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Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, it is a pleasure to appear before you today to address the Ocean Shipping Reform Act ("OSRA"), which amended the Shipping Act of 1984 ("Shipping Act"), the primary statute used by the Federal Maritime Commission to oversee the ocean transportation industry. With me today is Thomas Panebianco, the Commission's General Counsel.
The Commission is in the midst of a two-year study to identify industry practices and evaluate the effects on the transportation industry of the changes made by OSRA. We plan to issue a report detailing the results of this study next summer. As I testified at the Judiciary Committee hearing on March 22, 2000, we have some preliminary signs that OSRA is working as Congress intended, bringing more competition into the marketplace. We plan to issue an interim status report this summer and my testimony today will offer a preliminary analysis of the results gathered thus far.
As you know, Mr. Chairman, OSRA's amendments to the Shipping Act have dramatically altered the way business is done in the ocean transportation industry. The cornerstone of the new legislation is the ability of shippers and carriers to enter into individual service contracts. Service contracts are still filed confidentially with the Commission, but fewer essential terms are made public, carriers can negotiate with more than one shipper, and they are not required to offer the same contract to any similarly situated shipper. In addition, the parties to the contracts can agree to keep them confidential from anyone else. This new scheme clearly creates an environment ripe with opportunities for developing specialized relationships, tailoring contracts to shippers' particular needs.
Another major change involves the system for making tariff information public. OSRA eliminates the requirement that carriers file their tariffs with the Commission, and instead requires carriers to develop and utilize their own electronic systems for notifying the public of the prices and practices applicable to their various shipping services. The Commission is authorized, however, to prescribe requirements for the accessibility and accuracy of carriers' automated tariff systems.
With respect to agreements, OSRA has maintained antitrust immunity for concerted carrier actions. However, agreements may not prohibit service contracting by their members. Moreover, agreements are precluded from requiring members to disclose their service contract negotiations or the details of any contracts they have entered into. Also, although an agreement is free to publish general guidelines applicable to members' individual contracting practices, these guidelines must be voluntary and non-enforceable by the agreement. And, the notice period for independent action has been reduced from 10 to 5 days.
OSRA requires that all ocean transportation intermediaries ("OTIs") in the United States, rather than only ocean freight forwarders, obtain a license. Further, the Commission was instructed to reevaluate the amount of financial responsibility required to be furnished by these entities and to establish an alternative procedure for pursuing a claim against an OTI's financial responsibility.
Finally, specific changes have been made to enhance the Commission's ability to guard against both predatory pricing and the types of activities that create unfavorable conditions in our foreign trades.
Mr. Chairman, as discussed more fully in my testimony during our authorization hearing on February 29, 2000, the Commission engaged in several rulemaking proceedings to implement the mandates established by OSRA. Rather than describe again the details of those rules, I would like instead to discuss the state of the industry after operating under OSRA and the new rules for the past year. However, I would like to note that since OSRA's implementation, we have refined a couple of areas to better address the industry's concerns. First, in response to a petition filed by an association of OTIs, we lessened the restrictions governing who could be a qualifying individual for purposes of obtaining an OTI license. In addition, we adopted a definition of ocean common carrier to better reflect the practical workings of the industry. And finally, we are in the process of drafting a notice of proposed rulemaking, reflecting industry suggestions in the original rulemakings to implement OSRA, to modify the content standards for agreements filed with the Commission.
We have had an explosion in the number of service contracts filed, over 112,000 filings including original contracts and amendments, representing an increase of 116 percent compared to the same period in the previous year. Our initial, cursory review of these contracts has indicated that, in general, the vast majority are individual service contracts between a single carrier and a single shipper. Most contracts thus far are confined to a single U.S. trade lane or area with a duration of 12 months or less. The level of minimum quantity commitment for the majority of contracts is 100 TEUs or higher. One major impact of OSRA's reforms thus far is that shippers and carriers are entering into individual service contracts negotiated one-on-one. The other terms of the contracts are generally standardized at this point, with few new features appearing at this time. It is likely that more time will be required before contract provisions begin to change significantly. While the opportunity for more innovation in contracting is available, it appears that it has not yet been taken advantage of on a wide scale. We expect, however, that during the second contract cycle under OSRA, we will see many more individually tailored contracts.
A high percentage of contracts, 83 percent of those reviewed thus far, do not contain confidentiality provisions. It is up to the contracting parties to determine whether and to what extent they wish to protect their contract terms from disclosure to others. The majority of those that have confidentiality provisions specify complete confidentiality with no disclosure to third parties. Many of those that allow for partial confidentiality contain language allowing the carrier party to disclose terms to the secretariat or another member of an agreement filed with the Commission. Others specify that the carrier party must not disclose terms to another shipper, and the shipper party must not disclose terms to another carrier. As part of our interim status report, we also hope to discern to what degree, and in what manner, shippers and carriers are using confidentiality provisions in their service contracts.
We also are focusing on the status of the shipper party to service contracts. At this point, it appears that for both original service contracts and amendments, the majority of contracts are with shippers identified as owners of the cargo. Among the other groups, contracts with NVOCCs account for a significant portion, while the number of contracts with shippers' associations is proportionally the smallest. Of the original contracts we have reviewed thus far, the average percentage dispersion is 75.3 percent owners, 20.3 percent NVOCCs, and 4.3 percent shippers' associations.
The role of agreements since OSRA likewise has undergone a transformation. We have seen a dramatic decline in the number of traditional rate-setting conference agreements, from 32 in 1997 to only 22 today. The major Pacific conferences dissolved on May 1, 1999, coinciding with OSRA's effectiveness. The major conference in the Atlantic has declined from 17 members to only 7 in the past two years, and we have seen a similar move away from conferences in the Japan and Latin American trades as well. The ability of those that remain to influence market behavior has been substantially weakened by OSRA's pro-competitive changes.
