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Anyone wants to rally in the Culver, Venice, MDR area? I'm approximately a 3.0/3.5. Twice a week would be great :-)
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I'd hit with you in Venice. Feel free to shoot me a text with some times to play. 310.621.0993.
Why not. When can you play?
Hi Rachel, I'm also looking to play, I am near Venice in Mar Vista
Hi Rachel,
I live in Venice and would be interested. What times are good for you?
Hi Rachel - What days/times work well with your schedule? I typically get out to play in the morning, but my schedule is flexible.
I live in Westchester (behind Loyola Marymount University) so MDR works well but I'm open to court suggestions.
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Hi Rachel,
I would love to play tennis with you, I'm a 3.0-3.5 as well. I live in Marina del Rey.
Let me know if you'd like to hit.
Hello Rachel...I'm available to play you can text me at 323-496-3693 Edgar :)
let me know.
i am 39 old male and will be available for weeknight around 7ish.. (somewhat flexible)
Hi Rachel,
Any chance you're available and interested in rallying tomorrow (Thursday) around 12pm? I live in Westchester, two blocks from The Tennis Key (Manchester Ave. near Lincoln Blvd.) and they have several free courts open to the public. 310.699.2531 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Let me know,
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In early March, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire approved the proposed Whistling Ridge wind power project to be sited near White Salmon on land owned by SDS Lumber and Broughton Lumber, paving the way for 35 turbines standing more than 400 feet tall.
On April 5, the nonprofit groups Friends of the Columbia Gorge and Save Our Scenic Area filed a petition for judicial review in the Thurston County Superior Court, challenging Gregoire's approval.
The petition for review lists 32 claims, focusing on zoning and forest practices violations as well as wildlife, scenic, noise and transportation impacts.
The petition asks the Thurston County Superior Court to decide the claims, rather than certifying the case for direct review by the Washington Supreme Court.
A primary focus of the FCG and SOSA petition asserts that the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, who produced the ruling on the project which Gregoire signed off on, erred in accepting claims of project compatibility with existing the Skamania County comprehensive plan and zoning laws.
According to FCG staff attorney Nathan Baker, "In 2009, Skamania County abandoned efforts to rezone the project site for wind energy development. Because Skamania County never finished its rezoning for this project, the project is prohibited under the County's rules."
Baker went on to assert that the EFSEC in its recommendation to Gregoire "failed to acknowledge these violations, thus making the governor's decision vulnerable on appeal."
Gregoire had signed off on the EFSEC final order which paved the way for 35 turbines - 15 fewer than originally proposed by Whistling Ridge.
If constructed, the facility would be sited about 7 miles west of White Salmon with turbines in view of Hood River, on privately held lands currently in commercial timber production.
Following notice of the turbine reduction, SDS President Jason Spadaro of Whistling Ridge LLC told Ted Sickinger of The Oregonian that the project was not currently financially viable.
The existing site certificate however, will remain valid for 10 years. With potential changes in the future economy, financial viability may return for the project in the future.
"This project, even scaled back to 35 turbines, is not worth sacrificing the unique scenic beauty and wildlife of the Columbia River Gorge," said Kevin Gorman, executive director for Friends of the Columbia Gorge.
"Friends of the Columbia Gorge supports responsible development of renewable energy sources, but the Whistling Ridge proposal is not responsible," said Gorman.
The governor's approved EFSEC ruling reduced turbine numbers primarily to mitigate visual impacts in sensitive scenic areas within the Gorge. Those 15 were described as "prominently visible" and "intrusive."
In its previously submitted petition, Whistling Ridge LLC had stated that elimination of the 15 denied turbines "kills the project."
If the project were to be constructed, the remaining proposed 426-foot towers would be sited atop several ridgelines visible throughout the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Act territory.
In a study submitted with the Whistling Ridge application, turbine visibility was noted from White Salmon, Viento State Park, the Historic Columbia River Highway, I-84 in both directions and Hood River.
"Icons of the Northwest, like the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Rainier and the Olympic Mountains, should be off-limits to large-scale energy development," said Gorman. "We can combat global warming without having to sacrifice our most special places and our core values."
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Party: Republican
Website: lundberg2012.com
Age: 60
Family: Wife: Sandy; son, Scott; daughters, Laura and Christy
How long have you lived in the 2nd Congressional District? I have lived in Larimer County for 20 years.
Professional background: Media production, state legislator
Political/community experience: Board of Trustees for Colorado Christian University, 18 years. Helped start Christian Home Educators of Colorado in 1990. Colorado Commission on Family Medicine, 2000-2002. Colorado House, 2003-2009. Colorado Senate, 2009-2012.
Education: B.A. from Rockmont College, 1974
Name a person you admire and explain why: Ronald Reagan was a leader who changed our culture, for the better, with the right balance of practical wisdom, foresight and a deep respect for the extraordinary qualities of our nation.
How do you plan to tackle the ongoing issue of high unemployment in Colorado and nationally?
We have to put America back to work with a can-do attitude and an optimistic hope for even better days ahead. Our nation has been blessed with incredible, untapped possibilities, but far too often government programs and policies stifle our prospects for growth and prosperity.
What does Colorado's 2nd Congressional District most need in terms of help from Washington, D.C., whether that's funding or political assistance?
See question one. We don't need more help from Washington; we need more freedom from Washington.
What bill would you introduce first if you are elected?
One of my first priorities is to block grant Medicaid funds back to the states without the 40-plus years of federal bureaucratic rules and mandates.


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One of the most inviting spaces I have ever known was the home of my Aunt Ditha and Uncle Jan. The front hall of their suburban bungalow opened on to a living room with walls painted a soft French vanilla. There was no sofa, but, instead, five easy chairs in warm forest tones arranged in a circle around a round coffee table. Seated in one of them, you couldn't help but feel welcome - and embraced.
They are gone now, my aunt and uncle, and their 1950s home has been torn down and replaced by something much bigger. I choose to remember the house the way it was - as a place in which I always felt enveloped by love.
It was by no means a fancy house. But it had its own style: they were hospitable and gracious people - and the house reflected their personalities.
"I've always believed your home should tell your story," New York City-based interior designer Nate Berkus writes in the preface to his wonderful new book, The Things That Matter (Spiegel & Grau, 2012), in which he invites readers into his own home and a dozen others - spaces that, to him, reflect and reveal something of heir owners.
"That pine table over there? I found it in a shop just outside of Mexico City. The sun was beating down and I was a little hungry, but I saw it and I knew I wanted to look at it every day. Those cuff links? They belonged to somebody I loved; we picked them out on one of the most perfect days we ever spent together. That tortoise shell on the wall? There was one exactly like it in my mother's house and I can't see it without thinking about a thousand inedible family dinners."
