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People seem quick to ignore the fact that our lifestyles still require immense amounts of human labor to accommodate, it's simply being done on the other side of the world where it's largely invisible to us. There are hundreds of millions of asian laborers toiling away sewing our blue jeans, assembling our iPods, and so forth.
Not for long. Initially, the transition to robotic manufacture will be a boon for the US, because we can bring back the manufacturing and a lot of skilled labor robot repair men jobs. Long term, we'll still have the problem of all the rest of the low-skill jobs vanishing.
My question is - if people keep getting bumped by machines at an accelerated rate - what 'something else' are you doing?
Nothing, at least nothing productive. That's not inherently a bad thing, it's just completely opposite of the puritan work ethic that has driven us for centuries. The solutions are either kill all the extra people (unlikely ), give them a "fake" job that just ends up making everyone unhappy, legislate menial jobs into existence (ban robots, very regressive), or just expand welfare and get used to the idea that a lot of society sits and their ass doing nothing particularly useful. It's not like that's any different from the case now, we just don't like to think about it. It will be a hard sell to the conservatives, but it's the difference between paying people to sit at home and watch TV, or having them live in shanty towns committing crimes and bringing the rest of society down (see, Rio). Those are really the two options as the jobs at the bottom dry up.
Don't get me wrong, it's going to be a mess of a transition, there is going to be a lot of argument and disagreement over who gets how much for what, but I can't see any other realistic option long-term. With robots that can do most non-creative things better, cheaper, faster, and more safely than humans, we just won't need that many people working.

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text: I can't speak for Nash personally, but the sense I get from him is. He would rather earn a championship than air drop in and chase one. It's sort of a cop out on a career to go somewhere in your final years just to get the ring. I don't buy that he would force or ask to be traded to a contender.


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Pretty sweet. Now we need to see their jerseys!
Pretty sweet. Now we need to see their jerseys!
I like and dislike their design. First off, I hate the lone "B" in the middle of the ball. It's just floating there and very boring, would prefer just the ball. Speaking of which, isn't the ball image just a little played out? I like the overall simplicity and think it works on some levels yet leaves me wanting something more. To me it looks like something that came out of a first year design exercise where you get a limited amount of time to come up with 5 proposals.
As for the court I love the Herringbone hardwood, it looks great. But just like the logo design the stadium looks a little boring, cold and unimaginative. That much black/grey is just visually unstimulating and kinda "m'eh". Even the spurs mix it up with a little more colour and life by leaving the key "clear" and not relying on grey (even if they call it "silver") so much.
Maybe it'll look better when it's all said and done and fans are in the stands. Right now, IMO, it's just kinda boring. There are plenty of examples of colour use gone awry in the NBA, even with our beloved Raptors, but this is just the opposite.
I like the designs and colours and their link to "tradition" of the old New York subway signs and logos. The faux tradition is ironic in the sense that this is the very first year for the team in Brooklyn and the Nets franchise has not had much success over the years, though they did make it to the NBA finals in consecutive years and those two ABA titles back in New York in the day. Anything with the stamp "New Jersey" is usually not inspiring.
Ours is still better. Can't mess with a dinosaur bouncing a basketball, that shit it badass
Just realized the Raptor is wearing shoes in the logo.. how have I not noticed this crucial detail
I found out about that pendant in this Raptors Republic article:
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If I had that money I'd buy one
The do look pretty plain, but I'm personally pretty big on black/white jerseys
they messed up the neck part but otherwise im really digging what they did with the whole redesign. the court looks amazing.
i dig the court... and the majority of the redesign for the team.... but i cant help but feel like the jerseys just look like bootleg spurs jerseys
i hope somebody dubs san antonio vs the nets in brooklyn as the monochrome cup
Jersey's ain't bad. But you cant match the sexiness of our home court
The building on the outside looks ugly, since when you think rust colour will look good?!
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Distinguished panel discusses civil rights
Sports, business, political leaders gather for conversation
By Mark Newman / MLB.com
The Civil Rights Game itself is elevated in magnitude in this, its third year, featuring for the first time a regular-season game -- White Sox at Reds on Saturday night -- and a Major League ballpark. The game will be at Great American Ball Park, while the roundtable was held next door at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. It was streamed live on MLB.com and cut to the core of many issues and feelings.
"I can say without contradiction that Harriet Tubman is looking down with great pride," said Harvard Law School professor and moderator Charles Ogletree, prompting a loud ovation. "Not just that we're here at the Underground Center or that we're hosting the Civil Rights Game and honoring all those Negro Leagues players who didn't have the chance even though they had the talent all those decades ago, but also because it's the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, the 80th anniversary of the birth of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. This is the year that America has its first African-American president, Barack Obama. As someone who has mentored him and Michelle when they were at Harvard Law School, it is even more of a privilege to be part of this great panel."
The panelists included: Perez, a Cuban native and former first baseman of the Big Red Machine; Robertson, the University of Cincinnati All-American who went on to a Hall of Fame NBA career; Former All-Star second baseman and current MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds; Dr. Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport; Nathaniel Jones, former U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit judge and current minority shareholder in the Reds; James Clingman, creator of the Greater Cincinnati African-American Chamber of Commerce; and Lee Lowenfish, biographer of Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers magnate who in 1945 signed Jackie Robinson.
Robertson -- the "Big O" to an adoring crowd -- told one of the many stories on this afternoon that made you shake your head, made you a little angry, made you a little happy ... and mostly made you think about the state of civil rights.
He had been refused a scholarship to Indiana by then-Hoosier coach Branch McCracken, and that led him to sign with Cincinnati. Once there, he found very few minority students on campus.
"I wouldn't see anybody. I'd go to the gym and shoot hoops," Robertson recalled. "It's a funny thing ... we played in North Texas once, and they put a black cat in the locker room. Funny. I'm dressing, the teammates are as quiet as can be. Why? They wouldn't say a word. Why are they so quiet? I said, 'Oh, they put the cat in there for me?' Folks, where I'm from in Indianapolis, a cat is there to kill rats. I thought they had rats in that locker room."
This was not just a baseball story, this Civil Rights Game and its surrounding events were brought here to create an open and honest dialogue, to help facilitate what some at the event said is nowhere near a satisfactory picture of equality in America.
Hank Aaron, who will be presented with the Beacon Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday by Commissioner Bud Selig, was among those pushing for faster progress. He sat in the front row next to Reds majority owner Bob Castellini, and at the end of the roundtable, he took the microphone and delivered a heartfelt message.
