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|By Dana Gardner
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|February 20, 2018 06:30 PM EST
The use of containers by developers -- and now increasingly IT operators -- has grown from infatuation to deep and abiding love. But as with any long-term affair, the honeymoon soon leads to needing to live well together ... and maybe even getting some relationship help along the way.
And so it goes with container orchestration and automation solutions, which are rapidly emerging as the means to maintain the bliss between rapid container adoption and broad container use among multiple cloud hosts.
This BriefingsDirect cloud services maturity discussion focuses on new ways to gain container orchestration, to better use serverless computing models, and employ inclusive management to keep the container love alive.
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Here to help unpack insights into the new era of using containers to gain ease with multi-cloud deployments are our panelists: Matt Baldwin, Founder and CEO at StackPointCloud, based in Seattle; Nic Jackson, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp, based in San Francisco, and Reynold Harbin, Director of Product Marketing at DigitalOcean, based in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Nic, HashiCorp has gone a long way to enable multi-cloud provisioning. What are some of the trends now driving the need for multi-cloud? And how does container management and orchestration fit into the goal of obtaining functional multi-cloud use, or even interoperability?
Jackson: What we see mainly from our enterprise customers is that people are looking for a number of different ways so that they don't get locked into one particular cloud provider. They are looking for high-availability and redundancy across cloud providers. They are looking for a migration path from private cloud to a public cloud. Or they want a burstable capacity, which means that they can take that private cloud and burst it out into public cloud, if need be.
Containers -- and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, Nomad and Swarm -- are providing standard interfaces to developers. So once you have the platform set up, the running of an application can be mostly cloud-agnostic.
Gardner: There's a growing need for container management and orchestration for not only cloud-agnostic development, but potentially as a greasing of the skids, if you will, to a multi-cloud world.
Harbin: Yes. If you make the investment now to architect and package your applications with containers and intelligent orchestration, you will have much better agility to move your application across cloud providers.
This will also enable you to quickly leverage any new products on any cloud provider. For example DigitalOcean recently upgraded our High CPU Droplet plans, providing some of the best values for accessing the latest chipsets from Intel. For users with containerized applications and orchestration, they could easily improve application performance by moving workloads over to that new product.
Gardner: And, Matt, at StackPointCloud you have created a universal control plane for Kubernetes. How does that help in terms of ease of deployment choice and multi-cloud use?
Ease-of-use increases flexibility
Baldwin: We've basically built a management control plane for Kubernetes that gives you a single pane of glass across all your cloud providers. We deal with the top four, so Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Googleand DigitalOcean. Because we provide that single pane of glass, you can build the clusters you need with those providers and you can stand up federation.
In Kubernetes, multi-cloud is done via that federation. The federation control plane connects all of those clusters together. We are also managing workloads to balance workloads across, say, some on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and some on DigitalOcean, if you like.
That's what we have been doing with our star product. We are still on that journey, still building more things. Because it's moving quite fast, federation is shifting and changing. We are keeping pace and trying to make it all easier to use.
Our whole point is usability. We think that all this tooling needs to become really, really easy to use. You need to be able to manage multi-cloud as if it's a single cloud.
Gardner: Reynold, with DigitalOcean being one of the major cloud providers that Matt mentioned, why is it important for you to enable this level of multi-cloud use? Is it a matter of letting the best public cloud services values win? Why do you want to see the floodgates open for public cloud choice and interoperability?
Cloud Object Storage
Harbin: Thousands of businesses and over a million developers use DigitalOcean -- primarily because of the ease in provisioning and of being able to spin up and manage their infrastructure. This next step of having orchestration tools and containers puts even more flexibility into the hands of developers and businesses.
For customers who want to use data centers on DigitalOcean, or data centers on other providers, we want to enable flexibility. We want developers to more easily burst into public clouds as they need, and gain all the visibility they want in a common way across the various infrastructure providers that they want to use.
Serverless pros and cons
Gardner: Developers are increasingly interested in a serverless model, where they let the clouds manage the allocation of machine resources. This also helps in cost optimization. How do the container orchestration and management tools help? How does serverless, and the demand for it, also fit in?
Jackson: Serverless adds an extra layer of complexity, because the different cloud providers have different approaches to doing serverless. A serverless function running on Google or Azure or AWS -- they all have different interfaces. They have different ways of deploying, and the underlying code has to be abstracted enough so that it can run across all the different providers. You have to really think about that from a software architectural problem, from that perspective.
In my opinion, you would allow yourself to get locked in if you use things like the Native Queuing or Pub/Sub, which works really well with a particular cloud provider's serverless platform.
One of the recent projects I'm super-excited about is OpenFaaS, by Alex Ellis. What OpenFaaS tries to do is provide that cloud-agnostic method of running functions-as-a-service (FaaS). This is not necessarily serverless, you still have to manage the underlying servers, but it does allow you to take advantage of your existing Kubernetes, Nomad, or Docker Swarm Clusters. It then gives you the developer workflow, which I think is the ultimate end-goal, rather than thinking about decoupling the complexity of the infrastructure.
Gardner: Reynold, any thoughts on serverless?
Harbin: I agree. We are on this road of making it easier for the application developer so they don't have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. For certain applications, serverless can help in that goal, but at the same time you're adding complexity. You have to think about the application, the architecture, and which services are going to be the most useful in terms of applying serverless.
You have to think about the application, the architecture, and which services are going to be the most useful in terms of applying serverless.
We want to enable our developers to use whatever technologies will help them the most. And for certain applications, serverless will be relevant. OpenFaaS is really interesting, because it makes it easier to write to one standard, and not have to worry about the underlying virtual servers or cloud providers.
Jackson: The other neat thing about OpenFaaSis the maintainability. When you look at application lifecycle management (ALM), which not enough people pay enough attention to, Serverless is so new that ALM is still unknown.
But with OpenFaaS-- and one of the things that I love about that platform -- you are baking functions into Docker containers so you can run those as standard microservices outside of the OpenFaaS platforms, if you want. So you can see that kind of maintainability. It gives you an upgrade path, despite being completely decoupled from any particular cloud provider's platform. So you gain flexibility.
If you want to go multi-cloud, you can run OpenFaaS on a federated Nomad or federated Kubernetes cluster and you have your own private multi-cloud FaaS approach, which I think is super cool.
Gardner: It sounds as if we would like to see the same trajectory we saw with containers take place with serverless, there is just a bit of a lag there in terms of the interoperability and the extensibility.
Baldwin: There is also the serverless framework they can use that helps to abstract out the serverless endpoints. So abstract at Lambda or Kubeless or any other, Fission; Kubeless and Fission are just two other projects that are more geared toward Kubernetes than others.
Gardner: Nic, tell us about your organization, HashiCorp. What are you up to?
Simplify, simplify
Jackson: We are all about delivering developer tooling to enable modern applications. We have products like Nomad, which is a scheduler; Terraform, for infrastructure-as-code; Consul, which you can use for key value configurations and service discovery; Packer for creating gold master images; and Vault, which is becoming very popular for managing "secrets" and things like that.
