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Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video: On Facebook video stats and "freebooting" vids
Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video: On Facebook video stats and "freebooting" vids.
Facebook says it's now streaming more video than YouTube. To be able to make that claim, all they had to do was cheat, l…
West Hill Friends: What happened next
West Hill Friends: What happened next. An update on the Meeting kicked out by Northwest Yearly Meeting:
Wow. 72 hours. It has been 72 hours since we received the news of our dismissal from our yearly meeting. The facebook notifications have been endless. Young people here in the northwest are angry,…
Quaker Folkways and Being Patterns on the Interwebs
Last Sunday I have a presentation to Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting's adult First-day school class about "Sharing the Good News with Social Media." As I prepared I found I was less and less interested in the techniques of Facebook, etc., than I was in how outreach has historically worked for Friends.
For an early, short, period Quakers were so in-your-face and notorious that they could draw a crowd just by walking a few miles up the road to the next town. More recently, we've attracted newcomers as much by the example of our lives than by any outreach campaign. When I talk to adult newcomers, they often cite some Quaker example in their lives – a favorite teacher or delightfully eccentric aunt.
People can sense when there's something of greater life in the way we approach our work, friendships, and families. Let me be the first in line to say I'm horribly imperfect. But there are Quaker techniques and values and folkways that are guides to genuinely good ways to live in the world. There's nothing exclusively Quaker about them (indeed, most come from careful reading of the Gospels and Paul's letters), but they are tools our religious community has emphasized and into which we've helped each other live more fully.
In the last fifteen years, the ways Friends are known has undergone a radical transformation. The Internet has made us incredibly easy to find and research. This is a mixed blessing as it means others are defining who we are. Careful corporate discernment conducted through long-developed techniques of Quaker process are no match for the "edit" button in Wikipedia or some commercial site with good page rank.
That said, I think people still are discovering Friends through personal examples. George Fox told us to be patterns and examples in the world and to answer that of God in everyone. A lot of our exampling and answering today is going to be on the threaded comments of Facebook and Twitter. What will they find? Do we use Facebook like everyone else, trolling, spamming, engaging in flame wars, focusing on ourselves? Or do Quaker folkways still apply. Here are some questions that I regularly wrestle with:
- When I use social media, am I being open, public, and transparent?
- Am I careful to share that which is good and eternal rather than titillating for its own sake?
- Do I remember that the Good News is simply something we borrow to share and that the Inward Christ needs to do the final delivery into hearts?
- Do I pray for those I disagree with? Do I practice holding my tongue when my motivation is anger or jealousy?
What struggles do others face? What might be our online folkways?
Testimonies are important because…
Yesterday Friends Journal asked its Facebook and Twitter followers to finish the sentence "Testimonies are important because they are ___." Here's a word cloud of their answers. This survey comes from Eric Moon's article, "Categorically Not the Testimonies," in the June/July issue.
A social media snapshot
When I first started blogging fifteen years ago, the process was simple. I'd open up a file, hand-edit the HTML code and upload it to a webserver – those were the days! Now every social web service is like a blog unto itself. The way I have them interact is occasionally dizzying even to me. Recently a friend asked on Facebook what people used Tumblr for, and I thought it might be a good time to survey my current web services. These shift and change constantly but perhaps others will find it an interesting snapshot of hooked-together media circa 2012.
The glue services you don't see:
- Google Reader. I still try to keep up with about a hundred blogs, mostly spiritual in nature. The old tried-and-true Google Reader still organizes it all, though I often read it through the Android app NewsRob.
- Diigo. This took the place of the classic social bookmarking site Delicious when it had a near-death experience a few years ago (it's never come back in a form that would make me reconsider it). Whenever I see something interesting I want to share, I post it here, where it gets cross-posted to my Twitter and Tumblr sites. I've bookmarked over 4500 sites over the last seven-plus years. It's an essential archive that I use for remembering sites I've liked in the past. Diigo bookmarks that are tagged "Quaker" get sucked into an alternate route where they become editor features for QuakerQuaker.org.
- Pocket (formerly Read it Later). I'm in the enviable position that many of my personal interests overlap with my professional work. While working, I'll often find some interesting Quaker article that I want to read later. Hence Pocket, a service that will instantly bookmark the site and make it available for later reading.
- Flipboard is a great mobile app that lets you read articles on topics you like. Combine it with Twitter lists and you have a personalized reading list. I use this every day, mostly for blogs and news sites I like to read but don't consider so essential that I need to catch everything they publish.
- Ifttt.com. A handy service named after the logical construct "IF This, Then That," Ifttt will take one social feed and cross-post it to another under various conditions. For example, I have Diigo posts cross-post to Twitter and Flickr posts crosspost to Facebook. Some of the Ifttt "recipies" are behind the scenes, like the one that takes every post on WordPress and adds it to my private Evernote account for archival purposes.
The Public-Facing Me:
- WordPress (Quakerranter.org). The blog you're reading. It originally started as a Moveable Type-powered blog when that was the hip blogging platform (I'm old). A few years ago I went through a painstaking process to bring it over to WordPress in such a way that its Disqus-powered comments would be preserved.
- Twitter. I've long loved Twitter, though like many techies I'm worried about the direction it's headed. They've recently locked most of the services that read Twitter feeds and reprocess it. If this weren't happening, I'd use it as a default channel for just about everything. In the meantime, only about half of my tweets are direct from the service – the remainder are auto-imports from Diigo, Instagram, etc.
- Tumblr (QuackQuack.org). I like Tumblr although my site there (quackquack.org) gets very few direct visits. I mostly use it as a "links blog" of interesting things I find in my internet wanderings. Most items come in via Diigo, though if I have time I'll supplement things with my own thoughts or pictures. Most people probably see this via the sidebar of the QuakerRanter site.
