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TRAINING: Training is a combination of strength and conditioning, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, and MMA. I focus on specific disciplines every day, and nutrition is a big part of my camp.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I have been doing martial arts my whole life since the age of five. My father would push me to train hard everyday. On November 12, 2003 he was killed in a house robbery. I knew from that day I would make him proud and become a professional fighter.
What ranks and titles have you held? Former UFC lightweight champion, WEC lightweight champion, Gladiators Fighting Lightweight Champion, 3rd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, BJJ purple belt, TUF 20 coach.
Do you have any heroes? My dad, he was killed in a house robbery in 2003 and I still use many of the life lessons he taught me.
What is your favorite technique? I am a very flashy fighter so I like any technique that makes the audience go crazy.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? This is a dream come true. I dedicated my life to making it where I am at and I'm very excited for a long career in the UFC.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Yes, I went to the fire academy.
What was your job before you started fighting? P.O.C Fire Fighter and Martial Arts Instructor
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10. A.J. Hawk
Hawk will someday enter college football's Hall of Fame as one of the greatest linebackers of his generation. But his production simply hasn't translated to the NFL. He's a solid starter on a good defense in Green Bay, but far from the star that some Packers fans believe him to be.
9. Nate Clements
Since cashing in on a monster contract from the 49ers its been all downhill for Clements. He was benched at one point last season before suffering a season-ending injury. The 49ers inexplicably decided to bring him back – fat contract and all – in hopes that he returns to form.
8. Eric Steinbach
On an offensive line which featured Rex Hadnot, John St. Clair and Pork Chop Womack, it was Steinbach who was the weak link. He's an acceptable pass blocker, but struggles to open up holes in the running game. The Browns spent big money to bring him north from Cincinnati a few years ago, and he's been a consistent disappointment. He easily earns the title of most overrated offensive lineman.
7. Dunta Robinson
When he wants to be, Robinson can be great. But he rarely cares enough to put in the effort. Knowing a contract was on the line he stepped up his game down the stretch last season and got a nice deal from the Falcons. He may start out the year looking like a star, excited by the change of scenery, but as soon as the Falcons are out of the playoff picture, Robinson will do his disappearing act.
6. Shawne Merriman
Based on last year's performance, Merriman should probably be No. 1 on this list, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt due to the fact that he was coming off an injury. Since being suspended for steroid use, we haven't really seen much out of Merriman and this year could be the end of the road for him in San Diego with Larry English waiting in the wings.
5. Reggie Bush
The "explosive" Reggie Bush returned 27 punts last season, for an average of 4.8 yards. Of the 38 players with at least 12 punt returns only Arnaz Battle had a worse average. Ouch. He can be a nice little weapon and break off a big play from time to time. But so can Jerome Harrison, Justin Forsett, Steve Slaton… you get the point.
4. Brandon Jacobs
Jacobs was a bulldozer when the Giants first handed him the starting job, but part of that success was due to the depth around him. He takes more abuse than any running back in the league and the human body just simply isn't built for it. He isn't capable of being a feature back, as the Giants learned last season. His carries will be reduced this year in hopes that his production improves.
3. DeSean Jackson
He's explosive and fun to watch, sure, but he's also terribly inconsistent. He had as many games with fewer than 35 receiving yards last season as he did games over 100 yards. His route running is, well, basically limited to going deep. And he is too small and completely unwilling to set a block. He's a great weapon to have, but not a true No. 1 receiver.
2. Vernon Davis
Davis is the offensive version of Dunta Robinson. When he wants to be, he can be dominant. But the effort just isn't always there. He developed into a legitimate fantasy football star last season, but in real life he's still a liability. His blocking, if you can even call it that, is atrocious. And his hands are as inconsistent as anyone in the game. He dropped 13 balls last season, a whopping four more than any other tight end in the game.
1. Matt Cassel
What exactly has Cassel done in his career? Sure he was decent in 2008 with the Patriots. But considering it was one of the greatest offenses of all time in 2007, couldn't most backup quarterbacks have thrown 21 TD and 11 interceptions on that team? In 2009 he came back down to earth and looked pretty much like Tyler Thigpen, Brodie Croyle or any other average quarterback would have looked in Kansas City.


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The following publications provide key evidence of the effectiveness of the Jefferson Elder Care interventions offered for older adults, people with dementia, and those who care for them.
Cohen-Mansfield, J. (2002). Managing agitation in elderly patients with dementia. Psychiatric Times, 19(1), 77 78.
Gitlin, L.N. (2002). Evaluating home environments of persons with dementia: Interrater reliability and validity of the Home Environmental Assessment Protocol (HEAP). Disability and Rehabilitation, 24, 59-71
Gitlin, L.N., Winter, L., Dennis, M.P., Hodgson, N., Hauck, W.W. (2010). A biobehavioral home-based intervention and the well-being of patients with dementia and their caregivers. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 304, 983-991.
Gitlin, L.N., Winter, L., Dennis, M.P., Hodgson, N., Hauck, W.W. (2010). Targeting and managing behavioral symptoms in individuals with dementia: A randomized trial of a nonpharmacological intervention. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58, 1465-1475.
Gitlin, L. N. & Corcoran, M. (2005). Occupational therapy and dementia care: The home environment skill-building program for individuals and families. Bethesda, MD: American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
Gitlin L. N., Corcoran, M., Winter, L., Boyce, A., Hauck, W. (2001). A randomized, controlled trial of a home environmental intervention: Effect on efficacy and upset in caregivers and on daily function of persons with dementia. The Gerontologist, 41, 4-14.
Gitlin, L. N. & Earland, T.V. (2009). Improving Quality of Life in Individuals with Dementia: The Role of Nonpharmacologic approaches in rehabilitation. In: J. H. Stone, M. Blouin, Eds, International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation.
Gitlin, L. N., Hauck, W. W., Dennis, M. P. & Winter, L. (2005). Maintenance of effects of the home environmental skill-building program for family caregivers and individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 60A, 368-374.
Gitlin, L. N., Hauck, W. W., Dennis, M. & Schulz, R. (2007). Depressive symptoms in African American and White older adults with functional difficulty: The role of control strategies. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55, 1023-1030.
