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Business 100 - 2012
John J. Connolly
Dr. John Connolly, president and CEO of Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., is the nation's leading expert on identifying top physicians. He was president of New York Medical College for over ten years.
John is a member of President's Council of the United Hospital Fund and serves on the boards of Baker and Taylor, Air Methods Corporation, Dearborn Risk Management, and on the advisory board of the Hudson Group. He was founder and chairman of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, and was chairman of the Culinary Institute of America.
John received a BS from Worcester State, an MA from the University of Connecticut, and an Ed.D. in college and university administration from Columbia University Teacher's College. He and his wife, Ingrid, have two children, Sean and Cheryl.
His Irish roots come from Clare on his father's side and Killarney on his mother's. A member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, John says, "When you learn of the suffering the Irish went through in Ireland and when they first came to the United States, and now [think of] what they have achieved, you cannot help but to be proud of being of Irish descent, and proud to be an American!"


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We support you in all phases of the transaction process: Beginning with the definition of the growth strategy and extensive market analyses, we identify buyers and investors, create information memoranda, coordinate the due diligence process and assist you in negotiations until the deal is closed.
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Acquisitions are an appropriate tool for the implementation of growth strategies. As an alternative to organic growth and greenfield investments, acquisitions provide a variety of opportunities for companies: expansion into new markets, products and customer segments, improvement of the competitive position and/or the increase of margins and business results. We advise you through the whole process from the development of a growth strategy to the signing of the deal.
State-owned companies tend to pull out more frequently of business areas which are supposed to be privately managed from a political perspective. CD Invest advises public businesses and ministries in the complex transition process to private ownership considering political, societal and job market relevant implications.
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The decision to transfer shares should be well thought out. Are there potential successors within the family? Should external options like a management buyout be considered? Based on our extensive experience in planning, structuring and implementing company successions, we support you in finding an optimal solution for all parties.
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All company transactions should be built on fundamental market research to ensure a well structured industry overview and to be able to obtain the whole spectrum of suitable partners. CD Invest assists companies with separate research services in this process to handle this particular challenge.


Marie D. Jones: The world is abuzz with talk of the year 2012; however, not everyone is looking forward to the year with the same outlook or expectations. For some, the year hints at apocalyptic end times, a period in which the world will be thrown into utter chaos and violent upheaval. A turbulent and tumultuous epoch in which both natural and man-made disasters will decimate and possibly lead to the extinction of life as we know it. Other, more optimistic people perceive this date as a moment of awakening, a massive global transformation of consciousness…one which is to be anticipated with joy and celebration.
society actually predict that life would end altogether, snuffed out in an explosive supernova of disaster upon plague, warfare upon extermination?
Both the Judeo-Christian and Islamic end time scenarios, which are based upon Western fundamentalist Abrahamic thought, do indeed herald a time of literal cleansing. A time when the earth will suffer through the coming of the Four Horsemen bearing gifts of war, famine, plague and death - with the ultimate judgment day not too far behind. Certainly, there is ample evidence in other religious traditions of an ending of one age, as in the Hindu "yugas" or ages that mark a cyclical pattern of both external and internal creation and destruction. This ongoing cycle or "kalpa" also has an end date when, according to Hindu belief, the final avatar will incarnate as Kali and bring about the destruction of all wicked people. Is that likewise an "end?" Even the oldest creation stories and mythologies tell of a cosmic cycle punctuated by a Big Ending, so to speak, although many native traditions believe that the end, though violent and deadly to be sure, would then be the beginning of a new era of peace, harmony and enlightenment.
The Mayans themselves have suggested that their own end date is really nothing more than the finishing point of a particular age or "underworld," the one we are living in right now, the Galactic Underworld, and the entry point into the Universal Underworld of both conscious evolution and revolution. There is nothing in Mayan tradition, lore or belief that envisages a scenario in which we will all die and the planet will cease to exist. Rather, the idea is one of amazing and collective rebirth. A period of newfound cosmic awareness, an era in which humanity expands their collective conscious awareness. Then why all the angst and fear when people speak of 2012? Maybe, the answer is within us. Perhaps it is as simple as basic human psychology. Nobody likes change, especially when it is preceded by great stress, trials, tribulations, and challenges, the likes of which we are already seeing in the years leading up to 2012. Even if we were to ignore completely the Mayan Long Count Calendar and its Aztec sister version (which speaks of the very same end time transformation) and even if we did not ascribe to the religious traditions that await total human annihilation at the hands of a final battle between the devil and the Christ (don't worry, the good guys will be raptured, we are told!), there is still ample evidence that the next few years will be rife with chaos, disorder and destruction. Why? Because what we resist persists and often grows, and if there is indeed a wave of spiritual transformation gaining momentum, then coming resistance will be more than enough to make us wonder if we will, indeed, wake up to a brave new world on the first morning of 2013.
As we have seen over the last several years, global power is shifting to the East, with economic turmoil already gripping much of the West in a headlock of plunging home values, rising energy costs, shaky markets, and a widening gap between the rich and the poor. As we approach (if we have not already) peak oil, the quest for easily extracted fuel will exponentially increase--even as the population skyrockets in urbanized areas as well as in nations such as China and India which will only serve to further demand while supplies continue dwindling to depletion. Access to potable water threatens to plunge the entire globe into new wars, even as corporations scramble to privatize what little natural resources remain. Global climate change is destroying indigenous and island lifestyles, and creating chaos all over the world as more nations are forced to deal with brutal drought, while others battle unprecedented flooding. Warm places are getting warmer, Arctic Ice is melting, and the unfortunate people of Tuvalu are watching as their entire island sinks mercilessly into rising ocean waters.
Malaria, a humid-weather disease, is moving into highlands where it never existed before while other diseases threaten to derail any attempts by our most cutting edge pharmaceuticals to fight them. West Nile Virus, SARS, MRSA and avian flu all seem poised to pounce upon nations of people unprepared for pandemics, let alone regional epidemics. And lest you think our public health and emergency preparedness systems will save us, let me remind you of the horrendous failings apparent during Hurricane Katrina. But don't despair! The news is not all awful. Science, medicine and technology promise to explode into the stratosphere in the coming years. Computer technology historically follows an established pattern known as "Moore's Law" which describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware whereby the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuits increase exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. Some technologists believe that this increase is steadfastly moving towards a "singularity," when growth, development and transformation will come together in a climactic head, ushering in a brave new world of artificial intelligence. Before we know it, life itself will seem to be a sci-fi movie!
Quantum computers, bioengineering, human longevity experiments, and nanotechnology stand at the forefront of major advances in the way we live, and even die. With astonishing new genetic research, we may one day see the end of all disease. With the promising new exploration of bionics, we may never need worry about heart or liver failure again, knowing that we can order a new one that combines the best of both computer technology and biology - creating new types of living systems that promise to change not only our quality of life…but our whole culture itself. Naturally, some may fear the rise of artificial intelligence and the coming singularity due to the (perhaps warranted) concern that humans will be somehow made obsolete – or worse, that we may lose control to the very machinery that we created…machinery that can think faster and more efficiently than we do. Others still wait excitedly for the development of technologies which will make life easier than ever. However, even the promise of an easier life comes with a price. Rising rates of heart disease, cancer and obesity are directly linked with the increasingly sedentary lifestyles of most developed nations. Add to that existing rates of disease in undeveloped nations, and emerging diseases entering and re-entering the fray, and humanity may not be wiped out at all by a big, bold natural disaster or nuclear war.
Alarmingly enough, we may get snuffed out by the tiniest of threats, those packing the biggest punch of all – viruses that invade our bodies. Viruses pose a very real, very significant threat to humankind as our bodies are too weak and stressed to fight back, with pharmaceuticals rendered ineffective from years of overuse.
Surprisingly, the greatest challenges that face humanity and the earth in general, over the next few years are all preventable. With that being said, the biggest mystery is why we are not doing more to prevent them now…while we still can…and when it truly counts. Global climate change is creating a need for new ways of co-existing with the earth. Already, water shortages are threatening to derail peace agreements and further escalate already tense relations between nations into the stratosphere of war. Even the decreasing rates of food production, coupled with over inflated prices and a global market that favors the rich, hint at another coming disaster; the spread of famine into regions never having experienced lack of food before.
So what can we do as individuals, communities, and nations? How does one prepare for 2012? If the world is going to end for good, then obviously no preparation is needed. However, if the Mayans and others were right, and the ending is really more of a beginning, can we indeed prepare at all? The green movement, focusing on building sustainability now, is a great place to start. We should be doing anything possible to make the coming changes less disruptive and damaging, whether that means conserving, recycling or raising awareness of the carbon "footprints" we each leave…and how we can lessen those footprints. Local communities are already springing up around the concept of contained, sustainable living, with residents pitching in by growing food, sharing water resources, bartering services and even watching out for each other's children to create a new sense of connectedness and unity. Should this effort spread, we may be able to greatly diminish the potential for death, disaster and disease that our overpopulated, stressed out and soon-to-be tapped out planet is quickly plummeting towards.
Ultimately, the year 2012 may be more about internal transformation rather than external change. Even with increasing numbers of super storms and earthquakes, an asteroid or two coming too close for comfort, the highest sunspot cycle activity in years, global shifts in political and economic power, and a host of other earthbound changes, we may need to concentrate on the internal work to be done first. Spiritual transformation is on the lips of many awaiting 2012. Perhaps by altering our collective consciousness we can change not only our own lives, but our destiny as a people. Wouldn't it be great to wake up on the first morning of 2013 to a better world than we ever imagined? The problem is that before we can realize it…we must first have both the insight and the foresight to imagine it.