- Facebook. It may seem I post a lot on Facebook, but 95 percent of what goes up there is imported from some other service. But, because more people are on Facebook than anywhere else, it's the place I get the most comments. I generally use it to reply to comments and see what friends are up to. I don't like Facebook per se because of its paternalist controls on what can be seen and its recent moves to force content providers to pay for visibility for their own fan pages.
- Flickr. Once the darling of photo sites, Flickr's been the heartbreak of the hipster set more times than I can remember. It has a terrible mobile app and always lags behind every other service but I have over 4000 pictures going back to 2005. This is my photo archive (much more so than the failing disk drives on a succession of laptops).
Honorable Mentions
- I use Foursquare all the time but I don't think many people notice it.
- Right now, most of my photos start off with the mobile app Instagram, handy despite the now-tired conceit of its square format (cute when it was the artsy underdog, cloying now that it's the billion-dollar mainstream service).
- Like most of the planet I use Youtube for videos. I like Vimeo but Youtube is particularly convenient when shooting from a Google-based phone and it's where the viewers are.
- I gave up my old custom site at MartinKelley.com for a Flavors.me account. Its flexibility lets me easily link to the services I use.
When I write all this out it seems so complicated. But the aim is convenience: a simple few keystrokes that feed into services disseminate information across a series of web presences.
Must Facebook own everything?
This is just so depressing: the Facebook gorilla has bought its second mobile photo sharing app in recent weeks. Lightbox was a great app. It auto-posted to everything I cared about (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare, Flickr) but also had its own beautiful website that kept it above the fray. Lightbox (my account is/was at http://martinkelley.lightbox.com/) was what Flickr should have and could have become and it let me enjoy the fantasy while also dual-posting to Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_kelley), which has stored my photos since Mark Zuckerberg was in training diapers. For more on the Flickr that never was, see today's piece in Gizmodo, "How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet."
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Future of Quaker media at Pendle Hill next month
I'm part of a discussion at the Pendle Hill conference center outside Philadelphia next month. Everyone's invited. It's a rare chance to really bring a lot of different readers and media producers (official and DIY) together into the same room to map out where Quaker media is headed. If you're a passionate reader or think that Quaker publications are vital to our spiritual movement, then do try to make it out.
Youtube, Twitter, podcasts, blogs, books. Where's it all going and who's doing it? How does it tie back to Quakerism? What does it mean for Friends and our institutions? Join panelists Charles Martin, Gabriel Ehri and Martin Kelley, along with Quaker publishers and writers from around the world, and readers and media enthusiasts, for a wide-ranging discussion about the future of Quaker media.
We will begin with some worship at 7.00pm If you'd like a delicious Pendle Hill dinner beforehand please reply to the Facebook event wall (see http://on.fb.me/quakermedia). Dinner is at 6.00pm and will cost $12.50
This is part of this year's Quakers Uniting in Publications conference. QUIP has been having to re-imagine its role over the last ten years as so many of its anchor publishers and bookstores have closed. I have a big concern that a lot of online Quaker material is being produced by non-Quakers and/or in ways that aren't really rooted in typical Quaker processes. Maybe we can talk about that some at Pendle Hill.
My long-running blog over at http://quakerranter.org has been out of the loop for awhile. I don't often have the time for long-form blogging. The style of classic blogging feels less immediate nowadays: Facebook, Google Plus, Tumblr, etc. are easier to post to and get more responses. The immediacy of the social networks provides mini ego boosts. The staff at the hospital where my daughter Laura was born last week invited me to bring my camera phone into the operating room to take pictures of the new one. The hospital had public wifi so it was just a click of a button to share it to Facebook. I was receiving my first rounds of aww's and congratulations before my wife has even been stitched up.
But being an early blogger (starting nearly a decade before Facebook became an open network), I know that the most influential posts took months and even years to make a difference. It's not very revolutionary to find out your friends are your friends, which is 90% of Facebook commentary. Personal change happena when you meet someone new; cultural change happens when you're exposed to people whose ideas are new to you. On the internet that happens at two in the morning when you wonder whether anyone has made a connection between two ideas obsessing you – the unexpected results in a Google search can change how you understand the world. It can starts you down the path of a new self-identity. It doesn't matter if the post is a couple of years old: what matters is that it's speaking to the spiritual condition of that searcher.
I know this (and I've written about it before) but I still tend toward short social media posts. So I'm going to integrate my Google Plus account with my WordPress-powered blog at Quakerranter.org. I'm picking Google Plus because it's where I've found myself writing the more thoughtful bits and pieces. A neat WordPress plug in called Google Plus Blog (link below) will help the integration.
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Google+ Blog Concept — Daniel Treadwell. View your Google+ Posts in the form of a clean and simple blog. Also home of the Google+Blog WordPress plugin.
As I've used G+ more the last week, I've realized the service that feels…
As I've used G+ more the last week, I've realized the service that feels the most redundant is my Tumblr account (on the custom domain http://www.quackquack.org). I started the Tumblr because I wanted something more "mine" than Facebook, a place where my photos and links would live independently. But how silly – Tumblr is just a hosted service that I ultimately have no control over.
So what's different with G+ and Facebook? I think it's the sense that Google will archive things. It feels like everything disappears after it ages off of the FB feed. #blog
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I personally take public transportation to and from school. But I have friends who are constantly complaining about how they can never find any parking.
I'm fairly positive we don't even have parking with Hunter, but driving in NYC is always a no-go.
Better off taking public transportation. Middle of Manhattan.
