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After a rather roller-coaster end of 2012, 2013 is ramping up to be a another year of changes, activity and keeping an even keel. It must look like I have no control in life, but truthfully it isn't just me -- I live with (and love) an adventurer who thrives on adding frenetic activity to everyday life as a means of feeling alive and productive. The only problem is, we end up with 15 projects all needing to be done NOW. So since hubby's work layoff in December he has decided to finish his master's degree, take on some handyman construction jobs, remodel/fix up our house for sale so we can remodel/fix up the house across the street. We are downsizing and trying to get in a better financial position and it will be a good move, but it's going to be alot of work and take ALOT of patience -- on my part.
After 27 moves and numerous remodels over 37 years of marriage, I am indeed a veteran of transition. But the house we are currently in has been home for 10 years and we have NEVER -- let me repeat that -- NEVER been in a place longer than 3.3 years. After moving so much, it is easy to understand why I have wanted to do a major purge lately and this move across the street will help do that, but I thought we had more time. But no, remember I live with the "adventurer" that likes adrenaline pushes and this man is currently without employment, so he sees every little task and project as a work deadline needing to be met. Currently, I have two bathrooms in total disarray, a kitchen full of boxes of items to sell and various boxes around the house full of things to go in storage. Then he says excitedly, "Oh yea, the family next door might be interested in our house and want to view it Saturday." So now it has to be show ready real quick :) What a man!
On top of the in-home dynamics, we leave for some work in Asia for nearly 3 weeks in 5 days. It might be a nice change of pace, but getting ready for that trip is being done in bits and pieces in corners of the house without dust. But yesterday before I left work when I stepped over a pile of construction debris in the hall, I let it all get to me and lost it. "Why do we have to try and do 15 things at once -- remodel, plan a trip, work, pack, move, have people over for dinner, show the house -- why can't we just work on one thing at a time?" I ranted at my poor hard-working husband. In my mind, I had just come off a very stressful time and now we were arranging life to be just as stressful and complicated. Self-pity's cape had turned me into a super-horror (not hero) that threatened to hurt and harm my poor well-meaning husband.
I tell you all this for two reasons:
1) Learning to run again - I made a commitment earlier this year to run a 5K once a week and time it. This was an effort to practice running without walking. I have become so used to taking walk breaks when I run that I think I have forgotten how it feels to run continuously. I also made the committment to run a 10K twice a month. This morning I did the 10K for the first time. IT WAS HARD! But it was a start. So I am learning and training to run again.
2) Training to run again is alot like training for life - As I was running my 10K this morning, I thought about how much I push myself to learn to do things better. Then I thought of hubby, trying to find meaning, purpose, fulfillment and continuing to better our life as he pushes to earn a little money, finish school, put labor into our house so we can get the most out of it, all so we can have a nicer living space across the street. Yes, it is going to be uncomfortable and a bit crazy as we attempt to store our stuff and pick a few things so we can live simply during the remodel. Yes, there will be days when I won't like it, when endurance and stamina run thin, and I want to give up. But really, doing another move and remodel isn't all that different than my training for a marathon. And both of these are very much like learning to live life well.
So this morning, I did a little "life training" like my 10K run - I leaned over to hubby as I headed out the door and thanked him for all he was doing. As I tried not to see the clutter near the remodeling going on in the bathroom (IT WAS HARD!) I kissed hubby and headed out the door. It was a start and I couldn't help think that I wouldn't be as productive as he is if I had just lost my job!
Just some random thoughts as I struggle through the early months of this year.
Oh and I found out yesterday that my cholesterol is not borderline high anymore -- it is high. I have to retest in 3 months and if it isn't down then it's time to medicate the problem. Not so excited about that. If I needed motivation to do all the things I know I SHOULD do, including lose weight, I now I have it.
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Life gets in our way, doesn't it! Oh, well.
I loved your post. Not the part about your stresses and challenges, but the part I read into that we all do what we have to do, yell once in awhile, and then march forward. What else can we do?
And your part about the cholesterol sounds just like me. Except I didn't go back in three months for a recheck - it was right before Christmas and I just didn't want to be annoyed with a dismal outcome. But now I read about you, and I think maybe I really should go back. In thinking about this just now, I think that if I give myself another 3 months, I will have it rechecked then. I have been remotivated to live more healthily, i.e., eat well, eat light and exercise daily. If that doesn't work, then I guess I need to go the medication route.
Good luck with the showing this weekend. We are having an Open House today, and I have a strange feeling that maybe we'll get it under contract this weekend. Probably only wishful thinking, but I can dream, right?
Let us know how things are going before you head off on your big trip.
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What a great blog! I would be a crazy lady! I love the patience that you are choosing to have with your hubby. You are definitely an inspiration, I seek to choose better ways to react in my relationships too.
Running is such a lesson in all areas of our lives. Thank you!
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Oh WOW! You do continue to have a lot of stress in your life. I can understand about your husband. When my husband was laid off two years ago it was really important to him to get up at the same time in the morning as he did when he was working. He would then work around the house or run errands for us so that he would stay busy. Fortunately we didn't have a reason to remodel since we built our house just 9 years ago. Yes, he was very down about losing his job but staying busy really helped him.
That is great that you are running again and have a goal to work towards. I really hope it helps with the cholesterol.
I hope you have a good working trip to Asia.
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WoW! That is a mouthful. Stress with just a bit of life in between.
