text:
A major step forward and a post-2015 challenge | Sheelagh Stewart
24 Dec 2012
Rule of law is fundamental to development. People who don't feel safe and think that their property may be stolen or destroyed, do not invest in the future. Why buy seed if the harvest will be stolen? Why invest in a business whose profits will be swallowed by corruption? Who would send their daughter to school if they thought she was going to be raped on the way?
Communities that cannot deal with the past cannot move forward. Transitional justice, which allows post-crisis communities to address legacies of violence and hold perpetrators to account is therefore critical. Without transitional justice, no meaningful social contract is possible. In each case, the rule of law allows people to look forward to a brighter future, in which they find opportunities to achieve their potential and in which legal protection exists for all.
The world has shifted on its axis since 189 diverse Member States settled more than a decade ago on the MDGs, excluding any discussion of sensitive issues related to governance, access to justice, and human rights. But with the Cold War now long behind us and the Arab Spring having re-opened discussion of the social contracts that must necessarily underpin a cohesive community, we now find organizations such as the African Union, Council of Europe, and Organisation of American States all comprise regional human rights bodies of their own.
Rule of law and all it implies–transparency, accountability, and universal access to justice–are now squarely on the table. The question at hand then is how to institutionalize and operationalize this new consensus.
One pathway is the new UN Global Focal Point system, agreed in September, which will allow UNDP and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) to collaborate closely and quickly in supporting police, justice, and corrections in post-crisis and post-conflict settings.
Another will be the incorporation of rule of law in whatever targets succeed the MDGs. Member States agreed last September 24th to include the rule of law into the discussions of the post-2015 agenda. Possible inclusion of a goal related to the rule of law would be a major incentive for reforms.
We must now develop a set of relevant indicators, along with appropriate language making clear that sustainable good governance and rule of law are not benchmarks for but critical enablers of development—without which equal access to opportunity, health care, education, sanitation, and nutrition, for example, is simply impossible.
Talk to us: What indices should we use in assessing rule of law and how can we make them integral to development targets?


text:
VIDEO: Kent Bazemore gets loose for a nice dunk against the Kings
HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — Tiny Kelford, N.C., is a place where kids still play basketball outdoors on patches of dirt. Fortunately for Kent Bazemore, outside the three-bedroom, two-bath, single-wide trailer he grew up in with his mom, dad and younger brother, a concrete slab sat vacant. It was big enough so that if you put up a basketball goal at each end it would suffice quite nicely as a full-length basketball court, and a magnet for kids throughout rural Bertie County.
Thank goodness for that slab because Glynis Bazemore was dead set against her two young boys, Kent and WyKevin, going off to play basketball one block over at the park where they'd be out of her sight.
So she brought the park home.
"I'd have a yard full of guys on a Saturday on up until a Sunday afternoon because, understand you had to go to church," Glynis said. "After that they would play basketball until the sun went down."
The single pole with a light bright enough to play through dusk turned the Bazemore home into something of a rustic Rucker Park from the time Kent was an absurdly tall and skinny 10-year-old until he graduated from Bertie High School, a gangly, 6-foot-5 playmaker overlooked by every major Division I program.
"We had one [basketball] goal that went in and then the kids from our neighborhood, we put up some money, gave it to my mom, she drove like 30 minutes away, got us another basket and so we got another one at the other end and we would go at it," Bazemore told NBA.com during a recent telephone interview.
A Feb. 19 trade has elevated him from a towel-waving bench-warmer with the Golden State Warriors to a productive rotation player with his favorite team as a child, the Los Angeles Lakers.
"It got really popular. Other kids would drive from other parts of the county and kids would take like 25-minute drives, they were bringing their own groups of 4-on-4," Bazemore said. "We would have tournaments all day. A lot of nights you go home with big scars on your legs, falling on your hip on the cement and you had to play through it, you just kept playing. It's amazing how I'm able to still walk now going through the things I've been through playing in good, old Kelford, North Carolina."
Childhood dream realized in L.A.
In star-studded L.A., Bazemore, a free-agent-to-be, is getting a golden chance to audition for the Lakers as well as every other NBA club. An exuberant, high-motor, blue-collar gym rat, Bazemore went undrafted in 2012, one year after earning National Defensive Player of the Year honors as a junior at Old Dominion, where he graduated with two degrees ( criminal justice and human services). He wants to stick with the Lakers long term and relishes the possibility to play alongside his favorite childhood player-turned-teammate, Kobe Bryant, regardless of the growing tales of the superstar's grating, overly demanding ways.
"Shoot, that would be a dream come true, and with the track record he has, the body of work he has, I would be all ears," Bazemore said. "For a guy who's been through everything he's been through, playing half of his life in this league, winning multiple championships, why not listen? If I got to go against him every day, I know I'm not cheating myself, so I would look forward to it. In all honesty, I don't think he's that tough to play with. If he demands a lot, he just wants to be great. You can't really knock that."
Bazemore's camp believes if he continues to contribute as he has in his first 10 games, the struggling Lakers, seeking to rebuild their roster and needing inexpensive, athletic players around Bryant next season, will make the $1.1 million qualifying offer this summer. That would make Bazemore, 24, a restricted free agent and allow L.A. to match any team's offer. With no qualifying offer, Bazemore becomes an unrestricted free agent.
"The Lakers, I think," said Calvin Moore, Bazemore's former coach at Bertie High School, "found a diamond just like Old Dominion did."
In logging nearly 30 minutes a game in coach Mike D'Antoni's free-wheeling offense, the southpaw Bazemore is averaging 14.6 ppg on 45.9 percent shooting and 40.4 percent from 3-point range. He's started eight games and recorded career highs of 15, 17 and 23 points in each of his first three games, the latter coming against Indiana when he went toe-to-toe with Paul George, even frustrating the All-Star into 2-for-11 shooting in the first half of a game the Pacers eventually won. Nonetheless, Bazemore's presence, and his impressive wing span, were duly noted.
