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And The Web Played OnJune 16, 2003
Pleeeeenty has been going through my head the past few days. Consider this a brain dump if you will. I'm probably very wrong in my conjecture and conclusions, but we all need to vent from time to time.
So Microsoft killed Mac IE this weekend, if you were living under a rock. There has been a rather high volume of coverage. I figured it was inevitable as soon as it became apparent that Microsoft's strategy involved bundling the browser and the OS. Obviously they can't touch Mac OS, and whether that's valid reasoning of not, it spelled out IE's fate on the platform.
Microsoft was initially caught off guard by the web, spent years playing catch–up, and now wants to kill it. The browser in use by the majority is effectively dead, or at least quickly dying. What's the future, according to Microsoft? Proprietary services. MSN, .Net, and so forth. Conveniently these all will make them far more money than IE ever did.
Fine, good, whatever. Where's the comfort to be taken in all of this? What good can Mozilla, Opera, or Apple hope to inflict upon the web given their abysmal collective market share? What possible reason do they have to continue any development when Microsoft has so clearly won? Let's all pack our marbles and go home, because play time is over. The consumer doesn't care about the browser, and ends up using whatever takes the least effort. IE wins. Microsoft wins. They can do whatever they want now.
Okay, get ahold of yourself. Have we gotten the pessimism out of the way? Good, now let's try and figure out — constructively — what all this means and what happens next.
Let's think like each of these companies for a moment, and see what happens:
Opera is a browser company. They make and sell a browser (and variations thereof), no more, no less. This is great news: their biggest competitor has literally decided to stop competing. Opera is in a good spot. Now all they have to do is get someone to start bundling their product with hardware. Hello wireless. A market Microsoft doesn't own.
Apple is largely a software company. They sell a variety of products, the most important being their operating system which competes directly with Microsoft. John Gruber has a great write-up on what must be happening over in Cupertino right now. Here's another thought to add on to the heap: we've seen how crummy browser–detection scripts lock out fringe browsers — how successful is Microsoft going to be in locking Apple out of their future plans? Their market share may erode awfully quickly if you can't use the internet on a Mac. They just got forced into a committing to Safari. That's a ray of light for developers, and we'll all be sure to thank Apple for it, won't we? Go tell Dave Hyatt how much you love him.
AOL has more options. They just won the right to license IE free of charge for the rest of the decade. So will IE6 live within AOL's software until 2011? Not likely. Their long–term strategy must involve Mozilla to some degree. Netscape's days may be coming to an end, maybe they aren't, but one thing is abundantly clear — AOL needs to continue developing their own software and break the Microsoft habit. They just collected three quarters of a billion dollars from Redmond: they just used up their Get Out of Jail Free card. The gloves are off.
And lastly, let's not forget the consumer. I have a collection of sites I visit frequently in my bookmarks. I'm sure every single person with a web browser has a similar collection, regardless of their technological expertise. The publishers of these sites will continue to publish, which means they will continue to require a medium to publish.
People like the web. They like their Google, and Salon, and ESPN. You like developing for it. Because Microsoft has decided they don't, doesn't mean Microsoft gets their way. What could they possibly provide that would convince hundreds of thousands of web developers world–wide to a) re–learn, b) re–build, and c) re–develop their entire skillset and toolbox? On any other day we groan about the inherent human nature to stick with what it knows, but today let's take solace in how many developers have yet to truly embrace web standards. These are the same people Microsoft has to convince.
The web's not going anywhere.
(This originally started out as a post on wireless technology, if you can believe it. It's one more angle to consider — the desktop browser may be locked, but mobile devices, set–top boxes and the like are still anyone's game. The web is far from over, and while things might be at a stand–still for a few years, standards are more important now than ever.)
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As far as I am concerned, the sad news is that it means new and exciting web standards like CSS3 and XHTML 2.0 will take longer to filter into mainstream use.
There must be something we (web designers and developers) can do. We cannot let Microsoft turn the web into a soup of proprietary markup and extensions. :::sighs of futility:::
I think I share Dave's optimism, and have ever since I heard that Microsoft was killing IE. Microsoft is stepping away from the web browser market, giving other browser makers a great opportunity to improve their software and their marketshare. The web is the number one reason why computers are purchased today, it's not going anywhere.
Up till now consumers haven't cared about the browser because it was a no-brainer. IE was the best browser on the market since version 4, and it was included on PC's and Macs. Consumers had no reason to care. However, before the release of IE 4, when Netscape was still prominent, consumers were more browser conscious because they needed to be in order to choose the right browser for them. In the near future consumers will care about browsers again because the web is going to continue to grow. At some point it will outgrow IE, and at that point consumers will once again become browser conscious.
Additionally, I hope browsers move into a pay-for market. That would increase the quality of the browsers, and would hopefully cause browser makers to release better versions. Open source browsers could even still be updated through update downloaders that would simply patch the software with the new changes, until the next version came along, at which point the user should pay an upgrade cost. People have to eat. I would be thrilled to see 3 or 4 different browsers for sale on the shelf at my local retail software outlet.
I see this as an opportunity for the web browser market to grow and evolve into something a little more significant than it was before. I guess the most important thing is still web standards. But it seems to me that browser makers other than Microsoft have been more willing to adopt standards anyway. So let Microsoft go their own way with whatever they're doing. They can't kill the web unless the rest of the world lets them.
As designers and developers though, we have a responsibility to help educate the average consumer about what the new developments mean. Communication is very important right now in order for this situation to grow into a beneficial one for everyone involved.
The web is the number one reason why computers are purchased today
Chris, that's an excellent point, and something I hadn't stopped to think about enough yet. Problem being though that as long as free alternatives exist people are liable to use them, especially if they've already got them. Who will pay for a piece of software they've already got, if it works well enough?
Microsoft's methodical killing of Netscape was because at the time, Netscape as a browser was perceived to be a threat to Windows as an operating system. But we seem to have gone the opposite route, with the Operating System becoming the browser. Whether this is good enough for the general public remains to be seen, but my feeling is that between spending the money on a Windows upgrade and downloading a new browser, the choice should become pretty simple. If consumers are really only interested in the web, then would it be so much of a stretch for them to spend the hour on a 56k vs. shelling out a grand for a new box?
Maybe that's what we have to convince them. There's no reason to jump because Microsoft says. Here's an easier way…
This is a little OT, but I have recently re-entered the Mac world after a 5 year hiatus. I'm finding the quality of the Mac browsers to be pretty inferior to PC ones across the board (tried IE, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera). Just the simple fact that I can't tab through ALL form fields is a big enough reason for me to put down the iBook and go back to my desk.
As far as the comment about for-pay browsers, we should all hope this never happens. This will only slow down progress because people are reluctant to pay for the new versions unless a really compelling reason is there, which will lead to a whole bunch of bloatware and gimmicks detracting from the web experience.
My biggest concern is that I won't be able to pay my bills via my mac soon, because the banks will have to choose a new browser to develop for on the Mac. Which one should that be? Safari, Camino, Omniweb? This is also another incentive to go for a PC… IMHO, pessimism is justified.
Dave & Eric - I want this to all make sense, so it's on the really long side. Please forgive me.
1) Netscape nearly died because NN4 was a pile of crap. Microsoft chose to move in the W3C's direction with IE4 while Netscape tried to implement their own proprietary code because their idea of how DHTML and visual style should work was different. This is the main reason for the fight for standards. If Netscape had followed along, NN4.x would have been a much better browser, and I think it would have stood up to IE quite well. They even had enough time to respond with a better product, but didn't for how many years? Netscape's situation is their own fault. This is best illustrated in "Learn Web Design with HTML 4 in a week" by Laura Lemay, published in '96 or '97 or so. I used to have it anyway, and only gave it away about six months ago. She had to completely separate the Netscape and Microsoft DHTML/CSS conventions into different chapters and explains why.
2) Consumers use free alternatives now because they are not alternatives. They are the norm. But take, for example, DragThing for MacOS. I have not been able to find a free alternative for it anywhere, nor have I found any useful equivalent(sp?) for Windows, free or otherwise, and I've looked repeatedly. And the concept of the software is really simple. Point is, I would rather pay 25 bucks for DragThing than use the free alternatives, if there are any. Browsers would be the same. If the major browser makers would charge for their work, then free alternatives would most likely all but disappear and probably wouldn't be that great. Consumers would bellyache for awhile about paying, but they would get over it.