Creating a home that reflects who you are, where you have been and what you hold dear is a journey that cannot be accomplished all at once.
"We evolve over the years," writes Berkus, who was a regular on The Oprah Show, then had his own daytime syndicated talk show for a time. "We look at old photos of ourselves and can't believe we were wearing that madras jacket, sporting that awful haircut, working that job."
Our experiences influence us - the people we meet, the places we visit, the books we read. We become surer of what we want. I have always gravitated to old homes, to furniture with patina, objects that have a history. While I appreciate modern and sophisticated rooms when I am in them, I know that I prefer to surround myself with rustic furnishings and worn things.
"My home speaks to me," designer Darryl Carter writes in The Collected Home: Rooms with Style, Grace, and History (Clarkson Potter, 2012). "It is a gathering of all things personal - each with its own story, not because of its worth, but because of its interest."
I'm keener now than I used to be on trying to understand what makes a space work, why some places are so inviting, whereas, in others, I'm wary of even sitting down. I have taken to reading shelter magazines and books about design and decor, to studying photographs of details and moods.
It's not the how-to books I turn to so much as those that explore what makes a space come together. Like Around Beauty (Rizzoli, 2012), for instance, the stellar first book from interior designer Barbara Barry, a fascinating look at her own creative process - at how and where she finds inspiration.
Like The Great American House: Tradition for the Way We Live Now (Rizzoli, 2012). "As a residential architect," writes Gil Schafer III, "I believe that the highest achievement to which I can aspire is just that - creating a home. And the word 'home,' to me, has everything to do with comfort, family and friends, and memories most of all."
In the end, there's something ineffable about the whole business of making a house a home - and something that continues to evolve, I believe, until the end of our days.
"There is a mysterious alchemy in the putting together of rooms and houses," Ben Pentreath observes in English Decoration: Timeless Inspiration for the Contemporary Home (Ryland Peters & Small, 2012). "Myriad ingredients combine to create the perfect interior: light, views, the relationship of one room to the next, and to the landscape or the city beyond ... Or maybe it is the personality of the owner that is stronger, woven into every fibre?"


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Thanks, Bill
To the Editor:
I talked to Representative Bill Remick of Lancaster this weekend. A Main Street Republican like Julie Brown, he was my seatmate in 2005. And, like Julie Brown, he will not be coming back. Why? It seems that voters up there also got a postcard � a big glossy postcard � a 4-color half-truth hatchet job like the one that cut down Dick Green.
There is personal speech and there is puppet-string speech with strings pulled from the shadows by money from far outside this state. If you get a big glossy postcard in your mailbox ask who wrote it and be sure to get their name.
In the meantime, please remember Bill Remick, Republican of Lancaster, a retired teacher of courtesy and calm assessment, a good legislator, and an honorable man � one more reminder of the bitter legacy of the O�Brien House.
This November, vote to bring the center back.
Larry Brown (D)
Candidate for NH House
Strafford Dist. 1
A hundred apologies
To the Editor:
In the Oct. 4 Letters column, I mistakenly implied that Megan Taylor-Fetter, the selectmen�s secretary, incorrectly used the word �centurions.� I would never think that Megan would make such an egregious error. My wording was infelicitous. The erroneous word choice should be attributed to the Puddledock�s editorial staff.
My sincere apology goes out to Megan for any discomfort my letter may have caused her.
Jane Wingate
Voting location observations
To the Editor:
The Home Depot should be commended for hosting the �primary� last month at their store. With that said, here are some of considerations that need to be brought to the City Council who opted for this voting location.
An elderly gentleman tripped while crossing the �raised� concrete island between the �pillars� at the entrance. Luckily for him, Sue DeLemus was there on the spot, to pick him up, after he landed on all �fours�! Keep in mind that there are contractors that drive around this lot. There may be many �5 mph� signs around, but time is money. Traffic moves �briskly�! To me some people were not as agile getting through this lot and into the building, as most would like.
Keep in mind the next time they go there to vote, it will be November. According to those �Atmospherical Wizards� who track �long-range �Global Warming� weather forecasts,� the upcoming weather forecast on that day, should already be known! Therefore, I am certain contingency plans are in place!
Another gentleman backed into a parking space and struck a free-standing sign that tipped over onto another vehicle. No damage. Someone, came out at one point and said, the far end of this parking lot was for the �voters�! Huh! Who would have known that? A number of citizens asked me �Why they were not voting in facilities that are paid for by their tax dollars! This needs �open� discussions!
One other thing. I found myself calling out to people in the parking lot trying to figure out where to go. I was able to ask people if they were here to vote. A number of them said they were from Maine! I asked why they came here to shop? From several different directions at once I heard, �No Taxes�! Get the hint?
I will pass this memo on to the city council, as they may not all read Letters to the Editor!
Louis Archambault
Obama and the deficit
To the Editor:
Isn�t the most important reason to bring children into this world to nurture them, protect them, and help them become successful citizens? Isn�t this what family and society is all about?
According to the long term outlook from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the stark reality is that President Obama has put us in a dire financial situation that our children, grandchildren, and unborn children will have to deal with when they�re our age. Each households share of the federal debt will increase to $382,000 over the next 25 years which is an additional $287,000 compared to current levels. Over the next 20 years high debt levels will decrease the US cumulative economic outlook by about $29 trillion. By 2025 mandatory health care spending, social security, and the interest on the debt will consume 100% of all the revenue received by the federal government. This means no money for education, infrastructure, defense, or countless over federal government programs.
By 2037 the federal government will spend $2.5 trillion a year (greater than 25% of the entire budget) in interest payments. The on the record federal debt not including entitlements is greater than the value of all the goods and services produced in the US. The CBO predicted that the growing debt will create a sudden crisis where investors will lose confidence in the federal government�s ability to manage debt meaning that the federal government will no longer be able to borrow at affordable rates.
Obama�s budget will increase our debt from $16 trillion to $25 trillion in 10 years. What are we doing to our children and grandchildren? If your spouse, neighbor, or teacher was doing this to your children what would you think? You would be disgusted as you would fight to protect your children. It�s time to realize that the future of our children is being threatened by the greatest political child abuser in modern history!
Brett Collopy
Luckiest people in Rochester
To the Editor:
The people who are fortunate enough to live in Ward 4 and Ward 5 are the luckiest people in Rochester. Over the last few weeks they have had something happen that probably surprised them. They actually met their representative in Concord face-to-face. Now, it doesn�t matter what political party they belong to, just like the rest of us they have a representative in Concord. It may be someone that belongs to the same political party they do or it may be someone that belongs to a different party. Party doesn�t matter, they still have their very own representative in Concord.