Moore sends many texts to his best and always hardest-working player from what were gritty BHS basketball teams filled mostly with football players. During the Pacers game, he couldn't stop messaging Bazemore. At halftime, he cautioned Bazemore to be alert for George's adjustments even though he knew Bazemore wouldn't see the texts until after the game.
"That's one of the things from high school: You're going to play defense, some things are non-negotiable," Moore said. "He just took it and ran with it and I think he can do the same thing for any team he plays with in the league."
Bazemore honed craft in Golden State
VIDEO: Kent Bazemore's passionate support on the bench was a hallmark of his Golden State days
In 44 games with Golden State this season, Bazemore averaged 6.1 mpg and 2.1 ppg. The Warriors swapped Bazemore's potential for the need-it-now veteran reliability of point guard Steve Blake. Bazemore said he holds no grudges and praised Golden State's ownership and management for inviting him onto their Summer League team in 2012 and then signing him to a two-year contract. He thanked the Warriors' coaching staff, saying "they were all out for my best interests" and blamed himself for the need for a trade by not being ready to assume the backup point guard role.
"Steve Blake is a great fit for them because I'm not your prototypical point guard and we experimented with that," Bazemore said. "That's my fault if you ask me. I wasn't ready to take on that role. They gave me every opportunity to show that."
Over the last season and a half, Bazemore put in lengthy hours with Warriors assistant coach Joe Boylan. The two formed a partnership and a friendship, and Bazemore said he will reunite with Boylan this summer to train. He wants to work on playing lower with the ball so smaller guards can't crowd his 6-foot-5 frame. (Boylan couldn't comment on this story because Warriors coach Mark Jackson does not allow his assistants to speak to the media in-season.)
"The thing with this league is you create relationships far beyond basketball," Bazemore said. "For me, playing right now, he's [Boylan] probably the happiest guy on earth. I would turn 45 minute-workouts into 2 ½-hour workouts just trying to make six shots from one spot when I first got to Golden State and he'd be the one chasing down all those rebounds.
"As time went on I got a lot better, the workouts got shorter and there were days where I would breeze through them. But we would always work hard; show up early, leave late."
Lessons from home still ring true
The foundation of which started with those scrapes and bruises on the cement court, but mostly from the ground rules set by and the constant encouragement from his mom. She worked three jobs for years up until only last month, finally deciding to give up the school-bus route as well as being a short-order cook at her brother-in-law's restaurant, Bazemore's Country Kitchen, which Kent swears serves the best food in Bertie county, population 20,000. She still has her job of the last 20 years, though: teacher's assistant at the local elementary school.
She instilled in Kent and WyKevin, a junior forward and third-leading scorer for Winston-Salem State University, humbleness and accountability, demanding nothing lower than a B in every class or no basketball.
She still texts both boys Bible scriptures and positive notes before every game they play. She still lives in the same house in Kelford where she watches every one of Kent's games on NBA League Pass, despite many 10:30 p.m. ET tipoffs. Even through all those Warriors games where her son didn't play, she never went to bed before 1:45 a.m., after Kent would reply to her postgame texts.
"I would text him I love him, you done good," Glynis said. "I don't care if he got 24 seconds."
When the Warriors played at Charlotte, about a four-hour drive from Bertie County, the Bazemores' church pastor organized a field trip for the Feb. 4 game. They took two buses that included some 40 kids from all over the county. Before they left, Bazemore sent money to his mom so they could all eat along on the way at Golden Corral. At the game, Bazemore signed autographs and took pictures with every person that came on those buses. He got in the game for 1 minute, 58 seconds.
"That's where he gets his humbleness from because he knows his struggles, he knows what's got him there and he knows what it takes to stay where he's at," Glynis said. "And just looking at him out there now, being with the Lakers, just being able to get that opportunity means a lot. That's all he wanted was the opportunity, and I know he has put the work in."
Bazemore's sudden outburst, combined with his size and upside, will assuredly earn him a contract next season. Whether it's with L.A. or elsewhere is irrelevant. For Bazemore, it's the natural extension of what he's always done: working to beat the odds.
"Coming out of high school I had this big chip on my shoulder," Bazemore said. "I would drool at the chance to get to play these teams that overlooked me and try to destroy them. But one thing they don't put on draft boards, one thing they don't say about kids coming out [of high school] is how hard they work and how successful they want to be.
"That's one thing you can't really measure in a kid."
VIDEO: Kent Bazemore talks after he signed his first contract with the Warriors

subset: commoncrawl


text:
I was surprised recently to find that it's possible to have a return statement in a finally block in Java.
It seems like lots of people think it's a bad thing to do as described in 'Don't return in a finally clause'. Scratching a little deeper, I also found 'Java's return doesn't always' which shows some pretty horrible examples of other types of flow control in finally blocks.
So, my question is, can anyone give me an example where a return statement (or other flow control) in a finally block produces better / more readable code?


text: 2014 Race Reports 2013 Race Reports Aston Martin GT4 Challenge 2012 Race Reports GT4 Challenge Partners Arco Daily Sports Car QuickSilver Exhaust Systems Post Vintage Michelin Cars Teams Series Partners History News Contact Arco Arco is the UK's leading safety company, distributing quality products and training and providing expert advice helping to shape the safety world and make work a safer place. Arco reaches its customers through its extensive product catalogue, interactive website and 42 strong local branch network, offering a world-class range of over 22,000 quality assured, branded and own brand products. Arco is proud to be a partner of Aston Martin, supplying PPE and branded clothing for the race support team for the second year running. Partner Information Products & Services: Arco offer a world class range of products including: • Clothing, Footwear & Gloves • PPE • Hygiene • Workplace Safety • Factory Equipment • Safety Signs • Training and Consultancy Location: Hull, England - 42 nationwide branches. Website: www.arco.co.uk


text:
We also train teachers throughout the United States and Canada on how to guide infants, toddlers, and children in developing a love of music with the Musikgarten advantage.
