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on Television
the Gorilla - In 1970, the American Tourister company began to air a commercial
starring Oofi, a caged gorilla and former circus performer who jumped, stomped,
and generally banged the hell out of a piece of red American Tourister luggage to
demonstrate the product's durability.
"Dear clumsy bell boys, brutal cab drivers, careless doormen, ruthless
porters, savage baggage masters, and all butter-fingered luggage handlers all of
over the world. Have we got a suitcase for you."
"Dear clumsy bell boys, brutal cab drivers, careless doormen, ruthless
porters, savage baggage masters, and all butter-fingered luggage handlers all of
over the world. Have we got a suitcase for you."
Directed by Mark Celetano, the original American Tourister
"Gorilla" ad was produced by the Doyle, Dane and Bernbach agency in
1969. It cost $33,000 to make and ran for 15 years.
1999, TV Guide ranked the American Tourister spot as the top 6
commercials of all time, out of 50 commercials selected by 37 ad and marketing
executives, commercial directors and journalists who cover advertising.
Inside Oofi's hairy gorilla costume was
actor Don McLeod, the world's foremost pseudo-simian who has since starred in a
variety of monkey roles including the lead ape on the syndicated TV series
TARZAN: THE EPIC ADVENTURES/SYN/1996-97; the movies Trading Places (1983) and
Naked Gun 2 and 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991); and a surprise visit to the
Moscow Circus where he appeared in a cage and fooled the people into thinking he
was the real thing. McLeod was called America's Foremost animal actor by
People and Entertainment Weekly magazines.
The 5-foot 8-inch gorilla full-body costume with moveable eyes, lids, brow, mouth,
lips and smile was made of silicone rubber, urethane, fur, foam, spandex,
Otto, a 550-pound lowland gorilla appeared in the
1996 print ads for the luggage company American Tourister. Born in Africa and
then sold to the Houston City Zoo in the 1960s, Otto spent his last years in the
Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Florida. He died on June 2, 2007 at the age of 42.
Otto the Gorilla in American Tourister Ad
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Complete PowerBy Diana Reichardt
SPARC hardware and the Oracle Solaris operating system: High-performance engine for mission-critical apps
SPARC processor–based hardware has been powering IT solutions for more than 20 years. Designed to scale up and known to consistently provide a high degree of reliability and availability under broad workloads, SPARC processors power big systems for companies with big problems to solve. Most customers that rely on the SPARC/Oracle Solaris platform for their mission-critical applications have been doing so for years, because as the SPARC processor evolves, customers benefit from the performance gains of the advanced chip designs in a nondisruptive way. In fact, businesses around the world are running more than 11,000 applications on the SPARC platform and the Oracle Solaris operating system to deliver the highest-quality and most-efficient solutions internally and to their customers.
"We need to service a wide range of clients where scalability and availability are paramount, while being sensitive to cost pressures," says Steve Taylor, architecture and technology division director at Eagle. "Eagle technology facilitates more-timely access to critical investment information. Our mutual fund clients price their funds daily, and they are exclusively using Oracle Solaris 10 right now because it's designed for mission-critical applications that require rock-solid stability and predictable performance."
Designed to Scale
The Eagle application can be easily configured to take advantage of the specific hardware and is a key part of the design and deployment process to assess the workload, service-level agreements, and the shape of the data. The majority of Eagle's Oracle customers use systems based on SPARC64 and UltraSPARC processors running Oracle Solaris because of the compelling price/performance capabilities of those products. "Enterprise-class servers based on SPARC64 give them the scalability and the stability that they require for their daily operations," Taylor says.
For example, large mutual funds, portfolio managers, and some of the fund administration providers—including Eagle's parent company, BNY Mellon—benefit from Oracle's SPARC Enterprise M-Series systems with SPARC64 VI/VII+ processors in their daily accounting operations because of that scalability and stability. On the other hand, for a large wealth management shop that has hundreds of thousands of accounts, it's important for the processor to be able to execute multiple threads in parallel to drive high levels of concurrency—keeping throughput levels high. These customers are better suited to Oracle's SPARC T-Series systems, where concurrency is paramount. Being able to match hardware to application configuration and the shape of the data is key.
And the integrated engineering effort behind SPARC, Oracle Solaris, and Oracle's database, middleware, applications, and more is just getting started.
"Oracle now has the operating system, processor development, virtualization software, and applications all within one company, with each unit striving to move the performance ball forward," points out Rick Hetherington, vice president of hardware development at Oracle. "For example, the operating systems will be able to recognize critical threads in our applications and assign them to a dedicated processor core to achieve the very highest performance for specific workloads. This will enable customers to make much more efficient use of their IT resources."
While Oracle develops new hardware and software products, Eagle continues to look for the highest performance and efficiency from its SPARC-based solutions. "We've worked collaboratively with Sun and Oracle over the years to identify performance improvements and to take advantage of new features when they become available," says Taylor.
Road-Tested for Reliability
Ask Hal Moretto, director of database platforms at SunGard's Availability Services division, what keeps him up at night, and the first thing he will tell you is "high availability."
Downtime isn't an option when your company's IT infrastructure manages more than US$25 trillion in investment assets and processes more than 5 million trades each day. That's the processing load that financial intermediaries turn over to SunGard, one of the world's leading software and technology services companies.
In addition to software and processing solutions, SunGard provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services, and business continuity management software, serving 25,000 customers in 70 countries across virtually all industry and government sectors. As colocation and managed services gain in popularity, SunGard is also expanding into new technologies with cloud offerings and advanced recovery solutions.