Gitlin, L. N., Hauck, W. W., Dennis, M. P., Winter L., Hodgson, N, & Schinfeld. (2009). Long-term effect on mortality of a home intervention that reduces functional difficulties in older adults: Results from a randomized trial. Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 57, 476-481.
Gitlin, L. N., Hauck, W. W., Winter, L., Dennis, M. & Schulz, R. (2006). Effect of an in-home occupational and physical therapy intervention on reducing mortality in functionally vulnerable elders: Preliminary findings. The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54, 950-955.
Gitlin, L., Hodgson, N, Jutkowitz, E., & Pizzi, L. (2010). The Cost-effectiveness of a Nonpharmacologic Intervention for Individuals with Dementia and Family Caregivers: The Tailored Activity Program. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, special issue on Dementia Care.
Gitlin, L.N., Jacobs, M., & Earland, T.V. (2010). Translation of a dementia caregiver intervention for delivery in homecare as a reimbursable Medicare service: Outcomes and lessons learned. The Gerontologist, 50, 847-854.
Gitlin, L. N., Winter, L., Dennis, M., Corcoran, M., Schinfeld, S. & Hauck, W. (2006). A randomized trial of a multi-component home intervention to reduce functional difficulties in older adults. The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54, 809-816.
Gitlin, L. N., Winter, L., Burke, J., Chernett, N., Dennis, M. & Hauck, W. W. (2008). Tailored activities to manage neuropsychiatric behaviors in persons with dementia and reduce caregiver burden: A randomized pilot study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16, 229-239.
Gitlin, L. N., Winter, L., Corcoran, M., Dennis, M., Schinfeld, S., & Hauck, W. (2003). Effects of the Home Environmental Skill-building Program on the Caregiver-Care Recipient Dyad: Six-month outcomes from the Philadelphia REACH Initiative. The Gerontologist, 43, 532-546.
Gitlin, L. N., Winter, L., Earland, T. V., Herge, E. A., Chernett, N. L., Piersol, C. V., & Burke, J. P. (2009). The tailored activity program (TAP): A nonpharmacologic approach to improving quality of life at home for person with dementia and their family caregivers. The Gerontologist, Practice Concepts, 49, 428-439.
Graff, M. J. L., Vernoonij-Dassen, M. J. M., Thijssen, M., Dekker, J., Hoefnagels, W. H. L., Olde Rikkert, M. G. M. (2006). Community based occupational therapy for patients with dementia and their care givers: Randomized controlled trial. British Medical Journal, 10, 1-6.
Institute of Medicine (2008). Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Healthcare Workforce.
O'Sullivan, A. (2007) AOTA's Statement on Family Caregivers. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61, p.710
Richards, K. C., Enderlin, C. A., Beck, C., McSweeney, J. C., Jones, T. C., & Roberson, P. K. (2007). Tailored biobehavioral interventions: A literature review and synthesis. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, 21(4), 271-285.
Volicer and Hurley (2003). Management of behavioral symptoms in progressive degenerative dementias. Journal of Gerontology:Medical Sciences, 58A, 837-845.
Research to develop, test, and translate Jefferson Elder Care Services has been supported by funds from the Administration on Aging, Alzheimer's Association, Farber Family Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIMH, NIA, NINR), PA Department of Health Tobacco Settlement, and the Rosalynn Carter/Johnson & Johnson initiative.
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If you are looking to explore Syracuse and find interesting things to do or a place to live … discover the "University Neighborhood!" From Downtown, take Harrison Street up the hill. Now you're on Syracuse University turf! College sports fans have heard of the Carrier Dome. The quad, at the heart of campus, overlooks the Marshall Street commercial district with shopping, dining and lots of SU apparel and other stuff for sale.
Travel up a hill a bit more to Ostrom Avenue and Thornden Park, and work your way over to Euclid Avenue, which will take you to Westcott Street. The "Westcott Nation", as some call the "University Neighborhood" is another colorful area within the neighborhood an eclectic mix of academicians, students, permanent residents and a lot of free thinkers.
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Discover the University Neighborhood where residential intimacy combines with urban accessibility and where residents enjoy a host of local amenities and conveniences! We are within easy walking distance are Syracuse University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Upstate Medical University, Crouse Hospital, VA Medical Center, the Syracuse Real Food Co-op, the Westcott Street Commercial District, Ed Smith and Levy Elementary Schools, Petit Branch Public Library, grocery store, hardware store, convenience store, banks, restaurants, picturesque Thornden Park and numerous other green spaces. Public transportation provides quick access to the City's bustling Downtown, and exits on and off Interstate 81 and Route 690 are conveniently close.
"Although my husband and I grew up in the suburbs, we chose to live in the University Neighborhood. We have one car, and we walk almost everywhere -- to our jobs, the co-op, restaurants, parks, the bank, and to the public library. The sense of community and of knowing your neighbors is very appealing to us. However, the true benefit for our family is that as working parents we literally have more hours per week with our children to savor and enjoy." - Eileen S.
"I moved to the University Neighborhood four years ago and I love the area very much! When my granddaughter visits me from New Jersey, we visit the shops and restaurants on Westcott Street. I frequently drive out to Skaneateles and other outlining areas. I find it very convenient to hop on 690. It's a breeze! When I leave a performance of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra around 10 pm, I'm back home in less than ten minutes." - Ted F.
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The beaches that stretch along New England's coastline beckon both locals and tourists to their sandy shores. With so many choices, how do you decide which one is worth the trip? From warmest water to most scenic, we share our picks for the best beaches in New England.
Warmest Water
Silver Sands State Park,
Milford, Connecticut
To find warmth, head south to the shallow slopes of Long Island Sound. The beach at Silver Sands State Park is small compared with other Connecticut state parks, but it is delightfully more remote.
It's also far more affordable than many of the private town beaches in this part of Connecticut. A long boardwalk leads from the parking lot across a marsh (good for bird-watching, but not great if you're carrying food, sand toys, and Junior).
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Best Walk
Napatree Point,
Watch Hill, Rhode Island
With its highest point being a mere 812 feet, Rhode Island is not a place most folks think of when they want to take a hike. Yet it does have some of the longest beach strolls in New England. Napatree Point juts out from the village of Watch Hill on a wild strip of coastline, offering views of Connecticut and Fishers Island, New York.
