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At the heart of yoga lies a deep respect for all living beings, including Mother Earth. It's only natural that you'd like your mat to reflect this same caring attitude. Our production process for the Wai Lana Green™ EcoMat is designed to consume less energy and produce less waste than the manufacture of standard mats.
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There is an interesting personal injury case pending in New Jersey that highlights an interesting question about responsible use of SMS technology. A guy allegedly hit a motorcycle, severely injuring its two riders, because he was distracted by a text his girlfriend had sent. The motorcycle riders sued the girlfriend who sent the text.
Even the plaintiffs' lawyer admits (in this interview) that most people would not be willing to pin responsibility on someone who was not present to cause an accident and injury. But because of the unique facts, namely, that she apparently knew her boyfriend was driving, she became "electronically present" with him in the vehicle.
One of the things the plaintiffs will have to show is that the text proximately caused the accident. In New Jersey, the jury (if the case gets that far) will be asked to find whether the plaintiffs' injuries are so connected with the negligent actions of the girlfriend that it is reasonable to hold her responsible. Answering that will require the jury to examine whether it was foreseeable that her sending the text would cause that wreck.
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Chere Krakovsky serving coffee and lunch in her kitchen at International House. Ann is sitting down being served. All images Roberta Fallon; more images/slide show>>>
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Come on in my kitchen
by Roberta Fallon, Monday, March 24, 2008
When I walked up the steps and into Chere Krakovsky's kitchen in the lobby of International House, the artist was sitting at the table with a young man having a conversation and drinking coffee. She got up, came over and welcomed me and then introduced me to her guest, a Temple grad from India who lives in IHouse and works in the financial industry. He drank tea, I had coffee. We talked about art and India (there are not many art schools in India he said) and New York and Philly. It was calm and congenial -- no emotional baggage or family politics in this kitchen.
Krakovsky started telling stories which is something that usually happens over a kitchen table. In answer to my question of how she became a performance/installation/immersion artist she told me this story.
She was a painter and not happy with it. So she gave up painting and started approaching art from a different angle. She started wrapping up trash or doing installations but it still wasn't enough.
She wanted to put herself into the art. She wanted to take acting and wanted to do performance art. She didn't know how to do it but she was off and running, with projects that included handing out white roses on a street corner in her East Village neighborhood and laying 55 roses on a sidewalk in Iowa City to represent the 55 Iowa soldiers killed in Iraq. (why Iowa City? Krakovsky went to high school there and has friends there).
"Everything in my life changed in the last two years," she said. She had gone to Columbia grad school but dropped out. (Now she is in a graduate program at Goddard College in Vermont. It's a distance learning/low residency program so she only has to go there a few weeks each year.) "This is it. Now I have to put my money where my mouth is," she said. Her first performance was a year and a half ago up at Goddard. She found a pillowcase with a landscape picture on it and brought it to a group critique. She pinned it on the wall and got up and said ..."I'm committed to this. It's appropriation but it's also coming from me. I'm vulnerable. You can ask me any question."
People were raising hands and she told them not to raise their hands. One of the best questions she got was about the green shirt she was wearing and whether she planned that (to be in sync with the landscape in the pillow case)? " I said no. But isn't that the best?"
Krakovsky, who is soft spoken and a listener as well as a talker, exudes the whimsical otherworldliness of a 60s era hippie flower child. (When I heard about her piece handing out flowers on New York street corners it really fit what I was observing -- a child-like generosity.) But at the same time she's serious about her art and this piece, for example, which she bankrolled herself, hiring a mover to move her own furniture and appliances to Philly (and back again) and buying the food and drinks that will feed everyone who stops in. International House provided her with a bedroom for a week.
I asked Krakovsky how she was cooking in the kitchen that did NOT have a kitchen sink (or a stove .. and when the microwave is on you have to unplug the mini refrigerator.) Here's the story she told.
"I couldn't get a hot plate. It was one of my low moments," she said. Then, two Korean students approached her kitchen politely waiting to be invited in. They asked her if she needed anything and she told them she needed a hot plate. They said "what's a hot plate?" Krakovsky drew them a picture of it and they went off. Much later they came back with a single burner hot plate and said do you need another one? She told them yes and off they went to get her another one (she reimbursed them).
