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What are the moonlight towers?
Austin is a city rich in historical landmarks, but one sky-high piece of the past is often overlooked. While you may never have noticed the city's 116-year-old moonlight towers, they are still in use.
According to the Austin History Center, the moonlight towers are 165-foot-tall metal giants located in various portions of the city; they are mainly clustered downtown. The towers were put up in 1895 to light the city and, according to local legend, protect residents from an unidentified serial killer known as the "Servant Girl Annihilator."
Mike Miller with the Austin History Center said he has yet to see an official document stating a connection between the killer and the moonlight towers, though he has heard that connection made. He said his gut tells him it is a coincidence that the towers were constructed around the same time as the noteworthy killings, but who can know for certain?
The Austin History Center's website states that 31 towers were erected and used carbon arc lamps that were lit "nightly by a worker who got to the top in an elevator that runs up the center of the framework." In 1936, the towers were equipped with the mercury vapor lamps they still use today.
Seventeen of the moonlight towers are still in use, owned and maintained by Austin Energy. A replica of the famous towers gets attention each year when it is used as the center post for the Zilker Park Christmas tree of lights.
KUT News reports the towers were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, which "doesn't protect them outright, but it does deem them 'worthy of protection' and urges the city to prevent the moon towers from being altered or destroyed."
Thanks to the towers' preservation, Austin is believed to be the only city in the world that still has a functioning system of moonlight towers.
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The Sandra & Gary Sojka Visiting Poet Series was established in 1995 through the generosity of Gary Sojka, who served as president of Bucknell University from 1985-1995, and his wife, Sandra. The Sojka Visiting Poet Series brings a distinguished poet to Bucknell for a visit each fall. In addition to presenting a reading, the Sojka poet meets in an informal venue with students and other members of the Bucknell community.
Poets are chosen by invitation only; the Stadler Center for Poetry does not accept applications for this position.
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (2010) and Essays on Departure (2006), and an essay collection Unauthorized Voices (2010). Her thirteen volumes of translations from the French include Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen (2008), which received the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Hédi Kaddour's Treason (2010), and Rachida Madani's Tales of a Severed Head (2012). For her own work, she has received the National Book Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry, and the Argana International Prize from Morocco's Bayt as-Sh'ir / House of Poetry for 2011. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Hacker lives in Paris.
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The Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series celebrates the life and memory of Daniel Pearl, a prominent journalist who dedicated his life to bringing joy and understanding to the world. This year's lecture is sponsored by the Daniel Pearl Foundation, UCLA Hillel and the Burkle Center; it will take place on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 6:00 pm in Korn Convocation Hall at the UCLA Anderson School of Business. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will give an introduction.
David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." He is the author of "Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There" and "On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense," both published by Simon & Schuster.
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic.
His distinguished history of contributions to publications include: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Public Interest, the TLS, The New Republic and Commentary among others. He is also a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, CNN's Late Edition and the "Diane Rehm Show." Mr. Brooks is the editor of the 1996 anthology "Backward and Upward: the New Conservative Writing." Click here to view various columns by David Brooks.
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So stoked today when I looked at the lineup for Soundwave Festival and there it was.....Korn Been waiting a long time for them to come back, and really looking forward to seeing Head again. I think its going to epic, especially with the new album coming out before then. Korn are back baby!! I'm ready and waiting
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Finally, after almost a year since its first appearance, Notion Ink has made their Adam Android tablet available for pre-order.
At the Notion Ink website you can find four different variants of the tablet with different prices.
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This tour will be lead by a professional naturalist /tour guide as you cover the regions highlights. During this tour you will enjoy:
The Tortuguero Canals: Board your covered boat for a 60 minutes leisurely cruise through the jungle canals. Your guide explains the rain forest eco-system and points out sights of interest. Keep an eye out for wildlife including howler monkeys, many sloths, toucans, aquatic birds, bats and crocodiles as well as exotic flora.
Then on to the Banana Plantation and Packing House, where many interesting facts about this amazing fruit will be explained: The Crop, harvesting, processing, packing and exportation. Costa Rica is the second largest banana producer in the world and 80% of the plantations are located in Limon province, becoming one of the most important economical activities in the region. During weekdays, you will be able to see the workers doing their job in the fields and the packing house. A very interesting cultural experience that you can't miss.
