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Introduction: The Cloud as a Point of IT and Business Disconnect
For years, the benefits of moving to the cloud - including lowered costs, flexibility and faster time-to-market - have been espoused. But among IT professionals, there remains widespread reticence about migrating mission-critical applications over, due in large part to performance concerns. "Can the cloud really deliver the same level of speed and reliability as physical services?" IT asks. Business managers often minimize or downplay these worries, saying that the potential business benefits to be reaped are just too mission-critical to ignore.
Therein lies a major conflict. Regardless, as numerous surveys like this one from IDC demonstrate, cloud adoption is moving forward at a rapid pace. Clearly, the cloud is where we're headed. IT must learn to accept the cloud as just part of how services are delivered today, rather than some exotic and potentially dangerous new technology. The good news is IT's concerns about application performance are not insurmountable and can actually be eased with specific approaches.
This article will discuss factors leading to IT's wariness of the cloud. It will also highlight recent survey findings that show just how concerned IT professionals actually are, even as organizations move to the cloud en masse. Finally, the article offers several recommendations to help assuage IT's concerns and minimize risks as cloud adoption continues at a rapid clip.
Why Is IT Uneasy?
It would seem that cloud computing and high performance should go hand-in-hand. Theoretically, performance for cloud-based applications should match that of applications hosted on physical servers, assuming the configuration is right. However, in the real world, many factors can impact the performance of cloud-based applications, including limited bandwidth, disk space, memory and CPU cycles. Cloud customers often have little visibility into their cloud service providers' capacity management decisions, leaving IT professionals with a sense of distrust.
IT's concerns are exacerbated by the fact that when major cloud services do fail, they tend to fail spectacularly. Media often flock to this news like vultures, further undermining IT's confidence. As an example, this past summer Apple's iCloud service, which helps connect iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices to key services, went down for more than six hours. This captured headlines around the world. While Apple claimed that the outage impacted less than one percent of iCloud customers, the sheer size of this user base - 300 million users - translated to approximately three million users being disconnected from services for 11 hours. Shortly thereafter, an Amazon EC2 outage rocked Instagram, Vine, Netflix and several other major customers of this cloud service, inflicting unplanned downtime across all of them and igniting a frenzy of negative press.
In an attempt to ease IT's worries, several cloud service providers have begun offering "premium" performance features along with cloud instances. For example, Amazon EC2 now offers its customers dedicated IOPS (input/output operations per second) to benchmark disk performance. Other cloud service providers are also marketing ways to configure their platforms for different performance thresholds. The challenge here is that few companies can afford premium features for every cloud-based node and service. Without a view into the cloud's impact on end-user performance on the other side of the cloud, it is nearly impossible to identify poor end-user performance, never mind where these premium features could be applied for maximum ROI.
Finally, an awareness of their growing - and often precarious - reliance on cloud services further forces IT to face their own vulnerability. Enterprise use of cloud technology grew 90 percent between early 2012 and mid 2013, according to Verizon's recent "State of the Enterprise Cloud Report." Another important trend worth noting is that businesses are hosting less and less of what gets delivered on their websites. Instead, they're relying on a growing number of externally hosted (third-party) web elements to enrich their web properties, such as ad servers and social media plug-ins. This often results in a company becoming a cloud customer indirectly, without their even knowing it.
Recent Survey Results Demonstrate IT's Wariness
Recently, Research in Action (on behalf of Compuware) conducted a survey of 468 CIOs and other senior IT professionals from around the world, which determined cloud computing to be the top IT investment priority. No surprises there, as clearly these professionals are being driven by the promised benefits of greater agility, flexibility and time-to-value.
What is surprising is the fact that 79 percent of these professionals expressed concern over the hidden costs of cloud computing, with poor end-user experience resonating as the biggest management worry. According to the survey, here are the four leading concerns with cloud migration:
- Performance Bottlenecks: (64%) Respondents believe that cloud resources and e-commerce will experience poor performance due to cloud application bottleneck usage.
- Poor End-User Experience: (64%) End users may end up dissatisfied with the cloud performance due to heavy traffic from application usage.
- Reduced Brand Perception: (51%) Customer loyalty may be greatly reduced due to poor experience and poor cloud performance.
- Loss of Revenue: (44%) Companies may lose revenues as a result of poor performance, reduced availability or slow technical troubleshooting services.
Ironically, these responses come at a time when the cloud is increasingly being used to support mission-critical applications like e-commerce. More than 80 percent of the professionals surveyed are either already using cloud-based e-commerce platforms or are planning to do so within the next year. It's evident that even as cloud adoption marches forward, a layer of trepidation remains, at least among IT staffs.