We are putting together a suite of products that can make integration super-easy, but they actually work well standalone, too. You could just run Terraform if you want to, or maybe you are just going to use Nomad and Consul, or maybe Consul and Vault. But the aim is that we want to simplify a lot of the problems that people have when they start building highly available, highly distributed and scalable infrastructures.
Gardner: Reynold, tell us about DigitalOcean, and why you are interested in supporting organizations like StackPointCloud and HashiCorp as they better provide services and value to their customers.
Harbin: DigitalOcean is a very intuitive cloud services platform on which to run applications. We are designed to help developers and businesses build their applications, deploy them, and scale them faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively. Our products basically are cloud services with various configurations to maximize CPU or memory available in our data centers around the world.
We also have storage, including object storage, for a unlimited scale; or block storage that you can attach a volume of any size to, depending on your needs. And then we also include networking servicesfor securing and scaling -- from firewalling to load balancing your applications.
All of these products are designed to be controlled, either through a simplified UI or through a very simple API, a RESTful API, so that tools like Terraform or Kubernetes orchestration through StackPointCloud can all be done through the single pane of glass of your choice. And the infrastructure that underlies it is all controlled via the API.
Users and developers want easier ways to provision and manage infrastructure.
The reason we are leaning to these kinds of partnerships and tooling is because that's what our users want, what developers want. They want easier ways to provision and manage infrastructure. So if you want to use an orchestration tool, then we want to make that as easy and as seamless as possible.
Gardner: The infatuation with containers has moved into the full love affair level, at least based on what I see in the market. But how do we keep this from going off the rails? We have seen other cases where popularity can lead to some complexity. For example, with the way virtual machines (VMs) were adopted to a point where sprawl became such an issue.
What are the challenges we are facing, and how can organizations better prepare themselves for a world of far more containers, and perhaps a world of more serverless?
Container complexity
Baldwin: Containers are going to introduce a lot of complexity. I will just dig into one level of complexity, which is security. How to protect one host talking to another host? You need to figure out how to protect one service talking to another service. How do you secure that, how do you incur that traffic, how do you ensure that identity is handled?
When you begin looking at other pieces of the puzzle, things like ServiceMesh. We look at things like Kubernetes and Istio as complementary because you are going to need to be able to observe all of these environments. You are going to have to do all the things that you would have done with VMs, but there's just an abundance of these things. That's kind of what we are seeing, and that's the level of complexity.
The tooling is still trying to catch up, and a lot of the open source tools are still in development, with some of the components still in alpha. There is a lot of need for ease-of-use around these tools, a lot of need for better user interfaces. We are at the beginning where, yes, we are trying to handle containers, and lots of containers all over the place, and trying to figure out how these things are talking to each other, and being able to just troubleshoot that.
How do you trace when your application starts to have an issue? How do you figure out where in that environment the issue is showing up? You start to learn how to you use tools like the Zipkin or you introduce OpenTracing into your stack, things like that.
Cloud Object Storage
Gardner: Matt, what would you encourage people to do now, experiment with more tools, acquaint themselves with those tools, make demands on tools, how to head this off this from a user perspective?
Tiptoe through the technology
Baldwin: I would begin by stepping into the water, going into the shallow end of the pool by just starting to explore the technology.
I have seen organizations jump into these technologies. Take Kubernetes as an example. I have seen organizations adopt Kubernetes really early, and then they started to build their own Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of it without actually being involved in the project and being aware of what's happening in the project.
So there is the danger of duplicating things that are happening in the roadmap, duplicating something that's in the roadmap that will be done in six months in the project. And now you are stuck on Kubernetes version 1.2, and how do you move to the next version of Kubernetes?
So I think there is a danger there with too early of an adoption, if you start to build too much. But at the same time there is a need to conduct proof of concepts (POCs), to start to shift some of your smaller services into new areas.
I think you need to introduce Istio into test environments and start to look at what that does for you, and start looking at all the use cases around it, things like traffic shifting. There are issues like how to do a A-B deployments, service meshes can actually give you that and start to play with that and start to plan for the future, but maybe not completely start to customize whatever you just built, because there is always a threat that the project isn't fully baked yet.
Gardner: Sounds like it might be time to be thinking strategically, as well as tactically in how you approach these things. Maybe even get some enterprise architects involved so that you don't get too bogged down before the standards are cooked.
Nic, what do you see as the challenges with bringing containers to use in a multi-cloud environment? What should people be thinking about to hedge against those challenges?
Sensible speed
Jackson: Look at just how fast things have moved. I mean, Kubernetes as a product practically didn't exist two years ago. Nomad didn't really exist two years ago. I think it was only just launched at HashiCorp in 2015. And those products are still evolving.
And I think it was a really good comment that you have to be careful about building on top of these things, and then stray too far away from the stable branch. You could end up in a situation where you can't follow an upgrade path -- because one thing that's for certain, the speed of evolution isn't going to slow down.
Look at just how fast things have moved. I mean, Kubernetes as a product practically didn't exist two years ago. Nomad didn't really exist two years ago. I think it was only just launched at HashiCorp in 2015. And those products are still evolving.
Always try to keep abreast of where the technology is, and always make sure you have a great path. You can do that through being sensible about abstraction. In the same way that you would not necessarily depend on a concrete implementation in your code, you would depend on interfaces. You have to take a similar approach to your infrastructure, so we should be looking at depending upon interfaces, so that if a new component comes along -- something that's better than Kubernetes - you can actually hot-swap them out without having to go through years of re-platforming.
Gardner: Reynold, how do you see solving complexity in the evolution of these technologies, and ways that early-adopters can resist getting bogged down as they continue to mature?
Harbin: The two main points that Matt and Nic have brought up are really good ones. Certainly visibility and security of these applications and these environments is really important from a functionality perspective.
As Nic mentioned, the pace at which new technologies are being developed is intense. You have to have an environment where you can test out these various tools, see what works for you, do it in a way that you can get these ideas and run them and test them and see how this technology can help your particular business. And a lot of this infrastructure in many ways is almost disposable, because you can spin it up as you need to, test it and then spin it down -- and it might only need to live for an hour or for a couple of days.
Being aware of the tools, what's happening in terms of new functionality, and then being able to test that either locally or in a cloud environment is really going to be important.
Gardner: I was expecting at least one of you to bring up DevOps. That thinking about development in conjunction with production, and making this more of a seamless process would help. Am I off base? Matt, should DevOps be part of this solution set?
Shared language
Baldwin: Yes, it should be part of it. I guess my personal opinion on DevOps is that we are moving more toward where Ops needs to become more and more invisible. It's more about shipping, and it's more about focusing on the apps versus the infrastructure. And so I just see more like the capital O going to lowercase o.
