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Autism: One step forward, two steps back February 25, 2010Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Children, Health, Parenting, special needs.
Tags: Autism, brain balance, Health, Parenting, special needs, speech delay
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What was that saying from science class?
Something like "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Well, I think there's some real truth in that…especially when applying it to kids with Autism.
Take my kid, for instance.
Every time he has a big break-through in language development, it's accompanied by an equally big setback in behavior. Seriously, every time one positive gain is noticeable, so is the accompanying glaring setback.
Do you notice that in your kids?
It's almost like the section of the brain that gets fired up and starts cranking out new language suddenly sucks up all of the brain's total energy supply so that it can fuel the language burst. Like it steals the energy from the other parts, leaving the part of the brain that's responsible for behavior depleted and gasping for air.
Leaving me with a little monster… who. won't. stop. talking.
I'm not complaining about the talking. After all, I repeatedly promised … in countless late night secret bargains with God… that I'd never complain about how much Fabio talked or anything that might someday come out of his mouth if God would just let him become verbal. And I am so thankful.
But the frustration over dealing with behaviors resurfacing after you thought they were gone for good can be overwhelming. Why does nearly every milestone have to come with a price tag? Isn't there ever a win-win?
So, with little choice in the matter, we wait it out. We wait for the balance in the brain to be restored and the energy to flow evenly. We wait for the language to take root and the behaviors to level off.
For we know that when this little maniac transforms back into his more manageable self, he will be one more step further along in his journey from a simple exchange to a conversation.
Autism is like the Olympics February 24, 2010Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, autism diet, Children, Health, Parenting.
Tags: Autism, autism diet, Children, Health, holistic, olympics, salicylates, SCD, specific carbohydrate diet
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The Thrill of Victory…and the Agony of Defeat.
My last post was clearly a thrill of victory one.
This one is more of an agony of defeat kind.
Been going through a rough patch with Fabio. I recently messed with his diet in one of my very rare attempts to broaden it ever so slightly. Nothing crazy or not permitted. Just some things high in salicylates, which he is kind of sensitive to…so we avoid them for long stretches of time and then periodically attempt to reintroduce them.
That attempt sadly sent my little guy over the cliff just like that Olympic skiier whose famous wipe-out in the 70's lived on for decades as the "face" of the agony of defeat.
He's been having trouble in school attending to his work and focusing. He's been aggressive and often full of rage when the slightest demands are put upon him.
During the never-ending month long week the kids were just off from school, I finally took him to the DAN chiro, who took one look at his eyes and said, "What did you do to his diet?" Then he looked at my eyes, full of tears. All I could blurt out before they ran over was "One of us needs medication."
Every minute of every day so often, I second-guess myself about the choices we've made regarding Fabio's care. The natural/holistic autism course we've taken. But deep down, I think it was right … for us. Is right, for us. To me, it is more important that we do no harm. Even if the choice means that he doesn't advance as far, as fast. It's so easy to imagine that the other road would have lead to a happier place when we hit a bump in the one that we're on.
So …to continue with my cheesy sports analogies…we've decided to stay the course. When the going gets tough, the tough get going … I've removed all of the offending additions from his diet, and finally after a freakin week of insanity am now seeing my happy little man emerging from the edge of the cliff he'd gone over.
So I'm forced to face that as Fabio's coach and biggest fan, I can dictate the course of his daily routine and diet, guide him as best I can, and cheer loudly from the sidelines as he works so much harder than the average person, day in and day out. I can triumph in his victories and cry over his setbacks along the way. I can help make him the best that he can be. But there are factors out there that I can not control. All any of us can ask of ourselves …and those we love …is to try our best.
And if he doesn't get on the podium this year, there is always next time. Training begins hard… again… tomorrow.
Autism and the Nursery Witch October 19, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Children, Family, Health, special needs.
Tags: Autism, autism awareness, autism diet, autism statistics, GF/CF, Health, special needs
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No sooner did I wrap my mind around the first article with the big jump in autism stats…1 in 100 instead of 1 in 150…but right on it's heels comes the latest figures. 1 in 91.
1 in 91.
Anyone else feeling sick?
It brings a recurrent and ridiculous vision to my mind. I am standing outside the glass of an insanely large maternity ward, looking in at rows and rows of newborns… with their cute smooshed faces and their arms tightly tucked into their cocoon-like wraps. Soft little beanies of pink and blue atop misshapen little heads. There's about 100 of them all lined up. Or should I say 91 of them.
And like some sick, twisted fairy tale, there's a witch hovering over one of those beanies…a blue one… casting a frightening spell that will manifest itself in about 18-22 months, upon the happening of a certain event.
I want to shoo the witch away, but I am too late. I want to hear what she is chanting, but the glass is too thick. I need to know what will trigger the spell to come to pass. Some environmental toxin? Some vaccine? Some seemingly safe food that wreaks havoc on the digestive and immune systems…not too far off from the poison apple?
There are still days that I can't believe that my blue beanie was the one.
I remember shortly after Fabio was diagnosed 5 1/2 years ago…before I told anyone but the closest family and friends… I was at a carnival and spotted a woman with a boy about 5 years old. She wore a tee shirt with all the stats about autism on its back dating from the time it was 1 in 10,000 until the present. At that time, the most recent stats were 1 in 250. It cryptically stated: "Your child could be next". I could not take my eyes off her, her child, or her shirt.
Back then, I was haunted by that shirt and so worried about my son's future. I still worry about his future…every day as a matter of fact. But the idea that the numbers of children being diagnosed with ASD are rising too quickly to even make up such a tee shirt…now that's a scary thing.
At this rate, it'll be 1 in 75 by Christmas.
Someone really needs to kill that nursery witch. Fast. The survival of all our beanies depends on it.
Autism Statistics Now 1:100! October 5, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Children, Family, Health, Parenting, special education, special needs.
Tags: Autism, autism awareness, autism statistics, Children. Parenting, Ethel Kennedy Shriver, Family, HBOT, Health, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, special needs
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There's many stereotypes and generalizations about autistic kids. Like they don't handle change well…they like routine…they hate transitions. Well, maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this house.
I was on a roll with this blog when my aunt passed away in May. For three and a half months, I found it hard to carve out the time for blogging. It's not about just posting comments, but also about reading those of others. It's about sharing and connecting.
My aunt died. My routine was broken. I was unhappy about both. Then a new routine of not blogging set in without me really realizing it. And then that became a hard routine to break.
And so much has happened that was newsworthy in the public eye… as well as in our private life… that caused me to at least think "I gotta get back to my blog!" Yet I didn't.
I let horror stories go. I didn't pay proper respects at the loss of Ethel Kennedy Shriver, or of local autism heroes. I've been lax in reporting Fabio's HBOT progress or any of his milestones and challenges. There's a 100 posts in my head that never made it to the screen.
But today, in Newsday, my local newspaper, an article by Carla K. Johnson, entitled, New study reveals worrisome autism numbers, jogged me out of my fog and sent me running to the computer:
Two new government studies indicate about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders–higher than a previous U.S. estimate of 1 in 150.
Suddenly, I am moved to write again. But I am speechless.
Perhaps a moment of silence would be best…
Stroke: Autism's "Cousin" May 18, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Children, Family, grandparenting, Health.
Tags: Autism, autism and stroke, Children, Family, Health, Parenting, recovery from autism, recovery from stroke, special needs, stroke
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It's been awhile. My aunt's stroke has taken me away from the blog partly because of the physical things I need to do for her and partly due to the mental distraction of her situation.
