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Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud: How to Maximize Benefits and Avoid Pitfalls
Executive Summary
With Cloud Computing becoming more widely utilized, it is important for organizations to understand ways to maximize benefits and minimize risks of a move to the cloud. This paper details the significant benefits that Cloud Computing brings and provides guidance to IT decision makers to help their decision making process. This is especially important given the plethora of vendors in the marketplace today. Buyers need to appreciate that assessing individual providers is critical to the success of Cloud Computing programs.
Cloud Computing is a hot topic these days, with interest shown across all levels of the organization - from the C-suite, to Corporate IT through to end users. These various groups are all interested to see the potential benefits and possible pitfalls from Cloud Computing. Analyst firms have been quick to document both the current acceleration in Cloud Computing adoption and the potential market size in the years ahead. Daryl Plummer, analyst at Gartner says(1) that "Adoption of the cloud is rising rapidly - there's no sign that it's going back. We have to think about how [we will] deal with this, more than likely, you will be dealing with hundreds of cloud services [by 2015]". Other analysts concur with a recent IDC survey for example finding that "savvy CIOs now see the cloud as being an extension of their sourcing strategies."(2)
This interest has tended to create two distinct camps, however. On the one hand cloud, evangelists who seek to push cloud adoption immediately despite potential risks, and on the other hand, the conservative traditional technologists who seek to dismiss Cloud Computing as either the same as what has gone before, grossly over-hyped or even potentially dangerous to the organization itself. We believe that Cloud Computing brings unprecedented benefits to organizations and will be the dominant way of acquiring technology in the future. In keeping with the highly important place Cloud Computing will have for organizations, we further believe that it is vital that leaders within business who are tasked with making technology acquisition decisions should be well appraised of both the benefits and the risks of Cloud Computing and should therefore be well placed to make good buying decisions.
This paper seeks to give decision makers some guidance so that they are well informed to ensure maximum cost savings, highest performance levels and strictest security from the infrastructure they ultimately invest in. This is important because, as we will show, the barriers to entry for a Cloud Computing vendor are relatively low. While this may mean there is more choice in the marketplace, it also introduces the potential for underfunded and low quality providers to enter the market and therefore organizations looking at moving to the cloud need to be especially cognisant of the various issues outlined in the following pages.
Before looking at the different issues buyers need to be aware of, it's worth setting the scene and defining Cloud Computing. We broadly accept the Wikipedia definition of Cloud Computing as follows: "Cloud Computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like the electricity grid."(3) Generally Cloud Computing is divided into three distinct areas – SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). This paper will focus on the IaaS level of the stack.
Infrastructure as a Service, delivers computer infrastructure - typically a platform virtualization environment - as a service. Rather than purchasing servers, software, datacenter space or network equipment, clients instead buy those resources as a fully outsourced service on demand. Within IaaS, there are some sub-categories that, while outside the scope of this paper, are worth noting. Generally IaaS can be obtained as public or private infrastructure or a combination of the two. "Public cloud" is considered infrastructure that consists of shared resources, deployed on a self-service basis over the Internet. By contrast, "private cloud" is infrastructure that emulates Cloud Computing but does so on a private network. Additionally, some hosting providers are beginning to offer a combination of traditional dedicated hosting alongside public and/ or private cloud networks.
Cost Savings of the Cloud
While every situation will be different, it is useful to articulate the potential areas for cost savings that Cloud Computing can bring to an organization. The two biggest savings that are gained from a move to Cloud Computing come from economies of scale and a utility-based pricing model. We will look at each of these in turn.
Marginal cost - The Economies of Scale
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) developed the concept of experience curves to describe how production costs tend to fall in a predictable fashion as the number of units produced increase. In other words, the more you produce (or the higher number of units you provide to the marketplace) the lower the unit cost will be.
Using some analysis of known datacenter and Cloud Computing costs, Jon Moore found(4) that an organization would have to deploy between 5000 and 15000 servers to get the per-server marginal cost to a similar level enjoyed by Cloud Computing vendors. A recent report by O'Reilly Media, demonstrated the relative costs of internal IT(5), Managed Operations and cloud infrastructure. It is important to realize that, if a reputable cloud vendor is chosen, the quality and availability of the cloud service should be significantly higher than both internal IT and managed operations.
Adding further weight to the marginal cost argument is the fact that Cloud Computing vendors, with their massive economies of scale, can amortize the cost of world class engineers and operations staff across many thousands of individual servers. Part of the marginal cost argument suggests then that even when an organization is able to achieve hardware costs approaching those enjoyed by Cloud Computing vendors, they would be unlikely to obtain staff of the calibre employed by those vendors.
Burstability - The Utility Model
Much has been written likening Cloud Computing to a traditional utility service, like water or electricity. Nicholas Carr's book The Big Switch(7) is an excellent introductory read to this subject. In the book Carr says that:
…fragmentation [of IT into separately installed and managed systems that individual corporations own] is wasteful. It imposes large capital investments and heavy fixed costs on firms, and it leads to redundant expenditures and high levels of overcapacity, both in the technology itself and in the labor force operating it…Once it becomes possible to provide the technology centrally, large-scale utility suppliers arise to displace the private providers…in the end the savings offered by utilities become too compelling to resist, even for the largest enterprises. The grid wins.

