officials despite concerns about its impact on marine life.
The proposed $64 million seismic study was designed to help Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and its regulators gauge hazards posed by potential earthquakes near the 2,160-megawatt Diablo Canyon power plant in San Luis Obispo County, about 183 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
The tests are needed to ensure that the waterfront facility is capable of withstanding an earthquake along one or more of four nearby fault lines. One of the faults was discovered in 2008 and is not well understood, while others were mapped using outdated technology.
The study had been planned since 2006 but gained a sense of urgency after an earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan in March 2011 triggered a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
Following the Fukushima meltdown, PG&E began fast-tracking the seismic study and agreed to delay pursuing federal relicensing of the 27-year-old power plant until the seismic study is complete.
Operating permits issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for Diablo Canyon's dual waterfront reactors, which produce about 10 percent of California's power needs, are due to expire in 2024 and 2025.
Fierce debate over the proposed study has coincided with an extended shutdown of the only other nuclear power plant operating in California. The San Onofre plant was taken offline in January following a radioactive leak and remains shuttered by its operator, Southern California Edison, a unit of Edison International.
The sonar tests will help paint a detailed three-dimensional picture of the seismic fault lines in the area. But they are controversial because the piercing, around-the-clock underwater sounds could harm animals in protected wildlife areas and limit commercial fishing.
The California State Lands Commission voted to allow the tests to move forward but imposed a raft of conditions, including restricting the firing of sonar guns and hydrophones to certain areas and certain months.
"I'm not going to tell you that we won't have some impacts," PG&E government affairs official Mark Krausse told the commissioners on Monday. "Our focus has been on minimizing the impacts from this work."
Commission Chairman Alan Gordon said the commissioners were forced to weigh unavoidable impacts of the study with the risks of an accident.
"The consequences of a nuclear accident at this site make it absolutely imperative and time sensitive that we get the information that these studies will provide," Gordon said during the hearing.
PG&E still needs to secure approval of federal and some other state agencies before it can proceed but it hopes to complete the study this winter.
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Machine Safety: ISO 13849-1 compliance is mandatory for robot applications, ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1&2: 2011
Are you aware that our consensus standard for robots (RIA 15.06) has changed and now calls out normative compliance requirements to ISO 13849-1: 2006? How many machine safety domestic standards have made this transition? Does anybody know?
Who's got the right story? Where can you go to get the latest straight read on the facts? OK, here's the latest facts (opinion) as I can tell:
– Previously RIA 15.06, part 4 is now effectively ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1: 2011. This standard basically covers the design and manufacture of the robot itself.
– RIA 15.06, for the robot system itself and integration, is now effectively ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-2: 2011.
– RIA 15.06 – 1999 comprehensively covered the robot as well as the system and integration in one standard. ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218 breaks this into parts 1 and 2.
– Canada's Z434 has harmonized and adopted ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1 & 2.
– Japan has adopted ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1 & 2.
– Ditto for many more countries around the world.
– This global standard requires compliance to the new quantitative approach to hazard identification, engineering, and mitigation including performance levels. This approach is required and mandatory as specified by the Machinery Directive in Europe effective Jan. 1, 2012.
– Summary, we now have a truly global standard for robots, the system, and integration.
Do I have this right? How many more of our consensus standards have made this transition? And, how many are in update status as we speak to accomplish the same?
Your comments or suggestion are always welcome so please let us know your thoughts. Submit your ideas, experiences, and challenges on this subject in the comments section below. Click on the following text if you don't see a comments box, then scroll down: ISO 13849-1 compliance is mandatory for robot applications (ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1&2: 2011)
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One of my favorite Dr. Seuss books is Oh, the Places You'll Go!and while I interpret the book to be about the stages in life I like to use it in a more literal way as a launching pad for a lesson in geography. This geography activity is flexible. You could choose to focus on foreign countries or places in your neighborhood. Since I did this with my seven-year-old I gave him a globe and let him decide for himself.
Gather your materials. You will need a copy or two of our Oh, The Places I Want To Go printable, a pencil, scissors, stapler, and a globe or atlas. Start by cutting out the printable. Our idea was that they look like tickets ready to take you to the destination.