"In baseball -- that's my little world -- I would like for everyone to understand that we are still trying to get a piece of the pie," Aaron said. "We are still trying to get where we were supposed to get when Jackie broke into baseball. I just don't want people to lose the focus on what this is all about. There's been a few of us [who] reached the top, but a lot of us still trying to get to the top.
"There are so many things I think Major League Baseball can do to help. ... We have not seen black players moving through the system like they used to. I'd like to see more American blacks playing professional baseball. Baseball needs to get out of the ditch and look at the big picture and see what can be done to help our kids, because something needs to be done."
Clingman is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and chairman of the Economic Development Committee of the NAACP's Cincinnati branch, and he contended that "civil rights" as a movement is now primarily about economic have vs. have-not. Indeed, his words were supported in an effusive question-and-answer session by a local woman who said it was fine to gather mixed races in an auditorium for positive progress but that "after this is over, we will go back to our divided city ... the real conversation needs to be on racism."
"There was a time when civil rights meant time to vote. Now civil rights struggle is on the economic level," Clingman said. "We need entrepreneurship. That's the key to the new civil rights economic struggle. I would like to see -- I'm seeing it, but would like to see more -- involvement between baseball, basketball and all the sports that generate billions of dollars to connect with those who are on the lower level of the economic tier, and figure out ways to increase economic stewardship and entrepreneurship. We don't want to just put it all on baseball, but on sports. We need to figure out what the new civil rights struggle is, as opposed to the civil rights struggles of the past.
"There are many organizations espousing the new civil rights struggle of economics. We need to close the wealth gap, and we need a new economic map to focus on entrepreneurship. Bottom line is, people basically know that. That's what runs this country. As brother Jesse Jackson said once, 'Capitalism without capital just isn't.' We need to move toward a stronger economic base that we can leave for our children, especially in Cincinnati. ... I believe more blacks need to be on the top of the economic scale so we can teach our youth and provide for them when we're gone."
Perez said he had no sense of America's Civil Rights movement or racial strife while being raised in Cuba. He discovered it after being signed by the Reds.
"When I signed my first professional contract in 1960, I went to Tampa, where Cincinnati used to train," he said. "Surprisingly, they picked me up at airport and drove me about an hour. Then we go to downtown Tampa. I said, 'Where we going?' They said, 'No you have to go to the black side. You can't stay in the downtown where the white players are.'
"I didn't know that. Nobody told me that. I got to the hotel, and all the blacks and Latin players were there. They'd leave us there after practice and pick us up the same day -- and 'Don't miss the bus!' They opened a restaurant up at a certain time for you -- don't miss it or you won't eat, either. But nothing could stop me from what I wanted. I decided to play baseball. When I got here everything was fine. Black players, Latin players, Frank Robinson, Leo Cardenas, Vada Pinson, lots of players. What I saw of them, they helped me, they built my confidence so high. This city, the way they treated me was great."
Reynolds, a Major Leaguer from 1983-94, said that same inner drive exhibited by Perez and Robertson during their careers is what people need now. He said it can't be based on what others think of you, and it can't be based on thinking small.
"The mission is to have goals, and dreams," Reynolds said. "The bigger the goal, the bigger the aspiration, you achieve big things. Little goals, little aspirations, achieve little things.
"I'll never forget when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record," said Reynolds, bringing an ovation from the crowd. "And through the years, I've been able to spend time with him, read on him, learn about the hate mail. I'm just a young boy at that time so I don't fully get the scope of racism in American and all the things he had to have endured. And I'll never forget the whole family gathered around the TV. It was a day almost like when Barack Obama became president of the U.S. We were all gathered around the TV. It wasn't just the significance of 715. It was this black man, in Georgia, and he was able to stand in front of the country and do something that was going to make so many people proud."
Reynolds said after the event that "the biggest thing is all these guys paved the way. It's not just baseball. Look at Oscar Robertson. So many people paved the way for opportunities today. I think it's cool when people of all races say anything on this subject. There's a lot of work to do. It was more of getting the word out, and this weekend has really put it on the forefront of conversation. We're not there yet, not even close."
Reynolds cited the lack of African-Americans in the College World Series as one example of economic inequality, citing the expense of youth elite teams and travel tournaments for developing ballplayers.
Jones said dropout rates among African-American youths remains a major problem that should be everyone's business.
"It's crucial for organizations such as baseball to join community after community in those efforts aimed at dealing with the fundamental problems indigenous in those communities," he said. "We've got to do something about the dropout rates, where we have less than 40 percent of minorities graduating. We've got to do something with mentoring.
"Unless we deal with this dropout question, and use the resources baseball can provide -- and in this case they are doing that -- we have a problem. We need to encourage more of our professional teams to hook up with these programs in these cities to help these youngsters overcome the problems that lead them to drop out in the fourth or fifth grade."
Ogletree said his main takeaway of the roundtable was "the rich and contextual thoughts by Oscar, which were just outstanding. He put the whole matter of overcoming racial adversity into context. Like Hank, he talked about: if you want to change the situation, you can. These legends tell us we can, and that means a lot to hear it from them."
The Civil Rights Game weekend continues with the Major League Baseball Beacon Awards luncheon on Saturday, featuring former president Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker. Besides Aaron's "Life" honor, Beacon awards will be given to Muhammad Ali for "Change" and to Bill Cosby for "Hope."
"It means the game of baseball is not just a game," Ogletree said of the roundtable and the entire event. "It's addressing inequality. It's about discussing our successes, but also to engage in ways to address civil rights."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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PG: Kyle Lowry
SG: DeMar DeRozan
SF: Landry Fields
PF: Andrea Bargnani
C: Jonas Valanciunas
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I had hoped the recent shootings of young children in Connecticut would lead to both sides of the debate on firearms to create a climate that would produce a logical way to protect our schools from lunatics. But alas, it appears that the usual nutty nostrums are proposed to secure the safety of children. Somehow smaller magazines and the banning of so-called assault weapons will bring complete security to our schools. Anyone familiar with firearms could tell you this will accomplish zero. But, it will chip away at the Second amendment, which is the real objective of the liberals.