She survived with mental faculties largely intact. Short- and long- term memory are great. Speech is pretty good. No facial drooping. But the right side of her body is essentially paralyzed. Can't move the arm or leg. She came out of the ICU, off the ventilator. Now stable.
And cursing. A blue streak. (This from a proper woman who never, ever cursed in her life!) She was being starved by a$$holes for God's sake! And mistreated by these bast@rds! Why, she was going to call her lawyer to start a suit against the whole lot of them morons!
Well, that was the status when I spoke to her last Thursday. So, I had to make the trip to Pennsylvania on Friday to straighten things out.
So, I arrive in under 4 hours, loaded down with dozens of fresh New York bagels and containers of cream cheese for each of the departments who have helped my aunt. Nothing shows your appreciation better than NY bagels!
Needless to say, the so-called bast@rds couldn't be more accommodating to me…or my aunt. The Director of Nutrition Services came up to go over her dietary wishes in painstaking detail assuring me that nothing undesirable would ever cross her plate again… and that she'd eat plenty. Her doctor came right in to update me.
Even the priest from her parish had gotten my message and showed up to bless her, which brought her much needed peace.
Then just as I was about to end my 7 hour visit and begin the long drive home, they discharged her from the hospital and moved her to its 9th floor Acute rehab center. Argh! So, I started all over with the new staff…who is wonderful. And a few more hours later, I left her in their competent hands to begin her 3 hours per day, intensive therapy regimen.
As I visited with her, I couldn't help but think about the parallels between autism and stroke. And it brought me sadness and frustration.
Like my son, she sometimes needed to "search" for the words she wanted to say. You could see from her face that they were in there somewhere and she was frustrated to have to make an effort to retrieve what was always so readily available. She will need speech therapy, like Fabio.
Fabio could certainly benefit from some occupational therapy (OT) for his pitiful little handwriting, but he doesn't qualify for OT services since his other fine motor skills are stong and bring up his overall score on the eval exam. But how can I complain about his scrawl as I watch my aunt trying to massage the life back into her right hand with her left one? She will need OT to relearn every skill she ever had like writing, washing, dressing, feeding.
Fortunately, Fabio is a wiz when it comes to all things physical. I am ever grateful for this gift as I am aware that many autistic children need quite a bit of physical therapy (PT). For my aunt, intensive PT is the most important therapy of all. She must try to regain the use of her right side if she ever wants to live independently again. She needs to be able to move. Herself. By herself. Safely.
It's independence or institution.
So, I sat there for hours…at times blankly smiling at my aunt while my mind secretly contemplated all these cosmic similarities between her situation and Fabio's…and I felt sadness and frustration. And I felt tired from the battle he's been fighting and from the one she must now take on.
But I spoke to her only of hope… though there is little for a complete recovery. A complete "recovery".
And then I thought of my boy. And the similarities.
And I am sad. And frustrated. And tired.
Update June 16,2009:
My aunt passed away on May 23, 2009, which is why I haven't been posting for some time. Thanks for your support and prayers.
Prayers and Good Thoughts Requested May 9, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Family, grandparenting, Health, religion.
Tags: Autism, Family, grandparents, Health, religion, stroke
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On April 25th, I wrote a post about my Aunt Angie's visit. Please read it now, if you haven't already.
I was a little exasperated by the way she played with Fabio constantly, but in a way that was too "in his face" and therefore frustrating to him at times. She kept trying to connect with him. I was frustrated at how hard it is to teach someone how to play with an autistic child…and at the fact that playing even has to be taught.
What Fabio really responded to was the way my Aunt Angie just loved him. It was when she would back off that he'd seek her out for hugs or kisses. And I'll never forget the memory of Fabio climbing into her bed in the morning and her responding by simply … instinctively… covering him up with the blanket and drawing him into her side for a snuggle.
Ten days after she went back home to Pennsylvania, she suffered a massive stroke.
For those who are so inclined, please pray for my aunt's recovery.
The world can not afford to lose someone like her. Fabio can't either.
Regression by Strawberry May 2, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, autism diet, Children, Health, school, specific carbohydrate diet.
Tags: Autism, autism diet, children's diet, food allergy, Health, homemade jam, phenols, salicylates, SCD, special needs, specific carbohydrate diet, strawberries
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Gotta love those care-free days of youth and all the fun school projects you do in special ed first grade. You've got the non-edible projects with macaroni and glue. And, occasionally, you get the edible ones.
And when your kid is on a totally restrictive special diet from hell , these projects are the ones that make you want to kill somebody. Or kill yourself. Oh, and it's extra special when you get only one night's notice about the project…
So the note comes home:
We're going to be making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in class tomorrow. Can you send something in so that Fabio can participate?
Unlike the hundred of thousands of kids who'd die from it, it's not the peanut butter that's a problem for Fabio. I have a special organic peanut butter with no additives that he loves.
And it's not the bread. I make Fabio bread from cashew butter, eggs, baking powder and a pinch of sea salt.
It's the freakin jam/jelly that is the challenge.
I've been canning jams and jellies for competition for almost 20 years, so thankfully, I have a leg up on most folks in that area. And I can substitute honey for sugar in the recipes. The trouble is the fruit options.
Fabio can eat many fruits, but not the ones that make popular jams. He can't tolerate berries, grapes, or apples due to their high natural salicylates and/or phenols. And what's worse is…he loves them. If you put out a bowl of blueberries and a cake, he'd go for the berries every time.
When he eats these fruits, he is in heaven. Until the next day. And the five to ten days thereafter. Yes, you heard me. The effects far outlast how long the food was in his body.
It's like a Jeckyl and Hyde thing.
He regresses across the board. Total loss of eye contact and any functional language. Very bad behaviors. Repeated tantrums. And it goes on for days! Of course, it's never worth the moment of pure joy he had while eating the coveted fruit. And yet again…
Still, every 6-12 months a situation will arise when the temptation is too great. When heroic efforts would be needed to avoid the fruit. When just enough time has elapsed since the last time to let me forget how hard those several days of hell are going to be on all of us.
When you think that maybe… just maybe… this time it will be different because maybe… just maybe… he somehow outgrew this allergy.
So I stay up til 2 am making this gorgeous, ruby-red strawberry jam for my little man. And I bake him a fresh loaf of his bread and slice it a bit thicker so he'll be able to spread on it without ripping. And I packed a little container of his peanut butter. And I crossed my fingers.
Sleepyhead walks in to the kitchen at 7am, sees the jam in his lunchbox, removes the container, and says very nonchalantly: "No thank you."
Umm… No freakin way!!! I thought. And… with the look of daggers coming from my tired eyes as I replaced the container in the lunchbox… I said through gritted smiling teeth:
"Mommy made you yummy jelly to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches today at school."
"No thanks." As he removes it again.
Okay, this is going nowhere. So, I give him a tiny taste. And in one instant a memory awakened inside him. And his green eyes widened. And he smiled. Big.
So he happily went off to school with the promise of more jam in his future. And I met him up there later to give him some enzymes to help him digest the berries. And he came home begging for more PB&J sandwiches…which I gave him… until the small allotted amount of jam was gone. And he was in heaven.
Until the next day when regression set in.
But I'm happy to say that it is less severe than it's been in the past. He has more language now and has retained it. Eye contact is okay for the most part. The bad behaviors are only evident when demands are placed on him that he doesn't want to do and even then, not as bad as before.
It gives me hope that my boy will someday be able to enjoy the simple pleasures in life.
Like fresh strawberries in the summer.
And maybe a friend to share them with.
Autism and the Tooth Fairy March 29, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Children, Family, humor, Parenting, special needs.