I sure like how you turned in around in to 'life training' though. When my DH was laid off last summer, he became extremely depressed. Nothing got done around the house. It was very difficult to understand his pouting, etc when all I wanted to do was yell at him for being lazy. I'm not sure whether that or what your husband has been putting you through is worse. Guess both ends of the spectrum are bittersweet.
I'm glad you are running again. That will help you balance your stress level a bit and also help with the cholesterol.
You are in my prayers Annette, as always but I'll throw a special request in there for a bit more peaceful existance while you navigate all this stuff.
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My dad used to sing this to me almost every night when was I was little. He sang many different songs every night but he always made sure to include this one. It's been years since he's sang to me at night and I haven't listened to it almost at all since then. However, I still remembered it's comforting melody and it's wonderful lyrics of the first verse and chorus. I'll never forget it!
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I have loved this long since I was a teenager. I sang it to each of my three children when they were babies. Last night I comforted a friend with it. Spectacular.
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Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) certainly has a way with words. The witty bloodsucker manages to drop bon mots no matter the situation. Check out the charming and churlish things that came out of his mouth inThe Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 21 "She's Come Undone"
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Damon, to Elena: Relax, I just want to show you all of the things you've been missing since you jumped over the cuckoo's nest.
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Elena, to Stefan: Kind of funny, actually. You being the one to pull back the curtain? I bet part of you enjoys it. Since � you know � I dumped you and all.
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With the Las Vegas rounds (thankfully!) looming, there were several great performers on America's Got Talent last night, as the show saved them in hopes they' be fresh in our minds....
The Contenders
Fatally Unique - The team was well coordinated in the beginning, but I liked how they tried to have boxes to break out of. The members hit really hard and they were very similar to the crew Live in Color from America's Best Dance Crew. Hopefully, they could afford something better than cardboard boxes that fall over for the Vegas rounds.
The Fearless Flores Family - Ten generations of performers? That's sick. Having an eight-year-old doing the performance added both the cute and fear factors. That takes some courage for the parents to watch their children in a ball of death and say there was only "some" danger in the routine. I'm not sure if I'd want to see more than 10 minutes of the routine, but they deserve a shot.
The Dark Horses
Ian Jonathan - The Yo-yo specialist was good but I have no clue where the next level would be. I'd hope he decides to go with black light and neon.
Tricky Jackson - It was almost like watching a really buff robot. Again, after the cape reveal, Tricky has nowhere to go with his routine.
Taylor Davis - Taylor had a great tone to his voice, but since we know nothing about his backstory, I fear his elimination in Vegas is inevitable.
Mike Stone and the Kritikal Band - There was something really sleepy with the performance of "Day-O" but the group did have a strong group dynamic. I hope they choose a song that has more pow from the gate. They looked like they were performing in the previews for Vegas, so I hope they dazzle the second time around.
Fantastic Fig and Newton the Cat - The Psychic Magician/Former Attorney had strong quips and amazing card tricks. Then he started dancing with the women. The cat was scared for his life the whole time. The cards by themselves were too small-scale for Vegas, but I'm hoping he figures out how to be good and funny at the same time.
The Rejects
Eric and Christlo - I created their choreography in my bedroom with a friend once, but we never performed it in front of people. And we were smart to know when not to embarrass ourselves.
Chris, the Boy with Wire Hair - Learn to juggle.
GTR - The girls that rock described them as two Beyoncé's on stage. The saving grace of the routine was watching Nick come along and pop his booty.
Jenny and the Painted Ladies - GTR could show you how to actually drop it like it's hot and they were rejected.
Magic of Mystique - It was like a rent-a-magician for a bar mitzvah.
Tomahawk Tassels - I liked the leg work in the beginning, and then she took off the top for no real reason. I loved her playfulness with Howie, though.
The Girl who Sang for Sharon Osbourne - I have no words. I hope she's not too embarrassed.
Why was the Justin Bieber look alike give two chances and messed up both, and let through, and the Asian Cindy Chang's, who because of nerves messed up, and was only given one shot? Dose AGT hate ASIAN people
When will everyone stop with the "new Susan Boyle". Why not the "new Mary Byrne" or the "new" other dozen contestants who have been touted as the new Susan Boyle and then promptly forgotten or at best have had mediocre success in their recordings. The moment of Susan Boyle's audition was a unique moment in music and talent competition history. No matter how people contrive to make it happen again, it's not going to work. The reason being that she has a magnificent talent and has touched millions with her music. Give it a rest!!!
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The NFC North will welcome a new head coach to the mix in 2013, as the Chicago Bears have concluded their extensive search by hiring for NFL assistant and Canadian Football League (CFL) head coach Marc Trestman. A coach at the major college and professional level since 1981, including a pair of stints with the Vikings, Trestman brings with him a wealth of coaching experience and offensive acumen to the Windy City and will be the 14th head coach in Chicago Bears history.
Trestman spent the previous 5 seasons as head coach of the CFL's Montreal Alouettes, where he was named CFL Coach of the Year in 2009 and won back-to-back Grey Cups in 2009 and 2010. Prior to his success in the CFL, Trestman was an NFL assistant for 17 seasons. He was the Vikings RBs coach in 1985 and 1986, and then returned to the Vikings in 1990 and 1991 as QBs coach. His best work may have come in San Francisco in 1995 and 1996, though. He was San Francisco's Offensive Coordinator and QBs coach in 1995 when the 49ers led the NFL with 457 points and 4,779 passing yards, working closely with a pair of Hall of Famers in Steve Young, who threw for 3,200 yards and 20 TDs, and Jerry Rice, who caught 122 passes for an NFL-record 1,848 yards and 15 TDs.
