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REDMOND, Wash., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reddy Ice, a Dallas-based firm that manufactures and distributes 1.8 million tons of ice per year, has improved productivity, reduced IT infrastructure and increased network security by migrating to a Microsoft Hyper-V Server environment. In switching to a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement in the process, the company has reduced licensing costs and launched a sweeping IT modernization.
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Roughly 600 of Reddy Ice's 3,000 employees operate PCs at 58 manufacturing facilities and 67 distribution centers located throughout the U.S. In June 2010, the company's IT environment consisted of 40 standalone servers, most of which ran Windows Server 2003 on outdated hardware and relied on local disk storage. IT staff members spent much of their time responding to disk-space overload, which resulted in a reactive environment and high levels of email downtime. To address the problem, the IT vice president ordered a pilot test of Google Mail and had the company's five email servers moved to VMware as part of a virtualization initiative.
New IT Manager Assesses Challenges
Google Mail, however, didn't work well with the company's Microsoft Outlook messaging platform, which users didn't want to give up. "People couldn't see one another's calendars; their appointments randomly disappeared, and some email rules didn't work," said Steven Williams, who joined Reddy Ice as IT manager in the midst of the pilot test. In addition, the company still experienced frequent email outages with VMware, and only one of the company's five IT staff was certified to administer it.
When the company's chief administrative officer took over as acting IT head, Williams made the case that it would be 8 percent less expensive — and far better for users — to fix the existing Microsoft Exchange Server environment rather than going with Google Mail. For starters, this would mean upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
Enterprise Licensing Agreement Paves the Way
Before setting his plan in motion, Williams upgraded the company's Microsoft Select Agreement to an Enterprise Agreement. This provided the best possible pricing, as well as more flexibility in evaluating and deploying new software. It also gave the IT team enhanced support, access to TechNet and all the advantages of Microsoft Software Assurance.
By March 2011, the team had migrated Reddy Ice's email from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010. Although email downtime had decreased, it still hadn't reached an acceptable level. The team tried replacing the VMware with Microsoft Hyper-V Server virtualization technology in the Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition operating system.
"We moved one instance of Exchange Server 2010 to Hyper-V and found that it ran a lot better," Williams said. "It was also easier to diagnose and fix anything that did go wrong." Since completing the migration of its entire Exchange Server 2010 environment to Microsoft Hyper-V Server, the IT team has enjoyed virtually trouble-free operation.
Building Continues on Microsoft Hyper-V Server Foundation
The move to Microsoft Hyper-V Server during the past year has enabled Reddy Ice to reduce its 40 physical servers to 15. Systems administrator Erik Tillisch estimates that this has eliminated 40 hours per week formerly spent on maintaining, supporting and backing up standalone servers.
The company will cut costs significantly by standardizing on the latest Microsoft software. In addition to the 8 percent savings achieved by upgrading the Exchange Server environment rather than outsourcing to Google Mail, Tillisch estimates that completing the transition from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V Server will save another 7–10 percent.
"With the latest Microsoft software, we're delivering more business capabilities with fewer IT headcount at reduced cost," Tillisch said. "We've made major progress over the past year, and everyone is excited about the new opportunities that lie ahead as we work to get the most out of our Enterprise Agreement."
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|East Massapequa, New York, U.S.
|1 Sunrise Mall, Massapequa, NY 11758
|Opening date
|August 30, 1973
|Muss-Tankoos Corporation
|Westfield Group
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|130+ [2]
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|3 (1 Vacant)
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Westfield Sunrise, commonly known as Sunrise Mall,[1] is a shopping mall located in East Massapequa, New York. The mall originally opened on August 30, 1973 as the first 2-level shopping center on Long Island. It later underwent a major remodel in 1991 and it was acquired by the Westfield Group in 2005.[2] The main anchor tenants include Macy*s, Sears, and JCPenney. The entrance from the west side parking lot is to the second floor of the mall and the entrance to the east side is on the first floor.
In the 1970s, fish aquariums were featured in the mall. And for many years, Westfield Sunrise featured indoor water fountains and also duck ponds. Both have since been replaced by children's play areas and Koi fish ponds, respectively.
On Saturday, August 4, 1984, more than 6,000 people were forced to leave Westfield Sunrise after a power failure cut off lights and air-conditioning to its shops and walkways. The blackout occurred at 2:30 P.M.[3]
In 2003, a food court was placed in the mall near Sears in the former second floor of Woolworth's, and a new glass elevator was placed near the food court for easier access. It was removed and replaced with another elevator (not glass) because the koi pond had to be moved down for a play area.