Take off your shoes and listen to the waves as you saunter along the water all the way to the point of this crescent-shaped beach. The spit of land curves back toward Rhode Island, similar to how Provincetown lies at the tip of Cape Cod. Sailboats cruise Block Island Sound; ospreys and their young fly above the shores. As you reach the point and the last square foot of terra firma, the wind begins to howl, the surf seems a bit more ominous, and the sand is replaced by large battered rocks. On the return trip, you'll be treated to a view of the Victorian houses that cling to the bluffs of Watch Hill.
Best Surfing
Narragansett Town Beach,
Narragansett, Rhode Island
When hurricane swells from the Caribbean sweep up the Atlantic seaboard in the summer months, most people on the East Coast batten down their hatches and hide indoors. Everybody, that is, except surfers on the Rhode Island coast. Narragansett Town Beach is quickly gaining acclaim as the place to be when tropical depressions make their move north from mid-July to mid-September. The crescent-shaped beach and shifting sandbars often produce waves in excess of 10 feet.
Even without inclement weather, the surf is reasonably good all year. In the winter, there are swells in the 3- to 4-foot range. In summer, when the water often resembles a duck pond, you need patience. The best time for the sport is in the early-morning hours before the winds pick up. If the waves aren't working at Narragansett, try Second Beach (Sachuset) in Middletown. Gansett Juice (74 Narragansett Ave.; 401-789-7890; gansettjuice.com) rents boards for the town beach and gives lessons.
Best for Solitude
Mohegan Bluffs,
Block Island, Rhode Island
A patch of grass lines a redbrick lighthouse that has been keeping watch on the southeast corner of Block Island for more than a century and a quarter. Below, sea-gouged clay cliffs plummet some 200 feet to a white crescent beach that serves as a welcome mat for the Atlantic surf. The lap of waves is interrupted only by the call of a goldfinch making its way north. To stand on this wild stretch of coastline below Mohegan Bluffs is to truly feel inconsequential.


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The M.Div./M.B.A. program is housed in the School of Divinity and requires completion of the 60 hour core, 6 hours biblical studies electives, 6 hours historical/theological electives, 3 hours practical ministry electives of the M.Div. degree and the 36-hour M.B.A. degree. This degree is designed to offer ministry students the opportunity to gain additional skills and expertise in areas that will enhance the students' ministry. Students will register for these courses through the Divinity School and will be awarded the dual degrees upon completion of the requirements for both degrees.
The M.Div./M.B.A. program is designed to enhance the administrative skills and expertise of ministers by permitting them to earn a second degree, the M.B.A., instead of the usual M.Div. concentration.
The program has three potential student populations in view:
- The minister who desires greater expertise in business administration
- The church administrator in a large church
- The bi-vocational minister
Foundational courses in accounting, microeconomics, statistics, finance, and microcomputers are pre-requisite to the program. Students lacking academic preparation in these areas may take accelerated non-credit courses at the University to satisfy these requirements (see the M.B.A. section of this catalog for course descriptions).
Course Requirements
M.B.A. Requirements
BADM 600: Managerial Accounting (3 hrs.)
BADM 610: Managerial Economics (3 hrs.)
BADM 620: Managerial Finance (3 hrs.)
BADM 625: Marketing Management (3 hrs.)
BADM 630: Organizational Behavior (3 hrs.)
BADM 633: Entrepreneurial Management (3 hrs.)
BADM 635: Production Research and Operations Management (3 hrs.)
BADM 640: Business Law and Ethics (3 hrs.)
BADM 650: International Business (3 hrs.)
BADM 690: Strategic Management (3 hrs.)
Restricted M.B.A. Electives (6 hrs.)
MBA Total: 36 semester hours
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A. Biblical Studies (18 hrs.)
DSOT 100: Old Testament I (3 hrs.)
DSOT 101: Old Testament II (3 hrs.)
DSNT 100: New Testament I (3 hrs.)
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First gay clergy member to marry in UK considers suing Church of England after sacking 14
7:08 PM — The first gay clergy to marry in the UK, who was later sacked for doing so, has accused the Church of England of homophobia, and says he is considering legal action.
US: Judge declines to speed up proceedings in Wisconsin gay marriage lawsuit
6:57 PM — A federal judge has refused to speed up the proceedings of a case challenging the state of Wisconsin's same-sex marriage ban.
US: State lawsuit to stop rogue clerk from issuing gay marriage licences begins 4
6:49 PM — The lawsuit against a clerk who issued marriage licences to gay and lesbian couples, and refused to stop doing so, despite instructions from the attorney general, has begun.
Head of abuse inquiry Butler-Sloss said same-sex marriage would lead to 'immorality' 34
5:58 PM — The retired judge appointed to chair a child abuse inquiry was one of the most vocal critics of the government's decision to legalise same-sex marriage for England and Wales.
Jersey: First ever LGBT rally will take place on Saturday following equal marriage disappointment 2
5:00 PM — Jersey's first ever LGBT rally will take place on Saturday, in response to the stalling of a bill to make same-sex marriage legal there.
France: Activists on trial for topless Notre Dame equal marriage protest
4:39 PM — A group of activists stood trial today after taking part in a topless pro-equal marriage protest.
UK: Christian bakery 'gay cake' row taken to PMQs 36
3:40 PM — In the first question during today's broadcast of Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron was called on to respond to the case of the bakery which may face legal action after refusing to bake a pro-equal marriage cake.
Ann Widdecombe backs anti-gay marriage Belfast bakery 97
2:54 PM — Ann Widdecombe is supporting the owners of a Belfast bakery who refused to make a cake featuring a pro-equal marriage message.
Australia: Greens Senator 'very proud' to be in same-sex marriage after wife's transition 5
2:14 PM — A newly-elected senator grilled on Australian national radio about remaining married to her transgender wife has said she is "very proud" of being in a same-sex marriage and stressed it is "possible to stay together".
US: Virginia same-sex marriage appeal ruling expected soon
1:21 PM — A federal appeals court is expected to rule on Virginia's same-sex marriage ban soon.
Jersey: Same-sex marriage delayed, as minister claims it would have 'unintended consequences' 14
11:22 AM — A bill to allow same-sex marriage in Jersey has been stalled, as States members approved an amendment meaning a "detailed study" must take place.