Another story she told was about Dore, an Israeli first year student at Penn who had adopted her and her kitchen as a kind of hangout of his own. No sooner had she told me about Dore than the kid walks in, and without saying a word opens the refrigerator to see what's good to eat. Clearly operating as the teenage son to Chere's older sister/mother figure.
Dore, who had just come back from a trip to California where he had seen his first garage sales ever (and had bought a bunch of great stuff for, like $10) told a story about seeing Krakovsky move in the first night with her boxes all over the place and how -- thinking garage sale -- he went right over and started rummaging through the boxes, until he found out they were part of the kitchen.
I met my friend Ann Northrup at Krakovsky's kitchen. Ann, who had coordinated a feast in Brooklyn last month where she had brought all the food, utensils, bowls, silverware, cups, dishes and all to Brooklyn for the meal, summarized a Grimm's Fairy Tale (the 5 Ravens?) which is about a girl who leaves home bringing her chair with her (you can't be at home without your chair) while she's looking for her 5 missing brothers who have been turned into ravens. Krakovsky was delighted with the story and so Ann wrote down the synopsis for her for future reference.
Ann explained to Dore that her feast was for the purpose of taking photographs so she could design a mural in Philadelphia. Dore said what's a mural? Ann explained about Philly's mural programs and how her new mural would be on the side of Vetri, a premier Philadelphia restaurant.
All in all, the experience was better than going to a spa (although I've never been so I'm only imagining). It was a time out from the real world that felt like a trip to the past -- to a kitchen that never was and that had no emotional baggage that came with it -- and where the only obligation was to immerse yourself in coffee and talk and forget the deadlines, chores, worries of your normal life. It was a great gift.
The reason the piece was in International House is that Drucilla, Marketing Director of International Huse had come to see the show Habitat at Abington Art Center, where Krakovsky had set up her living room. "She was very spontaneous and said 'you should come to International House.'" So she said yes, she'd like to do that and she'd bring her kitchen and be there for a week.
"Everything is art, art is everything" said Alan Kaprow, the father of "happenings." This is very much the spirit in which Krakovsky is operating. She is her art and her art is she.
Andrea told you about her visit with Krakovsky (link coming soon). You can see a picture of Dore in her post. She spent two hours in the kitchen. And so did Ann and I. It's easy to pass the time in a place where fighting is not, where conversation is easy and gentle and where free food and drink appear as if by magic. The feeling of being taken care of is exquisite. It's a reminder of life's beginning -- when parents do it all for you, and of life's end -- when others will be there (that is the hope) to do for you when you cannot.
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a detail of Chere Krakovsky The Neighbors Next Door, a week-long performance at International House
I like talking to taxi drivers and occasionally to my neighbors on planes. Those situations create a finite intimacy; I will never see those people again, so I needn't worry about making an impression or where the conversation might lead. New York artist, Chere Krakovsky has created a similar intimacy with The Neighbors Next Door, a week-long performance at International House (10 am-11 pm, Monday, March 17 through Sunday, March 23). She's moved the contents of her Lower East Side kitchen to a public space, just beyond the lobby at International House, and she's happy to entertain you. The piece isn't scripted; whatever happens happens. Krakovsky only promised to be in residence the entire week.
Some of Chere Krakovsky's visitors during The Neighbors Next Door at International House
Krakovsky is acting out her fantasy of an open-door policy: drop-ins are always welcome to sit at her kitchen table, take tea or cookies or chocolate or, if you are lucky, a meal. I spent two hours; we talked about Philadelphia and New York, how she had come to performance art, the Fringe and Live Arts Festival, who she was having to dinner that night. By the end we were such good friends that I'd shown her a picture of my cat.
After the guests have left Chere Krakovsky's performance piece, The Neighbors Next Door
Roberta plans to drop in tomorrow and will report on it, so I'll leave now, but the invitation is in your hands.
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Robert Hayden known as a straight shooter and ultimate crime fighter
Boston police officer Enrico Cappucci saw the gun pointed at him, and froze. Moments earlier, a robbery suspect had started shooting at him on Boston's Huntington Avenue, as he and partner Bob Hayden were trying to stop the man as he fled the nearby YMCA.
