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Veyance Technologies, the exclusive manufacturer of Goodyear Engineered Products, has ditched its traditional outsourcing relationship with IBM after it failed to perform to acceptable service levels, and is in the process of moving its SAP applications to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Virtustream.
Computerworld UK spoke to Veyance's CIO, John Hill, who was brought into the company a year ago to drive the use of IT as a competitive advantage for the business and to help ensure a healthy return for its private equity investors.
The five year contract with IBM was Hill's first port of call.
"The contract was scheduled to expire in February 2013 and so I launched a competitive process for an IaaS provider to host our global SAP instance, which is what we use to run our business on a 24x7 basis – everything from manufacturing, distribution, to financials," said Hill.
"There were problems with availability and reliability. IBM wasn't even close to providing the standards we needed as a business, especially in terms of flexibility and speed when provisioning capacity or test and development environments."
He added: "It wasn't anywhere near as fast as it needed to be."
Hill explained that there had been times when Veyance had ordered new servers, which he believed, with an acceptable response time, should have been available within three or four weeks. However, IBM sometimes took up to ten weeks to provision the servers.
He said: "Having to wade through extended procurement and provisioning cycles in the IBM relationship was a real drain on value for the business.
"In an IaaS environment you should be able to provision capacity on demand, within a day or so."
Veyance awarded the contract to Virtustream in July of this year, where it is in the process of migrating its systems (SAP R/3, SAP XI, TREX, Netweaver, ITS and WAS) to its xStream cloud platform.
Hill also believes that the IaaS platform will provide better reliability and backup controls when compared to the set-up it had with IBM.
He said: "We were also lacking in effective disaster recovery. We had some outages with IBM that were very costly and very painful. With Virtustream we have a service level agreement that provides a full recovery of the production environment in an alternate data centre in under an hour."
"When you are running a global business that is tied to that one system, it is very costly to have an outage. In the cloud we can include disaster recovery and data replication as inherent features."
Veyance has already moved its test and development systems to Virtustream and is scheduled to move the production system over in January.
Hill told Computerworld UK that he expects to save approximately 30 percent in data centre operating costs by migrating to the cloud, which equates to "millions of dollars". He said these will either go back into the bottom line or be reinvested in talent.
However, the infrastructure is only part of Hill's plan to transform Veyance's technology set-up. He also has plans for both the network layer and the application layer.
Veyance currently has an agreement with AT&T to provide it with a traditional MPLS network. This is currently being revised so that the network architecture is 'more cloud facing'.
Hill said: "We want to complement our MPLS with very strong direct Internet circuits that are load balanced in order to essentially provide a much more flexible and nimble network environment. We will also be going out to tender again for the global network too."
At the application layer, Hill has been migrating away from on-premise systems to a variety of 'wrap-around' software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, which he believes will save the business between 20 and 30 percent in costs compared to legacy solutions.
"Clearly we have SAP at the core, but as powerful as a traditional ERP is, it is also extremely slow to upgrade. Wrapped around SAP I have been putting in an agility layer, which are SaaS applications that mostly have external facing capabilities – so facing customers, employees, vendors," said Hill.
"We have migrated our HR to Workday, which went live a few weeks ago. We have implemented Salesforce.com's sales and service clouds to support our CRM and customer service activities. We have implemented ServiceNow as our ITSM platform and migrated all of our messaging away from Lotus Notes to Microsoft 365," he added.
Hill believes having these applications around the SAP core will benefit from a lower cost of ownership, but also rapid upgrade cycles.
Veyance has also ensured that it manages to control its data to a certain degree by striking deals with the cloud providers, where they will be required to feed any Veyance data back into its traditional data warehouse infrastructure.
Hill said: "We are in the process of implementing a global data warehouse strategy, so essentially all the data from the various applications are brought together into a data warehouse, to ensure effective reporting, but also manage risk.
"You don't want to have all you data in your SaaS applications in jail somewhere. Our architecture allows all the data in the cloud to be replicated into our controlled environment. This also gives us the option to easily shift applications if we decide to at some point in the future."
He expects the entire project, both the IaaS migration and the adoption of SaaS applications, to be completed by the summer of 2013.


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Vienna, VA (PRWEB) June 19, 2014
Wolf Trap Opera (WTO), a top residency program for emerging opera professionals, welcomes internationally renowned bass-baritone Eric Owens as its first Artist in Residence.
Owens is an alumnus of Wolf Trap's Filene Young Artist program, about which he says, "Wolf Trap's Filene Young Artist residency was then, as it is now, the most coveted summer program into which any aspiring young singer can be accepted. I am honored and thrilled to be part of the 2014 Filene Young Artists' experience by being the first Wolf Trap Opera Artist in Residence."
Arvind Manocha, Wolf Trap Foundation President and CEO, remarked, "We are proud to welcome alumnus Eric Owens as Wolf Trap Opera's first Artist in Residence, strengthening our commitment to educate and train our exceptionally gifted young artists at a critical time in their careers."
Throughout the summer Owens will work privately as a coach and mentor to WTO's 17 Filene Young Artists and 16 Studio Artists, who were chosen from a record 1,082 applicants from around the world. He will also join the 2014 Filene Young Artists in Aria Jukebox on July 13. Other public appearances include a Recitative Artist Panel on July 12, at which Owens will moderate a discussion with four of his colleagues from the Metropolitan Opera and LA Opera, and a Master Class on August 3, during which he will work with several of this summer's young artists.
Acclaimed for his commanding stage presence and inventive artistry, the Grammy Award-winning Owens has carved a unique place in the contemporary opera world as an esteemed interpreter of classic works and a champion of new music. At the Metropolitan Opera, Owens returned as the vengeful Alberich in the final installments of Robert Lepage's new Ring Cycle, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, which were broadcast as part of "The Met: Live in HD" theatrical release series. He also joined Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra for Verdi's Requiem and reprised his role as The Storyteller in A Flowering Tree with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony.
Owens's extensive resume includes regular appearances at numerous prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and Royal Opera House. Owens won his first Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2011 for his role in John Adams's Doctor Atomic. The following year he was nominated and won in the same category for his role as Alberich—the dwarf king and main antagonist—in the Metropolitan Opera's recording of Richard Wagner's the Ring Cycle, firmly establishing himself as a leading bass-baritone in the operatic world.
Equally at home in concert, recital, and opera performances, Owens continues to bring his elegant poise, expansive voice, and instinctive acting faculties to stages around the world. During the 2013-2014 season, Owens appeared in recital with Robert Spano at Zankel Hall as the centerpiece of a coast-to-coast recital tour that also featured pianist Craig Rutenberg. He returned to Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and as Jochanaan in a concert version of Salome with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst.
The 2014 Artist in Residence Program is made possible by the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation.
Tickets for Wolf Trap Opera performances are available online at wolftrap.org, by calling 1.877.WOLFTRAP, or at the Wolf Trap Box Office located at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia 22182.