When planning infrastructure requirements, organizations are forced to use peak load criteria when sizing their resource needs. What this means is that resources need to be provided for the highest possible load situation. The graph below illustrates this point. The green line is on-premise infrastructure and shows how large, capital-intensive onsite infrastructure either leaves an organization with excess capacity that is under-utilized or with an excess in demand leading to service degradation. The purple line, closely following actual demand shows the benefits of Cloud Computing infrastructure to scale up and down readily along with actual demand.

In another example, looking at some real demand curves shows why fixed capacity infrastructure is problematic. The image below indicates an actual traffic history for Walmart.com and indicates that off-peak load is in the vicinity of 20% of peak load.

Cloud Computing, with its elastic capacity, far reduces the need to forecast website traffic for capacity planning. Vendors are able to aggregate demand for multiple websites and in doing so smoothen the total demand for infrastructure. In this way individual organizations can enjoy the ability to meet their peak demands, without having to provide infrastructure that will often remain idle. A more detailed description of the laws of Cloud Computing economics, while outside the ambit of this report, has been published by Business Week(10). It is worth noting that, despite the per unit price from a utility service provider potentially being higher than an owned resource through the addition of a utility margin, aggregate cost will be reduced. As with other utilities, cloud service providers should only charge for utilized resources, so although utilities may cost more when they are used, they cost nothing when they are not and customers can save money - particularly when workloads are spiky as in the above example.

From Capex to Opex

A consistent trend, accelerated by the global financial crisis, is a trend for financial decision makers to pare back on new capital investments (CapEx), opting wherever possible to fund projects from operating expenditures (OpEx) instead. The convergence of rapid technological changes, fiscal pressures and imperatives and the move to a highly dynamic organizational structure heighten the demand for a move The table below provides a simple differentiation between CapEx and OpEx:

Since Cloud Computing vendors often bill on a pay-as-you-go basis, acquiring IT infrastructure can become more like buying paper and toner for a laser printer, than buying the laser printer itself.

Focusing on Core Business

Cloud Computing allows organizations to focus on their core business and abstract responsibility for what are essentially commodity services to a third party. It is the contention of the author that IT departments should be performing highly strategic work - basic maintenance of infrastructure is both a negative drain on their time but also arguably something that is better achieved by highly skilled specialists rather than the generalists that IT staffers tend to be. It has even been estimated(12) that 80% of IT expenditure goes to simply "keeping the lights on" for an organization.

Realizing the Savings Through Proper Vendor Selection

The two reasons for reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) from Cloud Computing, economies of scale and utility pricing, pre- suppose that customers will have these benefits passed on to them by the vendors. For this reason it is important to assess a number of issues relating to Cloud Computing vendor pricing, billing capabilities, fixed costs and contract minimums.

Billing capabilities

In order to enjoy cost benefits from Cloud Computing, billing needs to be as granular as possible. That is, the finer the utility cost is divided, the higher the savings are likely to be. In the example of highly variable websites, often the biggest peaks are very short lived, lasting only a few hours. Cloud Computing infrastructure should therefore be able to be billed on an hourly basis. The example below, while simplistic in its approach, illustrates this fact.

The difference in these two scenarios equates to $396 a day because Vendor A bases its fee off of maximum daily usage, rather than the more flexible hourly usage.

