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The first official trailer for "Star Trek Beyond"—a German version of it was leaked online a few days ago—is finally here, and it looks like we can expect some serious action, some laughter and, of course, a cast full of amazing A-listers.
Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana will be back for the third installment of the franchise, while Idris Elba (playing Luther) will join the crew for the first time.
Kicking off with the Beastie Boys classic hit "Sabotage"—paying homage to the first film—the trailer pans to each one of the cast members and then rolls into an action-packed montage of the USS Enterprise fighting off asteroids and new species while also showing the personal relationships between the crew, like Spock and Kirk.
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Speaking of Spock (played by Quinto), the actor previously told E! News he was extremely grateful to work on the film and cannot wait to see the final cut in theaters this summer.
"Just finished the third 'Star Trek' movie, about to start another movie here, and then I'm doing another play in the new year," Quinto told E! in October. "It was an incredible experience and I'm really grateful to have gone through it and be on the other side of it. I'm really looking forward to next summer when it comes out."
"Star Trek Beyond" will hit theaters on July 22.


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RICHMOND, Va. – After VCU defeated High Point on the road in the final seconds of last year's season opener, the Panthers were looking to return the favor on the Rams' home court this year. High Point shot 67-percent from the field in the second half and scored the final 14 points of the game to hand VCU an 82-67 loss in its season-opening rematch Friday evening at the Verizon Wireless Arena.
VCU (0-1) pulled within a point three times in the last 7:35 but High Point never relinquished the lead and went 8-for-11 at the free throw line in the final minutes to seal its first win over the Rams.
"As a whole, this loss is disappointing," said VCU Head Coach Beth Cunningham. "A lot of things that we talked about, and knew we needed to do, for whatever reason, we weren't doing them. Give credit to High Point because they came out and did the little things tonight and we didn't. Bottom line is we didn't defend like we're capable of defending; we didn't rebound like we're capable of rebounding. We had a couple of chances on offense to make a run, but we got away from doing the little things that had gotten us to that point.
"All the things that we need to fix, and that we talked about coming into this game, I feel like we know because we're better than this. It's a matter of stepping up and doing the little things that we talk about every day and work on in practice."
Senior guard Andrea Barbour scored 14 of her team-high 18 points in the first half, while classmate Courtney Hurt finished with 16 points and a team-best eight rebounds. Freshman Christina Carter chipped in nine points on 4-of-6 shooting off the bench, including a pair of assists and a steal in her collegiate debut.
High Point's Shamia Brown led all scorers with a game-high 29 points (13-for-17) to go along with six rebounds and three steals. Three other Panthers contributed double-figure scoring with Erin Reynolds adding 19 points.
High Point (1-0) forced a series of early VCU turnovers and jumped out to a 6-0 lead less than four minutes into the contest. The Rams settled down, however, and reeled off 10 of the next 15 points and pulled within 11-10 with 13:57 showing. A triple by Laura Whitt then gave the Panthers a four-point lead before VCU stormed back to build its largest lead of the game.
A fast break layup by sophomore Robyn Parks less than a minute later ignited a 19-6 VCU run that saw the Rams take their first lead on a layup by junior Daphne Adebayo at the 9:36 mark. High Point would go on to knot the score again on the following possession before Barbour nailed a 3-pointer from the right wing. Senior guard Jennifer Lane then capped off the run with a trey that put the Rams in front 32-22 with 4:02 left in the half.
VCU held 10-point advantage with less than two minutes to go before the break, but High Point converted back-to-back three-point plays and eventually pulled within one on a 3-pointer by Whitt with 16 seconds remaining. Barbour drove to the basket and hit a layup with four seconds left and the Rams took a 38-35 advantage into the locker room.
"We talked about putting yourself in a position where that 10-point lead goes to a 15- or 20-point lead, versus a three-point lead at halftime," Cunningham said. "High Point took advantage of it. They stood up and made plays. It just didn't seem like we were ever able to get into a rhythm tonight for whatever reason."
It didn't take High Point long to regain the lead in the second half as a pair of layups by Cheyenne Parker less than 40 seconds in put the Panthers back in front 39-38. The lead would change hands four more times over the next seven minutes.
Trailing by four with 13:12 remaining, High Point used a 12-2 spurt to take its largest lead at the time, 60-53, with 10 minutes to go. VCU continued to battle and a jumper by Hurt sparked an 8-0 run and the Rams regained the lead on a layup by Barbour with 8:05 left. However, it was the last time VCU would lead as a bucket by Brown at the 7:35 mark allowed High Point to move back in front for good.
The Rams pulled within a point three times over the next four minutes but High Point scored the final 14, while hitting 8-for-11 at the free throw line down the stretch.
Friday's loss was VCU's first in a season opener since Nov. 20, 2004, Cunningham's second year at the helm. The Rams had won six straight openers.
VCU faces Liberty on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m., in Lynchburg, Va. The Rams will look to avenge last season's 59-57 setback at the Verizon Wireless Arena.


