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Archive for January 2013
Last week the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced it would remove backscatter scanning machines from U.S. airports. The decision followed a fail by the company that made those units to devise a satisfying software fix for the problem of images that were deemed too invasive for many airline passengers.
Spokane and other airpots using the backscatter machines will see those replaced. TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said the replacements will roll out in early summer 2013.
The next technology to go into the airports has a Washington state pedigree. Starting this summer the TSA will install machines using millimeter wave beams to look for contraband or weapons at the airline checkpoints.
That technology is developed by L-3, a New York company. That technology traces directly to research done at the Pacific Northwest National Labs in the Tri-Cities.
A story from the Review back in 2006 noted that L-3 acquired the rights to the technology after buying it from the California firm that licensed the millimeter wave system developed at PNNL.
Here's the old story for background:
A New York company that has extensive contracts with the Department of Homeland Security has acquired a body-scanning system developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
L-3 Communications announced this week it has acquired SafeView Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif. SafeView had licensed an innovative holographic body scanner system developed in the 1990s at PNNL's Richland, Wash., lab.
The technology uses ultra–high frequency waves known as millimeter waves to detect objects that evade the discovery of traditional metal detectors. The non-intrusive, low-radiation system provides a 360-degree image of any objects worn under the clothing of a person scanned by the screening device.
SafeView has already sold versions of its system — called the Scout Personal Screening System — to dozens of customers, including the London transportation system and to the U.S. Department of Defense, which employs the technology to protect people inside Baghdad's Green Zone.
L-3 officials did not disclose how much the company paid to acquire SafeView. SafeView reported 2005 sales of about $50 million.
A press release on the acquisition said SafeView will help L-3 develop a more advanced set of security systems to be used in the aviation and maritime industries. L-3, which is traded publicly, had revenue of about $12 billion last year.
Twitter was right. The new Artisan Fire Pizza in downtown Spokane opens officially Thursday, Jan. 31.
Today is a soft opening. Starting tomorrow hours will be until 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, until 11 p.m. on weekends.
It's taking the former Moxie location at 806 W. Sprague Ave.
There's a lot of non-news behind the announcement that retailers this week have the option of adding surcharges on some credit card purchases. Our story ran this morning at Spokesman.com.
The quick answer: No one we know is going to be the first company to announce they are adding surcharges. Every retailer who accepts credit cards is already factoring that cost into the price. Hence, few will try to justify going to the trouble of now adding a formal surcharge for the "swipe fee"(the percent of the purchase the retailer pays to the credit card firm).
The New York Times also listed reasons why retailers won't be adding the charges.
If anyone sees a surcharge out there, please send us a photo. We'll send a $5 coffee card to anyone who can show an actual instance of a retailer adding a surcharge. We'll send out three cards to the first three submitters.
The photo has to show the required sign posted at the register that explains the retailer now is adding the charge. If you find a surcharge on a website, we'll accept a screen grab as proof.
Restrictions: Has to be in any of the following states: Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho or Montana.
The first three submissions must be from three different stores and the submissions have to be by three different readers.
Send your images to email@example.com.
Spokane city commercial construction got on a major role in 2012, according to records kept by the city and outside data companies.
The volume of commercial construction last year nearly doubled the volume of the generally weak performance of 2011.
Today's business section story laid out the major points. Here's the top 10 graphs. Go to the story link for the full take.
Spokane's commercial construction spending rebounded in 2012 because of several large government and hospital projects that brought year-end totals to levels not seen since 2006.
Area construction companies took out permits for $362 million in commercial projects in Spokane County last year. That's up sharply from the $288 million in commercial jobs in the county in 2011 and $246 million in 2010.
"Things are better for sure in commercial construction," said Bob Askins, vice president of Shea Graham Construction, based in Spokane Valley. "But the 2011 numbers as a baseline were pretty low. Even so, things are getting better."
Graham Construction had two of the bigger commercial projects of 2012: the large Biomedical and Health Sciences Building on the WSU Spokane campus and a series of renovations at Deaconess Hospital.
Those two projects, and expansion of Sacred Heart's emergency room building, helped account for the surge in commercial projects last year inside Spokane's city limits.
The city in 2012 accounted for $248 million, or 68 percent of all commercial projects within Spokane County. The numbers are based on building permit estimated costs.
The city's 2012 commercial total is roughly double the $125 million for projects during 201
Private projects generally account for 70 percent to 77 percent of all construction in Spokane County, if private colleges and hospitals are included in the category.
Last year private commercial projects accounted for close to 78 percent, according to Construction Monitor, a national data aggregator.
It cannot be news or much of a shock to learn the Spokane County commissioners unanimously voted to express opposition to the proposed Spokane Tribe casino and resort, on land they bought and which was annexed to the City of Airway Heights.
Scroll down to the bottom of this text box to read the full nine-page document. It's long and legalistic.
For the record, we want to add the view of Airway Heights city officials, who are contending that a threatened suit by the County had little to do with their agreeing to let the county out of the 2010 deal that curtailed the right to comment on the casino plan.
Mayor Pat Rushing told us that the county was able to terminate the 2010 agreement only when it fully agreed to give up all claims on any revenue the tribe would provide to the city and county, once the casino would open.
Rushing did contact The Spokesman-Review on Friday, the day the first story appeared. Rushing said it would be inaccurate to say the lawsuit forced Airway Heights to terminate the deal. l
An Aiway Heights press release that went out on Thursday last week failed to clarify the reason for the change in plans on the city's part. Rushing said the expectation was to explain the reasons after the release went out.
But Rushing wasn't called by the media that day. That allowed allowed the commissioners to make the assertion about a lawsuit unchallenged.
The Affordable Care Act takes effect for many small businesses over the next two years.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on Monday started a website to help small businesses understand the set of choices they face.
It's www.sba.gov/healthcare.
It includes online tools to gather up information provided by agenices that will be responsible for implementing the law, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The act specifies a set of choices that affect how business owners deal with premiums and access to insurance plans. The new site breaks down some of the act's provisions for businesses in different sizes — such as, self-employed, fewer than 25 employees, fewer than 50 employees and more than 50 employees.
IN case you missed on Thursday, Spokane's Sterling Financial Corp. had a good 4Q earnings report.
The company, which operates Sterling Savings Bank, announced it booked net income of $20.9 million, or 33 cents per diluted common share, compared to $30.6 million, or 49 cents per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, and $14.8 million or 24 cents per diluted common share, for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011.
For the year Sterling recorded net income of $385.7 million, or $6.14 per diluted common share, compared to $39.1 million, or 63 cents per diluted common share, for the year ended Dec. 31, 2011.
