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Seilala (Sly) Sua is in her third season as a member of Don Strametz's Matador track & field coaching staff. Sua, who was officially named to the staff on Sept. 18, 2006 is an assistant coach in charge of the Northridge throwers.
In her second season, Sua led nine Matador throwers to berths in the NCAA West Regional. Derek Cooper and Stephanie Ralls both advanced on the the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Matador throwers won three Big West titles in 2008, two on the men's side and one on the women's side. In 2007, Sua and her throwers produced seven top five marks at the Big West Outdoor Championships where the Matador men and women both claimed conference championships. In addition, the 2007 throw squad had nine student-athletes reach the Cal State Northridge all-time top 10.
A 2001 graduate of UCLA, Sua is the winningest athlete in NCAA track & field history. The seven-time NCAA Champion and 14-time All-American competed in all four throwing events - shot put, discus, hammer and javelin from 1997-2000, where she still ranks in the UCLA all-time top-10 in each of those events. In Pac-10 competition, Sua won six individual titles and was a two-time Pac-10 Women's Track and Field Athlete of the Year. In NCAA competition, she won six Outdoor titles and one indoor crown. Sua won four consecutive discus crowns and became only the second woman in NCAA history to win four straight individual titles in the same event.
As a professional athlete, Sua has continued her collegiate success onto the National and World scene where she has been a member of two Olympic teams in the discus (2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens), four-time USATF National Champion in the discus, one-time USATF National Champion in the shot put and a three-time World Championships competitor. Sua has ranked in the top-10 in the Nation in the discus for eight consecutive years and had the No. 6 mark in the world in 2001. While competing in the shot put, she also ranked in the top-10 nationally for seven consecutive years.
Sua graduated in 2001 with a degree in Sociology.


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It's been a while since I wrote. My apologies. I have been through a lot in the last few months!Read more
It's been a while since I wrote. My apologies. I have been through a lot in the last few months!Read more
Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

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Born 1954
Sweden En annan rörelse, 1990
Another Movement
Oil on canvas
238,5 x 171 cm
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Cecilia Edefalk often creates her paintings in series – frequently basing them on photographs, and repeating the same motif until the distinction between original and copy is blurred.
After being unfashionable for two decades, painting was "resurrected" in the 1980s, with the advent of postmodernism. Art was no longer abstract or emotionally expressive. Instead, it was idea-based and didn't shy away from figuration. There were discussions about a postmodern style of painting, and although Edefalk was no strong believer in these theories, she was nevertheless considered by many people to be a postmodernist.
Cecilia Edefalk herself has described the series Another Movement as seven paintings in various sizes and where, in each painting, she returned to the original – a photography from a women's magazine, which she modified to emphasise the element she felt gave the photo its tension.
An ordinary commercial photo of a man rubbing sun lotion onto the back of a woman is the starting point for the paintings. The bottle with lotion is no longer present. The stiff, square figures stand out clearly against the intensely blue, uniform background. In a strange way, the figures seem to hover between sculptural volume and flat surface.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Thick orange bacterial mat found near the
summit of Northwest Eifuku volcano grow where warm hydrothermal vent fluids
seep out of the seamount. The orange color reflects the fact
that iron is coming out in the vent fluids.
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Mr Belvedere
Mr Belvedere: Popular 80s sitcom based on the Gwen Davenport novel, Belvedere, which in turn was thrice adapted to the big screen. Like its earlier novel and big-screen brethren, Mr. Belvedere featured British butler Lynn Belvedere, who takes a job as a live-in nanny for a typical American family and records their everyday experiences in his diary for future use in writing a novel. In the 1985 small-screen version, the Owens family served as that typical American family and the source of fodder for Belvedere who had previously worked as a gentry for Winston Churchill and had connections to British royalty. Family patriarch George (played by sports-caster Bob Uecker) was, in an example of art imitating life, a sports writer; the matriarch was Marsha, a law student. The couple, which had settled in suburban Pittsburgh, had three children: Awkward teen-ager Kevin, precocious (and easily embarrassed) Heather and mischievous prankster Wesley. George was initially uncomfortable hiring the worldly Belvedere, but eventually came to appreciate the Englishmans friendship (as well as his expert culinary skills). Wesley, unlike his elder siblings, seemed to never get along with Belvedere; however, even he came to appreciate the British natives advice that he would regularly dispense to the family. Each episode ended with Belvedere writing in his journal, giving the shows moral while putting everything into perspective. In later years, Marsha graduated from law school and got her first job, while Kevin (and later, Heather) graduated from high school and entered college. The 1985 small-screen adaptation of Mr. Belvedere marked the end of a long succession of unsuccessful attempts to bring Davenports novel to television; the three earlier pilots were made in the 1950s (soon after the final big-screen movie) and 1960s.
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text: On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Bill Broadley wrote: > > I've been tasked to teach a class in using a beowulf. I've parallelized a > few serial fortan codes to use MPI, so I have the technical side covered, > at least for the 1st quarter. > > Anyone have suggestions for textbooks? Know of existing class > outlines available on the web? Any other pointers? It isn't written as a textbook and isn't finished, but http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/beowulf_online_book/ ("Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster") might have some useful stuff. Contributions are always welcome as well. Other links on the Brahma site are also likely to be useful. Of course you know about "How to Build a Beowulf Cluster" book by Sterling, Becker, .... not exactly a textbook either but still "the" beowulf resource. > I'm considering: Parallel Programming With MPI by Peter Pacheco to > cover the MPI part, but probably need an additional book on parallel > algorithms and programming. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/ (can also be purchased, I believe). Excellent resource. > > I suspect it's of interest to the list, so please follow up to the list. > > -- > Bill Broadley > Programmer/Admin > Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics > University of California, Davis > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Just saw Agora and found it very powerful indictment of early christians. Looks like it is atheist/rationalist response to the Mel Gibson crucifixion movie.