Cappucci recalled the dramatic scene that night in the early 1970s, when time seemingly stood still – bullets were flying, the gun was pointed at him and them stuffed into Cappucci's stomach.
Cappucci could only think, "It's all over."
Then, he saw Hayden's hand.
"Bobby's hand grabbed the barrel," said Cappucci, now 70 and a retired Boston police officer and former police chief in Shirley and Duxbury.
"All in one motion, he reached out and grabbed the barrel. The gun was pointed right at my abdomen. He was my partner. He was with me," he recalled.
Cappucci credits Hayden, now Brockton's police chief, for saving his life that night. But it's just one of dozens of stories that he and several others can tell about Hayden, a former Boston Police deputy superintendent and Lawrence police chief who will be sworn in, again, on Monday for a second 60-day term in Brockton.
Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter, who brought Hayden in, has been forced to use Hayden term-to-term as the City Council debates his one-year appointment.
When talking about that night with Cappucci, Hayden said he was just doing his job.
"I jammed my hand between the space between the hammer and the bullet and it saved Rico's life," Hayden said.
His direct, Hollywood-like persona – and his unflinching ability to stare down bad guys – has drawn people to Hayden, some said. And it has earned Hayden the respect of the law-enforcement community and city officials through the years.
"He's kind of a people's guy," said Jack McCarthy, a former chief of staff to three mayors in Lawrence, where Hayden served as police chief from 1995 to 1998. "He's a tough cop. He's a square shooter."
When describing Hayden, several people used these words: loyal, compassionate, leader, confident, strong, professional, athletic, decisive, smart, open and honest.
Politicians and law-enforcement officials who had worked with Hayden over his career came to Brockton on Jan. 31 for his first appointment, including Ray Flynn, a former mayor of Boston who also served as ambassador to Vatican City.
"He's a perfect fit here for the city of Brockton," said Flynn at the event, who was mayor when Hayden was Boston's deputy police superintendent. "He's tough, but he's compassionate."
Flynn added that he often gave Hayden difficult tasks, including cleaning up Boston Common, which had become a haven for drug dealers.
"He arrested the people that were selling drugs, and the people who were on drugs he got into a halfway house," Flynn said.
His wife of 48 years, Katy, spoke of Hayden's dedication to people and his honesty.
"He never, ever lies, which is amazing," she said. "If you ask him a question, he's going to tell you exactly what he feels, what he thinks, so you can always trust him."
The two met when they were both 14, after Hayden saw his future wife ice-skating in Dorchester Park. When he first saw her, Hayden ran home and borrowed a pair of skates from his cousin.
"I put them on and I guess you'd call it stalking today," he said, laughing. "I started skating in a brick-wide circle, the circle kept getting smaller and smaller until finally when I got closer, she noticed me."
Katy Hayden, 71, said at first she wasn't paying him any attention.
"I thought he was kind of weird," she recalled. "I was just trying to skate and I kept turning around. Next thing I knew he was there."
They married eight years later, when both were 23. They have four children and eight grandchildren.
Born in Boston, Hayden grew up in Dorchester, the son of an Irish father and Italian mother. He graduated with a degree in journalism from Suffolk University in 1965. But he said he was drawn to police work, like his father. He eventually began working in District 4 of the Boston Police Department, where his late father, Robert Hayden Sr., worked as a police officer.
Hayden said his father, a World War II veteran who died 12 years ago at age 86, shaped him as a man.
Hayden said he's dealt with obstacles in life – including a cancer diagnosis three years ago and a fall he took last weekend while running, when he broke his nose in five places – with a simple philosophy his father taught him.
When Hayden once asked his elderly father what he did when he would fall down the stairs at his home, "He just looked me in the eye and said, 'I get up,'" Hayden recalled.
That attitude has helped Hayden in his police work. He said he despises criminals who violate people and a community: drug dealers, pimps, johns, rapists, murderers and specifically sociopaths.
"They're evil. They'll rape a woman and kill her afterwards. I've seen that in Boston," he said. "There are some people that are totally evil and have no feelings for other people. The way I relate to those people, is I want to take them down a few pegs and put them in jail, hopefully for a long, long time."
Hayden said he can't stand bullies and he doesn't like "any cop who's arrogant."
"That bothers me more than anything," Hayden said. "It's a person with all the power who doesn't turn it back to the people, who uses it for self-aggrandizement. That, to me, is a model sin."
