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In response to a July 24 FCW article highlighting the severe underestimate of the number of federal data centers, a reader who identifies himself as Peter Marshall writes:
It has been my experience in the field that not only each federal agency, but offices within each agency, and even down to the Division level have different definitions for the "Data Centers" proper. Many will define small data processing and IT equipment rooms ranging from 500 square feet to 3,000 square feet as data centers when the dynamics of the facility's primary systems and spaces allocated to data processing do not have the characteristics of a "Data Center" as the industry defines it. Therefore, OMB in conjunction with all Federal Agencies and IT components need to first gather consensus around definitions and categories of data processing spaces, rooms, and facilities prior to the development of a fed-wide inventory of "Data Centers". The biggest challenge is getting past senior management who think they are IT savvy and the IT authority within their sphere of control, when in fact their technical experience and understanding of data processing systems, facilities and strategies are limited. It is my guess that once you define the Data Center you will find that the actual numbers of Data Centers (proper) will be down and the number of other IT and data processing spaces/rooms will be up. But until then there will continue to be a disconnect between the truly IT savvy technical engineer and the upper level manager.
Frank Konkel responds: Your criticism is spot on, Peter. When pressed at the data center hearing before Congress in July about how the Office of Management and Budget underestimated the number of data centers so dramatically, the federal CIO said the dramatic increase in data center count was in large part a result of a change in the definition of the term. Previously, OMB measured data centers based on size – greater than 500 square feet – but that definition was changed to include "data centers" that might fit in your coat closet, as you allude to.
The loudest criticisms of OMB regarding data center consolidation in recent months have been the agency's lack of leadership and lack of guidance in metrics to track cost savings realized. The criticism keeps coming from Congress and from reports generated by the Government Accountability Office, which publicized the data center increase before OMB owned up to it despite reports that the agency knew about the higher data center number as early as mid-2012. And OMB's efforts at mitigating the criticism so far have fallen short. Now that FDCCI has been rolled into PortfolioStat, another IT initiative led by OMB, the agency is intent on "optimizing" rather than closing data centers, yet OMB hasn't produced any metrics that agencies could use to track savings, leading to minimal results for an initiative that launched in 2010 and was supposed to save between $3 billion and $5 billion by 2015.
As for the disconnect between IT-savvy engineers and their managers, I agree, but I think the biggest communication barrier is among OMB, GSA and the agencies charged with carrying out these executive orders and OMB mandates. If the agencies aren't given metrics to follow and repeatable plans officials can alter to fit their agency, what is the point of the initiative in the first place? Because it isn't going to save a lot of money if agencies have to figure it all out on their own.
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In order to add meaning - the term data center must be removed and the focus needs to be on any space that contains servers that represents 1. a vulnerability to a compute environment, 2. any liability to the stakeholders, and 3. the cap/ex costs, including hidden costs the servers generate. Until this is known, the discussion over how many is a diversion to the real issue that fed server sprawl represents a huge cost savings for the federal government.
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Transients were sentenced to 40 days in jail for petty larceny in this April 1935 Nobles County Times article. Next post at 11 a.m.
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In the second half, the team benched most of their starters, which allowed Prigioni and Copeland to excel. Pick-and-rolls-a-plenty allowed the Knicks to pull themselves back into the game, finally tying the game at 96-96, before heading into over-time. In overtime, the teams exchanged possessions, and it came down to one final play: Knicks were up by three, and the Celtics had the ball. Knowing the Celtics needed a three, Copeland played tight defense, and ended up securing the game-winning block.
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- Simply put, Chris Copeland earned himself a roster spot tonight, succeeding on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. He ran the pick-and-roll over and over with Pablo Prigioni, seemingly for a bucket each time. Copeland finished with 21 points on 6-11 shooting, and collected four rebounds. Tonight's showing has likely earned him a roster spot, much of which he has to thank Pablo Prigioni for.
- Speaking of Prigioni, he was awesome. He was able to control the offense, by running endless pick-and-rolls, and he also picked up two steals. He found nearly every cutter, which is really excited, since Ronnie Brewer's offensive game revolves around cutting. Prigioni-Brewer cuts could be the highlight of many games to come.
- On the note of pick-and-rolls, both Felton and Prigioni ran them quite effectively with the likes of Tyson Chandler and Chris Copeland – two players that don't possess too much offensive skill. Once Stoudemire comes back, the pick-and-roll should be a great tool to bring him back to his 2010 self.
- We've talked about two point guard lineups on the site before, and tonight, after the game, Coach Woodson said that he thinks he'll "absolutely" play Prigioni and Kidd together during the season.