Operational agreements such as vessel sharing agreements are now the predominant form of agreement being filed with the Commission, reflecting carriers' changing focus away from rate- setting and towards increasing operational efficiencies to cut costs and improve service. These types of agreements, which allow carriers to share vessels and integrate their operations in ways which reduce the cost of terminal and shoreside service, equipment use, and information and electronic data management, have provided greater efficiencies in the marketplace and improved the use of the carriers' assets. These greater efficiencies are very beneficial to all market participants because the benefit of these efficiencies would be expected to be passed on to shippers in the form of lower rates, given sufficient competition in the market.
Conferences have been supplanted in large part by discussion agreements. Unlike conferences, discussion agreements do not set fixed common prices for numerous individually-defined commodities, nor do they negotiate contracts or interpose themselves between carriers and customers. Discussion agreements, however, do provide carriers an opportunity to perform trade-wide economic analyses, and a forum to coordinate the process of implementing rate increases or stemming sharp declines in rates, subject to FMC oversight. In many ways, discussion agreements represent a substantial improvement over traditional conferences, in that they do not interfere with shipper-carrier negotiations and relationships, and they afford carriers far more flexibility to tailor rates and services to meet the needs of particular shippers.
But, discussion agreements do have a number of potentially anti-competitive characteristics that necessitate close, ongoing monitoring and oversight by the Commission. For example, their inherent flexibility has made them attractive to traditionally independent lines; as a result, they have been able to amass market shares generally higher than the conferences that came before them. For instance, the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement ("TSA"), the discussion agreement which replaced the conferences in the Pacific trades, has a market share close to 85 percent. Moreover, discussion agreements also have shown themselves to be particularly effective in certain market conditions at enabling carriers to effectuate across-the-board price increases, such as general rate increases and the imposition of surcharges.
Ultimately, whether the decline in conferences and the rise in the looser discussion agreements will result in greater competition in the liner shipping market depends on how effective discussion agreements are and to what extent their members adhere to their voluntary guidelines. Agreements are permitted under OSRA to adopt, on a strictly voluntary basis, collective guidelines with respect to the contents of and the sharing of information concerning their members' individual service contracts. Those guidelines are filed confidentially with the Commission where they are reviewed in the context of existing economic conditions and carrier agreement activities in the affected trades to ensure that they will not result in an unreasonable increase in transportation costs or unreasonable reduction in service.
Since OSRA went into effect the Commission has received eleven sets of guidelines. Nine of the guidelines were filed by discussion agreements and the remaining two were filed by conferences. One of those conference guidelines was put into place in a trade which also has a discussion agreement that filed guidelines - those guidelines are identical.
The guidelines on file with the Commission cover most of the major U.S. trade lanes, with the only major exception being in the trade between the United States and the nations of the European Union. Though each set of guidelines takes a different approach, they share certain broad characteristics. The most common elements found in the filed guidelines are minimum rates for specific commodities, general rate increases, and a variety of specific charges such as surcharges and fees. They also include limitations on the duration of contracts and language allowing the termination of contracts 30 days after the minimum cargo quantity terms have been met.
A few discussion agreements' guidelines also specify the minimum volume necessary to qualify for a service contract, set limitations on credit and discount policies, and agree on set percentage increases for inland rates. Some guidelines also involve a voluntary agreement to provide information to other agreement members and/or the agreement secretariat about guidelines being negotiated.
Some discussion agreements have also suggested standardized service contract confidentiality language in their guidelines. For example, TSA, which made its initial guidelines public, suggested service contract confidentiality clauses which state that member carriers may provide information about pending contracts to other member lines and to the secretariat, provided the shippers' names not be included.
A preliminary analysis of several of the largest agreements which file voluntary service contract guidelines shows that overall carrier compliance with the guidelines has been limited, depending on the trade in question. However, we will make a much more detailed analysis of voluntary guidelines in the interim report due out this summer and the final report the following summer. In the meantime, I remain concerned about the role voluntary guidelines will play in the future, particularly with the declining influence of conferences and the growing presence of discussion agreements. OSRA fundamentally changed the way the public accesses rates and charges for transportation services. The Commission is no longer the repository for this information; instead, OSRA requires carriers and conferences to publish their rates in private, automated tariff systems. These tariffs must be made available electronically to any person, without limits on time, quantity, or other such limitation, though a reasonable charge may be assessed for tariff access. The Commission is charged with prescribing requirements for the "accessibility and accuracy" of these systems; the periodic review of these systems; and the prohibition of the use of systems that fail to meet the Commission's requirements.
Since May 1, 1999, when the OSRA tariff publication requirements became effective, the Commission has been reviewing the accessibility of tariffs. The Commission's staff experienced a number of tariff access problems in the first few months following the implementation of OSRA and has worked with several tariff publishers to help them comply with OSRA requirements.
In January 2000, the staff conducted a second audit to see if any changes had occurred. That audit found that tariff systems had different strengths and weaknesses. For example, one tariff system does not charge access fees, but a user must spend several hours to locate a rate because of poor search features. Another tariff system provides a commodity search feature, but does not provide access to historical tariff information. Yet another system provides historical tariff information, but does not provide user instructions. Overall, the Commission's review found that while some tariff systems provide excellent, user-friendly access, others appear to limit the public's ability to access tariffs. Therefore, the Commission issued a press release and a circular letter to alert the industry to certain tariff deficiencies, including inadequate or complex user instructions, lack of commodity indexes, difficulty accessing historical tariff information, too much time to download information or slowness in moving between functions, and excessive fees or minimum monthly requirements. The industry was advised that the Commission plans to work with the industry and to offer its assistance to ensure appropriate public access to electronically published tariffs, but was further notified that the Commission intends to implement corrective action when necessary should informal attempts to achieve statutory compliance prove unsuccessful. The Commission voiced its hope that the industry will cooperate to ensure that tariffs are the information tools envisioned by OSRA.
