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After appearing to wrap up its first season with two episodes long on returning guests and happy vibes, Saturday Night did something it has never done again: Following almost two months of reruns, the show returned for two back-to-back new episodes in the middle of summer, before departing again until autumn. In theory, it was an idea that made a lot of sense. Topical satire was a big part of the show's identity, so why let the set go totally black for a whole summer, when there was an Olympics, a Bicentennial celebration, and two whole presidential nominating conventions going on, including one being held in New York? Nothing that resulted from this brainstorm could have struck Lorne Michaels or the network as a reason for making it a tradition, but nothing that's wrong with these episodes can be blamed on the idea itself, or on an insufficiently rested cast and writing staff.
"Louise Lasser" (season one, episode 23; originally aired 7/24/1976)
In 1976, Louise Lasser was a star and a culture hero, thanks to her starring on the cult hit Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. By the summer of 1976, she was also coming apart at the seams. (Michael O'Donoghue described her "a nice woman going through a few problems," adding that "I wanted to force her to eat her goddamn pigtails at gunpoint.") Before being cast as Mary Hartman, Lasser was best known for her appearances in TV commercials and her supporting roles in a number of movies, including a few directed by her ex-husband, Woody Allen. In her opening monologue, Lasser makes a point of saying that Lorne Michaels told her that he'd wanted her to host the show even before Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman debuted, which she seems to have found more bewildering than flattering.
I don't think it's so bewildering. It's no secret that it was always one of Lorne Michaels' impossible dreams to have Woody Allen host the show, and I suspect that he reached out to Lasser because he imagined that he might be able to use her to get to the Woodman. That probably also helps to account for the fact that the musical guest is the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, who performed on the soundtrack to Sleeper. By the time they hit the stage, Michaels must have given up on any daydream he had that the phone was going to ring one minute after one in the morning and a familiar, reedy voice was going to say, "I was just watching my ex-wife on your show, and boy, that's something I want to be part of!" So he showed just how thrilled he was at having assigned precious air time to a bunch of middle-aged Dixieland musicians from out of town by only letting them do one number, which came on during the last 20 minutes of the show.
Lasser, who was unused to either extensive media scrutiny or the grueling work pace of a five-nights-weekly series like Mary Hartman, had recently presence in the gossip columns by getting busted in Beverly Hills with cocaine in her purse, after she had been stopped and accused of shoplifting. So she reported to work feeling exhausted, publicly humiliated, and camera-shy. To top that off, she was accused of extreme "solipsism" by Chevy Chase, which must be kind of like having Fiona Apple tell you that your album titles are kind of wordy. Over the course of the week leading up to the show, Lasser gradually backed as far out of her obligations as she could without bolting for Canada, finally announcing that she preferred not to appear onstage in sketches with most of the cast members. In the end, she appeared with two other performers: Chevy Chase, and a dog. There's a few different ways a fella could take that.
The end results are actually rather fascinating, not least for how the episode, out of necessity, plays with the kind of "Is this real or not?" flirting with the fourth wall that the show had used in more than one sketch, and that Andy Kaufman had smuggled in from the underground-club scene. To start with, the cold opening—again!—is built around a cast member, John Belushi this time, expressing violent resentment at Chevy Chase cashing in on the perception that he's the star of the show. Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if any of us really felt this way!? Then Lasser comes out and rambles about how her life has been cracking up on the shoals of fame, then becomes overwhelmed and runs offstage to hide in her dressing room. It's very similar to what the show had other hosts do, but this time it's based on what the writers must have really been afraid the host might do, whether it was in the script or not.
After that, she does an Ingmar Bergman parody—God!, Lorne Michaels must have thought early in the week, won't this show Woody that we're his kind of people!—that involves having her sit in front of the audience, silently tugging on Chase's face, and then the long sketch in which she sits at a table, talking to a happy-looking dog about their relationship. Bizarre as the second skit, in particular, is, the worst thing about these sketches is that they're done so close to each other. Presumably, Michaels wanted the host to get her actual duties out of the way as fast as possible, so everyone who knew how close to the edge she was could exhale and relax a little. But it adds up to a long stretch of air time admiring the immobile host's profile.
There's also a short film in which Lasser sits in a diner and rambles at, or in the general direction of, Alan Zweibel, until she starts complaining that she can't remember her lines. Michaels appears and asks if she can do another take, and she says, no, she can't. So the film simply peters out with her going to sit at the bar next to Michael Sarrazin, a remarkably untalented and mostly forgotten pretty-boy actor who was in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sarrazin himself hosted SNL in 1978, which was a good two or three years after his last movie credit that anyone's heard of. Michaels must have felt really bad about his having had to get out of bed and journey to a diner just to be there when Louise Lasser forgot his lines before he got to do whatever he was there to do.) When the words "A Film By Louise Lasser" flash onscreen at the end, it borders on cruel and unusual punishment. (Another film, which Lasser and Chase shot at the Democratic National Convention, wasn't used. But did Michaels sit on it because it was even worse, or because Lasser came off a little bit better in it?)
This episode is legendary in SNL-geek circles as one of the handful of episodes that Michaels didn't want rerun, ever. The funny thing is, even after Lasser had insulted most of the cast with her refusal to actually work with them, they all still crowd around her during the closing goodbyes; they look like a support group. In the last stretch of time between the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the closing credits, Lasser sits onstage, babbling, again, about what she's been going through, and the amazing thing is that, embarrassing and semi-coherent as the spectacle is, I get the feeling, watching it all these years later, that the studio audience is on her side, wishing her well. That might have only made Michaels hate her that much more. But making people find something sympathetic and almost magical in self-paralyzing neurosis was what her performance on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was all about. Culture heroes, even those whose vogues are short-lived, aren't made of nothing.
"Kris Kristofferson" (season one, episode 24; originally aired 7/31/1976)
In that Saturday Night book, there's an anonymous quote from someone who sums up the perceived difference between the drug problems of two cast members by saying that Belushi was seen as raging against the elements, while Garrett Morris just seemed to slip away quietly in his sleep. However accurate that line is, or isn't—might Belushi have lived longer if he hadn't been surrounded by people who saw loud, obnoxious behavior as evidence of rebellious creativity?—it's a pretty fair description of the different tones of these two episodes. Kris Kristofferson wasn't having a nervous breakdown when he hosted, but he was a guy who liked to party, spending a week in what had become New York's party central, and was roaring drunk when show time arrived. (What do Louise Lasser and Kris Kristofferson have in common? Inside of a week, they both had the cast members of a live TV show deciding which parts they would take, at the last minute, if the host proved to be unable to go on.)
All things considered, Kristofferson acquits himself okay; even when he's too obviously staring at the cue cards while sweat congeals on his forehead, he's more likable and embarrassing. But he slurs and lurches just enough to make you think that Michaels couldn't have been too concerned about his safety when he gave him a pat on the shoulder and sent him in to mix it up with John Belushi's sword-swinging samurai. This isn't an especially good episode, but it's an oddly likable one. With its jokes about "talking country" (a growing national concern as Jimmy Carter continued to cakewalk toward the White House) and Waiting For Godot, it retains the charm of an off-the-wall, lightweight little summer diversion, a charm that flows from Kristofferson's easygoing, blotto presence. A little something to tide you kids over until the fall, with an especially tasteless Generalissimo Francisco Franco joke, just for good measure. It is also a time capsule of a time when the idea that Bobby McGee might have grown up to be a settled, middle-class, middle-aged-before-her-time suburban housewife.