Next the Rain Forest welcomes you on a Tractor- Wagon. Come and take one of our wagons that will travel through the heart of the rainforest, along with a naturalist tour guide that you will discuss and learn about zoology and botanic of the tropical forest's ecosystem . The fearless driver will show you 2 types of poisonous frogs and other variety of species that you may see on the journey. At a moment of the expedition we will reach the highest part of the mountain where you can walk to the great view point. An optional bridge aproximatly 300 feet long through trees and will give you the chance of observing nature in a different view, great for pictures of nature.
Enjoy the beautiful scenery of Puerto Limon coastline during the bus drive to the different attractions.
Of coarse you will have time to pickup Souvenirs of th regions during our Limon Highlights tour. The Caribbean enjoys a diversity of cultures: Afro-Costa Rican, Bribri and Cabecar, Asian, Italian and Central American, among others. Besides food, the region features a collection of cultural activities and traditions that also differentiate it from the rest of the country.
We complete the tour with a City Tour: History records that in 1502 Christopher Columbus landed in Costa Rica at the place known as Puerto Limon. The country's port par excellence thanks to import and export traffic, Limon now has the facilities to receive cruise ships as well. The city's old quarter has the characteristics of a historical center and is currently under urban renovation with restoration of buildings and a pedestrian walkway from Parque Vargas to the market.
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Even after his death, Michael Jackson continues to attract controversy. To promote the upcoming documentary This Is It — which incorporates footage from rehearsals for the tour Jackson was planning before his death in late June — the Jackson estate released a new single on Sunday at midnight, also entitled "This Is It." No sooner had the single been released than singer/songwriter Paul Anka reared his head and threatened to sue.
It seems that "This Is It" is not the novel single it's supposed to be. Instead, it draws very noticably from a song called "I Never Heard," a track Anka and Jackson co-wrote for Safire in the early 80s. Apparently, Jackson "stole" the tapes from Anka over a dispute. A Jackson estate administrator recently got ahold of the tapes and used them, not realizing their origins.
By midday Monday, Anka had gone on record threatening legal action, saying, "They have a major, major problem on their hands. They will be sued if they don't correct it." But since then, the Jackson estate has acknowledged the mistake and promised Anka half of the roylaties. Later, Anka was quoted as saying, "They did the right thing ... I don't think that anybody tried to do the wrong thing. It was an honest mistake."
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Aaron Hernandez leased secret 'flop house' with boxes of ammo found by police
The evidence continues to mount against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.
After being charged with first-degree murder in June for the execution-style shooting of acquaintance Odin Lloyd, and subsequent findings of links to other shootings and incidents, the 23-year old Hernandez is now reported to have rented a secret "flop house," a place typically reserved for minimal services such as storage.
SI Wire: Report Aaron Hernandez involved in domestic disturbance incident last year
According to a report Wednesday from the Associated Press, Hernandez, who is now one of 29 NFL players arrested since the Super Bowl, had reportedly leased a $1,200 per month apartment in Franklin, Mass., where state police found boxes of ammunition, a sweatshirt and a baseball cap, among other items.
Police found out about the apartment from Carlos Ortiz, one of Hernandez's friends, who said he was with the former NFL star the night he allegedly made plans to shoot Lloyd. The articles of clothing recovered from the apartment are similar to what Hernandez had worn the night of the crime, June 17. According to the AP report:
"The white sweatshirt could be used … to assist in linking Hernandez to the scene of the crime," wrote Trooper Michael Bates, in an affidavit in support of one of the search warrants.
"The baseball hat could help provide the whereabouts of Hernandez on the Friday night before the homicide," Bates wrote.
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The Boston Globe and Boston Herald have the list of items recovered, which include:
- A white hoodie "consistent in color and type with the sweatshirt that Hernandez is observed to be wearing on surveillance cameras the night of the homicide.
- A red baseball cap worn by Hernandez to a nightclub on the Friday night before the murder. Prosecutors had previously said Hernandez's anger at Lloyd could have been sparked by an incident at that club.
- Five boxes of .45 ammunition (the caliber of the shells found on Lloyd's body), five boxes of rifle ammunition, and one box of .22-caliber ammunition.
- Keys to a brand-new Hummer registered to Hernandez.
- Paychecks from the Patriots and Puma.
- A bag from Kay Jewelers.
- A valet receipt from the W Hotel in Boston.