In addition, the Commission is planning to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments on a proposed Commission regulation that would define a "reasonable charge" for tariff access. A review of tariff access fees indicates that the level of some fees appears to be excessive and that some carriers require monthly minimums that may effectively make their tariffs inaccessible to the general public. The informal complaints received by the Commission concerning tariff systems predominantly have concerned the level of access fees. For example, it has been brought to the Commission's attention that, in some tariff systems, a public user who wanted to check one term of a bill of lading or one rate would have to subscribe to a tariff for a minimum of three months at a cost as high as $1,500. The Commission believes that, if an access fee is to be assessed at all, a reasonable charge for providing public access under OSRA and the Commission's regulations should be minimal.
OSRA created a new entity, the ocean transportation intermediary, which is defined as an non-vessel-operating common carrier ("NVOCC") or an ocean freight forwarder. For the first time, all OTIs in the United States, rather than only ocean freight forwarders, must obtain a license. Moreover, in response to industry comments, our rules provide a means by which foreign NVOCCs may obtain a license if they choose. The rules also establish a range of financial responsibility to be established by forwarders, NVOCCs in the U.S., and foreign NVOCCs, as well as branch offices. OTIs can furnish surety bonds, insurance or guarantees, but thus far, have utilized only surety bonds. In fact, 90 percent of those bonds are underwritten by only 9 sureties. Further, the rules establish an alternative claim procedure by which a claimant may seek to settle a claim with a surety, or other financial responsibility provider, without requiring a court judgment.
Some NVOCCs appear dissatisfied with some elements of OSRA, particularly their inability to enter into service contracts with their shipper customers in their capacity as carriers. Congress clearly addressed this issue and determined not to grant NVOCCs this authority. This decision has generated some complaints about carriers' antitrust immunity. As a consequence, Chairman Hyde introduced a bill, H.R. 3138, which would repeal this immunity. A hearing on H.R. 3138 was held on March 22, at which I testified. I opposed the bill primarily because OSRA, with its new restrictions on the use of antitrust immunity, should be given a chance to work.
OSRA allows, for the first time, labor organizations to obtain information from ocean common carriers pertaining to who is responsible for certain work at dock areas and within port areas in the United States. Ocean carriers must disclose such information if they are subject to a lawful collective bargaining agreement and must provide the information within a reasonable time. In the rulemaking implementing the service contract provisions of OSRA, the Commission defined a "reasonable period of time" as two days if cargo is due to arrive in less than five days, but four days if it was due to arrive more than five days from receipt of the request. To date, we have not received any complaints, formal or informal, concerning a carrier's refusal to respond to a request. We assume that if requests are being made for such information, the exchanges are occurring smoothly. If not, the Commission stands ready to address any problems.
Mr. Chairman, our preliminary assessment of OSRA is that it is working as intended. The boom in service contracting with individual lines, the decline in conference activity, the steady numbers of intermediaries continuing to do business, and the general expressions of satisfaction I have heard from diverse industry sources all suggest that some, if not all, of the objectives of the OSRA amendments are being met. To be sure, it is too early to tell if other opportunities presented by OSRA will be seized upon, such as OSRA's encouragement of custom-tailored and innovative service contracts, and the new authority for multi-shipper service contracts. Another service contract cycle will give us a better idea if the new statutory flexibility has translated into all the anticipated benefits. In other areas, such as the impact of voluntary guideline authority and the accessibility of privately published tariff systems, the Commission will remain vigilant in ensuring that Congress' objectives are being met. If in any of these areas, or in areas yet to be identified as potentially troublesome, the need to consider further revisions to any of our shipping statutes is indicated, we at the FMC will certainly advise you. My personal view is that ongoing review and assessment of our statutes is essential in order to ensure that our regulatory system is fair, up-to-date and appropriate for the industry's ever-evolving conditions and needs. In that regard, I commend the Subcommittee for its interest in OSRA's effects to date, and I look forward to working with you in the future.
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Joey Votto, a cornerstone of the Reds' rebuilding movement, is hitting .345 with 13 home runs and 45 RBIs in his third big league season. Last year, he batted .297 with 24 homers and 84 RBIs.
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Make a brush bot, a simple robot that uses vibration to skitter, spin and dance around. No soldering required. Recommended for ages 5 and older. $5 per adult/child pair, plus NYSCI admission. (NYSCI Members: $3 per adult/child pair.) Register on the day of the event at the NYSCI admissions area.
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Adelina could go for 2 2A3T's too, if she manages to do this combo like she did at TEB more consistently, it would be a huge point-getter.Originally Posted by drivingmissdaisy
I'd rather prefer her focusing more on being clean though too. She did a way better job of interpretating the music and selling the program too in the LP compared to the SP. That confidence is worth a lot more than an additional triple, especially if everything else about your skating is so good.


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Why would anyone buy a Windows Restricted Tablet? oh yeah restricted apple.
Microsoft can't even shift Windows 8 slabs in the middle of a tablet frenzy
Microsoft can't tap into the fast-growing tablet market, according to new figures that reveal lacklustre sales of Surface RT and other Windows 8 slabs. Canalys figures for Q4 show a 12 per cent growth in the worldwide PC market, fuelled by a 75 per cent rise in tab shipments to 46.2 million units. Notebooks sales were flat (58 …
Instant reaction
Burn, baby, burn. A year of commentators and journalists and tech writers telling them it would not fly, but they knew best.
Bwa hahahha snerk ha ha
Re: Instant reaction
Good news... your life is obviously so empty that I'm glad a story like this comes along to make it a bit more worthwhile.
Re: Instant reaction
Hello pot, kettle calling...
Re: Instant reaction
I'm not an apologist, I don't really give a crap beyond having a personal preference. I certainly don't get all frothy-mouthed and punch the air based on how a giant multinational corporation is doing.
You bunch of losers. All those stereotypes Linux users are so extreme, it's hard to believe they're basically true but you guys exemplify them.
Re: Instant reaction
Yep everyone said the UI was a confusing mess and now people are voting with their wallets by keeping them firmly in the pocket.
Re: Instant reaction
Not so much keeping them in their pockets as pulling them out for Apple or Samsung.
