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I will be starting to put in my 3/4" red oak flooring soon and have questions.
First one is which direction should I lay it? I have attached my floor plan and the whole area will be wood except for the bathroom.
I am thinking it would be best to have it running with the long wall in the hallway and going the same direction in the bedrooms. Then in the bedrooms it would be running with the shorter wall but I don't know if having the hall and bedrooms going different directions would look good.
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I am no expert but put mine in perpendicular to my floor joists. I have one short hallway where it goes across the hall and a hallway where it goes the length. I have attached photos of both. Hope it helps.
That is what I was planning if I put it perpendicular to the joists then it will be parallel to the long wall in the hallway but I am not sure if that is the best way to do it in the bedrooms. In the bedrooms I would need to start in the closet then and it will be parallel to the shorter walls.
It's your house and your floor, you can put it down anyway you want it as long as the wife likes the end result. Usually the flooring will go along the long walls less joints to contend with. Longer flooring strips are more appealing to the eye…
I would also go parallel to the hallway. I would lay it the same direction in all rooms rather than switching directions in the bedrooms.
Wood flooring should be layed perpendicular to floor joists. This will make for a more stable floor and less chance of wood loosening and start squeeking. You can lay it diaganolly with no problems.
The flooring should go parallel with the long wall of the hall. (<west - east>) By the looks of the floor plan I'm guessing the joists run north - south which would make it all work as designed.
I know you're having a problem figuring out how to make it work when you said the bedrooms should run the other way because of their size. You obviously don't know about "spline" and when to use it.
Start along the 'south' wall of the hall and go east-west. Then continue through the doorways into the bedrooms. From there continue north to the north walls. Then back the other way towards the south walls.
But, you ask; " the tongue and grove are going the wrong way". That's what the spline is for. Insert the spline in the groove and now you're going the right way again. Hardwood spline. http://www.brazilianhardwood.com/pro...es/splines.php The red item is the spline.
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I have read about using splines but was trying to avoid it because it seems like it would make the job more complicated.
I stuck a compass on there with how my house is actually sitting just so I can verify how you mean. By the compass I have on there my joists are running north to south so running the floor east to west would be perpendicular to the joists.
My thought has always been to do each room individually and putting a wider board under where the doors will be. I thought that would be easier than running it all together between the rooms. Would doing it that way look bad?
That would look pretty bad, plus it's wrong. I don't see why you'd wanna do that.
I am talking about a threshold between the rooms. It seems like it would be easier than doing it all in one piece.
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So true! It was I who had made matters worse by using a clockwise-tap instead of a counterclockwise bolt extractor to remove the broken piece. I'm lucky I didn't turn it a few threads further or the bolt plug would be in my drain pan by now.
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Legislative route (Minnesota)
In the U.S. state of Minnesota, a legislative route is a highway number defined by the Minnesota State Legislature. The routes from 1 to 70 are constitutional routes, defined as part of the Babcock Amendment to the Minnesota State Constitution, passed November 2, 1920. All of them were listed in the constitution until a 1974 rewrite. Though they are now listed separately in §161.114 of the Minnesota Statutes, the definitions are legally considered to be part of the constitution, and cannot be altered or removed without an amendment. Legislative routes with numbers greater than 70 can be added or deleted by the legislature.
Until 1933 Constitutional Routes corresponded exactly to the number marked on the highways, but this is no longer necessarily the case. In fact it's common for CR highways to be composed of several different trunk highways. When the U.S. Highway system was created in 1926, many of these roads were made up of one or more U.S. highways. Today, they now use a mix of Minnesota state highways, U.S. highways, and Interstate highways.
Constitutional Route 1 is currently one of the most complex routes, composed of:
- U.S. Highway 65 from the Iowa border to Albert Lea, Minnesota
- Interstate 35 to Faribault
- Minnesota State Highway 3 and MN-149 to Saint Paul
- U.S. Highway 61 to Wyoming
- Interstate 35 to Rush City
- Minnesota State Highway 361 to Rock Creek
- Minnesota State Highway 23 through Hinckley
- the MN-73/27 loop through Moose Lake
- Interstate 35 between Moose Lake and MN-210
- the MN-210/45 loop through Carlton
- Interstate 35 to Duluth
- Minnesota State Highway 61 to the Canadian border
However, the route can be considered to be superseded along almost its entire length by Interstate 35 (and I-35E) and Minnesota State Highway 61. By contrast, Constitutional Route 58 still has the same marked number and extent that it did in 1920.
There is some ambiguity in how literally the Minnesota Department of Transportation must interpret the constitutional routes. In some cases, the routes no longer directly serve communities they were once designated for, but are routed along nearby highways instead.