- A Western Union receipt.
- A Hertz car rental agreement
(Hat tip to DeadSpin for compiling the list)
Lloyd, who was dumped at an industrial complex about a mile from Hernandez's North Attleboro (Mass) mansion after he was killed, reportedly had inside information about Hernandez's involvement in a 2012 double-homicide in Boston.
Hernandez's attorneys say the items recovered from the Franklin apartment is circumstantial and added that he's eager to clear his name from the murder charge.
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Damn, he looks like George Zimmerman!
Loser, when you start killing your friends you find that you do not have any.
This guy Hernandez has to be one of the stupidest people who's ever lived. Maybe he should be in the Guiness book.
------Hernandez's attorneys say the items recovered from the Franklin apartment is circumstantial and added that he's eager to clear his name from the murder charge.------
Thanks fellas......I needed a good laugh!! LOL LOL
Might tell ol' Aaron to NOT hold his breath!! LOL!!
TOO funny!!
If it's not caught on video tape, idiot juries will not vote guilty! Today's citizens need to see the crime committed in slow motion and have it described to them.
This is a horrible display of BS from "professionals" who lots of Kids look up to, shame on you!
Here are a few legal issues that relate to the Hernandez case including whether getting married would keep his fiance from testifying against him and if the Sheriff can keep him from doing so in the first place:http://www.jdsportsfan.wordpress.com
I'm sure Hernandez is eager to clear his name. That's standard language from defense attorney's in high profile cases. That said, Hernandez will be using the remaining balance of the guaranteed money the Patriots paid him to hire the best attorney's he can find.
In the meantime, Ortiz sounds like he's the first one to start rolling over. lol.
So, it's all just a coincidence? Hernandez is not very good at covering up a murder.
...and the p.c. sports media, particularly espn's gang of ex jocks, coaches and cheer leaders, went nuts 24/7 when Tim Tebow could not throw a 90 yard spiral. Meanwhile, the street thug culture has taken over much of the NFI and that is "acceptable''? Big money rules.
I never understood why the NFL has never considered putting tracking devices that are tamper proof on players that are deemed troublesome knuckle heads and or has violated the league's substance abuse policy or driving drunk and killing their teammates, etc...
Before anyone says says they can't do that, they can. If they want to and let's be honest today's NFL players are not phased by any suspensions that Roger Goodell has used against them. If these knuckle heads like Hernandez had one he would had one he'd be home being a father to his little girl.
If you are a model citizen you don't have to wear these tracking devices if you are not its the price you pay for being a knuckle head considering the millions you are making. Most company's ask if you have ever committed a felony if you are applying for a job. If you have one chances are you are not getting hired which I agree with.
The question that the NFL, NBA, MLB and the NHL should start asking themselves, is it time to ban any athlete from playing in their sport if they are felons or has committed one? By not doing so these sports entities are doing more to hurt our society than help it.
It does make you wonder just what goes on in his mind. Not very much is my guess.
So Mr Lloyd was killed a mile away from Hernandez's mansion and reports state that Aaron went back there a few minutes after gun shots were heard yet all of the evidence from that night ends up at this random apartment that police didn't know about until some "friend" of Hernandez told them?? Either Hernandez is in the running for dumbest criminal of ALL TIME or this is/was a set-up.
Hernandez is trouble. Jail is the right place for him.
It's not against the law to own ammunition and sweatshirts and baseball cap, all that anyone can purchase at any store. I am not defending what this guy supposedly has done but it all sounds like circumstantial and fabricated evidence to me.
AH is either the dumbest person on earth or he is so arrogant & because he kept getting away with murder, he didn't bother to cover anything up.
What a moron! How can he follow a football play? He lets people in on the murder, plans it no less, picks the victim up at his house, brings 2 scum bag gangsta's with him, doesn't take his cell phone from Odin, kills him and leaves his body exposed near his house, leaves evidence in a vehicle leased to him, leaves evidence in the pockets of the victim, doesn't count the shells, nor does he remove incriminating evidence at the scene, uses his cell phone over and over again, exposes himself to images at gas stations, the crime scene, his house, (throw the camera away, don't just smash that and your cell phone) has guns in his house and doesn't dispose of them after the murder along with all the other evidence, should I go on?
