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CALABASH—Several hundred people turned out for two Memorial Day services Monday in Calabash to remember soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice defending freedom.
Staged by Nocha White American Legion Post 503, a sixth annual ceremony at the Calabash Fire Station kicked off with a flag-raising by a JROTC Color Guard from West Brunswick High School and featured among speakers U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre and retired Army three-star general Joseph Kinzer.
Another Memorial Day service unfolded at the same time at Calabash Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7288 on Carter Drive.
The grades are in for North Carolina's coast.
The N.C. Beach, Inlet and Waterway Association recently released its "2008 Report Card for the N.C. Coast."
With an overall grade of C+, North Carolina received only one A on this year's report card.
Caswell Beach Mayor Harry Simmons, who serves as executive director for the association, said the annual report card usually garners good response.
"We thought it was important to have an easy to transmit way to let people know how the coast is doing," Simmons said.
The Brunswick County Motorcycle Enthusiasts group has scheduled the first event in its campaign to raise money for the annual Christmas Toy Run.
On Saturday, local motorcyclists will converge at 9 a.m. at Shallotte Park to sign up for the poker run, which involves riding around the community searching for cards to create a poker hand.
For a $20 entry fee, each participant will receive lunch and a T-shirt (until they run out).
Shallotte Police made the following arrests and investigated the following incidents last week:
•Police arrested Michael Andres Gonzales, 39, of Hillcrest Drive, Supply, and charged him with felony breaking and entering and felony larceny of money at Sharky's on Ocean Isle Beach. He was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center and placed on a $10,000 secured bond.
•Fraud at Lowe's Foods; suspects "confused the cashier" into giving them an additional $300, the report states.
The man suspected of causing a string of break-ins on Ocean Isle Beach has been arrested. He was jailed on a $121,000 bond on May 19.
Detective Donna Simpson said Jackie Lee Miles Jr. III, 32, of Atkinson, broke into about a half a dozen homes, where he stole televisions, a stereo and speakers and DVD players.
Simpson said officers realized the break-ins were all similar in entry, which brought focus to a single suspect.
Brunswick County Sheriff's deputies investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week. All information is taken directly from sheriff's office incident and arrest reports.
•Larceny on Hooper Road in Leland; suspect stole a motorcycle from victim's residence.
•Larceny on Hillcrest Road in Supply; suspect took property from victim's yard and from under the house. Fence posts and a computer monitor were reported stolen.
Ocean Isle Beach Police officers investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week. All information is taken directly from the Ocean Isle Beach Police Department's incident/investigation reports:
• Mitchell Tanner Kusche, 20 of Oak Ridge. Subject was wanted in North Carolina.
Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office Drug Enforcement Unit made the following arrests last week. The suspects and their charges, which are taken directly from arrest reports, are:
•Thomas Frank Mullins Sr., 55, of 715 E. Boiling Springs Road, Southport; charged with possession of less than ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and felony possession of cocaine.
The following students are being recognized for honor roll, citizenship, perfect attendance and principal's awards for the third nine-week grading period.
'A' Honor Roll
Supply Elementary School has teamed with the White House to become a certifying organization for the President's Volunteer Service Award, a national program recognizing Americans who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to volunteer service.
The award was created by President George W. Bush in 2003 to give presidential recognition to individuals, families and groups who meet requirements for volunteer service, measured by the number of service hours performed during 12 months.
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Naked mole rats are fascinating creatures, with a remarkable set of adaptations that allow them to survive in the harshest underground environments. Indigenous to East Africa, the hairless rodents spend the duration of their lives below earth's surface, where light and oxygen are scarce.
The naked mole rat's unique choice of habitat has equipped the small animal with some equally unique physiological properties: Its lungs are relatively tiny and its blood equipped with a strong affinity for oxygen, so as to improve its oxygen intake; its eyesight is greatly diminished; its skin has a curious lack of pain receptors; and it can live longer than any other rodent its size — up to 28 years.
Even the social structure of groups of naked mole rats is different by mammalian standards: Like bees and hornets, a cadre of male workers surround a single, reproductive "queen."
The rodent's most interesting characteristic, though, may be its incredible resiliency to deadly diseases; in fact, the naked mole rat is basically cancerproof.