As Vikings fans surely know, Trestman is not the first former CFL coach to join the NFL. Perhaps the greatest figure in Vikings history, Bud Grant, spent 10 years as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' head coach before taking the head coaching job in Minnesota in 1967. Also, former Buffalo Bills Head Coach Marv Levy came to the NFL from the CFL.
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By North Star on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
Why isn't he still here with the Vikings?
By Carl K on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
I miss Lovie.
By vikes- or - die on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
He sounds like a good coach. Looks like our division could get tougher then it already is.
By 61Vikings on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
Offensive minded coach, just what the Bears needed because they already have a great defense, but coach killer Cutler will make life difficult for Trestman if they don't win right away!!! Just as he was traded away by the Broncos, it wouldn't surprise me if the Bears do the same!!!
By Jimmy on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
Hoping for the best for you Marc Trestman except when you play the Vikings then please have an off day.
By H.M.G. on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
Guy is smart and a winner. Lets hope he doesn't like being a winner against the Vikings. But please kick the snot out of the Packers.
By VF209 on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
Amen HMG let every1 do to the pack just like the niners did on saturday
By liito on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
A lot of Vikes assistant coaches have become NFL Head Coaches and won the Super Bowl. Any realistic chance of the Vikes team finally winning the SB anytime soon?
By North Star on Jan 16, 2013 | Reply
Ask Frazier, liito.
By tarkstillownz on Jan 19, 2013 | Reply
Lovie Smith was a winner. How many winning coaches have the Bears had since Ditka? Hmmm. let's see… NONE. It's good for the Vike's position in the NFC North but in my opinion, the Bears fail again.
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Bridget Gainer brings a unique perspective to civic and business life with a foot in both the public and private sectors. Bridget is the VP, Global Public Affairs for Aon and a Commissioner on the County Board, bringing over 20 years of experience in non-profit, government and corporate sectors. Bridget began her career as a community organizer in New York City; she continued that work in Chicago where she founded a community center at Senn High School. Bridget then went to work for the City of Chicago in a variety of roles focused on public private partnerships. In 2001, she began working at Aon, a global risk management firm, beginning in finance with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and treasury. She later transitioned to manage the firm's strategic engagement with governments around the world.
Elected to the Cook County Board in 2010, Bridget called for the creation of a Pension Committee and was appointed its first Chairman. As Chair, Ms. Gainer brought transparency to the County's Fund and launched an open-data pension website to facilitate a real conversation for fair and sustainable pension reform.
In 2013 Commissioner Gainer completed three years of organizing and outreach with the creation of the Cook County Land Bank, the region's most comprehensive policy to reduce the amount and impact of vacant land and abandoned buildings throughout Cook County. The land bank is governed by a 15-member board, chaired by Commissioner Gainer.
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A native of Chicago, Bridget lives on the North side with her husband and their three children and sits on the boards of the Big Shoulders Fund and the 100 Club of Chicago.
Mark Fick
Chicago Community Loan Fund, Center for Workplace Democracy
Mark Fick is the Senior Loan / Program Officer with the Chicago Community Loan Fund where he is responsible for bringing financing to affordable housing, cooperatives and social enterprise development throughout the greater Chicagoland area. Previously Mark worked as the Associate Director of the Chicago Mutual Housing Network and as Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator with the Statewide Housing Action Coalition (now Housing Action Illinois). He is a graduate of the Urban Developers Program at the University of Illinois - Chicago.
Mark's work with grassroots community economic development began in Wisconsin while spending time with small business cooperatives, developing local currencies and learning the basics of community organizing. Mark also serves on the credit committee of the Northside Community Federal Credit Union and as board treasurer of NASCO Development Services, a consultancy for development of affordable, student housing cooperatives in the United States and Canada.
Ed Jacob
Executive Director, Neighborhood Housing Services
Ed Jacob assumed the top leadership position at NHS of Chicago in June 2010 after serving 10 years as CEO of the North Side Community Federal Union. He has more than 25 years of community development and lending experience. "It's a great honor for me to join NHS," said Jacob. "There is no better place to be if you want to preserve communities and make an impact in Chicago." While at the North Side Community Federal Credit Union, Jacob developed nationally recognized alternatives to "Payday' loans and other forms of predatory loans. Under his leadership, North Side CFCU doubled its assets, was recognized with the Vision Award from the Egan Campaign for Payday Loan Reform, and became the first financial institution in 10 years honored with the Chicago Neighborhood Development Award from LISC. Also during Jacob's tenure, the North Side CFCU became a HUD-certified counseling agency.
Prior to his work at the credit union, Jacob was a Vice President in the Community Reinvestment Department for Bank One and its predecessor bank, First Chicago, with responsibility for Illinois programs. Jacob's entire professional career has been in Chicago, including more than ten years working at various community development organizations on the city's north side. Jacob currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Corporation for Supportive Housing Illinois and on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Community Loan Fund and the Chicago Community Land Trust.
In 2003, Mr. Jacob was honored by LaSalle National Bank with the Tom Gobby Community Leadership Award for his work in providing affordable credit to low ¬and moderate-income families. He received his Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Marquette University, with a BA in Political Science, Economics, and Urban Affairs.