8th July 2014
US: Out-of-state couples struggle to marry in Illinois 1
9:04 PM — Couples traveling across the border to marry in Illinois are finding themselves unable to, due to a provision written into the Illinois marriage law.
US: Arizona state and gay couples want judge to rule on same-sex marriage ban without trial
7:03 PM — Both the state of Arizona and gay couples suing it over its same-sex marriage ban, have asked a judge to rule in the case without a trial.
US: Gay couples assert that anti-gay marriage arguments 'don't hold water' in court filing 1
6:34 PM — Arguments against recognising the marriage of some 300 married same-sex couples in Michigan "don't hold water", a court filing argues.
US: Episcopal churches go to court over $500 million in property over gay priests 5
6:04 PM — Several dozen Episcopal churches in the US state of South Carolina are suing the national church over the introduction of gay priests, stating that they should be able to retain property when they leave the church.
US: Californian law makes marriage gender-neutral 1
12:18 PM — State law in California is to formally acknowledge the current legality of same-sex marriage, by replacing references to marriage as only being "between a man and a woman".
7th July 2014
US: Missouri county will not be defending state's ban on same-sex marriage 3
10:47 PM — Missouri's Jackson County will not fight a lawsuit challenging Missouri's current ban on same-sex marriage.
US: Pennsylvania clerk takes appeal against same-sex marriage to Supreme Court 8
3:40 PM — A Pennsylvania clerk who is fighting for the right to defend the state's already-removed same-sex marriage ban has taken her appeal to the Supreme Court.
Hong Kong: Trans man to legally challenge new transgender marriage law
11:35 AM — A trans man in Hong Kong has launched a legal challenge against a new law that would ban him from marrying unless he undergoes surgery.
6th July 2014
US: Kentucky Baptist church to host same-sex wedding 2
2:13 PM — A Kentucky Baptist church has made plans to host its first same-sex wedding, despite the state's same-sex marriage ban.


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After reading comments on this page from the readers about how TNA was so awful and WWE was the best thing since sliced bread. Let's recap some of WWE's greatest failures that we've lived through:
1) The Montreal Screwjob: Enough has been said about this that it's way past old news, but before this we weren't seeing behind the scenes documentaries and how the matches were put together.
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After reading some of Bischoff's rants about how the internet is such a small minute part of the puzzle, I would like to take the chance to show you a few examples of why Mr. Bischoff or anyone would be wrong to dismiss the IWC so quickly......
1) Matt Hardy: Long before the story hit WWE airwaves about Matt Hardy/Lita/Edge, it was all around the net. So if the IWC only makes up a small
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Hello to all. I'm a new Vegan and have been brainwashed for so long to avoid starchy carbs. I've done the Atkins diet, and I did lose a lot of weight, but I just felt so guilty due to ethical issues. Consequently, I'm really happy eating the Vegan lifestyle; however, I'm still afraid of starchy carbs. I love brown rice, potatoes, oatmeal, etc..... Can someone please help me get over my phobia? I do want to lose some weight, but I'm so afraid that the rice and other starch is making my insulin spike and stored as fat.
I don't know how to explain it to you but when I added potatoes to my diet I started losing weight again. They're filling, stop my cravings FLAT and I am satisfied with less food. I suggest you read "The Starch Solution" by John McDougall. He explains why you crave starch (carbs) and how your body uses them. Excellent book.
Also, not all starch is created equal. Brown rice, not white. Whole wheat pasta not white. Whole wheat bread not white.
And you have to eliminate the extracted oils. NO OIL at all.
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Your meals aren't going to consist of only starchy carbs. Control the portion amount of the starchy carbs and fill out your plate with other delicious non-starchy options. For example, 1/2 cup of rice along with other vegetables and fruits.
Thanks for your responses. Actually, I just flew coast to coast and I read The Starch Solution while on the plane. I do think it made a lot of sense, but then again, so did the Atkins book...lol. I just made a Resistant Starch salad consisting of potatoes, black beans, vegan mayo, onions, and celery. It's quite good...but whoa, a lot of starch.
I suppose any one can make almost anything sound reasonable! But when we look at the actual research to see what healthy people eat, what people who live the longest QUALITY lives eat, we see it is a lot of starch and a lot of carbs! The most nutrient-dense foods are whole plants - grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables. They protect us from so many harms with their packed vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber - but with relatively fewer calories.
This is about being really healthy for life. Losing weight tends to be a side effect. Atkins, on the other hand, is about losing weight at the cost of everything else including your overall health.
Susan Levin, MS, RDPCRM Director of Nutrition Education
Susan has said it best -
"This is about being really healthy for life. Losing weight tends to be a side effect. Atkins, on the other hand, is about losing weight at the cost of everything else including your overall health."
The older I get the more it's about health, not weight. I have never been very overweight so that may be easier for me to say than others, but really - isn't health the primary focus? If not it should be. Weight is just one aspect of health. A BIG aspect, but still, just one part of the total picture.
I laugh at the carbophobia of almost everyone I know, because I'm the only slim and very fit 67 year old of all my friends and my diet is 78% carbs, 11% fat and 11% protein. I've been vegan for a few years and following McDougall's Starch Solution for several months. Last night for dinner I had a bean/veggie stew with no oil, several other veggies on the side as well as a baked potato and baked sweet potato. Brown rice, oatmeal and quinoa are staples for me. A couple of months ago I had a fasting blood sugar drawn, but I had eaten my bowl of oatmeal with ground flaxseed and berries 2 hours prior - just to see what the fasting sugar would be after the oatmeal. It was 79, so I certainly had no great insulin spike after I had breakfast. There's a huge difference between natural carbs and starches and those processed, ground up into flour.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (Classical Latin , usually in English; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
Cicero is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero probably thought his political career his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend Atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the 1st-century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero's letters to Atticus contained such a wealth of detail "concerning the inclinations of leading men, the faults of the generals, and the revolutions in the government" that their reader had little need for a history of the period.
During the chaotic latter half of the first century BC, marked by civil wars and the dictatorship of Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional republican government. However, his career as a statesman was marked by inconsistencies and a tendency to shift his position in response to changes in the political climate. His indecision may be attributed to his sensitive and impressionable personality; he was prone to overreaction in the face of political and private change. "Would that he had been able to endure prosperity with greater self-control and adversity with more fortitude!" wrote C. Asinius Pollio, a contemporary Roman statesman and historian.
