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Quality Awards II: Leading libraries
Although they're the most mechanical part of a backup system, users are fairly satisfied with the reliability of their tape libraries. And despite high-profile consolidation among tape library vendors, the results of the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards largely reinforced last year's results.
The second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for tape libraries largely reinforced the results of last year's survey.
More than any other products in the data center, tape libraries are under assault. Disk-to-disk backup and continuous data protection (CDP) products promise to reduce a company's reliance on tape backup. With all of the focus on eliminating tape, one would assume that users are unhappy with their tape products. But that assumption would be off-base considering the results of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine 2006 Quality Awards survey of tape library users.
Almost across the board, the 385 Storage readers who provided more than 500 product evaluations indicated a degree of satisfaction consistent with that of our disk array surveys (see "About the survey"). Users apparently have a high degree of brand loyalty, too, as only 9% of respondents say they own libraries from three or more vendors. User satisfaction is further confirmed by the fact that 80% of respondents say they would buy the same system again if they had to do it over. Indeed, that rate is higher than the typical 75% we've seen in other product categories.
Bob Booth, senior research programmer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has used both midrange and enterprise-class IBM tape libraries. He knew the lower end IBM library couldn't handle the job anymore, so he checked out other vendors' offerings before settling on an IBM TotalStorage 3494 library. "It's been a very good investment for us," says Booth. "I'm madly in love with it."
The last year and a half has seen high-profile consolidation among tape library vendors. Sun Micro-systems Inc. acquired StorageTek, Quantum Corp. acquired ADIC and Tandberg Data Corp. purchased the remains of Exabyte Corp. The subplot in this year's survey is how users have fared under the merged companies (see "Products included in the survey").
"The library works very well," says George M. Adamo, network engineer at Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut of his ADIC Scalar i2000. Right now, he's taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Quantum purchase. "I'm keeping an eye on them," he says, although ADIC has reassured Adamo that its service organization will be kept intact.
In 2005, StorageTek took top honors among enterprise-class products, and second among midrange products. ADIC was a close second to StorageTek in the enterprise category, but didn't fare well in the midrange category. To be fair, the postmerger environment is the most tumultuous for both users and the combined entity. Nevertheless, stumbles during mergers can create opportunities for other vendors.
The top tape libraries
Could Sun retain StorageTek's leadership after a full year of ownership? In the enterprise tape library category, the answer is an emphatic "Yes." Qualstar Corp., which didn't garner enough responses in 2005 to be statistically valid and was therefore out of consideration for the award, placed second this year. ADIC, which came in a solid second in 2005, was combined with Quantum this year and the joint entity placed fifth. IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. were third and fourth, respectively (see the "Overall rankings" graph within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries").
Spectra Logic Corp., the smallest privately held vendor to qualify for the award, proved you don't have be a goliath to turn out products customers appreciate. The company also proved that its victory as the midrange Quality Award winner in 2005 was no fluke. Once again, Spectra Logic beat out six other vendors to repeat as the midrange tape library winner. In this category, however, Sun stumbled a bit from 2005. While StorageTek snared second in this category previously, as a Sun entity it fell to fifth place this year. IBM was second, followed by Overland Storage Inc. and HP. In 2005, neither Quantum nor ADIC placed well in the midrange category; the combined entity took sixth place this year. Dell fell to seventh place (out of seven) in 2006 from sixth (out of 10) in 2005, and was the only company to post a sub-5.0 overall score this year (see the "Overall rankings" graph within "Rankings of midrange tape libraries").
But that doesn't suggest that all Dell tape library customers were disenchanted. For example, Terry Nixon, network analyst at Oakland, CA-based Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc., says that using a Dell PowerVault Tape Backup 132T to replace an ADIC Scalar 24 in his backup environment has yielded only good results. "We originally had a loaner from Dell and it seemed to work pretty well," says Nixon. "It seemed more stable than the ADIC, even though it looks identical."
Achieving the highest overall scores in a highly competitive market isn't easy. Sun and Spectra Logic have demonstrated the ability to do it two years in a row.
Sales-force competence
In all of our previous surveys, we noted a direct correlation between a vendor's rating for sales-force competence and its overall rating. No vendor has won the Quality Award without placing first or second in the category. However, this year's enterprise tape award has proven to be the exception to that rule. Although Sun was the overall winner, it fell to fourth place in the sales-force competence category. Often, post-merger sales organizations are reorganized such that customers are assigned unfamiliar representatives. So falloff in this area isn't too surprising. Qualstar was top rated in this category with a score of 5.82, while Sun garnered a still-respectable 5.40. Quantum, which placed fifth overall, took second among enterprise products in the sales-force category with its second highest category score (5.47). It's perhaps a testament to Sun's product quality that its other category scores were strong enough to overcome this miscue (see the "Sales-force competence" graph within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries").
Quantum's strength in this category may be attributable--at least in part--to aggressive pricing in the wake of its 2000 acquisition of ATL. "A lot of the driving point was cost and a lot of the other vendors seemed to be cost-prohibitive at the time," says Tad Martin, Unix systems administrator at Iridium Satellite LLC in Tempe, AZ. "I think that was Quantum trying to get ATL integrated with their whole product line, and that kind of played to my benefit."
In the midrange group, Spectra Logic topped all other sales-force scores with a 5.79. However, nearly 70% of Spectra systems are purchased through VARs, so the company's score is reflective of the quality of its resellers and its ability to recruit, train and support them. IBM, which was second overall in the midrange category, was a close runner-up with a 5.77 for sales competence (see the "Sales-force competence" graph within "Rankings of midrange tape libraries"). Fifty-one percent of IBM midrange systems are purchased through VARs. And while 53.7% of Sun's midrange systems were purchased through resellers, it placed seventh in this category. Ironically, Sun's 5.19 in the sales-force category was higher than its overall midrange score (5.18). Spectra Logic's best score in this category was a 6.00 in response to the statement "The vendor's sales support team is knowledgeable."
Having other equipment installed at a user's site can also give a vendor a leg up in the sales process, especially for those that have end-to-end product lines. "Most of our shop is HP hardware," says Ray Littlefield, IT storage administrator at Washington, DC-based Conservation International, "so our SAN is HP gear." With HP servers and EVA storage arrays on the floor, Littlefield was more than comfortable adding two HP StorageWorks MSL Series tape libraries to his configuration.
The actual hardware or software products aren't the only sales issues for storage managers to consider. Who you buy your product support from, and under what conditions, can have a strong bearing on an overall product experience. When the storage contract on its IBM TotalStorage 3494 came due at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Booth says a lower bid from another company led the university to switch support services. "They came in $25,000 less," says Booth, a savings the purchasing department couldn't pass up. But, apparently, the new service company's capabilities were oversold by a much-too-eager sales rep. "They don't have any engineers in town and they don't have a parts stock," says Booth. And almost immediately, the company farmed out the service to a third party. Although the university is happy with the third-party engineering support, "it's been almost a year now that we've been dealing with trying to get the call routing straightened out," notes Booth.
Product features
Sun regained its form in the enterprise product features category with a 5.74 score, the highest of any product in the survey (see the "Product features" graph within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries"). It received a 5.95 for the statement "Overall, this product's features meet my needs" and a 5.90 for "This product scales well." HP, the second-place finisher in this category, received its highest score (5.83) for "This product meets my performance needs." Qualstar, which placed second overall, fell from grace in this category with a 4.99. Apparently, users were most disappointed in Qualstar's user interface, giving the company a 4.19 for the statement "This product's user interface meets my needs."
In 2005, Spectra Logic swept the Quality Award by winning every midrange category. But despite repeating as the overall winner, it couldn't repeat such a feat this time. Overland Storage topped the midrange field with a 5.63 for product features, barely edging out IBM's 5.62. Spectra Logic rated third with a 5.58 (see the "Product features" graph within "Rankings of midrange tape libraries"). Overland users thought most highly of its system interoperability, giving it a very high 6.33 for "This product is interoperable with other vendor's products." IBM users felt that interoperability was also its system's strength, although not quite as strongly (5.89). Spectra Logic was best rated for the statement "Overall, this product's features meet my needs" (5.77).