In the latest issue of the journal Nature, a team of biologists from the University of Rochester analyzed the naked mole rat at a cellular level. For years, researchers have infected naked mole rats with viruses that, under most circumstances, would trigger cancer growth, at least in mice.
Not the naked mole rat, though. According to Carl Zimmer at The New York Times, "scientists have yet to find a single mole rat with cancer."
In this latest study, led by the husband-and-wife team Andrei Seluanov and Vera Gorbunova, researchers isolated the mole rat's cells in a nutrient syrup. After a few days, something weird happened: The cells transformed the surrounding liquid into a thicker syrup. "We said, 'We need to find out what this goo is,'" Dr. Gorbunova tells the Times.
It turns out the cells were secreting a molecule called hyaluronan, which is typically distributed in the connective tissues of mammals like humans and mice. The job of hyaluronan is to attach to a receptor cell called CD44 to deliver commands — time to multiply! time to change course!, for example.
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It turns out, the high production of hyaluronan and the low levels of degradation are protective against the development of tumors in the naked mole rat. If you add in more enzyme to degrade the hyaluronan, the naked mole rat cells become much more susceptible to dividing and forming tumors. When the hyaluronan was [eliminated by] the cancer cells, either by stopping its formation or increasing its breakdown, the cells readily began to form tumors in mice, which suggests that the hyaluronan itself is what renders naked mole rats cancer resistant. [Scientopia]
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Two of Turlock's finest were promoted at a ceremony held at the War Memorial on Tuesday. Miguel Pacheco, a 14-year police veteran was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and nine year Turlock Police veteran Dave Shaw was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
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What is the repository database and trace database used for in BV Control SQL Server
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What is the trace database used for and what is the function of the repository when configuring BV Control SQL for auditing.
When configuring BV Control for SQL Server for auditing feature , you first need to create a central repository - This repository is used to hold all audited data from all targets that you might configure for auditing.
The target server that you setup for auditing , requires that you create a target database on that server itself , this target server is used to hold all audited data from that server depending on the events ( DDL or DML ) events that you have selected while configuring the target host in BVC- SQL Server.
This data that is in the trace database is periodically transferred to the SQL repository which is queried in BVC- SQL using the auditing data source. So basically we are reading the SQL repository for gather our data for reports on audits.
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This article presents an impact assessment framework that allows for the evaluation of positive and negative local-level impacts that have resulted from "responsible trade" interventions such as fair trade and ethical trade. The framework investigates impact relating to (1) livelihood impacts on primary stakeholders; (2) socio-economic impacts on communities; (3) organizational impacts; (4) environmental impacts; (5) policies and institutional impacts; and (6) future prospects. It identifies relevant local-level stakeholders and facilitates the analysis of conflicting interests. The framework was developed in the context of, and is applied in this article to, the fair trade coffee industry in northern Nicaragua. It was designed, however, so that it can be applied across commodity sectors and responsible trade initiatives. It is able to do this by accommodating for differences in the social, environmental, political and institutional contexts of different areas, and by taking into account the distinct nature of an initiative's overall objectives, different levels of intervention, and the full range of stakeholders involved.
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- Assessing the Impact of Fair Trade Coffee: Towards an Integrative Framework
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Journal of Business Ethics
Volume 86, Issue 1 Supplement, pp 127-149
- Cover Date
- 2009-04-01
- 10.1007/s10551-008-9761-9
- Print ISSN
- 0167-4544
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0697
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- Springer Netherlands
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- impact assessment
- responsible trade
- ethical trade
- fair trade
- livelihoods
- conflicts of interest
- smallholders
- coffee
- Nicaragua
- Industry Sectors
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- Karla Utting (1)
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Ebola in the United States. It ended with ISIS beheading yet another hostage. Our two biggest fears on the global stage just flexed their muscles and got scarier. It is no surprise then, that there is a panicky edge to the discussion of either topic, or that the proposed solutions to either issue are becoming ever more extreme and outlandish.As weeks go, last week wasn't exactly a great one. It began with the inevitable appearance of
Let's take a step back for a second. Yes, Ebola is awful. The death toll in West Africa is over 3000, and the total number of cases could hit 1.4 million within 4 months. Given that the current outbreak has a mortality rate that is pushing 60%, those are grim figures. But, despite widespread panic, the number of confirmed cases within the United States remains at exactly one. And yes, ISIS is awful. Over 5000 Iraqis have died as a result of its military actions, and ISIS is singularly unconcerned with avoiding things like genocide or war crimes. But how many Western hostages have been beheaded by ISIS? Four, a number that will hopefully remain unchanged.
