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Has rich information on the Holocaust and also on other genocides.
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Kohl Retirement Adds to Democrats' 2012 Senate Woes
Nine senate seats in play next year.
The announcement by Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl that he won't seek a fifth term has set the Democrats further back in their hopes of keeping the Senate during next year's elections. Kohl is the fifth Democrat to retire after next year, or sixth if you count independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who caucuses with the Democrats. With Democrats defending 23 seats, and a short list of Democratic incumbents running in conservative and swing states, Republicans are seeing more and more opportunities to pick up some seats. Here are the nine most vulnerable Democratic seats, in alphabetical order.
[See a slide show of the vulnerable Democratic Senate seats]
Freshmen Sen. Claire McCaskill's re-election chances took a hit after she admitted to failing to pay taxes on a private plane, which undercut her image as a moderate opponent of corruption in the Senate. The Show Me State has long been a moderate bellwether of the nation, but it has tilted to the right in recent years, voting for John McCain in 2008 and electing Republican Roy Blunt in 2010.
One of the many new Democratic faces who swept into the Senate in moderate and conservative states during the blue wave of 2006, Democratic Sen. Jon Tester will face re-election in a very different environment. He'll likely face Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, Montana's only at-large congressman, who's held his seat since 2000.
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Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, who was first elected to the Senate in 2000, faces a tough re-election battle in Nebraska. Although Nelson has a reputation as one of the Senate's moderate deal-makers, his vote for the healthcare reform law--remember the "Cornhusker Kickback?"--may hurt him in this red state.
New Mexico
Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman's decision not to run for a sixth term in this southwestern swing state has given the GOP one of its prime opportunities to win another seat. Former five-term representative Heather Wilson has announced a bid for the seat, with the backing of former Sen. Pete Domenici, but she may face a challenge from Republican Rep. Steve Pearce, who unseated her in 2008.
North Dakota
The retirement of Sen. Kent Conrad, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, will likely end an era. Most political analysts believe that Democrats have virtually no chance of keeping the seat that Democrats have held for decades. Just a year ago, both seats in this deep red state were held by Democrats, but short of a disaster for the GOP, Republicans will hold both seats in 2013.
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Unlike fellow endangered freshmen such as McCaskill or Tester, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown isn't a moderate, but a firebrand liberal in a midwestern swing state that has recently lurched to the right. On paper, he looks like a prime target, but his brand of populist liberalism has played well in this Rust Belt state, and some political observers believe Brown has the edge going into 2012. Still, Republicans look at it as a prime opportunity to pick up a seat.
Sen. Jim Webb's decision to retire from the Senate after one term paved the way for former Sen. George Allen to try to reclaim the seat, which he lost to Webb by a hair in 2006. Allen will likely face another Virginia heavyweight, former Gov. Tim Kaine, in one of the most competitive races in the country.
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In 2010, then-Gov. Joe Manchin won the seat previously held by state legend Robert Byrd by running to President Obama's right, and blasting his initiatives such as a cap-and-trade bill. After winning the special election following Byrd's death, he'll have to run again for a full term in 2012, and the state GOP will have more time to prepare and make their case against him.
Kohl's retirement turns the Wisconsin Senate race into perhaps one of the most interesting in the country. Speculation has swirled that House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan may throw his hat into the ring for the Republican side. Liberals are also hoping that recently defeated Sen. Russ Feingold may try another run. The state has been at the center of the political radar lately, after the Democrats' high-profile battle with Republican Gov. Scott Walker over the collective bargaining rights of state employees. [Check out photos of the Wisconsin protests.]


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By Dylan Goforth
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Assistant Muskogee County district attorney Dan Medlock described the events prosecutors allege led to the 2011 shooting death of Roshun English.
Clapping his hands dramatically, Medlock mimicked the sound of the gunshot that took English's life.
"One shot, and English was dead," Medlock said.
Jacorey Lamont Billings, 22, is accused of being one of four men who robbed English on Nov. 11, 2011, inside his home in the 900 block of South Fourth Street. During the robbery, of which three other defendants have been found guilty, English, 35, was shot one time and killed. Billings, who's trial began Monday, is the last of the four to face adjudication.
Billings faces a charge of first-degree felony murder. Though he didn't pull the trigger, prosecutors allege he was a key part of a felony act that led to English's death.
Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Dan Medlock told jurors Monday that English died for a "set of wheels, a couple cell phones and a wallet." Medlock said Billings, Dawaan Norwood, Schiavone Anderson and Romonne Johnson went to English's house that Nov. 11 afternoon, robbed, beat and eventually shot him.
Norwood, the gunman, and Anderson were convicted in October and the jury recommended life sentences for both. Johnson, 17, received a 10-year sentence on a lesser charge of first-degree robbery as a youthful offender in turn for his testimony in Norwood and Anderson's trial in October.
Medlock said Billings bore as much responsibility for English's death as either Norwood or Anderson.
"Though he didn't pull the trigger, he's just as responsible as the others," Medlock said.
Billings' attorney, Donn Baker, told jurors that English was a drug dealer who had stolen Billings' rims.
"It was absolutely not a home invasion or a robbery," Baker said. He told jurors that Anderson, an acquaintance of English, had seen the rims there and told Billings.
"They were there for a specific reason," Baker said. "To get his rims back ... No doubt this is tragic, but no one went there with the intent to kill or rob Roshun. They went there to get wheels that were traded for drugs."
Testimony continues at 9 a.m. today.
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Fate of other defendants
• Jacorey Lamont Billings, 22, is the fourth of four defendants to be adjudicated from the Nov. 11, 2011 slaying of Roshun English, 35.
• Dawaan Norwood, 22: Found guilty of first-degree felony murder Oct. 26. The jury recommended a life sentence. Norwood's sentencing date is set for March 25.
• Schiavone Anderson, 18: Found guilty of first-degree felony murder Oct. 26. The jury recommended a life sentence. Anderson's sentencing date is set for March 25.
• Romonne Johnson Jr., 17: Johnson was originally charged with first-degree felony murder, but pleaded down to a lesser youthful offender charge of first-degree robbery in exchange for testifying against Norwood, Anderson and Billings. Johnson's plea deal carried a 10-year prison term.


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The Wizard's Edition of Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch pulled a magic trick of its own—and vanished before customers could get a copy they'd already ordered.
Even great games can't avoid controversy.
This time, Namco Bandai, publisher of the recent PS3 exclusive Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, is at the center of a pre-order fiasco involving an eBay merchant and a shortage of special Wizard Edition copies of the game.
Apparently, the eBay seller, PlayCanada, purchased hundreds of copies of the Wizard's Edition which then somehow led to an overall shortage of the special edition—meaning that other customers never received their copy.
Namco Bandai has decided to send out $20 PlayNamco credits and a strategy guide to all the affected customers. Here's their full statement:
NAMCO BANDAI Games America would like to officially offer clarification to certain stories and sentiments surrounding the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition.