Next, have your child look at this great big world and decide what they would like to add to their must-see list! Don't reign them in. If they want to see Mars, cool! If they want to go to the North Pole, rad! The most lasting benefit I have experienced from my own travels is the boost to my own curiosity about other people and places. This curiosity will spark learning. Let your kids be curious about places they find during this activity and use the places they choose as possible future learning experiences. As they look at the globe or atlas be available to answer questions and or have google ready to answer them for you. This can be a 3 minute activity or stretched out depending on the curiosity of the child.
My son wrote down a couple, one being Paris because of the pastries. I have been known to wax poetic about Paris… and it seems like someone has been listening.I think we will try to make this recipe for a Pear Tart during Spring Break to extend this learning. Traveling with kids isn't always possible but you can always learn about far away places.
Staple the pages together and make sure you have a few empty ones so that they can add more destinations later and keep that curiosity about far off places going and going.
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The protein, epithelial cadherin (E-cadherin), is known for its ability to keep cancer cells glued together, preventing them from breaking away and metastasizing. But, based on their findings, published online in PLoS ONE, the scientists suggest E-cadherin can also function as an oncogene in some cancers. An oncogene helps push cancer development and growth.
They say the findings could explain recent, puzzling observations about E-cadherin expression in breast cancer, for example. While loss of E-cadherin is generally considered a harbinger of metastasis, researchers have also found that most breast cancer that has spread retains E-cadherin expression. Ovarian tumors also have been paradoxically found to produce more and more E-cadherin as they grow.
"This surprising finding should compel us all to shift our thinking about E-cadherin," says the study's lead investigator, cancer biologist Doctor Panos Z. Anastasiadis "Up to now, we have all thought that if a tumor loses E-cadherin function, that represents a movement toward metastasis. That makes sense because 50 percent of cancers don't express E-cadherin and they are linked to a worse prognosis.
"But now it appears that E-cadherin expression in a tumor could be responsible for cells growing out of control if the protein is not functioning as it should be."
Anastasiadis focuses his research on the biological factors involved in cancer metastasis. In this study, he and a research team, which included scientists from Mayo Clinic's campuses in Florida and Minnesota, examined protein expression in glioblastoma cancer cells. Glioblastoma is the most common, as well as the most dangerous, brain cancer.
"Our interest is to understand the pathways that induce glioblastoma to be so invasive," he says. "The problem with this cancer is that the tumors can be very aggressive, and single cancer cells can spread all over the brain."
Among other proteins, the researchers looked at cadherins, of which about 20 are expressed in the brain — more than in any other organ. These are transmembrane proteins that play critical roles in determining how cells bind to each other in a tissue. The researchers expected to find significant amounts of neural cadherin (N-cadherin) in the tumors, but not E-cadherin, which is expressed in epithelial rather that normal brain tissue.
In epithelial tissue, loss of E-cadherin usually represents a switch in cell behavior known as epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In EMT, cells that had been tightly bound to each other loosen up, due to loss of E-cadherin, and other proteins — including other members of the cadherin superfamily — then promote migration of individual cells away from a cancer cluster. Drugs are being developed that target this EMT switch, says Anastasiadis.
Given these facts, the researchers say that what they found surprised them. While N-cadherin was expressed in most human brain tumor cell lines — and N-cadherin is potentially oncogenic — some also expressed E-cadherin. They also found those cells that expressed E-cadherin acted more aggressively than brain cancer that did not express the protein. The researchers then validated their findings in animal studies. Finally, they performed an experiment in which they removed E-cadherin expression from glioblastoma cells and found these cells had a reduced ability to move, and grew at a much slower pace.
"E-cadherin expressed in these glioblastomas did not function to keep cells stuck together. Instead, they promoted tumor growth and migration," Anastasiadis says. "This is the complete opposite of what we have known about E-cadherin. For some reason, in these brain cells, E-cadherin expression is linked to aggressive cell behavior and poor prognosis."
The findings suggest "cadherins, as a whole class of proteins, need to be studied in more detail," he says. "E-cadherin expressed in glioblastoma functioned like an oncogene and it could be doing the same in many breast, ovarian, and other tumors found elsewhere in the body."
"Understanding what causes the switch in E-cadherin function from a tumor suppressor to an oncogene, and how to block it, will be critical," concludes Anastasiadis. "But the bottom line is that we cannot view E-cadherin simply as a tumor suppressor anymore."
