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Oil and gas companies pour money into research universities
Northwest Colorado's Piceance Basin -- 5 million acres framed by cliffs and hogbacked mountains -- overlies roughly 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to supply the nation for 50 years. It's also ideal mule deer habitat; state wildlife managers once called it "the deer factory." But as drilling ramps up, deer numbers plummet.
Wildlife ecologist George Wittemyer of Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources is halfway through a five-year study, working with other researchers to observe how deer behave and reproduce amid the vast network of roads and well pads. But neither the university nor the government is funding it. ExxonMobil is.
In 2010, the company gave the university $5 million to study energy development impacts on western Colorado's sage grouse, mule deer and other wildlife, spawning 20 new research contracts. Shell, BP and others have also recently poured millions of dollars into CSU's research. Warner College is even named for alum Ed Warner, who donated $30 million in 2005 after making a fortune pioneering hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has opened hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves worldwide.
It's good timing: As natural resource program enrollment grows, many universities face state-funding declines. It's not new for academia to consort with industries like agribusiness, mining and timber, especially at land-grant universities, initially established to provide affordable higher education in applied sciences and engineering. But given the nation's current oil and gas frenzy, the energy money is raising questions about academic integrity, and has left CSU and other schools navigating new ground -- a task some are handling better than others.
"To be successful and to get social acceptance, (companies) know they have to protect the environment. They're coming to us to do (energy-related) studies on restoration, water, wildlife health and biodiversity, forest health," says Joyce Berry, Warner College dean. The university must maintain professional standards and boundaries. "Our reputation depends on it."
At first, Wittemyer was skeptical, but so far he says industry money is like other sponsored research grants; it adheres to academic-integrity rules, and ExxonMobil does not control his research methods or findings. In a way, it makes sense for energy companies, rather than the public, to pay for studying industry's impacts and their mitigation. Wittemyer says it also helps him examine companies' real-world practices. Besides, he admits, his department couldn't afford the expensive tools and methodology otherwise.
Federal contributions to CSU have remained steady despite the recession, especially for natural sciences and climate change. Research funding at Warner College has risen 24 percent over the past five years (to $77 million in 2012), mostly from federal agencies like the National Science Foundation.
But applied science research -- on environmental mitigation, for instance -- receives less support. This past June, for example, a U.S. House committee rejected a White House request for $4.25 million to research drilling's water-quality impacts; critics say health and environmental studies aren't keeping up with development.
Meanwhile, declining state higher-ed funding (see chart next page) is forcing tuition hikes and hiring and salary freezes at many institutions. At CSU, state support has fallen nearly 30 percent over the past five years, while in-state tuition has skyrocketed 56 percent. At the same time, faculty and graduate teaching assistant staffing at Warner dropped 10 percent because there's no money to refill vacated posts.


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Why we believe in an open cloud
Openness enables faster innovation, tighter security, and offers freedom from vendor lock-in. Google believes openness matters more in the cloud than ever.
Open is about the power to pick up and move your app
An open cloud is grounded in a belief that being tied to a particular cloud shouldn't get in the way of achieving your goals. An open cloud embraces the idea that the power to deliver your apps to different clouds while using a common development and operations approach will help you meet whatever your priority is at any given time — whether that's making the most of skills shared widely across your teams or rapidly accelerating innovation. Open source is an enabler of open clouds because open source in the cloud preserves your control over where you deploy your IT investments. For example, customers are using Kubernetes to manage containers and TensorFlow to build machine learning models on premises and on multiple clouds.
Open source is a continuum
Here are examples of Google's commitment to OSS and the varying levels of work required:
- OSS such as Android has an open code base and development is the sole responsibility of one organization
- OSS with community-driven changes such as TensorFlow involves coordination between many companies and individuals
- OSS with community-driven strategy, for example Linux and Kubernetes, involves collaborative decision-making and accepting consensus over control
Open source software permits a richness of thought and continuous feedback loop with users
Open source is so important to Google that we call it out twice in our corporate philosophies and we encourage employees, and in fact all developers, to engage with open source.
Using BigQuery to analyze GHarchive.org data, we found that in 2017, over 5,500 Googlers submitted code to nearly 26,000 repositories, created over 215,000 pull requests, and engaged with countless communities through almost 450,000 comments. A comparative analysis of Google's contribution to open source provides a useful relative position of the top-contributing companies in open source based on normalized data.
Googlers are active contributors to popular projects you may have heard of including Linux, LLVM, Samba, and Git.
Google regularly open sources some of our best internal projects
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Google is committed to the use of open APIs
Open APIs preserve everyone's ability to build on each other's work, improving software iteratively and collaboratively. Open APIs empower companies and individual developers and to change service providers at will. Peer-reviewed research shows that open APIs drive faster innovation across the industry and in any given ecosystem. Open APIs depend on the right to reuse established APIs by creating independent-yet-compatible implementations. Google Cloud is committed to supporting open APIs via our membership in the Open API Initiative, involvement in the Open API specification, support of gRPC, and via Cloud Bigtable compatibility with the HBase API, Cloud Spanner and BigQuery compatibility with SQL:2011 (with extensions), and Cloud Storage compatibility with shared APIs.
Cloud storage interoperability via shared APIs
The Google Cloud Storage XML API is interoperable with some cloud storage tools and libraries that work with services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.
Bigtable interoperability via HBase APIs
One way to communicate with Cloud Bigtable is through the Cloud Bigtable HBase client for Java, which is a customized version of the standard Apache HBase client.
Open source spotlight
Open source system for container orchestration
Google dedicated over 12 years of research and development resources to Kubernetes, and then made it completely open source. That combination of tight, directed engineering, openness, and community building has helped make Kubernetes one of the most active projects on GitHub, with more than 45,000 commits and 1,500 contributors — and counting. This astounding rate of innovation is only possible thanks to the cross industry collaboration and leadership in the Kubernetes community. Learn more about the Kubernetes open source project and about Google Kubernetes Engine, our managed service that's the best environment for deploying containerized applications.
Open source library for machine learning
Since Google open-sourced it in 2015, TensorFlow has become the #1 machine learning community on GitHub, and the de facto machine learning toolkit. This project is important for mankind, so we knew we had to open source it to enable everyone to openly collaborate on it. Learn more about the TensorFlow open-source project and about our managed service, Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine, which is simply the best way to take any TensorFlow model and perform large scale training on a managed cluster.
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Istio is an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Istio supports managing traffic flows between microservices, enforcing access policies, and aggregating telemetry data, all without requiring changes to the microservice code.
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Diamonds. For thousands of years, they have been believed to bring good luck (and bad luck!) — health, wealth, and protection against most of the ills that can befall mankind.
They are also a multi-billion dollar business, although compared to the gold business, the diamond industry is small. (Read More: Are Diamonds the New Gold for Individual Investors?)
The worldwide retail market for diamond jewelry was $60 billion in 2010. Like the gold business, the diamond business is segmented into several groups:
- Miners and producers, who mine rough diamonds, then sort and sell them.
- Cutters and polishers: those who buy rough diamonds from the producers, then cut and polish.