NAMCO BANDAI Games America would first like to acknowledge our fans that will not be receiving their copy of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition. This situation is truly unfortunate, having come about due to a glitch within our E-commerce provider's ordering system. NAMCO BANDAI Games America continues to monitor the situation and is actively working with our E-commerce provider to offer remedies to each and every order. We are also working to ensure that a situation like this never happens again. We respectfully ask for our fans' patience during this time.
NAMCO BANDAI Games America is not, nor has it ever, worked with or in conjunction with the EBay seller known as "PlayCanada" to sell units of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition at a price premium on EBay .
According to our records, this individual or group of individuals purchased Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition during the NinoStarter promotion period (August 2012); at which time, no limits were placed on how many units an individual could order.
PlayCanada's claims that they officially worked with NAMCO BANDAI Games America to obtain their stock is entirely false.
We understand the $20 clubNamco voucher that has been offered to our affected fans may give little solace in place of an actual Wizard's Edition package. It is unfortunate that we are unable to produce additional Wizard's Edition units to fulfill all the extra orders; with that in mind, NAMCO BANDAI Games America will be giving the affected fans a 400 page hard bound copy of the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch strategy guide which includes an exclusive code to unlock a Gold Hurly Familiar in the game in addition to the original $20 clubNamco voucher. Our E-commerce provider will be contacting the affected customers in the coming days with instructions on how to obtain their copy of the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch strategy guide. We hope that this can give the affected consumers some comfort; NAMCO BANDAI truly does value and care about its fans.
Cold comfort, indeed. The game, as I noted in Part One of my review, is excellent, and it's a shame that it's already shrouded in controversy.
The publisher's statement doesn't quite clarify what happened behind the scenes beyond a "glitch" with an E-Commerce provider. These things happen, but it would be nice to know more details.
I don't believe for a second that Namco Bandai would purposefully jeopardize their reputation and the game's sales by actively working with a scalper on eBay, either, and unless some proof of that emerges, I would toss that notion into the rubbish pile. The fault appears to be with the E-Commerce provider, and Namco Bandai stands to gain nothing and lose quite a bit from the foible.
Nor do I fully understand how difficult or expensive it would be to manufacture more Wizard Edition sets, which include:
[...] a copy of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch for PlayStation®3, a 340 page hardcover physical copy of the Wizard's Companion, the spellbook Oliver uses throughout his journey in the game. The full-color Wizard's Companion contains a full bestiary of all the creatures found in the game along with in-depth item descriptions of the other world's items, spells and background of its rich history. The limited-run Wizard's Edition will also contain a plush doll of Drippy, Oliver's guide through his adventures, as well as exclusive "golden mite" and "golden drongo" DLC familiars. An exclusive Wizard's Edition coin, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Wizard's Edition Special Music Selection CD and a set of 5 Ni no Kuni artwork cards.
So this is sort of an awesome package, especially if you end up loving the game. I know I'd be pretty disappointed if I got a gift-card and a strategy guide instead of a plush Drippy, the CD, and the bloody Spell Book. In fact, I'm a little disappointed I didn't get this to begin with.
My take is simple: however difficult or expensive getting more of these made may be, a "spare no expense" approach would be in Nacmo Bandai's best interest—especially in the long run.
The publisher has an opportunity here to really shine: mistakes are often perfect PR opportunities if managed properly.
Namco should send out a copy of the game to everyone affected by this along with the $20 card and the strategy guide and then, when new Wizard Edition sets become available, send those out as well.
Better still, have some people at Level-5 (art director, perhaps, or get the composer in on it) sign them. Make these special editions even more special. We love to feel special; we hate to feel like we're being bought off by something second-best.
In the end, it's a small price to pay to spin this fiasco into gold—gold that will surely find its way across social media and the internet, that lightning-fast distribution network that has so revolutionized the concept and importance of word of mouth. Similar to the way news of this mistake has spread, like a wildfire, across the web.
The flipside is that this is supposed to be a limited edition, and if you start producing more you could run into trouble. Fix that by calling it the Wizard's Edition Plus or something and you've got an even more limited edition. But maybe there is legalese in the background that I'm missing.
For my part, I don't believe a supply error, however egregious, is any reason to avoid this game. I've heard already from people who are refusing to play it now because of this mistake. I think that's selling both the game, its developer, and potential players short on a great experience with Wrath of the White Witch. I understand the reasoning, I just disagree with it.
Mistakes happen, and while I think Namco Bandai is not going nearly far enough to make amends, I also don't have any reason to believe they're doing it out of spite. There are decisions and decision makers and we're simply not privy to the behind the scenes.
Maybe in the end they'll decide to spend whatever extra money it might cost to produce more Wizard's Editions and send them out to the gamers who, before the game even hit shelves or was reviewed, were willing to spend their hard-earned dollars on it. These are their most committed customers, after all.
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A set like this has parts coming from a lot of different manufacturers and the process of putting them together is time consuming and starts very early. In the potential time it takes to put more of these together, you don't know what the second hand market will do with what's already been made. Sure sets are fetching top dollar right now but these special editions sets are always big sellers at release and this is a widely publicized shortage. In a couple months, these things might take a huge dip as the second hand market becomes saturated and the people without this edition are probably over worrying about it (most of them are still going to get the game and take advantage of the damage control freebies). Finally, factor in the fact that Namco is already taking a hit financially from this and you end up with a very real possibility that new productions of this set would be more expensive than the damage control.
20 bucks for losing something you never had? I don't know if I'd call that cold comfort. Actually sounds like a great deal, sign me up.
yea must be tough and so many people got cheated. They selling the wizards edition for ridiculous amounts on ebay. I got the reg edition but can understand how mad people are because this limited edition was better than what most other games give you as a limited edition. I'm not sure why they can't make more. Maybe it will cost them too much who knows.
I don't know why they wouldn't print more Wizard's Editions now thanks to all this new demand. I'm unfortunately broke right now and can't afford the game in any form but if they did what some smaller companies did and just printed a few more then there's still demand for them I would happily get one later.
Ah, but this game is too good for people to not play it. Besides, should we really punish Level 5 for Namco Bandai's mistake? On one hand, the company handling the business side of things made some pretty big mistakes. On the other hand, the company on the creative side of things made a wonderful, unique game that is just a joy to play. Personally, I think this game needs to be a success, because we need to get more games like this. Unique games full of charm. Level 5 has become a great developer, and they deserve praise for that. Maybe they should break away from Namco for their next big title, but that's in the future. Buy the game guys, it's amazing.
Yes, Yes you should frank. You punish them so they put pressure on the bad company to do the right thing.
If you let it slide, they might just do it again. And you want the good companies to think twice about it as well.
