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For the past 10 years, right around this time of year, I send out a call for applications for America's Safest Companies, which is a corporate-level award. Hundreds — more than 1,000 — of companies have answered that call. A total of 120 companies, ranging in size from fewer than 50 employees to U.S.-headquartered, multi-nationals with hundreds of thousands of employees, have been acknowledged as America's Safest. Companies can win more than once, but must wait 5 years after a win to apply again.
To be considered one of America's Safest Companies, organizations must demonstrate support from management and employee involvement; innovative solutions to safety challenges; comprehensive training programs; evidence that prevention of incidents is the cornerstone of the safety process; and communication about the value of safety. The winning companies empower their employees to play an active role in corporate safety culture; offer safety education through rigorous training programs or corporate universities; consider OSHA compliance as a starting point; and invest in safety at every level.
"We like to think that all 10,523 of our employees are safety professionals — as we invest both the skills and responsibilities in each of them to ensure the proper application of safety principles for every operation, every day," said Mike Snyder, director of corporate safety, industrial hygiene and loss prevention at Dow Corning Corp., which was named to the list of America's Safest Companies in 2010.
To expand on what Mike said, how do employees contribute to making a company safe? What role does management play in safety? How are risk management principles integrated into all aspects of production at the safest companies? What components does a safety process require if a company wants to be considered one of America's Safest? You tell me.
Tell me, when you are contemplating safety at your company or safe work processes in general, the "qualifications" you feel are required of one of America's Safest. And what are the benefits of meeting these qualifications? How does safe work benefit not only the employees, but the employer? If you can answer these questions, then perhaps your company is a candidate for America's Safest Companies, Class of 2011.
"Although we are willing to place safety above the bottom line, the fact is that safety and profitability are not the polar opposites that some companies perceive them to be," said Erick Ajax, vice president, E.J. Ajax & Sons Inc., which was named one of America's Safest in 2007. "E.J. Ajax has outlasted many competitors in a challenging manufacturing environment in part because of a workers' compensation rate that saves the company more than $1,000 per year per employee in insurance premiums."
It's always been my assertion that companies that are named to our list understand the symbiotic relationship between safety and productivity, profits, morale and employee retention. As Koch-Glitsch President Bob DiFulgentiz put it in 2006, the qualities that helped the company's Wichita, Kan., manufacturing facility become an OSHA VPP Star site are the same qualities needed "to deliver on time, have a high-quality product and have good productivity."
"Amazingly, when we focus on safety, all the other measurements improved," DiFulgentiz said. "It's just good for business."
Good for business; safety is good for business. Hmmm…
In these days of "less equals more" and "doing more with less," the one thing we can't skimp on — the one thing we can't do without — is safety. Every injury, every near miss, every property loss with no injuries, is costly to a business and even more costly to the employees involved.
Does your company use safety as a measure of business success? "Safety is a key indicator of organizational excellence. A safe plant typically has high employee morale, high productivity and minimal product defects," said Joseph Van Houten, Ph.D., CSP, in 2003, when he was the worldwide director of planning, process design and delivery, Johnson & Johnson Safety & Industrial Hygiene. J&J, an acknowledged leader in business and in safety, understands the symbiotic relationship between safety and success.
If your company management understands this relationship and can meet the criteria outlined above, then fill out an application for America's Safest Companies and join an elite group of employers who have been honored by EHS TODAY. You can find the application online at http://ehs today.com/safety/asc/questionnaire. Please return it to me by July 15, and may the safest companies win!!
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Q1 2014 revenue up 2.3%. Crossed the 50,000 employee threshold in India.
Paris, April 29, 2014 – The Capgemini Group generated consolidated revenues of €2,503 million in the first quarter of 2014, up 2.3% at constant Group structure and exchange rates compared to the first quarter of 2013. At current Group structure and exchange rates, revenues were stable (+0.2%)*.
(*)The difference between these two rates is mainly due
to the unfavorable evolution of the U.S. dollar and the Brazilian real
The change in revenues at constant Group structure and exchange rates breaks down as follows:
Bookings amounted to €2,224 million in the first quarter of 2014, up 5% compared to the same period in 2013. The combined book-to-bill ratio of Consulting Services, Technology Services and Local Professional Services stood at 1.05.
As of March 31, 2014, the total headcount of the Group was 134,000. Offshore penetration increased by 4 points year on year to 45%, representing more than 60,000 employees.
In addition, in April, the Group crossed the threshold of 50,000 employees in India. The first European IT Services company to have developed massively in this country, Capgemini has a tremendous expertise and an undeniable asset to gain market share.
Based on these results, the Group confirms its objectives for 2014: an organic revenue growth of 2% to 4% and an operating margin rate between 8.8% and 9.0%. Organic free cash flow is expected to exceed €500 million.
For Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO of Capgemini: "We began 2014 with a stronger momentum than 2013. It is by playing our two strengths – competitiveness and innovation – that we best meet our clients' needs. Competitiveness, supported by the power of our offshore platforms. Innovation, through the constant development of new offerings around cloud, big data and digital to enable our clients' business transformation."
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This is our ongoing series about films that were banned by the British government, using the Video Recordings Act of 1984. You have the right-wing gutter press and a few Christian pressure groups to thank for these films becoming more famous than they had any right to be (in all but a few cases), and the fact they've now virtually all been re-released, uncut, while the law remains in place, tells you more about moral panics than it does about the content of the films. See the VRAs "mission statement" here.
"Mardi Gras Massacre" is interesting as it's one of the very few of the 72 banned movies to never re-submit itself for a BBFC classification. Now, this is probably down to the distributors going bankrupt or something, but "Mardi Gras Massacre" has never been seen legally by anyone in the UK. That is a damn shame, because with a bold display of rank incompetence, bizarre plot choices and gore so mild as to be almost charming, it's shot right to the top of my B-list of video nasties (obviously, there's an A-list, which is stuff like "Driller Killer", "Tenebrae", "The Evil Dead", and "Possession").
I hope you enjoy this review, anyway, even if you don't track it down (although you definitely should). "John", a sharp-dressed Englishman with a huge chin dimple walks into a sleazy New Orleans bar and asks around for the most evil prostitute in there. A helpful pair of ladies points him in the direction of someone the credits refer to as "Shirley Anderson the Evil Prostitute", and he has one of the odder conversations I've ever witnessed. The line that seals the deal is Shirley saying "I could win first place in any evil contest", so off they go to John's place, a little apartment with a very unusual soundproofed bedroom.
It's about now when B-movie aficionados will notice the similarities to a great gore classic, 1963's "Blood Feast". Both movies are about the ritual murder of women for an ancient god, although "Blood Feast" is an Egyptian god and just random women; this one is a Latin American god and specifically prostitutes. Anyway, John gets to work, tying up the women and then slicing hands and feet before cutting open their chest and removing the heart, which is a decent effect for a low-budget late 70s movie, even if it's barely enough to get it banned. Now, John kills three women during the course of things, and those three murders are pretty much identical – he goes, finds a prostitute, takes her to his bedroom, ties her up and cuts out her heart. They're shot pretty much the same way too, so I might suggest director Jack Weis (who clearly thought he'd given the world his masterwork, as he never directed anything again) was more interested in showing gore than he was in making things visually appealing.