Stray observations:
- At one point, on the night of the Louise Lasser show, the cast appears to have decided that Lasser wasn't going to make it onstage, and Chevy Chase was lobbying to take her place, wearing a red-pig-tailed wig. (Michaels wasn't about to let Lasser walk, though, because NBC had hyped the hell out of her appearance.) According to Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad's Saturday Night, Bill Murray happened to be in the house that night, and if Lasser had backed out, Murray would have made his SNL debut that night, taking Chevy's place in his skits with Lasser.
- The Preservation Hall Jazz Band's latest CD—That's It!, which, I'm guessing, includes no contributions from any of the folks seen in the 37-year-old Louise Lasser episode—is excellent. I just thought I'd thrown that it, since it is unlikely they'll be given the opportunity to plug it on Saturday Night Live.
- Musical guest Rita Coolidge sings a song called "Hula Hoop," then steps away from the band to join Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman, who are both grinning ear to ear while hula-ing the hell out of their own hoops. This is the kind of thing that will never be as impressive again since the advent of CGI.
- And so the first season of Saturday Night Live closes on the image of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players gathered at center stage, linking arms and visibly holding up a fast-fading Kris Kristofferson, while Dan Aykroyd reads a plug for a Lorne Michaels-produced Beach Boys special. Which is kind of perfect.


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Carey Price generated more offense in the Montreal Canadiens net than he gave up to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Price made 25 saves for his first shutout of the season and P.K. Subban had a goal and an assist to lead the Canadiens to a 4-0 win over Carolina on Wednesday night.
Price, who earned a secondary assist on Michael Cammalleri's goal 7:15 in, recorded his first regular-season shutout since March 12.
''I just needed to get a fight or something, a goal would have been nice, but I'll take what I got,'' said Price, who posted his 13th NHL shutout.
Yannick Weber and Travis Moen also scored for Montreal (8-7-3), and Tomas Plekanec had two assists. The Canadiens are 7-2-1 in their past 10 games.
''It was a solid effort all the way through,'' captain Brian Gionta said. ''We were doing the right things, and obviously Pricey made some huge saves.''
Cam Ward stopped 32 shots for Carolina, which lost 5-3 to Philadelphia on Monday.
''We're clearly struggling and I think we've felt that tension for a while,'' coach Paul Maurice said.
The Hurricanes are 3-8-2 in their last 13 games.
''No question there's concern,'' Carolina captain Eric Staal said. ''Obviously, if we keep losing we're not going to be in the mix for the playoffs. So we've got to figure this out and get back to winning some games because if you keep losing, you're going to be out of the picture before you know it and the season's going to be wasted.''
Frederic St. Denis made his NHL debut for the Canadiens, who had three rookie defensemen in the lineup.
With Hal Gill sidelined by illness for a second straight game, and Jaroslav Spacek out because of an injury sustained Monday in the Canadiens' shootout loss to Buffalo, Josh Gorges was the only one of Montreal's six defensemen who has played more than 100 NHL games.
''It's like if you're sick before a game, you always find that when you're not 100 percent you always play your best games,'' said Subban, a sophomore who was second in experience to Gorges with 97 games. ''As a group, when we made mistakes we worked hard to make up for it.''
Cammalleri, who missed Monday's game because of an undisclosed lower body injury, opened the scoring with his fourth goal.
Plekanec earned his second straight assist with a pass to former Carolina forward Erik Cole to begin the play that led to Weber's power-play goal that made it 2-0 at 15:16.
Cole, who left the Hurricanes to sign a four-year, $18 million contract with Montreal in July, fed the puck through a seam to Weber. He beat Ward with a shot from the left side.
Subban increased the lead to 3-0 when he scored from the slot for his first goal of the season. Subban celebrated by skating to the left corner and jumping up against the glass with his hip.
Moen made it 4-0 with 38.2 seconds left in the second period. He scored from behind the net, banking a backhanded shot from the end boards in off the bottom of Ward's pads.
NOTES: Hurricanes D Joni Pitkanen missed his third straight game because of an undisclosed lower body injury. ... St. Denis was recalled from Hamilton of the AHL on Tuesday. Raphael Diaz and Alexei Emelin were the other rookie defensemen in the Canadiens' lineup. ... Gorges has played 382 NHL regular-season games with Montreal and San Jose. Weber has played 67 games. ... Price recorded his third playoff shutout in Montreal's 2-0 win over Boston on April 14 in the opening game of the Canadiens' first-round loss to the Bruins.

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University of California, Berkeley is among 55 colleges and universities -- big and small, public and private -- that are being investigated over their handling of sexual abuse complaints under Title IX, the Education Department revealed Thursday.
Two other California schools are also under investigation: Occidental College and the University of Southern California.
The Education Department's decision to release the list is unprecedented and comes as the Obama administration seeks to shed greater transparency on the issue of sexual assault in higher education and how it is being handled.
Going forward, the department said, it will keep an updated list of schools facing such an investigation and make it available upon request.
The schools range from big public universities like Ohio State University, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Arizona State University to private schools like Knox College in Illinois, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Catholic University of America in the District of Columbia. Ivy League schools like Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth are also on the list.
The agency previously would confirm such an investigation when asked, but students and others were often unaware of them.
"We hope this increased transparency will spur community dialogue about this important issue," Catherine E. Lhamon, the department's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement.
Lhamon said a school's appearance on the list does not mean that it has violated the law but that an investigation is ongoing.
Some investigations were prompted by complaints directly to the department; others were initiated by the department following compliance reviews triggered by other factors, such as news stories.
That was the case at Dartmouth, where investigators visited the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus in late January to speak with students, faculty and alumni.
"We are hopeful at the end of this there will be a resolution that will strengthen our internal processes and result in a safer community," Dartmouth spokesman Justin Anderson said Thursday. "There's always something we can learn and ways to get better."
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said there had been "lots of internal debate" about whether to release the list but that he believes in transparency; he said the more the country is talking about the problem of sexual assault, the better. Duncan said there is "absolutely zero presumption" of guilt in his mind for schools being investigated.
"No one probably loves to have their name on that list," Duncan said during a White House media briefing. "But we'll investigate; we'll go where the facts are. And where they have done everything perfectly, we'll be very loud and clear that they've done everything perfectly."
Duncan said while being on the list might feel difficult for schools, it pales in comparison to the difficulty and trauma borne by sexual assault victims on American college campuses.
"In terms of what's morally right there, the moral compass, whatever we can do to have fewer young women and young men having to go through these types of horrific incidents, we want to do that," Duncan said.
Title IX prohibits gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. It is the same law that guarantees girls equal access to sports, but it also regulates institutions' handling of sexual violence and increasingly is being used by victims who say their schools failed to protect them.
Ada Meloy, general counsel for the American Council on Education, a higher education group, said most of the schools were probably aware there was such an investigation. "I think that every college and university in the current environment is concerned about the need to be very attentive to what they are doing with regard to policies and procedures" related to sexual assault on campuses, Meloy said.
Citing research, the White House has said that 1 in 5 female college students is assaulted.
President Barack Obama appointed a task force comprised of his Cabinet members to review the issue after hearing complaints about the poor treatment of campus rape victims and the hidden nature of such crimes.