Cicero was born in 106 BC in Arpinum, a hill town 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Rome. Arpinum was techincally a subordinate ally of Rome for all of Cicero's life. So, although a great master of Latin rhetoric and composition, Cicero was not "Roman" in the traditional sense, and was quite self-conscious of this for his entire life.
During this period in Roman history, if one was to be considered "cultured", it was necessary to be able to speak both Latin and Greek. The Roman upper class often preferred Greek to Latin in private correspondence, recognizing its more refined and precise expressions, and its greater subtlety and nuance. Cicero, like most of his contemporaries, was therefore educated in the teachings of the ancient Greek rhetoricians, and most prominent teachers of oratory of the time were themselves Greek. Cicero used his knowledge of Greek to translate many of the theoretical concepts of Greek philosophy into Latin, thus translating Greek philosophical works for a larger audience. It was precisely this obsession that tied him to the traditional Roman elite.
Cicero's father was a well-to-do equestrian (knight) with good connections in Rome. Though he was a semi-invalid who could not enter public life, he compensated for this by studying extensively. Although little is known about Cicero's mother, Helvia, it was common for the wives of important Roman citizens to be responsible for the management of the household. Cicero's brother Quintus wrote in a letter that she was a thrifty housewife.
Cicero's cognomen, personal surname, is Latin for chickpea. Romans often chose down-to-earth personal surnames. Plutarch explains that the name was originally given to one of Cicero's ancestors who had a cleft in the tip of his nose resembling a chickpea. Plutarch adds that Cicero was urged to change this deprecatory name when he entered politics, but refused, saying that he would make Cicero more glorious than Scaurus ("Swollen-ankled") and Catulus ("Puppy").
According to Plutarch, Cicero was an extremely talented student, whose learning attracted attention from all over Rome, affording him the opportunity to study Roman law under Quintus Mucius Scaevola. Cicero's fellow students were Gaius Marius Minor, Servius Sulpicius Rufus (who became a famous lawyer, one of the few whom Cicero considered superior to himself in legal matters), and Titus Pomponius. The latter two became Cicero's friends for life, and Pomponius (who received the cognomen "Atticus" for his philhellenism) would become Cicero's chief emotional support and adviser.
In the late 90's and early 80's BC Cicero fell in love with philosophy, which was to have a great role in his life. He would eventually introduce Greek philosophy to the Romans and create a philosophical vocabulary for it in Latin. In 87 BC, Philo of Larissa, the head of the Academy that was founded by Plato in Athens about 300 years earlier, arrived in Rome. Cicero, "inspired by an extraordinary zeal for philosophy", sat enthusiastically at his feet and absorbed Plato's philosophy, even calling Plato his god. He most admired Plato's moral and political seriousness, but he also respected his breadth of imagination. Cicero nonetheless rejected Plato's theory of Ideas.
Cicero married Terentia probably at the age of 27, in 79 BC. The marriage, which was a marriage of convenience, was harmonious for some 30 years. Terentia was of patrician background and a wealthy heiress, both important concerns for the ambitious young man that Cicero was at this time. One of her sisters, or a cousin, had been chosen to become a Vestal Virgin – a very great honour. Terentia was a strong-willed woman and (citing Plutarch) "she took more interest in her husband's political career than she allowed him to take in household affairs". She was a pious and probably a rather down-to-earth person.
In the 40s Cicero's letters to Terentia became shorter and colder. He complained to his friends that Terentia had betrayed him but did not specify in which sense. Perhaps the marriage simply could not outlast the strain of the political upheaval in Rome, Cicero's involvement in it, and various other disputes between the two. The divorce appears to have taken place in 45 BC. In late 46 BC Cicero married a young girl, Publilia, who had been his ward. It is thought that Cicero needed her money, particularly after having to repay the dowry of Terentia, who came from a wealthy family. This marriage did not last long.
It is commonly known that Cicero held great love for his daughter Tullia, although his marriage to Terentia was one of convenience. When she suddenly became ill in February 45 BC and died after having seemingly recovered from giving birth to a son in January, Cicero was stunned. "I have lost the one thing that bound me to life" he wrote to Atticus. Atticus told him to come for a visit during the first weeks of his bereavement, so that he could comfort him when his pain was at its greatest. In Atticus' large library, Cicero read everything that the Greek philosophers had written about overcoming grief, "but my sorrow defeats all consolation. Caesar and Brutus sent him letters of condolence.
Cicero hoped that his son Marcus would become a philosopher like him, but Marcus himself wished for a military career. He joined the army of Pompey in 49 BC and after Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus 48 BC, he was pardoned by Caesar. Cicero sent him to Athens to study as a disciple of the peripatetic philosopher Kratippos in 48 BC, but he used this absence from "his father's vigilant eye" to "eat, drink and be merry. After his father's murder he joined the army of the Liberatores but was later pardoned by Augustus. Augustus' bad conscience for having put Cicero on the proscription list during the Second Triumvirate led him to aid considerably Marcus Minor's career. He became an augur, and was nominated consul in 30 BC together with Augustus, and later appointed proconsul of Syria and the province of Asia.
In 79 BC, Cicero left for Greece, Asia Minor and Rhodes, perhaps due to the potential wrath of Sulla. Cicero travelled to Athens, where he again met Atticus, who had become an honorary citizen of Athens and introduced Cicero to some significant Athenians. In Athens, Cicero visited the sacred sites of the philosophers. But first and foremost he consulted different rhetoricians in order to learn a less exhausting style of speaking. His chief instructor was the rhetorician Apollonius Molon of Rhodes. He instructed Cicero in a more expansive and less intense form of oratory that would define Cicero's individual style in years to come.
Cicero grew up in a time of civil unrest and war. Sulla's victory in the first of many civil wars led to a new constitutional framework that undermined libertas (liberty), the fundamental value of the Roman Republic. Nonetheless, Sulla's reforms strengthened the position of the equestrian class, contributing to that class's growing political power. Cicero was both an Italian eques and a novus homo, but more importantly he was a Roman constitutionalist. His social class and loyalty to the Republic ensured he would "command the support and confidence of the people as well as the Italian middle classes." The fact that the optimates faction never truly accepted Cicero undermined his efforts to reform the Republic while preserving the constitution. Nevertheless, he was able to successfully ascend the Roman cursus honorum, holding each magistracy at or near the youngest possible age: quaestor in 75 (age 31), curule aedile in 69 (age 37), praetor in 66 (age 40), and finally consul at age 43.