Look at those thugs from Ct. You'd rather hang around with the likes of them when you could be rubbing elbows with Giesele, Tom, Barry, movie stars, rock stars, you'd rather be hanging out with gangsters and killing people? You had a gift given to you and you chose to murder people?
Rot in jail scum.
No one cares about the dead black guy let hernandez play football. It's not like some great guy got capped.
Any one else find it oddly suspicious to have all of the evidence to the crime found in a 'secret' safehouse - not destroyed? I'm not the least bit into who this guy is - honestly knew little about him before all of this.
Maybe too much Law and Order as well? But who kills someone, has the presence to remove the body and disposes it only a mile away? Why not in the water or deep in the NH woods? But after disposing of the body, you take the evidence and store it away in a house with the ammo consistent with the hit?
I'm sure the guy is neck deep in this, but something has a bad smell.
My .02
Ya know...part of me thinks for his family's sake, they should just give him his shoelaces and belt back and he can take the cowards way out. If it were just him being accused of the Lloyd murder, I would say, innocent until proven guilty. But, at this point, after all this other stuff, it's obvious.
I don't think a plea deal will be on the table...this guy is getting life because a) he is scum and b) its always an election yr in the das' office
Greaseball scumbag.
also found was the body of Hernandez's previous lawyer.
By no means am I a great criminal mind (neither is AH apparently) but wouldn't a multi-millionaire do a murder for hire?
Am I the only one who looked up "flop house" and found out it's a rooming house or a cheap hotel where a bunch of low-wage workers live together in close quarters? I'm pretty sure a secret leased apartment paid for by a million-dollar athlete and shared with no one is not called a flop house.
Ironic, I think, that he looks less arrogant in this picture than he does when he's in court.
awesome....hes not even smart enough to get rid of the clothes....I bet law enforcement is just shaking their heads..too easy
Hernandez killed Lloyd because Lloyd knew too much about the double murder from 2012 and was getting ready to blackmail Hernandez because he desperately longed for the lifestyle of a millionaire. Lloyd was going to rat out Hernandez, so Lloyd got whacked. Case closed.
@Jiam That is why you do not make your heroes based on how much money they make.
@dewbert Other then football I don't think Hernandez is very good at anything. He is a typical thug that thinks he knows why more then he actually does. Breaking up his cell phone and security system must have seemed to be genius thinking to him. The body a mile from the house -- they will NEVER connect it to me. He must have thought no one would ever connect him to this guy. And last but NOT least Hernandez probably actually thinks his "friends" will cover for him. Either dumb as a stump or just brain dead.
@PC1 I agree with your POV. One thing is the NFL should suffer some money damages when they bring a thug and/or a felon on board. There are hundreds of players who are good enough to play NFL ball but never get the chance because of some arbitrary coaches or scours call as to who is the "best" for whatever job is open.
Character should count for as much as athletic ability. Rather watch great people and great athletics play then over hyped thugs and criminals whose behavior and life style is disgusting.
Stopped watching NBA. NFL might be next. College ball has not yet been reduced to professional sports levels of criminality. YET!!
Baseball with all its' problems does not seem to produce a criminal element in the large numbers of the other sports.
@PC1 If you're in favor of tracking devices at some point, the government will get around to putting one on you. By the way, there is no such thing as a "tamper proof" tracking device. Not when it can be cut out of your body with the point of a knife.
@PC1Who gets to define "Knucklehead, you?" Or maybe we could trust our wonderful government to define it for us. Let's see now, didn't vote Democrat, Knucklehead, didn't contribute to the party, Knucklehead, wrote that comment to SI Magazine that I don't agree with, Yeah, Knucklehead for sure.
I hope you can see where this is going. If you give anyone that type of authority, that type of extra-constitutional authority you will be sorry, because all they are going to want after that is what any government wants, More.
We have a Constitution for a reason, a very good reason. The founders knew it and many of our people today seem to be forgetting it but Liberty is fleeting to those who do not zealously guard it, nurture it and watch over it every moment of every day. This only makes sense as freedom and liberty are the most valuable commodities in the world today and there is always those who are waiting to deprive you of yours, so beware, do not just give yours away, and stay away from mine altogether.
Rich in New Mexico.