Hayden has been athletic all his life. He's run the Boston Marathon four times, joining Mayor Flynn. He's run with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. He's bike-pedaled across Ireland and along the California coastline, from San Francisco to Mexico.
When not running, he is an avid boxer, and works both the heavy and speed bags in his basement.
"I love people," Hayden said. "I love to take a situation that seems hopeless and totally catastrophic and pull them totally out of that situation and dust them off, and fix them, and make their problems go away."


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Smart people doing dumb things — education edition
by Valerie Strauss
Here's a smart look at how smart people do really dumb things when it comes to school reform. It was written by Larry Cuban, a former superintendent of Arlington Public Schools for seven years, a former high school social studies teacher for 14 years and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for more than 20 years. This was first published on his blog about school reform and classroom practice.
Why do smart people do dumb things?
by Larry Cuban
Why do smart people do dumb things? Examples are legion. Recall President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Or Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus resigning over an extra-marital affair. Or shrewd investors in Bernard Madoff's company losing their financial shirts.
Switch to education and consider El Paso (TX) Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia who went to jail for inflating student test scores and giving a no-bid contract to his mistress.
OK, Larry, you made your point. People with smarts, power, and position caved in to their impulses. They did dumb things.
Actually, I want to go beyond that self-evident point made elsewhere and say that very smart educational policymakers also engage in folly not involving sex or money. Two stories make that point.
The first happened in New York City public schools in the early 1980s over abolishing "social promotion." For many years, reformers had criticized educators for moving students to the next grade when they lacked the requisite knowledge and skills. The then Chancellor instituted a "Promotional Gates Program" in elementary and middle school grades with high-stakes tests in reading and math. If students didn't pass they would have to repeat the grade. After a few years, so many students failed the test and were retained in grade that they eventually dropped out of school. When data confirmed that outcome, the Promotional Gates program disappeared.
Then a decade later, another chancellor attacked "social promotion" by holding back 35,000 students, requiring them to take special summer classes to advance to the next grade. Of that number, nearly 25,000 had failed the annual tests but almost a fifth of those failures occurred because of mistakes made by district officials. The chancellor at that time quickly ended the program. But in 2000, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein railed again at "social promotion" and, yes, you guessed it — another version of the "promotional gates" was resurrected. Putting an untested policy into action the first time might be chalked up to error. And then putting those same ideas into practice a second time is dumb. But a third time? Well, That's plain stupid.
Now consider the story of an elite university sliding into dumbness.
In the late 1960s,, Stanford University administrators secured federal funds to build a multimillion dollar facility called the Stanford Center for Research, Development, and Teaching (SCRDT). A fully furnished television studio with "state-of-the-art" cameras, videotape recorders, and monitors occupied the main floor with the star-in-the-crown of the new building located in the Large-Group Instruction room (LGI).
The amphitheater-shaped room with half-circular rows looked down on a small stage with a lectern, a massive pull-down screen, and two large monitors suspended from the ceiling. At most of the individual seats was a small punch-button pad called the "student responder." The responder contained the numbers 1-10 and letters T and F.
At the very top of the amphitheater was a glass-enclosed technician's station where an aide could assist the professor with simultaneous interpretation of various languages, show slides or films, and put on monitors data that the professors wanted. Administrators had designed the room for professors to enhance the delivery of lectures.
For lectures, the student responder came into play. Students punched in their choices to communicate answers to the professor's questions, such as "If you agree, press 1, disagree, press 2." "If statement is true, press T." As students pressed the keypad, the data went directly to a mainframe computer where the students' responses were immediately assembled and displayed for the professor at a console on the lectern. The lecturer was then able to adjust the pace and content of the lecture to this advanced interactive technology, circa 1970, that linked students to teacher.
By 1972 when I came to Stanford as a graduate student, the LGI was being used as a large lecture hall for classes from other departments. The now-disconnected keypads were toys that bored students played with during lectures. The pull-down screen was used for overheads and occasional films. The fixed position cameras purchased in the late 1960s were already beyond repair and obsolete.
In 1981, when I returned to teach at Stanford, the SCRDT had been renamed the Center for Educational Research at Stanford (CERAS). In the LGI, none of the original equipment or technology (except the sound system) was used by either students or professors. The student responders, however, were still there.
