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Issue 13 – Are you a winner? Yes! *Olympics edition*
[ Date of this issue is Sunday August 5th ]
Hello Winners! (I am in a gold medal mood)
I hope you all are having a fabulous weekend. We've got a ton of great reads again this week, including the full Vanity Fair Microsoft article and a special section on the Olympics (and I feel like I have watched more TV in the last week, than all year). Enjoy!
And, as always, you can find the bonus links on the blog. :)
News to know
- Big Fish Games has announced an $8 monthly gaming subscription service across tablets, phones and PCs that will compete with Verizon's offering announced last week.
- A first glimpse at the new Digg
- Amazon launches prime instant video for the tablet (Kindle fire and iPad app)
- More Turmoil at Zynga – The recent plunge in share price has set off investor lawsuits and an executive shakeup.
- Wildfire (social media marketing startup) acquired by Google – I wasn't aware of them but they sold for a rumored $250M, so apparently they were doing great stuff with ad optimization….
Special Section: Olympics!
How Speedo Created A Record-Breaking Swimsuit
After officials banned the swimsuit that caused records to fall at the 2008 Games, scientists are back with a new outfit that could break more. While the article was definitely interesting, I think I enjoyed the comments best:
- "I have heard of polyurethane and polyethylene being used to do amazing things as part of next-generation body armor, sports equipment and artificial hips. And now competitive swimsuits."
- "The simplest solution to this problem is to require all competitors to be completely naked."
- "Even without clothes, swimsuit, they can find way to modify the body itself with microsurgical interventions to add buoyancy with implanted airtight nanotubes or some other kind of material." (huh?)
Olympic Physics: Swimming, Power and Setting Records
Hydrodynamics of a swimmer – and it was interesting to see the physics and math applied to power and performance.
The Science Behind Olympic Six-Pack Abs
Every year I look forward to the summer Olympics for the water polo, swimming, and other events with shirtless guys with 6-pack abs (what can I say?). NPR had a little piece on how the athletes get those great physiques, and it isn't a magic formula – just hard work and healthy eating. Now it is time for me to get off the couch and putting down these caramel crackers.
Leadership – Productivity, Focus, and Prioritization
Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing
This is one of the best lists of productivity tips I have seen in a long time. I have summarized them below, but read the list – you will get more done!
- Stop Checking Email in the Morning. The quickest way to time travel into the afternoon is to check email in the morning. Time-box your email.
- Don't make Guilt Piles. You know that pile of books that you'll never read that sitting next to the computer you are reading this blog post on? That pile of books is a monolith of guilt. Pick the book or two that you can read this week and put the rest away.
- If it's important, Schedule It. You schedule an hour for a meeting at work and you show up, why not schedule an hour in your work day to read.
- Measure, then Cut. You can't decide what to stop doing unless you know what you're doing.
- Do smaller things. Find a small thing that you can do in a small amount of time and do it. Accomplish something small, anything and that will buoy you forward to the next thing.
- Let go of Psychic Weight. List out all the things that weigh you down and find out how to let them go.
- Schedule Work Sprints. It's hard to focus all day. Just focus on one thing for 25 minutes. When you're done, you'll get a 5 minute break to do whatever you want.
- Stop Beating Yourself Up. Don't feel so bad about not getting enough stuff done. Eat well, sleep well, say NO more often and try your best. Remember you can always make a small change in your system and try again tomorrow.
Why "just do it" is bullshit
It's an overly simple way of explaining things that are rarely simple. Though with hard work and determination much is possible, the author disagrees with willful ignorance of external factors like natural aptitude and outside advantages.
Stating the problem as the solution is not helpful at all. Might as well also add: "Everything is buyable as long as you have enough cash." And: "Everywhere in the universe is reachable as long as you have a good enough space ship, lots of fuel, and a lot of time."
The Amazing Secret Behind All Habits
Advice for breaking bad habits and making goods ones is usually accompanied by seemingly-simple "truths" that are much easier said than done. This article breaks down habits into a "habit loop" consisting of trigger, routine, and reward. The idea is that if you can become aware of each part of a habit, you can control it…in theory.
Why Slowing Down Makes You an Expert Faster
"I'm talking about taking slow, consistent, fearless and focused action."
Becoming an expert, a successful specialist in your field will not happen overnight. They key is realizing that early, and adjust your game plan to prepare you for the long haul. It requires more than just reading a lot or doing a lot – everything has to be focus on your goal.
- Find your specialty. What are you passionate about?
- Start a blog. Build your status, find a base, and focus on quality over quantity.
- Study every day. Dedicate time to studying, a great creative with your resources. Already follow a blog? Find a podcast.
- Write every day. Turning an idea into text helps you work out the problems.
- Experiment. You'll never know if an idea might work until you try! :)
- Strengthen yourself. Make skills that will build you success a priority – practice time management and stay current with technical procedures.
- Teach others. Teaching is a great tool for teaching yourself too.
- Ask from others. Interview, learn more, and get on their radar.
HR: Why you should always lie in your exit interview
As much as I wish it wasn't true, I have to agree with this article. There is very little to be gained by telling the whole truth when you depart a company. Wise words: "Just say positive things. Negativity is not going to help the company now or later."
Tech – API Standards and App Dependencies
5 things that keep app developers up at night
A good list of potential worries along with some useful tips for how to plan and prevent them.
- A tech titan moves into the space. "Take solace in the fact that you can move faster and be more creative than a giant corporation. Focus on what you can do that they can't."
- A buggy update to your app. Do testing and review with beta testers and software before a release (think shrink wrapped software). "Take the beta label off your product and keep an open, honest, and humble channel of communication with your customers."
- API anxiety. External dependencies can always be problematic since you lose control. Always have a fallback plan in the event the API changes its terms or becomes unavailable. "If you're relying on an API for a specific piece of functionality, make sure you have an understanding about how it works and create a plan to bring that functionality in-house if needed."
- Platform shifts. It always sucks when your platform adds new "features" that aren't compatible with your app. "The best thing you can do is install beta versions of their OS updates early and often and always develop against them."