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Landon Bone Baker Architects
Jeff Bone was named Principal at Landon Bone Baker Architects in 1999. Jeff and the firm had learned early on that not all clients are the same; developers are well-versed in the design/build processes whereas non-profit community based-organizations are armed with a clear vision but do not always have an architecture vocabulary. Jeff has nurtured the firm's "grassroots" approach to help nonprofit clients translate their vision. He and his associates regularly engage the community through charrettes, community art projects with archi-treasures, and stakeholder meetings and planning sessions.
Jeff has managed the design and construction of a wide variety of affordable multi-family developments, supportive and senior housing projects, homeless youth shelters, community centers, and non-profit agencies throughout Chicago area, including the recently completed Harvest Commons Apartments, an 89-unit development that employs green strategies for the historic preservation and adaptive reuse of a 1920s-era building and incorporates an urban farm and teaching kitchen for residents. Currently, Jeff is working on the Diplomat SRO, a 51-unit development providing residential and supportive services for people confronting homelessness, and La Casa Norte's comprehensive community center with permanent housing in Humboldt Park.
Tim Magner
Truck Farm Chicago
Entrepreneur Tim Magner is the founder of the Truck Farm Chicago, a farm-on-wheels project that delivered food related programming to more than 10,000 students over the last three years. Tim is also the author of children's books that connect kids to nature. Over the last six years, Tim visited more than 200 schools as a teacher, but he's learned more than he's taught. He's driven by curiosity born out of a desire to make sense of our chaotic world and to make an impact. Most recently, Tim embarked on a project to make the complex understandable. It's titled: What the Hell's Going On?
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Yonah Freemark
Metropolitan Planning Council
Yonah joined MPC as an associate in 2013 and became a project manager in 2014. He currently focuses on transit-oriented development and infrastructure investment, and works on goal-driven governance, employer-assisted housing and bus rapid transit.
Yonah is a native of North Carolina. He attended Yale University as an undergraduate and then received masters' degrees in city planning and transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent two years researching community engagement in Paris and authors the national blog The Transport Politic.
Yonah thoroughly enjoys Chicago's beautiful lakefront and its residents' friendliness and intellectual curiosity. He is a resident of Hyde Park.
Jack Eskin
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
Jack Eskin serves as a Regional Planner for the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC), where he focuses on a variety planning areas, including freight planning, land use planning, urban revitalization projects, and brownfield redevelopment. His work includes co-authoring the Northwest Indiana Regional At-Grade Crossing Study, the Creating Livable Communities Report, and the 2014 update of the Marquette Plan. Jack has also provided staff leadership for the Rail VISION Working Group, contributed project assistance to the Gary Northside Redevelopment Project, the Northwest Indiana Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund, the Illiana Corridor Study, and the Northwest Indiana Bikes on Trains Study. He earned his master's in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012, and holds a bachelor's in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts.
Brendan Saunders
Open Communities
Brendan Saunders grew up in Lake Villa, Illinois, and attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, to study Social Work. After graduating from Wartburg College, Brendan joined the Peace Corps, and served by teaching English in Morocco. On returning to the States, Brendan relocated to Boston where he spent four years working with the homeless, followed by relocation to Chicago to continue working with this population. While working with homeless adults, Brendan began to realize that people remain homeless for extended periods because of the lack of affordable housing. This realization prompted Brendan to study Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Presently, Brendan works at Open Communities as the Director of Advocacy and Organizing where he focuses on tenant organizing and affordable housing advocacy. In this position he has had the opportunity to form the Landlord Tenant Project, a gathering of landlords, tenants, and municipalities, to address issues in rental housing; he organized the residents of Sunset Village, a mobile home community in Glenview, Illinois; and he was able to organize advocates to pass Source of Income protection in Cook County, Illinois. Brendan sits on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Tenants Organization.
Steve Broadwell
City of Gary
Steve Broadwell is presently working two positions in Gary, Indiana: as GIS / Land Bank Manager for the City of Gary's Department of Redevelopment, and as GIS Technician for the Gary Sanitary District. Tasks at the Department of Redevelopment include maintenance, analysis, mapping of the City of Gary's land bank; analysis and recording of the Gary Parcel Survey; and other using GIS to support other City-related initiatives. Tasks at the Gary Sanitary District include database management, data analysis and verification, and formatting and presentation of maps and data. Steve received his master's degree in Urban Planning and Policy in 2013 from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a concentration in Spatial Planning, and is very excited and honored to be presenting at this year's Pecha Kucha event.
Ben Spies
Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago
Ben Spies is Director of Economic Development for the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago (ICNC), a nonprofit organization serving the area known as the Kinzie Industrial Corridor. His work includes advising businesses on opportunities for expansion and workforce development, and advocating for industry on land use and other planning-related issues. Ben is a Public Allies Chicago alumnus and is currently pursuing a certificate in Geospatial Analysis and Visualization at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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October 06, 2005
In late July, news surfaced that Iran had executed two gay teenagers--ostensibly for sexual assault, but most likely for the crime of being gay.
Regime Change, Inc.
April 25, 2005
When the Rose Revolution began in the fall of 2003, there was little reason to hope for a happy ending. Twelve years earlier, the former Soviet Republic of Georgia had stepped from communism into civil war. The old Communist eminence Eduard Shevardnadze may have brought greater stability when he took over the government in 1992, but his corrupt rule also generated huge new pools of ill will among the populace. Some of this disgust manifested itself in small, peaceful street protests.