@PC1, I completely agree with you!! However, sad thing is in our current society, instead we value money over values. Being that professional sports will always be a business dealing in the multi-millions, these athletes literally feel they can get away with murder. Most of the time they do get away with or off from having to serve any time or consequences for their actions. If it were you or I that committed the exact same crime(s), we would be tried & most likely sentenced immediately. I live in Dallas, so I see the Cowboys get away with crap such as this case, DWIs, drug posession(& sales), etc. on a regular basis... they all make me sick. I guess it is the day they stand before their maker that will take place before they truly are judged for their decisions & actions. Sad but so very true.
@JamesDeangelis You could take almost any evidence from a trial and call it circumstantial. Once you add everything up, juries are allowed to take a large amount of circumstantial evidence to create a "trier of fact". So there is nothing wrong with using circumstantial evidence as long as there is enough. You could walk into a room that had a dog in it and a torn up garbage bag. The evidence is "circumstantial" but nobody in their right mind would think the dog is innocent because there is not video evidence of it occurring.
As for "fabricated", are you saying the police are creating evidence or just making things up? Are you sure that is what you meant? So what evidence do you have that they are "fabricating" things? You seem to be fabricating a narrative about the actions of the police without any proof. What makes your comment any different.
* The hoodie he was wearing, he hid in his apartment, that he conveniently forgot to tell police he had. The hoodie matches the one he was wearing the night of the murder.
* The ammunition matches the exact make and caliber used in the murder. Once again, hidden in an apartment that he "forgot" to tell police about.
* The hat matches the hat he wore to a club with the victim days before the murder. Also hidden in that same apartment.
And we are talking about a guy that had plenty of warning that they were coming to search his home. But hey, I'm sure it's all just a total coincidence. ...
@JamesDeangelis You do know the thugs said he did it and a shell was found in the rental car. You do know that the same gun used in the murder was found in the condo. You do know that Oldin was going to rat him out about the drive by last July in Boston, and that is why he executed him, right? You do know he shot his friends eye out and that person has said it was him right? Now what would ever make you think AR isn't capable of murder? Why he didn't have the thugs pull the trigger says it all, he LIKES to kill people.
@stellah Yeah its pretty amazing how stupid Aaron is/was if all of this is what actually happened.
does "stupid": run deep in your family?
@RaylanGivens Because AH is an arrogant, beyond stupid murderer! He likes to kill otherwise he would have had his croonies do all the shootings.
@riley8 Guy is a thug. Street cred is way more important then hiring someone to "do it." He would be considered a punk who could not do his own "capping."
He might actually LIKE killing others who he has a grudge against. He may be really mentally unbalanced. May have a very low IQ. Just because you can catch a football and con people does not make up for mental illness or just plain dumb as* self destructive behavior.
@ohiostatefan1978 Maybe the press is not as smart as you or the police just meant it was a place to sleep and not really lived in. That definition has not been revised since the depression. (1930 to 1940).
Apparently it was NOT so secret quite a few individuals knew about his secret. Maybe he brought his extra girlfriends there instead of to his home or a hotel where he might be noticed. Is this important?
@prisonmike How did he follow a football play is my question? How did he make to the NFL and through college? Well, we know how the get their diploma, but you still have be able to read and write to play the football...
@John64 That's absolutely amazing, John! I don't know how you do it. You should be working for Obama's NSA you have it all figured out so perfectly. Heck, for all we know, you probably do work for the NSA. I hear they take just about anybody.
Well look at you little media detective
@leon1376 @PC1 Teams are paying people to follow their troubled stars and paying them salaries that some executives jaws would drop. Obviously this practice is not working but you have to look at other options. BTW, they have tracking devices that are a lot more advanced and secure nowadays. They will dispatch and send alerts if it is tampered with. If the government got around to putting one on me it was because I was stupid and deserve to have one on me. But I'm not that stupid.
@RichMcKeever @PC1 Rich, your point is well taken. However our constitution doesn't help you, me or the guy next door get a job in the real world if we have committed a felony. Why should professional athlete's not have to be obligated to the same constraints we have to?
If a company refuses us employment based upon our background check it has nothing to do with the constitution but everything to do with the company considering us for employment because they usually don't hire you if you are a felon. The biggest problem with these spoiled overpaid athletes is they never had to be accountable for anything.
I remember back in 1998 I was driving south bound on the Dallas Tollway and former Dallas Cowboys Erik Williams was driving his convertible like a bat out of hell speeding in excess of 100 miles and almost crashed into me a my kids, he showed little regard for anything or anybody because he was a Dallas Cowboy.