Would be great if the fundamentalists were obliged to see it.
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I'd much rather see an indictment of early Christians which was not based on fiction.
Comparing Agora to Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ is one of the better analogies I've seen though.
Agreed. I haven't seen the film but from what I've heard it's not historically accurate and should not be depicted as such. There is enough historically verified villainy in the history of religion that we don't need to make shit up - that is, after all, what the theist do all the time.
Although, it's probably is as real as Gibson's strange hallucination.
First off - stunning movie - HIGHLY RECOMMEND. I will be buying it and forcing it on my family this holiday season.
Anyway, I'll be writing a short review on my blog, but wanted to check out what you all (of the Nexus community) thought of the movie.
Hypatia's story truly moved me to tears. How many times has science taken such a loss because of religious fervor? It's hard to count them all, and just devastating to think about it. But, I thought the director did a disservice to his audience - it COULD have been a response to the Passion of the Christ if they had actually shown her death in a more realistic fashion (skin stripped and burned). As it is, though still a moving story, it lacks the punch it could have had.
Hypatia's story truly moved me to tears. How many times has science taken such a loss because of religious fervor?
But... considering that it's a fictionalized account of what was in fact an episode of political rivalry in Alexandria, her story isn't one of those times.
Hypatia was not on the verge of scientific breakthroughs, she was not killed because she was a female scientist, and the Christians did not burn a library in the Serapeum. All of these scenes are fictional and are the product of the director Amenabar who's trying to push a (thinly veiled) ideological narrative. So if some scenes in the movie moved you to tears, that's fine, but cheer up - those scenes were probably fiction anyway.
This is the problem with Agora. It's marketed as a movie that is (at least for a large part) historically accurate, and so viewers think that the scenes in the movie are accurate or at least possess a kernel of truth. But they don't, and so all it ends up doing is perpetuating hoary Enlightenment myths.
Which is sad.
You might also want to read Richard Carrier's review of pagan scientific accomplishments in "Is Christianity Responsible for Science?" in John Loftus' "The Christian Delusion."
it's epic/longish but really cool at the same time
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A Parrish firefighter and his wife are the most recent suspects in an ongoing, undercover steroids sting in Manatee County.
Greg and Stephanie Waldo were arrested Friday morning. Among those previously tangled up in the sting were four Manatee County sheriff's deputies, a West Manatee firefighter and a personal trainer.
Greg Waldo was suspended without pay Friday following his arrest and pending results of the charges, said Michael Williams, volunteer chief of operations for the Parrish Fire District.
Both suspects are charged with possession of steroids with intent to distribute through June 2013.
The couple was required to forfeit $19,125, allegedly obtained by trafficking drugs, court documents show.
More details of the Waldos' alleged crimes were not immediately available.
The investigation yielded two arrests in August, when resigned Manatee County Sheriff's deputies Tom Frank and Chris Tucker were charged on a local level for possession of steroids. Both have since entered a pretrial intervention program to avoid prosecution.
Robert Craig, who accused the sheriff's office of discriminating against his sexual orientation, was fired after he discussed buying substances from a confidential informant — former deputy and current private investigator Jac Choate. He never purchased steroids and does not face criminal charges.
Five more people were arrested in October and face federal charges.
Former deputy Thomas Peel, who was fired from the sheriff's office; Wayne Faulkner of West Manatee Fire and Rescue; and James Sevier, whose employer is not listed on his arrest report, have already pleaded guilty to possession of steroids with intent to distribute.
They face a minimum of two years supervised release to a maximum of 10 years in federal prison.
Peel will be sentenced later this month. Sentencing dates for Faulkner and Sevier are set for March.
Federal cases for Andrew Cleveland, a personal trainer at Crunch Fitness on University Parkway, and Aaron Larkin, whose employer is not listed in court documents, have been terminated.
This is a joint investigation between the Drug Enforcement Administration, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
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A Parrish firefighter and his wife are the most recent suspects in an ongoing, undercover steroids sting in Manatee County.


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It seems there's a little more confusion than there should be surrounding the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update (or lack thereof) for the HTC Desire HD. Last week Canadian carrier TELUS released an update roadmap stating that HTC had canceled the update. Then a few days back, we reached out to HTC and received a statement indicating that updates for the Desire HD, and similarly-spec'd Desire S, were still on the table.
Since then we've been in touch with TELUS, which insists that it's been informed that the update had been suspended, and that it was an HTC decision unrelated to TELUS's network, testing or software. TELUS said that if HTC was to go ahead with the ICS update after all, it'd gladly test it and put it out for its customers. And after seeking further clarification from HTC, we were given a revised statement indicating that it's still examining the Desire HD's ability to run ICS --
"HTC is committed to providing the best customer experience on our devices and are currently determining the ability to support Ice Cream Sandwich on the HTC Desire HD. We'll provide more information when we've completed our analysis."
So it looks like the future of ICS on the Desire HD is currently hanging in the balance, and that HTC is in the process of working out if it can support Android 4.0 without compromising the user experience. This could also be worrying news for owners of the Desire S and Thunderbolt, which sport almost identical internals, and which are also due to receive an ICS upgrade.
Whatever happens, we'll keep you posted with any further developments on HTC ICS updates.


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- Hope College will host a Martin Luther King "Praise Fest," a celebration of praise and worship, on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The event will feature the Hope College Gospel Choir under the direction of Bryan Lowe, with special guest Kenny Henderson and V.I.P. (Victory In Praise) from New Hope Baptist Church of Grand Rapids. It is scheduled in commemoration of the legacy of Dr. King and as an opportunity to worship together in striving for unity in community and among area churches.
