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"The Karate Kid" handed "The A-Team" a mighty beatdown last week in a battle for '80s nostalgia supremacy, but Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan had better watch their backs, cuz Woody, Buzz and the rest of the "Toy Story 3" gang are gonna sweep the leg. Let's take a look at what's coming out this week.
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A dark, thoughtful and at times terrifying meditation on God, the role of government, the environment, and Man's obligations to his fellow Man. Your kids will love it. In wide release -- Read our review and watch the trailer
"Jonah Hex"
There's been lots of negative buzz (nuzz?) surrounding this one despite initial excitement over the project. Talks of discord on the set and the need for reshoots, to say nothing of a laughable first peek have taken some of the shine off this one, and the initial reviews are doing nothing to restore its luster. In wide release.
From writer-directors Mark and Jay Duplass, this film finds Jonah Hill making a very successful move toward drama, John C. Reilly taking on a too rare leading-man role and Marisa Tomei doing some of the best work of her career in a well crafted character piece centering around three adults in a very unhealthy relationship. Opens in New York and LA Read our review and watch the trailer
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Tilda Swinton is at the top of her game, in this beautifully shot soap opera about an insular and wealthy Italian family and the tragedies that befall them. Read our full review
Novelist Jim Thompson brought a clarity and economy of words to the hard-boiled world of crime and duplicity he depicted. Converting the work of arguably the greatest American pulp novelist of the 20th century to the big screen is no easy task, a fact made all too apparent by director Michael Winterbottom's hollow film adaptation of Thompson's 1952 novel, "The Killer Inside Me." Read our review and watch the trailer
In addition to the new releases, 2010 Sundance champ Winter's Bone is expanding into Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Read our review and watch the trailer


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Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Rick McAllister, Run CrewThe actors in a play usually have about four weeks to perfect the show; they make sure lines, blocking, and choreography are crisp and memorized. Members of the run crew—the ones who shift props and scenery, fly actors, and operate trap doors, among other things—get only five days to learn their roles. Rick McAllister, who has been a member of Children's Theatre Company's (CTC) run crew for the past 15 years, calls his work "a passion," and despite being unseen, members of the run crew are vital to the success of every performance.
McAllister has been involved in theatre for 30 years, and he began working for Child's Play Theatre Company (now Stages Theatre Company) in 1991. There, he worked backstage, stage managed, built sets and props, hung and programmed lights, worked in the ticket office, and acted as a house manager. He was later hired by CTC and has since worked on run crew for 63 CTC productions as well as working with the scenic and electric departments. He encourages people who are interested in working backstage to start as early as possible. "Find community or professional theatres that offer backstage experiences, helping with scene shifting, set building, costumes, props, lighting, sound, the works," he advises.
McAllister speaks enthusiastically about the exciting parts of his job, including flying actors across the stage. When a show calls for an actor to fly, an outside contractor installs a system of cables, tracks, and pulleys, and the run crew operates them. Actors wear harnesses attached to cables, and crew members propel them up and down by pulling ropes; McAllister states that, because of the pulley system, crew members are actually pulling about two thirds of an actor's weight, which is "a workout, but a lot of fun." Other crew members are responsible for operating a second cable that controls side-to-side movement and is attached to a traveler track that moves much like a stage curtain does. The result of the run crew's backstage efforts is an actor who soars weightlessly across the stage.
The run crew also operates the stage's trap doors and lifts, some of which are automated and some of which require the push of a button or lever to move. During the run of Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Musical, one of McAllister's favorite shows, he was in the trap room for the whole show, ensuring that the lifts brought the right contents up and down at the correct times. Because McAllister was below the stage, he kept track of the show through an aerial camera that showed him what was occurring onstage in real time.
McAllister and the run crew also get cues from the Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, and Master Stage Carpenter through something called a "shift plot," which McAllister refers to as "our script for the show." The shift plot contains schedules and timing of tasks as well as listing what type of cue will signal the action. Sometimes the cue is visual, such as a particular movement onstage, and sometimes it comes from the Stage Manager's voice in a headset. The most unique type of cue, however, comes from a cue light. Backstage at CTC's UnitedHealth Group Stage, a string of rope lights flash different colors based on what type of action the run crew needs to take. For example, the rope lights up with one color if a set piece needs to be moved on or off the stage and a different color if scenery needs to fly in or out. When the light is on, run crew is on standby, and they take action as soon as the light goes out.
One particularly proud moment for McAllister was CTC's production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas as, as the show's run crew creatively performed scene changes behind a translucent curtain called a scrim. There was a blackout curtain behind the scrim, and upon its removal, the audience could see a preview of the new scene through the scrim; after a short period of time, the curtain was raised to reveal the glory of the full scene change. The role of run crew is similar to these scene changes behind the scrim: at the moment, it's not entirely clear what's occurring or who's responsible for the action, but when the curtain comes up, everyone can appreciate the beauty of the stage.


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Chad Ochocinco may have gone from the Cinicinnati Bengals to "Dancing with the Stars," but he is hoping his time in Hollywood will bring him within close proximity of a lady he has the hots for – "Modern Family's" Sofia Vergara.
When Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson asked the NFL star if he had an interest in going from "Dancing" to a dating show, Chad spoke about his Sofia crush – a crush he's been using Twitter to make public.
"I'm single. I've struggled with the dating life," he said. "I haven't been able to find the right one, so with the help of a show like [that], as long as it's classy… it has to be classy because there's a way to do a show like this and be classy… and very tasteful and I would like it… unless you can get Sofia Vergara to date me."
Chad revealed he still hasn't met the latin beauty, but he had a message for her, which he delivered to Access Hollywood's cameras.
"Girl, Sofia… Call me!" he said. "Feel free at any time. Thank you."