Time to talk about the cops. We've got personality and brains to discuss! Our main man is Sergeant Frank Herbert, a former vice cop who's now working homicide. After talking to Sherry the friendly prostitute about the death of her friend, he decides to take her to dinner – I thought it was to do with getting more information, but no, Frank and Sherry start up a relationship, and we're treated to a substantial montage of their week of bliss together. Hey, Frank, someone's murdering prostitutes and you're supposed to be investigating it! Their relationship is treated at least initially as perfectly normal, but surely it must be a bit weird for a cop to date a hooker? Even in late 70s New Orleans? Of course, when he's bored of her, he calls her a whore and slaps her about a bit, only at the end for her to apologise to him! Wow! I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but I'm kind of on the side of the murderer, who at least has a moral code.
The "brains" part of the above is the investigation itself. The murderer is a well-dressed Englishman with a distinctive facial feature (a huge chin-dimple) and goes into places with a weird request – to purchase the services of the most evil prostitute there. The first killing takes place weeks before Mardi Gras, so it's not like New Orleans will be heaving with millions of tourists, and you'd have to think he'd stand out a bit. But he's able to carry on killing, no-one bothers warning anyone to be on the lookout, no-one comments on anything other than a weird ring he wears, and the police don't seem to do anything other than the most perfunctory investigation. And there's one moment where Sherry sees the killer and doesn't recognise him! Surely you'd at least notice the accent? What the hell? Although if we're talking baffling choices, the bit when John picks up a woman who he thinks is evil because she's wearing devil horns and red body paint is my favourite.
On top of the weird plotting, we get a real flavour of New Orleans in the late 70s. This movie was filmed in dirty back alleys and dive bars and is, I imagine, much more "authentic" than the traditional tourist-style videos we normally see. There's also footage from Mardi Gras itself, which must have been miserable that year as everyone is in thick coats and hats…it's surprisingly interesting visually, if not for the reasons that anyone intended at the time. It's also heavy with disco fever, to the extent of (with the exception of 15 seconds near the end) the entire soundtrack being disco, even though New Orleans is the jazz capital of the world. Even seeing the real patrons of the bars (not a paid extra in sight) is a fascinating look at another time and place – there's a fight on one dancefloor which is witnessed by a chap dressed as Frank N Furter, for example. The camera really captures the grime, and the cheap nature of the film used helps in that regard. It's got a great grindhouse look to it.
The ending is pretty strange, which fits with the rest of the movie. John tries to kill three hookers at once (including Sherry) but finally the police decide to do their damn jobs for a second and find out where he lives – although, they're tipped off and decide to go to a bar, have a drink and wait for backup! Anyway, John escapes and at that point the actor just disappears from the movie – we're treated to a car chase and some extreme long shots of someone dressed the same as John driving a car into the ocean and disappearing. Low-budget movies always find weird and wonderful new ways to do things!
While it's often dull (those murders go on forever and are all the damn same) and treats women absolutely appallingly, it's entertaining enough to give a go to. I wouldn't even worry about the gore, it's hardly worse than the opening of the average episode of "Bones". The decision to ban it seems sort of stupid, giving it notoriety it never deserved, although it's not like they've ever tried to capitalise on it by re-releasing it over here. It's an anti-classic!
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New York Fashion Week is upon us, which for some of us at Complex means scouting out new trends and seeing dope collections from our favorite menswear designers. (Check out the 5 brands we're looking forward to seeing this week).
For those of us going to the events though, one of our favorite things to do besides look at the clothes is check out the—ahem—talent present at the shows. Each season means a slew of editors, bloggers, models, and PR flacks are dressed to the nines and looking their flyest. So here's our tribute to the women who bring it on a regular basis. These are the 25 Female Fashion Insiders We Have A Crush On.


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The Conservation Efforts Database version 2.0 (CED) is a spatially-explicit database and conservation planning tool that is designed to quantify the benefit of, and illustrate the unprecedented investments in sagebrush conservation. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Great Northern LCC, and US Geological Survey have worked closely with all 11 sage-grouse States and other partners, to solicit input and make adjustments to improve the CED based on that feedback.
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SWIMMING WITH MEN – hailed 'The Full Monty in speedos' – is a heart-warming comedy about a man in the throes of a mid-life crisis who finds meaning in the most unlikely of places: An all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
At the heart of the story is Eric (The Trip's Rob Brydon in his first leading man role), a 40-something stuck in a rut. With his marriage in tatters and his life generally going to pieces, Eric finds unexpected refuge in the company of a motley crew of middle-aged, slightly saggy men, who meet up once a week at the local municipal pool to literally and figuratively tread water together.
Eric slowly realises that there's strength in numbers and that if this unlikely band of misfits can become a real team they might just have a shot at winning the Unofficial Male Synch-Swimming World Championships – and maybe even at turning their lives around. A fantastic cast including Charlotte Riley and Jim Carter support Brydon in this feel-good comedy from BAFTA nominee Oliver Parker (Johnny English Reborn, Dad's Army).
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"The UH Students Against Sweatshops (SAS) goal is for the University to sign on to the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP). For a university to sign on to the DSP it must be affiliated with the Worker Rights Consortium. Therefore we also want the University to affiliate with the WRC.
Students Against Sweatshops will be conducting a press conference in the near future to address the apparel task force report and Dr. Khator's statement to faculty and staff regarding that report."
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Hyland's Calms Insomnia Review
Hyland's Calms Insomnia is advertised as a homeopathic natural relief for insomnia, sleeplessness and restlessness caused by stress, grief, over excitement worry and various other causes. The formula manufactured by the American company Hyland's is claimed to be safe for the use of both children and adults. Pregnant and nursing women are advised to consult a healthcare provider before use. Hyland's exclusively manufactures homeopathic remedies for a variety of conditions and illnesses, including stress, digestive system, pain reliefs, colds, etc. The company was founded in 1903 in Los Angeles and enjoys a vast business experience.
According to the manufacturer, Hyland's Calms Insomnia can be used in conjunction with other medication and is free of common side effects associated with insomnia remedies (such as sedative hangover, or headaches). However, if symptoms persist or worsen, patients are advised to consult a physician.
Hyland's Calms Insomnia Ingredients
Hyland's Calms Insomnia includes the following ingredients: Hyoscyamus Niger 3X, HPUS (0.00016% Alkaloids); Ignatia Amara 3X HPUS (0.0012% Alkaloids); Kali Phosphoricum 3X, HPUS in a base of Lactose, USP.