The task force announced the creation of a website, notalone.gov, offering resources for victims and information about past enforcement actions on campuses.
The task force also made a wide range of recommendations to schools, such as identifying confidential victims' advocates and conducting surveys to better gauge the frequency of sexual assault on campuses.
The department publicized guidance on Title IX's sexual assault provisions in 2011, and complaints by students have since increased. Complaints, however, don't always lead to an investigation.
The department can withhold federal funding from a school that doesn't comply with the law, but it so far has not used that power and instead has negotiated voluntary resolutions for violators.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., have said non-compliance under the law is "far too common." They say a lack of federal resources is partly to blame for that, and they've sought more money to ensure timely and proper investigations.
Another law that campus sexual assault cases fall under is the Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to report crime statistics on or near their campuses.
It also requires schools to develop prevention policies and ensure victims their basic rights. Investigations under this law are not included in the list that was released.
Associated Press writer Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, and Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.
A list of the 55 colleges and universities currently facing a sexual abuse investigation under the Title IX law, according to the Education Department:
AZ Arizona State University
CA Butte-Glenn Community College District
CA Occidental College
CA University of California-Berkeley
CA University of Southern California
CO Regis University
CO University of Colorado at Boulder
CO University of Colorado at Denver
CO University of Denver
CT University of Connecticut
DC Catholic University of America
FL Florida State University
GA Emory University
HI University of Hawaii at Manoa
ID University of Idaho
IL Knox College
IL University of Chicago
IN Indiana University-Bloomington
IN Vincennes University
MA Amherst College
MA Boston University
MA Emerson College
MA Harvard College
MA Harvard University - Law School
MA University of Massachusetts-Amherst
MD Frostburg State University
MI Michigan State University
MI University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
NC Guilford College
NC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ND Minot State University
NH Dartmouth College
NJ Princeton University
NY CUNY Hunter College
NY Hobart and William Smith Colleges
NY Sarah Lawrence College
NY SUNY at Binghamton
OH Denison University
OH Ohio State University
OH Wittenberg University
OK Oklahoma State University
PA Carnegie Mellon University
PA Franklin and Marshall College
PA Pennsylvania State University
PA Swarthmore College
PA Temple University
TN Vanderbilt University
TX Southern Methodist University
TX The University of Texas-Pan American
VA College of William and Mary
VA University of Virginia
WA Washington State University
WI University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
WV Bethany College
WV West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Source: U.S. Department of Education


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Trade Show Photography
There's an art to shooting tradeshows. Show management has more than enough to do. They need a story teller who understands their needs. I design photographs to show exhibitors coming together with their customers, sponsors gaining mindshare, presenters connecting with their audiences, and attendees coming together to find new tools, to learn, to network, and to have a great time in the process. Great trade show photos remind current exhibitors, attendees, and sponsors, how productive and enjoyable the show was. They also make great tools to help management encourage new exhibitors, attendees, and sponsors, to sign up for the next show. Please check out individual photo comments for tips on the stories each photo is designed to show. I love shooting tradeshows, engaging my subjects, helping them feel at ease and enjoy themselves, as we get great photos to tell their stories. Call me if I can help. John Gaudio, 303-870-1044.Read More


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WASHINGTON — The United States Mint announced today that it will occupy booth #645 at the American Numismatic Association's National Money Show May 9 –11, 2013, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
The show is a great opportunity for collectors to purchase their favorite United States Mint products over the counter. Some of the items that will be on hand include American Eagle Gold and Silver Coins; assorted bronze medals, including First Spouse Four–Medal Sets and bronze duplicates of Congressional Gold Medals; 2013 Girl Scouts of the USA and 5–Star Generals Commemorative Coins; and sets, bags and rolls, and coin covers that contain 2013 America the Beautiful Quarters® coins and Presidential $1 Coins.
In addition, collectors will have the opportunity to place orders for two new products, the 2013 Happy Birthday and Congratulations Sets, as well as the highly anticipated 2013 American Eagle West Point Two–Coin Silver Set, which goes on sale May 9 (a set will be on hand for viewing).
United States Mint products may also be purchased at the bureau's online catalog at http://www.usmint.gov/catalog or by calling 1–800–USA–MINT (872–6468). Hearing– and speech–impaired customers with TTY equipment may order by calling 1–888–321–MINT (6468).
J. Marc Landry, the United States Mint's Acting Associate Director for Sales and Marketing, will host two coin forums during the show. These interactive forums will give attendees a chance to share their ideas about U.S. coinage and learn about the bureau's other coin programs and initiatives.
The first forum will be held Friday, May 10 at 2 p.m. in room 270, and the second on Saturday, May 11 at 11 a.m., also in room 270.
The United States Mint was created by Congress in 1792 and became part of the Department of the Treasury in 1873. It is the Nation's sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage and is responsible for producing circulating coinage for the Nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The United States Mint also produces numismatic products, including proof, uncirculated, and commemorative coins; Congressional Gold Medals; and silver and gold bullion coins. The United States Mint's numismatic programs are self–sustaining and operate at no cost to the taxpayer.


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deallocate - device deallocation
deallocate [-s] [-w] [-F] [-z zonename] [-c dev-class | -g dev-type | device]
deallocate [-s] [-w] [-F] [-z zonename] -I
The deallocate command frees an allocated device. It resets the ownership and permissions on all device special files associated with the device, disabling access to that device. deallocate runs the device cleaning program for that device as specified in device_allocate(5).
The default deallocate operation deallocates devices allocated to the user.
The following options are supported:
Deallocates all devices of the specified device class.
Forces deallocation of the device associated with the file specified by device. Only a user with the solaris.device.revoke authorization is permitted to use this option.
Forces deallocation of all allocatable devices. Only a user with the solaris.device.revoke authorization is permitted to use this option. This option should only be used at system initialization.
Silent. Suppresses any diagnostic output.
The following options are supported when the system is configured with Trusted Extensions:
Deallocates a device of device type matching dev-type.
Runs the device cleaning program in a windowing environment. If a windowing version of the program exists, it is used. Otherwise, the standard version is run in a terminal window.
Deallocates device from the zone specified by zonename.
The following operands are supported:
Deallocates the specified device.
The following exit values are returned:
Successful completion.
No entry for the specified device.
An error occurred.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
The invocation is Uncommitted. The options are Uncommitted. The output is Not-an-Interface.
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Controlling Access to Devices in Securing Systems and Attached Devices in Oracle Solaris 11.4
The functionality described in this man page is available only if Solaris Auditing has been enabled.
The functionality described in this man page is available only if the device_allocate(8) service is enabled.
On systems configured with Trusted Extensions, the functionality is enabled by default.
/etc/security/dev, mkdevalloc(8), and mkdevmaps(8) might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris operating system.


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We love stickers at our house! Dover stickers are high-quality and very colorful. Two types are offered - realistic and whimsical. The realistic stickers are very accurately drawn and beautiful. The whimsical stickers are generally cuter and more cartoon-ish, and the animals may or may not be correctly colored (which is more fun, a brown rabbit or a green one?). Large-format sticker books are 8¼" x 11", while the small-format books are only 4 1/16" x 5 3/4". These make great little gifts or prizes, and are really nice to dress up stationary, envelopes, and anything else! - Jessica


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Thinking about the Open Service problem
As Havoc mentioned, I'm putting in some time on thinking about what an Open Service Definition (to parallel the Open Source and Free Software Definitions). I present here a rough draft of a framework for evaluating such a definition. It is not the definition itself, nor a license/technology/business model/etc. which follows the definition, merely a framework which will generate questions to ask and issues to cover when creating such things. It is not the only possible framework, either, but I think it is probably a good starting point to think about what questions must be addressed.