His "Dancing" partner Cheryl Burke also pointed out that Chad has a little crush on one of his fellow "Stars" — mom of eight Kate Gosselin.
"Kate, she's beautiful to me," he said.
But, he added, Sofia is the lady he's most interested in.
"Sofia, call me. Te amo mi amore!" he said.
Should Sofia need any proof of the kind of guy Chad is, Cheryl revealed she's been enjoying getting to know her latest ballroom buddy.
"His personality… it's very outgoing. He's funny. He's getting more comfortable with me so he's opening up," she said.
And the two even joked about getting married.
"I'm not taking his last name… No, I told him no already. I said, 'Ochocinco is not going to be my last name. I'm keeping my last name,'" she laughed.
"It'd help with the divorce," he added.
In fact, Cheryl wasn't aware of how the wide receiver, who was originally known as Chad Johnson, got his numeric-inspired moniker.
"Can you just explain to her in a nutshell why you changed your name?" Shaun asked.
"Nutshell, the name change, I dare to be different at all that I do. The name change was something different," Chad — who wears #85 on the field — began.
"Why didn't you say it in French? Why Spanish?" Cheryl asked.
"Because I am of Spanish decent — growing up in Miami. In a nutshell: it's different, it's daring, it's marking – a little bit of marking, a little bit of genius behind it also for those who don't know."
And Shaun also cleared up some rumors about Chad's name, including that he planned to opt for a Japanese version of Ochocinco.
"I wouldn't do that… the NFL wouldn't stand for it," he said. "I had to fight with them to do the Ochocinco and I think really pushing it again, they would toss me out the NFL. Enough is enough."
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Big Andy, Little Andy, and the Gift of Hope
For many New York Yankees fans, getting a chance to meet the players, throwing out the first pitch at a game, and having the team throw a party just for you would all be bucket list items; once in a lifetime opportunities that may never be accomplished. On Wednesday, June 27th, Andy Fass did all of those things, and he is only five years old. Andy will start kindergarten in the fall, and he will have a pretty cool story to tell the other kids.
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Time to do an in-depth scouting report on the Super Bowl. Pats vs. Giants. Here we go:
The Teams: The New York Giants vs. The New England Patriots
Records: 15-3 (Pats), 12-7 (Giants)
The Line: Pats by 2.5.
The Coaches: Tom Coughlin vs. Bill Belichick. This is not a one-sided coaching matchup. I was floored two weeks ago when Bill Belichick took a knee at the end of the first half against the Ravens. Occasionally, Belichick will make a legitimately bad coaching decision. It's reassuring, in a way. As for Coughlin, expect him to have the Giants well organized and to manage the clock capably on Sunday. Also expect him to wear his classic "coaching chinos." That's a good look.
The Offenses: TE Rob Gronkowski didn't practice Wednesday due to a gruesome ankle injury he suffered in the third quarter against the Ravens (though he did practice Thursday on a limited basis). Gronk didn't catch a pass after suffering that injury, but his presence on the field will be crucial to the Pats regardless of his health.
If Gronk is healthy enough to play at his usual high level, he's a rampaging touchdown machine. If he isn't, he's still a capable blocker and will still draw plenty of attention from the Giants. That will free up TE Aaron Hernandez to catch plenty of passes. The Patriots possess two of the three best tight ends in football (if you went by this year's stats), which makes defending them all but impossible. Wideout Wes Welker also will get his, and Deion Branch has a Super Bowl MVP under his belt. Chad Ochocinco is worthless.
The Patriots' running game is a bit of a problem, particularly in this game. The Pats are so blasé about running the ball that Hernandez has been their most capable rusher in the postseason. That's not a good thing when the Pats need to run the ball effectively in order to slow down the Giants' pass rush.
Now, to the Giants: They have arguably the best trio of wideouts in football in Hakeem Nicks, Victor Cruz and Mario Manningham. Tight end Jake Ballard, who played such a decisive role in the Giants' thrilling win in New England during the regular season, has been terrible ever since.
Running back Ahmad Bradshaw is hurt but did practice yesterday. Bradshaw has a knack for breaking off big runs at crucial times. I expect him to be more of a factor than bulldozer Brandon Jacobs. Quarterback Eli Manning is magic in the fourth quarter, or when Kyle Williams hands him the ball in overtime.
The Defenses: The Patriots' pass rush is virtually nonexistent, which is a big reason why Joe Flacco had his finest playoff game as a professional in the AFC title game. Eli Manning is quite capable of destroying you if given enough time to find Nicks and Cruz downfield, so Belichick is going to have spend some extra time in his underground cavern figuring out how to make the Giants' QB ill at ease. DT Vince Wilfork is virtually unmovable, and should make Jacobs a nonfactor in this game. The Pats defense is bad, but they have a knack for making the right play at the right time. Ask Lee Evans.
As for the Giants, they beat New England in this game five years ago thanks to their pass rush, and you can bet on them trying to do it again. They're an impossibly deep team at DL, and DE Jason Pierre-Paul has become an absolute beast.
The secondary of the Giants played brilliantly against the Niners, but they're facing a far more capable receiving corps this time around. The Giants allowed Niners TE Vernon Davis to make huge plays in the NFC title game. I'm sure Gronk and Hernandez are licking their chops.
Key Matchup: The Pats' tackles against Pierre-Paul, Osi Umenyiora, and Justin Tuck. It's all about the pass rush. If the Giants hit Tom Brady early and often, the Giants win. Period.


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After years of venture capital and start-up focus on consumer-focused tech companies, enterprise networks and the data center are back in vogue.
But we're not talking sexy Vogue. We're talking virtualization, cloud computing and software-defined networking (SDN) - the sorts of technologies IT managers need to run more efficient data centers and better support increasingly mobile workforces and customers.