- Tracking the numbers. Knowing how users are interacting and engaging with your app. Just be careful of becoming too obsessed with the numbers. "There will always be rises and dips, but the idea is to just take a more general view and see how the overall product is being received and seeing how a longer term"
Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Candidate Recommendations
This is exciting since browsers are going to give developers more insight into the user experience with performance and timing APIs. It seems like collecting user data from browsers is in the near-future, which could be very powerful in multi-device or specific user situations. Here is one inspiring example from the post:
"The Page Visibility API allows for programmatically determining the current visibility state of the page. Developers can use this data to make better CPU- and power-efficiency decisions, e.g., throttling down activity when the page is in the background tab."
Best practices on web semantics and html tags (worth referencing so you don't hurt your SEO page value).
Process – What are product managers anyway?
Product Management for the Web
It always seems like people get product, program, and project management roles confused, and each title can mean totally different things in each organization. I loved this article though, because it distills the key roles for any product manager working on a web product.
- Relationships: "The product manager forms and maintains the extensive network of relationships required to make sure the team understands problems so that it can propose, prioritize, design, build, and test the right solutions. For this, you need diplomacy, time, and communication skills."
- Data and communication: Leadership is about keeping everyone on the same page and that means sharing the right information to the right audience in a medium and form they can use and understand. The specific areas cited: research, analysis, reports, presentations.
- User stories: "The product manager's main deliverable is the user story."
- Minimum viable product & road maps: In addition to creating the user stories for the current product (and defining what features make up the MVP), it is also necessary to track and prioritize future stories for future releases.
- Kano Model. The article also references the Kano model as a framework to select and choose features. Breaking features into 3 categories: basic, performance, and delightful.
Future Friendly Workflows
This is a useful, fresh perspective on workflow design that can accommodate many screen sizes and new features. The plan: start with content, design for mobile, and keep things inter-operable. The lessons:
- Laser focus: create meaningful content and services.
- Orbit around data: create data that is interoperable, with multiple forms of access.
- Universal content: think about how your data is structured and stored. It needs to go anywhere.
- Unknown vessel, identify: rather than reacting to a specific device, classify device types which take into account future devices.
- Command your fleet: don't target specific devices, but device capabilities.
3 Ways to Get More Time Out of Less
A great article on making time for your priorities, and dealing with the day-to-day issues that often gets in between a company and their goals.
- Identify and focus on your biggest priorities. Commit your energy to projects that are going to make an impact on your business. Prioritize the biggest goals of your organization so that time is spent doing work that creates the most value; even if that means reevaluating how you were doing things before.
- Write down and complete two objectives every week. Completing a goal brings satisfaction. This simple truth is essential to creating positive momentum among your team – make it a priority to have two things to show for your hard work, rather than getting caught up in the day-to-day emergencies that sidetrack your team.
- Outsource non-core work. "Domestically, and across the world, there are businesses that can take on your non-core work and do it faster, better, and cheaper than you can." Take advantage of your team's talent, and free them from the nonessential tasks that just have to get done.
Mobile: Site of mobile design patterns – Pttrns.com
Quick Bytes
On Androids and Apples
Will Android ever overtake Apple's iPhone? This author poses that so much of the debate comes down to apps. From my own experience monetizing Android is often harder, testing apps on Android is more difficult, and promoting apps is a harder – so it definitely seems like there are some merits to this argument.
Apple v. Samsung: The Patent Trial of the Century
Tech Giants Near a Landmark Jury Trial Over iPhone and Android; Is It Innovation or Litigation? This trial is particularly interesting because a win on either side will have far-reaching implications for any product company. I plan to follow along as things happen, and for those of you who want more on this case check out this article on PC World that contains the actual jury instructions.
Microsoft's Lost Decade
This is the full Microsoft Vanity Fair article, I reference in an issue a couple of weeks ago.
The whole post is pretty interesting and has some shocking facts & great quotes (my favorites of which I pasted in below).
Ultimately it ends with the question should Microsoft stay whole (or break off into pieces), and is Ballmer the right person to stay in the driver's seat?
And for those interested, Page 4 talks about stack ranking.
In December 2000, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $510 billion, making it the world's most valuable company. As of June it is No. 3, with a market cap of $249 billion. In December 2000, Apple had a market cap of $4.8 billion and didn't even make the list. As of this June it is No. 1 in the world, with a market cap of $541 billion.
Exhibit A: today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.
To date, Bing has lost about $6 billion for Microsoft; add in the earlier search products and the amount of money poured into the effort rises to almost $10 billion.
More employees seeking management slots led to more managers, more managers led to more meetings, more meetings led to more memos, and more red tape led to less innovation. Everything, one executive said, advanced at a snail's pace.
(and of course this quote makes me want to abolish all managers in my future-yet-to-be-started company; which is very ironic given my current role)
P.S. Happy 25th belated birthday PowerPoint!
The tyranny of category
Don't limit your thinking and ideas.
"The tyranny of category is when we think a thing is only what we have labeled it to be. A master of taxonomy and judgement has the illusion of expertise, since they choose what label an idea, or a person, is given."
[ Geeking Out ]
Network data traffic security issues
A hacking expert has launched a $200 password-cracking tool that makes it easy to decipher Internet traffic sent through a widely used method for securing businesses communications. He says he's doing it to call attention to the need for better security, but we will see what happens.
An iPhone without the cost of the iPhone? FreedomPop's $99 iPod touch case.
Who knows if this technology can achieve what it claims, but it would definitely be interesting if it could.
[ Wordly Reading ]
Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events
Bruce Schneier always seems to be the voice of reason when it comes to security and privacy. There really is no reason to be afraid of movie theatres, cars are more dangerous by the numbers. "People tend to base risk analysis more on stories than on data. Stories engage us at a much more visceral level, especially stories that are vivid, exciting or personally involving."
The Message War
If you want to change the culture, change the stories.
And there are several government initiatives underway to help with just that: Viral Peace helps to discourage younger ones from joining the terrorist groups via social media and online communities. At DARPA, Narrative Networks is a program that "looks at how stories affect the brain and human behavior, with the goal of finding ways to present narratives that help persuade people not to become terrorists." At the end of the article there was also a nod to some of the newer developments to help, including:
"Think fast: U.S. soldiers may soon be able to use a new technology called Sentinel, binoculars connected to a computer that would actually speed up the brain's normal thought-processing so threats can be identified more quickly."