List of routes[edit]
Constitutional Routes 1–70[edit]
- Constitutional Route 1: Iowa to Ontario via Albert Lea, Owatonna, Faribault, Northfield, Farmington, St. Paul, White Bear, Forest Lake, Wyoming, Rush City, Pine City, Hinckley, Sandstone, Moose Lake, Carlton, Duluth, Two Harbors, and Grand Marais
- Constitutional Route 2: Duluth to North Dakota via Carlton, McGregor, Aitkin, Brainerd, Motley, Staples, Wadena, Detroit, and Moorhead
- Constitutional Route 3: Wisconsin to North Dakota via La Crescent, Winona, Kellogg, Wabasha, Lake City, Red Wing, Hastings, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Osseo, Champlin, Anoka, Elk River, Big Lake, St. Cloud, Albany, Sauk Centre, Alexandria, Elbow Lake, Fergus Falls, and Breckenridge
- Constitutional Route 4: Iowa to International Falls via Jackson, Windom, Sanborn, Redwood Falls, Morton, Olivia, Willmar, Paynesville, Sauk Centre, Long Prairie, Wadena, Park Rapids, Itasca State Park, and Bemidji
- Constitutional Route 5: Iowa to Swan River via Blue Earth, Winnebago, Mankato, St. Peter, Le Sueur, Jordan, Shakopee, Minneapolis, Cambridge, Mora, and McGregor
- Constitutional Route 6: Iowa to Manitoba via Luverne, Pipestone, Lake Benton, Ivanhoe, Canby, Madison, Bellingham, Odessa, Ortonville, Graceville, Dumont, Wheaton, Breckenridge, Moorhead, Kragnes, Georgetown, Perley, Hendrum, Ada, Crookston, Warren, Donaldson, and Hallock
- Constitutional Route 7: Winona to South Dakota via St. Charles, Rochester, Kasson, Dodge Center, Claremont, Owatonna, Waseca, Mankato, St. Peter, New Ulm, Springfield, Tracy, and Lake Benton
- Constitutional Route 8: Duluth to North Dakota via Floodwood, Swan River, Grand Rapids, Cass Lake, Bemidji, Bagley, Erskine, Crookston, and East Grand Forks
- Constitutional Route 9: La Crescent to South Dakota via Hokah, Houston, Rushford, Lanesboro, Preston, Fountain, Spring Valley, Austin, Albert Lea, Blue Earth, Fairmont, Jackson, Worthington, and Luverne
- Constitutional Route 10: Minneapolis to Wheaton via Montrose, Cokato, Litchfield, Willmar, Benson, Morris, and Herman
- Constitutional Route 11: Duluth to Donaldson via Eveleth, Virginia, Cook, Orr, Cusson, International Falls, Baudette, Warroad, Roseau, and Greenbush
- Constitutional Route 12: Wisconsin to Madison via St. Paul, Minneapolis, Hopkins, Norwood, Glencoe, Olivia, Granite Falls, Montevideo, and Dawson
- Constitutional Route 13: Albert Lea to Jordan via Waseca, Waterville, Montgomery, and New Prague
- Constitutional Route 14: Ivanhoe to Gaylord via Marshall, Redwood Falls, Morton, and Winthrop
- Constitutional Route 15: Iowa to Winthrop via Fairmont, Madelia, and New Ulm
- Constitutional Route 16: southwest of Mankato to Worthington via Madelia, St. James, Windom, and Fulda
- Constitutional Route 17: Fulda to Granite Falls to Slayton, Garvin, and Marshall
- Constitutional Route 18: Elk River to east of Brainerd via Princeton, Milaca, and Onamia
- Constitutional Route 19: Brainerd to Cass Lake via Pine River and Walker
- Constitutional Route 20: Iowa to Douglas via Canton, Harmony, Preston, Fountain, Chatfield, Oronoco, Pine Island, Zumbrota, and Cannon Falls
- Constitutional Route 21: Zumbrota to St. Peter via Kenyon, Faribault, Le Sueur Center, and Cleveland
- Constitutional Route 22: St. Peter to Paynesville via Gaylord, Glencoe, Hutchinson, and Litchfield
- Constitutional Route 23: Paynesville to south of Hinckley via St. Cloud, Foley, Milaca, Ogilvie, and Mora
- Constitutional Route 24: Litchfield to St. Cloud
- Constitutional Route 25: Belle Plaine to Big Lake via Norwood, Watertown, Montrose, Buffalo, and Monticello
- Constitutional Route 26: Benson to Ortonville
- Constitutional Route 27: St. Cloud to Brainerd via Sauk Rapids, Royalton, and Little Falls
- Constitutional Route 28: Little Falls to South Dakota via Sauk Centre, Glenwood, Starbuck, Morris, Graceville, and Browns Valley
- Constitutional Route 29: Glenwood to west of Wadena via Alexandria, Parkers Prairie, and Deer Creek
- Constitutional Route 30: Fergus Falls to Erskine via Pelican Rapids, Detroit Lakes, and Mahnomen
- Constitutional Route 31: Ada to Mahnomen
- Constitutional Route 32: east of Crookston to Greenbush via Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls, and Middle River
- Constitutional Route 33: Thief River Falls to Warren
- Constitutional Route 34: Detroit to west of Grand Rapids via Park Rapids, Walker, and Remer
- Constitutional Route 35: Mille Lacs Lake to Ely via Aitkin, Grand Rapids, Hibbing, Chisholm, Buhl, Mountain Iron, Virginia, Gilbert, McKinley, Biwabik, Aurora, and Tower
- Constitutional Route 36: Fergus Falls to east of Henning
- Constitutional Route 37: Little Falls to Motley
- Constitutional Route 38: Montevideo to Starbuck via Benson
- Constitutional Route 39: Mankato to west of Albert Lea via Mapleton, Minnesota Lake, and Wells
- Constitutional Route 40: Iowa to Owatonna via Lyle, Austin, and Blooming Prairie
