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With City of Heroes and Paragon Studios set to close by the end of the year, we're taking some time this week to reflect on the game.
Really try and think back to 2002 or even ahead to 2004 when the game officially launched and consider what MMOs were like at the time. Cryptic Studios was really going against the grain both in gameplay and theme. City of Heroes focused on doing 'action combat' before it became a buzzword and players could group up with each other regardless of level and party size due to the way the game's instanced content and sidekicking system worked. You could fly around, leap across the city, speed through tunnels, all the while tossing fireballs, going super nova, or just smashing some dude into the air with a hammer made entirely of stone. This all from a first-time developer that really fought an uphill battle trying to bring the game to market.
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I think Mission Architecture, as implemented by Paragon Studios, killed the game's community. The feature set of the Architecture system was great, but the exploitable nature of experience grinding in those missions made it the optimal choice for grinding to max level.
I played COX for years, and my now 18 year old daughter played COX as her first (and currently only) MMO.
I had a good time, but it's time for it to go. Too bad Paragon didn't have a good exit stratergy for what should have been obvious years ago (the shrinking population). I would have pre-purchased a COX 2 sight unseen.
I wish all the devs the best of luck in their future endeavors.
City of Heroes was my second MMO after Dark Age of Camelot. When I made the switch I was thrilled with CoH, so pardon me one wall of text while I wax nostalgic over the death of an old friend.
The first big perk in CoH was travel powrs. After playing a game where it took (remember there was no porting in DAoC when it released) a lot of time to go from point to point, the idea of being able to just jump there in a few seconds was astounding.
Then there was the sidekicking system, which enabled people of different levels to play together any time they wanted. Had to miss a few days of playing and fell behind? No problem. You could still group with the same people and enjoy the time together.
The fact there was practically no loot at release (you bought enhancements and everyone had access to the same thing) I thought might be a negative. In truth, after watching people squabble over loot drops for years it was a relief not to have to worry about it. It took a huge stressor out of grouping. As they added loot (Hamidons anyone?) I began to worry that the snake was loose in the Garden of Eden, but I don't really ever recall stressing about loot or too many loot fights.
It was also the first game I played where you could literally solo from level 1 to level 50. Your character had many contacts who gave them missions (quests really) and those had interesting story lines. If you logged in and didn't want to group or your buddies weren't on and you couldn't find one it wasn't a problem. You just popped open your contacts, got a mission and off you went to level up. After playing a game with forced grouping to llevel in anywhere near efficient time (21 days /played to level cap back in DAoC 2:00 AM on March 3, 2002 and that was approximately "normal" back then) the ability to log on for fifteen minutes and solo and achieve something was a revelation.
There was no PvP when the game launched, but truthfully I never missed it. Even when they implemented it, I never really engaged in it. For some reason I just never felt the need to PVP in that game. People scoffed (although the PvP system did have great features) but something about the air of the game made PvP kind of unnessesary.
Now the big seller was the character customization. I'd come from a game where your choices were about 15 different faces and whether you'd be small, medium or large. Then it was down to the kind of dye you wore on your armor to express your individuality. With CoH you could sit in front of the computer for hours designing your chracter with almost limitless character size scales, costume options and a huge color pallet. To this day it still has to rank as one of the great charracter creators ever.
The game also caught me at just the right time in my life. I was starting my own business and my wife and I were having kids, so I couldn't afford the time to play a game like DAoC anymore. DAoC almost demanded you log on every night if for no other reason than to defend your realm. CoH was so casual friendly that it was a boon. I could miss a week of gameplay and still hang with my buddies, where in DAoC I'd have been left behind. It also allowed me to start and stop suddenly for when someone needed a diaper changed etc. The side benefit was when I had a fussy baby I could sit him or her in my lap and log into CoH and the quick movements and flashy colors would distract both them and me.
But the best part was the community. Back in the day if you were a roleplayer this was the place to go. And if you wanted to find the best roleplayers you logged into the Virtue server and headed for Galaxy Park. There you found hundreds of other players roleplaying, telling stories and preparing for a night of adventure. I've got theories as to why the game generated such a welcoming and happy community (Lack of PvP, not much in the way of loot, strong roleplaying segment, developers like Cupa Joe who were incredibly accessible in and out of game and who actually played their game), but it was just what a refugee from a Realm based game needed.
Finally on a personal note this game gave birth to the most vivid character I ever dreamed up as a roleplayer; Nox Noctivagus - The One Who Wanders at Night. (a Dark Melee/Super Reflexes Scrapper) Nox came to Paragon City as a faceless (he wore a faceless steel helmet over his head) and nameless werewolf slave to his vampire Mistress Cimmaron (played by a truly excellent roleplayer I met in DAoC). Over the course of his leveling up he met other characters and eventually rediscovered his former self and was freed by his Mistress, who then became the great love of his life. The story of his journies and adventures in Paragon (Echoes in the Dark) covered more than 300 pages when I printed it out and was posted on the Virtue VN Boards for all to read. People joined in and added their own chapters about their experiences with Nox who went from souless wrecking machine to big, terrifying, cuddly Superhero who terrorized the criminals of Paragon City while protecting the weak and innocent from the attempted evils of the villans.