Tags: Autism, Children, Health, humor, losing teeth, Parenting, special needs, tooth fairy
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There's the autism world. There's the real world.
There's the bridge between the two worlds…that I imagine as one of those rickety, rotted, wooden suspension bridges with missing planks like you see in the Tarzan movies. Every day, desperate parents risk it all to cross over with their special kids. To bring them back from wherever it is they've escaped to. Back to the real world.
As if this isn't hard enough to make sense of…
There's also the fantasy world. Enter the tooth fairy.
Holy enamel, Batman! How do you freakin explain this concept to an autistic little boy? Do you even try?
Well, having a typical 11 year old who still sorta believes in all things magical..sorta…and who happened to lose one of her last few teeth on the exact same freakin day as Fabio lost his tooth, I had to face the fairy.
It has been about 2 years since Fabio lost his first two teeth in quick succession, so he doesn't remember anything about the fairy coming. This particular tooth has been hanging on for ages, so I knew the moment was coming. When Fabio flashed me his winning smile yesterday morning, there was no denying that the tooth…suddenly laying down flat forward in a pool of blood …had to be "helped" out of his mouth. Gross, I know.
After priming him all day, Fabio insisted on falling asleep in his regular spot…our bed…and on making a "tooth samwich" by putting the tooth between two pillows. He and his tooth were moved to his bed. His sister fell asleep with her tooth under her pillow. The tooth fairy left her standard $5.00 bill amid a dusting of glitter under her pillow. (You know…fairy wing dust!) For Fabio, it was a bit different…
I heard him stirring this morning and quickly went into his room in the hope he'd settle back to sleep. I found him sitting up with a dollar bill in one hand and a Kooky pen in the other. Did I mention that Kooky pens are his absolute favorite thing in the world and he'd do anything for one? I thought I got him to lay back down for a bit, but, like a lightbulb had gone off in his head, he jumped out of bed, rounded the corner and, before I could stop him, made it to his sister's bedside.
He snapped the light on, flung back her covers and turned over her pillow to reveal her haul. I know he thought he would steal her Kooky pen, but alas, she only had a five-spot. Yes he pocketed that anyway. And then he hit the lights and climbed into her bed for the first time ever and snuggled in for another hour of sleep.
So, he got it. Somehow, he made the leap from reality to fantasy. I don't know who or what he imagined the tooth fairy to look like, or how he thinks she exchanged the tooth for the goods, but he didn't freak over the concept of his tooth being gone or of the thought that someone or something came into his room in the night.
I think the key to making this a positive experience was the kooky pen. It was in making the reward something relevant and desirable for him. Just money would mean nothing to him…despite pocketing his sister's haul.
Let's hope the Easter Bunny goes as smoothly…
Share your own tooth fairy experiences here!
Autism and Stem Cell Research March 10, 2009Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Health, Parenting, politics, special needs.
Tags: Autism, Catholic Church, embryonic stem cells, frozen embryos, Health, IVF, Obama, politics, special needs, stem cell research
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With a stroke of his pen, President Obama may have just untied the hands of the researchers who needed federal funding so that they may use embryonic stem cells to cure diabetes, MS, Parkinson's… or even Autism.
As is often the case, I again find myself in an interesting position when it comes to the impact of something in the mainstream media spotlight. And some people have asked me my opinion on the debate over not only the use of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research… but the use of embryonic stem cells themselves, regardless of the funding source.
You see, I am Catholic. I have a child with autism who could someday benefit from embryonic stem cell research. And I've also found myself with a handful of frozen embryos …with no interest in becoming an octo-mom.
At the risk of over-simplifying things, I am glad we are getting past the moral/religious roadblock that is getting in the way of scientific/medical research which can cure millions of people.
Some people may say I am not a good Catholic, or not Catholic at all. I see myself as a more "modern" version of a Catholic. (That's what I imagine about 80% of the Catholics who are under the age of 75 to be.) I have rejected some mandates of the Church, but am a good and charitable person overall. I send my daughter to Catholic school, attend Mass when I can, and volunteer for many, many causes and events. It's important to me that my son be able to make his Communion some day, even if I must become a religious ed teacher for special needs kids to make that a reality.
I don't believe I am going to hell because I had my children through IVF (in-vitro fertilization) or because I may donate my frozen embyos to autism research or because my wearing of white at my church wedding was a questionable color choice. There are surely folks who disagree.
I feel that if God really didn't want me to have children, he would not have created my brilliant doctor. Maybe I needed to overcome obstacles so I'd be strong enough to parent a special needs child. Maybe I would have taken motherhood for granted…as so many moms of typical kids unwittingly and naturally do… if it came easily.
My point is that maybe there is a greater plan than any of us realize when we first look at how our lives are going. Who is to say? Maybe the daughter I conceived through IVF will grow up to be the researcher who cures diabetes. Maybe if I donated my frozen embryos to autism research, millions of children will be cured. Maybe my own son. Or yours.
Just as we all hope that the world will be more accepting and open-minded toward our special kids, I hope that people …maybe even the Church… will realize how important it is that we look at the bigger picture and the greater good that will be served from the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Millions of suffering adults and children may someday be cured and saved by using the countless frozen embryos… that would otherwise be discarded … for research purposes. Is is sad on some level that these embryos are not destined to be transferred into a ready uterus in the hope (not the guarantee) that they'd implant and develop into a viable child? Of course. But that is the reality. They are not going to be. You can't mandate that the biological parents use them or donate them to another couple. So why discard them?
I do not choose to be an octo-mom. So what is to become of these embryos? Certainly not donation, for what other infertile couple would knowingly choose embryos that may have a genetic predisposition for autism. Am I the only one who sees research as almost a no-brainer option?
And as for the use of federal funds, well, our government is so quick to send money all over the world for all sorts of causes that, again…in my opinion… curing autism or diabetes with embryonic stem cells is at least as important as saving the freakin spotted owl in the yucatan, or whatever.
Although I am defending some of the actions I've taken which are contradictory to my faith, I love my faith. With the hand I've been dealt, it certainly would be easier to walk away from one's faith than to stand by it. So, it's obviously important and a great source of strength to me . I practice as I do rather than not practice at all.
I live my life… and encourage my children to live theirs …by first and foremost being good people who do the right thing. Always. Even when its difficult…especially then. And do good things for others.
There is an opportunity for those children I will not be having to make a big difference in…maybe even save… the lives of millions. Maybe save my son. Or yours. I can't imagine God having a problem with that.
How do you feel about the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research as a cure for autism and other diseases/disorders?
Sarah Palin: Special Needs/Autism Advocate or Savvy Speaker? September 10, 2008Posted by hopeauthority in Autism, Children, Family, Health.
Tags: Autism, Children, Health, Parenting, politics, Sarah Palin, special needs
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It isn't often that I get to sit and watch TV… unless Noggin counts. With autism, there's always something to be done–no rest for the weary, as they say. So as I covered textbooks last week, I happened to catch Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC.
And I was surprised by the effect five simple sentences had on me:
"Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a special love. To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message. For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House…"
What a mixed bag of emotions she dealt me with those words.
My first thought was "She understands my plight. She's got my vote!" Then I wondered… if I really believed her (and boy did I want to believe her!)… could I vote based only on one single issue? Sure there's many out there who vote strictly based on one issue that they are most passionate about, like the right-to-life issue or the gay marriage issue. But I think most folks (myself included) weigh the candidates' positions on many issues before deciding who'll get their vote.