Finally if you don't think Knucklehead is not appropriate for Hernandez, Pac Man Jones, Lawrence Phillips and Tank Johnson just to name a few then I do not know what to tell you.
@19fisherman59 @joeshine730 Too bad the Stanford-Binet test doesn't measure minus zero IQs....
@19fisherman59 @joeshine730 No, but it does in the Hernandez family!
@seeClearly @ohiostatefan1978 Yeah, in the end, it doesn't matter what it was called, it seems like this was an apartment to help Hernandez hide, well, a number of things. I just think that if the author of this article bothered to use the term in the headline and in the article, it should've been used properly.
@PC1 @leon1376 As a rule of thumb, every high-tech problem is vulnerable to a low-tech solution. In other words, just about anything can be hacked. The main problem with tracking devices is that the people doing the tracking, are monitoring the location of the device. The assumption is that the human to which the device is attached will be in the same place as the device. Perhaps the one tracking system that might be difficult to defeat is the special magnetic ink the government is planning for tattoos. I understand this works for Point Of Sale transactions as well. You get a tattoo in the palm of your hand, and another in your forehead. The hand tattoo ties in to your bank account and the one in the middle of your forehead validates the NSA's face recognition system. If you tamper with either one of these, you cannot buy or sell and you instantly become a non-person. I doubt you'll have any problems though. You seem like one of those types who instinctively goes along with the program. Read Franz Kafka's "The Trial" to get a better grasp of the concept.
@ohiostatefan1978 @seeClearly TRUE but you vastly overestimate sports writers abilities. They are at most cheerleaders and write in cliches creating "puff" pieces for whatever sport they are covering. They are not used to covering actual news events. Your observation while correct and astute is like pearls before ----well you know.
@John64 At least he didn't call you Nancy Grace :-O


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Finally, ensuring application performance and uptime translates into a heavy personal load on IT staff who must be available to provide support after hours and on holidays.
A performance monitoring solution for an in-house production environment that runs 24x7x365 can easily cost $500,000 up-front, before anyone works an hour. A consulting firm or systems integrator could create an application hosting and monitoring environment for a several million-dollar consulting fee for a six-month-plus engagement, plus licensing costs of around $250,000.
To provide a cost-effective alternative, Rackspace worked with CA Technologies to offer Rackspace Critical Application Services. IT operations improve when Rackspace webscale engineers augment inhouse IT staff, freeing them to perform tasks that contribute to innovation and top-line growth.
Critical Application Services provides a 100% production platform uptime guarantee on approved high-availability environments, something very few IT departments, let alone hosting providers, can offer. (The production platform uptime guarantee supplements Rackspace's traditional 100% network uptime guarantee.) Using monitoring tools from CA Technologies, Rackspace's experienced webscale engineers monitor and manage all layers of the stack, including applications, operating systems, servers, and networking. This experience is enveloped within Fanatical Support: employees devote themselves to ensuring an excellent customer experience, are intimately conversant with their customers' environments, and directly answer phone calls from clients.
Rackspace Critical Application Services saves time, money, and personnel effort for IT departments striving to support high-performance applications. IT departments are viewed as cost centers, yet are always being asked to do more. Saddled with maintaining, configuring, and patching existing IT assets, IT is also being asked to help the business launch tomorrow's cloud, social, and mobile apps, often with yesterday's budget and staff. When experienced staff leaves, they aren't always replaced, and their experience and knowledge walk out with them. Fewer resources mean heavier workloads, less time, and lower levels of staff experience. Under pressure to do more with less, IT struggles with managing multiple vendor environments, including a near-constant barrage of patches, upgrades, and requests to provision resources while juggling business requests to launch new applications and services.
For example, the CA Technologies suite of applications help Rackspace identify any application component that causes trouble-even those that are not owned by Rackspace or the customer. That means IT spends less time putting out fires and more time working on innovations that drive the business forward. Rather than license CA Technologies or a similar platform and attempt to deploy their applications on their own hardware, with all the maintenance and support time that implies, enterprise customers can simply deploy the support, managed hosting environment, and monitoring service as a complete package, letting Rackspace become an extension of the IT team-the part devoted to "keeping the lights on" and reducing IT stress. Rackspace can take the call at 2AM when there's a problem with your high-end production environment instead of someone on your staff. Ray Velez, Global CTO of Razorfish said, "Rackspace isn't just another one of our vendors; they are partners and an extension of our team. They treat our clients' needs as a top priority, and move at an agency's pace. The countless hours they spend helping us architect the right solutions, and their desire to help us work more efficiently is just a small part of their first-class Fanatical Support."