The only reason I can think of wanting a Windows tablet is to run my old programs, none of which are tablet oriented (ha!) so I'll need that keyboard and mouse (whoops, now it's not really a tablet anymore!)
Many people bought a PC to do email, social, read, play, without any genuine need for Windows, just the brower or software which ran in it. Now apps abount for tablets along with all new games, etc. Why by Windows brand if you never really needed it and have nothing tying you to it now?
Tough sledding for Microsoft, they do not understand their users after decades of telling them they knew what was good for them.
Humble pie a la mode for Microsoft.
Re: Instant reaction
JDX has a vested interest. He is praying Microsoft stay relevant long enough for his locked in skill set to last until he retires. Point and click, point and click.
Re: Instant reaction
I am not a linux person - in fact, as an ex MCT my skillset is MS. But even I find it funny. Not because I hate MS, not because I love everything non-MS, either, but because I hate the arrogance of corporations who fail to listen to the customers and the industry - regardless of them being MS , apple or whoever. And I love it when they get fail afterwards. MS did not learn from the ribbon (they knew best) and here is another example.
It's not just anti-ms perople laughing - i'm laughing too. The question really is, why aren't you?
Re: Instant reaction
"! MS cheerleaders slagging off MS critics"
..... coming from the biggest Linux cheerleader who slags off Linux critics...
Re: Instant reaction
Actually, most MicroTrolls these days are being PAID to insult Microsoft's customers. I wonder how THAT marketing strategy is working out for Microsoft? Probably about as good as the 1.5 billion U.S. they spent marketing Windows 8/Windows RT/Surface RT.
Re: I hate the arrogance
I expect few Penguinistas hate MS's arrogance as much as those of us who use MS products when they do a generally good job. They may make more frothing and foaming noises, but if you aren't using the product, it just isn't the same.
Re: Instant reaction
How sad and lonely is your life? You lead a life devoid of any point! MS cheerleaders slagging off MS critics for not having a worthwhile life is hysterical!
They were warned.
I'm an MS guy, but I have never forgiven them for the Ribbon, so I sure as hell was never, never, never going to buy an operating system with the same problems in the UI.
It was said a million times, "We hate stupid little icons." "We multitask." etc.
Microsoft's response? Contempt.
Re: They were warned.
Couldnt agree more!
MS's UI design teams lost the plot long ago and have been getting it wrong ever since. Infact its almost like they've had a chip on their shoulder about usability since MS Bob. The list of errors is long, but Ribbon is top of the list, followed by Metro on the desktop / server OS, black and white visual studio.
Re: They were warned.
To be fair, windows 8 works well on a tablet. It is unbearable on a desktop loaded with apps and complete hell on earth with a trackpad. The main problem with RT (or surface when it arrives) is sheer cost. A tablet is a tool for a job (in my eyes) and there are far cheaper alternatives.
Re: They were warned.
Unbearable? Maybe I have my fortitude than you.
Re: MS's UI design teams
I'm not sure exactly who (I suspect the executives, not the drones), but somebody at MS is spending too much time reading the Apple PR and not reading enough of their customer responses.
Our chief weapon is contempt!
Contempt, and an inability to listen to the customer!
Er, our two chief weapons are contempt, an inability to listen to the customer, and knowing best!
Er, our three chief weapons are contempt, an inability to listen to the customer, knowing best, and refusing to sell the OS the customer wants!
MS hurries out and comes in again.
Among our chief weapons are...
Re: Contempt!
That sounds more like Apple than MS. ASking customers what they want and then making it generally leads to a horrible product. Companies SHOULD take bold moves in designing their answer to a problem... but they need to be right.
Re: Contempt!
If you do not admit your love for Windows 8 we will bring out ....
Microsoft Clippy.
[du Du DURRRRR!!!]
Re: Contempt!
@JDX - by all means offer new products; but to bet the company on it? A little tick box on the web page when you buy a new computer offering the choice of what the user is used to or something new will tell them whether people want it or not... restricting new computers to only this choice that it seems few want is not the way to make friends and influence people.
Bold moves, yes; only bold moves, no. As you said - it has to be *right*.
Re: Contempt!
We used to have a Comfy Chair, but Ballmer broke it.
Re: Contempt!
Jobs rebuilt Apple based deciding what people should have, listening to nobody even other Apple people.
But of course, he also pretty much ran it into the ground by deciding what people wanted.
I'd rather MS made bold moves and got it wrong.. we can always leave MS products... than that everyone sat there doing nothing.
Re: Contempt! @JDX and Jobs
Jobs rebuilt Apple deciding for users, but he actually knew that what he was pushing would be accepted. And he had his Reality Distortion Field to pull it off.
MS is copying Apple yet again, but this time they're pushing something that they KNOW nobody wants, their market studies point elsewhere but still they push it trying to pull a Jobs sans RDF. This is what happens.
At this point, defending MS is as bad as Eadon's MS trashing, if not worse.
Re: Contempt!
Agreed, it's the Ford Edsel of the Tablet world...
Re: Contempt!
coffee on keyboard, nailed that one lol.
Re: Contempt! @JDX and Jobs
Before Jobs returned to Apple, the head of Sony's design house (back when they were good) had already stated that listening to focus groups was a waste of time. "We're designing things they haven't seen before. The sentiments actually go back to Henry Ford - "If I asked people what they wan't, they would have asked for a faster horse". Sony, and Japan at large, got a head start with transistor devices because the US had a lot invested in manufacturing vacuum tubes... decades later, Sony lose out because they were too slow to abandon their investment in (very good) CRT televisions and removable-media audio devices.
A designer (in the sense of "form engineer") is increasingly called upon to design for people other than him or herself - populations are getting older "could I still use this with arthritis?". You should study people, perhaps observe them with a stopwatch and notepad- but not necessarily implement what they ask for.
I really can't understand why MS introduced the Ribbon Interface without a hand-over period from menus. I have software that allows me to use a ribbon-like command manager, menus, customisable toolbars, context menus and pie menus - the choice is completely mine.