Catiline fled and left behind his followers to start the revolution from within while Catiline assaulted the city with an army of "moral bankrupts and honest fanatics". Catiline had attempted to involve the Allobroges, a tribe of Transalpine Gaul, in their plot, but Cicero, working with the Gauls, was able to seize letters which incriminated the five conspirators and forced them to confess their crimes in front of the Senate.
The Senate then deliberated upon the conspirators' punishment. As it was the dominant advisory body to the various legislative assemblies rather than a judicial body, there were limits to its power; however, martial law was in effect, and it was feared that simple house arrest or exile — the standard options — would not remove the threat to the state. At first most in the Senate spoke for the "extreme penalty"; many were then swayed by Julius Caesar, who decried the precedent it would set and argued in favor of life imprisonment in various Italian towns. Cato then rose in defence of the death penalty and all the Senate finally agreed on the matter. Cicero had the conspirators taken to the Tullianum, the notorious Roman prison, where they were strangled. Cicero himself accompanied the former consul Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, one of the conspirators, to the Tullianum. Cicero received the honorific "Pater Patriae" for his efforts to suppress the conspiracy, but lived thereafter in fear of trial or exile for having put Roman citizens to death without trial.
In 58 BC Publius Clodius Pulcher, the tribune of the plebs, introduced a law threatening exile to anyone who executed a Roman citizen without a trial. Cicero, having executed members of the Catiline conspiracy four years before without formal trial, and having had a public falling-out with Clodius, was clearly the intended target of the law. Cicero argued that the senatus consultum ultimum indemnified him from punishment, and he attempted to gain the support of the senators and consuls, especially of Pompey. When help was not forthcoming, he went into exile. He arrived at Thessalonica, Greece on May 23, 58 BC. Cicero's exile caused him to fall into depression. He wrote to Atticus: "Your pleas have prevented me from committing suicide. But what is there to live for? Don't blame me for complaining. My afflictions surpass any you ever heard of earlier". Cicero returned from exile on August 5, 57 BC, and landed in Brundisium. He was greeted by a cheering crowd, and, to his delight, his beloved daughter Tullia.
The struggle between Pompey and Julius Caesar grew more intense in 50 BC. Cicero, rather forced to pick sides, chose to favor Pompey, but at the same time he prudently avoided openly alienating Caesar. When Caesar invaded Italy in 49 BC, Cicero fled Rome. Caesar, seeking the legitimacy that endorsement by a senior senator would provide, courted Cicero's favor, but even so Cicero slipped out of Italy and in June traveled to Dyrrachium (Epidamnos), Illyria, where Pompey's staff was situated. Cicero traveled with the Pompeian forces to Pharsalus in 48 BC, though he was quickly losing faith in the competence and righteousness of the Pompeian lot. Eventually, he provoked the hostility of his fellow senator Cato, who told him that he would have been of more use to the cause of the optimates if he had stayed in Rome. After Caesar's victory at Pharsalus, Cicero returned to Rome only very cautiously. Caesar pardoned him and Cicero tried to adjust to the situation and maintain his political work, hoping that Caesar might revive the Republic and its institutions.
In a letter to Varro on c. April 20 46 BC, Cicero outlined his strategy under Caesar's dictatorship. Cicero, however, was taken completely by surprise when the Liberatores assassinated Caesar on the ides of March, 44 BC. Cicero was not included in the conspiracy, even though the conspirators were sure of his sympathy. Marcus Junius Brutus called out Cicero's name, asking him to "restore the Republic" when he lifted the bloodstained dagger after the assassination. A letter Cicero wrote in February 43 BC to Trebonius, one of the conspirators, began, "How I could wish that you had invited me to that most glorious banquet on the Ides of March"! Cicero became a popular leader during the period of instability following the assassination. He had no respect for Mark Antony, who was scheming to take revenge upon Caesar's murderers. In exchange for amnesty for the assassins, he arranged for the Senate to agree not to declare Caesar to have been a tyrant, which allowed the Caesarians to have lawful support.
Cicero and Antony then became the two leading men in Rome; Cicero as spokesman for the Senate and Antony as consul, leader of the Caesarian faction, and unofficial executor of Caesar's public will. The two men had never been on friendly terms and their relationship worsened after Cicero made it clear that he felt Antony to be taking unfair liberties in interpreting Caesar's wishes and intentions. When Octavian, Caesar's heir and adopted son, arrived in Italy in April, Cicero formed a plan to play him against Antony. In September he began attacking Antony in a series of speeches he called the Philippics, in honor of his inspiration – Demosthenes. Praising Octavian, he said that the young man only desired honor and would not make the same mistake as his adoptive father. During this time, Cicero's popularity as a public figure was unrivalled.
Cicero supported Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus as governor of Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina) and urged the Senate to name Antony an enemy of the state. The speech of Lucius Piso, Caesar's father-in-law, delayed proceedings against Antony. Antony was later declared an enemy of the state when he refused to lift the siege of Mutina, which was in the hands of Decimus Brutus. Cicero's plan to drive out Antony failed. Antony and Octavian reconciled and allied with Lepidus to form the Second Triumvirate after the successive battles of Forum Gallorum and Mutina. The Triumvirate began proscribing their enemies and potential rivals immediately after legislating the alliance into official existence for a term of five years with consular imperium. Cicero and all of his contacts and supporters were numbered among the enemies of the state, and reportedly, Octavian argued for two days against Cicero being added to the list.
Cicero was one of the most viciously and doggedly hunted among the proscribed. Cicero was viewed with sympathy by a large segment of the public and many people refused to report that they had seen him. Cicero was caught December 7, 43 BC leaving his villa in Formiae in a litter going to the seaside where he hoped to embark on a ship destined for Macedonia. When the assassins arrived Cicero's own slaves said they had not seen him, but he was given away by Philologus, a freed slave of his brother Quintus Cicero.