Business managers believe the efficiency benefits of the cloud are just too mission-critical to ignore. But IT's primary concern - application performance - is also mission-critical, and perhaps a bit more visceral and tangible. After all, a major service outage is a blatant, clear-cut scenario while efficiency gains or losses are often more subtle and less quantifiable. Ultimately, it's IT that takes the blame when business services don't work exactly as planned.
It used to be that issues like security and cost dominated the list of cloud concerns. But application performance is increasingly making headway as users grow more demanding. For the average user, 0.1 seconds is an instantaneous, acceptable response, similar to what they experience with a Google search. As response times increase, interactions begin to slow and dissatisfaction rises. The impact of a slowdown can be devastating: Amazon has calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. In addition, Google found that slowing search response times by just four-tenths of a second would reduce the number of searches by eight million per day - a sizeable amount.
Getting the Performance You Need from the Cloud
As more and more companies begin or extend their journey to the cloud, there are things IT can do to increase their comfort level. These include:
1. Don't Be Afraid to Experiment: Cloud computing offers businesses the opportunity to leverage computing resources they might not otherwise have the expertise or wherewithal to employ. But it can be intimidating to move critical operations out of one's own hands. That's where free trials come in. A number of cloud computing vendors offer free test runs that let companies figure out how cloud services would meld with their current operations.
Getting the most out of a trial period takes some planning and effort, and this includes making certain to measure the cloud service provider's performance. Unfortunately, most cloud service providers today don't measure and provide performance statistics as part of these trial periods, so it's incumbent upon prospective customers to do so. It's often best to experiment in the cloud with a non-critical system, such as a sales support application that doesn't have a huge impact on customers, should performance degrade. Organizations should also be sure to measure performance for as broad a cross-section of users as possible.
2. Insist on Performance-Focused SLAs: Inherent cloud attributes like on-demand resource provisioning and scalability are designed to increase confidence in the usability of applications and data hosted in the cloud. But the most common mistake that people often make is interpreting availability guarantees as performance guarantees in a cloud computing environment. Availability shows that a cloud service provider's servers are up and running - but that's about it. Service-level agreements (SLAs) based on availability say nothing about the user experience, which can be significantly impacted by the cloud - such as, when an organization's "neighbor" in the cloud experiences an unexpected spike in traffic. Yet, despite the mission-critical nature of many cloud applications, our survey found that 73 percent of companies are still using outdated methods like availability measurements to track and manage application performance.
The fact is that most traditional monitoring tools simply don't work in the cloud. Effectively monitoring and managing modern cloud-based applications and services requires a new approach based on more granular user metrics such as response time and page rendering time. This approach must be based on an understanding of the true user interaction "on the other side" of the cloud. It must enable cloud customers to directly measure the performance of their cloud service providers and validate SLAs. With this type of approach, cloud customers can be better assured that application performance issues will not undercut the benefits of moving to the cloud. In addition, an understanding of true end-user experiences across key geographies can help companies identify the most strategic opportunities for applying premium performance features, as discussed above.
3. Utilize Industry Resources: There are resources available to help companies better assess if the source of a performance problem lies with them or with a cloud service provider, as well as the likely performance impact on customers. As an example, Compuware's Outage Analyzer is a free new generation performance analytics solution that tracks Internet web service outages, including cloud service outages, in real-time around the world. Outage Analyzer provides instant insight into the performance of thousands of cloud services and the resulting impact on the websites they service. Resources like this may not prevent cloud service outages from happening, but they can help companies better understand the source of performance problems so they can get in front of them more confidently and efficiently.
Conclusion: Cloud Computing Is the "New Normal"
Like it or not, cloud computing is here to stay, and its adoption will only accelerate further in the years to come. In many ways, the move to the cloud is reminiscent of the adoption of Linux. At one time, IT administrators had significant concerns about Linux, including its scalability and reliability. But sure enough, businesses continued their adoption of Linux, propelled largely by the promise of lower costs and greater efficiencies. Today, Linux is a well-integrated component of corporate data centers worldwide.
In reality, neither IT nor the business is wrong when it comes to their strong opinions on adopting the cloud for mission-critical applications. Ultimately both sides share the same goal, which is to maximize a company's revenues and profits. It's just that the two teams approach the problem differently: IT emphasizes application performance as a means of driving productivity and conversions, while business leaders look to increase cash flow, seek greatest return on capital investments and lower operating expenses.
The move to the cloud can be a very good thing for today's enterprises. It's also a good thing to be cloud-wary, and this is where the business will ultimately depend on IT to be vigilant. By paying due attention to performance issues, the transition to the cloud offers IT teams an excellent opportunity to emerge as protectors of their organizations, thus maximizing return on cloud investments.