- Jewelry manufacturers who create finished pieces.
- Retailers who sell the finished jewelry to consumers.
Some operate on several levels of this "value chain." And in recent years — particularly with the advent of selling jewelry on the Internet — a number of these lines have become blurred. There are retailers, for example, who may buy directly from wholesalers. (Read More: Diamond Investing Not for Faint of Heart.)
Miners and Producers:
According to Bain & Company, about 133 million carats of rough diamonds are produced each year. Botswana and Russia are the two largest producers; between them they have about half of the world's production. Australia, Angola, Namibia and Canada make up most of the rest.
There's even fewer diamond producers. In fact, four control about 65 percent of the market: De Beers, Russian producer Alrosa, and diversified mining companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto . De Beers alone controls about 35 percent of the market, with Alrosa about 20 percent. (Read More: Diamonds No Longer Rio Tinto's Best Friend.)
Why are diamonds found in so few places? Because large, commercially viable diamond mines are a rarity. Today, there are only about 20 major diamond mines in the world. And the big supply is even rarer — only 11 mines make up 62 percent of the world's production of diamonds by carat!
And they're getting even rarer. The last major diamond mine was discovered in Zimbabwe in 1997.
No matter how big the mine is, you've got to move a lot of rock to get at a very small number of diamonds. Production varies by mine, but the world's "richest" mine — the Jwaneng mine in Botswana — has to move a ton of rock to get 1.4 carats of rough diamond, on average.
That mine moves 8 million tons of rock a year and sells the rough diamonds for an average of $134 a carat. That's $1.5 billion in revenues, from a single mine. And it produces profit margins of 24 percent.
Cutters and Polishers:
The producers then sell their rough diamonds to intermediaries who cut and polish the diamonds. It's a costly process: most rough diamonds lose 50 to 60 percent of their weight going to polished form because material is cut or polished away.
De Beers has a particular sophisticated system for selling their rough diamonds. They sell roughly 80 clients they call "sightholders," using long-term contracts.
Other sales are made using auctions.
In the past, most of the cutting and polishing was done in only a few centers: Antwerp, Tel Aviv, New York, and Russia. Today, the majority of the smaller stones in the world (less than 3 carats) are cut in India, followed by China.
The reason: low labor costs. In the U.S., it costs about $100 a carat to cut a diamond; in India, it costs $10.
To lower production costs, diamond cutters are using sophisticated computer programs that map out the most efficient way to cut a diamond. In recent years, tremendous advances have been made using sophisticated laser cutting machines that can cut and polish diamonds with minimal human labor.
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Once stones are cut and polished, it's time to get them into the hands of jewelry manufacturers. These sales typically take place in the central and regional offices of the diamond cutters, and increasingly at exhibitions that are held in different cities around the world. The two biggest are held each year in Hong Kong and Las Vegas.
Jewelry manufacturing is a fragmented business: there's more than 10,000 players in the world, most of whom are anonymous. There are, of course, a few very famous names who act as manufacturers as well as retailers: Tiffany , Cartier, Bulgari, Louis Vitton, Gucci, and Chanel, but more than 80 percent of the players are in India or China and do not brand their work.
Still, branding is where the big money is. Branding is crucial to profitability. According to Bain & Company, a diamond engagement ring by Cartier may enjoy a premium of 40 percent over an unbranded ring with a stone of identical size and quality.


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We have made huge strides in reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Since 1990, there has been an over 50 percent decline in preventable child deaths globally. Maternal mortality also fell by 45 percent worldwide. New HIV/AIDS infections fell by 30 percent between 2000 and 2013, and over 6.2 million lives were saved from malaria.
Despite this incredible progress, more than 6 million children still die before their fifth birthday every year. 16,000 children die each day from preventable diseases such as measles and tuberculosis. Every day hundreds of women die during pregnancy or from child-birth related complications. In many rural areas, only 56 percent of births are attended by skilled professionals. AIDS is now the leading cause of death among teenagers in sub-Saharan Africa, a region still severely devastated by the HIV epidemic.
These deaths can be avoided through prevention and treatment, education, immunization campaigns, and sexual and reproductive healthcare. The Sustainable Development Goals make a bold commitment to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030. The aim is to achieve universal health coverage, and provide access to safe and affordable medicines and vaccines for all. Supporting research and development for vaccines is an essential part of this process as well.
Goals in action
Glimmers of hope in the eastern Congo
Tupinge Ubakaji programme works to put an end to impunity for sexual violence in DRC. The programme supports survivors by providing medical, psycho-social, legal and judicial services, while ensuring their social and economic reintegration. MORE >
FGM ban begins a pivotal era for women and girls in The Gambia
In November 2015, the practice of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) was banned and subsequently criminalized in The Gambia. This marks an important milestone in the country's journey to end FGM/C. MORE >
Keeping children worm-free in Tanzania
A lack of sufficient hygiene and activities such as swimming or fishing in infested water make school-aged children especially vulnerable to infection. The disease is also more common in poor communities. MORE >


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Local Boston Marathon runner safe at home
All registered area runners in the Boston Marathon from Arkansas and Oklahoma are OK Tuesday morning.
All registered area runners in the Boston Marathon from Arkansas and Oklahoma are OK Tuesday morning.
Some runners have already made it back since the explosions happened Monday.
Boston Marathon runner Tom Brennan touched down at the Tulsa International Airport safely.
Brennan is from Poteau and ran for his first time in the Boston Marathon.
Brennan thankfully was OK and said he was far finished with the marathon when he realized that fellow runners and spectators were being carried out on stretchers when two explosions riddled the finish line area.
Brennan said it wasn't until he got to the airport that he realized what had happened.
"I was done and I was in a parking garage a couple blocks away and I was changing clothes getting ready to head out and wasn't even aware that it had gone off until I had gotten to the airport and saw it on the T.V.," said Brennan.
Brennan said he's just glad to be home in Poteau.
"…just shock you know I couldn't believe that it happened there in Boston you know? At an event that you would think that would be safe, which I'm sure it has been for a hundred and seventeen years since they've run it so it was just shock,"
Brennan said the events in Boston will not change his mind about running in any future marathons.


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Trade Group Leader Urges Changes To Keep Hometown America Connected
PITTSBURGH, April 27, 2010 — American Cable Association Chairman Steve Friedman said in Senate testimony today that small cable operators are encouraging the federal government to initiate a number of vital policy reforms — including more focused investment in middle-mile infrastructure and stable utility pole attachment fees — to provide small cable operators with key incentives to maintain their leadership in the provision of broadband access services to millions of Americans residing in rural communities.
"We appreciate what Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and other agencies are doing to support broadband expansion and growth in smaller markets and rural areas," Friedman said. "Our hope is that reasonable revisions to existing statutes, FCC regulations, and other rules will promote even greater private investment to ensure that Main Street America is equipped with the best Internet access technology possible."
Friedman testified on behalf of ACA members before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship amid concerns that consumers and small businesses in rural areas where network deployment costs are high will lag the rest of the country as the importance of the Internet-based economy to future growth and prosperity continues to accelerate.