But who is they? Level 5, or Namco? Does Level 5 even have anything to do with this? Or was this completely out of their hands? Did Level 5 have any amount of control when it comes to these things? Did Level 5 even know about these things until it was too late?
I don't know the answer to those questions. What I know is that Level 5 made a great game. An exceptional game. And they deserve to be rewarded for that despite what Namco has done. Once again, if Level 5 is smart, they'll be more proactive and make sure that these things don't happen to them anymore. But they hardly deserve to be punished for their first mistake (which may not have been their fault at all).
It dosent matter what level.
They were involved and profit from the creation and sales of the game.
So yes you send a message to all partied involved.
You're right… I'm sending the message that their game is really good. Really Really good.
And I'm ok with that.


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Cana Rising and Now Playing in Cana by Dinah Swan (Kindle or NOOK, $1.99 each)
Dinah Swan is one of the leading ladies of Durango's theatrical community, but she's a story writer as well as teller as evidenced in these first two entries in Swan's "Southern Mysteries" series featuring Swan's heroine, Mary Alice Tate. In Cana Rising, she immerses herself in volunteer work with the clients at the Women's Center. When Sheree Delio, a white trash ex-stripper/drug addict, is arrested for killing a police detective, her first call is to Mary Alice. Alice turns into an amateur sleuth and discovers that Sheree has a motive, means and opportunity for killing the cop, but she believes Sheree is being framed. To save Sheree's life, Mary Alice uses her sultry Southern charm and social status, but will it be enough to keep her from becoming the killer's next victim?
In book No. 2, Now Playing in Cana, Mary Alice and her dog, Boon, discover a dead body at the Cana Little Theatre; it's the sexy, womanizing guest playwright, Jamie O'Malley. But when she hears that her close friend, the director, Chase Minor, has been arrested for the murder, she knows that to help, she'll have to use every resource she has.
The Silverline by Mike Wolfe ($4.99 Kindle/$9.99 paperback)
Wolfe is a Front Range writer, but his historical fiction novel is set in the Durango-Silverton area in 1907. Two lifelong best friends head to Colorado from New York after Samuel's father dies and leaves him a large inheritance. They purchase a working silver mine from the richest man in Durango, Mr. Kingsley, but everything is not as it seems. The young men find themselves embroiled in a devious scheme and have to use their wits to protect themselves from ruin.
The Silverline has had more than 4,000 downloads and Wolfe will donate 50 percent of all net profits from any books sold in Durango or Silverton to fire-affected individuals and firefighters. Readers can email email@example.com and let Wolfe know they are local residents of Durango or Silverton and when they bought the book.
Breathless Dead by Richard Magill (Kindle $2.99)
During a frigid Western Slope winter, a serial killer is stalking the backcountry near Silverton and one underemployed and overendangered ski-lift operator is having trouble coping with the chaotic violence that has engulfed his life.
Someone he fears has threatened him, someone he doesn't even know has attacked him, and now someone very close to him is definitely trying to kill him. If Johnny can endure the onslaught and figure out who to trust, he might make it through in one piece. But one thing Johnny is discovering about this ski town is that not everyone here is really all there ... and evil always has a way of catching up.
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OTTUMWA — Gas prices are giving consumers some welcome relief, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Prices have fallen an average of five cents nationally over the past week, and they're down almost 36 cents compared to a year ago. Prices in the Midwest have run slightly higher than the national average for much of the summer, but the current regional average of is below the current U.S. Figure.
Iowa is doing even better. The statewide average on gasbuddy.com, a site that monitors gas prices using public input, put Iowa's average price at $3.41 per gallon. That's five cents below the national average.
The site's prices for Ottumwa Wednesday morning stood at $3.23 per gallon, with similar prices reported for most area communities.
Analysts say the falling prices are due to basic supply and demand. Gasoline supplies are high right now. And the recent thawing of relations between the U.S. and Iran raises the possibility that more gas might reach the market from Iranian oil fields.
The combination of events has some experts suggesting prices could dip below $3 per gallon. Drivers haven't seen prices that low in more than 1,000 days.


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With roads unpassable and more than a foot of snow on the ground, many businesses, schools and government buildings are closed Saturday.
We will leave a running list of what's open and closed. Also, if you're at a location in Blue Point, Bayport, Sayville and West Sayville let us know if it's open or closed in comments.
Happy shoveling.
Bayport Starbucks
Sayville School District
Bayport-Blue Point School District
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July 26 – 28, 2012 - The inaugural Texas National golf tournament was conducted at Pebble Beach Golf Resort in California. This bi-annual event put on by the Pat Green Foundation also benefits the Ben Hogan Foundation and the Gladney Center for Adoption. Almost 300 guests made their way to the Monterey Peninsula to play some great golf and attend some amazing galas. In the end, the three charities made over $500,000. "This may have been the best golf tournament and gala in the world this year. We are so grateful to Pat Green and his Executive Director Thomas Isbell for their vision and leadership in making this event so special," said Robert Stennett of the Ben Hogan Foundation.


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Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impact of new media on human interaction. He graduated summa cum laude from the Kansas State University Anthropology Program in 1997 and returned as a faculty member in 2004 after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Virginia. There he pursued research on social and cultural change in Melanesia, focusing on the introduction of print and print-based practices like mapping and census taking in the Mountain Ok region of Papua New Guinea where he lived for a total of 18 months from 1999-2003. This work inspired Wesch to examine the impact of new media more broadly, especially digital media.
To this end, Wesch is launching the Digital Ethnography Working Group, a team of undergraduates exploring human uses of digital technology. Coinciding with the launch of this group, Wesch created a short video, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us." Released on YouTube on January 31, 2007, it quickly became the most popular video in the blogosphere and has now been viewed over three million times. Wesch has won several awards for his work with video, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Media Praxis from the Media Ecology Association. Along with other explorations of mediated culture, the Digital Ethnography working group is now studying video-blogging on YouTube, a project featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Wesch's videos are part of his broader efforts to pursue the possibilities of digital media to extend and transform the way ethnographies are presented. His first experiment with digital ethnography, Nekalimin.net, began in 1999 and was recently listed by the Cardiff School of Social Sciences Hypermedia and Qualitative Research Project as "by far and away the most interesting web-mounted hypermedia ethnography to date." In 2002, Wesch created "Virtual Snow," an online resource on the life and work of Edmund Snow Carpenter, an anthropologist who was instrumental in developing the foundational ideas of media ecology, which inspire much of Wesch's work with digital ethnography.
Wesch is also a multiple award-winning teacher active in the development of innovative teaching techniques. Most notably, Wesch has developed a highly acclaimed "World Simulation" for large introductory classes in cultural anthropology. Currently, he is the coordinator for the Peer Review of Teaching Project at Kansas State University, part of a broader nationwide consortium of universities pursuing new ways to improve and evaluate student learning. He is also working with the Educause Center for Applied Research on The Tower and the Cloud project, examining "the question of how higher education institutions (The Tower) may interoperate with the emerging network-based business and social paradigm (The Cloud)."