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As the fate of George Zimmerman, accused of killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin plays out in a Florida court this week, the African American community braces itself for his possible acquittal. A gunshot wound expert testified that Zimmerman's claim of self defense against Martin was justifiable and witnesses testified that screams on a 911 call from the night Martin was murdered definitely belonged to Zimmerman, two key specifics that could sway the jury in his favor. Now, the Internet is abuzz with comments and essays comparing the case to others where killers and abusers of Black American men like Rodney King and Oscar Grant have gone free, pointing to a nationwide system of inherent racism and injustice.
"There's a specific thing about young black men being murdered by the people who say they're protecting us," said a man identified as "Brother Ali" during a video interview posted last week on hardknock.tv.
"They find a way to blame the victim, 'he did something he wasn't supposed to be doing.' And they find a way to let the killers go free under some little weird loophole. This case is part of that legacy."
Last week, a judge denied the prosecution's request to disallow toxicology reports indicating that Martin had drugs in his system the night he was killed. As of press time the judge had not yet ruled on whether the defense would be allowed to use an animated reenactment of Zimmerman and Martin's altercation. Also, Rachel Jeantel who had been talking to Martin on the phone moments before he died, was ridiculed profusely in social media after she took the stand for bad grammar and "sounding ignorant and uneducated."
"If Trayvon Martin's trial is about his hoodie, his gold teeth, his ominous middle finger, his possible marijuana use, Rachel Jeantel's trial is about her appearance, her 'bad attitude,' and her use of language," wrote George Ciccariello-Maher in his article "The Racial Politics of Guilt: Black Skin, White Justice" posted on counterpunch.org.
"It's about bullying a black man," the late Rodney King told USA Today last year.
"This time, a young man was bullied to death. I'm still alive; Trayvon Martin is not here."
Since Martin's death, many have pointed to similarities between his, King's and Grant's scenarios. All were unarmed when attacked and in all three cases no arrests were made for the crimes against them until angry cries for justice became loud and persistent. The perpetrators in King and Grant's cases were found not guilty.
"George Zimmerman may be convicted, but then again he may not," predicts Charles Richard Brown in an article posted on uptownmagazine.com.
"It's not clear which outcome is better, more 'just.' Of course he should be convicted, but any conviction will only become fodder for the argument, pernicious as it is pervasive, that ours is a "post-racial" society… There is nothing but racism and white privilege here. Zimmerman felt privileged enough to be able to gun down a black teenager, and he knew the police wouldn't do anything about it. Zimmerman wasn't stupid. He knew very well what he was doing... protecting his white world from 'one of them…"
"In this particular case when we start talking about these things, people are looking for some way to make this not a racial issue," Ali said.
"You know, 'let's wait until all the facts come out,' etc. The major facts are out. This guy approached a black kid who was unarmed and wasn't doing anything wrong. There may or may not have been a scuffle and he shot and killed him. And, the police took him at his word that he was defending himself, that the grown man with a gun was defending himself against the kid with the skittles and the iced tea... People are looking for ways kind of fortify in our minds that George Zimmerman had a reason to be suspicious of Trayvon or that we as a society have a reason to suspicious of Trayvon."
By STEPHEN BRAUN
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal oversight board directed by President Barack Obama to scrutinize the government's secret surveillance system is hearing from civil liberties activists, a retired federal judge and a former Bush administration lawyer in the board's first public event since the spying operations were revealed in news reports.
They were among 16 experts set to testify Tuesday before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board about the National Security Agency's surveillance. The board's five members include an Internet freedom advocate and two former Bush lawyers who helped expand the government's national security authority.
After former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden began exposing the NSA's operations in June, Obama instructed the board to lead a "national conversation" about the secret programs. The board has been given several secret briefings by national security officials and it plans a comprehensive inquiry and a public report on the matter.
"Our primary focus will be on the programs themselves," the board's chairman, David Medine, told the Associated Press last month. "Based on what we've learned so far, further questions are warranted."
American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer, who is expected to testify, warned the oversight board that the government's massive sweeps of cellphone and telephone call logs and other data on phone and Internet communications erode privacy protections guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Snowden's disclosures revealed that the NSA collects phone "metadata" — records that omitted only the actual contents of conversations — from millions of Americans. A separate NSA surveillance program aimed solely at foreign terrorist suspects also sweeps up metadata about the Internet communications from smaller numbers of Americans, federal officials have acknowledged. Obama urged Americans not to worry about the secret programs because the contents of their communications are rarely targeted.