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it's a shame, that on latest Leopard OS X (Macbook 3.1) the resolution is not detected correctly (displays 800×600).
Anyway, thanks and good luck with future projects!
For the people with no textures, did you create your own executables from within Blender? If you downloaded the uncompressed torrent, you probably did. If you created your own executables, they have to be in the "levels" directory or the textures won't work right.
For people having trouble figuring some things out, there are simple instructions if you press F1.
And a suggestion. For Windows users, why not create a download that is an installation file using the free Inno Setup tool? I understand the pain of all the different Linux packaging systems, but it wouldn't be very hard to make a setup file for Windows.
If you guys have a slow Internet connection or if you just want to get Yo Frankie! faster, try downloading from the following RapidShare links. I have just uploaded "yofrankie_bge.zip" as a 178.35 MB RAR file (it's even smaller now). You've got two options: one big file, or the splitted version.
Si tienen una conexión lenta y necesitan bajar archivos más pequeños o si deseas tardar menos descargando, usa estos links de RapidShare. Acabo de subir "yofrankie_bge.zip" recomprimido en un RAR que pesa tan sólo 178.35 MB. Hay 2 opciones: un sólo archivo u 8 archivos pequeños.
PS: venomgfx: Could you please make this links public in a more accessible place?
Oh, great, I will download and play now immediately.
Ubuntu 8.10, 32-bit. AMD Turion 64×2 @ 1.6ghz, 1 GB RAM, and ATI Radeon Xpress 1150. Radeon driver (the open source one). I played this game a couple of weeks ago, maybe some of what I'm about to say has been resolved by now. I would be happy to hear if that's the case.
First, the game will not run with the open source radeon driver. Actually, that's kind of deceptive. The game does run, but the only graphics I can see are a gray screen. I can hear the music in the background, but I only see gray. I _hate_ fglrx, but I temporarily installed it to try to get Yo Frankie to run. It worked with fglrx, but not with radeon. Kind of funny when an open game doesn't work with open drivers. But that's just my spite talking. I apologize.
Second, I can't change resolution at all. You can see my specs at the top of this post; they're not pretty. My laptop's native resolution is 1280×800. That's what Yo Frankie tries to run at, and it kills my frame rate. I've tried to use the command line to change the resolution (by the way, that help text is not helpful AT ALL), but nothing I've tried works.
Third… …This next part's going to be ugly. I apologize if it's kind of scathing; it is, quite honestly, a rant. …Why is this game so ugly at the lowest quality? This is something you can't help me fix, but I feel I have to complain about it. I could go on a huge rant about how the PC game industry feels it necessary to make games with system requirements that only a few computers can meet, but I'll spare you of that rant. I watched videos of Yo Frankie on YouTube, and I was seriously excited! Of course, I didn't expect that it would look that good on my system. I figured I'd lose some of the cool effects like reflective water and that extra-nice lighting. I figured textures would be lower quality, that geometry would be blockier. But when I set the graphics to low and turned off shaders, I was greeted with an absolutely terrible looking game. I was appalled to find that textures were blurry as can be, certain parts like the dirt and the water seemed to have NO texture, all the lighting was GONE, and so was the sky! NO SKY! And after giving up so much, I still couldn't get a good frame rate, 'cos I was stuck at 1280×800! The HUD still looked really good… in starch contrast to the terrible looking 3d! I turned on shaders out of curiosity, and in exchange for dropping my frame rate to absolutely unplayable levels, I found that many of these complaints were fixed! My low-end computer can't do shaders, you guys!
At this point, it's more of a complaint, but… why? A little bit of that rant is creeping out… Why would people making a free game pour all of their effort into making a game look good only at the highest quality, and then neglect the low-end completely? Don't get me wrong, the game looked absolutely stunning, from what I saw on YouTube. But it was like no effort was made to make the game look even halfway decent for the low-end systems. This is a _free_ game! People with supercomputers aren't the only ones who want to play this game! It just doesn't make sense to me.
My steam's been let off. I want to end this on a good note. Again, I really appreciate the effort you've put in to make this game, for the reasons I've already stated at the beginning. I saw when I first downloaded the game that there's a page dedicated to modifications; maybe someone could make a modification for the little guys like me. Maybe even I could do it; I am an aspiring indie developer, but my system is low-end. Can the Blender Game Engine make low-end games? If it can, then maybe I could do it. After all–yet another thing so great about this project–you guys walk the community through so many aspects of the game's creation. There are enough resources that with the time and effort, I could probably learn the BGE and then customize the game myself.
Bonne année, et bonne santé!
Happy New Year and good health!
I can't get yo frankie to run 🙁 well, the game boots up, and can go to the options screen ok, but if I actually click "Play Game", it just sits there… looking like it's locked up… my system is 2.13 Pentium M with Radeon X300, 1.5gb RAM. pretty low end, but i think enough to run it, yes?
When is the ISO with all the videos cming out ? Anybody want to torrent it ?
How do you get the objects that Frankie throws and carries to follow the Throw_PlaceCarryFrank object, even though it is parented to his bones? I've tried to do something like that, so I can drive animation of children to objects attached with bones, but Blender seems to not allow it in my games.