Since MS didn't get to tablets first people didn't expect or want tablets to be Windows compatible. Unfortunately MS butchered their desktop OS so they could sell expensive tablets aimed at a non-existent market just because they carry the Windows name, but the funny thing is that Windows RT tablets aren't Windows compatible either so aren't worth the extra.
I think I'd prefer WinRT tablets if the desktop was not present at all... Metro is a perfectly good touch UI but desktop is just ugly on a 10" screen with no keyboard.
Actually MS -did- get to tablets first, just a long time before the public wanted them...
Re: Actually...
They just crowbarred Windows into other formats. A laptop running XP without a keyboard and with a resistive touchscreen does not make what people consider today to be a tablet. Same goes for mobile phones.
MS can't win
MS did actually make quite a number of early attempts at tablets - stylus based, keyboardless PCs & the like. They were of course too heavy, too restricted in what they could do, and the keyboard/mouse oriented user interface didn't really work too well without either.
Now in the Surface they have made a device that's light and portable, has a decent touch-screen user interface, and people won't buy it because it's largely incompatible with the non-tablet Microsoft systems that they have become habituated to.
They are essentially victims of their own earlier successes, having themselves sown and nurtured the seeds of their eventual destruction. I don't say any of this out of sympathy - I have none for them, and I hope the company continues to decline.
Re: MS can't win
indeed, there were loads of CE devices too. Loads of EPOS systems ran on CE "tablets".
Re: Actually...
>>Remember this point, the public now want computers (mobile and even desktop) that do not run MS operating systems.
The public don't know what an operating system is. They just want something they have heard of, and in the phone/tablet market that isn't something MS is able to achieve.
Re: Actually...
Yes, I remember i pic with this well dressed woman from HP (not Meg) who tried to hide the thing.
Third it and throw in the cover-keyboard (should come with it on all models) and then maybe.
Windows 8 problems are many
But the fact it dumbs your PC down from a all singing all dancing productivity tool into a simple media consumption device is the biggest.
Windows Phone problems are many, but the biggest problem is lack of apps, and the fact it's Microsoft.
Windows Surface problems are many, but to try and single one out, "It's not Apple or Android", and has no apps.
neither was its lack of tab devices.
You mean the lack of non-Windows tabs? Dell have both RT and Pro tabs.
Re: neither was its lack of tab devices.
To reply to my own message...
Just received some Dell junk mail. They have the Latitude 10 Tablet (Windows 8 Pro) on sale for $699 (claim $323 off). Guess no one wanted to pay a grand for a netbook with a touch screen.
Same strategy?
The analyst is clueless if he thinks that access to the app store is a big issue for Surface Pro, which DOESN'T NEED special apps.
Re: Same strategy?
Doesn't need special apps?
So all those mouse and keyboard designed apps don't need any changes to make them usable let alone pleasant on a touch UI?
You're living in a dream world :-)
If you can't own the market..
..then buy it! a 60% cut for a windows rt tablet looks like a good price point to compete with Android.. worked for HP


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One of the nicest pleasures in the summer is to sit on the porch swing in the early morning coolness and watch the day unfold. The sun has yet to peep out over Pilot Knob, and mist covers the deep hollows on the mountain. The songbirds are tuning up for the day, enticing the sun to come on up and bless our day.
The cows venture out of the barn and begin to crop the sweet grass in the meadow. In the chicken house, the laying hens are beginning to stir and quibble among themselves. It is a peaceful, contented scene, and it calms the spirit to sit and rock while enjoying a cup of tea. Our world has not fully awakened, and quietness spreads over the landscape like a blanket.
Soon the silence will be broken by the busyness of the day—but right now, it is a blessed respite from the cares of life. The chores will begin; Minnie and Sparky will follow Criss to the barn and chicken house, pausing briefly to bark at the squirrel feeders hanging on the tree. Sparky's consuming desire is to catch a bird; he tries to creep up on a robin that is intent on catching a worm. At the last minute the robin takes flight and the dog chases it through the air, barking furiously.
We have a family of catbirds in the mulberry tree, and they love to steal the cat food. They swoop across the porch, light on the cat's bowl, and fly away with a dry morsel in their beak. I suppose they are feeding their young ones. Catbirds are a delight—they mimic other birds and many other sounds. They are welcome to the cat food.
Dog days made its simmering way into our hills on the third of July. Lasting for 40 days, they will end on August 11. During this time, humid air, mold and mildew and clogged salt shakers will be rampant. Dog days derived its name from the Dog Star, Sirius, which rises and sets with the sun during this period. It is the hottest part of the summer. An old country preacher once stated, "The Lord can keep you through dog days and fly time!"
It may just be an old wives tale, but it is believed widely that if dog days set in dry, it will be dry for 40 days. Likewise it sets in wet; it will rain for 40 days. Whether this is true or not, it did rain on the first day, and it has rained every day since. It was once believed that dogs go "mad" during this period, but that possibly came from the fact that dogs salivate more during this hot period.
I have heard also that snakes are blind during this time, and there is a grain of truth in that. When snakes shed their skins, there is a milky change in their eyes and their eyesight is temporarily impaired. Snakes grow more in warm weather, thus shedding their skins more often. I do know that snakes are more numerous during this time.
We were never troubled much with poisonous snakes until Interstate 79 was being built at Amma. Evidently, the blasting disturbed the copperheads and they began showing up in our area. I know there is a theory of "live and let live," but I don't want them living along the creek bank and fields here where our grandchildren play.
I suppose there have always been poisonous snakes back on the hills, and in isolated spots. When Andy was just a kid, he was scouting around in Hick's Holler. Looking down, he saw a copperhead coiled up at his feet getting ready to strike. He looked around for a stick, and saw another one on the other side of him. Fear lent wings to his feet, and he made it home in record time. He decided they could claim Hick's Holler.