The president and the director of national intelligence "have been at pains to emphasize that the government is collecting metadata, not content," Jaffer said in advance remarks obtained by the AP. "But the suggestion that metadata is somehow beyond the reach of the Constitution is wrong. For Fourth Amendment purposes, the crucial question is not whether the government is collecting content or metadata but whether it is invading the reasonable expectation of privacy. Here, it clearly is."
Jaffer has urged stricter limits on government surveillance as well as new oversight mechanisms. One of the oversight board's members, James Dempsey, is a top official with the Center for Democracy and Technology, a civil liberties advocacy group.
Much of the NSA's surveillance is overseen by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose classified rulings also have been disclosed by several Snowden leaks. Testimony about the court was expected from former federal judge James Robertson, who served on the secret court. Robertson also ruled against the Bush administration in the landmark Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld case, which granted inmates at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their detentions. That ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Steven Bradbury, a former top Bush administration lawyer who played a central role in national security decisions, also was to testify. Bradbury, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, wrote several legal memos backing the CIA's limited use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects, including simulated drowning. But he also signed other memos that placed legal brakes on some of the Bush administration's expanded national security authority.
Two of the oversight board's members also worked as Bush administration lawyers. Elisebeth Collins Cook is a former Justice Department lawyer who drafted revised guidelines in 2008 that expanded the FBI's ability to conduct domestic intelligence investigations. The guidelines gave FBI agents involved in national security probes new authority to conduct physical surveillance without a court order and to interview people without identifying themselves as federal agents.
Oversight board member Rachel Brand is another former Bush Justice lawyer who urged Congress to give the FBI expanded authority to use what are called national security letters and administrative subpoenas to obtain information in terrorism investigations. The use of such tools is limited but can allow federal investigators to demand data without direct judicial approval.
The oversight board is appointed by the president but reports to Congress. David Cole, a professor of constitutional and national security law at Georgetown University, said the board faces high expectations.
"Their very existence may make government officials more careful about their surveillance programs because they will know that a board empowered and obligated to report on privacy and civil liberties abuses exists," Cole said.
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UNITED NATIONS – A five-member panel of experts recently gathered in Beijing, China for a one-day discussion about the way forward for the international community in restarting peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis.
The discussion didn't produce much optimism and highlighted UN failures over several decades.
One of the purposes of the gathering was to give a candid assessment of United Nations' ability to rise above the status quo the world body has assumed concerning the on-again, off-again peace process.
Abdullah Abdullah, head of the Palestinian Legislative Council's Political Committee in Ramallah, opened the discussion by saying the UN has been dealing with Israel's occupation of Palestine since 1947.
He reminded the gathering that the UN Security Council declared inadmissible Resolution 242 (1967), the forcible seizure of territory.
Israel's violations of that principle have been considered by the UN General Assembly and the Security Council, and resulted in adoption of numerous anti-Israel resolutions, said Mr. Abdullah.
Unfortunately, none have been implemented, he said.
That has led to the conclusion that the UN has become irrelevant to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and no force can stop Israel from violating the UN Charter, UN resolutions or international law, Mr. Abdullah continued.
Frenchwoman Christine Chanet, chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council's Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements and a member of the Committee Against Torture, offered a candid assessment of Israel's intransigence.
She recalled establishment in March 2012 of an independent, international fact-finding mission to examine the impact of Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of Palestinians. "The mission addressed many requests for cooperation to the government of Israel, but had received no answer," she said.
Mr. Abdullah said one of the great ironies was Israeli government insistence that negotiations with Palestinians happen without preconditions, but Israel declared Jerusalem, settlements, and the Jordan Valley were non-negotiable because of their importance to Israeli military protection.
Panelist Mohammad Loulichki, Morocco's ambassador to the United Nations, reminded the gathering that his delegation currently holds a two-year seat on the Security Council. He called for a revival of collective international engagement towards a two-state solution for the conflict.
Palestinians cannot be accused of not being a genuine partner for peace, the Moroccan ambassador said, pointing out it was the United States that sponsored the two-state vision and added momentum to the idea around the world. The U.S. gave rise to genuine hope that efforts by the Obama administration would lead to resumed negotiations and a political solution, added the diplomat.
"Yet, the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, combined with Israel's lack of engagement, has triggered pessimism about the two-state solution," Ambassador Loulichki observed.
Admitting failure would mean that the United Nations and the international community have been unable to deliver on promises made 56 years ago to Arabs, particularly Palestinians, he added.
"Failure to reward the painful compromises made by the Palestinians with a solution based on United Nations' resolutions would be a blow to the credibility of the United Nations," Ambassador Loulichki warned.