That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.
I had no idea what was involved in shipping and driving semi-trucks. It is short and worth a read, since doing so will make you way more empathetic to those larger vehicles on the road. (link via the Way Back Letter)
[ Useful & Productive ]
The power of taking a break – using incubation to break through a mental block
This is a short post the highlights new research on the power of taking a break and allowing your subconscious to work through a problem. One key part of the research though, was that you *knew* you would be coming back to the problem. The recommendations:
- Prepare. Another boost for the incubation effect comes from preparation. If you've looked at the problem from more angles before you start incubating, there's more chance your unconscious can give you some answers.
- Short breaks. Even relatively short periods of incubation can be successful. Studies have found that 30-minute incubation periods can be superior to 24 hours.
The illusion of progress lights a fire
"We work harder to achieve a goal as we get closer to it"
This post highlights research done on loyalty cards and purchasing frequency. As people get closer to the goal, they move faster; implying that one can manipulate our actions (or the illusion of progress) by moving the goalposts.
Worth bookmarking: Ask YC Archive
A handy list of all the "Ask YC" threads from hacker news, organized and reviewed by topic and quality.
Employees Doing Personal Chores at Work? Let Them!
This is a great article – I still can't believe how many companies focus more on time clocks instead of results.
How to make habits stick
This article has 3 simple but effective ways to change a habit:
- Make a specific action plan. Good habits require planning, so we need to break them down into actionable steps.
- Anticipate challenges. As you work toward a goal, you need to prepare for potential problems you'll encounter.
- Stick with it (there are no 30-day guarantees). The time you need to commit depends on three factors: how difficult the new habit is to do, how often you do it, and how much it clashes with your current habits.
Free ebook: Organizing digital information for others.
Lots of good guidelines and best practices organizing content - it is quite long but there is some great tidbits throughout. The doc covers lists, facets, trees, metadata, taxonomies, and how to test your implementation (and I learned a cool new trick called card sorting!).
[ Just for fun ]
Creative block? The site Help Me Be Fucking Creative has some suggestions.
How much would it cost to be Batman?
Answer: $682,450,750 and the figure includes $600 million for reconstruction of the Wayne Manor and Bat Cave destroyed in The Dark Knight. If you take out those expenses, and you can be Batman for a very reasonable $82.5 million (which includes Alfred).
How much does an illegal party organized through Facebook cost? Apparently $280,000 in Germany. I wonder if it was worth it?
Check out Twitter's new digs! They are pretty….
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning." — Mahatma Gandhi
That's all for this week! See you next Sunday. :)


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'The Following' Season 2 character photos: Why does Joe Carroll have a beard?Add to Favorites | The Following
There's a lot of mystery surrounding James Purefoy's return to "The Following" for Season 2 since serial killer and cult leader Joe Carroll supposedly died in the Season 1 finale of the FOX thriller.
The biggest question on everyone's mind: Did Joe really die in that fire if Purefoy is back as a series regular for Season 2? We can't exactly reveal the answer to that question (why would we spoil your fun?), as Joe could be back in flashbacks or in some other way that doesn't necessarily mean he survived the fire -- the public definitely thinks he died that day. But the just-released character photos for "The Following" Season 2 certainly add another layer to that mystery.
Purefoy's character photo shows Joe sporting some serious facial hair. If he did survive the fire, is he living incognito with one heck of a beard? Or did Joe have the fuzzy face years ago?Check out Purefoy and the other series regulars' character photos in "The Following" Season 2 first look photos gallery here
"The Following" Season 2 premieres Sunday, Jan. 19 immediately after the NFC Championship Game (approx. 10:30 p.m. ET) on FOX.

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Not only is baking with your child a fun way to spend time together, it's also a great way to help teach him or her important skills like counting, measuring, and cleanup! This year, I decided to kick off the Holiday baking season with my daughter by helping her create an adorable apron. She wears it when doing messy crafts that involve painting and gluing as well.
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Here's what you'll need. (I covered the table with some kraft paper to protect it from paint gone astray!)
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Credit: Steven Robles – SF Giants Rumors It hasn't taken the San Francisco Giants long to get back in their winning ways. After being swept in Milwaukee, the Giants came home to sweep the Padres. Last night the Diamondbacks came to town, and the Giants started that series off the way they ended the Padres series, with a win! Who said AT&T Park isn't a hitters park? Don't tell that to Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval. Posey is currently hitting .344 at home this year with 2 homers and 10 RBI. Sandoval is hitting .364 with 2 homers and 8 RBI. The Giants are sending Matt Cain to the mound, and he's still fighting for his first win of the season. However, the Giants really want the win to secure the series victory over the D-backs. Cain is currently 0-2 with a 7.15 ERA. Don't forget to go to the SF Giants Rumors Facebook page to share your thoughts on all the latest Giants News/Rumors! ~Steven Robles ———-——–—-——-——––———————-——�...
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Instant read thermometer
Which brand of instant read thermometer is everyone using? And do you like it?
I have a very basic model, which seems to take forever to creep up to the final internal bread temperature.
Have a good lead for me?
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Santa got me "The Original Super-Fast Thermapen Instant Read Thermometer" by Thermoworks. It really is lightning fast.
I haven't tried it with bread but it instantly told me I overcooked our Christmas turkey :)
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James, after using the Thermopen for checking bread dough and loaf temperatures (while learning to make various breads at CJ's last Spring) we bought one too. Relatively expensive but the response times are very good.
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Mine is like yours James. A cheapie from ebay but better than nothing.
I am envious of the Thermopen and have one listed on my 'must get list' but in due course.
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I had the slow ebay type also and just got the Thermopen. What a difference!
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Has anyone tried a wireless digital thermometer for meat?