"It's an area that hasn't had any innovation in decades," says Jamie Goldstein of North Bridge Venture Partners about the networking industry. "Vendors are still selling the same Ethernet switches they were in the 1990s. Maybe the interfaces are faster, but it's all basically the same technology. Until recently." SDN is a fundamental change in networking, he says, which is causing excitement in the venture capital community.
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Established vendors such as Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent have all aired their SDN plans of late, but it's venture-backed companies such as VMware's $1.2 billion baby Nicira and Stanford University-borne Big Switch Networks that have grabbed more of the attention in this emerging field. And scads of newcomers are right behind them.
In our latest package on companies to watch - vendors that collectively have raised some $250 million in funding - we profile SDN upstarts as well as those in related markets such as virtualization and converged infrastructure.
-Headquarters: Santa Clara
-Founded: 2010
-Focus: Virtualization management
-Product availability: HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter and HotLink Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter are both generally available.
-Funding: $10M from Foundation Capital and Leapfrog Ventures
-Management: HotLink CEO Lynn LeBlanc and Chief Science Officer Richard Offer co-founded FastScale Technology, a software provisioning platform that VMware acquired. LeBlanc has worked at a variety of eventually-acquired startups, including iReady, ILEX Systems and Atherton Technology
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An emerging truth about modern data centers is that they are heterogeneous. They run multiple operating systems, applications and, increasingly, hypervisors. (One survey found that up to 20% of VMware users have deployed the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor in their data centers, with Red Hat's KVM and Citrix's Xen Server each gaining market share against VMware's dominate hypervisor market position.)
But the downside to all this: "Heterogeneity is typically synonymous with complexity," says HotLink CEO LeBlanc.
The vendor's SuperVISOR product is designed to simplify management of heterogeneous hypervisors via a software plugin to VMware vCenter. HotLink's recently launched Hybrid Express platform allows vCenter users to control Amazon Web Service's public cloud resources.
In effect, Hotlink's software tricks VMware vCenter into thinking that Hyper-V, KVM or Xen-virtualized machines are running on VMware hypervisors. A variety of management platforms allow users to deploy virtual machines across hypervisors, but HotLink goes beyond just that and allows users to migrate workloads across them, too. "No one else is really doing integration to this degree," says Bernd Harzog, an analyst at The Virtualization Practice.
HotLink gives IT administrators the power to set access controls, track benchmarking and use, make changes to, configure and manage the instances across clouds.
The company has an impressive list of backers. Its advisory board includes CIOs from some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, including from Facebook, Citrix and EA. Partners include VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft and Citrix, makers of the four major hypervisor platforms.
Flush with venture funding and actual customer-generated revenue, and fresh off winning a best in show award at VMworld 2012, HotLink is now looking to broaden its products' integration with additional management platforms and to increase their functionality.
Headquarters: Santa Clara, with offices in Lyon, France.
Founded: 2010
Focus: Application-defined networking for the cloud
Product availability: Public beta of CloudWeaver launched in January; general availability expected in early 2013.
Funding: $3.3M in series A from Idinvest Partners, a pan-European mid-market private equity firm.
Management: Pascale Vicat-Blanc, founder and CEO, is former research director at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) and former CIO of a Grid 5000 Data Center, as well as project manager at CERN.
More information: Lyatiss
Lyatiss is taking a slightly different approach to software-defined networking and instead is focused on application-defined networking.
"Cloud networks are unpredictable and complex; traditional networks are blind to the applications running on them and rigid," says CEO Vicat-Blanc. "There's a missing link there."
Lyatiss's recently launched CloudWeaver product is an operating system that runs on Amazon Web Services' cloud that makes networks application-aware. It has a series of collectors that monitor application demands in real-time through an API, collects the correlating network requirements and provisions the network to those specifications. If one application needs a low-latency connection for speed, the network will automatically be configured for that. If another app needs high bandwidth for a certain type of traffic, the network can be optimized for that, too.
Lyatiss was born out of the publicly funded French technology research institute INRIA where Vicat-Blanc studied high-demanding applications. Researchers monitored the virtual networking developments in U.S. academia, as well as the market adoption of cloud computing, and saw an opportunity to link the two with network controllers.
"There are a lot of business opportunities in this market," Vicat-Blanc says. "Networking and the cloud used to be separated, but now there's a convergence and there's a lot to be done to make them work together." Users will not embrace SDN technology if it isn't practical for them to use, and making it practical is about ensuring that the network can respond to the needs of the applications running on it, she says.
Headquarters: San Francisco
Founded: 2009
Focus: Network virtualization for cloud service providers
Product availability: MidoNet software is in beta now, general availability in Q1
Funding: $5.5M in seed funding from angel investors Bit-Isle, and institutional investors NTT Investment Partners, MUFJ Capital and 1st Holdings.
Management: Tatsuya Kato, co-Founder and CEO, was CEO of mobile Internet company Cybird and a former executive at Japanese systems integrator CSK Holdings; Chief Strategy Officer Ben Cherian was GM of emerging technologies at DreamHost; Dan Dumitriu, co-founder and CTO, was an Amazon Web Services architect.
More information: Midokura
The founders of Midokura started the company with one bold goal: To create a public cloud service in Japan that would rival Amazon Web Services. But if anyone could do it, it may be these guys. Members of the team worked with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels to help create Amazon Web Services' distributed Dynamo database system.
But when the Midokura team began planning for the massive data center infrastructure that would be needed, they ran into a big problem. Networking, they found, was not ready for the cloud. To get to their goal, they needed to solve the networking problem first, which is why they created MidoNet software. When testing the technology they believed it could be as big of a business opportunity as creating an AWS in Japan, and have been focused solely on their networking operating platform since.
