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|January 20, 2014 12:30 PM EST
There is a question we need to ask. It is a question which might end up annoying some people in the Cloud industry, however, it is one which we need to ask. Was the Cloud designed to be this way? This is to say, was the Cloud designed as terminology meant to distract everyday consumers from what really goes on in the world of data centers? Was the Cloud designed as a distraction?
Cloud Education
For the past two years, we have dedicated this space to one thing above the rest: explaining, highlighting and educating consumers on how the Cloud works and more importantly, how Cloud solutions can work for you. We have done this because here at Solar VPS, we firmly believe the more you know about how the Cloud works and how Cloud services can positively impact your business, the more prone you will be to investing in said Cloud services. And yet, on another level, we have dedicated this space to explaining Cloud and IT concepts because we know, just as other providers know, the more the public understands about the Cloud, the more the public will demand better IT solutions from providers. The more you know, the more you push for higher level services.
This stated, we have something to admit. For all the effort we have put into educating our readers and consumers concerning Cloud services, we have the feeling that we have failed. For all the information we have presented and created, we have the feeling that the marketing effort behind the Cloud was never meant to be educational. We have the feeling, the marketing behind the Cloud, for the most part, has been designed to mislead the consumer. Much like the first rule of magic, the marketing behind the Cloud has been nothing more than a purposeful distraction designed to make the viewer look one way to mask the truth. All said, the marketing behind the Cloud has been everything but simple.
Is the Cloud Battle Over?
Published on January 15, 2014 in InformationWeek, Reuven Cohen hits on this very subject.
"There's been a renewed debate recently over the various layers of Cloud Computing stacks. At stake is a fight for Cloud Computing market share and mind share — and possibly, the future of Cloud platforms."
"Beyond a small group of technologists, Cloud Computing remains largely a mystery for most people. Ironically, I believe that's the point of the Cloud: To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures."
That sentiment bears repeating: "Beyond a small group of technologists, Cloud Computing remains largely a mystery for most people. Ironically, I believe that's the point of the Cloud: To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures." To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures. Another way of saying this: the Cloud is meant to distract the public from an IT world which:
- They know nothing about
- Have no interest in knowing anything about
For most IT consumers and businesses, the Cloud acts as a general term meaning everything and nothing. All the polling suggests that the public has no idea what the Cloud is beyond a buzzword which now floats about the marketplace. For the public, due to the efforts of grid computing solutions, the term Cloud has stuck yet it means nothing. Cloud is amorphous. Everything and nothing. The term provides talking points without ever having to explain anything. The term provides for cost of service without ever having to explain how those revenues actual work.
On it's head, this point seems obvious. While Solar VPS might charge $5 per month for a Cloud Linux Server with .5GB RAM, 20GB Disk, 1 CPU Cores and 2TB Bandwidth running Fedora or CentOS, another provider might charge $15 per month. You might call this an issue to take up with the free market and yet, you could also make the case the price is not set by the free market but by the provider who is looking to make the most profit from a resource bank which he/she knows could be sold at a cheaper rate to the consumer. However you want to view it, the issue comes down to the confusion created by the term Cloud. People know what it is yet they have no idea what it means.
This isn't good and it needs to change.
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Four openly gay Michigan canidates visited the Victory Fund in Washington, D.C. last week. From left Attorney Rudy Serra running for the District 27 for Michigan State House, Jon Hoadley, a gay Democratic activist and candidate to represent District 60 in the Michigan State House, Jeremy Moss, a Southfield City Council member whos running to represent District 35 in the Michigan State House, and Garnet Lewis, a board member for Northern Michigan University and candidate to represent District 32 in the Michigan State Senate. Photo courtesy of The Victory Fund.
Four Seek To Bring LGBT Representation To Michigan
By Chris Johnson
Originally printed 6/5/2014 (Issue 2223 - Between The Lines News)
Reprinted courtesy of the Washington Blade
WASHINGTON DC - Michigan currently has no LGBT representation in its state legislature, but a quartet of gay candidates running for office is seeking to change that in the upcoming election.
The four out candidates running for seats in both the State House and Senate say their election would help enact pro-LGBT laws in a state that lacks any substantive protections for LGBT residents.