Because they're largely mechanical devices, some types of manual operations can play an important role in product selection. "We wanted a library that offered very quick access, where you can take out a bulk of tapes fairly quickly," says Conservation International's Littlefield, so that tape-handling chores would be facilitated. The HP StorageWorks MSL Series met its requirements. "With just one button, it opens up both doors and you can take out all the cartridges out of the library in just a few seconds," says Littlefield.
Initial product quality
Among enterprise products, the initial product quality section saw the second lowest high score (Sun at 5.58) and the second highest low score (Quantum's 5.20) of any category to produce the tightest range of any category (see the "Initial product quality" graph within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries"). The highest rating was given to Qualstar for the statement "This product offers good value for the money" (5.89). Sun also received a relatively high score of 5.79 for this statement. When we asked users to respond to the statement "This product requires very little daily intervention," Sun came out on top with a 5.64; HP wasn't far behind with a 5.56 for this same statement.
Among midrange products, Spectra Logic topped the section with it second highest score (5.96) (see the "Initial product quality" graph within "Rankings of midrange tape libraries"). In fact, four out of the five statements posed in the initial product quality category received a score of 6.0 or higher. Spectra Logic's 6.08 score for "This product offers good value for the money," was a great one, but actually came in second to Overland's 6.15. This statement score paced Overland to a second-place ranking in this category. Other strong areas for Spectra Logic included "This product is easy to use" and "I am satisfied with the level of professional services needed for this product," each of which received a 6.08.
The "initial" part of this category name emphasizes how installation and setup can set expectations for a product even before it's fully implemented into its production role. Iridium Satellite's Martin was pleased with how quickly he had their Quantum M2500 up and running. "It was less than a day and this thing was rolling," says Martin. "It was a real slick setup."
Product reliability
The bellwether question of our survey--"Patches can be applied nondisruptively"--normally sees a dip in scores, and this survey followed the trend. Nevertheless, Spectra Logic had an unusually high 5.69 score to this statement among midrange libraries. HP was tops among enterprise products with a 5.28, while Sun was second with a 5.19. Spectra Logic's high score, however, was offset by a 5.08 for "This product's error handling is easy and intuitive;" HP also received a low 4.89 for this statement.
"Things like firmware and stuff like that, you can go to the Web site," says Conservation International's Littlefield of his HP StorageWorks MSL library. "It detects what type of device you have and firmware for that device is downloaded," he says. "You can do regular maintenance and firmware upgrades very smoothly."
Neither HP nor Spectra Logic were tops in this category. Those honors went to Sun (enterprise) and IBM (midrange) with identical 5.57 scores (see the "Product reliability" graphs within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries" and "Rankings of midrange tape libraries"). Sun's enterprise libraries received the highest rating for "This product requires very few unplanned patches" (5.94). It also had a 5.81 for "This product meets my service-level requirements."
IBM's midrange systems topped this category on the strength of a 6.04 for "This product requires very few unplanned patches." IBM users also rewarded the company with a 5.92 for "This product meets my service-level requirements." Consistent with other products, IBM's lowest rating in this section was a 5.04 for "This product's error handling is easy and intuitive."
Technical support
Technical support is rarely a differentiator among products in our surveys, but Spectra Logic's 6.23 in the midrange category was almost a half-point higher than IBM's 5.79 (see the "Technical support" graph within "Rankings of midrange tape libraries"). Spectra Logic's score was also buoyed by a 6.54 for "The vendor's third-party partners are knowledgeable" and a 6.23 for "The vendor's support personnel are knowledgeable." It also received a 6.38 for the statement "The vendor provides adequate training." IBM's midrange support rated a 6.17 for the statement "Vendor supplies support as contractually specified."
Prior to its merger with Sun, StorageTek was well known for its exemplary support. That measure of excellence has apparently been maintained in the postmerger organization: Sun won the enterprise category with a 5.75 score. IBM and HP, also known for excellent support, weren't far behind with a 5.65 and 5.64, respectively (see the "Technical support" graph within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries").
Choosing a service plan can be a key decision, too. Wanting to ensure support for its ADIC Scalar i2000, Waterbury Hospital's Adamo contracted with ADIC for its highest level service plan--and it has paid off. "They're willing to come out any day of the week," says Adamo. "We have a contract, that's why."
Would you buy again?
Vendor loyalty among tape library users appears to be unusually high. Of the 94 respondents for Sun's enterprise systems, 90.4% said they'd buy the system again (see the "Would you buy this product again?" graph within "Rankings of enterprise tape libraries"). This percentage was second only to HP's 94.4% among all enterprise/midrange products. Among midrange users, 88.7% of IBM users would buy again, as would 84.6% of Spectra Logic's users (see the "Would you buy this product again?" within "Rankings of midrange tape libraries"). Despite the push toward technology alternatives for tape, we expect organizations to buy these systems for some time to come.
About the survey
The Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage readers who assessed products in five main categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial product quality, product reliability and technical support. Our methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Our objective is to identify the most reliable products regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products are rated on a 1.0-8.0 scale, where 8.0 is the most favorable score. For this year's tape library survey, 385 readers provided 502 valid product evaluations. Our survey has a 4% margin of error with a 95% confidence factor.


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A recent post by Drew McManus at Adaptistration reminded me of a brief argument I had with Greg Sandow at his blog. In my previous post I talked about one way to increase performance or earned revenue through Price Discrimination for Orchestra Tickets. Another way to increase performance revenue as well as lower costs is by changing the scale of the operations.
This is commonly referred to as Economies of Scale, and no, this has nothing to do with reducing pay or cutting back a season to lower costs. The reduced costs comes about as the result of increased production, thus lowering cost per unit. As the Investopedia defines it:
The increase in efficiency of production as the number of goods being produced increases. Typically, a company that achieves economies of scale lowers the average cost per unit through increased production since fixed costs are shared over an increased number of goods.

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Weekend one at Coachella was filled of course with amazing music, Beck, Lorde and Arcade Fire along with a long list of celebrities including; Leonardo DiCaprio, Jared Leto, Aaron Paul and Paris Hilton. But the Coachella weekends have become well known for some amazing non-Coachella parties.
FOREVER 21 hosted their own "PARTY IN THE SKY" on Saturday with plenty of their own music. Recording artist Azealia Banks performed unreleased tracks off of "Broke With Expensive Taste" and there was more to come as secret guest DJ's Gorgon City and What So Not also performed.
Guests were treated to a pair of complimentary gifting suites, the premiere of Forever 21's Summer 2014 fashion film and an amazing 20 feet high VIP party pod suspended above the main event to create the ultimate desert party experience. Guests were encouraged to leave a donation for the VH1 Save The Music Foundation with 100% of donations going to the Foundation.
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The Abbot + Main Estate pool party hosted by Kellan Lutz welcomed Aaron Paul, Ashley Greene and Joe Jonas who were treated to Cousins Maine Lobster, cocktails created with ZING Vodka cocktails along with the perfect party single-serving wine Stack Wine. This being a long weekend guests also made sure to partake in NEVER HUNGOVER so would be able to fully enjoy the music festival the next day.
For a little change of pace to get ready Coachella was the Oakley Learn to Ride: The Driving Experience which took place on Thursday. Kellan Lutz was able to race the new Bentley Beverly Hills cars at Oakley Learn to Ride while staying hydrated with SOS Rehydrate.


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Flailing Honduras in yet another political crisis
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Members of the ruling party met behind closed doors, bartering all night for votes to depose four Supreme Court justices who had rejected the president's plan to weed out corrupt police. Ominously, soldiers and police surrounded the National Congress.
As the hours ticked by, representatives inside puffed on cigarettes in violation of their own anti-smoking laws and jokingly accused each other of vote-buying. Then shortly before dawn Wednesday, President Porfirio Lobo's National Party overwhelmingly and, many say illegally, approved the judges' dismissal.
That was a risky move.
"We don't know when we leave after the vote if there will be prosecutors waiting to detain us," admitted Sergio Castellanos of the Democratic Unification party, who voted with the majority. "Here you have to be ready for anything."
On global rosters of failing states, Honduras doesn't even crack the top 50, yet by many grim measures the troubled Central American republic is barely clinging to its status as a functioning country.
Three years after former President Manuel Zelaya was run out of office at gunpoint in his pajamas, Lobo is struggling. He has twice warned that his enemies are conspiring to oust him in a coup, and he then provoked a constitutional crisis with the judges' removal, an act that legal scholars describe as everything from an abuse of power to a betrayal of the country.