Tehran Twist
March 28, 2005
Lawrence Kaplan on Bush's new Iran policy.
Party Foul
February 06, 2005
To see what Iraq will look like after January 30, just look north: Here in Kurdistan, the election is already over, even before anyone has cast a ballot.
Out of Beijing
November 15, 2004
China's Africa strategy.
Do Something
July 05, 2004
America must act to stop the genocide in Darfur.
Key to Success
June 07, 2004
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Stop Talking
June 07, 2004
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Lowered Vision
June 07, 2004
America's Iraq policy requires a fundamental strategic reappraisal. The present policy--justified by falsehoods, pursued with unilateral arrogance, blinded by self-delusion, and stained by sadistic excesses--cannot be corrected with a few hasty palliatives. The remedy must be international in character; political, rather than military, in substance; and regional, rather than simply Iraqi, in scope. Rectifying the increasingly messy Iraqi adventure requires understanding its root: the extremist foreign policy pursued by this administration.
Silent Majority
June 07, 2004
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Microsoft plugs Xbox One consoles into its cloud - what could go wrong?
Microsoft is wiring Windows Azure directly into its forthcoming Xbox One games console – giving game developers server-side processing and gamers the chance of cloud brownouts ruining their playtime. Microsoft has said from the start that Xbox will be tied into Azure, but on Tuesday John Bruno, a program manager for Xbox Live, …
Worst. Idea. Ever.
I have never bought into the whole cloud computing idea. It is just a whole load of fail waiting to happen, from cloud providers going bust to the NSA cherry-picking your data to being held hostage to vendor lock-in. Now by having chunks of your games being served up from some data center in the USA your going to get slapped with latency issues (sure, 20ms in America might be fine for yank gamers but 200ms for aussie or brit gamers is just the suck) And then how long will your game last? Publishers in the game space go bust all the time and with no one to pay the cloud bill gamers will be left to pick up the tab paying to play games they already own, then eventually they will all stop working a generation or two of console later when its no longer commercially viable to provide the cloudy side of the game any longer.
Re: Worst. Idea. Ever.
Xbox Live is already based on Azure, so this is just more of the same.
It's not LAMP based like the mess that Sony previously got rooted and so is much more secure, and Xbox Live / Azure have both had a much better up time record than Sony's PSN - so whilst there is of course the possibility of downtime - it's historically been less of a risk on XBL than with PSN....
Re: Worst. Idea. Ever.
You clearly have zero knowledge of how azure as a platform works. For starters the xbox stuff will be spread over multiple data centers and geographically replicated, i.e. UK connections routed to the west europe data center(s) current round trip to one of my servers on azure ~20ms (unsure of exact location), round trip to annother server (hosted by rackspace in slough) ~50ms. As other posters have commented MS are giving away dev reources to developers, so i doubt companies going bust will mean service dies, it will probably live as long as the game is sold in the store, or has appreciable numbers of people playing it i.e. > 1000 playing daily
Re: Worst. Idea. Ever.
Ping times measured in fortnights?
Re: Ping times measured in fortnights?
Just to clarify, 20ms is 1.65343915 × 10^-8 fortnights
We already had console games this gen with hundreds of players, such as MAG for example with 256 players, and not a cloud in sight :)
Anything that will accelerate the death of the malware-infected, second-hand-is-bad-mmkay, catch-em-while-they're-young, region-locked, you-don't-actually-own-a-thing "AAA" games industry as we currently know it is fine by me. Just hurry up and die already, and someone make sure to grab a fucking big wooden stake and a mallet to be sure.
Re: Good.
"you-don't-actually-own-a-thing "AAA" games industry"
And you really think putting games in the 'cloud' is going to change that?
Re: Good.
And you really think putting games in the 'cloud' is going to change that?
No, but I am hoping that ISP balls-ups, home router problems and cloud outages add a few nails into the coffin of the current videogames industry.
Re: Good.
Think of the wonderful possibilities you're missing out on! Today we have Day 1 DLC, season passes that don't cover all DLC or only a limited amount but tomorrow you cou..... actually I can't think of many ways it would be much worse. I'm sure a publisher will manage to make me see that I'm very wrong.
More and more I'm liking the idea of buying games six months or more after release. You get the game, most / all DLC and still pay less than the game at launch. All you get by purchasing games at launch with pre-orders is a bigger hole in your wallet.
Re: Good.
"you-don't-actually-own-a-thing "AAA" games industry"
And you really think putting games in the 'cloud' is going to change that?
I think he thinks that if it keeps getting more bad, people will eventually stop putting up with it. It's a cute, naive position.
Re: Good.
They're helping. My crap Brighthouse "service" got me a nasty email from Bungie for "standbying" (disconnecting the cable when you're winning) and so HALO Reach was the last multiplayer game I played.
Then there was Microsoft renewing my gold membership, despite the fact that 1) my card had expired and 2) I had cancelled it. They're like "oh you're on the hook because you did this and that after cancelling it" and so I asked "well let's see what the FTC thinks of it?" and that ended that.
I'm now happily playing Kerbal Space Program and not missing a nanosecond of XBOX Live.
Re: Good.
Totally agree.
Hopefully Sony will do something less aggressive than MS and we'll see which way the public wants to go. Unless they bundle my console with a free fibre upgrade I won't have the bandwidth for half the stuff on offer!