The reason I say the people that live in Ward 4 and Ward 5 are the luckiest people in Rochester is because they have Laura Jones and Sue DeLemus as their Representatives. These Representatives have been going throughout the Wards introducing themselves to their constituents, just like they did two years ago. Maybe you were home when they came by and noticed that they didn�t have fangs, maybe you were at work and only saw their literature when you got home. Nevertheless, they came by, house by house to meet you again.
This might not be the only time you�ve seen them over the past couple of years. You might have run into them in the grocery store, at church or at some school event. You see, they�re just like you. They live and work in your neighborhood and they represent you on the New Hampshire General Court in Concord. They both love being your Representative in Concord, what say we send them back to Concord to continue representing the luckiest people in Rochester. Reelect both Laura Jones and Sue DeLemus!
Dave Ellis
Dump the police commission
To the Editor:
I urge Rochester voters to support the Charter Amendments on the Special Ballot at the November election, including the first amendment which would remove the Police Commission from city government. Although I once supported keeping the Police Commission, I have come to realize that this is not in the best interests of Rochester taxpayers. The Commission is a left-over from the past that is no longer needed in cities such as Rochester with a City Manager form of government. Originally the Police Commission was expected to take politics out of the Police Department under a strong mayor form of government. Now the situation is reversed. We need the Police Department under the professional management of our City�s Chief Executive, just as the other departments are, such as the Fire Department and Public Works.
Please vote Yes on Amendment I and the other less controversial amendments to reduce the bureaucracy in city government and to streamline management of our city.
Elaine Lauterborn
No respect for voters� wishes
To the Editor:
I never thought that New York style politics would enter into Rochester but it certainly has. In New York politicians keep bringing up the same binding referendums because they are hoping to wear the voters down and finally pass what they want The control mongers (we all know who they are) on the City Council have tried four or five times to abolish the police commission but the voters have rejected eliminating the police commission every time. The mayor, deputy mayor, and city manager have no respect for the voters� wishes.
Councilor Savoie is leading the attempt to eliminate the Police Commission. Ironically, he was a candidate for the police commission and lost. Sour grapes? The Police Commission is more responsive to our citizens than the city council. Citizens are losing respect for the current city council.
Bruce Lindsay
Novel worth reading
To the Editor:
A must read classic for all Americans is Harper Lee�s masterpiece, �To Kill a Mockingbird.� A priceless piece of advice that can be gleaned from the novel was contained in the following passage where my personal social justice hero, Attorney Atticus Finch advises his daughter, Jean Louise (AKA Scout): �First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you�ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view� until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.�
Anyone aspiring to be President of our country, with a diverse population of approximately 312 million, should heed the advice of Atticus Finch. It is apparent, based on Mitt Romney�s conversation, below, with the country, that he has neither read the book nor understands the plight of hardworking Middle Class Americans, our country�s backbone:
� �Corporations are people, my friend��
� �I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.�
� �I�ll tell you what, ten-thousand bucks? $10,000 bet?�
� �I should tell my story. I�m also unemployed.�
� �I�m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.�
� �There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.�
� Annual speaking engagements yielded a �negligible� $360,000.
� Owned a large mutual fund that invested in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, GSEs greatly responsible for the housing market crisis.
� Receives 13% tax rate on multi-millions in capital gains.
� Sends his proud wealth to the Caymans and Switzerland.
� �As a matter of fact, Ann drives two Cadillacs�
� Friends with NASCAR team owners.
� Labeled 47% of us as bottom feeders who believe we are victims, feel entitled, dependent on government and don�t pay any income tax.
It appears the only skin Mitt has ever crawled around in is one of entitlement and privilege and should never be allowed to wear the skin of a U.S. President.
Wayne H. Merritt
Elect Laura Jones
To the Editor:
In 2010, Laura Jones was elected as one of the nine representatives sent to Concord to represent Rochester and New Hampshire. Laura has shown great leadership and has proven to be an invaluable voice in Concord. She has worked to create a favorable business climate that encourages private sector growth, and with other representatives helped to lower taxes and produced a balanced budget that has inspired economic growth just to name a few.
Laura is hard working, dedicated and passionate about her work. Her background in accounting and Business Administration makes her a valuable asset. Combined with her interest in law and her understanding of how Concord operates makes her invaluable not only to Rochester, but to the state of New Hampshire. Laura made many promises during her first campaign and to her credit she stood by those promises and her convictions. We need to send Laura back to Concord so that she can continue the excellent and honorable work that she has started to ensure that New Hampshire continues to move forward and continues on the path of fiscal responsibility at all levels of government.
Sue O�Connor
Vote for DeLemus
To the Editor:
As a resident of Rochester Ward 4, I have been impressed with many of the representatives that were sent to Concord in 2010. Sue DeLemus is one of those representatives. She is committed to improving the fiscal responsibility of New Hampshire. Sue stands for smaller government, decreasing regulations, empowering parents, local communities and protecting the taxpayers� interest. These are campaign promises she made and kept.
Sue has always been there for her constituents and more than willing to help solve a problem, find an answer or point them in the right direction. If you are looking for an individual who exhibits honesty, integrity and trustworthiness, then Sue is the candidate of choice. Sue�s heart is always in the right place and would never think of deceiving the voting public.
Voting for Sue DeLemus will guarantee that you are voting for someone with integrity and someone who is a true resident of Rochester Ward 4.
Tom O�Connor
Romney should tell the truth
To the Editor:
Following the first Presidential Debate, political pundits noted that Mitt Romney performed at the top of his game. He was well rehearsed and aggressive, but were his assertions true? Fact-checkers say many were not. Romney claimed that President Obama had doubled the deficit. This simply is not true. When President Obama took office, the Congressional Budget Office had already projected a deficit for FY2009 of $1.2 trillion. (It ended up being $1.4 trillion.) For FY2012, the deficit is expected to be $1.1 trillion � below the level in the year he took office. Thus the deficit has actually declined significantly � during the worst of times.
President Obama claimed that Romney has proposed a $5 trillion tax cut. Romney repeatedly denied this. However, fact-checkers say it is true that Romney has proposed cutting all marginal tax rates by 20 percent � which would cut tax revenue by $5 trillion. To make up that revenue, Mr. Romney has said he wants to clear out deductions and loopholes from the tax code, but he has not yet specified how he would do this. If he does have a plan, what is he waiting for?