- This did not feel like a pre-season game. Benches were fired up, players were talking trash, and both teams wanted to win. If nothing else, tonight's pre-season game should hype you up for the fantastic season that is to come.
- Tonight, the Knicks won without fool's gold. The Knicks shot just 3-29 from deep. Yes, just 10.3%, but they still managed to pull out a win. With the likes of Novak and Smith on the roster, the Knicks will go through stretches of endless threes, but it's important to not rely on them for the total offense, but rather as just a bonus.
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Our documentation team has put together four brand-new screencasts on current subjects. They are 5 minutes each in length and a great way to get introduced quickly to the highlights of each topic. I encourage you to have a look:
LWUIT (Lightweight User Interface Toolkit) screencast
A 5-minute overview to jump-start your understanding of LWUIT technology -- everything you need to know about what it is, why it was created, who should use it, and the functionality it offers.
JDTF (Java Device Test Framework) screencast
This brief screen cast introduces JDTF, a flexible, configurable test framework that can be used to assess various aspects of the quality of Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) device implementations.
JSR 290 (Java Language & XML User Interface Markup Integration) screencast
This brief screen cast describes Java Specification Request (JSR) 290, which enables the creation of mobile Java applications that combine Web UI markup with Java code.
This brief screen cast walks you through the highlights of the Java Card Platform, the world's largest standards-based computing platform.
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January 24, 2013
Star Tell Me Pastor
Wedding conflict
Dear Pastor,
I am 23 years old and I am engaged. My fiancé is 30 years old. We are planning to get married in August this year. He wants us to have a small wedding but I am the only child of my father. And my father said that we should have a big wedding and he would help us pay for it. You see, Pastor, my father is very proud of me. After my mother had me, she left me with my father when I was one year old and she never came back.
My father got my aunt to live with him and he paid her to take care of me. He is a good father. I don't know my mother and I don't care to know her because she abandoned me. My father said he tried to find her after she left, but he gave up when he heard that she became a Rastafarian and was living with a Rastafarian man. I love my father very much. He was very strict. I have only known him to have one other woman apart from my mother. But he did not get married. He is very proud of me, and that is why he said we should do a big wedding. He also likes my fiancé. He wants to show off on my wedding day.
When I met my fiancé and introduced him to my father, my father told him that he hopes that he will take care of me. He is the first man for me and his friends are telling him that he should try to get me pregnant first. Even his mother told him that, so he is telling me that we should get married in a small ceremony and not invite his side of the family. I don't agree with that.
His mother and I get along well, so I do not see why she wants me to get pregnant before her son and I get married.
Dear V.E.,
I am pleased to know that your father thinks highly of you, that he loves you and that you love him. However, I regret hearing that your mother abandoned you when you were one year old. Wherever she is, I hope she is happy and I hope the day will come when both of you would meet together and talk.
Your father is encouraging you to have a large wedding, and I can understand why. Some people may say that it is because he wants to show the world that he loves you and wants to give you away in style. Why should he be denied such privilege?
On the other hand, if your fiancé and you prefer to have a small ceremony, that is your prerogative. However, the reason your fiancé has given for preferring a small ceremony is not credible. He should not pay attention to the advice of his friends. And his mother ought to be ashamed of herself. No mother should tell a son that he should not get married until he has impregnated his fiancé or the one he loves.
To be frank with you, I think your fiancé is a momma's boy. I know that for sure because of what he has suggested that both of you should do. He does not want to displease his mother. But at the same time, he wants both of you to get married, so he believes that it is better for both of you to get married quietly without letting her know.
You should insist that he inform her and reject her suggestion. He is old enough to make his own decision. So whether both of you decide to have a large wedding or small wedding, that decision must be yours and not influenced by your father or your fiancé's mother.
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UIL executive director Charles Breithaupt created a splash at last year's Texas High School Coaches Association Convention when he said "it's more likely than ever" the UIL would add 6A.
But it appears like those plans are on hold -- at least for another realignment, according to a story in the San Antonio Express-News.
"We were close, but I think we'll go through this for one more (realignment). Then we'll have 6A," Breithaupt said Monday in Fort Worth.
One reason why 6A could be on the horizon is the increasing range of school sizes within classes. That disparity is especially evident in 5A, which includes schools with enrollments of slightly more than 2,000 competing against those with enrollments of 5,000 or more. Each of the other classes also include schools that are double the size of others.