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Beukes, Natasha (2008) An investigation into the synergistic association between the major Clostridium cellulovorans cellulosomal endoglucanase and two hemicellulases on plant cell wall degradation. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
Beukes, Natasha (2011) Effect of alkaline pre-treatments on the synergistic enzymatic hydrolysis of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) bagasse by Clostridium cellulovorans XynA, ManA and ArfA. PhD thesis, Rhodes University.


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n Shikellamy 2, Bald Eagle Area 1
SUNBURY -- Moments after Seth Burk was taken down in the box, Ian Snyder converted on a penalty kick as the Braves handed Bald Eagle Area a non-league loss on Saturday.
Justin Engle made nines saves to earn the shutout for the Shikellamy (2-14).
"It was a well-played game, very even," said Shikellamy coach Jon Steese. "We got a chance to convert and Ian finished."
Bald Eagle Area falls to 10-5-1.
n Danville 14, Mount Carmel 1
DANVILLE -- Chris Dempsey and Andrew Smith had a hat tricks and Gage Reber had a hand in six goals as the Ironmen rolled to the Heartland crossover victory.
Reber scored twice and added four assists for the Ironmen (13-1-1).
Richie Coffman scored for the Red Tornadoes, while Brandon Young made 22 saves.
n Mifflinburg 5, Penns Valley 0
SPRING MILLS -- Logan Taylor scored twice and three other players added single goals as the Wildcats clinched a District 4 playoff spot with a non-league victory.
Clair Ferguson, Ben Greb and Andrew Leitzel also added goals for Mifflinburg (9-7).
n Selinsgrove 1, Central Mountain 0
MILL HALL -- David Aurand scored midway through the first half of a feed from Chuck Pealer as the Seals shut out the Wildcats in a non-league game.
Travis Petrick made two saves for the Seals (15-1).
n Juniata 5, Line Mountain 1
MANDATA -- Jose Lopez had a hat trick for the Indians as they pulled away from Line Mountain with three second-half goals in the TVL victory.
Carl Pollard scored for the Eagles (1-15, 1-11).
n Southern Columbia 2, Hughesville 1, OT
HUGHESVILLE -- Aly Stavinski scored the game-tying goal with a little more than a minute to play in regulation and Mackenzie Clark scored early in the first overtime as the Tigers rallied for a Heartland Athletic Conference Division II victory.
Clark scored the game-winner off a feed from Haley Levan. The Tigers are now 11-4 overall, 8-3 in the HAC-II.
n Danville 3, Midd-West 0
DANVILLE -- The Ironmen scored twice in the final 13 minutes of the first half and never let the Mustangs find any rhythm in a HAC-I victory.
Brittany Walters go the Ironmen on the board and then Kiersten Zerbe and Siobhan Bross hooked up for a goal in each half for Danville (10-4-1, 9-2-1 HAC-I).
Midd-West falls to 9-6 overall, 5-6 in the HAC-I.
n Shamokin 3, North Schuylkill 1
COAL TOWNSHIP -- The Indians scored two gaols 31 seconds apart early in the game and pulled away for a non-conference win.
Rachel Poplaski had a goal and assist for the Indian.
n Mifflinburg 1, Lewisburg 0
MIFFLINBURG -- Nicole Brouse scored the game's only goal in the second half as the Wildcats held off their rival in a Heartland Athletic Conference Division I game.
Mifflinburg outshot the Green Dragons 26-10, but could only managed Brouse's goal, which was assisted by Sarah Shrawder.


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Week 3 NFL Game Recaps
Bills 34, Patriots 31
Well, it's now 16 in a row, and Buffalo still appears to be a long way from being a legitimate perennial playoff contender.
Fitzpatrick was incredible. He went 27-of-40 for 369 yards, two touchdowns and a pair of interceptions. Four Bills had at least 80 receiving yards: Donald Jones (5-101), Steve Johnson (8-94, TD), Fred Jackson (5-87) and David Nelson (6-84). Scott Chandler (2-10) had the other score.
Meanwhile, I thought Chad Ochocinco would step up with Hernandez out of the lineup, but that was hardly the case. Ochocinco hauled in just two grabs for 28 yards. Even worse, he dropped a wide-open touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Panthers 16, Jaguars 10
Despite the rain, Gabbert was able to hook up with Mike Thomas on a 36-yard touchdown as time expired in the first half. It was reminiscent of the David Garrard-to-Thomas Hail Mary, though Jacksonville didn't get the victory this time.
Gabbert was pretty mediocre otherwise. He went 12-of-21 for 139 yards, one touchdown an interception and three fumbles. He did have his first pass - a nice, 13-yard completion to Jason Hill - wiped out because of a Eugene Monroe penalty. However, Gabbert's pocket presence was a big problem; he struggled with pressure and even took a safety. Most of his yardage came on screen passes to Jones-Drew.
49ers 13, Bengals 8
By Greg Cox - @ActuallyGregCox
It started promising for rookie Andy Dalton. Cincinnati came out with an excellent blend of running Cedric Benson (5 carries for 15 yards) and completing passes primarily to Andre Caldwell (3 receptions for 32 yards). They chewed up almost half the opening quarter, but on first and goal from the six, picked a bad time to run on consecutive plays for the first time in the drive. It stalled and a field goal put them up, 3-0. Little did we know they would not score again until the fourth quarter.
Alex Smith came out on San Francisco's first possession and immediately completed a pass to Bruce Miller for 11 yards. Then he got sacked and threw two incompletions. You can pretty much copy that a few times, and you get the gist of what the 49ers did on much of the afternoon, mixing in some unsuccessful runs by Frank Gore who finished with 42 yards on 17 carries. This is not lazy analysis - I am serious.
Both defenses played well in this game obviously, with the final total yards going to Cincinnati just barely at 228-226. Cincinnati's five sacks were crucial in getting their defense off the field. Only once did the 49ers get a first down on a drive following a sack, and it was the result of a penalty. Meanwhile San Francisco's defense was getting it done on third down, stopping nine out of 10 conversion attempts. If not for a Frank Gore fumble early in the fourth quarter, the Bengals would not have scored after the opening drive.
Vernon Davis was the offensive force for the 49ers. His 39-yard reception in the second quarter led to the tying field goal. Yes, it was 3-3 at halftime. Then with the game on the line, he had receptions for 8, 8 and 20 yards during a 72-yard march for the game's only touchdown. Kendall Hunter finished it off with a 7-yard run and he had a mild coming out party here. Gore was ineffective and the smaller rookie Hunter ran big. Immediately after the score, Carlos Rogers intercepted Dalton and even though the drive immediately stalled, David Akers drilled a field goal from 53-yards out to put them up 13-6.