3) Just like other software, charging for something helps insure that it's a more complete product (unless it's Microsoft), so updates don't have to come as often. Besides, once XML is supported correctly, that takes care of markup languages. Browser updates would be more centered around features such as email, chat, security, privacy, and media handling. A good example is the difference between MusicMatch Jukebox and Winamp. Both are popular, and play the same file formats, but MusicMatch is not free. However, MusicMatch is a much better piece of software although it plays the same file formats. The real value is in the features, like music library handling and CD ripping and recording. I'm happy to pay 20 bucks for these features, rather than fight with Winamp. Additionally, MusicMatch is gaining marketshare over Winamp and Windows Media Player, which are both free.
4) I am somewhat qualified to speak for what consumers want. I managed an office for an ISP for a year, owned a computer store for another year, and have worked for several other computer stores, and I continue to do computer work when requested. The main concern when I sell a computer system is internet and email. Office and finance software comes in second. The average consumer is actually happier running an older operating system, because they believe they are more stable because they've been around longer, yet they still prefer new software. The main reason that consumers don't pay much attention to browsers is that they aren't targeted for communication. Designers talk their tails off about them, but very little of this reaches the average user. I've convinced several friends to switch to Opera or Mozilla simply by installing the software on their systems and showing them the benefits. It's all a matter of communication. Even if browsers don't enter the for-pay market, communication is most important. But communication costs money, so how does communication get payed for if the product being communicated about is free? It's a bit of a paradox, but one the must be resolved. Personally, I'm in favor of paying for a browser if it's a good piece of software.
I'm getting off the soapbox now, my legs are tired. Sorry this is so ridiculously long. I just hope my thoughts sound well thought-out. I wrote all this on paper before typing it so I could organize it all. I'm a geek that way.
Dave - I look at free alternatives just as much as the next guy… I'm a design student afterall, and art school doesn't leave us a whole lot of cash left over to spend on software. I must have looked at 20 different media players before finally settling on buying MusicMatch. I'm a bit anal retentive, you see, and my music library is meticulously tagged and organized by artist, album and track number. Winamp just wouldn't do this for me. JetAudio came close, but it's library system is kinda wacky. Anyway, I'm rambling.
Whatever happens with this whole situation, I think that what it comes down to is that Microsoft has jumped out of the standalone browser market and is letting everyone else have it. It will only be a matter of time before IE starts to slide off your user agent charts.
You have many very good points there. My pessimism is on the wane.
We always think of desktop PCs as the means of accessing the Web, don't we? But maybe not. The point about phones is particularly good. Microsoft are nowhere there.
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Be selling it in Bhutan next, I guess. Maybe that's grounds for pessimism, too
Chris, good points, but I'm exactly the opposite of you. I'm happy with the features I get in WinAmp, so I see no reason to spend money on a media player. And even if I didn't like WinAmp, I'd look at the free alternatives before considering spending the cash. It's my kind of mindset that large companies view as parasitic, no doubt, but it's also why I slap a Share-Alike CC license on almost everything I create. If you're treating your work as a labour of love, I think the quality is going to be far higher than if you're treating it as a job.
Interestingly enough, I'm a strong advocate for free software but I am a registered user of MusicMatch. Why? One button record. That's it. I detest it for anything but ripping, but that feature was worth the $20 or whatever it was 3 years ago. I think this style applies to most consumers. Give them a reason to pay, and they will. Don't, and they won't. Opera has given people very little reason to pay. Despite being commercial, they have had similar, often worse, standards compliance (especially scripting) than the free browsers, so what does the $40 get me? The point here is that pay!=quality. I like Mozilla, but its not my default browser. Why? Again, one feature, and that is the Yahoo toolbar. Considering that I spend time on 3-4 different computers throughout the day, I want my bookmarks to be sync'd. That's it, if this was on Mozilla, I'd switch. These features I mention may have no value to anyone else, but most people find a unique feature that they like about software and stick with it until a more compelling feature appears elsewhere.
How does this apply to browsers? Well, the core function of a browser is to be the same as all the others, not different. The doodads and such are nice, but are very easily copied. Popup blocking, as an example, is standard now through the browser or plugins. I believe strongly that the web browser market will remain a free (though subsidized via Apple, AOL, maybe MS) one.


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Re: Community & Customer Supportdeirdrewalsh Feb 22, 2011 7:21 AM (in response to laurakelso)1 person found this helpful
Hi, Laura.
Is customer support done through Jive? At NI, we actually host our support forums on Lithium but are working on ways both big and small to integrate the two areas. We've gotten feedback from our customers that often they don't really differentiate between official support, online community, technical library, or even certain non-purchasing areas of our Website. Therefore, we have integrated both platforms with our overall site search, have clear links to one from the other (this will be even better in the next few months but you can see the screenshot from our community to support below), and are even working on combing reputation across both platforms.
I think this is still a big question for a lot of companies but am finding that doing the work both internally and externally to unite these areas is the best for customer experience.
Re: Community & Customer Supportjoe.bush Feb 24, 2011 7:27 PM (in response to deirdrewalsh)
Deirdre - Completely agree with you that many clients rarely care which channel they are using to address their support needs, as long as they are getting the answers they need. Very interested in hearing more on your ability to provide integrated search across both your 'official' support platform, as well as you Jive community. That is a project we are looking to address within our community. Would you willing to provide additional detail and share your approach, experience, etc.
Re: Community & Customer Supporttrishaliu Feb 22, 2011 5:52 PM (in response to laurakelso)1 person found this helpful
Hi Laura -
Great question! Our structure is similar to what Deirdre has described: our official support and community are on two separate platforms, so we crosslink on each home page:
- Community home links to Support home
- Support home links to Community home
- Corporate website links to both Community and Support
Beyond this, we do not have further cross-linking within each site. However, within the community, I do see members providing answers and linking back to our knowledge base which is hosted in the Support site. We would love to someday have single sign on and integrations for unified search results, but no timeline for that yet.
Hope this is helpful!
Re: Community & Customer Supportlaurakelso Feb 23, 2011 9:43 AM (in response to laurakelso)
Hi Deirdre & Trisha, thanks so much - this is really helpful. Our customer support is not done through Jive; HomeAway uses SalesForce for all email queries, and offers customer phone support as well. One goal of our new external facing Community is to help reduce customer phone and email queries, but we need to be more strategic in the ways we integrate customer support - both on our HomeAway and Community sites. You've both provided some great food for thought. Thanks again.
Re: Community & Customer Supporttrishaliu Feb 23, 2011 9:48 AM (in response to laurakelso)
Laura, you are welcome! I think StrongMail may use SalesForce for their customer support as well and may have an integration with their Jive customer community. Let me reach out to their community manager...
Re: Community & Customer Supportlaurakelso Feb 23, 2011 11:01 AM (in response to trishaliu)
That would be great! I'd appreciate any other insights...
Thanks again,
Re: Community & Customer Supportjudiths Feb 24, 2011 1:47 PM (in response to laurakelso)
Hi Trisha. Thanks for reaching out to me about this discussion. Laura, my apologies for not posting a response sooner. I've been at a tradeshow all week with limited access to email.
StrongMail has the same community objective as HomeAway which is to leverage the community (Spark) to scale support. Our Salesforce case management portal was migrated into Jive for a few reasons, but one of the main ones, was to drive a certain behavior: to have customers start new discussions about their questions, search product documentation and/or review existing discussions for answers before filing a support case.
One of your questions was where the links to support are placed in the community.
Links to the Support space which contain the case management interface are prominent. We have a Support link in the global nav, each top level space has a side widget below the fold that asks "Need Support?" and those are linked to the same support space. See the attached screen shot.
Our reasoning for not burying support links is two-fold:
- All customers in Spark are on active support plans. It's required to gain access to the community. We tout Spark as a value-added benefit to their support plan and do not want to give the impression that it's a replacement for paid technical support. If they cannot find their answers in there, we encourage them to file a support case.
- Under the Support space, we have more resources than just the case management interface. We have our solutions and product docs which are popular resources. They are often viewed first before a ticket is filed.