Wolf Trap Opera Repertoire:
Beethoven's 9th
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
The Choral Arts Society of Washington
Wolf Trap Opera Soloists
Tracy Cox, soprano
Virginie Verrez, mezzo-soprano
Robert Watson, tenor
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 8:15 pm
Beethoven's beautiful Symphony No. 9 in D minor is paired with his Egmont Overture and Britten's Four Sea Interludes to create a dazzling night of classical music.
Wolf Trap Opera
National Symphony Orchestra
Grant Gershon, conductor
The Washington Chorus, Julian Wachner, Music Director
Friday, July 25, 2014 at 8:15 pm
A spellbinding drama filled with lust, jealousy, and tragedy, Carmen is one of the world's most popular operas.
Giulio Cesare
Wolf Trap Opera
Friday, June 27, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 3 pm
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Handel's most popular opera (both during his lifetime and today) returns to Wolf Trap for the first time since 1995.
Aria Jukebox
The audience gets to choose!
Wolf Trap Opera Soloists
with Artist In Residence Eric Owens
Kim Pensinger Witman, pianist
Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 3 pm
The 2014 Filene Young Artists and special guest Eric Owens sing your favorite opera highlights. Ticket price includes a wine and cheese pre-concert reception beginning at 2 pm. Come early and put your quarters in the jukebox to vote for the arias of your choice!
French Double Bill
Le pauvre matelot
Les mamelles de Tirésias
Wolf Trap Opera
Friday, August 8, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 3 pm
Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 7:30 pm
In their company premieres, Wolf Trap Opera pairs two 20th-century French one-act operatic gems.
Houseful of Song
Featuring Steven Blier
Wolf Trap Opera Soloists
Ying Fang, soprano
Renee Rapier, mezzo-soprano
Eric Jurenas, counter-tenor
Robert Watson, tenor
Tobias Greenhalgh, baritone
Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 3 pm
Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 3 pm
Steven Blier and a quintet of Filene Young Artists get domestic as they perform songs for every room of your home.
Vocal Colors
Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Two separate casts of Filene Young Artists craft unique musical evenings inspired by the works in The Phillips Collection's American Collection. The performance takes place in the Music Room and features projected images of the paintings.
Instant Opera!
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 10:30 am
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 10:30 am
Introduce your kids to opera! This zany improv project takes characters, locations, and plot suggestions from the audience and weaves them into a made-to-order, one-of-a-kind opera!
Studio Spotlight Scenes Program
Stephanie Rhodes, conductor
Alison Moritz, director
The Barns at Wolf Trap
Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 7:30 pm
The Wolf Trap Opera Studio Artists represent the strongest voices from university and conservatory programs across the country. Studio Spotlight is an evening of mixed repertoire that allows them to take center stage and shine.
About Wolf Trap Opera
Established in 1971, Wolf Trap Opera continues to earn national and international recognition for its mission to discover and encourage outstanding emerging talent in the opera field and serve singers of exceptional achievement and potential who are ready to make the transition to full-time professional careers. In addition to the young professional singers, the company also features the work of emerging designers, directors, and conductors and provides opportunities for aspiring stage managers, administrators, coaches, and technical theatre professionals.
About Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Catherine Filene Shouse (1896-1994), produces and presents a full range of performance and education programs in the Greater Washington area, as well as nationally and internationally. Wolf Trap features three performance venues: the outdoor Filene Center and Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods, both located at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, and The Barns at Wolf Trap, located down the road from the national park and adjacent to the Center for Education at Wolf Trap. The 7,028-seat Filene Center is operated in partnership with the National Park Service and annually showcases an extensive array of diverse artists, ranging from pop, country, folk, and blues to classical music, dance, and theatre, as well as multimedia presentations, from May through September. The Barns at Wolf Trap is operated by the Wolf Trap Foundation year-round, and during the summer months is home to the Grammy-nominated Wolf Trap Opera, one of America's outstanding resident ensemble programs for young opera singers. Wolf Trap's education programs include the nationally acclaimed Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods, a diverse array of arts education classes, grants, and a nationally recognized internship program that was included in Bloomberg BusinessWeek's 2009 List of "Best Places to Intern." As part of its ongoing commitment to protect and preserve the environment, Wolf Trap offers Metro access and is a founding member of the Green Music Group.
Visit wolftrap.org for more information.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama spotlighted the opening day of sign-up for his landmark healthcare program on Tuesday, noting that it is taking place although Republicans in the U.S. Congress have shut down the government because they oppose the law.
"Even though the government is closed, a big part of the Affordable Care Act is now open for business," Obama said in the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by people who would benefit from the provisions of the healthcare law.
Other administration officials fanned out to draw attention to the law and how to use it to enroll in health insurance.
An interview with Vice President Joe Biden promoting the plan will air on 450 college radio stations in several states, the administration said.
The launch of the online exchanges was marred by technical glitches that could give ammunition to opponents of the law. Checks by Reuters of the exchanges at midday turned up error messages or traffic overload notices for most of the federally run exchange sites.
Obama said such stumbles would not derail full implementation of the healthcare law. He likened the snags on the online exchange to the bugs that commonly plague the rollout of other technology-dependent products.
"Like every new law, every new product rollout, there are going to be some glitches in the sign-up process along the way that we will fix," he said.
"Just a couple weeks ago Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days they found a glitch, so they fixed it," Obama said. "I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn't."
Unexpectedly high internet traffic volumes generated delays in the operation of the online marketplaces for health insurance. The Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement saying more than 1 million people had visited the website, HealthCare.gov, in the past day, leading to a five-fold increase in Tuesday's volume.
The president and his aides said the heavy use by the public was a sign that the plan was catching on with the public.
"It's kinda like people trying to get tickets to the first Pirates home playoff game, right?" said White House spokesman Jay Carney, referring to Pittsburgh's baseball team, which has just reached the post-season playoffs for the first time in 21 years.
"I mean, you know when you go on a site and it's hard to load the page, that it's because a lot of people like you want to find out if tickets are available."
The administration says the healthcare law, which was a central point of debate in last year's presidential election, which Obama won, will insure about 30 million people through subsidized private insurance or government-provided Medicaid.
Still, for many Republicans, trying to foil the implementation of the law, which was signed in 2010, is a top priority.
The Republican-led House of Representatives sought to make delaying or defunding all or part of the law a condition for approving government spending for the fiscal year that began on Tuesday. Obama and his fellow Democrats refused to accept those conditions, and the impasse resulted in the government shutdown.
Obama accused congressional Republicans of waging an "ideological crusade" against the law, formally called the Affordable Care Act but popularly referred to as Obamacare.
Obamacare kicks into the critical phase of sign-up for health insurance through on-line exchanges that allow individuals to shop for policies that suit their needs and pocketbooks.
The success of the exchanges depends on attracting a large contingent of healthy young adults to keep coverage costs low and the Obama administration has focused much of its publicity on appealing to that demographic. It is accelerating its push as the six-month sign-up period begins.
Michelle Obama will target women with an editorial on Yahoo! Shine, a women's lifestyle website. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and other administration officials will do interviews with radio stations reaching largely African-American audiences, the White House said.
