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Get A Strong Focus For Your Approach To Cloud
Posted by Randy Heffner on June 18, 2010
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In discussions on cloud computing, I often talk to architects who have been told to create a "cloud strategy." This sounds appropriate enough, but there's a devil in the details: When the task is "create a Technology X strategy," people often center strategy on the technology. With cloud, they aim to get a good definition of pure cloud and then find places where it makes sense to use it. The result is a technology strategy silo where cloud is placed at the center and usage scenarios are arranged around it. The problem with this is three-fold:
- Considering the full business dynamics of any given usage scenario, there is a wide continuum of often strongly competing alternatives to pure cloud (including cloud-like and traditional options).
- The rapid pace of market development means that business value equations along this continuum of options will keep changing.
- Your business needs integrated strategy for many technologies, not simply a siloed cloud strategy.
The point of a strategy is to enable good decisions over the long term. With cloud, one's evolving decision framework should put the business decisions to be made at the center, arranging options -- pure cloud, cloud-like, virtualized, traditional -- around the business decision. This is what a good architecture strategy does, and the best way to develop a strong approach to cloud is to integrate cloud as an option into broader strategies. Consider infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) as an option within your overall infrastructure strategy. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) might factor into your application platform and development strategy. Your business solution road map might have a place for software-as-a-service (SaaS). Building cloud into these other strategies: 1) establishes a good foundation for making strong business decisions; 2) offers protection against getting caught up in cloud hype; and 3) provides a stronger basis for evolving toward pure cloud through stages like server virtualization, internal cloud, and hosted cloud.
To read more, go to a longer post at cio.com or to this Forrester report.
What are you doing to protect your organization from cloud hype?
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- Top Priority For Cloud Planning: Integrate Cloud Computing Into Existing Architecture Strategies
Motivation Model is Most Important Model for EA
Comment from Doug Mutart on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 13:17
If there's one model that all enterprise architects need to create before talking tech (be it Cloud, SOA, BPM, whatever), it's a business motivation model. As Randy says, before talking about the means (mission, strategies, tactics), we need to understand the ends (vision, goals, objectives). For cloud, the motivation might be the ability to enter emerging markets without a huge CAPEX budget, or aligning scarce IT resources with systems and services that competitively differentiate our company from the competition. Give me a business motivation model and a business capability map, and watch how quickly we can unlock the value of business technology (cloud or whatever).
Take the Fog out ?
Comment from Lawrence Medina on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 15:28
I think the first step is a clear definition of what 'cloud' is. There really isn't one definition, even for what you refer to here as a 'Pure Cloud'. And I'm not talking about the clear differences between public and private clouds, but the whole cloud concept.
Even in you blog post, you refer to Iaas, PaaS, SaaS as components of cloud architecture, but do you need one, two, all or any of these to utilize a cloud concept for content and application management?
For me, it's sort of like the definition of a house or a home- runs the gamut from a mansion to a cardboard box under an overpass, depending on your personal infrastructure strategy =)
Definitions don't (really) clear the fog
Comment from Randy Heffner on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 16:15
Lawrence: You make my point precisely. You never buy a definition; you buy specific products/services, and they tend to approximate the definition. Because definitions are slippery, and furthermore because (even if the definitions were clear) many cloud-like offerings don't fit "pure cloud" definitions, the *first* step is (a) to clearly understand the stream of business decisions that need to be made and (b) to categorize those decisions for the purpose of coherent strategy and planning. For each category of business decisions, the strategy organizes and selects among the continuum of options available. Properly identified, the business decision (e.g., "select cost-effective computing resources") remains stable, and you continually adjust the strategy to account for new market offerings, fuzzy and changing definitions, and (hopefully) continually growing organizational expertise and maturity. It's the business decision focus that clears the fog, not the definition.
Buying? Selling?
Comment from Lawrence Medina on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 18:56
If you follow the press and trade rags, G00gle, Am@zon, M$oft and 1BM are all selling "the cloud", whatever that is... no one is selling products/services and so when the C-levels go to IT or Business Services, they ask "why aren't WE in the Cloud?" It's sad but true- it's on the covers of all of the magazines and trade rags they get, both public and private sector, and it's what all the buzz is about.
The questions that SHOULD be getting asked are related to services and features, irrespective of what they're called. Where the rubber meets the road are the features, risk protection, up-time, continuity of operations in disasters, etc.
Even the concept of cost effective is questionable- it's not the same to look at lowest cost of operations as opposed to total cost of operations when you have hosted and leased services- control what you can do best, buy the rest. Manage your mission critical and sensitive data, toss your less valuable but necessary data over the fence to a lower cost alternative... don't force yourself into having to calculate the cost of risk and recovery into your TCO.