[MORE MIDOKURA: Japanese virtualization start-up invades the USA]
MidoNet software centrally controls all aspects of an IaaS cloud network, from the switches to the routers to x86 servers to firewalls to any other piece of commodity hardware. It centrally analyzes traffic at the very edge, as soon as it enters the network. Each aspect of a Midokura network is linked, which the company says allows the software to route traffic directly from the entry point to the destination in the most efficient way possible. In doing so, it's "blowing up the router," says Midokura's Cherian.
"Since you're abstracting away the devices from the network controls and pushing the intelligence of the network to the farthest edges, the physical infrastructure is still there, but you're not requiring as much from it," Cherian explains. Switches and routers, he says, simply aren't designed to handle the massive amount of changes that occur within a cloud network. MidoNet is designed for the dynamically scaling network requirements of a cloud. Initial deployments of the system work with OpenStack-powered clouds.
Headquarters: San Jose
Founded: 2009
Focus: SAN-less storage and compute clusters
Product availability: Generally available
Funding: $71.6M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, Khosla Ventures, Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs
Management: Founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, former vice president of engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata; vice president of operations David Sangste, formerly with EMC, Data Domain, Hewlett Packard; vice president of engineering Bill Culman, formerly of QuorumLabs, Interwoven, BEA Systems and Tandem Computers.
-More information: Nutanix
Efforts by big name vendors such as Cisco, VMware and EMC (via their VCE venture) to combine data center elements such as compute, storage and networking into one plug-and-play system have been mildly successful to date, according to industry analyst Arun Taneja. What Nutanix is doing is different though, what Taneja calls "hyper-convergence."
Nutanix sells a hardware-software combination that combines compute and storage, meant to allow for easy scalability to a massive size with simple management. In 2011 the company won a best in show at VMworld in the virtual desktop category and investors have already poured more than $70 million into the company. Nutanix says in 30 minutes its system can be installed and IT admins have a data center in a box, ready to scale just by adding more nodes.
The key, says CEO Pandey, is the notion that data stored in Nutanix is written locally and stored redundantly across however many nodes are included in the deployment. That allows for easy horizontal scaling - just add more boxes to increase capacity, while not degrading performance. Nutanix is built on Intel Sandy Bridge processors and the VMware ESX hypervisor, but its Version 3.0 software released in December expands support to Red Hat's Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM). Automatic redundancy across the system means virtual machine-level disaster recovery capabilities, while the VMware platform allows for vMotion - the transferring of virtual machine instances - across nodes within the system.
Nutanix is playing in a crowded field with some heavy hitters. Along with VCE, IBM has Pure Systems and NetApp has FlexPod. Taneja, the analyst, says those are "pseudo" convergence efforts - disparate pieces assembled together and optimized to work collectively. "Hyper-convergence can only happen if you start afresh," he says, which is exactly what Nutanix has done.
Headquarters: Palo Alto
Founded: 2009
Focus: Hardware-independent SDN switching systems
Product availability: OpenFlow-enabled Open Switches are shipping now
Funding: $6.5M Series A from Vantage Point Capital in October 2012
Management: Co-founders James Liao (CEO) and Lin Du (vice president of engineering) were with Woven Systems; other execs from InfloBlox, Dell and Alcatel-Lucent.
More information: Pica8
Even though the SDN market is young, there is already a confusing variety of vendors and products on the market. Where's an interested buyer supposed to start?
Pica8 executives want to simplify the process. The company, which was founded on the basis of being software-focused and hardware-independent, has released a series of reference architectures of how to get going along the SDN pathway - of course using Pica8's network operating system.
An SDN architecture has three main components, explains Pica8 marketing executive Steve Garrison: A physical switch, a controller and a virtual switch. But there are already dozens of options for customers to select from for each of those components, leading to a long onboarding process of typically between 90 to 100 days, he says. Pica8's published guides show how customers can set up and deploy these virtual networks using Pica8 components and commodity hardware supplied by Quanta Computer, ensuring that customers are not locked into buying expensive proprietary equipment.
Pica8's software, which includes the Open vSwitch (OVS) agent from Nicira, also works with open source controllers from Big Switch Networks, although a variety of other OpenFlow-based controllers, such as Ryu, can be used as well. The idea, Garrison says, is that as SDN adoption continues, "no one controller will be best for every application... no one company will own this market."
Headquarters: Cambridge, Mass.
Founded: 2010
Focus: Application-driven network control
Product availability: Became generally available in Q4 of 2012
Funding: $48.5M from North Bridge Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Management: David Husak, founder and CEO, formerly with 3Com and co-founder of Reva Systems; Ephraim Dobbins, co-Founder and vice president of engineering, formerly with Acme Packet.
Fun fact: The ecommerce portion of the company's website includes items such as a sold out bobblehead of company Husak, as well as a $30 million Plexxi jet.
More information: Plexxi
Plexxi executives say much of the talk about SDNs and virtual networks these days is off the mark.
Instead of just re-architecting the network to make it more elastic, scalable and controlled through software, they say the network should be orchestrated from the top down, by applications telling the network what resources they need and the network automatically provisioning itself. That's what Plexxi says its switches and software combination enable customers to do. "We view ourselves as building a solution based on an SDN foundation," says Mat Matthews, a co-founder and vice president of product marketing.
The software layer collects information about applications, analyzes what network resources it's using and creates algorithms to predict what will be needed. It takes that information and relays it to the underlying integrated network hardware devices made by Plexxi - mostly switches - that configure the network to the specifications of the applications.
Plexxi has already seen some success in the financial sector, where organizations are looking for ultra low-latency private cloud infrastructures. The company's system is ideal for networks that include a high number of server connectivity points, and for content delivery and big data applications, according to Plexxi. One early customer has created a premium service cloud computing offering that guarantees no two servers are ever more than one hop away from one another, for example.