Thanks to City of Villians (which I helped beta test) I was able to create Lord Ignotus and his Order of the Fang, Nox's nemesis who not only battled Nox, but tried to tempt him into yielding to the animal instincts of what Nox called "His Beast" (his werewolf self) and become a villain. The Order of the Fang included Madame Cauchemar (Pleasant Dreams, Mon Cher!), Dr. Creepzncrawlz (Death has a head start on you!), Myster Grym (I am Myster Grym), Lady Blackheart (And one to the heart!), and The Scarlet Vanguard (who later changed her ways and became a hero. This was before Going Rogue so I had to delete her as a villain and rerole her as a hero). Tempted by power, lust, greed, hatred, fear and the disappearance of his Mistress Cimmaron, Nox faced madness and the demons in his ancient soul (he was 4000 years old) before ultimately mastering his beast and remaining a hero. Yet he would always find himself strangely tempted by the gracile, stunning beautiful, spectacularly deadly and cruelly manipulative daughter of Lord Ignotus, Madame Cauchemar (a stalker and chief operative of the Order of the Fang) who's laugh and languid taunts delivered in French, always haunted him.
With all that going for it, it's no wonder I remember CoX fondly. So maybe before they pull the plug I'll load up the game one more time and just take a tour of all the old sights and maybe, just maybe, run across someone who remembers the Old Wolf from days gone by. So in tribute to all that was good in Paragon City, here is what was always the first and last lines of all the Nox Noctivagus story arcs. Maybe someone remember, but most won't . But just so a little piece of that time survives, here it goes.
"Welcome to my world. It is a stark world of black and white under pale moonlight and it comes to life after sunset. Every night, after the sun goes down, I yield to Mistress Luna, who calls to the animal in me, and I don my red and black leathers, my red mask and my black hood and I go out to do what I have done for more than four thousand years. I go out to do what I will do for the rest of my undying life. I hunt.
Who am I?
I am The One Who Wanders at Night.
I am Nox Noctivagus."
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Theres a slim chance Nexon could buy it if NCsoft would sell it.
Normally I wouldnt care, but I've spent so much money buying paragon points to support the game and buy new costume sets and power sets. It sucks that I've wasted 7 years and hundreds of dollars and now it's all going away when I was still enjoying it and expected to enjoy it for years to come. But oh well.
Maybe they'll make a CoH2 and hopefully they'll get a better publisher.
COH was the first game that my wife and I played together and it's the first game that I introduced my young son to. I am going to miss this game, specifically around Halloween as it's been a staple in our house during that month. So much so that even with active WoW accounts, I have never seen WoW's Brewfest as I'd always prefer trick or treating instead.
I have yet to see a game push the same sheer mass of mob numbers at a player in any game to date. Watching a "flood room" in COH makes any other game look weak by comparison. Jiffy Pop FTW!
I give huge props to Positron, Castle, BAB, Warwitch and the Crew on working so hard to make this game what it was.
In my opinion, this is one of those rare instances where freemium models hurt instead of helped.
Reasonably stable community, add freemium, community dissappears.
I figure if a game like AC can maintain it's community and it's pricing model for this many years based on its' community then a game like COH could've as well.
Before it closes down I will definitely be giving my Tanker, 1st Wave another run though.
It's a shame they close games like this and SWG but leave games like STO open.
I know I'll definitely miss it, but yeah... if a game has F2P options, and it's still empty? That's a problem.
I do hope those folks find work. It became pretty clear, IMO that when Cryptic got split up, Paragon kept the bulk of the talent. CO was supposed to be CoX 2.0 and turned out to be CoX 0.6b...
It sucks to see so much work get deleted. Good luck to all of you...
Originally posted by LucienRene I had a good time, but it's time for it to go. Too bad Paragon didn't have a good exit stratergy for what should have been obvious years ago (the shrinking population).
Well, I guess F2P was their strategy for dealing with the pop issue... but whaling only works when there are players willing to be big enough whales, or you have enough smaller ones.
Obviously this is where the game run into issues, just as Aion has.
I agree with what you say about the AE though. The actual feature was pretty amazing, but they should have actively plugged that avenue of exploitation a long time ago. It simply was not good for the game.
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Wow!! this made me want to comment on this. You are either a fraud or just do not know what your talking about. Virtue and Freedom are consistently jammed and i have never found it difficult to locate or assemble a team on either servers.
Now things have changed over the years and the game has evolved, I started playing the game in December of 2007, and have noticed over the years that the population has fluctuated. After going rougue and Freedom released all servers enjoyed healthy loads.
But what i have seen, and experienced over the years is.....a new game will come out (in this case , What 4 have come out in the last 6 to 8 months) servers populations are affected but people always seem to come back. SWTOR seemed to rifle a lot and now i hear and see alot of people returning having stated that particular game has nothing to keep them interested and they were coming back to a game that always has new content coming out.
I think that if the writer of this article had looked deeper he would had learned this.
A good reminisce down memory lane, Mike. Thanks for that That 2002 video was fun to watch and listen to. The differences between then and what released 2 years later is amazing. "Targeted Combat"? Didn't see that in this game
I will miss CoH, too. It was the MMO that got me into video editing. It is the only MMO that I know of that used a "/demorecord" command that created an editable text file that a player could fairly easily manipulate to create some awesome footage.
CoH was also my "stand-by" game. I always knew it was there. I knew players on my server and in guilds would be there. Now... it will be gone.
It is sad that NCSoft is not pulling the plug only on CoH, but Paragon Studios as well. I wish all those people there the best in life, wherever they may end up.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.
It's true that freedom and virtue had healthy populations, but pretty much every other server did not.
They had talked about one time a serverless architecture, such a change, and curbing the farmability of mission architect, could have plotted a different course for the game.
Some months or maybe longer back, I posted about how after they released CoV with the promise of base raid and supergroup vs villaingroup battles, they failed to follow through on that promise, and I believe had they made it a real dynamic and viable endgame, once again, perhaps the game would not be sunsetting now.
And finally, their f2p model was too agressive with the pricing, it scared away most people who had any common sense. For anyone to really get access to all content, they would have had to pay way more than a regular monthly fee, and to me that seems to be a self-defeating strategy.