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Hyland's Calms Insomnia is a homeopathic supplement based on a mixture of plants and minerals. Hyoscyamus Niger is a homeopathic remedy derived from a plant called Henbane which is obtained by using the whole fresh plant, including the root, while it is flowering. It is most commonly used to treat emotional disorders and behavioral problems. The remedy is especially beneficial against jealousy, delirium, manic episodes associated to any kind of trauma, and paranoia. Also, Hyoscyamus Niger has been recommended to treat sleeplessness and insomnia in children and adults caused by over-excitement, anxiety or irrational fear. Side effects are rare but may include hallucination, delirium, vomiting and other symptoms.
Hyland's Calms Insomnia also includes two other ingredients, particularly the Ignatia Amara extract and the Kali Phosphoricum mineral. Kali Phos is extremely popular as a homeopathic ingredient as well. It has nerve soothing properties and has been used to alleviate symptoms of social anxiety, depression, fatigue, irritability and other symptoms related to nervous tension disorders.
The formula is available in fast dissolving tablets. Adults and children over the age of 12 are advised to dissolve 2 or 3 tablets under the tongue every 4 hours or as needed. Children aged between 6 and 12 years old should consume half the adult dose. There are numerous testimonials and product reviews posted online. The great majority claim the formula is exceptional and works as advertised.
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Hyland's Calms Insomnia is offered as a homeopathic remedy against insomnia and other sleep disturbances caused by various factors, including stress, anxiety, worry or grief. The formula can be used by adults and children (older than six), and testimonials available online testify to its effectiveness for both these categories of patients. Although the formula is not covered by any guarantee, nor is its effectiveness supported by scientific proof, it appears that it might accomplish its purpose at least for some consumers. You should however be aware that this is not a long term treatment and that persistent insomnia and sleep disturbances may indicate other illnesses which can only be identified by a licensed healthcare professional.
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With nearly two decades of on farm biological agronomy experience, Southern Soils understands the role played by soil biology and soil organisms when it comes to supporting plant vigour and crop production and suppressing disease in Australian farming systems. Using this knowledge, an in-depth analysis of physical, chemical and biological components of the soils will identify any soil constraints and limitations in your farming system.
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After Orlando terror attack, some point to pope's 'prophetic' words
The nation awoke Monday morning still reeling from the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 50 were killed after Omar Mateen stormed a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday morning, officials said.
Within a few hours, some Catholics on Twitter were sharing part of Pope Francis' September 2015 address to Congress, with one person calling his words "prophetic."
Pope Francis:
"Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade."
In the midst of a particularly heated election year, the country is going to quickly move from mourning to debate. Liberals are sure to argue for more strident gun control measures to keep people who intend to harm others from obtaining weapons. Conservatives will surely argue that guns can act as a deterrence to save lives when used responsibly.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church mostly talks about arms in broader terms, especially in reference to war, but it does briefly cover the use of arms in self defense. The Church of course is morally opposed to violence and killing, making that clear throughout many texts. But the Catechism as a whole also seems to be pragmatic, acknowledging that we don't live in a perfect and harmonious world.
"Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one's own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow…"
Again, the Catechism mostly references weapons in relation to conflicts between nations, but some could argued that the passages can be interpreted more broadly. Here's one part that might see more interest (and moral debate) this week:
"… 'As long as the danger of war persists and there is no international authority with the necessary competence and power, governments cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed.'
"The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:
"- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
"- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
"- there must be serious prospects of success;
"- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. the power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition."
Ultimately, the gun-control debate from a Catholic perspective can be broken down into one question: Do citizens with concealed carry permits "legitimately hold authority" to use guns?


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As Resident Chamber Music Group of the Harwood Museum, TCMG presents music inspired by art. Jennifer Higdon's "American Canvas" for flute, cello and piano has three movements titled O'Keefe, Pollock and Wyeth. Bruce Wolosoff's "The Loom" for piano trio is based on Eric Fischl's watercolors, and Glen Roven's work for violin and piano is called "Three Paintings by Agnes Martin." Also included will be Claude Debussy's Piano Trio in G Major.
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So silence the Blackman by putting the gold where his mouth is.
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He parted ways wit his 3rd wife, five kids even angels thought Justin was to be his last kid.
Her tongue slithers around with a sound, 'his'. While his tongue slithers with a sound hiss.
As we all know there's a lot to tell with a sound like hiss…
If the devil is the snake then why have 10 snakes as housepets, if your man is 1, why have him as your husband?
Does western marriage promise one-nnes?
Are we blinded?
Yes…well Stevie Wonders.
And there is no gold in our Blackhands, it slips through our fingers during marriage and divorce.
Then they took ALLGOLD in exchange for your tomato sauce.
We get married and have divorce papers as backup.
That's like having a packet of Choice condoms in your honeymoon, and guess what?
Men and Women are like remote controllers with bad batteries.
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It's messed up, like someone spilling tea on you, right after you dressed up, smart, for your best part.
Modern marriage is no different to seeing a fish's fins ontop of waters, it's a Shark.
So the next time you cheat,
Don't forget to put your dress love, and remind your man to pull his pants up, because things could end rough.
You could end up trying to get rid of spouse as quick as u do your dandruff.
So if marriage was a journey, guess what?
I might as well take da next BUS.