The company is made of proud Bostonians. On its website, CEO Husak shows his East Coast pride, noting: "The last time there was a shift of this magnitude in enterprise networking, Boston-based companies led the way. And, it's going to happen that way again."
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Founded: 2011
Focus: Network virtualization-plus
Funding: $10.7 million in Series A funding from US Venture Partners and Hummer Winblad Partners
Product availability: First half of 2013
Management: Lot of former Cisco employees and engineers, including Co-founder and CEO Awais Nemat, Co-founder and CTO Pere Monclus, Head of Product Management Valentina Alaria and Vice President of Engineering Lele Nardin
More information: PLUMgrid
PLUMgrid has issued an open challenge about why the company is called what it's called. When executives reveal details about the company's plans during a launch event in the spring, CEO Nemat plans to hold a drawing for anyone who guesses right and the winner will take home an iPad.
Nemat is also secretive about exactly what the 50-employee company is up to, but has shared some clues. He promises it will be a virtual networking advancement. The problem with many existing solutions, Nemat says, is that they're not able to work on top of existing network gear, requiring a "rip and replace" model.
PLUMgrid's technology, described as an I/O control system for connecting networks, storage, compute and applications, "lives on top of servers as a software layer that protects existing investments, while also providing a path for greenfield investments," Nemat says. PLUMgrid has decided not to be OpenFlow-based, and is instead developing its own network controlling software.
Pluribus Networks
Headquarters: Palo Alto
Founded: 2010
Focus: Hardware-accelerated network virtualization for public/private clouds
Product availability: Limited availability of NetVisor software and Server-Switch hardware, with general availability in Q2
Funding: $42 million from NEA, Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Management: CEO Robert Drost and CTO Sunay Tripathi, both formerly with Sun; Vice President of Engineering Ken Yang is on sabbatical from UCLA
More information: Pluribus
While working at Sun as chief architect for storage and network virtualization of Solaris, Pluribus CTO Tripathi kept running into the same problem, as did Sun customers. "Coordinating between multiple networking components is really hard to do," he says. Between the compute virtualization layer, the persistent environment and the different operating systems, hypervisors and applications on each server, it is really difficult to centrally control them.
Tripathi (who holds 80 patents, many related to Solaris, but a variety in virtual switches, too) left Sun to solve this problem, and for the past three years has been building a team to create its Netvisor network operating system and Server-Switch hardware. Similar to how the x86 server ushered in an era of compute virtualization, Tripathi says a new era of networking chips from manufacturers like Fulcrum, Intel and Trident will allow increased programmability of switches. But they still need an operating system to control them, and that's what Pluribus provides.
Tripathi says he started Pluribus before the hype around SDNs heated up. Even though there are a bunch of startups in this emerging field - just look at the rest of this list of companies to watch - Tripathi says Pluribus's Netvisor system can work with next-generation networking switches and controllers from the likes of Nicira and Big Switch.
VC Jim Smith of Mohr Davidow, which has backed Pluribus, says a couple of things stood out to him about this start-up, including the team and its devotion to offering a complete package. "We're already seeing the pain-points for this next-generation networking technology," Smith says. "It's clear there will be a new control layer to manage these super-complex compute and networking environments we're building for the future. Pluribus Networks is one of the few companies we've seen that offers a complete fabric for handling that complexity."
Headquarters: Westborough, Mass.
Founded: 2009
Focus: Data center in a box
Product availability: Limited availability of OmniCubes today; general availability in March.
Funding: $43 million from Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
Management: Chairman and CEO Doron Kempel, founder and CEO of Diligent Technologies, and with IBM and EMC before that; Vice President Engineering Brian Nadeau is a former Dell executive director; Vice President Marketing Tom Grave was director of product management and marketing for IBM's storage division.
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CEO Kempel doesn't have the traditional background of a start-up tech exec: He holds degrees from Tel Aviv University in law and philosophy and served as a major in the Israeli Defense Forces before pursuing a technical career.
That amalgamation of experience is emblematic of what SimpliVity brings to the market: A unified data center system that combines best-of-breed technologies. It offers an alternative to a common data center rack filled with possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of servers, shared storage units, backup and deduplication appliances, a WAN optimization box, a cloud gateway and more.
Simplivity's OmniCube 2U appliances, which work with VMware software, each boast up to 40TB of usable capacity, 12 cores and 800GB of memory. They start at around $55,000 and if users need more scale, they can add OmniCubes, creating a highly-available OmniStack that can be dispersed geographically and managed centrally.
A key driver behind the OmniCube is data management. Kempel and his team came from Dilligent, a de-duplication startup that IBM bought in 2008. Using that experience, the company has integrated deduplication and compression into the OmniCubes for all data at inception and throughout all layers of the OmniCube. This eliminates the need for separate WAN optimization tools and speeds the connections for data requests, the company says.
Headquarters: Santa Clara
Founded: 2007
Focus: Geographically distributed relational database management
Product availability: TransLattice Elastic Database (TED) launched in 2010, Version 3.0 was released in February
Funding: $9.5 million, led by DCM Ventures
Management: CEO and Co-founder Frank Huerta and CTO Michael Lyle, both formerly with Symantec, Recourse Technologies and Exodus
More information: TransLattice
Let's say an organization has multiple sites across the country or world, and has a database accessed by workers in all those locations. The database needs to be synchronized so that everyone has all the same information, no matter where they are.
The cloud might seem like one option: Spin up a relational database instance via Amazon Web Services, right?
Not quite says Louise Frank, marketing vice president for TransLattice. AWS database instances do not automatically replicate across sites, so changes made in one availability zone of Amazon's cloud will not appear immediately at another site. TransLattice databases do.
A software and hardware appliance from TransLattice sits at each site where an organization has a relational database and automatically synchronizes the nodes across locales. It uses sharding techniques that split up the data into bite-size chunks as well as caching technology to get the job done.