One doesn't need a car because Hunter is in NYC, so public transportation is easily accessible and way more convenient. However, if you were to use your car, you would have difficulty finding a spot (as with most of the city), or have to park it in a garage which can be on the expensive side.
Theres really no parking the school is in manhattan. Trains and taxis are your best bet.
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Parking in Manhattan is a joke. Unless you have hundreds of dollars to shell out every few weeks to park your car in a garage or plan to dash out of class every half-hour to escape the meter maid giving you a ticket, it's best to leave your car at home and use the MTA public transportation like everybody else. Most students at Hunter don't drive to school, and if they do, they park in Queens or Harlem and then take the 6 or F train a few stops to Hunter.
There is a garage opposite of Hunter, and there are a lot of meters around campus, but since the College is located in the middle of the Upper East Side, these accommodations are both expensive and time-consuming. Hunter does not have any special arrangements with any garages, so students who choose to bring cars to school have to navigate through these problems themselves.
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Pete McLeod
|Pete McLeod
Pete McLeod
23 February 1984
Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
|Ontario, Canada
|Racing career
|First race
|Best position
|1st (2014)
|Edge 540, Giles G-200
Pete McLeod (born February 23, 1984 in Kapuskasing, Ontario) is a Canadian professional aerobatic pilot whose first competitive flight was as a rookie pilot in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2009.[1] Raised in Red Lake, a small town in Northwestern Ontario, Pete grew up playing hockey, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, boating, and flying.[2]
Flying career[edit]
Truly a lifetime aviator, Pete received his first flight in the family plane at 6-weeks old.[3] McLeod's mother, Margaret, recalled how at the age of six Pete would sit on his father Dave's lap, hands on the control column during flights to remote lakes.[4] From that point on he learned to fly float and ski planes over Canada's rugged north. McLeod qualified for his private pilot's licence at 16, undergoing flight training at Harv's Air Service in Steinbach. Although he had yet to acquire a driver's licence, flying was such a familiar experience by then that, while other students practised takeoffs and landings, he was off performing basic aerobatic maneuvers. He built up his flying hours over the next couple of years, earning his commercial licence and float endorsement at the age of 18. McLeod spent the summers flying fishermen to remote outpost camps.[4]
Although earning his aerobatic-instructor rating when he was 18, it was not until Pete took delivery of his first high-performance aerobatic aircraft, a Pitts Special, that he began flying serious competition aerobatics. The next year, 2004, was Pete's first full competitive season and he went on to fly undefeated; winning multiple awards in his class, a United States Regional Series Championship, and became the 2004 North American Collegiate Aerobatic Champion.
With the completion of his Economics degree from the University of Western Ontario, Pete began his 2006 season with the decision to join the air show circuit and focus all his energy on professional aerobatics. Pete's inaugural air show season exceeded expectations and paved the way for even greater results in 2007. His greatest accomplishment came at the end of the season with a 2nd place Advanced category finish at the United States National Aerobatic Championships. With his outstanding finish against both National and World team members, Pete cemented his position as Canada's top ranked competition pilot and as one of the country's top solo aerobatic performers. One of Pete's biggest accomplishments in 2007 were earning his unrestricted surface level aerobatic waiver, thus allowing Pete to continue taking his flying to the next level. At only 24 years old, Pete is one of the youngest pilots in the world to hold such a waiver for high performance aerobatics.
Red Bull Air Race pilot[edit]
Pete's 12th-place finish at the European Aerobatic Championships in the Czech Republic in 2008 earned him an invitation to attend the Red Bull Air Race qualification camp in Casarrubios, Spain, at the end of September 2008. Of the six pilots invited, five qualified for the 'super' licence required to compete in the world championship and McLeod was one of four rookies selected for active race status.
Pete McLeod joins the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2009. He is not only the youngest rookie ever to qualify for the Red Bull Air Race, he is also the first Canadian.
Prior to the 2009 season McLeod assembles a team of technicians and support staff who, just as in NASCAR racing, will form the 'pit' crew for his first year on the circuit. In addition to his Red Bull Air Race contract, sponsorships, endorsements and branding rights will finance his move into professional air racing. Among the first orders of business is modifying his new Zivko Edge 540 350 horsepower aerobatic airplane into a high performance racer.
During his first year on the race circuit McLeod says he will focus on development, working with his team to tweak the most speed possible from the aircraft.[4] He thinks "the setup is not going to be 100% for at least a year because it's not just the pilot but the team that's also learning. You don't need the fastest airplane in the track in your first year because there's so much to learn".[5] He is looking to increase his own abilities as a race pilot, gain experience, fly fast, safe and incur minimum penalties.
McLeod's goal is to become a strong presence in the top 5 pilots in his 2nd and 3rd seasons. "I would like to become world champion by the time I'm 30 years old", says Pete McLeod.[6]
"I was basically raised in an airplane," said McLeod, who said he was captivated by the Red Bull Air Race when he first saw a film clip of a race five years ago. "I started aerobatics at 16 and for the last five years I've been eating, breathing and sleeping competition aerobatics, air show freestyle and the Red Bull Air Race. The first time I saw a video of the race I knew that without a doubt it was something I wanted to compete in. I enjoy freestyle aerobatics but it lacks the competitive aspect that the race has. I want to measure myself against the top pilots in the world."
- 2014—5th place overall, Red Bull Air Race World Championship
- 3rd Place - Red Bull Air Race - Abu Dhabi (UEA) - 7 Points
- 4th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Rovinj (Croatia) - 5 Points
- 4th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Putrajaya (Malaysia) - 5 Points
- 8th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Gdynia (Poland) - 1 Point
- 11th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Ascot (UK) - 0 Points
- 3rd Place - Red Bull Air Race - Dallas / Fort Worth (USA) - 7 Points
- 1st Place - Red Bull Air Race - Las Vegas (USA) - 12 Points
- 8th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Spielberg (Austria) - 1 Point
- 2012
- The Red Bull Air Race World Championship continued its break from racing to restructure the business model after rapid growth, it has been stated that organizers are targeting a 2014 return for the season. Pete performed at 15 air shows across Canada in his Edge 540 aircraft during the summer of 2012. Pete McLeod is a Red Bull Athlete.