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Applications for Alligator Quota Hunt Due July 31
With alligators now routinely growing between 11 and 13 feet, this season's alligator harvest promises to be a good one.
If you're interested in hunting this season, you'll need to submit your permit application by Tuesday, July 31. To apply, visit the new quota hunt system for detailed instructions about creating your new account, logging into the system and filling out the online application.
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Derek Norris hit a home run and drove in five runs, Stephen Vogt was 3 for 3 and drove in two runs and the Oakland Athletics held off the Texas Rangers for an 10-6 victory on Tuesday night.
Tommy Milone (5-3) won his fifth consecutive decision, matching his career-best, as the A's won their third in four games.
Milone gave up three runs and five hits over 5 2-3 innings in improving to 5-0 over his last eight starts. He walked one and struck out three.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Yu Darvish (7-3) lost his eighth straight to the A's and the Rangers lost for just the second time in six games.
Darvish allowed seven runs -- four earned -- and eight hits over 5-plus innings. He walked five and struck out eight, including Brandon Moss in the first for career strikeout 600.
Roughned Odor hit a home run, tripled and drove in three runs for the Rangers.
Aaron Poreda, who was recalled from Triple-A Round Rock earlier in the game, took over for Darvish with two runners on in the sixth and got two outs before giving way to Shawn Tolleson, who gave up Norris' home run.
Adrian Beltre gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead in the first with his two-out RBI single.
The A's scored twice in the second. Jed Lowrie, Vogt and Alberto Callaspo hit consecutive singles to open the inning. Lowrie scored on Beltre's hit and Vogt came around to score on left fielder Michael Choice's throwing error.
Vogt added RBI singles in the third and fifth while Coco Crisp hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth and Norris hit the three-run home run, his fourth career pinch-hit homer, in the sixth.
Odor hit a solo homer in the fifth and added a two-run triple in the seventh. Alex Rios hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth and Daniel Robertson drove in a run in the seventh.
Norris added a two-run double in the eighth.
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Venezuela wraps up Caribbean Series with loss
HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- Venezuela reliever Marcos Tabata gave up a go-ahead two-run homer to Dominican Republic first baseman Francisco Pena in the top of the ninth Wednesday, handing his team an eventual 4-2 loss at Estadio Sonora and eliminating it from participation in the Caribbean Series championship.
Venezuela's last Caribbean Series title came in 2009. This year, their Navegantes de Magallanes finished 2-4.
Thursday's championship game, taking place at 7 p.m. MT, will pit the Dominican Republic against 3-3 Mexico. The Dominican Leones del Escogido team, now 5-1, clinched a spot in the championship game Tuesday and is looking for its third title in the last four years.
On Wednesday, Escogido pitchers Carlos Pimentel, Lorenzo Barcelo, Armando Rodriguez and Jailen Peguero combined to give up two runs on five hits and one walk. Angels third-base prospect Luis Jimenez went 3-for-4.
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The funeral of a teenager murdered in the Manchester Arena bombing will take place later today.
Hundreds of mourners are expected to pay their respects to 15-year-old Olivia Campbell-Hardy, with her loved ones asking mourners to wear blue or bright colours to celebrate her life.
She was at the Ariana Grande gig with her friend Adam Lawler when Salman Abedi struck on May 22.
Her mother Charlotte made a desperate TV appeal for information in the agonising hours after the outrage, only for stepfather Paul Hodgson to receive the call her family had feared.
The schoolgirl, from Bury, Greater Manchester, loved music and had previously auditioned for Britain's Got Talent in Manchester, singing her favourite song, All Of Me by John Legend.
A recording of the song will be played at the youngster's funeral later today at The Parish Church of St Anne, Tottington, Bury.
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Hi everyone,
I'm an amateur who's getting more and more into mentalist. I'm trying to perfect something using billets which must slide over each other easily , but no matter what blank business cards I buy, they all seem to stick together and will not slide over each other well (like playing cards do ). I've tried rubbing them to polish them slightly and even tried talc , but to no avail.
Does anyone have any advice that may help ?
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Police in Rockford, Illinois, have arrested a 32-year-old man they say tried to rob a bank while naked.
The Rockford Register Star reports police say Ezekial Deanda approached a personal banker on Friday "while completely disrobed." They say he then demanded money.
Police say Deanda fled the lobby area with an unspecified amount of cash. He was later found in the bank's basement restroom, where he was getting dressed.
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trek007 wrote:Looks abit like the Cavern!
Sweetbaby wrote:Well - I thought the Birmingham gig might get some reviews in the mainstream press but nothing so far. I've found a fourth blogger review of the Bromley engagement which I fear makes it three naysayers against one hooraysayer. This latest review does echo the misgivings of the previous negative reviews as far as finding the script flaccid and the doubling of actors as onstage musicians clumsy - blogger Ian Foster also adds to the praise afforded Diana Vickers. Hopefully the play's purported shortcomings don't prevent it from being entertaining but while I realize it's early days I'm moved to prophesy that Son of a Preacher Man will turn out to be as much of a non-event as the Mari Wilson-helmed Dusty musical that was launched at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley seventeen years ago. Anway - you can read Ian Foster's blog here: http://oughttobeclowns.blogspot.ca/2017 ... .html#more
jennifer49 wrote:Hi Sweetbaby,
No you don't come across as needy, just interested like the majority of us. If I knew where you lived I would go and get you a Programme and post it to you, but you live abroad don't you?
I'm sure someone will see your post and do the honours of a scan as I am unable to, don't know how.
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The CAP-AEI Fannie Mae Food Fight
It's probably never wise to inject oneself into the middle of a food fight, but since I think both sides actually have something right and something wrong, its been a worthwhile debate to follow. That is the ongoing debate between Peter Wallison at the American Enterprise Institute and David Min at the Center for American Progress (at least we can all agree we love America) on the role of Fannie Mae (and Freddie Mac) in the financial crisis. If you can't guess, Peter says Fannie/Freddie caused the crisis, David says they didn't.
David makes an interesting point, one I've actually argued, in his latest retort. That is, this wasn't exclusively a housing crisis/bubble. Other sectors, like commercial real estate, boomed and then went bust; other countries, with different housing policies, also had bubbles. True from what I can tell. I will also add that the U.S. office market actually peaked and fell before the housing market, so we can safely say there wasn't contagion from housing to other parts of the real estate market.
But the problem with this argument, at least for David, is that it undercuts the Dodd-Frank Act, which he has regularly defended. The implicit premise of Dodd-Frank is that predatory mortgage lending caused the crisis, so now we need Elizabeth Warren to save us from evil lenders. But how does predatory lending explain the office market bubble? Do we really believe that deals between sophisticated parties, poured over by lawyers, were driven by predatory lending practices? Do we also believe that other countries were also plagued by bad mortgage brokers? Again, I think David is right about the problem being beyond housing, but he can't have it both ways.
What is the common factor driving bubbles in commercial real estate, housing, and foreign real estate markets? Maybe interest rates. This was a credit bubble after all. Especially since the Fed basically sets interest rate policy for the world. It is hard for me to believe that three years (2002–2004) of a negative real federal funds rate isn't going to end badly. This is what I think Peter misses, the critical role of the Federal Reserve in helping blow the bubble. But Dodd-Frank does nothing to change this.
Now there are a ton of things I think both still miss. We could argue all day about what a subprime mortgage is. I think the definitions used by Wallison (and Pinto) are reasonable. There is also a degree, a large one, to which David and Peter are just talking past each other. For instance, there is something special about the U.S. housing market that transfers much of the risk to the taxpayer. In contrast, the bust in the office market didn't leave the taxpayer to pick up the tab. That has to count for something, unless one just doesn't care about the taxpayer.
There are a few other issues that make Fannie/Freddie uniquely important in the crisis, but I lack the space to go into them here. Instead, I'll wrap up by saying that their role in the overnight repurchase (re-po) market is under-appreciated and their ability to essentially neuter the Fed was critical in keeping the bubble going. What's for dessert?