@ TiZ (#118) – You're not going to be able to run any decent 3D game with the open source Radeon drivers because it doesn't support all of the extensions and 3D capabilities. Any 3D capabilities the Radeon driver has is because it has been reverse engineered. That's probably why you just see a gray screen. If you want to play serious 3D gaming, you have to use the fglrx driver, or pull it out and buy an nvidia card. But you probably are using a laptop, so you probably can't just buy nvidia.
Anyway, you have a low end integrated GPU that isn't made for gaming. So you can't really blame game makers for that.
@ forrestcupp (#127): When you say decent, do you mean games with only the latest and greatest technologies? It's the only thing that PC game makers seem to do these days. I refuse to spend $2000 or more just to play today's games when it won't be able to play tomorrow's. The industry needs to slow the heck down. Do you remember Quake? Quake required a Pentium 1 and NO GPU. I do appreciate moving forward, but do we really have to move so fast that the low-end computers (of today, mind you; I wouldn't dare ask the industry to support Pentium 3-age computers) have no hope of playing today's games? A huge part of the market is people with PCs that are "good enough". Like me. And I want to play games too.
With that said, I HATE fglrx. It garbles textures. It can't do video with compiz. It's actually slower than radeon, when I play OpenArena. And causes ZSnes to run super slow in OpenGL mode… who knows what other games are similarly afflicted? Radeon will eventually have most of those features it's lacking anyways. I'm watching their progress. I have no reason to use a driver that I feel is inferior. Radeon can do OA just fine. Neverball. Project 64. RTCW. I don't need fglrx.
Meh… the BGE/Windows version will crash as soon as I try to enter the first level. Loading time are unbearably slow and despite being set for HQ/Shader On, there's no antialiasing. I've not tried the CrystalSpace release cos it needs a reboot. Double Meh!
It's cute, I guess, but as a stand-alone game (apart from it's benefits of being open source, etc.) I really don't get it. Is there a goal? Am I supposed to go somewhere? Or am I just wandering around throwing things at rats and sheep? I quit playing it after a little while because that's not especially fun and I couldn't figure out what to do. It really could have been packaged better. For instance, just adding a "here's where you're supposed to go/what you're supposed to do" would be an immense improvement. So would having a mini-tutorial level ("here's how to pick something up (e.g. springboard). try this simple jumping puzzle (perhaps using the springboard you just picked up). oops, you fell in the water, try not to do that. hey, that brought you to an acorn, try to throw this acorn at that rat over there–oh look, he exploded, don't get to close to that! Look how getting hit by something reduces your life meter. ok, here's level one." kind of thing.) and ramping up difficulty rather than throwing you at a level and having you find out what the keys are by holding down f1, provided you know to do so (incidently, that menu isn't real easy to read).
Can anybody please delete this spam?
I downloaded this and played it on a G4 powerbook running Tiger (with latest updates). I get sound, Frankie will tail whip, walk, run, glide, and when left alone he poses. I pick up the acorns, climb, jump, and even smack the butterfly. I leaped on and off rocks and turned backflips. The only thing he will not do is go to the next level – I walked, ran, jumped at and climbed the sign without getting anywhere.
I have to use osx ppc py2.3 – the 2.5 version pretends to open but never does. I also had to drop the graphics level a notch.
Hey. Love the game, its pretty fun. I first started playing it on my Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop, with 512 MB Ram and 64 MB Nvidia Geforce4 MX420. It ran decently. Then I got a macbook for christmas. It runs fine in OSX, but no sound. So, since I installed Ubuntu on my macbook dualboot, and I finally got sound to work, I wanted to play yofrankie. It ran really fast, but defaulted to joystick, which is the sudden motion sensor in the macbook. So yea, its kinda annoying to control the squirrels movements by tilting the macbook, considering it doesnt let me jump or attack or anything else. To play it, I set .blend files to open with BlenderPlayer, so all I do is double click menu.blend, and it opens fullscreen. Sound works, but just not the keyboard controls. I would really like to disable the joystick.
The next blender project: a game that WORKS!!
I would really like to have played this game, but I've spent a good 3 hours trying to get it to work all sorts of ways and have not had any luck.
I downloaded the blender version, but I couldn't figure out how to allow keyboard controls (its stuck on joystick).
So I downloaded the crystal space version, which won't install (A program required for this install could not be run error). I tried running it as an administrator as has been suggested somewhere else, but no good.
I ran it in blender with the -nojoystick option, which worked, but since I couldn't figure out how to get it to run fullscreen.
I guess i could technically play it, but I can't see a lot of the bottom of the screen, so I'm not going to bother.
I understand that open source, cross platform games rarely work perfectly across platforms, and require some messing around to fix. But come on – no readme in the latest release? No support to speak of besides random comments which (like this one) will probably never be read? I'm a bit disappointed.
It works fine but i can't change control for player 1 and it is joystick. On game load it says that "one joystick found" however I don't have any. I tried to run win32 version on wine, but it has the same problem.