The company was born in part out of the vision of CTO Lyle, who before co-founding the company served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at venture firm DCM. He kept hearing pitches from companies doing WAN optimization, load balancers and database optimization tools. "All those individual components just make the system more complicated and they don't actually solve the problem," Funke says. So Lyle - who had previously served as CTO of distributed security/threat management firm Resource Technologies, which was later acquired by Symantec - left the VC world and began pursuing the idea of a globally-dispersed database system.
Now, TransLattice is humming along, having recently announced the third generation of its TransLattice Elastic Database (TED), which now spans across Amazon Web Services and Dell public clouds to ensure high availability and resiliency. The company has also rolled out the TransLattice Application Platform, which applies the same technology used to synchronize the databases for customers to host applications at sites across the globe.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at email@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.
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by Adam M. Roberts, Executive Vice President, Born Free USA
There it was, on display in Denver, Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge: nearly six tons of elephant ivory seized by dedicated U.S. wildlife law enforcement agents over more than two decades.
Huge tusks—some raw, some carved; walking canes with ivory handles, ivory inlays; statues spread out across a long table, intricately carved, and some, with deadly irony, depicting elephant images; and a glass box brimming with jewelry: ivory necklaces, ivory bracelets, ivory earrings.
Each piece of ivory, large or small, worked or not, was bloody ivory. Each piece represented a loss of life, the slaughter of an innocent symbol of the African savannah, the African forest, or the Asian forest. A big bull? The herd's matriarch? A young girl no older than my daughter? Each piece represented a crushing sadness.
Pile after pile of the ivory was loaded into a giant rock crusher and pulverized with a jarring sound I will never forget. It went in one end, the coveted prize of a misguided tourist or nefarious, greedy smuggler—and out the other end into a box, like a pile of smashed seashells.
On November 14, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a global message that ivory belongs to elephants, and that it would put its confiscated ivory permanently out of reach by smashing it to pieces. Ivory, in recent years, has been set ablaze in Kenya, Gabon, and the Philippines. Now, it was our turn. …


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i have been assigned a task to create a simple application. I have created all the code (which is too long and has something like 15 classes so i included it in the link below).
Everything seems to be working properly in the classes, however i am having problems with the main class (in the Application.java file). I was wondering whether it would be possible to get some guidance on it.


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Nearest Town: BruneauSite Size: 10,664 acres
Highlights: Raptors, Shorebirds, Songbirds, Upland Birds, Waterbirds, Waterfowl
Access: Year-round. Seasonal hunting closure. Seasonal nesting closure. Access free of charge.
Directions: From Mountain Home, S on ID 51 for 15 mi; cross river; follow ID 51/78 for 6.5 mi SW; W on ID 78 for 2.5 mi to WMA headquarters.
Description: Two hundred forty species of birds are known to use the C.J. Strike area annually. Of these species, 98 breed in the area, and 105 species commonly winter here. Large numbers of passerines pass through this area during the spring migration (125,000 swallows have been observed in a 4-hour period). Long-billed Curlew, Western Screech-, Northern Saw-whet,
and Burrowing Owls breed in the area, and American White Pelican (50-300 individuals) can often be seen during the summer. During spring and summer, many other waterfowl and waterbird species, including rails, terns, gulls, sandpipers, and herons can be found here. The reservoir is also a nursery for several hundred Western and Clark's Grebes. Because this valley is warmer than the surrounding area, many "half-hardy" species like American White Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Yellow-rumped Warbler, and Loggerhead Shrike successfully winter here. Approximately 100,000 waterfowl, including Trumpeter and Tundra Swans, use the area during migration and winter. The largest number of waterfowl usually arrive in Nov and leave by early Feb. There is always a small population of Merlin, Northern Goshawk, and Ferruginous Hawk during the winter.
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Composer / arranger / ageless wonder Gerald Wilson, most of whose recent albums (Monterey Moods; New York, New Sound; Theme for Monterey; State Street Sweet) have been built around sectional themes, returns "home" on Detroit to paint an earnest musical portrait of his adopted city, one that not only spawned the nation's auto industry but has produced a wealth of renowned jazz musicians from the Jones brothers (Elvin, Thad, Hank) to Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Betty Carter, Paul Chambers, Billy Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Yusef Lateef, Dorothy Ashby and many others.
Even though he was born in Mississippi, Wilson's family moved to Detroit when he was quite young, and he was graduated from Cass Tech High School, once known far and wide for its exemplary music programs. It was from Detroit that Wilson launched his career with the Jimmie Lunceford Band, and the rest, as they say, is history. Wilson has been composing and arranging almost ever since, and the NEA Jazz Master and "Living Jazz Legend" has half a dozen Grammy Award nominations to his credit.
What is most remarkable, as epitomized on Detroit, is that, at age ninety-one, Wilson hasn't lost a step when it comes to writing sharp and exhilarating big-band charts. After framing a carefree mood with the snappy "Blues on Belle Isle," Wilson salutes his alma mater with "Cass Tech," a straight-on swinger with a sunny piano intro by Brian O'Rourke and pleasing solos by son Anthony Wilson on guitar, tenor Kamasi Washington and guest trumpeter Sean Jones. These are the first movements in the six-part Detroit Suite, performed by Wilson's Los Angeles Band; the last two (unrelated) numbers, "Everywhere" and "Aram," showcase his New York Band with guest flautist Hubert Laws brightening the landscape on "Everywhere."