The Praise Fest is scheduled in conjunction with the Civil Rights Celebration Week commemoration at the college. The week's events will culminate in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration featuring the theme "Listening, Learning and Living the Legacy" on Monday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Really, truly think about it… can you answer this question?
Seems silly, and maybe it doesn't matter that much in the grand scheme of things. However, there is tons of confusion surrounding these two mundane, everyday terms, and believe it or not, a blind and a shade are not one in the same.


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In my quest for sourcing good whole wheat flour, I called Nicky Giusto at Central Milling (www.centralmilling.com) asking about prices and shipping. I knew that Central Milling produces Whole Foods 365 Organic Unbleached All Purpose flour, and that Frank Sally at SFBI highly recommended flour from Central Milling so I figured I'd give it a try. To my surprise he said I could swing by their warehouse in Petaluma and buy flour directly (gotta love that!)
I'm planning a run to their warehouse tomorrow to buy whole wheat flour, specifically Organic Whole Wheat Hi Pro Flour Fine, and anything else that catches my eye. This is the whole wheat flour they developed for Acme bakery's whole wheat products.
Someone at the warehouse might be able to break down a 50 lb bag into something more manageable. But if not, is anyone out there interested in splitting a 50 lb bag? I'm sure it's great flour, but I still prefer to try out a smaller quantity. If you're in the SF Bay Area (I'm in San Jose) and are interested, let me know.


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Dallas at San Antonio 8 p.m. (TNT)
New York at Portland 10:30 p.m. (TNT)
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Georgetown vs. Cincinnati 12 p.m.
Pittsburgh vs. Syracuse 2 p.m.
Louisville vs. Villanova 7 p.m.
Marquette vs. Notre Dame 9 p.m.
Big 12 Tournament
Oklahoma vs. Iowa State 12:30 p.m. (ESPN2)
Kansas vs. Texas Tech 3 p.m. (ESPN2)
Kansas State vs. Texas 7 p.m. (Big 12 Network)
Oklahoma State vs. Baylor 9:30 p.m. (Big 12 Network)
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UCLA vs. Arizona State 12 p.m. (Pac-12 Network)
Arizona vs. Colorado 2:30 p.m. (Pac-12 Network)
California vs. Utah 6 p.m. (Pac-12 Network)
Oregon vs. Washington 8:30 p.m. (ESPNU)
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LSU vs. Georgia 1 p.m.
Tennessee vs. Mississippi State 3:30 p.m.
Vanderbilt vs. Arkansas, 7:30 p.m.
Missouri vs. Texas A&M 10 p.m.
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Boston College vs. Georgia Tech, 12 p.m.
North Carolina State vs. Virginia Tech, 2 p.m.
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Shortly after 10 a.m., a flurry of incorrect reports circulated through the crowd, eliciting jubilant cheers from both sides, who believed the court ruled in their favor. After it was confirmed the the Supreme Court had in fact upheld the legislation, opponents of the bill remained defiant, expressing confidence that the battle over healthcare was not over yet.
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Chapel and the classical art on display at the Vatican. From there the group will head to Pompeii and then to the Sorrento region, with an opportunity to walk to the edge of the crater of Vesuvius. Sites in Greece will include the Parthenon and the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Those who would like to continue their trip longer will have an opportunity to take a 3-day cruise of some Greek islands and Ephesus in Turkey.
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Doug Delivers: Wreckers one game away from title game rematch
Staples (7-0) vs Westhill (5-3), Thursday, 5 p.m.
Well this is a quick turnaround.
Just three days ago, Staples left a dent in the end zone at Fairfield Warde's Tetreau-Davis Field--and for that matter, on the scoreboard--and cruised to its seventh straight win. The Wreckers' 49-20 dismantling of the Mustangs put them one step closer to a perfect regular season, and a win away from an FCIAC title game rematch.
Barring a misstep on Thursday, Staples will find itself playing for its second conference title in as many years when it travels to face unbeaten Greenwich on Thanksgiving. At this point, considering all the lopsided scores we've had this year, a meeting between the two powers with that much at stake is certainly tantalizing.
But first, the Wreckers have to take care of business against Westhill.
The Vikings have been one of the conference's true surprises in what's been a drama-less season to date, as they're approaching their first winning season in 25 years. No matter how you choose to dissect the Vikings' season, breaking down the matchups from week to week, that's quite an accomplishment.
The task for Staples is to put the game away early, lend the starters some rest, and close the door on all FCIAC and state playoff talk--at least for the time being. Right now, it seems as though we're just riding an endless cycle, crunching the angles of a Staples and Greenwich championship rematch.
"It's never-ending," Staples head coach Marce Petroccio said last Saturday of the postseason talk concerning his team. "We're just going to be focused on what's in front of us, which is Westhill, and then get ready for whoever the next opponent is."
In case you were wondering, you won't catch the Wreckers looking too far down the line.
"We're trying to keep focused and we're trying to go 1-0 each week," senior running back Joey Zelkowitz said last Saturday, after rushing for 71 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Westhill's offense kicked into high gear last Saturday and took apart Wilton 41-28, as running back Davell Cotterell rumbled for 338 yards rushing and five touchdowns. It's hard to find a better single-game performance in the FCIAC, if not the state, this year, but don't expect Cotterell to go anywhere near those numbers on Thursday.
As dominant as Staples is on offense, its defense isn't far behind. If anything, the defense showed against Warde--with a pair of touchdowns on interceptions--that it has some gamebreaking abilities as well. Expect the Wreckers to clear yet another hurdle with ease. Pick: Staples 56, Westhill 14.