MEDICA.de; Source: Mayo Clinic


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Michael Robertson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
AcuStream, LLC
AcuStream is a healthcare software and services company offering solutions for Healthcare providers to gain unique insight into their patient charge data and recapture lost revenue due to missed charges without requiring either investments in new enterprise software or endure significant changes to the way they do business.
Managing Directors of Hospitals and Physician Organizations.
Design requirements:
1. The company name AcuStream, with the A and S capitalized.
2. Color logo that includes both text and graphics, specifically using the following HEX Value colors
a. #00477F Blue
b. #B5111B Red
c. #729D61 Green
3. Colors should reflect a revenue focused yet "curative " medical feel to the company
4. Incorporate a professional typeface
5. Custom graphics in the technology and medical are highly appreciated
6. Vector-based artwork is a MUST, JPGs and BMPs appreciated.
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Eileen Joyce: Longtime Copiague Teacher
Loving wife, mother and dedicated educator Eileen Joyce died Jan. 25, 2009 in Islip. She was 78 years old. "She was a great wife and mother who cared for all children" said her husband of 50 years, Thomas J. "Her education background ran the gamut from childcare in social services to teaching elementary class. She loved it all.
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I played Vesperia PS3, you're really not missing that much.I wonder how many of the people whining about it would actually buy it if it came out today...
I wouldn't be surprised if they were localizing Xillia 2 in parallel with Xillia (after all, many of the voice actors are the same) so "Tales-filled year" could imply a Xillia 2 release later this year...one can always hope, anyway.
my local gamestop has it listed for july


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CIM Management
WBEM and CIM are two of the DMTF standards for enterprise system management. Fedora already contains implementation of the standard but the existing capabilities are focused more on system monitoring. The standards allow to add methods for system management as well. The goal is to implement new CIM providers and extend the existing ones to enable the basic system management capabilities. The implementation should adhere to the standards to allow for easier interoperability with other CIM/WBEM based applications. The feature is targeting system administrators and experienced users and should lay base ground for future development of enterprise-level management infrastructure for Fedora.
- Name: Tomas Smetana
- Email: email@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-06-07
- Percentage of completion: 20 %
Detailed Description
Ensure the current CIMOM servers (sblim-sfcb, tog-pegasus) work well withing the current Fedora infrastructure: proper systemd integration, sane default configuration, virtual provides to satisfy provider dependencies.
Add or extend the existing CIM providers to be able to manage the following areas and perform the listed tasks:
- Networking management
- Based on the SMASH network object model
- Bring up / take down a network interface
- Set IPv4 address and netmask
- Set IPv6 address
- Configure basic routing: set default gateway
- Configure resolver
- Set FQDN
- Storage management
- Based on the SMI-S storage object model
- Enumerate block devices
- Create/delete LVM volumes, resize volumes, add/remove devices
- Create LVM snapshots
- Build/destroy RAID (0,1,5)
- Create/remove a partition of ext3/ext4 type
- Create/remove a partition of XFS type
- Mount and unmout a partition
- Event based monitoring of storage devices (emit indication event upon RAID degradation, SCSI error, etc.)
- Report status – drives and configurations, utilization, health, RAID & LVM volumes
- Service management
- Enumerate system services and their status (using the systemd dbus interface)
- Start/stop/restart a service
- Enable/disable a service
- Event based monitoring of service status (emit indication event upon service status change)
- Power management
- Halt, reboot, suspend or hibernate a system
- Report and set power states – Pstate and Cstate
- User management
- Create/update/remove user account
- Software management
- List the installed packages
- Install/update/remove a particular package
- Perform a package integrity check
- Genereal system monitoring/management
- Show used/available memory (physical/swap)
- Show used/available storage space
- Show power status
- Show the system load
- Show list of running processes
- Send a signal to a particular process
- Show I/O load (network, disk)
- Show list of logged in users
- CIM Browser
- Port YAWN from mod_python to mod_wsgi to enable a basic WEB interface for the object model. Allows navigation of the CIM object model, introspection of CIM providers, getting and setting all attributes, and invoking methods.
- User interface
- Implement simple WEB based WBEM client to hide the complexity of the whole CIM model; the application should allow to perform all the tasks listed above
- Review the pywbem package to provide also a scripting interface
Benefit to Fedora
The Fedora users would be able to manage their systems (even networks of systems) using a single consistent central interface. The usage of DMTF standards allow for an integration with other vendors system management tools and the existing WBEM/CIM scripting languages bindings.