Cicero's last words were said to have been, "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly." He was decapitated by his pursuers. Once discovered, he bowed to his captors, leaning his head out of the litter in a gladiatorial gesture to ease the task. By baring his neck and throat to the soldiers, he was indicating that he wouldn't resist. His hands were cut off as well and nailed and displayed along with the head on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum according to the tradition of Marius and Sulla, both of whom had displayed the heads of their enemies in the Forum. Cicero was the only victim of the proscriptions to be displayed in that manner. According to Cassius Dio (in a story often mistakenly attributed to Plutarch), Antony's wife Fulvia took Cicero's head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with her hairpin in final revenge against Cicero's power of speech.
Cicero's son, Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor, during his year as a consul in 30 BC, avenged his father's death somewhat when he announced to the Senate Mark Antony's naval defeat at Actium in 31 BC by Octavian and his capable commander-in-chief Agrippa. In the same meeting the Senate voted to prohibit all future Antonius descendants from using the name Marcus. Octavian would later come upon one of his grandsons reading a book authored by Cicero. The boy tried to conceal the book, fearing the reaction of his grandfather. Octavian, now called Augustus, took the book from his grandson, read a part of it, and then handed the volume back, saying: "He was a learned man, dear child, a learned man who loved his country".
Cicero remained the "Republic's last true friend" as he spoke out for his ideals and of the libertas (freedom) the Romans enjoyed for centuries. Cicero's vision had some fundamental flaws. It harked back to a 'golden age' that may never have existed. Cicero's idea of the concordia ordinum was too idealistic. Also, Roman institutions had failed to keep pace with Rome's enormous expansion. The Republic had reached such a state of disrepair that regardless of Cicero's talents and passion, Rome lacked "persons loyal to [the Republic] to trust with armies." Cicero lacked the political power and any military skill or resources, to enforce his ideal. He also failed to a certain extent to recognize the real power structures that operated in Rome, namely, the army and its generals.


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Open Compute and OpenStack are changing the datacenter world that we know and love. I thought they were having impact. Changing our OEMs and ODM products, changing what we expect from our vendors, changing the interoperability of managing infrastructure from different vendors. Changing our ability to deploy and manage grid and scale-out infrastructure. And changing how quickly and at what high level we can be innovating. I was wrong. It's happening much more quickly than I thought.
On November 20-21 we hosted LSI AIS 2013. As I mentioned in a previous post, I was lucky enough to moderate a panel about Open Compute and OpenStack – "the perfect storm." Truthfully? It felt more like sitting with two friends talking about our industry over beer. I hope to pick up that conversation again someday.
The panelists were awesome: Cole Crawford of Open Compute and Chris Kemp of OpenStack. These guys are not only influential. They have been involved from the very start of these two initiatives, and are in many ways key drivers of both movements. These are impressive, passionate guys who really are changing the world. There aren't too many of us who can claim that. It was an engaging hour that I learned quite a bit from, and I think the audience did too. I wanted to share from my notes what I took away from that panel. I think you'll be interested.
Goals and Vision: two "open source" initiatives
There were a few motivations behind Open Compute, and the goal was to improve these things.
The goal then, for the first time, is to work backwards from workload and create open source hardware and infrastructure that is openly available and designed from the start for large scale-out deployments. The idea is to drive high efficiency in cost, materials use and energy consumption. More work/$.
One surprising thing that came up – LSI is in every current contribution in Open Compute.
OpenStack layers services that describe abstractions of computer networking and storage. LSI products tend to sit at that lowest level of abstraction, where there is now a wave of innovation. OpenStack had similar fragmentation issues to deal with and its goals are something like:
There is a certain amount of compatibility with Amazon's cloud services. Chris's point was that Amazon is incredibly innovative and a lot of enterprises should use it, but OpenStack enables both service providers and private clouds to compete with Amazon, and it allows unique innovation to evolve on top of it.
OpenStack and Open Compute are not products. They are "standards" or platform architectures, with companies using those standards to innovate on top of them. The idea is for one company to innovate on another's improvements – everybody building on each other's work. A huge brain trust. The goal is to create a competitive ecosystem and enable a rapid pace of innovation, and enable large-scale, inexpensive infrastructure that can be managed by a small team of people, and can be managed like a single server to solve massive scale problems.
Here's their thought. Hardware is a supply chain management game + services. Open Compute is an opportunity for anyone to supply that infrastructure. And today, OEMs are killer at that. But maybe ODMs can be too. Open Compute allows innovation on top of the basic interoperable platforms. OpenStack enables a framework for innovation on top as well: security, reliability, storage, network, performance. It becomes the enabler for innovation, and it provides an "easy" way for startups to plug into a large, vibrant ecosystem. And for customers – someone said its "exa data without exadollar"…
As a result, the argument is this should be good for OEMs and ISVs, and help create a more innovative ecosystem and should also enable more infrastructure capacity to create new and better services. I'm not convinced that will happen yet, but it's a laudable goal, and frankly that promise is part of what is appealing to LSI.
Open Compute and OpenStack are "peanut butter and jelly"
Ok – if you're outside of the US, that may not mean much to you. But if you've lived in the US, you know that means they fit perfectly, and make something much greater together than their humble selves.
Graham Weston, Chairman of the Rackspace Board, was the one who called these two "peanut butter and jelly."
Cole and Chris both felt the initiatives are co-enabling, and probably co-travelers too. Sure they can and will deploy independently, but OpenStack enables the management of large scale clusters, which really is not easy. Open Compute enables lower cost large-scale manageable clusters to be deployed. Together? Large-scale clusters that can be installed and deployed more affordably, and easily without hiring a cadre of rare experts.
Personally? I still think they are both a bit short of being ready for "prime time" – or broad deployment, but Cole and Chris gave me really valid arguments to show me I'm wrong. I guess we'll see.
US or global vision?
I asked if these are US-centric or global visions. There were no qualms – these are global visions. This is just the 3rd anniversary of OpenStack, but even so, there are OpenStack organizations in more than 100 countries, 750 active contributors, and large-scale deployments in datacenters that you probably use every day – especially in China and the US. Companies like PayPal and Yahoo, Rackspace, Baidu, Sina Weibo, Alibaba, JD, and government agencies and HPC clusters like CERN, NASA, and China Defense.