Fixed costs

Many Cloud Computing vendors seek to offset their initial costs by charging users a setup fee. This setup fee is problematic for two reasons. Firstly it increases the average cost of the services themselves. More seriously however it reduces the likelihood that organizations will be able to truly enjoy the scalability of the cloud. If fees are charged to provision (or even worse, both provision and de-provision) infrastructure, organizations will tend to reduce their provisioning events by averaging demand. For this reason services from providers who charge setup fees are sub-optimal and should be avoided.

Minimum charges

It is important to assess whether the prospective vendor has a minimum charge for cloud compute and storage services, and whether they demand a minimum contract period. Part of the benefit of Cloud Computing is the ability to both scale infrastructure to peak demand, and also move work-loads between providers at will. Any minimum charges or contract periods for compute or storage services are a barrier to this flexibility and should be avoided. Fixed fees for other services, such as advanced monitoring or professional services might make sense when they are combined with utility compute and storage. These fees should be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Performance and Support

As stated previously, Cloud Computing has the tendency to democratize technology and reduce the barriers to entry. While this is a positive trait, it does introduce some risks as operators can launch with less than excellent performance and levels of support. It is therefore very important to understand and assess the performance and service factors of Cloud Computing.

Performance

With increasing demands, and reduced resourcing for IT departments, it is attractive to avoid relying on already over- stretched resources to maintain in-house infrastructure, if an equal or greater level of performance can be obtained through a Cloud Computing vendor. The following section introduces some of the most important aspects to consider when evaluating vendor performance. Service Level Agreements Strong Service Level Agreements (SLAs) from Cloud Computing vendors are a must to ensure performance. Without these agreements, and penalties for failing to meet them, vendors have less of an incentive to maintain performance at the highest levels. SLAs can include factors such as network availability, datacenter uptime, host failure and migration. Transparency in performance While we maintain that Cloud Computing is generally more reliable than running infrastructure in-house, no Cloud Computing vendor is immune from service outages, even with strong SLAs in place. Reputable Cloud Computing vendors are transparent about performance and care should be taken in selecting a vendor who is open about things like service outages. Many Cloud Computing vendors will have real time dashboards to indicate service status and are likely to have support staff available 24x7 in the event of any problems. Persistent vs. Ephemeral Storage, CPU Power and more In addition to evaluating vendor SLAs and transparency policies, it is important for buyers to be aware of the technical facets of Cloud Computing that affect performance and the difference between vendors. For example, it is important to be aware that some cloud services do not provide "persistence", meaning that in the event of a failure, local data will be lost. Depending on the type of workloads that will be moved to the cloud, it may be appropriate for the organization to ensure that server images are persistent in the event of a failure. Similarly, dependent on the organization's needs, it may be important to ensure server size and CPU power are appropriate for particular use cases.

Support

When assessing a move from in-house to cloud infrastructure, but also when assessing different cloud vendors, it is important to ascertain the quality of support that the vendor can provide. In-house IT is unlikely to have the scale to be able to offer dedicated and round the clock support. There is a significant risk then for service degradations and even outages to occur in an in- house IT situation. This can be contrasted with Cloud Computing where the very core business of the vendor is to deliver high quality and highly available infrastructure services. We believe therefore that robust support should be an included feature of cloud infrastructure. We advise prospective Cloud Computing customers to ensure that support is built into the base price of the service. While total cost for a service-included solution may be slightly higher than for one that comes without service, outsourcing technology requires an ongoing relationship and hence service should be considered integral to the solution. One indicator of high-quality support is the ability to get in contact with support staff 24x7x365 through multiple channels such as telephone, chat or email. Another factor to consider is whether or not the vendor takes responsibility for upgrades and security patches.

Service through Standards

Cloud Computing infrastructure can either be available in propriety formats and protocols, or in broadly accepted open standards. It is our contention that open standards increase the overall quality of performance as well as give users flexibility and security over their infrastructure. Performance through open standards While outside of the scope of this report, we contend that open standards encourage the creation of a network of related and ancillary products and services. This ecosystem will include infrastructure monitoring and management tools which can help increase the overall performance of the solution. Flexibility through open standards We strongly believe that organizations should have the ability to move their infrastructure between different providers at will. This ability gives them the flexibility to react to a changing business environment, allows them to move between vendors as price and service offerings change, and gives them a degree of control by removing vendor lock-in. We advise organizations to think about solution providers that embrace open standards.