What I do think is interesting right now is that developers and operators are now speaking the same language. If you are looking at Kubernetes, developers and operators are now speaking the same language. They are speaking in Kubernetes, and so that's a very big deal. So now the developer is building it in the same way that the operator is going to understand it. The operator is going to understand how the microservice is built; the developer is going to understand how it's built. They are all going to understand everything.
And then with multi-cloud, you could also do things like have your staging environment in one cloud and you promote your code so that your operators are running the code over in production on another provider and you could promote that code across the network, so you can do things like that, too.
They are speaking in Kubernetes, and so that's a very big deal. So now the developer is building it in the same way that the operator is going to understand it.
I think there is some of the traditional DevOps tooling, things like Chef, things like Puppet, I don't think have as much of a future as they used to have, because they did a lot of app management on the hosts and now that the apps are not living on the host anymore, there is not a lot for those tools to do. So just build out a host at Amazon AWS and then just deploy Kubernetes and then just let Kubernetes take over from there.
Some of those tools, their importance will lessen, like you won't have to know Puppet as much; you likely won't ever need to know Puppet.
Gardner: Nic, are you in the same camp, more Dev, less Ops, lowercase o?
More Dev, less Ops?
Jackson: I think it depends on two things. The first thing is the scale of your organization. When you look at a lot of tools, and you look at a lot of information that's out there, it makes an assumption that everybody is operating at fixed scale, and I don't think that's the case. Pretty much any business that's operating in a digital world, which is pretty much any business these days, you can take advantage of modern development techniques. When you start depending on the scale, then it also shifts who is potentially going to be doing the infrastructure side of things.
Smaller companies, I think you are going to get more Dev than you will Ops because that may not be a scale that can support a dedicated operations team. But larger enterprise organizations, you may have more of a platform team, more of an operations person who is using code to manage infrastructure.
Cloud Object Storage
In either case, there's a requirement that developers have to have an appreciation and an understanding of the platform to which they are deploying their code. They need to have that because they need to have an understanding of how things like service discovery works. How are the volumes working for persistent storage, how are things going to work in terms of scale and scalability? So if you are going to be load testing it, what are sort of the operational thresholds in terms of I/O for CPU or disk, and things like that?
I think DevOps is a really powerful concept. I certainly love working in a world where I can interact and work with the operations and the infrastructure teams. I benefit as a software engineer, and I think the infrastructure engineers benefit because those sorts of skills that we both have, we can share. So I really hope DevOps doesn't go away, but I think the level at which that interaction occurs does very much depend on scale of your organization.
Shop around
Gardner: Are there examples of some organizations, large or small, that have embraced containers, have multi-cloud in their sights, are maybe thinking about serverless?
Baldwin: I have an example. This customer was a full-on Amazon shop, and they had not migrated to microservices. Their first step was to move to Docker, and then we moved them up to Kubernetes. These guys were an adtech firm and they had, as you can imagine, ingress traffic that had a high charge to it, and that was billed by Amazon.
So they spent a lot of time negotiating a better cloud price-point with Google. What they were able to do is stand up a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud and then shift the workload that was needed at that better price-point. At the same time, they kept the rest of the workload at Amazon because they were still relying on some of the other underlining services of Amazon, things like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
So they didn't want to completely move to Google, but they wanted to move something that they were taking a really large hit on, on cost, and move that to Google. So I think you are going to see multi-cloud first get used as a vendor tactic against the cloud providers to try and negotiate a better price point. So if you are doing adtech, now you are in a position where you can actually negotiate with Amazon, Google or whomever, and get a better price and just move your workload to whomever gives it to you.
So that makes it a lot more competitive. That was an early example, one of the earlier federation examples we have.
Gardner: The economic paybacks from that could be very significant, if you can leverage better deals from your cloud providers. That could be a very significant portion of your overall expenses.
Baldwin: It's giving the power back to the consumer. We basically have a cloud monopoly, and then smaller ones. So we have Amazon AWS, and so how do you work against Amazon to reduce the price points, how do you try to break that?
And once you start to get power back to the consumer, that starts to weaken the hold on the end-user.
Gardner: Nic, an example that we can look to perhaps in a different way, one that provides a business advantage?
Go public
Jackson: One of the things that we see for a lot of enterprise customers is the cloud adoption phase. So I can't give you the exact numbers, but the total market in terms of compute for the big four cloud providers is about 30 percent. There is something like 60 percent to 70 percent of all of the existing compute still running in private data centers. A lot of organizations are looking at moving that forward. They want to be able to adopt cloud, for whatever reason. They want better tooling to be able to do that.
You can create a federated Kubernetes cluster, or a federated Nomad cluster, and you can begin shifting your workload away from the private data center and into the cloud. You can gain that clear migration path. It allows you to run both of those platforms side by side, the distinct platform that the organization understands but also the modern platform that requires learning in terms of tooling and behavior.
That's going to be a typical approach for a lot of the large enterprises. We are going to see a lot of the shift from private data centers into public clouds. A lot of the cloud providers are offering pretty attractive reasons in terms of licensing to do that rather than renew your license for your physical infrastructure. Why don't you just move it off into your cloud provider?
That's going to be a typical approach for a lot of the large enterprises. We are going to see a lot of the shift from private data centers into public clouds.
But if you're running tens of billions of dollars worth of business, then any downtime is incredibly expensive. So you will want to ensure that you have the maximum high availability.
Baldwin: You can see that Microsoft is converting a lot of their enterprise agreements to move people over to Azure.
Jackson: Well, it's not just Microsoft. I mean, Dell/EMC is one of the most aggressive. I could imagine a great sales strategy for them is to say, "Well, hey, rather than buying a new Dell server, why don't you just lease one of these servers in the Dell cloud and we will manage it for you." And you basically you're just shifting from a capital expenditure (CapEx) to an operational expenditure (OpEx) model.
I think Oracle has a similar strategy, the Oracle cloud is up and coming. So the potential is rather than paying for an Oracle database license you could just move that database into the Oracle cloud and save yourself a lot of trouble around the maintenance of the physical data center.
Gardner: Reynold, any thoughts on examples of how orchestration of containers may be moving more toward Serverless models that have great benefits for your end users? As a public cloud, where do you see a good example of how this all works to everyone's advantage?
No more either/or
Harbin: As developers move toward containers and orchestration, they can begin looking at cloud providers not as a choice of either/or but as, "I get to use all of them, and I get to use the products and services that are best for my particular application."
An example of that would be a customer who was hosting their application and their storage on Amazon AWS, and a month ago DigitalOcean released our new object storage product called Spaces. Essentially they gained all the benefits of the AWS S3 object storage, but the cost is 10 times lower, at least for bandwidth.
If this particular customer could containerize their application, which basically publishes and posts content to object storage and delivers a lot of that to end users, they would have the flexibility to take advantage of new products like Spaces that are being rolled out all the time by various cloud providers. In this case, they could have easily moved their application to DigitalOcean, take advantage of our new object storage product, and essentially lowered the total cost.