In 2011, nearly a half-century after the SCRDT installed the LGI, the amphitheater room was still in use as a regular lecture hall. When I came to hear a professor lecture, yes, you guessed it, my fingers crept over to the "student responder" and I began to click the keys.
In 2012, however, a long awaited renovation occurred and the responders were gone. Finally.
In the past two years, however, Stanford faculty and administration have been swept up in offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The pervasive belief among many faculty including top University administrators is that MOOCs will "revolutionize" U.S. higher education teaching, learning, and college course offerings. The belief in the power of disruptive technologies such as MOOCs to upend an institution is deep and abiding.
Perhaps there is another reason smart people do dumb things beyond succumbing to sex and power. They are too smart, they are too facile in devising clever responses to turn away arguments, logic, and evidence that challenge their beliefs and policies. They then end up doing foolish and even stupid things.


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Hackers had a busy year. People identifying themselves with Anonymous launched a massive hacking campaign against Israel in protest of attacks against Gaza; conducted a DDoS attack against the U.K. Department of Justice in apparent protest over charges against Julian Assange; claimed to have stolen 1.7GB of data from the U.S. Justice Department; defaced hundreds of government and commercial Web sites in China; and targeted Syrian government Web sites -- just to name a few. AntiSec claimed to have stolen millions of Apple device IDs from the FBI, a claim the FBI disputed. And a group named Parastoo gained access to one of the servers of the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency.
In the dance with authorities, the police got in a few good moves too. A video showing one Anonymous hacker being arrested in his home circulated in September. Former LulzSec hacker "Sabu" was outed as an FBI informant. And a man from Texas was arrested when a picture he posted of his girlfriend gave police clues to his whereabouts.


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South Africa has come to be referred to as "one world in one country." That's because it offers it all: spectacular scenery, the wildlife Big Five, the wildlife Little Five, the ocean's Big Five, the New World's oldest vineyards, cuisine from around the world and more. With such a scope of offerings — not to mention year-round accessibility and sophisticated accommodations — the destination lends itself to custom itineraries for different types of clients. Helping you know what to include, South Africa experts share their tips about the country's must-do adventures.
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The northern Zululand coast, also along the Indian Ocean, where rhinos are bred for rehabilitation, versus those places in Africa where they have become extinct due to uncontrolled poaching
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The northern more arid parts of South Africa in the Limpopo district
The Kalahari Desert with its desert-adapted wildlife and ancient San people who are our ancestors, realizing that we are all said to have originated from Africa.
Who to Trust"Know who you are working with to plan your safari," said Holden. "If you are working with a company whose function is a lodge operator, don't be surprised to only be told about their lodges. If you work with a tour operator, outfitter or ground handler, you'll have a chance to learn about all of the choices for safari."
When to GoSouth Africa's varied climate means its open for visitors 365 days a year, though during the rainy season (November to March), wildlife areas are most green and succulent.
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Sthu Zungu has served as president for South African Tourism North America for more than six years. She has sampled many of the country's once-in-a-lifetime adventures — even shark-cage diving — but thinks that for pure thrill, no experience beats bungy jumping.
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On our Geared Up podcast, we cover all the breaking tech and gadget news of the week. But on this episode, we take a step back and put the spotlight on two technologies that Co-hosts Andru Edwards and Todd Bishop have been trying out in their day-to-day lives.
Andru has been using two devices from Nokia Health, the Nokia Steel HR smart watch and the Nokia Body smart scale. He says the devices themselves are just fine, but they show just how much an impact smart health devices can have on our behavior.
Todd has been spending a lot of time with his new Lenovo ThinkPad X1, which is his first Windows computer in a decade. He tells us how the device lured him back into the Microsoft world after a long stint as a dedicated MacBook Pro user.
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Is Oculus Go the future of VR? Plus: T-Mobile, Sprint and Trump - Geared Up!
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Oculus Go, a new VR headset from the Facebook-owned company, sprang onto shelves in a surprise launch Tuesday. It's lower-powered than existing headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but is portable and costs just $199. Is it the future of virtual reality? We debate on this episode of Geared Up.