Romney claimed that �Obamacare� would result in �a federal takeover of health care.� Actually, the Affordable Care Act builds on the foundation of private health insurance, providing subsidies for millions of low- and moderate-income people so they can purchase private insurance. Thirty million Americans are expected to gain health coverage, many through the expansion of Medicaid. The federal government would also subsidize the purchase of private insurance for millions of people with incomes up to four times the poverty level (up to $92,200 for a family of four). Private insurers would thus have many new customers. This is hardly �a government takeover.�
Romney�s frequently attacked President Obama for a cut $716 billion from Medicare, suggesting that the Medicare reductions would come from current beneficiaries. Fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked this claim, but Romney continues this one-liner. Romney neglected mentioning that his running-mate, Paul Ryan, included the identical savings in his budget plan.
Romney needs to stop misleading the American people.
Beth Olshansky
Leonard demonstrates arrogance
To the Editor
Last week Fred Leonard asserted in a letter to the editor that � the war on women does not exist�. Many thinking women would take exception to that assertion.
By his votes on HB309, HB228, HB329, all of which dealt with abolishing programs relative to women�s health needs,and constituted an assault on women�s reproductive freedom. The free staters and the liberty alliance folks make some fine talk about liberty. When women examine� staters and alliance� legislation they find women�s liberties extinguished. One of these votes was to defund Planned Parenthoood. This vote demonstrates an enormous ignorance of the scope of work performed by that organization. It also shows a lack of judgement and knowledge of the reproductive health needs of women.
These votes also render the idea of liberty meaningless and hollow, and seem to demonstrate an arrogance and insensitivity to women by Fred and people who think as he does. What ever happened to �Liberty and Freedom for all?� So in conclusion I ask a second question: Do we really think this man is qualified to evaluate and vote on legislation which affects women?
Rose Marie Rogers
Candidate for State Representative in Wards 1 and 6
Letters to the Editor October 11, 2012
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Driven by double-digit growth from financials and consumer discretionary companies, S&P 500 profits are now seen jumping 6.95% year-over-year, more than doubling bleak forecasts from early January.
While a concerning number of companies are issuing negative guidance, investors have largely been encouraged by this earnings season, especially amid rare evidence of top-line growth.
"It is proof that companies have figured out how to make money in this environment," said Scott Wren, senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors (NYSE:WFC).
From old mainstays like ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) to key bellwethers such as Deere (NYSE:DE), companies are topping Wall Street's beaten-down expectations at an impressive clip, driving stocks near record highs.
According to Thomson Reuters, 69.3% of the 85% of S&P 500 companies that have reported fourth-quarter results have surpassed estimates, compared with the nine-year average of 62%.
'Records on Top of Records'
The propensity to beat the Street was highest this earnings season in the technology (81%) and consumer staples (78%) sectors, where the likes of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) easily exceeded forecasts.
Just 11% of technology companies missed estimates, putting this closely-watched sector on track for growth of nearly 2% despite fears of a rare contraction as recently as January.
Overall, S&P 500 companies are projected to finish the fourth quarter with 6.95% year-over-year growth in profits to $26.16, a new all-time record, according to S&P Capital IQ.
"We're looking at records on top of records," said Christine Short, senior manager of corporate earnings at Capital IQ. "Overall, I would say earnings growth for corporate America was pretty strong."
It helps that CEOs of major companies talked down earnings estimates at the end of 2012 as the fiscal cliff loomed and gross domestic product growth went negative. Consensus calls for S&P 500 earnings growth tumbled to 3.4% on January 2 from 9.63% on October 1.
"Maybe it's worth more to watch what they do rather than what they say. Obviously their businesses didn't do as bad as the analysts were led to believe," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Capital.
Rare Revenue Beats
Looking under the hood, S&P 500 revenue is now seen up 3.8% year-over-year for the fourth quarter, trouncing calls for just 1.9% growth at the start of 2013 and relatively optimistic forecasts of 3.3% back in early July.
This growth further solidifies the consensus thinking that revenues hit a trough during the middle of 2012.
"Obviously if you can't continue to grow the top line, profit growth at that point is just misleading," said Short.
Revenue beats were hard to come by during the third quarter, when just 38% of the S&P 500 topped views, the lowest level on record going back 12 years, Capital IQ said.
But those numbers have flip-flopped this quarter as 64.5% of companies have revealed revenue beats, compared with the average of just 50% over the prior four quarters, Reuters said.
Last week alone high-profile names like General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) presented investors with fourth-quarter sales figures that exceeded views.
Tepid overall revenue growth has been offset by strong expansion in the financial sector. This group is projected to log a 20.7% leap in year-over-year revenue thanks big banks like Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), which revealed a 53% surge on the top line.
Looking Ahead…
One potential area of distress for investors looking back at earnings season: guidance.
Fearing the budget battles ahead, the slow economy and other issues, a number of companies have issued profit outlooks that trailed expectations, including drug giant Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and toy maker Hasbro (NYSE:HAS).
According to Capital IQ, 68 of the 96 companies that have issued estimates for the first quarter have given below-consensus guidance, producing a negative-to-positive ratio of 2.8. By comparison, the 10-year average is 2.0.
"Corporations are still playing things pretty closely to the vest. We're hardly seeing any kind of tsunami of enthusiasm," said Luschini.
Still, while many investors may have entered earnings season with a certain amount of trepidation, the results ended up helping push the major indexes on the cusp of all-time records.
Since aluminum maker Alcoa (NYSE:AA) unofficially kicked off earnings season on January 8 with a mixed verdict, the S&P 500 has rallied as much as 5% -- and the recent pullback has little to do with earnings.
"It's not like you're seeing some monster earnings growth but it's still helped push the market ahead," said Wren.


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In 2008, Maryland mother Elizabeth Jett was called for jury duty. At the time she was breastfeeding her baby boy, Henry, who was less than 12 weeks old.
Jett asked the judge to postpone her service until the summer because she was breastfeeding and was her children's sole caretaker. She asked for a postponement until the summer, when her mother, a teacher, could take care of her children.
That request was denied, and her date of summons passed. Jett was then told to report to the court, where she was held in contempt and sentenced to a night in jail or a fine. "I was just shocked," Jett told a newspaper. "I couldn't even put it into words."
A bill that would have allowed nursing mothers to postpone (not cancel) their jury duty service had failed a few years prior to this incident. In defense of it's demise, Brian Frosh, Chair for the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, said "If you start saying, we're gonna excuse people for breastfeeding, you've gotta say ok to kidney dialysis, chemotherapy and all the other maladies that afflict the human condition."
This sounds like a completely absurd statement – of course people undergoing chemotherapy should not be compelled to serve on a jury – but I assume that what this man was arguing was that the law shouldn't need to delineate each and every health condition justifying an excusal or postponement. That would make for a cluttered code. And judges can already exercise their discretion to excuse people in these situations.