I wish some smarter heads had been at the helm post CoV release. Admittedly they tried to get base raids working properly for a year or two, but apparently they laid off whatever programmers had done the initial base functionality coding.
You metioned GW2 and having played that I would just like to say that their engine would be a great match for CoH2 I'd think.
I doubt we'll see it but City of Heroes combat would fall right into GW2 combat system. Not to mention the "mission" system in GW2 would also fit a CoH style game very well. Too bad NCsoft is just the publisher for GW2 and doesn't own the tech.
Oh well best of luck to everyone involved with CoH.
I am one of those that started playing CoH when it went F2P (so about a year ago).
I liked it enough I dropped about $120 on it. Which I guess would have been less than I had a subscribed for a year, but still enough that I'm more than a little irked at NCSoft for cancelling the game so soon after it went F2P.
I think they made a lot of misteps with the F2P switch. Too many servers, for one, and they recommended servers that were almost empty. And yet, because of the way the F2P model worked, once you picked a server, you had to buy character slots on other ones. So when I reached my 20s or so and started looking around for people to team with, there was no one there. And I was locked in. I ended up buying slots on other servers, but out of 14-16 servers, only 2 are really packed with players.
It also didn't help that the game basically stopped telling you where to go after level 8. You do the intro arc with that Matt Habashy guy and his wife, and there's nothing. You are told to talk to this superhero group, the Shooting star, but that had a level req of 10 past the first couple missions.
They really should have revamped 1-20, rather than just 1-8 (Atlas Park).
R.I.P. City of Heroes and my 17 characters there
Originally posted by Robsolf
I know I'll definitely miss it, but yeah... if a game has F2P options, and it's still empty? That's a problem. I do hope those folks find work. It became pretty clear, IMO that when Cryptic got split up, Paragon kept the bulk of the talent. CO was supposed to be CoX 2.0 and turned out to be CoX 0.6b... It sucks to see so much work get deleted. Good luck to all of you...
This really - very sad to see it go, when it could and should have been the foundation for the next generation of superhero mmo
Thanks for your coverage. As others have noted, the population of CoH has always flunctuated depending on what other games were launching, but it always rebounded to roughly the same level.
Neither population nor profits seem to have been involved in this decision, note that NCsoft's only official word to date on the reasons mentions neither as the reason, but simply cites "a realignment of company focus and publishing support". If profits or popularity were the problem, NCsoft would have said so. Repeated statements by former Paragon Studios employees are that the game was both steadily profitable and had a stable population base.
It sounds to me like you just happened to wander in during a lull. Also appears to me that you were playing on the villain side, which has never had a strong following simply because most people don't want to be the bad guys. Looking around has never been the best way to check population anyway, server load or sampling the numbers off the search tool gives much more solid information.
Your commentary demonstrates pretty clearly that this fight is not about numbers anyway. What is far more important is the artistic and human elements of the fight. This community IS unique. I've been involved in many MMOs now, and participated in the community around each of them. None of the others have been as friendly and helpful as the folks in Paragon City.
We intend to fight to the end, and beyond if necessary. We are heroes. This is what we do.
Personally, I think NCSoft (and Nexon) figured out they simply cannot compete in the Superhero arena, while Cryptic is now marching into the High Fantasy with Never Winter Online.
It makes me sad to let go, but at the same time, I have to be honest and say that I got what I wanted from CoH.
Would I invest my time in another Superhero MMO if NCSoft/Paragon Studios would make one? That's probably the question NCSoft figure most players would say "NO" to. And, to be honest... CoX 2 would have to be A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and most likely designed and launched F2P just to compete not only with Champions Online and DCUO but other action-based MMO titles like NCSofts' Guild Wars 2!
Therefore, I can't blame NCSoft/Nexon for giving up.
"You're either with us or against us"
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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Take the 8 disks of dough and roll them out to make 8 circles. 4 circles should be slightly larger than the other 4. Use the larger 4 circles and place in greased mini pie tins. Fill each tin up with the pie filling and brush the edges with milk. This will help glue on the top crust. Place on the top crusts and press down to seal with a fork. Brush tops with milk and sprinkle with coarse sugar. Cut a small hole in the middle and chill for a ½ an hour. Bake at 425* for 15 minutes, then turn down the heat to 350* and bake until golden brown approximately another 30 minutes. Place 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream on each pie and drizzle with chocolate and caramel.
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Many visitors from around the state of Utah and a couple from Arizona converged on Ferron Aug. 13 to explore the mountains and desert surrounding the city. For four days the visitors enjoyed a ride each day, dinner in the evening and a special cowboy poetry recital.
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This summer has been hot and dry for portions of Western Kentucky, especially areas west of the Land Between the Lakes. Many area farmers are beginning to harvest their corn and early-season soybeans.
I saw this article in our Kentucky Dairy Notes newsletter and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all.
It was about an issue related to dairy herd reproduction we do not often think about - the barn refrigerator. The following is my edited version of Dan's article. The original article is at: https://www.msu.edu/~mdr/vol15no2/fridge.html
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that a general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) began on Aug. 2, 2010 and will continue through Aug. 27, 2010. During the sign-up period, farmers and ranchers may offer eligible land for CRP's and competitive general sign-up at their county Farm Service Agency (FSA) office. The 2008 Farm Bill authorized USDA to maintain CRP enrollment up to 32 million acres.