I admit my next two thoughts weren't very nice. I waffled between "What the hell is that baby doing out so late at such a loud, crowded, germ-ridden function?" and "She doesn't have any idea– yet–how hard raising a special needs child will be". It was almost like she hadn't yet earned the right to be our champion…like she doesn't have the special needs battle scars yet.
Then I thought: Who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth? It's not like there's a bunch of other candidates with special needs children throwing us a bone.
Sure, I hate the price of gas, am worried about the economy, and have my opinions on the war. But we live with autism 24/7 and the toll it takes on the whole family. We need real help and real programs and more research to support our children and our families as a unit. And I worry that any progress that has been made could be cut back as a casualty of the economic crisis. So, it sure wouldn't hurt to have a friend in high places.
Is the autism community at a point where we consider our cause to be the single most important issue in a presidential campaign? Is having a "special needs friend and advocate" in the White House enough –all by itself–to warrant your vote?


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We are all aware that online reputation management is important. With the online world, we can access information at our fingertips twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. This is fantastic when your brand is going good, but bad news when your brand isn't doing so well. It's of critical importance to pay attention to both the good and bad online about your brand.
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* Be present. People rarely expect companies to be perfect, but they do expect them to be human.
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Equality and the NFL: A Modest Proposal
Football players who call for equality are throwing rocks from a glass stadium. The NFL's high-paying jobs are only given to men with specific physical skills, while the rest of the people are pushed aside.
It's time for the league to start leading by example. The time is right for the NFL Equality Plan.
The first step in the plan is to guarantee everyone's right to participate in the games.
Every player in today's NFL is male, which is obviously unfair. The new balance will be 51% women, 47% men, and 2% transgenders. This means the 53-player roster of every team will have 27 women, 25 men, and one transgender person. Each team shall have 32 Caucasians, seven African-Americans, 10 Hispanics, three Asians, and one person of Native American heritage. At least three players will be gay.
Nor can we ignore age discrimination. Each NFL roster shall include seven players between ages 19 and 25, eight from ages 26-34, seventeen from 35-54, nine from 55-64, and ten players who are 65 or older.
The disabled will be fully represented in the new, inclusive league. Every team shall have no fewer than ten players with physical or mental impairments that significantly affect their major life activities.
The Office of Player Equality will monitor the composition of each team and assess penalties for non-compliance. Temporary, minor variations may be allowed – requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The demographic ratios will be regularly adjusted to stay current with population trends.
Next summer, the NFL will host gala events in every stadium to celebrate and welcome the newcomers, who will be called "rainbow players" to honor the complimentary aspects of humanity they represent.
To make room for the rainbow players, many current NFL players will be released from their contracts. This should not be a source of regret, since all these men have benefited unfairly from their physical privilege. The former players will be provided with job-placement services and exit counselling.
Bringing demographic justice to the NFL is only the first step. Without proper oversight, teams could still award their key jobs unfairly. For example, an unscrupulous coach might choose only non-disabled males under 40 to play quarterback, which is unacceptable. The Office of Player Equality will carefully assess how each team allocates its available playing time. All player salaries will, of course, be the same.
Injuries are an inevitable part of the game, but this must not disproportionately affect the rainbow players. The issue will be handled proactively, by placing any legacy player who hurts a rainbow player on co-injured reserve status. If only rainbow players were involved in the incident, the nearest legacy player will be chosen. The legacy player must stay on co-injured reserve until the rainbow player is well.


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Even from the train station, you can tell you're near Disney. It's about a 5-minute walk to the entrance gate.
Just inside the front gate are the classic characters, like Walmart greeters but younger. And mute.
Not everyone knew the park is open again and the weather was slightly cool, so it wasn't that crowded.
This is two photos smashed together to give you an idea of how many people were waiting in line to get their picture taken with Mickey.
Disney is ready for Easter!
Everybody's an egg!
Through the town of gift shops to the park.
Old-timey vehicle selling snacks to a mother accompanied by a child dressed as Donald Duck. That's something we noticed (well, Husband noticed, he's been to Disney World in FL much more often than I have) is that there are a lot more people dressing up like Disney characters here than in the US.
Taking pictures of all the egg characters became my mission in life.
First up, Adventureland! We did the Jungle Cruise to start the day. This Disneyland is owned and operated by a private company that rents the character licenses, which may be why they had absolutely no problem with anyone taking pictures inside or outside of any of the attractions.
I have no idea what our tour guide was saying.
This elephant is SO HAPPY!
A water buffalo having an argument with a python.
They've modified the Tiki House (Tiki Room? It's where the singing birds are.) to now include Stitch of Lilo and Stitch, which explains the spaceship crashed in the front yard.
We walked around the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse. The thing that struck me isn't the display itself, all the little rooms and signs, but the fact that everything was fake. The tree doesn't even contain a single splinter of real wood. It's not really a surprise, but it's a little revelation from someone who forgets at a distance and remembers up close.
The view of the castle from the treehouse.
On to the part themed like the old American west. Well, old American west with some liberties taken in terms of historical accuracy.
I think this cactus may be the only real plant in the whole park.
There's something extra amusing about going on the Tom Sawyer raft ride and being the only caucasians in sight.
On our way to the island of old west Americana, we were passed by a group of tourists in a canoe. Apparently canoeing your entire party around is one of the attractions. This group looked like they were having a blast, but we passed a pretty unhappy-looking family later.
It really is kind of picturesque.
Tom Sawyer's treehouse!
Like the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, also made of 100% fake wood.
Including a fake wasp nest.
Hey, what is that thing?
Oh, a suspension bridge. How helpful!
What's this? It appears to be Arizona.
Mesa under construction.
I don't remember a skull carved into the rock face (haha...rock face) that spits water, but if Disney had created the southwest, there probably would be. Our friend said he was looking into the mouth to see if he could tweak the settings of the water spitter, but I think he was really whispering sweet nothings. It kind of looks like it's blushing, doesn't it?
At Fort Sam Clemens, possibly built at 70% of original size, they had an old school US flag (13 stars), the only rifles on the grounds (fake, of course, cemented to the wall above a doorway where nobody could reach them...Japan isn't big on guns).
Upstairs we found some slots in the wall where we could snipe at the Mark Twain through the itty bitty rifle windows upstairs. You know, if those rifles weren't fake, if that boat weren't almost completely empty, and if we had declared war on steam boats.
Husband celebrating his American roots with a one-man drum circle in a synthetic teepee. Not that he's the least bit Native American, but he did seem to be having fun with the drum. I would have zoomed out further, but there wasn't any more room. It wasn't a large teepee, probably because it wasn't built for adults.
They're so polite about waste! I thought one wasn't supposed to be wasteful, but maybe they do things differently in the American Wild West of Japan.
I did like the water fountains.
After the old west, we visited, as you might guess, Critter Country.
We went to Splash Mountain. It lived up to its name.
Stroller parking lot.
Meal options at Tokyo Disney are probably different than in US Disney parks.
But they have wax display food! Have I mentioned that fake display food is one of my many favorite things about Japan?
This is what I had for lunch. It was tastier than you might expect. I've been here long enough that shrimp is a perfectly reasonable pizza topping.
Dwarf eggs.
I kept seeing people walking around in backpacks covered in plush toys or silly hats or headbands with ears. I really wanted some Cheshire Cat ears, but they didn't have any! I know, I'm sad too. So I got these instead. And the sunglasses, because I'd left mine at home. If I had seen the heart-shaped polka dotted ones first, I would have gotten those, but I can at least wear these with a little bit of dignity outside the grounds of Disneyland.
Yay, Cheshire Cat!