Those two drives took the game from 8:57 remaining to 2:11 by the time Cincinnati got the football back trying to drive for the tying touchdown. Dalton started connecting with tight end Jermaine Gresham and had the Bengals on the move until a dreadful interception to Reggie Smith. Head coach Jim Harbaugh made a questionable coaching decision last week not taking points off the board in a loss to Dallas, but this time managed the final 1:45 well. The 49ers took time off the clock and then punter Andy Lee chewed up precious seconds while conceding a safety, and that was that. I wish I had more to say about this game, but I really wish I could just erase it from my memory.
Browns 17, Dolphins 16
By Charlie Campbell - @draftcampbell
On Cleveland's first possession, Colt McCoy rolled out and threw a bad pass that was intercepted by Dolphins cornerback Jimmy Wilson. There weren't any open receivers and McCoy threw behind wide Mohammed Massaquoi. Wilson made an easy pick to set the Dolphins up at the Browns 43-yard line. On the next possession, McCoy had Josh Cribbs running wide open down the middle of the field. It was an easy pass that Cribbs would have turned into an 80-yard touchdown, but McCoy's pass was horribly overthrown, and the Browns had to punt.
McCoy came back and got the Browns on the board in the second quarter. He rolled out of the pocket and tossed a jump ball into the end zone for Cribbs. The wide receiver made a leaping catch in front of cornerback Shaun Smith for the game-tying score. To start the second half, McCoy helped lead another tying drive with a lot of passes to Ben Watson.
In the second half, Henne generally moved the ball well against Cleveland, which is a credit to him because his pass protection was lacking. He made some plays with his legs and distributed the ball pretty well. Miami and Henne did not finish drives and had too many possessions fizzle out or settle for easy field goals rather than getting in the end zone. On the last drive of the game Henne got to midfield when he overthrew his receiver on fourth-and-10 and was intercepted by safety Mike Adams. Henne completed 19-of-29 passes for 255 yards with one touchdown and one interception. It was an incomplete game from Henne, but not a horrible performance especially when you consider the Dolphins struggles in pass protection.
Lions 26, Vikings 23
Well, the Vikings apparently didn't agree. They're a proud veteran team that didn't take too kindly to being underdogs against an unproven Detroit squad.
Stafford couldn't get anything going. Even on the rare occasions when he wasn't pressured, he looked jittery in the pocket. The Lions had just four first downs in the opening half.
Saints 40, Texans 33
- The Texans started hot and got everyone excited. They had leads of 10-0, 16-10 and 26-17. Matt Schaub (22-of-39, 373 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT) was unstoppable. The Texans were getting good pressure on Drew Brees and even picked him off twice. It really looked like Houston was about to take the next step.
- But as usual, the Texans withered down the stretch, choking for what seems like the billionth time in franchise history. Suddenly, Brees was the quarterback who couldn't be stopped (31-44, 370, 3 TDs, 2 INTs). Schaub also tossed a horrible fourth-quarter pick with the lead. There's no excuse for that.
In my 2011 Houston Texans season preview, I expressed concern with Schaub being able to perform in the clutch, listing his awful fourth-quarter and overtime numbers when the game is close. Well, it appears as though nothing has changed. Well, scratch that. The Colts are a non-factor, so maybe the Texans can sneak into the playoffs by winning an awful AFC South. Maybe...
- Jimmy Graham was silent in the first half, but really became a reliable weapon for Brees down the stretch. Graham hauled in four grabs for 100 yards and a touchdown; one of the receptions featured an impressive hurdle over a Houston defender.
- Lance Moore is healthy again. He had nine grabs for 88 yards and a touchdown. Pick him up if he was dropped last week.
- Darren Sproles continues to be a big weapon in the passing attack. Sproles had six catches for 50 yards to go along with a 30-yard rushing touchdown.
- Andre Johnson (7-128) and Owen Daniels (5-76, TD) predictably had huge games. H-back James Casey (5-126, TD) put together a great statistical performance against the Saints, but I would ignore him in fantasy.
- Ben Tate, starting in place of Arian Foster, had a decent contest, gaining 82 yards on 19 carries. He didn't find the end zone, however. He was also severely underutilized in the second half.
-Mark Ingram scored, but rushed the ball just nine times because the Saints were in an early hole.
Giants 29, Eagles 16
QB Dog Killer's broken hand is his right one, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal. What has to be disconcerting though is how dreadful the offense looked before the injury. The line pathetically allowed quick pressures on three-man pass rushes. A frustrated QB Dog Killer looked scared to run coming off a concussion. He threw a pick that was a tipped pass by Steve Smith, but he should have been intercepted a second time by Kenny Phillips in the red zone.
Overall, QB Dog Killer went 16-of-23 for 176 yards an interception and three fumbles. He came out of the game twice; on the first occasion, Mike Kafka lobbed an ugly interception downfield on his initial pass. Kafka finished 4-of-7 for 35 yards and a pair of picks.
Manning finished 16-of-23 for 254 yards and four touchdowns. Two were to Cruz, one went to Bradshaw, and the other was thrown to Ahmad Bradshaw. Bradshaw had a great game, collecting 139 total yards.
Titans 17, Broncos 14
Despite the absence of Britt for more than a half, Matt Hasselbeck was still prolific, going 27-of-36 for 311 yards and two touchdowns. His top target was Nate Washington, who caught eight balls for 92 yards and a score.
Raiders 34, Jets 24
By Greg Cox - @ActuallyGregCox
Sanchez came out firing, completing his first two passes for 40 yards to Plaxico Burress and Dustin Keller. That would be a theme as well as he finished with 369 yards. However, the drive stalled. When the Jets quickly got it back, LaDainian Tomlinson made a dynamic run after catch good for 74 yards to set up a Sanchez bootleg run to tie it up at 7. Sanchez was asked to roll out of the pocket quite a bit, and while it worked early, the Raiders adjusted and shut it down. It was really an uneven game for him even with the big passing numbers. Rookie Jeremy Kerley returned a punt 53 yards only to watch Sanchez give it away on an interception to Tyvon Branch.
The second quarter was a scoring frenzy. To be honest, I had trouble keeping up after watching the defensive struggle earlier in the day. Tomlinson caught a touchdown pass to put the Jets on top 14-7. Raider fans used to seeing Tomlinson in a Chargers uniform saw another vintage performance from him as he piled up 154 yards on 11 touches. McFadden answered with a few tough runs for 17, 15 and 6 yards to get Oakland just close enough for Sebastian Janikowski to try a 56-yard field goal. He missed, but it would set him up for later on. The field position allowed the Jets to drive and eventually kick a short field go to go up by 10, but it would be two full quarters before their offense scored again.