Plus, T-Mobile and Sprint are finally tieing the knot with a huge merger. It will give the combined company (still called T-Mobile) a shot at competing with Verizon and AT&T as long as they can convince the Trump Administration to let the deal go through.
And in more huge news, Apple reported record-breaking iPhone sales in the first months of 2018, squashing rumors that the iPhone 10 has been struggling. Hear all that and more on this weekís episode of Geared Up, hosted by GeekWire Editor Todd Bishop and Gear Live's Andru Edwards. Watch the behind-the-scenes video above, listen in the player below, or subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast app.
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Samsung Onyx: A premium 4K HDR movie theater experience
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Earlier this week, Samsung invited me to spend a day in Vegas to attend CinemaCon, where the company was announcing it's line of Samsung Onyx 4K LED movie theater displays. CinemaCon is the largest gathering of movie theater owners in the world, where seemingly anyone who's anyone in the movie industry can be found, making this the perfect place to show off trailers and extended previews of upcoming movies, as well as movie theater tech. This made CinemaCon the perfect place for Samsung to debut the Onyx.
Formerly known as Samsung LED Cinema Displays, the easiest way to describe the rebranded Samsung Onyx is to liken it to the high-end flagship 4K HDR displays that you can buy for your home, but on a much grander scale. What this means is you get a crisp 4K picture, you get the insane dynamic range from the HDR luminance, and you get the high contrast thanks to the True Black capabilities.
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HomePod bust and how Xbox's backward compatibility gamble is still paying off - Geared Up!
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Apple's HomePod smart speaker is struggling in the competitive smart home market, according to a new report. What led to its demise, and what can Apple do to get back into the smart speaker game?
Plus, Amazon reveals how it assigns the preferred "Amazon's Choice" label to products; Apple is rumored to be creating a subscription version of Apple News after its acquisition of digital magazine company Texture; and we look at how Xbox's backward compatibility has become the console's saving grace.
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The great privacy debate — and how companies like Apple could benefit - Geared Up!
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How should gadget fans think about privacy? Geared Up cohost Andru Edwards, for one, says growing concerns about data privacy will be a boon for Apple and other companies that don't base their businesses on advertising revenue.
But doesn't that mean you're locked in to Apple's ecosystem? "Yes – locked into greatness," he says.
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Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management and a proud member of the Open Compute Project (OCP), today announced it has released its next generation of high performance Ethernet connectivity solutions to the open source community. Now, data centers are able to utilize Emulex 10Gb Ethernet and 40Gb Ethernet (10GbE/40GbE) adapters on OCP based hardware platforms that support global cloud platforms running OpenStack or CloudStack. The new Emulex OneConnect® OCm14000-OCP 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet (10/40GbE) Network Adapters and 10GbE Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), enable higher virtual machine (VM) densities, support the cloud with Overlay Network offloads, leverage a new RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) based low latency architecture delivering application acceleration, and integrate with next generation software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. The Emulex OCm14000-OCP adapters are also the first CNAs available for OCP based platforms that feature fully offloaded Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI, providing performance and higher server efficiencies that are superior to software initiator-based adapters. This brings the power and flexibility of network convergence to the OCP community and allows data centers built on the OCP model to realize the full performance benefits and cabling and power consumption reductions that come with it. "We have been working with the OCP community to provide an open, flexible and scalable I/O platform that maximizes server efficiency and scales networking connectivity, while increasing application support in enterprise and hyperscale infrastructures," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "Emulex OCm14000-OCP adapters are ideal for hyperscale and enterprise data centers that require I/O optimization for delivering compute power, energy efficiency and scalability." The Emulex OCm14000-OCP adapters are optimized to meet the needs of enterprises and cloud providers who are building an open infrastructure while delivering a powerful set of features and capabilities, including:
- Open Enablement of Software-defined Networking: The recently introduced Emulex SURF open API provides the tools needed to implement SDN technology that can be optimized for next generation applications and new industry standards, such as OpenStack, CloudStack and OpenFlow.
- High-Performance Virtualization: OCm14000-OCP adapters use highly efficient and scalable hardware offload technology to transfer the overhead of virtual networking, providing up to 50 percent better CPU utilization1 compared to standard NICs when used for VMware VirtualWire connection, thereby increasing the number of VMs that can be supported per server. In addition, the OCm14000-OCP adapters deliver a fundamental 4x performance increase in small packet network performance,2 which is required to scale transaction-heavy and clustered applications.