- Constitutional Route 41: Blooming Prairie to Hayfield
- Constitutional Route 42: east of Rochester to Kellogg via Elgin and Plainview
- Constitutional Route 43: Rushford to Winona
- Constitutional Route 44: Hokah to Canton via Caledonia
- Constitutional Route 45: Wisconsin to St. Paul via Stillwater and Lake Elmo
- Constitutional Route 46: Wisconsin to Wyoming via Taylors Falls and Center City
- Constitutional Route 47: Slayton to Pipestone
- Constitutional Route 48: west of Granite Falls to Canby via Clarkfield
- Constitutional Route 49: east of Montevideo to south of Willmar via Clara City
- Constitutional Route 50: Cannon Falls to Minneapolis via Farmington
- Constitutional Route 51: Shakopee to north of Shakopee
- Constitutional Route 52: south of Minneapolis to Fort Snelling towards St. Paul
- Constitutional Route 53: Hastings to South St. Paul
- Constitutional Route 54: Elbow Lake to Herman
- Constitutional Route 55: northwest of Carlton to Cloquet
- Constitutional Route 56: east of Austin to Kenyon via Brownsdale, Hayfield, Dodge Center, and West Concord
- Constitutional Route 57: Mantorville to south of Mantorville
- Constitutional Route 58: Zumbrota to Red Wing
- Constitutional Route 59: Iowa to Lake City via Spring Valley, Stewartville, Rochester, Zumbro Falls
- Constitutional Route 60: Faribault to Madison Lake via Morristown and Waterville
- Constitutional Route 61: Deer River to Big Falls
- Constitutional Route 62: Anoka to St. Paul
- Constitutional Route 63: south of Forest Lake to Minneapolis
- Constitutional Route 64: north of Fergus Falls to south of Moorhead via Rothsay and Barnesville
- Constitutional Route 65: Bagley to south of Red Lake Falls via Clearbrook, Gonvick, Gully, Brooks, and Terrebonne
- Constitutional Route 66: Montevideo to north of Appleton
- Constitutional Route 67: Echo to Granite Falls
- Constitutional Route 68: Marshall to Canby via Minneota
- Constitutional Route 69: Buffalo to Paynesville via Maple Lake, Annandale, and Eden Valley
- Constitutional Route 70: west of New Ulm to Hector via Fort Ridgely and Fairfax
Legislative Routes 71–140[edit]
- Legislative Route 71: Little Falls, Onamia, Isle, McGrath, and Moose Lake
- Legislative Route 72: Bemidji, Waskish, Baudette
- Legislative Route 73: Zumbrota, Mazeppa, Zumbro Falls, and Wabasha
- Legislative Route 74: Weaver, St. Charles, and Chatfield
- Legislative Route 75: Winona to Wisconsin
- Legislative Route 76: Wilson, Houston, and Caledonia to Iowa
- Legislative Route 77: Rushford, Chatfield, Stewartville, and Hayfield
- Legislative Route 78: Rushford to Mabel
- Legislative Route 79: Harmony to Iowa
- Legislative Route 80: Wykoff to Preston
- Legislative Route 81: Austin to LeRoy
- Legislative Route 82: Blooming Prairie, Ellendale, Mapleton, and St. James
- Legislative Route 83: Mankato to New Ulm
- Legislative Route 84: Sleepy Eye, St. James, and Sherburn to Iowa
- Legislative Route 85: Windom, Worthington, and Bigelow to Iowa
- Legislative Route 86: Iowa to Lakefield, Windom
- Legislative Route 87: Wells, Kiester to Iowa
- Legislative Route 88: South Dakota to Jasper, Pipestone, Marshall, and Montevideo
- Legislative Route 89: Pipestone to South Dakota
- Legislative Route 90: Ivanhoe to South Dakota
- Legislative Route 91: Iowa to Adrian, Lake Wilson, and Russell
- Legislative Route 92: Currie, Jeffers
- Legislative Route 93: Redwood Falls, Sleepy Eye
- Legislative Route 94: Hastings to Wisconsin
- Legislative Route 95: Point Douglas, Bayport, Stillwater, Taylors Falls
- Legislative Route 96: Stillwater, New Brighton
- Legislative Route 97: Forest Lake, Taylors Falls
- Legislative Route 98: Forest Lake, Center City
- Legislative Route 99: Le Center, Shields Lake
- Legislative Route 100: Gaylord, Henderson, New Prague, Northfield, Cannon Falls and Red Wing
- Legislative Route 101: Faribault, Lakeville
- Legislative Route 102: Connects Constitutional Route 1 through St. Paul
- Legislative Route 103: Connects Constitutional Route 1 through Duluth
- Legislative Route 104: Connects Constitutional Route 3 through St. Paul
- Legislative Route 105: Connects Washington Avenue with Constitutional Route 5 through Minneapolis
- Legislative Route 106: Connects Constitutional Route 8 through Duluth, via the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge.
- Legislative Route 114: Discontinued and removed
- Legislative Route 126: Repealed
- Legislative Route 127: Discontinued and removed
- Legislative Route 128: Mantorville, Wanamingo, and Hader
- Legislative Route 129: Discontinued and removed
- Legislative Route 130: Minneapolis, and Fort Snelling via Broadway Ave and Hiawatha Ave
- Legislative Route 131: Randall, and Camp Ripley Junction
- Legislative Route 132: St. Cloud, Princeton, Cambridge, and Taylors Falls
- Legislative Route 133: Braham, West Rock, and Rock Creek, to Wisconsin.