Fair enough. But since breastfeeding is relatively recent in resurgence, and since judges, who tend to be male and may have come of age when breastfeeding was less common, may be unfamiliar with the needs of nursing moms, treatment of breastfeeding moms can be quite uneven. Every judge knows that someone undergoing chemo would likely experience hardship if compelled to serve; not every judge knows that a breastfeeding mother may experience hardship, too.
In contrast to Jett's experience, there are many stories of mothers having no trouble at all postponing or being excused from service while breastfeeding. You may have one of them.
I served on a few years ago, in a state with no law regarding breastfeeding mothers. The judge in the case used her discretion quite extensively. She asked each member of the jury pool if there was any reason why serving on the jury would present a significant hardship. She cited as examples the need to care for children or elderly relatives, medical procedures, and even stated that since we live in an area with lots of colleges students, she would excuse any student who would miss class. Another time when I was called in for jury duty, a diabetic man asked during screening whether he would be allowed breaks to eat, check his blood sugar, and take insulin. Of course, said the judge.
But there has been enough concern over court's treatment of breastfeeding mothers that, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, thirteen states and Puerto Rico have laws addressing breastfeeding and jury duty. These states are California, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon and Virginia. They vary from excusing mothers to allowing for postponements. Other states may provide exemptions through the court rules or regulations. Some states have more broad excusal provisions for caretakers of young children.
If you don't live in one of those states, your experience depends on the individual judge involved.
As Jake Marcus, a lawyer with expertise in law relating to breastfeeding mothers, points out, "I live in Pennsylvania where state law offers no excuse or exemption from jury duty for breastfeeding or caretaking for a family member. However, in my county I was excused each of the 4 times I was called while I was breastfeeding. One county over women have been threatened with contempt citations for even asking for postponing due to either breastfeeding or being a primary caretaker."
What can you do if you're breastfeeding and are called to jury duty? La Leche League recommends:
1) See if your state has a law allowing you to postpone or be excused from jury duty. If so, follow the state's directions to exercise your right.
2) If there is no exemption, write a polite letter requesting a postponement or excuse. Address it to the person in charge of jury service, or the head judge of the court. If possible, include a note from your child's doctor stating that he or she is exclusively breastfed. The letter should state that the mother is willing to do jury duty at a future time.
3) Note that in states with no law on this topic, the court's decision may depend upon factors such as the age of the child, and whether the mother is already employed outside the home.
4) If you must serve while breastfeeding, ask for time and a clean, private place to pump.
Ideally, judges would recognize that for a breastfeeding mother and child, jury duty may present a hardship comparable to any other medical or caretaking one, and use their discretion accordingly. Mothers, for our part, should recognize that jury duty is a civic responsibility and be prepared to serve at a time when it would not cause an undue hardship. But until judges (who remain predominately male) recognize the hardship that service can represent for nursing mothers, state laws allowing mothers to postpone service or make appropriate accommodations appear to still be necessary.
Were you called for jury duty while breastfeeding? Did you ask for a postponement because of it? What did the judge say?


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Government IT managers thinking they can catch a break from operating system upgrades might have to think again. Industry analyst firm Gartner recently suggested that enterprises need to make plans today to move off Windows 7, in its recently published report, Plan Now to Avoid Windows XP Deja Vu With Windows 7.
Migrating from Windows 7 may be an unwelcome message right now for many agencies. They may have just recently moved from Windows XP, or they may still be struggling with getting all of their machines off that 12-year-old operating system, which fell out of extended support back in April.
Microsoft's current flagship client OS is Windows 8.1, which is capable of running Windows 7 apps (Win32 apps) on the desktop side of the OS. The next Windows under development, called "Threshold" by Microsoft (or "Windows 9" by unofficial sources), is vaguely described by Microsoft as bringing back a Start Menu and allowing Windows Store Apps ("Metro") to run on the desktop side of the OS. Threshold is rumored to appear in the spring of 2015, but Microsoft hasn't said anything official about its arrival schedule.
Such vagueness means that planning for Windows 8/8.1 may be the main consideration for organizations. However, they still face coming to grips with some app compatibility issues when moving from Windows 7, the research and consulting firm contends.
Microsoft recently revised the product support lifecycle for Internet Explorer on supported Windows releases, explained Michael A. Silver, research vice president for endpoint computing at Gartner, and coauthor of the report, in an e-mail. That change in policy will accelerate the upgrade pressures for organizations using Microsoft's older browser versions.
"And now Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will only be supported with IE 11 as of January 2016, meaning that IE 8, 9, and 10 will all lose support at that time," Silver said. "This presents more support and compliance issues."
Gartner's report particularly calls out Internet Explorer as one of the top application compatibility problems that IT pros will have to face in migrating to Windows 8/8.1.
Microsoft does have a remediation solution of sorts for organizations running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. This new solution, called Enterprise Mode for IE 11 (EMIE), provides a means for organizations to run applications based on the older Internet Explorer 8 browser technology. The IE 11 browser emulates IE 8 technologies via Enterprise Mode. IE 8 was the most recent browser version that was supported on Windows XP, so many organizations may still have Web-based applications that depend on continuing to use IE 8 technologies.
EMIE apparently isn't perfect, though. It may have "bugs" and it can be "broken," Microsoft admitted, in a recent blog post. And Silver said that organizations haven't come around to embracing it.
"Orgs are not sold on EMIE yet, and it does not solve the compliance, support and validation issues discussed above," Silver explained. "Microsoft should not have included Windows 7 in the new policy. It's going to be a huge problem for customers."
On a practical note, Gartner's report offers three approaches for organizations using Windows 7 but considering moving to Windows 8/8.1. One approach is to put Windows 8 on new machines as those machines get replaced. A second approach would be to skip Windows 8 altogether and hold out for Windows Threshold or a subsequent release (Gartner thinks most organization will try to do this). The third idea is a total replacement of Windows 7 with Windows 8 machines, but Gartner doesn't see a compelling business case for that approach.
A longer version of this article appeared on Redmondmag.com, a GCN sister site.
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Companies will not be able to move off Windows anytime soon. However, home users, such as me, can use any Linux distro and be happy. I've used Ubuntu derivatives (dual-boot with W7) since Windows 8 was announced and have been happy with the ease of use. For the business community... this is Microsoft 'highway robbery'.
Despite any actions Microsoft might take, Windows 7 won't "end" until they make something better. Period.
And Windows 9 better be it, or Microsoft is in serious trouble. However, given the steady stream of disasters coming out of Redmond lately, something tells me that the hurriedly rushed Windows 9 may not save Mircrosoft.