Some of these evaluation criteria will be familiar from the older definitions; some will have been implied by them but not widely discussed. All will still need elaboration, but I think it will be useful to write down how I'm thinking about the problem. Comments are welcome; email preferred, because of the complex nature of the problem, which I don't think lends itself well to linear wordpress comments yet. If I've reached out to you recently about this problem, expect personalized email or phone calls in the next few days :)
All of these criteria involve sliding scales- obviously if a licensor moves any of them all the way to the closed/unavailable side you have proprietary or semi-proprietary software, but depending on where the lines are drawn, you have more or less onerous requirements with different outcomes- much like the current differences between more protective licenses like GPL and less restrictive but still meeting the definition licenses like BSD.
The point of having open/free systems:
- user freedom. results in security/autonomy/self-actualization/moral development/customer satisfaction/what-have-you. (Interestingly, neither the OSI nor the FSF definitions really go into why freedom or openness is actually good, which I think contributes to the lack of clarity around each.)
- direct contribution to the codebase or otherwise to the community. Includes the free rider problem and possibly other collective action problems as well.
- ecosystem participation. e.g., application development or API consumption. May include network effects and stickiness (both as a benefit and detriment.)
Evaluating these criteria differently will result in different values for the next two categories (preconditions and rights). For example, when in doubt the FSF favors user freedom, which means much stricter restrictions on redistribution than might otherwise be ideal for direct contribution; when in doubt Linus favors contribution and ecosystem participation and hence prefers GPL v2 to v3. And of course the Open Source/Free Software split was precipitated in part by an increased emphasis on ecosystem participation and decreased emphasis on user freedom.
I'm not entirely sure yet that direct contribution and ecosystem participation are really all that different in practice, but it seems they might be (particularly in an online context) so I'm keeping them separate for now.
If these preconditions are not met, then you can't meaningfully achieve the rights listed below or the goals listed above:
- data access: taken for granted until recently because our data has always lived on local drives, or on servers we controlled. As a result, this is implied by the Free Software Definition and yet not protected by the GPL (even v3). DRM falls into this area- the software or hardware takes away your data access, and hence deprives you of the user rights. Sliding scale includes not having any data access (many web services), having access to the data, but only as a binary blob (most end-user proprietary software), or having access to the data stored in standardized or otherwise open formats.
- source access: as noted in the Free Software definition, this is a precondition for all other user rights. Sliding scale can include (among other options) mandatory provision (GPL v2), mandatory provision and reuse (v3's tivo clauses), or no such (BSD.)
- hardware access: never much discussed because, unlike everything else here, hardware actually is scarce, and so can't be provisioned merely by good intent or good licensing. May make some sense to discuss in the context of servers, though- for example, if all your source is available, but it can only be run on multi-billion dollar server farms, is it actually meaningfully open? Does dealing with this angle require p2p solutions, or will single-point of failure solutions (with other safeguards) be sufficient?
It may make sense to speak of skills to manipulate source as being a precondition, alongside but distinct from source access. For the time being, though, I'm content to do what the FSF has done and say that as long as you have access to the source, you can buy skills from elsewhere and hence approximate the freedom of someone with the skills.
User data privacy is clearly important to the analysis of online services, but I'm not yet sure how this fits into the analytical model. It is often spoken of as a constraint on data access, so perhaps it fits as part of that criteria or sliding scale. Note also that there is a similar problem with the data which is created as a shared value- e.g., obviously my password is private when I contribute to Advogato, and so should not be shared, and my Advogato diary entries should probably (though not certainly) be removable, but what about the trust metric ratings I have contributed? Should they remain irrevocably available? Not yet clear where this fits in the criteria/discussion.
Rights available to participants in the commons.
- use: this includes a temporal dimension, which open source has typically taken for granted, but which is now relevant for discussion in the case where servers/services go away (either maliciously or for other reasons.) This temporal aspect may make more sense elsewhere, since it has implications for things like server ownership and server governance. Note also that the v3 now includes some potential restrictions on use (where, for example, the network is damaged by modified clients.)
- modify: as in FSF/OSI, pretty much, including sliding scale of options. May have some implications for APIs/service guarantees in an online context which are not readily comparable with the traditional model.
- redistribute: as in FSF/OSI, pretty much, including sliding scale of options.
These are pretty much straight out of the Free Software Definition. I tend to think FSF freedoms 1, 2, and 3 have a fair amount of redundancy, so they get collapsed to modify/redistribute, with the assumption that redistribution means either modified or unmodified.
FSF calls these freedoms; I call them rights here because I personally tend to think of them as inalienable things which should be provisioned rather than optional things which can be taken or not. But neither term is completely satisfactory for this analysis, since saying that these are rights or freedoms implies taking a position on where on the sliding scale restrictions should be made.
Not clear where the question of who gets access to these things fits into the analytical model; OSI's definition leaves that up to the license, and even FSF allows some fairly strong restrictions on who gets source access and hence gets to exercise these rights, so perhaps it is merely implied that that is part of the spectrum of options for each criteria.
Where to from here
I'll be working with a number of people (both inside and outside Red Hat) to try to flesh this out in the next few weeks. I don't expect we'll really have pragmatic outcomes (i.e., licenses, business models) in that time, but I hope that we'll at least be able to frame the discussion so that those writing code and running servers (including, but obviously not limited to the online-desktop) can think about the issues more easily and more transparently. As such, if there are other axes/criteria that need evaluation, I'm happy to discuss them with anyone- email or by any other way you can get a hold of me.
I'll obviously be participating where appropriate in similar efforts- I'm not a fan of duplication of effort or NIH problems, so I welcome pointers to any advanced and pragmatic efforts I should be working with. But so far it is my observation that most open service definition proposals either have specific goals (i.e., they think there is a particular technical solution that must be used, or a particular policy agenda which must be advanced) or they have no code in the game, or both. I want to avoid the first problem, at least right now, by advancing a framework for discussion, and then allowing people with specific technologies/agendas/etc. to reason within that framework, rather than picking an outcome and then discussing a framework. I also want to take advantage of the opportunity to work with online-desktop in order to have someone implement the outcome- I think that it is only by implementing such technologies that we'll actually get a good understanding of what licenses, business models, governance systems, etc., are really appropriate. So far it seems that other such proposals have not had this key element of real-world application in place. (Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.)
I'll probably be wikifying this all soon as well (as soon as I can figure out where, and figure out how to keep the signal/noise ratio high); the wiki will include source links to the various places that have provided background or information for this, as well as some more details and questions that are still very much unanswered. In the meantime, thanks to various people, including Kragen, Mako, Mike Linksvayer, Gabriel Burt, Havoc, and many more who have influenced my thinking on this. (Including Stallman- who, whatever else you may think of him, is the reason we're all here.)


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NTSB still seeking root cause of Boeing 787 fire
A safety regulator on Thursday released hundreds of pages of details from its probe of a battery fire aboard Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, but the information did not reveal what caused the January blaze, and a call for hearings on the matter could slow efforts to get the plane back in the air.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it would hold two public meetings in April, one on the design and certification of Boeing 787's battery system, and a second on general lithium-ion battery technology the same month.