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Not too long ago Gotye's song "Somebody That I Used To Know" swept across the Internet and hundreds of covers took over Youtube. Now Gotye has brought it full circle by collecting many of these performances and mashing them together as a new interpretation of the song. This project immediately brought to mind the work of Kutiman so I was happy to see full credit given to him in the video description.
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Murdoch Censors MySpace?
We knew no good could come of Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of MySpace, the popular community web space, and of course we were right.
Last week, following the sad demise of the net neutrality amendment at the hands of Big Telecom and Big Media, the web was alive with the video of Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska explaining why equal access to the Internet is bad, because it clogs the system. He explained how it took him a long time to get an email (Stevens called it "an internet") from his staff because it was getting tangled up in all of the stuff on the web.
Apparently feeling the American people did not understand what the Internet is and needed to have it explained to them by an expert such as himself, Stevens described the netwrk as a "system of tubes." His jolly cluelessness has made for tons of fun for bloggers and other web denizens, including a MySpacer who put Stevens' embarrassing video on his page, along with a groovy backbeat.
The page was exceedingly popular. Too popular apparently. MySpace deleted the user's page and all of its contents. MySpace spokespeople have since claimed the enitre incident was the result of a glitch. Uh huh.
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Prince out for season; Profar likely done, too
Fielder to have surgery on herniated disc in neck; second baseman re-injures shoulder
DETROIT -- Rangers first baseman Prince Fielder is expected to undergo surgery on Tuesday to repair a herniated disc in his neck and miss the rest of the season. Second baseman Jurickson Profar could also miss the rest of the season as the Rangers were hit with another double dose of bad injury news on Thursday.
Fielder, who was examined by Dr. Drew Dossett on Thursday, is seeking a second opinion but has told the Rangers that he wants to get the surgery done now. The recovery time is 3-4 months, there is a high rate of success and the Rangers are hopeful he will be at full strength in Spring Training. But he is likely done for this year.
The Rangers on Friday placed Fielder on the disabled list and recalled infielder Donnie Murphy from his injury rehab assignment and activated him for Friday's game in Detroit.
"We're looking forward to getting this guy healthy and seeing what he can do," general manager Jon Daniels said of Fielder. "But that's in 2015 and beyond. We're going to miss this guy."
Profar has been on the disabled list since the end of Spring Training with a torn muscle in his right shoulder. Now the Rangers have revealed that Profar has re-injured the shoulder and will have to go through the whole rehabilitation process from the beginning. Profar was supposed to be out 8-12 weeks, now he is looking at the same diagnosis or longer.
"We're going to take this one extremely conservatively and extremely slowly," Daniels said.
Rookies Rougned Odor and Luis Sardinas have been filling in for Profar at second base. Mitch Moreland will play first base in Fielder's absence but the Rangers will have trouble replacing his expected production with anybody from within the organization. Outfielder Brad Snyder is hitting .256 for Triple-A Round Rock and leads the Express with 12 home runs, 33 RBIs and a .525 slugging percentage. He will likely be the leading candidate to replace Fielder.
Kendrys Morales, a switch-hitter who plays mostly at designated hitter, remains unsigned and the Rangers will discuss that possibility. But his agent, Scott Boras, is looking for a multiyear deal and signing Morales would cost the Rangers the 30th overall pick in next month's First-Year Player Draft. Daniels said he will talk to manager Ron Washington about all the Rangers' options without Fielder.
The Rangers are expected to put Fielder on the disabled list Friday. He will be the club's 14th player on the disabled list.
"It's a challenge, but with every challenge comes opportunity," Daniels said. "Guys need to step up, and they have. You're just not going to replace certain guys. When you have such a critical mass of injuries, it becomes a secondary challenge just to field a talented club. But we still have talent, we have to stay positive, stay the course and let this team get going."
Fielder has been bothered by pain and stiffness in the neck for some time, but only told the Rangers last month. The problem probably started last season with the Tigers but the symptoms weren't this severe and the Rangers had no warning when they acquired Fielder for second baseman Ian Kinsler over the winter.
Fielder only told the Rangers about the problem last month. He was initially given oral medication but that did not fix the problem. He had an injection last Saturday that the Rangers hoped would be the solution. It was not.
Fielder originally reported some improvement over the weekend and was originally in Tuesday's lineup against the Mariners. But he felt significant weakness in his left side during batting practice and was given a strength test by the Rangers' medical staff. The results were not good and Fielder was examined again by Dossett on Thursday.
Fielder is hitting .247 with three home runs and 16 RBIs in 42 games and the Rangers are becoming more convinced this was the source of his problems.
"When you talk to him and see the medical staff test his strength … he has a real deficiency in his left side," Daniels said. "I don't have any doubt it's affected his play."
The 14 players on the disabled list are double the most for one team in the Major Leagues. The Nationals are next most with seven.
"I haven't ever been a part of anything like this … never across the board to this degree," Daniels said. "You try to plan all offseason to give yourself depth, we did a better job in some areas than in others. But there is a limit to how many premium innings you can replace and how many premium offensive players you can replace.
"We had expectations at the beginning of the season that if we had a healthy club, we expected to contend and win. We've lost some guys but these guys work hard, they believe in themselves and they get it done. They've got a lot of pride and I don't expect that to change."


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Keyboard files
From OLPC
In Linux, keyboard definitions are text files in two specific format, one for console, and one for X. Macintosh OS X uses an XML file. Standard Windows keyboard layouts are compiled using the Windows SDK. Free keyboards for Windows can be created in Tavultesoft Keyman.
The command for setting a console keyboard has the form
xmodmap dvorak
The X command for setting a keyboard layout has the form
setxkbmap -layout us
where any available keyboard layout file name can be substituted for us. The X keyboard files may be found in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/, or /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/, depending on the distribution used. Most of the keyboard file names are two-letter language codes, or are based on those codes.


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Obama's bid to get his 'groove' back
In years past, the crowds would flock to see Barack Obama — this summer, it's Obama who's looking for a few good crowds.
Obama, a president who gets a lift from supporters outside the Beltway and wilts in the D.C. hothouse, is hitting the road for all the expected second-term reasons: to regain his slipping leverage over Republicans ahead of the looming debt ceiling battle this fall, and to refocus his oft-meandering message back on the economy, which is all voters really care about.
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Yet as much as anything, Obama has embarked on this week's series of policy speeches to improve his own ambiguous frame of mind and take a comforting spin in the way-back machine, like a veteran chart-topper revisiting smaller, friendlier haunts on a comeback tour.
That approach risks his embodying the Republican caricature of him as a rhetoric addict who schedules a speech anytime he can't think of anything better to do — but his team is willing to risk the ridicule to change the Obama in decline narrative.
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"We want to get back in the groove," said an Obama aide, describing this week's menu of three presidential policy addresses. "This is very clearly our attempt to get back in the groove."
It all kicked off with a loose, one-hour Obama set in the familiar climes of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., the 2005 site of his first big economic speech as a U.S. senator, with a wide-ranging greatest hits address that offered little new in the way of policy but plenty of applause lines geared at firing up a struggling president and his most committed fans.
"With this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, Washington's taken its eye off the ball," the president told an audience, some of which sat behind the podium, in standard Obama '12 formation, to hear many of the same themes he deployed against Mitt Romney.
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"I am here to say this needs to stop. This needs to stop. This moment does not require short-term thinking, and it does not require having the same old stale debates. Our focus must be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you — the people we represent," he said, to cheers from the crowd.
Obama's decision to return to a familiar locale as he tries to re-energize his second-term agenda fits a familiar pattern for the president.
"This is a guy with a very strong sense of place. He is going to Galesburg for a reason. He likes getting out of Washington, but to places that a hold a real fondness in his heart," said veteran Democratic strategist Paul Begala.
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"This is what leadership is, you just keep at it until you get a break."
Aides describe Obama as basically upbeat but restless, eager to try any approach to break the logjam that is threatening to grind his second-term agenda to dust.
But first, they said, he needed to clarify that agenda ahead of what promises to be a groundhog-day autumn of partisan warfare over the debt ceiling and deficits after months of lurching from what one West Wing ally called "Scandal-abra" — the Internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency and Benghazi controversies — to stalled policy pushes like the unsuccessful post-Newtown gun control push and the ongoing bipartisan immigration reform efforts.
At the heart of it all is the very-much unfinished business of securing a still-limp recovery, amid recent polling showing an increasing number of Americans believe the economy is on the wrong track.
"Now, today, five years after the start of that Great Recession, America has fought its way back," Obama said. "Thanks to the grit and resilience and determination of the American people, of folks like you, we've been able to clear away the rubble from the financial crisis. We've started to lay a new foundation for stronger, more durable economic growth."