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Hole 10
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1562?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13022868#comment-13022868 ] Matt Foley commented on HDFS-1562: ---------------------------------- This is a fairly large patch, so I put it on ReviewBoard to see a clear diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/645/ I really like the nice clean new TestBlocksWithNotEnoughRacks, using the methods Eli added to DFSTestUtil, and I commend the work he put into refactoring those methods so they can be re-usable. Since the DFSTestUtil methods are intended for re-use, I went over them in some detail, and have the following comments: 1. DFSTestUtil#readFile(FileSystem fs, Path fileName) The previously existing readFile(File f) reads as much data as the file has. This routine only reads 1KB at most. Should they both do the same, whichever is better? 2. isBlockCorrupt() will only return true if ALL replicas of the block are corrupt, so I suggest naming it something like "isAllBlockReplicasCorrupt()" 3. I strongly feel that timeouts should (i) throw TimeoutException, and (ii) message ALL the values being waited on, not just one or none. The following "wait for condition" methods don't follow these rules: (a) waitForReplication(MiniDFSCluster cluster, Block b, int racks, int replicas, int neededReplicas) The current code does a println that only says a timeout occurred, then falls into three asserts, only one of which will trigger. Asserts imply a logic error, while TimeoutException implies a timeout occurred, and the exception message should include the current values of all three waited-on values, which are likely inter-related for debug purposes. Also, "&& count < 10" should be "&& count < ATTEMPTS" (b) waitCorruptReplicas() should use TimeoutException, and the error msg should say the failure state of the value being waited on (repls). (c) same for waitForDecommission() 4. In the above wait loops, 10 seconds is the timeout. Is that long enough? It is barely three 3-sec cycles. Would 20sec. be better? 5. corruptReplica() - The original code in TestDatanodeBlockScanner searched for and corrupted all corresponding block files on a datanode, but returned binary true/false. This proposed code returns the actual number of such block files found. That might not be a good idea, as clients (such as corruptBlockOnDataNodes()) probably assume the sum over all datanodes will equal the number of replicas. Perhaps it would be best for corruptReplica() itself to throw an exception if count > 1, rather than rely on every client to do so? Then it could just return a boolean for the two valid counts (0 and 1). IIRC, every client except corruptBlockOnDataNodes() is in fact testing that the result == 1. 6. doTestEntirelyCorruptFile() line 261 asserts "equals" but the error message says "too few blocks", implying "less than". One or the other should be changed to agree. 7. NameNodeAdapter#getReplicaInfo(NameNode namenode, Block b) is supposed to return info about specific block b, but the 3rd element of the tuple is "ns.blockManager.neededReplications.size()", which is for all blocks. Wouldn't it be appropriate to check ns.blockManager.neededReplications.contains(b), and if so iterate to find the count? Sorry this is long. Overall it's a great piece of work. > Add rack policy tests > --------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1562 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1562 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Test > Components: name-node, test > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Reporter: Eli Collins > Assignee: Eli Collins > Attachments: hdfs-1562-1.patch, hdfs-1562-2.patch, hdfs-1562-3.patch > > > The existing replication tests (TestBlocksWithNotEnoughRacks, TestPendingReplication, TestOverReplicatedBlocks, TestReplicationPolicy, TestUnderReplicatedBlocks, and TestReplication) are missing tests for rack policy violations. This jira adds the following tests which I created when generating a new patch for HDFS-15. > * Test that blocks that have a sufficient number of total replicas, but are not replicated cross rack, get replicated cross rack when a rack becomes available. > * Test that new blocks for an underreplicated file will get replicated cross rack. > * Mark a block as corrupt, test that when it is re-replicated that it is still replicated across racks. > * Reduce the replication factor of a file, making sure that the only block that is across racks is not removed when deleting replicas. > * Test that when a block is replicated because a replica is lost due to host failure the the rack policy is preserved. > * Test that when the execss replicas of a block are reduced due to a node re-joining the cluster the rack policy is not violated. > * Test that rack policy is still respected when blocks are replicated due to node decommissioning. > * Test that rack policy is still respected when blocks are replicated due to node decommissioning, even when the blocks are over-replicated. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. 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Iftars happening in Muscat this Ramadan!
It's that time of year, and regardless of whether you're fasting or not, everybody loves a good Iftar! It's the perfect time to get around a table with your family, eat some great food and get in amongst the culture we live in!
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Shangri-La Barr al Jissah
The Shangri-La will be having Iftar at Al Tanoor Restaurant and Suhour at the Layali Ramadan Tent. Al Tanoor's Iftar will be full of hot and cold mezzehs, salads, mixed grills, Omani specialities and amazing classic desserts!
The Iftar will be held from sunset to 10 pm and will cost RO18 per person.
Suhour will have an a la carté menu full of hot and cold food, a saj selection and Arabic grilled meats. As well as shisha being served until 1:45 am! Suhour will have a RO6 minimum spend, excluding shisha.
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The Park Inn's Iftar will cost you RO10 per person.
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Iftar at the Hormuz Grand will cost you RO16 per person.
Also the Qureshi Bab Al Hind Restaurant at the Hormuz will also be hosting an exciting buffet and menu daily. Succulent kebabs and fresh naans from the tandoor accompanied by aromatic curries and chutneys, finished with mouth-watering desserts will be featured on the buffet. Iftar at Qureshi Bab Al Hind will cost you RO15 nett per person. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm we're hungry now!!!
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Iftar at Tropicana will cost you RO19 per person.
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Omede Restaurant will cost you RO16 per person, that gives you free range of the buffet and a raffle ticket for the prize draw at the end of the night. There will also be discounts for groups of 10 to 30 people.
Salwa Ballroom will be used for private and corporate Iftar functions and will start at RO13.
City Seasons Hotel
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Grand Hyatt Muscat
Mokha Cafe will be hosting an Iftar every night this Ramadan, with a huge buffet selection on offer, as well as the extended Ramadan tent that has been created to make your evening more memorable. Suhoor will also be available at both Mokha Cafe and the Ramadan tent.
Prices for Iftar at the Grand Hyatt Muscat will cost you RO20 per person.
Intercontinental Hotel
Every night this Ramadan you'll be able to break your fast at Musandam Cafe at The Intercontinental Hotel Muscat. There will be a buffet on offer that will have a selection of hot and cold foods, mezzehs, salads, dates, local dishes and loads more!
The Iftar will cost you RO18 per person.
The Chedi Muscat
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The Chedi Muscat Iftar Buffet will start from RO21 per person.
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Union Street (novel)
Union Street is the first novel by English author Pat Barker, published by Virago Press in 1982. It describes the lives of seven working class women living on Union Street and how they respond to the changes brought about by deindustrialisation.[1] It is set in northeastern England during the 1970s. The 1990 movie Stanley & Iris is a loose adaptation of the novel.
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|Pat Barker
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|Virago Press
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|13 May 1982
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|Blow Your House Down
Plot summaryEdit
The novel is divided into chapters each covering the same few months but centring on the life of one of seven working class women living the area of Union Street in northeastern England. The characters range in age and circumstance, Alice Bell is in her seventies and dying whereas Kelly Brown is eleven,[2] but all of them face struggles and poverty. The book begins with the character of eleven-year-old Kelly Brown and deals with her rape and the response of Kelly and her community to the rape. When the people on the street find out about her rape they will not deal with it openly with her; instead, they react with general sympathy, in the way they would have if she had been ill, but both the adults and children talk about the incident behind her back. Kelly becomes increasingly isolated, distrustful of adults and no longer feeling at home with the other children; she spends an increasing amount of time by herself at night in the neighbourhood. As time passes Kelly's silence turns to anger, responding to the trauma of the events with acts of rebellion and violence, such as cutting her hair short and breaking the windows of a school.[3][4][5][6][7]
Significance and receptionEdit
Although Union Street was "highly praised"[8] by critics, it also drew unfavourable comments due to its subject matter and setting.[8] The Guardian reported that one interviewer was appalled by the realistic coverage of "menstruation, childbirth and back-street abortion"[8] and declared the book to be "far too gynaecological".[8]
During the 1970s Barker wrote three manuscripts for what she describes as "middle-class novels"[9] which got positive responses from publishers but were all rejected for publication.[8] Due to these rejections she thought her books would probably never be published so felt free to work on Union Street, a book which she "didn't think could be published".[9] This opinion was backed up by the responses she received which centered on the book being too bleak and depressing[9] In 1978 Barker took part in a writers' workshop run by the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank near Heptonstall and met author Angela Carter. Carter read Union Street and encouraged Barker to send the manuscript to the publisher Virago Press.[10] Virago, a specialist in women's literature, accepted the book and it was published in 1982.[8][10][11]
Awards and nominationsEdit
Union Street won the Fawcett Society book prize in 1983. It was among the runners up for the Guardian Fiction Prize.[5]
A film loosely adapted from Union Street, called Stanley & Iris, was released in 1989. Unlike the book, the film is a romantic comedy. It features one character in common with the novel, Iris King. The film is set in the USA, rather than England, and has none of the realism or language that feature in the book. Iris, in the film, is a widow who with a job in a baked goods factory who meets an illiterate cook in the same factory and falls in love. Many of the events and themes differ between the book and film.[12]
- ^ Brannigan, John (2005). Pat Barker: Contemporary British Novelists. Manchester University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7190-6577-4.