We demonstrate the many benefits children gain by taking part in our music and movement program, encompassing musical, physical, emotional, social and cognitive growth. We show our teachers how to use the Musikgarten curricula to support the learning process.
Musikgarten Around the World
Today there are hundreds of Musikgarten studios in North America. Additionally, the Musikgarten curricula have been adapted and are used extensively in several foreign countries, including Germany, Malaysia, Korea, China, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Taiwan.
Musikgarten Foundation
To further the reach of music-based learning, the Musikgarten Foundation was formed as a non-profit organization which brings superb pedagogy and teacher training to disadvantaged communities. Through the Musikgarten Foundation, a framework has been set up to facilitate this, and successful Musikgarten teachers are invited to apply for consideration by contacting Linda Robinson at email@example.com.
Musikgarten and the Environment
At Musikgarten we include nature as part of our classroom. We believe in the benefits of teaching children to value and respect our natural environment. Even our products and packaging are environmentally conscious.


text:
Difference between revisions of "Hege (Hegi, Hegy, Hagey) family"
GameoAdmin (talk | contribs)
(CSV import - 20130816)
(No difference)
Revision as of 18:55, 16 August 2013
Hege is a family name which spread widely through South Germany after members of the family settled there after the Thirty Years' War. The earliest traces lead to the Swiss canton of Aargau, where the name occurred frequently among the Swiss Brethren. At the end of the 16th century there were still some members of the family among the Swiss Brethren. They later emigrated when the government tried to compel them to join the state church. Among these was Ulrich Hege of Leerau.
The emigrants seem to have settled first in Alsace, but definite facts about the family are not known before the Peace of Westphalia. Members of the family appeared later in the Palatinate. The earliest information comes from Dühren in the Sinsheim district, where Rudolf Hege settled when he left Switzerland about 1656. On March 2, 1661, he took part in an evening service of Mennonites in Steinsfurt, near Hasselbach, and was therefore questioned by the authorities. In the government records he was not otherwise mentioned. In the church book begun at Mutterstadt in the Palatinate in 1676, the family name was entered for the first time in 1697 to note of the birth of Christian Hegi, the son of the surgeon Jakob Hegi (d. ca. 1733) and his wife Katharina. The spelling Hegi indicates Swiss origin; it was not changed to Hege until 1753. It is not clear, however, whether these Hegis were Mennonites. The family is not mentioned in the government lists for Mutterstadt, which generally listed all the Mennonites in the Palatinate. In the family list of 1724 the Mennonite Hans Kaegy is named as a renter.
Information concerning the spread of the Mennonites in the Palatinate was always given in the inventories of the government. The government monitored the Mennonite population to ensure that Mennonites did not exceed the set number of 200 families. The official lists are still preserved in the Generallandesarchiv of Baden at Karlsruhe. The first mention of the name Hege appears in these lists in 1716. At that time Daniel Hege was living in Branchweilerhof near Neustadt. He is also named in the registers of 1724, 1738, and 1743 as part renter of a farm. He died in 1748 and was survived by a daughter, who married Melchior Fellmann, and by seven sons: Christian, Johannes, Daniel, Heinrich, Samuel, Jakob, and Ulrich. Some of their descendants were living in the Rheinpfalz, in Branchweilerhof and members in the churches of Deutschhof and Kohlhof well into the 20th century. In the government lists of the Kurpfalz, only the oldest, Christian, and the youngest, Ulrich, are named. Christian Hege was hereditary lessee of the Branchweilerhof and is named as such in the family lists of the government in 1752, 1759, and 1769. He represented the Mennonites from the left side of the Rhine at the Immelhäuserhof conference of 14 October 1782. The conference was called by Abraham Zeisset, the elder of the Hasselbach congregation, to settle a dispute.
In the government list of 1769 the name Hege is entered for the first time in Mutterstadt. At that time Ulrich Hege, probably the youngest brother of the Christian Hege at the Branchweilerhof, lived in Mutterstadt. Ulrich was born about 1735 at Branchweilerhof, and in about 1762 he leased a farm in Mutterstadt. About 1770 he moved to Eppelheim near Heidelberg, where he died about 1783 at the age of 47 years. He is the ancestor of the family line that settled in Baden, Württemberg, and Bavaria. His oldest son, Daniel Hege (b. 1765) leased an estate in Schwetzingen and in 1811 in Mauer near Meckesheim. He was deacon of the Meckesheim congregation. In 1822 he took over the leased estate of Oberbiegelhof near Neckarbischofsheim, which was farmed by his family for nearly 100 years. He died in 1728 at the age of 73 years.