Political turmoil is but the latest trouble bedeviling Honduras. Even in the best of times, Lobo's government, police and military control only about two-thirds of the country. In at least three states, drug gangs rule the highways and clandestine airstrips, with firepower greater than law enforcement's, said Cesar Caceres, a former adviser to the Security Ministry.
As a result, three-quarters of all U.S.-bound cocaine passes through the country's lawless outback in an illicit business that has led to an explosion of violence, which in some cities has reached epidemic proportions. Honduras has more homicides than any other country in the world with 91 per 100,000 people, the World Health Organization says.
The country is as poor as it is violent.
The national government is so broke it needs to borrow $100 million to pay its employees, including members of the electoral council, who say they can't issue complete results from last month's primary for 2013 presidential candidates until vote-counters are paid.
Two out of three Hondurans live in poverty, on less than $1.25 a day, and only a quarter of children complete middle school. Every day, hundreds of people give up on their homeland altogether to make the dangerous trek north to look for work in the United States.
Since Lobo's election, the U.S. government frequently has noted Honduran progress on national reconciliation and respect for human rights, while acknowledging continued problems with corruption and impunity.
This week, State Department press adviser William Ostick said that, "We are monitoring the situation closely ... and urge all actors to respect democratic norms."
Many Hondurans say their country's problems run deep.
"Honduras is a weak state in a tremendous institutional crisis," said Hugo Noe Pino, who has served at times as finance minister, central bank president and Honduran ambassador to the United States. He called the country "ungovernable."
Jore Yllescas, a presidential commissioner for the Department of Revenue, concurred.
"Honduras is almost a failed state, incapable of solving its education or health problems, let alone justice, security or control of its own territory," Yllescas said. "I wouldn't dare to stay that it's reversible. I have no evidence to show that."
Long before political scientists began to talk of failed states, Honduras was known disparagingly as a "banana republic."
In the late 19th century, U.S. companies like United Fruit and Standard Fruit owned vast tracts of land and relied on the Honduran military to quell labor rebellions. The elites then formed the country's two major political parties in support of the fruit companies, cementing ties between Honduras' business and political interests, said Marvin Barahona, a historian at a Jesuit think tank in the capital.
With wealth concentrated in the hands of a few families, Honduras remained poor. Decades later, as U.S. aid poured into government coffers, many citizens complained that their country had been converted into Washington's client state, a base for the U.S. military and U.S.-backed Contras fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.
But the status quo was fine with the oligarchy. Zelaya, a rich landowner from Olancho state, was one of them when he was elected president in 2006. When he began to move away from Washington towards Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez, however, his opponents feared a populist threat. His proposal for a referrendum on changing the constitution was the last straw. He was booted out by leaders of his own party, backed by the army.
The U.S. suspended aid as a sanction for the coup, and in the ensuing political chaos, drug traffickers saw an opening.
"Direct flights from the Venezuela-Colombia border soared to runways in Honduras, and thus began a violent struggle for control of this drug corridor," according to the 2012 U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime report. The report estimates drug trafficking now accounts for about 13 percent of Hondura's gross domestic product.
Cocaine shipments are dropped in the Mosquito Coast region, bordering Nicaragua, then are moved through Olancho or Gracias a Dios states, converging on the border of Guatemala.
In high drug-trafficking areas, many people depend on the cartels, not the government, to provide jobs and services.
"We're like Colombia of the 1980s," said Caceres, the former Security Ministry adviser who now heads a security support program for the European Union in Honduras. "People linked to drug trafficking are seen by part of the population as benefactors, because of the inability of the state to offer solutions to their poverty."
Hondurans say corruption and crony politics have deprived state coffers of revenue thanks to politicians who enact laws to favor their own business interests.
For example, Tito Asfura, a city council member running for mayor of Tegucigalpa, holds the garbage collecting contract for the capital and sits on the corporation that renews the contract. Fast-food franchises proliferating in the city's many shopping malls and street corners get tax breaks for creating jobs that often pay less than minimum wage, or for promoting "tourism."
"The culture of tax evasion is amazing in Honduras," said Mario Lopez Steiner, the 16th director of the country's Department of Revenue in 18 years.
Since taking office in January 2010, Lobo has been under international pressure to fix the broken country. He brokered an agreement to let ousted former President Zelaya return to form his own political party, and tried to regain the trust of foreign investors.
Lobo proposed creating private cities with their own laws and authorities, arguing that the country's justice system didn't work. It was an attempt "to create a Honduras from scratch," said Octavio Sanchez, Lobo's chief of Cabinet. But the Supreme Court declared the move unconstitutional.
In a nation where people have to regularly dodge extortion attempts from police and daily violence, Lobo launched a program of background checks on police officers — a priority of the U.S. government, which gives Honduras about $100 million a year in aid.
Lobo's police reform sowed the seeds of the current confrontation. A constitutional court declared the purge unconstitutional because it did not include an appeals process for dismissed officers, and the full Supreme Court was expected to uphold the ruling. Before it could, congress voted to put the reform to a popular vote, and replaced the dissenting court members. The attorney general reacted immediately, saying he would consider prosecuting the congressmen who approved the ouster.
The Honduran constitution gives the president, judiciary and congress autonomous powers. Since the coup of 2009, and despite a subsequent truth commission report recommending the constitution be changed to allow for impeaching a president or a justice, little has changed.
Lobo interrupted all television programing on Thursday to call for a national dialogue with the country's key players, many of whom he accused of trying to oust him just a week ago, "to find a way out of this crisis."
Average Hondurans call it a power-struggle among the elites, and say they don't want to get in the middle of it.
"God help us, we don't want the chaos of another coup," said bus driver Moises Cruz. "The worst is that we're going through this crisis again because of all these politicians who only look out for themselves."
Associated Press Correspondent Martha Mendoza contributed from Santa Cruz, Calif.
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BOULDER, CO - February 10, 2011
Organizations spend an average of 127 hours per month managing on-site security solutions and related problems, according to new research from Webroot, the first Internet security service company. The top time thieves are updating software and hardware, reimaging infected machines, and enforcing end user Internet and email policies.
Webroot surveyed 820 IT decision-makers in organizations with 100 to 5,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company found organizations with more remote or mobile employees face more problems when using on-premise security. Specifically, these companies are 43 percent more likely to experience phishing attacks and 33 percent more likely to experience viruses or worms than organizations using cloud security. Time spent repairing damage and addressing other repercussions is also more significant.
"The burden of managing on-premise security solutions is clearly taking a toll on IT departments," said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer, Webroot. "On-premise solutions, whether they're appliances or software, simply cannot keep up with today's threat landscape, which is complicated by the need to protect a highly mobile workforce. Two-thirds of the companies we surveyed have at least a quarter of their employees remotely accessing corporate servers. Those using on-premise solutions have suffered higher rates of malware threats than companies using cloud security solutions, which are more effective and easier to manage."
According to the study, the time and cost associated with managing on-site security solutions is substantial:
- Managing software and hardware updates alone plunders more than two full workdays (18.6 hours) per month.
- Only seven percent of respondents said that managing software and hardware updates has no impact on their IT resources.
- The second highest resource consumption is re-imaging infected machines, which takes more than 17 hours per month.
- Enforcing end user policies and managing patches rank third and fourth respectively, each consuming more than 16 hours per month. Two in 10 respondents describe the impact of these activities as major or severe.
Companies with one-fourth or more of their employees accessing the server remotely face the greatest repercussions:
- Help desk time to repair damage increases 10 percentage points (from 19 percent to 29 percent).
- Compromised customer data triples (19 percent versus six percent).
- Web site compromises and hacking attacks each increase by 10 percentage points.
- Those using cloud security are 30 percent less likely to experience phishing attacks than those using on-premise security solutions, 25 percent less likely to experience viruses or worms, and 20 percent less likely to experience spyware.
Additional Findings:
Securing mobile users is the top security challenge in 2011.
- 33 percent of respondents rank securing mobile/laptop users as their number one challenge in the year ahead.
- Mobile user protection ranked in the top five reasons that companies are considering cloud-based Web security, with 12 percent citing it as a primary reason they have adopted or will adopt it.
- The next highest ranked security challenges in 2011 are preventing data breaches (26 percent) and protecting against Web-based malware (25 percent).