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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Behind two breakout performances from a pair of freshmen, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology women's basketball team held on to defeat Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference foe Defiance College, 69-59, Saturday at Hulbert Arena.
Six-foot-3 freshman forward Josie Schmidt (Eighty Four, Pa./Ringgold) was two shy of her career high with a game-high 17 points. She added five rebounds and a block in an 8-for-14 performance from the field. Classmate Abbie Marshall (St. Louis, Mo./Nerinx Hall) had one of her best games of the season, totaling a career-best 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting to go along with seven boards, five assists and four steals with only one turnover.
After playing to a 27-27 deadlock at the half, the Engineers (8-11, 6-6 HCAC) began to pull away with around eight minutes to play in the contest. With Defiance holding onto a one-point lead (40-39) with 11:11 left, Rose-Hulman went on a 17-2 run to take its largest lead of the game, 56-42, with 5:07 remaining.
The Engineers held Defiance (7-12, 4-8 HCAC) scoreless for more than four minutes during the run, which included two Schmidt baskets, a Kristen Belyea (Mahomet, Ill./Mahomet Seymour) 3-pointer, and a Jamie Loving (Normal, Ill./Normal West) layup.
Defiance used a full-court press and a 6-for-7 performance at the free-throw line to cut the lead to seven, 66-59, with 37 seconds remaining, but Marshall drilled two free throws with 20 seconds left to seal the victory.
Rose-Hulman opened the game on a tear, as the Engineers raced to a 9-2 lead behind layups from Sheree Williams (Bluffton, S.C./Bluffton), Lauren Meadows (Indianapolis, Ind./Brebeuf), Marshall, plus a Williams' triple, forcing Defiance to call a timeout.
Schmidt then drained a jumper followed by two 3's from Ava Paruleski (Shumway, Ill./Beecher City) and Belyea to give the Engineers a 10-point lead, 17-7, with 14:35 to play.
The Yellow Jacket responded with a run of their own, holding Rose-Hulman without a basket for the next four minutes during a 13-0 run that gave Defiance a one-point edge, 20-17.
The visitors pushed their lead to three, 27-24, with 1:43 to play, before Paruleski drained an off-balance triple at the shot clock buzzer to tie it at 27-all heading into the break.
Belyea finished with eight points and Williams added seven points and three assists for the Engineers, who outshot Defiance, hitting 43.9 percent (25-for-57), compared to 41.7 percent (20-for-48) for the Yellow Jackets. Rose-Hulman also won the rebounding the battle, 36-29.
Ashley Birchmeier led Defiance with 12 points and Kim Bingley added 11 points to lead Defiance, which also got 10 points from Hannah Harshman. The Engineer post players of Kelsey Ploof (Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville), Loving, Schmidt and Gracie Gibbs (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa) held the Yellow Jackets' leading scorer, 6-foot-3 freshman Kelsey Tietje, to nine points – nearly eight below her season average.
The Engineers' three seniors – Ploof, Jaci Dalton (Hamilton, Mich./Black River) and Meadows – were honored in a special ceremony prior to the contest.
Rose-Hulman will return to the court Wednesday, when it hosts Earlham in a 7:30 p.m. matchup at Hulbert Arena.