Republicans, who control the House of Representatives but are in a minority in the Senate, strongly oppose the law, saying it expands the intrusion of government into American's lives, forces employers to shed full-time positions to comply with the law, and will be a drag on the economy.
While they seek to gut the healthcare law as a condition for passing federal budget legislation to keep the government funded, they have threatened to do the same to a bill raising the borrowing limit on the $16.7 trillion the national debt.
The president has flatly refused to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, saying it would a devastating, self-inflicted blow to default on the U.S. debt.
(Reporting By Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Ken Wills and Christopher Wilson)


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Welcome to Sheffield Utilities
Customers can now pay and view their account through our customer portal.
Sheffield Utilities is comprised of four utility departments: Electric, Gas, Wastewater and Water. We provide thousands of homes, businesses and industries in the City of Sheffield as well as the surrounding Colbert County area with reliable yet affordable service. We look forward to serving our customers for years to come in a courteous and efficient manner.


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UPDATE: Such was the fervour surrounding the latest outbreak of controversy regarding suspended Essendon coach James Hird that it was perhaps surprising nobody seemed to notice something missing from last Friday night's match rundown.
Since 2008, the Bombers and Kangaroos have played for the Hird-Archer Medal, the latter the official "Shinboner of the Century", the former named Essendon's third-greatest player of all time. But one right now not only on the nose with the public but seemingly at odds with his own club.
The medal was presented with much fanfare initially, but by the last occasion the clubs met late last season, seemed an almost an afterthought, quietly presented to North's Daniel Wells in the rooms after the game.
Essendon captain Jobe Watson would have been a monty for it this time around, but the Kangaroos, as home team last Friday, had decided to scrap the medal.
Glenn Archer revealed he approached Kangaroos officials over summer to quietly do away with the award.
''There is no problem with it. We all agreed there are so many different medals and cups these days, and I don't really get to games anyway so I can't present it, so I said to the club before the season anyway that I don't think you really need it and no-one aspires to win it,'' Archer said on Monday.
''They don't really make much of a fuss about it so I am not going to worry about it.''
Archer said Hird's involvement in the Bombers' supplements scandal had not impacted on his decision.
''We didn't even speak about that. We just thought it was another medal and so many cups teams play for. We thought let it just die a silent death,'' he said.
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Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.


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UBS voted the number one Pan European Equity House for eleventh consecutive year
UBS voted the leading European equity house in the Thomson Reuters Extel Survey, named number one for Equity Sales and retains top two position for Equity and Equity linked Research for the eighteenth consecutive year.
London, 17 June 2014 – UBS is today recognized as the leading Pan European Equity house for a record eleventh consecutive year, in the Thomson Reuters Extel Survey. The survey also ranked UBS number one in the equity trading and execution category for the fifth consecutive year and UBS moved up to number one position for Equity Sales (from number two in 2013). This year, UBS was also voted number one in all major categories within Equity trading and execution, including electronic trading and Pan European trading execution for key fund managers.
"Client satisfaction is the most important endorsement for us, so we're delighted that the quality of our business has been recognized again this year," commented Jason Barron, Head of EMEA Equities. "Holding the top spot in three of the most prestigious categories is outstanding, and it's a remarkable achievement to maintain top positions in two of these awards for over a decade. We're very proud of these results and I'd like to thank our clients for their continued partnership and support, as well as our employees for their continued commitment to improving our business.''
''Over the last year, we've been focused on enhancing our offering to clients by strengthening our analytical rigor and delivery of ideas and insights," added Mark Stockdale, Head of European Equity Research. "This had led to some changes across our department – and there is more change and investment that is under way and is required - but despite this, our analysts have remained focused on delivering the very best for our clients, which is reflected in this result. Maintaining a top two position for eighteen years shows that our clients clearly recognize the value the UBS Research team adds to their business, year after year, and is a valuable endorsement of our client-centric model.''
For further information please visit www.extelsurveys.com or contact Jenna Ward, UBS Media Relations, tel: +44(0)207 568 9980
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We draw on our 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centred on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland, complemented by its Global Asset Management business and its Investment Bank, with a focus on capital efficiency and businesses that offer a superior structural growth and profitability outlook. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS is present in all major financial centres worldwide and employs about 60,000 people around the world. It has offices in more than 50 countries, with about 35% of its employees working in the Americas, 36% in Switzerland, 17% in the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 12% in Asia Pacific. Under Swiss company law, UBS is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. UBS AG is the parent company of the UBS Group (Group). The operational structure of the Group comprises the Corporate Centre and five business divisions: Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas, Retail & Corporate, Global Asset Management and the Investment Bank
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GE's Consumer & Industrial division announced on June 1 that it will manufacture highly energy efficient hybrid electric water heaters in Louisville, Ky., at the company's Appliance Park facility, creating about 400 jobs.
The new hybrid patented technology will introduce a water heater that will meet the 2009 Department of Energy Energy Star standards for heat pump hot water heaters.
The decision to locate production of this product in Louisville came as a result of cooperative efforts, investments, and incentives involving GE, the IUE-CWA, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Louisville Metro government. GE's planned manufacturing facility also has a potential to create 1,600 incremental "green" jobs over time for suppliers and contract partners and generate other positive financial impacts in Louisville and nationwide.
"We made the decision to build these products in Louisville because of the strong support from our state and local governments and the cooperative spirit of our Union leadership and our employees at Appliance Park. This clearly indicates GE's vote of confidence in this facility and our employees as a place where we can invest in our future, continuing our 50+ year history," said GE Consumer & Industrial President and Chief Executive Officer James Campbell.
Up to $17 million in incentives from the state and metro government will be made available for the design and construction of the new energy-efficient hybrid electric water heater and for several other investments that the company will make at Appliance Park over the next several years, which will total over $69 million. The state incentives, which were approved by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority on May 28, will be provided under the Kentucky Industrial Development Act (KIDA). Kentucky also will provide funds to train employees for the new jobs and will exempt from sales tax certain materials purchased to construct new facilities. And in Louisville, the Metro Council has approved an ordinance that will provide the city's portion of the incentive package.
Producing the hybrid electric water heater in Louisville, starting in the second half of 2011, was also made possible by a IUE-CWA vote that demonstrated a spirit of cooperation and lowered labor costs to the level GE needed to competitively produce its new innovative water heater. The union and employees approved a wage freeze until the current labor contract ends in 2011 and the implementation of new wage rates for new hires, making the facility more competitive and attractive than other manufacturing locations that were under consideration.


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What are some common myths about your profession?
Lots of people think its technical and computer oriented. They'll say, "Wow, you had to take a lot of computer courses." The truth is, I took not a one!
I went through program manuals and basically learned on the job. The most important thing to develop is problem-solving skills. Being a good animator is primarily about being a good actor, really, it's what makes or breaks my career. The video camera is the most powerful tool I have; I act out every part I animate. My job is really being an acting coach to those who are playing the characters. Voices are always recorded first, then we do the animation, and we look for imperfections in the delivery. It's the throat clearing, etc., that make the character come alive.