Security and Compliance

Security should be of general concern for technologists - Cloud Computing does nothing to change that. Any organization embarking on infrastructure spend needs to ensure a thorough due-diligence occurs in terms of security - whether the infrastructure be on-premise or cloud based. Notwithstanding this we believe that cloud infrastructure provides a level of security beyond the capability of most on-premise deployments. There are a number of specialist services that cloud providers can provide that, due to their cost or complexity, would generally be unavailable in traditional infrastructure situations. Unfortunately there is a significant level of doubt created by traditional vendors regarding the security of Cloud Computing and it is important to understand how security is handled in the cloud. In order to ensure the highest standards of security for their customer data, cloud providers employ world standard security professionals and follow industry best practices to keep data safe. It has to also be stressed however that security is a shared responsibility between vendors and customers. While vendors have an obligation to ensure datacenters are built to the highest level of reliability and security, it is also incumbent upon users to ensure they use best practices in areas they have control over – the utilization of firewalls, strong passwords and employee vetting are some of the areas that are beyond the control of the Cloud Computing vendor. The other important issue for businesses using a cloud vendor is compliance. Many businesses are required to be compliant with a host of different regulations. Relevant acts and standards that businesses may need to comply with include:

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) relating to the security and privacy of health data

Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS70) relating to the internal control of service organizations

SSAE16, a new standard that will apply from 2011

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) relating to the security and privacy of credit card information

When an organization puts its data in third party datacenters, it is important that the outsourcing vendors are also compliant with these requirements. Even though the regulatory requirements vary depending on the area of business and legal jurisdiction, most cloud vendors are compliant with SAS 70 Type II audit, a global auditing standard designed to evaluate and issue an opinion on a service organization's controls (SAS70 will be superseded by SSAE16 in 2011). Cloud vendors hosting data of clients from the financial sector also need to be compliant with the higher standards of PCI DSS, while those hosting data from the medical sector need to comply with HIPAA. For these customers it may be appropriate to ascertain whether the vendor supports a dedicated/hybrid capability for PCI and HIPAA Compliance standards. While by no means an exhaustive list, we would advise customers to ask prospective vendors the following questions:

What is your approach to service security? Can you offer an overview of your general security approach?

What security procedures are in place at the datacenter? How many technicians have access to my data and how well are those technicians vetted before they are given access? How do you maintain physical security of your datacenter?

What are the security measures you use to authenticate users?

What level of encryption do you offer to protect my data?

How secure is your application and do you work with any independent security vendors to vet the overall security of your product?

Are you compliant with the particular regulations applicable to my business?

Conclusion

Cloud Computing is undoubtedly a growing revolution within IT. However, as with any paradigm shift, there are risks and rewards which need to be finely balanced. While we believe that Cloud Computing brings unprecedented benefits to organizations and will be the dominant way of acquiring technology in the future, we also realize that IT decision makes are confused given the sheer number of vendors in the marketplace. For this reason IT decision makers need to be well appraised of the issues around price, performance and security of their chosen supplier. We recommend that a full due diligence process be undertaken when assessing vendors and that, where appropriate, independent advice should be obtained that matches the product offering with the business requirements.

About the Author: Ben Kepes

Ben is the founder and managing director of Diversity Limited, a consultancy specializing in Cloud Computing/SaaS, Collaboration, Business strategy and user-centric design. More information on Ben and Diversity Limited can be found at http://diversity.net.nz

Resources: [1] http://blogs.computerworld.com/17008/single_largest_opportunity_in_cloud_computing [2] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/090710-more-private-cloud-adoption-expected.html [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing [4] http://www.cloudcomputingeconomics.com/2009/01/experience-curves-for-data-center.html [5] http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/the-economics-of-cloud-c.html [6] http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/the-economics-of-cloud-c.html for more information about the economics of Cloud Computing see also http://gigaom.com/2010/06/06/lazy-hazy-crazy-the-10-laws-of- behavioral-cloudonomics/ [7] http://www.amazon.com/Big-Switch-Rewiring-Edison-Google/dp/0393062287 [8] http://www.chades.net/ [9] Alexa [10] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2008/tc2008095_942690.htm [11] http://broadcast.rackspace.com/ hosting_knowledge/whitepapers/GettingOnTheRightSideOfThe CapexVsOpexDivide.pdf [12] Gartner Report http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=497088 [13] Ref, Diversity Analysis whitepaper, http://diversity.net.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Questions_ To_Ask_Your_Cloud_Vendor3.pdf, Diversity Limited 2010, K Subramanian, B Kepes