Weston (7-1) at Masuk (8-0), Thursday, 7 p.m.
Weston has been one of the finest stories this season for its ability to own the fourth quarter and churn out victory after victory. The Trojans are 7-1, in the heat of the Class M state playoff race, but now the road gets bumpy.
On Thursday, the Trojans will take on a Masuk program that's entrenched itself as the class of the South-West Conference in recent seasons. The Panthers rode now-UConn quarterback Casey Cochran for years, but haven't missed a beat in the first go-round without him.
The Panthers are still perfect, at 8-0, and are averaging just over 49 points per game on offense. They have one of the state's best playmakers in wide receiver Thomas Milone and all the talent in the world around him.
Weston's been as good a surprise as anyone with Tyler Hassett at the controls at quarterback, but Masuk has maintained its rank among the state's best. The Trojans have the ability to run with Masuk, but only for so long. The short week doesn't do the Trojans any favors either. Pick: Masuk 43, Weston 29
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo today announced the hiring of Anne-Marie Fink as the state's new chief investment officer/deputy treasurer of finance. In her new role, Fink will be responsible for managing the state's $7.3 billion dollar pension system.
"Our top priority continues to be to keep the pension fund sustainable for retirees, employees and taxpayers," Raimondo said. "Anne-Marie is a successful finance professional who understands the importance of providing retirement security and will work to manage the portfolio's risk and volatility while producing steady returns in these turbulent financial times."
Most recently, Fink worked as a managing director and a portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. She received her MBA in finance and international business from Columbia Business School in 1995 and is also a 1987 graduate of Yale University.
Fink is replacing Kenneth Goodreau who left after four years. He is joining TIG Advisors, LLC as Chief Investment Officer, effective January 1, 2013.


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Some of my fondest memories are going to Grandma's house. I had two grandmothers that we would visit and for a while they both lived in the same town. Both of my grandmothers were great cooks. My paternal grandmother never seemed to mind as more and more relatives would show up to eat. She loved preparing big meals and seeing how many she could actually pack into the house. We ate in every place imaginable in the house! The toy box for the grandchildren was in the closet that went between bedrooms....a great place to hide out.
My maternal grandmother loved to garden and can her produce. She spent hours laboring over a hot stove and all of us dreamed of winter days when we could break open a new jar of jam or her dill pickles. She also was an artist. Her paintings were very good and she proudly displayed them, actually taking prizes in the county fair.
Because Mom was the family genealogist (still is), my maternal grandmother was always on the look out for a new cemetery we could explore. I can remember her taking us to cemeteries, grinning from ear to ear with her big straw hat protecting her from the sun. As she grew older and more crippled, she still loved to go with Mom to courthouses and cemeteries. Many times she was forced to stay in the car while Mom did the research.
This makes me wonder what my nine year old daughter will remember about going to Grandma's house. Mom lives in a new townhouse and she has it decorated nicely with antiques and family items as well as newer furniture. Tyrah loves to ask who owned that and who is in a photograph.
In Mom's genealogy-computer room the computer shares a spot with books and photos, some old and some new. The top of her book cases are decorated with a plate that belonged to my Dad's great, great grandmother, a black tea kettle that belonged to Mom's grandparents, an old black iron, Mom's grandmother's coffee grinder, old bottles (Mom dug some of them out of old privies) and photographs. On one was she has photographs of her trip to the Outer Banks last year and proudly points out the island area where her ancestors loves in the early 1700s.
In her bedroom is a china doll sitting in the white wicker chair that was in My Dad's grandparents' house. In the master bathroom is a pitcher and basin that belonged to Mom's great grandparents. Her great grandmother's butter churn is in the living room, along with her quilted wall hangings representing family places that she and Dad frequented.
All of this represents my Mom and her love of family and genealogy. I grew up knowing about family and ancestors and relatives. Mom can recite names, dates, places for generations and knows exactly where to look for what record in the stash. She's a great walking history book. But more importantly when my daughter goes to Grandma's house she finds a grandmother that does things with her so she too will have memories.
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The devil is in the definition - definitions and their limited use in legal problem solving
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The lawyer's usual attempt to catch the meaning of a thing by entangling it in a net of words is based on a common misapprehension of the way words work. The great minds of the ages have since time immemorial reminded us that words do not contain essences, that meanings are social constructs, and that the relation between words and meanings is slippery at best. Definitions presuppose that words have simple meanings attached to them in something like a one-to-one relationship, which is why the law can sometimes be so obtuse. It is the use of the law in a tribunal that provides the eventual understanding of how the law works. Decisions handed down in courts are embedded in a particular time and a particular set of circumstances and are the products of minds informed by a set of social experiences which other lawyers accept as qualifying those particular persons to pronounce on the law. Our legislature would do well when framing legislation to imitate those who drafted the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 which is sufficiently specific, without the support of pages of definitions, to lead to very precise argument in the Constitutional Court, and yet sufficiently general to allow the law to develop with the flux of time.
Keywords: Definitions in law; essences; positivism; flux; words; meanings
Few would argue that South African law has been flooded with legislation since the advent of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. Acts have been published on just about every single aspect of law to bring South Africa up to date with world trends. Accordingly, the Companies Ac1 has changed and with it have changed all of the traditional structures through which companies do business; in an attempt to get the economy back on track a National Credit Act2 has been introduced to combat the reckless granting of credit which has been prevalent in South Africa; a Children's Act3 has been enacted to protect the rights of a child - the list is just about endless. Unfortunately, whilst all of the Acts that have been introduced are very necessary in assisting the law to modernise and fit the ever changing needs of society, many of them suffer from a fundamental flaw which this article seeks to address - the devil of definition.