Rudy Serra, who served as a district judge in Michigan and is running to represent District 27 in the State House, said it'll take openly gay legislators like himself to advance non-discrimination protections - in addition to getting rid of bad laws.
"It's my understanding that there has never been a state that has added sexual orientation to its civil rights statute without at least one openly LGBT person in the legislature - ever," Serra said. "To the extent that that's true, Michigan still has a sodomy felony. We still have a gross indecent felony. We have all kinds of laws that were declared unconstitutional. We know they're obsolete, and the folks in the legislature still won't repeal them."
The four candidates spoke to the Washington Blade during a roundtable May 29 at the offices of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which has endorsed each of the contenders.
In addition to Serra, the other openly gay candidates running for office are Jon Hoadley, a gay Democratic activist and candidate to represent District 60 in the Michigan State House, Garnet Lewis, a board member for Northern Michigan University and candidate to represent District 32 in the Michigan State Senate and Jeremy Moss, a Southfield City Council member who's running to represent District 35 in the Michigan State House.
If even one of the candidates were elected, it would bring LGBT representation to the Michigan Legislature for the first time in seven years since former Rep. Chris Kolb was term-limited out of office.
On the agenda for the candidates is amending the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976, which prohibits discrimination based on employment, housing and public accommodations in Michigan, so that it includes protections for LGBT people.
Hoadley, former head of the now-defunct National Stonewall Democrats, said adding the voices of LGBT people to the legislation would be key in efforts to change the law.
"Folks, I think, have been really smart over the last few years at building a base of support in the faith community, at building the support at the local level, at having allies working with LGBT folks to tell stories about ordinances," Hoadley said. "Having LGBT folks in the legislature could be the final asset actually to get over the finish line."
Hoadley led efforts in 2009 to legalize at the ballot a LGBT non-discrimination ordinance in the City of Kalamazoo. Since that time, an additional 16 municipalities have added similar protections, making for a total of 33 in the state and extending protections to more than 368,000 people, he said.
Just this week, efforts to amend Elliott-Larsen to include LGBT people got a boost when Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder encouraged the state legislature to take up such a proposal before the year's end.
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Still, Snyder assumes this new position as he and Attorney General Bill Schuette continue to defend Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage in court. They appealed a court decision that briefly granted marriage equality in Michigan to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and won't grant benefits to the more than 300 same-sex couples who wed in the state, even though the state recognizes them as legally married.
For Lewis, the administration's continued defense of the marriage law demonstrates that Snyder and Schuette are out of touch with Michigan and acting out of concern of the far right.
"It's really a moot point, in my opinion," Lewis said. "It's ridiculous for them to be wasting their time and energy to be appealing this. I strongly believe, and I know that we have the data to show, the majority of the folks in Michigan are supporting marriage equality now, so I see it as this kind of this nagging fear that some of these folks on the right have."
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"The only protections that the LGBT community does have because it's not enshrined in the constitution has been through collective bargaining," Moss said. "So we've been seeing a really growing coalition between the LGBT community and labor, which obviously has a huge historic significance in Michigan in building the middle class. It's important to know that labor has partners in us, and vice-versa."
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"For the generation that is as large as Baby Boomers, and will be the largest element of the consumer economy in 2015, being anti-gay just isn't cool," Hoadley said. "There are real consequences. People pay attention to that. For politicians staying on the wrong side of equality, there will be consequences to pay for that at the ballot box."
Chris Johnson is Chief Political & White House Reporter for the Washington Blade. Johnson attends the daily White House press briefings and is a member of the White House Correspondents' Association.
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To keep abreast of the news, Makagiga includes an integrated RSS reader. In the drop-down list, right-click and select Delete to remove the pre-installed feeds. Then select File | Import | Import Feed List to import an existing list of RSS feeds into the program. Here you can select Edit | Preferences and then use the slider in the Feeds tab to set the Keep for date for the content and automatically remove obsolete articles that are, say, more than a day old. Unfortunately, this feature did not work in our lab.
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Because I don't have enough space to look at all the other features in depth, a quick overview will have to suffice. Tools | Plugins lets you add more functions to your version of Makagiga by downloading plugins off the Internet [2]. For example, one extension adds YouTube searching to the search field. Clicking Get More Plugins at the bottom of the window takes you to a list of extensions available off the Internet and lets you point and click to set them up. Other tools in the same menu are Delete private data, which lets you delete your cookies and logfiles, and Backup, which lets you create an archive of any files and folders you have created previously. Then you could burn the results to a DVD for safekeeping, for example.