- Legislative Route 134: Grasston, and Brook Park
- Legislative Route 135: Little Falls, Long Prairie, and Osakis
- Legislative Route 136: Bemidji, and Roseau
- Legislative Route 137: Garrison, Deerwood, Crosby, and Remer
- Legislative Route 138: Walker, and Kabekona
- Legislative Route 139: Pine River, and Walker
- Legislative Route 140: Baudette, and Wheelers Point
Legislative Routes 141–210[edit]
- Legislative Route 141: Connects Constitutional Route 4 and Constitutional Route 28 through Sauk Centre
- Legislative Route 142: Paynesville, Glenwood, and Elbow Lake to South Dakota
- Legislative Route 143: Sunburg, and Glenwood
- Legislative Route 144: Madison, Appleton, Morris, and Barrett
Legislative Routes 351–396[edit]
Routes 380 to 385 were defined in and after 1975, and "may be added by order of the commissioner of transportation to the trunk highway system"; only 383, 384, and 385 have been added, and 385 no longer exists.
- Legislative Route 380: Shepard Road in St. Paul
- Legislative Route 381: deleted from the statutes (was a planned extension of the Lafayette Freeway northwest to I-35E)
- Legislative Route 382: part of I-35E in St. Paul (actually covered by Route 390)
- Legislative Route 383: Bloomington to Brooklyn Park
- Legislative Route 384: Eden Prairie to southeast of Minneapolis
- Legislative Route 385: deleted from the statutes (was Washington Avenue in Minneapolis)
Routes 390 to 396 were defined in and after the 1950s as portions of the Interstate Highway System "to take advantage of federal aid made available by the United States to the state of Minnesota for highway purposes".
- Legislative Route 390: Iowa to Wisconsin (I-35, I-35E, and I-535)
- Legislative Route 391: South Dakota to Wisconsin (I-90)
- Legislative Route 392: North Dakota to Wisconsin (I-94)
- Legislative Route 393: loop around the Twin Cities (I-494 and I-694)
- Legislative Route 394: alternate to Route 390 through Minneapolis (I-35W)
- Legislative Route 395: Duluth (part of I-35)
- Legislative Route 396: Duluth (extension of I-35)
Interstate 394 is not a separate legislative route, instead being parts of Route 10 and Route 107, which carried U.S. Highway 12 along the same alignment before I-394 was built.
See also[edit]
- County state aid highway (CSAH)
- Mn/DOT Roadway Data, accessed August 2007; the Control Section Report includes a full cross-reference of current trunk highways and legislative route numbers.
External links[edit]
- Minnesota Statutes §161.114: Constitutional trunk highways
- Minnesota Statutes §161.115: Additional trunk highways (legislative routes)
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Posted by Stefan Ried on September 22, 2010
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Oracle's keynotes and salesforce.com's presentation next door have never been more confusing and contradictory for large users than they were today. Larry Ellison gave the 41,000 attendants of this year's OpenWorld a cloud computing 101 session prior to the launch of the new EXALOGIC appliance, a machine engineered to run the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack very efficiently. After he rejected talking about the cloud for years, he swung over to the opposite end of the spectrum. Even though EXALOGIC is mainly aimed, in its first version, at private data centers, Larry simply renamed the virtualized data centers as private clouds and promised customers that they will get an elastic cloud with the help of the EXALOGIC box.
On the other side, salesforce.com's Marc Benioff called every server on premise the "false cloud," basically implying that something like a private cloud is simply a stupidity in itself.
Who is right or wrong in this debate? Is Larry simply doing cloud-washing at its best, or is Marc running a "false marketing" campaign, calling everything except his own cloud the "false cloud"?
Let's understand how Forrester believes a private cloud differentiates itself from a traditional but modern and virtualized data center:
You see that the virtualization technology is a continuous evolution, but the big disruption from the virtualized data center into a private cloud is the business model. If the CIO fundamentally changes the way he or she runs IT and starts offering a pure OPEX model to the business units, we should talk about a cloud. In most cases, this is provided out of private cloud resources combined with public cloud resources in a hybrid approach. Obviously, the CIO needs to run a profit center to be able to take the risk of fluctuating utilization, potentially reselling public resources instead of the company's own resources dynamically. By far, most CIOs are not ready for a private cloud – although some are!
Coming back to Larry and Marc: I believe Oracle's new EXALOGIC is an excellent machine to consolidate workloads and offer the scalability required for a private cloud. The Enterprise Manager and Oracle's new Assembly Builder definitely help to achieve the level of industrialization CIOs need to compete with public provider offerings. But, at the end of the day, EXALOGIC is simply a machine with well-tailored software on it. It's up to the CIO to engage in a cloud business model or to simply run a high-performance data center. In this respect, Oracle and its partners need to carefully explain usage scenarios instead of rolling out a cloud-washing campaign.
Finally, Marc should appreciate that there are other large-scale data centers on this planet – some are operated by hosting providers and outsourcing firms – some are very successfully run by very large global corporations – some are of the size of your data centers. Marc, with all respect, the more you talk about the "false cloud," the less these very large firms will continue to appreciate your strategy.
Please leave a comment to let us know if you believe in a private cloud and how you are building it.
Sour grape Larry
Comment from Suresh Sambandam on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 12:17
You are spot on. Larry is quite upset, despite acquiring large on-premise software companies, that his dream of becoming a largest software vendor is not coming sooner with all the disruption cloud / SaaS is bringing to the table. While Oracle was busy integrating all the stuff they bought - the market has moved on. Larry is feeling unfair - like a blanket pulled off his feet.