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What Is Bare Metal Cloud?
How Bare Metal Cloud Works
Bare Metal Cloud Use Cases
Building Applications
NoSQL and Relational Databases
Custom Virtual Environments
Render Farms
Benefits of phoenixNAP's Bare Metal Cloud (BMC)
Bare Metal Cloud vs Other Cloud Types
Bare Metal Cloud vs Public Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud vs Private Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud
Additional Features of phoenixNAP's Bare Metal Cloud
The most common cause of performance degradation in virtualized environments is the technology that runs the cloud — the hypervisor. By using additional resources, hypervisors create additional overhead that negatively impacts processor-intensive operations.
To overcome those issues while still preserving cloud-like flexibility, a new solution has emerged in recent years — the bare metal cloud.
This article explains what bare metal cloud is and how it works to help you understand the advantages it holds over other cloud solutions. Additionally, you will learn how to start using the phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud to provision resources on the go.
Bare metal cloud is a single-tenant, non-virtualized environment that retains the complete, self-service versatility of the cloud while allowing you to utilize the full processing potential of the server's physical hardware.
As opposed to public cloud, which mainly consists of virtual machines that run on top of hypervisors, bare metal cloud relies on physical machines to deliver maximum performance without virtualization overhead.
Some of its key features include:
Dedicated Resources
Within the bare metal cloud environment, you have complete control over the machine's physical components. In other words, you can leverage unrestricted hardware-level access to optimize the physical CPU, RAM, and storage resources to accommodate your unique workloads.
No Noisy Neighbors
There is no resource sharing among multiple users and applications with bare metal cloud. As a single-tenant environment, bare metal cloud eliminates the so-called "noisy neighbor" effect, along with performance issues and security threats often associated with multi-tenant environments.
Similar to public cloud, bare metal cloud supports fast and automated server provisioning and decommissioning, on-demand resource scaling, and predictable pay-per-use billing models.
API Provisioning
The true power of the bare metal cloud lies in its ability to support automation-driven IT infrastructure consumption. You can utilize APIs and custom CLI commands to treat your infrastructure as code.
In most cases, service providers will offer APIs and CLIs that are compatible with leading open-source automation tools, such as Ansible, Pulumi, and Terraform, allowing you to configure and manage your infrastructure more efficiently.
Note: Learn more about the benefits of BMC for your organization by reviewing what major milestones Bare Metal Cloud has achieved so far.
Bare metal cloud falls under the umbrella of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing model.
In the IaaS model, you rent either physical or virtual hardware resources from service providers that operate global networks of data centers to deliver worldwide connectivity and availability.
In most cases, the service provider will take care of the underlying infrastructure such as networking equipment, storage, on-premise security, hardware maintenance, and other essential services that ensure your machines always stay functional.
On the other side, you are responsible for managing software that runs your applications. Those include but are not limited to operating systems, server software, middleware, databases, hypervisors, containers, and business-specific applications.
Even though bare metal cloud servers don't utilize virtualization technologies by default, you are free to install hypervisors or other types of virtualization layers to segment your physical machine into multiple virtual machines.
Another key feature of bare metal cloud is the ability to automatically provision and decommission server instances. In most cases, your service provider will have a web-based interface that you can use to manage your infrastructure, monitor usage, and purchase additional resources.
Note: Refer to our blog post to learn more about the difference between bare metal servers and virtualization.
Even though the public cloud environment can handle any type of workload — from simple web apps to large databases — certain workloads require advanced computational power and agility that only bare metal is capable of delivering.
Bare metal cloud enables DevOps teams to build, test, and deploy applications more easily. With server root access and cloud-native architecture, you can utilize a wide range of containerization and orchestration software to treat your infrastructure as code.
Bare metal cloud provides high-performance dedicated resources with a stable and high I/O ratio. Furthermore, its fast provisioning times and automation make it perfect for scalable workloads.
All of the above-mentioned makes bare metal cloud an excellent choice for hosting NoSQL and relational database management systems where instant access and data read/write speeds are essential.
Bare metal cloud servers don't utilize virtualization technologies to segment physical resources into virtual environments. But you are free to install hypervisors, containers, and other types of virtualization layers to create a custom multi-tenant environment.
By doing so, you maintain maximum control over your virtual environments when running cloud-native applications, databases, video streaming services, or legacy business applications.
When you need to process and analyze staggering amounts of data (e.g., Hadoop cluster) bare metal cloud takes a significant lead over other cloud solutions performance-wise.
Whether predicting market trends, analyzing IoT data, or monitoring patients' health in real-time, Bare metal cloud delivers the speed and scalability you need for extracting valuable insights from Big Data.
Since there are no hypervisors in bare metal cloud environments, all resources are dedicated entirely to running analytics applications without the unnecessary virtualization overhead.
On top of that, Bare Metal Cloud is designed to scale to support sudden data consumption spikes. You can add more servers or resources based on your needs and simply remove them when you don't need them anymore.
While virtualized cloud machines have fueled the expansion of AI and machine learning, running complex algorithmic operations or natural language processing at scale is significantly faster on bare metal.
phoenixNAP's Bare Metal Cloud delivers an inexpensive and flexible approach to deploying and training machine learning models while allowing you to leverage root-level access to fine-tune server resources for optimal performance.
Game servers require minimal latency and maximum I/O throughput. To achieve that, dedicated hardware is the only way to go.
Bare metal cloud eliminates latency, scalability, and performance issues facing the gaming industry today. It provides the speed of dedicated, bare metal hardware coupled with global scalability and cost-effectiveness of public cloud.
Rendering computer-generated imagery (CGI) is an extremely demanding processor-intensive operation. With the expansion of the virtual cloud, the time it takes to render complex 3D animation has decreased significantly.
However, leading 3D animation companies still utilize on-premise dedicated machines to achieve performance consistency. Bare metal cloud is an ideal environment for deploying render farms because it enables hardware customization and granular performance optimization by allowing administrator-level access to the server.
All cloud deployment types share similar features, benefits, and advantages. But when it comes to control, scalability, and performance optimization, bare metal cloud holds a clear lead over all other cloud deployment types.
Similar to traditional dedicated servers, bare metal allows you to take full control of the physical processor, memory, and storage resources.
By leveraging administrator-level privileges, you can micromanage processes running on the server, optimize performance on a granular level, install additional software directly on the hardware, and optimize your code to take full advantage of physical server resources.
By utilizing software-based server automation solutions such as Pulumi, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet, you can deploy hundreds of bare metal servers across multiple locations with just a couple of lines of code and orchestrate them to work in unison to deliver more computational power.
On-Demand Scalability
Having the ability to add more resources on demand is an important characteristic of the cloud computing model. By the same token, Bare Metal Cloud allows you to scale resources in sync with demand by simply adding more resources to ensure maximum availability during sudden traffic bursts and removing them when the load subsides.
Bare Metal Cloud is a globally distributed network of data centers strategically positioned in close proximity to network access points. By deploying servers that are geographically close to your end-users, you can eliminate latency issues and improve the overall user experience.
Flexible Pricing
The versatility of Bare Metal Cloud is reflected through its hourly-based, pay-per-use billing model. By paying only for resources that you actually consume, you are able to significantly reduce your overall infrastructure expenses.
Businesses can also leverage monthly reservation options to accommodate more predictable workloads and take advantage of additional pricing benefits.
Within the bare metal cloud environment, all of the physical server resources are dedicated exclusively to your application. In other words, you are not forced to share valuable computer resources with other tenants or applications.
For example, when you rent a Bare Metal Cloud server that comes with a 56-core Intel Xeon CPU, every single core and thread is dedicated to running only your workloads.
High-Speed Performance
Of all the available server solutions on the market today, bare metal has always been the go-to solution for workloads that require the raw power of dedicated resources.
Free from virtualization overhead, bare metal servers allow you to utilize the full processing potential of the physical CPU, memory, and storage resources to run demanding workloads and achieve extreme levels of density and performance consistency.
Fast Provisioning
Compared to traditional dedicated servers, which usually take hours to set up and deploy, Bare Metal Cloud has cloud-like flexibility.