Of his sons, Ulrich Hege, born 7 April 1808 at Schwetzingen, was one of the leading elders of the Mennonites of Baden. He was ordained preacher in 1838 and elder in 1843. He was aware of the weaknesses of his congregation and worked successfully with the elders Christian Schmutz and Heinrich Landes for a spiritual revival. Although he had no theological education, he was an outstanding preacher. His sermons were simple, but powerful. He spoke with a thorough knowledge of Scripture, deep feeling, and a penetrating understanding. He put great emphasis on the personal attitude of the individual to God and to Christ. He was, therefore, less concerned with increasing the membership than with harmonizing personal life with the Word of God. He would not baptize an applicant if he noticed in the baptismal instruction that a serious intention to live a new life was lacking. Two letters have been preserved which he wrote with his fellow elders in July 1862 to David Sherrick and Elias Eby of Canada. These letters were published in a booklet by Elder David Sherrick in Preston in 1863. Ulrich Hege died on 8 November 1872. Four daughters and seven sons survived him. After his death most of his sons continued in the spirit of their father as elders of South German churches. Five of these were:
(1) Christian Hege (15 August 1840-18 April 1907) who was renter in Breitenau near Willsbach (Württemberg). He was preacher of the Lobenbach church (which later merged with the church at Heilbronn) after 19 October 1890, and elder after 28 January 1894. Christian was the author of the book, Einst und Jetzt oder Vergangenheit und Gegenwart unserer Mennoniten-Gemeinden (Reihen, 1890). From 1904 until 1907 he was the representative of the Weinsberg district in the Landtag of Württemberg.
(2) Jakob Hege (18 September 1844-9 May 1926) was first renter of the large Lautenbach farm near Neckarsulm, then renter in Hettstadterhof near Würzburg. He immigrated to Wisner, Nebraska in 1893, went to Aberdeen, Idaho, and died in Paso Robles, Cal. He became preacher on 9 August 1874 and elder on 23 May 1880 of the Lobenbach church. From 1880 until 1892 he served the Giebelstadt church. After he immigrated to North America, he served the congregations at Aberdeen and Paso Robles. In 1897 he published Christliche Gemeindezucht.
(3) Johannes Hege (5 April 1847-20 February 1911) rented in turn the Oberbiegelhof, Buchenhof near Römhild (Thuringia), and Liebenstein near Lauffen am Neckar. On 16 July 1876, he was ordained as preacher of the Hasselbach church, and later as elder. From 1886 to 1898 he served the congregation of Bildhausen-Trappstadt, and after 1898 the Heilbronn congregation.
(4) Philipp Hege (15 April 1848-1 May 1908) rented the Oberbiegelhof. He was ordained preacher on 22 June 1873 and elder on 23 October 1887 for the Hasselbach congregation.
(5) Daniel Hege (6 September 1836-5 May 1900) rented successively a farm in Neuhaus near Grombach (Baden), Bonfeld near Heilbronn, and Hettstadterhof near Würzburg. In 1880 he moved to Munich and from there directed the emigration of Mennonites from Baden to southern Bavaria, and helped to bring about a union between them and the Mennonites who were already living there, having emigrated from the Palatinate early in the 19th century. This union resulted in the organization of the church in Munich in 1892.
In addition, three sons-in-law of Ulrich Hege served as elders in the churches: (1) Daniel Bähr (1834-1905) was chosen preacher 11 June 1871, and elder 14 June 1874, of the Rappenau (Baden) congregation. After 1897 he served the Munich and Eichstock congregations. (2) Abraham Schmutz (1849-1924) was made preacher 15 April 1883, and elder 28 January 1894, of the Ittlingen congregation (now Sinsheim). (3) Daniel Lichti (1849-1928) was made preacher of the Giebelstadt-Rottenbauer church (now Würzburg) 18 January 1880, and later elder of the Donauwörth church.
Christian Hege (1768-1838), the second son of Ulrich Hege of the branch in Baden, settled in Bockschaft near Kirchardt. His son Ulrich Hege in Reihen (13 January 1812-13 June 1896) was elder of the Ittlingen congregation, as well as the founder, and for many years the editor, of the Gemeindeblatt der Mennoniten. In the name of the Aeltestenrat he published the new edition of the Leitfaden in 1876. One of his sons, Jakob Hege (December 1848-26 August 1911), was a traveling evangelist of the Mennonites of Baden, Württemberg, and Bavaria from 1876 on. Jakob also renewed connections with the Mennonites of Switzerland, and beginning in 1883 he promoted the spiritual life of the churches there by arranging and often conducting regular Bible conferences. In the churches of Baden he occupied a leading position after the death of the older elders. He officiated at most of the baptisms, marriages, and funerals in the Baden churches. After the death of his father in 1896 he was put in charge of the Gemeindeblatt. His brother Philipp Hege (7 November 1857-7 March 1923) was elder of the Heilbronn church, and during the trying war years he edited the Gemeindeblatt with skill and understanding. At the same time he was very active in the field of home missions (Jugendpflege) and in caring for the Mennonite refugees from Russia.
Some members of the Hege family were part of the mass emigration of Mennonites from the Palatinate to North America in the early 18th century. The first emigrant was Hans Hege from the region of Zweibrücken, who sought a new home in Lancaster County, Pa. with his brother-in-law, Hans Lehmann. They arrived in Philadelphia on Sept. 27, 1727 on the ship, "James Goodwill." The Genealogical Register of the Male and Female Descendants of Hans Hege states that the Hege family there is of Swiss origin. Several descendants of Hans Hege were preachers in Mennonite Church (MC) congregations, among them W.W. Hege of Marion, Pa.
On 28 August 1750, Nicolas Hegi landed on the shores of North America. Today the anglicized form of the name occurs frequently as Hegy or Hagey. The (MC) Hagey Mennonite Church (now Preston Mennonite Church of Cambridge, Ont.), was named after two Hagey brothers: Jacob, who was deacon from 1832 until 1893, and Joseph, who was bishop from 1851 until 1876. Both brothers came with their parents in 1822 from Montgomery County, Pa., to the Preston (Cambridge) neighborhood. In 1956 the Hagey family was still prominent in the congregation.
One of the outstanding early leaders of the General Conference Mennonite Church in the United States was Daniel Hege of Klein-Karlbach near Grünstadt in the Palatinate, who emigrated to Summerfield, Ill., where he served as preacher from 1859, then as traveling evangelist for the conference until his untimely death in 1862.