"We do recovery services. We'll either manage a customer's facility or we'll manage a customer's equipment or applications within our managed services centers," Moretto explains. "If we have an issue, I want to know if we have a solid backup. Can we restore it? Are we doing our best from a security standpoint? And how are we doing performancewise?"
With a focus on supporting SunGard's internal business systems, Moretto's team is responsible for SunGard's internal Oracle E-Business Suite applications, the employee portal, and several internally developed and commercial applications, including Oracle's Hyperion. The team also manages the infrastructure that supports the company's iStore implementation, which is used by SunGard's channel partners.
And Moretto's team does a lot of product testing. "We want to be our own best customer," Moretto says. "Several of our own products are key pieces of the infrastructure that we rely on and support today." The most important of these is SunGard's advanced recovery solution, Recoverpoint, which is set up to replicate data from the company's production sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a new recovery facility in Carlstadt, New Jersey. As Moretto describes it, implementing that solution didn't happen overnight.
Virtually Fail-Safe
When he joined SunGard six years ago, Moretto explains, the company was already running its Oracle applications on Sun SPARC systems. But over the course of 15 years, SunGard had accumulated a variety of classes of servers. "The configurations of these systems were so drastically different, it made our performance and QA testing a challenge," he explains.
So Moretto began a multiyear plan to enhance SunGard's infrastructure, addressing the storage, operating system, physical servers, database, and applications in use. He wanted a leading-edge platform that he could rely on to scale both internally and externally as additional servers were added to support SunGard's current and future needs.
With Oracle Solaris, SunGard was able to harden its servers at the operating system level, lock down processes, and lock down access controls and journaling with syslogging. When the company upgraded from Oracle Solaris 8 to Oracle Solaris 10, Moretto recalls, Oracle's application binary compatibility guarantee worked as advertised and the company had no issues with the operating system (see the sidebar "Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program").
Next, Moretto started evaluating the servers. "We were looking at either the SMP [symmetric multiprocessing] model, with a single monolithic production type server, or an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) infrastructure," says Moretto. "The Oracle RAC enhancements between Oracle9i Database and Oracle Database 10g were immense, and after we upgraded to Oracle 10g, it was an ideal fit. At that point, we decided our best option would be to configure from that single large server type model to an Oracle RAC cluster."
The solution Moretto and his team implemented uses Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle WebLogic Server. This integrated platform supports SunGard's Oracle E-Business Suite environment along with some of the company's critical in-house developed systems. It runs on a four-node Oracle RAC configuration based on four of Oracle's SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers running Oracle Solaris 10, and it utilizes Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, and Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 servers, all running Oracle Solaris 10, for its applications and Web services.
"When we went live, I could not have been happier with how well the equipment performed," Moretto says. "We've been up and running in an Oracle RAC environment for about a year and a half now, with no complaints."
SunGard's New Jersey datacenter, which is dedicated to colocation and managed services, opened in October 2010, with the advanced recovery solution implemented by Moretto's team replicating data from the company's production environments in Philadelphia to the recovery facility in Carlstadt.
"What I really love about this solution is that it gives me peace of mind," says Moretto. "I tell people that in the event of a disaster or a problem, my data is within 10 minutes of concurrency, sitting 150 miles away. All of our data is sitting at the other datacenter, and within minutes these systems could be fully activated and functioning."
Building Tomorrow's Power Train
Moretto is looking forward to even greater advancements in the Oracle product family—including Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, Oracle Solaris 11, and Oracle Exadata—now that Oracle is engineering hardware and software to work together. "It's nice having one vendor from top to bottom," he says.
The combined engineering teams from Oracle's hardware and software groups are now able to work together in new ways to improve system performance, adds Jean S. Bozman, research vice president at International Data Corporation (IDC). Bozman says that she expects to see "more examples of beneficial collaboration, using SPARC building blocks in the overall line of Oracle products." She goes on to say that this close collaboration was not possible before, "but now Oracle hardware developers and software developers can spot architecture bottlenecks as well as software issues when they are examining the minute details of processor design, applications, networking fabrics, and operating system code."
Oracle's Hetherington believes these technical synergies represent a huge advantage that no other technology company enjoys. "If the hardware team sees anomalous behavior, they can instantly consult with the Oracle Solaris group or our database experts to understand what is happening," he says. "Oracle's entire hardware and software stack is fully integrated and functioning quite well. And we are just beginning to see the benefits."
Diana Reichardt is a senior writer with Oracle Publishing, specializing in server and storage systems.
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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are doing their contrary thing this morning, rising 62 cents to $439.12 in a down market, despite last night's reports from Strategy Analytics and IDC showing the company lost smartphone market share in Q2, dropping to about 13.5%, while Samsung Electronics (005930KS) stayed relatively stable at one-third of total shipments, and challengers such as LG Electronics (066570KS) saw their global smartphone market share surge.
Reuters's Melanie Lee and Miyoung Kim this morning dig into IDC's data for China, in particular, and argue Samsung is "whipping its American rival," with 19% share of the China smartphone market, versus 9% for Apple.
The authors note that in retail outlets, the displays feature four times as many versions of Samsung phones than of Apple phones. They also note a love of Chinese consumers for a gaggle of features, something Samsung is perceived as delivering.