The following steps, however, can be done fairly soon and with minimal upheaval and expense. Every school needs a sworn, armed and trained law enforcement officer in the school during operating hours. Every school needs a quality CCTV system monitoring exits, entrances and hallways, which would be monitored by the officer on duty. The law enforcement officer also needs a wireless panic alarm connected to local police headquarters for immediate help; if banks have them why not schools. I would hope the above measures could be accomplished on a state-by-state basis because anything done by the feds usually does not work out very well. As for financing, it could be done at the local level through property taxes, I am a property owner and have no problem with such a tax.
Alas, I fear that the above measures will be rejected out of hand by the liberals, progressive and Bolsheviks that comprise a large part of the Congress and also live in the White House. I believe they do not care one bit that the lack of armed security in our schools contributed directly to the deaths of the children in Connecticut.
In closing, a little firearms lore for the ignorant: an AR-15 is not a machine gun. Automatic weapons have been illegal for the general public since the 1930s. It helps to know what you are talking about before you put your foot in mouth. But, there are people who think shoe leather is gourmet food.
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Residences inside the city limits have always had the right to own cats and dogs, and on Tuesday night moved one step closer to have the right to house chickens too, provided they are hens.
The Cortez City Council Tuesday night voted 5-1 to move forward with a second reading and a public hearing next month. Council member Karen Sheek did not attend the meeting.
At the Aug. 7, 2012, Cortez Planning and Zoning Commission it was debated whether to recommend to the city council to allow six female chickens per residence with a $10 permit fee every two years. The henhouses would be required to be set back at least 10 feet from other residences.
That $10 fee requirement is still up in the air, according to the ordinance the council approved in a first reading.
The commission also discussed other communities doing this due to the sustainability of people being able to raise their own food.
At the request of the commission surveys were given to residents at three block parties the city held last year to receive input.
Of the 53 people that filled out the survey, 42 were in favor of adopting chicken regulations in Cortez while 11 were opposed to the idea.
Many of those in favor said they would like the opportunity to own some hens/chickens, while those opposed said they were too noisy, loud and messy and belonged on a farm.
In April 2012 Planning and Zoning Director Kirstin Sackett told the commission that the staff had received several requests to allow the keeping of chickens within the city limits.
Sackett told the commission that urban agriculture is making waves around the country, though the differences are mostly related to the attitudes of the populations within the communities.
Those results were shared with the commission in December and the favorable comments prompted a public hearing on Feb. 5 in which no one attended. No phone calls were received either. The recommendation to allow chickens on residential properties was forwarded to the council for its vote.
Sackett said most people who want chickens would probably do so for the eggs, adding the food would be local, healthier and less expensive.
According to the ordinance, chickens must be kept at all times within a fenced backyard of the owner's property as well as being kept in a secure predator resistant enclosure or confined or caged when transported.
The chicken enclosures must also be kept clean with no offensive odors, excessive dust or waste at all times, roosters are prohibited and that chicken enclosures must be kept in a manner that does not constitute a nuisance, safety hazard or health problem.
The council, by approving the first reading of the ordinance, set a public hearing for its next meeting on March 12.
Council member Bob Archibeque, the lone dissenter in the vote, wanted to know how residents would feel if a neighbor decided to build a chicken coop within feet of their homes.
"Being a city council member, one of my jobs is to understand how the (community) will feel about having a chicken coop that is 10 feet away," he said.
Sackett said there are always going to be disputes between neighbors over something.
Mayor Dan Porter said he would prefer to deal with chickens than the people who just let their dogs go and run wild.
Council member Shawana McLaughlin, who said she grew up on a farm, said the chickens will get out of their enclosed area, and added dogs will then kill them.
She also said when a chicken stops laying eggs the animal is usually slaughtered, and the chicken is what is for dinner that night.
McLaughlin also said that all of the people she has talked to are opposed to residents being allowed to have chickens in their backyards, so she and Sackett must be talking to different people.
Archibeque also wanted to know who would be controlling the odor from the chickens, which Sackett said would fall under the city's animal control officer.
Cortez Police Chief Roy Lane said his officers will not be picking up chickens like they would for a dog running at large.
"We have been dealing with chickens for years, and it is not a big problem," Lane said.
Council member Matt Keefauver said he cannot imagine a huge influx of people who would go out to get chickens if the council were to pass this into law.
The ordinance would repeal section 5-20 of the city's code that prohibited fowl or poultry unless they were at least 150 feet away from a residence, which Sackett said is almost impossible to do.
The proposed ordinance adds exceptions to the code, including having the municipal judge be the one responsible for imposing penalties and subsequent punishments for acts by the same owner or keeper for repeated violations and for the number of hens to be limited to six per residence.


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Microsoft and free aren't words that you expect together in a sentence. While the prolific operating system maker has been generous in offering discounted licenses to students and to developing nations, it has always made sure it got its fair slice.
Well for a limited time, developers will get to use and test a unique new OS from Microsoft -- Windows Azure -- entirely for free. The new OS marks the release of Microsoft's long awaited cloud computing operating system.
For those in the dark about cloud computing, you're not alone -- the abstract concept is a new one and very challenging to developers. In basic principle, it's the concept of offloading tasks from workstations to cloud clusters -- high powered groups of servers. This setup leverages modern high-speed internet connections to deliver data storage, applications hosting and more.
Cloud computing is tremendously popular, as it is widely viewed as the future of web hosting. One key reason for this is that cloud computing allows applications to easily scale to match rising or falling demand, without shifting local hardware. In order to deliver increasingly rich applications over an internet interface, moving to a cloud computing architecture becomes increasingly necessary. However, until now cloud computing lacked a single iconic operating system specially designed for it.
That has all changed with the release of Microsoft's Azure. The new OS is a community preview, available free to any developers. This is a slight departure from Microsoft's RM/Beta/Alpha sequence typical to many of its operating systems, though it has done community previews of other releases before.
"How long until the OS hits the market," is one question many will ask. Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was on hand to answer questions about the new OS, and he fielded this one. He stated, "Well, when we finally determine that it achieves the objectives from a completeness perspective and a reliability perspective that our customers would expect of us, then we'll go commercial. And when it does, it will be profitable from birth because we're going to price it to be that way."
While Microsoft's OS is similar, according to Mr. Ozzie, to Amazon's EC2 web service in some respects, it is overall rather unique. Some users will be confused, he says, to restart their computers only to find their hard drives empty. Despite the .NET foundation, developers will have to adapt to the new storage system and adapt to the new error handling system.