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Now that Patch 3.2 is here I wanted to review and summarize some of the information I've posted previously. Its been a while since this patch first hit the PTR and I'm sure a lot of people don't remember all of the different changes involved. These are the things Moonkin Raiders probably want to pay the most attention too.
Eclipse: The Starfire and Wrath buffs from this talent are now on separate 30-second cooldowns. In addition, it is not possible to have both buffs active simultaneously
This is by far the biggest change in the patch for Moonkin raiding. It has a lot of different affects that you will want to pay attention to.
- New Rotation: Gone are the days of Solar vs Lunar. All moonkin should now use what I call a "Twisting" rotation.
Don't get freaked out that you will now be doing something different then you're used to. It actually makes the Moonkin rotation easier. Start your rotation as you normally would by applying Fairie Fire and the DoTs. Then pick a nuke and start casting. In most cases it doesn't really matter if you go for Wrath or Starfire first, because they are about the same in value. Once you proc Eclipse, switch spells. Continue with the same nuke until you proc Eclipse again and switch spells. Reapply DoTs and debuffs as needed. This is a little controversial but I reapply DoTs during Eclipse until the last 4 or 5 seconds of the buff.
- Stat Valuation: Having a new rotation will change the way we value stats. Here are the new stat valuations I posted a couple of months ago.
Stat No Lag With Lag 11% Haste With Lag Hit Rating 1.608 1.595 1.614 Spell Power 1 1 1 Haste Rating 0.678 0.389 0.941 Crit Rating 0.753 0.741 0.742
Some people will look at these number and automatically say "haste sucks now." That is not what these number say though. First of all, the third column shows that haste is still a very valuable stat if you're below the haste cap of 400.
It's also very important to remember that while haste above the haste cap is not as valuable as Crit it still has value. Starfire is a big part of the new rotation and Nature's Grace will Not be up 100% of the time. Favor Crit over Haste on a point for point basis if you're above the Haste cap, but don't avoid it. It will still increase you're DPS.
- Addons: Much has been made of addons like Squawk and Awe since WotLK was released 9 months ago. Up until this patch they were pretty much required for a moonkin to push out maximum DPS. Well that is no more, but I would suggest you be careful about dropping them. I plan on keeping Squawk and Awe for now because I want something to remind me which Eclipse I have. It will also let you know when you can proc either Eclipse.
There is a lot of new gear in this patch for obvious reason, but this is the only piece you should care about right away. On the PTR this idol cost 25 Emblems of Triumph. Assuming the price stays the same I suggest you get 25 EoT's as quickly as possible and buy this idol.
It is by far the best idol of all the options available. Early reports from the PTR said that it had a 70% to 90% proc rate with no internal cooldown, and I have not seen any reports to suggest that this has changed. Assuming that this is the case then this idol provides a static 200 increase to Crit Rating since you're virtually assured a 100% up rate as long as you keep Moonfire up.
Tier 9 Set Bonuses:
- 2 pieces: Your Moonfire ability now has a chance for its periodic damage to be critical strikes.
- 4 pieces: Increases the damage done by your Starfire and Wrath spells by 4%.
Increases the bonus granted by Eclipse for Starfire and Wrath by 15%.
Some players say that they are going to skip 4T9 and use 2T8 until Icecrown is released and we have a new tier of raiding. That is not necessarily the best policy. 2T8 is definitely vastly superior to 4T9 but the Tier 9 pieces have superior stats in addition to the set bonuses. my math showed that it is beneficial to drop 2T8 if you can equip 4 pieces of T9-258 (the highest ilevel Tier set). Until then, stick with 2T8. The T8 pieces I would use are the legs and shoulders.
Spec Changes:
There is nothing in this patch that will change our spec right away. As long as you're using a fairly standard raiding build, there is no need to change anything. However, I do want to remind everyone that the 2T9 set bonus will significantly improve the value of the Improved Moonfire. I don't suggest picking it up now, but please keep it in the back of your mind that when you get the set bonus you will probalby want to drop two points from Moonglow and pick up Improved Moonfire.
Balance of Power: Now reduces all spell damage taken by 3/6%, rather than reducing the chance to be hit by spells by 2/4%.
The Tooltip on the PTR said that it also increased your chance to hit by 3/6%. I just want to remind everyone that it actually did not have this impact on the PTR and was likely a typo. Don't expect to see this on live.
Epic Gems:
There are a lot of profession changes in this patch but the changes to Jewelcrafting are probably the most relevant. Epic gems are getting introduced in mass with patch 3.2. Some of you may be thinking about holding off on upgrading your gems, but I recommend against it.
If you're like me you have 10+ sockets in your gear. If you upgrade all of your sockets then you're looking at a 30 - 40 stat increase in your spell power. The other thing to remember is that not all fo the fights in the Trials will be available in the first week. They are phasing its release much like they did for Sunwell. Therefore many guilds will still be raiding Ulduar, and you won't be seeing a lot of upgrades from the higher tier of raiding right away.
Also, I know replacing all of your gems right away sounds expensive. However, remember that you can buy them with Emblem's of Heroism. If you're like me then you have hundreds of Emblems laying around and you can get some more easily buy running heroics now that there will be greater interest again.
My Gear Lists:
I am sure I will get requests to update my gear lists the same day that the patch drops. Unfortunately, with the way I build it, that is not possible. I will update it as soon as possible. The old list was built with a Lunar valuation in mind, but it is still fairly accurate. Just remember that if you have two items with relatively similar values but different stats. The Crit one will be better after the patch.
Random Reminders:
- Dragon's Eye Gems are no longer Prismatic. If you're using them to get socket bonuses or meet your meta gem requirements, you need to change them.
- Item Comparisons: Holding the shift key while hovering over an item will now display the stat differences with the item currently equipped in the relevant slot. - You may not care but this is a big deal to me.
- New Druid Forms: This is definitely an exciting part of the patch, but I wanted to remind everyone that Moonkin form as not been changed. Don't be surprised when you log in and see the same old gray or yellow moonkin you're used to.
- Swift Flight Form: Druids who have acquired a mount able to go 310% flight speed will now also go that speed while in this form. - This is another change I'm excited about, but you may not be. If you have been able to obtain one of the super fast mounts, now you won't have to use it to benefit from it.


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CMS took 30 of 32 events as the Athenas defeated Occidental 222 to 75 and the Stags swept the Tigers 247 to 46 in SCIAC dual meet action on Friday and Saturday. Each CMS team moved to 4-0 in SCIAC play.
The Stags won all 16 events contested with several notable performances. Sophomore Conrad Shabb established a new Axelrood Pool record in the 1650 yard freestyle; Shabb's time of 16:17.42 edged the previous mark of 16:19.60 which had been set by Stag teammate Alex Mendoza in November 2012. Shabb also won the 400 Individual Medley.
James Stevick continued his string of NCAA qualifying scores, hitting zone qualifying marks while winning the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions. Freshman Matt Williams was another double winner, posting first in the 100 and 200 yard freestyle races.
Junior Brian Key earned his first individual collegiate victory on Saturday, outracing five others in the 200 butterfly. Freshman John Seylar also posted his first win as a Stag with a season-best time of 4:51.08 in the 500 yard freestyle.
Other event winners for the Stags were Joey Hinton (100 backstroke), Zach Alleva (100 breaststroke), Patrick Shultz (50 freestyle), Graham Spurzem (200 backstroke), Anthony Ribal (200 breaststroke) and Marc Blumberg (100 butterfly). The Stag 200 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay teams earned 1-2 finishes in both events.
The Athenas were led by a pair of double-winners. Senior Michele Kee narrowly missed her own pool record in the 100 yard butterfly and also raced to first in the 50 yard freestyle. Junior Louisa Dunwiddie pulled away from the field in the 1650 yard freestyle and the 400 IM.
Other event winners for the Athenas were Ellie Smith (200 freestyle), Erin MacLean (100 backstroke), Kelly Ngo (100 breaststroke), Maya Kale (200 butterfly), LillyBelle Deer (100 freestyle), Molly Loftus (200 backstroke), Kayla Flaten (200 breaststroke) and Natalie Green (500 freestyle).
The CMS "A" and "B" 200 yard medley relays were evenly split, with the A-relay narrowly edging the B-relay 1:50.48 to 1:51.00. The 400 yard freestyle relays were equally competitive with CMS A holding off CMS B 3:39.40 to 3:39.96.
"Occidental has several talented swimmers and divers and we know they're well coached, so that led to some thrilling events," said CMS coach Charlie Griffiths. "As we transition from Training Camp into second semester it is important that we stay focused on the process of training effectively, racing sharply and consistently, and promoting the synergy that comes from fostering each other's successes."
CMS will be back in action on Saturday, January 25, as Axelrood Pool plays host to a SCIAC double-dual meet between CMS, Caltech and California Lutheran University. Diving is slated to begin at 10:00 a.m. with swimming scheduled for 11:00 a.m.


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The California Budget Project's study shows that California's recovery continues to show some long-term employment patterns.
"Some of these trends have actually been going on for a while, especially wage stagnation for low- and mid-wage earners," says LukeReidenbach with the California Budget Project, which authored the study.
Reidenbach says low-wage jobs have been outpacing middle class jobs for a while, and the Great Recession made it worse.
"Teachers, librarians, social workers and construction workers have continually seen employment declines during both the recession and during the recovery," says Reidenbach.
The report says recent cuts in services to unemployed and low-income Californians are also contributing to income inequality.