In his testimony, Friedman offered several policy recommendations to advance rural broadband service, including greater investment in middle-mile infrastructure, a critical link between local broadband networks and the Internet backbone.
Friedman explained that rural middle-mile facilities mostly owned by third parties are expensive to access and lack adequate capacity, which slows download speeds even for consumers connected to upgraded cable broadband facilities. Cable would deploy its own middle-mile facilities, Friedman added, except that the costs are too high for an ACA member with just a few thousand subscribers to absorb.
"The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's focus in the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) on the middle-mile issue is encouraging. But, certainly, NTIA's efforts, while significant, are only a small step. We are thus heartened by the FCC's focus on this issue in the National Broadband Plan (NBP). A key now is to ensure that the FCC expeditiously follows through and implements the proposals set forth in the plan," Friedman said.
In a related comment, Friedman stressed that the $7.2 billion broadband subsidy programs at NTIA and the Rural Utilities Service should target financial support on unserved areas and award funds to provider applicants in a competitively neutral manner that does not disadvantage small cable operators who have sought funding.
"Favoritism and disparate regulatory treatment are not a formula for success," Friedman said.
Friedman identified rising fees to attach cable wires and routing equipment to telephone poles owned or controlled by electric cooperative and municipalities as barriers to rural broadband investment. He added that ACA strongly supports the FCC's recommendation in the NBP that co-ops and local governments should no longer enjoy rate regulation exemptions under the Federal Pole Attachment Act of 1978.
"Pole attachment reform is one of the most critical pieces necessary to carry out the goals of the (NBP), and we encourage Congress to take action as requested by the FCC," Friedman said.
Lastly, Friedman called on the FCC to adopt a proposal announced last week that would allow all cable operators to offer low-cost, low‐functionality High Definition set-top boxes as a substitute for expensive CableCARD-enabled boxes mandated under regulations in effect since July 2007.
"If relieved from today's financially onerous set‐top box rules, smaller cable operators could free up bandwidth in their systems in a cost‐effective manner and provide their customers with faster broadband speeds," Friedman said.
Friedman is Chief Operating Officer of Wave Broadband, a cable, Internet and phone services company currently serving more than 175,000 customers in Washington, Oregon and California. Based in Kirkland, Washington, Wave employs more than 600 individuals and provides business-class Internet, phone and cable service to companies of all sizes, from Seattle to San Francisco.
The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship is chaired by Sen. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), and its ranking member is Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine). Other witnesses at today's hearing included FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein and NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling.
About the American Cable Association: Based in Pittsburgh, the American Cable Association is a trade organization representing nearly 900 smaller and medium-sized, independent cable companies who provide broadband services for more than 7 million cable subscribers primarily located in rural and smaller suburban markets across America. Through active participation in the regulatory and legislative process in Washington, D.C., ACA's members work together to advance the interests of their customers and ensure the future competitiveness and viability of their business. For more information, visit https://acaconnects.org/


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Pope Francis: Mass Is God's Time
The Holy Father reflected on the meaning of the Eucharistic celebration on Feb. 10.
VATICAN CITY -- In his daily homily on Feb. 10, Pope Francis reflected on the meaning of the Mass, highlighting how it is a real participation in Jesus' presence, and he encouraged all to enter more fully into the mystery of the Mass.
"When we celebrate the Mass, we don't accomplish a representation of the Last Supper: No, it is not a representation. It is something else: It is the Last Supper itself," the Pope explained in his homily.
Speaking to those present in the chapel of the Vatican's St. Martha guesthouse, the Pope centered his reflections on the "theophany" spoken of in the first reading, taken from the First Book of Kings, in which David's son Solomon, the new king, places the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple, and God's presence descends upon it in the form of a cloud.
He then observed how this same thing happens during the Mass, highlighting that it is not just a "social act" or a prayer gathering, but "the presence of the Lord is real, truly real."
"When we celebrate the Mass ... it is to really live once more the passion and the redeeming death of the Lord."
"It is a theophany: The Lord is made present on the altar to be offered to the Father for the salvation of the world," he said.
Calling to mind how some people say that they are going to "to hear Mass," the Holy Father emphasized that "the Mass is not 'heard,'" but "it is participated in," and "it is a participation in this theophany, in this mystery of the presence of the Lord among us."
Representations, he said, are things like Nativity scenes or even praying the Stations of the Cross, but the Mass "is a real commemoration" in which "God approaches and is with us, and we participate in the mystery of the Redemption."
Pope Francis then lamented that there are often many who look at the clock during Mass, "counting the minutes" until it is over, highlighting that this "is not the attitude the liturgy requires of us."
"The liturgy is to really enter into the mystery of God, to allow ourselves to be brought to the mystery and to be in the mystery," he stated, affirming to those present that "I am sure that all of you have come here to enter into the mystery."
"However," noted the Pope, "someone might say: 'Ah, I have to go to Mass at Santa Marta, because, on the sightseeing tour of Rome, each morning there is a chance to visit the Pope at Santa Marta: It's a tourist stop, right?'"
"All of you here, we are gathered here to enter into the mystery: This is the liturgy. It is God's time: it is God's space; it is the cloud of God that surrounds all of us," the Pope stressed.
Recalling his preparation to receive holy Communion as a child, the Pope observed that when his class was given unconsecrated hosts to use as practice, they were told that "these count for nothing," because they still had to be consecrated.
Therefore, "to celebrate the liturgy is to have this availability to enter into the mystery of God" and to entrust ourselves to this mystery, he said.
Concluding his homily, the Pope encouraged all present to ask that the Lord give each of us "this 'sense of the sacred,'" and he said that "to pray at home, to pray in church, to pray the Rosary, to pray so many beautiful prayers," is one thing, but "the Eucharistic celebration is something else."
"In the celebration, we enter into the mystery of God, into that street that we cannot control: Only he is the unique One, the glory, the power. ... He is everything," expressed the Pope.
"Let us ask for this grace: that the Lord would teach us to enter into the mystery of God."


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We here in Pittsburgh are lucky to have the tradition we have for our Football. The location of Heinz Field allows for some great options on how to get to the game. I work with Pittsburgh Water Limo; a small company that has been in town for about 14 years. Each game, we run a shuttle out of the Strip District on our 82 foot yacht. We offer just a shuttle ($15 round trip) or we also offer our Ultimate Tailgate package ($29.95). Parking is free and there is no traffic after the game when you are leaving the strip.
Boarding for the tailgate package starts 3 hours before game time. The boat leaves the dock 90 minutes before Kickoff. We have a full service bar on board with very reasonable prices. (we even run a $4 Bloody Mary special!) the bar stays open until the end of the 3rd quarter The food changes weekly for those who opt for the tailgate package. The food is based on the regional fare of the visiting team. Tomorrow we are featuring Skyline Chili. To boot, our cooks are presenting a friendly vote off against the Skyline Chili and their own "Steel City Spaghetti". Help us determine the winner!