Speaking of Samsung, following its Q2 report last night, with revenue and operating profit slightly better than a July 5th forecast, Bernstein Research's Mark Newman this morning reiterates an Outperform rating and a ₩1,315,000 price target, writing that smartphone average selling prices rose for Samsung by "low single digits."
Notes Newman, "On the call, Samsung acknowledged that shareholder return is being reviewed even though the interim dividend announced (only KRW 500/share) is similar to Q2'12."
"We believe cash return to shareholders will become an increasing topic of discussion for Samsung in the next quarters."
Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) are a stand-out gainer in a sea of red, rising $1.42, or half a percent, to $304.82, after the company last night slightly missed Q2 revenue estimates and reported a surprise loss, and forecast this quarter's revenue below expectations.
But price targets are going up this morning. Jefferies & Co.'s Brian Pitz, reiterating a Buy rating on the stock, raises his target to $330 from $350, applauding the 2.6% segment operating income margin, which was above the 2.5% the Street expected, writing "This now marks the 7th straight quarter operating income has exceeded the high end of guidance."
Shares of video game maker Activision-Blizzard (ATVI) are up $2.04, or 13.4%, at $17.22, after the company this morning announced it would buy out the majority of shares that France's Vivendi's (VIVPA) owns of Activision for $5.83 billion, leaving Vivendi with a 12% stake. CEO Bobby Kotick will remain chief executive officer. The move is expected to be accretive to Activision's earnings by 23% to 33%, Activision said.
Activision also pre-announced Q2 revenue and earnings per share slightly ahead of consensus. The company re-affirmed a year view slightly below expectations.
Cowen & Co.'s Doug Creutz, reiterating an Outperform rating and a $20 price target, calls the deal "looooooooong-awaited" transaction. Not only will Activision now be eligible for inclusion in the S&P 500, he writes, but as a bonus "by buying shares back at $13.60 – a $1.58 discount to the current market price – Activision has arguably created a bit over $675MM in value for shareholders."
Speaking of video games, shares of Zynga (ZNGA) are down 63 cents, or 18%, at $2.87, after the company last night beat Q2 expectations, but offered a lower-than-expected Q3 view, and said it dropped plans to make real-money gambling games in the U.S.
Sterne Agee's Arvind Bhatia, reiterating a Neutral rating on the shares, writes that "ZNGA continues to lose share on all three platforms: Facebook, iOS and Android; Its challenge is to offset this pressure in the near to intermediate term by producing hits."
As far as dropping its gambling ambitions, Bhatia writes "If this results in a greater focus on the core business and helps produce hits, it may be a positive in the long run."
"In the hit-driven games business, including social gaming, a strategy that is focused on producing fewer, bigger hits is often the key to success since mediocre games tend to lose money."
Shares of Expedia (EXPE) are down $16.06, or 25%, at $49.94, after the company last night missed Q2 expectations on a shift in hotel mix that caused lower revenue per night. The stock gets at least one downgrade this morning, from Raymond James's Aaron Kessler, who cut the stock to Market Perform from Outperform, and stripped away his $71 price target, writing that multiple headwinds, including more competition in the U.S., "softness" in the European market, and the threat of TripAdvisor's "meta-search" all are becoming "headwinds" that "are not likely to go away anytime soon."


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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Designer Tidbits: Tasha Noel
Tasha Noel's first collection, The Simple Life is full of sweet, charming illustrations. Her color palette of red, pink and aqua is eye catching yet dainty. Keep reading for a chat with Tasha about her very first collection!
Q: To what or whom would you dedicate this collection, or what inspired this collection?
A: This collection was inspired by the idea of Redwork. Redwork is simply embroidery done in red thread. It's believed to have been started in Europe in the 19th century when a new dye process was discovered that was colorfast. Now women could embroider pretty designs onto linens and towels and the red color could withstand the daily vigorous washings. Redwork grew in popularity and eventually made it to America where we have continued the trend. What I wanted to do with this line was to give classic Redwork a new modern twist and mix it up with more color. Red, pink and aqua is one of my favorite color combinations, so it was an obvious choice for me, but one I think is long lasting. The images in this collection are all simple life tasks, reminiscent of days gone by. Hanging the laundry, feeding the chicks, picking apples, making a quilt…
Q: What is your favorite project using this collection?
A: I've just recently received my sample yardage and I haven't had the chance to get sewing with it yet. I did have some teeny pieces of strike-offs to sew a few things for Spring Market and I think the pillows turned out pretty cute! I can't wait to begin some more projects very soon when the kids get back in school.
Q: What would be your collection's theme song?
A: I'm generally terrible at remembering names of songs, or even listening to songs these days. My teens think I need to turn on the tunes more. Maybe they're right.
Q: If you could live in a movie, what movie would it be?
A: Goodness, that's a tricky one for me. I love different types of scenery so any movie taking place in the countryside or the beach would be lovely. Then again it might be nice to live in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, minus that creepy boat ride. And I'd have to think about those Oompa Loompas. ;)
Q: What do you get nostalgic over?
A: Over time I've noticed that I like doing things or showing things to my kids that I did or saw as a kid. Whether it's a favorite vacation spot or television show, I love seeing them have good memories from the same things I did.
Q: What is your favorite TV show of all time?
A: Hands down, Little House on the Prairie. I watched it off and on all through my growing up years with my siblings and we own some of the DVD sets now. It's both heartwarming and funny, with good lessons to be learned. I love occasionally catching a re-run and remembering whatever funny things happened. My kids have pretty much seen them all too and we all get a good chuckle over them. It's one of those nostalgic things. ;)
Q: What's the strangest compliment you've ever received?