That last paragraph could be taken in a very nasty way. No Americans dying? Eh, who cares? That isn't my intention at all. What is interesting is how we've seemed to settle upon ISIS and Ebola as our designated fears of the season, especially since things aren't going all that well elsewhere. From the Ukraine, to Hong Kong, to Egypt, to Estonia, there are any number of areas in the world where things could very rapidly spiral out of control just as easily as the situation in Iraq and Syria. Back at home, heart disease kills 600,000 every year, and even a lightweight like measles has taken 41 in 2014. Again, it would seem that there are many things out there that are every bit as threatening, if not more threatening, than Ebola.
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While US students wallow in debt that exceeds $1 trillion, according to Forbes, Germany is now offering a tuition-free future for upcoming generations.
No, it's not a far-fetched idea for the government to invest in a country's intellectual capacity by financing advanced education. The more students who have access to the university, the greater the contribution to a nation's growth and well-being, particularly in this age of advanced technology and scientific knowledge. Instead of allowing its students to be burdened by lifelong debt - or not going to college at all because of the costs - Germany sees that it benefits the country to subsidize debt-free higher education.
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All German universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge.
"Tuition fees are socially unjust," said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012. "They particularly discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up studies. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany."
Nuclear Power Cannot Be Made Safe: It's Just a Clean Way to Die
It was a relatively cool afternoon on the central coast of California. The fog settled quietly over the hills like a white heron. And despite the worst drought in our state's history, the sky was a deep blue, the color of autumn, the sun shimmered brightly on the bay, a few crows shouted above the field where my two Labradors were happily chasing a squirrel to no avail—just another ordinary day - until suddenly PG&E's Diablo Nuclear Power Plant's siren went off. I forgot that they were running a routine test that day.
There are four rotating speakers that roar an alarming sound: EMERGENCY! It is so loud that PG&E warn residents a week in advance so that you can protect your hearing and your pets' ears from the blaring sirens. My dogs freaked out - and so did I. We ran as fast as we could back to the house.
Central coast residents have grown accustomed to these routine tests. But that day - for a moment, I thought it was the real thing. It feels as if you're in a war zone and that you had better take cover as quickly as possible. Problem is—there is no real "escape plan" if the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant became a Fukushima meltdown catastrophe.
And that's the ultimate irony about the routine siren tests: it's an exercise in futility.
How 14 People Made More Money Than the Entire Food Stamp Budget for 50,000,000 People
For the second year in a row, America's richest 14 individuals made more from their annual investments than the $80 billion provided for people in need of food. Nearly half of the food-deprived are children. Perversely, the food stamp program was CUT because of a lack of federal funding.
In a testament to the inability -- or unwillingness -- of Congress to do anything about the incessant upward re-distribution of America's wealth, the richest 14 Americans increased their wealth from $507 billion to $589 billion in ONE YEAR from their investment earnings. As stated by Forbes, "All together the 400 wealthiest Americans are worth a staggering $2.29 trillion, up $270 billion from a year ago."
The Richest 14 Made Enough Money to Hire Two Million Pre-School Teachers or Emergency Medical Technicians
Billions of dollars of wealth, derived from years of American productivity, have been transferred to a few financially savvy and well-connected individuals who have spent a generation shaping trading rules and tax laws to their own advantage. It's so inexplicably one-sided that the 2013 investment earnings of the richest 1% of Americans ($1.8 trillion) was more than the entire budget for Social Security ($860 billion), Medicare ($524 billion), and Medicaid ($304 billion).