The Climate controlled yacht remains docked directly under the Mr. Rodgers Memorial during the entire game. Those with tickets have the option of joining us back on the boat at their leisure. You can even join us and stay on the boat and enjoy the game on our 3 flat screen televisions. The crowd noise lends well to the game experience.
We do take walk ons, but you can sign up in advance to guarantee your spot. Our web page is www.pittsburghwaterlimo.com


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Posted: Wed 04 Mar 2009, 18:47
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How to set up a Puppy Linux Cybercafe
Subject description: Technical notes, struggles and guidence for a netboot cybercafe
Imagine your thousands of miles from home, alone, and its the middle of the night. Somehow you've got stranded in a foreign country, with little knowledge of its language and only a pocketful of coins. You could have been the victim of fraud, mugging, or human trafficking, and you need to contact your country's embassy, find information and get help, or contact your relatives back home to assure them your safe.
Your in luck...one of the buildings away from the docks is a Seamans Mission, a type charitable organization that has for hundreds of years offered guidance and practical help to travellers. You hear they have a cybercafe with internet access and decide to go and investigate.
You walk to the building and go inside. Its 2am and no one is about. There is a row of computers behind glass screens, and you tentitively go up and put one of your last remaining coins in the slot, slowly the screen comes to life as the computer boots. You think of everything you need to do to get yourself out of this situation, who you need to contact, what information you need, how to find accommodation for the night. After what seems like an excruciating five minues, the screen changes......
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Please excuse my artistic licience in introducing this post, but this Im told happens...frequently.
I was recently invited to the Hull Seafarers Centre to view their cybercafe arrangement, and to see how open source software might save them time and money while providing a better more reliable and secure service to their needy clients. The trip was arranged by
Humberside Co-Operative Development agency
, who are promoting the use of open source software in the community and voluntary sectors in the area.
I was shown around the centre and given a look around the facilities, and managed to take some shots while I was there, although our time was quite limited. The centre consists of a main room with private offices and interview rooms off it, with facilities for travelers. The computers are in three separate rooms, several being in the main room,and two smaller rooms arranged "kiosk" style with the screens behind glass panels. A coin operated system activates the computers in these rooms. One of them (the main entrance foyer) is open 24/7/265 and provides an out of hours service for needy travelers who arrive who need to use the web or telephone.
Here, we found recent evidence of proprietary operating systems. They had obviously done their "work" and left.
Inside the main room we found more a traditional computer setup, along with pool and leisure facilities, and a few stands of clothes that they sell. The area is equipped with a wireless network which is currently accessible free, although they would like to charge the generally better off clients who have their own laptops to cover their running expenses.
The people there had been informed by the Humberside CDA about the benefits of open source software generally, so I added my part about Puppy Linux in general. I explained how it would triple the useable life of a computer compared to Microsoft products. I also explained how it was possible to boot puppy Linux over a network, meaning they would never have to do a four hour re-install of a virus-ridden p.c. ever again. I also explained that they could remove the hard disks from their P.C.'s as they wouldn't need them anymore with a netboot method. This would make sure that no-ones personal information or browsing history would be left on any of the machines, and that because linux was invulnerable to viruses, they wouldn't have problems with keyloggers and people having their accounts emptied while far from home. I also explained how the software was free of any licience cost or restrictions and that it was easily customizable to suit their needs. It even came with all of the software pre-installed to open common windows file formats, without the need to by M$ office packages.
I could see by the look on their faces they were somewhat dubious that this were possible...so a I thought a quick demonstration was in order. Luckily I had burned off a whole load of Puppy Linux 4.2 Beta 3 boot cd's before I had set off. I put the cd into one of the computers, switched it on and within a minute I had a full puppy linux desktop. The computer it turned out was quite a fast one (Compaq Evo 2.8mhz/1gb/80gb) and ran a super-speed. A couple of clicks through the connection setup wizard had us connected to their dhcp network and online with seamonkey, playing a video of the cybercafe I had previously ran in Scunthorpe.
Thanks to Ttuxxx, Zigberts and Aragons hard work, even at the beta stage the desktop looked smooth, modern and slick compared to the traditional windoze XP they were used to. I am sure had I not used the beta version instead of a previous standard puppy they would not have been so impressed.
After this, the people at the centre told me they run two cybercafe's, the other being in Immingham across the river. Hull Docks is an immense place as it is, but Immingham is the largest sea port in Britain. Apparently there is another cybercafe there. Immingham is only about 20 miles from Scunthorpe where I am currently based, but Hull is a good fifty miles away, with the heavily tolled
Humber Bridge
in between. It was agreed I should "Puppy" the cybercafe there while I got things straightened out, and then implement the same solution at the Hull Seafarers Mission.
While I was there and had their attention, the last thing I had chance to explain in our alloted time was a little bit about the puppy development process. I explained that puppy linux was programmed by volunteers, and that one of the reasons it is so good was the fact that anyone using it could give feedback to the developers about what needed fixing, and how to make it more useable. It was on this latter point that I explained to them how they had the perfect facilities to help in the development of Puppy Linux. They have people coming in from all over the world into a single location, who have probably never used puppy or any other linux before. It was a perfect place from which to gather useability information and suggestions, and trial those features on an unending supply of "puppy newbs" to see how they get on. I explained that the aims of the project was to help recycle computer waste, and provide access to the information on the internet to those who would otherwise be unable to afford it. I also explained that in my opinion, the only thing holding puppy linux back was the lack of reliable useability feedback into the development process.
Proposed implementation
At the cafe, the way I think would be sensible to do it would be to employ the services of a smoothwall server between the main router and the main modem. This would have the
tftp mod
installed which would serve out the puppy files to the client machines. These would be set to netboot via pxe in the bios. This would eliminate the need for hard disks in the machines, or for any kind of re-installation work.
I understand its possible to log into the smoothwall server from any location on the web (via ssh?) and update the boot image files used by the tftp mod remotely. This would save me from having to travel to the site and keep maintenance costs to the organisation to an absolute minimum (their budgets are being stretched considerably given the influx of political and economic refugee's from other countries, and the ongoing depression).
This is going to be a big Puppy Linux implementation, but has the potential to not only help the Seamans Mission and the needy people that go there, but also hopefully the puppy linux development process. The people there are very willing to help and provide information. Hull and Immingham are massive worldwide seaports, and the people that go there will no doubt be able to bring the news of Puppy Linux's awesomeness back with them to the four corners of the globe.
On the other hand its going to be a massive technical implementation. As anyone who is familiar with my posts will be aware, I am no technical guru. The Seafarers Cybercafe is going to need a lot of technical support via the forums if it is going to implement a Puppy Linux based solution, I just don't have the technical knowledge to do it on my own.
The Mission and the people that need the Cybercafe will need the help of the Puppy Linux Developers and technically minded people. I trust they will step up be there when the problems come in. Were in a position to really help the people that find themselves in the position described above.....worldwide
Woof Woof!!!
Note, this cybercafe is now currently just on the point of being finall installed, after much head scratching and help from the puppy community!!! A great many thanks for all the assistance that has been given by so many talented, knowledgeable and genuinely altruistic people.