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I got the one from Harbor Freight a few weeks ago. I don't have a usable oven yet, so I can't report too much. It has a laser which you can disable (saves the battery of course). One annoying thing is it doesn't give the option of disabling the beep when you release the trigger. It gives constant live feedback while the trigger is down (not just one reading at the time you pull the trigger), but as soon as you release the trigger is beeps (and then shows the last recorded temperature somewhat indefinitely). I find the beep annoying and unnecessary.
One other thing is I have no calibration. For all I know it's perfect to within a tenth of a degree...or it's off by ten degrees. I just don't know.
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A lot of folks in the BBQ/smoking community use wireless units and this brand is very popular among the users.
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Got an email today that the Thermapen is on sale for $74...Not cheap but very excellent...
ThermoWorks - Home of the Original Super-Fast Thermapen!
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In response to kebwi, it's probably not spot on to a tenth of a degree. All of the IR thermometers give a +/- range. Besides, is it going to matter that much if your oven is at 900 or if it is at 910? Probably not. I use the ATD 701 IR thermometer. Picked it up for about $60. No complaints.
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"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."
John 17:20-21
Compassion-sponsored children have access to education, medical care, nutritious food and knowledge of the love of Jesus. They have been so blessed that many of them pray for their sponsors every day. Yet the children need prayer, too.
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Truflandier, L; Marsden, CJ; Freund, C; Martin-Vaca, B; Bourissou, D; (2004) Theoretical investigation of group 4 constrained-geometry complexes featuring phosphazene and phosphinimido arms. EUR J INORG CHEM (9) 1939 - 1947. 10.1002/ejic.200300757.
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Density functional calculations are reported for the neutral and cationic forms of the "CpPN" zirconium complexes E and F featuring a phosphazene and phosphinimido pendant arm, respectively. ((C) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2004).
|Theoretical investigation of group 4 constrained-geometry complexes featuring phosphazene and phosphinimido arms
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X Factor Boy Band Emblem3 on Love and Saving Lives — Exclusive
It's easy to write off X Factor group Emblem3 as just another boyband, but the three dudes keeping it cool and Cali are so much more than that. Besides making a big impression on the judges and America with their hip-pop sound, they've also made a difference in the lives of some of their fans. Wetpaint Entertainment caught up with Wes, Keaton, and Drew to talk about their performance on the November 28 show, if the Keaton dating rumors are true, and how they handle criticism.
How did you feel about your performance?
Wes: Honestly, it was a lot of hard work. We worked so hard this week learning the song. We literally played and practiced it like three times just today before going on stage. It was crazy.
How did you feel about the judges' comments tonight?
Keaton: It wasn't all positive. Demi and Britney said that they didn't enjoy the song choice and they thought that we could do better on that.
Drew: I think they loved the performance. Really, anybody would because it was upbeat and super fun.
Demi Lovato was particularly harsh on you guys tonight.
Drew: She was saying that she was disappointed that we're conforming to this more mainstream machine. I still feel like we're not doing that. You have to understand, that's the show. If we could, we'd be playing original songs everyday, but we can't.
Wes: You know, we're playing ball, but we're doing it in our own way.
What's the most interesting tweet you've gotten so far?
Keaton: This one girl tweeted and said that we saved her life.
Wes: This is super inspiring stuff. This one girl said she has tried to commit suicide several times, but after hearing our music, she's completely stopped, she's gotten help and she loves life.
Keaton: It's not even our music, but what we promote. On our Twitter, we started this hashtag called "Team Inspire." We put up positive things and try to make the world a more positive place.
Wes: I literally cried when I heard it. It was beautiful.
Are there any updates on your love life, Keaton?
Wes: He has seven girlfriends!
Keaton: I don't have any girlfriends!
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Each study approaches the Bible intertextually – that is, it connects the New Testament with the Old. For example, in Philippians, Paul – a Pharisee and expert in the law – made references to the Old Testament frequently. In Philippians 2:14 (ESV), Paul writes:
"Do all things without grumbling or questioning…"
By using the word, "grumbling," Paul is purposefully calling to mind the "grumbling" that the Israelites did in the wilderness when God consistently provided for them and they continued to complain (see Exodus 14-17). What do we learn by adding the Old Testament reading? We learn that Paul is not merely telling us not to grumble; rather, he is telling us not to grumble in light of the many ways that God has already provided and promises to continue to provide.
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NEW YORK -- All-time saves leader Mariano Rivera plans to pitch again for the New York Yankees next year. Rivera told the Yankees this week that he'll return from a knee injury that sidelined him for most of the season. The closer turns 43 next month. Rivera has 608 career saves. He tore a ligament in his right knee in early May while shagging fly balls during batting practice. Rivera vowed right away to pitch again but recently said he wasn't sure. Rafael Soriano earned 42 saves this year for the AL East champions while filling in for Rivera. Soriano recently opted out of the final season of his three-year contract and will likely seek a long-term deal in free agency.
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The Washington Redskins are the home team for the nation's political center, yet they still have one of the most politically incorrect nicknames in professional sports. Currently, the team plays its home games in Landover, Maryland, and its headquarters are in Ashburn, Virginia. If the team is to consider a move back into DC's city limits, the mayor of DC, Vincent C. Gray, wants a nickname change to be discussed. "I think that if they get serious with the team coming back to Washington, there's no doubt there's going to have to be a discussion about that," Mayor Gray said after a news conference, "and of course the team is going to have to work with us around that issue." According to the Washington Post, Gray noted that the Washington Bullets (now the Wizards) and many other teams changed their insensitive or politically incorrect names. "I think it has become a lightning rod, and I would be love to be able to sit down with the team … and see if a change should be made," he said. "There's a precedent for this, and I think there needs to be a dispassionate discussion about this, and do the right thing." Many fans and political figures in DC are passionate about the Redskins, and we know from past discussions that there would be plenty of resistance to a name change. We know that the current owner, Dan Snyder, has opposed a name change, so such a process would not be easy. Helmet smack to Pro Football Talk The post DC mayor wants Redskins name change discussed appeared first on Larry Brown Sports. Related posts: Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray not big on Peyton Manning to Redskins Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl Tebows in Tim Tebow Jersey After Losing Bet (Picture) Albert Haynesworth Isn't Acting like a Team Player for Redskins
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Starkville Police Chief David Lindley confirmed Nelson suffered a concussion but no other serious injuries, and a neurologist will soon be monitoring him.