There's always risk (but I get your point)
Comment from Randy Heffner on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 07:39
Preach on, bro!
I would say, however, that a full business analysis does include risk calculations — as well as flexibility. The TCO method does not handle these well, so you need Forrester's Total Economic Impact method instead. Sometimes, a (well-managed) risk is worth it.
Cloud and EA
Comment from Charles Bess on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 15:36
I was talking with a cloud Evangelist the other day and he made the statement that "we're using cloud, we don't need an EA".
After I re-booted my mind after a comment like that, I responded that no you need the enterprise architecture more than ever. Just because you've "outsourced" the technical architecture via the cloud. It doesn't mean that this set of services can stand alone. For most organizations it needs to be integrated into the wider enterprise in order to deliver comparable value.
As you state, you need to have a strong focus so that you can approach the service vendors from a position of strength, and not just ride along with the current.
I couldn't help myself
Comment from Charles Bess on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 07:41
I had to put a blog post out about this topic:
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Comment from Randy Heffner on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 13:14
In a subsequent post, I put a bit more stucture around the distinction that I'm making here. In Your Future Needs A Type 4 Technology Strategy, I define a four part taxonomy for types of technology strategy. As an example, I explain that a dedicated cloud strategy is a Type 3 strategy, whereas the Type 4 strategy is my recommended approach of building cloud options into your existing infrastructure, application platform, and solution portfolio strategies.
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HTC and Apple have made a surprised joint statement this morning revealing that both companies had come to a wide-ranging patent licensing deal.
HTC CEO Peter Chou said: "HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation."
The deal, which many had experts thought wouldn't happen, was unveiled this morning and sees the warring smartphone giants enter into a 10-year deal, with the agreement covering current and future patents held by both companies.
His counterpart, Apple CEO Tim Cook added: "We are glad to have reached a settlement with HTC. We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation."
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The news comes in stark contrast to HTC co-founder Cher Wang's previous comments on the patent dispute – he boisterously declared HTC had "no intention" of settling with Apple in the wake of rival's Samsung's defeat and stated his company's "great skills in innovation" would give them the confidence to face lawsuits from Apple.
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A California court earlier this year famously awarded Apple $1.05bn (£652m) in damages against Samsung, after ruling several of its software and design technologies had been infringed, with the Korean firm calling for a retrial.
Is HTC now priced out of Android?
Today's news is not great news for HTC when it comes to Android. Bizarrely they already pay Microsoft for every Android handset sold, which is estimated at $5-$15 per handset. Factor in that they're probably paying the same to Apple and their bottom line is likely being chipped away to almost nothing.
Lawyers call this "royalty stacking" and it can be a big problem for complex industries like smartphones. It's also no surprise that Microsoft's OS is plastered all over the HTC website today – could this be a sign that they're already considering moving away from Android in the future? Essentially, stacking of royalties might effectively push HTC off Android entirely due to lack of profits – something that would play into both Apple's and Microsoft's hands.
What does the deal mean for Samsung?
The HTC deal is also bad news for Samsung, and, in turn, even worse for Google. Whatever the royalty HTC has agreed to pay, it sets a price range for any future deal between Apple and Samsung.
At some point, sooner or later, Samsung will end up settling with Apple and will have to pay a similar price as HTC. The big question that remains is whether Samsung — or any other handset maker — will be able to still sell Android phones at a profit after paying Apple's and Microsoft's royalties?
If this is the case then it won't take much for handset makers to jump ship from Google's Android and setup shop in the safety of Microsoft's Windows Phone – with the lure of profits on each handset, something that might prove difficult on Android in the future.


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Greetings shareholders,
This week, we will have sweet red peppers, potatoes, onions, garlic, eggplant, beans, summer squash, tomatoes, kale and collards, a chili pepper, edamame soybeans, and herbs. The peppers we've given you so far have all been sweet; almost all of the peppers will be sweets of various sizes, shapes, and colors. If they aren't fully red when you get them, you can leave them on the counter and they will finish ripening like a tomato. We are finally able to harvest some chili peppers, nothing fancy, but a nice addition to the vegetable selection. The chilies will be on the other side of the room from the sweet peppers so they don't get confused.
In addition to cracks in the tomatoes, peppers and tomatoes are also suffering from blossom end rot this year. It's also a condition that develops in drought. The plants need water to carry calcium from the soil into the roots and throughout the plant body. When it is very dry, they can't get as much calcium as they need fast enough and they develop a calcium deficiency. It shows up as a watery or black area on the bottom half of the fruit. It usually wrecks a tomato fruit, but you might find some peppers in the box that have it and yet still have a little life in them. We try to throw them out, but don't always see the damage when we are picking fast. As the fall rains get a little more regular, it should go away.