This is where the real work begins. The cybercafe is to be used as a "laboratory" for research into how to make puppy better meet its mission objectives. See the thread here
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Posted: Wed 04 Mar 2009, 19:13
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What a fantastic opportunity to spread the truth about PuppyLinux. Kudos to you for making a great presentation. Puppy will be the talk of the town. Well done.
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Posted: Wed 04 Mar 2009, 19:53
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Puppy will be the talk of the town.
Hopefully a few towns
Thank you brymway
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Posted: Wed 04 Mar 2009, 21:51
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A good opportunity there, congratulations! This can be a good launch of Puppy-type services, with coops as partners.
Net-booting in fire-and-forget mode (does not require continuous connection with server) is one of the magic tricks of Puppy that is difficult to duplicate. The only gray area that am aware of is the opening of MS Office 2007 files/attachments. If only OpenOffice 3 is adequate for this, then a server/Samba setup could be needed. Anyone has done this in net-booted Puppy?
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Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009, 11:17
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Trust me they were impressed that puppy could even open M$ Word documents out of the box. Having to transfer full openoffice down a wire into the computers memory would bump up the memory requirements, and the boot time considerably.
From what was described to me of the type of people that use the cybercafe, Word documents (all too often emailed and posted on the web) would be the only microsoft document format required. Excel documents (.xls) are already opened by Gnumeric with puppy, but I doubt that would be used much. Powerpoint and dbase files really only needed by the "corporate executive" types, and they tend to have their own yaughts or private jets, and wouldnt be seen dead in a Seamans Mission.
Ive done a little research into netbooting, and I have some experience with Smoothwall. One of the problems they have is people using P2P and hoggin the bandwidth available to the rest of the cafe. The bandwidth is quite limited at around 6mb per second. This is the maximum available by Kingston Communications, who are Hulls only broadband and phone supplier. Since p2p is a big part of the web, perhaps it would be possible to still a allow limited facility (I would need to check). Smoothwall can do "load balancing", meaning that it would be possible to ration out the available bandwidth between the computers to make sure everyone there has the speediest response times possible.
Does anyone know who has experience in netbooting puppy? It would be good to liase with them about this.
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Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009, 12:52
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It should be possible to build a net-booting Puppy 4.2 since the 4.1.2 unleashed was already updated/tested for this.
The pxe example is at
- this uses the Breeezy build (2.13 with Softmaker for opening XLS and DOC files).
Using the instructions in
, even a Windows machine (say, the one used at the front desk) can be used for serving the files. It just needs a fast ethernet card (gigabit type).
To handle the exception of docx files having to be opened (without burdening Puppy with the OpenOffice3 suite), perhaps create a script and server backend somewhere? Say, drop the docx and it is returned as plain doc file.
Or has someone come up with a browser extension to perform that conversion from docx to other document formats?
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Thank you Raffy for the instructions of how to prepare a netboot image. They are the key to getting this working.
Practically though, I wouldnt want to make the cybercafe reliant on a singe Windows computer for booting all of the other p.c.'s with Puppy Linux, it would introduce a single point of failure.....a very big and likely failure from my long experience with Windows.
See above.
Perhaps Raffy you would be able to explain the same process using Smoothwall server, and its tftp mod
On this thread on the smoothwall forum, it mentions putting the initrd.gz an vmlinux in a folder on the smoothwall machine.
(you can download more custom-made UdpCast images here).
Place whatever additional boot images you need in /home/tftpboot but remember to run:
chown nobody.nobody -R /home/tftpboot
afterwards. For example, to start a RedHat 9 install from the network, these files would be initrd.img and vmlinuz extracted from the first ISO. This link http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kicks ... .html#toc6 might be of some use, as well as this one http://syslinux.zytor.com for the PXE part.
Are the initrd and the vmlinuz files from the netboot process (the ones in the tutorial you posted a link to Raffy) the same ones?
We ran the smoothwall system for two years, and only had to reinstall once (due to a failed hard disk), and reboot a couple of times. It also provides extensive usage data. As we have a budget slightly over £30 this time (
) then we are thinking this should be some kind of rack mount server (probably second hand) with a
new SSD hard disk
. would anyone have one of these we could buy?
With regard docx files? I have yet to encounter one in my work, but I am sure they will rear their ugly head. Would
It is an extra 5meg (nearly the size of abiword itself). I havnt seen a puppy version as yet.
Smoothwall also has an internal ftp server, would it be possible to create a script to download this program from the smoothwall ftp server when it was needed (i.e. a docx were clicked on) convert it, and automatically open the converted .odt file into abiword? That would I wrote a script for ecopup for when out users downloaded windows .exe that when clicked, opened a message and told them about WINE, and also gave them the url of a list of file format equivelents somewhere on the web. Im sorry to say, this is probably the limit of bash scripting experience I have
Many ecopup users reported back to me however saying it had been informative.
Would be great if Puppy Linux had an unknown mime-type handler, that offered advice on how to open or convert a particular file format, or installed the correct programs to do it for you. That would be "Just works...no hassles" Pfileopen anyone?
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Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009, 23:51
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Would be great if Puppy Linux had an unknown mime-type handler, that offered advice on how to open or convert a particular file format, or installed the correct programs to do it for you. That would be "Just works...no hassles" Pfileopen anyone?
Well I compiled rox the other day, and lets just say where puppy puts its default mime types isn't the normal location by default and we don't use all the mime types supplied by rox, Basically I have all the caution triangles all over my desktop and folders, and lost the rox right clicks that Hairrywill made for rox, plus some of the functioning aspects weren't compatible, Why does puppy have to move directory's like for Rox around in the first place, it just complicates a simple update. I'm just wondering if it was properly setup and followed the mime types in the .desktop files that come with programs, would that set it up properly? I didn't test that, maybe I should of.
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It's a pity that firefox add-on
Nodobe viewer
doesn't work with files on your local drive, otherwise it states:
Nodobe can view 38 different document and image file types including Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Word (DOC/DOCX), Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT/PPTX), Microsoft Excel (XLS/XSLX), JPEG Images (JPG), TIFF Images (TIF), and many more.
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Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2009, 05:44
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@ Robert: Yes, vmlinuz and initrd.gz are the two images needed by the TFTP server. The pxe site that I linked to has these two files (you can rename the two to sync the names with those in smoothwall - note the chmod command, ie, don't forget it, it is perhaps unique to smoothwall).
Or you can setup TFTP in Puppy, see this:
Re the XML translator you mentioned, am sure ttuuxxx and muggins can help compile it for Puppy.* Then a shell script can be composed to handle docx, and it can be set in Rox as the default program for handling docx. Thanks in advance for your help, guys.
Or the script can be activated through the browser (example, via mozplugger in Firefox) when docx is downloaded.
If the translator is not made part of Puppy, then a script could open a web page guiding the user about what to do, as you described.
Re server hardware, a lighter alternative to smoothwall could be FreeNAS, but am not so sure about its TFTP capability. Just don't forget to look for the gigabit (fast ethernet) feature of the serving machine.