The vending machine in the Alice in Wonderland area.
We had to do the It's a Small World ride to see if it was any different. For the other rides, some of the animatronic dialogue and some of the songs were. Unfortunately, this one was (according to Husband) the same as it is in the US. It's a little creepy, but I think it's part of the charm.
Reminder: do not dance in the boat! No partying, this is a serious ride.
We didn't go in here, I just enjoy that the facade of the building is a giant book.
A brief stroll through Toon Town.
And on to Tomorrowland. The thing that cracked me up about this is that it has a giant "USA" painted on the side of the rocket...
...but a Japan Airlines departure gate sign out in front.
One man had a dream...and that dream was so successful that he dreamed up a sequel.
Random futuristic building near the Star Wars ride.
We also went to see Captain Eo, an almost-ride-but-mostly-very-long-music-video starring Michael Jackson circa 1987. The Japanese love Michael Jackson. I don't know if the movie was bad because I'm judging it by my current standards or because it's truly that bad, but it was bad. The "making of" video they showed in the lobby was more entertaining. I liked MJ as a musician and dancer and I still like his music, but I think he was never really cut out to be an underdog spaceship captain invading black and gray worlds filled with hissing cyberpeople to turn them rainbow-colored through the power of music and dance. I know, it sounds like a well-developed plot at the outset, but somehow it just didn't deliver.
We'd seen people sitting along the parade route all day, but it wasn't until the middle of the afternoon that we happened to catch one. Disney knows how to put on a parade. It looked like every float was customized for Easter, and it makes me wonder if they have that many giant floats for every holiday and where can they possibly keep them in a country where space is at such a premium. Parking garages in Tokyo will often have a conveyor system that will lift cars straight up because there simply isn't room for people to park in a parking deck. Where do you keep oversized, irregularly shaped things like these?
This float (Lilo and Stitch do Easter) was particularly terrifying.
Pastel Steampunk Easter Bunny is also a little unnerving.
On the way out we saw a guy in the Castle gift shop creating glass sculptures.
Waiting for the train back home we stood next to this gentleman with his fabulous shoes and delightful souvenir bag.
Overall, we considered the day a success.


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Some Android users are reporting that they can install Android apps directly from Google's search results from their mobile devices. Artem Russakovskii from Android Police shared a screen shot showing the install progress from within the mobile search results interface:
A Google spokesperson told Fortune, "Google always experimenting with ways to provide the best search results and help you find the content you need as easily as possible."
Typically, we need to go the Google play store to install any app, but now Google is working to bypass that step by making it easier to install Android apps directly from Google search results. This should help app developers get more app downloads, if it does indeed go live for all Android users.


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In hopes of curbing traffic congestion, Georgia legislative leaders have been working out the details of a funding plan that would let residents vote to tax themselves to pay for needed transportation improvements.
Getting transportation funding legislation through the statehouse has been difficult the past few years. The Georgia House and Senate have been divided on how to come up with the money to pay for roadwork.
During the 2009 regular session the Senate voted to allow counties to vote to form regions to plan and finance highway and transit projects in their communities. Residents could have voted whether to increase their local sales tax by a penny.
House lawmakers were in favor of a plan to ask voters to approve a one-cent statewide sales tax for roads and transit.
Neither chamber has been willing to give in on the issue, which has prevented progress on funding transportation projects. But there soon could be a compromise that could be approved in time for the 2010 elections.
According to a report in the Macon Telegraph, leading lawmakers may be willing to merge the two proposals. The result could be a plan to ask voters to authorize a half-cent statewide tax for state-determined projects, and also ask voters to allow single counties, or groups of counties, to implement a half-cent sales tax for local or regional projects.
Georgia now has a 4-cent sales tax.
Supporters of the compromise funding proposal say it would aid rural parts of the state get roadwork done, while giving metro areas the opportunity to pursue alternative strategies.
The General Assembly, which is led by Republicans, can take up transportation funding options once the regular session convenes in mid January. There is increased urgency for lawmakers to strike a deal before their seats are on the ballot in November 2010.
To view other legislative activities of interest for Georgia in 2009, click here.
– By Keith Goble, state legislative editor
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Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Mark Caelin.
As an industry, cloud computing services have matured to become a staple of information technology in the enterprise. Organizations of all sizes are using cloud computing to achieve economies of scale that could never have been reached with conventional on premises solutions. But while the benefits of cloud computing solutions may be obvious, at least anecdotally, measuring the actual cost benefits can be a bit more elusive.
By acquiring Cloudyn, a company that helps enterprises optimize their investments in cloud services, Microsoft is looking to add a toolset to Azure that can provide customers with a way to measure the cost benefits of cloud computing. It is an important step toward creating the dominant cloud services platform for business and confirms Microsoft's strategy of competing in a mobile-first, cloud-first world...
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Penguin Computing®, provider of high performance computing, enterprise data center and cloud solutions, today announced completion of the company's major technology transition to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform for all Penguin Computing product lines. "Penguin Computing's server solution offers an unrivaled array of compute and storage form factors, in standard 19" EIA, Open Compute and Tundra™ Extreme Scale platform," said William Wu, Director of Product Management, Penguin Computing.
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Rackspace today announced from the Microsoft Inspire conference in Washington, D.C. a relationship with Lightstream, a leading systems integrator, to deliver integrated Microsoft Cloud Solutions with specialized customer lifecycle support. Through this collaboration, Rackspace will provide custom tools, optimization and ongoing 24x7x365 Fanatical Support for customers who leverage Lightstream IT transformation and migration services for Microsoft Azure as well as other Microsoft Private Cloud and Microsoft Productivity Cloud solutions.
"As more enterprises adopt Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft cloud technologies, they often require assistance to help them reduce complexity -- from planning and migration to the ongoing tasks of scaling applications, managing costs, maintaining security and ensuring application uptime," said Ramakant Pandrangi, vice president and general manager of Microsoft Clouds at Rackspace. "This is where Rackspace and Lightstream are well-positioned to help. By coupling our robust Microsoft expertise, support and guidance, this collaboration provides a unique end-to-end experience for customers who want to optimize their Microsoft solutions."
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HyTrust, Inc., a leading workload security provider, today announced the acquisition of DataGravity, a data visibility and security company, to further automate and enhance security policy enforcement for workload data. The acquisition brings new data discovery and classification expertise that expand HyTrust data security solutions focused on protecting workload data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but members of the DataGravity team will be joining HyTrust.
Also, today HyTrust announced it has raised $36 million in new funding, with this latest round of investment going towards expanding its sales and marketing efforts, and for new product development and acquisitions.
The DataGravity acquisition comes at a time of rapid growth in the cloud security solutions market. According to Forrester, the global cloud security solutions market will grow 28 percent annually over the 2017 to 2021 period, from $1.5 billion in 2017 to $3.5 billion in 2021.
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Arcserve, LLC, whose breakthrough data protection and availability solutions deliver enterprise power with small team simplicity, today announced the acquisition of Zetta, a leader in cloud-first disaster recovery (DR) solutions and data center IP. Zetta's offerings provide organizations with direct-to-cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and backup as a service (BaaS) to quickly and reliably protect, access and recover virtual and physical data without the need for extra hardware. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This transaction further increases Arcserve's market share on the heels of the company's recent email archiving technology acquisition.