But it's not just DigitalOcean products. New technologies that can make your applications better are being released all the time, as open source projects and commercial products. Companies will gain agility if their applications are containerized, as they will be able to use new technologies much more easily.
Baldwin: There are some great abstraction layers -- things like Minio that you don't necessarily need to interact with the underlying object storage. You have a layer that allows you to be ignorant of that, and such de-coupling is super-useful.
Companies will gain agility if their applications are containerized, as they will be able to use new technologies much more easily.
Gardner: I'm afraid we are about out of time, but I wanted to give each of you an opportunity to tell us how to learn more about your organization.
Matt Baldwin, how could people follow you and also learn more about StackPointCloud?
Baldwin: If you wanted to give Kubernetes a shot, we provide a turnkey marketplace and management platform. So you just hit the site, log in with social credentials like GitHub, and then you can start to build clusters. You can check it out via our blog on Stackpoint.io. We also run all of the major markets for the Kubernetescommunity, up and down the West and East Coasts.
So you can engage with us at any of the Kubernetes events in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and wherever. Yeah, also just drop any Kubernetes slack channel and just ping us, ping me on baldwinmathew, also @baldwinmathew on Twitter.
Gardner: Nic, same thing, how can people follow you and learn more about HashiCorp?
Jackson: HashiCorp.com is a great landing site because you can bounce out to the various product sites from there. We also have a blog, which we are pretty active with. We are generally publishing at least a couple of pieces of information ourselves on there every week but we are also syndicating other stuff that we find, not necessarily always related to HashiCorp but just interesting technology things.
So you can get access to the blog through there and on Twitter following HashiCorp, myself, I am @sheriffjackson, so you can follow me on Twitter, I try to share stuff that I find interesting.
Gardner: And Reynold, learning more about DigitalOcean as well as following you or other evangelists that you think are worthy?
Harbin: The community site on DigitalOcean has 1,700 really well-curated articles. So do.co/community would be a good start, and we have several really technology-agnostic articles about containerization, as well as specific technologies like Kubernetes. They are articles, they are well written and they will teach you just how you can get started. And then of course, the DigitalOcean website is a good resource just for our own product.
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The trade deadline is on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. EST and the Yankees don't appear on the verge of any trades at all right now. If they do end up pulling off a trade between now and then it's likely to be for a small piece as Brian Cashman said the Yankees just don't have the money for a big deal.
"If there is a hypothetical mythical beast that makes like $25 million a year for the next X amount of years that was hitting the market, we certainly could not participate in that level of talent, financial talent," Cashman told Andrew Marchand of ESPNNewYork.com.
Cashman was likely speaking in generalities, but this means that we shouldn't expect to see Cliff Lee to end up in Pinstripes anytime soon. He's really the only one on the trade market right now that fits the bill although this statement likely extends into the offseason unless the Yankees got creative.
The problem is that the Yankees are trying to get under the $189 million luxury tax threshold by 2014 when the newest CBA enacts stiffer penalties. With Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, and CC Sabathia already signed to huge contract and Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano likely joining them by 2014 that doesn't leave the Yankees with a lot of wiggle room.

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As for many people, my teenage years were framed with a handful of special friends with whom I journeyed through a turbulent adolescence. Over the years I've lost touch with most of these friends and wonder how they're doing. Facebook is giving me updates on their lives, but not a chance to reconnect.
Today I bumped into one of these teenage 'besties'. Literally. He was on the police line facing me in our morning blockade.
It was bizarre. I hadn't seen him since I was a gangly girl, and he a bashful boy – crashing in our group in lounge rooms, and walking the streets in Geelong. And now here we were – me resisting the state, and he protecting it. Life had clearly taken us on different paths.
I went up to him and had the reunion that I'd imagined happening in somewhat different circumstances. I confessed that I had a big crush on him when I was at high school (in hindsight, a little unnecessary in front of his police colleagues). I remembered helping him carry his feret cage home from woodwork class in school; he remembered that I barrack for Collingwood (go 'pies!).
It was yet another reminder of the shared humanity across the picket lines, which has been such a powerful feature of the week.
There has been more mutual respect between ourselves and police than I have ever experienced in protests involving arrests. This, however, made it much more personal. It made me reflect about how I came to be who I was – from that gangly girl to a woman who seeks to blockade a military base. About what it was that led me to this place, and my friend to his.
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After the usual three rounds of refusing to move from the road and being carried off, I was arrested. I took the familiar ride in the back of the police van and into custody. My solitary time waiting to be processed brought back more teenage memories, and how they were significant in forming my life's perspective: My desire to help those who struggled in their life situations; the passion that my new-found Christian faith gave me to make a difference in the world; my jobs in social work that made me think in new ways about the social and political situations we are in; role models that challenged me to wonder how I can work towards peace and justice in the world.
I took bail and returned to the gates of the base to chat to my old friend. Sitting amid the police trucks that were catering for the 180 police that are here to police us, we shared more about our lives – work, family, siblings.
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Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by Laokin
Have you heard of those who have been in war, have been broken by it, and yet all they want when they return is to go back to it.
I believe it is akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, that is those who have been take hostage / prisoner that relate to, and bond with their captures even to the point of protecting them. Seeing as we are all prisoners to the actions of war, when they erupt, the same could possibly be said here.
it's is just another of the ironies and contractions of war. for in such an act that is so unnatural and inhuman, there seems to be something that comes naturally to the human condition.
strange really.
Originally posted by michael1983l
reply to post by Laokin
Tatics are generic anyway it is battlefield experience that6 really tells and battlefeild experience is not what the modern day Axis have.
Originally posted by michael1983l
reply to post by Laokin
Battlefeild experience is passed on through training to new recruits. If your instructor has never been to war, do you think he could train you better than an instructor that has been to war?
Oh and I did 7 years in the Military thanks.edit on 27-6-2012 by michael1983l because: (no reason given)
Battlefeild experience is passed on through training to new recruits
Tatics are generic anyway
tac·tics (tktks)
a. (used with a sing. verb) The military science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy, especially the technique of deploying and directing troops, ships, and aircraft in effective maneuvers against an enemy: Tactics is a required course at all military academies.
b. (used with a pl. verb) Maneuvers used against an enemy: Guerrilla tactics were employed during most of the war.
2. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A procedure or set of maneuvers engaged in to achieve an end, an aim, or a goal.
ex·pe·ri·ence (k-spîr-ns)
1. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
a. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair.
b. The knowledge or skill so derived.
a. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
b. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
Originally posted by Laokin
Originally posted by michael1983l
reply to post by Laokin
Battlefeild experience is passed on through training to new recruits. If your instructor has never been to war, do you think he could train you better than an instructor that has been to war?
Oh and I did 7 years in the Military thanks.edit on 27-6-2012 by michael1983l because: (no reason given)
Well the military didn't grant you brains because failed to use them. You can't teach experience. You just can't. You can be taught by someone who has experience, but your training is going to be virtually the same as somebody who didn't have experience. It's a regiment.