I was arguing with a colleague that Larry is buying more time by spreading negative message on cloud - so that Oracle can come to a level playing field to compete in the cloud market. The moment they see that they are getting (even with something as remote as EXALOGIC) their pitch seems to swing to the other end! NO surprise!
Glad to at least see Larry publicly recognize cloud - in some sense!
Suresh - CEO,
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I'd like to understand how
Comment from Ali Sadat (not verified) on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 17:23
I'd like to understand how Forrester believes IT turns into a Profit Center? Who are they selling services to? External or Internal customers? Also, How will an IT org be able to get enough CAPEX funding to provision enough private cloud infrastructure to handle peak usage? Only a very few large enterprises can create the private cloud model explained here and even they are looking to "real" Cloud solutions to simplify their life.
Private clouds need large scale.
Comment from Stefan Ried on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 17:34
Hi Ali,
thanks for leaving a comment. Yes, you are right, private cloud business models are simply not working if you have not a big economy of scale. Imagine you have a virtualized data center with some capacity. If load increases you might swap some VMs out to an public provider like Amazon. So the CIO is suddenly reselling public resources into the business unit. On the other hand, if you have situations where you have a lot over capacity, you might start selling this to others. Frankly this is still a huge challenge in terms of privacy and security, but EXALOGIC 1.1 is coming close to this.
You see that the CIO has multiple spending and income option along the elasticity of the load. Does this make sense?
Selling spare capacity of private clouds to others
Comment from Manoj Ranaweera (not verified) on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 18:07
An interesting discussion point I have not read elsewhere, selling spare capacity outside the corporation, as well as buying capacity from others during peaks.
Could this lead to arbitrage situation, not to mention, would CIOs end up hiring a bunch of clever kids to open their own trading floors, could lead to a complete nightmare for the CFO. And of course, the economies of scale got to be the winner.
What if unit cost of private cloud still higher than the unit cost of the real cloud? Maths might not worked out!
Interesting dilemma!
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Comment from Stefan Ried on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 18:53
Hi Manoj,
this is a CFO nightmare, sure. But, look how amazon originally started. Now the retail store's IT load is much smaller that their AWS business.
There are some countries like Germany with a millions of solar panels on private homes, all providing electricity back into the grid, if not needed in the own house. Cloud is real if it moves in the direction of these utility models.
No question security, privacy, data movement need to be fixed, but it took sub-continents also some decades to agree on one voltage and frequency for the power grid. Let's give the private cloud 5 years to mature...
Stefan, Not every company
Comment from Ali Sadat (not verified) on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 19:18
Not every company would want to be Amazon, offering up their compute infrastructure to the world for a price.
Are Private Clouds running inside the enterprise? or Do you consider vServers provisioned through a service like Amazon for a single org use as Private Cloud too?
Private cloud has three maturity levels
Comment from Stefan Ried on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 21:35
agree. Reasonable private cloud levels are
I. Providing only own resources in an opex model to the business units.
II. Extending own resources with (virtual) public resources.
III. Selling over capacity into a cloud broker or to other companies directly.
Cheers Stefan
Comment from Zoli Erdos (not verified) on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 07:58
There is a Mark, too. The Zuckerberg. But this one is Marc.:-)
sure, sorry about the
Comment from Stefan Ried on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 15:27
Sure, sorry about the misspelling. I mean Marc Benioff and corrected it above.
Interesting post. I would
Comment from Gary Calcott (not verified) on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 05:44
Interesting post. I would tend to agree with your characterization of the private cloud. One thing that I've seen during my travels is the "hotch-potch" nature of the components "under the hood" of emerging cloud infrastructure solutions. As an example, their seems to be a bias towards using REST as a protocol for the self-service portal aspect which in turn faces an impedence mismatch when requests are passed through to provisioning engines such as BMC AO.
Guess it's all still maturing ;-)
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Just Call it 'Eau de Lang Lang'
It has worked for Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Taylor and even Derek Jeter. Now the pianist Lang Lang is entering the celebrity fragrance market, announcing on Twitter over the weekend that his signature scent, "Amazing," will debut in Europe in November and China next year.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in December, Lang said that Swiss perfume company Firmenich approached him as they were "looking for an Asian for a line of perfumes."
"I love perfumes," Lang added, going into a surprising level of detail. "I never have time to wash my suit. When I'm travelling, sometimes the smell isn't very pleasant. And when I'm on stage, I don't only want to smell the piano. Sometimes, when they tune a piano, you smell this oil, or a glue kind of smell. It's weird."
As one of the world's most famous classical musicians, Lang maintains an extensive array of endorsements including Allianz, Bombardier, Giorgio Armani, Montblanc, Telefonica and Volkswagen. He previously had his own line of Adidas shoes.
The main ingredients of the fragrance, which will be sold in lines for men and women, are jasmine, kyara wood, pink and black pepper, kumquat, bergamotte, gardenia, lavender, cedar wood, vetiver, patchouli and musk. There is no word on a U.S. launch.
In 2008, Fleming launched "La Voce," a limited-edition perfume line that was sold at the Metropolitan Opera Shop.