"Detroit" weaves its spell with easygoing grace, "Miss Gretchen" demurely unveils her loveliness before cutting loose, "Before Motown" is bold and sassy (with apposite solos by Jones, O'Rourke, Washington, fellow tenor Louis Van Taylor, trumpeter Bobby Rodriguez and trombonist Les Benedict), after which the turbulent "Detroit River" engulfs the listener in a tidal wave of big-band bravado enhanced by O'Rourke, Anthony Wilson, Van Taylor, trumpeters Jones and Ron Barrow, soprano Jackie Kelso, trombonist Eric Jorgensen and violinist Yvette Devereaux (more than window dressing; she really swings, whether in the "River" or on "Belle Isle").
Washington, Jones and Anthony Wilson solo with the always-inspiring Laws and an unnamed trombonist on the mid-tempo charmer "Everywhere," while trumpeter Terell Stafford and alto Antonio Hart relish their moment in the sun on the colorful "Aram." Gerald Wilson has been and remains a marvel, and Detroit warrants a place among his finest works for big band. Would anyone care to wager against raising the ante to seven Grammy nominations?
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Howser Spire Climber's Log
Diggler - Aug 27, 2013 8:06 pm Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2013Beckey-Chouinard- wowser on the Howser!
Definitely one of the best climbs I've done... Incredible! This was the number one objective of our trip; after looking at the weather forecast, we decided to make this our first climb, instead of 'warming up' on something else first, to make sure we got it done. We decided to play it safe, and do it from East Creek bivy.
After our initial approach to the Kain Hut day 1, went to Applebee the next day, followed by going over to the bivy afterwards (almost got taken out going up the Snowpatch-Bugaboo Col by a VW bug-sized block that came rumbing down the gully- that would have ended the attempt, and my life, for that matter). Walked right by Honnold, Anker, and Ozturk (there for a N Face photo shoot) without even realizing it- ha ha.
Bill and I started up early the next day, with plenty of new friends- there were 3 parties behind us, not to mention maybe 2 or so ahead of us. Climb was amazing- fun, sustained, with great rock and phenomenal views. Summited 19.25. To facilitate efficient downward progress, we teamed up with the 3 parties to do a rap' train down S Howser (8 guys altogether). Bit of a sketchy glacier crossing, esp. as the 4 guys behind us were unroped, and even Bill poked a foot through a bridge at one point... Saw the Aurora Borealis on the way back- for the first time- sublime... Descent back to bivy long and involved- we were both extremely happy to roll back into camp (around 01.12).
What a formation, climb, and day! Thanks, Bill, for such a memorable time!
Vitaliy M. - Aug 19, 2012 3:08 pm Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2012Beckey Chouinard
Swong leads with Bryan. Our first time in Bugs. 18 hours Applebee to Applebee. Passed 2 parties, one of which spent full 2.5 days on the route. Amazing sunset was witnessed after we finished the raps down the back side.
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Emma's all decked out in her Jack-O-Lantern PJ's for a little morning baking. We love making scones in the morning - they really only take 5 minutes to put together and bake for 15. Much easier than cinnamon rolls... and soooo good.
Are you scared of my hair? I am.
I'm so glad it is finally cranberry season. We've been using fresh cranberries instead of dried in our Orange-Cranberry Scones. It is just how they were made in Concord, Ma. at Verrill Farm... where this obsession all started.
What was that Emma? You'd like 1 cupcake, please?
Here they are out of the oven with orange glaze. This recipe was inspired by the Barefoot Contessa's scones - but with the addition of fresh cranberries.
Cranberry Scones
with an orange glaze
makes 6-8
New! Printable Recipes, here.
2 cups plus 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
12 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, diced
2 extra-large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup cold heavy cream
1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
4 teaspoons freshly squeezed orange juice
In a mixer, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt using the paddle attachment. Cut the cold butter into 1/2 inch pieces. Add the butter to the dry ingredients and mix on low until the butter is mixed in and is the size of peas. In a separate bowl, mix together eggs and whipping cream with a fork. Turn the mixer on low and slowly add the cream and egg mixture. Turn off the mixer once added. Fold in cranberries.
Put some flour on the counter. Turn the dough out onto the floured surface. Add some flour onto the top of the dough, then pat it out into a disk - about 8-9 inches in diameter. Cut the disk into 6-8 pieces like a pie.
Separate the pieces and put them on a silpat or parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-17 minutes.
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I'm searching for the pattern for a set of candles to be used as a wall hanging. I'm guessing it's from the early to mid 1960's. My mother had it & for many years it was on a shelf in one of the closets, but it disappeared a few years ago. I've found some of the mirrors that were intended for the project, but not the pattern. I don't know if it came out of a magazine like McCall's or Ladies Home Journal or was something that she sent away for. I tend to think it was in a magazine, because the pattern she had was enlarged using the old grid method. If anyone has a copy of this pattern, I'd be tickled more than pink if you would be so kind as to scan & email to me!!!
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First, disclosure. I'm not a Dark shadows fan—only because I've never watched the original series. Or the remake. But I have seen the first movie spin-off: House of dark shadows (1970). Kinda liked it.
I've known Tim Burton was slated to direct an adaptation for a while. Before I saw the publicity stills, I thought it might even be a good flick. He's an interesting director; Sleepy Hollow (1999) was an entertaining, Hammeresque flick. But when the stills were released and I saw Johnny Depp in what looked like pancake make-up—or one hell of an airbrush job—and my apprehensions rose.
Today, I saw the upcoming movie's trailer shipped around on Facebook. And, well, let's say it hasn't allayed my concerns. You'll see what I mean:
Sorry Burton fans; this thing looks utterly and completely stupid. Not in a good, fun way, either. I'm savvy enough to know the original series was kinda campy, but what the hell is this supposed to be? I'm sure this adaptation wasn't intentionally meant to piss all over the series fanbase, as I also know Burton and Depp are included in their ranks. Still, it's hard to reach any other conclusion. At least, going on the trailer.