The same thing can be said for any school of thought. You can be taught by a martial arts instructor with no tournament experience and be a champion, you can be taught by a champion and be a loser. Their experience by no way extends to you outside of a couple basic knowledge tips and tricks of the trade. Which in war, is macro, not micro.
Which is called Tactics, which you said is garbage in comparison to battlefield experience.
Battlefeild experience is passed on through training to new recruits
That is called TACTICS. F.Y.I. You must've been a jarhead.
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by Laokin
So from that, I can assume that you don't consider PTSD to be a valid condition then? Just a conscious decision to act like your a completely different person!
Originally posted by damingus
So when the nukes drop and the shtf, and everyone is dead. Where do you suppose all these elite NWO are going to live? Wont everyone be gone? Nothing left of the world...??
Originally posted by Laokin
Originally posted by michael1983l
Originally posted by Ben81
Russia has apx 360,000 active personnel
and china have millions of troops
combine with Syria and Iran .. that a very impresive army
Don't mix up impressive with large. As far as I am aware all of those countries run conscript schemes and countries with conscript armies tend to have more weaknesses than most developed voluntary armies. How much battle experience has Russia/China/Iran/Syria had over the last 2 decades, well next to none when compared with NATO warmongers like the US and the UK.
They might be large but they certainly ain't better than us. I wouldn't like an all out war but I can bet you NATO would win unless the nukes come out then we all lose.
Not for nothing but that only makes them more dangerous. It's like competition sports, or martial arts... When you can observe those that you will have to battle in the future before you battle them, then you gain tactical advantage by learning what moves are in their set and how to best take advantage of the confidence that move set has given them.
You don't think Russia and China have satellites or spies? You don't think they've been watching NATO's every move since it's inception?
This whole time they lay dormant we don't know what their capabilities are, we can assume they haven't evolved, but it would be a terrible fallacy to make that assumption. We can assume we still have the technological advantage, but you don't know what Russia or China has in their Top Secret section. They have a pretty good idea what we have, since we've been using our technology everywhere for everyone to see.
This puts us at a disadvantage. Sun Tzu would agree.... it's best not to underestimate the enemy especially when you haven't seen any serious activity.
Originally posted by Kastogere
reply to post by Laokin
Thou really do protest too much.
If you had read what i wrote, you would get the jest of my meaning. And do not get me wrong, i am not pro war, but i love the fight...again its all I seem to know anymore as a standard of being. There are things that people are good at, some are good chefs, some are good at teaching, some are good at making fart noises with their hands, Im good at destruction chief.
That doesnt make things any more right or wrong. The fight is what im used to as a normality and it is entertaining in a sense as I laugh at the ironic futility of mankinds attempt to rise above their own indignity.
And understand I have nothing vested in humanity outside of my own...nothing. No ego to please, no pride to feed. It is what it is. I do not hold human life as something with much of any kind of value as you would see it in the traditional sense. Mainly because unless you have a cause that your willing to die for, your spinning your tires in the mud. You have to learn to read between the lines chuck.
And while I may not contribute anything you find worthy, it could be worthy to someone else. One thing is for certain, I claim nothing but the opinions I have fostered through experience. Some like it, some don't.
Yes i jest often, its ironic how irony can be sometimes isnt it? I find most everything funny in life and I take almost nothing seriously. We are trapped in a life that we did not ask for and you expect what outside of sarcasm? For me to be as concerned about life as you are?
And petty motivations like being cool are for highschool kids and insecure adults who can't find a date on saturday night because they're stuck in moms basement soaking their corns watching bad japanese cartoons.
And The Duke doesn't fight because he enjoys it, he does it because someone has to, and he's the right guy for the job. He just makes sure that while he's fighting, he looks good doing it.
If your not having fun, what fun are ya?
Originally posted by MrStyx
reply to post by Shminkee Pinkee
I agree Russia and China are no saviors, people seem to forget Russia's role on the world stage hence the first Afghan occupiers. They didn't suddenly have a change of heart, they lost economic and military power and just recoiled to lick their wounds.
Now they seem to be willing to expand once more we'll see how you saviors perform.
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by Laokin
Now THAT was a deliberate effort to misunderstand his point. Even the simplest of minds can understand the intention of that statement. You're just being picky, and not really making a valid point there at all.
Originally posted by Kastogere
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by Laokin
Now THAT was a deliberate effort to misunderstand his point. Even the simplest of minds can understand the intention of that statement. You're just being picky, and not really making a valid point there at all.
Now now, he may not like my premise for existing, but Laokin has a point and he's right, you cannot teach experience. This in itself is a flawed teaching concept. Experience comes from doing, not watching.


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Save My Soul (Novel)
|Save My Soul
Save My Soul Book Cover, written by Zoe Winters
|Zoe Winters
|Publication date
|January 24, 2011
|Media type
|300 Pages
|Preceded by
|Blood Lust
|Followed by
|The Catalyst
For other uses of the word Incubus, see Incubus (disambiguation).
Save My Soul is a novel written by Zoe Winters. It is the second work in the Preternaturals series by this author. In this work an Incubus named Luc has been trapped in a house by a witch for some time. The heroine of the story, Anna Worthington, purchases the house and attempts to get rid of Luc. But things do not go as she expects them to.
- Title: Save My Soul
- Author: Zoe Winters
- Published By: IncuBooks
- Length: 300 Pages
- Format: eBook & Paperback
- Publishing Date: January 24, 2011
Other Works in this Series on SuccuWiki
Plot Summary
All he's asking for is her soul.
After buying the antebellum home she's fantasized about since childhood, Anna Worthington discovers Luc, a dangerously seductive incubus who has been trapped in the house by a fifty-year-old curse. To rid herself of her problem house guest she'll call on a priest, gypsies, ghost hunters, and the coven of witches from lust bunny hell. All she has to do is resist him long enough to break the spell so they can go their separate ways. If she doesn't, she could die. And that would be the best case scenario.
Book Review
The following review was first published on Tera's Blog, A Succubi's Tale on February 13, 2011
The story is set in and around a town called Golatha Falls. A woman named Anna Worthington returns to her hometown and for reasons she does not quite understand at the time, purchases an old house on Cranberry Lane with some of her inheritance.
All seems well at first, but then it appears that she has a visitor in the house.
A ghostly one. One named Beatice, and she seems not to want to have Anna there.
After an incident with someone she knows in the town from high school, the ghost is revealed to be an Incubus named Luc that explains he has been trapped there for fifty years.
Over the course of the story, Luc finds himself in love with Anna, and she with him. That relationship is strained by Luc's need to feed regularly on women in the mansion, and Anna's inability to break the curse that traps him there. The curse requires the owner of the mansion to burn it to the ground in order to free Luc, and Anna loves the house too much to do that.