@muggins - nice find. It looks like a server with the XML translator can do a similar service.
* EDIT: It looks like the translator (OdfConverter) is already a binary file.
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Fantastic! I wish I knew more so I could offer technical advice here.
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From freeNAS homepage...right at the top
FreeNAS 0.69 (Kwisatz Haderach)
Majors changes:
Add TFTP service. It is accessible via 'Services|TFTP' in the WebGUI.
* Add Samba patch CVE-2008-4314.
* Upgrade nano to 2.0.9, PHP to 5.2.8, ATAidle to 2.4, transmission to 1.42, rsync to 3.0.5, cdialog to 1.1.20080316, msmtp to 1.4.17.
Seems like they have only just added tftp support!
This is good to know about....we could install a freeNAS box at our workshops to boot p.c.s for recycling from the net, after using gparted, we could then use the fileserver function to copy puppy files onto the hard disk, very quickly. It would eliminate puppy boot CD's also, because they are such a pain when they get scratched.
Overall, though...Im thinking more in the way of adding the tftpfunctionality to smoothwall, as I am already fairly familiar with it. FreeNAS is based on the BSD kernel...and Im finding linux hard enough! I believe that smoothwall also has a ftp server function. The cafe does have a lot of regular visitors and if it could be set to have a samba share fo each user, regular visitors could use this (with a login) to be able to save files on a central server!
The other option would be to have a freeNAS box and a smoothwall server, but that would introduce to points of (albeit linux) failure...still much more reliable than the windows method.
Im am going to write this up as a piece on the web for other cybercafe's....just add one smoothwall box, and puppy power your cybercafe! I think this would keep things simpler, and also smoothwall will operate on lower spec machines than puppy will (for web-browsing at least because of that pesky flashplayer). FreeNAS seems to have even lower specs needed than both (486's, which are really hard to find nowadays).
@ Muggins NoDobe sounds a very useful extention, thanks for bringing it to my attention. It requires JAVA however, which I dont want to include in this setup as it is too big, and would increase boot times significantly. It may be useful for the lated edition of ecopup...when I get round to fixing the bugs on it that is!
@ Ttuxxx thanks for your input.. I consider it would be very useful "catch all" mime filetype manager for ROXXX that will open when a non "supported out of the box" type of file were clicked and give advice, and install additional programs to handle those filetypes. It could even be as opening seamonkey with a wiki page explaining what software (and where to find it) could be added to puppy to handle that filetype. This could mean that the wiki page could be kept up to date. Puppy is a cut down distro (and had to be) and as a result cant include all of the programs to open every filetype.
For example...user clicks on .ppt file...puppy associates with a script called "PFileHandler-ppt.sh" which displays the message>
"Puppy Linux needs extra programs to open Microsoft Powerpoint files. There are several (free) programs that can do this for you, that you can download and install to do this. Do you want to see a web page where you can find out more, and add the software puppy needs to open this file?
[Yes] [No]"
Even if this only worked for the most common filetypes puppy cant currently support out of the box (docx, ppt, .pub etc), it would add a lot of useability and "just works" to the whole puppy newb experience.
Perhaps when your done with the 4.2 Deepthought development, you may put this on your job list Ttuxxx.
Next step is to find somewhere to build a small network, and test the tftp functions of smoothwall and puppy. Any help preparing the netboot files (initrd.gz and vmlinuz) for netboot puppy 4.2 would be much appreciated.
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ecomoney; I haven't followed this thread but I assume ecopup boots from a local drive?
I wonder because of your post refering to freeNAS, or will it PXE boot?
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all the machines will pxe boot via the ethernet, the pxe boot server will be on smoothwall
...I think
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Liverpool edge Swansea in 7 goal thriller
Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson scored two goals apiece as Liverpool registered...
Brandon Gibson's 13-yard touchdown catch with 48 seconds remaining lifted the St. Louis Rams over the Buffalo Bills, 15-12.
Gibson ended with six catches for 100 yards for the Rams (6-6-1), who have won three in a row for the first time since 2006 and remain in the wild-card playoff hunt.
Sam Bradford completed 19-of-39 passes for 209 yards, one touchdown and an interception for St. Louis, which scored all 15 of its points in the second half.
Steven Jackson carried the ball 19 times for 64 yards and a score for the victors.
Ryan Fitzpatrick connected on 25-of-32 passes for 247 yards, one touchdown and an interception for the Bills (5-8), who have lost two of three.
"We are not making the plays to win ball games," Bills coach Chan Gailey said. "That is what winninng teams do. Winning teams make plays in the fourth quarter to win ball games. We are not doing that right now. We have to do that or we will not get over the hump. That is what we are supposed to be doing. That is what I am supposed to be getting them to do."
Trailing 12-7, the Rams took over at their own 16 with 4:55 to play. Lance Kendricks caught a 22-yard pass to move the ball into Buffalo territory. On 4th-and-1, Austin Pettis hauled in a pass of nine yards to keep St. Louis alive. Gibson caught an 11-yard pass three plays later to put the ball at the 13. Bradford then hooked up with Gibson in the middle of the end zone. A successful two-point conversion made it 15-12 St. Louis.
Jo-Lonn Dunbar sealed the win for the Rams with a pick of Fitzpatrick.
"The offensive guys came alive on the last drive and made plays," Rams coach Jeff Fisher said.
The Bills started at their own 27 following a pair of punts from each team to start the game. Donald Jones caught a 19-yard pass on the first play to move the ball close to midfield. C.J. Spiller took a screen pass 15 yards on 3rd- and-13, before Scott Chandler hauled in a 15-yard pass. Buffalo had to settle for a 35-yard Rian Lindell field goal with 2:14 left.
Buffalo had a chance to add to its lead at the end of the first quarter. However, Fred Jackson fumbled the ball in the red zone on the final play of the stanza.
The Rams' offense finally started to move the ball late in the second frame. But on 3rd-and-4 from the Buffalo 44, Bradford's pass hit off the back of Bryan Scott. Stephon Gilmore caught the deflected pass for an interception and sprinted 62 yards the other way for a touchdown.
The score was nullified by a holding penalty on the return. Buffalo took over near midfield and eventually settled for a 40-yard Lindell field goal. The Bills took a 6-0 lead into the locker room.
St. Louis opened the second half with an 11-play, 70-yard scoring drive. Gibson caught back-to-back passes of 22 and 16 yards to move the ball to the Buffalo 9-yard line. Steven Jackson capped the march with a 1-yard TD run, giving the Rams a 7-6 edge.
The Bills responded with a touchdown of their own on the ensuing possession. The drive started with three straight plays of at least 11 yards. T.J. Graham added catches of 11 and 16 yards to move the ball to the 11-yard line. On 2nd- and-goal from the two, Fitzpatrick used the play-action pass to find Lee Smith wide open in the end zone. A botched snap on the extra point kept it 12-7 Buffalo with 3:26 left in the third period.
Buffalo had great field position to start the fourth quarter. Rams punter John Hekker managed to get a punt off after dropping the snap. It was a poor punt, though, and the Bills took over near midfield.