Due to the interest in the Gardener's Wheelbarrow Series in the spring and requests from many of you, I have developed a shorter Fall Gardener's Wheelbarrow Series that deals with topics that generally should be dealt with in the fall. Like the other Wheelbarrow Series classes these will be held at the Washington County Extension Office at 6 p.m. and supply charges must be paid at time of registration. The classes and dates are as follows:
Did your plans for a summer vegetable garden not work out? Did you lose track of time and never got around to planting a summer garden? Did you go on vacation to come back to a weedy mess that you just didn't have the energy to correct before it was too late?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, it's not too late to get homegrown vegetables from your own back yard this season!
Environmental issues are at the forefront of many people's minds, including agriculture producers. University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension specialists will host two field days to teach tobacco producers how conservation tillage can help them run operations that are more environmentally friendly.
The first field day will be Aug. 5 in Christian County and will focus on dark tobacco. The second field day will take place Aug. 9 in Marion County and is geared toward burley production. Both begin at 4 p.m. local time. Altria is sponsoring both events.
We are close to the point where many livestock producers would normally apply nitrogen to tall fescue pastures to boost production levels and stockpile for fall and winter grazing. Since there are many factors that will impact the profitability of this practice, the question at hand is: Under what set of conditions will applying nitrogen to pastures pay this year?
Emily Cox represented Washington County 4-H at the State 4-H Communications Day held July 10 on the University of Kentucky campus. Cox presented her speech in the 10-year-old Talk Meet category winning a blue ribbon. Cox will be in the sixth grade at North Washington Elementary and is the daughter of Phillip and Crystal Cox. This is her second year to reach the state finals in the 4-H Talk Meet competition. To reach state competition, a Washington County 4-Her must first win on the school level before advancing to the county-wide 4-H Talk Meet event. If t
Clusters of blister beetles are out and feeding on the flowers and foliage of a wide range of plants. They are most active in the morning and late afternoon, often moving to shelter during the hottest part of the day.
The saying "Practice makes perfect" has certainly been true for the Washington County 4-H Sharpshooters this summer. The club has been successfully competing in several district-sponsored competitions, gearing up for the State 4-H Shooting Sports Competition that will be held Sept. 18-19. Results from the District 4 competitions and the Bullitt County contests are listed below.
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I wonder if Kubo is not painting himself into a corner here:
He still has to draw Aizen, Ichigo, The Soul King, and while drawing them, he has to give them unique, but staggeringly huge powers. Then on top of that he has to do justice to Juha Bach who will have gainned the powers of all the dead Quincies.
He then has to link up with the going ons at Hueco Mundo (yep there's still Chado and Orihime), he has to say something about the Hollows, particularly Grimjow and Hallibel. He also has to conclude the fights with Urahara, Kurotsuchiin it, and the ones with Hitsugaya, Rukia, and Renji.
He has to go back to Uruuyu, Dog Captain guy, and perhaps revisit new Sou Taichou Kuroyaki Shunsui.
How can he portray so many unbelievably powerful people without diminishing any of them, while maintaining the excitement and interest?


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I'm really liking how the author goes through the twist so greatly.
He is really competent, he always keeps the story moving forward, even if some might think it is repetitive he always advances the plot... with plenty of action and humor.
So I don't need anything else. \o/
Yeah! Furuichi saved the World!
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New chapter out: http://www.mangafox.com/manga/beelzebub/v07/c083/
Yeah I really bet everybody from Oga's gang is going to have a contract with the demons.I really wanna see Furuichi fighting.
Lol, wasn't thinking of random demons contracting the crew at first, just figured new contractors would show up eventually. if anything furuichi would end up a contractor for Alaindelon haha so much chemistry between those two.
Hey baby, wanna take a gander at some Adam West penis?
Would it be funny? Yes. Will it happen? Very good Chance. Will it be good for the manga? No.
Still, I like this Direction with the contractors and everyone getting one. We've already got the main group of hero's(?) and they are not that strong to fight demons straight up, so having them make contracts would be awesome. Though I would rather Aoi make a contract with Hilda than the New Demon and I don't want Hilda and Aoi to make a Contract.
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He'd still be the same useless furuichi lol, Having him partner alain just means he probably won't fight/ or as much compared to others, which is what he does now.
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I think En will be Furuichi's demon partner. Why else give him 3 wet nurses if not to have future hilarious ecchi moments
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The Intercloud
By Gregp on Feb 20, 2009
There is a well-founded skeptical question as to whether "cloud computing" is just the 2008 re-labeling of "grid", "utility" and "network computing". Google's Urs Hoelzle pokes at that a bit with a search trends chart he shows during talks (copied here).
I have a whole string of answers as to what is different now, starting from the predictability and growth of broadband networks, to the arrival of usable and broadly available compute virtualization. But it seems to me that the most fundamental shift is that X-as-a-service is now approachable by most developers. This is especially true for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the ability to provision raw (virtual) machines. The credit here is squarely with Amazon Web Services; they more than anyone made getting a network service up and running (relatively) easy by going after the grokable abstraction of rentable VMs with BYOS (Bring Your Own Stack).
Certainly the lively debate over the most productive level of abstraction will continue. There are lots of compelling arm-chair reasons why BYOS/IaaS is too primitive an environment to expect most developers to write to. So there are a bunch of Platform-as-a-Service efforts (Azure, Joyent Accelerators, Google App Engine, Sun Project Caroline, to name but just a few!) that are all after that Nirvana of tools, scripting languages, core services, and composite service assembly that will win over the mass of developers. The expectation of all PaaS efforts is that new Software-as-a-Service applications will be written on top of them (and thus the abstraction layer cake of SaaS on PaaS on IaaS).
Not matter how the hearts and minds of developers are won over by various PaaS platform-layer efforts, there is little doubt in my mind that BYOS/IaaS will be a basic and enduring one. It's the "narrow waist" of agreement (the binary contract of stripped-down server, essentially) we see so successful in other domains (TCP/IP in networking, (i)SCSI in storage). Of course, higher level abstractions do get layered on top of these, but diversity blooms here, just like it does below the waist in physical implementations.