On June 7, 2007, a 19 year old man drove through the mall with his 1995 Toyota, causing over $60,000 worth of damage.[4] On Christmas Eve, 2007, two anonymous gentlemen handed out $100 bills to pleasantly surprised shoppers.[5]
The mall is served by several bus routes in the area. It is currently served by the N19, N54/N55, N71, and N80/N81, run by Nassau Inter-County Express, as well as the S20 and S33, operated by Suffolk County Transit.
Walmart announced the closure of its store in the mall in January 2015. The final day of Walmart's operation is March 6, 2015. The Store surprisingly closed on that day at 6:00pm [6]
Former anchors[edit]
- E. J. Korvette (Opened 1973, closed 1980. Replaced by Abraham & Straus)
- Abraham & Straus (Opened March 1982, closed 1995. Replaced by Stern's)
- Stern's (Opened 1983 in former Gertz, Moved to former Abraham & Straus building in 1995, closed 2001. Replaced by Walmart)
- Gertz (Opened 1973, became Stern's in 1983. Stern's moved to former Abraham & Straus store in 1995. Replaced by Sears)
- Walmart (Opened in May 2003, closed March 2015. Currently vacant.)
See also[edit]
- ^ Westfield Sunrise
- ^ "Westfield Corp". Westfield.com. 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- ^ Berger, Joseph (1984-08-05). "POWER FAILS AT MALL ON L.I., FORCING OUT 6,000 - NYTimes.com". Massapequa (Ny): Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Long Island News, Videos & Photos". Newsday. 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- ^ "Walmart to close Massapequa store in March". Newsday. 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
External links[edit]
- Official Westfield Sunrise Site
- Article about Walmart at Westfield Sunrise
- Article about how the mall was updated for the 1990s
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Platfora is a fundamentally different kind of BI platform. It transforms raw data in Hadoop into scale-out, in-memory BI without the need for a traditional data warehouse. Business users are presented with powerful and easy-to-use web-based interface for exploring and analyzing big data. This is the first product of its kind to use HTML5 canvas technology, enabling collaborative data analysis across any device or platform.
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Platfora changes the way businesses use data. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, we put the power of big data in the hands of people who need it most, the end users. Platfora makes Hadoop amazing. Platfora is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and In-Q-Tel. For more details, visit www.platfora.com and follow us @platfora.
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Previous Sutter Hill Ventures portfolio companies include NVIDIA, NetApp, Data Domain, Alteon Networks, Youku, and others. Current companies in the SHV portfolio include Pure Storage, Sumo Logic, Platfora, Glassdoor, Ruckus Wireless, and others.
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"We have a tagline - "Power in the API Economy." What that means is everything that is built in applications and connected applications is done through APIs," explained Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at Akana, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems. What does this mean for today's IT professional? In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed this very serious issue of profound change in the industry.
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Red Hat's Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems, described how to revolutionize your archit...
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Internet of Things is moving from being a hype to a reality. Experts estimate that internet connected cars will grow to 152 million, while over 100 million internet connected wireless light bulbs and lamps will be operational by 2020. These and many other intriguing statistics highlight the importance of Internet powered devices and how market penetration is going to multiply many times over in the next few years.
Jul. 1, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,152
Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, discussed how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust IoT ...
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Today air travel is a minefield of delays, hassles and customer disappointment. Airlines struggle to revitalize the experience. GE and M2Mi will demonstrate practical examples of how IoT solutions are helping airlines bring back personalization, reduce trip time and improve reliability. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with GE, and Dr. Sarah Cooper, M2Mi's VP Business Development and Engineering, will explore the IoT cloud-based platform technologies driving this change including privacy controls, data transparency and integration of real time context wi...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that BMC will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. BMC has worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, BMC pairs high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization – allowing customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT per...
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There will be 150 billion connected devices by 2020. New digital businesses have already disrupted value chains across every industry. APIs are at the center of the digital business. You need to understand what assets you have that can be exposed digitally, what their digital value chain is, and how to create an effective business model around that value chain to compete in this economy. No enterprise can be complacent and not engage in the digital economy. Learn how to be the disruptor and not the disruptee.
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The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems. What does this mean for today's IT professional? In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will addresses this very serious issue of profound change in the industry.