Poisoned Fracking Playgrounds a Threat to Texas Kids
ShaleTest, which tracks the impact of shale oil and gas extraction for communities which can't afford such tests, found as part of its Project Playground: Cleaner Air for Active Kids funded by Patagonia. The group ran air quality tests at five recreational parks and playgrounds in the north Texas, located near natural gas processing plants in the Barnett shale fracking area. It found harmful chemicals, including carcinogens, at all five.The air at Texas playgrounds could be hazardous to children's health. That's what nonprofit environmental testing group
"The oil and gas industry claims that they're drilling responsibly," said ShaleTest president Tim Ruggiero. "These tests show they're not."
The story was featured on the cover of the alternative newsweekly Fort Worth Weekly this week under the headline "Bad Air Day." It described a deserted Delga Park in Fort Worth next to a huge natural gas compressor station run by Chesapeake Energy, which reporter Peter Gorman had to leave after two hours because his eyes were tearing and he had difficulty breathing.
ShaleTest collected air samples at the locations and compared the results to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)'s Effects Screening Levels (ESL) and Air Monitoring Comparison Values (AMCV), "set to protect human health and welfare," according to the TCEQ. The parks include two in Fort Worth, one in the Fort Worth/Dallas area suburb of Mansfield, the city of Denton and DISH in Denton County, whose story was told in Josh Fox's Gasland films.
"The people living around Delga Park, in particular, are going to be sacrificed in the long term," Calvin Tillman, former mayor of DISH and co-founder of ShaleTest, told Fort Worth Weekly. "And the sickening thing is that they're being sacrificed so that the gas company can make a few bucks."
Stanford Scientists Link Drought in California to Global Warming
Stanford University professors recently released a study showing how the prolonged drought in many areas of California is linked to climate change. Stanford reported on the findings in a September 30 article:
"Our research finds that extreme atmospheric high pressure in this region – which is strongly linked to unusually low precipitation in California – is much more likely to occur today than prior to the human emission of greenhouse gases that began during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s," said [Noah] Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
The exceptional drought currently crippling California is by some metrics the worst in state history. Combined with unusually warm temperatures and stagnant air conditions, the lack of precipitation has triggered a dangerous increase in wildfires and incidents of air pollution across the state. A recent report estimated that the water shortage would result in direct and indirect agricultural losses of at least $2.2 billion and lead to the loss of more than 17,000 seasonal and part-time jobs in 2014 alone. Such impacts prompted California Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a drought emergency and the federal government to designate all 58 California counties as "natural disaster areas."
In a commentary yesterday, BuzzFlash drew attention to how global warming is currently causing 35,000 walruses to be stranded on an Alaskan beach due to the ongoing melting of the Arctic ice shelf. The California water crisis provides more evidence that the abuse of our atmosphere is beginning to directly impact humans, not just animals.
Reducing Meat and Dairy Consumption Important for Healthy People and Planet
With the federal government considering sustainability for the first time as it solicits public comments for its 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Center for Biological Diversity, as part of its Take Extinction Off Your Plate campaign, is encouraging the government to adopt guidelines that are more environmentally friendly.
Center for Biological Diversity says the new guidelines should include recommendations to reduce meat and dairy consumption.
The guidelines, issues by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services every five years, offer recommendations on eating to maintain a health weight and prevent disease. This year comment guidelines include a field for "Food Systems Sustainability," asking for comments pertaining to the impact of food groups or commodities on the whole food system and on sustainability metrics that have been implemented or are in development.
"Animal agriculture has devastating impacts on wildlife and the environment," says Center for Biological Diversity. "Meat production is one of humanity's most destructive and least efficient systems, accounting for astounding levels of wildlife losses, land and water pollution, deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions."
Maybe the Plight of the Walruses Will Awaken People to Global Warming
Maybe the desperation of 35,000 walruses forced to crowd onto a beach in Alaska because of global warming will awaken more people to the destructive impact happening now. After all, many polls have shown that a majority of people in the United States - this past Sunday's huge protest march in New York aside - regard climate change as an abstract future possibility. It does not generally show up as a top concern of voters.
Yet in Alaska, the walruses are evidence of a real impact happening now. According to The Guardian:
An estimated 35,000 walruses were spotted on the barrier island in north-western Alaska on 27 September by scientists on an aerial survey flight.