The NTSB is poring over the entire system, from the burned battery carcass to the certification and testing by the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
Some experts were surprised by the hearings, given that there was no loss of life from the battery that caught fire aboard a parked jet shortly after it landed at Boston's Logan International Airport in January. A second incident in Japan a few days later prompted regulators worldwide to ban the 787 from commercial flight on January 16, a restriction costing Boeing and airlines millions of dollars a day.
"It's unusual to have hearings when you haven't had a major incident," said John Hansman, co-chairman of an FAA advisory committee and a professor of aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Such "unprecedented public scrutiny" of the battery, he said, tends to slow down the process and make people behave more conservatively. "They don't want to look like they're being rash."
The NTSB's 39-page "interim factual report," part of 499 pages of studies released on Thursday, provides extensive detail on the testing performed on the battery. It also makes clear that investigators remain a long way from understanding why the battery caught fire in the first place.
Boeing called the report a "positive step" toward completing the investigation and a spokesman Marc Birtel said the company had worked closely with the NTSB to understand what happened.
The FAA did not respond to a request for comment.
Greg Feith, a former NTSB investigator, said the NTSB reports spread blame for the failure beyond Boeing by highlighting how many organizations were involved in the system.
The report also suggests that the NTSB is looking at whether the FAA, and its designees who work at Boeing, had the technical knowledge to critically question test data used to show the failure rate for the battery was acceptably low.
"The FAA will be under scrutiny to demonstrate that the guys responsible for signing off on these things at Boeing had the levels of knowledge to be able to identify shortcomings for correction prior to the airplane being certified," said Feith, a partner at Media and Communications Strategies consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
Over the past eight years, the FAA has outsourced much of its oversight of Boeing and other aircraft makers to so called "designees" who work for the companies but have the power to certify work on the FAA's behalf.
Jim Hall, who was chairman of the NTSB from 1995 to 2000, said it was appropriate for the board to exercise oversight of the FAA's certification process, given the changes to the system.
"Essentially, now Boeing is designating their own representatives rather than the federal government," he said. "It raises in my mind a number of issues that I hope the investigation will answer with regard to the certification process."
While the report did not determine what sparked the battery fire, it revealed new details about the battery system.
For example, a system designed to vent smoke from the plane during a battery fire failed to function because it lacked power after the battery caught fire. The system's auxiliary power unit (APU), a gas-driven engine in the tail of the plane, also was shut off at the time, and the battery is used to start that system.
"As a result, smoke generated by the APU battery could not be effectively redirected outside the cabin and aft (electrical equipment) bay," located in the fuselage behind the right wing of the 787.
Boeing had said that the venting system failed because the plane was on the ground and lacked cabin pressure to use in expelling fumes from the cabin.
The NTSB report, while marking a milestone in the probe of the Boston fire, also signaled that the NTSB has significant additional work to do in its investigation.
The NTSB said a group focused on system safety and certification was going through records of testing and analysis performed by Boeing and its suppliers, system maker Thales SA of France, and battery maker GS Yuasa Corp of Japan.
The NTSB report also revealed abnormal function of the battery shortly before the fire was reported. It said a flight data recorder showed that the voltage and current in the battery fluctuated sharply, though never exceeded 32 volts, its rated level. Overcharging has been associated with fire.
About 21 minutes after the plane landed at Logan, the battery voltage dropped to zero and rebounded to 28 volts three times in three seconds.
About three minutes later, a ground crew member "reentered the cockpit and reported smoke in the cabin," the report said.
(Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by L Gevirtz)


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Business tycoon Mukesh Ambani may have retained his title as India's richest person for 7th year in a row, but his place among the world's richest people has dropped to lowest in eight years.
As per latest Forbes rich list, Ambani is ranked 40th globally with net worth of $18.6 billion -- the highest for any Indian.
This is his lowest rank for Ambani since being placed at 56th position in the year 2006 with a net worth of $8.5 billion -- the first year when Mukesh and his younger brother Anil Ambani were ranked separately by Forbes after their split.
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The current networth of $18.6 billion of Mukesh Ambani also marks a significant decline from $43 billion of wealth recorded in 2008, when he was ranked 5th richest across the world.
It was in the year 2008 itself, when Mukesh Ambani entered the top league of 10 richest people in the world and remained there for four consecutive years till 2011.
"Worth $43 billion in 2008 when he was the world's fifth richest person, Mukesh Ambani has seen a precipitous decline in his fortune since then, a $2.9 billion drop in the past year alone," Forbes said.
Regardless, Forbes said he remains India's richest person and is "still bullish". Ambani plans to invest $25 billion in his businesses over the next two years.
"Ambani has been more in the news for controversies linked to his Reliance Industries' KG-D6 oil field which is set to reap a bonanza from an upcoming gas price hike," Forbes said.
Mukesh Ambani's wealth sinks
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Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has also been witnessing a steep fall over the last 10 years. In the latest Forbes list Mittal is ranked in the 52nd position, while in the year 2005, he enjoyed a rank as high as the 3rd on the global rich list.
Lakshmi Mittal's firm ArcelorMittal is weighed down by weak demand and heavy debt but remains the world's biggest steelmaker. The company reported a net loss of $2.5 billion in 2013, lower than that of the previous year, thanks to cost cutting measures.
According to Forbes, a weak economy and falling rupee took their toll on the wealth of Indian billionaires.
In the 2014 Forbes list, India has 56 billionaires in all with a collective net worth of $191.5 billion which is a tad lower than last year's haul of 55 names worth USD 193.6 billion.
Among those with evaporating fortunes are brothers Shashi & Ravi Ruia, this year's biggest dollar losers, down by $3.6 billion as shares of their London-listed Essar Energy tumbled.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – When the superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools announced earlier this week a cyber attack would lead to the cancellation of classes for around 75,000 students, he noted that the district's technology department had been fending off attacks "for the last few weeks."
Albuquerque is not alone, as five school districts in the state have suffered major cyber attacks in the past two years, including one district that's still wrestling with a cyber attack that hit just after Christmas.
But it's the first reporting a cyber attack that required cancellation of classes, all the more disruptive as schools try to keep in-person learning going during the pandemic.
"If it seems I've come into your homes a lot in the past couple of years to share difficult news, you're right. And here I am again," Superintendent Scott Elder said in a video address Thursday. "We find ourselves facing yet another challenge."
The closures, on Thursday and Friday, affect approximately one in five New Mexico schoolchildren, in what is the country's 35th largest school district by enrollment, according to 2019 data from the National Center for Education Statistics. The district was one of the last in the state to reopen last year as vaccines became available.
The small town of Truth or Consequences discovered a cyber attack on Dec. 28, and still hasn't gained control of its computer systems.
"We're not out of the woods yet," said Mike Torres, the information technology director of the school system in Truth or Consequences, a small town in central New Mexico.
The attack has not been previously reported. It came when students were on vacation, allowing time to make contingency plans before students returned. Torres says that while the attack "made computer systems unavailable," disruption has been minimal.
That wasn't the case in Albuquerque, where teachers discovered Wednesday morning that they were locked out of the student information database that tracks attendance, records emergency contacts for students, and tracks which adults are allowed to pick up which students at the end of the school day.