Open Compute is even younger – about 2 years old. (I remember – I was invited to the launch). Even so, most of Facebook's infrastructure runs on Open Compute. Two Wall Street banks have deployed large clusters, with more coming, and Riot Games, which uses Open Compute infrastructure, drives 3% of the global network traffic with League of Legends. (A complete aside – one of my favorite bands to workout with did a lot of that game's music, and the live music at the League of Legends competition a few months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWU4QvC09uM – not for everyone, but I like it.)
Both Cole and Chris emailed me more data after the fact on who is using these initiatives. I have to say – they are right. It really has taken off globally, especially OpenStack in the fast-paced Chinese market this year.
Book: 4th Paradigm – A tribute to computer science researcher Jim Grey
Cole and Chris mentioned a book during the panel discussion. A book I had frankly never heard of. It's called the 4th Paradigm. It was a series of papers dedicated to researcher Jim Grey, who was a quiet but towering figure that I believe I met once at Microsoft Research. The book was put together by Gordon Bell, someone who I have met, and have profound respect for. And there are mentions of people, places, and things that have been woven through my (long) career. I think I would sum up its thesis in a quote from Jim Grey near the start of the book:
"We have to do better producing tools to support the whole research cycle – from data capture and data curation to data analysis and data visualization."
This is stunningly similar to the very useful big data framework we have been using recently at LSI: "capture, hold, analyze"… I guess we should have added visualize, but that doesn't have too much to do with LSI's business.
As an aside, I would recommend this book for the background and inspiration in why we as an industry are trying to solve many of these computer science problems, and how transformational the impact might be. I mean really transformational in the world around us, what we know, what we can do, and how quickly we can do it – which is tightly related to our CEO's keynote and the vision video at AIS.
Demos at AIS: "peanut butter and jelly" - and bread?
Ok – I'm struggling for analogy. We had an awesome demo at AIS that Chris and Cole pointed out during the panel. It was originally built using Nebula's TOR appliance, Open Compute hardware, and LSI's storage magic to make it complete. The three pieces coming together. Tasty. The Open Compute hardware was swapped out last minute (for safety, those boxes were meant for the datacenter – not the showcase in a hotel with tipsy techies) and were generously supplied by Supermicro.
I don't think the proto was close to any one of our visions, but even as it stood, it inspired a lot of people, and would make a great product. A short rack of servers, with pooled storage in the rack, OpenStack orchestrating the point and click spawning and tear down of dynamically sized LUNs of different characteristics under the Cinder presentation layer, and deployment of tasks or VMs on them.
We're working on completing our joint vision. I think the industry will be very impressed when they see it. Chris thinks people will be stunned, and the industry will be changed.
Catalyzing the market… The future may be closer than we think…
Ultimately, this is all about economics. We're in the middle of an unprecedented bifurcation in IT use. On one hand we're running existing apps on new, dense enterprise hardware using VMs to layer many applications on few servers. On the other, we're investing in applications to run at scale across inexpensive clusters of commodity hardware. This has spawned a split in IT vendor business units, product lines and offerings, and sometimes even IT infrastructure management in the datacenter.
New applications and services are needing more infrastructure, and are getting more expensive to power, cool, purchase, run. And there is pressure to transform the datacenter from a cost center into a profit center. As these innovations start, more companies will need scale infrastructure, arguably Open Compute, and then will need an Openstack framework to deploy it quickly.
Whats this mean? With a combination of big data and mobile device services driving economic value, we may be at the point where these clusters start to become mainstream. As an industry we're already seeing a slight decline in traditional IT equipment sales and a rapid growth in scale-out infrastructure sales. If that continues, then OpenStack and Open Compute are a natural fit. The deployment rate uptick in life sciences, oil and gas, financials this year – really anywhere there is large-scale Hadoop, big data or analytics – may be the start of that growth curve. But both Chris and Cole felt it would probably take 5 years to truly take off.
Time to Wrap Up
I asked Chris and Cole for audience takeaways. Theirs were pretty simple, though possibly controversial in an industry like ours.
Hardware vendors should think about products and how they interface and what abstractions they present and how they fit into the ecosystem. These new ecosystems should allow them to easily plug in. For example, storage under Cinder can be quickly and easily morphed – that's what we did with our demo.
We should be designing new software to run on distributed scale-out systems in clouds. Chris went on to say their code name was "Maestro" because it orchestrates like in a symphony, bringing things together in a beautiful way. He said "make instruments for the artists out there." The brain trust. Look for their brushstrokes.
Innovate in the open, and leverage the open initiatives that are available to accelerate innovation and efficiency.
On your next IT purchase, try an RFP with an Open Compute vendor. Cole said you might be surprised. Worst case, you may get a better deal from your existing vendor.
So, Open Compute and Openstack are changing the datacenter world that we know and love. I thought these were having a quick impact, changing our OEMs and ODM products, changing what we expect from our vendors, changing the interoperability of managing infrastructure from different vendors, changing our ability to deploy and manage grid and scale-out infrastructure, and changing how quickly and at what high level we can be innovating. I was wrong. It's happening much more quickly than even I thought.
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The Sermon of the Beatitudes (La sermon des béatitudes)
Jesus now has a significant following, demonstrated visually by the crowd stretching along narrow paths from the distant shores of a lake all the way to the peak of the mountain; he preaches with hands upraised to a group of men, women, and children. In the episode illustrated here, often called the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus enunciates many of the key moral and ethical tenets of his ministry. In the beatitudes, he identifies the blessed among the community— including the meek, the righteous, the peacemakers, and the persecuted—and offers consolation to those who suffer, indicating that they will receive their reward in the kingdom of heaven.
- Portfolio/Series: The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ)
- Artist: James Tissot, French, 1836-1902
- Medium: Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
- Place Made: France
- Dates: 1886-1896
- Dimensions: Image: 9 5/8 x 6 7/16 in. (24.4 x 16.4 cm) Sheet: 9 5/8 x 6 7/16 in. (24.4 x 16.4 cm) Frame: 20 x 15 x 1 1/2 in. (50.8 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed bottom right: "J.J. Tissot"
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- Caption: James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Sermon of the Beatitudes (La sermon des béatitudes), 1886-1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 5/8 x 6 7/16 in. (24.4 x 16.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.124
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