Consider the following: the National Credit Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") has a large definitions section - pages 16 to 28 are devoted to definitions. How might a lawyer then apply these definitions practically in assisting a client who has entered a credit agreement and wants to comply with the Act? Section 129 of the Act sets out certain procedures which must be complied with before one can enforce the payment of a debt due under a credit agreement. In terms of subsection 1 of the Act:
If the consumer is in default under a credit agreement, the credit provider may draw the default to the Notice of the consumer in writing and propose that the consumer refer the credit agreement to a debt counsellor.
In the practical world, to comply with this requirement an attorney might draft a letter advising the consumer that he/she has the right to refer the matter to a debt counsellor in terms of section 129 of the Act and should he/she fail to do so, legal action will be taken against him/her. This was the course of action taken by a colleague when the Act was newly enacted, when we as attorneys had had little experience in implementing its peremptory provisions. The debt was a relatively minor one and the debtor failed to refer the matter to a debt counsellor as advised in the letter. Thus the matter came before a magistrate who was asked to give judgment for the amount owed under the credit agreement and confirm that section 129 had been complied with as a condition precedent to enforcing the debt. The decision, which was absolutely frustrating given the time taken to get to court, was that "Notice" had not been given, as the letter which notified the debtor of his rights should have called itself a Notice, and the word "Notice" should have appeared clearly on the letter purporting to comply with section 129.
Let us pause now and consider the events as they transpired. An attorney considered the law (including the definitions) and for the first time attempted to invoke the Act to enforce a debt. At what stage does the attorney understand what to do or, put differently, when does the meaning of the law in question become apparent? From the above example it is clear that it is not from the reading of the various definitions that the course of action becomes apparent, but only after the Act has been brought before a court of law. It is then relied upon and interpreted, a precedent is derived, and meaning then devolves for use in future cases.
This may seem fairly simple but it is a point which needs to be driven home to our legislature. Definitions are not of very much use in our law. Rather it is the use of the law itself in a tribunal (a court/arbitration etc) that provides the eventual understanding of how the law works.
What would the Ten Commandments have looked like if they had been drafted by a lawyer? Moses would indubitably have been unable to carry down the slopes of Mount Sinai the stone slabs on which they were engraved. An attempt at drafting just a small part of such a document may be found in the appendix below.
2 A philosophical background
Having in the introductory section of this note described the problem as it is encountered in the practical world, it may be of use to demonstrate on a theoretical level why heavy reliance on definitions is a mistake.
The notion that words do not refer directly to a pre-existing world echoes through the ages. All of us know the metaphor of Plato's cave,4 which needs no explication here. Platonism was followed by neo-Platonism, which saw the replacement of the amazing, verbless and therefore timeless first words of the Old Testament - "In the beginning, God" - with the first words of St John's Gospel - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God," a formulation which takes cognisance of the time-bound duality of our practical experience of existence, which can be resolved only miraculously - "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us... "5 For the ordinary among us the word and reality (which would "flesh" it out) are only mysteriously and vaguely related.
Today's primitive positivists tend to assume that we have direct, unproblematic access to the real world, and go about defining things as if their definitions made immediate sense. Others of our day are more aware. Albert Einstein, for instance, searched in vain for reality in the world of science and found only one constant to rely upon - the speed of light. The rest, he said, was relative.6 The literary theorist Derrida (1930-2004) cultivated the habit of deleting his words as he wrote in case anyone should make the mistake of thinking his words contained essences. Neither of these great thinkers could abide positivism.
The Oxford English Dictionary (the full text, not the Concise or Shorter versions) is wary of definitions. It uses them - true - but perfunctorily, preferring to devote the substance of its text to actual instances of the usage of words in context. For instance, it supplies only 66 senses (by our count) for the word "English," and makes a curt, single-sentence statement about each of these senses. More vitally it supplies 511 instances (again, by our count) of the use of the word in context. One of these in which any attempt at a define of the meaning of the word in this context would require the writing of a book is
2006 D. Winner Those Feet 174 If you support a team that is not rubbish, but plays well and wins, you feel that you are somehow missing out on the spirit of English football.7
Note that the context supplied includes where possible a date and a verifiable source, including the identity of the person who used the word in that manner. The similarity to instances of the making of case law is striking, judgments being set in a particular time and place, in a particular context of events and opinions, and attached to a particular personality, that of the lawyer who decides the case.
The date of each entry is essential because words change through time. That statement is trite, but the extent of the change is not self-evident to the man in the street. For instance the Latin mitto, mittere, misi, missum - to send, to abandon, has slipped into a number of different forms, some of them not at first sight clearly related to the original sense of the root: missive, mission, missionary, missile, amiss, dismiss, compromise, message, messenger, mess (a dish on which something is given, as in the biblical "mess of pottage"), and an officers' mess (a room in which the officers are given food), omit, admit, transmit, remit, intermit, commit. It is a long list, and probably incomplete as well. Two of the ordinary words (Germanic rather than Latinate) for a woman in medieval English were burd/byrd, and wyf. Both of them have slipped inexplicably into referring specifically to marriage - bride and wife - but today the word "bird" is also coarse slang for a woman. How did that happen?
The term "scholar," rich in reverence, has transformed itself in the Cape into the term "skollie," which has not much reverence about it. Or, still in the Cape, there is the outrageous descent from the divine Hermaphrodite (the child of Hermes and Aphrodite) to the common or garden "moffie." If the meanings of words keep on changing, is there any point in trying to define them? As TS Eliot puts it in Four Quartets, "Words strain,/Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,/Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,/Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,/Will not stay still."8 The strain is exerted by time and the weight of reality. It is true that words have meanings. There is no doubt that the world is real - that we do not create it by thinking it into existence. But neither is there any doubt that we can know the world only subjectively, and that there is always a mismatch between what there is to be known, our knowing it, and our attempts to express our knowledge in words. The process of slippage effects every living word (which is one reason why lawyers are fond of the dead language, Latin) and is very obviously still with us today, as is illustrated for instance by the increasing confusion in everyday usage of the words "incidents," "incidence," and "incidences." The process of change is as inexorable as aging. And if that is so, the best conceivable today's definition of a concept, even if written with a scalpel rather than a pen, may be totally accurate today but will be less accurate tomorrow and may be laughable in ten years' time.