I don't think they've truly learned their lesson yet, since it seems that they're simply going to careen from their massive UI disaster to new disasters of their own making, including attempts to tightly integrate Microsoft store, cloud and other services into Windows 9.
And you can also be assured that both consumers and the enterprise will be looking with a severely jaded eye upon the worthiness of Windows 9, particularly since Microsoft hasn't given them enough time to get the terrible taste of Windows 8 out of their mouths because of the rushed introduction of Windows 9. Microsoft is facing a headwind of sceptism (and alternatives) like never before in their histry of introducing new operating systems.
Can't we start planning for something better? The article does a good job of highlighting the complete mess, which gets more cumbersome, time consuming, and costly each time, to upgrade. Seems like there has to be a better computing model moving forward in the 21st century than continue doing this same old thing. It is certaining not sustainable in modern computing to keep pace with commercial cloud computing, web services, and mobility needs of people at work. Like to hear from GCN readers what proven strategies and new technologies are emerging that does away with this painful business and computing model.
The instructions said "Requires Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux.
I purchased a desktop and laptop last year with Windows 7 installed. I am regularly asked by friends to work on Windows 8/8.1 PCs, and they are garbage.
Wait for windows Threshold and keep your fingers crossed.
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Not going to lie, I didn't even have a chance to read...
I wondered why he wasn't more impressed with Christianity.
I liked the lively style and sci-fi plot was amusing.
Thanks for the proposal and introducing me to his work.
Anyway, I enjoyed the story.
The sense of humor and rhetoric he employed is timeless in that it can appeal to both ancient Greeks or native speakers of the English language (such as myself).
What I found funniest was poor Empedocles appearing all burnt up (legend has it that he threw himself in the lava of Mt. Etna) and pitch black on the moon.
I wonder if Lucian would be skeptical about modern astronomy. I suppose there's plenty to mock in our day too. Even in what passes for science. Not to mention superstition and false piety.
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John's post last week on "What Did Lee Atwater Really Say" is a hugely important piece of revisionist journalism, and its theme deserves sustained attention, as the Left these days defaults immediately to calling conservatives and Republicans "racist" because their arguments are otherwise so weak. Notice, in this regard, the new ABC News poll out yesterday finding that a whopping 76 percent of Americans oppose race-conscious college admissions. Rather than defend the indefensible, liberals try to shut down argument by calling you a racist. It's the political discourse equivalent of shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater. Guaranteed to cause pandemonium and shut down actual argument as everyone (conservatives included) stampedes for the exits.
It's possible that liberals are practicing what psychologists call "projection," since the Democratic Party was the party of rebellion and racism for over a century, and nowadays has extended the plantation mentality of the 19th century under the name of the social welfare state. Exhibit Number One this week is the ignorati of MSNBC identifying George Wallace as a Republican in their story recalling his standing in the schoolhouse door to block integration fifty years ago. (See below.) To today's ignorant liberals, of course Wallace must have been a Republican. (MSNBC host Chris Hayes has apologized for the mistake and issued a correction, but naturally doesn't acknowledge the obvious ignorance behind such a blunder. Or can I say "ignorance"? I think that may be on the list of "code words" conservatives can't use.)
But, but, but . . . the Left will sputter: What about Ronald Reagan speaking about "states rights" in Philadelphia, Mississippi, early in his 1980 campaign? See: he was using "code words" near the site where civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were murdered in 1964. Interesting back story to that appearance. Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's pollster, once told me that the Philadelphia event prompted one of only two or three times he ever saw Reagan visibly angry when Reagan realized the association of the place, knowing that the Left would make a cheap shot attack, but Reagan didn't want to cancel the appearance because it would make him look weak. (Turns out the event was the idea of Trent Lott. Oh well.)
But as John did with Atwater, let's go to the tape and see what Reagan actually said in Mississippi:
What we have to do is bring back the recognition that the people of this country can solve its problems. I still believe the answer to any problem lies with the people. I believe in state's rights and I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment. (Emphasis added.)
But this was no different than what Reagan said—and had been saying—in places like California for more than 20 years. Reagan was clearly reiterating his well-known opinion against centralized government power, similar to his 1976 pledge to return control of many social programs to the states. "Most of those at the rally," the New York Times reported, "apparently regarded the statement as having been made in that context." Even the Times could figure this out! And as a westerner Reagan had fully associated himself with the "Sagebrush Rebellion," for whom "states' rights" meant wresting control of land from Washington. This was far from an outlandish or minority view, which is why Reagan's speech received unexceptional news coverage at the time.
The same day Reagan made his "states' rights" remark, the National Governors Association issued what the Associated Press described as "a militant call for reduced federal involvement in state and local affairs." Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt wrote in the New York Times that "It is time to take hard look at 'states' rights'—and responsibilities—and to sort out the respective functions of the federal government and the states."
So why can a liberal Democrat like Babbitt say this, but not a conservative? Is it really the liberal position that conservatives cannot make any appeal to an idea like federalism and states' rights (in the 10th Amendment after all) that Democrats sullied in their sordid past? That's a neat trick, like killing your parents and asking leniency on the grounds of orphanage.
Prediction: Republican candidates in 2014 and 2016 who call for rebalancing federal-state relations will be called—now wait for it—racist.
P.S. Reagan always disliked George Wallace rather intensely, recognizing him as the opportunist demagogue that he was. There was a flurry of talk in the mid-1970s of Reagan leading a third party, and running independently for president at the head of a Reagan-Wallace ticket. Reagan instantly rejected the idea.


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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie proposed a $32.9 billion budget Tuesday that allows more poor residents to enroll in Medicaid and increases public school aid but defers property tax rebates for three months to cover a projected budget shortfall.
Christie, a possible Republican presidential contender in 2016 who is seeking a second term as governor in November, touted the budget as a blueprint that seeks fiscal stability without forgetting about the state's most vulnerable residents. The Democratic-led Legislature must approve the plan.
"We are meeting the needs of our people in this budget, we are doing it by spending less than the state spent in fiscal year 2008," he said in an afternoon budget address at the Statehouse.
The governor claimed victory for revamping rules that strip teachers of lifetime tenure and for keeping property tax increases to 1.4 percent this year, but he presented no big initiative or surprises in his election-year budget.
Afterward, Democrats said they liked some — but not all — of what they heard from the governor.
"It was nice that we all gathered in the chamber," Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver said, "but I want (to hear) some meat."
Christie's budget proposal comes as the state rebounds from Superstorm Sandy, the worst natural disaster in state history. It counts on nearly 5 percent revenue growth, down from more than 7 percent in the current budget, which Treasurer Andrew Eristoff acknowledged Tuesday that the state is unlikely to meet.