Mr. Ozzie says that Microsoft's growing interest in data centers and serving is the key to the company's success. He says, "It's a business that we will be in probably as long as there will be a Microsoft. ... Cloud computing is ultimately going to be 'do you trust this provider to have more to lose than I have to lose as a company if they mess me up?' And Microsoft has both the capacity to invest and the willingness to be in that end of a business, and give that kind of a trust assurance to developers and enterprises."
While many outside the development community will meet the news of this new Microsoft OS with a bit of confusion as it's not something they can easily experience, the bottom line is that this OS will help drive a new generation of feature-rich websites. And while cloud computing from an architecture standpoint might be perplexing to some, being able to use rich applications like word processing online, with free storage, would be easy to understand, and a highly desired development.
As for Mr. Ozzie, he firmly believes the new OS represents the future of Windows, and is perhaps more critical than even Windows 7. He says that in 20 years, cloud computers will be household items and the once foreign concept will have been embraced, much as the personal computer was two decades ago. Says Mr. Ozzie, "It's a new kind of computer that 20 years from now we'll wonder how we did without."


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WASHINGTON - Colorado environmentalists protested Sen. Michael Bennet's votes on two nonbinding budget amendments about the Keystone XL Pipeline on Tuesday in Denver, calling the Colorado Democrat's actions a crime against the climate.
The pipeline would transport heavy crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. The State Department currently is studying possible environmental effects, but it ultimately is President Barack Obama's decision.
Environmentalists have claimed the pipeline would hasten global warming and could cause oil spills.
The Senate briefly voted on the pipeline last week during a 13-hour "vote-a-rama" in the Capitol to pass a nonbinding budget blueprint.
One amendment hoped to establish a fund to protect U.S. interests while making a decision on the pipeline. It failed by a 33-66 vote.
The other amendment, however, passed 62-37. It called for a reserve fund to promote investment and job growth in U.S. manufacturing, natural-gas and oil production, and refining sectors during construction of the pipeline.
Although neither amendment specifically calls for complete approval of the pipeline, The Hill reported that sponsors and backers say it was seen as a referendum on whether Obama should approve it.
Bennet voted in favor of both amendments.
Bennet believes the pipeline should be evaluated through the proper process, spokesman Adam Bozzi said Thursday in a telephone interview.
If it is judged to be a worthwhile project, Bozzi said, the senator would vote for it as part of a comprehensive plan that would include reduced carbon emissions and move toward renewable energy.
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350.org is a global climate movement that also has a grass-roots component, Parkin said Thursday in a telephone interview.
The group is opposed to the Keystone XL Pipeline, calling it "basically a fuse to a carbon bomb," Parkin said.
Parkin said Bennet's votes mean he failed a "litmus test" to support the environment.
"He's claimed for a long time to be someone who cares about climate change," she said. "Yet he completely failed us on this vote."
The protesters chanted for about an hour and wrapped Bennet's office in "global warming crime-scene tape," Parkin said.
Several staff members came outside, but the group was not satisfied with their answers.
As the staff members left, the protesters formed a "human oil spill" by lying down on the ground, Parkin said.
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Filip Barankiewicz
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Filip Barankiewicz was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1986, he began his ballet training at the National Ballet School in his home city and performed in various ballets in Warsaw and Lódz. During that time Emil Wesolowski created a role on him in
The Way
. In 1991 he won the Waslaw Nijinski Medal. In 1995, he graduated and won the first prize at the National Ballet Competition in Poland. In the same year he was a finalist at the "Grand Prix d'Eurovision for young Dancers" in Lausanne. He continued his studies with Marika Besobrasova at the Académie de Dance Classique in Monte Carlo where he received a scholarship sponsored by the Nurejev Foundation and graduated in 1996.
Filip Barankiewicz joined the Stuttgart Ballet in the same year. He was promoted to Demi Soloist in September 2000, to Soloist in September 2001. His promotion to Principal Dancer followed in September 2002.
Filip Barankiewicz joins the Stuttgart Ballet on tours all around the world. Since 2003 he is dancing as a permanent guest with the National Theatre Prague, Czech Republic, where he performed Siegfried in
Swan Lake
as well as Petrucchio in
The Taming of the Shrew
and the title role in
(both: John Cranko) which he performed with different partners such as Tereza Podařilová, Sue Jin Kang, Maria Eichwald and Alicia Amatriain. Furthermore he appeared in several Galas in Prague, Poznań and Krakow as well as in Bodrum, Salzburg, Karlsruhe and Pforzheim. He also danced Petrucchio as a guest with the Ballet do Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, with the Norwegian National Ballet, with the Leipzig Ballet, with the Ballet of the Semperoper Dresden, where he danced with Leslie Heylmann in 2008 at her Farewell performance, and with the West Australian Ballet. In 2008 he also danced a Pas de deux from John Cranko's
The Taming of the Shrew
with Leslie Heylmann in Birmingham at the Farewell Gala for Desmond Kelly, the outgoing Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. In 2004 Filip Barankiewicz danced the male title role in
Romeo and Juliet
(John Cranko) as well as the role of Albrecht in
in 2006 as a guest of the Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Lisbon. In 2009 he also danced Romeo at the Vienne State Opera with Polina Semionova as his Juliet. In 2003, 2006 and 2009 Filip Barankiewicz has been invited to the World Ballet Festival Tokyo, Japan where he danced with internationally renowned female dancers Alessandra Ferri, Alina Cojocaru and Maria Eichwald. In 2010 he guested with Maria Eichwald at the Polish National Ballet in his hometown Warsaw in John Cranko's Onegin. At the beginning of 2013 Ballet Director Ivan Cavallari invited him to dance Basilio in the World Premiere of
Don Quichotte ou l'illusion perdue
by Rui Lopes Graça at the Ballet de l'Opèra du Rhin. In November 2013 he danced the Pas de deux
My way
(Stephan Thoss) with Alexander Zaitsev at the Gala during the Festival "Three Centuries of World Ballet" on the occasion of the 240th Anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. On March 29, 2014 he danced with the famous Japanese dancer Miyako Yoshida at the NHK Gala in Tokyo. In April 2014 he was part of the performance when Roberto Bolle was awarded the UNESCO medal in Paris.