Rackspace Critical Application Services offers a dedicated team of webscale engineers, application and infrastructure performance monitoring, and ongoing optimization and guidance on deployments. Their approach to application and infrastructure monitoring is threefold:
The Rackspace Critical Application Services team has been building high-availability managed hosting solutions with CA Technologies for several years and has developed high-performance reference architectures that can support a wide array of applications and infrastructures, both dedicated and hybrid, on-premise and in the cloud. Rackspace Critical Application Services also includes support for particularly challenging platforms that require multiple instances or extensive configuration. Figure 1 shows how Rackspace Critical Application Services provides end-to-end visibility.
While it's certainly possible to assemble a toolset from scratch, it's not likely to be cheaper or faster than doing so through Critical Application Services. Very few enterprises have CA Technologies' ability to support both network-aware application management and application-aware network management-which together offer a complete understanding of how application demands affect the performance of the network and different network configurations affect applications.
CA Technologies is deployed in ten of the largest banks in the US, with good reason. The company is known for its patented, model-based root cause analysis library, with more than 10,000 pre-defined issue models. These models are built into each component of the CA Technologies suite, and Rackspace's webscale engineers are trained to use them. This can substantially reduce mean time to repair-whatever the problem is, Rackspace webscale engineers have probably seen it before.
Rackspace chose the CA Technologies suite for two reasons:
Because the CA Technologies suite is comprehensive, it is also complex and difficult to implement on your own, requiring multiple admins in addition to software licensing costs and ongoing maintenance. Use of the CA Technologies suite is built into the Critical Application Services offer, which costs roughly the equivalent of one full-time employee per year.3
The following components of the CA Technologies suite are built into the Rackspace Critical Application Services offer:
The Rackspace Critical Application Services team devotes itself entirely to fully understanding customers' performance requirements, application environment needs, and dependencies and builds out an appropriate plan to monitor and optimize performance efficiently. As a result, the IT professional can focus on his customers, not his infrastructure.
The experience of the Rackspace team, in not only the CA Technologies platform, but all platforms used in the stack, means enterprise IT can be relieved of staying on top of the latest solutions, patches, and upgrades. Rackspace's experienced team and proven technologies have been validated by the industry. With more than 190,000 customers and $1 billion in annual revenue, Rackspace ranks as the leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for managed hosting providers, for the sixth year in a row. With 190,000 customers, the Rackspace webscale engineers have seen almost any kind of problem you can imagine and know how to resolve it.
As a proactive complement to IT departments, Rackspace Critical Application Services can offer the agility required of "startup" projects, with the visibility and control offered by CA Technologies, predicting peak loads as much as three weeks in advance.
With enterprise-class CA Technologies application and network performance monitoring, customers can take advantage of this combination of support, expertise, and tools, maintaining critical applications for less than the cost of acquiring the application and network performance monitoring tools on their own. Instead of having a shared IT service environment, the business gets a dedicated team focused on key production environments. Instead of finger pointing and delays in resolving a complex, multi-platform, multi-vendor issue, there is one number to call, even at 2AM, and there is always someone at Rackspace who knows the details of the specific deployment on the other end of the line.
In addition to saving money, IT saves time. Critical Application Services has the visibility to precisely pinpoint problems, letting the remediation, whether a different SQL statement or replacement of a lagging server, be handled as quickly as possible. Instead of trying to take on everything with limited resources, IT can refocus high-value personnel on key projects to drive the business forward and avoid having developers troubleshooting infrastructure.
The fact is that for the most part, IT is constantly forced to stay in the present, keeping everything running. With expertise from Rackspace Critical Application Services, IT can turn to the future and work on strategic efforts and innovative new projects. (Several Critical Application Services clients have found that they now have time to build the mobile applications everyone has been asking for.) IT can focus on analysis and providing recommendations to the business, rather than simply monitoring and collecting data. They get access to experienced webscale engineers who speak their language and have expertise in the tools they use. In essence, outsourcing performance monitoring of critical applications allows IT professionals to sleep at night-for many, it could be the first good night's sleep in a long while.