Panelist La Yifan, deputy director-general of the Dept. of International Organizations and Conferences in China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, "To promote the just, peaceful and proper settlement of the Palestinian issue was in the interest of all people in the Middle East and in line with the wishes of the entire international community. The Security Council should send delegations to the region in order to gain a better understanding of the situation. It should also approve at an early date Palestine's application for full United Nations membership."
Nathan Stock was the only American speaking at the confab, but not as a panelist. He is assistant director of the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga.
"The political dynamics in the United States made it tougher to maintain the kind of engagement that had led to past territorial withdrawals," Mr. Stock conceded. But he believes President Barack Obama would like to see a two-state solution and Secretary of State John Kerry would like to make his mark by resolving the conflict.
"However, hopes of success would depend on President Obama deciding to use the full powers of his office to realize the creation of a Palestinian state," said Mr. Stock.
Mr. Abdullah countered that the peace effort launched by Mr. Kerry faced a "near stalemate" owing to Israeli positions.
On June 18, the Guardian newspaper in London reported how a member of the Israeli cabinet told settlers in Jerusalem that Israel should annex large tracts of the occupied West Bank. The idea of a Palestinian state "is dead," he said.
France 24, International News 24/7 reported on Twitter June 19 that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinians support Mr. Kerry's efforts to revive peace talks.
Meanwhile activists in 60 nations are marching and protesting the "illegal Zionist State of Israel" in a Global March to Jerusalem.
On June 7, Jews from Neturei Karta International/USA marched from the West Village in New York to the United Nations.
"We are marching for the freedom of Jews and all of Palestine," said a spokesman. But such freedom remains a long way off.
By NANCY BENAC and
It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of "Reefer Madness" to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of "Just Say No."
The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously "didn't inhale," to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did.
Now, in just a few short years, public opinion has moved so dramatically toward general acceptance that even those who champion legalization are surprised at how quickly attitudes are changing and states are moving to approve the drug — for medical use and just for fun.
It is a moment in America that is rife with contradictions:
—People are looking more kindly on marijuana even as science reveals more about the drug's potential dangers, particularly for young people.
—States are giving the green light to the drug in direct defiance of a federal prohibition on its use.
—Exploration of the potential medical benefit is limited by high federal hurdles to research.
Washington policymakers seem reluctant to deal with any of it.
Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor who worked for a national commission that recommended decriminalizing marijuana in 1972, sees the public taking a big leap from prohibition to a more laissez-faire approach without full deliberation.
"It's a remarkable story historically," he says. "But as a matter of public policy, it's a little worrisome."
More than a little worrisome to those in the anti-drug movement.
"We're on this hundred-mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addictive substance," says Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, lumping marijuana with tobacco and alcohol.
Legalization strategist Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, likes the direction the marijuana smoke is wafting. But knows his side has considerable work yet to do.
"I'm constantly reminding my allies that marijuana is not going to legalize itself," he says.
By the numbers:
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes since California voters made the first move in 1996. Voters in Colorado and Washington state took the next step last year and approved pot for recreational use. Alaska is likely to vote on the same question in 2014, and a few other states are expected to put recreational use on the ballot in 2016.
Nearly half of adults have tried marijuana, 12 percent of them in the past year, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.
Fifty-two percent of adults favor legalizing marijuana, up 11 percentage points just since 2010, according to Pew.
Sixty percent think Washington shouldn't enforce federal laws against marijuana in states that have approved its use.
Where California led the charge on medical marijuana, the next chapter in this story is being written in Colorado and Washington state.
Policymakers there are grappling with all sorts of sticky issues revolving around one central question: How do you legally regulate the production, distribution, sale and use of marijuana for recreational purposes when federal law bans all of the above?
The Justice Department began reviewing the matter after last November's election. But seven months later, states still are on their own.
Both sides in the debate paid close attention when Obama said in December that "it does not make sense, from a prioritization point of view, for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that under state law that's legal."
Rep. Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat who favors legalization, predicts Washington will take a hands-off approach, based on Obama's comments. But he's quick to add: "We would like to see that in writing."
The federal government already has taken a similar approach toward users in states that have approved marijuana for medical use.
It doesn't go after pot-smoking cancer patients or grandmas with glaucoma. But it also has made clear that people who are in the business of growing, selling and distributing marijuana on a large scale are subject to potential prosecution for violations of the Controlled Substances Act — even in states that have legalized medical use.
There's a political calculus for the president, or any other politician, in all of this.
Younger people, who tend to vote more Democratic, are more supportive of legalizing marijuana, as are people in the West, where the libertarian streak runs strong.
Despite increasing public acceptance of marijuana overall, politicians know there are complications that could come with commercializing an addictive substance. Opponents of pot are particularly worried that legalization will result in increased use by young people.