- 2011
- The Red Bull Air Race World Championship was put on hiatus by organizers to restructure the business model after rapid growth. Pete performed air shows across Canada in his Edge 540 aircraft during the summer of 2011. Pete McLeod is a Red Bull Athlete.
- 2010—5th place overall, Red Bull Air Race World Championship
- 5th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Abu Dhabi (UEA) - 7 points
- 5th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Perth (Australia) - 7 points
- 7th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) - 5 Points
- 9th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Windsor (Canada) - 3 Points
- 5th Place - Red Bull Air Race - New York City (USA) - 7 Points
- 8th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Lausitz (Germany) - 4 points
- 2009—15th place overall, Red Bull Air Race World Championship
- 15th Place – Red Bull Air Race - Abu Dhabi (UEA) - 0 points
- 15th Place - Red Bull Air Race - San Diego (USA) - 0 points
- 11th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Windsor, ON (Canada) - 1 point
- 13th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Budapest (HUN) - 0 points
- 14th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Porto (POR) - 0 points
- 12th Place - Red Bull Air Race - Barcelona (Spain) - 0 points
- 2008
- 12th Place – European Aerobatic Championship
- Announced: 2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship Rookie
- Red Bull Air Race Super License Holder
- 2007
- Unrestricted Surface Level (0 ft) Aerobatic Display Waiver
- 2006
- 2nd place Advanced Category, U.S. National Aerobatic Championships
- B.F. Goodrich Award recipient at the U.S. National Championships
- Youngest Canadian air show performer
- Seven 1st place and two 2nd place career finishes (9 career competition events to date)
- 2004
- North American Collegiate Aerobatic Champion
- Mid-America Series Champion
- Undefeated in 2004 with five 1st Place finishes
- Four time winner of the Highest Scoring Pitts Award
- Posted highest percentage point average in North America – 90.67 %
- 2003
- 1st place, Ontario Open Aerobatic Championship (first ever competitive event)
- Completion of highly recognized Emergency Maneuver Training course.[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b McLeod, McLeod. "Pete McLeod Racing". Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ "Canadian Rookie Youngest Ever Red Bull Air Race Pilot". Red Bull Air Race GmbH. 2008-11-24. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ Difalco, Salvatore (2008-12-09). "?". Toro. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ a b c Clayton, Reg (2008-12-09). "Red Lake bush pilot prepares to take on the Red Bull Air Race series by the horns". Lake Of The Woods Enterprise. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ Sheiban, Shakeri (2008-11-03). "An Hour With Pete McLeod Part II: Career, Early Ambitions, Tech and More!". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ "Introducing Pete McLeod". Red Bull Canada. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
External links[edit]
- Pete McLeod Racing - Pete McLeod's website
- Red Bull Air Race - Official Red Bull Air Race website
- Air Races


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Building Work Begins - (Christmas Catalogue raised £1126)
At last the building work begins.
Thank you for all you support in getting to this place, and particularly to those who supported through the Christmas Catalogue. You helped us to raise £1126!
The building plans have been agreed, the boundary wall has been built, the plans have been drawn/pegged out on the land and finally, on Sunday 17th January, work began on the foundations. It is such a joyous time and the girls visit regularly with their house mother to see the progress of their new home. We can only imagine the excitement they must feel. Bigger bedrooms, inside showers and bathing facilities, a dining room and a study room and of course all the fixtures and fittings that go with a new home.
We have just put in our most recent Gift Aid Claim so thanks to the Government and all you people who are able to gift aid their donations, we are expecting just over £3000 back from the Government in just a few weeks. That will go straight over to Ranaghat towards the building work. Please continue to pray with us for the rest of the 30,000 it is going to cost to complete the work, and of course if you would like to do a fund raising event or to invite us to you group/church to speak about the work please let us know and we will do what we can to assist.
Thank you everyone for your continued support. You are such a blessing!
If you would like to support the building work please feel free to give as much or as little as you like! Donations can be made direct to the Stepping Stones bank account at HSBC sort code 40 40 22. Acc no 61606891 or via the PAYPAL button on our support page *(follow the link below) . If you would like to Gift Aid your donation please put GA in your payment reference with your house number and postcode e.g. GA28YO123DT. Thanks again everyone.


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Hence, Cute Spring Chick Maths!
This is a fab multi-age activity. Little T-Bear (21 months) loved sticking the right number of feathers onto her chicks, with some help from me, and eventually just loved sticking any number of feathers onto the paper! Younger ones who are out of mouthing could glue any feathers anywhere!
V-bot, at 4, is only now learning the symbols for addition and subtraction, so this was a great way to work on that in a non-pressurised way.
What we needed...
And they were off and running!
V-bot worked hard on this, and loved it, but conked out after 5 of the 7 chicks. She simply said "There, I'm done!" Which was fine - she might come back to it later, but that was enough for her for that time, which is totally fine with me!
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Hitachi Data Systems History
|It has been suggested that this article be merged into Hitachi Data Systems. (Discuss) Proposed since June 2013.