- ^ Monteith, Sharon (2005). Critical perspectives on Pat Barker. University of South Carolina Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-312-24089-9.
- ^ Barker, Pat (1999). Union Street: &, Blow your house down. Picador USA/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-312-24089-9.
- ^ Brannigan, John (2005). Pat Barker: Contemporary British Novelists. Manchester University Press. pp. 14–35. ISBN 978-0-7190-6577-4.
- ^ a b Janik, Vicki K. (2002). Del Ivan Janik, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (Eds.) (eds.). Modern British women writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 16–18. ISBN 978-0-313-31030-0.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
- ^ Monteith, Sharon (2005). Critical perspectives on Pat Barker. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 24–39. ISBN 978-0-312-24089-9.
- ^ Waterman, David F. (2009). Pat Barker and the Mediation of Social Reality. Cambria Press. pp. 15–42. ISBN 978-1-60497-649-6.
- ^ a b c d e f Jaggi, Maya (16 August 2003). "Dispatches from the front". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ a b c Nixon, Rob (2004). "An Interview With Pat Barker". Contemporary Literature. 45 (no. 1).
- ^ a b Brannigan, John (2005). Pat Barker: Contemporary British Novelists. Manchester University Press. pp. Chronology. ISBN 978-0-7190-6577-4.
- ^ "About Virago Press". Virago Press. 2008. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ^ Denby, David (19 February 1990). "Jane and Jessica". New York. New York Media, LLC. p. 65. Retrieved 1 March 2012.


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I should take a moment to mention the bus itself, the tragicomic Pequod in my quest for nationalism and a cheap ride. When we were about to board the bus at the Port Authority, our first driver delivered an ominous message:
"When I saw this bus I thought they was playing an April Fool's joke on me. She needs a loootta work. Lotttta work."
Indeed, the bus in question wasn't a shiny new blue bus, Greyhound's 100th anniversary fleet from 2014, equipped with more seats, WiFi, and charging outlets. It was an old school white one with a giant hole to the outside world in the bathroom, a toilet without a flush, no PA system, and holes, stains and garbage on or around every seat. The air conditioner didn't seem to work properly either, although it's possible the driver simply didn't turn it on.
One of my favorite passengers from the first half of the trip was a trans woman with a five o clock shadow and a curly blond wig who was terrified of getting left behind. Every time the bus stopped, she waited diligently in front of it, at the front bumper, refusing to move. In Pittsburgh, she was physically escorted away from the bus because they had to clean and service it.
In New York, when the driver came out to collect the tickets, she muttered something under her breath. Keep in mind we boarded around seven, way too early for an altercation.
"What did you say?!" Growled the driver, an older, no-nonsense white man.
"I said they didn't take our tickets outside the last time I took a bus, all right?"
"MY BUS, MY RULES! TICKETS OUT! Don't make this unpleasant, missy."
She shouldn't have responded.
"I'm not being unpleasant, YOU'RE being MEAN!"
"I can and WILL leave you on the side of the road wherever I want. So NO ACTING UP. You gotta do what I SAY."
"No! Let's get along!"
"YOU get along."
"I will get along. I'LL GET ALONG!"
For the rest of the ride, she was in the back, totally silent, until she left for her connection in St. Louis. I forgot about her, mostly because other passengers were far more ridiculous.
In Topeka, I was chatting with this guy, a really friendly cyclist who I'm assuming was gay. We started talking about the hideousness of the stations and the odd passengers. Suddenly, he got a funny look on his face.
"So…remember that girl who was really paranoid about getting left behind? She gave me this note around two in the morning, right before we got to Indianapolis." He pulled up a picture on his phone with this note:
"Hey you! I think you're really cute and nice. Do you want me to suck your dick at the next rest stop? Circle one – Yes, No, Maybe. Hope to see you later!"
"Hey, at least she was classy enough to propose doing it in the rest stop and not the bus bathroom," I said. "So wha'd you circle?"
"No," he said, "and then I wrote 'but thank you' next to it."
These Midwestern boys sure are polite.
But back to the bus. It lived bags s the April Fool's joke, and somewhere around Columbus, Ohio, the bumper fell off on one side. We pulled into a rest stop so that the driver – now a flamboyant young black man with a giant paisley scarf draped over his regulation uniform – could fix it. The bumper fell off on both sides. Some passengers managed to tie it up (lord knows what these people are carrying in their duffel bags that allowed them to tie up a bus bumper) and we kept driving. It wasn't until St. Louis, 13 hours later, that we switched into the blessed chariot we're on right now.


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For some time now, copy has been given short shift in creative. It's the pictures art directors and awards judges prefer. Find an arresting image and you're off to the races with your advertising creative. Headlines can have sex appeal but body copy, good luck. Even in movies, it's the actors and directors who get the most credit – without a writer tjhough the movie doesn't exisit.
What about a direct mail letter – when was the last time you got a great one that really moved you?
Students of this art form can buy 'The Greatest Direct Mail Sales Letters Of All Time' on Amazon for $370!, but I thought it would be fun to look at THE best one of all time. I have referred to this letter many times in my career when talking about how to set up 'control' versus 'test' cells in direct marketing. This grandadaddy is said to have generated more than $1 billion in revenue for The Wall Street Journal (symbolison.org, 2011). In March 1993 Target Magazine called it the most successful advertisement in the history of the world. Written and first mailed in 1975, to this day it has never been beaten.
Here's a short excerpt to give you a sense of what amazing copywriting looks like:
On a beautiful late spring afternoon, twenty-five years ago, two young men graduated from the same college. They were very much alike, these two young men. Both had been better than average students, both were personable and both – as young college graduates are – were filled with ambitious dreams for the future.
Recently, these two men returned to college for their 25th reunion.
They were still very much alike. Both were happily married. Both had three children. And both, it turned out, had gone to work for the same Midwestern manufacturing company after graduation, and were still there.
But there was a difference. One of the men was manager of a small department of that company. The other was its president.