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Every offseason there is naturally a lot of discussion about player contracts and the NHL salary cap. This year is no different. In fact, with all of the Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal rumors flying around right now, there are even more discussions about contracts than usual.
NHL contracts work differently than contracts in other sports. They're not like NFL contracts or NBA contracts or any other contracts.
Here is a good overview of NHL contracts and the salary cap. Of course, these rules could all change with a new CBA, but that link explains how things currently work.
There are a few points that are especially relevant right now that you may want to consider when thinking about the Pens' cap situation:
The "cap hit" is how much an individual player counts against his team's salary cap in one season. On a multi-year deal, the cap hit is based on average annual value of the contract, not the actual salary paid each season.
Counted against the cap: All players on the active roster, injured reserve or the long-term injured list. Players who have left the team on a contract buyout, according to a formula that charges a percentage of the buyout against the cap.
Terms and salaries remain in place for the life of the contract. The salary does not decrease if the cap drops, nor can a contract trigger a salary increase if the cap goes up.
When a player aged 35 or older signs a multi-year contract, his average salary is counted against the team's salary cap during every year of the contract, even if the player retires before the contract is up.
A player expected to miss at least 10 games and 24 days due to injury can be listed as a long-term injury (LTI). An LTI can be covered by replacement players, as long as the replacement salaries do not exceed the salary of the injured player. If the replacement salaries would push a team over the salary cap, the team is allowed cap relief, but only for the portion of the salary that exceeds the cap. When the injured player returns, the team must immediately comply with the normal terms of the salary cap.
A team can exceed the cap by 7.5% to pay bonuses, but its salary cap for the following season will be reduced by the excessive amount.
A contract cannot be renegotiated at any point during the life of the contract.
There are a lot of details involved in NHL contracts and the whole thing can get pretty complicated when you think about it, especially when it comes to LTI relief. This is why educated and experienced general managers are so important.