The 2012 annual net income included an income tax benefit of $292 million associated with the release of a deferred tax asset valuation allowance.
Here are some other bullet points, borrowed from TheStreet.com:
A Friday regional story noted that Spokane County Commissioners will unwind a 2010 agreement that would have kept them from taking a stance on a proposed Spokane Tribe casino and resort. It won't surprise me if comments posted online suggest the newspaper is working against the Tribe.
For the record, the only opposition to this proposal voiced by The Spokesman Review has been on the editorial page. Which is the page that reflects only the opinion of the publisher, Stacey Cowles.
The reporters/editors/photographers by common agreement don't try to influence the opinions expressed on the editiorial page. We expect readers to know the difference between news stories and editorials.
Here's the update on what's next in the process facing this casino proposal. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is expected to release a final environmental impact statement within the next 45 days.
Once that's finished, 30 days must pass before the BIA can issue its final decision. That decision is the ultimate yes or no that can move the casino plan forward.
According to BIA spokeswoman Nedra Darling, parties are able to make comments before the final decision is made.Those will have to be made to the BIA website in writing or submitted by mail.
UPDATED Jan 24 at 10:03 AM
And to explain why the name is Leo Hotel Collection, we went to Pam Scott, Red Lion's director of communications. The answer:
"We engaged an outside firm, Methodologie, to assist in the development of The Leo Hotel Collection soft brand. Based on their extensive brand research, Methodologie proposed the name as a complement to the Red Lion Hotels and Red Lion Inn & Suites."
Spokane's Red Lion Hotels is branching out, developing a boutique franchise network.
Today's business section story covers the essentials:
"Called the Leo Hotel Collection, the concept has boutique, smaller or historic hotels retaining their names but using Red Lion's distribution and marketing channels, said Harry Sladich, Red Lion's vice president of sales and marketing.
Red Lion operates or franchises 48 hotels across the Western United States and Canada. In recent years it has focused on franchises rather than corporate-owned properties, which reduces its operating costs while building its network."
Sladich offered two other hotel groups that have already been pushing the same smaller-is-cool approach.
Marriott Hotels has developed the Autograph group with the same focus. ChoiceHotels introduced its version, Ascend Collection, in recent years.
Why "Leo Hotel"? Keep watching this post. We'll explain within the hour.
Spokane tech startup CXOWARE has landed its first round of outside funding — a total of $1.25 million from an overseas investor and three regional venture funds.
CXOWARE provides software tools used by large and mid-sized companies to analyze financial risk and other risks that could disrupt their businesses.
Company CEO Steve Tabacek said the funding includes roughly $1 million from Belgian entrepreneur and mathematician Henry Beker. Beker was a founder of U.K.-based information security company Baltimore Technologies.
Beker now has a seat on the CXOWARE board, said Tabacek.
An additional $250,000 came from Spokane Angel Alliance, Spokane's Inland TechStart Fund and one member of the Seattle Alliance of Angels.
Tabacek started and helped grow Liberty Lake-based IT-Lifeline, a business continuity and recovery services provider. Tabacek still owns 30 percent of that company, but left three years ago when the board wanted a new CEO.
In early 2011 Tabacek and colleague Jack Jones teamed up to start the new company. Jones, a former chief information security officer with Nationwide Insurance, developed a prototype of an analytic tool that would identify the critical areas of business vulnerability.
Those concerns include theft, cyber fraud, external issues like hostile takeover, disruption of the supply chain and other factors. Jones's breakthrough was coming up with a detailed tool that could estimate a company's risk, in monetary terms, Tabacek said.
Companies, many of them in the financial services sector, now need to identify risk potential and find ways to prioritize risk mitigation budgets and manage that exposure, Tabacek said.
The company has a staff of five with offices in the McKinstry Innovation Center east of downtown Spokane. Tabacek said the headcount will grow to eight in the next 30 days as the investment is applied to stronger marketing and business development.
The first year and half, CXOWARE relied primarily on his own and Jones's funding, Tabacek said.
The partners used a Pullman tech company, Integrated Engineering Solutions, to develop the software-as-a-service used by customers. By 2013 Tabacek said they had a dozen paying customers, most of them in financial services and the energy sector.
That success set the stage for seeking outside investment, Tabacek added.
"Risk management and risk reduction are huge right now for public companies in health care, energy and even the non-public sector," Tabacek
The next development meeting organized by the Spokane Regional Marketing and Communications Association features powerhouse media figure Shawne Duperon.
The association, which goes by Spokane MarCom, for short, will host Duperon, a six-time Emmy Award broadcaster and media lecturer. She will discuss working with the media more effectively.
The event runs from 7 to 11 a.m. Feb. 1 at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. It includes breakfast. To register or get more details, visit www.SpokaneMarCom.org. (Rates are lower for members and for students.)
Her bio at ShawneTV.com, notes she is an expert speaker who travels widely to address businesses and media professionals and discuss how communication affects attitudes and outcomes.
The MarCom announcement said Duperon will focus on:
The tracking index for 15 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies ended a good year with a mild dip in the fourth quarter.
The Hart Capital Inland Northwest Index lost 3.2 percent in total value during 2012's fourth quarter.
For the full year the index reported a gain of 14.2 percent.
During the same period, the broad S&P 500 was up 13.4 percent.
Hart Capital Management, a Spokane-based investment company, produces the index to track the market performance of the area's public companies. The accompanying graph is weighted to account for the relative market capitalization of the 15 companies.
The index is measured against the S&P 500; the Hart Index is based on a starting value of 100 from Dec. 31, 2002. The S&P starts from its relative position on Dec. 31, 2002.
The company doesn't manage an investment fund based on the index, but uses it to track the performance of regional companies, said company President Craig Hart.
In 2011 the Hart index lost 19.9 percent, while the S&P 500 that year ended the year flat.
The top performing stocks in the Hart Capital Index for the year were Key Tronic Corp., Potlatch Corp. and Sterling Financial Corp., with respective increases of 118 percent, 25.8 percent and 25.1 percent.
Avista Corp. was the laggard in the group, down 6.4 percent for the year.
More information on the index is at www.hartcap.blogspot.com.
We almost went through the week without mentioning a major contribution by the Walmart Foundation Washington State Giving Program to Spokane's Second Harvest Food Bank.
The award of $110,000 will be used by Second Harvest to buy a new semi-tractor, expected to help increase the nonprofit's food distribution to 28 million pounds annually by 2016.