I know the reg likes to put a negative spin on things but this one is a bit much.
What is actually being discussed is that all Xbox Live developers, including the indie developers get free access to dedicated servers, cloud saves and Xbox compute. Using Titan Fall as an example the Microsoft dedicated servers run the AI in multiplayer games as opposed to a XboxOne acting as a host or the workload being spread over multiple XboxOne consoles. Its aim is to bring stability and lower performance hits as its not relying on individual consumer network speeds.
This is of course optional and is not mandatory and the specific features discussed fo not tie into ownership and add to offline use but aren't necessary so if (when) it goes down you wont be prevented from playing your games.
We aren't talking SimCity or Diablo3 here, its simply dedicated servers, cloud saves and server side processing being made available for free to Xbox Live developers.
I hope so
I very much hope you are correct.
But, my take is that MS is are desperate to get everyone onto to the cloud - one way or another.
MS have shown that their strategy - across all segments and products - is to get people into a cloud-based subscription model. That obviously requires people be connected to the Internet all the time. Not a problem on PCs but there are still a LOT of people for whom gaming is a purely offline affair. Those people go to the store, buy a game and then play it. No subscriptions, no gold memberships, no DLC, no 'micropurchases', no rental movies, and definitely no horse armour.
Indeed, the requirement of pretty much every modern PC game to be connected to the Internet at some point (even if only for activation, though often at each load) is the primary reason why I have not bought a PC game since Dawn of War (the first one) and all my gaming is done on my X360 - save for the occasional bash at Civ3.
I think that what you are saying is reasonable but you can't KNOW that that is the extent of what they are planning. (Saving you being privy to such inside information, in which case please do spill!)
I like progress in the gaming industry, I just don't think that forcing solo gamers online is progress from the gamers' perspective. And while I hope that isn't where they are going, I have no faith that MS, or indeed any of the major labels, share my view.
The day I can no longer buy (off the shelf, with a single, easy cash payment) a video game and play it 100% offline, I will very literally stop buying games.
Re: I hope so
I'll have to go find the interviews but it was one of the big questions Eurogamer asked Microsoft just after E3 and they stated that it was there to enhance the experience but the game would still work without it. An example was Forza whereby if you weren't connected to the internet the game would use the AI routines from the disc whereas if you play it with an online connection that AI is replaced with the "Cloud" AI that learns from all the other connected players.
The extent of the benefits were likely inflated by PR but they are distancing themselves from the SimCity and Diablo3 debacles.
"This is of course optional and is not mandatory"
But do you have to use it? :P
Its up to you, your choice, your preference, as you see fit ;-)
Re: I hope so
The day I can no longer buy (off the shelf, with a single, easy cash payment) a video game and play it 100% offline, I will very literally stop buying games.
This. 1000 times this.
I don't play online myself, but following the unfolding debacle of GTA Online has been just the latest reminder of the reality of the Magic Cloud That Will Do Everything.
don't see anything here
That the ps4 (or in many cases, the PS3) is already doing....cloud saves and cross platform play are already therps3n ps3 and the cloud computing white elephant could easily be plugged in with added server infrastructure, no console changes needed.
Guessing this is more Microsoft vaporware xbone talk about features coming one day to some regions of you are lucky and prepared to pay for it behind their Xbox live paywall
Re: don't see anything here
PS4 fanboy much? Cloud saves were launched on the PS3 behind the PSN+ "paywall" and multiplayer n the PS4 is behind the PSN+ paywall. Lets not get started on what the PS4 cant do on release date.
If you are going to make a comparison you should make sure the item you are favouring is not as guilty as the item you are denouncing.
Access to free servers. Better read that EULA as I'm sure it gives Microsoft the right to change that term in the future to something that is no longer free. Even if they keep it free, the user is the one paying for it.
That's what Microsoft said, its free for devs, not consumers. Its paid for by the Xbox Live subscription.
As far as im aware have PC devs not been able to do this already....for years?
Why such a big fuss for stuff that has been held back from consoles and should have been there years ago. The devs are getting dedicated servers essentially, and this is nothing new to any gamer that has played more than call of duty: super ops on the xbox or playstation.
The fuss is that Microsoft is providing dedicated servers to the devs as part of the platform not that they are providing dedicated servers.
Both the Xbox360 and PS3 can use dedicated servers like the PC as you noted but the bill had to be footed by the dev/publisher meaning most of the smaller publishers and indies couldn't afford to supply this and therefore relied on the platforms peer to peer hosting. Its the same on PC, you can get dedicated servers but none of the platforms such as Steam or Origin provide them to all devs/publishers at no additional fee though I may be wrong.
That means ALL Xbox Live games have access to dedicated servers just by being an Xbox Live title.
PS3 exclusives are nearly always dedicated servers.
As that's give the best lag-free setups. (Xbox Live P2P setup is cheap to run, but slows to the slowest connected player).
This is why I rarely play multiplatform games online, as they suck because even the PS3 versions have been gimped by the el-cheapo Xbox Live networking code.
Re: PS3 exclusives are nearly always dedicated servers.
Thats nothing to do with Xbox Live, PSN is a peer-to-peer network by default just like Xbox Live. If a game uses dedicated servers, regardless of what platform its on, the game developer and/or publisher themselves are paying for them, not the platform holder.
Also the peer to peer system used by Xbox Live uses a hosting system, the game performance is based on the host's connection not the slowest connected player.