The new feature does not require any changes in the Fedora system outside the WBEM/CIM management tools.
How To Test
- Install one of the CIMOMs: sblim-sfcb or tog-pegasus
- Install the sblim-cmpi-* providers and any other providers developed and packaged as part of the project
- Ensure the providers are correctly registered with the chosen CIMOM
- Launch the CIMOM
- Perform the listed tasks using YAWN or any other WBEM client from a remote machine
- Ensure all the actions work as expected
- Each sub-feature should be accompanied with a testing python script: it should work flawlesly
User Experience
Easier management of larger networks using industry standard technologies.
Contingency Plan
Not needed.
- Provided as part of the project: sblim-cmpi-* packages and any of the eventual new packages contain the documentation.
- DMTF Standards
Release Notes
- Improved WBEM and CIM tools allow for easier remote management of the Fedora system
Comments and Discussion
- See Talk:Features/CIMManagement
- #fmci channel on freenode


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I'm sure plenty of you have thoughts on this, many of them heated as the Mets lost on the final day of the season for the second straight year.
This season brought several defining moments in Minaya's career, beginning with the trade for two-time American League Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana from the Minnesota Twins. Minaya also traded prospect Lastings Milledge to Washington for outfielder Ryan Church and catcher Brian Schneider.
The Mets, and Minaya, were criticized for their handling of Church's concussion, and for circumstances surrounding the firing of manager Willie Randolph.
Minaya's first order of business will be signing manager Jerry Manuel to an extension and patching a bullpen that blew 29 save opportunities.


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Pre-NCAA game preview: Michigan State
UConn will attempt to advance to the Final Four for the fifth time in school history today.
It will require UConn's best effort of the season to beat Michigan State in the East Regional final at Madison Square Garden. Game time is 2:20 p.m.
It also will be the ultimate toughness test for the Huskies.
"We've been through a lot," senior Shabazz Napier said. "We understand that this is definitely going to be another dogfight. We don't expect them to back down and I hope they don't expect to back down.
"It's going to be a fight, and we're just hopeful that we'll be on top."
Here's pre-game preview
-- Records: Seventh-seeded UConn 29-8, No. 4 Michigan State (29-8)
-- Last game: UConn beat third-seeded Iowa State, 81-76, Friday; Michigan State defeated top-seeded Virginia, 61-59, Friday
-- Common opponents: Harvard (UConn won 61-56, Michigan St. won 80-73), Indiana (UConn won 59-58, Michigan St. won 71-66 and 73-56)
-- Probable starters: UConn, 6-1 sr. guard Shabazz Napier (17.9 pts, 5.9 rebs, 4.9 assists), 6-0 jr. guard Ryan Boatright (12.1 pts), 6-9 jr. forward DeAndre Daniels (13.0 pts, 5.8 rebs), 6-7 sr. forward Niels Giffey (8.4 pts, 3.8 rebs), 6-10 so. center Phil Nolan (3.5 pts, 2.4 rebs)
Michigan State, 6-1 sr. Keith Appling (11.4 pts, 4.5 assists), 6-4 so. guard Gary Harris (16.6 pts, 4.1 rebs), 6-5 so. guard Denzel Valentine (7.9 pts, 5.9 rebs), 6-6 jr. Branden Dawson (11.4 pts, 8.3 rebs), 6-10 forward Adreian Payne (16.5 pts, 7.2 rebs)
-- Coach Kevin Ollie: "We want to give our fans something special. It will be amazing to play 40 full (minutes) of UConn basketball and get a win, but I know it's going to take every ounce of guts we have, ever ounce of sweat and tears that we've got to win against a great Michigan State team."
-- UConn is playing in its in 11th Elite Eight, going 4-6. The Huskies have won three of the last four trip.
Michigan State is 8-3 in Regional finals, including 6-1 under coach Tom Izzo.
-- Series: UConn leads, 3-2, winning the last two including a 66-62 decision in 2012-13 season opener in Germany. The teams also played in 2009 national semifinals, with Michigan State winning 83-72.
-- Player to watch: The 245-pound Payne, a match-up nightmare.
-- Michigan State relies heavily on interior offense and perimeter defense to punish opponents. Payne and Dawson are averaging a combined 36 points and 14 rebounds in the NCAA tournament.
-- Top reserve: junior guard Travis Trice (7.5 pts).
-- The Spartans lead the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense at 39.8 and shoot 47.6 from the field.