That award is one of several announced by the mammoth U.S. and global retailer. The Arkansas-based company announced it has awarded $750,000 in Washington state grants in 2012, including $375,000 to nine nonprofit organizations in the second half of 2012.
Additional information about the program's funding guidelines and application process are available online at www.walmartfoundation.org/stategiving.
Here's the advance read on the notable new real-estate retail deals going down in Spokane, and Cheney.
Jarms Hardware takes new space
Jarms True Value Hardware is moving to a new location at 6 Cheney-Spokane Road, next to the Trading Company Grocery.
The hardware business has operated at 1720 Second in Cheney for more than 35 years.
The new location will address the store's need for more space, totaling just over 22,000 square feet.
Expected move-in date is this summer, depending on the sale or lease of the current property, a press release said.
Colin Conway of Kiemle & Hagood will handle the lease or sale of the existing hardware store.
Bruchi's plans South Hill return
Bruce Greene, founder of the Bruchi's sandwich shops in Spokane, will reopen a new store at one of his former South Hill sites.
Greene, who started the sandwich retail chain in 1980 in Spokane, will open a new store at 2804 E. 29th.
That address featured a Bruchi's until it was closed several years ago. The business that took that spot, Gridiron Subs, closed its doors in 2012.
Greene has not set an opening date for the location.
Darren Slackman and Chris Bell represented the landlord, Harlan Douglass, and Greene. Both agents work at NAI Black.
Washington's state unemployment rate dropped to a seasonally adjusted 7.6 percent rate in December. That's the lowest point in four years and down slightly from the revised seasonally adjusted rate of 7.7 percent in November.
But it's not all good news. The state's Employment Security Department economists say declines in the unemployment rate have been due largely to a shrinking labor force, as unemployed job seekers stop looking for work.
"Our population is growing and we've regained more than half of the jobs lost during the recession, but the number of people in the labor force has been declining," said Joe Elling, chief labor economist for Employment Security. "When the labor force shrinks, it artificially lowers the unemployment rate."
The total number of employed and unemployed workers in Washington has fallen 60,000 since employment reached its low point in February 2010, about half of that in the past year. Meanwhile, the total number of jobs has grown by about 115,000 in the past three years, out of a recession loss of about 205,000 jobs.
Preliminary data for December 2012 show a total drop of 7,900 jobs. Elling said there was weak response to the employer survey in December, and the number may be revised when late-arriving data are factored in.
For a fuller profile of the gains and losses in job sectors, look for today's online business story at Spokesman.com.
Schweitzer Mountain Resort will add 20 new residences to White Pine Lodge. The four-story addition will add 16 two-bedroom/two-bathroom homes and four three-bedroom/three-bathroom homes, the resort says.
The three-bedroom homes will be designed as lock-off units, allowing for varied configurations for owner rental and use.
"These are whole ownership residences in the heart of the village," said Rod Engel, Schweitzer's director of real estate.
Schweitzer said it expects to release final pricing for homes in early February and will begin selling units at that time, with construction scheduled to begin as early as this summer.
Lydig Construction of Spokane, which built the original White Pine, is expected to construct the addition. Seattle based Collins-Woerman Architecture is handling the design.
We wondered how many subcribers might have been affected by the blackout created by the KAYU, DISH Network snafu that was settled over the weekend.
Roughly 103,000 is the number we came up with, thanks to the folks at SNL Kagan, a communications and broadcast media information aggregator. The number is certainly a bit lower than that, as some DISH subscribers likely had other options (such as a cable connection or a digital antenna to get signals).
Based on third quarter 2012 numbers, DISH had 103,429 subscribers in the Spokane TV market.
That's up from 3Q 2010, again using numbers provided by SNL Kagan. Here's the three-way subscriber numbers:
2010 2012 (both measured in 3Q)
Comcast 100,000 106,311
DirecTV 69,000 76,478
Comcast's numbers are entirely in the Spokane metro area. DirecTV and DISH subscribers extend from North Idaho all the way over to central Washington.
Also worth noting is that both DirecTV and DISH ran into problems over retrans fees with Northwest Broadcasting, which runs KAYU. The important thing is that there are no retrans fees paid by cable for its ability to carry local station signals.
The reason is that the cable giants, like Comcast, give local stations access to some channels at little or no coast, in lieu of retrans fees. Hence, you never see the locals like NW Broadcasting locked in battles over money with Comcast.
You probably heard the disputing parties in the KAYU-DISH blackout finally reached an agreement over the weekend: KAYU-28, Spokane's Fox affiliate, was off the Dish network since late November over a dispute involving retransmission fees.
Terms of the deal to end the blackout were not disclosed.
But what is clear is both companies ended up with a black eye in the minds of many customers. We did a quick email blast to angry customers who were upset enough to contact KAYU GM Brian Brady last week. Here's a short sample of how those customers told us they feel about what happened to them.
Viewer Carol Nelson's take: "Once the snow's gone, we'll be looking into antenna options so we aren't caught in the middle again. We shouldn't have to leave home in order to watch network programs!"
And, Donald Rowland doesn't pull any punches: "Still, a very bad business practice, to torture the paying customers! SHAME on both companies for doing this! Now that the Seahawks are done, I have no further need of KAYU-28 along with many of the area advertisers. May they reap what they sowed!"
And here's a blast from Stephen Fisher, M.D.: "I believe that reasonable and responsible men and women are always able to reach a fair and equitable solution of any situation. Our business behavior is mirroring our political behavior and our behavior in many of our other institutions. Those who suffer are those (the two businesses) serve. Apparently, those in positions to make decisions have misplaced their moral compasses."
Let's catch up on new business openings in Spokane and the environs:
As reported yesterday on the SR's Too Many Cooks blog, Texas-based barbecue retailer Dickey's Barbecue Restaurant opens a Spokane location on Friday.
The franchise business will be at 12628 N. Division (phone number: 465-9999). It's filling the spot vacated by Camino Real.
The first 100 customers at the 11 a.m. opening receive a free pulled pork sandwich.
It will be open daily from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. There are roughly 270 Dickey's nationwide.
Also notable:
The Bike Hub will open a second Spokane store at 1405 W. First Ave., in the space vacated by Two Wheel Transit, which moved to the South Perry District. It plans to open March 1.
The Spokane Valley Bike Hub is about four years old. Owner Chris Andreasen decided the time was right to add a new shop near downtown, said Valley manager Morgan Johnson.
Johnson said Bike Hub is remodeling the store, which comes to about 6,000 square feet including the basement and main floor.
Sometime next week, owners of Coeur d'Alene's Fire Artisan Pizza will open a downtown Spokane eatery with the same name. It's taking the former Moxie spot at 806 W. Sprague Ave. Co-owner Paul Cartee said the goal is opening the week of Jan. 21.