It might sound glamorous, but animation becomes extremely tedious work. You spend a lot of time talking about highlights, refraction of the cornea through eye, what is the translucency of the nose compared to the chin, etc. It might take a full week to animate four seconds of film. For the most part, it's very tedious, which people don't realize. You do a lot of sitting, a lot of repetition and have to be constantly self-critical, judging your own work. That ability to not get numb to your own shot, but to look at it with fresh eyes, over and over, is what makes someone successful.
What contributions do you feel filmmaking has made to society?
Film is the true modern media. In some ways film is the most powerful art form we have today. Done well, it crosses the barriers of language. You can turn off the dialogue of a good film, and through staging alone, the message of the film is conveyed. It's a tremendous responsibility, because we are spreading ideas and helping to influence culture; this generation's questions can become the next generation's belief. Here we are with a medium that can very strongly influence ideas. At its best, film and video have the clearest way to speak to the whole world.
That said, the majority of stuff out there is probably negatively influencing culture. The name video came from Latin "I see." There's an ego related to film making, and it is often the reason that most actors are unsettled. The trouble is that there's too much watching ourselves, getting caught up in ourselves.
It's a very egotistical medium; even with my own kids, I turn on the video camera, and they act like complete goofballs. A daughter singing a song is reduced to goo-goo, gaga and funny faces when the camera goes on. A similar thing is happening globally with film; there's a lot of crap out there. Too much Paris Hilton and her ilk; with so called reality shows that contain no reality.
Someone once said the definition of film is "a medium that lies 24 frames per second." Film is constantly an illusion. Every frame is a lie, is artificial, and is someone's point of view.
I think film is the most powerful artistic medium available today. It combines all the great art forms – music, visual arts, acting and technology – the best of all art forms. But I see us misusing it more than to help spread truthful or beneficial messages.
Is it possible to incorporate greater professional and personal philosophies into filmmaking?
I don't want to over-elevate my own role, but I do feel a tremendous urge to create movies that I can feel proud of showing to my kids or someday, my grandkids. The film I'm on now carries a universal message of not giving up hope; I consider it one of those universal truths that stands above all of these negative messages people get from the media.
I consider it a tremendous responsibility and my vocation, almost a religious calling, to do what I am doing, to bring a message to people. The artistic stuff is fun, but it's just a conduit; if you have something important worth saying, you have to present it to people in a way they will hear. People ignore the crazy person ranting on the street. In film making, you can sell a message with some sugar and some nice music.
I believe I have a responsibility to reach people, otherwise, I might as well be putting on a fireworks show with beautiful colors, where the people 'ooh' and 'ah,' but when it's done, they don't take away anything new.
At the very least, helping spread a sense of wonder might be enough. The more kids watch TV all day long, the more they get desensitized. It's a real tragedy if kids grow up apathetic, with a "who cares" philosophy. As a film maker, if you make something beautiful and full of wonder, it might just be the one spark they might need.
I remember going to see movies like The Abyss and the first Jurassic Park, and coming out of the theatre, I had no idea how they did the effects like the water blob. I was so humbled… and I had to figure out how they did it. At the very least, that sense of wonder is very important.
Wonder leads to being surprised by life, that life has more to offer than you might imagine. When you lead people to a sense of hope, it keeps people thinking of the future, of their own possibilities and own potential, and ultimately makes people better toward each other. That's a high ideal, but I think its worth striving for.
We want to make timeless films with good messages; they don't have to mention the word 'God' to offer messages that get people hopeful and considerate toward their fellow man.
I treat every film that I work on that way, every day; the message you convey is not just the message of the film, its how you react on a daily basis with your fellow workers, the actors, everyone involved. Here I am with this great opportunity to work on a film with the potential to reach hundreds of thousands of people, and it's the responsibility of the film to spread a good worthwhile message. So I consider it important not to lose my temper over something petty during the process, to live that message as well.
I had an opportunity to work for a video game company, on R-rated video games. That wouldn't be so hard, and it might even be enjoyable. But I can't justify moving my family to Canada so I can animate beach babes in a video game.
When I was in art school, I was so idealistic that I swore I'd never work on a commercial. But a film is often just a commercial enterprise.
One of my favorite children's stories is The Giving Tree; it's a timeless story of self-sacrifice. Every time I read it, it moves me in some way. My goal as a film maker is to create that type of art.
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RUSSELL lowers a small boat (as viewed from USS MOMSEN).
An engineering Chief Petty Officer emerges from under the foundation of one of the ship's main engines after performing a cleanliness inspection.
A Military Sealift Command Puma lowers a pallet of fresh fruits and vegetables onto RUSSELL's flight deck.


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Elisabeth Vary | Colour - Objects
From 25 February to 27 April Galerie m Bochum shows the exhibition "Color – Objects," featuring current works by Elisabeth Vary (b. 1940). The Cologne artist has been represented by the gallery since 1989 and this is her sixth solo show here.
For the past several years, Vary has been exploring in her work the boundaries of painting, object, sculpture and space. Her painterly wall objects begin with a concrete idea for a body in space, which the artist first captures in a drawing to be used as her template. Once the object has been constructed out of cardboard, color comes into play, for Vary's fundamental assumption is that color itself has its own body, defined not only by the particular shade but also by the transparency or density of the oil, varnish or pigments. The artist creates a relationship between these color bodies and the vehicles that carry them: the actual picture objects with their variform shapes. The viewer can then study the deliberately contrarian paint application on these formations that protrude into space, discerning multiple overlapping layers, some translucent and shiny, others opaque and dull.
Contemplating the objects from different perspectives reveals how each of their surfaces is of equal importance and how they mutually refer to one another. Vertical rivulets of paint might for example run down on one side, while on the other defined brushstrokes structure the surface. The volume of the color body thus varies depending on the application mode, texture and surface properties of the paint, striking up a dialogue with the body of the image carrier. This dialectical relationship is even more evident in the two-part works, where, for example, light and dark colors confront one another, or a flat dark blue is answered by intricate multicolored patterns.
The surrounding space and the wall surfaces between the two parts of each work, which are positioned in an unstable balance to one another, also become an integral part of the whole; the distances between the parts and their profiles are coordinated in such a way as to create common horizon lines or image axes, or in other cases to take off in opposite directions.
Elisabeth Vary's most recent pieces as well operate like small, self-contained organisms, rife with contradictions and eager to engage concretely with the basic tenets of painting and sculpture. Like picture puzzles, they vividly illustrate the interaction of space, work and viewer, deconstructing with their dialogical tension those fundamental categories of pictorial thinking. And yet, this deconstruction process evokes almost ingenuous – and infectious – curiosity and joy.


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Novartis, a Switzerland-based global health care company, will begin layoffs in April at its Sandoz division in Broomfield.
The company announced the closure of its generic drug manufacturing facility late last year.
The first wave of layoffs, set for April 7, will include 65 employees, according to a a notice filed by the company with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
A letter to the department indicates Novartis' intent to terminate those 65 employees over a two-week period.
About 450 employees will be laid off when the Broomfield facility shuts down. Those layoffs "will occur in approximately three waves ending is 2019," the letter, dated Feb. 6, said.