A: I think I have a terrible memory on this one too! Or maybe I just tend to erase those from my mind. I always appreciate the sweet things people say though. It keeps me going, so thank you!!!
Posted by Fat Quarter Shop at 11:36 AM
Labels: Designer Tidbits, Riley Blake Designs
9 comments:
- Cindy @ Creating at Home said...
This is my new favorite fabric line and I just saw it for the first time a few minutes ago! It's exactly what I've been looking for. I love the colors and all the cute designs. You did an amazing job!
- September 26, 2012 at 2:04 PM
- Sinta Renee said...
I was given a heads up about this collection yesterday! Be still my heart!!!
- September 26, 2012 at 2:26 PM
- CathyK said...
I absolutely love this fabric line!!
- September 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
- Maria said...
I also love doing Redwork sew this fabric line is just perfect for me to use... Love it....
- September 27, 2012 at 1:04 AM
- Diabetic Treatment in Bangalore said...
As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.
Diabetic Kidney Disease
- September 27, 2012 at 7:25 AM
- Sarina said...
What darling fabric! I love it... especially the bunting and polka dots!
- September 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Kim~Stay Joyful said...
I am in LOVE with this collection, Riley Blake has the best set of designers. Nice to get to know Tasha!
- September 27, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Stitched With Prayer said...
OOOOOOOh...I love this collection so much! For some reason, it reminds me of my growing up years and that was a long time ago. I don't know why, maybe it's the ginghams...Hugs...
- September 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- trish said...
I *love*love*love* this line!! I ordered some the other day (through the fat quarter shop) and even posted about it this morning. :o) Tasha is one of my very favorite artists! :o)
- September 28, 2012 at 7:40 AM


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That third party Galvatron, though? That will be mine: http://tformers.com/transformers-uni...1508/news.html
That third party Galvatron, though? That will be mine: http://tformers.com/transformers-uni...1508/news.html
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
-If you want to purchase a 3rd Springer, then go for it!! It's not like he is super hard to find. I can go to my local po-dunk Walmart here and grab 2 if I wanted.
-I agree with you about the chopper mode on him being skinny, but still, he's a triple changer and he's wonderful!!
-If you are considering another Blitzwing, perhaps you should wait until Double Dealer is released. He uses the same mold but has a different paint/color scheme.
I read that Metroplex rumor on TFW2005 a couple of weeks back, but it may turn out to be just that..apparently Walmart's Black Friday ad has been released and there seems to be no mention of Transformers toys in it at all.
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
R12:2-Be Transformed
Jetwing Movie Optimus is going to be 49.99 at TRU on BF. Worth fighting crowds for?
Come to think of, between Los Feliz, Burbank and La Cienega TRU, I don't think I want to try any of them. Although last year I went to LF late in the day and found Hot Spot.
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
R12:2-Be Transformed
TRU will be dead by around one. Okay, not "dead," but "normal crowded." I'm not sure what the demand for Jetwing Prime would be, so it's hard to gauge, but they tend to get a metric crap-ton of the big items like that, so you've got a shot.
That's my jacket!
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
Hmm. DoubleDealer looks interesting.
Are you liking him?
Do you think that paint scheme makes his jet look better than Blitzwings?
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Doubledealer is kinda wrong, since he was a rocket-launcher truck and a vulture, plus he was a Powermaster (though no fiction ever tried to explain how he had two engines with different loyalties, one of whom was a bat). But, hey, the figure looks awesome.
I'm crossing my fingers this might mean Dealer/Doubledealer isn't as dead as we thought in the IDW-verse.
That's my jacket!
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
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Mike Whitworth
It's funny reading this thread. I constantly hear talk from Republicans that the Democrats believe they are better because they are so called more educated and smarter but at the same time Republicans are always claiming how hard they work and how they have the market on morality. There are plenty of smart Republicans and many hard working moral Democrats.
These stereotypes and useless generalities serve no purpose other that to flame anger and hate. These beliefs are heavily influenced by the media who are experts at showing us isolated and not representative examples of the agenda that they push. Both sides do this, MSNBC on the left and FOX on the right.
We have much more in common as a country than what we are led to believe but that doesn't sell ad space and keep an audience. Division and hate do.
Just saying.................
As for you Mr. Whitworth. I have been let back on here and you will not make me go away. GET OVER IT!!!
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18:53 4th December 2013
Players spread festive cheer
Wolves' players and staff all took part in the club's annual Christmas visits on Tuesday afternoon to try and spread some festive cheer in the local community and beyond.
Members and staff from the first team and Under-21 squads visited four different venues, while Head Coach Kenny Jackett, assistant Joe Gallen, and players Carl Ikeme, Dave Edwards and James Henry led a coaching session for local schoolchildren at the Compton training ground.
The venues visited were New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton, Birmingham Children's Hospital, the MS Therapy Centre in Tettenhall and Woodsetton School in Dudley.
As well as the visit itself, presents, match tickets and Wolves Aid donations totalling £2,000 were also distributed on the day.
At New Cross Hospital the players visited the Childrens' In-Patient and Outpatient wards, as well as the Cardiology Ward and Care for the Elderly Ward.
Skipper Samuel Ricketts was among the delegation who visited New Cross.
He said: "This is an absolute pleasure for us to do this – just to be able to try and brighten up somebody's day is great.
"The club belongs to the community, to the city, and so it's important we connect with the people.