Have you ever wondered, as I have, what makes this kind of difference in people's lives? It n't always a native intelligence or talent or dedication. It isn't that one person wants success and the other doesn't.
The difference lies in what each person knows and how he or she makes use of that knowledge.
And that is why I am writing to you and to people like you about The Wall Street Journal. For that is the whole purpose of The Journal: To give its readers knowledge – knowledge that they can use in business.
And then the letter goes on to talk about how the WSJ can be as instrumental in your career. Beautiful writing.
Full letter: http://www.earthmonkey.co.uk/media/33772/wall_street_journail_direct_mail_piece_1974.pdf)
If you think this lesson only applies to direct mail, think again. In the age of social marketing we are all writers – at least those who create content. The point here isn't to write long but rather write well. One of the best places I have found with tons of great copywriting advice is www.copyblogger.com or check out their fantastic podcast on iTunes (if you're from the UK try James Daniel at www.earthmonkey.co.uk).
Long live the copywriter in us all.


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Hey Guys!
Oh my has this winter break been my time for re-watching/binge watching shows. Of course the reason that I was having to do this was because I was so behind on the series that I wasn't sure what was going on in them anymore. So these are the shows that I've had to re-watch/binge in order to catch up on them.
- Supernatural
- Pretty Little Liars
- Gilmore Girls
- iZombie
- Jessica Jones
- The Librarians
- Doctor Who
Well these are the few shows that I've been re-watching and truthfully I re-watch them pretty regularly especially NCIS and the Librarians. Which I can pick up at any time during the seasons and know what's going on (well with the exception of the current seasons obviously). If you're looking for something new to watch and you haven't seen any of these I recommend them for anybody! And the good thing is that with the exception of the Librarians and Doctor Who they are all available on Netflix. Question of the Day: What is your favorite tv show to binge watch or re-watch? Comment down below.
Until Next Time!


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Tom Baxter
The wacky doo legislature comes back to town
By Tom Baxter
In his eulogy for Herman Talmadge, Sam Nunn told the story of a visit to the senior senator's office not long after Nunn had been elected to the U.S. Senate. Talmadge inquired of his young colleague whether he'd answered all his constituents' letters, and Nunn replied that he had, with the exception of a few "nuts" who had written to him about tin foil and flying saucers.
Talmadge gave him a stern look and reached for the spitoon he kept by his desk.
"If you can't win the nut vote," he said, "You're not going to carry a county in Georgia."
That anecdote drew a rollicking response back in 2002. I imagine if a similar story were told at the funeral of some prominent politician today, it would still get a laugh, but it would be a more nervous laughter. The nuts have gone from being key to getting elected, to getting elected themselves.
Our Congressional delegation — with one member who has suggested that Guam might capsize, another who has said embryology is the work of the Devil, and a third who has chosen to revisit the Todd Akin "rape" debacle – has become part of the regular diet of comedy shows and political blogs.
They're only the tip of the iceberg, which is another way of saying: Welcome back, legislators.
A poll in Sunday's AJC said voters want this year's legislature to focus on jobs as their first priority, followed by education and health care. Boring! A Marietta Daily Journal story about a recent Cobb Republican Party Breakfast, at which one legislator tried to out-wacky doo the other, gives you a better idea what some legislators would rather be about.
State Sen. Barry Loudermilk said the state should control all the fuel taxes it issues and spends, and cut out the feds.
"I'll take it a step further: we need to start in the direction to where we don't have a Medicaid system, but we turn it back to the way it was before Medicaid, where there were nonprofit hospitals that provided indigent care to the people, that were run by churches and religious organizations," Loudermilk said.
Not to be undone, state Rep.-elect Charles Gregory, who has already introduced four gun bills, said the state could get away from reliance on federal grants by printing its own currency.
This was a bit much, even for the likes of Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby, who scolded U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey for dredging up the rape issue in their Around Town column in Saturday's MDJ, but gave their Cobb County Republican legislators a real blistering for sitting around talking about the Nullification Doctrine and printing their own money when there is serious business to be done.
"No wonder the party has a hard time appealing these days to minority and younger voters when so many rank-and-file Republicans seem to have their focus on issues that hearken back to the South's "Fergit, Hell!" days," they wrote.
Speaking of fergitin', you have to do an awful lot of it, or just be born too late to remember, to harbor any nostalgia for the way it was before Medicaid and Medicare. That's why the renewal of the hospital provider fee, or bed tax, is probably inevitable, though Gov. Nathan Deal is to be congratulated for devising an adroit way to frame the issue so the legislators won't have to say they're voting for a tax increase. That will avoid at least some of the posturing that's also sure to come with the vote. The bed tax is only a stopgap and the really hard decisions about Medicaid lie ahead, but just getting that accomplished will be heavy lifting.
The legislature will take up a few more serious subjects, including juvenile justice reform and ethics, and dealing with the bare-bones budget will be a challenge. But it's on target to waste many of its 40 days on the increasing froth of hot-button issues destined to go nowhere, or in some cases, to federal court.
It's still the best show in town, but this year let's hope it doesn't last as long as "Les Misérables."
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The Last Democrat in Georgia says:
The wacky doo legislature which usually after just a few days in session usually has Georgians begging "Wacky DON'T!".
Hide your women, your daughters, your sisters, your mothers, your nieces, your WALLETS and your liquor and put away your sanity as the Georgia Legislature is back in town for yet another 40 days of zany legislative hijinks, moral depravity, debauchery scantilating narcissism and hair-raising sociopathy….And oh yeah, they might even squeeze in some time for some legislation that might actually help improve the lives of Georgians…But I wouldn't count on it.
It's too bad that Georgians have to have such a ridiculously low opinion about their state legislature. Worse yet, it's too bad that the Georgia Legislature seems not to care what the public thinks of it as a whole just as long as what the public thinks does not interfere with their lobbyist-fueled debauchery.
The Last Democrat in Georgia says:
The wacky doo legislature which usually after just a few days in session usually has Georgians begging "Wacky DON'T!".
Hide your women, hide your daughters, hide your sisters, hide your mothers, hide your nieces, hide your female cousins (and some of your male ones too!), hide your WALLETS, hide your liquor and put away your sanity as the Georgia Legislature is back in town for yet another 40 days of zany legislative hijinks, moral depravity and debauchery, scantilating narcissism and hair-raising sociopathy….And oh yeah, they might even squeeze in some time for some legislation that might actually help slightly improve the lives of Georgians…But don't count on it.
It's too bad that Georgians have to have such a ridiculously low opinion about their state legislature. Worse yet, it's too bad that the Georgia Legislature seems not to care what the public thinks of it as a whole just as long as what the public thinks does not interfere with their lobbyist-fueled moral depravity and debauchery.