Filip Barankiewicz also successfully completed his ballet pedagogue education in 2003. Besides dancing Filip Barankiewicz now also works as guest trainer at the Polish National Ballet in Warsaw as well as at the Ballet of the Czech National Theatre Prague. At the Stuttgart Ballet he coaches rehearsals of
The Taming of the Shrew
(John Cranko) and
(prod.: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina). In 2014 he will also coach the rehearsals of John Cranko's
at the Royal Swedish Ballet Stockholm and at the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki. During his stays in Stockholm and Helsinki he also gave class.
Leading and Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
A Streetcar Named Desire (John Neumeier): Allan Gray, Doctor, Paper Boy
Corps (Hans van Manen)
Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Green
Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Basilio
Edward II (David Bintley): Gaveston, Warwick
Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián): Couple in Black
Fratres (John Neumeier)
Gaîté parisienne (Maurice Béjart): Offenbach, Friend, Pas de deux "The Lovers"
Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Albrecht, Peasant-Pas de deux
I fratelli – The Brothers (Mauro Bigonzetti): Rocco
Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): 1st Movement
Krabat (Demis Volpi): The Master
La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton): Colas. Widow Simone
La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss, after August Bournonville): James
Las Hermanas (Sir Kenneth MacMillan): Pepe
Le sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
No More Play (Jiří Kylián)
Onegin (John Cranko): Onegin, Lenski
Orma (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Return to a strange Land (Jiří Kylián)
Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio
Serenade (George Balanchine)
Siebte Sinfonie (Uwe Scholz): male leading role
Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
Swan Lake (John Cranko): Prince Siegfried, Benno
The four Temperaments (George Balanchine): Sanguinic
The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): Moondog
The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): des Grieux and Gaston
The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Carabosse, Prince Desiré, The blue Bird, Prince of the East, Ali Baba
The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): male leading role
The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Petrucchio, Hortensio
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine): male leading role
Two Pieces for HET (Hans van Manen)
Urlicht (William Forsythe)
Specially created Roles
(Im)paired Ground (James Sutherland)
Igor Poems (Kevin O'Day)
Nautilus (Wayne McGregor)
nocturne (Christian Spuck)
RED in 3. (Jorma Elo)
The Shaking Tent (Marc Spradling)
The Way (Emil Wesokowski)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers
Antigone.Thyristor.Theben (Corinna Spieth)
Further Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
5 Tangos (Hans van Manen)
Arena (Glen Tetley)
Ashes (Daniela Kurz)
Brouillards (John Cranko)
dreamdeepdown (Kevin O´Day)
Jeu de Cartes (John Cranko)
Kleines Requiem (Hans van Manen)
Les Bourgeois (Ben van Cauwenbergh)
Now and Then (John Neumeier)
Song of the Earth (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)
Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
The Flame of Paris (Wassili Wainonen): Pas de deux
Troy Game (Robert North)
Vers un Pays Sage (Jean Christophe Maillot)
Voluntaries (Glen Tetley)
Tours and Guest Performances
Paris, Italy, Japan, South Korea, USA, Luxembourg, Bangkok, Singapore, Macau
since 2003 permanent guest at the National Theater Prague: Siegfried in
Swan Lake
, Petrucchio in
The Taming of the Shrew
and the title role in
(both: John Cranko)
Petrucchio in
The Taming of the Shrew
(John Cranko) also as guest with the Ballet do Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo, the Leipzig Ballet, the Ballet of the Semperoper Dresden and the West Australian Ballet
2003, 2006, 2009: 10th, 11th and 12th World Ballet Festival in Tokyo
2003: Gala in Cremona, Italy, with Alessandra Ferri
2009 and 2010: Roberto Bolle and Friends
2012: Hommage à Marika Besobrasova, Benefit Gala in Florenz
2012: XI. St. Petersburg International Ballet Award Dance Open
2012, 2013, 2014: performances at the Aids-Gala in Salzburg
2013: Basilio in the world Premiere
Don Quichotte ou l'illusion perdue
by Rui Lopes Graça at the Ballet de l'Opèra du Rhin
2013: Pas de deux
My way
(Stephan Thoss) with Alexander Zaitsev at the Gala during the Festival "Three Centuries of World Ballet" on the occasion of the 240th Anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy
2014: NHL Gala in Tokyo with Miyako Yoshida; Aids-Gala in Salzburg; performance when Roberto Bolle was awarded the UNESCO medal in Paris
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With Angels Contracts Complete, It's Time for Starting Lineup Roulette
With this week's news that the Angels have reached one-year deals, avoiding arbitration with both Eric Aybar and Alberto Callaspo, the team appears to be mostly set for the season. Although, I don't think anyone would mind another reliable arm for the bullpen, should it just happen to present itself and, you know, except for the "will they be ready or won't they" injury situations with Mark Trumbo and Kendrys Morales. Hey, you can't have everything, right? …except, perhaps, when Jerry Dipoto is starting off his Haloed tenure with a bang, so we'll see. *whistles softly*
At any rate, traditionally this is the time to start predicting lineups, rotations and such. But, let's be honest. Being an Angels fan adds a certain layer – or, like 10! – of, shall we say, complexity to this age old pastime. Oh, I can predict the starting rotation with ease and a fair bit of certainty: Jered Weaver, Dan Haren, C.J. Wilson, Ervin Santana and Jerome Williams. And don't think I didn't all kinds of delicious little shivers up and down my arms typing that list of names just now. The 2012 starting rotation rocks. Hard. But moving past that and on to predicting the lineup? That's another story. This is, after all, a Mike Scioscia team, she types with affection.
The boys at Hot Stove proposed this starting lineup shortly after Albert Pujols was signed:
And as lineups go, it makes a certain amount of sense. But it has two major flaws. 1) Relegating Trumbo to a part time DH role (What a waste! At that point, trade him.) and, even more importantly, 2) it only allows for 4 different variations. Four…Amateurs! 😉
First, let's consider the leadoff spot. Sosh will never stick to just one leadoff man. Yes, Aybar will fill that role frequently no doubt, but expect to see Peter Bourjos and Macier Izturis (provided he isn't eventually part of trade for say, a bullpen arm, just to pull something completely out of thin air) in the leadoff spot a fair number of times as well. And then there will be those really random days, when Sosh is either feeling extra spicy or he thinks the guys need a kick in the pants. On those days we might find Howie Kendrick, Mike Trout or even Alberto Callaspo striding to the plate ahead of everyone else. You just never know with Scioscia.