Heiz, J. Die Täufer in Aargau. Aarau, 1902.
Smith, C. Henry. The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania. Norristown, 1929: 213.
Hege, Christian. Chronik der Familie Hege, Heft I. Frankfurt am Main, 1937.
Hagey, K. A. and W.A. Hagey. The Hagey Families in America. Bristol, Tenn.-Va., 1951.
Mennonitisches Lexikon, "Hege."
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld, 1895: 213.
Bender, H. S. Two Centuries of American Mennonite Literature: a Bibliography of Mennonitica Americana 1727-1928. Goshen, IN, 1929: 29.
Gemeindeblatt der Mennoniten (1872): 86; (1896): 74; (1900): 47; (1905): 62; (1907): 40; (1909): 44; (1911): 26; (1925): 4; (1926): 78; (1928): 84.
Christlicher Gemeinde-Kalender (later called Mennonitischer Gemeinde-Kalender) (1909): 47-54; (1913): 47-59.
Mennonitischer Blätter (1905): 68, 76.
The Genealogical Register of the Male and Female Descendants of Hans Hege. Chambersburg, 1859.
|Christian Hege
|Date Published
Cite This Article
MLA style
Hege, Christian. "Hege (Hegi, Hegy, Hagey) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 26 May 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hege_(Hegi,_Hegy,_Hagey)_family&oldid=56915.
APA style
Hege, Christian. (1956). Hege (Hegi, Hegy, Hagey) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 May 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hege_(Hegi,_Hegy,_Hagey)_family&oldid=56915.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 687-689. All rights reserved.
©1996-2019 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


text:
An Indecent Proposal: Microsoft and Red Hat?
Mar 24, 2014 1:56 PM PT
Good ideas can arise in virtually countless ways, but sometimes all it takes is someone to ask the simple question, "What if?"
That, in fact, is just what happened in an article at GigaOM recently, though it wasn't until several weeks later that the idea proposed began to pick up steam.
What was said idea, you might ask? The article's title sums it up nicely: "Why Microsoft should just pack it in and buy Red Hat."
Now all that remains is for the blogosphere to decide on a verdict: Is the notion crazy, compelling -- or both?
Bad for Everyone
"About 12 years ago, I suggested that this might be a good idea," began Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone.
"Microsoft should buy an established version of Linux and build their own custom window manager on top of it," Stone recalled thinking at the time.
"I thought a similar approach to what Apple did with OSX and the BSDs would be great for Microsoft and Linux," he explained.
"Unfortunately, today I think that Microsoft buying Red Hat would just amount to Microsoft shutting down most of the valuable portions of the company and botching up the OS for the current users," Stone added. "I don't think that Microsoft can get out of their 'Windows everywhere' mentality, despite their new CEO."
In short, "buying Red Hat would be bad for Red Hat, bad for its users, and I think ultimately bad for Microsoft," he concluded.
'Hell Would Freeze Over'
"Oh, the horror!" blogger Robert Pogson exclaimed.
"M$ certainly could afford to buy the shares of RHT and force a change of management, but the folks at RHT are FLOSSies," Pogson said. "They would all quit and start a 'fork' of Red Hat's business. That would be the end of M$'s move to dominate the world of servers."
It's theoretically possible that Microsoft could "adopt FLOSS and do things right, but Hell would freeze over before they will do that," he opined. "M$, in all my years, has never done what an ordinary business does: compete on price/performance. They've made a few moves lately, but they are almost always to pay people to use their software -- not a sound business plan."
'They Have SUSE'
What Microsoft should do is "adopt a distro like Debian GNU/Linux and add the tools they think their customers want and turn loose the salesmen," Pogson suggested. "They could even afford to produce their own distro, but they can't just link in all kinds of non-Free software to GPLed stuff and make it work. That's not legal."
Of course, Microsoft "already owns a large part -- if not all -- of SUSE Linux," Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol pointed out. "So, if it's a distro MS wants, they have SUSE."
Either way, "in the end, M$ can't just start using GNU/Linux after spending hundreds of $millions telling the world how inferior/expensive/patent-encumbered GNU/Linux is," Pogson concluded. "M$ has painted itself into its own corner, and not until the house burns down around them can they get out. Same with their loyal customers."
'Many Users Distrust Microsoft'
It wouldn't make much sense for Microsoft to buy Red Hat, Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, told Linux Girl.
"What you have to understand is that growth is very difficult at Microsoft's scale, and they can only do this by buying midsized businesses in new markets," Travers explained.
"In some ways that might seem to support purchasing Red Hat, but there are several reasons why I don't think that would be good," he added. "First, many Linux users distrust Microsoft, so it isn't clear whether one would see the customer base shrink as a result of the acquisition, and that also impacts Microsoft's ability to grow in the market. Instead Microsoft's efforts fall, quite rationally, in the area of offering virtualized Linux instances running on Azure."
The problem is that "Microsoft tends to do best when people have no choice, and consequently has gotten used to treating customers badly," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack pointed out. "Now people avoid them unless they are absolutely necessary, so the day Microsoft buys Red Hat is the day many people switch distros."
'What Would They Be Buying?'
More than a few Linux bloggers dismissed the article as so much linkbait.
"I think this is a case of it would be good for Microsoft to buy Red Hat, but I doubt anyone is seriously thinking of doing this," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien suggested. "I think someone at GigaOm needed to gin up some page views to meet the quota and picked this out of the random topic generator."
Not only that, but "if you think about it, what would they be buying?" O'Brien added. "The code? That is already open, and they cannot under the license make it proprietary. And if they used it in any of their products, they would have to open those up."