We have edamame this week, hopefully next week, too, as long as the beans don't mature too fast. I'm going to give you whole stems. You can pick off the fat bean pods and leave the stems here, or take the whole thing home and let the kids pick them off. To prepare them, throw the whole pods into salted, boiling water. Let them blanch for a couple of minutes, then run under cold water to cool. To eat, you squish the little beans out of the pods. They are good as a snack or in a salad. You'll notice lots of flat pods in the edamames this year. Those are the ones that formed during the worst of the heat. They tried to make a bean, but couldn't. The yield of actual beans you can eat will be considerably less than we usually get. Same thing has happened to the commodity soybeans in the fields.
There are still four wonderfully adorable kitties here who need homes pretty fast. They are nine weeks old now, getting less cute all the time.
We will be open from 4:30 until 7:30 today for those of you whose Labor Day plans run later into the afternoon. We have four weeks left, including this week, of pickups on Monday and Thursday evenings. Remember that starting October 6, we switch to Saturdays, 10:00 until 2:00, for the last four weeks of the season. Might want to get it on your calendars now.
See you this week,
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Katsidis guns for Escobedo!
By Craig Watt
Australian lightweight contender Michael "The Great" Katsidis (25-1, 21 KOs) has a chance to secure the WBO interim lightweight title on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas against American Vicente Escobedo (21-1, 13 KOs) in what many people believe could be the fight of the night on a packed card of high class boxing, headed by the bout between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez. The 29 year old Katsidis from Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia always comes to fight and never takes a backward step and many predict this battle with Escobedo could be an all action fight of the highest quality.
In the preparation for the fight, Katsidis started his training camp with long time trainer Brendon Smith in Thailand and then came to the US to complete his preparations taking on Jose Amando Santa Cruz as his chief sparring opponent. Santa Cruz was former WBC interim lightweight champion in 2006 and lost in a close split decision against Joel Casamayor in 2007 when he dropped the Cuban in the first and then lost on the scorecards by just one deciding point in the split decision.
Katsidis stated, "To have someone in the camp with me like Santa Cruz has really been good for me. He has given me a lot of blood, sweat and tears over the years and it's been invaluable for me to spar with him in preparation for this fight. He has put his heart and soul into training with me and we have landed a lot of big blows on each other and he has really helped me in the build up to such a big fight for me. It has been a long time since I won a world title back in 2007 and I aim to regain the WBO crown on Saturday night. It will be a tough and exciting war with Escobedo and we both don't like taking a backward step, so the fans are in for a treat."
Against Escobede he takes on a fighter with a strong amateur pedigree after representing the USA in the 2004 Olympics and has lost just once in his 22 fight career to date. His only loss came to Daniel Jiminez in 2006 in a disputed split decision loss over eight rounds and he is unbeaten since, having beaten veterans Kevin Kelly inside two rounds in his last fight in May this year when he dropped Kelly twice to force a stoppage win.
Trainer and Manager, Brendon Smith confirmed the pedigree of Escobede by stating, "I expect Australia and the rest of the world to witness the best performance of his career from Michael. Escobede is a good fighter with a great amateur pedigree and has represented America at the Olympics so he is a top drawer opponent for Michael. He has been in with some top fighters and knocked them out but he hasn't had a fighter like Michael Katsidis in front of him. However, we do not under-estimate him but it could just be the fight of the night in Las Vegas on Saturday."
Smith has received some commitment from the WBO about the winner of the fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather. He stated, "At the WBO convention, the president has ordered that if Juan Manuel Marrquez (the current WBO champion) wins against Floyd Mayweather then he must defend his full title against the winner and if he loses, the winner of the match on Saturday will be then declared the full WBO champion. There is big incentive for the winner of this fight and so it will be a big opportunity for Michael to show his worth around the world."


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Moriendor, SSD means real savegames not crap savesystems. Cloudization will be a new fraud to squeeze more money from users with weekly or monthly fees, some will use it, some will buy pay-once drives.
SSD price drops you list - they promised significant drop prices like 50% on old models because of new SSDs with bigger sizes, not turtle steps of 10-20% drops during one whole year.
As for SoC compare I've used data that was available, it's impossible to find compares on newer ones, sorry. And I still think that SoCs will completely replace current generation of consoles. Simply saying, that technology is capable of that.
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The hypnotized "I'm fine" life of "barely good enough" is revealed here to be thoroughly unnecessary - and easy to break free from.