She attempts every other means of breaking the curse, from the church to Wiccans to television shows about supernatural hauntings but nothing works. Eventually, things come to a head, a choice is made and the secret of why Anna was drawn to the mansion is revealed.
Overall I rather enjoyed this work. The characters were well defined and I felt like I had a vested interest in what happened to them. A few of them were somewhat irritating, such as the elderly sisters Bitsy and Mimi, who are the classic nosey old women in this story. Anna's friend Tam, who is a witch and it part of a Coven in the town, was very interesting and it was a bit of a shame that we didn't get more of her background than what we did in the story.
There is a however in my thoughts. That being the climax of the story, when secrets are revealed and the answers given, seemed to be very rushed to me. I thought that the explanation was a good one, but, it could have taken a longer period of time to get through. Not to mention that the resolution at the end of the story seemed almost like a powerpoint presentation. That was a shame because the rest of the story was well done, written and had the emotional context it should have in it.
There was a noticeable lack of heat in some of the more intimate moments in the story. We are taking about an Incubus here and you might expect that those scenes would be very hot in nature, but for the most part, when Luc is feeding on others to the dismay of Anna, there is really nothing given of those moments.
There is one scene in the book when Luc and Anna have their first real moment together that was sweet and at the same time very erotic. Not to spoil that, but I thought that it got around the problem that Luc had with feeding very well and I give full props to the author for figuring out the method.
The story leaves several doors open at the end of it, some spiritual, some relationships, and some interestingly vague. It wouldn't take much to continue the story of Luc and Anna further, but based on the first book by this author, which I won't review on the Tale because there are no Succubi or Incubi in it, I have the feeling that these characters will never return again.
Which is a shame.
I'm giving this work four pitchforks out of five.
A bit more heat, a little more closure, and perhaps a better close and this could have gotten five…


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The Spectacular Fireworks above Oslo
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In Norway there's no tradition for fireworks arranged by the city. It's too cold in January to gather downtown for the celebrations, so everyone just go out into their gardens or a nearby open spot, launch their rockets and then head back inside. The result is a view like this, with fireworks shooting up from absolutely everywhere at midnight on January 1.
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I don't show up in topics/tags for my blog anymore (boredamericantribune.wordpress.com). How can I find out if I have been suspended/banned?
If you've been suspended, there will be a notice and you won't be able to write or edit, or even see posts.
Since your name does not link to your blog, I'm going to guess that you've probably been flagged as Mature, which will take you off the tag pages.
Ahh, I see. But is there any way to remedy this, as in once again being able to be seen through Reader/Topics/Tags, etc.? It's as if I'm become invisible just when I started to gain a following, lol.
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Hey everybody, guess what time it is.
Yep. It's time to showcase ten of the Times Union's community bloggers and their great work. And since the Times Union's print edition hasn't fully and permanently restored that "Best of Our Blogs" piece to the newspaper's print edition, then I'm more than willing to give up one day of my blogging week to present the best of my fellow talent-wealthy community bloggers.
This week's work of blog-glory (and I mean glory of blogging, not some other made-up pseudo-word) includes:
- Jeannine M. Trimboli's "Real [Fit] Life" blog, "My advice to beginners."
- Teri Conroy's "Farmlife" blog, "Car Dealers: You want to sell me a vehicle?"
- Stacey Morris' new blog, "Another diet was not what I needed."
- Liz Lemery Joy's "Joy In These Days" blog, "Weiner, Spitzer, Cuomo… sex, lust, lies, murder and tipping the tax scales."
- Roger Green's "Information Without The Bun" blog, "That aluminum can you're drinking from costs more than it should."
- Alyssa Johnson's "Discovering Wildlife" blog, "Goosey Goosey Gander."
- Chad Polenz on the "Beer Nut" blog, "2013 Beer Bloggers Conference: Day 1."
- Sonja Stark's "PilotGirl" blog, "Helping my Best Friend to Heaven."
- Fran Rossi Scpylczyn's "There Will Be Bread" blog, "Liturgy, incarnation and other messes of love."
- Jen Smith's "Austin Ben Connor" blog, "LBI Vacation."
You know what to do. Go out and read these blogs, you will enjoy!


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Dec 07,2007
DVD Select: A Bourne-again thriller
by Robert J Hawkins
Jason Bourne's life and death is inextricably tied to water. He is originally fished out of it, unconscious and not knowing his own identity. He is nearly drowned as part of his CIA training. He watches as the love of his life floats away beneath a river. And in the third film, "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal, 4 stars), well, let's just say Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) dies and is reborn in the Hudson River.
'THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM' - If you are a Jason Bourne fan, you're lucky because Universal now offers 'The Jason Bourne Collection' for less than $50. Here Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) tracks his subject in Tangiers in 'The Bourne Ultimatum.' CNS Photo courtesy of Jasin Boland.
4 stars: Don't miss: rent it/buy it
3 stars: Worth the risk: rent it
2 stars: On the tipping point: if nothing else is available
1 star: Don't bother: wait until it's in the $1 bin Part of the appeal of Bourne is the qualities he shares with water. He doesn't just walk through a crowd, he flows, filling space and drawing no attention. The omnipresent surveillance cameras at public squares and train stations are like rocks around which Bourne navigates, never appearing on screen. Unless he wants to.
4 stars: Don't miss: rent it/buy it
3 stars: Worth the risk: rent it
2 stars: On the tipping point: if nothing else is available
1 star: Don't bother: wait until it's in the $1 bin
He may be wanted by every U.S. intelligence operative in the world, yet he never dons a disguise. He only changes identities, because he has none of his own.
"The Bourne Ultimatum" picks up moments after "The Bourne Supremacy," with a pack of Russian cops in hot pursuit of our hero. The rush of the chase never stops until the closing credits.
We know that Bourne is a "black ops" operative, a trained killer for a government agency who followed orders too often - and then had enough. His dossier shows one last target with "Mission Failed" stamped across the page.
He wants to find out who he was before the killing started. But he also wants to find out who ordered the kill on his beloved Marie (Franka Potente in "Bourne Supremacy.") "Someone started all this, and I'm going to find them," he tells Marie's brother.
That makes him a double-threat to agency insiders with dirty hands.
In "Supremacy," Bourne and CIA straight-arrow Pamela Landy (cool, crisp Joan Allen) blew the cover on the rogue Treadstone shop. But it was already a hollow shell. The rogues had moved on to the "upgrade," Blackbriar, from which assassinations, bribery, torture, illegal surveillance and more is conducted. As its oily chief Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn) proudly tells Landy, red tape and accountability are no longer bureaucratic headaches. "We are the sharp point of the stick now, Pam," he sneers.
Kramer talks in that disconnected lexicon of the soulless and commands a room full of amoral computer geeks. As Bourne begins to zero in on his operation, Kramer tells an aide to "initiate rendition protocols and put the asset on call." Later he says "tell me when the asset is in the nest" and "give the asset the green light. Take them both out."