A BMC server can be spun up in minutes and destroyed in seconds either through a web-based user interface, by making a request to the cloud provider's API, or by executing CLI commands in the Terminal.
As with any type of cloud environment, security is the first thing that needs to be addressed before your bare metal cloud server goes live.
While Bare Metal Cloud servers are inherently secure mainly due to their single-tenant, non-virtualized nature, you are solely responsible for managing the security architecture of your environment. That usually means creating backups, security auditing, general maintenance, updating software, vulnerability testing, and other security operations.
Traditional cloud deployment types include:
While every type comes with its advantages and disadvantages, bare metal cloud stands out in terms of speed and expandability. Furthermore, it easily integrates with all other deployment types.
Public cloud offers fast server provisioning, pay-as-you-go pricing, and on-demand resource scaling. To enable this, public cloud utilizes hypervisors to segment physical servers into virtual environments. In such a setting, multiple users share resources of one physical machine.
Bare metal cloud delivers fast server provisioning, hourly pricing, direct hardware access and scalability. As opposed to public cloud, bare metal cloud is not a virtualized environment and does not allow resource sharing among multiple tenants. You get full access to computing, network and storage resources.
In terms of usability, virtualized cloud machines will satisfy the needs of most small dev environments and hobbyists while Bare Metal Cloud is best suited for professional production workloads.
Modern private cloud deployments are run off-premise on rented equipment and provide an isolated environment to a single customer. In terms of isolation, both BMC and private cloud offer single-tenant environments that allow root-level access to the server's hardware. However, some private cloud setups provide network-level isolation, which is not supported by bare metal cloud.
While both deployment types utilize dedicated physical resources to deliver better performance, bare metal cloud servers are easier to scale and cost less to maintain.
Note: If you are unsure whats the difference between public and private cloud, read our Public vs Private Cloud blog post.
The hybrid cloud is a combination of public cloud and private cloud. Broadly speaking, it is an environment that allows organizations to leverage the security and enhanced performance of private cloud with the agility and speed of public cloud services.
Bare metal cloud aims to eliminate the shortcomings of both public and private cloud by delivering the high-speed performance of dedicated physical hardware on a pay-per-use flexible public cloud model.
Organizations that require dedicated server resources in the cloud can easily integrate bare metal cloud environments into their public, private, or hybrid cloud setups for a boost in performance.
phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud leverages cloud best practices, open-source and enterprise automation solutions, state-of-the-art networking technologies, and latest generation hardware to deliver a secure, high-performance environment.
It is ideal for businesses that are looking to completely or partially migrate their workloads to the cloud while preserving the power and speed of dedicated servers.
As a cloud-native ready platform, phoenixNAP's Bare Metal Cloud provides you with a powerful API to help you manage your infrastructure with ease and simplicity.
You can deploy bare metal instances within minutes and destroy them in seconds by simply sending an HTTP request through the API. You can also fetch all details related to your instances, giving you granular control, and an in-depth overview of your infrastructure.
This is enabled through Google's Apigee API management service, which protects and secures the API service. The authentication and authorization method in use is OAuth.
Invoking the API is also possible within the terminal by running the appropriate cURL command.
Note: Visit the Bare Metal Cloud API User Manual for a full list of API requests.
Users can deploy and manage their Bare Metal Cloud instances through the terminal via phoenixNAP's custom CLI application – pnapctl.
The CLI is available for use on Linux, macOS X, as well as Windows-based AMD64 systems. It allows you to provision and de-provision servers, as well as manage your existing resources.
Note: For a detailed explanation on how to install and utilize the phoenixNAP CLI tool, visit the phoenixNAP Command Line Interface page.
To streamline the automated server deployment and management process, phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud utilizes Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) from Canonical on the backend. MaaS is responsible for server provisioning, de-provisioning, power controls, operating system installation, and other configurations.
By utilizing the BMC API, you can perform a wide array of actions such as querying your inventory, deploying operating systems, initiating power actions, and running custom scripts.
The Bare Metal Cloud platform is fully compatible with open-source server automation engines Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi, allowing you to manage your bare metal cloud infrastructure as code.
Note: Read this guide to learn how to install the phoenixNAP BMC Ansible module, how to use relevant playbooks and what the benefits are.
Bare Metal Cloud VLANs
Provisioned bare metal cloud servers are natively configured with an LACP bond. LACP gives servers the mechanisms necessary for added bandwidth and failure resilience.
VLANs are trunked to servers through the LACP bond upon provision.
Native VLANs aren't used.
802.1q VLANs achieve segment separation.
Once assigned to your servers at a switch pair level, those VLANs become assigned to you. VLANs are never shared between tenants. If you have servers provisioned on the switch pair, assigned VLANs are your own.
Server Bond
Front-end or public segments get assigned on a per client server basis.
Public Segments
Our phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud network is designed around multi-tenant scaling. Allowing our customers to grow, whilst preserving a consistent resource allotment and client segregation. Servers on the same switch pair communicate over the same VLAN ID for your private or back-end segment.
Multi-Server Deployment Examples
When crossing switch pairs, assigned VLANs change. This behavior is normal and by design. VLANs within our network are scoped at the switch pair level. From a system scope level, your servers are essentially on the same VLAN and broadcast domain.
In the example above, Servers 1 and 2 share the same VLAN. Servers 4 and 3, in general get assigned different VLAN IDs. Being assigned the same VLAN ID across racks is possible, though entirely coincidental.
Jumbo frames on private segments are fully supported. By default, a value of 9000 bytes is set – the maximum supported value. Public segments can communicate at 9000 bytes within BMC. However please be aware any communication with the rest of the Internet should use the 1500 bytes standard.
Bare Metal Cloud server instances are billed on an hourly basis. The billing cycle starts the moment you provision a server and stops when you destroy it. Instances that are turned off are billed as if they were active because the resources are still allocated to you.
It's also possible to reserve Bare Metal Cloud instances in advance. This is ideal for businesses with predictable workloads and those that need guaranteed resource availability. The minimal reservation period is one month. While regular instances are charged on an hourly basis, reserved instances are changed per month.
Note: Learn more about how reserved resources can help you scale predictable workloads. Contact us.
phoenixNAP BMC Client Portal
For users who prefer managing infrastructure trough a user-friendly graphical interface, there's the phoenixNAP BMC Client Portal.
The PNAP BMC portal is fully responsive and mobile-friendly, allowing you to easily manage your infrastructure on any type of portable device. You can use it to manage server instances, keep track of resource usage, and billing.
Note: Use Network File Storage (NFS) feature in BMC Portal to expand storage capacity. Learn how by visiting our guide Bare Metal Cloud Storage Management via Portal and API.
Signup Process
To start deploying Bare Metal Cloud Servers, you first need to create an account. To do so, visit the signup page.
If you are an existing client of PNAP, you can log in to the BMC Client Portal by using your PNAP Client Portal credentials.
Note: Visit our in-depth deployment tutorial How To Deploy A Bare Metal Cloud Server to start working with it in just a few minutes.
This article introduced you to a platform which offers a feature-rich single-tenant, non-virtualized environment. Bare Metal Cloud aims to help businesses automate their infrastructure with custom API and CLI tools.
With dedicated resources and cloud-like flexibility, it can address the needs of today's fast-paced software development cycles, AI and machine learning, and software development.
You should now have a better understanding of the underlying concepts and technologies that power phoenixNAP's Bare Metal Cloud, as well as what benefits you can expect.
Steve Scicluna, Network Architect at phoenixNAP, assisted in writing this article.
Dejan Tucakov
Dejan is the Head of Content at phoenixNAP with over 8 years of experience in Web publishing and technical writing. Prior to joining PNAP, he was Chief Editor of several websites striving to advocate for emerging technologies. He is dedicated to simplifying complex notions and providing meaningful insight into data center and cloud technology.
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Q: How to configure ElasticBeanstalk to store access logs for classic ELB I'm using Terraform to provision ElasticBeanstalk application.
EC2 instances are placed into auto scaling group and accessed via (classic) Elastic Load Balancer.
Now I need to store access the logs to that load balancer in S3.
I see it is possible to do manually from web console (EC2/Load Balancers/Description/Attributes/Access logs). Also Terraform allows to configure access logs for aws_elb (if it is created not by ElasticBeanstalk).
However, ElasticBeanstalk does not allow to configure access logs for classic load balancer (see docs) only for application load balancer.
So the question is: how can I configure ElasticBeanstalk to store access logs for classic load balancer?
I realize that I can change the balancer type but I'd like to avoid that.