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Cheeky Irina Shayk's Yacht Adventure with Cristiano Ronaldo
Known for their incredibly sculpted bodies, Irina Shayk and her boyfriend Cristiano Ronaldo were spotted soaking up the sun on a yacht in Saint-Tropez, France on Tuesday (July 3).
Rocking a cheeky, bright orange bikini, the Russian supermodel lovingly cuddled with her footballer beau before cooling down by hopping off the back of the boat - after which Cristiano grabbed a hose and playfully squirted her as their boating companions watched on.
During their vacation, Shayk and Ronaldo have also been spending time frolicking along the beaches and getting some much-deserved relaxation on lounge chairs perched along the scenic French Riviera coast.
The trip comes just a week after Ronaldo and his Portugal teammates suffered a heartbreaking loss in the Euro 2012 tournament - as they bowed out on penalty kicks to eventual champion, Spain.
Enjoy the pictures of Cristiano Ronaldo and Irina Shayk relaxing on a yacht in St Tropez (July 3).
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Ask any hopeful about the Western Hockey League bantam draft and you're likely to hear a familiar refrain: They don't care when they get chosen and they don't care who picks them.
While it's true that most young hockey players are thrilled to be drafted at all, for many of the prospects in this part of the province an easy-going exterior often hides a heart that beats just a little bit faster every time the Brandon Wheat Kings' turn to pick comes around. That wish came true for Brandonite Connor Gutenberg, who was chosen by his hometown Wheat Kings in the fifth round of Thursday's draft.
"I grew up watching the Wheat Kings, so it's a dream come true," said Gutenberg, who led the Brandon Bantam AAA Wheat Kings with 20 goals and 40 points in 32 games this season.
Gutenberg saw his name pop up in the draft results when he glanced at a computer screen while taking a test at school. He admits he had a bit of trouble concentrating on his test after that, but Wheat Kings head coach/general manager Kelly McCrimmon said the 5-foot-9, 130-pound centre got high grades in his draft report.
"Connor's a talented, intelligent player," McCrimmon said. "… I liked him a lot last year (when Gutenberg played for the AAA team as a first-year bantam). Our staff watched him lots this year and he was a player that we went into the day hoping at some point we came out of the draft with him as one of our selections, and it worked out that we were able to select him in the fifth round."
Gutenberg was one of two Brandon bantams chosen in the draft, joined in the ninth round by 6-foot-3, 160-pound defenceman Sam Huston, who went to the Kootenay Ice.
It didn't take long for the first western Manitoban to be selected as defenceman Josh Brook of Roblin was picked fourth overall by the Moose Jaw Warriors.
A big day for the Southwest Bantam AAA Cougars began in the second round as goaltender Rylan Rommelaere of Boissevain was chosen with the 38th pick by the Medicine Hat Tigers.
"It was a pretty special feeling," said Rommelaere, who had a 3.40 goals-against average and an .883 save percentage for the Cougars this season. "I didn't expect to go that early, but it was a nice surprise."
Rommelaere was pleased to be followed by three of his teammates — defenceman Cody Thompson of Killarney was picked in the third round by the Prince Albert Raiders, while right-winger Reg Pohl of Douglas went to the Seattle Thunderbirds in the ninth round, and centre Brian Harris of Wawanesa was an 11th-round selection of the Edmonton Oil Kings.
Two members of the Parkland Bantam AAA Rangers were picked, with Connor Dewar of Gilbert Plains going in the fifth round to the Everett Silvertips. Defenceman Tyler Jubenvill, who is also from Gilbert Plains, was picked in the ninth round by the Spokane Chiefs.
ONE-TIMERS: The conclusion of the bantam draft was followed by a major coaching shuffle as the Vancouver Giants confirmed that head coach Don Hay will leave the team to return to his hometown and coach the Kamloops Blazers. Dave Hunchak took a leave of absence from the Blazers in January and was replaced on an interim basis by Guy Charron, and the team had been looking for a longer term replacement … Among the trades pulled off on draft day was a deal that sent C Alex Forsberg, a former first overall pick, from the Prince George Cougars to the Saskatoon Blades. In exchange for Forsberg, who had 28 points in 44 games as an 18-year-old this season, the Cougars got a conditional third-round pick and prospect Haydn Hopkins.
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Sonos may have taken its time to launch a touch-screen controller, but it was worth the wait. The CR200 looks superb, in a minimalist kind of way. The handset is dominated by the 3.5in capacitive touch-screen, but below the screen are some hardware buttons. The buttons in question are up/down volume, mute and a shortcut to the Zone menu. It's a smart move putting these key controls onto hardware buttons, allowing you to, for example, mute the music without the need to navigate any menus - ideal if the phone rings.
The CR200 is around half the size of the outgoing CR100, while the screen is in a completely different league. Putting the touch functionality to one side for a moment, the screen on the CR200 is not only far larger than on the CR100, but is also of a far, far higher quality. You're getting a full VGA 640 x 480 resolution for a start, so everything looks pin sharp. Add to that the fact that Sonos has implemented an LED backlight system for the CR200, so colours are rich and vibrant, making images on the CR100 look pale and washed out by comparison. The screen is also transflective, so if you're using it out in the garden in bright sunlight, you'll still be able to see it clearly. Oh, and there's also an ambient light sensor, so the level of backlighting can be adjusted accordingly.