Daddy kept a big blacksnake up at the barn for years. He said it cut down on the rat population (which most small farms have a problem with) and it grew nice and fat. He forbade anyone to kill it. I reckon it died of old age. Criss has no such qualms. He has always been paranoid about snakes. After he had by-pass surgery, he suffered for nights from snaky nightmares. One night he grabbed me in a death grip, muttering something about snakes. He said afterward that snakes were coming up through our mattress!
Mom had a morbid fear of snakes, which wasn't helped by an experience she once had when we were camping at William's River. There were no toilets there at that time, and as we camped in a tent, we had no bathroom. We were taught that when we had to "go" out in the woods, to dig a hole and then cover it up. Mom had on a pair of bib overalls, and just as she adjusted them and started to squat down, she saw a big rattlesnake almost under her.
We heard her come crashing through the underbrush and briers, trying to run and hold up her overalls at the same time. She was brier-scratched and bloody, but safe. She referred to her wounds proudly as "her snake bite!"
Criss and my brother Larry were picking blackberries (they were camping) up on Gauley, and Criss remarked, "This looks like a snaky place!" Larry scoffed and replied, "Why, I've been picking berries here for 30 years and never saw a snake." "You better look behind you," Criss said softly. Sure enough, there was a huge rattlesnake stretched out behind him. Criss quickly dispatched it, skinned it, and brought home three and half pounds of meat.
Matthew and his buddy Larry claimed the meat, which they grilled and pronounced "delicious!" Criss and I wouldn't touch it; then Matthew went a little too far. His daughter Rachel was just a baby, and he attempted to feed her some. Criss went livid, and threatened to give him a whipping. "The Lord cursed the snake," he shouted. "It's not meant for us to eat it!"
Genesis 3-14 does say this, "Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life." Verse 15-"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
I think I will pass on the rattlesnake meat.
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Arizona State remembers the end of the 2011 Territorial Cup all too much.
The Sun Devils battled back from an early two touchdown deficit to build a 10 point lead in the fourth quarter only to cough it up and eventually come up short on a last chance throw from Brock Osweiler to Mike Willie as time expired.
The ensuing scene of Arizona players planting their flag on ASU's midfield logo has played in the minds of the Sun Devils throughout the year as motivation for when the rivalry is renewed in Tucson on Friday.
"We came out there and beat ourselves," ASU senior safety Keelan Johnson said. "We didn't execute a lot of things and that's one of the things we're going to focus on this week. When they were down here they stomped on the Pitchfork. That's one of the things I'll remember and I'll use it to my advantage when I play."
ASU might need all the help it can get, mentally and physically. For the entirety of the 2012 season, the Wildcats (7-4, 4-4 Pac-12) have been a dominant team at home.
The only loss the team suffered in Tucson came against Oregon State by three points in a game UA probably should've won easily.
"It's a hostile environment," ASU junior wide receiver Kevin Ozier said. "The fans are screaming at you when you take the field. You have to really focus in on the game at-hand and not let that stuff get to you."
While ASU and UA's offenses both run at a high-tempo, they distribute the ball quite differently. The Sun Devils utilize three running backs in their system to go along with a cast of different wide outs who get the ball evenly.
The Wildcats, on their other hand, don't share the wealth as much. Their top two wide receivers, sophomore Austin Hill and senior Dan Buckner, boast a combined 126 catches this season while the next closest pass catcher has just 32.
In the ground game the discrepancy is even more striking. UA sophomore running back Ka'Deem Carey has rushed a whopping 250 times this season for 1,585 yards, which leads the nation.
For perspective, ASU's leading rusher, senior Cameron Marshall, has only rushed 118 times.
"I think he is one of the best running backs we've played and we have played some pretty good backs," ASU coach Todd Graham said. "He is as good as there is. He is, no question, the guy you have to stop and it is a tall order to do that. Not many people have even come close."
Benefiting from opposing teams trying to lockdown Carey, UA senior quarterback Matt Scott has turned in a very impressive season to date as well. He leads the Pac-12 in yards per game with 300.8 and also has rushed for 443 yards.
Last week against Utah, however, Scott was ill and struggled in the game, completing just 12-of-27 passes for 160 yards.
"I thought Matt was good, he wasn't his sharpest though," UA coach Rich Rodriguez said. "He missed some throws that he's made all year. He was really sharp in the run game. He ran until he threw up. Conditioning is a big deal for him but he's in good shape."
While the Wildcats' offense stacks up favorably against any in the conference, the defense hasn't delivered anywhere near the same type of success. UA ranks 10th in the Pac-12 in scoring defense, 11th in total defense, 11th in rushing defense and last in pass defense.
In Pac-12 play, the Wildcats have given up 105 points more than ASU.
Individually, UA junior linebacker Jake Fischer ranks second in the conference with 98 tackles this season. Junior cornerback Shaq Richardson is fifth in passes defended with 13. He had two breakups against Utah to go along with nine tackles.
"I thought Shaq played more aggressively Saturday overall, both in the run and pass game," Rodriguez said. "That is what we needed. Many times he wasn't as aggressive as he could have been on the perimeter. I thought in last game he was a bit more aggressive in the corner position."
Injury-wise, sophomore cornerback Jonathan McKnight has been hobbled recently but still is expected to play Friday. He leads the team with three interceptions this year.
"He is banged up a little bit, so are a lot of guys," Rodriguez said. "He's been doing that all year. I don't know if he's been 100 percent in a week all season. The offseason is going to be huge."


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Ethiopia doesn't have the world's most sterling reputation. Many people think of "famine" and "drought" when the country's name is mentioned. But the Ethiopians are lucky, in the sense that Starbucks has forged a connection between the parched and war-torn nation in northern Africa and yuppie coffee swillers across America who just adore the subtle fruity undertones of the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe blend. So the country went to a branding firm to come up with a logo to stick on all of its coffee, to make people think of it as more of a luxury item. The logo is pictured. It looks like it should be in lime green on the side of can of a new and exotic type of energy drink. Instead, it's on the oldest energy drink ever. The kind that comes from Ethiopia (and is not qat)! We wish the country well in its yuppie-swindling mission, but we would have gone with a logo that's a little more cutting edge, with both hipster appeal and a strong connection to Ethiopian history. Like this:


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As water temperatures climb into the mid 80s, experts warn swimmers to beware of potentially deadly amoebas.