A: You can do this by creating an .ebextensions directory in the root of your deployment bundle, and saving a configuration file there. Here's the file that we use, which configures the ELB to save logs every 5 minutes:
Resources:
  AWSEBLoadBalancer:
    Type: AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
    Properties:
      AccessLoggingPolicy:
        EmitInterval: 5
        Enabled: true
        S3BucketName: "example-elb-logs"
        S3BucketPrefix: { "Fn::Sub" : "example/${AWSEBEnvironmentName}" }

If you're thinking "this looks a lot like a CloudFormation template" you're right: Beanstalk adds the fragments in this directory to its base template.
For more information on .ebextensions: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/ebextensions.html

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Thank you Chanterelle, for suggesting Tuesday, in the comments, I visit newly re-opened l'Etoile d'or.
Since 11/13 I've been mostly house-bound. Or venturing only a few blocks off Isle Saint Louis. Heading up to Montmartre was a big step out into the world, but well worth it.
And Thank you everyone for your kind and caring messages this week!
L'Etoile d'Or is maybe the best, dreamy place to visit when your heart needs lifting.
And Bernachon, (top Lyonnaise chocolatier) headquarters. Everything in the shop is top drawer. La crème de la crème of confisiers.
Naturally Bear wanted a picture with owner, Denise Acabo.
Cases and cases of deliciousness.
And Denise herself reminds you of Alice in Wonderland, full of joy and delight.
If you're an Alice fan, and who isn't tune in to BBC 4 Extra - a 3-hour special of readings and all sorts of Lewis Carroll diversions available for 29 days.
Amazing Denise was darting around the shop opening boxes, pulling out hidden treasures, force-feeding me Noisettines du Medoc.
A pistachio-filled milk chocolate bar and 2 exquisite mushrooms.
Today at Salons des Coqs d'Ors I visited the stand of chocolate mushroom maker, Fabrice Gillotte from Dijon. No, unfortunately, we are Not related. The mushroom tops are filled with liquid caramel au beurre sale, the stems, almonds-hazelnut praline. Miam!
At l'Etoile d'Or my eyes seized on the ribbon counter. Maim miam!
I ended up with raffia, twine and Japanese braid. The gift card idea took longer..
At last this morning an Eiffel tower emerged (4" x 6") and I printed it on my watercolor paper. It looks like the real thing.
It goes with a brand new gift pack of 6 Paris map letters shipped FLAT in a cardboard-backed envelope.
You can find it in my Etsy shop right now. The card work as a gift certificate too.
Turn right as you leave l'Etoile d'Or on rue Fontaine and walk towards Metro Blanche and the Moulin Rouge. Glorious.
Your maps look as luscious as Miss Denise's chocolates.
What a delightful shop you found. It looked like Aladdin's cave. So many ribbons and then the chocolate shop, wouldn't I love to get my hands on those chocolate mushrooms filled with liquid caramel au beurre sale, & the stems, almonds-hazelnut praline, to die for.So glad to hear you are plucking up courage and trying to get on with your life. Thinking about you.
What a wonderful trip out. Those mushrooms were extraordinary. Almost too pretty to eat. Almost.
A wonderful photo bomb/reflection of yourself behind Denise's shoulder. Enjoy!
Never heard that word before...photo bomb.
Thanks for the shout out, Carol. Glad you made it up to see Denise. This post reminded me of the Kalouga bars I bought last week and finally tasted--holy wow, am I in trouble! I may have to try a couple of those fabulous mushrooms when I go back to restock. Keep your courage up; The city *is* more subdued than usual, and I think you feel it more in the center, but Parisians are tough. Holiday markets are open and the lights on the Champs Elysées are more dazzling than ever. Enjoy this nice weather before it goes away on Tuesday!
Your gift tags are totally charming.
You had her Kalooga bars last week! Where are you?
Staying a few more days near rue des Martyrs. I NEVER spend that kind of money on designer chocolate at home in NYC but it was my first trip to the shop in several years. And as you know she is quite the temptress! Have been commissioned to take back a present, so a prettily-wrapped bar is a natural--and another excuse to visit the shop.
I can't wait to visit that shop now that it's reopened. Denise appears to be delightful. Love the gift tags.
Denise's shop looks WONDERFUL. Your cards look a treat as well!
Beautiful shop and I'm sure you lifted her heart as well. Your work is lovely, as ever.
What an amazing store - and an amazing woman!
So glad you got out and about Carol. Thanks for the tempting push to go to Denise's shop - great excuse for a jaunt to Montmartre, even for the mushrooms alone!
Did I hear someone say "Noisettines du Médoc"? Be still, my heart! Our "suppliers" are a French couple who come to work for three weeks in March at Chicago House. Of course, they can never bring nearly enough to satisfy our lust, but it's something!
I have not been living...must go back to taste again the noisettes du medoc!
Absolument! Elles sont divines! Miam-miam!
Dear Carol, what you have written here about beginning to venture out from you neighborhood after the horrors reminds me of what I felt back in that September, when I finally decided to take a walk across the Park to East Side. It was a big step to take that walk.
I think that your love for Paris transcends all. And enourages the rest of us to embrace your city.