"And the staff who work here at the hospital do a tremendous job - they're the real heroes."
Mandi Rogers, from the Childrens Outpatient Ward, said: "We are so grateful to the players.
"It's lovely to see the children's faces when they walk in and recognise them from Wolves and to then be given a gift as well - they just can't believe it."
At Birmingham Children's Hospital the players visited both young and older children, including spending time with children on Ward One while they were undergoing one of their three-times weekly kidney dialysis.
The players also visited the Intensive Care Unit to meet baby Ryan Brookhouse, who has spent most of his two months alive being treated for a serious heart problem.
The players chatted to Ryan's parents Gary and Kaylee, and his brother Harley, before presenting a Wolves' mini-kit with 'Ryan' on the back to the family. (SEE MAIN PICTURE)
"When you come and visit a place like Birmingham Children's Hospital it puts any day to day problems we have into perspective," said George Elokobi.
"All the children we have met have been smiling and putting a brave face on everything, and as a father myself it is impossible to imagine what all the parents are going through.
"All the staff here do a fantastic job as well, and if our visit has helped in some small way then that is what it is all about."
Former Wolves defender Jody Craddock, whose son Toby has been treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital for leukaemia, also joined his former team-mates at yesterday's visit.
Vikki Savery, Public Fundraising Manager for Birmingham Children's Hospital, said: "It was heart-warming to see so many children and families visited by the Wolves players and we are really grateful for the gifts that they bought.
"Christmas is such an important time of year for us at Birmingham Children's Hospital as there are many children whose Christmases will be very different.
"They might be too poorly to write their letter to Santa or may even have to spend Christmas Day here on one of our wards.
"It can be tough for the whole family, but visits from our local football heroes help to bring Christmas into our hospital, spreading the joy of this very special time of year."
Woodsetton School in Dudley is a primary special school which primarily provides education for children with moderate learning difficulties, as well as speech, language and communication disorders.
The Wolves players involved in this visit chatted to the schoolchildren, signed autographs and posed for pictures as well as handing out presents.
Peter Ross, Deputy Headteacher at Woodsetton School, said: "We do our best here at Woodsetton to help the children overcome their difficulties but also to give them a fun time as well.
"Sport plays a big part in life at Woodsetton School, and all of the children – regardless of their ability or disability – can participate and succeed and achieve.
"We are so grateful to Wolves for supporting that.
"We have had links with the club for several years now with the Community Trust Coaches coming in and working with our kids every Wednesday as well as money donated to help with our Adventure Playground.
"To do something like this makes it really special for everyone in the school – they have had a wonderful time and will never forget the day the Wolves players came to Woodsetton."
The MS Therapy in Tettenhall offers a vital service to sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis, with approximately 150 patients seen every week.
Players, including top scorer Leigh Griffiths, chatted to patients and handed out gifts.
Leigh said: "MS is a horrible condition but the way that the people here at the centre carry on and get on with their lives is absolutely amazing.
"They just look so determined not to let things get them down.
"They seemed happy to meet the lads and really pleased with the presents and tickets that we gave them."
Kate Jones, Joint Centre Manager, added: "Everybody has really enjoyed themselves this afternoon.
"It was a lovely gesture to give them match tickets and although we had already got quite a few Wolves supporters in our number, I'd like to bet there will be a few more now.
"The players were really friendly and showed that they cared."
Wolves would like to thank the organisers and people from all venues for giving such a warm welcome to the players and staff.
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"New Jersey and Sports: A Strikeout or Homerun? An Investigation of the Social, Economic and Environmental Ramifications of Sports in New Jersey" is the topic to be debated at the University's annual Symposium on New Jersey Issues Friday, April 20.
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Princeton University will host the first in a series of events scheduled to promote the Einstein's Alley initiative to foster technology- and science-based economic growth in Central New Jersey. Science and research officers from New Jersey's 54 colleges and universities have been invited to gather at the recently dedicated Frick Chemistry Building on the University campus at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, for a reception and building tour. While media are invited to attend the event, it is not open to the public.


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You're more likely to move money, check on balances, or place trades using a smartphone or tablet than an old-fashioned PC these days. But the unmatched convenience of small devices comes at a big price for the keepers of your money.
Despite huge advances in processing power and graphics, the mobile devices' screens and relative lack of horsepower require major changes in the way institutions store and manage your financial data.
It can't reside on local computers any longer, says Chris Perretta, chief information officer of State Street stt -0.9795822022896259% State Street Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD83.9 -0.83 -0.9795822022896259% /Date(1493413234316-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2551894 AFTER HOURS USD83.9 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 161034 P/E Ratio 15.711610486891386 Market Cap 32044682293.6081 Dividend Yield 1.8116805721096543% Rev. per Employee 306337 More quote details and news » (ticker: STT). Like many Wall Street firms, State Street has embarked on a multiyear makeover of its far-flung information archipelago, moving data storage and transaction processing up to an electronic "cloud" of servers equipped with powerful new management software and more-flexible front-end applications.
State Street's approach to cloud computing could have ripple effects throughout the industry, because it's a huge provider of back-office services to other banks. That's why we poked around a little to see just what State Street is up to.
The new approach, Perretta says, means fresher information for investors -- sliced and diced in more-useful ways and delivered just about anywhere, anytime. For example, the bank's new 99-cent Springboard Apple iPhone app lets money managers track the important parameters of client portfolios on their tablets anywhere in the world.