-- Hot: Daniels is averaging 18.7 points and 6.3 rebounds in three NCAA games. Cold: UConn almost even in rebounding (33.7-33.0) in last three games.
-- Since both teams reached Final Four in 1999, UConn is 35-8 in NCAA tournament, MichiganState is 40-14.
-- Winner plays Florida in the national semifinals Saturday in Dallas.
-- Check back later for a post-game breakdown and video.
-- Follow me on Twitter @GavinKeefe
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Injury Report: Week 5
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LB Greg Ellis (Achilles)
CB Terence Newman (Foot and Knee)
With the temporary loss of the very productive Anthony Henry, we will finally get the chance to see Terence Newman back in his starting role. He had a good practice on Friday and we expect him to have a fairly decent game.
There are reports that Terry Glenn has started the rehab for his knee. If all goes well, he should be ready to play in 4 to 5 weeks.
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TRIGGER 2::: The view of.......... our little lake from the living room window at the cottage is beautiful! It's the reason we bought the place... it's the reason we put in bigger windows. I see a bit of lawn... complete with a small variety of wildflowers (some may call them weeds) that persist. We mow it anyway. The lawn is green even though we use neither fertilizer or weed killer on it. It's close enough to the lake to be mostly green most of the time and we don't want to put stuff into the lake to either encourage aquatic weed growth or kill the fish and other organisms living there.
The dock is a little narrow and in parts a little crooked, but it's our dock. I visualize a wider one with a big deck out at the end where we can put our deck chairs, but for now well... it's a nice place to tie up our little boats. I see the flagpole which i set up dockside a few years ago. I haven't flown the flag this year because i choose not to until the 'pork' issue is resolved.
Where the brown storage shed sits at waters edge and the corner of our property, I visualize a small gazebo.... nothing fancy but a place where we can sit by the water in the shade and enjoy each other's company. This for me will complete the outdoor living area of our perfect little spot in the 'north country.'


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So as a quick catchup:
I'm working an Aid Station at the Cheat Mountain Moonshine Madness 50 mile Run, in Beverly, West Virginia, this Friday night. Friday night? Yes, Friday night! Race starts at 9 PM. This is an all night run around Cheat Mountain. The race course is a lollipop, so runners will come through my AS twice, first around 10-1130 pm, then 4-7 am (ish). I plan on serving hot homemade (vegan friendly) potato soup. With the weather temps going to be in the fifties, I think the runners will appreciate this!
The Ring: This is a FA Event from the Virginia Happy Trails Club. 70 miles of the Massanutten Trail. Harder or easier than the MMT 100? God, I hope not! As Slim says, I am running the Ring as some homework for MMT 2011. And if the Ring wasn't enough, Jim Harris will do some climbing over on Birds Knob on Friday, before the Ring starts on Saturday. Goals for the Ring: 1) Not to die. 2) Finish. Simple enough!
After the Ring, it will depend on how I feel and domestic guilt whether I run the Groundhog 50K (my favorite 50K) the next weekend.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Albert Dorne, Master Illustrator
If you had told me as a kid that one day I would know all about this guy, have researched his life and written about him and even corresponded with his daughter, I never would have believed you.
But yes, over time, Albert Dorne, the man with the bushy black eyebrows has become very important to me.
With the first few paragraphs of his text in the recently released book, Albert Dorne, Master Illustrator, author David Apatoff beautifully and succinctly sums up why Al Dorne has so profoundly affected me.
Apatoff writes, "Who was in a better position than Al Dorne to testify about what drawing could accomplish? Drawing was the engine that powered his astonishing climb from the depths of poverty and illness..."
"... to international renown as an artist, business leader, educator and philanthropist."
"Starting with nothing but a talent for drawing, Dorne became, (in the words of advertising titan Fairfax Cone) "the highest paid, most successful commercial artist of his time."
"From that position, he used his drawing skills as a platform for building a multinational corporation that trained tens of thousands of students around the world in the creative fields of art, writing and photography."
"Now a wealthy man, he went on to to use drawing to help the disabled, became nationally respected for his charitable work and was appointed by the President of the United States to The President's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped. Dorne consorted with glamorous movie stars and government leaders, amassed a major art collection and was sought after as a lecturer around the country."