Productive and in-production are different concepts, however. And as much as AWS seems to have found the lowest common denominator on the former with IaaS, how at-scale production will actually unfold will be a watershed for the computing industry.
Getting deployed and in production raises an incredible array of concerns that the developer doesn't see. The best analogy here is to operating systems; basic sub-systems like scheduling, virtual memory and network and storage stacks are secondary concerns to most developers, but are primary to the operator/deployer who's job it is to keep the system running well at a predictable level of service.
Now layer on top of this information security, user/service identity, accounting and audit, and then do this for hundreds or thousands of applications simultaneously and you begin to see why it isn't so easy. You also begin to see why people get twitchy about the who, where, and how of their computing plant. You also see why we are so incredibly excited to have the Q-Layer team as part of the Sun family.
Make no mistake, I have no doubt that cloud (nee network, grid) computing will become the organizing principle for public and private infrastructure. The production question is what the balance will be. Which cloud approach will ultimately win? Will it be big public utility-like things, or more purpose-built private enterprise ones?
The answer: yes. There will be no more of a consolidation to a single cloud than there is to a single network.
think that is correct, but also as suggested by that post, it will look a lot like the energy business, with dozens, or hundreds, of national and regional companies.]
The Internet, after all, is a "network of networks": a commons of internetworking protocols that dominate precisely because they get the benefit of Metcalf-esque network-effects across a federation of both public and private (intranet) investments. The congruent concept is the "Intercloud", at term that Cisco has been popularizing recently (see this nice post by James Urquhart). The "Intercloud" is similarly a "cloud of clouds". Both public and private versions (intraclouds) not only co-exist, but interrelate. Intraclouds (private clouds) will exist for the same reasons that intranets do: for security and predictability (read: SLAs, QoS).
[Back to the energy industry analogy; there are regional and national oil & gas companies in addition to the majors for similar reasons].
How internet and intranet protocols relate is instructive. Foundationally, they are identical. But things like local namespaces and firewalls lets an owner make strong assertions (we hope!) about who traffic gets carried and how.
Of course, clouds will interelate through networking protocols themselves, and voila, you get the Intercloud (I think this is the Cisco sense of the term). But we have the collective opportunity to create something much more interesting and vital. We should tear out a page from the internet playbook and work towards and open set of interoperable standards and all contribute to a software commons of open implementations. Particularly important are standards for virtual machine representation (e.g. OVF), data in/exgest (e.g. WebDAV), code ingest and provisioning (e.g. Eucalyptus), distributed/parallel data access (pNFS, MogileFS, HDFS), orchestration and messaging (OpenESB, ActiveMQ) accounting, and identity/security ( SAML2, OpenID, OpenSSO).
The trick will be to get (collectively) to the right set that lets everyone go off and confidently employ or deploy cloud services without fear that they are ending up on some proprietary island. Really important is that we keep it simple; there will be all kinds of temptation to over-engineer and try to end up with the uber-platform. Back to the internet analogy. It's not just the narrow-waist agreement on TCP/IP, but that with a reasonably small collection of others along-side and layered, such DNS, BGP, and http that has lead to the layered richness, freedom of choice, and competition in implementation that we all enjoy today. Joyent CEO David Young makes an interesting start at this at the platform layer with his Nine Features of an Ideal PaaS.
We should expect and works towards nothing less in cloud computing. You certainly have our dedication to that.
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ARVADA - The Pomona wrestling team continued its domination over the weekend.
The Panthers won three individual titles and took first at the Arvada West Invitational on Saturday with 148.50 points.
"We are doing pretty good (this season)," said Austin Marvel, who won the title at 138 pounds. "We should have a pretty solid team this year."
Joining Marvel on top of the podium for Pomona was Raymond Robledo (132 pounds) and Archie Colgan (160).
Taking second at the tournament was Greeley West (144 points) and Ponderosa (142.50) finished third.
Ponderosa crowned two individual champs, Kelton Good at 152 pounds and Dylan Gabel at 170. Coronado also had two, Trent Watson (106) and Jess Hankins (113).
Beer Creek's Corky Phillips beat Ponderosa's York Douglass 12-2 to win the title match at 195 pounds. The Bears' P.T. Garcia finished second after losing 8-4 to Martinez in the 126-pound match. Francisco Sandoval (106) and Jason Yakobsen (120) each went 2-2.
Legacy's Skylar McWee took first at 225 pounds after pinning Fountain-Fort Carson's Jake Schoenberger. Conner Casady (160) finished third for the Lightning. Ryan Deakin (106) and Luke Robinson (182) both went 2-2 at the tournament, but didn't place. Legacy was 10th at the invite.
Arvada West finished seventh at the tournament and had four wrestlers place, including Tony Silva-Bussey - who finished second after losing to Gabel 5-3 in overtime.
Jerry Trujillo (120), Payton Tawater (126) and Taylor Bergquist (138) all took third.
Chaparal was eighth and also four wrestlers place, including Frank Martinez (106), JT Stancil (113) and Dane Drimmer (285) who all finished third. Kenton Reed (120) was fourth.
Robledo beat Thompson Valley's Tanner Williams 3-0 to take first, while Marvel won his title after an injury default and Colgan topped Thompson Valley's Francisco Marquez 6-4.
"This is a big accomplishment for me," Marvel said. "But I am aiming more towards state, getting the big win. This is just icing on the cake."
Also competing in the title match for Pomona was Josh Rosales (120) and Ethan Wright (152). Rosales finished second after losing to Delacruz 6-3, while Wright lost a tough one to Good 4-3 to take second. Also placing for the Panthers was Tomas Gutierrez (106), who finished fourth.