According to infectious disease specialist Dr. Juan Diaz, cases of amoebic infection are most common in the southeastern United States during the late summer months. Dr. Diaz says swimming in shallow water can increase your risk. He also advises against jumping into the water without plugging your nose, and says use caution with water sports.
"If you're going to be doing any type of recreational activities that involve water going through your nose, you should wear nose clips."
Dr. Diaz says the first symptom of an infection is often a loss or change in taste, followed by symptoms similar to meningitis, like neck stiffness, headaches, and confusion. The average incubation period is five to seven days. According to Dr. Diaz, the mortality rate with this type of infection is 98%
"We don't want to cause hysteria, but if you have the proper link and symptoms, the faster you come in, the more likely you are to have a better outcome, which is bleak to start with," said Dr. Diaz.
Amoebas are only a concern in fresh water sources, like lakes and rivers.
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Mets Short Hops: Game 2
Wagner falters in ninth after Delgado's big night
By Chris Girandola / MLB.com
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Carlos Delgado homered twice and kept his torrid postseason pace alive, but the Mets lost in nightmarish fashion as Billy Wagner allowed three in the ninth.
With a 6-4 lead, Guillermo Mota put two men on with two outs in the seventh inning. Mota got two quick strikes on Scott Spiezio and looked like he would escape any damage. But then, on an 0-2 count, he fired an inside fastball to Spiezio. The Cardinals third baseman, who was playing in place of Scott Rolen, lined it toward deep right. Shawn Green raced to the fence, leaped and nearly snared the fly ball. The ball bounced off Green's glove and back into play, and right-field umpire Tim Welke signaled that it was not a homer. Spiezaio had a two-run triple. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa came out to argue. All six umpires conferred and Welke's call stood, keeping the game tied at 6. Aaron Heilman entered the game and then forced Juan Encarnacion into an inning-ending groundout to second. Big number
13 -- Friday the 13th produced both the good and the bad for the Mets. First, the bad happened. In the third inning, with the Mets leading 4-2, the Cardinals' 13th batter of the game, Jim Edmonds, stepped to the plate with Albert Pujols on base and ripped a one-out homer to center to tie the game. The good came when Green prevented the Cardinals from scoring the 13th run of the game, but it was short-lived as the number 13 came back to haunt the Mets when So Taguchi homered in the ninth off Wagner to give the Cardinals a 7-6 lead and an eventual win. Game balls
4 Balls -- Delgado continues to impress in the playoffs, hitting two home runs, raising his postseason total to three. He has now hit safely in each playoff game and is batting .500 for the Division and Championship Series. 2 Balls -- Chad Bradford entered the game to start the fifth in relief of starter John Maine, who had allowed the Cardinals to score four runs and tie the game. The submariner retired five straight before allowing a two-out single to Yadier Molina in the sixth inning. 2 Balls -- Heilman prevented the Cardinals from taking the lead in the seventh and then, in the eighth, after putting a runner on with one out, got out of the inning with a strikeout and a groundout.
Sense of October
Delgado has definitely embraced the month of October. His solo homer in the fifth off Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter broke a 4-4 game and awoke the LCS-record crowd of 56,349 at Shea Stadium. Delgado's three-run homer in the first, a 440-foot blast to left-center, gave the Mets a 3-0 lead. Delgado is the fourth Met to hit two homers in a postseason game. Rusty Staub (Game 3 vs. Cincinnati in 1973) is the only other Met to hit two LCS home runs in one game. Gary Carter hit two homers in Game 4 of the 1986 World Series at Boston. Edgardo Alfonzo was the last Met to hit two homers in a postseason game (1999 at Arizona in Game 1 of the NLDS). Delgado tied Staub's club mark with four RBIs in an LCS Game. Staub also had four RBIs in Game 3 of the NLCS in 1973, vs. Cincinnati.
Carlos Delgado
5 AB, 2 H, 2 HRs, 4 RBIs
Comment: Delgado has hit safely in nine straight games, including the last four regular-season contests. Jose Reyes
Comment: Reyes reached base four times on Friday night. Pitching
John Maine
4 IP, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 H, 5 BB, 3 Ks
Comment: Maine was erratic to say the least, throwing 88 pitches in four innings, only 47 of which were strikes. Pitching
Chad Bradford
Comment: Bradford entered the game and held the Redbirds scoreless after Maine's outing. Aaron Heilman
Comment: Heilman stopped the damage in the seventh. Spoken
"He's been amazing. He got us started tonight, but we couldn't hold onto it for him. It's too bad."
-- Manager Willie Randolph, on Delgado
Next Step
Steve Trachsel makes his first LCS start and second career postseason appearance in Game 3 on Saturday, trying to help the Mets rebound from Friday's devastating loss in Game 2.
Chris Girandola is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Dave Nonis on his new two-year contract extension with Toronto:
"I'm very lucky. I have more to say about our team than some GMs do," said Nonis of his unique position as Brian Burke's right hand man. "It's not a job that's comparable with other positions around the league."
"If you look at our roster now and compare it to 16 months ago, it's not only different, it's younger and better," he said. "But we've still got lots of work to do. The job is not done by a longshot. There are more pieces to add."
Cox reports that one of those pieces may be 25-year-old center Roman Cervenka of Czech club HC Slavia Praha, perhaps familiar to you from his international appearances alongside Jaromir Jagr on Czech Republic's Olympic side in February.
Cervenka posted a 30-goal, 43-assist campaign in 50 games en route to a second-place finish with Slavia last season. He continued to lead his team in goals and points in the post-season with nine goals and fifteen assists in sixteen games. He was also a team-worst -5 throughout the playoffs despite his offense, however, hinting at one of the areas of Cervenka's game in need of work.