The company is consolidating all commercial production of generic solid drugs to its Wilson, N.C., manufacturing site and will close all commercial production operations at the Broomfield site.
Representatives for Sandoz and Novartis could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.
In a prepared statement released when the closure was announced in October, the company said "double-digit price erosion caused by customer consolidation and increased competition taking place within the U.S. generic drug market" led to Novartis experiencing above-average pricing pressure in the United States.
"With several products no longer competitive in saturated markets, we have made the decision to discontinue or divest these limited growth products to optimize our product portfolio," the statement reads.
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Quincy Community Theatre Holding Auditions for 'Peter Pan'
Soar away to Neverland with Quincy Community Theatre! Auditions are now open to all lost boys and girls (grades 6-12) for QCT's imaginative interpretation of 'Peter Pan,' April 28 by appointment beginning at 1 p.m.
"All children grow up…except one." Peter Pan and Neverland come to life in this intimate and imaginative retelling of J.M. Barrie's beloved story about the boy who never grew up. Performed in QCT's small Laboratory Theatre, the setting for this innovative production is an old attic, which through the imagination of a small group of children (and the audience), transforms into the mystical island of Neverland. All of the characters that you know and love (or love to hate) are brought to life by 7-10 actors. This unique theatrical event is sure to be an "awfully big adventure!"
Students aspiring to be Neverland residents are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the script and rehearsal information, available online at 1qct.org. A password is required to access the script.
All roles are available and all are welcome to audition, regardless of experience. To schedule a 40-minute audition appointment or for password information, contact the QCT Box Office at (217) 222-3209.


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[Prague, November 17. Image via Getty]
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - NOVEMBER 17: A young woman standing among Czech flags joins people preparing to march in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. The marchers were following the same route taken by student demonstrators in 1989 until a violent intervention by riot police in what was then communist Czechoslovakia. The event sparked a series of much larger protests and strikes that ended with the relinquishment of power by the communist authorities in December, 1989, paving the way for the democratic election of a post-communist government under the leadership of then President Vaclav Havel. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)


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Texas cotton farmers are planting 13 percent fewer acres this year than they did in 2012, according to the latest Texas Cotton Acreage report from USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Every region except "other districts" reduced acreage, some by more than 25 percent, according to the June NASS figures.
Biggest hit was District 8 N (South Central) with a 26 percent drop from last year. Acreage is estimated at 60,000, down from 81,200 last year and 113,300 in 2011. District 9 is down 23 percent at 140,000 acres, off from 180,700 last year and 248,700 the year before. District 8 S (Coastal Bend) is down 13 percent from 2012, at 240,000 acres. That's off from 275,000 last year and 360,700 the year before.
In the Plains area, District 2 N is down to 83 percent of last year's acreage at 400,000 acres. That's off from 484,000 last year and 531,000 in 2011. District 1 S (Southern High Plains) will plant 90 percent of last year's total, or 2,840,000 acres, down from 3,154,000 last year and 3,324,000 in 2011.
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The Northern High Plains, District 1N, is at 84 percent of last year's acreage, 860,000 acres. Last year acreage was 1,025,000, which was off from 2011 acreage of 1,248,000. District 2 S, is 85 percent of last year's acreage. Farmers are planting 595,000 acres, down from 701,100 last year and off from 806,000 the year before.
District 4 plants 86 percent of last year's acreage, 120,000 acres, compared to 139,900 and 213,500 the last two years. District 7 cotton farmers planted 323,800 acres in 2011, 248,300 last year and 205,000 this year, a 17 percent reduction.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley has 125,000 acres of cotton, 85 percent of last year's 147,600 and down from 206,700 in 2011.
"Other Districts" will plant 115,000 acres this year, 102 percent of last year's 112,700 acres but significantly lower than the 174,700 planted in 2011.
Overall, Texas cotton acreage estimate is 5,700,000, down from 6,550,000 last year and off from 7,550,000 in 2011.
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Dekker finds genesis in 'Exodus'
'Honour your Father and your Mother that your days may be long in the land' - an excerpt from Exodus 20 verse 12, is one of the commandments handed down on tablets of stone to Moses by the Almighty. It must have occupied a very special place in the heart of a young Desmond Dacres, for him to choose that verse as the title and theme for his first recording in 1963.
As for the present, the song serves as a stark reminder to youths in this Youth Month, of the respect due to parents, something that is sadly lacking in present-day Jamaica. The emergence of the song in 1963, may have inspired Dacres' future career. It came as the buoyant and throbbing ska beat was in full swing, and it had to compete with others like One Hand Wash The Other and They Got To Come by Prince Buster, In My Heart, Housewives Choice and Forward March by Derrick Morgan and Money Can't Buy Life and Humpty Dumpty by Eric 'Monty' Morris. Honour Your Father and Mother, not only stood the test, but became a top 10 hit in Jamaica in 1963 and initially served to introduce Dacres (who was later to be known as Dekker) to the Jamaican musical populace.
His passage was, however, not as smooth as he would have wished, as he had to contend with a very meticulous auditioner named Derrick Morgan, the A&R man for his would-be producer, Leslie Kong. At first, Morgan didn't think that Dekker was ready, "I have Desmond Dekker inna Beverley's fi two years before him sing a tune. We do everything together, even cook and eat, but him never have no tune". After finally finding one that was acceptable to Morgan, it then became 'smooth sailing' with others like Sinners Come on Home and Labour For Learning.
Dekker was in fact born in Kingston on July 16, 1942, and history has it that he grew up in Seaforth and Danvers Pen, St Thomas, attended Font Hill Primary School there, before returning to Kingston where he worked as a welder. It was with the encouragement of friends that he ended up in the recording studio, and his never-ending relationship with producer Leslie Kong, until Kong's sudden death in 1971.
Joining with Wilson James and Easton Howard as Desmond Dekker and the Aces, they crafted songs that were pregnant with local slangs rooted in Jamaican everyday realities. They enjoyed enormous success in Jamaica during the mid to late 1960s with these songs, having a formidable run of some 20 top 10 hits for Kong, including Mother Long Tongue, Mother Young Gal, Keep A Cool Head and Wiseman. In addition, they had the second place Festival song of 1967, Unity, and proved it was no fluke by winning the competition the following year with Intensified Festival.
Real turning point
The real turning point in Dekker's career, came with the release of the enduring archetypal rude boy song, 007 (Shanty Town) in early 1967. Dekker, the writer of almost all his songs, claimed he wrote the song because of the social climate that existed at the time: The years following Independence saw the escalation of crime in the City, perpetrated by rachet-knife-flicking youths termed 'rudeboys'. They operated mainly from inner-city ramshackle dwelling areas in west Kingston, called Shanty Towns. Many were influenced by the James Bond celluloid adventure movies, 007 and Ocean 11, that were popular at the time, hence the title of the song. In the song, Dekker sums up the action in dramatic fashion.