The burden of managing on-premise security is not going unnoticed by companies:
- Only 18 percent of companies with on-premise security strongly agree that their IT security vendors act as if they work for them, whereas that number nearly doubles amongst those that have implemented cloud-based Web security solutions.
- The hours spent dealing with on-premise security issues translate into lost hours in other areas: Only 26 percent of companies using on-premise solutions strongly agree that their solutions enable them to spend more time on strategic IT initiatives, compared with 42 percent that have implemented cloud-based Web security.
- Four in 10 respondents plan to implement cloud-based Web security in 2011 or 2012. The top cited reasons are to simplify management of Web security (21 percent), reduce burden on IT staff (16.2 percent) and improve effectiveness against malware (15 percent).
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If you've tried Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC, you gotta try some Nyonya Fried Chicken. The Nyonya calls it Inchi Kabin which is twice fried and crispier. Even better with the special dipping sauce.
Recipe for Inchi Kabin after the jump:
1kg chicken (cut into pieces)
Oil for deep frying
2½ tbsp curry powder
1 tsp salt
10 tbsp coconut milk
You'll need to marinate the chicken in advance, at least 4 hours. In a frying pan, deep fry the seasoned chicken until ¾ cooked and cool.
Frying method:
Heat the oil till very hot and deep fry for approximately 1 minute or when sizzling subsides. Remove the chicken. Allow the oil the heat up again and repeat process, twice till very crisp and golden brown.
Dipping sauce
1 red chilli, seeded and cut in strips
Juice of half a lime or lemon
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp dry mustard
3 tbsp Worcester sauce
Looking at your Inchi Kabin fried chicken, this dish reminds me of a restaurant cum guest house at Tanjong Bungah named Southern Cliff (next to the famous Hollywood restaurant). They serve one of the best Inchi Kabin fried chicken I have ever tried. Don't know whether this place still around. I never know that the chicken is double fried. Will try out your recipe. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for visiting the blog. From my previous visit back home, the restaurant that you've mentioned has now closed. Yes, the key to this recipe is double fried to get the dark look. Good luck~
Thanks for this update. Besides this fried chicken, do you have any nyonya soup recipe. My late mom used to prepare this unique tasty soup, she called it Tng Sua Hong soup literally mean' China Wind' soup. Very funny name indeed for a soup. Appreciate if you have any recipe of it. Some ingredients are dried sotong, big chunk of pork, white carrot, pepper, garlic etc and that 5 spices powder.
Appreciate any assistance for my enquiry.
Oh I do know the soup you are talking about. It is not the kind of soup that everyone would like. It's been a while I've cooked it too.
Madam you are my angel. Have been talking to some people I met and none seems to know what is that soup. Great you know it. Any chance of sharing this soup's recipe or future posting about it. To me this soup is really warm and heartening esp. during rainy days. You are right, definitely not an everyday soup.
Thanks for your kind words. I don't think I'll be posting the recipe. As you say, it is not an everyday soup. If I get the chance to cook it, I'll email you. ^_^
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Thanks for the Inchi Kabin fried chicken recipe . I have try yesterday for my staffs gathering . I have added fresh yogurt for marinate . Everyone praised very good and crispy .They like it very much and it was finished as soon as been serve hot ! Thanks again .God bless !
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Hi Madam Kwong,
My family loves inchi kabin chicken and i'm trying it tonite.
Just 1 question is curry powder same as chilli powder?
Hi Madam Kwong,
Is it need to fry the chicken twice?
What type curry powder can use?
October 29th, 2014 at 10:05 am
Which restaurants in Penang offered inchi kabin chicken?
December 25th, 2014 at 9:18 am
Hi Lynette, you can find them in many nyonya restaurant's these day.


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Doctor Carol Marcus was a Starfleet science officer who served aboard the USS Enterprise from 2259 to the early 2260s. She had a doctorate in applied physics, specializing in advanced weaponry.
Early lifeEdit
Carol Marcus was born to Alexander Marcus and a mother with the maiden name Wallace. Sometime prior to 2259, she joined Starfleet.
Starfleet career Edit
Science officer aboard the USS Enterprise Edit
Going after "John Harrison" Edit
When Captain James T. Kirk set off for Qo'noS to find the traitor John Harrison, Marcus boarded his shuttle under the alias Carol Wallace, using her mother's maiden name and claiming Admiral Marcus had assigned her to the Enterprise. Spock deemed her credentials impressive but decided she was redundant, as he himself had been reinstated as first officer of the USS Enterprise, while Kirk welcomed her aboard.
Spock confronted Carol about her name not being in the ship's records, but before she could explain herself to him, the ship's warp core malfunctioned. Spock later revealed her true identity to Kirk. Carol apologized to Kirk for the deception after Harrison was arrested, explaining she had used her mother's maiden name to board the ship and examine a series of seventy-two experimental, advanced long-range torpedos aboard the vessel because she had discovered they had disappeared from all official records after her father had withheld information on them from her. Her father had given the photon torpedos to Kirk, to fire on Harrison.
Marcus went with Leonard McCoy to examine one of the torpedos on a deserted planetoid, after Harrison suggested to Kirk that he open one. McCoy accidentally activated the torpedo and trapped his hand, but despite Kirk ordering that she be beamed up, Carol managed to deactivate the torpedo before the emergency beam-up became necessary. Opening up the dormant torpedo, she and McCoy discovered a cryogenically frozen man inside.
When questioned, Harrison revealed that he was Khan Noonien Singh, that he had been revived to help prepare for war with the Klingon Empire, and that he had planned to smuggle his fellow Augments in the torpedoes before he was caught. Admiral Alexander Marcus arrived in the USS Vengeance, a warship designed by Khan, and began firing on the Enterprise. Carol Marcus revealed her presence to him in an effort to persuade her father to cease the attack, but Alexander simply beamed her over and carried on. When taken to the bridge, Carol smacked her father, telling him she was ashamed to be his daughter. But he ignored her, believing the cover-up was necessary.
Scotty deactivated the Vengeance's weaponry, giving Kirk and Khan time to fly to the ship and commandeer it. When they arrived on the bridge, Scotty shot to stun Khan while Kirk admonished the admiral for compromising Starfleet. Kirk ordered the admiral out of his command chair, citing that while he could force him out, he preferred not to do it in front of Carol. However, one stun shot was ineffective to keep Khan down, and he promptly beat Scott and Kirk. He then turned to Admiral Marcus, who tried to flee into a turbolift. Carol tried to stop and reason with him, but he responded by breaking her leg. Then he grabbed her father and crushed his skull before her very eyes, and she responded by screaming in horror.
Along with Kirk and Scott, Carol was then beamed, by Khan, into the Enterprise's brig. Kirk brought her to sickbay for McCoy to patch her up. Khan resumed bombarding the Enterprise, and the damage caused the ship to fall to Earth. Kirk went into the warp core and reactivated the engines, preventing the Enterprise from crashing, but at the cost of poisoning himself. Marcus mourned Kirk in sickbay alongside McCoy, Scott, and other Enterprise personnel. However, McCoy realized Khan's blood could be used to heal him. He and Marcus placed Kirk in one of the Augments' cryotubes to put him in suspended animation. Spock and Uhura beamed down to apprehend Khan, after he crashed the Vengeance into San Francisco, and the blood transfusion proved successful.
The five-year mission Edit
Carol attended a memorial service for those killed by Khan and her father, close to a year later. She continued serving on the Enterprise bridge as science officer when it embarked on its first five-year mission. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
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|Enterprise NX-01:
|T'Pol • Unnamed
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|Lucero • Spock • Connolly • Chekov • Sonak • Decker • Saavik
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|USS Enterprise-B:
|USS Enterprise-D:
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Key dates Edit
- 2259
- Smuggles herself onto the USS Enterprise via forged documents
- 2260
- Attends the re-christening ceremony of the Enterprise
- Permanently assigned to the USS Enterprise for five-year mission
- 2260s
- leaves the USS Enterprise for unknown reasons
Memorable quotes Edit
"I'm Carol Marcus."
- - Carol Marcus, formally introducing herself to James Kirk (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Turn around. Now!"
- - Carol Marcus, when Captain Kirk gets a glimpse of her in her underwear (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"I am ashamed to be your daughter."