Using the CR200 is an absolute joy. The capacitive nature of the screen makes finger operation a breeze. Scrolling through lists has that lovely inertia effect that was pioneered on the iPhone and copied badly by so many other devices, CR200 excepted. And if you have a particularly long list of artists, songs or albums, you can scroll through the alphabet located on the right hand edge of the screen and just jump straight to the required letter. Again this is something first seen on the iPhone, but it works just as beautifully on the CR200.
Searching for artists or tracks is infinitely easier than it was on the CR100, since now you can simply type in what you're looking for using the virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard is a good one too, with keys large enough to facilitate accurate inputs even when typing quickly. You also get a very swift auto-complete feature, so if I search my music library for Pearl Jam, I only need to type "Pe" before the CR200 returns the result I'm looking for.
Since the CR200 is so much smaller than its predecessor, it's easy to hold and use the device with one hand - something that simply wasn't possible with the CR100. The rubberised back means that you've always got a good grip on the device, and also makes it quite secure when it's placed on a table or worktop - if you have cats as naughty as mine, you'll know how important it is for expensive gadgets to not slide off tables too easily.
As with the CR100, the CR200 has a motion sensor, so as soon as you pick it up, it will spring to life. However, unlike the CR100, you can also wake up the CR200 by tapping the screen, effectively allowing you to control the device while it's sitting in its cradle. And since the cradle is quite solid, with a rubber base, it won't slide across the table if you do choose to use the controller while it's docked. It's also worth noting that the CR200 has a user-replaceable battery pack, unlike the old controller, with new batteries costing around £30.
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St. Mark's Bookshop to Move! Cash Mob on Saturday!
St. Mark's Bookshop was in the clear last we checked, but turns out they have to move, reports Jeremiah's Vanishing New York (perhaps you've heard). So they're having the biggest "cash mob" yet, this Saturday at 3:00. From the blog:
Co-owner Terry McCoy reached out for our help. He says, "We're in the midst of some serious summer doldrums and could use a little lift….a shot in the arm." Let's give them that lift as they work hard to find a new place and stay in the neighborhood. Says Terry, "A smaller space in the East Village with a much reduced rent would allow us to continue to be basically the kind of store we are and still survive."
To help get your asses in the shop, we've devised a little Cash Mob incentive. The first 20 people to spend $10 and say "Jeremiah sent me" will receive a $5 gift certificate toward their next visit to St. Mark's Bookshop.
The Details:
Date: Saturday, July 21
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: St. Mark's Bookshop, 31 3rd Avenue between 8th and 9th
Goal: Spend money on books!
Tell them "Jeremiah sent me" and if you're one of the first 20 people to spend $10, you get a $5 gift certificate for your next visit.
After the Mob: Head over to Bar 82 at 136 2nd Ave., between 8th and 9th, to drink and celebrate with your fellow cash-mobbers.
Remember: In a time of soul-sucking stupidity, when the city has become overrun with zombies and chainstore-loving suburbanites, this bookstore is one of the (last?) reasons we have to love the East Village and New York City. Let's help them move and keep them nearby. Show up, spend money, and spread the word!
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Well, there is alot of grumbling coming from the other room as I have informed my husband (for the 5th time), that we are know becoming a frugal household. I have been reading and absorbing as much info as I possible can. Today is the first day of our C.O.P. (Cash Only Plan). I have informed him that the CC need to be put away or I will cut them up, we will sit down and alot an allowance either per week or biweekly. This will be a personal allowance. Then we will also discuss the food budget, household item budget, bills, and last hobby budget. (my husband is a HUGE star wars fan). Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me. I know we can do this.


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Can Kohler Keep It All In The Family?
The village of Kohler, Wis. (pop. 1,900), seems like a community frozen in a peaceful past. You see it in the immaculate, tree-lined streets and the aging foundry and pottery, where Kohler Co.'s workers have turned out toilets and bathtubs since the turn of the century. Aside from the introduction of robots into the factory in the 1970s and the transformation of a former workers' dormitory into a hotel, little appears to have changed since 1916, when John Michael Kohler moved his operations up the road from Sheboygan to create a company town amid rolling farmland about an hour northwest of Milwaukee.
Yet some thorny modern problems are intruding on this placid landscape. Closely held Kohler, with record 1997 sales of $2.2 billion and earnings of $88 million, is mired in a messy ownership squabble. On one side is Herbert V. Kohler Jr., 59, the visionary company chairman and grandson of the founder, and his immediate family, who control an overwhelming majority of Kohler's shares. Opposing them are some dissident family members and an angry group of outside investors, including one big fund manager who holds a few of the thinly traded and richly priced shares.
Herbert's success in buying out those other shareholders--at an offering price they consider absurdly low--will determine how one of the largest and most innovative family-run companies enters the 21st century. The buyback plan calls for cashing out the 170 or so nonfamily shareholders, who control 4% of the stock, for $52,700 a share--nearly a 50% discount to the $100,000 apiece that was fetched on a sale of 30 shares by two of Herbert's cousins to outsiders just days before he set the buyback terms.
About 20 other family members will be offered the option of taking cash or a mix of voting and nonvoting shares; if they hold on and later want to sell shares, they would have to sell them back to the company. The end result would be to keep the company firmly in the hands of Herbert, his sister, Ruth De-Young Kohler, and a cousin, John Michael Kohler Jr. Herbert and Ruth control about 75% of the shares directly and through estate trusts, including that of their recently deceased brother, and through a charitable foundation.