Sabet frames the conundrum for Obama: "Do you want to be the president that stops a popular cause, especially a cause that's popular within your own party? Or do you want to be the president that enables youth drug use that will have ramifications down the road?"
Marijuana legalization advocates offer politicians a rosier scenario, in which legitimate pot businesses eager to keep their operating licenses make sure not to sell to minors.
"Having a regulated system is the only way to ensure that we're not ceding control of this popular substance to the criminal market and to black marketeers," says Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a trade group for legal pot businesses in the U.S.
While the federal government hunkers down, Colorado and Washington state are moving forward on their own with regulations covering everything from how plants will be grown to how many stores will be allowed.
Tim Lynch, director of the libertarian Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, predicts "the next few years are going to be messy" as states work to bring a black-market industry into the sunshine.
California's experience with medical marijuana offers a window into potential pitfalls that can come with wider availability of pot.
Dispensaries for medical marijuana have proliferated in the state, and regulation has been lax, prompting a number of cities around the state to ban dispensaries.
In May, the California Supreme Court ruled that cities and counties can ban medical marijuana dispensaries. A few weeks later, Los Angeles voters approved a ballot measure that limits the number of pot shops in the city to 135, down from an estimated high of about 1,000.
This isn't full-scale buyer's remorse, but more a course correction before the inevitable next push for full-on legalization in the state.
Growing support for legalization doesn't mean everybody wants to light up: Barely one in 10 Americans used pot in the past year.
Those who do want to see marijuana legalized range from libertarians who oppose much government intervention to people who want to see an activist government aggressively regulate marijuana production and sales.
For some, money talks: Why let drug cartels rake in untaxed profits when a cut could go into government coffers?
There are other threads in the growing acceptance of pot.
People think it's not as dangerous as once believed. They worry about high school kids getting an arrest record. They see racial inequity in the way marijuana laws are enforced. They're weary of the "war on drugs."
Opponents counter with a 2012 study finding that regular use of marijuana during teen years can lead to a long-term drop in IQ, and another study indicating marijuana use can induce and exacerbate psychotic illness in susceptible people. They question the notion that regulating pot will bring in big money, saying revenue estimates are grossly exaggerated.
They reject the claim that prisons are bulging with people convicted of simple possession by citing federal statistics showing only a small percentage of federal and state inmates are behind bars for that alone.
They warn that baby boomers who draw on their own innocuous experiences with pot are overlooking the much higher potency of today's marijuana.
In 2009, concentrations of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in pot, averaged close to 10 percent in marijuana, compared with about 4 percent in the 1980s, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"If marijuana legalization was about my old buddies at Berkeley smoking in People's Park once a week I don't think many of us would care that much," says Sabet, who helped to found Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a group that opposes legalization. "It's really about creating a new industry that's going to target kids and target minorities and our vulnerable populations just like our legal industries do today."
So how bad, or good, is pot?
J. Michael Bostwick, a psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic, set out to sort through more than 100 sometimes conflicting studies after his teenage son became addicted to pot, and turned his findings into a 22-page article for Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2012.
For all of the talk that smoking pot is no big deal, Bostwick says he determined that "it was a very big deal. There were addiction issues. There were psychosis issues.
But there was also this very large body of literature suggesting that it could potentially have very valuable pharmaceutical applications but the research was stymied" by federal barriers.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse says research is ongoing.
Dr. Nora Volkow, the institute's director, worries that legalizing pot will result in increased use of marijuana by young people, and impair their brain development.
"Think about it: Do you want a nation where your young people are stoned?" she asks.
Partisans on both sides think people in other states will keep a close eye on Colorado and Washington as they decide what happens next.
But past predictions on pot have been wildly off-base.
"Reefer Madness," the 1936 propaganda movie that pot fans turned into a cult classic in the 1970s, spins a tale of dire consequences "ending often in incurable insanity."
Associated Press writers Kristen Wyatt in Denver, Gene Johnson in Seattle, Lauran Neergaard in Washington and AP researcher Monika Mathur in Washington contributed to this report.
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Jones visited the Ravens' training complex Friday, wishing them well before they started their road trip.
"This is good for Baltimore," Jones said. "It's one hell of a ride. I was at the Castle the other day. This is the perfect ride for Ray Lewis and this team. I'm a big supporter. They support us, and we support them. It's a love-love relationship. The city of Baltimore has been beyond great to me and my family.