The biggest immediate risk factor for the walruses now is a stampede – especially for baby walruses – but they have been facing a growing threat from climate change, the scientists said.
The extraordinary sighting – the biggest known exodus of walruses to dry land ever observed in the Arctic under US control – arrived as the summer sea ice fell to its sixth lowest in the satellite record last month.
"Those animals have essentially run out of offshore sea ice, and have no other choice but to come ashore," said Chadwick Jay, a research ecologist in Alaska with the US Geological Survey.
Given that the "summer sea ice fell to its sixth lowest in the satellite record," the walruses are our canaries in a mineshaft. Their plight is so serious that planes are being diverted away from the beach to prevent setting off a stampede on dry land that might trample and kill many of them.
US Prisoners, a Growing Population, Experience Accelerated Aging While Incarcerated
If you are an aging prisoner in the United States, 50 is the new 65.
This phenomenon is called "accelerated aging" and according to the Urban Institute's KiDeuk Kim and Bryce Peterson, "the physiological age of some older prisoners is up to 15 years greater than their chronological age." This is in stark contrast to outside prison walls where our youth-oriented culture labels "40 as the new 30," "60 as the new 50," and so on.
Older prisoners -- a demographic that is growing rapidly -- face numerous hardships and injustices from incarceration, including : having their chronic health conditions ignored or mistreated; physical threats from younger prisoners; the need for special equipment, including wheelchairs and walkers to be able to ambulate around their prisons; difficulties climbing on and off top bunks; trouble hearing, making it challenging to discern orders from guards; and mental health issues, many of which are the result of prolonged imprisonment.
In a new report titled, "Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System," Kim, and Peterson emphasize that "While this may be caused by a host of related factors—including histories of unhealthy behaviors and inadequate healthcare—there is little doubt that the trauma and stress of the prison environment can have an impact on prisoners' accelerated aging and deterioration of health."
The US Government Won't Give Peace a Chance
The United States government has just signed a "security pact" with Afghanistan that allows for 10,000 US soldiers to continue to fight in that nation, subject only to US military law. The Guardian headlines its coverage of the agreement, "New Afghanistan pact means America's longest war will last until at least 2024." The sub-headline bluntly states, "Bilateral security deal ensures that President Obama will pass off the Afghanistan war and his new war in Iraq and Syria to his successor."
Recently, Truthout featured Anand Gopal's brilliantly detailed book, No Good Men Among the Living: America, The Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes.In an interview with Truthout, Gopal revealed that the ongoing war and bloodshed in Afghanistan might have been avoided if US hubris did not spurn an offer of reconciliation from the Taliban. As Gopal told Truthout:
In the span of two months in 2001, the Taliban crumbled under the power of overwhelming US airpower. In the face of such an abject defeat, members of the movement - from the rank-and-file to the senior leadership - sought to save themselves by surrendering or switching sides. This shouldn't be as surprising as it may seem, when you consider that Afghanistan had been at war for over two decades, and people often switched allegiances as a way of surviving. Unfortunately, reconciliation was not the prevailing mood in the new Afghan government or Washington - where the ethos was that you are either "with us or against us." So Taliban offers to cut deals were rebuffed, and many of those men who had attempted to reconcile would go on to lead the insurgency against the US presence.
The headline for the Truthout interview is, "The Vietnam War Presaged the War in Afghanistan: Civilians Endlessly Suffer." Indeed, since the end of World War II, the United States has rarely not been involved in military conflicts around the world - including covert action.


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This is the first article of a 5-part series examining the key concepts and operations of a private cloud based on VMM 2012 including:
- Part 1. Private Cloud Concepts (This article)
- Part 2. Fabric, Oh, Fabric
- Part 3. Deployment with Service Template
- Part 4. Working with Service Templates
- Part 5. App Controller
VMM, a member of Microsoft System Center suite, is an enterprise solution for managing physical, virtualized, private cloud, and public cloud resources. In addition to the system requirements and the new features and capabilities, there are specific concepts presented in this article, although fundamental, nevertheless important to know before building a private cloud solution with VMM 2012. This blog series is for readers with a basics understanding of cloud computing. For those new to cloud computing, I recommend first acquiring the baseline information form: my 6-part series of cloud computing essential, NIST definition, Chou's 5-3-2 Principle, and hybrid deployment.