The CHOICES Chandler gives us are clean, clear, simple to execute, and based on more than twenty years of training over thirty Fortune 500 companies and coaching hundreds of high-achieving individuals. This is Chandler at his best.
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Sometimes I like to assign movies for my clients to watch. One of them is Finding Dory. The little fish character voiced by Ellen DeGeneres has short term memory loss and much of the humor comes from her forgetting who the other characters are.
She might have a long scene with a character and see the same character two minutes later and have no idea who she's talking to. Then cheerfully she says, "Oh hello! My name is Dory!" How exciting to find a new relationship! And for Dory, they're all showing up as new.
What if I can try being Dory? When I arrive at a gathering and I see someone there who I have had judgmental thoughts about, this time I approach them as Dory. I am happy and cheerful. I am open and empty and so glad to run into them. There is no story about them that I have to filter their words through.
When I show up empty, I am right here right now in the present moment. Like falling out of thought and like falling in love. Because only in the here and now can I fall in love, because falling in love is an experience of pleasant surprise, or, as G.K. Chesterton said about his spiritual awakening, it's like receiving "absurd good news."
And I can fall in love with anything. I recently learned to fall in love with taking the garbage out. I noticed that I dreaded it every week, and when it came time to do it I slogged through it as a means to an end. It never occurred to me that I could make it an end in itself.
So I slowed it down and treated it like a sacred Zen practice. It wasn't long before I couldn't wait until garbage day. I'd even say to Kathy in a voice that sounded like elation, "Tomorrow's a big day."
"Oh really? Why?"
"Tomorrow is garbage day!"
She began to worry about me. She started looking online for what she could find about the first stages of dementia.
Stories (elaborate webs of thought) make it hard for me to give something (like taking the garbage out) or someone (who had said something critical) a second chance. Someone criticizes me and I'm caught up into thinking they've done something deliberately hurtful. I try my best to forgive them, but built into the idea of forgiveness is the conviction that I am the person who was right and they are the person who was wrong. When I forgive them it feels like it's big of me to do that! And that from now on they'll never be on the same moral or ethical level as I am. It is from a superior level that I throw my pennies of forgiveness down to them. A magnificent being generously tossing coins into a human gene pool of inferiority.
Dory would be kinder than that. Dory wouldn't remember what that other person had done or said.
In my experience of recovery from alcohol and drugs I have noticed that some people (who knew me when) never quite trusted or understood that my whole life had changed. I was "that drunk" to them every time they saw me, no matter that decades of sobriety had passed. I have friends and acquaintances in recovery who are never given a second chance by certain family members because the old stories are stronger than their capacity to forget.
I don't actually regret any of that. It shows me the power of a story. It shows me that stories can prevent a relationship from ever really happening. They can become stories about what men are like. They can be stories about what women really want. These kinds of stories can hypnotize almost everyone alive today.
When I have a story about your political party, or your country, or your profession, who you really are doesn't stand a chance. Whole countries have stories about other countries and will fight to the death to live out the story.
My clients enjoy Finding Dory. They see the love behind giving someone a new start. Maybe the saying "Forgive and forget" can be shortened, in the interest of time management, to simply "Forget." If you did that it would give the people in your world a fresh chance.
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1 Tbsp. canola oil
2 medium sweet onions, such as Vidalia or Bermuda, chopped
1 Tbsp. fresh chopped thyme leaves or 1 tsp. dried thyme
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
1 tsp. sugar
4 medium parsnips, scrubbed, peeled and cubed (about 3 cups)
3 small rutabagas, scrubbed, peeled to remove wax and cubed (about 3 cups)
1 Tbsp. prepared horseradish
1/2 to 3/4 cup skim milk
In large skillet, heat oil over low heat. Add onion, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook covered, stirring occasionally, until onion begins to brown, about 5 minutes. Remove lid and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes more. Add vinegar and sugar to onions.
Cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally; set aside. In medium saucepan, cover parsnips and rutabagas with cold water and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain using colander. Return vegetables to pot and coarsely mash with hand-held masher. Add horseradish, then milk, beginning with 1/2 cup, then adding more if necessary, to achieve desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon caramelized onions over top and serve.
Makes 6 servings.
Per serving: 162 calories, 3 g total fat (<1 g saturated fat), 33 g carbohydrates,
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX falls as oil slump hurts energy stocks; BlackBerry tumbles
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* TSX ends down 54.03 points, or 0.4 percent, at 13,440.33
* Six of the TSX's 10 main groups down; energy off 2.6 percent
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By Fergal Smith
TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell on Friday, dragged down by a 7.6 percent drop in BlackBerry Ltd shares on disappointing earnings and a slump in oil prices that hurt energy companies.