Jun. 29, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,554
Business as usual for IT is evolving into a "Make or Buy" decision on a service-by-service conversation with input from the LOBs. How does your organization move forward with cloud? In his general session at 16th Cloud Expo, Paul Maravei, Regional Sales Manager, Hybrid Cloud and Managed Services at Cisco, discusses how Cisco and its partners offer a market-leading portfolio and ecosystem of cloud infrastructure and application services that allow you to uniquely and securely combine cloud business applications and services across multiple cloud delivery models.
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In his General Session at 16th Cloud Expo, David Shacochis, host of The Hybrid IT Files podcast and Vice President at CenturyLink, investigated three key trends of the "gigabit economy" though the story of a Fortune 500 communications company in transformation. Narrating how multi-modal hybrid IT, service automation, and agile delivery all intersect, he will cover the role of storytelling and empathy in achieving strategic alignment between the enterprise and its information technology.
Jun. 27, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,274
Buzzword alert: Microservices and IoT at a DevOps conference? What could possibly go wrong? In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by Jason Bloomberg, the leading expert on architecting agility for the enterprise and president of Intellyx, panelists peeled away the buzz and discuss the important architectural principles behind implementing IoT solutions for the enterprise. As remote IoT devices and sensors become increasingly intelligent, they become part of our distributed cloud environment, and we must architect and code accordingly. At the very least, you'll have no problem fillin...
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Growth hacking is common for startups to make unheard-of progress in building their business. Career Hacks can help Geek Girls and those who support them (yes, that's you too, Dad!) to excel in this typically male-dominated world. Get ready to learn the facts: Is there a bias against women in the tech / developer communities? Why are women 50% of the workforce, but hold only 24% of the STEM or IT positions? Some beginnings of what to do about it! In her Opening Keynote at 16th Cloud Expo, Sandy Carter, IBM General Manager Cloud Ecosystem and Developers, and a Social Business Evangelist, d...
Jun. 26, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,142
Converging digital disruptions is creating a major sea change - Cisco calls this the Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE is the network connection of People, Process, Data and Things, fueled by Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics and Security, and it represents a $19Trillion value-at-stake over the next 10 years. In her keynote at @ThingsExpo, Manjula Talreja, VP of Cisco Consulting Services, discussed IoE and the enormous opportunities it provides to public and private firms alike. She will share what businesses must do to thrive in the IoE economy, citing examples from several industry sectors.
Jun. 25, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,043
In his keynote at 16th Cloud Expo, Rodney Rogers, CEO of Virtustream, discussed the evolution of the company from inception to its recent acquisition by EMC – including personal insights, lessons learned (and some WTF moments) along the way. Learn how Virtustream's unique approach of combining the economics and elasticity of the consumer cloud model with proper performance, application automation and security into a platform became a breakout success with enterprise customers and a natural fit for the EMC Federation.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that the "Second Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, and the "Third Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place June 7-9, 2016, at Javits Center in New York City. Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and enterprise IT communities.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that the "First Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. The "Second Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place November 3-5, 2015, at Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and enterprise IT communities.
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With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo in Silicon Valley. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal an...
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From Jonathan, at "Ponder Anew" – "Dear Church: An open letter from one of those millennials you can't figure out".
Worship as the "Pulsating of a Common Life"
Ralph Martin writes: "The worship of the church means the pulsating of a 'common life' (koinonia) that flows through the body of Christ and in which the individuals participate through their baptism by one Spirit into one body (see 1 Cor. 12:13). To conceptualize the church at worship as made up of isolated units, however personal, each worshiping in a self-contained compartment, however closely associated, is really to mistake what the New Testament means by the church. As E. Schweizer well illustrates, the ideal set forth in the pages of the apostolic church is that of fellowship-in-worship. He deals critically with the latter-day notion of the Christian community as split between one speaker and a silent body of listeners; and equally his study rebukes the excessive individualism of what passes for worship in many modern churches. Recovery of the wholeness of the church's life as 'life together' in Christ, in Bonhoeffer's phrase, would go a long way to set our worship as a corporate exercise on a stable basis, and deliver modern congregations from 'ministerial monopoly' with one person conducting a virtuoso performance on the one side, and overemphasis on the narrowly individualistic–such as a disfigured Corinthian assembly where koinonia had tragically broken down–on the other" (The Worship of God: Some Theological, Pastoral, and Practical Reflections,12-13).