Private Cloud in VMM 2012
Private cloud is a "cloud" of which the infrastructure is dedicated to an organization ,hence private. Notice that the classification of private cloud or public cloud is not based on where a service is run or who owns the employed hardware. Instead, the classification is based on whom, i.e. the users, that a cloud is intended to serve. This is to say that deploying a cloud to a company's hardware does not automatically make it a private cloud of the company's. Similarly a cloud hosted in hardware owned by a 3rd party does not make it a public cloud by default either.
As far as VMM 2012 is concerned, a private cloud is specifically deployed with an organization's own hardware, provisioned and managed on-premises by the organization. VMM 2012 succeeding VMM 2008 R2 represents a significant leap in enterprise system management and acts as a private cloud enabler to accelerate transitioning enterprise IT from an infrastructure-focused deployment model into a service-oriented user-centric, cloud-ready and cloud-friendly environment, as a reader will learn more of the capabilities of VMM 2012 throughout this series. The entire System Center 2012 suite is designed with cloud computing in mind. And a productive way to learn more about building a private cloud is to review recommended material followed by downloading and trying VMM 2012 yourself.
And There Is This Thing Called "Fabric'
The key architectural concept of private cloud in VMM 2012 is the so-called fabric. Similar to what is in Windows Azure Platform, fabric in VMM 2012 is an abstraction layer to shield the underlying technical complexities and denote the ability to manage defined resources pools of compute (i.e. servers), networking, and storage components. This concept is explicitly presented in the UI of VMM 2012 admin console as shown here on the left. With VMM 2012, an organization can create a private cloud from Hyper-V, VMware ESX, and Citrix XenServer hosts and realize the essential attributes of cloud computing including self-servicing, resource pooling, and elasticity.
Service in VMM 2012
One noticeable distinction of VMM 2012 compared with previous versions of VMM and other similar system management solutions is, in addition to deploying VMs, the ability to roll out a service. I have taken various opportunities in my previous blogs emphasizing the significance of being keen on "what is a service" and "what is cloud" to fully appreciate the business values brought by cloud computing. The term, service, has been so much used and often indiscreetly to explain cloud. Without a firm grip on what is precisely a "service", cloud can indeed be filled with perplexities.
Essentially, the concept of a service in the context of cloud computing is "capacity on demand." So delivering a service is to provide a business function which is available on demand, i.e. ideally with an anytime, anywhere, and any device access. In a private cloud, this is achieved mainly by a combination of self-servicing model, management of resource pooling, and rapid elasticity which are the 3 of the 5 essential characteristics of cloud computing. Specific to private cloud, the 2 other characteristics, i.e. broad access to and chargeback business models in the service (or simply the application since in the context of cloud computing, an application is delivered as a service) are not considered as requirements for the technical architecture of a private cloud, since in a private setting an organization may not want to offer broad access to a service and a chargeback model may not always be applicable or necessary as already discussed elsewhere.
Particularly, a service in VMM 2012 is defined as a set of virtual machines (VMs) to be managed as one entity. This set of VMs works together to collectively deliver a business function. To deploy a service in VMM 2012 is therefore to roll out and manage a set of VMs as a whole, as opposed to individual VMs. Managing all the VMs associated with a service as an entity, i.e. a service, has its advantages and at the same time introduces opportunities and challenges as well for better delivering business values. A new feature in VMM 2012 called Service Template is an example.
Service Template
A service template in VMM 2012 is conceptually a set of definitions capturing the application architecture, contents, configurations, operations, and intelligence for creating an instance of a release of a service. This may include deploying multiple VMs with multiple instances in multiple tiers of application architecture. For instance, instead of deploying individual VMs, IT can now deploy and manage a typical web-based application with web frontends, business logic in a middle tier, and a database backend as a single service using a service template in VMM 2012.
As a new release of a service is introduced due to changes of the application, settings, or VM images, a new service template is developed accordingly. To upgrade a running service from Release X to Release Y can now be achieved easily by simply setting and applying the service template of Release Y. And depending on the configuration of a service, there can be no downtime during an upgrade process.