"It couldn't have been a worse place for him to run off the road. He hit a telephone and flipped over the shoulder of the road," Lindley said. "It looks like he is going to be OK, and that's the main concern. There was some discussion that he would either be transported to Jackson or Tupelo; they're doing that as a precaution."
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"In theory, you could do any bone," says Christian Weinand of the Insel Hospital in Berne, Switzerland, head of the team that copied his thumb bones. "Now I can put spares in my pocket if I want," he says.
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British author Laline Paull is setting the book world abuzz with her debut novel, an imaginative and gripping tale which takes place in a beehive. Paull began studying bees after a beekeeper friend died; the fascinating societal structure of the hive inspired her to write The Bees.
Flora 717 is a worker bee living in a hive valuing conformity. Born "obscenely ugly… and excessively large," Flora is saved from immediate execution because a ruling class priestess wants to use her in an experiment. The hive's rigid caste system relies on mind control and strict job divisions, which keep the hive operating for the good of the group, but its totalitarian mindset allows no individual freedom. Flora defies the limitations of her Sanitation class: She is able to speak, block other bees from accessing her thoughts and use her abilities to forge a unique role for herself when the survival of the hive is threatened.
In creating the intricate life of this honeybee colony, Paull did everything from attending beekeeper classes to watching nature unfold in her backyard. She blends factual bee behavior, like building honeycomb nurseries or the "dancing" and antennae touching which bees perform to communicate information, with elements of goddess worship, Catholic prayer and the British monarchy in her creation of a detailed parallel world. As in nature, The Bees is sometimes chillingly violent. It is also surprisingly funny, with its swaggering Drone class reminiscent of any Animal House frat bro collective hopped up on testosterone.
The Bees is being compared to the modern classic Watership Down by Richard Adams for its thrilling adventure and social commentary wrapped up in an animal story. This story makes a perfect book club choice or escapist summer read as Flora 717 takes the reader on a wild flight. Is Flora a traitor or a savior? The bees in your garden will never look the same again.
Life could be greener on the Emerald Isle these days, where Ireland's economic recession has wreaked havoc upon the residents of one small rural town. There are no jobs, no pension, no unemployment benefits. The effect is a domino-like collapse of livelihood and sanity for everyone in Irish writer Donal Ryan's insightful, darkly humorous debut, The Spinning Heart.
The title refers to a battered and flaking red metal heart on a front cottage gate belonging to the father of well-known resident, Bobby Mahon. Despite its beaten condition, the heart continues to spin on its hinge. It becomes a metaphor for Bobby and the other 20 blindsided souls, who each get a brief chapter to tell their story. They, too, need restoration after the town's big employer abandons them.
Pokey Burke is the corrupt, now-defunct builder who absconds with more than his workers' money. Soon everyone is pondering their hand-to-mouth existence and the fissures emerging in their community. The common thread is Bobby, Pokey's tough but well-respected former foreman whom everyone knows and generally respects. But even Bobby is not above reproach, as his possible complicity in his father's death has people wondering.
Ryan's snapshot into the recess of weary minds speaks to a wry, vulnerable sensitivity, and his writing in the vernacular hits home. The prose oozes with spot-on observations of the time, while his use of idioms smartly adds to the authenticity of the first-person narratives. Long-listed for the Man Booker prize, Ryan isn't the first author to swirl Ireland's economic woes into a novel. Tana French did it in Broken Harbor, and closer to home, Stewart O'Nan did it with Last Night at the Lobster. Best laid plans are never guaranteed. "The future is a cold mistress," Bobby's father said. Tomorrow is like that.
Easter Quillby is a caregiver despite her tender age of 12. She takes care of her little sister Ruby as well as her pill-addicted mother, who mostly wanders around in a fog when she's not passed out. Brady Weller is a disgraced ex-police detective who works for his ex-brother-in-law installing home security systems. Mostly alienated from his ex-wife and daughter, Weller volunteers as a court-appointed guardian ad litem. Finally, meet Pruitt: He's a bodybuilding, former minor league baseball player recently released from prison, and he's also a facially disfigured psychotic contract killer. (Is there any other kind?) Easter, Brady and Pruitt take turns narrating author Wiley Cash's new novel, This Dark Road to Mercy.
Easter and Ruby end up in a children's group home after their mother dies from an overdose. Weller is assigned to look after the girls' interests. Easter's master plan for life, which is college and a career as an FBI agent all the while raising her sister, is at risk when she overhears her foster mother discussing the sisters' maternal grandparents' plan to move the girls to Alaska to live with them. When Wade, the girls' sad sack estranged father, himself a washed-out pitcher, shows up in the middle of the night toting a gym bag filled with ill-gotten gains, Easter impulsively grabs her sister and they take off with not-so-dear-old Dad ... only to find that Weller, Pruitt and the FBI are all in hot pursuit.
Set against the backdrop of the 1998 Sammy Sosa/Mark McGwire race to break Roger Maris' home run record, Cash explores the unbreakable ties of family and the sins from the past, just as he did in his first novel, A Land More Kind Than Home. Easter's voice is especially engaging as she tells her story with a clear-eyed realism. This Dark Road to Mercy will leave the reader rooting for the Quillby sisters and hoping for a grand slam ending.
Be careful what you wish for: a reminder that sometimes wishes are fulfilled in a way not quite anticipated. The desire to turn back the clock or proffer up a desperate bargain in order to keep a loved one with us is universal. Two new novels, The Returned by Jason Mott and Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield, explore the consequences of cheating death and getting a second chance.
Lucille and Harold Hargrave are watching a riveting television news story reporting what seems to be an ongoing resurrection of the dead. A knock on the elderly couple's door reveals a federal agent holding hands with a boy who calls Harold "Daddy." The child is their eight year old son Jacob who drowned 50 years prior. The Returned explores not only the Hargraves' reactions to the reappearance of their child, but also the complex societal and governmental responses to this unimaginable and unexplainable global phenomenon. Mott hit the author jackpot with this debut novel. In addition to climbing up The New York Times Best Sellers list, ABC developed the story into a television series entitled Resurrection, which is set to premiere in March.