In 2019, Las Cruces Public Schools also suffered an attack on their student information database, after a phishing attack lured one or more employees to click a malicious link in an email months before, recalls Matt Dawkins, that district's information technology director.
After lurking and scoping out the district's system, a hacker or hackers carried out ransomware attack. Data on many school computers, starting with the student database, was locked up in an encryption. A ransom was demanded in exchange for the key.
"It's kind of like when your house gets robbed you know? That feeling of being violated," said Dawkins, in an interview Thursday, as his school went under lockdown due to an unrelated police call a mile away.
The school didn't pay the ransom, and eventually found a way to reset its data systems to the state they were in the day before the attack. But it required months of hands on work, and extra expenses for temporary Wi-Fi hotspots, and some new computers. Insurance covered much of the cost of the attack.
In the past two years, at least four other New Mexico schools have been hit by costly cyber attacks, according Patrick Sandoval, interim director of the New Mexico Public School Insurance Authority, which insures all districts in New Mexico except for Albuquerque.
Targets across the U.S. in 2021 included universities, hospitals, and a major fuel pipeline. Data on the number of attacks and their cost are difficult to track, but the FBI's 2020 annual report on cyber attacks said around $4.1 billion in damages was reported by institutions across the country that year.
Dawkins added if Albuquerque faces a ransomware situation, which hasn't been confirmed, it might face a more complex attack. Instead of holding information hostage, ransomware attacks now threaten to sell data to the highest bidder online. So the student data in Albuquerque might not just be locked up, Dawkins said, but at risk of being shared with identity thieves and other bad actors.
Albuquerque Public Schools hasn't said if the cyber attack they face is a ransomware attack, only that their student information database was "compromised," and that it's working with law enforcement and contractors to limit the damage.
Whatever the cause, they face a similar problem as Las Cruces faced in the days following the attack.
The database used to track attendance and other students was out of commission. It also realized that laptops needed to be quarantined and taken out of service, forcing teachers to work offline.
"Immediately our instructional department pivoted with pen and paper, you know, kind of old fashioned sort of teaching so our print shop was printing materials. Teachers were able to adapt very quickly," Dawkins said.
Albuquerque Public School officials have not elaborate on the decision to close schools, and didn't respond to requests Thursday about why a paper system was not possible.
The decision to continue classes in Las Cruces came at a cost. Dawkins said that it probably took longer to get the school's thousands of computers wiped and reset while teachers and administrators were working normal hours, and they had to live without technology for weeks and weeks.
In January 2020, the district's computers were running again and in good time, too — the pandemic forced teachers and students into remote learning just a few months later.
This version corrects the first name of the information technology director in Truth or Consequences to Mike, not Mark.
Attanasio is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Attanasio on Twitter.
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- Drivers aged 60 pay an average of $1,129 for a full coverage policy in Washington.
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- Additional Resources
Cheapest car insurance companies for seniors in Washington
Below are the cheapest, full-coverage car insurance rates in Washington for drivers at various ages:
- Cheapest for seniors, overall: USAA, $77 per month.
- Cheapest for seniors at age 60: USAA, $67 per month.
- Cheapest for seniors at age 65: USAA, $68 per month.
- Cheapest for seniors at age 70: USAA, $76 per month.
- Cheapest for seniors at age 75: Geico, $90 per month.
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Below are the cheapest Washington rates being offered by the major car insurance companies for three different coverage levels: The state minimum, liability-only coverage with limits of 50/100/50 and full coverage car insurance with liability limits of 100/300/100.
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- Liability Only: 50/100/50 liability only
- State Minimum: State minimum coverage
Why do car insurance rates go up for senior drivers in Washington?
Car insurance premiums go up for most senior drivers in their mid-60s, according to 2022 CarInsurance.com data analysis, and then continue to climb. The average car insurance cost for a 60-year-old driver in Washington is $1,129 for a full coverage policy. Drivers age 70 pay $1,245 for the same coverage.
CarInsurance.com found that 70-year-old drivers pay 10% more than 60-year-old drivers in Washington, and 75-year-old drivers pay 26% more for a full coverage policy.
The table below shows the annual average rate increase for senior drivers by age in Washington for different coverage levels:
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- Liability Only: 50/100/50 liability only
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- Ask about discounts: Discounts – bundling with homeowners insurance, loyalty discounts and discounts for years of being licensed — are a great way to save on your car insurance. More on discounts below.
Take a senior driving course: With an approved defensive driving course, senior drivers can save up to 3% on their car insurance in Washington. The American Automobile Association (AAA) and AARP offer defensive driving courses for senior drivers in Washington.
Car insurance discounts for senior drivers in Washington
Here are some car insurance discounts that can help seniors lower their insurance costs.
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Choosing the cheapest and best car insurance for seniors in Washington
Senior drivers shell out higher premiums than younger adult drivers.
Carefully evaluate your needs and decide the amount of coverage to purchase. While shopping for insurance, consider the price, customer service and the discounts they offer.
Find the best auto insurance companies online to see which carrier provides affordable rates and easy-to-use websites or apps.
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Bottom line
USAA offers the cheapest car insurance quotes for senior drivers in Washington for a full coverage policy, based on a 2022 CarInsurance.com analysis.
By shopping around and comparing rates online from different insurers, seniors can find the best deal on their car insurance. Additionally, senior drivers could qualify for discounts by taking defensive driving courses or bundling their car insurance with other types of insurance.
Additional Resources
There are a number of resources available for older drivers who want to stay safe behind the wheel and save on their insurance premiums:
- American Automobile Association: AAA helps senior drivers to continue driving for as long and safely as possible.
- AARP (American Association of Retired Persons): AARP's smart driver program helps senior drivers to learn proven driving techniques and save money on car insurance.
- National Institute on Aging: The NIA provides tips to senior drivers related to health and driving and offers free publications to aging seniors answering health-related queries.
- Fitness-to-Drive Screening Measure Online: This web-based tool helps family members identify at-risk drivers.
- Eldercare Locator: Helps senior drivers maintain their independence, and provides information about highway safety for aging drivers and services.
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. "Older Adult Drivers." Accessed November 2022.
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. "Fatality Facts 2019 Older People." Accessed November 2022.
- National Safety Council. "Motor Vehicle: Age Group Comparisons." Accessed November 2022.
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)." Accessed November 2022.
CarInsurance.com used rates for major car insurance companies from Quadrant Information Services for senior drivers in Washington.
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Item #: SCP-871
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Each recurrence of SCP-871 is to be maintained within a separate, locked concrete cell on a metal platter permanently affixed to the surface of an immovable wooden table. Each cell housing a recurrence of SCP-871 is to be monitored on a 24-hour basis via closed-circuit camera, with individual feeds checked every 15 minutes.
Upon creation of an instance of SCP-871, 3 Class D personnel are to be escorted by armed guards to its cell, where they are to be sealed with the instance and induced to consume it. No more than one hour may be spent performing this task. In cases where additional motivation is needed, the termination of one of the Class D personnel assigned to an instance of SCP-871 is authorized. Upon completion of the consumption of an instance, no participants may exit the cell until both they and the room have been thoroughly searched to confirm that no portions remain. The platter, table, and room are then to be cleaned in preparation for the next instance.
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No desserts of any kind are to be served on-site at any facility housing a recurrence of SCP-871.