- 1 Hitachi Data Systems Corporate history
- 2 See also
- 3 External links
- 4 References
Hitachi Data Systems Corporate history[edit]
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) was founded in 1989 when Hitachi and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) acquired National Advanced Systems (NAS) from National Semiconductor and renamed it Hitachi Data Systems. But prior to that, the origins of the company had a history that stretched back to Itel, an early player in the mainframe market. Itel's Computer Products Group sold National Semiconductors' IBM-compatible mainframes, and in 1979 National Semiconductor took it over and formed National Advanced Systems (NAS). NAS shifted from manufacturing mainframes and began marketing systems from Hitachi. In 1999, Hitachi bought out EDS's share, and HDS became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi. For many years, HDS sold both Hitachi IBM-compatible mainframes and storage systems, but in 2000 exited the mainframe business and shifted its focus to enterprise storage.[1]
Origins as Itel[edit]
[2][3] Itel was an equipment leasing company founded in 1967 by Peter Redfield and Gary Friedman, initially focusing on leasing IBM mainframes. Through creative financial arrangements and investments, Itel was able to lease IBM mainframes to customers at costs below what customers would have paid IBM, making them second to IBM itself in revenues due to leasing of IBM mainframes.
A joint venture between National Semiconductor and Hitachi formed in 1977 was contracted by Itel to manufacture IBM-compatible mainframes branded as Advanced Systems. In the face of initial success of having shipped 200 such systems and netting profits of $73 million, Itel had increased their investments and personnel to market their Advanced Systems brand and hence committed themselves to long term contracts with National Semiconductor and Hitachi. While Itel had not expected quick change in semiconductor technologies, Charlie Sporck, CEO of National Semiconductor, saw opportunities by tempting Itel to longer term commitments in response to request by Itel for lower prices in order to compete with IBM. Itel succumbed to commitment.
National Semiconductor Takes Over Itel's Advanced Systems[edit]
Thereafter, news was abound that IBM was releasing a new technologically superior line of computers, to which customers responded by holding back purchases causing Itel's inventory to build up drastically. Even though Hitachi had agreed to Itel's request to cut back on shipment, National Semiconductor was adamant in implementing what the industry had termed as National's blackmailing of Itel. In 1979, Redfield was forced to resign as CEO and National Semiconductor took over the whole of Itel Advanced Systems, including its sales and marketing team.
National renamed the division National Advanced Systems (NAS), assembling and selling IBM-compatibles with a CPU imported from Hitachi. National and Hitachi quite often depended on IBM's gradual and restrained roll-out of newer models to feed on IBM's technology and market share and hence NAS enjoyed occasional successes.
However, IBM's investments in semiconductor technologies gave them an edge in building more powerful computers at lower costs. They were also introducing the Unix operating system gradually into their computers. IBM had also introduced the Personal Computer. By 1985, competing technologies from Honeywell, Prime, NCR and Control Data were gradually being forced off the mainframe market. NAS, as well as Amdahl (the other IBM-compatible mainframe maker) was no exception to facing the technological and sales pressure from IBM.
In 1983, National Semiconductor and its subsidiary NAS were sued by IBM for $2.5 billion on charges of using computer technology stolen from IBM,[4][5] as result of an investigation by the United States Government into National's collaboration with Hitachi in engaging in industrial espionage to obtain technology secrets from IBM, a case which illustrated the effects of desperation that the onslaught of IBM technology had on its competitors.
In 1983, NAS ceased the manufacture of its own line of mainframes (which had Hitachi processors) but became a reseller of Hitachi's mainframe and data storage products.
HDS Formed as Joint Venture of Hitachi and EDS[edit]
On February 28, 1989, National Semiconductor and Hitachi announced their agreement that Hitachi and EDS would jointly acquire NAS for $398 million in cash,[6] of which Hitachi would own 80%. Memorex Telex and National had earlier, on January 10, 1989, announced plans on a joint venture "under which each company would own half of the unit and National would get $250 million plus four million shares of Memorex Telex". However, National proceeded to negotiate with Hitachi after Memorex's offer expired as National had felt that the Hitachi-EDS offer was a better deal as it entailed no further financial obligation or commitment on the part of National after the sale besides reaping a pre-tax profit of $200 million from the sale. By that time, Memorex Telex was able to arrange financing for the deal, but National had already accepted the Hitachi-EDS deal.
The acquisition was envisaged to provide Hitachi a better presence in the United States to compete with IBM. The entity was renamed Hitachi Data Systems.
Origins with Hitachi's Mainframe and Storage Products[edit]
Hitachi was founded in 1910 by Odaira Namihei in the village of Hitachi/Hidachi in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, naming the company after the village (now a city) in which it was founded. Hitachi manufactured the mainframes and storage systems sold by NAS and subsequently by HDS.
Hitachi Acquires EDS Stake[edit]
On 29 January 1999, Hitachi announced it would take over EDS' stake in HDS, appointing Jun Naruse as CEO of its new subsidiary. Naruse had been an engineer with the RAID Systems Division involved in storage systems development. Having total control of the company, Hitachi was able to infuse Hitachi Data Systems with its corporate culture, ethics and practices. Rather than perpetuating the fad of three-letter acronyms, Hitachi from then on preferred projecting the name of its subsidiary as "Hitachi Data Systems".