State Street has delivered 30 other new portfolio tools for money managers to its corporate cloud this year and plans to launch 40 more before year end. Since State Street's core competency is transaction processing, its Gold Copy app is one of the most important new tools it offers: The app lets a manager follow a single "gold" version of a transaction as it moves through all of the company's many departments and office locations -- say, as it makes it way through trading, accounting, and reporting offices globally.
Sounds simple, but organization-wide consistency has been difficult to achieve under the old computing regime, says Jay Hooley, CEO of State Street. Information could get "siloed" -- trapped in one organizational segment -- or "nuanced" by software protocols or business practices that are unique to a particular department or locality.
MOST INVESTORS KNOW STATE STREET as creator of the SPDR S&P 500 SPY -0.2179379715004191% SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust U.S.: NYSE Arca 238.08 -0.52 -0.2179379715004191% /Date(1493427600000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50417315 AFTER HOURS 237.94 -0.14 -0.05880376344086022% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13115530 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.7357493279569893% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (SPY). It ignited the ETF industry in 1993 and remains the world's most popular by a wide margin. But State Street's 166 global ETFs are only its most public face. Its primary role is as one of Wall Street's top providers of transaction-fulfillment and back-office services for pension funds and other money managers. State Street's clients oversee some $23 trillion in investor accounts in 29 countries around the world.
In a cloud, information from many sources world-wide is consolidated on computer arrays figuratively "in the sky." Linked by powerful new distributed databases and virtualization software, these powerful systems can execute heavier transaction loads faster and with less duplication across the organization. State Street figures its new systems will squeeze out $600 million a year in costs out of operations.
What greater efficiency on the back end means for State Street clients, says Perretta, is more information more quickly. Highly graphical Web-oriented applications can reach smaller endpoints by parsing out irrelevant data and serving up just answers to investors request -- be they documents, pictures, or tables.
Linking all those operations doesn't come cheap. The price on State Street's makeover should exceed $100 million a year for several years. It mirrors a long IT buildout across the globe that London-based market researcher Ovum estimates will cost the wealth-management industry $35 billion a year by 2016.
But information is, after all, the fuel that Wall Street runs on, notes Hooley, and time is of the essence. The 2008-09 market meltdown persuaded State Street that it would have to answer customer requests more quickly; Perretta's cloud initiative has been the strategic answer.
"This has been a happy convergence of new technologies and client needs," says Hooley. "It has let us provide nimbler regulatory compliance, information management, and decision support."
Smaller retail financial services that don't have to accommodate State Street's giant client base have moved to the cloud even faster. Services like Mint (mint.com), Pageonce (pageonce.com), and SigFig (sigfig.com) aggregate credit-card, loan, bank, and brokerage data from many different financial firms, update it frequently, and let it be viewed in interesting new ways -- for example, tracking how much is spent on a given item or with a particular merchant.
The focus of user attention has definitely shifted from desktops to phones, notes Marc Chaikin, founder and CEO of Chaikin Stock Research (chaikinpowertools.com). Most of its customers prefer to access its quantitative stock analysis through smartphone apps, not desktop PCs.
AS AN INFORMATION AGGREGATOR, State Street has a far-reaching impact on individual investors through its work with money managers. Portfolio managers don't have to duplicate State Street's systems, many of which are too expensive for smaller firms to create or buy. Instead, they can share in them, choosing from a broad menu of scaled-up services and tools designed to help manage client portfolios.
Some, like transaction processing and data management, are broad-based. Others can be customized to a manager's preferred investing approach. One of an asset manager's most important jobs is portfolio design, and State Street's many exchange- and sector-oriented ETFs are among the most-favored vehicles for balancing asset-class exposures. The SPDR portal also offers a trio of free portfolio-building tools. The SSgA Portfolio Constructor (spdrs.com/tools/portfolioConstructor.seam), for example, gives managers access to some of the more resource-intensive routines of Modern Portfolio Theory for keeping portfolios on the efficient frontier.
Eventually, State Street will host clients' custom applications on its Web-connected servers as well, and expand its business into new areas.
"The deeper we get into it," says Hooley, "the more convinced we are that cloud computing is transformational for our company."
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We piled into a car, we three intrepid journalists, and set out from the Back Bay Sunday morning to find our way to Royal Bolling's party. "Roxbury's Salute to St. Patrick's Day," as Bolling called it, should be easy to find, we reasoned. After all, the Prince Hall Grand Lodge. A.F. & M., was located at 18 Washington Street. All we had to do was follow Washington Street, right?
Wrong. We three representatives of two publications with the word "Boston" in their names, accustomed as we were to commenting knowledgably on the pitiable state of the city, found ourselves in Dedham before we figured out that something had gone wrong. What should have been a short drive over from Beacon Street took us an hour, before we finally realized that Washington Street in Roxbury is not the same Washington Street which leads from City Hall to the suburbs.
Evidently, a lot of people had the same problem. The guests expected at the Masonic Lodge must, by all appearances, have gotten lost on the way and given up; at the height of the festivities, there were never more than 200 people in the room, and a healthy minority of those were from the press, freeloading on the brunch of corned beef and cabbage, black-eyes peas and fried chicken. Dutifully, the television cameras recorded the hijinks at the head table, where Bolling and company traded quips, and the Corcoran Brothers singing team provided the closest thing to Dorgan's style entertainment the affair had to offer. Tastefully, they avoided recording the fact that many of the tables around the room stood egregiously empty throughout the proceedings.