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NEW VEGAN! in a meat eating community!!!
Hello Everyone, mname is Brittiany, i just (yesterday), started my life as a vegan. i wrnt to wal mart & bought things that i saw my oldest son eat (hes vegan also), so i got Boca burgers, veggie dogs, veggie cheese, & soy milk, & vegan butter. My problem is i live in a little town call Hickory Kentucky,, guess what they grow here? cows, & tobacco. its aVERY small town, & i find it hard to get a lot of things i need. Im also finding it very hard to cook two meals, there are 7 of us in my household, & only ONE of us are vegan,(me). Also can anyone suggest a good vegan friendly wine? we have a local winery, i can call and ask them, but they are local so i doubt it is, so can anyone suggest a wine to me?
Hi there, Brittany! Welcome to veganism. I mean that in a positive way, just though about how that statement could come across somewhat snarky.. Well, I'd like to help you out, I live in Kentucky as well and although I may not be vegan myself I do enjoy hunting for healthy vegetable based recipes and alternative foods, I have found that there are some good sites that may help you out as Vegnews.com, veganessentials.com, and some nice blogs by vegan foodies a number one pick for you may be thelaziestvegans.com ( http://www.laziestvegans.com/?m=1 ) this guy writes about quick and yummy vegan friendly foods, veganyumyum is a blog by a lady who shares tasty vegan recipes ( http://veganyumyum.com/ ), and kimmikillzombie's blog ( http://kimmikillzombie.com ) she not only features recipes but also has pretty good info on vegan friendly hair and make up stuff! She's also quite thrifty. I wish you well on your quest through veganism, and hope that what little information I've given you helps you out along said quest. Sorry I can't help out with the win bit, but hopefully one of those sites can help.


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To keep allergies under control, supplement with 600 milligrams of quercetin twice daily between meals, suggests Randy Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.
An antioxidant, quercetin, helps stop cells from releasing histamine, a chemical that sets off symptoms in response to allergic triggers.
It can take four to six weeks for quercetin to work, so ideally you should start supplementing about six weeks before allergy season. That said, it can still help if taken later.
If you do suffer an attack, Horwitz recommends 50 mg of the herbal antihistamine butterbur two to four times a day to soothe symptoms. Also try nettle leaf; take 500 mg two to three times daily, suggests naturopathic physician Josh Berry.
Use a Rinse
Cleansing your nasal passages regularly helps keep them clear and washes away potentially irritating allergens, which can thwart allergic reactions, says Berry. It also can help relieve allergy symptoms, according to a small study by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Berry recommends using a neti pot, a traditional Indian vessel with a spout that pours directly into your nose; rinse morning and night with 1/4 teaspoon of salt mixed with 1 cup of warm water. (Watch a Body+Soul editor demonstrate how to use a neti pot.)
Rethink Your Diet
Nasal symptoms from seasonal allergies are mainly due to an inflammation of your nasal membranes, explains Horwitz. Following an anti-inflammatory diet of foods rich in antioxidants (brightly colored fruits and vegetables) and omega-3s (fish such as salmon and herring, ground flaxseeds, walnuts) can go a long way in stamping out symptoms.
Indeed, several studies show that kids with diets high in certain fruits, vegetables, and fish are less likely to experience allergy symptoms such as wheezing. Horwitz also advises cutting back on milk and milk products, which contain proteins that may increase mucus production -- the last thing a runny nose needs.
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Several studies suggest that using hypnosis -- a trancelike technique that leaves you more open to suggestion -- can deliver allergy relief. A report from Switzerland's University Hospital Basel, for instance, found that allergy sufferers who were taught self-hypnosis saw significant improvements in symptoms and well-being over the course of a year.
"Because neural pathways are involved in allergic reactions, altering your mental state might affect your reactivity," explains Horwitz. With the help of hypnosis, he says, you can encourage your immune system to "unlearn" its usual response to allergens and keep symptoms at bay. To find a practitioner, visit the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis at asch.net.


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CLERMONT, Fla.—Emily Gray (New Bedford, Mass.) scattered nine hits and two unearned runs over seven innings and the Beacons' aggressive base running proved just enough to help UMass Boston Softball earn a 3-2 victory over The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Saturday morning's season opener.
Gray struck out one and allowed just one walk to help the Beacons earn a win in their season opener for the fourth-consecutive season. The sophomore right-hander stranded 11 base-runners, including runners on first and second in the top of the seventh, when left-fielder Kristina Bove (Medford, Mass.) made a game-saving catch at the warning-track.
Bove also had a big game at the plate, finishing a team-best 2-for-2 with two runs scored. The junior outfielder came in to score on an infield single in the third and crossed the plate with the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the fifth.
Senior Erika Vecchiet (Pequannock, N.J.) finished the game 1-for-3 with the Beacons' lone RBI of the game, while junior Kelsey Svenson (Oxford, Conn.) went 1-for-3 and scored the Beacons' first run of the game.
Sophomore Haley Dutton (Milton, Mass.) and Kaitlyn Morse (Arlington, Mass.) each recorded their first collegiate hits to help the Beacons reach six hits for the contest.
Ashtin Helmer was the tough-luck loser, allowing three runs, one earned, over six innings. Kristen Fitzsimmons led TCNH with two doubles and three total hits in four at-bats.
After four of the first five Beacons hitters struck out against Helmer, the Beacons put together a two-out rally in the bottom of the second to grab their first lead. Svenson singled to left-center and Gray followed with a hard hit ball to shortstop, that the Lions (3-7) shortstop bobbled and allowed both runners to reach. With Svenson on third after the error, the Beacons executed a double steal, with Svenson sliding in at home well ahead of the throw.
TCNJ struck back for two runs in the top of the third thanks to a pair of Beacons' errors. Fitzsimmons started off the rally with a one-out double and came in to score on Jessica Kenick's single, when the Beacons' throw from the outfield was off-line. With Kennick standing on third after the two-base error, she easily came home after another Beacons' throwing error to first base. Gray shut down the Lions from that point on though, stranding five runners in scoring position over the final five innings.
UMass Boston tied the game in the bottom of the third thanks to a single and a passed ball and wild pitch. Bove led off with a hard-hit single past the second baseman and moved over to third on a wild pitch and a passed ball. With runners on first and third and no outs, Vecchiet lined a rocket at the shortstop for an infield single, to knock Bove in.
After a scoreless fourth, UMass Boston took their second lead of the day behind some more aggressive baserunning. Bove and Morse started the inning with back-to-back singles and moved up a base on a perfect sacrifice bunt by senior Toni Scola (Worcester, Mass.). With Vecchiet back up at the plate and a 1-1 count, Bove rushed home just ahead of the throw, after the Lions catcher couldn't keep the pitch from reaching the backstop.
Gray allowed a pair of baserunners in the sixth and seventh, but stranded all four runners, including one each at third base.
The Beacons will be back in action at 1 p.m. when they take on Farmingdale State University at the Hancock Park Field Complex.