Business users, partners, and consumers expect instant gratification from their online applications, and the pressure is on IT to provide it. Charged with cutting costs, adding new skills, testing and configuring new products, and monitoring and maintaining the technologies they already have, IT departments are stressed.
CITO Research has determined that Rackspace's Critical Application Services offers a credible and compelling solution by transferring the most laborious and complex tasks of IT to a monthly service. Rackspace Critical Application Services combines a high level of support and expertise, including a 100% production platform uptime guarantee, with experienced webscale engineers and best-in-class monitoring technology that is normally out of reach for all but the largest enterprises. With solutions such as this in place, IT departments can return to designing and delivering innovative projects that create top-line value for the business and looking to the future, planning strategic initiatives. As Vashdev Vangani, Department Manager of Information Technology at Mazda North American Operations said, "The Critical Application Service team is a huge value-add to my business. Before, we had to react; now, we can proactively scale for future demand."
Aided by the expertise of two Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders, IT organizations can get affordable help in keeping critical revenue producing applications online and running at peak performance.
1 http://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/the-future-of-enterprise-it-30-executives-share-their-2013-predictions-0365559#ogMQ2uUKTzscK0j4.99
2 Ronni J. Colville and George Spafford, "Configuration Management for Virtual and Cloud Infrastructures," Gartner, http://www.rbiassets.com/getfile.ashx/42112626510
3 Ted Chamberlin and Lydia Leong, "Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting," Gartner, March 5, 2012, http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-19K9FPH&ct=120305&st=sb
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Hello. I buy hundreds of products on line every year and I've never felt truly compelled to write a review, no matter how much I love the product. These shoes, however, more than deserve the effort on my part. They are without question the best fitting shoe I've ever had the pleasure of wearing. I have hard-to-fit feet - fallen arch on my right foot and other issues - and have found that I do best with barefoot shoes in general. Unfortunately, 5 Fingers and other shoes such as that are not really that great on rocky hiking trails. These amazing Proterra Sport shoes are quite the opposite. They allow for some cushioning and I haven't had a blister once! Not once! This is amazing for me as I typically hike with my feet protected and covered in Mole Skin. :) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE never stop making this shoe. I absolutely adore them and have my husband hooked on the men's version now, too. Thanks again for making such great products.
Thank you so much for taking the time to sharing your great experience and write this review on these fantastic mulit-sport shoes. It really shows you enjoy them, since you have gotten your husband to wear them too! Keep up the great work and get out there on the trails!
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I'm an active, athletic early thirty-something and picked up these shoes after a great experience with my Siren Sports that have treated me well for 5 years and are still going. These light hikers are perfect for my frequent day hikes and for everyday use around town. They cradle the foot nicely without being bulky at all. Love the lightweight nature and breathability. Fantastic shoe and will absolutely recommend to friends!
Thank you for getting outside and bringing your Proterra Vim Sport's with you! We are so thrilled to hear how much you love them and are going to spread the word to others about this great light hiker.
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This was my second pair of barefoot style shoes. (I purchased a barefoot sandal last year...YOU DON'T CARRY THEM ANYMORE...WHY? H E L P !!!.) I will stay with the barefoot style for my walking shoes. I average a 2.5 mile walk with my doggie, daily, and through all my years of wearing Merrell, nothing is as comfortable walking over varied terrain. The way this shoe molds to the foot and keeps a body stable is amazing. (I was fortunate to order during the time the free hat was part of the sale. I LOVE that hat, too! I own the pink.) I'd like to see barefoot styles that offer a bit of wool for use during the winter months. (Where can I go to find the barefoot sandal you offered last year? It's grey, raspberry and grape. I'm size 8. Are you hiding a pair in the back closet? I'll buy them. I think they also came in a yellow. I'll take whatever I can get. Remember, Size 8. Call me. Write me. Send the carrier pidgeon. Just get me some, PLEASE?) ;)
We are so glad you got these great light hiking shoe. Thank you for this fantastic review! Even though they feel similar to a Barefoot style, they are not a true Barefoot because they do have a slight heel to toe drop in them. The Barefoot sandal you may be talking about is possible the Life Cherish Wrap, for the time being is still available on our site!
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Walking my doggie and running 'barefoot' through life.