Still, the index closed 0.6 percent higher on the week after having rallied into quarter-end on Thursday. March was its best monthly performance in more than four years.
Investors tried "to close out the quarter on a good note and then what you're seeing today is just a little bit of repositioning," said Bryden Teich, associate portfolio manager at Avenue Investment Management.
The most influential weights on the index included Canadian Natural Resources, which declined 4.4 percent to C$33.60, while TransCanada Corp was down 2.9 percent at C$49.59. The overall energy group retreated 2.6 percent. Continued...


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Mid-season driver changes don't happen often in Formula One, but they do happen occasionally. And the Sauber team – formerly owned by BMW – has done exactly that. After the bulk of a season of lackluster performance, the Swiss team has announced that it is removing Pedro de la Rosa from the cockpit for the grands prix left on the calendar.
In his place, Sauber has called Nick Heidfeld back up to the plate. Having spent seven seasons driving for Sauber in the past, scoring a dozen podiums along the way, Heidfeld is a known and proven talent at the team's headquarters in Hinwil.
Despite his talents, the German driver failed to secure a race seat for the 2010 season, and was retained instead by Mercedes as a test driver. He was subsequently released from his contract with Mercedes when he was recruited by Pirelli to test its new tire compounds, but will likely have to give that up given his renewed ties to Sauber.
Heidfeld will be driving alongside Kamui Kobayashi, who despite having failed to finish more races than de la Rosa, has scored more than three times as many points. With 27 world championship points and five races to go, Sauber sits in 8th place out of 12 in the constructors' championship standings, just ahead of Toro Rosso and the new teams. Will Heidfeld help the team turn around from the backmarkers they are now to the title contenders they were just a couple of seasons ago? Share your thoughts in the comments section below, or follow the jump for the team's official announcement.
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Hinwil, 14th September 2010 - Sauber Motorsport announces a driver change: From the Singapore Grand Prix, 23rd to 26th of September 2010, until the end of the season Nick Heidfeld will be driving the second C29 alongside Japan's Kamui Kobayashi. Thirty three-year-old Heidfeld from Germany replaces Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa (39). The team's contract with Nick Heidfeld comes into effect on Friday, 17th September.
Team Principal Peter Sauber said: "It was a hard decision for me to make as a Team Principal and I want to thank Pedro for his professionalism. By signing Nick we have a driver we know extremely well who will help us to further judge the comparative potential of our car."
Pedro de la Rosa: "I am surprised by the team´s decision, but I respect it and would like to wish everyone good luck for the remainder of the season. I still intend to be in Formula One for 2011."
Nick Heidfeld: "I'm looking forward like crazy to having the opportunity to go racing again in a good car in Formula One from the Singapore Grand Prix onwards. After the last months I'm even more motivated than ever. For me it is like coming home, as I raced for seven years in total for the team from Hinwil. Without doubt I will be feeling at home straight away and this should help me to familiarise myself as soon as possible with the car. I want to thank Peter Sauber for the faith he has put in me."


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Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War; by Penny Coleman (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006)
Flashback website
Author Penny Coleman is baffled. How is it that in a mere 30 years' time we've forgotten the lessons of the Vietnam War? We seem to be suffering from a strain of national amnesia, where we casually approve of going to war without adequately considering the burdens it will place on our troops, their families, our communities, and the fabric and future of our nation.
A chronicle of pain and passion, stress and suicide, Coleman's masterwork, Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War, demands our attention - most especially now as we embark upon what our leaders tell us will be war as far as the eye can see. In reading her tapestry of cold data and intimate recollections of one of America's most painful eras, we gaze backwards. Unfortunately, we find the familiar: the present - and possibly the future. The same stigma and camouflage used to hide the Vietnam War's invisible wounds and scars from public view can be increasingly seen - if we only look - in the way we treat our newest generation of veterans. We find ourselves reinventing the wheel, caught off guard in the early years of this new century's wars. As troops slip through the cracks, the military - and nation - struggles to relearn previous and costly lessons. Flashback asks, "Why?"
Coleman, whose late husband Daniel committed suicide in the wake of the Vietnam War, reveals her own private journey through darkness and shame in the years that followed. But she goes further; she invites others, military wives and family members, to join her via the interwoven interviews that retell of the pain and struggle of suicide in war's wake. Coleman writes in her Introduction, "In repeating my own and the stories of the other women in this book, I hope to bear witness to one of the true costs of war, one that is rarely considered when passions are hot and patriotism becomes a code word for uncritical support of government policy - namely collateral damage. ... The collateral damage I am talking about is here, in this country, and it has been effectively hidden from sight. It consists of those soldiers whose names are not included in the MIAs or WIAs or KIAs, though they are in a very real sense missing, wounded, or dead, even if by their own hands. And it includes those of us abandoned when they chose not to go on. Together we became collateral damage when they brought their wounded bodies and minds home to us" (p.7).