Adding a 6A would narrow the enrollment gaps in all classes. It would also put more teams in the playoffs, which last year Breithaupt said is another reason school superintendents are interested in going from five classes to six. Under the proposal, four schools from every district in every classification would make the state football playoffs. Class 5A and 4A districts are currently the only ones to advance four teams from each district.
Last year Breithaupt said making six classifications of about 200-210 schools would be easy. Giving an example, Breithaupt said the current six-man Class 1A Division II would become Class 1A, the current 1A Division I would become 2A, 2A would become 3A, and so on. He said the six-class plan differs from previous calls to create a "superconference" of the 100 or so biggest high schools in the state.
"We just need a few more schools to come into the mix," Breithaupt said Monday, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
The decision to create 6A will be left up to the UIL Legislative Council, a 28-member group composed of school administrators from each of the four regions within the five UIL conferences, and eight at-large members, two from each of the four UIL regions.


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Columbia, SC (WLTX)- Since 1996 Homeworks of America has been changing lives. It's not just the homeowners who are impacted but also those volunteering their time.
Thursday morning, Fort Jackson soldiers and other volunteers were hard at work on two different homes in Columbia.
"A lot of people don't know what the military does. They think we just fight in the war but we really do help the community," said Private Mathis Ellis.
Ellis and his battle buddies traded in their weapons for home repair tools at Glondine Parker's home on Smith Avenue.
"These are soldiers who couldn't get home for Christmas," said Hank Chardos with Homeworks of America.
The faith-based nonprofit was founded in 1996. Their goal is to repair homes of homeowners in need, assist youth and empower communities.
Ms. Parker is one of those homeowners in need, she is a single mother who battled an illness over the past couple years. As a result home repairs took a back seat.
Parker says this is a Christmas gift worth waiting for.
"This has made my Christmas because this is something I have been wanting done for a long time and I had no way of getting it done. This is like a Christmas present and a New Year's present all in one."
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POSTED: 9:33 a.m. HST, Oct 25, 2012
LAST UPDATED: 12:18 p.m. HST, Oct 25, 2012
The state Department of Health said today that identities of members, past and present, of a Waipahu community center that supports people living with mental illness could have been stolen by a hacker on Sept. 25.
Department officials said that an employee at the Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse saw "unusual activity" on a computer at the facility that suggested an unauthorized user was accessing it remotely. The computer had access to files containing personal information of clubhouse members.
Clubhouse members are advised to place a fraud alert on their credit files and to notify police if they see any suspicious credit activity.
The department said steps have been taking to prevent another data breach.
The Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse is a local community center that provides support services to people living with mental illness.


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Anne Williams-King, Soprano. APA Artists' Management Alexandra Mercer -
Lee Bisset
Elena Kelessidi
Elena Monti
Evgeniya Sotnikova
Anne Williams-King
Elena Zelenskaya
Na'ama Goldman
Veronika Hajnová
Irini Karaianni
Larisa Kostyuk
Rossana Rinaldi
Victoria Yarovaya
Salvatore Cordella
Michael Heim
Francesco Marsiglia
Vadim Zaplechny
Mario Zeffiri
Marcin Bronikowski
Yasuo Horiuchi
Dimitri Platanias
Johannes von Duisburg
Sebastian Holecek
Askar Abdrazakov
Gary Jankowski
Arutjun Kotchinian
Manlio Benzi
Boris Brott
Thomas Sanderling
Dieter Kaegi
Anne Williams-King
Video (YouTube):
The Turn of the Screw
Anne Williams-King first leapt to prominence as winner of both the Soprano Prize and the David Lloyd Memorial Prize. This launched her international career, taking her throughout Europe, and farther a field to Australia, the USA and South America. She was a prize winner also in
The Belgian Bel Canto Competition
; the
Cardiff Singer of the World
and was awarded the
Peter Styvesant Scholarship
. She studied at the Royal Northern College of Music under Frederick Cox.