"The acquisition of Zetta advances our cloud solution with technology, data centers and expertise that places Arcserve at the forefront of the backup and recovery industry," said Mike Crest, CEO of Arcserve. Jeff Whitehead, CTO of Arcserve and former CTO of Zetta, added, "Arcserve and Zetta share the same passionate focus on customer success and delivering the world's foremost data protection innovation. Becoming a part of Arcserve presents us with an amazing opportunity to invest further in our technology and gives our customers access to a broader portfolio of data protection solutions with continued global support."
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Red Hat introduced the next generation of Red Hat OpenShift Online, the industry's first open source, container-native, multi-tenant cloud platform. Based on the same Linux container- and Kubernetes-based foundation as the award-winning Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Online gives developers the ability to more quickly and easily build, deploy and scale cloud-native applications in a public cloud environment.
Since OpenShift Online's launch in 2011 it has hosted more than three million applications built by hundreds of thousands of individual developers, startups, educational institutions, ISVs and enterprise organizations around the world, making it one of the industry's most popular developer platforms to build any app, anywhere, at any scale on the public cloud.
OpenShift Online enables developers to build cloud-native apps on a cloud-based container platform without having to worry about the inherent complexity of provisioning, managing and scaling applications as demands change. With operations and management provided by Red Hat in the public cloud, developers can focus on writing the code for their business, prototyping new features, or working on their next big idea--all in a self-service environment.
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Quest Software, a global systems management and security software provider, today announced the availability of Quest On Demand, a new, cloud-hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that makes it simple for IT administrators to manage and secure Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) workloads. The first release of Quest On Demand delivers solutions that make it easy for organizations to rapidly backup and recover Azure AD and Office 365 users, attributes, groups and group membership. Additionally, it allows for secure access to Microsoft Exchange Online and Skype for Business Online features through automated policy management.
On Demand, the first SaaS platform from the Quest Microsoft Platform Management (MPM) business, delivers automation at scale. With On Demand, customers no longer need to install and configure on-premises software nor manage the roll-out of updates. The On Demand platform is ready to use after a few clicks and integrates the core security features built into Azure to ensure data integrity and security. Now, IT organizations can innovate faster, lower costs, and take advantage of enhanced security.
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Spanning Cloud Apps LLC, the leading provider of SaaS data protection, today announced the expansion of its executive team to help the company meet the increasing demand for its backup and recovery solutions for SaaS applications. As the company continues to grow across the globe and expand its product portfolio, these new appointments will help fuel product innovation and sales growth.
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Chad Savoy has joined Spanning as Vice President, Worldwide Sales, where he will develop strategies to help the company achieve its aggressive sales goals. Prior to joining Spanning, Chad served as Vice President of Sales at Vyopta Incorporated. He has also held Vice President of Sales positions at Datadog, Cornerstone OnDemand and SolarWinds, where he helped create and refine the SolarWinds sales process. Recognized as a best practice in the software industry, SolarWinds sales process contributed significantly to growing the company from a start-up to a profitable publicly traded company.
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"Viptela Cloud onRamp has transformed the user experience for our cloud-based services," said Pascal Heger, Global Network Architect for Agilent Technologies. "For example, Microsoft Office 365 response times have improved dramatically, especially at our international sites. We have fewer screen-freezes and a more responsive application experience. Viptela Cloud onRamp also enables a seamless migration to AWS."
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Talend, a global leader in cloud and big data integration solutions, today unveiled a new set of connectors for the Talend Data Fabric platform that helps customers rapidly migrate enterprise-wide data sources to Microsoft Azure to build more intelligent and scalable cloud data pipelines for real-time analytics.
"Today's companies understand cloud technology is becoming the new growth engine for their business and are eager to bridge legacy, on-premises data with the new world of cloud-powered big data lakes," said Ashley Stirrup, CMO, Talend. "Teaming with Microsoft allows us to deliver a complete solution for scaling big data workloads in the cloud. While other data integration solutions only connect with a few data sources, our Summer '17 release of Talend Data Fabric includes in-depth, native functionality to help customers quickly migrate a broad range of on-premise data sources to the Azure cloud and optimize cloud data pipelines, speeding time to insight."
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Five9, a leading provider of cloud software for the enterprise contact center market, today announced the availability of Summer Release 2017, the latest major release of the award winning Virtual Contact Center(VCC). This release provides a global contact center solution that meets the requirements of today's leading multinational enterprises.
Today's global enterprises aspire to engage with customers consistently, regardless of location or device. However, legacy systems have hampered their transformation to today's digital world, leading to poor and inconsistent customer experience. Five9 Summer Release 2017 provides these global enterprises a complete omnichannel solution with a holistic view of their customers' journey across all touchpoints. Enterprises can easily engage with customers anywhere in the world, intelligently distributing interactions to the right agent regardless of location. Most importantly, Five9 delivers all these capabilities on a modular microservices-based architecture, enabling enterprises to maintain the rapid pace of innovation required to compete in today's fast-paced consumer centric world.
The Five9 Summer Release 2017 includes four key areas:
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Engility Holdings, Inc. has joined the Cloud Security Alliance, the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help secure cloud computing environments.
"Joining CSA means our customers gain the best possible path forward when addressing cloud computing challenges," said Gay Porter, vice president of Engility's Technical Solutions Group. "We look forward to collaborating with others in the industry to maintain best practices and drive innovation and advancements around cloud security. We bring extensive systems engineering and enterprise modernization expertise and solutions, such as the recently introduced Cloud ASCEND™."
Engility's Cloud ASCEND™ combines state-of-the-art commercial cloud tools with a proprietary methodology and team of certified cloud experts to transform organizations' digital enterprise. Scalable and tailorable, the tool designs secure and resilient cloud and hybrid enterprise architectures. These new architectures can be modeled using computer-aided design tools before any applications are actually migrated to the cloud. Cloud ASCEND also develops and tests systems bound for the Intelligence Community's (IC) C2S cloud in an unclassified emulator, saving time and money while helping to design the optimal solution based on specific client needs.
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Microsoft Corp on July 10 unveiled a new service that allows customers to use its cloud technology on their own servers, part of the company's efforts to refocus its product line to compete more effectively with rivals Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google. The world's biggest software maker is looking to carve out a niche among customers who cannot or do not want to move all their computing operations to the massive shared data centres that are collectively known as the cloud.
"One of the key differentiations we have with Azure versus our two biggest competitors in the cloud platform space is our ability to support true hybrid solutions," Judson Althoff, Microsoft's executive vice president of worldwide commercial business, told Reuters. Azure is Microsoft's cloud-computing platform, pegged by most market share studies as second in cloud computing behind Amazon Web Services...
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The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) wants to connect Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum subject matter experts. "Together, we will learn from and build upon the only smart contract supporting blockchain currently running in real-world production – Ethereum – to define enterprise-grade software capable of handling the most complex, highly demanding applications at the speed of business," states the EEA website.
Store of Value recently published a short EEA explainer, noting that the EEA wants to create open-source standards for corporations to develop their own Ethereum implementations, while ensuring that applications built on Ethereum-derived platforms will run on all Ethereum platforms. Many high-profile banks and financial operators, which have joined the EEA, are listed in the EEA news page...
Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.
International Business Machines Corp. is revamping its Global Technology Services division, which helps customers run their computer networks, to rely more heavily on artificial intelligence. The new AI-capability will help IBM's customers minimize disruptions such as server outages or switching malfunctions by predicting problems before they occur and automatically taking corrective action, such as brokering additional cloud capacity or rerouting network traffic around bottlenecks, Bart van den Daele, general manager of IBM Global Technology Services in Europe, said in an interview.
The product offering, powered by IBM's Watson cognitive computing platform, will enable the company to maintain its market share in IT network infrastructure management, Van Daele said. New York-based IBM has been struggling to pivot from reliance on older products like computers and operating system software and into higher-growth areas like AI and the cloud...