- - Carol Marcus to Alexander Marcus, decrying her father's actions (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Listen… wait."
- - Carol Marcus to Khan Noonien Singh, before he breaks her leg (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Dr. Marcus! Uh… I'm glad you can be part of the family."
"It's nice to have a family."
- - James Kirk and Carol Marcus, on Carol joining the Enterprise crew (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Appendices Edit
Background information Edit
The alternate-reality Carol Marcus was played by Alice Eve.
Origins Edit
A young Carol Marcus was in an early script draft of the film Star Trek. She would have been represented as meeting Kirk during his adolescence and living near him. [3] Co-writer Roberto Orci explained, "We wanted to potentially lay down the foundation for their friendship [....] And then literally because of the nature of the introductory story and making sure that our core group of characters had the proper amount of story that they deserve, she went into the potential future draft." [4]
Introducing Carol Marcus in Star Trek Into Darkness brought some major implications to the movie, the prime-universe representation of the character having made a singular appearance – as the mother of Kirk's son, David Marcus, and a scientist involved in testing the Genesis Device – in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. "What we didn't want to do was rush it in a way that felt too familiar and too predictable," commented Alex Kurtzman, regarding how he and the other screenwriters wrote the role into Star Trek Into Darkness. "The idea with Carol was introduce a character that implies a lot of things, but leave it open enough that anything could happen in the next movie." [5]
Showing Carol Marcus changing into her flightsuit, in Star Trek Into Darkness, was motivated by Director J.J. Abrams wanting to appeal to Star Trek's male fanbase, which is fairly large. [6] That the film would show Dr. Marcus in her underwear was heavily discussed during many story conversations between the screenwriters, as they contemplated how they were going to justify that. Originally, Kirk would have stumbled on Marcus changing as she prepared to open the torpedo in space, but budgetary limitations prevented the writers from setting the disarming scene in space; Orci acknowledged that having her consequently change into a flightsuit was not as necessary as showing her change into a spacesuit. [7]
The writers approached the subject from the point of view that, like in Star Trek II, Carol Marcus was again to be represented as bold in her interactions with Kirk, despite each of them being another form of their character than from The Wrath of Khan. "We figured, how do we harness the spirit of that in this scene," recalled Alex Kurtzman, "and that's ultimately where we came to it from [....] It's not something we went into blindly, and certainly we all sat in a room going, okay, we're going to be criticized for this, but how do we justify this in a way that feels like it was thought about?" [8]
In a Yellow Revision of the screenplay for Star Trek Into Darkness, Carol Marcus, upon being introduced in the script, was described as wearing "Starfleet blues." Also, a line of dialogue characterized her as holding "advanced doctorates in applied physics," although this was later changed to instead describe her as having a singular doctorate in that subject. ("The Voyage Begins… Again!", "Featurettes", Star Trek: The Compendium Blu-ray special features)
In the same draft of the screenplay, Carol Marcus used the alias "Caroline Wallace". ("The Voyage Begins… Again!", "Featurettes", Star Trek: The Compendium Blu-ray special features) Both this and the alias she ultimately uses in the movie, "Carol Wallace" – besides referring to her mother's name – are likely in tribute to Janet Wallace. [9] That role was originally written as Kirk's love interest in early drafts of The Wrath of Khan and evolved into Carol Marcus in later drafts of the same film. (The Making of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 5) Both women were envisioned as strong-willed, intelligent scientists with whom Kirk had previously been emotionally involved.
Montgomery Scott's actor Simon Pegg was thrilled to discover that Carol Marcus was involved in Star Trek Into Darkness. "Looking at it from the outside," Pegg recalled, "when I first saw her name in the script, it was exciting, 'cause Carol Marcus is a figure from Star Trek history." [10] Kirk actor Chris Pine once referred to the character, as written for Into Darkness, as "a really interesting part." (SciFiNow, issue 80, p. 23)
Casting the role Edit
It was the people involved in making Star Trek Into Darkness that drew Alice Eve to it, rather than any familiarity with Star Trek, which she didn't know much about before taking the role of Carol Marcus. [11] "I didn't know who Carol Marcus was," she admitted. [12]
Alice Eve was likewise unaware, when she auditioned for the part, that it was the role of Carol Marcus she was trying out for. Although no full script was yet available, J.J. Abrams sent some scenes to her. [13] Before Eve received the scenes, Abrams asked that she prepare them. (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 52) "I got a few pages of this character's scenes and a scene that was kind of imagined, that wasn't in the movie," remembered Eve. "It was just so well constructed and so well imagined and so truthful that I wanted to be part of this group of people that told stories in that way." The audition scene that is not in the movie was, in Eve's words, "an extended dialogue scene" between Carol Marcus and her father. The scene (whose plot points were included elsewhere in the film) was helpful to Eve in her understanding of Carol Marcus. [14] In fact, despite not knowing the name of the character she was auditioning to play, Eve got a distinct impression of the role from the collection of scenes, later stating, "I got a sense [that] […] the journey of the character [J.J.] wanted was a girl who was struggling with her relationship with her father." Eve also consistently assumed that it was an already established character she would be playing, rather than a brand new one. [15]
Alice Eve proceeded to do as J.J. Abrams had requested by preparing the scenes. "I did that, and met with him, where we work-shopped the material," said Eve. This meeting was the first encounter between them, Eve having never auditioned for Abrams before nor even crossed paths with him. "The process of working with him was incredibly rewarding for me, and enjoyable," Eve continued. "Then I spoke to him and his producing partner, Bryan Burk, afterwards." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, pp. 52 & 54) Alex Kurtzman was another production staffer who witnessed the audition. He later recollected, "When we started auditioning Carol, in walked Alice, who was so wonderful and had this kind of lovely quality and brightness and intelligence. That inspired us to think about, 'OK, if we like Alice, then how are we going to craft the character around the actress that we like and make it familiar and not inconsistent with what you've seen before?" [16] Although it was by now obvious to Eve that the project she was auditioning for was Star Trek, Abrams didn't inform her that the character she was being considered for was Carol Marcus. "To be honest, that didn't mean anything to me anyway," Eve conceded, "because I wasn't overly familiar with the universe. He gave me a sense of who the woman was, what drove her, and what her motivations were. All of that gave me enough to create a sketch." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 54)
About ten days after Alice Eve's initial meeting with J.J. Abrams, he called her and asked her to do the forthcoming film. (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 52) The news that Eve was cast in the part extremely excited Simon Pegg. [17] "I think I maybe got the job because I naturally speak very fast," reckoned Eve; she implied that the quickness of her speaking worked well in sync with Abrams' thinking, observing that he thinks "very fast." (Empire, Issue 287, p. 92)
Initial movie depiction Edit
As Alice Eve naturally has an English accent (though can do a considerably convincing American one) whereas the original portrayal of Carol Marcus featured an American accent, there was "ample discussion," said Eve, as to which accent Marcus was to have in Star Trek Into Darkness. Ultimately, the Oxford-educated Eve was allowed to portray the character with her own accent, later quipping, "The association sometimes is that English people are more intelligent than Americans. Of course, it isn't true, but I think we decided to play into that stereotype… because she is such a super-brain." [18]
Once Alice Eve found out which character she had been selected to depict, Eve was happy to have been cast as Carol Marcus. This was because the vast differences between how she had been written in Star Trek Into Darkness and her previous presentment meant that Eve didn't have to copy that earlier portrayal. [19] Nevertheless preparing for the role by watching every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series' first season and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Eve took certain cues from the prime-universe version of Dr. Marcus, saying, "Oh, it's information you have to carry, definitely. It doesn't shape it, but it will maybe inform certain choices." Eve kept in mind that Marcus was originally depicted as being "cleverer than Kirk." The actress noted that she thus kept Marcus' "composure and her conviction and her thoughts, her belief in her intellect."