Description: SCP-871 is a collection of 237 cakes. Instances of SCP-871 vary widely in appearance and size, covering the entire range of foods described by humans as "cake". The smallest observed instance of SCP-871 was a miniature cupcake with a mass of 15 grams. The largest yet observed was a 22-kilogram baumkuchen measuring 2 meters in length.
When any instance of SCP-871 is consumed by a human or a collection of humans, it is replaced approximately 24 hours afterward with a similar cake. This cake will appear on a flat surface in the vicinity of the location where the previous instance was eaten. If any of these cakes is substantially damaged through any means other than being eaten by a human, including being eaten by a non-human animal, it will be replaced instantaneously. Instances recreated in this manner maintain the schedule of the original instance. The mechanism by which instances of SCP-871 are replaced is currently unknown.
Individual recurrences of SCP-871 have been observed to "mutate" over time, varying in minor characteristics between each instance, with larger changes occurring in roughly 5% of replacements. No deleterious effects have been observed to result from the consumption of SCP-871, even in cases where several instances have been consumed, excepting those expectable from eating large amounts of cake.
SCP-871's danger originates in the consequences of an instance not being eaten. Any instance of SCP-871 which is not consumed will cause a new cake to be created in its vicinity after 24 hours. While this is similar to its normal "replacement" behavior, the original instance will continue to exhibit the same properties, replicating if damaged and continuing to "replace" itself every 24 hours. This behavior has been observed in all cases where more than 10% of the mass of an instance remained unconsumed. As there is no known mechanism for halting SCP-871's replication, any uncontained instances could replicate exponentially, quickly becoming unmanageable. No maintainable plans for the containment of more than 20,000 instances of SCP-871 have yet been devised. It is estimated that an uncontrolled outbreak originating with a single instance would render the earth uninhabitable within 80 days.


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Wal-Mart to take majority stake in China e-commerce firm
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Feb 20, 2012
Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Monday it is taking a controlling stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Yihaodian, as the world's largest retailer seeks new revenue sources to fend off rising competition in the world's fastest-growing major economy.
The move comes two weeks after Wal-Mart announced the appointment of industry veteran Greg Foran as head of its China operations, capping a series of leadership changes at the unit, which has been tainted by food scandals, including a pork mislabeling issue last year that forced it to temporarily shut a dozen stores in central China.
Wal-Mart said in a statement that the fresh investment into Yihaodian will take its stake to around 51 percent and will be subject to government regulatory approval. Wal-Mart did not provide any financial details of the deal and it was not immediately clear how much stake it has now in the China firm.
"E-commerce has been booming for years in China and in many other sectors, and it has only been very recently that it is for supermarket type of goods," said James Roy, senior analyst from Shanghai-based China Market Research Group. "It is a good investment for Wal-Mart as it has a lot of potential."
Wal-Mart announced in May last year it planned to buy a minority stake in Yihaodian, a Chinese website selling consumer items and groceries.
"People who order from Yihaodian tend to be more premium customers and that is a decent direction for the company," Roy said. "It is an interesting move, showing that they are trying something new."
Yihaodian, with 5,400 staff, operates a logistics network in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu. It serves a growing customer base with same-day and next-day delivery of essential daily items at competitive prices.
With 173 million Chinese people shopping online, China's e-commerce industry is expected to surpass 750 billion yuan ($118 billion) in gross merchandise value in 2011, more than the gross domestic product of Vietnam. It is expected to become the world's largest e-commerce market in 2015, Boston Consulting Group said in a report.
"Our further investment in Yihaodian demonstrates that we are committed to investing in China in a key growth industry and developing all that goes with it: logistics, infrastructure, innovative talent and new technologies...," Neil Ashe, President and CEO of Walmart Global eCommerce, said in the statement.
Heavy spending on logistics, waging price wars, holding steep discount promotions and splurging on massive offline advertising are what it now takes to be an e-commerce player in China and to stay at the forefront of consumers' minds.
"Since Yihaodian already has its own logistics and is very popular in Beijing and Shanghai, the deal is very positive for Wal-Mart," said Yuji Fung, analyst from Oriental Patron Financial Group.
In China, Wal-Mart has faced intense competition on the mainland, where it competes against China's Sun Art and China Resources Enterprise, with local brands such as Yonghui and Shinshiji.
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When Wal-Mart reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on February 21, analysts on average expect to see the company's best U.S. sales performance in more than two years.
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By stepping up the American military presence in Iraq, President Bush is not only inviting an epic clash with the Democrats who run Capitol Hill. He is ignoring the results of the November elections, rejecting the central thrust of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group and flouting the advice of some of his own generals, as well as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq.I remember watching that Nixon speech on a little black-and-white TV -- one of the few TVs in East Quad -- when I was a freshman in college at the University of Michigan. We hooted with derision and hatred. How could that evil man think we would believe his insane reassurance about a despicable plan, and how could he dare to portray a new invasion as a response to our demand that he end the war?
In so doing, Mr. Bush is taking a calculated gamble that no matter how much hue and cry his new strategy may provoke, in the end the American people will give him more time to turn around the war in Iraq and Congress will not have the political nerve to thwart him by cutting off money for the war....
Wartime clashes between presidents and the Congress are a familiar thread in American history. But perhaps no president since Richard M. Nixon has so boldly expanded an unpopular war. Explaining his decision to invade Cambodia in April 1970, Nixon said: "A majority of the American people, a majority of you listening to me, are for the withdrawal of our forces from Vietnam. The action I have taken tonight is indispensable for the continuing success of that withdrawal program."
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[N]o American president has been able to prosecute a war indefinitely without the support of the American public. With polls showing fewer than 20 percent of Americans supporting increasing troop levels in Iraq, Mr. Bush and those Republicans who support him know that the new policy will be a tough sell.I think she's quoting Domenici because he sounds so dumb. Sure, trial and error, people are fine with that system. But what he's saying inelegantly is probably true. People, unhappy though they are, will steel themselves and hope the President has come up with a decently workable plan this time. If you're not one of those people and you're flipping out because you can't understand why Americans -- despite the poll numbers -- seem to accept the President's decisions nonetheless, you probably will only hoot with derision if I say I understand how you feel.
"The American people have no reason in the world to think it's going to work just like the president paints it," said one of those backers, Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, "but I think the American people, in their usual good sense, are going to wait around for a while and say, 'Mr. President, you've taken us down a lot of roads in Iraq, let's go down this one and see if it works.' "


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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says that if Republicans don't allow tax rates to increase as part of a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, "there will not be an agreement."
"If Republicans are not willing to let rates go back up -- and we think they should go back to the Clinton levels, a time when the American economy was doing exceptionally well -- then there will not be an agreement," Geithner said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Geithner, who last week made the rounds on Capitol Hill to detail the Obama administration's opening offer on a deal, said the "ball" is in the GOP court.
"The ball really is with them now," he said. "They're in a hard place. And they're having a tough time trying to figure out what they can do, what they can get support from their members for. That's understandable. This is very difficult for them. And we might need to give them a little more time to figure out where they go next."
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Nazareth: Israeli legislation ostensibly intended to tackle noise pollution from Muslim houses of worship has, paradoxically, served chiefly to provoke a cacophony of indignation across much of the Middle East.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his support this month for the so-called "muezzin bill", claiming it was urgently needed to stop the dawn call to prayer from mosques ruining the Israeli public's sleep. A vote in the parliament is due this week. The use of loudspeakers by muezzins was unnecessarily disruptive, Mr Netanyahu argued, in an age of alarm clocks and phone apps.