The governor is banking on federal Sandy relief funding to stimulate the state's still-sluggish economy and help coastal communities rebuild. Twenty-five municipalities lost at least 5 percent of their tax base after Sandy because of destroyed homes and closed businesses.
The first $1.8 billion in relief money is due in April but New Jersey could see $100 million less than expected unless there's a deal in Washington to eliminate federal cuts set to take effect Friday.
Christie proposed adding $40 million to the current-year budget to cover Sandy-related expenses not reimbursed by the federal government.
"This will ensure that we can move ahead with maximum speed, and that those things that fall through the cracks will not bankrupt families, businesses and local governments," Christie said.
Christie's budget abandons the 10 percent tax break he proposed last year that the Democratic-led Legislature refused to go along with. Christie and all 120 members of the Legislature face re-election in November.
His likely challenger, Sen. Barbara Buono, said afterward that Christie's priorities "are wrong for New Jersey." She said the budget does not address the state's persistently high unemployment rate, which was 9.6 percent in December, more than a full percentage point above the federal rate.
The proposed budget adds nearly $100 million to public education and allocates $2 million for a project to allow 200 low-income students in failing public schools scholarships to attend school elsewhere. A similar proposal has stalled in the Legislature, in part because it permits the taxpayer-funded scholarships to be applied to private and parochial school tuition.
The budget also expands the Medicaid rolls by 104,000 by allowing the federal government to take over costs, Christie said.
While making it clear he's no fan of the Affordable Care Act, Christie said he decided to accept federal funding.
"Refusing these federal dollars does not mean that they won't be spent. It just means that they will be used to expand health care access in New York, Connecticut, Ohio or somewhere else," Christie said.
Including New Jersey, 22 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to the expansion and 13 states have rejected it so far.
One casualty of the budget proposal is homeowner tax rebates. Senior, disabled and low-income homeowners expecting rebate credits in May would instead see them in August. The deferral would allow the state to cover a projected $407 million shortfall in the budget that expires in June. New Jersey's constitution doesn't allow deficit spending.
State residents already pay the highest property taxes in the country, averaging $7,870 per household.
The budget also makes a $1.6 billion payment to the public employee pension system, a commitment the administration made when landmark pension and health benefits changes were enacted two years ago.
Associated Press reporters Geoff Mulvihill and Rema Rahman contributed to this report.


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With the recent proposal to move Hudson to the Eclipse Foundation, there has been speculation as to whether this will lead to a coming together of Jenkins and Hudson, or even whether the code can be relicensed under the EPL.
There has been a lot of anger from the Jenkins community (as seen on the comments threads) that they were not involved or included in the announcement to move to Hudson. And whilst several companies have put their approval to the move, CloudBees has not yet done so.
In fact, the proposal to move to the Eclipse foundation was on the cards before the fork occurred and rejected as too heavyweight a process. Whilst Jenkins has always been developed in a fast, iterative manner, Oracle and Sonatype wanted to bring regular releases and predictability to the process (something which has subsequently happened in the Jenkins community in any case).
InfoQ reached out to CloudBees for their view on the situation, and received responses from Hudson/Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi and CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey.
InfoQ: What are your thoughts on the proposed move to the Eclipse foundation, along with the domain and trademark?
Kohsuke Kawaguchi: We were very surprised. In a way, I see this as a validation of success of the Jenkins project, as I mentioned in my blog. When the divorce was happening, this was indeed one of the more contentious issues, and they were very firm that they cannot transfer the trademark to someone else - since this was actually the leverage they were using to get what they wanted from the community. I wish they chose to do this when we were talking, but as you say I suppose our efforts were needed to make Oracle feel that this transition is necessary. I think Eclipse foundation is a very reputable foundation that is known for vendor neutrality.
InfoQ: Existing code is copyright by both individuals and companies under the MIT license. Whilst this doesn't preclude the software being relicensed by the copyright holders, the (non-Oracle/Sonatype) Jenkins community owns a fair proportion of the recent code changes that were merged into Hudson. Does this match your understanding?
Kohsuke Kawaguchi: Yes, this matches my understanding.
InfoQ: If the Eclipse Foundation reached out to CloudBees with a request for relicensing under EPL in order to move the Hudson codebase to the Eclipse Foundation, would that be something you would be willing to assist or be actively uninterested in participating?
Sacha Labourey: CloudBees participates in the Jenkins community, and we have been pretty open about supporting whichever direction the Jenkins community wants to take. The MIT license is a more open license and less corporate-driven than Eclipse and we like that. We view it as more inclusive and open, but have no real objections to any open source license.
InfoQ: The proposal is, as it currently stands, a starting point only. It is open for others to join and participate. It has been noted this is vendor-heavy and community-light at this stage. Is there any interest in either CloudBees or other members joining as interested parties?
Kohsuke Kawaguchi: The Jenkins community is going to have a meeting on May 11th at 18:00 UTC on the Jenkins IRC Chat channel, and hopefully after that we'll know where the community stands on this issue. We are naturally considering all options, and CloudBees would stand behind how the Jenkins community decides.
For me personally, the "divorce" experience is still vivid in memory and wounds are still fresh that I'm feeling bit cautious. A lot of things get done in an open-source project via human relationships and trusts, and it's hard thing to rebuild.
InfoQ: How does the Eclipse model compare with the model that Jenkins is operating under at the moment? Are there any specific differences (or objections) to the way that Eclipse projects are run generally?
Kohsuke Kawaguchi: Eclipse projects have project leads, PMC, and committers. Jenkins project has a governance board and committers. There are some technical difference but I don't think there's a whole lot of difference in the way the project operates and the voting structure goes.
I think one key difference is the very low bar to a committer-ship in the Jenkins project. Historically, we didn't require people to hang around and prove themselves before we make them committers, and that helped us recruit more developers and get smaller changes into the codebase. We also kept plugin developers close to us, which acted as a funnel to bring in fresh blood to the community. This agility is in our DNA and helped make Hudson successful in the first place. That's why the Jenkins community is organized this way, to perpetuate what made us successful while allowing for balanced governance.
The last point is likely to be one of the contentious points for the Jenkins community. The Eclipse foundation has legal guidelines on when to become a committer, and there's signed paperwork which must happen prior to any commit access being granted, which can take a couple of weeks to complete. However, the proposal is to host the Hudson core at Eclipse, and leave plugins to be hosted elsewhere (for example, at GitHub) so the agility only affects the core runtime instead of the plugin contributors.