In the coming weeks, and months, I'll be writing more about this topic, because it really goes to the heart of a shift I've experienced in my life and my theology. I'll be posting more about the intersections of liturgy and practical ministry. God has given me many opportunities to get into the nitty-gritty, painful, work of walking alongside people in really messed-up situations. In a sense, I've been forced out of my "ivory-tower" of academic scholarship. In another sense, I've been encouraged that I'm in good company with many other faithful scholars who have gone before me. So, no new revelations will be forth-coming, but I will be sharing some of the wisdom that I've found, wisdom that's been neglected.
New Church Added – Christ Our King Presbyterian Church (Columbia, MO)
More Relevant "Worship" or More Relevant Mission?
Here's a great piece by Jonathan, at Ponder Anew. Jonathan exposes some assumptions and problems with "contemporary worship," but I especially love his conclusion. The way to grow churches is not through flashy concert-performances, but by living out missional lives in our communities. The whole article is worth reading, but here's Jonathan's conclusion:
"So what happens, then, if we don't craft our worship services to attract unbelievers?
We'll have to get serious again about Sunday. All of us. And then as the clock strikes noon, we'll have to go.
Go out and feed the hungry.
Go out and clothe the naked.
Go out and associate with people who don't look like us, don't think like us, don't act like us, don't vote like us, and don't usually like us.
Go out and fight for justice.
Go out and end oppression.
Go out and proclaim anew the old, old story.
Go out and reach out to those who are running from God and God's church.
Go out and stop deflecting tough questions with our usual, tired cliches.
And do all of this in the name of the one who sent us.
And then open the doors wide again on Sunday morning."
Charles Baird's "A Chapter on Liturgies"–Free!
I recently discovered that one of the classic texts on Presbyterian & Reformed liturgies is now available for free on Google Books! Charles Baird's A Chapter on Liturgies: Historical Sketches was a ground-breaking work published in the late 1800s, when many people were ignorant of the rich liturgical history of the Reformed churches. Baird's project was so novel (given the anti-liturgical prejudices in the Reformed world at the time) that he published the first edition of the work anonymously. It bore the unwieldy title of Eutaxia; Or the Presbyterian Liturgies: Historical Sketches, by A Minister of the Presbyterian Church (now republished by Forgotten Books in a facsimile format). Although the research is dated and must be compared with more recent scholarship, it is well worth perusing. Unfortunately, much ignorance and prejudice about liturgy still prevails in Reformed churches. Baird's even-handed and honest history will help many churches grow and appreciate the liturgical resources in their own traditions.
Is There Balm for Evangilead?
In his article, "The Emerging Divide in Evangelical Theology," published in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 56/2 (2013), 355-77, Gerald McDermott surveys theological and cultural developments in the Evangelical world. The article is helpful and illuminating throughout, but his three suggestions at the end of the article are directly related to the vision of the Reformed Liturgical Institute. These suggestions are given in the hopes of healing the growing divisions in the Evangelical world.
His first suggestion is, "evangelicals would have to look more seriously at their own tradition [and he then holds up Jonathan Edwards as an example of how to be faithful to both Scripture and tradition]" (376).
Secondly, "evangelical theology would need to renounce the triumphalism that has heretofore treated church history as little more than darkness before the Reformation or 18th-century awakenings. It would need to submit to a vision of the whole that can be found only by living in the whole (theological) tradition" (376).
"Third, evangelical theologians need to beware of the peculiarly academic sort of ambition that seeks acceptance and recognition by our liberal colleagues" (376).
His concluding observations are right on target: "I will go so far to say that if evangelical theology does not adopt these suggestions, it will not survive. But it will strengthen itself and preserve itself against internal dissolution if it sees itself as a reform movement in the church catholic. The monastic movements, the Christian reform movement, the Dominican preaching revival, the Franciscans, and the Reformation itself thrived and influenced the broader church by relating to and learning from the broader church. Only if evangelical theology sees itself as a renewal and reform movement raised up by the Spirit from amidst and for the purpose of the wider church catholic, and therefore learns from that universal church, will it save itself from disintegrating into even more subjectivist and individualistic sects, many of them neither evangelical nor orthodox.
"Evangelicals have always put a premium on the local church. If they have talked about the universal church, typically they have thought only in terms of the universal church of fellow evangelicals. It is time for evangelicals to look more broadly, at the universal church beyond evangelical boundaries, not only around the world today, but especially to the last two thousand years of rich theological reflection" (376-77).