HDS Enters the Storage Era[edit]
On April 6, 2000 Hitachi Data Systems announced a strategic global transformation and re-organization to apply resources in a customer business-centric approach and focus on storage systems rather than mainframes. Shortly thereafter (June 26, 2000), the first product of the HDS' storage era was unveiled, the high-end Freedom Storage Lightning 9900, featuring the Hi-Star crossbar switched architecture to interconnect memory, disks, servers and other external devices instead of the traditional bus architecture.[7] In addition to HDS sales, HP OEM'd [8] and Sun resold [9] the Lightning 9900 and succeeding generations, which featured additional advanced capabilities such as virtualization of external Hitachi and third-party storage systems to form storage pools.[10] In January 2001 HDS announced the Thunder 9200, a mid-range modular storage system aimed at the SMB market and sold mainly through resellers.[11] Hitachi Data Systems high-end and mid-range modular storage systems complemented by a software portfolio that encompasses storage management, content management, business continuity, replication, data protection, and IT operations continue to challenge established storage vendors for leadership of the storage market.[12]
HDS Moves to the Cloud[edit]
Leveraging technology from its acquisitions of Archivas,[13] ParaScale,[14] and BlueArc,[15] HDS has been moving to the cloud over the last few years, culminating with the announcement on October 25, 2011 of its Information Cloud Roadmap, Cloud Services, and Cloud Solution Packages.[16]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- ^ "Vendor profile: Hustling Hitachi Data Systems has EMC in its sights". Computerworld Storage Network World Online. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ "National Semiconductor Corporation". Funding Universe.
- ^ "Sierra Adds Power to I.B.M". The New York Times. February 13, 1985.
- ^ AP (November 16, 1983). "I.B.M. SUIT MAY ASK $2.5 BILLION". The New York Times.
- ^ Peter Carey (May 22, 1983). "The selling of IBM secrets". Boca Raton News.
- ^ LAWRENCE M. FISHER (February 28, 1989). "Partners Buy A Computer Subsidiary". The New York Times.
- ^ "Hitachi ups stakes in storage race". CNet. Archived from the original on April 15, 2003. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ^ "HP Extends Hitachi Resale Agreement". Eweek. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ^ "Sun UPS Storage Presence". CRN. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ^ "Hitachi Updates TagmaStore". Computerworld. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ^ "Where there's Lightning, there's Thunder". SearchStorage. Archived from the original on November 23, 2001. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
- ^ "Hitachi Data Systems: A storage giant lost in translation". The Register. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ^ "Hitachi acquires Archivas". InfoStor. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ^ "Hitachi Data Systems buys Parascale, gets more 'cloudy'". techtarget. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ^ "Hitachi Data Acquires BlueArc in Big Data Deal". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ^ "Hitachi unveils roadmap for cloudy offerings". Channel Register. Retrieved 2011-12-12.


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Marilyn Cope said her husband was a hardworking, generous man who loved to fish, never met a stranger he didn't like and never asked anyone to do something he wouldn't do himself.
"Of course, I might be kind of prejudiced," she said by phone Thursday. "But I think you could really ask anybody in the town of Canyon and they would say the same thing."
Wayne Cope died April 10 in a one-vehicle wreck at the intersection of 23rd Street and Second Avenue in Canyon, not far from the restaurant he ran for 18 years. He was 78.
He was probably best known as the owner of Cope's Coney Island, 2201 Fourth Ave., where West Texas A&M University students and loyal customers ate breakfast, lunch and dinner for nearly two decades beginning in December 1987.
But he also worked in agriculture and as a commodities broker; owned several businesses, including Cope's Feed Ingredients and Palo Duro RV Park, and served his community as a volunteer.
Wayne Cope was born on July, 31, 1935, on a farm near Happy, and graduated from Happy High School.
His sister, Dorothy Mae Finley of Abilene, said she still remembers when he was born and their father, William Thomas Cope, brought her and sister Muriel to see him.
Their father was proud. The girls were not as impressed.
"He was so red and wrinkled … we didn't think he was very pretty, really," she said. "But he grew out of it."
Finley, who was 11 when Wayne Cope was born, said he was always active. She remembered buying him a bow and arrow to play with when he was about 10. He went outside shirtless, and to the shock of his sister, mosquitoes had covered him in bites.
"I just knew he'd die," Finley said. "But he didn't."
Wayne Cope's nephew, Gary Finley of Abilene, remembered his uncle as mentally tough.
"He overcame a lot of things in the last few years of his life," Gary Finley said.
He said his uncle attended family reunions often, and was a people person with many friends.
"At the funeral, I was not surprised that the church was completely full," he said. In 1996, the Amarillo Globe-News featured Wayne Cope and his business partner Max Troube in a story about Cope's Coney Island. Wayne Cope told the Globe-News he began the venture with zero restaurant industry experience, and he put in as many as 100 hours per week to get the eatery off the ground.
"I didn't know any better if I couldn't make it work," he said.
But he gave it a shot, and Marilyn Cope said he and his restaurant became highly favored among WT students, whom he'd tease from time to time.
"Those guys that walked in, some of them had eaten there two or three times a week, and he'd say 'That's not the same little gal you had with you the other day!'" Marilyn Cope said. "And they just loved it. Young people loved him as much as the old people.
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The flight from Kabul to Bamiyan is brief. In 40 minutes, you soar over spurts of deep green vegetation surrounded by various shades of dusty brown; small clusters of rectangular buildings; slivers of streams that wind through the otherwise monotonous countryside; and, everywhere, mountains.
Mountains that climb higher than your small non-pressurized plane, mountains covered by nothing but golden dirt and piles of rocks, mountains that have claimed their share of human lives and crashed planes.
I arrived in Bamiyan on Sunday, in search of the province's entrepreneurs for an upcoming documentary on start-ups in Afghanistan.
Since then, I've wandered through Bamiyan Center's seemingly endless potato fields, which serve not only as sources of agricultural income, but also the area's pedestrian highways. I spent one early morning exploring the ruins of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and another Shar'e Gholgola (or Fortress of Screams, so-named for Genghis Khan's ruthless massacre centuries ago).I've smoked shisha beneath a beautifully, starry night sky and confused my own breath in front of me for the smoke of the pipe. I've met with members of the international community working on economic development in Bamiyan, and debated Afghan politics, Hazara identity, and predictions about 2014 with local community members. And of course, I've had countless cups of delicious Afghan chai.