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The Knights and the Blue Raiders played to a draw in the first period, with the first score coming at just under 9 minutes remaining in the first half, when Andrew Stewart picked off a Branden Cresap pass at the Blue Raider 21 and took it in for the score. The Slikker kick was blocked, but KCU was up 6-0. As the clock expired for the first half, Slikker hit a 37-yard field goal to put the Knights up 9-0. After a KCU fumble early in the third, Lindsey Wilson marched 34 yards on two plays to put up a TD and PAT, making the score 9-7. Lindsey Wilson scored again and took the lead just before the end of the third, making it 9-14. But the Knights had plenty of fight left in them, and with minutes left to play, Logan Walker caused a fumble that was recovered by Nick Sharp near mid-field. KCU drove and scored, but again failed to convert the PAT, this time a run. KCU up, 15-14. On the next series, Andrew Stewart made his second pick of the day, and KCU scored again minutes later to attain the final score, 22-14.
Jakarious Crittenden led the rushers with 72 yards on 11 carries, while Justin Crager had 69. Lane Knost caught 4 balls for 43 yards, while Deandre Riddick hauled in 2 passes for 22 yards. QB Isaac Brabson was 9 of 21 for 91 yards, and was sacked twice. In addition to his 2 interceptions, Andrew Stewart had 14 tackles to lead the defense, while Mike Ritter had 9 solo tackles. James Hart, Josh Cobb, and Marvin Newkirk totaled 6 sacks between them, for a loss of 42 yards.
The KCU offense had 22 first downs compared to 19 by the Blue Raiders, and the Knight backfield tallied 193 yards on the ground, while the defense held Lindsey Wilson to just 62 yards rushing. KCU had 3 interceptions, while giving up only 1.
The Knights will be enjoying a little time off next weekend with an open date, but will be back in action at Union College in Barbourville, KY on October 26.


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After the bonky had told Winston to 'have a super day,' he leashed his Yorkshire terrier and began to walk around the park.
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Term for someone that has a horrible physical deformation due to being bonked on the head to much, or someone who looks like sloth from the goonies.
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A bonky is a black person who acts overly white to fit into society, They usually speak with an extra white voice(a la Tony Gwynn or Bryant Gumbel)probably even whiter than most caucasions. They also usually only associate themselves with white people and white culture and are considered sellouts in the black community.


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Dubai, UAE- 15 December, 2008- Desert Door Productions announced today a US$ 125,000 award for budding Arab talent at the 2008 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). The "Desert Door DIFF Work in Progress Award" will support Arab cinema and filmmakers in the region by providing much needed funding.
The "Desert Door DIFF work in progress award" is a partnership between Dubai International Film Festival and Desert Door Productions aimed at encouraging Arab filmmaking. Every year the award will give the winner $25,000 to complete their film, up to a total of $125 000 over five years.
This year three candidates were shortlisted from the Dubai Film Connection, an invitation-only co-production market for Arab film professionals and their international counterparts. Of the 108 projects that were submitted for consideration, three were selected for the Desert Door DIFF work in progress award. The announcement of the recipient of this year's award will be made on the 16th December 2008.
"Our mission at Desert Door Productions is to support the film industry in the Arab world and help young Arab movie makers achieve their full potential. We have committed to driving this award for the next five years in the hopes of encouraging the region's burgeoning film industry," says Mohammed Al-Kateeb, Board Director and General Manager, Desert Door Productions.
Shivani Pandya, DIFF's Managing Director, said: "We welcome forward-thinking partners like Desert Door Productions, who are interested in working toward the goal of stimulating filmmaking in the Middle East. It is our most important mandate, and recognizing that the production process needs injections of funds toward the crucial, postproduction stage is the kind of clear, practical thinking that the Middle East needs to truly become a filmmaking centre."
Desert Door Productions (DDP) is an affiliate of Kuwait Cable Vision (KCV), a Kuwaiti shareholding company based in Kuwait. Some of DDP's international projects include the IMAX film entitled Journey to Mecca in the footsteps of Ibn batutta to be released January 2009 co-produced with cosmic pictures and SK films. DDP is a major equity owner and a Partner of Sherezade Films, producers of films such as 'The Lucky Ones', 'Smart People', and 'New York I love you'. DDP enjoys a branch in media city and develops, produces and invests in quality, socially relevant film, television and commercial projects throughout the Middle East, US and Europe.


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Atlanta rapper B.o.B. sat down with MTV for an installment of "This is How I Made It," airing at noon Saturday.
During the show – which also spotlights Demi Lovato – B.o.B., who grew up in East Atlanta, discusses his teen years in the city.
"The advantages that I had as a kid were that I saw both sides of the track. I stayed on the less fortunate side, but I was in a program that allowed me to go to school in a more fortunate side of town. So… I got to see both perspectives," he said, regarding his time in the magnet program at Columbia High School in DeKalb County (he earlier attended Henderson Middle School in Chamblee).