With such control, what triggered the buyback proposal? Herbert says the plan has been in the works for several years. In part, the lower stock price helps hold down estate taxes. But his primary concern was a loss of privacy. He feared that the sale in the last year of several blocks of shares at eye-popping prices would induce more relatives to sell to outsiders. By limiting the number of shareholders, Kohler can continue to avoid federal reporting requirements. And remaining private, Herbert argues, allows Kohler to take long-term investment positions; otherwise, "we would be focused on whatever was needed to keep quarterly earnings moving."
SOGEN SUIT. The plan is so controversial that Herbert anticipated that virtually all holders might have voted against it at a shareholders meeting originally scheduled for Apr. 14. A federal court judge in Milwaukee, hearing a suit by one holder to block the plan, postponed the meeting until May 8 and agreed to hear arguments on May 1 as to whether it should go forward even then. Under Wisconsin law, they are allowed to seek a second appraisal of the shares' value and to ask for a court-appointed arbitration if there's a big discrepancy between that value and the company's figures.
One holder, SoGen International Fund Inc., a longtime investor in closely held companies, has filed suit in federal court in Milwaukee to block the plan. "This is outrageous," snaps Elizabeth Tobin, associate portfolio manager of New York-based SoGen, which bought 63 of its 80 shares in early March from a Kohler family member at $103,600 apiece. SoGen complains that it is being disenfranchised by the cash-out requirement.
Julilly Kohler, one of Herbert's cousins, who controls 330 shares with her sister, says she'll fight the buyback--and insists it needn't have come to this. "If they had paid decent dividends"--the shares typically yield less than 1% of market price--"or made reasonable buyback offers, it would have gone a long way to keep people on board."
The plan could prove costly for Kohler. If, say, 900 shares are bought back at the offer price, it would cost $47 million, which Kohler can easily afford. If the value on the shares is deemed too low, however, Kohler will have to ante up much more, take on more debt, and, perhaps, defer capital spending on some projects. It might also, outside lawyers say, increase the valuation of stock held in the charitable foundation, which would force it to increase donation levels. Could that lead to a public offering? "It ain't going to happen," insists Herbert.
"GREAT MARKETER." To understand the Kohler squabble, one must first understand how the company got where it is. Kohler owes much to its hard-driven chairman. A stout and cheerful man, Herbert became chairman and CEO in 1972, four years after his father, the former chairman died. He soon faced a key decision. With annual sales of around $300 million, Herbert gambled on a $10 million investment in an all-cast-iron-molding line. The resulting leap in quality vaulted Kohler into the No.1 position in U.S. kitchen and bathroom plumbing fixtures, with a 25% market share in North America.
Kohler's products include the $4,100 Body Spa--a combination shower/waterfall/foot bath--and an Artists Editions line of high-style bathroom products. Herbert's bold use of colors and innovations in toilets and showers have brought cachet to the entire industry. "He's a great marketer who has created a very strong image at the top end," says Emmanuel A. Kampouris, chairman of American Standard, Kohler's chief rival.
But Herbert has taken Kohler way beyond plumbing. The company is a leading supplier of high-end furniture, through its Baker line. An avid outdoorsman and golfer, Herbert is eagerly awaiting the July opening of his latest big project: a Pete Dye-designed golf course stretching along two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, near his American Club luxury hotel. Herbert says all Kohler's products are designed with a certain aesthetic in mind--to "improve your sense of gracious living."
There seems little doubt that Kohler's strategy has not been to maximize short-term earnings. Heavy investments in products and locations--it has spent $70 million over the past three years on factories and joint ventures in China--and conservative accounting have kept operating margins in single digits. That's below those of competitors American Standard and Masco.
This isn't the first time Herbert has moved to stem the dilution of family ownership. Twenty years ago, he initiated a 1-for-20 share split and offered a $8,200-per-share cashout. Those who stayed in, Herbert notes, have enjoyed a 10.1% compounded annual return since then--slightly below the overall market--at the new offer of nearly $53,000. But, of course, they'd be doing much better at $100,000 a share.


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The continuing political unrest in Egypt created a brief investment opportunity in neighboring Israel, where the stock market Sunday experienced its biggest drop in nearly two years.
"Investors are concerned that the Egyptian [natural] gas contracts may be curtailed in the event that the country descends into chaos," said Jamia Jasper, founder and president of AmerIsrael Capital Management LLC.
Ms. Jasper, who manages the America Israeli Shared Values Fund Ticker:(AISHX) from New York, sought to take advantage of Sunday's 3.9% drop by the Tel Aviv 100 Index.
The Israeli stock market, which trades Sunday through Thursday, bounced back 1% on Monday.
"There is not that panic in Israel that there was yesterday," said Ms. Jasper, who works with an Israel-based analyst.
One major market concern, she explained, is that the supply of natural gas from Egypt could be interrupted.
However, Ms. Jasper pointed out that Israel is virtually energy-independent with regard to natural gas production. Thus, when the market drop Sunday pushed down shares of local energy companies such as Ampal American Israel Corp. Ticker:(AMPL) by more than 20%, Ms. Jasper saw a buying opportunity.
Like a lot of money managers and market analysts who are trying get a sense of the fallout from the turmoil in Egypt, Ms. Jasper has concluded that the market in this instance can move independently from the political unrest.
"Right now, it basically seems like another geopolitical event or another bump in the road," she said. "And Israel has a long history of rallying after these kinds of geopolitical events."