In the meantime, the Raiders started working on offense. McFadden turned in a brilliant 70-yard touchdown run. On the next drive, Campbell completed short pass after short pass to march the team into position for Janikowski to make a field goal from 54 yards out and tie the game at halftime. New York head coach Rex Ryan could be seen shaking his head as his team walked off the field. This was not a vintage Jets performance, and although Tomlinson and Shonn Greene did combine for 97 yards on the ground, the running game did not come close to dominating like they have grown accustomed to doing in the past.
Alternating punts chewed up the first half of the third quarter, as both offenses failed twice. Then came the turning point of the game. New York had a 3rd-and-2 from the Oakland 37-yard line. Two incompletions later, the 43-yard drive resulted in no points. The answer from Oakland was dramatic. On the play's third drive, McFadden had a pass option and instead ran left for 27 yards. Rookie phenomenon Denarius Moore then took a reverse 23 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. The Black Hole was rocking, and all of the frustration from a game with four penalties built up for Cromartie. He booted the return, and two plays later, a Michael Bush touchdown made it 31-17 to open the fourth quarter.
There was no quit in the Jets. A drive basically bookended by completions to Burress spanned 93 yards and resulted in a touchdown to make it 31-24, but it took almost three minutes and left just 5:33 on the clock. Oakland took advantage of a penalty on Calvin Pace to extend a drive, and it was critical considering they did not convert a third down in eight tries. The key play was Campbell's touch pass to Bush good for 28 yards. It set up Janikowski for a chip shot field goal from 49 yards out. Again, the Jets responded with a drive, but Sanchez's scramble on fourth down came up a hot dog short.
A lot of New York's 439 total yards were wasted. Oakland's defense came up with numerous sacks, a pair by Jarvis Moss, who might be experiencing a career renaissance. Most amazingly, the Raiders scored a 34-24 win without the services of their matchup nightmare Marcel Reece.
Chargers 20, Chiefs 17
It's really telling that the Chargers were up only 10-0 at halftime because Kansas City had ZERO first downs compared to San Diego's 14. Furthermore, the Chiefs even missed a 38-yard field goal, so that wasn't enough to help the Chargers.
Ravens 37, Rams 7
St. Louis' defensive backs looked like a bunch of high-schoolers at times trying to stop Joe Flacco, who went 27-of-48 for 389 yards and three touchdowns. Flacco was pressured often and was guilty of a pair of fumbles, but the Rams' pathetic secondary betrayed the defensive front.
Packers 27, Bears 17
Seahawks 13, Cardinals 10
Jackson wasn't too bad; he went 18-of-31 for 171 yards and an interception, but also rushed for 20 yards and an 11-yard touchdown on four scrambles. He really benefited from the return of Sidney Rice, who hauled in eight grabs for 109 yards. No other Seahawk had more than two catches.
Buccaneers 16, Falcons 13
By Charlie Campbell - @draftcampbell
Freeman was off for most of the first half. A 16-yard pass to Mike Williams and some quality runs by LeGarrette Blount got Tampa Bay on the board first with a field goal. Freeman got into more of a groove late in the second quarter to lead a 14-play, 80-yard touchdown drive. He connected on a few passes to rookie tight end Luke Stocker and Williams. Freeman dived into the end zone from a yard out to give Tampa Bay 10-3 lead. A turnover set Tampa Bay up for three more points just before halftime and a lead of 16-3.
To start the third quarter, Freeman led a drive that ate up over half the period and produced another field goal for the Buccaneers. On the first play of the fourth quarter, Freeman had a pass deflected off the hands of wide receiver Arrelious Benn and into the hands of safety William Moore, who returned the interception to midfield.
Freeman finished the game 22-of-32 for 180 yards and two interceptions. Williams had five receptions for 43 yards. Winslow had two catches for 20 yards. Blount finished with 81 yards on 24 carries.
When Ryan started to throw more to Jones in the second half, good things happened for Atlanta. Jones beat Talib to the end zone on a pass that was overthrown by Ryan. Later in the fourth quarter, Jones beat Talib and the safety in zone coverage for a 49-yard pass to the Bucs' 10-yard line. Jones had to stop and wait for the ball, and a better pass would have been a score. Ryan finished the drive on the next play with a 10-yard touchdown to Gonzalez.
Ryan later had White for a potential touchdown, but his No. 1 wideout dropped the ball. Atlanta had to settle for a field goal and never got the ball back because Tampa Bay was able to run out the clock.
Steelers 23, Colts 20
Speaking of which, Pittsburgh's front line is in shambles. Reserve left tackle Marcus Gilbert, who has been starting because of injuries elsewhere, left the game with a shoulder. Later, right guard Doug Legursky was forced out of the game with a shoulder problem of his own. Later on, tackle Jonathan Scott suffered a leg malady. With no other linemen available, Mike Tomlin was forced to usher Gilbert back into the lineup.
I don't have to tell you that the Steelers are in trouble heading to Houston. How can they possibly block Mario Williams and J.J. Watt?
Curtis "Finger" Painter stepped in and wasn't much better. He went 5-of-11 for 60 yards and a strip-six. Painter had Pierre Garcon wide open for a touchdown on his first drive but completely missed him.
For thoughts on Redskins-Cowboys, check out my updated 2011 NFL Power Rankings, which will be posted Tuesday morning.
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Insurance can be a very impersonal business. Quotes Chimp almost has to be, considering the number of people insurance companies deal with and their extreme reliance on statistics when making business decisions.
Maryellen 03-07-2014 07:44 am xxx.xxx.xxx6.75 (total posts: 1)
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Submit to examinations. If Quotes Chimp are injured, you have the ob�ligation to allow your insurance company to have you examined by a physician of its choosing. You may also be required to submit to an oral examination under oath regarding the facts of the case, called a deposition.
Early 03-07-2014 07:36 am xxx.xxx.xxx.128 (total posts: 1)
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When an insurance Quotes Chimp investigates a case, it sometimes really investigates. Often, this includes reviewing your past med�ical records and other relevant material. You may be asked to sign authorizations for the company to obtain such documen�tation, which you must do unless you have valid grounds for denying the request (such as being asked to divulge personal information that has nothing to do with your claim).
Cayle 03-07-2014 07:35 am xxx.xxx.xxx4.75 (total posts: 1)
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Materials misrepresentations in the application form can be reasons for the insurance QuotesChimp to be treated from its responsibilities under the insurance policy. Therefore be fair, also when representative indicates you fudge in the facts, which some percentage-starving brokers occasionally do. The gains that you save yourself might be your own personal.
Kaedn 03-07-2014 07:35 am xxx.xxx.xxx4.49 (total posts: 1)
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Aggressive. Insurance rates should really remain competitive vis-a-vis additional insurance QuotesChimp trying to sell related traces of policy contract. On The Other Hand, no clients can come rapping around the firm's doorway.
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I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing.