We recently conducted a survey that asked very specific questions about how Spark impacts the use of technical support. I think you might find these insightful (hopefully reassuring ) that keeping Support links visible is not a detriment to your overall objective of scaling down support.
- 60% of our community members visit our "Knowledge Exchange" space the most. Support is the next most visited space
- 41% of our members prefer to read our solutions docs and user guides to find answers to their questions. These resources are in the Support space which speaks to why it's one of the most visited spaces in the community
- 62% of our members go to the community to search for answers to their questions (vs asking a question to the community) Tthis gives us some insight into the type of members we have. Most of them are content consumers vs being contributors
- 41% of our members go to the community for assistance in troubleshooting an issue
- only 6% of our members go to the community to file a support case ONLY
- 42% of our members usually find answers to their questions in the community
- 54% of our members indicated that their use of technical support has decreased as a result of using the community to find their answers
- 57% of our members go to the community first to find answers to their questions
I hope this helps you with your questions. Let me know if you have any others.
Re: Community & Customer Supporttrishaliu Feb 24, 2011 1:56 PM (in response to judiths)
Holy moly, Judith - those are some fantastic numbers! Congratulations on these accomplishments and thanks for sharing them with us!
Re: Community & Customer Supportjudiths Feb 24, 2011 2:36 PM (in response to trishaliu)
thanks Trisha. We were definitely happy to see these results. There are areas of improvement as well, however. And we're working on implementing those improvements on a pretty regular basis.
Re: Community & Customer Supportlaurakelso Feb 26, 2011 1:14 PM (in response to judiths)
Hi Judith,
Your reply was hugely helpful, especially because we're in the infancy stages of Community at HomeAway, and it's so important we get the Customer Support piece "right" from the start. Thank you for the screen shot, as well as the extremely promising results of the survey you conducted. I was struck by how only 6% of your members to Spark to file a support case only - that is fantastic!
I'm excited to use some of the knowledge you've conveyed as we integrate Customer Support on our Community platform. (Thank goodness for those who've gone before us... )
Thank you again!
Re: Community & Customer Supportjudiths Mar 7, 2011 3:44 PM (in response to laurakelso)
Hi Laura -
I'm glad I could help. Another thing that I encourage you to do before you launch or soon after launch, is enable Google Analytics in your community. Very useful and valuable to couple these analytics with Jives. Please feel free to contact me with any more questions.
Re: Community & Customer Supportsanjivkvarma Mar 23, 2011 12:18 PM (in response to judiths)
Hi Folks,
We are also struggling to understand more about 'formal' support via communities.
1. What are your experiences about 'liability' if a community forum ends up providing the wrong information ?
2. Do you have dedicated support resources monitoring and supporting thru the community - in which case probably it is formal paid support and liability comes with it.
3. But in cases where it a 'hands-off' community (ofcourse we keep it vibrant), but no formal support, meaning community membersr share best practices amongst themself - then what has been the experience around liability if wrong info is provided.
Do you think having generic community usage discalimers been enough to keep going ?
Re: Community & Customer SupportjimjonesWRS Mar 23, 2011 12:39 PM (in response to sanjivkvarma)
Hi Sanjiv:
First, welcome to the community...hope you will find it useful!
We've been down the same path you are going, so I'll share my experiences. Our community (http://developer.windriver.com) provides support for customers using our Linux based products. In the future we'll expand the community to cover all our products...so the issues you raised are definitely things we had to think through.
Regarding your first question - you should take guidance from your corporate legal department here. Our legal team helped with the creation of our terms of service. Our TOS explicitly states that the information is provided on an as-is basis, and that we accept no liability for customer issues. It also states that employees, contractors, etc., are not liable for problems or issues caused by customer's use of the content of our forum.
We don't have a dedicated community monitor, but we have multiple support engineers who are in the community regularly, responding to customer posts/questions. You raise a good question with your second point, although our counsel tells us that we're not liable (again, because of the TOS).
The TOS also covers us in the 3rd scenario you mentioned (do you see a pattern here? ) - again, irrespective of who provides the content, the company is not liable.
Not sure what you meant by "generic community usage disclaimers", but I'd say that anything generic isn't really going to work in this situation. In my opinion, it has to come from your legal department so that it fits with your corporate standards, guidance, etc.
Hope this helps!
Re: Community & Customer Supportsanjivkvarma Mar 23, 2011 12:48 PM (in response to jimjonesWRS)
Thanks Jim,
I got my AI now. It seems I have to go show some examples to our legal team. They have been very cautious about it
Re: Community & Customer SupportjimjonesWRS Mar 23, 2011 12:51 PM (in response to sanjivkvarma)
We had the same issue here, Sanjiv - we went to legal and said "What should the TOS be?" They said "Bring us a draft, we'll tell you how it needs to change...but we won't give you anything to start with."
Re: Community & Customer Supportdtloxy May 27, 2014 9:06 PM (in response to judiths)
Hi @Judiths,
My team is in a somewhat similar situation as you may have been in a number of years ago, integrating Jive and our CRM and internal support platform with its KB and case management (Salesforce.com) with Jive providing an external community with self-service/peer-service capabilities.
I'm wondering how this has held up, 3 years on. Is it still working well for your team? And did you eliminate salesforce as a support platform, or just make Jive the customer-facing portal, that still plugged back into SFDC? We're looking at 2-way comms between the platforms for case creation & viewing and 'publishing' KB articles out to the Jive-based community. I'm curious about the extent of 3rd party development that might be necessary too, if you have any thoughts on that.
We've used Jive extensively internally and with business partners, but never customers.
Many thanks!
Re: Community & Customer Supportjudiths May 29, 2014 2:13 PM (in response to dtloxy)
Hi Dylan,
Four years later Spark is still holding up, but not without hiccups. The Jive-Salesforce configuration is the same as it was on day 1, with case management and user authentication still plugged exclusively into SFDC. We're on an old version of Jive which presents its own challenges when having to fix issues that arise with the SFDC API.
The extent to which we've used 3rd party development for Spark was for our theming (our design agency) and community and engagement strategy from Jive PS. Everything else we've done ourselves. As we explore the possibility to migrate to the cloud, it appears that we'll need even less 3rd party development. But we're considering plugging a 2nd system (a CMS) into Jive to publish content into the community.
I'm happy to chat if you have more questions.
Re: Community & Customer Supportdtloxy Jun 5, 2014 12:53 PM (in response to judiths)
Thank you, Judith!
Re: Community & Customer SupportJamiePappas Feb 25, 2011 7:00 AM (in response to laurakelso)
Hi Laura,
At EMC, our customer support forums are hosted on our community - so all roads point there.
As you can see on our community page - customer support is featured prominently on the support forums. You'll also find support forums within the community (again, our only support forums) linked to from our intranet, extranet (for partners), and emc.com site. It's the only place we provide support forums, and it made sense for us to have it within our community network for a few reasons - namely, we want to provide a positive support experience with intuitive and easy to use software (and Jive fits that bill) and we hope that folks that come there for support related issues will take the time to explore the rest of the community network and find other engaging information and conversation. The way that Jive surfaces related conversations makes it very easy for us to surface related conversations and content while folks are using support forums.
Hope this helps! Happy to chat further!
Re: Community & Customer Supportlaurakelso Mar 8, 2011 2:25 PM (in response to JamiePappas)
Thanks, Jamie. Great info - really appreciate.


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Anil Srivastava of Areva renewable energies division, talks about bid plans and confidence in its turbines.
French nuclear giant Areva is getting serious about wind. Currently it has just six 5MW turbines off the German coast but that figure will surge to 126 - more than 600MW of capacity - by the end of 2013, realising the company's ambition to be the third-biggest offshore-turbine manufacturer.
Areva plans to break into the French and UK markets, bringing local turbine and blade manufacture with it, says Anil Srivastava, the senior executive vice president of Areva Business Group Renewable Energies.
The latest turbine deal to be finalised is the 400MW Global Tech 1 wind farm off the coast of Germany in the North Sea. The EUR1.3 billion project-finance package is the biggest in the sector to date.