In Bellman & Black, handsome Will Bellman is viewed as blessed. He's inherited the family fabric-making factory where he's introduced the principles and technology of the Industrial Revolution to great success. He adores his wife and young children and is a beneficent country gentleman. A man in black dogs Bellman, however, appearing at the funerals of his friends and family. When a diphtheria-like illness plagues Bellman's village and takes the lives of his family, Bellman cuts a deal to save the life of his remaining child, Dora. Who is this man in black? Is it wrong to profit from death? Setterfield, who also wrote the popular ghostly story The Thirteenth Tale, delivers another atmospheric story that looks at the price one pays for a deal with the devil.
Lives will never be the same again in Rachel Joyce's Perfect when, in the summer of 1972, two 11-year-old boys convince themselves that the British government is adding two seconds to that year. Byron, a heartfelt husky lad, admires his lone friend, James, for his intelligence and diligent approach to life. When James informs him of this addition to time, Byron has no reason to doubt him.
However, when Byron witnesses a shocking incident within these extra seconds, the repercussions prove costly for everyone surrounding him, especially his captivating mother, Diana. Although she delights in nature, theater and small kindnesses, Byron's thoughtful observations detect a deeper sadness under his mother's delicate repose. Her husband expects her to dress in the refined styles of the '50s and lavishes gifts upon her, like a brand new Jaguar, for the sole purpose of instilling envy in the community.
Fast-forward two decades and we encounter Jim, a man living in a dilapidated trailer who is plagued by obsessive compulsive tendencies. Although he is well-meaning, his stuttering and fear of disasters keep him from developing any real relationships with others. As these alternating stories escalate, the two seconds become more mysterious and questionable, yet are vital to these seemingly unrelated plots in this latest work by the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
On March 11, 1948, a fire raged through the main building of North Carolina's Highland Hospital, killing nine female patients trapped in a locked ward on the fourth floor. Victims included Zelda Fitzgerald, a dancer, artist and writer like her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald. Highland was a residential treatment facility for the mentally ill and considered quite progressive in its treatment methods. Author Lee Smith takes inspiration from the hospital, the tragic fire and Zelda Fitzgerald's own life in her newest book Guests on Earth.
Smith's narrator is 13-year-old New Orleans native Evalina Toussaint. Evalina refuses to eat after the death of her mother and is packed off to Highland for a cure. Now an orphan, the resort-like hospital becomes Evalina's home, and its caregivers and patients her family. Fresh air and exercise, music and art: Evalina thrives under the care of the enlightened psychiatrist Dr. Carroll and develops into a talented pianist. Swimming and songs aren't the only therapies employed at Highland, though, and as Smith reveals the darker secrets in the lives of Evalina, Zelda and other patients, she also explores the more invasive and seemingly barbaric treatments employed upon the mentally ill.
Smith, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, imbues her writing with the atmosphere of rural Appalachia. She draws upon both the folklore of the mountains as well as the culture of southern high society in creating compelling characters and an absorbing story. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read." Guests on Earth allows a few of the guests to share their memorable tale.
Paul Harding's second novel, Enon, brings back the Crosby progeny in this not-quite-a-sequel to his stunning 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Tinkers. In this latest effort, the grandson of Tinkers' dying protagonist reels over the sudden loss of his only child in the same tiny New England town. It is a story not so much about death as it is about the physical and emotional spiraling into grief's crevasse and the slow, tentative climb out.
Charlie narrates this story with a hand-wringing anguish. His 13-year-old daughter Kate has been struck and killed by a car while riding her bicycle to the beach. It's an unimaginable bond lost, not just for Charlie but for his wife, too, who promptly leaves her depressed husband to return to her native Minnesota. Life is at its lowest point for Charlie as he descends into a morass of drugs and alcohol. For him, grieving demands a continual rewind of the past: his time with his daughter, his memories of his clock-enthusiast grandfather, the history of Enon. Soon healing begins to seem uncomfortably overdue.
Harding delivers metaphor-laden prose and rich detail that relentlessly probe Charlie's grief through his hallucinations that are, at once, dreamy and remarkably lucid. At one point Charlie tries to capture "the function of loss'" through a mathematical proof he writes on a wall. "My thoughts quickly became confused as I tried to demonstrate the calculus of grief." Another time he digs out his grandfather's fly fishing rod he intended to show Kate and begins casting off the old oak stump in his overgrown backyard until he crawls, exhausted and defeated, back into his house. With its disquieting tone, this short novel of 238 pages oozes like a scab that will not heal until finally, a choice must be rendered: to heal or not.
Oprah's newest selection for her Book Club 2.0 is Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings. Kidd, who's The Secret Life of Bees remains a perennial book club favorite, is "thrilled and honored that Oprah Winfrey chose my novel as her new book club selection." The title, due out in early January, is sure to be a favorite among book clubs with Oprah calling it "layered and gripping."
Inspired by the life of early 19th century abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimk, Kidd writes in her author's note that her aim was to write "a thickly imagined story inspired by her life." The result is this beautifully written novel with the dual portrait of two women bound by the horrors of slavery as its centerpiece. Sarah, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston plantation owner is desperate to break free from the confines of her time. She is denied the opportunity to pursue her passion of a legal career and struggles to find outlets for her creativity, intelligence and convictions. Hetty, nicknamed "Handful," a slave in the household, is also keenly intelligent, brave and brandish a strong rebellious streak. Told in first person, the chapters alternate between these women's perspectives as the reader follows them and their unique relationship from childhood through middle age.
Kidd will not disappoint her legions of fans with this masterly told story of fascinating women striving for liberation and empowerment during a devastating historical time. Check out Oprah's announcement here to find out more about this exciting literary pick.
On a peaceful summer evening in the town of West Table, Missouri, the quiet of the night was shattered by a thunderous explosion. In 1929, the Arbor Dance Hall blew apart with a force that flattened the two story buildings adjacent to it, with a blast that was felt in the next town some 20 miles away. Forty-two people lost their lives and countless others suffered terrible injuries from either the fire or having been blown from the building. The devastation wrought by the dance hall explosion had an impact on every resident of the town. Daniel Woodrell's new novel The Maid's Version recounts many of their stories.