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European space officials are seeking ideas to help develop a mission to knock an asteroid off its course, in case one day humans must pull off such a stunt to save Earth from a catastrophic space-rock collision.
The idea behind the joint U.S.-European mission, dubbed AIDA (for Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment), is to send two small spacecraft to intercept a binary asteroid Didymos, which is projected to travel past Earth in 2022. This space rock system is actually a pair of asteroids, one smaller, one larger, that orbit each other as they zoom around the sun.
One 600-pound (300-kg) spacecraft, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) craft developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, would smash into the smaller of the two asteroids. The impact would knock the 500-foot- (150-meter-) wide space rock off its regular orbit.
Meanwhile, the European Space Agency's Asteroid Impact Monitor (AIM) craft would survey the collision. The crash would take place about at 6.5 million miles (10.5 million kilometers), meaning scientists on the ground would also be able to measure the deflection using telescopes.
"The advantage is that the spacecraft are simple and independent," Andy Cheng of Johns Hopkins, who heads the U.S. side of the AIDA asteroid deflection project, said in a statement. "They can both complete their primary investigation without the other one."
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
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- Firefox For Dummies gives you the inside scoop on the exciting new browser from the Web wizard that got it started. The book's author, Blake Ross, began developing Firefox as a teenager. Once available to the world, the simple and powerful tool was an instant hit claiming a sizable share of the Web browser market with over 140 million downloads.
- In this book Blake not only gives you the lowdown on how to use Firefox for safe Web searching, but he also shares his insight into how the product came to life. It's a combination of practical tech insight and a good story that is rare in computer books.
- Topics covered include downloading and installing Firefox, creating a home page, searching with Google, creating customized themes and toolbars, using tabbed browsing, downloading and saving files, maintaining security and privacy, eliminating annoying popups, and adding Firefox extensions.


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The North Flank Guard
In politics, a direct attack is not always the most effective. One way to proceed is to target someone or something that is seen to represent a more extreme, a more pure representation of your opponent's ideas and concentrate at least some of your efforts here. Let us call this the "politics of envelopment." One of the most misguided responses to such a threat of a politics of envelopment, however, is what I will call a "flank guard" form of active defense. Alas, on the political left, and especially among those who, including myself, might be described as democratic socialists, this approach is all too common. The "left flank guard" often takes the form of a spirited defense of even the most indefensible extremes on our flank. The most common ways this is actually carried out is by means of evasion (of accusations), dramatic reversals ("On the contrary, you are the terrorist!"), distraction ("Look at those literacy rates!"), and good old fashioned omission of inconvenient truths.
With the end of the cold war, the "left flank guard" has mostly been deployed in the defense of authoritarian leaders who emit that nostalgic socialist scent (e.g. Venezuela), historical figures who are seen as worthy leaders of revolution but who lost in their struggle for power (e.g. Trotsky), or any resistance or liberation movement that is seen as the best current option for opposing some hated regime (e.g. Hamas). The important point to make here is that few of those in the left flank guard really believe that freedom of expression should be curtailed as it is in Venezuela, that enemies of the revolution should be mercilessly slaughtered, as did Trotsky, or that theocracy is a good supplement to generous social policies. Yet, for some reason, their defenders believe that the survival of our political cause requires us to take a stand and vigorously defend those whose oppressive policies and brutal violence often far outmatch those of our current opponents. I, on the other hand, find this tendency nothing short of repulsive, but more importantly, of no benefit to the cause of social justice.
In the academic world of Korean studies, we might call this phenomenon the "North flank guard," because the form it takes is:
1) A mobilization of scholarly efforts against opposition to the North Korean regime or those who highlight its human rights issues.
2) A refusal to clearly acknowledge North Korean responsibility for the escalation of tensions at numerous points in the last few years. This treats North Korea as a passive force, reacting only to provocation, rather than as an active composite subject which carefully calculates the potential domestic and international gains to be made from any new crisis.
3) The minimization or sometimes omission of any mention or substantive detail of the oppressive characteristics of the North Korean regime.
4) The fallacious pursuit of a historical argument which seeks to trace all contemporary woes back to the sins of Japanese colonialism, or to US and Soviet military occupations. Let's call this, "The argument of original imperial sin."
In the next two postings, I want to introduce a few of the most recent examples of the "North flank guard" in action and why I find it deeply troubling.
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The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange
The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea
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Looking forward to the third posting. Well argued as always. This whole paradigm regarding North Korea that you are pointing out is totally puzzling.
Well written and thought out post. I can not even stand to call myself a liberal because of the many liberal flanks which support such awful, inhumane and authoritarian causes.
Honesty about the tyranny of North Korea is best and those who often say they can not understand North Korea and her actions tend to be liberals (who are wishing for the best from this communist "utopia").
In a chat with a South Korean who said in all seriousness, "North Korea is just misunderstood and is really a nice place…South Korea would be so much better if we'd find a way to be more socialist like North Korea." I wish that was made up.
People from the right of the political spectrum fall from Nationalist or protectionist reasons, while, as you point out so well, the left often falls from it's desire to change and right injustices, no matter what the outcome.


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I thought it would be a good idea to gather some responses and statistics as to what are the favorite nationally known and still published genealogy journals enjoyed by our readers.
I have noted in the poll 5 of what I think are the most known genealogy journals that researchers may subscribe to or even read here at our library. In this poll, if you have more than one favorite, you can actually vote for more than one. If I have omitted a favorite journal, you can submit your own favorite genealogy journal that you follow and learn from.
Sad to say, but many genealogy journals over the last 5 years have really fallen on hard times and are no longer published. Journals such as "Everton's Genealogical Helper", "Ancestry", "Heritage Quest", "Digital Genealogist" have all bitten the dust and are no longer with us actively although past issues can still be read.
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