Cartee said the improvements will change the appearance of the restaurant "totally." Seating will be either at a counter or at a number of tables. Capacity will be around 45 seats.
His two partners are Doug Johnson and John Cardosa.
2nd Watch CEO Kris Bliesner will be the featured speaker at the next Connect Northwest breakfast.
It starts at 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 17, at the Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside.
Liberty Lake-based 2nd Watch is a tech company helping other companies use cloud technology to save money.
The company recently landed $4 million from Madrona Venture Group and other venture firms.
At 2nd Watch Bliesner oversees strategic development of cloud-based software solutions, the technology development and customer technology solutions.
Tickets are $30. Register at the link.
Thursday was a grand opening for the new Caterpillar Inc. west Spokane distribution center, not far from the Medical Lake exit.
The place is huge. The stat of the day was 15. The building (565,000 square feet) can house 15 football fields.
Oddly, the interior has contrasting color patterns. Black and yellow are the official Cat company colors. But the interior floor plans are festooned with green and yellow walkways.
Which are the colors of another heavy equipment manufacturer: John Deere.
More photos from Thursday's opening can be found online in this gallery from Spokesman Review photographer Jesse Tinsley: http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/caterpillar-distribution-center-opens/
Edited to change the status of the NorthTown Mall store.
There's progress at last in filling the second-floor space last used by retailer Abercrombie and Fitch inside downtown Spokane's River Park Square.
Sephora, a retailer of beauty care products, will take about half of the 8,000 square feet in the vacant space, the RPS Facebook page noted.
Sephora looks to open in the spring.
Without an official Sephora announcement, this looks to be a relocation from the former Sephora in NorthTown Mall. That location is no longer there, according the the NorthTown Mall site.
The usual disclaimer: Cowles Co. operates the Spokesman-Review, and is also the company that owns and runs the River Park Square mall.
No word yet on who else might use the remaining part of the former Abercrombie store. Abercrombie didn't renew its lease back in January 2011. Since then occasional short-term tenants have used part of the large space directly opposite the Verizon store.
Instead of shutting its doors on Jan. 31, the East Francis Fred Meyer Store will close on Feb. 2, the company has announced.
Jan. 31 was the original shut-down date chosen when the company announced the plan last year.
The change better fits the financial calendar that the Porland-based Fred Meyer group uses for its accounting, said spokeswoman Melinda Merrill.
Samantha Stout, the HR director at the north Spokane store, noted that the store may change hours in the final week or so before shutting down. It now stays open until 11 p.m., but could switch to 9 p.m., Stout said.
The closure follows failed efforts by Fred Meyer and the landlord, SMS Associates of Seattle, to agree on new lease terms, Merrill said.
Stout said Fred Meyer would have loved to continue the East Francis store, which has operated there for 39 years.
Business has been steady, and last year that store was voted the No. 1 store in the entire Kroger chain for level of employee happiness and satisfaction, Stout noted. "That reflects that we have some of the most amazing associates and they help make this a successful stoore," she said.
Therm-All's Spokane Valley production building has relocated to the former Triple R Auction building at 107 N. Park Ave.
Until recently the insulation company operated out of a warehouse at 2902 E. Boone Ave. The new site has roughly 7,600 square feet.
Therm-All provides insulation to steel buildings and commercial customers. It's been in business in the area since the late 1980s.
Earl Engle of NAI Black and Mark Lucas of Kiemle & Hagood brokered the deal.
For most of its nearly 20 years in business, Spokane's Vino! Retail wine shop has served one- or two-ounce wine tastes to customers.
Sometime this month the shop, at 222 S. Washington, plans to open part of its store as a serving bar, allowing customers to order a full glass of wine.
Co-owner John Allen said the state has approved Vino!'s application for a new serving license. Up to now, its retail tasting room license allowed small tastes up to a total of eight ounces per customer.
The switch is part of the shop's goal of allowing people to hang out and socialize.
Vino decided to divide the store into two sections. The front half is still the retail side where small tastes are allowed. The back half will be the fuller-service wine bar. It will operate on Friday and Saturday afternoons only, to avoid being considered a tavern, Allen said.
Customers can either order a glass of wine from the wines the store is sampling that day. Or they can buy a bottle and pay a corkage fee and drink it there.
Three former service workers of the Davenport Hotel have filed a suit against the Spokane hospitality company, claiming it deducted wages from their paychecks for breaks they didn't take.
Attorney Kenneth Zigler filed the claim in Spokane County Superior Court. He said he hopes to certify the claims as a class action against the corporation that operates the hotel and other downtown businesses.
Zigler said it's too early to guess how many other hourly wage workers might join the suit, adding it could be "a significant number."
The current Davenport workers he's contacted "don't want to put their name on the lawsuit," Zigler said.
The three plaintiffs are Richard Munoz, Mary Morgan Corrigan and Nicole Hughes. The suit doesn't indicate which jobs the three held or when they left the company.
Zigler said they and others who might join the suit were employed at the historic Davenport Hotel, the Davenport Tower, the Post Street Ale House, the Hotel Lusso or the Peacock Lounge. Any claims would only apply to practices during the past three years.
Jobs mentioned in the suit are bussers, bartenders, hostesses and servers.
Lynnelle Caudill, managing director of the hotel group, said the suit is without merit. "This appears to be an action being pushed by a former disgruntled employee who was terminated and banned from hotel premises, for unrelated reasons," she wrote by email.
Spokane based Red Lion Hotels Corp. opened a new franchise, the Red Lion Inn & Suites Denver International Airport, on Thursday..
The newly branded hotel is at 7010 Tower Road, and has 87 guest rooms and is just minutes from downtown and multiple venues.
It's also next to one of the top five busiest airports in the country, a Red Lion press release said.
As of September 30, 2012, the RLH hotel network had 47 hotels in nine states and one Canadian province, with 8,872 rooms and 443,587 square feet of meeting space.
A recent study by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute found that Washington state has the largest concentration of tech jobs in the United States, comparing tech jobs among all jobs in the state.
Washington's percentage is 11.4 percent of all private jobs.The full study can be found here.
Also notable is that Spokane shows up among the positive job-gainers in the tech sector. The chart here from that study finds Spokane at No. 23 out of the top 25 metros that gained tech jobs from 2010 to 2011. Job numbers came by way of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to the Bay Area institute.
The Spokane growth rate was 7.7 percent change in total high tech jobs.