Then there's the cleanup spot. Albert Pujols is clearly the logical choice. But sometimes Scioscia likes to mix things up and bat the toughest slugger in the 5th spot. At that point you might see Trumbo or Morales take a turn batting 4th. And should the offense start to enter any lengthy slumps (Which you won't do in 2012, right guys? Right?) expect to see some downright crazy things take place with the cleanup spot. In 2011 Maicer batted 4th in, I believe, two games.
And, really, that's only the beginning. Torii's natural place in the lineup is batting 3rd. But when he has an off week or two, expect to see him moved to batting 2nd…at which point he is likely to change his walkup song to Movin' On Up again because, is there anyone who has more fun during a game than Torii? As much sure, but more? Nah, didn't think so.
You can be sure that Trout and Bourjos will play in the same game many times throughout the season. And, in addition to taking the leadoff role some of the time, Bourjos will probably bat 2nd a few times as well. And the minute Trout comes into his own at the plate, Chris Iannetta is likely to see some time in the 9th spot – it's an Angels catchers' tradition, after all. Alberto Callaspo consistently has one of the highest batting averages on the team. He's sure to spend some time batting 2nd or 3rd. And what of Bobby Abreu? So far I haven't heard any noise about trading him. If he's still with the team come Opening Day, I'm sure there will be several lineup variations featuring him at DH too…
…And this? This is just what I have come up with typing darn near stream of consciousness for a few minutes. Imagine what Scioscia will come up with given an entire season to plot and plan? That said, is any of this constant lineup shifting effective? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. On the average, I'd say it's probably neither a good thing, nor a bad thing. It's just Scioscia's thing. And we fans gripe about it when the team is losing and joke about it with affection when the team is winning. Either way, I'll not be attempting to diagram all of that variation into one master lineup, slash marks or not, thank you very much. 🙂


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Cascade FCU Backs Up No Merger Vow With Cash if It Reneges
If you're a recent member of Cascade Federal Credit Union in Seattle and the credit union merges, you'll have a little more money in your account, thanks to a no merger guarantee.
The credit union has put it in writing on its Web site saying if, as the result of combining with another financial institution, one of three things happens within two years of the original membership, Cascade Federal will pay members $100. The guarantee applies if the credit union changes its name, alters a member's account number or closes a primary branch.
This is not a gimmicky, new trend. Dale Kerslake, president/CEO of Cascade Federal, said the guarantee actually dates back to 1997 when members complained about mergers at other financial institutions they belonged to. At the time, several community banks had merged and members were frustrated. To reassure them that a merger wouldn't happen at Cascade Federal, the no merger promise was made.
Kerslake noted that since the credit union doesn't plan on taking any of those three steps, it's really a non-issue. The credit union adds about 100 new members each month, so if the guarantee were ever paid it would cost the credit union about $250,000. With assets of $258 million and $27 million in net worth, the payout wouldn't be significant.
"I was accused by one of my fellow CEOs of offering the guarantee as kind of a poison pill. It would be a pretty small pill," Kerslake quipped.
While he doesn't condemn all mergers, he acknowledged some skepticism towards them.
"In general, I think some mergers are a good idea," Kerslake said. "But probably too many of them are cases of management looking to make things better for themselves and putting themselves ahead of the credit union."
Would Kerslake reconsider if a small, struggling credit union approached Cascade Federal seeking a merger?
"I've been here for 30 years," Kerslake answered. "I have actually had several offers to merge with smaller credit unions. I guess I was naïve in thinking we could help the smaller credit union. In every case, those credit unions ended up merging with another credit union, so I really didn't accomplish anything."
He added "I think small credit unions are very important to the overall health of the industry. Each time we lose a credit union, we lose 10 volunteers. In the last five or six years, we've lost 3,000 credit unions, so that's about 30,000 volunteers who are no longer in our grass roots ranks."
Although the guarantee is for people who joined Cascade Federal, Kerslake said if he were to take in a smaller credit union, he would probably apply it to members of that credit union.
While he doesn't think the pledge has drawn a lot of members who wouldn't have joined Cascade Federal, it does offer a little reassurance that members won't experience frustration that will cause them to look for another financial institution.
Kerslake said he hasn't seen other credit unions adopting a similar guarantee but if it sounds worthwhile, simply do it, he suggested. As far as he's concerned, it's pretty straightforward.
Denny Graham, president/CEO of FI Strategies LLC, a strategic planning firm in St. Louis, has offered advice on encouraging members to approve mergers. He thinks Cascade Federal has made a wise move.
"There are a lot of good reasons for credit unions to merge, but there are also a lot of good reasons for healthy credit unions – and Cascade is one – to stay independent," Graham noted "So if that's their policy, why not say so?"
Graham said "I haven't heard of it as a trend, but clearly there are a lot of credit unions that have no intention of being acquired. If that's the case, why not make it public? It's a great PR move. The public is certainly tired of seeing signs changed on their financial institution."
He agrees with Kerslake that even if Cascade Federal had to pay off on its promise, it wouldn't be a major blow. Looking closely at the guarantee, he figures that even if a merger did occur, it really wouldn't affect that many members.
While other credit unions may not have a written policy, some have taken a no-merger stance but have simply not publicized that decision, said Tom Glatt Jr., founder of Glatt Consulting in Wilmington, N.C.
"If I were on the board or a member of the management team, I wouldn't want to restrict my flexibility," Glatt explained. "You never know when a merger possibility may present itself, and certainly if it makes sense and is truly beneficial to the members, you're adding another cost you have to account for in evaluating the merger decision."
Glatt said "at the end of the day, if they're inclined to pay that kind of dividend to facilitate a merger, they're just stating publicly the strategy they've decided on. I don't know that I'd advocate it, but it's certainly interesting."


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Square Looks to Keep Multiplying Processing Business
Debit card transaction volumes have increased because a combination of technology and innovative entrepreneurs. And that has helped push the cash cards into parts of the payments universe where they have never been before.
Now, a person can use their debit card to, for example, pay a professional like an accountant or therapist, pay a tradesman on site such as a plumber, contractor or tree removal firm, or buy fruit at a farmers market.
One leading firm exemplifying this new payments expansion is Square, a San Francisco-based company that has been revolutionizing the approach to payments with technology, design, customer service and pricing advances.
Founded only four years ago, Square has grown to now process more than $10 billion in payments per year for some 40,000 retail merchants across the country, up from only 200 in 2011.