Career highlights include
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Amelia
LA BOHEME: Mimi
LA BOHEME: Musetta
COSI FAN TUTTE: Fiordiligi
DON GIOVANNI: Donna Anna
FIDELIO: Leonora
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER: Senta
IDOMENEO: Elektra
JENUFA: Title Role
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK: Katerina
MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Cio Cio San
MAKROPULOS CASE: Emilia Marty
MATTHIS DER MALER: Ursula
PIKOVAJA DAMA: Liza
RAKE'S PROGRESS: Anne Truelove
RUSALKA: Title Role
SALOME: Title Role
SUOR ANGELICA: Title Role
TOSCA: Title Role
LA TRAVIATA: Violetta
IL TROVATORE: Leonora
TURANDOT: Liù
TURN OF THE SCREW: The Governess
Welsh National Opera
Opera Bergen
Welsh National Opera;
Scottish Opera;
Opera North;
English National Opera
Royal Albert Hall
Stadttheater Bern
Bath Festival
Welsh National Opera
Brighton Festival
Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater
Opera Zuid
Royal Opera Covent Garden;
Göteborg Opera
Welsh National Opera;
West Australian Opera;
Scottish Opera;
Lyric Opera Ottawa
Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück
Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück
De Vlaamse Opera
Stadttheater Bern
Nationale Reisopera
Deutsche Oper am Rhein;
Niedersächsische Staatsoper Hannover;
Nationale Reisopera;
Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück;
Theater Freiburg;
Teatro Verdi di Trieste
English National Opera
Welsh National Opera;
Les Azuriales at the Cap Ferrat Festival
Scottish Opera
Theater Aachen
English National Opera
Scottish Opera;
BBC 2 Television;
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
In concert
She appears regularly with the principal British Orchestras in major concert halls, including the Royal Albert Hall, St David's Hall Cardiff, London Barbican, Usher Hall Edinburgh, Bridgewater Hall Mancheter, Festival Hall London. She also appeared in Tokyo in a series of
Sponsored by Sony.
She regularly appears both in
Television and Radio
broadcasts with BBC Radio 2 and 3, BBC Wales and Welsh S4C Television. For Granada TV she was soloist for Gala Concerts alongside Dennis O'Neill at the Bridgewater Hall with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Halle Orchestras conducted by Carl Davis. Most recently she appeared in a Gala Concert alongside Bryn Terfel.
Conductors and Stage Directors with whom she has appeared include
Carlo Rizzi, Janos Kulka, Sir Alexander Gibson, Antonio Pappano, James Lockhart, Joseph Colaneri, Roderick Brydon, Ivan Toerzs, Sir Richard Armstrong, Ira Levin, Shao-Chia-Lu, David Atherton, John Mauceri, Lionel Friend, Lothar Koenigs, Ed Spaniard, Sir Charles Mackerras, Klaus Donath, Walther Gugerbauer, Carl Davis, Richard Jones, Guy Joosten, Thomas Muenstermann, David Leveaux, Mike Ashman, Keith Warner, Hans Peter-Lehmann, Goran Javefeld and Richard Jones.
Most recently
She received great critical acclaim when she made a last minute debut at the Royal Opera Covent Garden singing
Katerina LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
under Antonio Pappano, while more recently she returned to her home opera company, Welsh National Opera, to sing
Cio-Cio-San MADAMA BUTTERFLY, TOSCA
Leonora FIDELIO
. She has just made her Italian debut at Teatro Verdi di Trieste in the title role of
and returned to Deutsche Oper am Rhein for further performances of
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September 19, 2011
Georgia Gwinnett College students play an intramural soccer game on the new fields on campus.
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GGC opens intramural fields, looks toward future
Georgia Gwinnett College marked another milestone in its quest for intercollegiate athletics Monday, holding its first official intramural soccer game.
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Great-looking package but the lack of UK postcode support is a significant omission
The iGo 8 is exclusively available for Windows Mobile and has an extremely impressive display, with fairly accurate 3D-rendering of landmarks livening up the view.
We tested it on a Samsung Omnia touchscreen phone; set-up was simple and straightforward, though you do have to page through a long and tedious agreement.
By default, the software installs in 'Basic' mode, which hides the advanced options; a couple of taps on the screen will switch advanced mode on. We found it extremely easy to use in both modes, with a good, clear display that even showed a little diagram at the bottom of the screen with lane information for junctions – though we'd have liked that to be a bit bigger. You can even have a spoken warning when you exceed the speed limit.
It's easy to find points of interest or browse the map, and the software detected the phone's built-in GPS without any difficulty. We're not totally convinced of the need for those 3D-rendered landmarks, though.
Traffic information requires additional TMC hardware, but there's a much more significant omission for UK users – the lack of postcode support. Instead you need to pick a city, and then a street. It's quick, but ignored the existence of our test house number, claiming it didn't exist, and routing to number 244 instead of allowing 240.
The other annoyance, which might be the fault of Windows Mobile itself, is that we couldn't persuade spoken directions to come through our hands-free system, which to us removes one of the great reasons for having sat nav on your mobile.
There's a lot of potential in iGo 8, but the reliance on Windows Mobile and lack of support for UK postcodes are probably enough to rule it out for most UK-based users.