Notably, that growth was focused in those two years. The Bay Area study also lists the top 25 job gainers from 2006 to 2011, and Spokane is not to be found. Leading that list, notably, is Boise. Over those five years Boise racked up a popping 83 percent job gain in high tech.
The key takeaways: high-tech jobs tend to be concentrated in well-known tech hubs… High-tech employment growth, on the other hand, is happening in a more geographically and economically diverse set of regions. Growth is occurring in the Rust Belt and the South, as well as along the coasts and in regions with many high-skilled workers.
Overall, employment growth in the high-tech sector has been robust, outpacing employment growth in the broader private sector at regular intervals in the recent past. Unemployment in the high-tech sector workforce has generally been low, particularly when compared to the broader national unemployment rate. Finally, the distribution of high-tech jobs around the country has increased significantly during the last two decades.


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Blue Hole is a diving location on east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea.
The Blue Hole is a submarine sinkhole (a kind of cave), around 130 m deep. There is a shallow opening around 6 m deep, known as 'the saddle', opening out to the sea, and a 26 m long tunnel, known as the arch, the top of which lies at a depth of 56 m. The hole itself and the surrounding area has an abundance of coral and reef fish.
The Blue Hole is notorious for the number of diving fatalities which have occurred there, earning it the sobriquet "World's Most Dangerous Dive Site" and the nickname "Diver's Cemetery". The site is signposted by a sign that says "Blue hole: Easy entry". Accidents are frequently caused when divers attempt to find the tunnel through the reef (known as "The Arch") connecting the Blue Hole and open water at about 52 m depth. This is beyond the PADI maximum advanced recreational diving limit of 30 metres and the effect of nitrogen narcosis is significant at this depth. Divers who miss the tunnel sometimes continue descending, hoping to find the tunnel farther down and become increasingly narced.

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Fire officials have ordered evacuations for residents on Stepien Road as a fast-moving fire burned near Henry Hagg Lake Friday evening.
Breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, traffic, video and community news from the Portland and SW Washington area.
Health officials say people and their pets should avoid contact with the river, which includes swallowing, inhaling and skin contact with it.
Both the men are repeat offenders. One has been convicted for six separate incidents.
Some say they had a hard time getting out of the area because of looters clogging local streets
Fire officials have ordered evacuations for residents on Stepien Road as a fast-moving fire burned near Henry Hagg Lake Friday evening.
Health officials say people and their pets should avoid contact with the river, which includes swallowing, inhaling and skin contact with it.
Both the men are repeat offenders. One has been convicted for six separate incidents.
Some say they had a hard time getting out of the area because of looters clogging local streets
Two children recently treated at an Oregon hospital may have been afflicted with a severe respiratory illness that has sickened kids in more than 20 states.
Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL wants to implement new personal conduct policies by the Super Bowl.
Two children recently treated at a Seattle hospital tested positive for enterovirus D-68, a severe respiratory illness, health officials said Friday.
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Back when I was your age, spaghetti code was the curse of the industry. Random gotos pointing anywhere. Branching into the middle of subroutines, or out.
Then came lasagna apps. Layer upon layer of abstraction so deep nobody knew how it really worked -- if it did. Before you could dig down to the meat you had to scrape aside tons of moldy cheese.
Now we have onion corporations. No one really does anything. They just contract with someone else to do it. And if you peel away that shell (tearfully) you find another contact handing off responsibility but skimming some of the dollars.
It's turtles all the way down! Recursion FTW!
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 08:16 • by Recursive Reclusive (unregistered)
"lasagna apps" - I like that. Good metaphor.
Or a moussaka application.
On the surface, crispy well-cooked and nicely-browned bechamel UI potatoes.
Under the cover a chaotic, steaming brown stew of completely unknown composition, complete with a few stout black pubic hairs full of bugs.
Hang on a minute, here's TRWTF:
That's a customer on the other end of the phone there. Just because of the management cockup that has led to this situation is no call to be flippant with them.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 08:30 • by Smug Unix User (unregistered)
Most customers don't like it when you tell them communication is one way. Every customer hates being lied to.
I think it's safe to say that the dialogue features some artistic license.
Why didn't he just take to answering the phone with something like "Hello, Support Line, how can I help you?"
That procedure is not optimal, but... where is the WTF?
So, TRWTF is that for this guy work has to be "meaningful," but if it's a big company, he's not going to ask anyone what it is they're doing.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 09:02 • by Andrew (unregistered)
I don't get it either. Many of us have worked on shitty corporate apps before, and everyone outsources their customer/client support to India. Unless I'm not seeing something, this is not a WTF.
Nope... I can't see the WTF either.
I was going to guess that there was some process at Initech that was supposed to convert and send the support tickets to Multitrode, but it stopped working, nobody noticed, and the developers never fixed any of the bugs.
Instead, it turned out to be a tale about someone who got an extra responsibility, they dealt with it, and the product eventually got better over time, and everything was back to normal. Sounds far too happy to me.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 09:08 • by foo (unregistered)
Well, are we supposed to comment on what's written or read the editor's mind?
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 09:08 • by Balu (unregistered)
In The World According To SpectateSwamp this is the wet dream of any Desktop Search developer! Random is the key!
(Captcha: ludus - yes, it's a game)
Development Rule #1: Never give your contact information directly to customers if it can at all be avoided.
That only leads to 2 am calls:
"Mister Smith-uh san, pleees?"
click on "why can't the customers..." :-)
Because you need some with people skills. Someone who is good at dealing with people. Can't you see that? What the hell is wrong with you people!?
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 09:37 • by Pista (unregistered)
The WTF is that the above situation tends to become a standard.
ActiveX is TRWTF... or TWTF since there are none in this story.
What a crappy way to end your existence thedailywtf.com. You've got until tomorrow to get even with us Alex.
BTW, does any one know at what time/timezone is the world supposed to end? Because if I'm not mistaken, in New Zeland is already Dec. 21st by now.
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New Zealand you grammar nazis.
TRWTF is Chrome's spell checker.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 10:00 • by Maya (unregistered)
And do you have any proof that New Zealand still exists?
If this was story was a porno, it would go like this:
Pizza delivery guy knocks on door.
Scantily clad woman opens door.
PDG: Here's your pizza ma'am. That will be $15.00
SCW: <seductively putting the money in his shirt pocket> I'm so glad you're here, I've been dying for some sausage.
PDG: Then why did you order the veggie lovers?<shakes his head in confusion and walks away>
End of movie
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 10:01 • by OldCoder (unregistered)
Er, no. Multitrode is Initech's customer, not some random Insurance guy.