Further, 7,000 Starbucks coffee shops have adopted it and if all of its transactions were at one retail store, the company would be the 20th largest retailer in the U.S, according to company spokesman Faryl Ury.
Ury said the company targeted small retailers, professionals and others which had never taken cards before as its first market, but soon found that other retailers were looking for a simpler, sleeker and more customer friendly way of processing payments.
"Square was a great solution for cash-only businesses that wanted to accept credit cards," Ury wrote in an email response to questions. "However, we have seen tremendous Square adoption among larger brick-and-mortar businesses. Many of these businesses already had ways to accept credit cards – but still chose to switch to Square because (of what) we offer."
The first benefit is a relatively low entry price. The company claims a business can get up and running with Square quickly, easily and cheaply compared to the previous requirements for setting up a point-of-sale system.
Companies that already take cards are attracted to Square because the hardware and software are free and the pricing is very simple. Square charges 2.75% per card swipe or $275 per month. "This monthly pricing can bring down fees to as low as1.3% per swipe," Ury wrote.
Further, Square provides a wealth of transaction data at no charge to users. "Store owners might be wondering: Do we sell more candy or more chips? Do frozen food sales go up during dinner time or on the weekends?" Ury said.


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|Heyne assists a child on the Cavour, an Italian aircraft carrier off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following the devastating earthquake in 2010. The ship provided an operating room and a computed tomography (CT) scanner for earthquake victims. Heyne helped transport patients and served as an interpreter between Italian and U.S. physicians. (Photo Courtesy Tommy Heyne)
On a recent morning, just a few days before embarking on yet another challenging journey to serve God, Tommy Heyne traveled to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Grapevine to pray. Heyne grew up in nearby Southlake and some of his earliest memories of his Catholic formation are rooted at St. Francis. On this day, the graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas prays that God will continue to guide him along a path to become a medical missionary to serve the poor. And equally important, he prays that he can carry out his calling with humility and a smile.
It was in this church that the beloved pastor of St. Francis, Father Baltasar Szarka — known affectionately as "Father B" — gave young Heyne some simple, yet valuable advice.
"I was really young, but I remember," said Heyne. "It was just after confession and I was leaving the confessional. Father B called me back and just said, 'And one more thing: Just smile. Smile for God.'"
Fr. Baltasar passed into the arms of God in 2000, but his words continue to resonate with Heyne, especially as he studies the life of one of his most admired servants of God — Blessed Mother Teresa.
She gave this advice about helping those in need:
"Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well."
Heyne would take that advice to heart, combining it with the cheerful example set by Saint Francis of Assisi, who said, "It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
"I just pray that I can be that way," said Heyne. "But I catch myself sometimes looking too serious. I want to be a cheerful physician."
Heyne's next greatest challenge in doing just that will unfold during the coming four years as the North Texan embarks on a residency in pediatrics and internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The young doctor's acceptance at the hospital, ranked as one of the top five in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, is well deserved.
A 2006 graduate of the University of Dallas in Irving, Heyne finished tops in his class with a 4.0 GPA, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Bachelor of Arts degree in History, with a concentration on Medieval/Renaissance Studies. He then earned a Master of Studies in Theology: Early Church History at the University of Oxford, in England, where he also achieved top marks in his class. Heyne then completed a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in religious history in Granada, Spain. In 2008, he started medical training at UT Southwestern Medical School. And this past May, Doctor Thomas F. Heyne graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
From all these schools, Heyne excelled not only in academics, but in leadership roles, earning special honors. The long list includes the University of Dallas Cardinal Spellman Award, recognizing a senior who is a model of the highest ideals of the University, and the Ho Din Award, the highest honor given to a medical student at UT Southwestern.
Heyne would rather not dwell on the awards or the accomplishments and tries to put distance between any talk that would come even close to being prideful.
"It comes from God," said Heyne. "It's no special thing of mine. All these things obviously are gifts freely given, and as gifts, they don't belong to us."
God bestowed gifts on the entire Heyne family of 10, including his father, a medical doctor, his mother, a physician assistant with a doctorate in psychology, and seven brothers and sisters who all have strong faith and a desire to serve others, including two doctors and two nuns.
Heyne will continue to put his God-given talents to good use, as he pursues his goal to become a medical missionary abroad — either starting his own hospital or assisting as a physician at a clinic.
|Heyne is pictured with a group of orphans that he cared for during a mission trip.(Photo Courtesy Tommy Heyne)
Heyne's desire to follow that course comes from extensive experience gained in serving those in need in different parts of the world. He has volunteered with pediatric cardiologists to help indigent children in Honduras, assisted in earthquake relief efforts at a Catholic hospital in Haiti, and worked in remote mountain settlements of Peru to provide religious education for villagers and health care for the poor.
Heyne has also served at the Lazarus Home for Girls, an orphanage in Al-Eizariya, on the Palestinian West Bank. He has made five trips to Ciudad de los Niños, in Monterrey, Mexico, where he worked at a school and clinic for the poor. Heyne has worked with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in a soup kitchen in Italy and at homes for the destitute and dying in Calcutta, India. In addition, he has made mission trips to Uganda, Ethiopia, and China.
When not volunteering his time abroad, Heyne has worked hard at home assisting at health fairs and medical clinics, helping the homeless, and volunteering as an assistant chaplain at Parkland Memorial Hospital, to name a few local service activities.
"A force of nature," is what Dr. Angela Peterman Mihalic called Heyne. As Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Student Affairs at UT-Southwestern, Mihalic has had the opportunity to witness Heyne's success.
"Well before starting medical school, he had already established a new student organization on campus, the Catholic Society of St. Basil the Great, and it did not stop there," Mihalic said. "He has been instrumental in the creation and invigoration of many student initiatives as well as the establishment of a formal Global Health office on campus. His leadership, tenacity, commitment, and determination to leave no stone unturned in pursuit of his passions and goals are unparalleled.
"The most remarkable part is that his passions and goals are always centered on serving the poor and addressing healthcare disparities," Mihalic added. "His mission has always centered on emulating Christ's example of love, charity, and service, and inspiring others to follow suit. Tommy has always chosen the road less traveled, and I believe he will make all the difference to patients across the globe."
