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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (47621)	1/13/2009 3:22:27 PM
From: Doren	Respond to of 57684

Interesting thanks.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (47621)	1/13/2009 3:34:20 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

OT Bill It brings back memories. I built a number of Heathkit's years ago starting in the late 60's. Most of my stereo, amateur radio stuff including an all solid state color TV from those guys. It was fun opening the box and firing up the soldering iron. My preamp a AP-1800 is still considered near state of the art over 25 years later. There is some really cool digitial Broadcasting stuff coming out now, even on the AM bands. Eric

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (47621)	1/14/2009 12:25:02 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 57684

China’s Economy Overtook Germany’s in 2007, Data Show (Update1) By Nipa Piboontanasawat Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China’s economy overtook Germany’s in 2007 to become the world’s third largest, according to revised figures released by the Chinese statistics bureau today. Gross domestic product rose 13 percent, more than a previous estimate of 11.9 percent, to 25.731 trillion yuan ($3.38 trillion), the bureau said on its Web site today. That topped Germany’s 2.424 trillion euros ($3.32 trillion), based on Bloomberg calculations using average exchange rates for 2007. The fastest-growing major economy has expanded an average 9.9 percent a year since leader Deng Xiaoping ditched hard-line Communist policies in favor of free-market reforms in 1978. The nation’s efforts to sustain growth by rolling out a 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package may help to limit the severity of a deepening global recession. “This number is just one more piece of evidence that China is one of the most important players on the global stage,” said Huang Yiping, chief Asia economist at Citigroup Inc. in Hong Kong. “China’s importance goes beyond even the ranking as number three because it’s one of the only resilient economies in the world today.” The U.S. economy is the world’s biggest, followed by Japan. China overtook the U.K. in 2005. “If China continues to grow at its average rate in the past 20 years and if the U.S. does the same, it will overtake the U.S. in 20 years,” said Tim Condon, head of Asia research at ING Groep NV in Singapore. “There’s no doubt that that will happen -- it’s just a matter of time.” To contact the reporter on this story: Nipa Piboontanasawat in Hong Kong at npiboontanas@bloomberg.net Last Updated: January 13, 2009 22:40 EST

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (47621)	1/14/2009 1:08:37 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 57684

kind of interesting oracle layoff comments # Hi #129 and #130, I was let go last Friday. I was in north america sales consulting team. I supported CRM On Demand. I was told my position was eliminated. I saw it coming. The region I supported have done lousy (closed 0 deal in Q1 and 1 deal in Q2). Our CRM On Demand product is weak compared to salesforce offering. We lost all CRM On Demand deals. I wasn’t engaged enough by reps since there is no CRM On Demand deals. I have heard that Oracle is shifting product focus from CRM On Demand to MDM and BPM. Hence, overlap teams in CRMOD and BI were hit hard. Comment by JR — January 13, 2009 @ 3:45 pm fscavo.blogspot.com