If, alternatively, "they did it to buy the people, who really thinks the folks who work at Red Hat would stay on in a hell hole like Microsoft?" he asked. "Nope, it doesn't make any sense, and no one should pay attention."
'RH Is Not for Sale'
It all amounts to FUD, opined Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C.
"Both companies are billionaires, and although Micro$oft is coming down like a zeppelin, I think RH is not for sale," he explained.
Of course, "we never know if micro$oft is going to sell a GNU/Linux version more aggressively -- say, Windows 10, built upon SUSE Enterprise Linux. ;-)" Gonzalo Velasco C. pointed out.
Finally, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet took an even stronger view.
'No Way in Hell'
"The entire article is just dumb pie-in-the-sky fantasy," hairyfeet began.
"RHEL does two things VERY well: HPCs and Webservers," hairyfeet explained. "But WinServers do both HPC and WebServer. Value? NONE."
Moreover, "after Oracle got OO.o forked away from them and MySQL forked away from them, you REALLY think a big corp is gonna buy a FOSS company that isn't already a FOSS company?" he added. "And MSFT knows how much the FOSSie faction hates them -- all they would 'gain' by buying RHEL is the death of Red Hat, because the die-hard GNUHeads would burn their hard drives before they EVAR used anything that was 'tainted by M$.'"
Bottom line? "The entire article is frankly clickbait," hairyfeet concluded. "No way in hell will it ever happen -- it would be a bigger waste of money than when Ballmer bought Skype."


text:
Derek Park had a question—which led to an idea. What if persons dedicated themselves to improving the wellness and safety of others by taking on activities that enhanced their own health?
A familiar part of the idea will be displayed when Derek picks up his paddle in the November 17 "Hulakai Race to Fitness," an event that will begin at Richardson's and end at Hilo Bay. The proceeds from his local sponsorship, notably businesses and individuals, will go to supporting patients who need financial assistance for early breast cancer treatment from North Hawaii Community Hospital's (NHCH) new Breast Health Program. "It's people like Derek who give real meaning to the word kokua and embrace the entire community with their deeds," stressed NHCH Vice President of Development, Marketing, and Communications Kerry Howell.
A five-year member of the Parker Ranch maintenance crew, Derek is a seasoned veteran of paddling competitions. His concerns about breast cancer are anything but impersonal. Years ago, Derek's mother suffered multiple treatments for a malignant breast tumor and eventually underwent a mastectomy.
Moving to the Big Island seven years ago, he was still reflecting on her ordeal. "When I began paddling, I thought to myself, 'I'm young, I'm healthy.' Then I'd go home and realize how I'd love to know that my life could inspire other people to do good things, whether it's beating breast cancer or something else."
Derek's decision was further strengthened by his friend and fellow paddler, Chris Landers, who was killed in a head-on car collision. "Chris always put every other person's concerns ahead of his own," he recalled.
Actions to fulfill his convictions were not long in coming. One earlier running competition, the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure, sent a potent message of support to breast cancer victims. "The goal is to increase my sponsorship for the races and give all the proceeds to patients in need," he explained.
November 17 will mark Derek's second entry in the Hulakai Race, which offers still another unique boost to his mission. The competition's promoter, Jun Balanga, is no less committed to fostering wellness on the Big Island, viewing paddling as a truly Hawaiian vehicle for doing so. Or, as Derek said, "Any race he (Jun) puts together, I'll be in."
In his drive to "help others be healthy," Derek clearly grasps the power of the visual. Designing his own "Paddling for Hope" logo, he was struck by the tendency of paddlers to strictly wear black or white. What to do? "I want to be the only guy wearing pink," Derek enthused, "until every guy there wears pink and will be racing for something! People will say, 'Look, he's racing for NHCH which wants to make sure women can get mammograms', or some other cause for staying healthy."
NHCH's new Breast Health Program offers patients access to a the latest cutting edge digital mammography technology, a more comfortable exam experience, faster image analysis and on-going support, in coordination with Hawaii's new mammography self-referral law, which took effect on July 1st, 2012. For more information or to schedule an annual mammogram appointment, please contact NHCH's Breast Health Program at 881-4882.