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Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School with a volley of rifle shots to a glass door before making a beeline for the classrooms of the youngest pupils, it emerged today.
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Summer of '42's Jennifer O'neill Survived Eight Failed Marriages but Says She Has Found Spiritual Peace at Last
The face that launched a volley of magazine covers—and tantalized a generation of adolescent boys in 1971 's epochal Summer of '42—belongs to Jennifer O'Neill. And Scavullo is right: There was a sad little girl there. Just how sad is evident in O'Neill's new autobiography, aptly titled Surviving Myself. In sum, O'Neill, 51, has survived: eight husbands and nine marriages; nine miscarriages; one suicide attempt (at 14); electroshock therapy; a broken back from a Christopher Reeve-type riding accident; her daughter Aimee's sexual abuse by O'Neill's fifth husband; and accidentally shooting herself in the hip. In short: enough trauma and drama to fuel a season's worth of TV miniseries.
"It was unbelievably cathartic and enlightening—it was worth baring my soul," O'Neill says of writing the book. "I looked back at my life, the pain, the demons, my aspirations. I couldn't have done it any other way and set myself free."
O'Neill, who lives in a rustic three-bedroom house 20 miles from Nashville, was encouraged to tell her story by daughter Aimee, while her parents and her current husband, music club owner Mervin Louque, initially found the project scary. As did O'Neill herself. "I remember her sitting up in bed, with papers all around, crying, 'I can't do this!' " says Louque, 48.
The root problem of her existence, says O'Neill, has been her extravagant need for approval and love. "I had a lot of successes in my life," she says. "But the irony was, I didn't feel successful. In order to understand where this hole in my heart came from—and my drive—you have to know where I came from."
O'Neill was raised in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Wilton, Conn., by her father, Oscar, 80, a successful medical-supply business owner, and her mother, Renee, 76, a home-maker. To Jennifer, her parents enjoyed a storybook romance, from which she and her older brother, Michael, were largely excluded, especially during the down times. "When my mother was unhappy, she had the ability to withdraw affection, and that was very painful," says O'Neill. "I became an over-achiever, thinking I could earn love and attention that way." It didn't work. "If I got six A's," she says, "it wasn't, 'Wow, that's great.' They'd say, 'What's with the one B?' "
When O'Neill was 14, her parents decided to move the family to New York City and leave her dog Mandy and horse Monty behind. Jennifer, who had not been consulted, was devastated. "My parents were not in touch with me," says O'Neill. "They didn't realize that [the two animals were] my whole world."
On Easter Sunday 1962, Jennifer swallowed a bunch of her mother's sleeping pills before curling up near Mandy. "I didn't want to die," she says. "I was screaming for them to hear me." O'Neill was taken to a local hospital, where her stomach was pumped and she recovered.
That same year, O'Neill found a less perilous way to gain center stage, when the Ford modeling agency saw photos she had done for a small magazine and put her under contract. By 15, Jennifer was on the cover of Vogue and earning $80,000 a year. "The hardest part was battling my shyness," says O'Neill, who was at once highly insecure and driven. "But I was very photogenic, and I learned how to work the camera."
After saving up her modeling fees, O'Neill, determined to re-create her childhood idyll, bought a horse. But Alezon, a reluctant jumper, balked before a wall at a horse show and threw O'Neill, breaking her neck and back. "The injury still haunts me," she says. Yet even as O'Neill mended, her career and love life both lifted off. At 17, she met Deed (she declines to divulge the last names of her husbands), a dashing ex-Marine and the first of a series of men she tried desperately to please. "I was on a mission to get married and have children," says O'Neill. "I wanted to be adored like my mother." By 19 she had given birth to Aimee, now 32 and an animal behaviorist. Under the pressure of her own insecurities and constant criticism by Deed, she began a long struggle with depression that led to electroshock therapy.
Meanwhile, the movies came calling. In 1970, O'Neill starred opposite John Wayne in Rio Lobo. A year later, separated from Deed, she got her big screen break. In Summer of '42, the 22-year-old O'Neill played a war widow who sexually initiates a dreamy-eyed teenage boy. The movie "created a fantasy" that still endures, O'Neill observes. "Men still come up and tell me, 'I fell in love with you in Summer of '42,' "
All told, O'Neill has made some 30 films, including Scanners and Such Good Friends. But Hollywood didn't fill the void in her soul. "I had great drive to become a star," she says. "But it didn't make me feel whole." Neither did the six men she married over the next 20 years (one she married twice), who were as varied as their professions: businessman, songwriter, actor, ad exec, movie producer.