The leading philosopher of language in the twentieth century was Wittgenstein. We make this bold statement in good company as professional philosophers in 1999 voted his Philosophical Investigations as the most important work of the twentieth century.9 Wittgenstein rejects a variety of ways of thinking about what the meaning of a word is, or how meanings can be identified. He shows how, in each case, our sense of the meaning of the word presupposes our ability to use it. He first asks the reader to perform a thought experiment: to come up with a definition of the word "game." While this may at first seem a simple task, he then goes on to lead us through the problems with different possible definitions of the word "game." Any definition which focuses on amusement leaves us unsatisfied since the feelings experienced by a world-class chess player are very different from those of a group of children playing at skipping or Monopoly. Any definition which focuses on competition will fail to explain the game of catch, or the game of solitaire. And a definition of the word "game" which focuses on rules will fall on similar difficulties.
The essential point of this exercise is often missed. Wittgenstein's point is not that it is impossible to define "game," but that we don't have a definition, and that we don't need one, because we use the word successfully even without the definition.10 Everybody understands what we mean when we talk about playing a game, and we can even clearly identify and correct inaccurate uses of the word, all without reference to any definition that consists of necessary and sufficient conditions for the use or application of the word game.
He argues that definitions emerge from what he terms "forms of life", which may be seen as the culture and society in which they are used. Wittgenstein stresses the social aspects of cognition: to see how language works we have to see how it functions in a specific social situation. It is this emphasis on becoming attentive to the social backdrop against which language is rendered intelligible that explains Wittgenstein's elliptical comment that "If a lion could talk, we could not understand him".11
I pause here to make the point that Wittgenstein's views are totally compatible with legal jurisprudence as articulated by Dworkin on how judges reach decisions. He rejects legal positivism, which is the paradigm lurking behind the lawyerly attempt to catch the meaning of a thing by entangling it in a net of words. Dworkin argues that when coming to decisions, Judges rely on principles that are there all along (even before the case has begun) and a judge, when tasked with finding such principles to decide an issue, does this against the current backdrop of the society in which he/she finds him/herself.12 Dworkin argues that to discover and apply these principles, courts interpret the legal data (legislation, cases etc.) with a view to articulating an interpretation that best explains and justifies past legal practice. All interpretation must follow from the notion of "law as integrity" to make sense. In the first instance, law must be an internally coherent system. In this way the law, like a web, has an extra layer added to it.13
Wittgenstein's forms of life and Dworkin's seamless web should be familiar to any lawyer in the South African legal context. South African judges have frequently used the term public policy to describe that in terms of which judges reach decisions on what the law should be, and this is essentially a reference to the current boni mores of society, which is invoked when weighing competing legal issues and deciding what the law is.
Hear Justice Froneman in Matiso v Commanding Officer, Port Elizabeth Prison putting this principle to use on an actual occasion in an actual case:
The interpretation of the Constitution will be directed at ascertaining the foundational values inherent to the Constitution, whilst the interpretation of the particular legislation will be directed at ascertaining whether that legislation is capable of an interpretation which conforms with the fundamental values or principles of the Constitution. Constitutional interpretation in this sense is thus primarily concerned with the recognition and application of constitutional values and not with a search to find the literal meaning of statutes. The values and principles contained in the Constitution are, and could only be, formulated and expressed in wide and general terms, because they are to be of general application. In terms of the Constitution the courts bear the responsibility of giving specific content to those values and principles in any given situation. In doing so judges will invariably "create" law.14
And academics are not ignorant of the principle either:
This paper concerns the meaning of ubuntu. Much of the discussion in academic circles about the concept has involved a search for its proper meaning, or at least a translation that will render the word comprehensible to a wider audience. The most obvious translations were the calques "humanity, personhood or humaneness", but none has been especially helpful. They cannot convey the many connotations in ubuntu nor, of course, its cultural implications.
The search for definition has, unfortunately, proceeded on an assumption that ubuntu refers to some core abstract concept or an actual way of behaving. This paper suggests, however, that a better path to understanding ubuntu is to consider the ways and contexts in which the word is being used. An analysis of this nature assumes that we should pay less attention to predetermined, essentialised meanings and more to the way in which past and current users are constructing meanings.15
3 Suggestions on how legislation should be drafted
Our argument is simply that the law should continue to be used and developed by judges as Dworkin has described the process rather than by relying heavily on definitions, a practice which, as Wittgenstein ably demonstrates, is not of much value.
If it is therefore arguable that long definitions sections in legislation are of little use at all, what is the alternative? A piece of South African legislation that has been consistently praised by lawyers of other countries is the Constitution. What then is special about the South African Constitution? Like the Ten Commandments it is a minimalist piece of law, and whilst it guarantees just about every conceivable right or freedom, it gives very little detail of what that right/freedom is. For example, the Constitution provides that every citizen has the right to life, but the word "life" is not defined in the Constitution. The consequence of not providing such a definition is that in the case of S v Makwanyane,16 a landmark judgment in South African jurisprudence, our judges were able to interpret and apply the section protecting the right to life to set aside the death penalty as a contravention of the right. Through use, section 11 of the Constitution has therefore taken on a meaning, and that meaning was derived with reference to the South African social backdrop and the ills and abuses of the death penalty in our past history. In short, the right to life acquired meaning from the society and culture in which the right was to be exercised -as Wittgenstein proposes is the case with all language use.