I have not found start-ups – at least none that resemble the tech start-up model that has come to define the term in the United States.
According to Paul Graham, one of the most revered thought leaders in tech-start-up-land, start-ups are different from small businesses in their focus on a scalable product. Product-based – as opposed to service-based – is key because it means the potential to scale exponentially, and scaling is key because the very term "start-up" implies growth and scale.
In the United States, initiatives like Start-Up America promote the idea that entrepreneurship is the key to economic development and job creation, especially in a down economy.
But in Bamiyan, neither of these models seems to hold.
The local economy is still largely agrarian, with those endless potato fields producing the best tubers in all of Afghanistan. NGOs and "civil society" still play a huge role in the local social and economic fabric as well. Project funds and implementation pump millions into the local economy, providing not only jobs, but also careers for educated Bamiyanis to aspire to.
Indeed, international organizations and the local NGOs that they support seem to provide the backbone of Bamiyan. The Agha Khan Foundation, widely perceived as one of the most effective development organizations in Afghanistan today, is behind many of the economic development initiatives in Bamiyan, including eco-tourism, infrastructure projects, and small business support. UNAMA's (United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan) development unit, meanwhile, is working on basic capacity building projects for local NGOs in several key sectors. And the work of COAM (the Conservation Organization for Afghanistan's Mountains) seems to be as close as it gets to the Paul Graham model of start-ups; in addition to other environmental initiatives, this organization has brought to market an innovative clean stove that is not being given out, a la traditional NGOs, but traded.
This is all laudable and very important work, but it is still a far cry from the profit- and exit strategy-driven world of start-ups.
This leaves me wondering if my search for "start-ups" is Western and pitifully uninformed. Am I looking for a concept that is culturally alien to Bamiyan? Or is the lack of "start-ups" an issue of market maturity? And if that is the case, does NGO-driven economic development precede entrepreneur-driven? Or is it that my definition of start-up is too specific?
I have until Sunday to find what I'm looking for. And if I do not, it might be time to rethink some of my assumptions.
In the meantime, I'll be enjoying the mountains, the potato fields, and the chai.


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Roach: Chavez Jr. Was as Good a Student as Pacquiao
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There's no denying that the tandem of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Freddie Roach had great success during their two and a half year run together.
Having welcomed Chavez into his Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles in late April of 2010, Roach understood that the young fighter had been rumored to be lethargic and uncooperative in camp. Still, Roach was able to sharpen his skills as Chavez continued his unbeaten streak while claiming the WBC middleweight crown in the process.
Chavez was hit with a huge blow to his ego and career this past September when he was thoroughly outclassed over eleven and half rounds by Argentina's Sergio Martinez before a knockdown and rally in the twelfth round came up short. The young prizefighter from Sinaloa, Mexico suffered his first professional defeat, losing a lopsided decision.
Word later leaked that Chavez was set to fire Roach, with either Nacho Beristain or Robert Garcia likely to fill his void.
Roach is unsure of where everything stands and still seems to hold on to extreme disappointment as to how the training camp for Martinez unraveled
"I haven't heard a word from anybody," Roach told me recently. "You know, I loved training Julio when he wants me to be the trainer. The last fight it kind of fell apart. We only trained five days together."
Roach also saw another one of his star fighters, former junior welterweight champion Amir Khan, take his talents to another coach in Virgil Hunter and I asked him if he felt that sometimes trainers take too much of the blame during crucial losses at the world class level.
"That's common but it's part of the job," Roach explained. "But the thing is, [Chavez] never blamed me for him losing the fight, but for some reason he wanted to mess with success. He never said no to me once. He was as good a student as Manny Pacquiao. But then, in the last fight, he wanted to be the boss and it just didn't work."
Asked who would be a better selection for Chavez, either Beristain or Garcia, Roach still seems to be holding on to hope that it could be him standing in the corner come fight night.
"I haven't really thought of it," Roach admitted. "I think I'm the best fit for him when he listens. So, if he comes my way and he really wants me to train him I would love to. If not, I wish him the best of luck."
At one point there was a big improvement, seems like it worked when Chavez wanted to learn. Hard decision because he would have a chance to get a fight under his belt if he does go with someone new and…Comment by Fighting_Pride on 02-09-2013
chavez, jr. must be the most protected bum in the history of any sport, he's better of smoking a fatty than get on the ring with a pro.Comment by Cinci Champ on 02-08-2013
lets be honest pac man has been known to tell roach what to do and also not following a training schedule like doing some of it in philli. without roach like he did in his past fight with marquez. all…Comment by Albeerto on 02-08-2013
Roach is saying hes a fast learner and applies whats taught. Doesnt sound like hes talking about their work ethic. OBVIOUSLY. LOL hopefully pac dont own pink banana hamocksComment by kavi521 on 02-08-2013
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2. Katy Perry and Riff Raff paid homage to the most iconic VMAs outfit ever and showed up in matching denim.
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Love you forever, Britney and Justin!
4. …and Rita Ora reacted like this.
5. Later on Nicki had a wardrobe malfunction during "Bang Bang" but still slayed.
6. Taylor Swift wore a onesie…
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7. Gwen Stefani looked fantastic *and* did this adorable finger clap.
8. Lorde's sister was the MOST excited about Lorde's win.
Second only to Taylor Swift.
9. Miley Cyrus brought a homeless friend as her date to the VMAs…
11. While Katy Perry and Sam Smith were confused about the whole thing.
12. Amber Rose showed up like this:
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Rose McGowan much?