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Recent graduates have left their dorm rooms behind, and many have just started their first real job. But for some, the job search isn't over. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates, although down since last year, is still about 8%. And for those who are still struggling to find work, their Facebook page may serve not only as a reminder of happy college days, but also as a treasure trove of information for prospective employers.
Wait, do employers really do that? Yes. A recent survey of US employers found that 37% of hiring managers use social networking sites – most commonly Facebook – to research job applicants. Another 11% of employers said they planned to start doing so in the future, putting the total at about 50%. Other surveys have put the percentage even higher, at about 75%. This is becoming the norm.
What are employers looking for? About two-thirds of hiring managers who consult Facebook reported that they're looking to see if the applicant presents him or herself "professionally." About half said they were looking for whether the applicant was a "good fit" with the company culture (whatever that means), and nearly half said they were further researching the applicant's qualifications.
Do employers actually reject applicants because of some old photo they find on Facebook? Yes. About a third of hiring managers reported that they had decided not to hire an applicant based on something they found on social networking sites. Half of those cases involved either a provocative photo or reference to drinking or drug use. Other reported reasons an applicant got nixed included complaining about a former employer, lying about qualifications, making racist or other discriminatory comments, and poor writing skills.
What's a job applicant to do? Recognizing the scope of the problem is a good first step. For better or worse, many of us share all kinds of things online that used to be private. And it's not just what you share – it's what your friends, and their friends, share. If a friend posts and tags photos of you on Facebook, or puts photos of you on their blog or website, that will probably come up in an employer's search. So before you apply for jobs, do what your employer might do – search your name and email on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and see what comes up.
Depending on what you find (and what kinds of jobs you're applying to, and how badly you want them), you can take a range of steps to "cleanse" your social media presence. On the low end, you can change your privacy settings so only limited audiences can view your Facebook page. But some information on Facebook (like your profile picture) is always publicly available, and information posted by friends is subject to their privacy settings, not yours. On the high end, you can close your Facebook account, or temporarily deactivate it, so no one (including you) can access it.
In between those two extremes, there are a range of strategies. Some recent graduates have started playing the "Facebook name game," changing their Facebook name to a nickname or middle name so that it doesn't come up on an employer's search. Others manually try to "scrub" their Facebook profiles, untagging themselves in compromising photos and removing incriminating posts. And still others scrub their profiles using online services like "SociallyClean" or "Facewash," which automatically scan your profile and come up with a list of questionable entries that you can choose to keep or delete. Some colleges are beginning to offer counseling and services like these to their soon-to-be grads.
Sometimes, especially when I'm looking at the 500th photo of what one of my Facebook friends had for dinner, I yearn for those innocent days before the social media revolution. But those days are gone. The best we can do is to take a good, hard look at our social media presence, and assume that our prospective employers are doing the same.
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Irony alert! Adobe surges while Apple tanksDecember 14, 2012: 12:06 PM ET
I'll take tech stocks beginning with the letter A for $800, Alex.
Apple (AAPL) shares were down again on Friday, continuing a miserable couple of weeks for the maker of iEverything. But how's this for a bit of irony? Apple's former software friend Adobe (ADBE) was surging Friday after better-than-expected earnings.
Adobe's stock gained 6% and shares are now up 33% for the year. Adobe's shares are less than 1% off their 52-week high while Apple has plunged nearly 30% from its 52-week (and also all-time) high.
Apple and Adobe were once close partners. After all, they shared a common enemy: Microsoft (MSFT). But as Apple grew from plucky underdog to leader of the tech universe, the relationship between Apple and Adobe began to show strains. That culminated with the now infamous diss of Adobe's Flash by the late Steve Jobs in a 2010 blog post.
Long-term Adobe investors are probably relishing how the tables may be turning on Apple. But it's still a bit curious that Adobe was up so dramatically Friday since its guidance looked pretty weak. Were investors just Photoshopping the forecast and adding their own more bullish outlooks? Traders on StockTwits were debating the Adobe rally Friday.
$ADBE Horrible guidance, better buy some cheap puts tomorrow.
Do the buyers in $ADBE not see the guidance? Or am i the dunce thats missing something
You are not a dunce. I was surprised at first to see that the reaction to Adobe's earnings were so strong. Yes, they topped forecasts for its fiscal fourth quarter. But Adobe is a momentum stock. It didn't need to merely limp over a low bar. And the guidance appeared to be weak. Sales and profits for the first quarter were below Wall Street's consensus estimates.
But here's the reason investors are excited. Adobe is transitioning from an "old" licensed software model to a cloud model. As customers switch to Web-based subscription versions of Photoshop, Dreamweaver and other products in its Creative Suite, that could hurt revenue and earnings in the short-term but wind up being extremely lucrative in the long-term.
Like $RAX ...investors are valuing adobe on past biz not wehere they are trying to swim (long $ADBE)
my 1st take on this is that folks are liking the increase in the Subscription model growth. Time will tell $ADBE
If Adobe truly is able to become a successful cloud computing company, it could wind up fetching a much higher valuation. The stock is only trading at about 16 times next year's earnings estimates right now. Cloud darlings Rackspace (RAX) and Salesforcce.com (CRM) are valued at more than 60 and 80 times 2013 earnings forecasts respectively.
Now are those P/E ratios too high? Probably. But it's clear Adobe has room to grow into a higher earnings multiple if its cloud gambit pays off.
And any investor that was betting against Adobe before earnings on Thursday may now be realizing the error of their ways.
@jd816: $ADBE 16,588,979 shorts standing as of 11/30/12, 6 days to cover."and I'm sure every one one of the will cover tomorrow...
Time for Reader Comment of the Week. I wrote on Tuesday about how rumors of Carl Icahn taking a stake in Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) made sense. Some activist investor might want to start kicking HP's tires. That led to this sarcastic comment.
Ha. Icahn's timing was impeccable with that Netflix (NFLX) investment coming before the Disney (DIS) news . But something tells me he'll want Reed Hastings to do more than just strike new content deals. He's still going to push for Netflix to be sold. Too bad nobody's tightening the screws on HP.


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text: This isn't technically a business yet, but since I'm considering it, I thought I'd start a Vendor thread about it. I want more fuel capacity for both my 950 SE and Adventure, and after lots of poking around, the preferred alternative I can see is making a 2 into 1 exhaust, and replacing the other exhaust with a fuel tank. Both the Adventure and SE are already a bit front heavy (the Adventure much more so than SE) which rules out a bigger front tank. The design parameters for the rear tank would be that it had to work with all common luggage racks and passenger pegs, it has to provide at least 2 additional gallons, it has to weigh less than stock when empty (including the exhaust on the other side) and it can't sacrifice power. I believe that one tank shape can be made to work on both SE and Adventure (and presumably SM, although that's pure speculation for the moment on my part), with different 2->1's required for each application. Here's a post about the project from Orange Crush: If you're interested in this project, please let me know. If the response is strong, I'd be more willing to invest in a way to produce these for a reasonable cost (ie, take the risk on buying a mold).