The dangers of having an over-active legislature obsessed with classification and definition should be all too familiar to South Africans. The Group Areas Act17 sought to define certain groups and then keep them in certain defined areas, and the Suppression of Communism Act18 sought to define just about everything as Communist and thereby suppress it. This approach can result in highly oppressive results, with which we as South Africans are all too familiar.
Our legislature should therefore be enacting legislation lighter in detailed definition and more open to interpretation by a judiciary, so as to ensure that the development of case law as in S v Makwanyane continues into the future and the law remains a living creature, changing with the society it seeks to regulate.
Bennett TW "Ubuntu: an African Equity" 30-61 (forthcoming 2012) [ Links ]
Dworkin R Law's Empire (Harvard University Press Cambridge MA 1986) [ Links ]
Einstein A "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper)" 1905 Annalen der Physik 891 -921 [ Links ]
Eliot TS Selected Poems (Four Quartets) (Faber and Faber London 2009) [ Links ]
Lackey D "What Are the Modern Classics? The Baruch Poll of Great Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" 1999 Philosophical Forum 329-346 [ Links ]
Plato The Republic (translated from the Ancient Greek by R Waterfield) (Oxford University Press Oxford 1993) [ Links ]
Riddall JG Jurisprudence 2 n d ed (Butterworths London 1999) [ Links ]
Simpson JA and Weiner ESC Oxford English Dictionary 2 n d ed (Clarendon Press Oxford 1998) [ Links ]
Wittgenstein LJJ Philosophical Investigations (translated from German by GEM Anscombe) (Wiley-Blackwell Hoboken NJ 2001) [ Links ]
Register of legislation
Childrens Act 38 of 2005
Companies Act 61 of 1973
Companies Act 71 of 2008
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Group Areas Act 41 of 1950
National Credit Act 34 of 2005
Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950
Register of cases
Matiso v Commanding Officer, Port Elizabeth Prison 1994 3 BCLR 80 (SE)
S v Makwanyane 1995 3 SA 391 (CC)
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1 Companies Act 61 of 1973 replaced by the Companies Act 71 of 2008.
2 National Credit Act 34 of 2005.
3 Children's Act 38 of 2005.
4 The Allegory of the Cave - also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave - is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic. It takes the form of a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and Plato's brother Glaucon, which may be found at the beginning of Book VII (chapter IX in Robin Waterfield's translation) (514a-520a). This is the last such footnote that will be supplied in this contribution, the context of which is a large body of jurisprudence, standard philosophy and general reading and general knowledge. It is difficult to reference lateral thinking, and polite apologies are extended to those who may think that the contribution has not been referenced adequately. Perhaps, though, such readers are among those lawyers who would also want every legal term to be fully and precisely defined? If the reader is dissatisfied and wants further explanation he/she could pick up Plato, Wittgenstein and Dworkin, whose rich ideas can best be understood through their own words.
5 John 1:1 King James Version The Holy Bible.
6 Special relativity was introduced in Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (Einstein 1905 Annalen der Physik).
7 Let those South Africans who support Manchester United take this entry to heart.
8 Eliot Selected Poems 13-18
9 Lackey 1999 Philosophical Forum 329-346.
10 Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 66.
11 Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 223.
12 Riddall Jurisprudence 99, 311.
13 Dworkin Law's Empire 104.
14 Matiso v Commanding Officer, Port Elizabeth Prison 1994 3 BCLR 80 (SE) 87.
15 Bennett 2012 PELJ (forthcoming).
16 S v Makwanyane 1995 3 SA 391 (CC) (S v Makwanyane).
17 Group Areas Act 41 of 1950.
18 Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950.
19 The Decalogue, to be found in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, hereinafter known as the Ten Commandments.
20 All quotations are from the King James version.
21 If a woman conceives or gives birth to a child while married, her husband will be presumed to be the father of the child. It is now generally accepted that approximately 50 percent of such presumptions are wrong. Such a presumption may be tested in a court of law if the child of the presumed father produces evidence to the effect that the DNA of the presumed father does not match his own.
What would the Ten Commandments19 have looked like if the Great Legislator had been a lawyer?
That God had lawyerish tendencies is occasionally evident, as in s 10: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's."20 But the nature of the list of objects not to be coveted is less than professional. The easy transition from a wife to an ass is not politically correct, and each of these terms requires legal definition in order to qualify as being lawyerly. Of course, the more usual style of the document is relatively terse, as in s 5: "Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Such brevity, if it became common practice in the legal profession, would have a disastrous impact on the accumulation of fees. It is therefore suggested that the document should be appropriately rewritten. The style to be adopted could resemble that of the following definition of the term "father" which is to be found in s 5 above:
The term "father", for the purposes of s 5, includes
1 ) A male parent, a sire, a person who answers voluntarily to the name dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy, pop, pops, "old man";
2) A natural/biological father, a birth father, a legal father provided that as the husband of the mother he consented to the artificial insemination of the mother, a surprise father, a posthumous father, a teenage father, a non-parental father, an alleged father provided that such alleged father does not contest the allegation, a sperm donor provided that the husband of the mother did not consent to the mother's artificial insemination;
3) A presumed father, being an individual presumed by the law to be the biological father until shown otherwise21 and provided that the presumed father voluntarily allows his name to be placed upon the child's birth certificate.