NHCH Background: North Hawaii Community Hospital (NHCH) is a rural 33-bed acute care hospital located in Kamuela, on Hawai'i Island. Non-profit and locally governed, the hospital opened in May 1996 and cares for Hawai'i Island residents and visitors. NHCH offers an extensive set of hospital services that are centered on patient needs, creating a healing experience for the whole person – mind, body and spirit. Please visit www.NHCH.com for more information
Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Community, Hawaii, Health Tagged: | Breast cancer, Derek Park, Hulakai Race to Fitness


text: Solo is ... an affirmation of the vitality of the spirit.- The Wall St Journal (full review)Solo is ... utterly unforgettable in its humanity.- The Guardian (full review).What a delight to find a novelist unfazed by the 21st century ... This is an important work. - The Australian (full review).Solo is a bold, stimulating, unclassifiable epic.- The Boston Globe (full review)Solo is a nuanced and virtuoso performance.- Scotland on Sunday (full review).Solo is beautifully symphonic - elegiac and prophetic, underpinned by intelligence, compassion and a wonderfully unfettered imagination. It�s a necessary as well as a timely novel.- Sunday Business Post (full review).... a surreal history of massive proportions ... Dasgupta's writing is a revelation ... The back cover lauds the book as "a devastating and rapturous novel". It is. I'm still shaking.- The Nelson Mail (full review).Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, "Solo" recounts the life and daydreams of Ulrich, a one hundred year-old blind man from Bulgaria:In the hour before they retired, the silence claimed his mother too, and Ulrich relaxed into contentment. While the ball of wool twitched with her knitting, his attention drifted from his books and spiralled into his own recesses, where old faces coasted past like comforting submarine monsters, and fine filaments lit up a route to the future. He came to find solace in these daydreams, and on the days when he did not have an opportunity to cultivate them, he went to bed quite unsatisfied.Solo is an exquisite book, one of the best I�ve read all year; but trying to encompass why is quite difficult, because it could go in so many directions ... The contrast between the novel�s two parts is ... well-handled and subtle. It�s not simply that one depicts failure and the other success. It�s that, in life, one of Ulrich�s obsessions caused so much tragedy � chemistry destroyed his marriage, poisoned his country, took his sight; but, in his daydreams, it is Ulrich�s other obsession, music, that brings so much joy. And it�s that Ulrich�s memories, being somewhat hazy and episodic, feel much like daydreams; whilst his daydreams have a structure that make them feel more like reality (come to think of it, isn�t that often the way in our own lives?).- David Hebblethwaite, Follow the Thread (full review)Solo is published by HarperCollins in the British Commonwealth. It will be published in 2010-11 in the US (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), France (Gallimard), Germany (Karl Blessing), Norway (Aschehoug ), Italy (Feltrinelli), the Netherlands (Signatuuur), Spain (Duomo), Brazil (Saraiva), Romania (Corint), Bosnia (Buybook), Canada (HarperCollins), Greece (Metaichmio), Turkey (Metis) and Bulgaria (Janet 45). For dates in other countries, watch this space, or join the Solo Facebook group for news..Wherever you are in the world, you can order Solo from Amazon.co.uk. Some footnotes to the book can be found here.Solo follows Rana Dasgupta's first book, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), a collection of thirteen folktales for the age of globalisation.Only the most gifted writers, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jonathan Safron-Foer, can hold the surreal and the real in satisfying equilibrium. This elite now welcomes Rana Dasgupta to its ranks. He makes magic realism his own, and his debut novel is superb.- Andrew Staffell, Time Out (London) Tokyo Cancelled was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India). One tale from the book was short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Prize. These stories ... ah, they outdo the Arabian Nights for inventiveness ... One closes the book with head spinning.- Rachel Hore, The Guardian


text:
- Publish date:
- Updated on
- Year
- 1965
Sandy Koufax pitches perfect game
On this day in 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax pitches the eighth perfect game in major league history, leading the Dodgers to a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
Sandy Koufax was a talented all-around athlete from Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York. His first love was basketball, and he attended the University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship. His impressive left arm, however, attracted the attention of major league ball clubs and in 1954 he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite his promising talent, Koufax won just 36 games to 51 losses from 1955 to 1961, and was incredibly inconsistent, blowing hitters away one game and walking in runs the next. Finally, advice from veteran catcher Norm Sherry turned Koufax around. As Koufax recounted in his autobiography, Sherry told him to "take the grunt out of the fastball." It worked: From 1962 to 1966, Sandy Koufax executed what are arguably the five greatest seasons by a pitcher in baseball history. His newfound control limited his walks from 4.8 per game to just 2.1, and he pitched no-hitters in three consecutive years–1962, 1963 and 1964.
On September 9, 1965, at the peak of his baseball career, Koufax took the mound against fellow lefty Bob Hendley of the Chicago Cubs, and a pitcher's duel for the ages ensued. The Cubs were held scoreless, while the Dodgers scored just one run, in the fifth inning. Dodger Lou Johnson walked to lead off the inning, and then advanced to second on a sacrifice. He stole third and then scored when the Cubs catcher fumbled one of Hendley's throws. As it turned out, one run was all Koufax needed to bring home the victory. His fastballs, which seemed to rise as they reached the plate, whizzed past batters. His curveball was typically devastating, buckling batters at the knees, almost always crossing the plate as a strike after following its parabolic path. As he closed in on a perfect game, Koufax faced the middle of the Cubs order. He struck out Ron Santo and Ernie Banks in the eighth before striking out the side in the ninth to secure his first perfect game.
In addition to throwing his first and only perfect game, Koufax struck out a total of 382 batters in 1965, shattering Rube Waddell's 1904 record by 32. He retired after the 1966 season at just 30 years old because of arthritis in his elbow.
Koufax won three Cy Young Awards (1963, 1965 and 1966), all of them unanimous.
He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. In 2007, the Modi'in Miracle of the Israel Baseball League made the 71-year old Koufax the final pick in the league's inaugural player draft as a tribute to his legendary career and Jewish heritage.


text:
Sebia SA(Sebia) designs, manufactures, commercializes, and exports electrophoresis tests and analyzers for diagnosis of cancer. Its Electrophoresis program can be classified into couple of categories,namely, Automated system for capillary electrophoresis, Gel electrophoresis and Electrophoresis scanning software. Its Gel electrophoresis category includes products such as hydrasys 2, gelscan, hydragel 1, 2, 4 & 9 immunofixation, hydragel 5 proteinuria, hydragel 7 & 15 hemoglobin, hydragel 7, 15 & 30 lipo + lp(a) and hydragel 7, 15 & 30 iso-ldh among others. Its Automated system for capillary electrophoresis category includes products such as capillarys 2 flex piercing, capillarys hr, neurosoft and minicap protein 6 among others. Its phoresis software allows scanning and storage of electrophoresis results from any gel processed by the hydrasys including immunofixation. It also provides support service and training activities. It offers its products through distributors to medical laboratories worldwide. It is headquartered at Evry,France.
- To Buy a Copy Of This Report: http://www.marketresearchreports.biz/analysis-details/sebia-sa-product-pipeline-analysis
This report is a source for data, analysis and actionable intelligence on the Sebia SA portfolio of pipeline products. The report provides detailed analysis on each pipeline product with information on the indication, the development stage, trial phase, product milestones, pipeline territory, estimated approval date, and estimated launch date
Each pipeline product is profiled to cover information on product description, function, technology, indication, and application. The report is also supplemented with a detailed company profile and information on clinical trials, wherever applicable.