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Q: JQPLOT Stacked Bar Chart array input issue I am trying to plot a stacked bar chart and i am dynamically passing the data to the chart
When i pass the input
[1, 0] [0, 1] [0, 0] [0, 1] ["2015-02-16", "2015-02-15"]

in the variables s1,s2,s3,s4,dateArr (code snippet below)
i get the proper stacked bar chart plotted

But when the data passed to the stacked bar chart is as follows
[2] [1] [0] [0]  ["2015-02-16"]

only the second array is plotted ,the first is being ignored

Do notice however that the y axis starts from 2 ,i .e it recognizes the first array but the same is not being plotted
here is the code i am using to plot the chart
//plot stacked bar chart function
        function plotStack(s1,s2,s3,s4,dateArr) {
            if(dateArr.length==0){
                s1=[0,0,0,0];
                s2=[0,0,0,0];
                s3=[0,0,0,0];
                s4=[0,0,0,0];
                dateArr.push("");
                dateArr.push("");
                dateArr.push("");
                dateArr.push("");
            }
            $('#graph_stacked').html(''); // redraw the stack

            var plotStack = $.jqplot('graph_stacked', [s1, s2, s3, s4], {
            // Tell the plot to stack the bars.
            stackSeries: true,
            captureRightClick: true,
            seriesDefaults: {
                renderer: $.jqplot.BarRenderer,
                rendererOptions: {
                        barWidth: 40,shadow:true,   // Set a 30 pixel width for the bars.
                        shadowAngle: 90,
                        highlightMouseDown: true    // Highlight bars when mouse button pressed. Disables default highlighting on mouse over.
                },
                pointLabels: {
                    show: false
                }
            },
            grid: { background: 'transparent' },
            seriesColors:   ["#47759e", "#444444", "#777777", "#9b9b9b"],
            series:         [   {label: 'New'}, {label: 'In Progress'}, {label: 'Requesting Assistance'}, {label: 'Completed'}  ],
            axes: {
                xaxis: {
                        renderer: $.jqplot.CategoryAxisRenderer,
                        ticks: dateArr
                },
                yaxis: {
                    // Don't pad out the bottom of the data range.  By default,
                    // axes scaled as if data extended 10% above and below the
                    // actual range to prevent data points right on grid boundaries.
                    // Don't want to do that here.
                    padMin: 0
                }
            },

            legend: {
                renderer: $.jqplot.EnhancedLegendRenderer,
                show: true,
                placement: 'outside',
                rendererOptions: {
                    numberRows: 2,
                    numberColumns: 2
                },
                location: 's',
                    marginTop: '45px',
                    border: 'none'
                },
                highlighter: {
                    show:true,
                    tooltipLocation: 'n',
                    showMarker : false,
                    tooltipAxisX: 20, // exclusive to this version
                    tooltipAxisY: 20, // exclusive to this version
                    useAxesFormatters: false,
                    formatString:'%s, %P',
                }
            });

            newTask.length=0;
            inProgressTask.length=0;
            reqAssistTask.length=0;
            completedTask.length=0;
            date.length=0;
            stackArrAllNew.length=0;
            stackArrAllInProgress.length=0;
            stackArrAllReqAss.length=0;
            stackArrAllCompTask.length=0;
            stackDateAll.length=0;
        }

So what am i doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

A: Ok the solution was i had to change
axes: {
                xaxis: {
                        renderer: $.jqplot.CategoryAxisRenderer,
                        ticks: dateArr
                },
                yaxis: {
                    // Don't pad out the bottom of the data range.  By default,
                    // axes scaled as if data extended 10% above and below the
                    // actual range to prevent data points right on grid boundaries.
                    // Don't want to do that here.
                    padMin: 0
                }
            },

to
axes: {
                xaxis: {
                        renderer: $.jqplot.CategoryAxisRenderer,
                        ticks: dateArr
                }
}


"Teen Scene," a program developed collaboratively by Cherry Hill High School West students and Cherry Hill Township, recently received national recognition with a "Promising Practices" Award from the Character Education Partnership.
Teen Scene was designed to bring together teenagers with special needs and their typically developing peers in fun and engaging social events.
With support from the Cherry Hill Township Ombudsman for Disabled Citizens, the Township Recreation Department, and the Cherry Hill Alliance on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, community service students from Cherry Hill West plan a variety of activities throughout the year.
Previous Teen Scene events have included dinner and a movie, rock band performances, arts and crafts night, bowling, and a Hawaiian luau.
"This ongoing initiative creates inclusive activities that all student participants can enjoy, while also developing leadership opportunities and encouraging our growth as a caring community," said Allison Staffin, West Assistant Principal who accepted the Promising Practices Award at the CEP conference in late October.
The next Teen Scene event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at the Carman Tilelli Community Center (820 Mercer St.) The event is free to attend, and open to high-school aged Cherry Hill residents.
Cherry Hill West received a second Promising Practices award for the West Patriot Club, a group created and led by students for a dual purpose: to support active duty military serving around the world and to honor veterans within our own community. A. Russell Knight Elementary School received a Promising Practices award for its culturally proficient practices.
According to the Character Education Partnership (CEP), Promising Practice award winners offer educators and others working with young people "practical ways to develop empathy, conflict resolution skills, and good citizenship," said Lara Maupin, CEP Program Director.


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Quincy goalie rises to the occasion
Nate Crossman
Quincy junior goaltender Leroy Wallace had attended a few Quincy-North Quincy hockey games in his lifetime, and sat on the bench for a couple more.
He'd never been on the ice, however, until Saturday night at Quincy Youth Arena, when he started in place of senior Jeff Giordani, who sat out because of a team rules violation.
Despite making only his second varsity start, Wallace performed like an all-star, making several difficult one-on-one saves in the third period as the Presidents held on to upset the Red Raiders, 4-3. The game, which is the first of three between the two teams, didn't count in the Patriot League standings, and all proceeds benefited the Patrick White Foundation.
"I couldn't breathe the whole third period," Wallace said. "At the beginning of the game I was shaking."
Wallace might have been shaking, but he wasn't shaky, especially not late in the third period.
Trailing 4-1, North Quincy (1-1-1) cut the deficit to 4-3 on goals by senior forwards Scott Richardson and Matt Rodriguez. Both goals came off rebounds that Wallace was unable to smother. With his team clinging to a one-goal lead, Wallace made consecutive clutch saves, including one on Raiders senior forward and co-captain Brandon Gilmore in the slot.
"He's an athlete, but he's not a student of the position," Quincy coach Bob Sylvia said of Wallace. "His nerves had to be going in the third, but he came through."
Quincy (1-1), which came into the game having lost to Pembroke, 3-1, dominated the first two periods, outskating North Quincy. The Presidents took a 1-0 lead at 2:49 of the first when junior forward TJ Higgins found senior forward Shawn Dowling on a two-on-one break, after a Raiders' turnover. Senior forward Mark Gilbody made it 2-0 at 2:42 of the second on another two-on-one, with the assist going to junior forward Kevin Keith. The Presidents appeared to put the game away late in the second, when Gilbody scored his second off another assist from Keith, and junior forward Seamus McKenna scored on a breakaway to make it 4-0.
North Quincy, however, scored its first goal of the game on senior forward Brian McLean's tip-in at 14:24 of the second.
"There wasn't any doubt in my mind that if we won by one goal we'd be lucky," Sylvia said.
As poorly as it played in the first two periods, North Quincy outworked Quincy in the third, and might have come all the way back had it not been for a few good saves by Wallace. Raiders head coach Michael Ciarletta hopes his team uses the loss as motivation.
"I think losing really stung the coaching staff and the players," Ciarletta said. "Hopefully we can take this negative and use it as a turning point early in the season.
"When we're playing our best, were forechecking and winning races to the puck; we're not waiting around, hoping and wishing for something to happen. Nobody's going to hand us anything."