But the one in five of Israel's population who are Palestinian, most of them Muslim, and a further 300,000 living under occupation in East Jerusalem, say the legislation is grossly discriminatory. The bill's environmental rationale is bogus, they note. Moti Yogev, a settler leader who drafted the bill, originally wanted the loudspeaker ban to curb the broadcasting of sermons supposedly full of "incitement" against Israel.
And last week, after the Jewish ultra-Orthodox lobby began to fear the bill might also apply to sirens welcoming in the Sabbath, the government hurriedly introduced an exemption for synagogues.
The "muezzin bill" does not arrive in a politically neutral context. The extremist wing of the settler movement championing it has been vandalising and torching mosques in Israel and the occupied territories for years.
The new bill follows hot on the heels of a government-sponsored expulsion law that allows Jewish legislators to oust from the parliament the Palestinian minority's representatives if they voice unpopular views.
Palestinian leaders in Israel are rarely invited on TV, unless it is to defend themselves against accusations of treasonous behaviour.
And this month a branch of a major restaurant chain in the northern city of Haifa, where many Palestinian citizens live, banned staff from speaking Arabic to avoid Jewish customers' suspicions that they were being covertly derided.
Incrementally, Israel's Palestinian minority has found itself squeezed out of the public sphere. The "muezzin bill" is just the latest step in making them inaudible as well as invisible.
Notably, Basel Ghattas, a Palestinian Christian legislator from the Galilee, denounced the bill too. Churches in Nazareth, Jerusalem and Haifa, he vowed, would broadcast the muezzin's call to prayer if mosques were muzzled.
For Ghattas and others, the bill is as much an assault on the community's beleaguered Palestinian identity as it is on its Muslim character. Netanyahu, on the other hand, has dismissed criticism by comparing the proposed restrictions to measures adopted in countries like France and Switzerland. What is good for Europe, he argues, is good for Israel.
Except Israel, it hardly needs pointing out, is not in Europe. And its Palestinians are the native population, not immigrants.
Haneen Zoabi, another lawmaker, observed that the legislation was not about "the noise in [Israeli Jews'] ears but the noise in their minds". Their colonial fears, she said, were evoked by the Palestinians' continuing vibrant presence in Israel – a presence that was supposed to have been extinguished in 1948 with the Nakba, the creation of a Jewish state on the ruins of the Palestinians' homeland.
That point was illustrated inadvertently over the weekend by dozens of fires that ravaged pine forests and neighbouring homes across Israel, fuelled by high winds and months of drought.
Some posting on social media relished the fires as God's punishment for the "muezzin bill".
With almost as little evidence, Netanyahu accused Palestinians of setting "terrorist" fires to burn down the Israeli state. The Israeli prime minister needs to distract attention from his failure to heed warnings six years ago, when similar blazes struck, that Israel's densely packed forests pose a fire hazard.
If it turns out that some of the fires were set on purpose, Netanyahu will have no interest in explaining why.
Many of the forests were planted decades ago by Israel to conceal the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages, after 80 per cent of the Palestinian population – some 750,000 – were expelled outside Israel's new borders in 1948. Today they live in refugee camps, including in the West Bank and Gaza.
According to Israeli scholars, the country's European founders turned the pine tree into a "weapon of war", using it to erase any trace of the Palestinians. The Israeli historian Ilan Pappe calls this policy "memoricide".
Olive trees and other native species like carob, pomegranate and citrus were also uprooted in favour of the pine. Importing the landscape of Europe was a way to ensure Jewish immigrants would not feel homesick.
Today, for many Israeli Jews, only the muezzin threatens this contrived idyll. His intermittent call to prayer emanates from the dozens of Palestinian communities that survived 1948's mass expulsions and were not replaced with pine trees.
Like an unwelcome ghost, the sound now haunts neighbouring Jewish towns.
The "muezzin bill" aims to eradicate the aural remnants of Palestine as completely as Israel's forests obliterated its visible parts – and reassure Israelis that they live in Europe rather than the Middle East.
Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East" (Pluto Press) and "Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair" (Zed Books). His website is www.jonathan-cook.net.
A version of this article first appeared in the National, Abu Dhabi.
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Fourteen new companies including Sony Ericsson have joined the Open Handset Alliance, the group backing Google's Android mobile operating system. The total number of companies in the alliance now totals 47.
Sony Ericsson and Vodafone are perhaps the most notable new members. Sony Ericsson has traditionally used Symbian to power its smartphones but recently made its first phone based on Windows Mobile, the Xperia.
Vodafone was one of the first big operators to announce that it planned to narrow down the number of operating systems used in phones on its networks to just two or three. In 2006, it said that it had chosen Symbian, Linux and Windows Mobile as the three platforms to run its smartphones for the next five years. While Android is based on Linux, it is not compatible with standards being set by the LiMo Foundation, a group creating and publishing specifications for middleware for mobile Linux devices.
Other new OHA members include AKM Semiconductor, ARM, AsusTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile, Teleca and Toshiba.
The members will either deploy Android devices, contribute significant code to Android, or support the project with products and services that accelerate the availability of Android devices, the OHA said in a statement.
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Welcome to the first day of November, and the first day of the rest of your life! Instead of waiting until New Year's to make a resolution, start today to make a commitment to change your life in the right direction. Continuing on the theme of Occupying Wall Street! This week we will continue to occupy those things that are in our lives that we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of!! Those things that if were non-existent would immediately boost our productivity rate and get us closer to our dreams and aspirations! Today's Daily Word is dedicated to Occupying Distractions!
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ORLANDO, FL – Republican candidate, Herman Cain, is promising free pizza for all Americans if he wins the Presidency.
Herman Cain has moved into a tie with Mitt Romney atop the field of Republican presidential candidates. It's looking like he has a real shot at the Republican nomination for President and real good shot to be the 45th President of the United States, so…
Herman Cain is promising free pizza for all Americans if he wins. Sources close to Cain, who is the President of Godfather's Pizza, will provide nine pies, on nine days in nine months in the first year after he wins election. "I call it my 9-9-9 plan."
Contrary to the food and health policies, Cain believes that pizza is a "primary" food for most Americans and that people should eat "as much as they damn want."
Cain's rise in the polls follows a flurry of positive media coverage for his upset victory over Perry in the Florida straw poll last month. The only African-American candidate in the GOP field, Cain has also been getting traction with GOP voters and conservative columnists with his 9-9-9 plan.
"Everybody loves pizza," said GOP pollster, Randy Rosegarten.
Cain is the top choice among self-described pizza-lovers, with 99 percent support. He also does well with chinese food lovers (88 percent), Subway lovers (82 percent) and Dunkin Donuts lovers (75%) – though this may increase because Chris Christie announced he was not running in 2012.
And Cain wants his free pizzas big:
Cain's strong showing comes as he embarks on a book tour that will keep him busy for much of October – a scheduling decision that has some wondering how serious he is about his presidential campaign. Cain is not scheduled to return to the first-in-the-nation state of Iowa until the middle of November, and he has seen significant staff shakeup, most recently losing his respected communications director – a sign that his staff may not see him as mounting a serious challenge for the nomination.
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