However, believing that the prime-universe Carol Marcus has "great composure" – brought about by age as well as by lost aspirations and relationships – Eve found that she had to temper this characteristic to play a younger, less experienced rendition of the character. [20] "This Carol Marcus that I was playing, I didn't feel she was tough," offered Eve. "I wanted to bring a vulnerability to her, because she was at the beginning of her journey as a woman [....] I wanted to bring that sense of hope and softness to her, along with the list of capabilities that are on the page. And she became mine at some point, I understood that there was a tradition, but I didn't hold too tightly to any of it because she was mine now." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 54)
Having spent much of her early twenties in further education, Alice Eve found she could relate to the highly educated Carol Marcus. "I was familiar with that kind of mind," Eve noted. "I think she has a specific motivation that was one that I understood and could sympathize with, so both resonated with me quite strongly." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 54) Eve wasn't entirely like the character, though. "I definitely knew that Carol was braver than I was when we started," Eve stated, "and more tenacious." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 55)
Hair Department Head Mary L. Mastro was conscious of styling Alice Eve's hair, for her role as Carol Marcus, in such a way as to be similar to that of the character's initial representation. "Alice doesn't look anything like the person who originally played that role," observed Mastro, "but we wanted to give her a sensibility that was similar, yet not have it be that period." [21] The hairstyle for the revised Carol Marcus was also influenced by a lengthy debate about the nature of hair in the future time period of Star Trek and the outcome of this discussion: the realization that J.J. Abrams usually tended toward stylistic minimalism in Star Trek. "So we used the famous Vidal Sassoon bob from the '60s to build a hairstyle," explained Alice Eve. "We think it showed a sense of youth, and was in keeping with the original imagery of the '60s show, but we modernized it and it added a clean efficiency to the line. It was that stuff we ended up falling back on, and J.J. was involved in all aspects. He was even involved with the color I chose to wear on my nails." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 55)
Alice Eve found that portraying the sexual chemistry between Dr. Marcus and Captain Kirk came naturally to herself and Chris Pine, mainly due to him having blue eyes that she found "really beautiful." [22] The actress also appreciated that, while Marcus took "great" support from her relationship with Kirk, their bond didn't define Marcus and that she "was a very determined woman in her own right, dealing with her own struggles." [23]
Performing the scene wherein Carol Marcus briefly appears in her underwear was fairly straightforward. When asked whether she found portraying the scene awkward, Alice Eve replied, "That's always an experience. I enjoyed working with everyone very much, I felt very comfortable in that environment and we'd all been training incredibly hard to, like, look like we were capable of living in space and saving the world. So, you know, I enjoyed the whole process of making that film, it was a good one." [24] The image of Marcus wearing only her underwear circulated around the Internet. There are mixed opinions about the scene, one criticism being that it undermined Marcus as a character. [25] Despite the brief shot turning out to be controversial and criticized by some as an exploitative and unnecessary sexualizing of an otherwise strong female character, Eve feels it was neither overly sexualizing her persona in the film nor inappropriate, given that Kirk is shown having sex with women and with his shirt off in both Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. Eve has argued that not only was she fit when she filmed the scene but also that exhibiting the beauty of the female body in a strong character does not detract from such a character's strength or power. [26]
In addition to being highlighted in a deleted scene from Star Trek Into Darkness which explains the split universe's Carol was raised by her mother in England and thereby accounts for her British accent, Editors Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon revealed that Kirk's original first meeting with Carol, after Pike's death, was also cut from the film and replaced during additional photography, which they felt added to Spock's, and the audience's, initial suspiciousness about her. (Star Trek Into Darkness iTunes enhanced commentary)
Aftermath of first film appearance Edit
Alice Eve has expressed happiness with her initial movie appearance as Carol Marcus, saying, "I really enjoyed the character I got to play." [27] Following the shooting of Star Trek Into Darkness, the actress clarified, "I know that I admire her tenacity, and her bravery. It's always great to play someone you can learn from [....] I hope I've learned from her." (Star Trek Magazine issue 172, p. 55) Eve has also expressed happiness that the alternate reality take on the character has been intriguing for online fans. "It's good to know that people are interested in Carol Marcus," she said. "I was really glad to be able to play her, with her intelligence and her quick wit with Kirk." (The A-Z of Star Trek, SFX Special Edition 61, p. 63) Eve also requested that there be an action figure showing herself as Dr. Marcus, remarking, "I would like one." [28]
Alice Eve has stated that, should she return as Carol Marcus in another film after Star Trek Into Darkness, she would "like to see Carol take the (captain's) chair for at least an hour." The actress has been noncommittal about the story points relating to Marcus' relationship to Kirk, observing that the alternate reality leaves it open as to whether they eventually have a child, as in the prime universe. "I'd love any eventuality with Carol," Eve commented. "I love playing her. I love her strength and independence of mind. So I'd like to continue to see that." [29]
However, Carol Marcus and her relationship with Kirk intentionally weren't included in the next film, Star Trek Beyond. "There were many iterations where we did go and explore [Carol Marcus], but we figured it was two and a half years [after Into Darkness]… It was something we talked about and worked on, but in the presentation of this film it didn't quite fit in. It's there with the transporter and everything," laughed Star Trek Beyond Director Justin Lin. [30] Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the film, has likewise stated that Carol's absence was explained in one of the initial drafts. Originally, she was said to have gone off to start early research work on the Genesis project. [31]
Apocrypha Edit
According to her dossier on the Star Trek Into Darkness App, Carol Marcus was born in 2233 in New York City. Her mother's name is given as "June (β)". Carol entered Starfleet Academy in 2254 and graduated in 2258.
Like the rest of the crew, she has an opposite sex counterpart in IDW Publishing's comics "Parallel Lives, Part 1" and "Parallel Lives, Part 2", a two-parter in Star Trek: Ongoing. Her male equivalent is called Carl Marcus.
The 2013 virtual collectible card battle game Star Trek: Rivals used a picture of her for card #83: Doctor C. Marcus.
External links Edit
- Carol Marcus (Kelvin timeline) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Carol Marcus at Wikipedia
- Carol Marcus (alternate reality) at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website


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New German sales outfit Picture Tree International GmbH (PTI), launched at the Berlin EFM, is handling sales on Wayne Holloway's Untitled Punk Movie.
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This the story of four young Brits who – after the Sex Pistols' legendary TV appearance in 1976 – take off from four different corners of the country on a quest to reach the band's "Anarchy in the UK" concert in Norwich and then follow their legendary UK tour across England.
British platinum-selling recording artist Paloma Faith plays one of the four main roles in this road movie. Filming will begin later in the autumn on the film, produced by Wellington Films and Zentropa Sweden.
PTI is also handling sales on Jacques Ouaniche's historical drama Young Perez [pictured]. The film, now in post production, is based on the true story of two-time boxing World Champion Victor Perez.
The youngest champion in the history of boxing, Perez was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, where he was forced to take part in brutal boxing matches for the entertainment of the guards. He was shot in 1945 during the death march that followed the dissolution of the camp. Perez is played by French-Algerian actor Brahim Asloum, himself a former professional boxing champ. The ensemble also includes Bruce Payne and Isabella Orsini.
Here in Cannes, PTI has been confirmed as the German co-production partner and international distributor for the project Human from Iron Sky producer Tero Kaukomaa and Canadian producers Dean English and Karen Powell.
Horror movie Human is the first project to implement PTI's integrated sales & production business model with its strategic partners Blind Spot Pictures (Finland) and Perfect Circle Productions (Canada).
Also new on the PTI Cannes slate is Andrew Wessels' South African comedy Blitz Patrollie. The film stars David Kau and Joe Rasdien, who play Johannesburg policemen accidentally ensnared in a major drug deal.


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Matt is our digital marketing manager and the go-to guy for all things Web. He manages long-term goals and plans for the college's digital marketing and communications, keeping up-to-date with emerging web trends and marketing tactics. Matt also has a strong hate love for Sharepoint and would love to answer your questions regarding our college intranet.
Matt graduated from Purdue's computer graphics technology program a long time ago. Before providing awesome support here at the college, he was a marketing communications supervisor at the Vehicle Service Group, part of the Engineering Systems segment of Dover Corporation (NYSE:DOV). With a full house (his beautiful wife, five children, and their new puppies), Matt always has something going on. When he's not chasing his kids, Matt fills his time by chasing his pigs and chickens, causing havoc on his dirt bike, or building something on their small farm. If you don't find him doing any of those things, he's most likely at the Discount Den.
Matt loves visitors, so stop by and tell him about your web needs. He'll take care of them or make Zach do it.
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BOULDER, CO - June 24, 2008
Webroot, a leading security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the Webroot® Authorized Service Partner Program, which extends Webroot's antispyware and antivirus solutions to consumers and small businesses through their local service providers. Computer repair professionals across the country now have access to exclusive pricing, technical services and resources from Webroot to ensure their customers receive the best protection for their home and corporate computers.