This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalDatas team of industry experts.
- For All Reports Kindly Visit: http://www.marketresearchreports.biz/
- Detailed company profile with information on business description, key company facts, major products and services, key competitors, key employees, locations and subsidiaries and recent developments.
- Detailed coverage on all the pipeline products, by equipment type, by therapy area, by development stage, and by trial phase.
- Information on product milestones and pipeline territory for each product, the estimated approval date, and estimated launch date.
- Profile of each pipeline product with additional information on product description, function, technology, indication(s), and application.
- Data on relevant clinical trials and product patent details, wherever applicable.
- Information on clinical trial, wherever applicable, is supplemented with information on trial phase, trial status, trial objective, trial design, target patients, unique physician identifier, primary point, secondary point, acronym, participants inclusion, participants exclusion, interventions, trial results, trial start date, trial end date, study type, trial site, trial funding, age eligibility, and gender eligibility.
Reasons to Buy
- Develop business strategies by understanding the trends and developments driving the medical devices pipeline and technology landscape globally.
- Design and develop your product development, marketing and sales strategies.
- Exploit M&A opportunities by identifying market players with the most innovative pipeline.
- Develop market-entry and market expansion strategies.
- Exploit in-licensing and out-licensing opportunities by identifying products, most likely to ensure a robust return.
- Identify emerging players with potentially strong product portfolio and create effective counter-strategies to gain competitive advantage.
- Develop competition strategies by identifying the status and likely
launch of your competitors pipeline products through review of the
clinical trials, stage and phase of development, etc.- Which are the
next high-value products that your competitor would add in its
portfolio? identify, understand and capitalize.
- To Read The Complete Report with TOC: http://www.marketresearchreports.biz/analysis/157963


text:
Fullback was part of L.A. Rams' 'Bull Elephant' backfield
Dick Hoerner, 88, a Los Angeles Rams fullback who was a member of the 1951 NFL Championship team, died Saturday at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton after a stroke, said his wife, Kathy.
Hoerner, 6 feet 4 and 220 pounds, played for the Rams from 1947 to 1951 and was part of the team's famous "Bull Elephant" backfield that also featured
He rushed for 569 yards and six touchdowns in 1951 and scored another as a pass receiver. Hoerner, who also played linebacker, scored a touchdown in the championship game, a 24-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns at the L.A. Coliseum.
In 1950, Hoerner rushed for 10 touchdowns and caught a pass for another score. He rushed for a career-high 582 yards in 1949, which led all NFL fullbacks that season.
He was born Lester Junior Hoerner on July 25, 1922, in Dubuque, Iowa. He was a two-time All-American at the University of Iowa, in 1942 and again in 1946, after spending three years in the Army. Hoerner was selected by the then-Cleveland Rams in the 17th round of the 1945 draft.
He finished his NFL career in 1952 with the Dallas Texans.
John A. Ferraro
Actor, director and USC teacher
John A. Ferraro, 64, an actor, director and teacher with several stage and television credits, died Dec. 7 of colon cancer at USC University Hospital, said his wife, Karen Emonts.
Ferraro's television directing credits included the Comedy Central series "The Higgins Boys and Gruber," the WB series "Smart Guy" and "Reno: In Rage and Rehab," an off-Broadway production that aired on HBO.
He also directed episodes of "Sesame Street" and another PBS children's show, "Shining Time Station."
Ferraro directed "Crazy He Calls Me" on Broadway in 1992 and was an associate director in the early 1980s production of "The Pirates of Penzance." He later directed U.S. and Australian tours of the musical and such off-Broadway comedies as "Saved From Obscurity" in 1988.
His Southern California stage credits included directing "Because I Said So" at the Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles and "Sus" at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Hollywood, both in 2003.
Ferraro was born April 5, 1946, in Paterson, N.J., and grew up in Wayne, N.J. He graduated from New York University with a bachelor of fine arts degree and joined the theatrical group the Manhattan Project. Ferraro acted in such productions as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Our Late Night" and performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival.
He had taught at USC's School of Cinematic Arts since 2003.
Times staff reports


text:
Britney Spears Featured With Femme Fatale Tour 'Family' in V Magazine
V Magazine's music issue not only has a candid interview with Justin Bieber and photos of Sky Ferreira as Madonna, but the mag also features a Q&A with Britney Spears about her touring life, complete with photos.
Spears is photographed with her 'second family' from her Femme Fatale tour, including managers Larry Rudolph and Adam Leber, business manager Lou M. Taylor, lawyer Seth Lichtenstein, trainer Derek DeGrazio and director of security Edan Yemini, among others.
"I have worked with all of them for many, many years so it was fun to see them all together again on the first day of the tour," she tells the mag. "Everybody was catching up and telling all of their fun stories from the past, laughing and just having a great time. We were all so happy to see each other again and so excited to start working. It really made me smile."
As for her favorite part of being on the road, Spears says she loves "meeting different kinds of fans from all over the world." She explains, "They are so different in every country. I just did a few shows in Russia and all of the fans had big heart signs in the audience and had hearts painted on their hands. It was really cool. Also, having the people I am closest to with me all of the time and staying in the same hotels every night. We have been together for many years now so we have become one big happy family."
Of course, things do get tough on tour. The hardest part, she says, is "the actual traveling." Brit adds, "It's basically planes, trains, and automobiles every single day. I always have fun when I get to a new city but getting from place to place can get old and boring. I read a lot of books."
Read the full interview here, and pick up your own copy of V magazine's music issue, which hits newsstands today.