Mark Buchanan on Liturgy
In his wonderful book, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath, Mark Buchanan muses on the meaning of "liturgy":
"I was converted within a Low Church tradition … Yet over time I began to realize that the Low Church is just as bound by liturgy as any church, and maybe more so because we think we're not. The Low Church enshrines–makes a liturgy of–austerity, spontaneity, informality. And we have our unwritten but nonetheless rigorously observed codes and protocols. We love our traditions, even our rigmarole, every bit as much as the next guy, only ours is earthy, rustic, folksy.
"So I changed my mind about liturgy. It certainly can become dull and rote, but so can anything … At its best, liturgy comprises the gestures by which we honor transcendent reality. It helps us give concrete expression to deepest convictions. It gives us choreography for things unseen and allows us to brush heaven among the shades of earth.
"Our most significant relationships and events have a liturgical shape to them. They have rites of passage. Birthdays and homecomings, graduations and good-byes. Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter, birth and death and marriage: all are marked by words and actions, songs and symbols, customs and traditions that enact them and complete them. And all these things also provide us with a means of entering them. What is a birthday without a cake, at least one candle burning on it, and a huddle of well-wishers, wearing clownish hats, singing in their ragged, hoary voices? What is a birthday without a liturgy?
"What liturgy accomplishes is nothing short of astonishing: It breaks open the transcendent within the ordinary and the everyday. It lets us glimpse the deeper reality–the timeless things, the universal ones, the things above–within this particular instance of it" (The Rest of God, 8-9).
Buchanan goes on to explain meaning of the Greek word for "liturgy" in its ancient context, and why it was "odd" for the early church to use it to describe its public worship. But, you'll just have to get the book and read it for yourself. It's well worth it!
Sexist Scottish Stools
We've all heard the romanticized story of how Jenny Geddes, the rustic Scotswoman, was so disturbed by the King of England's imposition of English Anglican prayers on the Scots Presbyterians, that she threw her stool at the minister in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, in 1637.
Sorting legend from historical fact here is tricky, but I've always wondered why she had a stool in the first place. Seating in churches was a relatively late development–churches throughout the early church and medieval times would have been bare of seating, for the most part. Pews are a modern development. So, if you wanted to bring seating, you had to bring your own. But, there's a more depressing side to Jenny Geddes and her stool. According to William D. Maxwell, the noted liturgical historian of the early 20th century, women were sometimes not allowed to sit with the men in Scottish Reformed churches. I will quote him at length, because he really messes with a few of our mental pictures for Scots Reformed worship:
"The attitude at prayer everywhere was kneeling, on both knees or on one knee; hats were removed for prayers, psalms, and reading, but were usually though not always worn during sermon by the preacher and the men, and the women wore plaids or shawls on their heads, and in many places sat separate from the men."
He continues in a footnote, quoting the decision of board of elders in Glasgow, in 1589: "'The session ordains that no woman sit upon or occupy the forms the men should sit on, but either sit [i.e. on the floor] or els bring stools wi' them'. Forty-eight years later [Maxwell comments] Jenny Geddes (?) obediently brought her stool with her, but allowed it to be put to more aggressive use, and this method was not the last time stools were used as weapons in church, as records of this and the succeeding century show" (William D. Maxwell, A History of Worship in the Church of Scotland, 97).
So, not only did we have Scots Presbyterians kneeling to pray (I thought that was a Roman Catholic thing!) and wearing hats in church, but we had women often segregated from the men, forced to sit on the floor or on stools they brought to church with them. Well, hopefully their husbands carried their stools to church for them. Humorous at the least, but also revealing how much of our worship is dictated by our historical context and culture.
Humility in the "Worship Wars"
"Readings & Devotions for Lent" (from the CREC)
"Readings & Devotions for Lent" from the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. Each day has meditations and prayers from various pastors within the CREC. I've been pleased with Christocentric focus and the attempt to rethink Lent in classical Protestant directions.