In June, Areva entered into an agreement with Spanish wind developer Iberdrola to build offshore projects in its home market of France. The consortium is bidding for two of the five wind zones in the country's first 3GW phase of offshore wind development. Areva is also targeting the UK's Scottish round of offshore projects, which totals 6.4GW, and the much bigger - 20GW altogether - UK-wide Round 3 of offshore development.
The company is capable of shipping 100 5MW turbines a year from its factory in Bremerhaven, Germany, Srivastava says. "We plan to double that in 12 months."
Areva entered the wind-turbine manufacturing industry in 2007 when it acquired the Multibrid design drawn up by German wind specialist Aerodyn.
Multibrid uses a medium-speed generator with a one-stage gearbox. It is a hybrid of the fast-speed three-stage geared systems - which currently make up the bulk of the offshore fleet - and the more recently evolved gearless direct-drive systems increasingly favoured by offshore-turbine makers. These remove the need for a gearbox between the rotor and fast-turning generator by employing a slow-speed generator.
Harsh lesson
Areva's first six offshore machines were commissioned in November 2009 at the Alpha Ventus test project, 45km off the German coast. The construction process provided a bruising lesson, Srivastava admits. Just months after completion, an overheating of the gearbox's slide bearings in one turbine caused it to fail. Gearbox supplier Renk had changed the bearing material to an aluminium-zinc alloy, which expanded at double the rate of the original when heated. Areva replaced all six turbines.
"Only one machine died," insists Srivastava. "We could have changed the gearbox of just that one machine, but we wanted to find out why the other machines did not fail. It was better to ask difficult questions at that early stage rather than when thousands of wind turbines are in the water."
The whole machine was tested and Areva decided to put all future turbines through full-load testing. As a result, Areva will open its new drive-system test facility at Bremerhaven in September.
The company is not in a hurry to upscale from its 5MW model. "First of all let everyone see that it's the best and most reliable offshore machine in the world," says Srivastava. He is critical of the trend to increase turbine size while moving to direct-drive technology. Although they have fewer rotating parts, direct-drive machines have more interfaces and therefore more potential for failure, he maintains.
The Multibrid design is the best compromise between having moving parts in fast-speed geared drive systems and no moving parts in direct-drive systems, he says. He sees Vestas' move to a medium-speed geared system for its new 7MW turbine as evidence of that.
Srivastava stresses that the industry needs to industrialise the production of wind turbines, while improving reliability. Not only will it lower the cost of capital, but it will also reduce provision for "contingencies", he points out.
Contingency provisions to cover payments for problems such as failing to deliver a project on time typically amount to 5% of a project's total cost. Five per cent of a EUR1.2 billion project is huge, he says.
But, he adds, the biggest savings can come from increasing the energy yield of wind turbines.


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alias command, but am not sure whether that can be used for what I am looking for.
Example: Say I often need to copy stuff from folder
~/Dropbox/thisfolder. I know that I can create a shortcut to switch to this folder by creating an alias, such as,
alias tf="cd ~/Dropbox/thisfolder"
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Welcome to the Pinal County Quickstart Guide.
This is a starting point for service members, veterans and family members living in or near Pinal County.
Prepared by the Arizona Coalition for Military Families, Arizona Department of Veterans' Services, Arizona National Guard & US Department of Veterans Affairs. This inventory includes demographics and a starting point for key military, government and community resources available to service members, veterans and family members in each county. Programs may have eligibility guidelines.
Total County Population: 375,770
County Military Population
Active duty military members: 0
Active duty family members: 0
National Guard members: 433
Note: There may be a small number of active duty military members and/or family members in counties that list none. County-level data on Reservists could not be obtained. There are approximately 5,000 Reserve members total living in Arizona.
County Veteran Population
Veterans: 25,661
% of County Population: 7%
Deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan since 9/11 with county as home of record: 375
- National Veterans Crisis Line – available 24/7 to any service member, veteran, family member or concerned person: PHONE: 1-800-273-8255, option 1 | ONLINE/CHAT: www.VeteransCrisisLine.net | TEXT: 838255
- Help for Homeless Veterans Line – available 24/7 to connect service members, veterans and family members who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless to local resources: 1-877-424-3838
- Arizona Department of Veterans' Services – enriches and honors Arizona's veterans and their families through education, advocacy and service: www.AZDVS.gov
- Arizona Coalition for Military Families – connection point for military, government and community organizations: www.ArizonaCoalition.org | firstname.lastname@example.com | 602-753-8802
Active Duty: None
National Guard: Arizona National Guard Florence Readiness Center
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION – provides health care to eligible veterans
This county is served by the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System: www.Tucson.VA.gov
VA health care facilities: Clinic: Casa Grande | Vet Center(s): None
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION – provides benefits to eligible veterans and dependents, including compensation & pension, Home Loans, Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment, Education, Insurance
This county is served by the Phoenix VA Regional Office: PHONE – 1-800-827-1000 | ONLINE – www.Benefits.VA.gov/phoenix/
For contact information for all VA locations within Arizona, visit: www2.VA.gov/directory/guide/state.asp?STATE=AZ
Arizona Department of Veterans' Services | www.AZDVS.gov
Veteran Benefits Counselors – provide information and assistance with federal and state benefits to veterans and their dependents. Offices: Casa Grande
Military Family Relief Fund – provides financial assistance (eligibility: 1) AZ home of record 2) deployed since 9/11 3) financial hardship tied to deployment. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply for the fund.
5-Year Plan to End Veterans Homelessness Action Plan Partners: None
View the 5-year Plan
Veteran Supportive Campuses (as certified by ADVS): None
View the list of Veteran Supportive Campuses & criteria
Regional Behavioral Health Authority (RHBA) – administers public behavioral health and crisis services:
Cenpatico RBHA: www.CenpaticoIntegratedCareAZ.com | 1-866-495-6735
Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs – assists families with information & resources
ONLINE: www.AZDHS.gov/phs/ocshcn/ | BY PHONE: 602-542-1860 or 1-800-232-1676 | BY EMAIL: firstname.lastname@example.com
Arizona Department of Economic Security | www.AZDES.gov
Employment placement services (veterans receive priority of service), including Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program specialists (DVOPs) & Local Veterans' Employment Representatives (LVERs) Offices: Casa Grande
Rehabilitation Services Administration (vocational rehabilitation) Offices: Coolidge, Apache Junction
Arizona@Work sites – employment assistance (veterans receive priority of service): Casa Grande (One-Stop), Sacaton (One-Stop)
Brain Injury Alliance of Arizona – provides information and resource connection for individuals and families living with brain injury throughout Arizona. Includes an online resources and assistance by phone: www.BIAAZ.org | 602-323-9165 / 888-500-9165
American Red Cross – provides emergency messaging, information & referral, connection to financial assistance. This county is served by the American Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter: www.RedCross.org/local/az-nm-el-paso
Licensed Professional Counselors: 75
Licensed Social Workers: 99
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists: 16
Licensed Substance Abuse Counselors: 101


text: I always knew that as an Italian tune up... But then, I had a Fiat 124 spider with a two barrel Webber. I guess that should have been a perpetual tune up! Actuall, it's been one of the more fun cars I owned. Along the lines of driving a slow car fast than a fast car slow... Matt


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Beauty and her Beast
Beauty and the Beast Vs. Taming of the Shrew
Both iconic tales, although for very different reasons. Long, well-known, articulate, and fascinating, both tales are considered love stories, usually of the romantic variety, with sweet connotations, underneath everything else. The humor in Taming of the Shrew is considered a finer point of William Shakespeare's works. The "song as old as time" of Beauty and the Beast is famous for it's sweet romance, persisting through the ages as a love story to be emulated.
However, both stories have deeply troubling issues within them that few enjoy looking at. Truthfully, I don't enjoy looking at it. Like any little girl, I absolutely adored Beauty and the Beast, wanting nothing more than to find that kind of adventure and love so easily. And my teenage self really enjoyed Ten Things I Hate About You, which is roughly based off of Taming of the Shrew. Both were funny, quirky, beautiful stories that made me think that maybe, just maybe, love was out there for everyone.
Now, break it down, by role. Let's start with the women of each example.