But Flashback isn't merely a collection of interviews and deeply moving narratives, as compelling and important as they may be. It's also an immensely readable and extensive exploration of the topic of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Coleman focuses on the personal trauma of the individual and his or her family, but she also explores the more public impact of PTSD on military effectiveness. She traces how "irritable heart" can destroy the army itself, insidiously from within, especially in the theater of war.
Chronicling the history of diagnosis from the first descriptions of melancholy, insanity and nostalgia, Coleman outlines the "cures" instituted by various fighting forces to keep their armies in line: use of the afflicted as decoys to draw enemy fire; ostracism as malingerers and cowards; and execution and burial in unmarked graves. To avoid such terminal cures, in the past, soldiers often self medicated through desertion, "drunkenness," drugs, and in the case of Vietnam, fragging.(1) These desperate responses corroded the military itself, and, in Vietnam, may very well have ultimately destroyed our armed forces' ability to fight. Yet, as Coleman demonstrates, research into PTSD during and after World War II (and the resulting treatments which had been effectively put to use in Korea) could have reduced the mayhem of future combat operations, especially in Vietnam, had the military and the government paid attention.
Instead, as Coleman documents throughout this exceptional book, government studies have a remarkable capacity for collective amnesia about combat stress; The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) published in 1990, for example, never mentions suicide (p. 120). The recent Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) report identifies "seeing dead bodies or human remains, being attacked or ambushed, and knowing someone who was seriously injured," as the "most often reported combat stressors," but as Coleman points out, the report considers "none of these factors in its analysis of the etiology of solider suicides"(p.2). (2)
Even in Korea, Coleman tells us, the military command initially ignored the lessons of the past. One year into the conflict, psychiatric casualties were seven times higher than in WWII, a fact which forced the military to recognize their "fight or else" policy wasn't working. Under military psychiatrist Albert Glass, prompt forward mental health care based on treatment successes from WWI and WWII were reinstituted (p. 55). Believing "that psychiatric casualties were inevitable and universal, given enough stress" and that there was a "correlation between combat stress and unit cohesion and effective leadership," Glass incorporated elements that addressed the physical needs as well as the soldiers' guilt over abandoning their comrades. And indeed, his forward treatment reduced the 23 percent psychiatric casualty rate of World War II to just 6 percent in Korea (p. 56).
Central to treatment success in Korea was the soldiers' sense of loyalty to their fellow battle buddies. According to Coleman, psychiatrist Jonathan Shay suggests that one of the key requirements of a successful military is "themis" - or a sense of "what is right" (p.. 22) -- a term he uses to include the troop's need for a "trustworthy structure" in his military relationships with his closest friends within a loyalty circle, his or her peers, and the military chain of command.
Soldiers need to be grounded in the belief that they have been appropriately trained and supplied and what they are fighting for is "right." When they don't or can't have these needs met, the psychological trauma is as real as a bullet through the heart or head. Suicide is often the delayed physical manifestation of the earlier psychological wound.
Reading Coleman's book ultimately leads us to questions about the nature of war, morality, and civilization. Her chapter titles provide a context to the breadth of her discussion: Irritable Heart to Shell Shock; PTSD and Modern Warfare; Why Vietnam was Different; Collapse of the Armed Forces; and Aftermath of Vietnam. Throughout, she shows how "the rich men's wars" engender propaganda in order to make them "the poor man's fights." This propaganda effort or, to use the current administration's preferred terminology of "perception management," not only seeks to hide the data about casualties - physical and psychiatric - but now often doesn't even collect it. Managing reality and discouraging honest examination of war's total costs, then, becomes the agenda, taking away any chance that we as a society may support our troops adequately and learn from our mistakes - or successes.
[Disclosure: ePluribus Media initiated its PTSD Timeline to document incidents of suicide and violence by returning combat veterans (with fact checked and documented records of over 129 events as of June 18, 2006) to address this very lack of information.] (3)
The five years the author devoted to researching her topic clearly reveals itself in every word, in every expression, and in the detailed Notes sections provided at the back of the book. This is the type of volume a researcher or historian will love, allowing those interested in pursuing certain issues the clear pathway to do so. Taking the reader through a history of a disorder which is as political as it is painful, Ms. Coleman reveals that, though referred to by many a name through the centuries (shell shock, soldier's heart, battle fatigue), PTSD has and always will be with us as long as war is waged on earth between humans.
Why are we so disconnected from war and its aftermath? Penny Coleman tackles that issue head-on and delivers up a book every American should read.