The mystery of what caused the explosion and who was responsible was never discovered. Could it have been mob related? Was it the evil deed of a band of Gypsies? Was it just a tragic accident or possibly something more ominous the town leaders wanted covered up? This literary novel is comprised of numerous small chapters, frequently describing the circumstances of individuals who ended up at the dance that fateful Saturday night. Interspersed throughout the minor character vignettes is the story of Alma DeGeer Dunahew, a woman who believes she knows the truth.
This remarkable tale is a fictionalized account of an event that occurred on April 13, 1928 in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Woodrell believably captures the historical and cultural characteristics of the inhabitants of the Ozarks. It is the author's skillful narration that will mesmerize the reader and bind them to this powerful yet tragic tale.
Charles Palliser, in Rustication, unravels a late 19th century mystery through the uneasy journal entries penned by Richard Shenstone, a 17-year-old opium addict who struggles daily with carnal appetites. Richard, after an abrupt suspension from college, seeks out residency in the drearily neglected English mansion where his mother and older sister reside after the death of their debt-ridden father. However, to much surprise, his early homecoming is unpleasantly received. Not only does he feel unwelcomed, he is refused any information regarding the sudden death in the family or their lack of funds.
Coinciding with his arrival, livestock vivisection begins and vulgar letters are sent to several neighbors which accuse, damn and threaten their recipients. Richard soon crosses paths with peculiar characters that become cagier with every encounter, from vicious socialites to a brutish dogfighter. At the center of much gossip is an earl's nephew who is both an eligible bachelor and next in line to receive his uncle's fortune.
Alone in his attempts to make sense of the town's secrets, Richard feverishly recounts his daily thoughts and conversations. However, his fickle opiate love affair interrupts his stream of recollections. As the crimes increase and worsen, he finds himself as the prime suspect and is determined to discover the identity of the true murderer.
Readers will recognize this marshy bleak town from Palliser's other Victorian novel, The Quincunx, but will find themselves intrigued as the jarring plot peels away like sour onionskin.
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Wind turbines are the same: some are constant speed, some variable. A constant-speed turbine is much easier to synchronise with the national grid, and is therefore better for systems which sometimes give and sometimes take power. It might be that, if there is no wind at all, they actually use power to keep spinning. But in a very light breeze, they will spin at the same speed as in a stiff wind.
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Words like 'rustic' and 'back to basics' are often used when talking about Girl Scout camps, but really these don't sum up the philosophy of this camp type.
Generally the focus of Girl Scout camps is outdoor living and this forms the basis of all the sessions, which means you'll most likely be living in platform tents for the entire summer. Okay, before you panic, platform tents aren't as scary as they sound - they're raised wooden platforms with a canvas tent-like covering that generally house 6 to 8 bunks. Typically 3 or 4 platform tents will be situated together around the camp. You'll also find that on many camps, there may be no electricity in the sleeping areas - which means you'll become a dab-hand with a kerosene lamp!
The activities also focus on the outdoors, with hiking, waterfront and teambuilding activities playing a central role, and of course after a fun-filled day, counsellors and campers alike cook their evening meal over a campfire before gathering round it for before bed for some campfire activities and songs!
Obviously Girl Scout camps are 'girls-only' zones, and many find this environment, along with the support given by camp staff, key in helping young girls develop their confidence and skills. It's also one of the main reasons behind the incredibly strong sense of community that you find on a Girl Scout camp. And don't worry - there's plenty of time to meet guys on your travels!
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Walk-Off Squeeze Bunt Tops Xavier in 13th, 3-2
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Minutes after the series finale eclipsed the four-hour mark in the 13th inning, redshirt-freshman Zack Kolakowski laid down a suicide squeeze bunt with the bases loaded that scored junior Casey Fletcher as the winning run in Illinois' 3-2 victory over Xavier on Sunday. After allowing two runs in the first, Illinois' five pitchers combined for a season-high 18 strikeouts while holding the Musketeers scoreless over the final 12 innings on a 30-degree day at Illinois Field.
"It was an interesting game to say the least," head coach Dan Hartleb said. "Anytime you play in the cold, you want quick games, but it ended up being over four hours. We found a way to tie it up and send it to extras. Having it end on a suicide squeeze was fitting for how the whole day went."
The Illini, who left a season-high 16 men on base, had multiple opportunities but were unable to get a run across in the first six innings. The Orange and Blue mounted their late comeback with a run in the seventh on a bases-loaded fielder's choice by sophomore Ryan Nagle and another in the eighth on an RBI groundout by sophomore Adam Walton.
Following four more scoreless frames by both teams, Fletcher led off the 13th with a single to right field. A sacrifice bunt by freshman Ryne Roper put a runner in scoring position and was followed by a walk to Walton. On the next pitch, Fletcher and Walton executed a double steal, forcing Xavier to intentionally walk junior Will Krug. After taking a pitch, Kolakowski, who entered the game in the top of the 13th, squeezed home Fletcher on a 1-0 count.
Starter Rob McDonnell matched a career-high six strikeouts in just 3.1 innings. With one out in the first, he induced a grounder to short that looked like it would start an inning-ending double play, but it hit the umpire and loaded the bases instead. After a strikeout, Xavier scored its only runs of the day on a single to left on a 1-2 count.
Sophomore Nick Blackburn relieved McDonnell in the fourth following a pair of one-out singles. He recorded the next to outs and followed it with a perfect fifth. Senior Ronnie Muck took over in the sixth and threw two perfect innings while striking out two Musketeers.
Sophomore Tyler Jay pitched the longest of Illinois' five pitchers, tossing a career-high five shutout innings. The Lemont, Ill., native only allowed two hits, walked three and recorded a career-high eight strikeouts. His only trouble faced was in the ninth when a pair of walks and a two-out single loaded the bases. He ended the threat thanks to help from Fletcher, who ran down a liner in right to save the game. Redshirt-junior Reid Roper moved from second base to the mound in the 13th and put up a zero while earning his first win of the season.