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CeBIT 2010: Plug Computer with UbuntuMar 02, 2010
The Cirrus Plug 3.0 from Ionics with 2GHz ARM processor, WLAN b/g, Bluetooth, and internal 120GB hard disk is about the size of a Coke can. The device is displayed at CeBIT Hall 2.more »
CeBIT 2010: Plug Computer with UbuntuMar 02, 2010
The Cirrus Plug 3.0 from Ionics with 2GHz ARM processor, WLAN b/g, Bluetooth, and internal 120GB hard disk is about the size of a Coke can. The device is displayed at CeBIT Hall 2.more »
Qt 4.6 and KDE 4.4 Test driving some new features of KDE 4.4Feb 24, 2010
Qt 4.6 passes a collection of new functionalities to KDE 4.4. We'll show you the animation framework and KDE's new multi-touch feature.more »
KDE Sub-Project for Real Time CommunicationFeb 24, 2010
Chat, instant messaging and video communication: the KDE Real Time Communication and Collaboration (RTCC) project wants to improve the integration of real time communication into the desktop environment.more »
Plasmate: Mini-IDE for PlasmoidsFeb 12, 2010
The KDE project has released a first alpha version of Plasmate. The small development environment is meant for writing Plasmoid applets for the KDE4 desktop.more »
Yoper 2010 RC1 with KDE 4.4Feb 11, 2010
Tobias Gerschner has made a release candidate of Yoper 2010 available for download. The version already includes the new KDE 4.4 as a desktop.more »
Oracle Lays Off Accessibility LeaderFeb 11, 2010
The leader of the Gnome accessibility team, Will Walker, has until now worked for the Accessibility Program Office from Sun, which after the Oracle take-over melted into the relevant APO at Oracle.more »
Absolute Linux 13.0.9 Reinstates K3bFeb 10, 2010
The new Absolute Linux, based on Slackware, provides the IceWM stacking window manager with improved multimedia support. Version 13.0.9 this time fixes more than just a couple of small bugs.more »
Issue 177/2015
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NoScript Flaw
Mozilla's script blocker add-on could be putting malware sites on the whitelist.
RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
Mate 1.1 Arrives
Popular desktop environment continues the Gnome 2 legacy – with new support for the Gnome 3 toolkit.
US Government Requires HTTPS
The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
Mozilla Signs Firefox Add-Ons
New program will dial up security for the Firefox browser.
Fedora 22 Arrives
Red Hat's community distro embraces the cloud.
Code.org and College Board Team Reach Out for Talented High School Coders
New partnership will bring more and better CS training to US schools
A Peek Inside TeslaCrypt Ransomware
Criminals offer online help over Tor network
Mumblehard Still Spams
Sophisticated malware is still present on Joomla and WordPress sites around the world.
Launchpad Gets Git
Future versions of Ubuntu's code service will support the popular Git version control system used with Linux and other open source projects.


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Remember, our first ever "Christmas In August" website sale ends at midnight on Tuesday, August 31st.
While it's too early to tell yet, it's looking like the website sale raised a net of at least seven thousand dollars for the Pearl Foundation. Nice going, folks!! In addition to that, as promised, Pat and I will be making a donation-in-kind to Nashville Public Television for every NPT Living Room Concert sold, and since we sold out, that's a good thing!!!
Special thanks go to Joan Maute, who handmade all the LRC DVD's as well as our Master Class in St. Augustine sets. From artwork to packaging, these "homemade" items have been a roaring success, and we hope to offer more of the LRC disks around the winter holiday season.
Special thanks also to Kyser Capos and Planet Waves Tuners, both of which will be sold out by the time we revert over to the regular Shopping Mall.
About those tour schedule postponements and changes... Back when I first started performing again, around 1990, I injured my left hand pretty badly while on tour in Japan. Unfortunately, it took the better part of a year for the doctors to really find out what was going on, and the injury left me with permanent problems. Many of you know that I stopped playing piano onstage due to my inability to stretch the fingers on that hand, and the danger of re-injury if I forgot myself and really bore down. Even with the guitar, I have ice packs in the dressing room and at the signing table so I can "cool it down" after a show.
When I developed "trigger finger" in the middle finger recently, I was going to ignore it, until my friend Michael Johnson said he'd done that and his finger had "locked down" on him mid-tour, in the middle of nowhere. Based on that and my surgeon's concern that disregarding it might result in further injury - not to mention my pain level - I decided to go ahead with surgery last month, trusting that I'd be able to play a full show by September. Unfortunately, my surgeon discovered on the day that not one, but two of my fingers were affected. While the surgery went well, recovery has been much slower than any of us had anticipated, necessitating daily physical therapy and severe limitations in what I can do with that hand right now - including playing. I have a great team, and I have every confidence that I'll soon be right as rain, but in the meanwhile, I had to blow out six weeks' worth of obligations. While most could be re-scheduled, several could not, including the Iowa Women's Festival. As heartsick as I am about that, there's nothing else I could do, and I hope I have your patience and understanding.