Beauty, whose name literally describes her both inside and out, is a sweet, dutiful girl, who is obedient, intelligent, and (in the original tale) respectful. The disney version added a firey backbone, which was quite nice, actually. Her role in the story was to meet and be enslaved/captured by the beast, and then, despite being cruelly abused, verbally, and physically (he occasionally throws her around even in the disney movie) is supposed to fall in love with the Beast, once he exposes his true, good heart.
Katherina, the infamous Shrew, is an obstinant, firey woman with a temper. She is determined to have her way, and will not be told what to do. She chooses not to marry. During the course of her play, she is psychologically tortured by her soon-to-be-husband, through various methods such as removing her clothing and food, by saying it isn't good enough for her, and deliberately misinterpreting what she says. She, in the end, also falls in love with a rude, obstinant man, whom has proven to be a rather cruel fellow.
Both women seem to be intelligent, well-thought out women, for all that they're a little… one dimensional. Beauty is beautiful in all that she is, and Kate is well… a shrew. But both women are forced, quite against their will, to be in the company of a man who is downright brutish.
The Beast is just that, a monstrous beast both outside and in, with claws that have rended the entire castle. Belle must have lived in fear, for I know I would, were I surrounded by stone gauged by such talons. Not only that, but he treats her as though she were a servant, a slave. He yells, demeans her, and as illustrated before, throws her a few times. He is brutish, boorish, angry, frightening, and supposedly, deep down, has a heart of gold. Belle just has to endure until it begins to show itself. Meanwhile, Beast is just waiting for the right woman to come along and teach him proper manners. How demeaning is that, as an allegory for the male gender? Hear that guys? You have no choice but to be an ass until the right woman comes along and *FIXES* you.
Petruchio, meanwhile, had the benefit of being raised in Italy. Meaning he's an ass too. Also, he's psychologically manipulative, and uncaring of Katherina in a personal sense. All he wants, as is stated in the play, is to marry a bride. He too is cruel, wooing a woman who obviously doesn't want marriage, and basically talking her into marriage with the most backwards sweettalk in existance. He knowingly enters the relationship set to break down Katherina's spirit and make her docile, accepting, and obedient.
Both men are the worst sort of examples of mankind one can think of. I personally am embarrassed to even call them men, for I've MET good men, and they do not act this way.
Now, you ask, at what point do these two stories even coincide with each other? Well, think about it. Beauty and the beast is a story about a woman taming a man. Taming of the shrew is about a man taming a woman. They're the same story, only with the genders reversed.
What's worse is, instead of the man showing the woman kindness, as Beauty showed Beast, and finally revealing the heart of gold inside, in Taming of the Shrew, Katherina is instead browbeaten, psychologically tortured, and in general treated as a problem, something to be beaten down and changed.
Both stories have problematic elements, Beauty with her stockholm syndrome and Perchutio with his cruelty, however, when looked at, it is clear what the commonality is. In both stories, women are clearly a means-to-an-end. Nothing more. Katherina is refused her personality, changed by the man in order for him to gain a bride and her sister to be eligible for marriage. Beauty exists for her father to trade off, for the Beast to gain back his humanity. Nothing more.
THIS is the problem with these two stories. When you are writing, consider the women in your story. Consider what they do, who they are, WHY they are in the story. If they are nothing more than a means-to-an-end, then you are doing them, and yourself, a disservice. After all, Misogyny is often internalized, and it's time that women became women, and not just a catalyst.more


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In 1992, author William Gibson released a book titled Agrippa (a book of the dead), which played from a 3½-inch diskette on a 1992-era Apple Macintosh computer running the System 7 OS. It was a poem that ran upscreen and whose text was programmed to disappear after its first reading, by way of a special encryption program that encoded each line of the full work.
Few of the original diskettes remain, but the University of California, Santa Barbara has an emulation of the original program and, with it, a new site called Cracking the Agrippa Code hopes the bright minds of the internet will be able to do just that.
To win you must submit a technical description of your cryptanalysis ... under Creative Commons usage rights (the results of which will be used to further research on Agrippa). The technical description should explain what kind of encryption is used (if any), how it functions, and how it was reversed or cracked (and what the key is, if there is one). Should there be no encryption at all (a possibility), or should the application merely "scramble" or "destroy" the data, this must be technically demonstrated or proved.
The contest's site provides a number of resources to help ambitious code-crackers get started. Whomever is first to successfully crack it will receive a copy of every Gibson book eer published (except Agrippa, of course); runners up will have their name posted to the site, in recognition of their efforts.
So... erm, what better way to beat this outrageous summer heat than to stay inside, at your computer, puzzling over a decades-old, yet-uncracked code!? [TheVerge]


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
It didn't take long for the last year's Knights to question their season goals. They lost their goaltender for almost a month. The scoring didn't come, and the losses began to pile up. The first win came in the opening week, The second came in the season finale.
Fortunately, winning isn't the only thing that Coach Dave Yanosy remembers about his teams.
"It was definitely a tough year," he said about Southington's 2-12-2 record in 2012. "Despite the fact that our record wasn't great, we battled to the end. Our best game was the last game of the season. It all seemed to come together in that 4-0 win against New Britain. Unfortunately, it was too late for us, but I was proud of the way that they finished the season."
That was the message that Yanosy left for this year's seniors—hard work and dedication is all that concerns him. That turned into the theme for the off-season and the mission this fall.
"The only thing you can do in these situations is to buckle down and work as hard as you can," said the coach. "These guys did a really good job over the summer. They were consistent with their conditioning, and they all came into camp ready to go. So far it's looked pretty promising, and that's the main thing. When the going gets tough, you have to dig in your heels and work as hard as you can."
It already feels different as the Knights charge into their fall season. For the first time in his career, he's named senior captains. He still expects leadership across the senior class, but accountability and commitment have become the cornerstone as Southington begins to rebuild.
Co-captains Dan Connolly and Jared DeFeo have settled into central roles as the team's midfielders. Together, they'll control the action on the field.
"Those two will be looked upon to provide leadership and run the show," Yanosy said. "They are both very good in the air. I pulled Jared back from the forward position and Danny moved up from defense. I think that experience up front and in the back will help them gel at midfield and give us what we need to have success."
Up and down the lineup, Yanosy will rely upon his seniors for leadership. The Knights return 11 seniors with one common goal. Yanosy sees this as his team's strength on opening day.
"They're confident, and they're poised to make it back to the tournament," said the coach. "They're a fun group to be around, and I think they want it. They've had a couple of tough season, but our seniors have shown some pretty good leadership early on."
But how will they adjust? That's the biggest question. Can they overcome the injuries that plague teams in the fall? Will they be able to adjust to different styles of play and shift gears for different challenges? Yanosy said that they have to be ready for anything that's thrown at them because Southington's schedule is not for the weak of heart, and their conference is one of the best in the state.
Farmington is the defending Class L champion. Hall and Conard have proven tough in every season. Simsbury is a perennial power, while NW Catholic and New Britain have grown into powerful programs over the past few seasons. Even Newington has made a name for themselves in recent years, including a postseason upset over Glastonbury last fall that has Yanosy worried about this year's rivalry.
"Our league is a Who's Who in terms of soccer programs in the state of Connecticut," said the coach. "There won't be a single game on our schedule that we can circle as a definite win. We're going to have to bring it every single day. We want to make it to the tournament. We have to get those 13 points—that magical number—with any combination of wins and ties. That's our main goal."
Last year scoring was a problem as Southington managed just 13 goals over 16 games, and the Knights were shutout by nine different opponents. Senior scorers Sean Conway and Pat Straub should lead a good supporting cast of underclassmen like junior Bryan Doyle and sophomores Andrew Muskatello and Erik Schneider.
"They're young, but talented," said Yanosy. "Sean and Pat are our seniors, but the rest of them are young and inexperienced. If we can get some positive minutes and positive contributions from everybody, it should really help us out."
Once again, Southington will rely upon their defense to keep them in games while the offense develops. Last fall, only three teams managed more than three goals against the Knights. Southington earned three shutouts to secure two wins and a tie.
This year, the Knights will be bigger and stronger than ever. Alex Queen will tower over opponents as the team's sweeper. Mike Aylett gives the defense a strong presence in the middle with Mike Rogalski as the unit's vocal leader. Brian Falco and Brian Topper are competing for the starting position in goal, so depth should not be a problem this season if injuries strike the net.