The Last Democrat in Georgia says:
Mr. Baxter, it is interesting that you mention the distinctly super-conservative tone of the recent Cobb County Republican Party Breakfast. All of the anti-Federal talk that went on at the event should come as no surprise in a community that has a distinct reputation for being one of the absolute most conservative communities in a Southeastern region that is the most conservative in the nation. Needless to say, Cobb County's proudly ultraconservative reputation and post-World War II history as "The Center of the Conservative Universe" were clearly on display at that monthly Cobb GOP event.
Also, while it may sound crazy to those who live in more left-leaning and moderate parts of the metro area and the U.S., his talk of getting Georgia its own currency and the four pro-gun bills he prefiled before the start of the legislative session have quickly made newly-elected freshman State Representative Charles Gregory of Kennesaw a rising star within Northwest Georgia, state and national Conservative circles.
It looks as if Representative Gregory is attempting to takeover the mantle of the late Cobb County State Representative Bobby Franklin who, as the undoubtedly most conservative member of the state legislature by far, was known to prefile dozens of bills before every legislative session. Franklin was known to be so ultraconservative so as to butt heads with the Republican-dominated legislative leadership, who despite being in office in what is one of the most conservative states in the union, often elected to take a comparatively much more moderate tone in governance.
The type of aggressive conservatism that Bobby Franklin displayed during his many years in the legislature and that State Representative Charles Gregory is attempting to display early on in his young legislative career that may not necessarily appeal to more moderate voters appeals greatly to the very-conservative voters who dominate the political landscape in traditionally-Republican Cobb County, a fast-growing and fast-urbanizing suburban community with a history of far-right anti-government sentiment and proud ultraconservatism.
One must also keep-in-mind that newly-elected freshman State Representative Charles Gregory hails from Kennesaw, a previously-rural-to-exurban suburban community where gun ownership is required by law, a city law that was enacted in response to a law that was enacted in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove, Illinois that banned all gun ownership.
The Last Democrat in Georgia says:
Also, while it was U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey's recent ill-advised comments about rape may have had moderate and progressive voters upset in other parts of the country, it was Gingrey's equally ill-advised comments about gun control that had an overwhelming majority of voters in throughout the definitely-conservative State of Georgia the most upset, especially in heavily pro-gun rights Cobb County, a distinctly-conservative community with a uniquely-strong libertarian streak where the issue of abortion is anathema and legal gun ownership is considered to be a God-given right that is sacrosanct.
SpaceyG says:
"Wacky doo"? That some kinda Alabama-speak for "batsh*t crazy"?
The Last Democrat in Georgia says:
I don't know if that is what the term "Wacky doo" actually stands for, but, unfortunately, it is glaringly obvious that "batsh*t crazy" pretty accurately describes the collective often-absent mental state of the Georgia Legislature.
scfranklin says:
This is classic. Thanks. Shirley
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Construction of dutch barn houses – 1945
Two questions, why do you think it is Fairfield and are you sure of the date is 1945? No council houses were being built in 1945 as all efforts were still on winning a war which went on until August 15th 1945 when Victory over Japan was announced. If it is 1945 then they are the two houses built on Durham Road alongside two more houses which were the more conventional brick built and square houses, all four of which still stand on Durham Road. They were built as samples which Stockton Council inspected then decided on which type would be built for the men and women coming back from long years in the forces. I worked with a tradesman called Steve Small finishing off work tops and fitting some facings in the kitchen of all four houses and have told that story on here. I left my blood in a couple as it was very hard work for a lad just sixteen although Steve was determined to complete the job. The stainless steel pressed tops came from Sweden and we only had hand held tools hence the blood. The square built houses were those built on Ragworth which took nearly four years to build. Roseworth was started in several places at once the first houses being Ravenscar Cr. Shortly after they began Building Rudyard Ave and the area around plus some houses at the top of Renvyle Ave. people were moving in to Roseworth shortly after 1950. The land on Durham Road the houses were built on was at the time a long meadow, the houses being built in an open space between existing houses, Arthur Brown of Browns Sheet Metal Works lived in a pre-war house a short distance from those houses.
I am sure all this could be checked by a look at the Council notes at the time.


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A pair of Internet companies received a vote of confidence from BancBoston Robertson Stephens Monday evening. Modem Media Poppe Tyson and Network Solutions were both reiterated with "strong buy" and "buy" recommendations, respectively.
BancBoston Robertson Stephens analyst Steven Birer reiterated its "strong buy" rating on Modem Media Poppe Tyson (Nasdaq: MMPT).
"We are reiterating our strong buy rating on Modem Media following recent meetings with the company's management team," Birer said in a research note. "We believe that business momentum remains strong and that the company will report an excellent September quarter. We are seeing tremendous demand for the company's services and hiring and project execution remain strong."
First Call consensus expects the developer of interactive marketing programs to earn 3 cents a share in its third quarter.
"Shares of Modem Media are currently trading near 5 times our 2000 revenue estimate, while other Internet enabling companies, such as Viant, Razorfish and iXL are trading at 19 times, 11 times, and 9 times estimated 2000 revenues, respectively," Birer said. "A broader peer group trades around 9 times estimated 2000 revenues."
Following its sparkling initial public offering in February, Modem Media shares moved to a high of 55 1/8 in April.
The stock closed up 2 5/16, or 7 percent, to 36 13/16 ahead of the research report.
Network Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL), the leading Internet domain registrar, was reiterated with a "buy" recommendation.
On Friday, Network Solutions and the Department of Commerce announced that the testbed phase of the Shared Registration System has been extended until Sept. 30. The extension was agreed upon to allow additional time for Network Solutions, the DOC and ICANN to finalize their agreement.
"While there have been several extensions to date of the testbed period, Network Solutions management communicated greater confidence that this would be the last extension," Birer said in a research note. "It should be noted that even if an agreement is signed, it could potentially go out for public comment for a period of 30 days or so."
Birer said he expects Network Solutions, which has registered more than 5.4 million domains, to meet or beat First Call's third-quarter earnings projections of 18 cents a share.
Last quarter, Network Solutions hurdled Street estimates, earning $5.8 million, or 17 cents a share, on record sales of $47.5 million.
"We are confident that Network Solutions is on track to achieve or exceed our revenue estimates for the quarter," Birer said. "We continue to believe that investors have been waiting on the sidelines to see how the NSOL/DOC/ICANN agreement will be worked out. We encourage investors to take advantage of the uncertainty to build or add to positions."
Network Solutions shares closed up 2 5/16 to 67 13/16 Monday.
The stock peaked at 153 3/4 in March, just ahead of its 2-for-1 split. It fell to a 52-week low of 13 11/16 in October.
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The Washington Post, Peter Marks
May 2, 2010
"An authentic work with something to say. The kind of play that just doesn't materialize much anymore."
What's in the running for this year's Tony Awards
By Peter Marks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 2, 2010
NEW YORK — What, I wondered, was wrong with this picture? I was sitting in one of Broadway's smallest theaters, the Helen Hayes, on a Friday night toward the end of this Broadway season of outsize disappointments. What unfolded before me was an insightful comedy-drama on a provocative but accessible topic, the kind of play that, well, just doesn't materialize much in Times Square anymore.