'Them a loot, them a shoot, them a wail inna Shanty Town,
rudeboy de pon probation, inna shanty town,
rudeboy a bomb up the town inna shanty town.'
Possessing one of the most infectious rhythms to come out of a Jamaican recording studio, 007 (Shanty Town) rose to No.1 on the Jamaican charts in 1967, and peaked at No.12 on the UK charts, making it the first Jamaican-produced record to reach the Top 20 in the UK In the process, it presaged Dekker's emergence as an internationally famous artiste. He continued his incredible run with A It Mek which peaked at No.7 on the UK, charts, and the Jimmy Cliff composition You Can Get It If You Really Want, at No. 2.
In 1969, the year Dekker is reported to have migrated to the UK, he again hit the British charts with the biggest hit of his career - Israelites, first recorded as Poor Me Israelites. A promotional tour to the UK, for the song, nearly met with disaster when one member refused to fly on an 'iron bird', while the other exited via the migration route. Although recorded with the Aces, Dekker was by then, forced to go solo with the promotion and his career. Israelites was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, was the first Jamaican reggae recording to reach No.1 on the British charts and the first to reach the Top 10 of the US charts - unprecedented occurrences in the history of Jamaican music.
Achieving gold record status, it suddenly transformed Dekker into the biggest star and standard bearer of Jamaican music, bringing to it (Jamaican music), a popularity and international recognition that it had hitherto never enjoyed. The success of Israelites is amazing, when due consideration is given to the almost unintelligible enunciation of its lyrics. It's the age-old lament of a man struggling to stay alive by honest means:
'Get up in the morning, slaving for breads sir.
so that every mouth can be fed, poor me Israelites,
shirt dem a tear-up, trousers a go,
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde'.
Dekker's career was dealt a severe blow in 1971, when his long term manager Leslie Kong died, but restored himself to the Top 10 in 1975 with a reissue of Israelites. His popularity which was declining by the mid-70s, was somewhat revived by two albums in the 1980s. And 1993 saw his last major work with the album Kings Of Kings. Until the arrival of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, Dekker remained the most important and influential reggae artiste on the international scene. He died of a heart attack on May 25, 2006, at age 63.


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ISTANBUL — Day 2 of the World Championship is in the books. The U.S. had a bit of a rough stretch between the first and second quarters against Slovenia, but they recovered well for another win by 20-plus.
That ugly stretch and the travel calls, specifically, were the focus of today's post-game analysis.
As you'll read there, Boki Nachbar thought that there weren't enough of those travel calls made against the U.S. on Sunday. And from all the whistles I heard, I'd say that the Slovenian fans in the crowd agreed with him.
I was actually asking Boki about the refs calling the game loose, because it seemed to me that the U.S. was allowed to push the Slovenians around a bit defensively (even more contact than you regularly see in FIBA ball). But here was his full response…
"The one thing that bothers me is too many times the refs looked away when they traveled. This is FIBA basketball. In FIBA basketball, you're not allowed to take two steps before you put the ball down. And too many times, the refs don't call that when Team USA's on the floor. That's the only thing that I have to say. Otherwise, they were good."
Kevin Love is beastly. He's now got 21 boards in 26:38 of playing time over the last two days. That's 31.5 rebounds per 40 minutes. Not bad.
"That's what I do," he says. "That's how I make my money."
He admits, though, that his role is a little different than it is back in Minnesota.
"Playing with all these guys, they definitely open up the floor. I know that if I'm going to stay in the game and play minutes, I have to get out there and get every rebound. That's kind of what coach tells me. Right before I go in the game, he says 'get me every rebound.'"
And coach Mike Krzyzewski will probably be telling him that a little earlier in the game on Monday.
Things continue to go as planned in Group B, with Croatia beating Iran and Brazil cruising past Tunisia. This group will start to get interesting on Monday.
And Nachbar admitted today that his team is focused on its next two games.
"That wasn't the most important game in the tournament for us, so we're not too worried or concerned," he said after Sunday's loss to the U.S. "Croatia and Brazil are the most important games. They're our rivals for the second spot in the group, so those are the most important games for us."
Slovenia plays Croatia in the first game on Monday.
For now, the other groups are where the fun is at.
Group D almost had another shocker, as Canada led Lithuania by 17 points midway through the third quarter before blowing the lead missing on three chances to win or tie in the final minute-plus. The win keeps Lithuania tied with France atop the group.
Puerto Rico put another scare into Greece in Group C, but it was Group A that had the two most thrilling games.
Germany upset Serbia 82-81 in double-OT with the Germans' final points coming on a ridiculous shot by Jan Jagla and Milenko Tepic missing on a drive that could have won it for Serbia in the final seconds.
So I guess Serbia won't completely withstand the suspensions of Nenad Krstic and Milos Teodosic after all.
And in the nightcap in Kayseri, Argentina used a 13-0 fourth-quarter run to come back and beat Australia, but not before they came a hair away from blowing it in the final seconds.
Argentina was inbounding the ball with a two-point lead and 3.5 seconds on the clock, but they threw the inbounds pass away without it touching anyone. Australia then inbounded the ball into the corner, and Adam Gibson's three went in … and out.
So at 2-0, Argentina is the only team in the World Championship that sits alone atop its group's standings.
The U.S. will conclude their three games in three days with Monday's matchup vs. Brazil (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). Brazil has beaten Iran and Tunisia by almost identical scores (81-65 and 80-65), the only team in the tournament, other than the U.S. to have won two games by 15 points or more.
Essentially, this game is for first place in Group B. If the U.S. wins, they're on their way to a 5-0 mark. And if Brazil wins, they're not likely to lose two more, and would have the tie-breaker against the U.S. should both teams finish 4-1.
Anderson Varejao, still nursing a sore ankle, has sat out the first two games. But the word from the Brazilian media is that he will play against the U.S., and maybe against Slovenia on Wednesday if his team needs him.
Monday will be an opportunity for American fans to get a good look at Tiago Splitter, who will be playing with the San Antonio Spurs next season.
If the U.S. beats Brazil, then we can start looking ahead to their possible round-of-16 matchups and what other teams will be on their side of the bracket, because neither Iran or Tunisia will have a chance against them.
Turkish lesson of the day: İyi günler! = Have a nice day!
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Rickland Orchards Rolls Out First Shelf-Stable Greek Yogurt Bar
The phenomenon of Greek yogurt has spread across all consumer groups, and Rickland Orchards is staying ahead of the curve by expanding into non-traditional ways in which to enjoy Greek yogurt. In 2007, Greek yogurt sales totaled $35.4 million and the projected Greek yogurt sales for 2012 are estimated to be well over $2 billion.
Busy parents, active kids and teens, and health conscience consumers can enjoy the benefits of Greek yogurt and probiotics effortlessly, thanks to Fairfield, N.J.-based Rickland Orchards, a wholly owned subsidiary of Natural Instincts LLC. Rickland Orchards launches the first-ever Rickland Orchards Greek Yogurt Bar, a nutritious, all natural, on-the-go snack. They are layered with honey-roasted granola, real fruit and nuts, and dipped in Authentic Strained Greek Yogurt imported from Europe. The bars are shelf–stable and provide an excellent source of fiber (5g) and a good source of protein (7g) and probiotics in each serving.