Bolling's party, as we reported here two weeks ago, was scheduled after William Bulger, the State Senator from South Boston, had cancelled the traditional St. Patrick's Day party at Dorgan's restaurant on Columbia Road. Bulger, in canceling, was attempting to draw attention to his contention that South Boston would be irreparably damaged as a neighborhood, its cohesion destroyed and its spirit shattered, if the forced bussing plan for school integration were to go into effect as scheduled in September. Without modifications to take into account the feelings of the community, Bulger contended, his neighborhood could erode completely.
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Bolling -- reputedly still a friend of Bulger's -- scheduled his party partly in jest, partly to foster a sense of unity between the two communities of Roxbury and South Boston. Originally scheduled for Estele's Restaurant in Tremont Street, it was moved to the Masonic Hall where Bolling anticipated a large turnout.
What was remarkable about Bolling's "Erin Go Bragh and Right On" party was neither the low turnout -- who could be expected to show up at 10 in the morning at a party hald a world away from the St. Patrick's Day Parade -- nor the heave press coverage -- the Harvard educated Bolling is one of the canniest media manipulators in the Legislature. What was remarkable was the turnout of politicians, or lack thereof.
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Somalia: Aid agencies have scaled up efforts since the end of August
Aid agencies have been able to scale up activities in the last few weeks, despite widespread insecurity and restricted access to people in some parts of the country. The latest reports estimate that around two million people have now received food and other assistance since the famine was declared in July. This is a significant increase since August, when about 1.3 million people were receiving.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - A toddler who fell out of a second-story window was miraculously caught by his grandmother who was standing on the front porch below.
A Spokane police officer responding to the scene called it "divine intervention."
Emergency crews were called to a home in the 2400 block of N. Lincoln Street after the child and his mother fell from a second-story window.
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Scientists insert insecticide resistance gene along with a new strain of Wolbachia bacteria called wMelPop in mosquitoes to prevent them from laying eggs and spreading diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and malaria
Singapore: Scientists at Melbourne University and University of California have found that mosquito that are infected with the bacteria Wolbachia lose their ability to spread diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and malaria. However, the bacteria has been difficult to spread within the mosquito population because it reduces the mosquitoes' ability to lay viable eggs.
The research, which was conducted by Professor Ary Hoffmann from the University of Melbourne's Bio21 Institute and Department of Genetics and Professor Michale Turelli from the University of California, revealed that by introducing an insecticide resistance gene along with a newer strain of Wolbachia called wMelPop (which is a strong blocker of dengue and other viruses) into the mosquito, the insects passed on the disease-blocking bacteria to other mosquitoes faster. The results have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Professor Hoffmann said that, "Our results show that Wolbachia-based strategies could hold the key to a cheap and sustainable approach to disease control." Prof Hoffmann added that insecticide resistance genes would not spread to the uninfected mosquito populations because a Wolbachia-infected female with a resistance gene will always pass on both the gene and the bacteria to her offspring. Then, when an uninfected female mates with an infected male, the bacterium causes cytoplasmic incompatibility, which leads to the death of embryos.
Wolbachia bacteria strains live naturally inside up to 70 percent of all insects and are known to protect them against viral infection. The disease-blocking strain of Wolbachia was first discovered in Australian fruit flies in 1988 by Prof Hoffmann, and trials with collaborators at Monash and James Cook Universities in 2011 showed that Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were unable to spread the dengue virus.
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Doesnt algae provide a good meal for some fish? Im thinking loaches!---------
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The loaches will eat the algae to a point, but they are actually after the copepods that are feeding on the algae themselves.
Irregardless, cultering green algae on river cobbles is one of the keys to my success in fishkeeping.
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I like to DISPLAY toys. That means In-Scale for Transformers.
Deluxe Blurr would go with a Voyager (possibly the Deluxe) Sergeant Kup. And Masterpiece Rodimus. OK. I get that.
What about the bad guys? They ALL need to be Leader Class or Masterpiece.
Cyclonus is the coolest. Will there be a MP Cyclonus? Galvatron and Scourge?
And back to the Autobots - what about an Ultra Magnus that really transforms into an articulate, large figure, at the right scale? (Not an Optimus repaint with attaching trailer that converts to armor, but a TRUE Transformer?)
And Springer? I think he'd need to be a LC or Masterpiece. (I don't care about the armored car, btw (his triple-changer's extra mode) - but the helicopter is so necessary.
Finally MP Grimlock is too small for this scale. He needs to be an Ultra-Class Grimlock if they're going to do him right. I'm sure Chuxter would love this. And I WOULD buy it.
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Stopped by Burbank TRU this morning and saw they had one of each Endor Pilot set sitting on the shelf. Used two $5 off coupons, so the total came to $43 for two.
Not as good a price as the TRU.com deal we got screwed out of, but still not bad.
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A galvatron is likely since a Rodimus was made. Cyclonus and scourge would be nice, but don't know if that's in the cards.
I agree with everything else you mentioned, except that I wouldn't want to pay $200+ for a to-scale Grimlock. I'm happy with what was put out. Still haven't opened it yet though.
TW -- no one's found it today so far that I know of. Crunchy found remnants early in the week i believe. But remember, he has exceptional skill....
sepulveda target had 3 CW Quinlan vos'. One had a good card. Also 1 young boba, cato parasitti and 1 or 2 shaak tis I think. Nothing else exceedingly great TF or GI Joe wise.