"The threat landscape continues to intensify in volume and complexity with roughly one in three computer users today experiencing viruses, spyware or phishing. In many cases, the nature of these threats requires the expertise of trained professionals in order to resolve them," said Paul Lipman, Senior VP and General Manager, Consumer Business, Webroot. "Partners of all sizes are more critical than ever to ensuring consumers and small businesses have the best protection available for their PCs. The Webroot Authorized Service Partner Program enables customers to receive world-class security technology and support from the computer repair professionals they know and trust within their own community."
The Webroot Authorized Service Partner Program features a self-service Web portal where partners can place orders 24 hours a day, obtain diagnostic tools to easily diagnose customers' computer problems, and participate in training webinars. In addition, program partners receive dedicated account management and free access to Webroot's US-based customer service team to help resolve customers' issues quickly and effectively.
"We joined the Webroot Authorized Service Partner Program because we wanted to offer our customers products that are truly best in class in the Internet Security sector," said Brandon Disney, Director of Operations and COO, Data Doctors Franchise Systems, Inc, which has been serving clients through stores across the country for more than 20 years. "Webroot, who's had a long history in the Internet security space and fantastic service history with us, has made doing business with us even easier with the new Web portal. It has all the tools we need right from the site. It has enabled us to service our customers even faster than before! It provides virtually all of the resources our regional stores need to support our customers, and the Webroot customer service team remains a fast, accurate and reliable additional line of support."
The Webroot Authorized Service Partner Program also currently includes strategic partners such as Computer Troubleshooters and Friendly Computers.
Additional benefits of the Webroot Authorized Service Partner Program benefits include:
- Free registration for a limited time
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- Retail kits to support sales including marketing campaigns and co-branding opportunities
- Access to breaking research and white papers from Webroot's Threat Research team
Partners can learn more by calling 1-800-772-9383.


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The popular tie-in novels to the USA Network series Psych
When the Santa Barbara art museum unveils its newest acquisition, the long-lost masterpiece by Dante Gabriel Rossetti isn't the only surprise behind the red curtain-so is the museum's curator. Dead. The case has everything Shawn likes: it's bizarre, it's baffling, and there's a snack bar at the crime scene. But the investigation gets a lot less fun as he and Gus begin to realize that the clues are leading them towards a centuries-old cabal desperate to hide a terrible secret-and more than willing to kill the two detectives who are trying to reveal it.


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Te'o attends Maxim party in LA
Manti Te'o isn't hiding out. He's just not talking to the media.
After being spotted attending a party thrown by the magazine Maxim last week in Hollywood, Te'o was back in San Diego at the Chargers second open session of organized team activities on Monday.
For the second straight week, the former Notre Dame linebacker was barred from speaking with reporters.
Maxim confirmed that Te'o attended a party after the magazine included his fake girlfriend on its list of the world's 100 hottest women.
The Chargers apparently are trying to put the fake girlfriend episode behind by keeping Te'o off-limits to the media until minicamp in mid-June. Te'o's attending the party seemed to refresh in people's minds how the Heisman Trophy runner-up was caught in an elaborate hoax. The magazine put Te'o's fake girlfriend at No. 69 on its list, running a picture of an "invisible" girl in a bikini superimposed over an ocean scene.
Te'o posed with several women at the Maxim party, including models Kendra Wilkinson and Courtney Caldwell, and beach volleyball player Jess Gysin.
Rookie head coach Mike McCoy said he didn't know Te'o went to the Maxim bash.
"He's going to make certain decisions. We'll keep that in-house with what we think and what we're doing with that," the coach said.
Te'o was drafted by the Chargers in the second round.
He dropped out of the first round in part because of his poor performance in Notre Dame's blowout loss to Alabama in the national championship game. The fake girlfriend hoax that was revealed in January and became a national sensation didn't help, either.
The Chargers, who are trying to rebuild under a new regime after missing the playoffs three straight seasons, have taken unprecedented steps to limit Te'o's time in front of the microphones. The team refused to let reporters do customary one-on-ones with him after his introductory news conference during the draft, and has continued to refuse to set up one-on-one interviews with the linebacker.
Te'o did speak after the first practice of rookie minicamp on May 10 but has been the only player off-limits during OTAs, which are practices in helmets, jerseys and shorts.
Some reporters do have football-related questions for Te'o.
"We have a plan like we have for everything else," McCoy said. "He's here. He's a young player. The organization has a schedule for him like we do every other player of putting him in front of the media. We'll do it accordingly.
"He's doing a nice job and he'll be in front of you when we put him out here."
McCoy was Denver's offensive coordinator when Tim Tebow was with the Broncos.
The Broncos never kept Tebow off-limits to the media.
One Chargers rookie who did talk was former California wide receiver Keenan Allen, who said he didn't think posting a photo of himself online wearing an Oakland Raiders cap would cause the stir it did.
"Obviously I had a Raiders hat on. I didn't think it would have the effect that it did have but obviously it did and I didn't mean for it to happen," Allen said sheepishly about getting caught wearing gear from the Chargers' most-hated rival. "I wasn't thinking about it at the time. I wasn't actually thinking about football at all. I was just going to grab a bite to eat. I posted something on Vine.
"I'm sorry about it and it won't happen again." Allen said he bought the hat while in college.
He posted the picture sometime after being drafted by the Chargers.
He also said veteran safety Eric Weddle "came up to me today and gave me the rundown – don't do it again."
Outside linebacker Dwight Freeney, who agreed to a two-year deal with the Chargers on Saturday, wasn't at Monday's workout. McCoy said Freeney had a prior commitment.


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Last week, I had the privilege to accompany our Youth group on a Mission Trip to Pine Bluff, Arkansas to work with inner city kids.
We worked in a rough apartment complex with a notorious crime rate.
We were given a list of do's and don'ts before we left…mostly don'ts.
And then we met the people.
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They just needed people to look beyond the crime statistics, the poverty, and the ugliness.
They needed people to see THEM.
Play with them.
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We loved the mess out of these people.
They are wonderful kids.
Beautiful families.
And every town has the same type of area.
We all need to simply LOVE more.
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Ministry of Natural Resources
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A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) is a successor and custodian of traditions of the first state geological institution in Russia, the Geological Committee, which was established in Saint Petersburg on 31 January 1882 by the decree of Emperor Alexander III for the purpose of systematic study of geological structure and compilation of the geological map of Russia, as well as for resolving of practical issues on prospectivity estimation of the country's territory for different mineral resources.
History of GeolCom-VSEGEI is in fact the history of the country's geological survey, the history of real patriotism and public spirit of Russian geologists, their fundamental role in economic development and security protection of the country. Norilsk, Magadan, Bilibino, Neftekamsk, Solikamsk, Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan, Tyrnyauz, Slantsy, Boxitogorsk, Solnechny, Kemerovo and many other towns and villages owe their origination to mineral deposits discovered by GeolCom-VSEGEI geologists.
At present, VSEGEI represents a research group, which includes 1 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 43 Doctors and 165 Candidates of Sciences. The Institute has scientific, methodical, and laboratory analytical divisions, high-skilled and experienced experts in all developed scientific lines, postgraduate education. Great importance is paid to attraction of talented youth: postgraduate education of the Institute provides training of skilled scientists in 10 specialties. At present, 58 postgraduates and applicants are doing postgraduate studies there.
Institute deals with major scientific and practical problems on the following investigation lines:
Elaboration and improvement of scientific methodical and technological bases for the state geological mapping of the Russian Federation territory and estimation of undiscovered resources and reserves;
Compilation of the state (scales 1:200 000, 1:1 000 000) and small-scale geological maps, geological information systems and databanks, which form the basis for mineral management and assessment of raw material potential of the country;
Providing federal and regional executive authorities and subsoil users with geological information resources;
Forecast metallogenic studies, introduction of basin analysis methods into prospecting and exploration, development of deep structure models as a geological and geophysical basis for revealing of formation and distribution regularities of mineral deposits;
Comprehensive geoecological investigations and land and water areas mapping, examination and assessment of geoecological situations, forecast of geoecological events and hazards, study of geological monuments;
Organization and participation in international projects in the field of geological study of the subsurface and mineral management.