The offensive numbers would be made all the more impressive if second assists weren't recorded as is the case in many European leagues, but the Czech Extraliga started counting second helpers as of this season. Nonetheless, Cervenka, at 73 points, was the leading scorer across Europe and more than doubled the tally of Slavia's next leading points-scorer (Michal Vondrka at 35 points).
Another issue pertains to Cervenka's size at 5-foot-11, 187 pounds, which drew some concern from scouts as to his ability to translate his Euro success onto NHL ice according to The Hockey News.
Cervenka is currently centering the Czech Republic's top line between Jagr and Tomas Rolinka at the World Championships in Germany. With many top Czech players opting out of the tournament, Cervenka is being looked upon as a key piece up front in the Czech Republic's medal pursuit. According to Cox, the Leafs are closely monitoring his performance. Just how well he plays at the WC's could be decisive as Cervenka was not exactly a stand out at the Olympics with just two points in the tournament. So far, Cervenka is pointless through two after the Czechs downed France 6-2 (Cervenka's line was still responsible for three of six goals) and were upset by Norway 3-2 today in their first loss to the Norwegians since 1937. Interestingly, Mats Zuccarello-Aasen, another rumoured target for Leafs management who ultimately opted for the Rangers, scored in the win.
The Leafs' situation at center going into next season is unclear but with plenty of potential options, with Tyler Bozak, Mikhail Grabovski, Nazem Kadri all lining up for roster spots. Cervenka would help to create the type of roster-spot competition that wasn't overly present last season. Or as Alex Tran notes, he could potentially fit in on a wing position as well:
"Cervenka is an undersized playmaking forward, who at 5'11 187 lbs, would seem to be a better fit on the wing at the NHL level. He is your classic late bloomer, both in terms of skill and body type."
Leafs management has a few options they will no doubt explore back home in the unrestricted free agent market whether or not it works out. At the very least, the Cervenka interest represents Burke and Nonis' continued diligence in leaving no stone unturned.


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Wall Street jump takes stock index to 14-year peak on fading Ukraine worries
US stocks surged today, with the Nasdaq closing at a 14-year high as increasing homebuilder confidence and hopes for receding tensions in Russia gave investors reasons to make bigger bets on the equity market.
The Nasdaq Composite ended above 4,508, marking the first time since March 31, 2000, that the tech-heavy index closed above 4,500 points. The S&P 500 extended last week's gains, climbing to within 1 percent of an all-time high.
Homebuilders' stocks rose after the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index showed that homebuilder sentiment rose for the third straight month in August.
The PHLX housing sector index climbed 1.7 percent, lifted by a rally in major homebuilders, including PulteGroup Inc, up 2.8 percent at $18.78, and D.R. Horton Inc , up 1.4 percent at $21.13.
Ambiguity lingered in Russia, where tensions with Ukraine have recently rattled markets. Russian officials said that while all issues related to the country's humanitarian convoy to Ukraine had been resolved, progress had not been made on reaching a cease-fire.
Yet investors' appetite for stocks seemed little dampened by headlines from abroad. Brent crude oil hit a 14-month low as Kurdish forces made progress against militants in Iraq and the Kiev military reported new successes against pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average climbed 1.7 percent.
Airline stocks soared as oil prices slid. Shares of United Continental Holdings Inc rose 4 percent to $47.84 and shares of Southwest Airlines, the S&P's third-biggest percentage gainer, rose 3.6 percent to $30.82.
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 175.83 points, or 1.06 percent, to close at 16,838.74. The S&P 500 rose 16.68 points, or 0.85 percent, to 1,971.74. The Nasdaq Composite added 43.39 points, or 0.97 percent, to close at 4,508.31.
European shares also rallied as the market was encouraged by diplomatic efforts at the weekend to try and ease tension in Ukraine.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday a "certain progress" was achieved during talks between Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine in Berlin on Sunday, although there was no movement towards a ceasefire between government and rebel forces in eastern Ukraine.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares closed up 1.2 percent at 1,339.35 points. Germany's DAX rose 1.7 percent.
Equities were also bolstered by mounting investor hopes that the European Central Bank will resort to asset purchases in the coming year, with a Reuters poll of euro money market traders putting expectations of this at 50 percent.
German blue-chips - considered the most vulnerable to the tensions between the West and Russia - were among the top gainers on Monday. Continental AG, BASF and Siemens were up between 1.6 percent and 3.3 percent.
Autos stocks also brushed off the threat of possible retaliatory sanctions from Russia against Western nations, which according to Russian daily newspaper Vedomosti may include a ban on the imports of cars. The STOXX Europe 600 autos index rose 2 percent.
Japan's Nikkei was choppy today as geopolitical tensions checked risk appetite, but Chugai Pharmaceutical jumped on a media report that Roche Holding AG's may be close to sealing a deal to gain full ownership of the Japanese drugmaker.
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co soared 21 percent to a record high as Bloomberg News last Friday reported that Roche is in talks to buy the almost 40 percent stake in the Japanese company that it does not already own for about $10 billion.
Chugai denied the report over the weekend.
The Nikkei was flat at 15,319.23 in a volatile mid-morning session after booking a 3.7 percent gain last week, the biggest weekly rise since mid-April.
The Nikkei has lost almost 3 percent from a six-month high of 15,759.66 posted 2-1/2 weeks ago.
Investors were cautious as the four-month conflict in Ukraine reached a critical phase over the weekend - Kiev and Western governments are nervously watching if Russia will intervene in support of the increasingly besieged rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Shippers outperformed after the Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Friday thanks to higher rates for bigger vessels.
Mitsui OSK Lines gained 0.5 percent and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha soared 2.2 percent.
Exporters were mixed, with Toyota Motor Corp falling 0.4 percent, Panasonic Corp adding 0.3 percent and Honda Motor Co shedding 0.1 percent.
The broader Topix was flat at 1,270.35, and the new JPX-Nikkei Index 400 was also flat at 11,562.40.