Another key point is one of project leadership. Many in the Jenkins community would not support a move unless Kohsuke was the project lead; but since no-one is discussing the issue on the project forums, the possibility hasn't arisen. However, the Eclipse process ensures that committers have equal voting in committer rights; something which wasn't felt in the pre-fork issues.
Ultimately, the Jenkins community will decide whether Jenkins will be part of the Eclipse Foundation, either as a coming together of projects or as an independent entity. Whilst Kohsuke and CloudBees are likely to heavily influence that decision, and most of the original blocking points have been resolved, the level of mistrust and process impedance mismatch may still be too big a divide to bring together.
Finally, if the Jenkins community decides to continue as a separate project under their own process, it is not clear whether Hudson will be able to move over to the EPL without consenting rights of the copyright holders that were not employed by an EPL organisation at the time. Certainly the current codebase has merged some of the post-fork code back into the Hudson codebase, so unless those copyright holders consent to use relicense under the EPL then it may not be possible to use those contributions as is.
Whether the Jenkins community is interested in combining with the Eclipse proposal or not, the end users (and plugin developers) would be better served by not having two forks to choose from.
Update: the Jenkins user meeting concluded today with a proposal to create a wiki with a list of conditions that would need to be met in order to come back together. Several users voted -1 on principle of moving to the Eclipse Foundation but there was some progress in discussions about what it would mean if Jenkins were to move to Eclipse or Apache. However, there was doubt whether the Jenkins community would want to work with the Hudson community. A decision will be made on the next meeting, on the 24th May.
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
William Smith
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
Stuart McCulloch
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
Sacha Labourey
I think you are being slightly misled here.
ORCL had shared with us at some point a write-up that contained a set of rules very much Eclipse-like (but *outside* of the EF). I mentioned to ORCL that I thought their proposal was very heavy compared to what the Hudson community had been doing to date (successfully), for no obvious gain and that a bunch of problems were NOT solved in the proposal, including IP ownership, trademark and CA - none of them being lightweight topics. Also, ORCL mentioned to us that the following licenses had issues and either rarely or never get approval at ORCL: GPL, LGPL, CPL, CDDL, MPL, EPL & NPL. (can you see the EPL in there?)
As you can see, this was not as simple as "an Eclipse proposal is on the table", it was an "Eclipse-like" proposal but with lots of the other problems unsolved.
I've seen the same pattern happen quite a few times, where the story tends to be bended "just a bit" in order to accommodate a smoother history flow. But since ORCL has the e-mails, they should just publish them next time they make such a claim, that way anybody can judge.
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
William Smith
"I have the emails stating our proposal, which was both Eclipse or an Eclipse-like process"
I wish InfoQ would clarify on this point.
In any event it doesn't seem to make any difference. You rejected it not for not being eclipse, but for being too heavyweight.
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
Charles Humble
I wish InfoQ would clarify on this point.
Just so you know we have tried, but we've not been able to get sufficiently strong evidence one way or the other to date.
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
Sacha Labourey
In any event it doesn't seem to make any difference. You rejected it not for not being eclipse, but for being too heavyweight.
It actually makes a big difference since it made you state: "Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous".
Eclipse and Licensing Decisions
Chris Aniszczyk
Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Duncan Mills
Now in this respect I'm talking about the Hudson core. This may not be true for individual plug-in writers who merge their own code between the Hudson and Jenkins versions of the plugins, but that is less material as non-core plugins are not part of this proposed contribution to the Eclipse Foundation.
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Sacha Labourey
Do you realize that all code contributed by Kohsuke Kawaguchi to Hudson Core since he left ORCL - which represents the majority of his contributions to core during about 8 months - doesn't fit that requirement?
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Duncan Mills
Any discussion about the IP of Kohsuke's contributions to the Hudson project is separate, and one for the lawyers.
Needless to say any contributor to Hudson (pre or post fork), where they can be identified, would need to be correctly credited in the codebase, this is part of the Eclipse process.
Re: Eclipse and Licensing Decisions
Stuart McCulloch
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Andrew Bayer
Is the CA signatory list at sca.java.net/CA_signatories.htm actually up to date? Because there seem to be people contributing to Hudson core who haven't submitted it, so far as I can tell.
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
eduardo pelegri-llopart
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Stuart McCulloch
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
William Smith
It actually makes a big difference since it made you state: "Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous".
Ok I agree with this point. It certainly makes a difference to how I *perceive* Kawaguchi/Cloudbees behaviour, but I don't think it makes any difference in terms of how you would have behaved since you rejected the Eclipse process outright (at least the first time around).
As you rightly say, unless Oracle publishes its private emails (which is unlikely) no-one other than you and they can know the truth.
But for what it is worth I hope the Jenkins community makes a serious effort to re-join the Hudson project, because I don't think anyone wins with this madness.
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Alex Blewitt
This change, by kohsuke on the 30th January, updated the Hudson logo to Jenkins.
Here is the reversion of that commit, on the 9th February by wjprakash:
So the Hudson history most definitely has code taken from Jenkins.
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
eduardo pelegri-llopart
Re: Hudson has not taken code from Jenkins
Stuart McCulloch
IIRC there was an automatic push/sync that someone had put in place before the fork, and maybe it wasn't switched off immediately. (People were still catching up with the various infra changes). So I assume Winston was just rolling back these commits - I can't remember any major code changes during that period, but the repository history will no doubt be double/tripled-checked as part of the Eclipse process.
Re: Kohsuke Kawaguchi seems to being a bit disingenuous
Sacha Labourey
...but I don't think it makes any difference in terms of how you would have behaved since you rejected the Eclipse process outright (at least the first time around).
Again, just to be accurate, the Eclipse-way was never proposed to us: just a rip-off of the process without any IP/CA/TM counterpart. Would people have reacted differently if their proposal also offered the IP/CA/TM? Most probably. The problem with that proposal is that there was no advantage, only disadvantages: not only was the DNA of the project deeply modified by the new process, but none of the hard problems were solved.
But for what it is worth I hope the Jenkins community makes a serious effort to re-join the Hudson project, because I don't think anyone wins with this madness
The problem is that this is not just about the "community" in an abstract way. This is about contributors, about specific individuals and their personal feelings are important.


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SisMorphine wrote:Exactly a week ago I was holding Wally's head in my lap while my family said good bye, and while I tried to get the courage to stand up and leave him . . . or what used to be him. All I can picture is him laying there with his last case of ETS (escaped tongue syndrome) and trying desperately to close his eyes.
In some ways it feels like he's been gone forever, but in others it feels like it was just 5 minutes ago.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th May 2013 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
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RE[2]: The internet makes asses of us all!
by TM99 on Sun 19th May 2013 16:26 UTC in reply to "RE: The internet makes asses of us all!"
Enough said!