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Ryan Thomas Haight overdosed and died on February 12, 2001 on narcotics that he had easily purchased on the Internet. A medical doctor on the Internet that he never saw prescribed them, an Internet pharmacy mailed them to his home. He was only 17 when he purchased them, he was only 18 when he died.
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In this case, reality is taking a bite out of Jon Mutchler and his faltering campaign to be the next mayor of Ferndale. The one big problem for him is that even though he has lived in and around Ferndale for decades, his day to day reality is not the same reality occupied by most people in Ferndale. And that living in another reality is especially true when it comes to large scale retail development in Ferndale. (aka Walmart)
In one of his Facebook comments Jon Mutchler said that the law won't allow us to ban certain stores.
Reality Bites: Yes, cities can block large retail from certain areas. If we remember, Bellingham and Ferndale both had "big box" bans in place at one time and now they don't. The City of Ferndale is tasked with managing growth for the people of Ferndale and rolling over for developers isn't a management style I can agree with. We really can say no and I really don't want Ferndale to be known as the "Walmart Exit"
I've also read on Facebook somewhere that Jon Mutchler is trusted to maintain a Ferndale that's "open for business" in the fashion that Mayor Jensen has established.
Reality Bites: The people of Ferndale that I know don't want Ferndale to be open for just any old type of business that comes along. The people I know want us to be open for businesses that bring positives to Ferndale like good jobs and needed services. Most people I know in Ferndale, don't want a Walmart, especially next to Haggen near the already busy Main Street/I-5 interchange. The people I know recognize that large retailers, especially Walmart, will bring a whole host of problems with them when they come to town.
- Walmart brings large traffic volumes and it brings them 7 days a week.
- Walmart brings crime, parking lot theft, store theft, drug trafficking.
- Walmart will burden our Police.
- Walmart brings vagrancy.
- Walmart will burden our EMS.
- The deeper you look, the worser and worser it gets.
Several times I've heard and read from Jon Mutchler that large retailers will pay to mitigate the traffic problems they create and that Ferndale won't experience any worsening of traffic. <<== anyone else's spidey-sense tingling?
Again, Reality Bites: Large retailers moving to Ferndale will pay only a small fraction of the cost to mitigate traffic. A rough estimate that was used in Ferndale City Council meeting, is that on a good day the business would pay only about 25% of the cost for traffic mitigation leaving the rest to us taxpayers. Another brutal reality is that the Ferndale City Council voted to additionally rebate half of the impact fees to large retailers after 3 years. You can be certain that any large retailer will be filling out that rebate coupon.
Ferndale is a great town, but to keep it a great town, or even make it a better town, we desperately need better city management. I see Cathy Watson as the natural leader for that better city management. On City Council, she recognized that Ferndale could do better than just accepting large retail and all of the financial and traffic burdens that it brings. She also recognized and voted against the flawed system where impact fees are rebated to developers, only to be paid for by taxpayers (that means you and I). In decision after decision I see her working a balanced approach that doesn't value business over people.
I won't say that Cathy Watson will be a perfect mayor. However, I will say that I believe she will be a darn good mayor with a tremendous heart for the people of this town and most importantly, she lives in the same reality as most of us in Ferndale do.


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It was bound to happen, right? Google got AdMob through thanks to Apple's clever competition, iAds. But afterward, Apple pulled the welcome mat from big time advertisers such as Google's AdMob. While Apple and Google are at it, the devs they represent are caught in a nasty loop. Adverts are their stake, their money, their hard work – a portion that the recent Apple/Google spat is threatening. Competition is good for driving innovation in the hardware/software market, but get over it Apple and Google: the advertising segment isn't about you, it's about the developers. Forcing them to take sides will win you an antitrust lawsuit which I hope both of you lose.
Apple: don't tout your 200 000 apps then bar certain devs from advertising portion on the iDevice because they are represented by AdMob.
Google: quit whining. John Gruber is right: you started it.
It's time for Big Evil and Big Brother to take the little guy, the dev, seriously. Taking sides in the news is one thing, banning your customers, is another.
Thanks CNN


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I've always wanted to try making cupcakes with filling but was always intimidated by the idea of it, so I was pleasantly surprised that when I made these cupcakes for a church event this month, they turned out awesome! It was time consuming (probably because I was a first timer) but not difficult.
I found the original idea here and only made one modification from the original recipe. Being that I was a little short on time that day, I used a regular lemon cake mix from a box. (I'm sure they'd be amazing from scratch- but honestly, they were great just the same).


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Individuals who fraudulently obtain Washington state driver licenses and ID cards present a serious risk to the safety and economic health of our residents and businesses. To fight this type of illegal activity, DOL has been working with the State Legislature for several years to obtain the authority to use a proven, non-invasive facial recognition system already in use for our Enhanced Driver License program to monitor regular driver license and ID card transactions for potential fraud.
In a story broadcast during the 11 p.m. newscast on January 23, 2012, KING 5 stated that DOL operated facial recognition software for regular driver license and ID card transactions without legal authority. This is a false statement. DOL was fully authorized to operate this system as a pilot program by our state's 2009-2011 transportation budget. This budget, passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor on May 13, 2009, contained this provision:
"(7) The department may seek federal funds to implement a driver's license and identicard biometric matching system pilot program to verify the identity of applicants for, and holders of, drivers' licenses and identicards. If funds are received, the department shall report any benefits or problems identified during the course of the pilot program to the transportation committees of the legislature upon the completion of the program."
The pilot program ended when the 2009-2011 transportation budget expired. We are now working with the Legislature to make the use of this technology a permanent part of our processes.
DOL appreciates KING 5's efforts to keep the public informed about the use of our facial recognition system, but it is important for the public to understand that DOL has not used this system in any way that was not fully authorized by law.
The use of facial recognition in our Enhanced Driver License program and in our regular driver license and ID card processes during the pilot program from November 2009 through June 2011 has demonstrated a need to have this system in place to make sure DOL is doing everything possible to protect public safety and the personal identity information of our state's residents.
The use of facial recognition in our Enhanced Driver License program and our pilot program has identified three primary reasons individuals fraudulently obtain multiple driver licenses or ID cards. These are:
• To continue driving after a driver license suspension or revocation
• To purchase or consume alcohol as a minor
• To engage in criminal activities including identity theft
In 2011, the use of facial recognition by our agency resulted in 571 driver license suspensions and the cancellation of 560 fraudulent records and the associated cards. We also are working our way through 3,800 more cases of fraud identified by the facial recognition system during the pilot program.
Our facial recognition system also has allowed us to identify cases where individuals were maintaining multiple identities to fraudulently collect benefits through state entitlement programs.


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Intro to American Muslim Family
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Meet the Ansaris! They are among an estimated seven million Muslims living in the United States, with over 1200 mosques throughout America.
Although a vast majority of these migrated from different countries, they have chosen to call America their home. And, today, they proudly identify themselves as American Muslims. Not only that they want to share the beauty of their religion with their neighbors, because You Deserve to Know.
877-Why-Islam releases a dawah video introducing American Muslim Families. This video is part of ICNAs National Family Campaign.