The "asset" is a trained killer like Bourne - a Bourne 2.0 if you will, who was once a human being, something Kramer is incapable of acknowledging. His techies use their computers like sniper rifles, taking out people with deft keystrokes.
Bourne again encounters CIA operative Nicky Parsons (the sublime Julia Stiles) - again all too briefly, yet their encounter heralds a blockbuster encounter to come in "Bourne 4?" Again, Nicky (a woman of few words) helps Bourne out of a jam in Madrid.
Later, over coffee, Bourne is blunt, "Why are you helping me?" Nicky stares searchingly into his face and in a halting voice says "It was different for me (she pauses) ... with you."
She looks for a reaction and sees none. "You really don't remember anything?"
"No," says Bourne evenly.
Her pain is palpable. Clearly Nicky has as many secrets burning on her surface, as Bourne has locked up deep inside. And clearly their pasts are intertwined in ways we have yet to imagine or see onscreen.
Bourne's violence-filled journey takes him to New York and the offices of Dr. Albert Hirsch (the formidable Albert Finney), the CIA Frankenstein who turned Bourne into a monster. Yes, pieces of the puzzle come together but not enough to appreciate the full picture.
There is work to do, and presumably (a body is never found but there is a smile on the lips of Nicky Parsons) he has lived to fight on another day. Again under the direction of Paul Greengrass ("Bourne Supremacy" "United 93"), this "Bourne" is the best of the lot and easily the best action-thriller of 2007.
If you are a Jason Bourne fan, the good news is that Universal has packaged all three movies into "The Jason Bourne Collection" a four-disc set that comes in a "safe deposit box" package with a Bourne passport, for less than $50.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (Warner Home Video, 4 stars) His childhood is over. From here on in, it only gets rougher for Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe). In this fifth of seven installments, it seems as if the whole wizarding world has turned on Harry.
Even though he had to battle Dementors - what did you do on YOUR summer vacation? - he is accused of illegal use of magic. His claims that Voldermort (Ralph Fiennes) and the dark forces are back draw scoffs of denial and sneers from former friends. The shadow of suspicion from the death of Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson) hangs over his head. Even Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) seems needlessly distant, even his relationships with Hermoine (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) become unraveled.
The political ferret Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy) has engineered the appointment of his ally, Dolores Umbridge, (Imelda Staunton) at Hogwarts as teacher of the dark arts. Umbridge, perhaps the most frightening and irrepressibly cheerful character in the whole Potter series, systematically dismantles Dumbledore's authority until she is in full control of the school.
Harry is forced underground, where he organizes a group of friends and believers into an league of wand-wielding wizards called "Dumbledore's Army." And not a moment to soon because Voldermort's own unholy army, with the ungodly evil Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) beside him, is on the march.
"The Order of the Phoenix" is the most powerful and adult film yet in the series. Beloved characters die and once trusted characters prove to be otherwise. These are not the lollipop tales of the first couple of films. Director David Yates seems just the right person to step into the footsteps of Alfonso Cuaron who helmed "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Yates will be on board for the next one, too, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
Extras on the two-disc edition (highly recommended) include a feature "The Hidden Secrets of Harry Potter" which oversells its content but does provide a snappy overview of the story so far. There are 17 minutes worth of deleted scenes and actress Natalia Tena (Tonks) gives a personal tour of the set. Yates and editor Mark Day give a tutorial on decent film editing.
For the super fan, Warner has a limited edition 12-disc "Harry Potter" gift set that includes five movies, 14 video games and a disc with three hours of extras from all five films. Each box comes with five Harry Potter metal bookmarks and four packs of Potter trading cards. The price is about $150 for Blu-ray or HD-DVD formats and less than $120 for standard DVD.
"December Boys" (Warner) Not just a wizard, Daniel Radcliffe leads a strong but unknown cast as one of four orphans and close friends who all celebrate their birthdays in December by going to an Australian seaside resort town. There they find themselves in competition for the attentions of a family that tests the bonds of their friendship. Lovely Australian scenery lifts a modest film.
"Interview" (Sony, 2 1/2 stars) Steve Buscemi is a tough and serious political journalist who is ordered to interview and profile a young, seemingly shallow soap actress (Sienna Miller). It is hate at first sight for both of them. As the night moves on we learn that there is more to both of them than first impressions would permit. Buscemi directed and wrote the movie, based on the work of the assassinated Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. Miller is a delight to watch and Buscemi, as always, delivers a first-rate performance.
Made-for-TV movie "A Perfect Day" stars Rob Lowe as a successful author whose first novel hits the best-sellers list. Life takes a turn however when a stranger (Christopher Lloyd) tells him he has only 40 days to live. Now he must sort out - quickly - what's really important in his life. The story is from a Richard Paul Evans novel.
"High School Musical 2: Extended Edition" (Buena Vista) Hey kids, you finally get to see in its entirety the musical number that the scheming Sharpay and hunky Troy were rehearsing for the Midsummer Night's Talent Show.
Season 3 of "Beverly Hills 90210" (30 episodes on eight discs); season one of "Dirt" (13 episodes on four discs); "Flight 29 Down: Volume Three" (four episodes); season 10 of "Frasier" (24 episodes on four discs); season three of "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." (29 episodes on five discs); season three of "Lost" (23 episodes on seven discs, with many extras)
"Two-Lane Blacktop" (Criterion Collection, 1971) Monte Hellman directed this classic road film-as-metaphor starring Warren Oates (as G.T.O.), musicians James Taylor (as The Driver) and Dennis Wilson (as The Mechanic) and Laurie Bird (as The Girl). The nomadic duo known only as The Driver and The Mechanic roam the countryside drag racing other cars. They accept the challenge of G.T.O. to a cross-country, winner-take-all race. The double-disc set includes audio commentaries by Hellman and filmmaker Allison Anders, and a second by author David Meyer and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer. It also includes screen-test outtakes, a feature on the restoration of the '55 Chevy that is a central character in the film and more.
Disney continues to plunder its vaults for our pleasure with three new double-disc volumes in its "Walt Disney Treasures" series. The three packages are: "Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic"; "Chronological Donald, Volume 3" (Donald Duck short films, 1947-1950); and "The Adventures of Oswald and Lucky Rabbit" (short films from 1926 to 1928).
© Copley News Service


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End of an era: Microsoft case comes to official close
The biggest antitrust case of the digital age comes to an official end Thursday in the United States with the expiration of the final judgment in the antitrust case against Microsoft.
The Justice Department, 19 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in 1998 alleging that the software giant violated antitrust laws. The suit claimed Microsoft was illegally attempting to maintain its monopoly over computer operating systems by excluding competing middleware programs such as Internet browsers and media players.
The lawsuit was launched by the Clinton administration but was settled by the administration of George W. Bush in 2002 for far less than what Microsoft's critics were seeking - such as the breakup of the company.