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This is the launch trailer for Batman: Arkham City, out this week on 360 and PS3. It shows most of the people you fight with, and against, in the game.
I actually finished the game yesterday. The reason I bring this up is that I didn't see some of the content in this trailer, meaning it was part of a side-mission I never got around to completing. So, yeah, there's a lot of stuff to do!
PC owners, in case you're in the dark, your version won't be out until November. Sorry.
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Microsoft Prematurely Releases Patch Tuesday Bulletins
It must have been a mistake, but Microsoft has released the security bulletins describing the vulnerabilities and patches scheduled to be released next Tuesday, September 14. The actual patches don't appear to be available yet. As I was writing this Microsoft made the bulletins unavailable once more, but I still had the pages open.
I think it's important to note that there will likely be changes in these bulletins before they go live on Tuesday at 1 PM east coast time. I found at least one error which would likely be caught in any serious review of the copy.
All of the vulnerabilities are rated Important.
MS11-070: Vulnerability in WINS Could Allow Elevation of Privilege affects all Windows Server versions except Itanium. WINS improperly handles certain specifically crafted data on the loopback address. It's not clear to me how difficult this would be to exploit. On the one hand it requires valid logon credentials and the ability to log on locally, but Terminal Server users would have those. WINS is not necessary and may not be installed, but then again it may. Note that this is a privilege escalation vulnerability for users directly on the server, so if it were exploited the consequences could be quite severe.
MS11-071: Vulnerability in Windows Components Could Allow Remote Code ExecutionThis is another instance of the "insecure library loading" bug which came out last summer and which we knew would affect numerous Windows components and 3rd party software. The components in this case are the Display Panning CPL Extension (deskpan.dll), Microsoft EAPHost Authenticator Service, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), Folder Redirection, the Japanese Input Method Editor (IME), and HyperTerminal. All versions of Windows are affected.
MS11-072: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code ExecutionThis bulletin describes 5 vulnerabilities, some of which affect all versions of Excel, including all Mac versions. Certain Microsoft server applications are also affected, specifically SharePoint Server and Office Web Apps. All of the vulnerabilities come from improper parsing of specially-crafted Excel files.
MS11-073: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code ExecutionTwo vulnerabilities affect Windows versions of Office. One is another insecure library loading vulnerability and the other an error in the parsing of specially-crafted Word documents.
MS11-074: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of PrivilegeSix vulnerabilities in various Microsoft server products, principally SharePoint, could allow elevation of privilege and information disclosure..
On Patch Tuesday, the bulletin advance notification page becomes a bulletin summary page and adds certain details like the Exploitability Index for each vulnerability. That page hasn't been updated yet.


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Brownstone Brooklyn is also the subject of a cultural, architectural and political history by Prof. Suleiman Osman, who was raised in Park Slope and teaches American studies at George Washington University.
In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (Oxford University Press, $29.95), Professor Suleiman explores how Brooklyn south of the old city was transformed into trendy neighborhoods like Cobble Hill and Park Slope by young white-collar émigrés. Beginning in the 1970s, they made up a new postindustrial middle class of pioneers who were later pilloried as gentrifiers amid debates about displacement, development and affordability.
Brownstone Brooklyn was committing the cardinal sin of middle-class romantic urbanism: it was becoming inauthentic, he writes. But, he adds, while newcomers in search of the real Brooklyn venture deeper into the borough, beyond Park Slope, it is safe to say that Seventh Avenue represented both the remarkable potential of the politics of authenticity and its limits.