- Rapid, Secure and Scalable Cloud Connectivity: Emulex Virtual Network Exceleration™ (VNeX) offload technology provides up to 70 percent better performance1 vs. software-only implementations of emerging Overlay Network standards such as Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) used by Microsoft Hyper-V Network Virtualization and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) used in VMware's NSX. These Overlay Network standards enable virtual and cloud environments to scale beyond the limitations of Layer 2 networks and support seamless migration from anywhere to anywhere.
- Optimized Application Delivery with Advanced RoCE Architecture: The OCm14000-OCP adapters are based on a low-latency RoCE architecture that help enterprise IT and cloud data centers optimize unstructured and file-based storage environments, which are based on Windows Server SMB Direct and Linux NFS protocols.
- Increased Block Protocol Performance: The OCm14000-OCP adapters increase total block protocol IOPS by 50 percent over previous generation CNAs2 and build upon the proven history of enterprise-class storage reliability at Emulex.
Emulex is sampling OCm14000-OCP adapters with leading OCP solution providers. Emulex will be showcasing OCm14000-OCP adapters at Interop Las Vegas in booth #1158 this week.1. Based on Emulex Implementers Lab blog2. Based on Emulex Labs testing Read our Emulex Labs blog on today's news here . Tweet this: Emulex Announces New Adapters for the Open Compute Project at @interop: http://ow.ly/uZtSC @ocp_tweets #interop Follow Emulex on Twitter. About Emulex Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex's products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex's monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com. 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HARRISBURG - Through several decades of debate over legalized gambling in Pennsylvania, interests representing nonprofit groups, casinos and taverns have competed against each other to win approval to offer gambling to patrons.
Nonprofits hit the jackpot first with small games of chance in 1988, casinos were next with slot machines in 2004, and the addition of table games in 2010. Taverns, however, have been left out despite bills to allow them everything from video poker machine to keno and blackjack tournaments.
This situation came close to changing one day last week when the Senate approved a bill legalizing small games for taverns and the House appeared ready to quickly follow suit. Instead, the Senate-approved bill cleared a key House committee, but a floor vote was put off until lawmakers return to session after the Nov. 5 election.
"We're going to get this finally done," Amy Christie, executive director of the Pennsylvania Licensed Beverage Association, said, expressing optimism about the final outcome.
The two-week delay will allow time for House lawmakers to become more familiar with the bill's details, but it could also give rivals time to organize against it.
The effort to help taverns and bars has quietly gained momentum since last June when Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers started eyeing revenue from a new small games tax as part of the state budget deal. Creating that money pot became more attractive with state tax revenues remaining tight, costs growing for Lottery-run senior programs and continuing calls for school property tax relief.
One outstanding issue is whether the new revenue would go to the all-purpose General Fund or the Lottery Fund.
Lawmakers also face pressure to balance the needs of nonprofits and casinos in the competition for the discretionary gambling dollar. The Pennsylvania Lottery's success in selling tickets for its games is a factor for consideration too. One outstanding issue is whether the new revenue would go to the all-purpose General Fund or the Lottery Fund.
Reps. Phyllis Mundy, D-120, Kingston, and Joseph Markosek, D-25, Monroeville, ranking Democrats on the finance and appropriations committees respectively, said the Lottery could see a 5 percent decrease in ticket sales if taverns offer small games.
The Lottery has sizeable financial reserves and won't need a major revenue infusion for at least five years, said House Appropriations Chairman Bill Adolph, R-165, Springfield.
Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20, Lehman Twp., has voiced concerns that adding gambling outlets will put pressure on fund-raising efforts by fire companies, veterans groups, churches and community organizations and result in less revenue for Lottery programs.
House Majority Whip Stan Saylor, R-94, Red Lion, suggested the small games players in taverns would be a different clientele from those who are members of nonprofit social clubs.
The governor's budget office estimate of about $150 million annually from small games tax revenues is based on the state Liquor Control Board issuing licenses to 2,000 taverns. The bill is designed for small family-owned taverns and bars and they won't be offering the full scope of small games that a nonprofit does, said Ms. Christie.