O'Neill's most problematic marriage was to John, with whom she had a son, Reis, now 18 and a production assistant in Los Angeles. (Her other son, Cooper, is 12.) O'Neill turned her career over to John, only to discover later that her nest egg was gone and that John had been sexually molesting her daughter. Aimee tried to tell her mother what was going on, but John denied it, and O'Neill desperately wanted to believe him. "I did the same thing to my daughter that was done to me," says O'Neill. "I didn't listen, and I didn't affirm her."
Aimee, who today has three young children of her own and is the stepmother of two teenagers, has forgiven her mother. "We're close now," she says. "She's acknowledged not being there for me during my childhood."
For years, O'Neill says she looked for answers in therapy. But eventually, she says, she found the "key to the puzzle" when she became a born-again Christian. "For me, finding my faith, making a commitment to God, meant finding unconditional love," she says. "I kept looking for it in all my relationships. Now I don't have to expect that from others anymore."
O'Neill has been married for almost three years to Louque, also a born-again Christian. "This time of my life is the best," she says. "I have my arms around all the important things." O'Neill has started a new line of skin-care products and promotes them on the Shop At Home Network; she does public speaking, performs in live theater and is part of a singing group, O'Neill & Co. She has written a film treatment, Summer of '62, as a proposed sequel to her famous movie, and expects to play herself in a TV movie of Surviving Myself. For the rest, she is an avid horseback rider, cook, painter and furniture designer. "Jennifer is a go-getter," says Louque.
Indeed, the resilient O'Neill likes to think of herself as "a work in progress." It's her belief that "when you begin spending time in a positive direction, instead of repeating old tapes, you have a clean slate with endless possibilities."
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Arkansas State (12-11, 7-4 SBC) enjoyed an evening of accuracy from the field overall, hitting 11-of-22 long-distance shots and making 54 percent of its field goal attempts.
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Over the years, Paulhamus Litho, Inc. began as a one-man printing press and has morphed into a full service and full color printing company, which serves many printing needs.
Today, some of the products made at the print shop are catalogues, brochures, magazines, perfect bound books, menus and presentation folders. Foil stamping, bossing, dye cutting and limited art prints are some other specialties found at the shop.
Ronald Paulhamus's father, Robert C. Paulhamus, was a press operator for 11 years before he opened his own print shop in the basement of Elery Nau's department store somewhere near 1956.
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"My father's mother knew of a man that had a printing company in Williamsport and was looking for a young person to train in the printing business. My dad went up interviewed, put in an application and they hired him. So, that is how he started in the printing business," said Ronald Paulhamus, current president of the business.
About four years later, his business outgrew the basement, with fulltime operations and a skilled staff.
The facility was moved to 1128 Broad Street in Montoursville, near where Kristy's Restaurant is today.
As the years went on, two more expansions were needed.
However, in 1975, the Broad Street facility could no longer contain the needs of the business and they moved to the current location on Old Montoursville Road.
"We added two more additions onto that building until it was outgrown. My father purchased the current property in 1975. We have had three expansions onto the building since then. The last expansion was in 1995," Paulhamus said.
Paulhamus is unsure of when the next expansion will be, noting his focus is on the changing times now.
"We know the printing industry is changing because of the impact of digital printing," Paulhamus said.
Times have changed in the last 50 years and the company has had to change with those times in order to keep it a successful business. Digital technology has vastly affected the printing industry. The printing company is changing with the trends.
According to Paulhamus, he is committed to making sure all equipment is modern and up to date.
"Within the last two-months, we have installed a complete new digital workflow so we will be up to date with the newest innovations there. Right now, what expansion we have, we have been concentrating on the area of technology," Paulhamus said.
One goal of the business has been to keep the business in the family. Currently, the third generation of Paulhamus's are found at their post in the family business.
About 20 people are employed at the general commercial print shop which accommodates all orders, with no minimum sized orders to worry about before the order is placed.
They have received an award of excellence from most major paper manufacturers, according to Paulhamus.
The printing company is also active in the community sponsoring a t-ball team for Montoursville's Little League.
They also support the Williamsport Symphony and the Community Alliance for Progressive Positive Action, among others.
The print shop is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. Interested individuals may contact the shop at 368-8176.