"Our back line is a pretty good size, so we should be tough for teams to handle as long as we stay organized and do what we need to do," said Yanosy. "We're going to look a little bit more like that team from 2009 or 2010. We'll be a little bit bigger and more physical. We'll be a little bit more direct than in past years. That should promote more goal scoring opportunities, and it should be fun to watch."
So strap in and get ready for the battle. Yanosy expects to be there when dust settles on the regular season, and in the postseason anything can happen.
"They're a fun group to be around, and I think the added depth and hard work has them poised to get back to the postseason," said the coach. "Those are our keys to success, and it has me very excited."
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
One common goal; Soccer expects a return to the postseason
By John Goralski


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Cavallari's Laguna Beach home foreclosed
Reality TV star KRISTIN CAVALLARI's family home has been foreclosed after her parents fell behind on the mortgage payments, according to U.S. reports.
The five-bedroom property appeared in Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which catapulted the California rich girl into the spotlight when the MTV reality series became a hit.
However, the star's father Dennis reportedly failed to keep up with payments on the £4.7 million he owed for the mortgage, according to TMZ.com.
The property was foreclosed and was sold at a public auction last month (Feb12) for £3.8 million.


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The Rosenwald Rural School Building Program was one of the most amazing things I discovered while on this genealogical journey. It perfectly illustrates how the efforts of a few visionary people can have results that positively affect hundreds of thousands. This should have been, and should be, in high school history textbooks everywhere.
Julius Rosenwald made a fortune as a former owner of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, and in the early 1910's began a collaboration with Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee that eventually gave millions to building schools for black children across the South. By 1932, the "Rosenwald Fund" (as the program was called) had contributed to building almost 5,000 schools, teacher's homes and shop buildings. It's a remarkable accomplishment.
The program in most cases required the local black community to raise an amount equal to what the Fund would give, in addition to requiring local public funding. It is no small feat and deserves amplification that largely impoverished black people of the early 20th century were committed enough to education to raise the amounts of money they did. Our ancestors knew education was the key to future success.
I have yet to meet an African-American genealogist who didn't have a parent or grandparent who attended one of these schools. That means that we as their descendants are still reaping the benefits of schools that were built when local governments didn't have the will or desire to do it themselves. I can remember early in my research wanting so badly to see these schools, most of which are no longer standing. I was fortunate enough to find photos of many of these schools at the Tennessee State Archives for ancestors in that state. However, resources online today have made researching this important part of our collective history just a little bit easier.
Fisk has a wonderful database of Rosenwald schools, searchable by county and state among other variables. Many (though not all) will pull up with pictures of the school, information about the funding, what year it was built, etc. The photos above are from that database, as you can see the Fisk watermark.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded Rosenwald schools its National Treasure status in 2011, which means these buildings have been identified as a critical part of the story of who we are and the Trust resources have coalesced around trying to save 100 of these schools. There is good historical information at their website including background on its origins at Tuskegee, building architectural plans, case studies and links to resources on how to get involved to save a school. The beautifully restored Highland School was preserved in Prince George's County, MD, which is where I grew up.
The National Trust is offering $20,000 matching grants (deadline: April 15, 2013) to save and restore Rosenwald Schools. 2012 even saw the first National Rosenwald School Conference held at Tuskegee.
The Trust also offers a very nice downloadable PDF pamphlet on their Rosenwald program. I also see that South Carolina has a Rosenwald school database.
The Jackson-Davis Collection contains over 6000 photographs of African-American schools, many of which are surely Rosenwald Schools. I particularly like this website because it shows teachers and students in addition to the buildings.
Someone just sent me this link to Rosenwald schools in North Carolina.
This is the kind of information we should include when writing up our family histories. These accomplishments are still relevant, as we continue to struggle today with educating our poorest and most disenfranchised. If you're interested in reading more about this wonderful piece of history (which I hope you are) I recommend two books:
"Julius Rosenwald: the Man who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the South," by Peter Ascoli.
"You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South," by Stephanie Deutsch.


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Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman is Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental (Coastal) Sciences from the University of Virginia, and completed his undergraduate degree in Geosciences at North Carolina State University.
Prior to joining FIU, Stephen was Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at the University of Maryland; Director of the National Park Research Unit at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Boston University.
Stephen has authored or edited 16 books, including Sea Level Rise: Causes and Consequences; Barrier Island Handbook; Overwash Processes; Cape Cod: From Glaciers to Beaches; and America's Best Beaches. He has also authored over 200 journal articles and technical reports, including articles in both Science and Nature.
Stephen has provided expert testimony multiple times for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He was also the on-screen host and co-producer of the 1992 film "Vanishing Lands", winner of three international film awards, including the Golden Eagle.
My love of sand began as a child. My parents had the notion that if one neighbor has a basketball hoop and another a treehouse, then my family should also have an attraction for the neighborhood kids. I had the biggest backyard sand box in Charlotte, North Carolina. I loved it. Every year I opted for a beach vacation to play in the world's largest sandbox and frolic in the surf.
I always knew that I wanted to be a scientist, but it wasn't until I got a job surveying beaches at Cape Hatteras after storms that I knew which kind. I definitely wanted to work outdoors and what better workplace than a beach? Little did I know that I would later appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for having one of the best jobs in America.
My research takes me to beaches around the country and to many parts of the world. During the past 20 years, my principal focus has been studying beach erosion and storm impacts. But I also find myself helping to locate the best sandy beach for a solar-powered car race, dropping dye packets out of a helicopter so TV producers can film a killer rip current in action, deciphering 200 years of channel changes from old maps to find Revolutionary War artifacts, and helping billionaires select island properties to purchase or decide where best to build their mansion near the shore.
I answer all kinds of questions. Should we move this historic building or lighthouse? What will this hurricane likely do? How much beach erosion should be anticipated because of rising sea level? Why did these islands disappear and what were they like? How should building setback laws be established? Did stone groins rob sand from my beach?
My most recent inquiry is from crime detectives: Where did 14,000 pounds of beach sand that replaced a shipment of French cognac come from?
An unexpected inquiry got me started rating beaches. In 1989 I received a telephone call from a travel magazine writer who wanted a listing of the top 10 U.S. beaches. I was on my way to catch a plane to China for an extended trip as an exchange professor with Peking University in Beijing. Pressed by the reporter, I rattled off the first 10 wonderful beaches that came to mind. The trip to China was a disaster; I inadvertently found myself in Tienanmen Square that fateful evening in June. By the time I returned home (through an adventurous escape), I had forgotten the phone conversation as the emotions of the democracy movement lay heavily on my mind.
Later that summer I received a free copy in the mail of this glossy travel magazine, which listed the beaches in the order that I named them. I didn't think much about it until the telephone began to ring. First I heard from the "winners," such as Sanibel Island and Kapalua on Maui. The Lee County Convention and Visitors Bureau people said that they were so excited and were issuing a press release about Sanibel's high rating. Many state tourism officials inquired about the list, especially regarding why other beaches did not make the cut. The media people at Daytona Beach were the most emphatic about the whole thing. They wanted to know why their beach was not on the list because everybody knows that Daytona is one of the greatest beaches in the world, it even says so on the town water tower. Their savvy newspaper writers wanted to know what criteria were used to rate the beaches. Criteria? I didn't have any criteria. All of this hoopla made me think about how seriously Americans take ratings everyone wants to know what is best. We rate everything from hotels and restaurants to graduate programs in universities, so why not beaches?
I developed 50 criteria to rate each beach, and it took me two years to complete the survey of the 650 major public recreational beaches in the United States. Fortunately, I had conducted two national surveys of our coasts, and this experience made it possible for me to undertake this first-ever professional beach rating. When the university released the list on Memorial Day weekend in 1991, I was off on another trip to Venice, Italy. My assistants tried to field the calls, but the phone was ringing off the hook. I received a desperate call from the university public relations office to catch the next flight home as nearly every newspaper in the country was running the story and wanted to interview me. TV producers and radio hosts were trying to book me for their shows, and here I was out of the country. The media blitz continued for almost a month. Since 1991, I have released the list of America's Best Beaches on Memorial Day weekend, marking the beginning of beach season; my ratings have become a regular feature of the morning TV shows as well as newspaper and magazine articles.