Granted, he should have perhaps been more polite to the guy but perhaps being polite involves paying him more money.
Well, you just gave me a great idea for dealing with this whitespace truncation problem I have.
Er, no. That's the customer that he's getting paid to take calls from and support. If I was SJ's supervisor and overhead that conversation, I would have had a talk with him about how to speak to the customer and creating unrealistic expectations. SJ's handling of that conversation was as big a WTF as the supposed WTF in the story.
Where is the wtf?
Did anyone else notice that SJ's name changed to CJ?
What is that New Zealand you speak of?
"Why can't the customers call the developer directly?"
Given that the vast majority of users of this site are developers, what percentage of visitors reading this line don't immediately answer along the lines of:
"Because we've got important and difficult shit to do, which doesn't involve discussing the technological difficulties of luddites."
The real wtf is that some companies have the customers interupting their developers.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 10:38 • by eVil (unregistered)
Hmm... you should probably upgrade your chef/wife/mother, if you're finding their pubic hairs in your dinner... with or without the crabs.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 10:38 • by neminem (unregistered)
You've never seen PG Porn? That's sort of how it goes, and it is *hilarious*. So no, this story wasn't like that, it wasn't as amusing.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 10:41 • by Rodnas (unregistered)
Never mind, it is probably gone by now. The 12-21-2012 doomsday hits New Zealand first I imagine.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 10:44 • by Rodnas (unregistered)
Oops, I should have read all the comments before posting. This is very much like RTFM. We apologize for inconvenience.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 11:22 • by ASalazar (unregistered)
Even if it wasn't a link, I did as you said. I wholeheartedly approve.
Multitrode = mib.com
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 12:02 • by (i|=J7}Y&.`Gb) (unregistered)
So what do you call a network of daemons that interact with each other over multiple machines. Where each daemon is 5 lines of code and 1000 lines of boiler plate and you can tell what each daemon is doing but don't know who's telling him to do what?
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 12:22 • by Jim (unregistered)
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Now we have onion corporations. No one really does anything. They just contract with someone else to do it. And if you peel away that shell (tearfully) you find another contact handing off responsibility but skimming some of the dollars.
It's turtles all the way down! Recursion FTW![/quote]
I don't know about onion corps... onion at least make you cry, and taste good in burgers... I thinks it more like Matryoshka corporations, they all look good on the outside, but look deep enough and you just have a another dol....
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 12:47 • by jay (unregistered)
How long have you been in this business? Have you ever SEEN a real requirements document? Of course you have to read the author's mind and not go by what's written.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 12:48 • by Steven (unregistered)
I don't have any proof that New Zealand ever existed.
Wow, the pickings must be getting light.
IT company is presented with a mildly difficult problem. They muddle through and everything turns out basically okay. Nothing dramatic or funny or even mildly amusing happens. The End.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 12:55 • by jay (unregistered)
You have to look it up under "Kiwi".
Maybe SJ stands for Satyanatha Jaharwalal.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 13:04 • by HowItWorks (unregistered)
Plagiarism !!! You have failed English Composition 101 and are expelled for presenting this as yours without properly quoting and attributing the source material.
(Great movie, still watch it occasionally.)
Um ... a dollop of spunk?
Sorry, that's "jizm" for you across the water.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 13:14 • by HowItWorks (unregistered)
My understanding is Winter Solstice (for those of us in N, Summer Solstice for S)
That is at 21 Dec 2012 11:12 UTC
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 13:21 • by HowItWorks (unregistered)
fyi, your reading this so you are not among the enraptured.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 13:35 • by Steve Holdoway (unregistered)
Yup, I'm looking at it through the window as I type. Rumors of demise are grossly exaggerated.
So far...
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 13:38 • by Yet Another Steve (unregistered)
of course you do... It's where the LOTR and The Hobbit were filmed... (What do you mean those weren't documentaries?)
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 14:10 • by Daniel (unregistered)
That would be grammar zealots.
In case of rapture Community Server will still exist.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 15:00 • by neminem (unregistered)
I would assume, given the whole thing started as the result of (misinterpreting) the Mayan calendar, and given the Mayan empire extended from parts of Mexico through parts of Central America, which is in Central time, that if the world really were going to end at that date, it would be reasonable to use Central time for the timezone.
Re: Circuitous Support
2012-12-20 15:24 • by A Nerd With a View (unregistered)
Sounds more like Italian food all the way down... FTW!
I just had a delicious meatball sandwich for lunch, too. Yum!
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Celebrating the new Avengers Assemble creative team of writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Stefano Caselli, Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada provides a variant cover for issue 9.
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Police said a man was shot in the wrist by an off-duty detective outside a casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday night.
The shooting happened about 9 a.m. at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino at 3850 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas Metro Police Capt. Brett Primas said the detective was dropping off packages at the hotel when a man jumped into the driver's side of his vehicle. He said the detective then went over to the passenger's side of the car and ordered the man out. He said the man refused, and the detective identified himself as a police officer. He said the man then reached to his waistband and the detective fired a shot, hitting the man's wrist.
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Connect your iPhone to your computer with the USB data cable and open iTunes. Wait for it to recognize your iPhone, and then right-click on your iPhone in the left side bar. Select "Backup" from the short-cut menu to start the backup.
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Turns out you have to tell iTunes to transfer purchased apps from your iPhone to your computer, and Apple didn't put the menu option in a prominent location.
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Connecting Gmail to Google+ is SENSELESS, says Digg founder
Google's latest hardheaded strategy to link its "network thingy" Google+ to Gmail accounts makes zero sense. That's the verdict of Digg founder Kevin Rose, who might be a more reliable source than most when it comes to slinging criticism at Mountain View, given that he was temporarily drafted in as a part of the Google+ …
Well I tried to follow your link to 'zombie' my google+ account but it wants me to log in first which is a slight problem because I have no idea what my Google plus email address is, I set one up years ago to access the play store, and I have even less chance of remembering my password.
But hey, I opened the link to log in so that's one more 'active' Google plus member this month I suppose.
Not seeing the problem here
Anybody can send me emails. I have written academic papers, and every single one has my email address on the front page. If people want to contact me, I want them to be able to do it.
I wonder if people complaining about this realize that every time they go out of their home, random strangers can not only talk to them, but also see their face and even know their exact location. The horror!
Re: Not seeing the problem here
Yeah, I know what you mean. Other people claiming to have problems with things I think are ok is so annoying. What's wrong with them! Don't they know that anonymous internet shills are the only people that matter? Especially ones with published academic papers!!!!!!