In my entire 45-year career, I've cancelled less than ten shows, all because I was hospitalized at the time. I'd hoped to finish my career with that "record" intact, but apparently, it's not to be. I know many of you can sympathize with how frustrating this is to me, whose playing is integral to her writing, performing, and being.
But. Life goes on. As I keep reminding myself, it could be much worse. And I have every confidence I'll be seeing you all later this fall, when my hand no longer looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy's and I'm playing my heart out again!
Thanks for being a part of the sale, and for all your support.
P.S. Check out Angela Aki's fantastic job - first time singing it in public, too! - on our recent piece "Every Woman's Song"!! And you can find the lyrics here.
Store Will Be Closed From June 1st through July 4th weekend.
Our website store will be closed from June 1st through July 4th weekend. During this time no physical orders can be shipped. However, you may still order digital songbooks, digital sheet music, charitable items andgear. Non-digital orders placed between now and re-opening will not ship until the week of July 6th - thanks for understanding!
Janis' WorldCon Diary From 2001 Now Online
Originally published on her website in Ocobter 2001, we've uploaded Janis' WorldCon Diary from that year. It's a great read, so head on over to the Reading Room and check it out. Or you can just access it directly and give it a read.
Stars audiobook on CD finally available here!
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian is now available in our online store as a CD audio book. Featuring original short stories by 30 top SF writers, including one by Janis, with her singing the prologue to each and narrating many.
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All tour dates updated on April 19, 2015
RiverSong Music Festival, Hutchinson, MN
RiverSong Music Festival
Hutchinson, MN
Phone: (320) 587-2599
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Janis and RiverSong have been trying to find a date that works for years now - so glad this is finally happening!


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Codebreakers: the inside story of Bletchley Park
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Familiar to anyone versed in the history of World War II or interested in the study of modern intelligence work, Bletchley Park was arguably the most successful intelligence operation in world history, the top secret workplace of the remarkable people who cracked Germany's vaunted Enigma Code. Almost to the end of the war, the Germans had firm faith in the Enigma ciphering machine, but in fact the codebreakers were deciphering nearly 4,000 German transmissions daily by 1942, reaping a wealth of information on such important matters as the effort to resupply Rommel's army in North Africa and the effect of Allied attempts to mislead the Germans about the location of D-Day landings. Indeed, Winston Churchill hailed the work of Bletchley Park as the "secret weapon" that won the war.
Only now, nearly half a century since the end of the Second World War, have any of the men and women in this group come forward to tell this remarkable story in their own words--a story that an oath of secrecy long prevented them from revealing. In Codebreakers, F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp have gathered together twenty-seven first-hand accounts of one of the most amazing feats in intelligence history. These engaging memoirs, each written by a different member of the codebreakers team, recount the long hours working in total secrecy and the feelings of camaraderie, tension, excitement, and frustration as these men and women, both British and American, did some of the most important work of the war. These talented people share not only their technical knowledge of cryptography and military logistics, but also poignant personal recollections as well. Walter Eytan, one of a handful of Jews at Betchley Park, recalls intercepting a message from a German vessel which reported that it carried Jews "en route for Piraeus zur Endlosung (for the final solution)." Eytan writes "I had never heard this expression before, but instinctively, I knew what it must mean, and I have never forgotten that moment." Vivienne Alford tells of her chilling memory of hearing that the atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, and the stillness that came over her and her co-workers in Naval Section VI. And William Millward confides that he is still haunted by the work he did in Hut 3 nearly fifty years ago. "I sometimes wonder, especially during the night, how many sailors I drowned."
Few readers will finish this book without feeling that the codebreakers were essential to the outcome of the war--and thereby of major importance in helping to shape the world we live in today.
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Sometimes, there's virtue in not quite matching. Often, I look at people wearing multiple pieces that are obviously from the same collection and see someone that would do well to think a bit harder about how to assemble an outfit. (There are, of course, exceptions.) People who've found their stylistic sweet spot often look great because they successfully combine pieces that don't intuitively belong together.
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LOVEJOY — City officials plan to vote next month on whether to lower Lovejoy's millage rate.
The city's financial advisor told the city council Monday that it would be able to reduce its millage rate for the second straight year.
The council lowered the rate from 9 mills to 7.57 mills last year and is expected to reduce it to 7.47 mills this year.
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