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Editor's Note: Each year, November is recognized as National Adoption Awareness Month. The particular focus of this month is the adoption of children currently in foster care. On National Adoption Day — the Saturday before Thanksgiving, this year Nov. 17 — courts and communities come together to finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care.
There are many reasons why people consider adoption. For some, it's a result of failed fertility efforts. For others, it's a desire to enlarge their family and make life better for a child. But for all, it's a way to bring people of diverse culture, race and heritage into the bonds of a loving family.
Waiting, say experts, can be the hardest part of the adoption process, whether it's waiting for the paperwork to go through or waiting to receive the referral. But while families are on hold, there are things they can do.
Perhaps the one who had the biggest adjustment was young Tony, who went from being an only child to sharing his parents with four other children. "Tony did okay when we got the boys, but when Candice and Anastasia came, we had to have a talk," Nancy remembers.
Click here for resources for foster and adoptive families.


> Resources > Answers to Tough Questions > How do you know God exists?
"If you can't see God, how can you believe in Him?" There are a lot of things we believe in that we cannot see. I believe in gravity. You can say you do not, but if you jump off the top of El Capitan in Yosemite, you'll experience something you cannot see and you just may change your mind in regard to its existence.
Some people assume that in order to believe in God we have to shelve our brains and take a blind leap of faith. God has never asked us to have a blind faith. He invites us to come and consider Him and His truth, "Come let us reason together," He says. We can offer good calculated reasonable answers for our faith in God and His word. By contrast, it is the unbeliever who has taken the blind leap of faith when they have rejected the existence of Heaven and Hell and of God Himself without ever investigating the evidence around them.
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:18-20).
By the way, there is no evidence to prove that there is no God—it is an argument from silence. If challenged, an honest skeptic will have to admit he has no proof that God does not exist.
We can prove that He does.
We can't exactly draw a picture of God for the skeptic, but we can give them some logical proof of His existence. One of the proofs we can use for God has four points—remember CADO and you will always have an answer for the hope that is in you. Or CODA, easier to remember.
Creation—every time you see a piece of machinery, you see an engine, a motorcycle, a car, even a bicycle, you know it has a creator.
Art— every time you see a piece of art, you know it has an artist.
Design— every time you see a wrist watch, you know it has a designer.
When we look around at the universe, what do we see? We see creation, art, design, and order. If everything else has a creator, artist, designer, and order-er behind it, isn't it reasonable to expect that behind this incredibly intricate, complicated, and marvelous universe there is also a Creator, Artist, Designer, and Order-er behind it?
All we're asking for is reason and consistency. Creation/Creator, art/Artist, design/Designer, order/Orderer: logical, reasonable proof that there is a God behind this universe.


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Managing Director at Manchester-based France Line International Transport Ltd Marie Boyer has been shortlisted for the annual FTA everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards.
Marie, who is successfully leading an award-winning and all-female team, has been select for the Director of the Year Award category, sponsored by Asda Stores Ltd
The FTA everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards aims to raise awareness of the opportunities offered by the industry, to showcase the variety of fulfilling careers available and encourage women to bring their skills to the industry.
Marie says: "I am really pleased to be shortlisted in such a prestigious award and wish all the finalists good luck."
Maxine Benson MBE, co-founder of everywoman, comments: "As Britain forges ahead in its economic recovery, logistics remain essential to its infrastructure. This fast growth sector has announced a huge recruitment drive and diversity is high on the agenda with a huge variety of opportunity. We congratulate this year's finalists who have demonstrated that their gender is no barrier to success and that opportunity exists at every level of the career ladder."
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Q: How can I call a standard .NET assembly within SQL I am having an issue whereby a column within a table of mine has data which is encoded using the System.Xml.XmlConvert.Encode method.
Now I need to manipulate this data within SQL and have not found a way to duplicate the System.Xml.XmlConvert.Decode method.
So I've been investigating how I can use the System.XML namespace within SQL to access this method WITHOUT having to wrap it inside one of my own assemblies. Is this possible? i.e. how can I access this assembly directly via T-SQL?

A: There quite a few examples of writing add-ins using .NET for SQL. I believe you will need to have SQL 2005 or newer to create an add-in.
Here is an example that is particularly useful.
Creating CLR SQL User Defined Function to Validate Values Using Regular Expressions @ MSDN
In your case, you will probably want to write a function that takes a byte[] and returns a string (decode), along with a corresponding function that takes a string and returns a byte[].
Actually I'm not sure that you can directly use byte[], but you should be able to write a corresponding wrapper function in SQL that can take a hex string and turn it into a varbinary() if that is necessary.
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Here are some more durable links to other references that are included in the prior link, just in case it ever disappears.
How to: Create and Run a CLR SQL User-Defined Function @ MSDN
Custom Attributes for CLR Routines @ TechNet


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New Belgium Brewing Workers Back Sale to Kirin Subsidiary
Tuesday's vote approval clearing the way for the craft brewery's sale to close by the end of the year.
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FORT COLLINS, CO (AP) — Employees approved the sale of one of the largest U.S. craft breweries to a subsidiary of Japanese beverage company Kirin in a vote that ended Tuesday, clearing the way for the sale to close by the end of the year.
New Belgium Brewing Co. declined to release the number of employees who voted in favor of the sale to Lion Little World Beverages of Australia or a breakdown of how they voted, the Coloradoan reported.
"This result moves us one step closer towards New Belgium Brewing officially joining Lion Little World Beverages," New Belgium CEO Steve Fechheimer said in a statement. "We're excited about the next chapter for NBB and continuing to prove business can be a force for good."
Fechheimer has said New Belgium does not anticipate any changes for employees or its beer product offerings because of the sale.
New Belgium has breweries in Fort Collins and Asheville, North Carolina, with about 700 employees. It is currently employee owned but will no longer be after the sale.
New Belgium co-founder Kim Jordan, who started the brewery in a basement with her then-husband, has said employees will receive $100,000 in retirement money "with some receiving significantly greater amounts."
The mood at the Fort Collins brewery was was upbeat shortly before the vote result was announced.
Lion Little employs about 4,000 people in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Asia and the United States. The purchase of New Belgium is its first venture into the U.S. craft beer market although Kirin owns 25% of Brooklyn Brewery in New York.
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