Makes perfect sense, if people want to contact you then you want them to be able to. That's why you posted anonymously. Whenever I want to be contacted by someone I just make sure I don't tell them my name.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
"Anybody can send me emails. I have written academic papers, and every single one has my email address on the front page. If people want to contact me, I want them to be able to do it."
...posted the Anonymous Coward.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
Bully for you, as we say round my parts. I have email addresses that are most decidedly not public, and that are only given to people I know personally; much like my home phone number, and my mobile number. Just because you can't see a problem (presumably because you're far too stupid to see the several blindingly obvious ones), doesn't mean there is one.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
Just because you can't see a problem (presumably because you're far too stupid to see the several blindingly obvious ones), doesn't mean there isn't one.
I do wonder what'll happen with those people who (like me) have disabled the priority and other inboxen though. Hopefully there will be some subject based identifier to allow a filter....
Re: Not seeing the problem here
Says AC. Oh, the irony.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
"I have email addresses that are most decidedly not public, and that are only given to people I know personally;" ...and any of the operators of any of the relays your mail passes through. Know them personally?
Re: Not seeing the problem here
if you have email addresses that aren't public, don't create a public Google+ account with them. Problem solved.
As for the article saying people were stealthily opted in, I think the fact that Google sent everyone an email explaining what had happened and pointing them to where they can disable it is quite some way for being stealthy.
For those who are upset, and want a clean and private mailbox, there are plenty of hosts that will let you pay for one.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
While it obviously doesn't help when emailing someone with an outsourced email account, I run my own SMTP set-up and stuff travels from my home server directly to the published MX for the recipient. Most servers now operate with tls so that hakes it harder for people to eavesdrop. If the MX is on the recipient's local network, that keeps things fairly secure.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
"I think the fact that Google sent everyone an email explaining what had happened and pointing them to where they can disable it is quite some way for being stealthy."
How was anyone supposed to know they'd been sent an email? E.g. like many here, my Gmail account has never been actively used. It's been used occasionally to access Google Play and the like. Even that may have to stop soon.
Google Is Your Friend? Not any more it's not.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
How was anyone supposed to know they'd been sent an email? E.g. like many here, my Gmail account has never been actively used. It's been used occasionally to access Google Play and the like.
To some extent that's less of an issue. If you don't use the account for email then for the most part you're not going to be bothered by random messages from Google+ users. I never check the email attached to the account I use for Google Play - on the occasions I want a new app, I browse the Play store while signed out, then once I find what I want, I'll get the phone to go get it directly.
Of course, there's always the risk of offending some clueless type who sends you a message via that mechanism expecting a reply. I counter that by having a really obscure Gmail account name that you wouldn't associate with me.
Re: Not seeing the problem here
Loved this comment. The comment you replied to had 11 upvotes and 2 downvotes - those same people's votes determine the entire sort of comments, and you can't read them all. What if you could throw out the votes of the people you disagreed with when sorting the rest of the comments? Looking for help revolutionizing search.
Other options
Alternatively, you can restrict the people allowed to exercise this option to those in your Google+ circles. As my Google+ is a howling void, any messages coming from that direction will be more likely to come from Cthulhu than a human being. Or Friendster.
Re: Other options
Indeed. I actually have 22 people in my circles. Only three of them ever post anything, and that is once in a blue moon. I am fine with that.
My Dad started to use it occasionally but they kept changing the interface at random & with no warning, which completely scuppered that. He is 80 years old though. He only just coped with all the recent gmail interface changes, I had to give him some coaching mind while he muttered angrily over skype.
If full integration is what they are ....
..... aiming for then it might make me question if I want to continue on the Android platform when contract time comes around. I have a gmail account just for the phone, I don't want Google+. I don't have circles of friends, I just have friends (amazing but true).
It may not happen but if it does I am off to Winphone land because I have been using them at work and they are pretty good phones.
Re: If full integration is what they are ....
Been there done that, and for £150 a Nokia 625 has been surprisingly good so far.
I suspect Microsoft will bugger it up in a year or two though so I would recommend you to make hay while the sun shines.
Re: If full integration is what they are ....
I'm right there with you. The next phone I'm getting is either going to be a Jolla if I don't have to Grey import it or a WinPho if I have to wait on my flaky friends in Europe to get me a damn Jolla. Android's never been that good, and Google's done nothing but prove they are a festering sore on the face of every industry they get their hooks into.
However, I may get a Chromebook if I can format the Chrome crapware off of it and install a real, bonafide Fedora, CentOS or RHEL on the damn thing (and thats a big damn if, I know you can do it for now but noone knows what they'll do in the future).
Re: If full integration is what they are ....
I've been wondering much the same. I would have bailed out of Gmail ages ago if I didn't have Android phone & tablet. I wouldn't touch any of the iThings with a 10' pole for the same reasons I don't trust Google. I haven't looked at WinPhone yet. How ironic would it be if Microsoft turned out to be the safest people to trust with personal information?
If not for the privacy issues, I'd be happy to stay with Android. Having mail, calendar and contacts synchronised across multiple devices if wonderfully convenient but the price is getting too high.
Hate G+
Since they keep trying to force me to use google + I will do everything in my power to never ever go near it. I dont really care for facebook, but will stick with it because google are abusing their power in trying to make people use it. It sucks, people prefer FB (for whatever reason, no one other than google and FB care), grandfather it and build something else.
Re: Hate G+
Four down votes, the Google PR staff are busy today.
Have an up vote, that way I can get some down votes as well.
Re: Hate G+
No argument. One of the most horrible interfaces deployed in the last decade. What I want is antisocial networking: deFacebook, shoottheangrylittlebirds, noSpace, ....
Off Topic
I suspect I was a "victim" of some social engineering phishing last week when a cold caller managed to pursuade me to give him my date of bith. He already had my name and address. (He had a spiel that was convincing enough in my sleep-befuddled state - his call woke me from a Saturday lie-in.)
But now I am left wondering what he could actually do with just my name, address and date-of-birth. Can my identity be stolen with such minimal and often publicly accessible information? Which organisation would be pursuaded by such triviality? Yahoo? Apple? Google? Amazon? My bank? (In order of probability, I suspect.)
Re: Off Topic
I suspect I was a "victim" of some social engineering phishing last week when a cold caller managed to pursuade me to give him my date of bith. He already had my name and address.
I use different date of births. For my mother's maiden name I treat that like a password, so I give out a phony name.
Re: Off Topic
Name and address plus date of birth was all that was needed to steal my identity last year. First I knew about it was when I got a courier card for a failed delivery on a rather expensive smartphone from Orange that the toe-rag then managed to get delivered to another address, followed by being chased for a £200 payday loan, followed by other similar "inconveniences".