Under the bill, taverns could conduct pull-tabs, daily drawings and a monthly raffle for charitable purposes. They would pay an initial $2,000 license fee that would be renewed annually for $1,000. The state would tax revenue from pull-tabs and daily drawings at a 60 percent rate.
The tavern measure is paired with a bill to resolve regulatory issues that arose with a 2012 small games law and legalize small sports betting pools for nonprofits with a small games license.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the year-end countdown from Times Square on "New Year's Rockin' Eve," has died. He was 82.
Spokesman Paul Shefrin said Clark had a heart attack Wednesday morning at Saint John's hospital in Santa Monica, where he had gone the day before for an outpatient procedure.
Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk.
Long dubbed "the world's oldest teenager" because of his boyish appearance, Clark bridged the rebellious new music scene and traditional show business, and equally comfortable whether chatting about music with Sam Cooke or bantering with Ed McMahon about TV bloopers. He thrived as the founder of Dick Clark Productions, supplying movies, game and music shows, beauty contests and more to TV. Among his credits: "The $25,000 Pyramid," "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes" and the American Music Awards.
For a time in the 1980s, he had shows on all three networks and was listed among the Forbes 400 of wealthiest Americans. Clark also was part of radio as partner in the United Stations Radio Network, which provided programs — including Clark's — to thousands of stations.
"There's hardly any segment of the population that doesn't see what I do," Clark told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview. "It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, 'I love your show,' and I have no idea which one they're talking about."
The original "American Bandstand" was one of network TV's longest-running series as part of ABC's daytime lineup from 1957 to 1987. It later aired for a year in syndication and briefly on the USA Network. Over the years, it introduced stars ranging from Buddy Holly to Madonna. The show's status as an American cultural institution was solidified when Clark donated Bandstand's original podium and backdrop to the Smithsonian Institution.
Clark joined "Bandstand" in 1956 after Bob Horn, who'd been the host since its 1952 debut, was fired. Under Clark's guidance, it went from a local Philadelphia show to a national phenomenon.
"I played records, the kids danced, and America watched," was how Clark once described the series' simplicity. In his 1958 hit "Sweet Little Sixteen," Chuck Berry sang that "they'll be rocking on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P-A."
As a host, he had the smooth delivery of a seasoned radio announcer. As a producer, he had an ear for a hit record. He also knew how to make wary adults welcome this odd new breed of music in their homes.
Clark endured accusations that he was in with the squares, with critic Lester Bangs defining Bandstand as "a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage experience." In a 1985 interview, Clark acknowledged the complaints. "But I knew at the time that if we didn't make the presentation to the older generation palatable, it could kill it."
"So along with Little Richard and Chuck Berry and the Platters and the Crows and the Jayhawks … the boys wore coats and ties and the girls combed their hair and they all looked like sweet little kids into a high school dance," he said.
But Clark defended pop artists and artistic freedom, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said in an online biography of the 1993 inductee. He helped give black artists their due by playing original R&B recordings instead of cover versions by white performers, and he condemned censorship.
His stroke in December 2004 forced him to miss his annual appearance on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." He returned the following year and, although his speech at times was difficult to understand, many praised his bravery, including other stroke victims.
Still speaking with difficulty, he continued taking part in his New Year's shows, though in a diminished role. Ryan Seacrest became the main host.
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Some children in Kansas and Oklahoma are sleeping better, thanks to a gift from Pittsburg State University. On Thursday, the university donated about 60 surplus beds from its renovation of Dellinger Residence Hall to social service agencies in Kansas and Oklahoma that will distribute them to families they serve.
PSU officials said that as part of the renovation, all of the rooms in the residence hall will have new, modular beds. That meant the university had to store about 170 of the used beds.
PSU contacted area agencies about the beds and the response was immediate and enthusiastic.
"I know of one family with four boys and room for only three beds," said Peyton Westmoreland, a school-based social worker for the Department of Human Services in Ottawa County, Okla. "They were real excited to find out they could get bunk beds."
PSU student athletes volunteered to help load the beds for the social service agency representatives.
The agencies receiving beds Thursday included The Farm, Inc. (TFI); Kansas Family Preservation Services; DCCCA, a children's placement agency; and Oklahoma Children's Services.


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