Close relationship of investigations with development of the country's raw material base remains a fundamental feature of GeolCom-VSEGEI activities. Approximately 300 employees of GeolCom-VSEGEI made scientifically grounded prognosis, discovered and for the first time described more than 600 deposits in ore districts and provinces on four continents of the Earth.
VSEGEI plays an important role in the international cooperation of Rosnedra with geological surveys of foreign countries. Russian geological cartography has developed in a close connection with global geological cartography and geological science for more than a century. Thus, VSEGEI associations with geological surveys of CIS and other foreign countries are dynamically developing at present. New organizational forms of international cooperation were developed. As a result, geography of joint international investigations and a spectrum of actual problems were significantly extended; technologies and methods of dealing with them were elaborated.
VSEGEI actively participates in work of the Intergovernmental Council of CIS Countries for Mineral Exploration, Management, and Protection (Intergovernmental Council), being principal executor from the Russian party in the following projects:
"GIS Atlas of Geological Maps of Russia, CIS Countries and Adjacent States, scale 1:2 500 000" (Russia, Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan);
"GIS Atlas of Geological Maps of the Caucasus at 1:1 000 000 scale" (Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia);
"Geological Structure and Mineral Resources of the Caucasus, Crimea, and Carpathians" (Russia, Georgia, Ukraine).
Works within the international project "Atlas of Geological Maps of Central Asia and Adjacent Countries at 1:2 500 000 scale" (Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Korea, Mongolia) are accomplished. There results were successfully displayed in Oslo at the 33rd IGC Session (2008).
Experts from VSEGEI take part in the international project "Atlas of Geological Maps of Circumpolar Arctic at 1:5 000 000 scale" (Russia, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Norway, USA, Finland, Sweden).
VSEGEI Director General O.V. Petrov is a Vice-president of the Subcommission for Northern Eurasia of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (Secretary General of the Subcommission is Head of Department S.P. Shokalsky).
Head of Department T.N. Koren is a Vice-president of the International Paleontological Association.
Scientific traditions based on organized by GeolCom and now developed by VSEGEI scientific schools – regional geology and geological mapping (A.P. Karpinsky, F.N. Chernyshev, S.N. Nikitin, I.V. Mushketov et al.), paleontological and stratigraphic (F.B. Shmidt, A.P. Karpinsky, N.A. Sokolov, N.I. Andrusov, A.A. Borisyak et al.), metallogenic (K.I. Bogdanovich, V.A. Obruchev, N.K. Vysotsky, Yu.A. Bilibin et al.), acknowledged both in our country and abroad, serve as an insurance of effective work of the Institute.
"Vitality" of classic scientific schools of GeolCom-VSEGEI is determined on the one hand by their reasonable conservatism based on detail analysis of factual material, on the other hand, by susceptibility to new development trends of geological knowledge.


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Neck Pain Treatment near Somerton
Regardless of age or gender, 80 per cent of the population will suffer from neck pain & injury at some time in their life. Neck sprains and strains, such as whiplash are common. Sprains and strains are similar but different soft tissue disorders.
As one of Melbourne's leading injury clinics, we aim treat your neck injury or pain as effectively and efficiently as possible, being conveniently located near Somerton.
Before our practitioners can determine the appropriate treatment for your specific neck injury and it's treatment, they will thoroughly assess you with standard medical, Orthopedic and special Osteopathic tests. Using skilled evaluation, diagnosis and a wide range of hands-on techniques, our team can identify important types of neck injury symptoms in your body and determine personalised treatment plans to fix them.
Neck Pain & Injury Types:
- Sprain: An injury to a ligament caused by overuse or trauma.
- Strain: An injury to a tendon or muscle caused by overuse or trauma.
Whiplash is a common type of sprain often referred to a hyperextension and hyperflexion injury. Muscle pain that develops from cradling the phone between the ear and shoulder is an example of a strain. Both sprains and strains can cause severe pain and sometimes are temporarily disabling.
Neck Pain Symptoms:
Typical symptoms include:
- Varying degrees of pain; mild to intense
- Sharp, dull, throbbing, and/or burning pain
- Stiffness, difficulty moving the neck or upper body
- Swelling
In addition to the above, whiplash symptoms may include:
Diagnosing Neck Pain
Our comprehensive diagnostic process includes:
- Medical history. Your practitioner talks to you about your symptoms, their severity, and what treatments you have already tried.
- Physical examination. You are carefully examined for movement limitations, balance problems, and pain. During the exam, the doctor evaluates loss of extremity reflexes, muscle weakness, loss of sensation, or other signs of a neurological problem.
- Diagnostic tests. Generally, we start with plain x-rays. If necessary, CT scans and MRIs are performed to obtain more detail about your spinal sprain or strain (i.e. rule out vertebral fracture).
Non-Surgical Treatments for Neck Pain
Many different nonsurgical neck injury treatment & options help relieve neck sprain or strain symptoms. These include:
- Medications, such as an anti-inflammatory to reduce swelling and pain, muscle relaxants to calm spasm, and occasionally, narcotic painkillers to alleviate acute pain.
- Cold/heat therapy, especially during the first 24-48 hours of pain onset.
- Soft cervical collar or brace*
- Osteopathy, Chiropractic Care, Physiotherapy which may include gentle massage, stretching, therapeutic exercise, or traction to decrease pain and increase function.
- Dry Needling
*A cervical collar is a short-term treatment to help support tender and painful neck tissues while they heal. A collar can reduce neck and upper back pain by relieving muscle spasm and cervical fatigue.
In conjunction with these treatments, our team will educate you about healthy posture and proper body mechanics.
Symptoms of a cervical sprain or strain may be similar to other spinal disorders. If pain or symptoms persist or worsen, call our office for an appointment. Our medical staff will provide you with excellent information to help you recover and stay healthy.
For more information on how our team can help you, or to book an appointment contact us on (03) 9470 1010.


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Broomfield, CO - April 23, 2013
Results of new remote access security research show half of companies with a remote workforce had their Web sites compromised in 2012, over a third had passwords hacked, and twice as many companies with remote users were victims of SQL injection attacks. Conducted by Webroot, a leader in Internet security as a service, the new study indicates data theft as the primary goal in new types of mobile attacks. Scenarios include malicious threats that use e-mail, SMS, and the mobile Web browser to launch an attack, then silently record and steal data.
Top-level corporate study findings:
- 64% of companies allow remote access to servers for 25% to 100% of employees.
- 90% of companies agree that managing the security of remote users is extremely challenging.
- 71% of Web security professionals who say managing remote users is highly challenging experienced Web-borne phishing attacks in 2012
The proliferation of mobile devices for business use and the need to grant remote user access exposes corporate networks to high rates of malware threats, including phishing attacks, spyware, keyloggers, and hacked passwords. While allowing such devices to access company resources aids productivity, the potential for new exploits to compromise businesses creates significant security risks to the organization and private data. Enabling remote access to corporate servers requires sensible policies and controls to ensure network security. The study, which surveyed Web security decision-makers in the United States and United Kingdom, found that companies with 25% or more of their workforce using remote access experience higher rates of Web attacks due to a lack of such protection measures.
"These days, there is so much risk involved from a corporate perspective that remote access protection must be part of all basic tool kits. Vulnerabilities in mobile Web browsers pose a major threat to mobile device security and our latest study shows that they have led to an increasing number of successful attacks in 2012," said David Duncan, Chief Marketing Officer at Webroot. "Mobile browser security is essential to reduce the vulnerabilities from websites containing malware and stop phishing attacks. This should be mandatory if employees are to have remote access to any corporate network, or other corporate online resources via their mobile devices."
What can organizations do?
The new "Remote Users Expose Companies to Cybercrime" report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current mobile Web browser vulnerabilities, and includes steps to secure browser controls and reduce the risks associated with mobile browsing. You can view the full report at http://www.webroot.com/remote-security-report-2013 or visit Webroot at InfoSecurity Europe 2013, held in London in booth #D60, April 23 through 25, 2013 for a complimentary copy.
To learn how your organization can partner with Webroot, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or visit webroot.com/partners.


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Wednesday, March 13: Watch These Three Stocks
John Shipman has details on three key stocks that could impact trading on Wednesday, including Boeing, which won approval from the FAA on its plan to repair batteries for its 787 Dreamliner jets. Photo: Getty Images.
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