"it smacks of a stealthy anti-piracy feature that could blow up in Microsoft's face"
Sorry El Reg but you have absolutely no clue what you're whining about this time.
First, let's take the issue of piracy on consoles at all. Is there much of it? Short answer - no, not unless you wish to chop your console and lose all online/multiplayer modes anyway. Given that this is the case, what difference does it make whether some processing is optionally done over the network since you'll never be able to get on the network anyway?
Secondly, how exactly does providing AI as a service in order to take the load off the console itself restrict piracy in any way?
In short, dear author, I hope that nasty facial bruise from where your knee jerked so hard clears up soon.
Re: "it smacks of a stealthy anti-piracy feature that could blow up in Microsoft's face"
Nine ah ah ah! Nine Sony Fanboys! Ah Ah Ah!
Super Computer?
Be interesting to see how this permanently connected network of Xbox millions of nodes with shared server side / offline processing might play into grid / super computing... ...all sorts of modelling, research and simulation possibilities.
Re: Super Computer?
Run SETI@HOME while shooting aliens on-line for an irony achievement?
Pointless Everyone getting PS3s
Everyone I know is buying a PS3 once there xbox 360 number "N" goes tits up. We used to be a 4 xbox house and we are now down to ONE. While our PS3 numbers have went from 0 to 2. We just got fed up with the Xbox 360s breaking every 18mths and getting replaced.
I know not anyone who is getting a XBox One; they have well and truly burned there bridges with most users and that includes me, mates and everyone else I know.
I don't know or can find a single person is gettign an Xbox One.
Likely sales will be very poor and MS will slash the price and they might start shifting.
Re: Pointless Everyone getting PS3s
Yeah, your anecdotal unverified evidence must mean Microsoft are doomed.
Enjoy your Sony rootkits.
Re: Pointless Everyone getting PS3s
No they are not doomed this will be just another speed bump, but I've asked a lot of people who already have consoles and they are not happy with them at all.
I think the Xbox one launch will be a damp squib, Sony are far from perfect but given a choice I picked Sony.
Re: Pointless Everyone getting PS3s
With the delays to 2014 for Watchdogs and Drive Club (the first PSN+ title) as well as no European date for the Gaikai service there are people cancelling their pre-orders (if you believe forums of course).
Quite frankly I'm amazed anyone who preordered a PS4 or XboxOne has kept that pre-order. The shipped consoles are lacking a lot of the advertised features, aren't launching with all the games advertised and people are paying RRP for it? Just wait a few months until all the features are up and running, there is a decent catalogue of game and in the mean time buy some quality current generation games like GTAV.
"Bearing in mind the cockups that have and do happen with [the cloud] . . ."
Bearing in mind the absolute intolerance that gamers show for anything that even remotely ressembles an impediment to getting their game on, I'm quite sure that Microsoft is going to learn a lot in several key areas (reliability, throughput, dictionary extensions, biological enhancements and sexual positions) when this system is put into production.
If Apple had done this....
It would be so inspired. There wouldn't be any talk of it falling over, just how wonderful the service was and how much life is better because of it.
Register, you report Microsoft stories like the Daily Express reports the weather.
But will gam devs use it?
This cloud computing stuff for gaming sounds very interesting but the advantage that console games have over PC as everyone one knows, is the every console is the same and they can tweak it to get the most from the hardware.
Internet connections vary massively, a game dev can't be sure that offloading the work to cloud will work the same on every console so I don't see how it'll be taken up.
I suppose they could introduce a minimum requirement for the internet connection but that will start dividing the install base which is usually the last thing console devs want to do.
Re: But will gam devs use it?
The article does explicitly say that its for non-latency sensitive elements. Back in my school days I wrote a turn based tactical squad game on the *cough* Archimedes
it wasn't brilliant and the AI for the bad guys was incredibly basic, but at the time I remember having to run a loop that repeatedly polled for mouse movement/clicks. Because of the low power of the systems in those days I wrote the AI to sequence its planning in small chunks and processed one chunk each cycle of the UI loop (which had the nice side effect that if you moved quickly most of the bad guys would simply repeat their prior actions).
Abstract this up and I can imagine having a local basic tactical AI, but with a cloud based strategic AI backing it up. The local system could handle basic tasks such as target selection, choice of cover and advance/retreat type options - the strategic AI could look at flanking, co-ordinated cover fire, moving units to elevated positions, etc...
Technically the system could send out one packet of current locations and waits for strategic input from the cloud - which can happily take 3-5 seconds to return it because its operating at a higher level and in while its waiting the local tactical AI is still doing a reasonable job of the second by second tactics. Hey presto, cloud based service improves the game, but an outage it doesn't prevent it from running in a basic sense.
I'm not saying this is what would happen, but its one way I could imagine it being used.
Possibly asked already by another bod... what happens when the game gets old?
The one thing I absolutely detest about all these games with heavy dependancy on network services is will I still be able to play it in years to come with the publisher has lost interest in running it?
I quite enjoy the occasional nostalgia cracking open an old game can be. I don't want to build a collection of games that will suddenly be worthless empty containers in years to come because their dependant services are gone.
Skull-Fist-LightningBolt-MushroomCloud the cloud! Reject this World Wide Mainframe tech and lets get back to the game purity of running Tetris on a NES.
Anyone up for Arkanoid? I've got a pristine copy *with* the paddle controller.