"I was really pleased with our pitching overall," Hartleb said. "Tyler Jay really bridged the game for us and we came up with some key strikeouts. Casey Fletcher also had a very good day. He hit the ball really well and made a great play in right field that extended the game for us."
Fletcher finished with a career-high four hits in five at-bats to go along with scoring the winning run. The Oakwood, Ill., native excelled during the series, hitting .500 with three runs, three doubles, a home run and two RBI. Walton also had a run and an RBI in his best weekend as an Illini in which he hit .500 (6-for-12).
Illinois took three out of four from Xavier (12-10) in its first home series of the season and improved to 11-10 overall. The Illini outscored the Musketeers 17-11 and boasted a 2.47 ERA with 29 strikeouts.
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Trust me, although I have never suffered from it myself, my brother suffers from it, and he's been through everything you have. You're not alone! And although your tourettes may not be great, if you change your attitude towards it, it can be a source of good and not negativity. I was bullied to high hell when I was 14, but trust me, you'll get over that as well. Everyone does it when you're 14, soon as you get older people accept you for who you are, stop being so mean and get on with life! So, wait it out, stay strong and go with your own crowd.
I think the root of Tourette's syndrome (so-called) is not mental, but spiritual; it definitely does affect the mind though. If you read the Bible with any frequency at all, you'll come across many cases of demonic possession (Tourette's is one of the 'milder' manifestations of this oppression/possession). We should not be mocking any person with any kind of affliction. In this case, believers have the authority to 'cast out demons'. Get in touch with someone who has this gift, and ask them if they can help you. Check out sidroth dot org.
I don't have Tourettes because a demon has possessed me. What's wrong with you? It's a neurogical disorder. God gave me this disorder Himself. I don't know why because it was His choice. Maybe He wants me to experience a hardship that will bring me closer to Him. But I am a Christian, believe me, and I love our God. Don't you ever DARE suggest to me that I've been "possessed." Tourettes syndrome is not the tragedy. Your ignorance and the ignorance of others. THAT is the tragedy.
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PHYSICS departments in universities away from the prosperous southeast of England are suffering the worst cuts, claims Paul Davies, professor of physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His remarks came at the launch of a book The New Physics, edited by him and published last week. Government research laboratories are almost exclusively in the south. And now, as science parks and new industries attach themselves to southern universities such as Cambridge and Bristol, 'it is all the more important to maintain strong university science departments in Britain's economically depressed regions', he said.
Yet, physics departments in Scotland, Wales and northern England are suffering some of the worst government cuts. 'Northerners pay taxes, too,' he declared.
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The initiative, called Office Business Applications, is meant to encourage third-party application providers to write code that will integrate closely with Microsoft Office applications. The company discussed the effort at its TechEd customer conference here.
Microsoft and SAP have a joint development project, called Duet, which makes Office the access point to SAP data and business process. For example, a person could send out an offer letter for employment from Word and draw information from a specialized human resources application.
With Office Business Applications, Microsoft intends to get more software companies and corporate developers to do similar work, executives said.
"Office Business Applications are a new breed of applications we think with (Office System) 2007 people will be able to build in earnest," said Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of Microsoft's information worker product management group.
Office System 2007, which is due early next year, will include a set of common services which will have published technical interfaces.
Those services include work flow, search, a business data catalog, user interface components, security and the Office Open XML file formats.
Microsoft also detailed a toolkit called Lobi (line-of-business interoperability) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, which is designed to simplify the building of transactional business applications with Office and the SharePoint portal server. A technical preview will be available at the end of 2006 and generally available next year, executives said.
"The whole goal of Lobi is to deliver line-of-business (application) data and business processes right into the Office clients," Capossela said.
Separately, the software giant said enterprise resource planning application suite Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 has been released to manufacturing, which means that the product will be available soon.
Company executives said the updated application suite is integrated with Microsoft's SharePoint portal server and the reporting services in SQL Server 2005. The supply chain application can also collect and monitor RFID information.
Over time, Microsoft intends to create closer integration with Office applications, such as Outlook, executives said.
"We think this will go a long way to boosting up the percentage of people (who) actually use the system to above 15 percent, as it is now," said James Utzschneider, general manager for Microsoft Dynamics marketing.
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- While "Microsoft and SAP have a joint development project, called Duet, which makes Office the access point to SAP data and business process. For example, a person could send out an offer letter for employment from Word and draw information from a specialized human resources application.
With Office Business Applications, Microsoft intends to get more software companies and corporate developers to do similar work...."; this collaboration with SAP can certainly be seen as reminiscent to "dancing the musical chairs" as "On May 11, 2006, IBM announced two new solutions designed to help organizations simplify integration with SAP®: IBM Lotus Notes Access for SAP, and IBM Lotus Workplace for SAP Software. Significant offerings in themselves, theyre also notable as the first two products to emerge from IBMs Project Harmony initiative which, as the name suggests, is all about helping disparate enterprise applications make beautiful music together.
In a nutshell, Project Harmony is focused on helping customers get more value from their existing application investments, by providing an SOA front end that simplifies integration between those investments, says Larry Bowden, Vice President, IBM Workplace Composite Products. The benefits of "Project Harmony" can be realized now as the IBM solutions work with a customer's existing levels of SAP and other applications without requiring upgrades....
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Which companies get the market's nod for Front Office applications as "a common entry point into back-end business applications" is left to be seen.
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- and I'll tell you your full of crap. Sharepoint has its good points and its bad points, just like the offerings from every other vendor. In my case, the cost was not worth it; your mileage may vary.
Your ignorance, however, should lead to a predictable end; Yes, I will take fries with that.
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- With all of Microsoft's focus on Office "Live" and software subscription to compete with the free OpenOffice.org, it is totally missing the reason why Google is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at OpenOffice.org.
Google looks at OpenOffice.org as the next level browser, and wants to sell the services that OpenOffice.org accesses: text search, storage, image search, storage, etc.
Microsoft is so focussed on killing the free product, that they are totally missing the revenue model behind it.
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