"Dorne was a larger-than-life character with many contradictions. He could be crass and vulgar, yet he had the refined tastes of a connoisseur. He was a tough businessman, yet he was exceptionally tender-hearted and generous. He was both a womanizer and a caring family man. He was a wealthy capitalist, yet when a labor dispute broke out with his employees he was the one person they trusted to be the fair arbitrator of their grievances."
"He overpowered people with his dominating personality, yet he had the sensitivity and subtlety of a professional diplomat. He dropped out of school when he was just a small boy, yet he was highly educated."
"Despite these inconsistencies, Dorne was consistent in his love and respect for drawing, which accompanied him every step of the way through his extraordinary career."
So begins a book that presents a thorough - and thoroughly fascinating - recounting of Albert Dorne's life, followed by a selection of the artist's work that is as broad as it is deep.
What more do I need to say? Whether you are an artist or not, whether you're familiar with Dorne's story and artwork or not, this book is quite simply an essential addition to everyone's collection.
An epic story about a hugely inspiring human being. Buy this book.
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I have my copy of this fantastic book- I agree that every artist should add it to their collectionReplyDelete
Agreed. I have a copy too and it's wonderful. I've posted a short review and more photos on my site at http://www.wingsart.net/home/2012/12/14/albert-dorne-master-illustrator-book-review-wingsart/ for those that are interested in seeing more.ReplyDelete
i can not wait to get my hands on this book, hurry Amazon and thanks Leif!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad this book is out. A hearty congrats to Manuel and David. Keep up the excellent work Leif.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the kind review, Leif. As readers of the book will learn, I benefited from your own excellent research on Dorne, and even quoted TI for the single most scandalous anecdote about Dorne.ReplyDelete
Albert Dorne was my wife Cathy's grandfather.Her mother Elaine Dorne Bolton (God rest her soul)past away June 21st 2013.Elaine was Al's eldest daughter. Brad & Cathy Wambolt Lincoln,Me (firstname.lastname@example.com )ReplyDelete
Hi there Love this artist work anyone know his process at all? I take it he used references/photos? Thanks! Greta postReplyDelete


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Several bombs exploded in Bangladesh's capital and police clashed with protesters Tuesday as opposition leaders enforced a daylong, nationwide general strike over police intimidation.
Witnesses and news reports said several homemade bombs exploded during the beginning of the shutdown. RTV and Bangla Vision stations reported explosions in parts of Dhaka. It was not clear if there were any injuries.
Clashes were reported inside and outside Dhaka, and thousands of security officials were deployed in the capital to maintain order.
Nearly 400 members of paramilitary Bangladesh Border Guard were also deployed to aid police in Dhaka, said Maj. Gen. Aziz Ahmed, the force's director general.
Schools and most businesses in Dhaka remained closed Tuesday. Traffic was thin on the usually clogged streets.
An 18-party opposition alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, was enforcing the strike to protest alleged police intimidation during a rally on Monday.
The party and its allies are demanding restoration of a caretaker government system to oversee upcoming elections. Its ally Jamaat-i-Islami also wants a halt to trials of several opposition politicians accused of crimes stemming from the country's 1971 independence war.
After Monday's rally, police arrested some senior leaders and more than 100 activists of the BNP, headed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, in Dhaka during a raid on its party headquarters. Police said they also recovered at least 10 homemade bombs from the headquarters. But the party blamed police for keeping those bombs inside the headquarters to create a drama.
BNP's acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and a former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation were among those arrested.
Zia, in a late-night meeting with senior party leaders, criticised the government for the arrests and later announced similar nationwide shutdown for March 18 and 19 if the detained senior leaders are not freed immediately.
Zia's party and Jamaat-i-Islami have denounced the trials of several opposition politicians accused of mass killings and atrocities during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
Bangladesh says the war left three million people dead, 200,000 women raped and forced millions to flee to neighboring India.
Jamaat-i-Islami campaigned against the independence of Bangladesh, but denies committing any atrocities.
The administration of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina initiated the trials in 2010 and three verdicts have already been declared. Ten of the defendants are from Jamaat-i-Islami, the country's largest Islamic party, while the other two belong to the BNP.
Two of the senior party members of Jamaat-i-Islami have been convicted, one sentenced to death and another to life in prison. Another former member of the Islamic party has been sentenced to death. The sentencing sparked violent clashes between opposition activists and police, leaving about 70 people dead in recent months. – Dawn.com


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