Makagiga includes its own miniature software universe and is well worth investigating. The software is not just for Linux fans that need to organize their lives or for lateral thinkers, it is also useful for newcomers and anybody involved in a learning process.
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Let's talk about understanding how to forecast your cash flow. Working with your accounting and finance people, you need to create a forecast that contemplates:
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"If you're not doing it, your competition is, and you're going to be left in the dust." When someone tells you that, you'd better sit up and take notes.
That was among the parting bits of advice from Colleen Wright, an expert in SEO and owner of the Search Engine Academy of Oregon. About 30 people – mostly self-employed – settled into the air-conditioned comfort of the MacForce training center in southeast Portland this week for a workshop with Wright. The issue at hand: How to effectively use SEO for your website to market your business.
While the workshop was free, implementing SEO methods into a website operation usually isn't. Yet Wright said that people are still increasing their budgets for SEO, according to research from Forrester, and about 73% of merchants are making optimization a top priority.
Wright covered many of the basics of effectively using SEO, and for someone as unversed as I am in the technicalities of the web, learning the amount of content that needs to be considered was eye opening. On-page factors (e.g. domain names, page names, title tags) need to be meticulously crafted in order to get your website ranked higher in search results; meanwhile, other off-page factors (e.g. getting your site linked from authority sites, online press releases and directories) play a big role in making your site look popular.
The biggest SEO pitfall? Wright said she constantly sees people duplicating title tags (the name of a page which appears at the top of the browser and as a link in search results) on every page of their website. Title tags can make or break you depending on how you use them, so don't be lazy. "I always tell people that if you're not going to do anything else, make sure you have unique title tags that describe the page on every single page," Wright said. "It's like your advertisement in search engine results." Particularly if you're a small business, sites like Search Engine Guide are a great resource for learning about other SEO do's and don'ts.
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"No Shearheads would be to kind Kayle, and torture is not meant for him either least not now..."
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I turn to the older medic.
"Yes but be careful. If a detonator egg happens to come out as well let me know asap."
I turn back to the man.
"Yes Kayle that is possible. Maybe one of Shadow's tools back at base would suit him really well..." My voice trails off as I ponder the various items and creature that were kept at the base.
Ginei suggests something over the comm. {Perhaps objectification serum? Since he has such a loathing for Dani the ideal punishment would be to make him into something she's never without.}
The medic nods, and gets to work.
The young man looks back between Kayle and Flint.
{Ah yes thank you Ginei. I had forgotten the serums. Do we happen to have any of that on hand?}
"Yes Kayle that hasn't changed one bit. I still avoid that section myself after my one encounter there. But that might not be punishment to him, and it wouldn't be fair to the ladies either."
I glare at the young medic.
"What was that for? You would like going to maintenance level on Poltergeist wouldn't you. Just imaging all the women there that are genetically modified for strength speed and psionics. Some are even all three and more." I cackle as I describe them knowing that it would probably turn him off to the idea.
"Nah as amusing as that might be its just rather funny than anything else."
{Maybe, Hopefully she will be back on her feet again soon. I'd like to get the wedding done and head home. I have several things that I need to do and I haven't even really started this job as Regent.}
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Kreis walked back over to my sleeping body and scooped me out of the spring and laying me down next to the fire, dropping out of my pocket was a psi knife. "What...is this?" Picking it up he figured out that it was a knife that you could run energy through. "To..small for me, but maybe I could help her training after recovery?"
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I have unconfirmed family records indicating her father was Jonathan WIEKE, mother unknown.
On the 1860 and 1870 US Census, there are several families with the surnames WIKE and WYKE in Blair County. These listings include three women of the right age to be Margaret's mother:
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Green Bay --- Soon, the Green Bay Packers will welcome back someone with 55 interceptions, 11 fumble recoveries and 12 touchdowns in 206 games of experience.
Good news for a defense that hasn't forced turnovers at the rate of seasons past. On Monday, coach Mike McCarthy indicated that Charles Woodson would likely return next week --- possibly sooner. Woodson has been out six weeks with a broken collarbone.