Heyne works hard to keep the accolades and awards in perspective. His goal is not to accumulate wealth or gain recognition, but simply to move along the path that God set for him.
|In Calcutta, India, Heyne worked at homes for the sick and dying run by the Missionaries of Charity. He is shown here with Mother Teresa's successor, Sister Mary Prema." (Photo Courtesy Tommy Heyne)
There are times when Heyne feels assured he is headed in the right direction, such as when he was in Calcutta earlier this year, performing basic tasks at a Missionaries of Charity home for the destitute and dying. Heyne washed clothes, mopped floors, and spoon-fed the hungry. He recalled a special moment when he was feeding an elderly man, too feeble and sick to speak.
"I was feeding him spoon after spoon of rice and vegetables. He was eating it very slowly. Just chewing it. Then he grabbed both my hands and looked up at me. And he had such a look of peace and love on his face.
"I am no mystic, but that was God," said Heyne. "There was no doubt to me that Jesus was in this man, and in the blind and the sick there. That sort of thing is just a beautiful moment. And they don't come that often — those moments of touching Christ, or, rather, Christ touching you."
There are other moments when Heyne feels inspired to carry out his mission, such as when he visited a terminally ill patient at a local hospital. Heyne asked the man if he would like to join him in prayer. The man only shrugged, indifferent to the question. Heyne proceeded to pray, asking God to look with compassion and loving care on this man and that He give him his peace, show him mercy, and shower him with love. At the end of the prayer, the man — who died later that night — responded, "Amen."
"God is the one who does the healing," Heyne reasoned. "We can give the medicines, but ultimately the body is what heals. Similarly with the spirit, God is the one who gives forgiveness and gives healing of spirit, but we can provide suggestions, encouragement, and prayers along the way."
As Heyne works at his challenging medical residency, filled with long days and nights in Boston, he will continue to ask God to make him an instrument of his plan. And he will do it with a smile on his face and humility in his heart, because Heyne still hears the words of his parish priest in Grapevine, who said, "Just smile. Smile for God."
The young doctor will be guided by the actions of Mother Teresa and St. Francis, who carried out their work to serve the sick and dying with smiles on their faces, and he will follow his goal to help the poor around the world with his special talents and compassion for their plight.
"Any act of mercy toward a person's body is to the entire person, therefore to Christ living in that person," said Heyne, adding that he feels blessed to face the challenges involved in being a physician.
"It's a beautiful gift, an enormous responsibility, and a huge honor."
On a recent morning, just a few days before embarking on yet another challenging journey to serve God, Tommy Heyne traveled to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Grapevine to pray.


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3 Google Moves Signal End of Smartphone Era
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Connect the dots among the three big moves Google made this month to dump Motorola, snatch up Nest, and make peace with Samsung, and what do you get? I see the end of the smartphone era.
MADISON, Wis. Connect the dots among the three big moves Google made this month to dump Motorola, snatch up Nest and make peace with Samsung, and what do you get?
I see the end of the smartphone era -- or more accurately, the international consumer love affair with smartphones. The honeymoon is over. I'm calling it now.
Google's decision to sell Motorola's mobile assets (sans a majority of its IPs) to Chinese behemoth Lenovoisn't exactly signaling Google's defeat, or even America's defeat against China.
I see some overheated media reports blaming Google for failing to deliver its promise: "...to reinvent mobile hardware with Motorola's new phones, and directly compete with Apple by owning both mobile hardware and software."
Just as much as I want to keep manufacturing jobs in America, I don't fault Google for this decision. The new Google-Lenovo deal shows a significant recognition by Google that the company has little to gain by hanging on to the smartphone hardware business.
Added values are in peripherals
Now, contrast this decision against Google's $3.2 billion purchase of Nest.
Nest's Learning Thermostat and Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm are both designed to connect to one receiver: the Nest app on a smartphone.
The value here isn't the smartphone itself, but in peripherals -- the software and hardware that run Nest. The smartphone, a mere messenger for these functions, is fast becoming a commodity.
To be sure, I'm not forecasting the eclipse of the smartphone. Smartphones will still be ubiquitous for years to come, their value intact. But the smartphone's key function will be a modem, attached to a myriad of connected devices and technologies.
In short, the world is about to flip.
Gone is the conventional wisdom of cramming more and more bells and whistles into smartphones so that smartphones can morph into something else. Emerging is a new world where the existence of smartphones is a given. Added value, where new competition will unfold, is not in smartphones themselves, but in "peripherals" (some call it the Internet of Things) that will leverage the smartphone's connectivity.
Now, let's add these two events (dumping Motorola and buying Nest) to last Sunday's patent truce between Google and Samsung.
That move will "short circuit" the drawn-out legal wrangling we see today, as Francis Sideco, senior director of consumer electronics and communications technologies at IHS, told EE Times. The "eventual reality" perceived by both companies is that nobody wins hands down in any litigation. While winning some individual cases and losing some, the net loss for both sides is in time and energy, and in the vast sums squandered on lawyers, Sidesco explained.
But more to the point, the significance of the Google/Samsung cross-licensing agreement, as Ron Epstein, principal at Epicenter IP Group, put it earlier this week, is this: "The [smartphone] platform battle -- initiated by patent wars -- is coming to an end."
Clearly, both Google and Samsung are seeing the value of doing business together by trading patents.
The flip side of this détente, though, is the maturing of the smartphone business. If we were still in the early days of smartphone innovation, this wouldn't have happened.
The end of an era
The end of an era for smartphones is a difficult prospect to face. After all, the smartphone market has been the engine of the electronics industry in the last several years. And yet, think about this: For a few years, other than the screen size of a handset, the industry hasn't been able to significantly improve or differentiate the smartphones on the market today.
The state of the smartphone industry today bears a striking resemblance to the moment in 2005 when the novelty of notebook computers began wearing off and IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo.
The difference now is that the PC business then was predominantly owned by Taiwanese (and some Japanese) companies. The smartphone business for the next decade will be dominated by (mainland) Chinese OEMs including Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, and many other names still unfamiliar in the United States yet.
As many of my engineer friends in China would tell me, Lenovo has a stellar reputation for technology, quality, talent and discipline. (In contrast, from what I gather about ZTE, not so much.) Lenovo is also ambitious. Last year, it even assembled a team of engineers to start developing its own application processors for smartphones -- in order to differentiate their products.
Nobody better take lightly what Lenovo can do.
In an environment that will be marked by a declined smartphone innovation, Apple's next move -- virtually the first major initiative in the post-Steve Jobs era -- will be huge.
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— Junko Yoshida, Chief International Correspondent, EE Times