"We think we can challenge for a state title," Robledo said.
Ponderosa also had three wrestlers finish second; including Douglass (195), Torry Williams (145) and Corry Williams (182) who lost a 5-3 heartbreaker in overtime to Brighton's Joel Hernandez.


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"Utah is one of only five states in the nation that has a comprehensive statewide school counseling program that measures success through student outcomes," said Valerie Ross, USCA president. "Utah has been recognized for its outstanding program, and we hold our Utah school counselors to a higher standard. Our annual conference gives our colleagues the tools to make sure every student is recognized for his or her strengths and given proper guidance for college and career readiness."
At 8:20 a.m., nationally recognized speakers, Arond Schonberg and Keith Fulthorp, will co-present on how a positive outlook can help students succeed. Schonberg has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of social work and education, as well as working with homeless populations. He will share his insights on how counselors can use language and word choice to help students achieve. He is currently a high school counselor and adjunct professor at the University of Southern California and California State University, Long Beach.
Fulthorp is a 20-year veteran in the recreation and school counseling professions and is currently an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. His expertise spans municipal recreation and parks in urban areas, leadership, teambuilding and school counseling. He completed his doctorate at the University of Southern California in 2009.
Breakout sessions throughout the day will address topics including: how to recognize concussions, motivating and inspiring students, dropout prevention, the changing role of school counselors, how to reach and graduate more students, resources for elementary school counselors, working with diverse populations and their families, strategies for teaching social and emotional life skills to youth and more.
During the annual luncheon, the USCA will recognize six Utahns for their outstanding efforts in promoting human rights in Utah's schools. The award is open to professional school counselors, educators, community members or counselor educators.
"We look forward to networking with our friends in the school counseling profession, and we hope that those who attend the conference will leave with new skills, knowledge and ideas to help them in their schools," added Ross. "Our counselors face many challenges, demands on their time and the high expectations of our elected officials, parents, teachers and students. And, we are confident that our counselors will meet those challenges with optimism and grace."
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Boost Demand Generation Using Target Ready Buyer Models
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©All rights reserved by Kenny Madden. Recently, I published two articles related to 5 ways buyer behaviors are affecting B2B sales , and 5 ways they are affecting B2B marketing. Without question, changing buyer behaviors are also impacting how we think about Demand Generation or as it has been conventionally called – lead generation. How Can CSO's and CMO's Respond? Follow @tonyzambito.
Why are America's fastest-growing companies killing their blogs?
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Are America's fastest-growing companies shifting away from blogging as a primary social media platform? "Maybe" could be a conclusion based on new research examining the INC 500 from The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts. For the first time in the five years that this research has been conducted, the use of blogging declined. What do you think?
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I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I've given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. It's also interactive: you can change the weights assigned to different items and watch the vendors zoom around the quadrant as a result.
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Social media has become a bit of an obsession for me. Not so much as a participant, but as an observer. I'm the technology equivalent of a bird watcher. I've been observing B2B marketers in their natural habitat. Noting their behaviours. Sketching and documenting the different species I see. call them 'Twitologies' and I'd like to share an outline of them here. It all began with a study Circle Research conducted for B2B Marketing late in 2011 to establish the 'state of the nation' in B2B social media. And after more than 250 interviews with client-side readers we had a solid benchmark.
The Six Stages of Emotional Branding
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By Contributing {grow} Columnist "Social Steve" Goldner. Creating an emotional connection between customers and a brand is probably the Holy Grail of marketing. Most often, brands strive for this by being the pinnacle of something and then reinforcing that position at every touchpoint. Maybe the easiest brand to think of in this sense is Apple. Apple is cool, the hipster of technology.
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My son is a senior in high school and I am beginning to help him with his search for the right school. One of the aspects of college life that he is looking forward to is belonging to a university with strong school spirit. So to help with this, I suggested that we use football teams as a proxy to find the right environment. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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Social media can be a huge contributor to a company's lead generation efforts in both B2B and B2C. But how efficient are the various different social channels in directly driving leads? In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3 times higher (277%) than both Twitter (.69%)
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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room. Jeff Bezos, Founder/CEO Amazon. Guest post by {grow} community member Kathi Kruse. How important is it for your to look your best to a potential customer? Today many companies are still ignoring what's said about them online, both positive and negative. Folks, your customer is online most of their day and night. Signage.
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Unsubscribing should be easy! Let's face it, email is convenient, but sometimes email marketing sucks. Today's business buyers are flooded with email they do not want and it seems cannot get rid of. The problem is, publishers and marketers rely heavily on email. This is the message I get when I click unsubscribe. CAPTCHA Protected Unsubscribe This one from TMCnet floored me.
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Best Quora Guides and Insights of 2011
Is Quora still a significant social media destination? When the service was first launched, I was (like many others) flooded with notifications of new followers and invitations to follow back, to the point of annoyance. But that flood began to subside in about April of last year and had slowed to a trickle by late summer. Blogger interest in the site seemed to follow a similar pattern.
47 Essential Social Media Tools for Content Marketers
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5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence ("hand selected" Jeff as speaker for this event.). Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key. Some actual case studies.
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Businesses turn to marketing to drive revenue, but are you really ready? Before investing in marketing you must ensure other key areas of your business are ready first. Your Product or Service. If your offering isn't ready for the market, your marketing will not solve your problems. Your Sales Organization. As a buyer, I have experienced this multiple times. New Releases. Educated Buyers.