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14. Jim Carrey made a joke about Ebola…
…and then fell down on the stage.
Karma, much?
15. The Orange Is the New Black ladies were flawless.
16. Iggy and Rita wore matching outfits for their performance of "Black Widow."
17. Bey and Jay kissed, ending those divorce rumors.
18. And this happened.
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21. Kim Kardashian really ~felt the music~.
22. And then Kendall and Kylie ~seriously~ did.
23. Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus were really excited to see each other.
24. And then Miley waited a year to react to Taylor Swift's performance.
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As people around the nation gathered to hear results from the presidential election Tuesday night, the Caledonia Board of Aldermen waited for news of another kind -- the findings of their 2010 full-scope audit.
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Josiah Coleman has been elected to Mississippi Supreme Court in northern district.
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The second-year student, staying in the university hostel, in her police complaint said the incident took place when she had went out with her boy-friend, who works with an IT firm here, on Saturday night.
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The victim said the gang then demanded money from her boyfriend, who told them that he had kept his wallet in his car. After sending him to bring the wallet along with one of its members, the gang sexually assaulted her.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Within the last month, more than a dozen former Phillies have made an appearance in Clearwater, including three of the most important third basemen in franchise history.
Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt, considered by many as the greatest third baseman in baseball history, arrived this weekend as a new member of the broadcast team. Scott Rolen, once considered the franchise player who could finally fill Schmidt's shoes at third, made an appearance before batting practice in February. Pedro Feliz, who delivered the game-winning hit in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series, arrived in camp one day as part of his new job working for a bat vendor.


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Police have issued an arrest warrant for an 18-year-old man after four people responding to an online advertisement for a car were robbed, beaten and then forced to call friends and family for money to secure their release.
An 18-year-old man responded to a Kijiji ad for a car on July 14 and then arranged to meet the seller at an underground garage in the Jane Street and Grandravine Drive area.
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'There will be no opening act; they don't want it. The concert is slated to take place for more than 2 hours, but we don't have the set list yet,' Krishna Radhitya, the company's president director, said.
In addition, Krishna said that Metallica had also prepared a monstrous 200,000-watt sound system to support the concert at Bung Karno Stadium in Senayan, South Jakarta.
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The Texans and Buccaneers were in position, but they ultimately failed to do the San Francisco 49ers any favors Sunday.
Both teams lost in disappointing fashion on their home fields to the Seahawks and Cardinals, respectively. At 2-2 through the first quarter of the season, San Francisco still finds itself trailing Seattle by two games and tied with Arizona in the NFC West after its win over the last-place Rams Thursday night.
The Texans, who put up more yardage against the Seahawks in the first half than any team had in an entire game this year, blew a 17-point lead before losing in overtime, 23-20.
"They handed it to us every way they wanted to in the first half and we didn't have any answer to stop it," Pete Carroll told reporters following the game. "The challenge that we all wanted to meet up to was we hadn't showed who we were and how we could play."
The Seahawks' comeback was highlighted by Richard Sherman's 58-yard interception return for a touchdown to tie it with 2:51 left in regulation. It was the third interception returned for a score thrown by Matt Schaub in as many weeks, as Houston fell to 2-2.
Had the Texans maintained their lead against the Seahawks, the defending NFC champions would be just one game back in the standings despite a disappointing start to the season. San Francisco will host Houston Sunday night and has a favorable schedule leading up to its bye in Week 9.
After next week, the 49ers will host the Cardinals, then travel to 3-1 Tennessee - who lost quarterback Jake Locker to a hip injury Sunday - and London to play the win-less Jaguars.
Tampa Bay came out of Sunday still looking for its first victory after allowing 13 points in the fourth quarter to lose by just 3. Behind rookie quarterback Mike Glennon, the Buccs shut out Carson Palmer's offense for the first 56:48 before hitting Larry Fitzgerald for a 13-yard score following Glennon's first of two interceptions in the last 3:23.
Tampa's offense then went three-and-out, leading to Arizona's 29-yard drive resulting in the go-ahead, 27-yard field goal from Jay Feely. When the Buccaneers got the ball back, Glennon threw his second interception to Patrick Peterson, thwarting their chance at a comeback.
Glennon's performance comes after a week of turmoil in Tampa Bay as coach Greg Schiano benched former first-round pick Josh Freeman after failing to complete 50 percent of his throws in the season's first three games. The Buccaneers had lost eight of his last nine starts dating back to 2012. Freeman wasn't active Sunday.
"With all the happenings of the week, it was the best thing for our team," Schiano said. "There's stuff that I'm not going to get into, but that was the best thing for our football team."
The Seahawks (4-0) will play their second-straight road game next week when they take on Indianapolis (3-1) before getting the Titans (3-1) at home. Before coming to San Francisco in two weeks, the Cardinals host the Carolina Panthers (1-2), who are coming off a bye.
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The Jerry Jones Era: Yay or Nay?
Okay, let's stop the belittling and the praising and the story-telling and get down to it.
With his reign turning 20 today, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is coming under intense scrutiny. As in, will his legacy be positive or negative?
There are, of course, pros and cons ...
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*Overseeing the longest post-season success drought in franchise history at 12 seasons and counting.
*Tarnished the Cowboys' image, from the team's notorious Valley Ranch White Houst in the '90s to this decade's sell-your-soul-to-the-devil signings of Terrell Owens and Pacman Jones.
*With four lower-level seats on the 35 costing more than $150,000, probably pricing the team's blue-blood, blue-collar fans out of the new stadium in Arlington.
*Alienated fans by keeping in place a general manager named Jerry Jones who fired Tom Landry, who couldn't co-exist with Jimmy Johnson and who couldn't win with Bill Parcells.
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