I have received thousands of letters and phone calls from people wanting more information about beaches. Is the water warm enough to go swimming at Charleston area beaches in May? Where is a good hard-packed sandy beach for walking in New England? What makes a particular beach "sing" in Hawaii and the water a beautiful emerald-green color in the Florida panhandle? These questions have prodded me into writing the book "American Best Beaches" and to produce this website.


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U.S. military personnel are deployed in approximately 150 countries across the globe. Many service members are geographically separated from their families during assignments.
Deployed military members leave behind spouses, children and parents who must try to maintain life as usual while their loved one is away. In addition, they are often left to settle into a new community without the support of local family and friends.
Because the military family may be new to town or on their own, it can be even more stressful for them to locate childcare, register children for school, schedule doctor appointments and maintain a home. These problems are compounded when the spouse is deployed. In many instances, it can be just as stressful when a spouse returns from deployment, especially if that person has been injured.
How you can help
Military families that are settling into a new home and community have many needs that can be met by volunteers who may be able to babysit, help with errands, locate a handyman, jumpstart a car, or prepare a meal. Volunteers can also be a resource to find others in the community who can provide support.
Military men and women and their families make tremendous sacrifices as they serve our country. Your support lets them know how much their service is appreciated. Members of the military represent the leaders of the next generation. By supporting them we are encouraging them to continue their service—eventually outside the military, in our communities.
The Basic Steps
Take a grassroots approach and follow these steps to volunteer in your community. For more structured opportunities to help military families, go to our More Resources section to find additional opportunities with organizations with a strong track record of helping military families.
Step 1: Get Started
Although military populations vary from community to community, there are countless ways to connect with military families in your hometown.
Check in with local veterans service organizations. Or, if you live near a military or guard base, contact the base's Family Resource Center.
Ask neighbors, school counselors, faith-based groups, and other community/fraternal organizations like Masons, Kiwanis and Lions Club to identify a military family in your neighborhood.
Educate yourself about military culture (see below for more information) and the different branches of service.
Step 2: Introduce Yourself
Introduce yourself to the military family and let them know that you are available.
Get more ideas on how to identify a family that could use some support with the attached Resources for Connecting with Military Families.
If none of your immediate neighbors are military families, try to find a common gathering place such as a library or guard base where you might offer to organize a potluck dinner during which you can introduce yourself and others who are willing to help.
Follow through. Continue to reach out and offer specific help. For example, you might offer to babysit once a week or ask if you can pick up something at the grocery store while you are out shopping.
Keep in mind that simply listening can have a valuable impact on the emotional well being of the family member. Everyone wants and needs to be heard.
Step 3: Spread the Word
Encourage others to reach out to military families. You can download and post this flyer at work or in your community (available for download in the 'Supplemental Materials & Information' section below).
Learn about Military Culture
Challenges Faced by Military Families
- Because of reassignments, known as PCS (permanent change of station), military families move much more frequently than their civilian counterparts.
- Nearly 1 million, or 43%, of military personnel are parents.
- The average military child will attend between six and nine schools in grades K-12.
- Wives of military personnel are less likely to be employed than wives of civilians.
- Frequent moves and family separations pose financial difficulties.
- More than half of enlisted personnel report financial difficulties and struggles to pay bills.
- Families of Reserve and Guard members do not typically have the support system or resources available to Active Duty members because they are geographically dispersed and may not live near a major military installation.
Military Organization
- The military emphasizes strength, courage and bravery, which can make it difficult for service men and women to feel comfortable asking for help.
- The military consists of four branches: Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.
- There are Active Duty military members and Reserve members.
- All of the U.S. military services have both active duty and reserve components. To the active duty (AD) service member, the military is a full time job. Members of the Reserves typically have another job in addition to their Reserve obligation.
- The National Guard is a unique component of the military reserves. Simply put, the National Guard is a state militia. The Governor of the state in which they enlist and serve commands the state's National Guard members. Only the Army and Air Force have a National Guard component.
- All U.S. military services follow the same general structure of ranks and responsibilities for enlisted personnel, noncommissioned officers, and commissioned officers.
- Enlisted personnel provide the "skilled blue collar" and technical support for the military, much as "blue collar" workers do to the civilian work force in America. Enlisted personnel represent 90% of military forces.
- Commissioned Officers are required to have at least a Bachelor's degree. They are the managers of the military services, although in contrast to civilian occupations, officers are legally obligated to serve as leaders and are held accountable for this additional responsibility.
- The military has a fraternization policy, which prohibits personal and business relationships among officer and enlisted service members. Although it has most commonly been applied to officer-enlisted relationships, fraternization also includes improper relationships and social interaction between officer members as well as between enlisted members. This policy doesn't apply to spouses, yet their friendships can still be influenced by it.
- Military personnel are legally available for duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Resources for Connnecting with Military Families
Although military populations vary from community to community, there are countless ways to connect with military families in your hometown. If you live near a military base, contact the base's Family Resource Center. School counselors, churches, synagogues and religious institutions and other community/fraternal organizations like Masons, Kiwanis and Lions Club may also be able to direct you to military families. The organizations listed below will assist volunteers who would like to help military families, or will help volunteers to direct military families to new organizations that can help them.
Check out these programs to see how you can best contribute your time and talent.
American Legion – www.legion.org
With nearly 3 million members in close to 15,000 American Legion posts around the world, the American Legion's local posts assist veterans and their family members to file benefits claims and represent veterans denied benefits to which they feel they are entitled. They also offer career services, scholarship assistance, a family support network, and more.
American Red Cross – www.redcross.org
The nation's premier emergency response organization aids victims of devastating natural disasters and aims to prevent and relieve suffering. They also support and comfort military members and their families; collect, process and distribute lifesaving blood and blood products; and have a deep history in helping military members and their families. Click on "volunteer."
Armed Services YMCA – www.asymca.org
Provides support services to military service members – with particular focus on junior enlisted men and women and their families. Services include childcare, hospital assistance, spouse support services, food services, holiday meals, and more.
Blue Star Families – www.bluestarfam.org/
Blue Star Families aims to raise awareness among civilians of the challenges of military life. The organization was formed in December of 2008 by a group of military spouses and now includes spouses and families from all services, veterans and civilians.
Coast Guard Ombudsman – www.uscg.mil
Serves as a link between a Coast Guard command and the families of the command. An Ombudsman can assist families to locate resources, communicate information from the command to the families, and take concerns of families back to the command.
Give an Hour – www.giveanhour.org
This national nonprofit organization provides free mental health services to members of the military, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, their families and their communities. Currently, there are approximately 6,500 licensed mental health professionals volunteering their time on the Give an Hour network.
Make the Connection – www.MakeTheConnection.net
This website connects Veterans and their friends and family members by providing information, resources, and solutions to issues that affect Veterans' health and everyday lives. In addition to support, Make The Connection allows for shared experiences in the words of Veterans.
National Guard Family Programs – www.jointservicessupport.org
Offers a staff directory for each state, as well as a list of upcoming events and trainings. The site's mission is to enhance the quality of life for National Guard members, their families, and their communities.
National Military Family Association – www.nmfa.org
A leading advocate for improvements in the quality of military family life. Educates military families about their rights, benefits and available services. Provides information about the issues that affect their lives and promotes and protects their interests by influencing the development and implementation of legislation and policies.
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society – www.nmcrs.org
This Society partners with the Navy and Marine Corps to provide financial, educational, and other assistance to Service members and their eligible family members and survivors, when in need. Eligible recipients receive interest-free loans for emergencies or educational purposes and needs-based scholarships. They also offer budget counseling services, thrift shops, and visiting nurse services.
Operation Homefront – www.operationhomefront.net
Provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops, to the families they leave behind, and to wounded warriors when they return home. Operates a variety of programs – vehicle donation, furniture, holiday, as well as assistance services, including food, financial, moving, housing, hurricane relief and scholarship programs.
Serve.gov – www.serve.gov/vets.asp
Serve.gov believes that all Americans have a role to play in supporting troops and their families. The site locates volunteer opportunities by zip code and also has links to resources (www.serve.gov/vets_resources.asp) that help military families and veterans.