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An armed Glen Burnie man was arrested after threatening a woman, police said.
Officers were called to the area of Wendover Road and Summit Avenue in Glen Burnie for a reported subject armed with a gun shortly before 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
A 27-year-old woman told police she was parked in the area when a man appeared at her car window and pointed a gun at her and yelled for her to get out of the area.
The woman immediately called 911.
After canvassing the area, police said they found the suspect, identified as 51-year-old Michael Allen Nelson. Police said officers recovered a loaded Taurus PT semi-automatic handgun from Nelson, who appeared to be intoxicated.
Nelson was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree assault.


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Babbling Abby: for the Teacher Must-Haves!
A Beautiful Mess and Five Minutes for Mom: for Wordless Wednesdays!
What are your 'must-haves'?
I am linking up with….
Babbling Abby: for the Teacher Must-Haves!
A Beautiful Mess and Five Minutes for Mom: for Wordless Wednesdays!
What are your 'must-haves'?
We spent time exploring numbers and drawing lines by making our own dot-to-dots after reading the book "Chicka Chick 123" by Bill Martin Jr.
We read the delightful little story You be You by Linda Kranz and enjoyed creating our own colorful rocks in preschool.
Exploring the wonderful books of Eric Carle. Today, we are reading "The Grouchy Ladybug" and making our own ladybugs too!
Today is Eric Carle's birthday and in honor of his birthday, a large group of bloggers have been putting together ideas that would go nicely with many of his books. I love so many of Eric Carle's books that I had a hard time narrowing it down. But after much ado, I have narrowed down […]
alicia says
They make a fun, corlorful collage too. The computer seems nuts, but it's a new day. Thanks for linkin up for WW!
Buckeroomama says
What a neat collage of must-haves… so colorful, too!
JDaniel4's Mom says
I would add Kleenex. I used to go through tons of it.
Deborah J. Stewart says
I agree, Kleenex is definitely a must have!!!
Amy M says
Is the 8th picture straws? If so, how do you use them? If not, then what are they LOL!
Hmm, I would say the must have is either Cd's or an ipod. And of course most of what you listed!
Deborah J. Stewart says
Oh yes, any way to make sure there is music in the classroom is definitely a must have! I may need to go around and take more pictures for our list here:) And yes, photo 8 is straws. I use them all the time for painting, cutting apart and threading (like a necklace), making games and patterns, and more. Here is a link to a couple ideas I have… http://deborahjstewart.com/?s=straws
Amy M says
Oh, thank you for the neat ideas on straws! 🙂
And of course more pics would be great.
Janelle says
Look at all those supplies! Do your kids bring some of their own, too?
Deborah J. Stewart says
We have the children donate or bring in specific items throughout the school year like lids or other things they have around the house. All other supplies are provided by the school.
Doll Clothes Gal Pal says
I love the photos! I reckon those are always a must have. 🙂
ann says
clothespins are on my list, as is felt!
Abby says
I love the pictures-only post! So cute – and totally epitomizes preschool 🙂
Deborah J. Stewart says
Thank you for inspiring my list Abby:)
Jen says
What a great list! We were thinking about craft must haves the other day for home- my eight year old said that her must haves are pipe cleaners and a cold glue gun.
Deborah J. Stewart says
LOL – my kind of kid!!
Sarah says
I would add velcro!
Deborah J. Stewart says
Monica says
Thank you for your comments on my blog!
I also wanted to say thank you for all of the great ideas that you post on Facebook. I read them every day and find a lot of inspiration from them. It is really neat to see so much passion and love for early childhood ed.
And, this was a great post! Thanks for all you do. 🙂
Monica @ Family Fun Notebook
Deborah J. Stewart says
Thank you Monica:) I am enjoying finding all these wonderful blogs too and meeting sweet people such as yourself.
emily says
VELCRO!!! Do-a dot art dobbers (like BINGO dobbers)
emily says
I would also add NEWSPAPER to the list of must-haves!


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MILLVILLE — For May's Outstanding Citizen Award, the Greater Millville Chamber of Commerce chose Millville Senior High School student Ozmear "Ozzie" Evans.
The award is given to a citizen of the Holly City each month who helps the community.
Ozmear serves as the president of the Millville Senior High School senior class, is involved in school activities and volunteers at the R.D. Wood School's after school program.
"I feel confident that he can accomplish anything he puts his mind to," said Kathleen Procopio, principal of the senior high school. "Ozzie is outstanding in so many ways. He is a kind, caring young man. He is just the best."
He also participates in blood drives, donates cookies for bake sales and reads to senior citizens at Millville Center Genesis Healthcare.
"I have a real strong passion for helping others," Ozmear said.
Other students treat him like a "rock star," according to Procopio, and he is a member of the marching band, student council, Students Against Destructive Decisions and does morning announcements at the school.
In addition to being named May's Outstanding Citizen, he has also won the Millville Municipal Alliance Committee Award and attended the Elks Youth Leadership Conference.
Ozmear will receive his honor at the monthly chamber meeting, held at the New Jersey Motorsports Park's Officer's Club on May 14 at 11:30.
For reservations to the luncheon, contact the chamber by calling 856-825-2600.
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Authorities are looking for a robber who held up a southwest Oklahoma City bank Tuesday.
Police say a black male wearing a Houston Astros baseball cap and a New Orleans Saints football jersey robbed the First Fidelity Bank at 700 SW 29th St.
Investigators said a man handed a note to a teller, took the money and left on foot.
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Constructing Hyperbolic Pentagons, David Wright
In this workshop you will learn how to construct hyperbolic polygons on a negatively curved surface.
You will also get to see a piece of the hyperbolic plane.
You will be able to see why the parallel postulate fails in the hyperbolic plane by finding a line and a point not on the line that has two parallel lines through the point to the given line.
All participants will go home with a triangle with three 45 degree angles and with instructions on how to construct a pentagon with five right angles.
This workshop is especially appropriate for instructors of the geometry class for teachers.
The importance of communicating mathematics clearly and effectivelyis evident in the many ways in which mathematicians must write, whether to produce technical reports, expository articles, book reviews, essays, referee's reports, grant proposals, research papers, evaluations, or slides for oral presentations. With a focus on exposition, this workshop offers tips for improving writing skills, from grammat and usage to mauscript or slide presentation. It also suggests how participants can contribute to the public understanding of mathematics.