About the authors:
Cho is a writer, editor and board member of ePluribus Media.
I.L. Meagher is an activist and citizen journalist with ePluribus Media. She holds a Highest Honors A.A. in English, and is planning to complete her B.A. in Journalism at Northern Illinois University. She is the owner of a Midwest content development and online publishing firm and is currently researching the 1956 Hungarian Revolution as well as cataloguing cases of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Her new blog, PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within, offers the returning combat veteran resources, news, research, and a listing of the latest veteran events.
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Forsyth County Sheriff Bill Schatzman has denied any wrongdoing in the firing of Sgt. Michael T. Russell, an Iraq War veteran.
Schatzman claims he fired Russell for "disloyalty." Russell calls it retaliation—as well as a violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
Russell claims he was fired eight months after returning from a tour of Iraq after he bought $100 in tickets in a raffle run by Davie Griffith, a former deputy who was running against Schatzman for sheriff. Russell claims he simply wanted to win a motorcycle, the raffle's first prize.
Russell filed a complaint under USERRA, claiming he was terminated because of his military service. The U.S. Department of Justice thought enough of his complaint to file suit against Schatzman.
A former Marine who joined the Army National Guard in 2007, Russell was also one of several North Carolina deputy sheriffs who unsuccessfully pushed for state law changes that would have limited sheriffs' rights to hire and fire deputies.
Note: Although courts have not weighed in definitively, USERRA's protections make it very difficult to fire veterans. When considering discipline against an employee who has served in the National Guard or military reserves, thoroughly document the reason for the discipline and make sure it has nothing to do with the employee's military service.


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pg_statsinfo is a utility that monitor statistics and the activity of PostgreSQL(and OS). pg_statsinfo gets some statistics information as snapshot. We can check the DB activity and bottleneck analysis by using these snapshot information. This utility provides some function to get the information acquisition easily.
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The pgFoundry page for the project is at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgstatsinfo, where you can find downloads, documentation, bug reports, mailing lists, and a whole lot more.
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text: MUMBAI, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE: SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715) met today and announced appointment of Mr Israel Makov as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Makov is the former President and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (2002-2007). He is among Israel's most respected corporate leaders, and is widely credited with Teva's emergence as a global company and a world leader in generic pharmaceuticals. Speaking on the induction, Mr Dilip Shanghvi, Managing Director of Sun Pharma said "I welcome Mr Makov on behalf of the entire Board and the larger Sun Pharma team. He is an exceptional leader with deep knowledge and experience in globalizing businesses successfully. As Sun Pharma continues to rapidly expand its presence worldwide, I am sure that we will benefit immensely from his experience." On his appointment, Mr Makov said, "I am happy to accept the position of Chairman of the Board. Sun Pharma is an exciting company poised for substantial global expansion and I look forward to working together with Dilip and his team in realizing their visionary goals." Profile of Mr Israel Makov Mr Makov is the former President and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. He joined Teva in 1995 and led the company's global expansion, managing over 12 acquisitions - two of which were the largest M&A deals in the Israeli history at the time. Under Mr Makov's leadership, Teva became the undisputed global leader in generic pharmaceutical industry and a global leader in the treatment of Multiple sclerosis. Prior to joining Teva in 1995, Mr. Makov led a number of companies in various industries, and founded Israel's first biotech company, Interpharm which went public in the US as the first Israeli company in R&D stage.


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Many know that the power of the link helps in search engine ranked positioning. A link is a vote that your website has something of value. Therefore, you have added a submission request in DMOZ.org Open Directory Project, which may take some time to actual list, but immediately thereafter, you are also in Google Directory as Google takes a direct feed from DMOZ.org
Additionally, by inclusion into DMOZ.org, you will automatically be included in many search engines' exclusive directories such as:
> Lycos
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> Ask Jeeves {mospagebreak title=Clones&toc=1} In addition, an approximate 2,000 DMOZ.org clone sites (simply a website that also uses DMOZ.org directory information) will archive your listings. Only about 100 of these sites may offer any value but this is accomplished simply by being accepted in DMOZ.org so not additional work on your part.Now what' Well they are many other directories online that are worth the time to submit your information some are, general all encompassing directories like:
o Josh.nu
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o 123World.com
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o Linkopedia.com
o Invisible-Web.net
Ok so I did that, now what' Well going through Google directory itself will help find more directories to list in including many content specific ones that may only allow submission of sites like yours. Ok I found many new places to submit and list and it did take some time but completed, now what' Well DMOZ.org (thus Google directory) only has a very small fraction of the total number of directories that are out there. Why not go to Google.com and type in 'directory' and 'directories'. Hmmm' while you are at it ' do not forget to type in your primary targeted keywords and/or keyphrases into Google.com and add +"directory" and
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So I get SF bus pirate and cable, come to find out the cable is backwards from the firmware color codes. I would be interested in knowing the reasoning behind this, as I proceed to either cut the shroud or file off the cable key. As I look at ordering probe ends I'll keep the response in mind.