"Charles is probably, I would think maybe next week would be my guess there," McCarthy said. "If you ask Charles, he's probably pushing to play this week. There's some more testing that you have to do to make sure he's cleared. He has not been cleared yet."
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The Packers are really smart on how they deal with injuries. How many times have you seen a guy come back early from a knee and hurt an ankle or from a hammy and hurt a knee. Anyone remember Holmgren rushing Levens back and overworking him only to lose him for the rest of the year.
Charles Woodson needs to stay out. The defense is better without him at the moment. He's slow (about to be even slower coming off the injury) and aged out. He's a liability in coverage and our young guys have played great in his absence. I am sure I'm alone here, but I would rather he stayed injured for the rest of the season. Either that or play permanently at safety.Hide replies
You are not only alone, you should be quarantined.
there is no way the packers D is better without woodson than with him.
You can count on about 2 extra defensive holdings and 1 pass interference in each game with him back. He's not a cover corner anymore, and he shouldn't be playing a primary role.
Here is how the defense is better for Woodson having been out.
When it really matters in the Playoffs, Woodson will be fresh and The young guys will have the confidence from their regular season experience. Players make plays, and Wood is still a player. Not saying Hayward's is not a player, or anyone else, but Wood doesn't alligator arm the way the rest of the d-backs did on AP.
Can't wait to see this guy come back and seal wins for the Pack as he always has.
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We had very high expectations about the lodge based on all of the previous reviews and I have to say all of the positive reviews were right on. The house is exceptional in every detail. Outstanding and quite location, highest quality furnishings, 3 awesome gas fired wood fireplaces, fantastic outdoor hot tub, chef's quality kitchen, water views and two eagles !! The home was clean and very well maintained. We spent two nights here with our son and his fiancé and then two more nights at the Fairmont Olympia in Seattle and honestly, I enjoyed the Soaring Eagle so much more! Mary was easy to work with and we only saw the onsite caretaker when we first arrived and when we left. The first night we picked up steaks in Oak Harbor and cooked out on the patio. Day two, we took the ferry over to Port Townsend where there are many fun places to eat and drink. We did not spend much time in Oak Harbor. The lodge is perfect for family gatherings and I wouldn't hesitate to visit again. Thank you Mary, Tim M


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In the world of opera it's now the director who is the top banana.
On November 22, 2014, Los Angeles Opera staged Francesca Zambello's updated version of Florencia in el Amazonas.
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Any Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau performance is superb, but this Wigmore Hall recital surprised, too. Boesch's Schubert is wonderful, but this time, it was his Liszt and Strauss songs which stood out. This year at the Wigmore Hall, we've heard a lot of Liszt and a lot of Richard Strauss everywhere, establishing high standards, but this was special.
In the world of opera it's now the director who is the top banana.
He moves Figaro into Trump Towers and has Giovanni — light headed after two centuries of champagne — shoot up on cocaine in the South Bronx. Caesar courts Cleopatra — or is it the other way around? — poolside at the Cairo Hilton. Elixir — cross bred with The Music Man — plays at the Iowa State fair. It's fun now and then, but in the long run it's opera that suffers from this mayhem and madness. And thus in the midst of all this it's reassuring to know that there is an opera company where it's still the composer who comes first: the Sarasota Opera that just wound up its 50th anniversary season on the Florida coast.
"Our mission is to produce outstanding opera true to the vision of the composer," says Victor DeRenzi, SO artistic director for half its history. "Here each production is based on one approach: the view of the work that comes from the composer." The result is opera as envisioned by those who created it; no one else gets in the way.
Suzel : Catherine Cangiano
Those who have never attended one of the 500 performances that DeRenzi has conducted in Sarasota might find this the conservative credo of a man who looks back in history. But those who know the perfection and excitement of every opera staged at the SO relish the authenticity — and respect — that DeRenzi brings to SO productions.
In Sarasota it's Verdi's Verdi and Puccini's Puccini that is on stage — not a flight of the imagination imposed upon their work by the Wunderkinder of Regieoper — director's opera, the European import that currently prevails elsewhere. The major triumph of the 2009 season that ran for eight late-winter weeks in the intimate SO house that was handsomely rebuilt a year ago was Verdi's Don Carlo. With it DeRenzi as conductor again confirmed his stature as a leading interpreter of this composer.