United States Department of Veterans Affairs – www.va.gov
The VA's goal is to provide excellence in patient care, veterans' benefits, and customer satisfaction. They offer a wide variety of services, including disability compensation, health programs, housing services, and has more than 1500 facilities across the nation. Complete a volunteer form at www.volunteer.va.gov and a local VA representative will contact you.
Veterans Crisis Line – www.veteranscrisisline.net
Veterans in crisis and those who are concerned about them can connect with the Veterans Crisis Line to reach caring, qualified responders with the Department of Veterans Affairs, many of whom are Veterans themselves.
USO – www.uso.org
Provides morale, welfare and recreation-type services to uniformed military personnel and their families.
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) – www.vfw.org
The VFW, with its Auxiliaries, includes 2.2 million members in approximately 8,100 posts worldwide. Their mission is to "honor the dead by helping the living" through veterans' service, community service, national security and a strong national defense. They helped to establish the VA; created a GI bill for the 20th century, and developed the national cemetery system, and also fought to improve VA medical center services for women veterans.
Supplemental Materials
Flyer to Promote Helping our Military FamiliesPost at work or in your community to encourage others to get involved


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2012 Football Media Guide and Record Book
Download the 2012 Capital One Bowl Media Guide (4.3MB)
The 2012 Nebraska football media guide and supplemental record book is now available in PDF.
If you would like to purchase a printed copy of the 2012 Nebraska football media guide ($15), please visit the Huskers Authentic home page, call 1-800-8-BIG-RED (option #3 on the automated message) or pick one up in person at the Huskers Authentic Team Store across the street from Memorial Stadium. Copies will be on sale beginning on Fan Day on Aug. 3.
2012 Nebraska Football Media Guide (complete printed version)
Introduction (complete file)
Coaches (complete file)
Head Coach Bo Pelini
Assistant Coaches
Football Support Staff
Rosters and Outlook (complete file)
2012 Rosters -- Alphabetical and Numerical
Season Outlook and Notebook
Meet the Huskers
Player Biographies 1
Ameer Abdullah, Taariq Allen, Kenny Anderson, Jason Ankrah, Nick Ash, Walker Ashburn, Antonio Bell, Kenny Bell, Justin Blatchford, Mauro Bondi, Tyson Broekemeier, Rex Burkhead, Sam Burtch, Brion Carnes, Joseph Carter, Brandon Chapek, Seung Hoon Choi, Will Compton, Corey Cooper, Ben Cotton, Jake Cotton, Scott Criss, Daniel Davie, Jase Dean and Taylor Dixon
Player Biographies 2
Quincy Enunwa, Ciante Evans, Tyler Evans, Joey Felici, Sean Fisher, Derek Foster, Jack Gangwish, Andrew Green, Jay Guy, Aaron Hayes, Braylon Heard, KC Hyland, Harvey Jackson, Justin Jackson, Seth Jameson, Stanley Jean-Baptiste, Ron Kellogg III, Ryan Klachko, Micah Kreikemeier, Adam Kucera, Murat Kuzu, Chris Long and Jake Long.
Player Biographies 3
Spencer Long, Brett Maher, P.J. Mangieri, Matt Manninger, Tim Marlowe, Mike Marrow, Bronson Marsh, Eric Martin, Taylor Martinez, Conor McDermott, Cameron Meredith, Greg Milliken, Josh Mitchell, Tyler Moore, Mike Moudy, Brodrick Nickens, Tobi Okuyemi, Courtney Osborne, Steven Osborne, Todd Peat Jr., Mark Pelini, Cole Pensick, Max Pirman, Givens Price and Brent Qvale.
Player Biographies 4
Thad Randle, Kyler Reed, Ryne Reeves, Wil Richards, Anthony Ridder, Eddie Ridder, Trevor Roach, Andrew Rodriguez, Chase Rome, Jason Rotherham, Will Sailors, David Santos, Mohammed Seisay, Jeremiah Sirles, P.J. Smith, Daimion Stafford, Colby Starkebaum, Baker Steinkuhler, Zach Sterup, Graham Stoddard, David Sutton, Zach Taylor, Brandon Thompson, Jamal Turner, Jeff Uher, Donovan Vestal, Yusef Wade, Alonzo Whaley, Austin Williams, Kevin Williams, Tyler Wullenwaber, Richard Wynne Jr., C.J. Zimmerer and Michael Ziola.
2012 Newcomers
Player Biographies 5
Scholarship Signees -- Jared Afalava, LeRoy Alexander, Zaire Anderson, Tommy Armstrong Jr., Thomas Brown, Sam Cotton, Imani Cross, Aaron Curry, Charles Jackson, Greg McMullen, Alonzo Moore, Avery Moss, Michael Rose, Paul Thurston, Vincent Valentine, Jordan Westerkamp, Corey Whitaker.
Walk-on student-athletes -- Jared Blum, Cole Chvatal, Colin Clare, Carson Collins, Ross Dzuris, Sam Foltz, Trey Foster, King Frazier, Ryker Fyfe, Aaron Gabriel, Taylor HOffman, Lane Hovey, Andy Janovich, Garret Johns, Spencer Lindsay, Mitch McCann, Graham Nabity, Jordan Nelson, Robby Painter, Brandon Reilly, Brad Simpson, Dylan Utter.
2011 Season in Review (complete file)
Records (complete file)
History (complete file)
Section 1
College Football Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame Coaches Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne
Section 2
Nebraska's All-Americans
Section 3
Nebraska's Academic All-Americans, Academic Honors
Section 4
Nebraska Letterman's List
Section 5
Yearly Records, All-Time Coaches, Bowl History
Section 6
Yearly Results 1890 to 2011
Nebraska Administration & Staff (complete file)
Media Information & Services (complete file)
Media Services, Primary Media Outlets
IMG Husker Sports Network
Opponent Information
2012 Nebraska Opponents, Composite Opponent Schedules
Big Ten Conference
Fan Information
Memorial Stadium Information, Stadium Map, Parking Map
Compliance Guidelines for Boosters
This is Nebraska Football
This is Nebraska
Championship Tradition
Coaching Staff
Defensive Dominance
Offensive Firepower
Memorial Stadium
Football Facilities
Husker Power
Huskers in the NFL
Nebraska's Major Award Winners
Nebraska's Greatest Players
Husker Bowl Tradition
Nebraska Football Family
Walk-On Tradition
Media Attention
Game Day Atmosphere
Devoted Fans
Athletic Medicine & Nutrition
Academic Success/Experience
Life Skills
All-Sport Facilities
University of Nebraska
National Powers
The City of Lincoln/State of Nebraska
Big Ten Conference/Big Ten Network
2012 Nebraska Football Record Book (complete printed version)
Section 1
NCAA Record Holders, Individual Rushing, Passing, Total Offense, Receiving, All-Purpose Records
Section 2
1,000-yard rushers, 1,000-yard Passers, Top 50 Receivers, Top 50 Scorers, Top 60 Tackle Leaders
Section 3
Individual Defensive Records, Individual Special Teams Records, Offensive and Defensive Team and Opponent Records, Individual Opponent Records
Section 4
Annual Statistical Leaders, Team Streaks, Annual Offensive and Defensive Statistics, The Last Time, NCAA and Conference Statistical Champions
Section 5
Memorial Stadium History, 2012 Opponent Series Records, Series Records vs. All Teams
Section 6
2011 Game-by-Game Review
Section 7
History of Nebraska Football, Nebraska's National Championship Seasons (1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997), Hall of Fame Coaches Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne, Major Award Winners, Most Memorable Games, Most Memorable Bowl Games, Nebraska All-Century Team
Section 8
Husker Retired Jerseys
Section 9
Nebraska's All-Conference Selections, Nebraska Academic All-Conference Selections, Nebraska Football Awards, Captains, Postseason Game Participants, Nebraska Football Hall of Fame, All-Time Assistant Coaches
Section 10
Nebraska NFL Draftees, Huskers in Pro Football
Section 11
All-Time Associated Press Rankings, UPI Rankings, Coaches Poll Rankings, Husker Television Listing
Section 12
Nebraska's 46 Bowl Games