Lately I've been hearing some rumblings during my various discussions around cloud computing. Some in the industry have been quietly saying the end is near for the much over hyped term. I wouldn't go as far as to say the cloud is dead just yet, but there is a growing sense that interest in cloud computing, at least from the point of view of a buzz word, has peaked.
Recent stats from Google's Insights service appear to confirm the trend. Using the Google Insights service, which attempts to gauge web search interest, I compared both the terms "cloud computing" and "the cloud". What I discovered is that interest in both terms is down significantly from its previous highs set back in June 2011. According to Google, the level of web search interest is sitting roughly at July 2010 levels and dropping fast. Although its forecast does show an uptick for the coming months, which to me seems unlikely given the trend over the last year. Keep in mind this particular stat says nothing of revenue or venture funding, it purely shows web search interest. But it's an interesting metric none the less. I've include a screenshot below.
So what does this all mean? Gartner was right. Cloud Computing is now beyond it's peak of inflated expectations and moving quickly into what they describe as a trough of disillusionment.
For those not familar with the Gartner hype cycle, Wikipedia outlines its five phases as follows;
Gartner also recently noted that "Private cloud computing has taken over from more-general cloud computing at the top of the peak, while cloud/Web platforms have fallen toward the Trough of Disillusionment since 2010." Google seems to confirm Gartner's thesis. Gartner also predicts that the most transformational technologies included in the Hype Cycle will include virtualization within two years; Big Data, Cloud Advertising, Cloud Computing, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Public Cloud computing between two and five years; and Community Cloud, DevOps, Hybrid Cloud Computing and Real-time Infrastructure in five to ten years. So yes, the term cloud anyway, seems here to stay.
Does it really matter if the term cloud computing has peaked? Probably not. If anything, it will be nice to have some products and services described by what they actually do, rather than being described by what has become nothing more than a meaningless marketing metaphor applied to anything and everything that touches the Internet.
It may well be the case that the aggregation of commodity servers and flexibility of virtualization is here to stay, satisfying elastic needs more efficiently than other models of service provision, and perhaps taking us back a few decades to the model of large, centralized CPU with relatively dumb terminals (though in the modern case more intuitive, smaller, more versatile and mobile terminals). Presumably the term cloud computing, from an advertising perspective, is meant to connote easy integration, worry free service, etc. As with most campaigns, it likely has a finite life, though would appear to have been successful in presenting the idea of elastic computing and virtualization to a much larger audience than would be possible without such tranquil terminology. I would imagine that the hype surrounding the term may abate, but the intrinsic benefits will certainly continue and perhaps make a fairly large, but not unfamiliar, change in paradigm in the computing world.
Colin, I see your post was "called-out." Congratulations.
I have to say I haven't actually read all of it. That may be due to your post having a Flesch-Kincaid reading level of grade 23 while I only have a PhD, the equivalent of a grade level of only 20 or so.
From what I did read I deduce that you agree with me that the term-du-jour is irrelevant to the benefits and costs of using the Internet.
I agree, and I've seen these Gartner hype cycle graphs before. Though they contain some interesting tidbits and sound bites, they are selling classic Gartner contrarianism (as you know, Gartner sells the contrarian angle in many areas). And, like most cloud (and other) computing and IT Service Management articles, it does a poor job by either missing, mixing, or confusing its audience, especially in relation to (what ITIL calls) Service Provider Types (i.e., Type I, II, or III).
As an example, for a managed hosting (Type III) provider like Rackspace.com, Infrastructure- and Platform-as-a-Service (IaaS and PaaS) have not only been in the "plateau of productivity" for some time, but indeed it has been their core business (i.e., bread and butter).
Try telling them PaaS is "still mostly hype" right now! If you were to take this graph at its word, they are at the height of the "hype cycle," and won't reach the "plateau of productivity" for some time. This article (and graph) almost denies the paradigm shift (like many missed Apple's "Ecosystem Domination" shift). My guess is that this article targets mostly internal service providers (i.e. Type I) and/or those who manage them.
Sadly, some CIO's will still be pondering such articles while (or just before) they are fired and hole swaths of their IT functions (and departments!) are being outsourced to Rackspace, Amazon, and/or Google. The problem for such CIOs is that many are managed by CFOs who get the ROI/TCO of these new business/IT models, and, unlike their CIO underlings, are not emotionally attached to their IT Infrastructure, "functional areas," slots/positions, etc!
Yes, this curve will apply to the big beauracracies more as they will be slower to adopt/realize, but the even bodies that oversee them are already starting to act like the now-getting-wise CFO.
I'm not surprised that the term, "cloud computing," is becoming less popular. After all, it was simply a new, fadish, way of describing something that has been going on for the past couple of decades – using the Internet.
Soon there will be a newer, fadish term for describing the same thing.
Actually, it's far older than even that. Back in the 1970′s, when I worked for a firm named CompuServe, we called it *timesharing.*
The irony is really quite incredible: Timesharing firms existed because smaller organizations had neither the resources nor the expertise to set up and maintain their own IT infrastructures. The advent of the Personal Computer, however, triggered a mass movement to individual IT shops and killed the timesharing firms. Later, as those individual IT shops become ever larger, more complex, and far more expensive to build and maintain, the tide has turned.
Only now, the marketers call it *cloud computing.* Personally, I liked the old term far better.
I disagree. Cloud computing has little to do with the internet – and much to do about elastic compute cycles provided through Orchestration and Automation. A private cloud doesn't need the internet to exist, as a matter of fact, it solves a lot of the security and compliance problems that "public" cloud computing had affixed to it. You wouldn't use the "internet" to access it, unless it was the underlying transport mechanism that carried a secure/encrypted connection.
It's more than a fad – it's a multi-billion dollar industry.
I still recall the first time I signed up for cloud resources on Amazon Web Services in 2009, and how easy and simple the process was. All I had to do was complete the form, provide a credit card number, and for about $200 in a matter of minutes I had multiple servers in a load balanced environment, with desired scalability and was ready to transact. I was truly amazed knowing how much hardware and software was put to work so quickly with just a few clicks of a button! The cost in both time and money would have been significant if I had to buy, install, configure, host and manage all that gear myself. I couldn't stop thinking about the profound impact this would have on the world. Suddenly, starting a new business and having massive resources available from Day 1 at a fraction of the cost and time it would normally take became a reality. What once seemed to be a huge barrier to entry, or to scale your business to the next level, now appeared to be nothing more than a utility anyone could order, use at will and pay only for what was actually used—much like how we use electricity today. Hardly anyone uses generators to power his or her house or office, except in emergency situations, but rather, we all depend on energy companies to power our lives at the touch of a switch.