Don Carlo isn't merely Verdi at his best, it is also the best of his operas based on a drama by Germany's Friedrich Schiller. Here the Italian patriot underscores the parallels between the struggle for freedom in Inquisition-ridden Spain and the Italy of his own day.Eboli : Stella Zambalis; Don Carlos : Gustavo López Manzitti; Rodrigue : Marco Nisticò
Kevin Short was a deeply human Philippe II, unable to assert himself against the intolerance of a church chillingly represented by Jeffrey Tucker as the Grand Inquisitor. Panamanian Reyna Carguill was a full-blooded Elizabeth, beautifully balanced by the searing mezzo of Stella Zambalis as Eboli. And as Rodrigue Marco Nistico` was the very fiber from which revolutionaries are made.Elisabeth : Reyna Carguill; Don Carlos : Gustavo López Manzitti; Philippe : Kevin Short; Grand Inquisitor : Jeffrey Tucker
It was only Argentina's Gustavo López Manzitti who in the title role failed to reach the level of passion of his colleagues. Stephanie Sundine directed this first North-American production of the four-act French version of the opera. Sets were by David P. Gordon, and Howard Tsvi Kaplan was responsible for lavish costumes that enhanced the realism of Verdi's 16th-century Spaniards. Indeed, Kaplan who created costumes for all four operas of the SO season is a major asset of the company.
Each season Sarasota revives a work that has disappeared from the repertory, and the reaction to the first act of L'Amico Fritz, the 2009 "masterpiece," was that works residing in oblivion are perhaps right where they belong. By the second act Mascagni's 1891 score dispelled such doubts as vintage verismo warmed the heart. Swiss tenor Benjamin Warschawski and American soprano Catherine Cangiano were a winning lovers, while Heather Johnson earned high marks in the trouser role of Beppe. And although a rabbi seemed somewhat out of place in late 19th-century Alsace baritone Michael Corvino made him a winning figure. David Neely conducted; Michael Unger was stage director. Sets were by Michael Schweikardt.Suzel : Catherine Cangiano; Beppe : Heather Johnson; Fritz Kobus : Benjamin Warschawski; David : Michael Corvino
The popularity of Donizetti's Elixir of Love easily leads to overplayed and exaggerated stagings. Happily, however, director Martha Collins kept everything under careful control to make the SO production unusually engaging. She was helped by an ideal cast led by youthful Mexico's Edgar Ernesto Ramirez, a tenor who might well have the makings of a future Pavarotti.Adina : Mara Bonde; Nemorino : Edgar Ernesto Ramirez; Giannetta : Jo Ellen Miller
Michael Redding obviously relished the lover-boy image of soldier Belcore, and Stephen Eisenhard was a delight as an understated snake-oil salesman Dulcamara. As Adina Mara Bonde was all sugar and spice. John Mario Di Constanza conducted. Roger Hanna signed for sets.
Floria Tosca : Kara Shay Thomson
One would search far today to find a better trio of singers than the three brought to Sarasota for Tosca, which opened the season on February 7. In her SO debut Kara Shay Thomson was a Floria Tosca even younger than the years of the established singer that Puccini's heroine is. She sang the famous "Vissi d'arte" with tender and internalized emotion.
Rafael Dávila, a splendid Cavaradossi, is a native of Puerto Rico and yet another of the richly talented tenors now coming from Latin countries. Yet it was the Scarpia of Grant Youngblood that brought new dimensions to this staging. Long a signature role of the American baritone, Youngblood downplays the tyrant that Scarpia is to make the appeal of Tosca to him far more than a passing sexual fantasy. DeRenzi conducted; Sundine was the director.Floria Tosca : Kara Shay Thomson; Mario Cavaradossi : Rafael Dávila
Of special interest was the March 20 performance of opera choruses by the Sarasota Youth Opera, an ensemble open to kids from the third grade up. The thoroughly professional conduct of these 75 singers was as amazing as it was impressive. Lance Inouye, their major mentor, conducted the full SO orchestra for the event. This is the only such opera program in the United States.
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