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In this exclusive Q&A for SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal with Cloud Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop - Founder & CEO of Adaptivity - discusses Adaptivity's "IT Transformation Factory" and their Cloud Computing strategy.
Bishop gave a General Session at the 5th Cloud Expo in New York in April entitled "Understanding the Relationship Between Workloads and the Cloud."
About Tony Bishop: As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for Adaptivity's key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia's Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.
About Adaptivity Corporation: Adaptivity provides integrated solutions that automate IT Delivery optimization across enterprise computing environments. Our integrated solutions include a unified knowledge base and an expert workbench that allows customers to design and optimize the delivery model of their infrastructure computing environments. These solutions help customers and partners change how they organize, architect, engineer and manage their IT supply chain.
Cloud Computing Journal: What's the idea behind the term 'IT Transformation Factory' as an umbrella term for Adaptivity's activities in the Cloud Computing space?
Tony Bishop: The industry is intensely focused on a narrow definition of Cloud Computing (remotely managed IaaS resources). Adaptivity sees the opportunity from a much broader perspective. IaaS type resources managed externally from the enterprise do provide value; however, the larger opportunity is enabling enterprises to change how they deliver and consume IT resources.
The IT Transformation Factory is a combination of tools, knowledge base, and advisory services, which together form turnkey programs that accelerate systematic enterprise IT delivery transformation.
Cloud Computing Journal: How would you characterize a "next-generation" data center?
Bishop: There's a lot that goes into the design of a next-generation data center, so much that I wrote a book on the subject: Next Generation Datacenters in Financial Services: Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings. The primary characteristic of a next-generation data center is that it empowers IT in its efforts to maximize business effectiveness. As infrastructure is tailored to workloads, its organization is reflective of business realities (not technology limitations), and it's able to respond to business events as they happen, which makes for a much more agile organization.
There are a number of fundamental changes to how design characteristics should be considered:
- Respect IT Physics: An application/service's computer infrastructure should be located with other application/services that it is mostly likely to communicate with, reducing contention.
- Tailored Infrastructure: The computing resources are no longer generic and are now tuned to the types of workloads running within an application.
- Demise of the Silo: IT changes its focus from the delivery of isolated silos of technology resources to high-level services aligned with business operations.
- Enhanced Recovery: Grouping of services via their organization in the data center helps mitigate technology risk by providing a clear view of what's required to restore business capabilities in disaster recovery scenarios.
Cloud Computing Journal: Have advancements in Virtualization and Cloud Computing made managing an organization's IT resource inventory easier or harder?
Bishop: Much harder. The traditional tools and processes for managing inventory were caught off guard by the rapid proliferation of these technologies and are only now beginning to catch up to virtualization, never mind cloud computing. There's even some debate about what should count as a resource and its boundaries, especially in the cloud space. This lack of clarity regarding where resource boundaries begin and end further blurs the matter.
That said, there's opportunity for changing the notion of what a resource is and keeping an inventory of high-level constructs, such as business services. As resources are delivered via the cloud, attention will move away from managing asset inventory and toward capacity management.
A Full General Session Room at Cloud Expo 2010 East in New York for Adaptivity's CEO
Cloud Computing Journal: Why is Cloud Computing recession-relevant?
Bishop: The traditional IT delivery model isn't tied to business performance. When the recession really started kicking in, it became apparent how many problems in the data center have been solved by throwing money at them. In fact, as many businesses have seen a reduction in revenue and gross numbers of transactions to process, they have not had the ability to curtail the corresponding IT costs, and costs continued to rise in many cases. Organizations that could not "turn off" an entire application were often faced with leaving the often "over-provisioned" infrastructure as is. The elastic nature of the cloud helps close the gap between what the business needs for operations for any given market environment. The recession has made organizations take stock of their current expense models for IT and therefore they are more open to the consideration of alternatives.
Cloud Computing Journal: How about the trend towards real-time in IT; what are the main business drivers for that?
Bishop: The primary driver is the competitive advantage provided by the ability to meet the demands of the business environment moment by moment in a more agile manner. This trend toward real-time is not just about the time-to-market benefits, but also about providing real-time capabilities that enable the business to build a sustainable competitive advantage by tailoring its IT services toward specific demands. The more tailored to the specific nature of HOW the business operates, the more difficult it is for the competition to duplicate. A business that is more agile becomes more effective. A business that is able to operate more effectively than the competition has a major strategic advantage.
Cloud Computing Journal: So what's the secret to making Cloud Computing work at the enterprise level?
Bishop: Economics is the driving force to create the disciplines needed to properly move applications into the cloud. When software development first began moving to India, there were poor controls in place and results were mixed. Over time, disciplines were created that improved the success rate, such that it's now unusual for large projects to have no part of the development being outsourced. The situation is similar with cloud computing. The disciplines needed to manage the business in this way are still in their infancy. In particular, the challenges of security and reliability are major concerns, followed closely by FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt).
To combat these obstacles, enterprises are applying cloud principles to how they deliver IT internally in order to begin the process of developing the needed new disciplines. Beware, those who see cloud as only a way to more rapidly deploy traditional resources (compute, storage, network) will be trounced by those who use cloud to transform how the whole organization operates. The reason they will fall behind is that they are missing a critical opportunity to transform IT delivery, which requires holistic process changes. This is not a "throw it over the wall" solution. The same mistakes were made in the initial outsourcing craze.
Cloud Computing Journal: Is Cloud Computing, as some have claimed, "pure SOA" - and if so is that good or bad?
Bishop: The answer to this question is likely filed somewhere near "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" The answer depends on the definitions you're working with and your world view. Clearly SOA service can be delivered via Cloud Computing resources and Cloud Computing resources can 'be discovered.' The bigger issue is that neither Cloud Computing nor SOA really have proper systematic mechanisms to ensure resources are properly applied based on workload characteristics and the interconnectedness of their interactions. In this case, this abstraction sets us back and not forward. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein
Cloud Computing Journal: You've been known to quote Tim Berners-Lee, who once said "I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues." Is that still true today, do you find?
Bishop: Yes. If we humans ever go to war with our machine counterparts, mark my words, it'll be because of a lack of communication about workload characteristics and the intensity of collaboration required!
The issue here is that IT is taking short cuts with its current application profiling techniques. Generally, profiling is an afterthought in the design process, if it takes place at all. Even when done, it's a process much similar to throwing spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks. Instead demand, as characterized by workload and collaboration, should have a direct influence on our designs from the beginning, such that the infrastructure is tailored to the job at hand. This perspective facilitates implementations that work under all conditions, which is increasingly important in a world where the digital supply chain is the new organizational face.
This leads to the final part of the quote on cultural issues. Effective use of the cloud means that IT organizations are going to have to change. Silos must be broken down so that resource sharing is possible. Discussions between IT and the business about Service Level Agreements (SLA) must occur in a meaningful way so that they can lead to Operational and Execution Level Agreements (OLA, ELA). Disciplines must be created and invested to promote and sustain the transformation of IT. It all comes down to greater rigor and responsibility among groups, and many organizations are not ready for that kind of interaction or transparency. Too many people in IT and business will perceive that they can be on the losing end of such a transformation. Therefore the organization has to grapple with what is valuable and change that value system (culture) in order to achieve the behavioral changes required.
Cloud Computing Journal: What's the best way, do you think, to go beyond the basic virtualization strategy and consider, say, grids that can be shared by multiple projects across business lines?
Bishop: You're describing a utility computing model, where shared grids have been successfully implemented by many firms, especially financial services firms. We're focusing on the step beyond that, which is moving workloads seamlessly across the whole footprint of the data center, such that the right resources are applied to whichever problems the organization needs without code changes. This is being accomplished via a holistic virtualization approach that maps business demands to resource supply, augmented by a trend toward predictive and self-healing infrastructures.
Cloud Computing Journal: How big an issue is security for enterprises that wish to migrate toward Cloud-based infrastructure wholly or in part?
Bishop: Enormous; security can't be understated. The problem of security is compounded by all the different layers of security that must be addressed. Everything from application security services all the way down to physical security is a concern, including everything in between such as transmission and data storage (transient and long term). Organizations have already been dealing with all the different challenges security presents; the particular challenge with public Cloud-based infrastructure is that a third party has to be entrusted with some portion of these responsibilities, which becomes a trust issue. This is another area where FUD (Fear, Uncertainly, and Doubt) will need to be overcome. It stands to reason that the issues around security will be used as the weapon of choice by those who want to slow down progress to the public cloud. So again culture plays a role here.
Cloud Computing Journal: And what about management, how's that being taken care of? Can the deployment and management of computing clouds really be automated, or is that in the far-off future still?
Bishop: Yes, management can be automated based on business policies, security policies, and cultural changes to operations - though there is no holistic solution for workload management - so these services need to be pulled together through a combination of technologies. Many organizations have been focused on virtual machines, but that virtualization construct really doesn't provide the granularity or the dynamic capabilities needed to properly manage workloads.
Furthermore, the language for setting business expectations needs to be recast. For example, SLAs are needed, for those that do exist are insufficient. An SLA speaks to what service needs to be provided, but not how to adjust the underlying resources should different execution conditions be encountered. For instance, doubling the number of compute resources won't help if a service is storage bound. We've introduced the concept of Execution Level Agreements (ELAs) with our clients to help them define the behavior of their dynamic infrastructures to make sure that SLAs are met.
Cloud Computing Journal: How big a part are standards going to play in the success of the Cloud?
Bishop: Ideally, standards are important to facilitate inter-operation and integration, but standards usually lag severely behind innovation by several years. Those who innovate now have a better chance to lead their segment by making deliberate technology choices and thoughtful designs. Don't be surprised to see early standards used to shut out competition by large vendors that have a strong influence on standards boards. Our message is keep an eye out for industry standards that make sense to adopt, but in the interim develop your disciplines now or be left behind.
Two key disciplines that IT must invest in are Architecture and Engineering. Architecture will help IT make the tradeoff assessments for non-standard technology more rigorous, while developing designs that have a better chance of adapting as standards become finalized. Engineering helps IT test and configure new technologies so that risk can be properly understood. These are investments that will make an organization much more competitive.
Cloud Computing Journal: 2009 has been a year of obvious challenges, from both a CapEx and an OpEx perspective, for anyone involved with Enterprise IT. Finally, what's your top tip, as a seasoned software executive, to those other CEOs out there right now - especially CEOs of embattled start-ups who may be looking for some magic bullet to ensure they're alive (and well) as a company in 2010?
Bishop: To my mind, a magic bullet implies an easy fix. The simple sales formulas of the past, where IT allowed itself to play the subservient role of being order takers, are no longer appropriate. The key strategic move for IT is to move its focus up the organizational hierarchy and provide holistic solutions that meet business challenges. You must have a story that is interesting to CxOs. This critical decision making process can no longer be relegated to system managers or technicians as the stakes have become too high.
In a time of limited funding, only initiatives that are considered business imperatives are going to get funded. Solutions must be clearly articulated and tailored to the challenges at hand and must be able to show significant results within a quarter.
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