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WekaIO, a venture backed high-performance cloud storage software company, today emerged from stealth to introduce the industry's first cloud-native scalable file system that delivers unprecedented performance to applications, scaling to Exabytes of data in a single namespace. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, WekaIO has developed the first software platform that harnesses flash technology to create a high-performance parallel scale out file storage solution for both on-premises servers and public clouds.
WekaIO is the world's fastest distributed file system, processing four times the workload compared to IBM Spectrum Scale measured on Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) SFS 2014, an independent industry benchmark. Utilizing only 120 cloud compute instances with locally attached storage, WekaIO completed 1,000 simultaneous software builds compared to 240 on IBM's high-end FlashSystem 900. The WekaIO software utilized only 5% of the AWS compute instance resources, leaving 95% available to run customer applications.
Grazed from CrescentVale. Author: Editorial Staff.
The AWS Summit Chicago will be taking place this upcoming July 26 & 27 at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center in downtown Chicago. Guests will be able to connect with individuals within the tech community to learn and network together. The event hosts a unique 'Security Jam' that provides a creative space for developers and engineers to explore new forms of security trends in cloud computing.
AWS Summit Chicago will host a wide range of workshops, meetings, keynotes and events to experience. Overall, everyone can learn something for AWS Summit Chicago, but they do help guide those with more work experience to different sections of the agenda...
Read more from the source @ http://crescentvale.com/2017/07/attend-aws-summit-chicago-free-learn-cloud-computing-new-technology/
Grazed from 1RedDrop. Author: Shudeep Chandrasekhar.
Google today launched a much-anticipated desktop app called Backup and Sync. Not one to mince words, the company is encouraging users to sync whatever media they have on their local systems to a location in the cloud. Essentially, it's going to act as a replacement for older Drive client applications, as well as for the older Photos app.
The tool will be mindful of any existing settings you have on your Mac or PC for backups, but you can basically sign into your Google account and specify which folders need to be backed up regularly to Google Cloud. Not only does Backup and Sync keep your desktop backed up at all times, but it can also access and sync data from external memory devices like USB sticks, hard drives, cameras and SD cards...
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PacHosting, a leading Platform Aggregated Cloud Solution Provider, unveiled a new cloud service "LayerStack" to expand its cloud portfolio over the past several months. LayerStack committed to compete at a higher level in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and strengthen its cloud service business to enhance competitiveness in future. LayerStack strives to offer greater IT efficiency and capabilities for all businesses in Asia Pacific region with a series of launches in 2017 including SSD Cloud Servers, Load Balancer, Offsite Backup Solution and Virtual Private Cloud based on multi-data center architecture.
Cloud Strategy and Implementation in APAC
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OwnBackup, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application backup and restore vendor, today announced the close of a $7.5 million Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based private equity and venture capital firm and one of the world's largest investors in high-growth software companies. Existing investors Innovation Endeavors, Oryzn Capital and Salesforce Ventures also participated in the round, which constitutes a minority equity stake.
The round comes on the heels of an explosive year for OwnBackup, with 330% year-over-year revenue growth in 2016. Users of SaaS applications are increasingly turning to OwnBackup for data protection, archiving, compliance and development enablement. These organizations are fueling a burgeoning market for cloud-to-cloud private backup, recovery and replication services. The new capital will fuel the company's continued expansion and speed product innovation, including backup and recovery services for additional SaaS applications and the simplification of test data environments for developers working with SaaS applications.


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What's the first thing that comes to mind when someone talks about London, England? Grey.
You couldn't be more right. It's just that, grey.
But in its grey and rainy coating lies history and character.
My first visit back in March 2012 stretched over a 24 hour layover. Arriving in the small town of Gatwick where I could stretch my arms from side to side and touch both sides of the road, to a short train trip into London.
Besides squealing with excitement, I remember thinking "grand, this city is grand". You could just smell royalty!
Walking through London Victoria Station was surreal. I'd never seen so many people jogging in all different directions. It's a wonder no collisions have been reported.
Hyde Park next to Westminster, much different by comparison to others I've walked through was so well maintained. Luscious greens, perfectly trimmed grass, bouquets of flowers oozing with glorious colours. And the lawn chairs? Were they bolted to the ground because where I'm from they wouldn't last long enough for someone to take a picture.
My first real fish and chips lunch with a pint of beer. The sizes were enormous! Was this normal? I tried to be discreet and check out the situations at other nearby tables. Later, I realized that when ordering a beer in the UK one must ask for 'half pint' otherwise you end up with a fish owl.
And just like that it was over. I returned home from my first real taste of what my future will look like.
Aside from the exhaustion, slight jet lag, and not enough words in my vocabulary to describe what I was feeling I was the happiest girl in the world! And I couldn't wait to get back on that plane to another adventure.


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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
Description of problem:
Every time I boot or try to install I recieve an error that repeats for
about 3-5min here is the error
"partition check:
hda: hda: timeout waiting for dma
hda: irq timeout: status=x58 {DriverReady SeekComplete DataRequest}" This
error keeps repeating for 3-5min then the system boots like normal.
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot the system
2.Try to install from the cd
Additional info: I have a ATA 100mb Western Digital Hard-Drive 30gb.
Does it work if you pass "ide=nodma" to the lilo / syslinux prompt ?
I will try that tonight.
I too have this problem anytime I try to mound a CD. Additionally my system is
locked up while I am getting all of the timeouts.
Adding 'ide=nodma' to the lilo command line fixes the problem.
Yea I tried the "ide=nodma" and my system works like a charm now. Thanks alot
for the help. So does that mean that Kernal 2.4 doesn't support the 100mb
transfer rate of the new IDE hard-drives?
The kernel supports it, but it seems that once it tries to use it, your
hardware starts to give errors. This is most often the result of a cableproblem.
Is your IDE cable of the "80 ribbon" type, and not too long ?


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A Winter Solstice Message
In this issue:
Level I Classes
Winter Solstice
The Still Voice Within
Some Essences for Deep Reflection
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January and February
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Tresa... Burlington, WI
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Winter Solstice
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~Hamilton Wright Mabi~
The Still Voice Within
Warm Winter Greetings to our WOTE Famiy:
I wish you many blessings on this Solstice eve. Solstice means to standstill, to pause. The shortest day and the darkest night reminds me of a time long ago. A time when we remembered our connection to the deep forest, to our star family, and to the Earth. It signals a time of deep reflection which allows us to contemplate on who we have been and what lessons we have learned this year from our Earth school.
We came here to this planet from many other off world locations and dimensional realms to assist in the global transition now underway into a higher vibratory frequency of existence. As difficult as these times are at the moment, we do have the capacity to get through this process and
even greater through this transition. I know for a lot of us, this process has been excruciating, but if we choose to sit in this stillness, we can come to an understanding of the purpose of it all. This awakening that has been predicted for so long is unfolding right before our eyes.
Did we think it was going to be easy? Did understand what it meant? Certainly not. There is a collapsing of what we have known. A new process is being birthed and we are about to be pushed from the birth canal into a whole new reality.
At this stage of our evolution it is vital that we consciously anchor our collective soul power to the alignment of the whispers of our soul. This still small voice within us is what leads us to experience life loving our own soul, and loving what we share with others.
This soul alignment happens when we are in a state of deep meditation and with our awareness, focus entirely on our own soul. With this awareness and acceptance of our true nature, we can then join with humanity , to plant the seeds of love, honor, integrity, so that we may all serve the common good for all peoples.