These one-of-a-kind bars are available in six flavors -- Blueberry Acai, Cherry Almond, Toasted Coconut, Cranberry Almond, Apple & Honey, and Orchard Peach.
"We have literally traveled the globe in the last six months searching for the best ingredients and securing our supply of shelf-stable, authentic Greek Yogurt", says president & co-founder Michael Sands. "Working with the top food scientists was a must before we approved the product for launch. The hard work paid off -- the acceptance by dry grocery buyers has been incredible. They see the growth of Greek Yogurt in the refrigerated section and want to capitalize on it in their set."
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
It is no longer unusual for Israelis to travel abroad to help the sick and needy around the world, as a team of 20 doctors and medical staff did on Sunday when they flew to Tanzania to provide free heart surgeries.
But it still creates a small swell of national pride when one reads of the latest humanitarian mission, especially for those of us who are believers and see in these missions the fulfillment of God's commandment for Israel to be a blessing to the nations, not to mention Yeshua's teachings on loving both your neighbors and your enemies.
The delegation en route to Tanzania is from Save a Child's Heart (SACH), a group of doctors and medical professionals who volunteer their time to bring life-saving heart treatment to thousands of children across the Middle East and Africa.
The current mission is a very special one. The long-term goal of SACH has always been to train doctors in Arab nations and in Africa to themselves be able to perform these crucial surgeries. The team going to Tanzania is accompanied by a Dr. Godwin, the first foreign physician to complete SACH training.
"Dr. Godwin has trained extensively with us for the past 5 years, and will now return to his home country, to become the first ever pediatric heart surgeon in Tanzania," read a statement on the SACH website.
Dr. Godwin will be assisted by his own team, which also trained in Israel, and the team of 20 Israelis with him now will remain in Tanzania for two weeks to assist with the establishment of a new heart treatment program in the country.
Elsewhere in Africa, "Dr. Dudi Mishali, director of pediatric cardiac surgery at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, led a team of 11 cardiac surgeons and nurses...on a humanitarian medical mission to rural Nigeria," the hospital announced.
The team, which was made up of staff from three different hospitals in Israel, spent four days in Nigeria and performed "ten complicated surgeries on patients with congenital heart defects." The patients ranged in age from just two-months-old to 20-years-old.
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Top 5 with Lisa Foiles: Top 5 Cutest Redheads
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Lisa should prob get a new front page photo. Like the redness btw
Gotta love redheads. They warm my heart (But sadly not my bed for some time now...)
But no mention of Dragon Age's Leliana? For shame...
The Dino Crisis series had the potential to be a new and interesting twist to the Survival Horror genre. The enemies were instantly recognizable, and definitely more threatening than zombies. However, then the second game came along, raped it, and left it beaten and bloodied in an alley. Finally, the third game found it, sodomized it with a broom handle, and beat it to death with a cement block.
I still pull out the first game and play it from time to time. Even with the Gameshark, it's still one hell of a ride.
It helped that she dropped the "I'm Blonde and dumb as a sack of hammers" routine, too.
I think red hair is cute and more exotic than blond, bold or brunette. red heads FTW :D
Nobody is ragequiting your videos. At least not me. I like your new haircolor buuuut I have to say that you did look a little better as a blond. (I'm from sweden, there is blondes and polar bears everywhere up here )
ahem aren't you forgetting some one?
Rage quit? Hah no, now they're favorited lol.
Cute joke with the pulling up the top and also, looking very cute with the red hair. Darker hair probably better with lighter skin tone anyhow. Contrasts features, frames face. Also. Talking like Mordin. Should stop.
As for the list, it's nice to see a soul calibur girl find her way onto it, and yet I can't help but hate Amy for being so darned high on the tier list. I can't play Taki against her at all and have to pull out one of the sisters whenever somebody picks her.
What about Mordin Solus, he's both bald and a redhead. Think about it.
I still think Axel deserves a place in this.
Ohhh Lisa Foiles I could never rage quit any of your videos especially now your a read head
OMFG that's the same double-barred shotgun I have.
Great video, yet again.
This thread needs some Imoen love.
Oh Aeris <3
I had a wee bit of a nerdgasm when Suikoden was mentioned.
For Suikoden reference, you get a cookie. :)
Thank you so much for giving Suikoden the credit it deserves. Both I and II were simply amazing games and are still my top two RPGs of all time.
Granted there are just too many cute redheads in games to mention them all... but still, how could you forget Leliana?
As a redhead myself... I am honoured
That was fun, the intro/outro was funny as well, now let's see the hottest blondes video.
Yes, red heads are awesome.
Redheaded Lisa AND Nerf guns! Yes please! More videos like this!
You're colorblind :(
That sounds delicious... :S
Axel!!!! :D Misty!!!! (happy-ness)
thanks for the KH one , made my day X3
(Btw, Birth BY Sleep , sorry just had to X3)
brown hair is brown
How much of a pain in the ass is it to get all that silly string out of her hair, most girls wouldnt even dear letting their hair get wet in the rain let alone.
I'll be honest in saying that I think the blonde hair worked better with Lisa's skin tone, at least on camera. I'm sure opinions vary though.
Otherwise, it was a decent list, and while I started out as a serious critic (read my responses to some of her first videos) I think she'sdefinatly gotten into a good groove with the skits and lists, and has a pretty good show now. I believe I've said that before as well.
One thing I'll point out to the responses is that the topic is "cute red heads" not "hot red heads" which is a differance, and that's why I think characters like Regina were not mentioned. Not to mention that nobody can play every game out there and be familiar with all the characters, and while Dino Crisis had three installments to my knowlege I don't think it was a major success.
At any rate I think some "should have been" Nominees are omitted for the same reason as the examples given during the "why I didn't do blondes" joke. Which was funny because coming up with cute blondes as opposed to sex bombs isn't hard actually, and would probaly make for a rough list since blonde hair is a massive stereotype for innocent little girls. You see less redheads.
OT: Always entertaining as hell, Lisa. And those little skits she randomly does are refreshing.
Yay for redheads.
Still find myself contemplating if I should dye my hair the same colour as I use for my online avatars...
(But really, that Black Cherry hair is pretty complex. Blonde, brown, and pinkish red... XD)
Wow, my respect just skyrocketed for Tengaar from Suikoden being included in that list. That and for Manny from Grim Fandango in the other list.
I less than three you.
Ironically, the first one was the best. Refer to my post a few back from yours for a quick synopsis about the games.
This series just gets less and less funny, and more and more sexually tense, doesn't it? From that ridiculous hands-on-hips pose she's constantly doing to the boobulon cover-pic, and now another "I'm not even trying, lol ^_^" most attractive list.
What happened to April Ryan? I know she didn't have the best character model in the first game, but the second was cool. Plus, she was hilarious.
My god, every list has at least 3 anime games in it.
There are games outside of Japan, play them, they're better.
Wait, someone acknowledging that Suikoden exists?!?! I don't understand, I thought I was going crazy.