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The ability for all of us to publish on the social web — to have a voice — is among the most profound sociological, economic, and political developments of our lifetime. It gives us the power to elevate a little boy from Canada to an international singing superstar or to unite a group of people to tear down a dictatorship. This new power is breathtaking and beautiful. HAVE A VOICE!"
4 Steps for Making Demand Generation More Social
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by Rob Bois | Tweet this Pick up any sales or marketing trade pub, and you're likely to see that 2011 was the year of social. While B2B companies have jumped on the bandwagon, demand generation marketers often struggle to find its value. It's one thing to tweet about your company and build a Facebook page, but B2B firms are now looking to tie Social to measurable lead generation.
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It's somewhat sad, I suppose, that my only effective mode of self-improvement is to set arbitrary goals. But it works. Last November, I challenged myself to write a blog post a day. I am happy to say I met my goal. Although I subsequently fell off the wagon in December (8 posts) and January (5 posts), it still feels like a significant achievement. This month, I'm setting my sights on Twitter. I think of myself as an active and enthusiastic user of the platform, but when I actually calculate my daily tweets, the number is unimpressive. visit to How Often Do You Tweet? tweets a day. Perhaps not.
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Wilson County is one of only nine districts in the state to earn straight A's in both academic achievement and value added growth. Five schools in the district earned straight A's in both. They are Lakeview, Southside, Tuckers Crossroads, W.A. Wright and West Wilson Middle.
Wilson County earned straight A's in Grades 3-8 academic achievement second year in a row. Last year, the district had seven schools in the K-8 range that had received straight As. That rose to 12 schools this year. The twelve schools are Elzie Patton Elementary, Gladeville Elementary, Lakeview Elementary, Mt. Juliet Elementary, Mt. Juliet Middle, Rutland Elementary, Southside, Stoner Creek, Tuckers, WA Wright, West, and West Wilson Middle.
Wilson County Schools also earned straight A's in grades 4-8 value added growth with higher gains than last year in math, reading, and science. This is an improvement from two B's and two A's in 2012. Social studies saw a decline, but still maintained it's A status.
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Obama holds town hall meeting on campus
President Barack Obama came to Binghamton University on Aug. 23 to tout "A Better Bargain for the Middle Class: Making College More Affordable" – a three-part plan aimed at curbing college costs and improving the affordability of higher education. Read more.
Join us at Homecoming 2013
We are just weeks away from the biggest on-campus alumni event of the year. Don't miss the opportunity to reconnect with friends and favorite places. Make plans to join us at Homecoming, Oct. 11 -13. Read more.
University to host former White House and United Nations official
The University will host Eric Schwartz '79 - a public policy expert and former White House and UN advisor - for a special event at the Watters Theater on Sept. 30. Read more.
Binghamton University welcomes new and returning students
About 2,600 freshmen, 1,100 transfer students and 1,098 graduate students joined the University community. Classes for all Binghamton students began Aug. 26. Read more.
Volunteer spotlight: Helping new students feel at home at Binghamton
Alumni volunteers were present at Convocation to wish the new students well and introduce them to some of the newest traditions at Binghamton University. Read more.
Binghamton University establishes Varsity Club
All student-athlete alumni are welcome to join. The club welcomes any of the University's intercollegiate athletes from any era. The first event for the Varsity Club will take place at Homecoming. Read more.
The Buffalo Bills are pleased to present a special ticket offer for Binghamton University alumni! Use the promotional code: GPBNGU
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PPG Industries to Buy Paint Unit for $1.05 Billion
The specialty chemical company has agreed to buy part of the North American operations of a Dutch rival, AkzoNobel, for $1.05 billion.
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Platinum Equity said that it wanted to renegotiate its planned $500 million purchase of the automotive glass division of PPG Industries, alleging PPG had misrepresented the health of the business.
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A federal appeals court reduced by $30 million a judgment against PPG Industries in a lawsuit filed by a wood-products maker over deficient wood treatment. The Court of Appeals for the Eighth United States Circuit in St. Louis lowered the damages PPG...
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Emery Telcom and Carbon/Emery Telcom have selected Frankie Komar, of Orangeville, and Karissa Nelson from Price as the Grand Prize winners of the 4th Annual Directory Cover Art Contest. The contest allows local school children the opportunity to develop their art skills and to have their work published. The drawings, which were selected from more than 600 entrants, will be published on the covers of the 2002-03 telephone directories.
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History in the Paint Public Art Tour
In the summer of 2013, a collective of artists, called the Walldogs, came to Kewanee, IL to paint 15 historic murals depicting the long history and heritage of the city. These paintings can be found on many downtown facades, as well as at the Amtrak Station that brings new people to the area, every day. About this mural: Kewanee was founded in May of 1854, when the Military Tract Railroad was routed to the north of Wethersfield. The town founders were from Wethersfield Township to the south, Sylvester Blish, Ralph Tenney, Henry Little and Sullivan Howard, plus Nelson Lay from Wisconsin. Colonel Berrian, civil engineer who supervised the laying of the track through this area, was asked to choose a name and he decided on "Kewanee," a Winnebago Indian word for "prairie chicken." In 1921, Wethersfield's 2,000 people asked to be annexed to Kewanee with its 16,000. That 18,000 would turn out to be Kewanee's peak population.
Bishop Hill State Historic Site
Four historically significant buildings are owned by the State of Illinois and are maintained as part of the Bishop Hill State Historic Site. These architectural treasures are the two-story Colony Church (1850), the three-story Colony Hotel (1852-ca. 1860), the Boys Dormitory (ca. 1850), and the Colony Barn (mid-1850s) that has been relocated behind the Hotel. In addition, the central village park contains a reconstructed gazebo and war monuments. On the south edge of the village, stands a new brick Museum to house a comprehensive collection of paintings by colonist and self-taught artist, Olof Krans (1838-1916). Hours and days of operation change with the season. Please call to confirm your visit.