The term "father", for the purposes of s 5, does not include
1 ) An alleged father provided that the alleged father denies the allegation, a step-father, a father-in-law, an adoptive father, a social father, a mother's partner where there is no biological relationship with such a mother's partner, a grandfather, a great grandfather, a great great grandfather, a forefather of generations previous to that of a great great grandfather, a clergyman who is called "father" or "padre" solely by virtue of his being a clergyman, a clergywoman who is called "father" solely by virtue of her being a clergywoman, the Lord thy God (see s 1 above).


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Driverless 'horizontal elevator' shuttle debuts at CES
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Former race car driver Max Lefèvre beat the competition by putting the world's first commercially available driverless vehicle on the road - but don't expect his invention to win any races.
With a top speed of 12.5 mph, the laser-guided, electric-powered, eight-passenger shuttle dubbed the Navia is too slow to share the road with real cars, even if it might be able to keep pace with a Muni bus on traffic-clogged Market Street.
Instead, this $250,000 vehicle - which looks more like an overgrown golf cart than a car or bus - is designed for places like university or corporate campuses, pedestrian walkways, convention centers, airports or amusement parks. In other words, places where it's a little too far to walk, yet too close to drive.
"It's mainly for areas where you would park your car and have to walk or use a shuttle to go around," said Lefèvre, who used to drive considerably faster when he was a championship-winning professional Formula driver.
During a test ride on a closed course at the International Consumer Electronics Show - where the Navia celebrated its market launch - Lefèvre tapped his thumb on an iPad-style control panel to set the vehicle in motion and pick its stops. The Navia can be programmed quickly to follow any route, without the need for tracks, roadway sensors or GPS navigation. Its own sensors detect when it needs to stop to avoid people or objects in its path.
The steering wheel and brake and accelerator pedals have been left out intentionally. Lefèvre said those omissions will speed up acceptance of the vehicle and should help calm nervous riders, because it won't look like a traditional vehicle that's steering itself with an empty driver's seat. After all, he said, automated elevators only have buttons.
"We call it a horizontal elevator," he said.
His father, Pierre Lefèvre, started the company behind the Navia, Induct Technology of France, in 2004. His original concept was to build a driverless car to allow commuters to be more productive while navigating the streets of Paris.
"We were both race car drivers," said Max Lefèvre, now Induct's marketing director. "But living in Paris is very difficult with traffic. You just spend hours in your car just to go to work and back."
Google's fleet of experimental driverless hybrids has captured more media attention, and car makers and after-market auto parts manufacturers were at CES demonstrating cars that park themselves or brake automatically to avoid collisions even if the driver is not paying attention.
But Lefèvre said his company decided a truly automatic, self-driving passenger car was still more than a decade away from becoming a reality.
So Induct pivoted to building public transportation vehicles because the Lefèvres believed that market was already ready for an environmentally friendly alternative. The company also claims the zero-emission vehicle can save 40 to 60 percent of the annual operating costs of a regular shuttle bus, including a driver's salary.
Beta versions of the Navia have been running at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a technical college in Switzerland, at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, and at companies and business parks in the United Kingdom. Lefèvre said there are beta testers in the United States who are interested in leasing a Navia, but would not name them.
"We're not going to replace buses or tramways or anything, we're complementing them," he said. "It's a step between the driverless trains or the airplane, which mostly works autonomously right now, and the (self-driving) passenger vehicle."
Benny Evangelista is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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text: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:05:24AM -0400, Sebastian Hyde wrote: > http://www.instructables.com/id/Lexan-Computer-Case/ Oh, for sure. "Kids" like me have been putting acrylic windows in our PC cases for years, or even buying/building cases made entirely of acrylic. I'm no handy man though, so I don't know what the difference is between acrylic and lexan. Frankly though, for a personal beowulf, I'd be inclined to rig up some kind of rack that I can screw motherboards straight into, and ignore cases altogether.


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Emily & Karl - Separated at Birth
Designer Karl Lagerfeld & Poet Emily Dickinson
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This made me also laugh. Love the juxtaposition.ReplyDelete
Oh, why be so mean to Emily? (I'll let you off this time. As it's Friday.)ReplyDelete
Somehow, I'm not seeing it.
The photo of Karl Lagerfeld makes me think a little of an aging Leonard Nimoy or Peter Graves (plus the sunglasses).
And for some reason, when I look at this photo of Emily Dickinson just now, I think of Justin Bieber. (Beats the heck out of me.)
Or, maybe, Alfalfa from the Little Rascals?
Word Verification is "panesin," which sounds like one of those prescription drugs they advertise on T.V., where the list of possible side effects sounds worse than whatever medical problem you would be taking the drug for.
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Why You Need Your Own Web Server
January 2, 2003
Having your own Web server goes beyond the need to put your business' information out on the Internet for all to see. While that certainly won't hurt, there are many more ways you can take advantage of such a server.
Whether you are running a department within a large corporation, or your own small business, having access to an HTTP server can quickly improve the way your employees share knowledge.
Groups within an organization of any size generally need to share a great deal of information, even though they may be working toward different goals. One way to accomplish this is to provide groups and individuals with access to an intranet Web server and allow them to publish their own facts and figures. Everyone could share one web server, and have a common user interface to access each others' work. If more space or segregation of information is needed, individual groups could set up their own web server using surplus hardware and Linux.
In another situation, you--the content provider--know exactly what you want, but are unable to find just the right package of features at the right cost. Many ISPs charge extra for even basic logging information. Given the tight margins that all businesses have to operate within these days, occasionally the right move is to set up your own host hardware.
Another reason to set up a Web server is that some Internet-based applications may require performance that only a dedicated server can offer--tuned to your special needs.
It may seem unlikely that you can provide a better service than experienced ISPs, but ISPs are catering to a mass market and tend to charge a lot for special services. Some web applications just don't fit into the general ISP scheme and installing your own web server on a Linux box, could prove to be a cost effective way of getting the Internet services you need.