No public wish lists :(


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'New Visions' of food security from Cassandra Proctor
BTI intern Cassandra Proctor has developed a self-described "obsession" with food security. The first-year plant science major at Cornell University developed a newfound fascination with plants through her internship in the lab of BTI Professor Maria Harrison her senior year of high school. That interest deepened through her Read more »


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This actually happened to me about 6 years ago.
I was at a Target. My wife and 10 year old daughter were in the girls' clothing department. I was just walking into the store when some guy comes rushing into the store repeating in a loud but not shouting voice, "Some guy in the parking lot has a gun! Call the police." He runs over to the customer service and tells them. They seem unconcerned. Then again, it was a bunch of 18 year old girls behind the counter.
What would you do at that point?


text: Abby Freethy is a regular cooking guest on the TV 5 Morning show.Now, the Greenville business owner is in the running for some national recognition by Martha Stewart.Joy Hollowell tells us more about the Northwoods Gourmet Girl.=====When Abby Freethy was pregnant with her son Dustin, all she could stomach was catsup."So I thought, I should be making catsup," says Freethy. "I'm a chef, let's see how this goes."She began giving it away to others at the restaurant in Greenville where she worked. Then, came another inspiration."I can do interesting catsup, like charred onion and jalapeno and now campfire."Freethy decided it was time to go into business for herself. In 2006, she created Northwoods Gourmet Girl."I started soliciting businesses locally and they started carrying a little bit of the product," explains Freethy.In less than a year, she had enough business to open a commercial kitchen and café on Depot Street."And we were there for six years."Freethy's product line of condiments, dessert sauces and preserves continued to expand. Earlier this year, Northwoods Gourmet girl moved into an even larger space, just up the street in Greenville. Her pantry items can be found in stores all around Maine as well as other states."From the beginning, it was just me in the kitchen with some ideas about how to make it here in Greenville," explains Freethy. "There's not an enormous amount of job opportunities here and especially with an occupation like mine as a chef. Either you go to work for someone else, or you find your own way. So that's what I did."Now, Freethy is hoping to find her way on stage with Martha Stewart. She's a contestant in the American Made contest. The finalists are chosen by Internet voters and will be showcased in New York City in October. The grand prize winner gets $10,000 dollars."It would mean that we would create more jobs, we'd have to, our product would be in bigger demand not only in retail, but in a wholesale realm," says Freethy. "It would put Greenville on the map a little bit more than it is already."+++You can vote for Abby or any of the other Maine contestants up to six times a day. The first round of the contest ends Friday, September 13th.Log onto Martha Stewart dot com and look for the "Vote for your favorite american maker" icon.There's also a link on the Northwoods Gourmet girl Facebook page.


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Janet Yellen's Rookie Mistake: Speaking Too ClearlyBy
Janet Yellen may have just committed the first substantial blunder of her chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. The mistake: being specific when the occasion called for generality. "The more experienced [Ben] Bernanke knew to avoid clarifying deliberately vague statement language," Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase, wrote in a client note after the financial markets reacted badly.
Investors are dying to know when the Federal Reserve will start raising its target for the federal funds rate, which has been stuck on the floor at zero percent to 0.25 percent since December 2008. The Fed has repeatedly refused to be pinned down. In its statement today, for example, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said "it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time after the asset purchase program ends [emphasis added]."
At her first press conference since becoming Fed chair in February, Yellen was asked what the Fed meant by "a considerable time." The correct answer to this question is, "We weren't specific for a reason. Go away." Yellen, having been connected with the Fed in one capacity or another for most of the past 20 years, should have known that. Instead, she said, "You know, this is the kind of term it's hard to define, but, you know, it probably means something on the order of around six months or that type of thing." That was a bit quicker than markets had been expecting, so interest rates rose and stocks fell. The comment "sent equity markets into something of a tailspin," wrote Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics.
Michael Wallace of Action Economics in Colorado called Yellen's specificity a "gaffe." He wrote that Yellen made "the mistake of 'taking the bait' and providing a time reference for the purposefully ambiguous phrase." It wasn't the only factor in the market selloff today—new economic projections by members of the FOMC were also a factor—but it did make a difference.
It's a fair bet that other FOMC members will be suggesting to Yellen that she stick closer to the script next time she addresses reporters.