"The final judgment helped create competitive conditions that enabled new kinds of products, such as cloud computing services and mobile devices, to develop as potential platform threats to the Windows desktop operating system," the Justice Department said in a statement this week.
The settlement barred Microsoft from engaging in exclusionary behavior harmful to competitors and consumers and required the company to provide third parties with the programming details needed to design their products to work with Microsoft's operating system. However, it did not bar Microsoft from continuing to bundle new products into new versions of its Windows operating system.
"The general impact is that it produced a better corporate citizen in Microsoft and perhaps a less aggressive competitor," said Glenn Manishin, a lawyer with Duane Morris who worked for some of the groups that urged the Justice Department to bring the lawsuit against Microsoft.
While the final judgment was ultimately viewed as a victory for Microsoft, the case distracted the company for years and cost it millions of dollars in legal fees. Microsoft also had to deal with private legal battles and the European Union's antitrust case. Microsoft is still appealing the EU's fine in that case.
"Our experience has changed us and shaped how we view our responsibility to the industry," Microsoft said in a statement this week. "We are pleased to bring this matter to successful resolution, and we are excited to keep delivering great products and services for our partners and customers."


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The Benefits of Cycling on Sleep Performance
Simmons Mattress Gallery has joined the moustachioed ranks and embraced cycling as an extra-curricular activity. This week we were delighted to learn that our new passion for pedalling can also help us sleep better.
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers found that sufferers of sedentary insomnia fell asleep twice as fast when they included a 20-30 minute cycle in their daily routines.
The research also showed that cyclists were able to increase their time under the sandman's trance by nearly an hour each night.
Part of the benefit of cycling is increased exposure to sunlight. According to Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University's Sleep Centre, sunlight helps maintain our natural circadian rhythms, which regulate our sleep cycles. The exposure also reduces the level of cortisol in our bodies, promoting deep regenerative sleep.
Cyclists are also exposed to less pollution then auto commuters. The common belief is that cyclists spend their time sucking in excess CO2 from vehicle exhaust. It is true that because of cars, bike riders are exposed to harmful emissions, but a study done by the Imperial College of London showed that cyclists take in about 1/5th the levels of pollution inhaled by people in cars.
Less pollution, more exertion, increased exposure to our shiny friend in the sky all adds up to a better, healthier, longer, more restorative sleep.
So for better mattress results, pull your two-wheeler out of the garage and hit the road. Just remember to ring your bell when you pass us on the left.


text: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:58:46PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:> > Not to> > mention the fact that you really are just adding special syscalls to the> > system here, which is another reason people hate them.> > Well, personally I like ioctls and system calls. They don't bloat the> system with unneeded crud and abstractions that aren't very useful.> So what if you can't easily interface with them from a bare shell.> That's what userland utilities are for anyhow.Ok, but you need to document exactly what your ioctl is doing, much likeyou need to document any new system calls. That is my point, therewasn't documentation with these new functions describing what they didand how to use them.Please see Documentation/ABI/ for how to add this type of information.Yes, that's primarily used to describe sysfs files, but there's noreason it can't describe ioctls as well.> > So, let me ask, what specifically are you wanting to import/export> > to/from the kernel here? Have you thought about other kernel/user apis> > instead of ioctls? What is forcing you to use ioctls?> > I'm not sure if you are trying to suggest that there is a better way> to solve these problems without actually saying so. We could probably> use a different interface, sure.I can't tell what you are trying to do here to determine what the besttype of interface is.thanks,greg k-h--To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Driver claims double jeopardy when 'first' OWI conviction recharged as second OWI
Some drunken drivers are so prolific they manage to get cited for "first time" offenses more than once. For example, within days of an OWI in County A, Mr. Intoxicated gets a similar charge in County B.
That's about what happened to James A. Krahn. He was arrested Aug. 21, 2011, in Plymouth, and his OWI first case was pending in municipal court there when he arrested about a month later in Sheboygan Falls by the sheriff's department, again for "first offense," since he was not yet convicted in Plymouth.
He would up pleading guilty to each charge (conveniently not mentioning the Plymouth conviction while talking to a prosecutor about his September case), and got two relatively minor "first offense' punishments. But when prosecutors figured out the mistake, they moved to vacate the conviction for the September offense and then recharged it as OWI (2nd), which becomes a criminal matter in circuit court.
This apparently happens not infrequently in Wisconsin, and Krahn raised the defense that it would violate the Fifth Amendment prohibition against double jeopardy to charge him to with OWI second when he'd already been convicted of first offense drunken driving (though it was really his second).
His argument failed to convince the trial judge, so Krahn appealed.
In a recent decision, the state Court of Appeals noted simply that, "Krahn's position ignores well-settled precedent." That is, that trial courts have no subject-matter jurisdiction for a repeat OWI tried as a first offense, and so any judgment a court would reach is void and expungeable any time.
"Thus, any proceeding that tries a second-time OWI offender as a first-time offender contrary to the mandatory language of the drunk driving statutes is invalid and no jeopardy attaches to the resulting conviction." the court ruled.
Krahn, 25, of Adell, was sentenced in June to five days in jail, had his license revoked for a year, and then had to have an ignition interlock for a year.
- Reelz Network airing show Saturday on Steven Avery and the Teresa Halbach murder
- Citing inappropriate Randa rant, 7th Circuit orders new sentencing in heroin case
- Illinois man who drove drunk at WI Boy Scout camp loses appeal
- Kenosha man seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of expanded warrantless home search
- WI Supreme Court to hear case of fired Walgreens worker
- New episodes of 'Making a Murderer' are in the making
- Milwaukee defense lawyer suspended 60 days
- Supreme Court decided 43 cases last term, fewest in in 25 years
- Tiny school district feels big financial pain from Woznicki records requests
- Marcia Clark, O.J. Simpson prosecutor and author, coming to Pabst Theater


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Cyber threats are the Internet-based attempts to disrupt or damage information systems and hack critical information using spyware, malware, and phishing. Cyber security solutions help organizations to monitor, detect, report, and counter cyber threats to maintain data confidentiality. The adoption of cyber security solutions is expected to grow with the increasing Internet penetration among developing and developed countries. In addition, the expanding wireless network for mobile devices has increased data vulnerability.
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Unraveled: Tale of the Shipbreaker's Daughter
developed by RosePortal Games.
"An adventure RPG, driven by the story of a little girl whose family has gone missing at a ship breaking yard. Based on real events, Unraveled takes you through a child's imagination as she seeks out her parents."
"On the little girl's journey, her plush doll comes to life as a monstrously cute creature that aids her on her quest! However, as she traverses through the ship, the rotting environment takes its toll on the doll and he slowly starts unraveling…"
The game is heavily influenced by "The Wire Nest", a documentary about the extremely poor living and working conditions of the people in the ship breaking yards in Mumbai, India. There's a small collection of videos and info on the living conditions here, if you're interested in learning more.
Illustration by Chris McColgan.
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