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Also spoilers ahead so if u watch the clone wars dont read ahead if u didnt see yesterdays.
How could allllllllllllllllllllllllllll thouse people who went to the screenings keep the fact that there writing in cyborg maul a secret. MY HEART DROPPED. Litterally i **** my pants. good move lucas film good move.
Wave 5 hit the valley last week. No sign of Wave 4 that I know of.
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Posted February 5, 2009; 06:16 p.m.
The effects of war in Sierra Leone are the focus of a lecture by Princeton alumnus Dan Kelly and a film screening set for 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Kelly, a 2003 Princeton graduate, is a physician and the founder and executive director of the Global Action Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping amputees in war-torn Sierra Leone. The title of his lecture is "Global Health: Sierra Leone's Classroom."
The event also will include the premiere screening of the documentary "Pride of Lions," which depicts the people of Sierra Leone as they overcome human atrocities and rebuild their lives and their country. Kelly will be joined by John and Louise Woehrle, who co-directed and produced the film. A reception will follow in the Shultz Dining Room in Robertson Hall.
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Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Image courtesy of LANL
In carrier multiplication (CM), a single photon from sunlight creates two electron-hole pairs, key constituents for electrical current, thus potentially boosting the current in a solar cell. In these studies, CM has been observed in the photocurrent of real solar cells based on PbSe quantum dots, with efficiencies that match those observed in spectroscopic studies.
Careful spectroscopic measurements have produced a precise assessment of the true efficiency of "carrier multiplication," a process in which a single photon of light creates more than one electron-hole pair in a semiconductor quantum dot. A quantum dot is only 10s of atoms across—and spatially confines the electron-hole pairs, leading to unique electronic properties. These measurements have now been verified quantitatively in actual photovoltaic devices made of lead-selenide quantum dots. The new devices have the potential for substantial improvements in performance compared to conventional photovoltaic cells.
Third-generation solar photovoltaic technologies seek to use novel physical phenomena to achieve high efficiencies in low-cost devices. Carrier multiplication is a prominent example of such a phenomenon. This research proves that the excess charge carriers observed in lab experiments (using spectroscopic carrier-multiplication measurements) can actually be extracted as photocurrent in a real device, a seminal development for solar cell research.
Carrier multiplication (CM), also known as multiexciton generation (MEG), is a phenomenon whereby a single photon creates more than one electron-hole pair, which can boost the current in a solar cell. The development of quantum dot CM-enhanced solar cells has been frustrated by inconsistencies in measured CM efficiencies that thwart materials optimization efforts, and poor conductivity in quantum dot films that makes collection of the extra carriers inefficient. Recently, Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP) research at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has made key advances on both fronts. In parallel efforts, CASP spectroscopists established a rigorous and reproducible protocol for evaluating true CM efficiencies of different materials, while CASP synthesis researchers developed an effective methodology for fabricating device-grade highly conductive quantum dot films. These efforts culminated in the first exploratory solar cell to show an appreciable increase in current directly attributable to CM, in complete agreement with the spectroscopically determined efficiencies. This is a seminal achievement in the field of third-generation solar technologies, which seeks high efficiencies in low-cost devices through exploitation of novel physics such as CM.
Matthew Beard
Associate Director of CASP
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Victor Klimov
Director of CASP
Los Alamos National Laboratory
DOE Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) program (spectroscopy at LANL and device assessment); DOE Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences (CSGB) Solar Photochemistry program (spectroscopy at NREL); LANL Director's Postdoctoral Fellowships (J.T.S and M.M.Q).
Semonin, Octavi Escala; Luther, Joseph M; Choi, Sukgeun; Chen, Hsiang-Yu; Gao, Jianbo; Nozik, Arthur J; and Beard, Matthew C Peak External Photocurrent Quantum Efficiency Exceeding 100% via MEG in a Quantum Dot Solar Cell, Science, 334, 1530-1533 (2011) [DOI: 10.1126/science.1209845].
Stewart, John T.; Padilha, Lazaro A.; Qazilbash, M. M.; Pietryga, Jeffrey M.; Midgett, Aaron G; Luther, Joseph M; Beard, Matthew C; Nozik, Arthur J; and Klimov, Victor I. Comparison of carrier multiplication yields in PbS and PbSe nanocrystals: The role of competing energy-loss processes, Nano Lett., 12, 622–628 (2011). [DOI: 10.1021/nl203367m]
BES, CSGB, EFRCs
DOE Laboratory
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Top photo: Dive-in Movie
Bottom photo: Rowdy Rec 5K Run
UTSA Campus Rec hosts 'dive-in' movie, 5K run
By Amy Dalrymple
Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, Department of Campus Recreation
(Oct. 28, 2008)--UTSA Campus Recreation will be part of UTSA Family Weekend from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, hosting a Dive-in-Movie featuring "Beetlejuice" at 8 p.m. on Halloween, Oct. 31. Dive into the Campus Rec pool and enjoy a free film -- open to anyone age 13 and older. The second annual Rowdy Rec 5K Run follows at 9 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 1. Both events are open to Rec Card members and UTSA Family Weekend participants.
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Onsite registration for the Rowdy Rec 5K Run is 7:15-8:45 a.m. on the event day. Participants can register through Oct. 31 at the Campus Recreation Web site (select "Intramurals" at top of page). The first 150 race participants will receive a free t-shirt. The run is free for students and Rec Card members; for others, the registration fee is $5.
There will be a Halloween costume contest the day of the run, so dress up your family and join us for the festivities.