Private Cloud It Is
VMM 2012 signifies a milestone for enterprise IT to actually have a solution to operate like a service provider. With VMM 2012, IT as a Service is becoming a reality. And while some IT professionals are concerning that cloud may take away their jobs, I am hoping as reading through this series one will on the contrary realize the energy and excitements cloud computing has already brought into our IT industry and broadened our careers. I believe a private cloud is as yet the greatest thing has happened to IT. Every time anticipations and curiosities arise as I start envisioning so many possibilities IT can do with a private cloud. It is inspiring to witness cloud computing coming true and be in the middle of it. And I can't help imagining IT professionals to grease up hair, walk down the hall way of some datacenter, and shout out....
I solve my problems and I see the light
We gotta plug and think, we gotta feed it right
There ain't no danger we can go too far
We start believing now that we can be what we are
Cloud is the word
It's got groove, it's got meaning
[This is a cross-posting from http://aka.ms/yungchou.]
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,258
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,558
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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What's new is additional financial backing from Craig Newmark and a partnership with the Center for Public Integrity — and with them Truthsquad plans to go big, creating widgets and tools for fact-checking statements on any news site and joining PolitiFact and FactCheck.org as part of the Internet's informal truth-sleuth network.
The big push is a new phase for NewsTrust, which plans to shift its focus from its news curation and media literacy work to focus on fact-checking and building out Truthsquad with a launch this fall. When I spoke to Fabrice Florin, executive director of NewsTrust, he said the current state of politics and media have made for a environment ripe for fact-checking.
"Truthsquad shows a lot of promise because it directly addresses a need," said Florin. "There is a growing amount of misinformation, particularly in this political climate. We have an opportunity to provide a useful service by encouraging a collaboration between journalists and citizens."
"We don't expect citizens to be better than journalists."
Truthsquad will be working on two fronts, on its website and on embeddable widgets for stories on any news site. In both cases readers could either suggest or assess statements for their truth (or truthiness), which would require supporting facts and links to make a determination. Through the partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, Truthsquad will have a handful of journalists providing fact checks as well as a community manager to give readers guidance on how to verify information and identify reliable sources.
"We don't expect citizens to be better than journalists — we know an experienced journalist can get more work done," he said. "But just getting citizens to participate in it will help them develop more of an open mind, build their research skills and appreciate the value of looking at different perspectives."
Here's one example, a dispute over the veracity of a Glenn Beck quote about how the government calculates inflation. Among Truthsquad readers, 41 say the statement is true; 112 say it's false; 16 aren't sure. Each have their opportunity to present evidence, but in the end Truthsquad editors (represented in this case by MediaBugs boss Scott Rosenberg) come in to render a final verdict. (In this case, "mostly false.")
One key to getting people involved in the project will be using game-like mechanics in the truth vetting process with things like quizzes, points, or badges, Florin said. In their pilot project, they discovered that traffic and engagement on the Truthsquad project was 10 times higher than to the main NewsTrust site. "From our experience at NewsTrust, it's no longer enough to get people informed, you have to get them engaged," he said.
Another way to get people involved in fact-checking is by connecting with news that matters to them, particularly local or community news. Florin points to the growth of fact-checking at local and regional news sites, places like Voice of San Diego and Honolulu Civil Beat among others. He said they want to help those organizations augment what they do and drive more eyeballs to their work.
Fact-checking is something of a growth market, as PolitiFact (a Pulitzer winner, thank you) and Factcheck.org have shown, because of what they propose: well-packaged conclusive answers. Unlike a typical news item, you'll (hopefully) have a concrete idea whether what you've been told is true or false.
Florin said the growth in fact-checking is a response not just to public officials getting bendy with the truth, but also how people consume information now. With an expanding universe of news options, once someone find a source of information they like or agree with, they tend to cling to it, Florin said. The reason Truthsquad is partnering with FactCheck.org and PolitiFact is to get people thinking about what they read and hear, and from there, questioning it.
"In the fact-checking space we have an opportunity to add value, galvanize and promote the few organizations that are doing this," he said. "We're trying to grow the fact-checking movement, we want to be the glue that holds these organizations together."
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