I love this subject on "phase" and "trend" descriptions on alot of social media on the internet and how it is no longer a booming market. Unfortunately, TECH is getting some flack on the whole deal, especially Cloud Computing. I personally believe that people need and want wireless capabilities, but cloud computing is a little scary to some people. Putting all that private information out there and not having the luxury of knowing they're safe. I'm sure when people first started making credit card purchases on the internet they had some doubts. Now most credit card companies have to protect you from fraudulent usages by not charging you, or letting the charges be removed from their accounts. I'm sure there is some correlation in internet security and the success of cloud computing. In my opinion, I think the biggest influence on the internet is still privacy over convienence. This is just my opinion, but it is something different than anything crashing I'm sure.
Something to think about for all of those applauding Meg Whitman's "bold strategic move" of laying off (early retirement my patootie..) 30,000 HP employees to invest in "R&D" for cloud computing, where HP is already a year behind their competitors.
Note that the vast majority of those being sacked come from the former EDS, now in HP's Enterprise Services unit, and where ALL of the experience and skills lie for successfully deploying cloud computing. EDS went from 133,000 employees pre-HP, and now is down to around 50,000 and about to lose approximately 15,000 more.
I guess they have two or three very productive experienced people working for peanuts.
Other than cloud, what else is in HP's strategic roadmap?
Layoffs and the eventual demise of HP given what this report is indicating.
Kyle, I had lunch with one of HP's World-wide Strategic Advisors a month or so ago and was amazed at the strategy they were pedalling to their enterprise customers. I asked the guy who had just presented it to one of the biggest companies in the worlds a couple of questions that challenged HP's logic and in his own words – the HP strategy was completed useless and he admitted that any customer adopting it would be driving their own business off a cliff.
I then took it upon myself to write to Meg Whitman explaining why their cloud strategy was flawed and offering some help to get it right. Not even an acknowledgement thanking me for my mail never mind a response. Maybe HP's cloud email servers cant handle sending out an automated response email thanking me for contacting HP anymore.
So, your conclusion regards HP's demise may not just be their total focus on cloud, but this may be compounded by their unwillingness to listen to anyone! Head in the sand type thinking from the top! Shame, because HP was a great company with a real passion for their customers – I still buy their PCs as good after-sales service.
I would like to add one more thing regards this article .. for 'cloud' you could read 'bureau' thirty years ago. I wonder what the Gartner graph and google searches looks like for Bureau;-)
Rather than looking at what the technology is can we look at why the search has changed. Is it a case of I now understand and therefore no longer search. What does Twitter, Facebook, or better still the phrase "social media" and others map like. Surely a better methodology would be a weight of positive over negative comments? Catch phrases can be real fads but the driving technology behind them often becomes part of everyday life, just no longer noticed or visible. Could we compare say Cellphone to Smartphone. The phrase may be trending down but usage is not.
….. and left CrApple FAR BEHIND. Dead On Arrival from CrApple's History: Dot Mac, iSync, CrAppleTV, iClod and wonderless MobileMe … ALL MAJOR FLOPS.
MSFT, Google and Amazon OWNS this market.
It is indeed an interesting theory that has been presented taking a note out of what has been mentioned above"Drop in Search for word Cloud or Cloud computing" could possibly because that in past couple of years, it is something that has dominated the web and companies imagination about the technology.
As the time has passed Internet community has become more knowledge able about this technology and its long time effect. CLOUD appeared as a catchy market phase which is now acting as synonym to less expensive scalable technology.
However on the other side the facts showing Gartner's hype cycle for cloud is really very interesting and worth spending some thoughts in analysis of latest trend in technology, which underpins cloud.
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Your article title is a bit misleading. As a consultant that works closely with and sometimes in the Cloud space, we see nothing bit increased interest in the SAAS and PAAS models from our client base. Companies like Salesforce.com are growing because interest continues to grow. The way that interest manifests itself is different. As Cloud computing becomes more ubiquitous and mainstream, people stop searching on the term "Cloud" as cloud offerings are provided by nearly all major players in the software world now. I bet you see that the number of searches for Cloud CRM is now inversely proportional to the revenue growth of SFDC.
The term Cloud Computing, was coined by and is used industry wide by all the vendors to describe a watershed of the use of technology. As trendy or gitchy as the term may seem it may be with us for a while.
Not sure that cloud computing has truly peaked, but it has definitely achieved an attractive level of maturing. Of course there is still a significant amount of room for cloud to continue to evolve. After all, how can something peak when most people still cannot provide a consistent definition?
Luckily for Cloud Service Providers, while Cloud Computing as a "buzzword" may be on the decline, cloud demand is on the increase across the board. The most important quote from this article seems to be "Does it really matter if the term cloud computing has peaked? Probably not."
Which begs the question – if that's the case, why write the article at all?
It's not often that I'm compelled to publish my comments in response to IT bloggers or writers of IT articles appearing in various business or IT publications…but recently I've read some pieces that require me to respond just so I can sleep at night! Namely, these articles postulate that Cloud Computing has run its course or has reached its maximum relevance, never realizing what was "hyped", and will soon be relegated to the "also ran" category of IT experiments.
When I read these articles I find myself wondering what parallel universe are these fellas writing from. From first hand experience, with real world clients, and day to day operations in a market, the Reality of the Street in the real world is that the Cloud is gaining in interest and building relevant results that not only achieve what is "hyped" but exceed the often reported benefit.
At its core, a good Cloud strategy provides benefits of liberation of trapped IT resources. Liberation of IT spending that does nothing more than keep the existing IT plumbing working. Liberation of trapped IT personnel that must focus on keeping the plumbing working. Liberation of IT creativity…perhaps the most important area of liberation…allowing IT staff to develop and deploy IT solutions that face the customer and drive revenue. This power of liberation by the Cloud is not hype. Its going on as I write and it continues to fuel Cloud expansion.
While I write from experience, dealing with real customers as they implement their Cloud Strategy and achieve results, the alternative point of view is being developed from simple observations of things such as speculative dialogue and Google search statistics. These writers speculate that the Cloud might be dying because people are not searching for the term Cloud Computing as often…. Really! Come on…potential Cloud customers are no longer doing that type of simple search of "Cloud Computing". They've moved past that level of elementary investigation of building Cloud Strategies. Today, the search is about particular solutions in the Cloud such as Back-Up, Email, Disaster Recovery, and the list goes on. The Cloud has moved past some ubiquitous or esoteric term to specific solutions that provide the "hyped" benefits previously promised. The reality is there is not a singular path to the Cloud found with the Google search of Cloud Computing.
The real measurement of Cloud momentum is the amount of work underway in the development of Cloud strategies being conducted by clients and their Cloud Service Providers. Survey the market and you will find that virtually every business is in some state of Cloud consideration. Cloud Service Providers are adding customers at increasing rates and the applications that CSPs are providing are growing in sophistication and addressing specific needs of the marketplace.
Come on IT pundits. Take a look where the rubber meets the road…down here at the Street Level. Our reality is the Cloud has never looked better.