During these high holy days, I hope you will take the time to get quiet, to still the mind and connect deeply with your soul. At this time, the end of 2016 and the ending of this tumultuous year, appreciate all that soul has provided for you and plant the seeds for a new beginning. Keeping your focus on the magnificence of what we are to become as a human race. Keep your vibration high. Don't go into fear or worry. See and feel the world you want to create.
We at Wisdom of the Earth wish each one of you a Blessed Solstice, Happy Holiday and a very Happy New Year.
With so much love,
Cynthia and the WOTE Folk
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Brings us to the ancient forest of remembering. It is an incredible passage essence which allows us to move thru any transition with grace and ease
Ambrette Seed-
- Breaks through the time/space illusion.She helps you to travel through dimensions and can take you to abstract worlds. Good for planting new seeds in our lives.
Oak Moss
-- She bridges the gap between the physical and spiritual worlds and allows you to go deep within so that you can allow your heart expand ever wider. She works with the hidden chamber of the heart... the tiny little space within the heart.
-- Lifts the spirit and brings forth a sense of well-being.
-- Brings you to seeing yourself in a new light.Myrtle breathes its soft fragrance into the sacred spaces within, crating a temple within your soul.
-- Ancient and mysterious, she helps release the bitterness of hidden rage allowing the heart to open to cosmic energies.
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On Tuesday, February 27th, at the East Aurora Hampton Inn, the Greater East Aurora Chamber of Commerce and the SBA will be providing an opportunity for small business owners to meet-one-on-one with buyers looking for qualified, quality small businesses to purchase products and services they need for their operations. Goods & services would be purchased from the lowest, responsible bidder on the basis of price, specifications, product evaluation and delivery.
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5 Tips on The best ways to Find the most effective Bike Store
Bike stores can often be daunting, particularly if you're brand-new to biking. You walk in and also the shop is crowded with bikes and also bike components. Yet the fact of the matter is that most bicycle-store staff members are cyclists who want the sporting activity, as well as would certainly enjoy to share their expertise with you.
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2. Knowledge: You intend to locate a bike shop with expert staff. The best personnel is one who has a passion for cycling and also who enjoy to share their exhilaration for bikes with others. The bike market has several solution courses for mechanics, and also there should be at the very least one employee with this kind of training. You will wish to discover a bike store that could give you tailored solution as well as expert recommendations.
3. Year-round solution: One of the best times to capitalize on the solutions of a bike store is throughout the winter. During peak season, the bike shops are sometimes supported and also you may not be able to get a consultation if you require one. One benefit of year-round service is awaiting spring.
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5. Quick Bike Repair service: In choosing a best bike store, you want to discover a store that has a quick turn-around time for bike fixing. You will want to look for a company that can provide you an estimate of what does it cost? your repair work will cost, and could tell you a day that it will certainly be done by. You will certainly additionally want to make sure that you ask any type of as well as all inquiries, and also voice all concerns that you could have when bringing in your bike. This is a wonderful way to make certain everybody is on the same web page as well as you will enjoy with your experience.


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Why Date.com Didn't Make The "Best 3 Classified Personal Ads List: A Review of Date.com
There are 3 kinds of classified personal ads sites; good, bad, and really bad. Date.com fits in the "bad" category. It's not bad to the point where we have to call it a complete scam. But it's not good enough for us to recommend the site to our readers. There are really two main reasons Date.com didn't make it into our Best 3 Classified Personal Ads List…
- Not enough women compared to the amount of guys that are on Date.com (6 to 1 ratio)
- The women aren't attractive enough overall for our liking
Call us shallow if you must, but we do have standards with the women we date. And we think you should too. We simply were not impressed with the girls of Date.com in terms of physical appearance. We weren't even impressed with their personalities. Yeah, there are attractive women on there. We're not trying to say it's a site filled with the nastiest women on Earth.
It's just that there are far more unattractive women than not. But that isn't our only issue with Date.com. Even if you're not concerned with looks (and props to you for being less shallow than we are), don't expect to get many (if any) dates on Date.com.
There are a lot of disadvantages on this site for men. It's not just the high percentage of unattractive women. When you're interested in a girl, you'll be up against dozens (if not HUNDREDS) of other men. It's basically like walking into a crowded bar filled with 200 guys and 5 girls. Try scoring some digits with those numbers!
Date.com: Our Results On Date.com Over 3 months
- 270 email messages were sent to random women we hadn't previously spoken to.
- 44 of those email messages were responded to by the women (please note: not EVERY response was genuine).
- 2 dates were set-up with different women between the 2 guys reviewing the website.
Our reviews consisted of a 3-month membership because that is the period of time we believe it takes to accurately analyze a classified personal ads site. You can have some immediate good luck or bad luck on just about any dating site. But you shouldn't use that short-term success (or lack of success) to base your opinion of the site.
We didn't have initial success on Date.com (first week). But we didn't let that detract us from keeping an open mind about the site. After one week, only 2 girls had messaged us back and none of those girls seemed interested in meeting up. No big deal. We were thinking long-term, so we stuck with it. After week two, the results were similar. Again, we weren't too concerned. Our mind was set on compiling 3-month results and seeing where we were at.
By the third week, we sort of figured we weren't going to get very far on Date.com. Yet again, another piss-poor week of results on there. At this time, we were having some doubts about Date.com. However, we weren't going to give up. We swore to last 3-months on every classified personal ads site, so that's what we were going to do…no matter what.
As the weeks went on, not much changed. About a month into our Date.com membership, we were able to finally get a date set-up. It wasn't with the most attractive girl we had seen by any means, but at least it was something! Late in our membership (3 days before it expired), we scored another date. This girl was a bit more attractive but she had 3 kids and was only 25 years old (pretty common for a woman on Date.com).
By the time we were done, we were quite disappointed. Yes, there are worse places to try to meet women. But there are definitely better ones too. You just can't get enough women to respond to your emails on Date.com. There's way too much competition. Even if your emails are the bomb, most of them will go unnoticed. Too many other guys are sending messages and the girls will only read and respond to so many.
Date.com: What We Hated About Date.com
Hate is a strong word and is probably best saved for some of the other sites we tested out. We just didn't like Date.com. Quite a few things bothered us about Date.com. The top 4 things were…
- Women not up to our standards appearance-wise.
- Unfair disadvantage for men because of the male to female ratio (more than 6-1).
- Date.com is often a very slow loading website.
- Date.com clearly does not value their customers. Responding to our questions was something they apparently don't care to do.
Date.com Review: Is Date.com Any Good?
To be perfectly honest with you…Date.com isn't a good classified personal ads site. There are at least 20+ websites out there very similar to Date.com. They're not scam sites, per se, but they just aren't very good places to meet women. Getting a date is hard enough on this site. Heck, just getting women to talk to you is a difficult task.
We prefer sites that are more advantageous for men. If the male to female ratio is above 2:1, you probably won't get many dates. That's why we choose Xpress.com and recommend it to our readers. It has a far more favorable male to female ratio than Date.com. And, quite frankly, the women on Xpress.com are MUCH better looking.
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October 11, 2013 at 5:03 pm
I was fooled by that review that I read for this site! The person obviously was in a rush to get people registered here, I thought it was a good thing so I did. And guess what happened next? My computer was infected with a virus! Darn it!
October 12, 2013 at 8:19 am
Date.com really knocked me off! In comparison to the last dating and cheating site that I tried, this one is the worse! I am sure I will never extend another minute in this hell place! I?d be wrapping this and get my but from this crappy world of bitches!


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