In the end I had to pay to get my credit record cleared up, plus get a CIFAS Protective Registration.
Good luck.
Re: Off Topic
Depends on where your reside. In the US your name, DOB, and a social security no., and your well on the way to a passport you never knew you applied for.
Re: Off Topic
Name address and date of birth is not anywhere near enough info to steal someones identity. Courier cards don't give specific information on what was being delivered so u wouldn't know it was a "rather expensive smart phone"
Payday loans are repaid from the same bank account as the money was paid into. So it must have been a right Muppet that stole your ID, he bought a phone that was sent to YOU and then took out a loan which was paid into your account. Why did you bother making this up ??
Thanks for the heads-up.
One (more) G+ has a mortal coil problem....
google idiots
they screwed up youtube by forcing people to be google+ ers. i wish they'd just left it alone, it didn't need screwing around with just to try and fake up the google+ figures to make it seem more popular. idiots.
Re: google idiots
Not sure I'd admit to visiting YouTube for the comments.
Re: google idiots
Depends on where your interests lie, I suppose.
The commenters on the classical music selections are generally a pretty respectful bunch; Sebastien Letocart, for example, has been keeping up a running dialog with commenters regarding his completion of the finale to Bruckner's 9th.
Just a quick note...
While this allows anyone on G+ to e-mail you by default, it does not give them access to your actual address unless you reply back to them. So everyone worried about their "super secret, no one knows" e-mail address, it's still going to remain that way. I've been an avid Gmail and G+ user, and first thing this morning received an e-mail from Google detailing the change, as well as a way to turn off the functionality. That's more than I ever received from FB when they made changes to my account.
Yes, kevin rose the guy the torpedoed dig has an opinion. He wants google plus to have a crappy internal mail interface like facebook. If you have a fully functional email application, why not use it.
The limited number of times that I have used google plus, I have look for ways to message people, so they are adding a useful feature.
Attachment limits
The sole reason I ever acquired a gmail address was as a means around send and receive attachment size limits on my "real" email account.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
But then I also really enjoy Google+ It's full of interesting chatter and good communities.
I don't need Facebook or Twitter, For real friends, I use the pub, for everything else, there is Google+
Long ago
I worked at a hell desk because my employer decided to tack on ISP to the various other services he provided - which mostly involved archaeological investigations. During the period while he was running the system up, we were drafted as "help." One new account holder called in and I took the call. He was upset because during the two weeks he had held the account, he had received no mail "from the E." He fully expected his mail box to contain all the typical crap the shows up in the standard snail-mail box. I signed him up for several spam sources and he was there after a happy camper. As far as I can see, Google+ (and most other "social" networking) is for people like him.
geez... a little uppity are we
jumping all over ac's back because he posted anonymously? what does posting in public get you that posting anonymously doesn't? you still can't see his email address... so who cares?
as for google "forcing you" to use google+... .... this is just stupid. never have a clicked anything in youtube or gmail that has opened a google+ page that i didn't want. it never forces me to create circles. it never forces me to go read a page i don't want to read. they are not FORCING you to use google+. are they integrating features? yeah. for some people, that's cool. but they haven't FORCED me to do anything. i don't understand why this has people all hot and bothered.
Yet he dig his own grave with Microsoft
the demise of Digg came a year or 2 after switching from Google to Microsoft.
The value plummeted from 100's of millions down to a single digit value .
So what does this guy know about sense?
Memo from the GMail team to the Google+ team
Oi - stop your users spamming our users!
Android is the mistake
I'm not sure about the wisdom of inventing Android.
Only if they had known everything Google is now the enemy.
Even DuckDuckGo, that Microsoft stealth weapon is striking it lucky in the arena of hate.
No forcing google+
I have a Gmail account, not that I use it a lot, but I don't have a Google+ account. i don't understand why people have a problem with this as Google is not forcing you to get a Google+ account, it is just if you do have one then it will be linked with Gmail and even then you can set it up so no one from google+ can send you a message via Gmail.
Now You Tube was a different matter as google did force people to have a Google+ page if they wanted to write comments and if you have a new channel, you got to have a google+ page, which you can lock down with no problem at all.
I did set up a page to have a look, but now got rid of it as I don't comment on videos.
if google force people with Gmail to have a google+ profile then that is another thing, but so far they are not, you can even delete the profile when you set up a Google account.
Re: No forcing google+
They ALSO force you into Google+ if you wish to comment on Android apps. This can be important if you've found a very good or very bad app and wish to make your opinion known.
...force people with Gmail to have a google+ profile...
"if google force people with Gmail to have a google+ profile then that is another thing, but so far they are not, you can even delete the profile when you set up a Google account"
This seems inevitable
Interesting how a corporation that would champion the avoidance of evil in its mission statement would come to embody it, as though they were giving us advance warning of their intentions.
"Don't Be Evil" is to Google what "To Serve Man" is to the extraterrestrials in that classic Twilight Zone.
Re: No forcing google+
Yes, I agree... the net result is that I no longer comment on apps because I don't have anything on my G+ profile and I intend it to say that way. I did delete the association with my Youtube account also. Other than that I don't really care about it, I only use gmail for "junk" and for my app purchases
Panties in a twist?
There's a setting in Gmail settings where you can disable this feature. It's a nice to have for those who want it, and if they don't they can turn it off. Even them email from Google notifying me of this update had the link to my Gmail settings so that I could change it.
Methinks the Digg guy is trying to keep his name in the news.
What's Digg anyway?
It will be shut down
This little feature will be shut down as soon as the 419ers work out how to make a quick buck out of it.
All people will have in their inbox is more spam than you can shake a Python at.
Doesn't make sense?
You know what makes even less sense? Adding another annoying stupid non interconnected messaging system to the Internet?
Bravo to google for actually settling on email.
Google is freakin terrible
Google is getting worse and worse with each passing day. If you're still using google products, then I recommend you do some serious soul searching. People who use google are supporting a culture that says its okay to violate our privacy. Please don't support them or Facebook, or any other company that makes money from collecting our personal information. Instead we should be using sites that don't violate our privacy such as Ravetree, HushMail, DuckDuckGo, etc.
Re: Google is freakin terrible
Can you be sure they don't... dickhead??
Re: Google is freakin terrible
What about Mobile phones? My mobile phone is Android based, which is Google, i got it because it was a good price and a better Os than windows based phone and cheaper than a Iphone.
If someone came out with a good phone Os that is open source and no spying aat a decent price then i may look at it, so far there is none.
firefox Os is still not that good.
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