I want to know-- What happens when something goes wrong?
A gamer's cloud gaming profile gets corrupted... Who do they call? Will anyone answer? That's what I want to know. In the case of Ubisoft the answer is PFO- Please F*ck Off!
There are certain Reg readers that say: 'I don't care about DRM, it doesn't affect me'.. Well please take note of my experience with Ubisoft DRM and Driver-San Francisco as cloud gaming is already upon us! I've had to replay the game from scratch over a half a dozen times to earn back my hard-earned multiplayer rank. Every few months Gamer Profiles on their servers become corrupt, or the license is revoked for inexplicable reasons.
Consider this.. Ubisoft support have no access to gamer profiles. They have no troubleshooting abilities and no way of escalating problems. They claim, if you can believe this, that the reason they don't, is for security!!! So be advised that future Cloud based games may have similar gotchas!
What's the use of wasting hundreds of precious hours on a game only to encounter this fiasco? Being issued a new DRM license also trashes local offline progress, so you can forget about that too... This is what we're up against folks, its the new brave new world of the Trusted Computing like DRM model. You don't own your profile. You can't fix it if there's a problem. Your only recourse?... Start over! ... (That is until they flick the switch for good)
Re: I want to know-- What happens when something goes wrong?
Even as high a profile gamer as Gavin Free at Rooster Teeth can't get his original XBL account fixed. It's got the authorization phone number set to a dead UK cellphone (he's in the US now) and XBL support told him to suck it up and create a new account.
FIAT (fix it again tomrrow).
'Yes we know our latest greatest game is buggy but we're actively working on a fix in the Cloud'
Online gaming is over-hyped! Network LAG, controller LAG are huge problems. I'd like to more features devoted to offline social gaming with pals in the living room. More split-screen. More user maps! Its not fun playing online against anonymous strangers with sociopathic trolling tendencies when your broadband is slower!
By all means early adopters enjoy your purchases. You've just helped subsidize gamers in South Korea on fibre connections, who'll be ones to reap the real benefits! But wait we all paid the same for the box! Cloud gaming will be an almighty excuse for mega-crops to ship early and bank their profits too...
Sure the 10 people that pre-ordered Xbone
must be over the moon with this non-news.
What it'll be used for...
Here's what I see this REALLY being used for:
1) More ubiquitous in-game ads... "cloud updated"
2) Storing your scores and save games, if you want.
That is all! Honestly, what could be computationally intensive enough to not run on the XBox One, but not cost a fortune to run "in the cloud"? (Yes, I saw the word "free" in the article -- but I seriously doubt Microsoft would give away so much storage & CPU time *per game user* to exceed what the XBox One already has. Buying some significant amount of processing time for 1 user is peanuts -- buying it for 100,000 or 1,000,000 simultaneous game users will add up fast.
It's been working so well for GTA:online
Presumably MS have been watching the literal cluster f*ck that GTA: Online has been. they have monitored the ruined forums containing nothing but "My [insert virtual property of choice here] has gone!" and thought, hmmm yes! this is the gaming experience we want everyone to have!
Okay Microsoft!
I know it's hard, but please - for the sake of those people getting an xbone - try not to screw this up by making it more "engaging" than it has to be!
Game Developers!
This might also be a difficult thing to grasp, but if you could go ahead and ensure that any games you develop with this in mind, is also able to be played without this service - that'd be great! And I do not just mean that SP will work, but MP too. If your game is really that great, then we will surely want to play it years from now when server support has died down. And if your goal isn't to make a game that great, then fuck off!
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Emergency Medicine
- Cornell Medical College (M.D., 2005)
- University of Maryland (B.S., 2000)
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Dr. Saheed is the Assistant Clinical Director and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Saheed received his medical degree from Cornell University in 2005. He completed his residency training at Johns Hopkins University in 2008 and later went on to complete a fellowship as the Assistant Chief of Service (ACS). Subsequently, Dr. Saheed joined the Hopkins faculty in 2010.
As the Assistant Clinical Director, he oversees the Emergency Department's clinical operations and has a particular interest in organizational heuristics. Dr. Saheed's other research interests include technology integration and utilization in the improvement of emergency department operations.


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Join us for our next course offering:
Course One: Speech Communication
Jan. 23–25, 2015 • Camp Douglas, Wis.
Course one is a communication course for professionals in the emergency services industry. Learn how to effectively communicate -- both in writing and verbally -- and master the tools and techniques you need as a manager and leader.
Chief Officer Program
The Chief Officer Program (COP) is a collaborative initiative between UW Oshkosh and the Wisconsin State Fire Chiefs Association (WSFCA) designed to provide officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration.
The target audience of the program is officers in the fire industry and firefighters and emergency response personnel who desire to become officers.
Through six educational courses, the COP framework helps senior officers to strengthen their communication and leadership skills and gain a better understanding of public administration in fire and emergency services.
Chief Officer Program Curriculum
The program helps leaders develop sound critical thinking and problem solving sills, oral and written communication skills, and knowledge in the areas of human resource management, fiscal management, and community risk assessment.
Participants will learn a variety of leadership and management skills through the six-course program. Each course consists of one weekend class of work, along with some reading and preparation before the weekend and some online work after.
- Course 1: Speech Communication
- Course 2: Improving your writing
- Course 3: Leadership in the public sphere
- Course 4: Personnel administration
- Course 5: The budget process
- Course 6: Risk management and strategic planning