Its title is "Next Fall" and in its own intelligently appealing way, it just is what it is. In "Next Fall," playwright Geoffrey Nauffts explores with humor and craft an absorbing issue, the question of how one reconciles being both gay and a Scripture-adoring Christian, and his play refuses to concern itself with cosmetic luster, with distracting customers with starlight and other sparkly things. How the heck did this modest enterprise make it into the theater on West 44th Street? For you can deduce in "Next Fall" a quality apparent in so little of Broadway's output these days: It's an authentic work with something to say.
As in the case of "Next Fall," a contemporary play that struggles with sexual and religious identity, Broadway should not have to be about bells and whistles. It needs to go back to the basics and think more again, about deeply human voices, and stories.
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Bib Stillwell leans his Cooper into Homestead Corner, you can see and feel the energy being expended in extracting all the performance the car has to offer in this John Ellacott shot…
Stillwell was four times Australian National 'Gold Star' Champion from 1962 to 1965, his battles with rival Frank Matich in both single-seaters and in sports cars, Matich in his Lotus 19 or 19b, in the early sixties were legendary.
Both were Australian Champions in both types of car and fierce rivals; Stillwell the Melbourne motor dealer/semi-professional racer and Matich, the Sydney based, and perhaps first truly professional Australian Driver.
In Sports cars Stillwell won the 'Australian Tourist Trophy' in the Cooper Monaco in 1961 and 1962. Matich won it in 1964 in a Lotus 19b Climax, 1966 aboard an Elfin 400/Traco Olds, in 1967 in his first self built Matich SR3 Olds and in 1968 in a Matich SR3 Repco.
The race was not contested in 1969 but Franks' Matich SR4, powered by a 5 litre quad cam Repco '760 Series' V8 was the fastest car in Australia of any sort that year. It was built to contest the CanAm Series in 1968 but was too late in completion to contest it.
Bib acquired this ex-Moss, Keele Engineering car in the UK. The chassis number of it is uncertain, but Doug Nye believes it to be the car ordered by Moss in April 1959 as a kit of parts ex-factory and built up by Keele Engineering. The Monaco was lightly raced by Moss commencing with the British GP meeting at Aintree in 1959. He raced the car in Scandinavia in August, it was then put to one side as he focussed on a Lotus 19 to which the engine and 'box from the Monaco were fitted.
Bib bought the car off Moss on a trip to the UK in 1961, it was fitted with a 2.5 Litre Coventry Climax FPF four cylinder engine and gearbox out of one of his Cooper single-seaters upon arrival in Australia and was ready in time for the Australian Grand Prix meeting at Mallala in October 1961. Stillwell raced both his Cooper T53 in the AGP, he finished second to Lex Davison, Lex driving Stillwells' older Cooper T51, and the Cooper Monaco.
The car arrived in Australia with the standard leaf spring rear suspension configuration but Alf Francis modified the rear chassis bracketry to also allow the use of a coil spring/damper set-up, both were used in Oz.
In Australia the car also raced with a 2.7 'Indy' Climax FPF and in October 1964 was fitted with an ex-Scarab/ex-Arnold Glass BRM P48 Buick V8. Lance Reventlow sold one of his engines to Arnold Glass after the one off appearance of his Scarab RE Buick Intercontinental car at Sandown in March 1962, Glass replaced the BRM 4 cylinder engine with the lightweight 3.9 litre aluminium, pushrod V8.
In Stillwells' hands the car won the 1961 and 1962 Australian TT, the Victorian Sports Car Championship in 1962 and 1963 and the South Pacific Sports Car Championship in 1962.
Later still it was fitted with an Olds V8 contesting the first Surfers Paradise 12 Hour race in the hands of Murray Carter and Tony Osborne.
The car passed through many owners after Stillwell retired, but was eventually restored to original specification in Australia and now races in the UK.
'Scuderia Stillwell' arriving and unloading the Monaco and Cooper T53 at Mallala, South Australia Gold Star meeting in October 1962 after the long haul from their Kew, Melbourne base.
Stillwell had a good start in life…he attended Trinity Grammar and Scotch College in Hawthorn and at 22 had parental support for his original small MG dealership in 1949 but over the decades grew his business. He was awarded a Holden franchise in 1953 operating from Cotham Road Kew, and later as a Ford, BMW and other prestige marques dealer building a large group with his own talent and entrepreneurial flair which prospers in his families hands today long after his death.
His management skills were world class, his interests included aviation, after success in that field from the mid-sixties in Australia, distributing Beechcraft and later Lerjets he was appointed President of the Lear Corporation in the US in 1982, a position he held for 3 years before returning to Australia, a 'second motor dealing career' in luxury franchises and historic racing.
He died on June 12 1999. I like this observation Michael Lynch made in his obituary of Bib published in the Melbourne 'Age' newspaper…'The links between business and sport, and the characteristics required to succeed in both, have often been drawn. Drive, determination, persistence, talent, luck, the ability to think outside the obvious and seize opportunities that others don't see – and then make them work – are all characteristics shared variously by top sportsmen and the leading lights of the business world. Stillwell, who died suddenly last weekend from a heart attack, had all of them in good measure, showcasing them in both his sporting career, which ran until the mid-1960s, and then his business career, which was still being developed at the time of his death'.
Winners are grinners! Stillwell in the Monaco at Mallala, October 1962, he took victories in both cars at this meeting, winning the Gold Star race in his Cooper T53, #16 car in the shot above, his first Gold Star Championship won in that year.
Cooper T49 'Monaco' Specifications…
The Cooper Type number is 49, the car being given the 'Monaco' name in recognition of Jack Brabhams' victory in the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix, his first GP win on the way to his, and Coopers first World Championships as driver and constructor that year.
Of typical curved Cooper space frame construction, the car owes most of its hardware to its single-seater siblings. Front suspension is by upper and lower wishbones and coil spring/ damper units with an adjustable roll bar. At the rear top location is provided by a transverse leaf spring, with a lower rear wishbone. Brakes are disc all around, steering rack and pinion and typical Cooper alloy wheels of the period were used.
Most of the cars were fitted with Coventry Climax FPF engines of varying capacities, Stillwells' mainly with a 2.5 but was raced with other engines as recorded above. Gearbox was the Citroen ERSA or Colotti units.
John Ellacott, Kevin Drage, Ray Bell, James Allington cutaway, Ken Devine Collection
The Nostalgia Forum, John Blanden 'Historic Racing Cars in Australia'
Tailpiece: Equipe Stillwell during the November 1962 Caversham AGP weekend…
Open-wheeler is a Cooper T53 Climax- Bib was third in the AGP behind Bruce McLaren's Cooper T62 and John Youl's T55.