"When I decided to drop out of high school, there was no backup plan. Plan B was if Plan A fails, go back and retry Plan A," he also noted.
Plan A seems to be working just fine for the 24-year-old rapper. His second album, "Strange Clouds," boasted three Top 20 crossover hits on the Billboard Hot 100 – the title track, with Lil Wayne; "So Good," featuring OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder; and "Both of Us," with a guest vocal from Taylor Swift.
B.o.B. will perform at Smith's Olde Bar Dec. 21 to celebrate the anniversary of Atlanta-based beverage, Whynatte.
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November 29th, 2012
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Dropping out of high school, always comes back to haunt you in the end.
Education is priceless.
November 29th, 2012
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He's a mockery. No talent and has accomplished NOTHING. Why are we wasting our time on this person ?
November 29th, 2012
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Oh ……. and we know what those initials mean …. Big Ole Bottom.
November 29th, 2012
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Actually he is very talented. He went to middle school with my daughter and was and is a very talented musician. The rap pays the bills, but he also plays several instruments, I believe, and is a really great, grounded guy.
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He is a mockery? No talent? Get outa here and do your research. He is a gifted and bright musician. He was signed by T.I. to his grand hustle label after making songs that were creating buzzes all around the south. He has topped the charts with beautiful girl and has also backed it with some other good singles. Not to mention he also produces music as well. He has also worked with arguably the best talent in the industry. I would say he is very successful. He had a goal and accomplished it. So what that he didn't finish high school. He has a major recording deal and also big time endorsements with companies like Adidas. He is definitely banking seven figures and have not forgotten where he came from. I'm from the same are that he is from and it is nowhere you want to stay. Big ups to BOB. Keep up the good work. I salute anyone who has made it out of Decatur and is now able to provide for his family.


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Previous studies measured wind from a much lower angle – but until now, there's been no data to reflect wind speeds at the heights where a turbine's blades would spin.
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Are Brazilian Banks Approaching a Credit Boom?
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Brazilian banks have been left out of the international bank rally over the past few months. The reason? Brazilian bureaucrats united over aggressive interest rate cuts, which have taken away Brazilian banks' biggest cash cow -- exorbitant consumer interest rates -- just as default rates started rising. But new documents from the government reveal that a new credit expansion based on quality instead of quantity could be just around the corner. Should you buy now?
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Brazilian bank stocks have had a bad year. Banco Itau (NYSE: ITUB) is down 21% year-to-date, while competitors Banco Santander Brasil (NYSE: BSBR) and Banco Bradesco (NYSE: BBD) are down 12% and 5% year-to-date respectively. In contrast, Santander Brasil's parent company Santander Group is up 2% for the year and Citigroup has clocked a surprising 40% gain. Brazilian banks' dismal performance comes from President Dilma Rousseff and the Brazilian Central Bank, which has cut the interest rate to historic lows as the former ordered banks to trim spreads proportionately. The government operates two commercial banks, Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica, and repeatedly cut consumer lending rates at both to force the publicly-traded banks to lower their rates. Further depressing banks' share prices, Brazil has slowed to 1.4% growth this year and consumer defaults on loans and credit cards are rising. The interest rate cuts are an appropriate long-term adjustment -- Brazil still has some of the highest interest rates in the world – but for short-term, it means bad stock performance.
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Just how high are Brazil's consumer interest rates? A staggering 323% on average for credit cards, according to Businessweek. However, Businessweek reports that the rates and how banks apply them are about to change, due to a new law. President Rousseff signed a law that allows credit rating companies to collect enough individual data to generate credit ratings. The law will have two very important impacts on how Brazilian banks give out consumer credit: first, banks can now distinguish between customers with different levels of risk and charge the risky ones just as much or more, and second, in every country to pass a ratings law, credit cards have grown by about 50%.
Uncertainty, Uncertainty
Brazilian banks are at multiyear lows and they are about to see a massive credit expansion, so now is the time to buy up, right? Perhaps. Different banks are in different positions. Itau specializes in consumer credit and would likely see the biggest increase in customers amongst the publicly-traded banks. However, Itau also carries a higher consumer default rate than Santander Brasil. Santander Brasil accepts lower-risk customers, meaning that it may be able to snag new ones provided better credit information, but will probably see less expansion than Itau or Bradesco. Then there are the state-run banks, which have been luring individual customers away from commercial banks with aggressively lower rates. Finally, strikes by bank workers demanding higher pay and an administration determined to keep rates low for at least another year despite rising inflation make the credit rating law one piece of good news in a very uncertain sector.
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