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Bishop Hill Prairie Arts Center
Enjoy watching the potter in an open air studio creating artwork on the potter's wheel. The center also features rug, broom, weaving and spinning artisans.
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Andover Historical Museum & Grounds
This former home of August Rehnstrom was a temporary haven for Swedish immigrants in the 1860s. The lawn features the bell from the area's first two-story school and millstones from the historic Edwards River Mill.
The Outsider Gallery is filled with whimsical, elegant, and functional items from regional artisans Steve and Marsha Carleson. Marsha makes handmade paper, 3-dimensional paper pieces, bowls, vases, bottle cap tables and other objects of whimsy. Steve makes glass ornaments, beads, and fused glass pieces with the occasional traditional Swedish tina boxes combined into the mixture.
CITY:Bishop Hill
The Feathered Nest at Windy Corner Farm
A delightful artist haven offering a mix of Victorian eggs, feathered masks and wreaths, floral arrangements and intimate miniature portrait silhouettes. Windy Corner Farms and The Feathered Nest gardens and studio are an experience soon to be a cherished memory.
CITY:Bishop Hill
Annie's Little Pots and Pottery Center
Annies Little Pots is a "must-see" shop in Princeton, Illinois. Discover many local artists along with Ann Dittmer's beautiful hand-made pottery, created in her on-site studio. Besides Princeton's own handmade pottery, you'll find Metal Sculpture, Home & Garden decor, soaps, candles, jewelry, and original paintings. Want to try your hand at the Pottery Wheel? Schedule a Pottery Class. The Pottery Cellar located in the basement of Annies Little Pots features a fun Paint Your Own Pottery Studio.
One of Illinois' finest examples of courthouse architecture, this stately structure was built in 1878. The main courtroom ceiling is decorated with murals depicting the principal communities of the county.
In 2009, Lara & Joachim (Jay) Schneider bought the Apollo. Since then there have been quite a few changes. Just recently new seats were installed and the concession area was given a make-over. We offer "Buy Nachos For One Buck Mondays" and BYOB (Bring Your Own Bucket and fill it up for only 75 cents) Tuesdays! If you never been to the Apollo or haven't been in awhile, please come and see this Princeton landmark!
Atkinson Historical Society Museum
This historical society museum has diplays and entertaining stories about the people and history of Atkinson, the Hennepin Canal, Rolle Bolle and Henry County.
Return to the serenity of an earlier time with a visit to this restored Swedish village. See traditional craftsmen at work, explore our museums, visit our numerous and unique shops and dine in one of our Swedish-American restaurants.
CITY:Bishop Hill
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The Geneseo Historical Museum features displays of local people and places in an Italianate-style home built in the mid-1800. Walk through the 27-rooms which tell the story of how people lived in the past and Geneseo's history. See the Underground Railroad space used to hide runaway slaves. A wide variety of President Abraham Lincoln artifacts are the centerpiece of the museum. Visit the newly built carriage house home to Geneseo's agricultural history. Explore and be delighted while learning about Geneseo's heritage
Festival 56 is now a year-round professional theater festival, with 10 productions each year. Each season, Festival 56 assembles from across the country a team of the most creative and talented artists living and working in professional theater today. The festival presents a wide spectrum of programming, from free productions of Shakespeare to classic and world premier musicals and the masterworks of playwrights such a Steinbeck, Ibsen and Tennessee Williams. Festival 56 is committed to championing the American theater as an art form by creating a home for the artists who are its heart and soul.
Henry County Historical Museum
This museum's detailed exhibits include a one-room schoolhouse, doctor's and dentist's offices, the war room, restored ag implements, machinery, an authentic windmill and a hog house.
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Bureau County Historical Museum
The Bureau County Historical Society Museum is located behind the Courthouse square at the intersection of beautiful Park Avenue West and Pleasant Street in Princeton, Illinois. The museum consists of two buildings that are next door to each other: the Clark-Norris Home, a handsome Prairie Square mansion built in 1900, and the Newell-Bryant House, a stately Greek Revival house dating back to 1853. The Museum is behind the Courthouse. There is free parking on Park Avenue in front of the Museum.
This monument features a statue of a Civil War soldier.
The Asa Crook Home is the first frame house built in 1839 by Whiteside County's first settler. The restored home is open for tours.
Ronald Reagan Birthplace & Museum
This quaint apartment, featuring the bedroom where the President was born, restored and decorated to its original 1900's style, sits on the second floor at the site of the First National Bank which has also been restored. Next door is a gift store and museum of Reagan memorabilia.
Tour this centennial barn, one of the largest in the country and one of forty-two left in the State of Illinois. It stands 80 feet high and 85 feet in diameter and features a 16-foot diameter floor to ceiling silo. A farm implement museum in on the main floor. Tours are provided by Friends of Johnson's Park Foundation and groups of ten or more asked to call ahead. Open the first, third, and fifth Saturday beginning May through October. Hours: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Stop in …enjoy whimsical paper mache sculptures and hand colored prints by David Smith; resident artist and art teacher. Explore our ever-growing selection of diverse artwork by innovative Midwest artists. We offer art classes for children, adults, and private groups. We are also available for social gatherings, meetings, and birthday parties. Our goal is to be a gathering place for the community and visitors, so that visual arts might enrich everyone's life.
View beautiful works of art from local and regional artists. Choose from watercolor and oil paintings, metal artwork and stained-glass.
Barn is located atop the bluff in Geneseo since 1968. The group's actors, directors, backstage personnel, support staff, and audience are drawn from 60 mile radius that includes cities in Illinois and Iowa.