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California. It has been my mission to find a way to grow plants more efficiently
to produce the highest quality crops. I am a serious grower, and this is my passion.
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As the winner of Lomography's "Win You Dream Space" competition, Laura Austin has been given access to the Lomography Los Angeles Gallery space in West Hollywood, CA for the month of November and is hosting an interactive photo show titled "Everyone's A Photographer". To kick off the project there will be an opening party on November 2nd from 7-10PM in the space.
An eclectic group of 9 hand-selected artists have been given Lomography cameras in which they have used to shoot the photos that will be on display at the gallery.
Featuring: Chad Muska, Corey Smith, Jared Eberhardt, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Natas Kaupas, Ian Ruhter, Danny Zapalac, Jason Lee Parry, and Laura Austin.
In addition to the curated show there will be an open space in the gallery for the public to submit photos they have shot on a Lomo camera throughout the month of November with a chance for them to appear in the book sold at the closing event on November 29th.
Free drinks courtesy of Pabst, Peligroso Tequila and O.N.E. Coconut Water with DJ Aaron Castle & others spinning through out the night.
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Bacardi launches first collection of aged sipping rums from its private reserves
When Bacardi family members get together to dine or share after-dinner cigars, they sip exclusive, aged rums poured from their private reserves.
Now, their namesake company is unleashing to the public a collection of four such luxury sipping rums, culled from the company's 151-year-old history of rum-making.
Priced from $45 to $250, the new Facundo Rum Collection — named for company founder Don Facundo Bacardi Massó — will be sold in limited quantities at select stores and restaurants in Miami and New York, beginning in mid-November. The line represents a significant departure from Bacardi's popularly priced rums and follows a national trend of spirits aimed at luxury markets.
"Rum aficionados, rum drinkers are going to be surprised with the flavor profiles of these rums," said Facundo L. Bacardi, great great-grandson of founder Don Facundo and chairman of Bermuda-based Bacardi Limited, whose U.S. headquarters are located in Coral Gables.
The four rums, aged up to 23 years, have been under development secretly for the past few years and were crafted from the Bacardi family's reserves of 300 variants of rums. Bacardi Master Blender Manny Oliver said he came up with the final blends after numerous variations and tasting sessions.
During a party celebrating the company's 150th anniversary last year in Puerto Rico, the family decided to launch the collection. Now in its eighth generation, the family counts about 600 members.
"The 150th anniversary celebration was a time of introspection and reflection for family members," Facundo L. Bacardi said. "There was a consensus that now is the time to share this with our customers."
Juan del Busto and Robert Burr, local members of the International Rum Expert Panel, participated in tastings as the new products were developed. .
"It was like James Bond rum — it was considered a secret project," said Burr, who hosts the annual Miami Rum Festival and leads the 37-member panel.
"Rum has always been considered accessible or common, but in the last five or eight years we have seen some of the world's greatest master blenders suddenly be allowed to create something that is a prestige product," he said.
Founded in 1862 in Santiago de Cuba, Bacardi ranks as the top rum brand in the world and the second-largest spirits brand after Smirnoff Vodka, according to Adam Rogers, senior analyst at the Beverage Information Group.
The new rums — one light and three dark and named Neo, Eximo, Exquisito, and Paraíso — are designed to be sipped slowly. All are made from three ingredients: sugarcane molasses, water, and yeast — the same proprietary yeast Bacardi has used for the past 151 years, said Oliver, who has been with Bacardi for 37 years.
The rums are encased in heavy glass bottles, each with a different Art Deco motif that "harkens back to the glory days of Cuba" and the company's heritage, said Toby Whitmoyer, vice president and brand managing director for rum at Bacardi U.S.A.
Even for those familiar with Bacardi rums, the taste of these is distinctive.
"People are going to say 'Wow, that doesn't taste like the last Bacardi I tried,' and it will cause them to reevaluate their perception of the company and what they can do," Burr said.
Neo, one of the oldest light rums available in the market, aged up to eight years, retails for $45, and has "oaky notes, along with fruity and floral notes," Oliver said.
Eximo, a blend of medium-to-heavy-bodied rums, is aged 10 years in oak barrels and retails for $60. It is the only one of the collection that was blended before aging. That process allows the blender to tailor the flavor and aroma before it is aged to better marry the blends, but is a potentially riskier proposition because the end result is initially unknown. Oliver describes it as having notes of walnuts and vanilla.
Exquisito, a medium-to-heavy-bodied rum, made with a blend of seven to 23 year-old rums, was aged, blended, and then stored in sherry casks. Its quantity is limited because rum begins to evaporate as it ages and lose as much as 90 percent during a 23-year span. It has additional spicy notes of cinnamon, cloves, and prune, Oliver said. It retails for $90.
Paraíso, the most expensive at $250 a bottle, is a blend of Bacardi's private reserves' finest rums, aged 15 to 23 years. After aging, the rums are finished in French cognac barrels. It has a lot of spicy notes, like cloves and cinnamon, Oliver said.
"These rums flow excellently from when you taste it to when you finish," said del Busto, a retired former regional executive of the Federal Reserve Miami branch. He now counts Exquisito and Paraíso among the top 10 within his collection of 1,500 rums.
Bacardi's new line is aimed at a sophisticated target market of luxury-goods consumers — "someone who would take the time to savor the rum," Whitmoyer said. The first year, just 1,500 cases, or 18,000 bottles, of all four types in total, will be released.
In South Florida, the rums will be available at high-end restaurants and hotels, including Juvia, the SLS Hotel South Beach, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and the Delano South Beach, and certain liquor stores, including Top Hat Wine & Spirits 2 in Southwest Miami-Dade and Portofino Wine Bank in South Beach.
Launching in New York and Miami is fitting: the metropolitan areas rank as the largest and second-largest in rum sales nationwide, Rogers said. In fact, sales of rum in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach reached 987,000 cases last year, representing 3.7 percent of the nation's total rum sales, he said.
"You want people who are not rum drinkers to discover rum and start drinking it, and these do that," del Busto said. "I think the public is going to be surprised when they start drinking this entire line. I think the accolades are going to be coming pretty fast."


text: Jon I'm replying to Don's post since he outlines most of the reasons why I choose to use the NFS-mounted approach and let you choose weather or not you want a local disk(s) for scratch. Which brings up the _real_ questions: - how many nodes - are they all identical - how many users concurrently using the cluster? - do you have assigned full-time staff responsible for the cluster (as in, hired in-house staff that will be there to maintain the cluster). As an example, I'm a student managing a cluster at our department and converted it from disk-based RH 7.3 to NFS-booted Gentoo nodes. This has given me much flexibility and a very fast path to upgrade the nodes (LIVE!) since they would only need to be rebooted if I changed the kernel. I can install/upgrade the node's environment by simply chrooting into it and using the node's package manager and utilities as if it were a regular system). But I am in a special case where, if I break the cluster, I can fix it quickly and I always have a backup copy of the boot "root" image ready to switch to if my fiddling goes wrong. This also implies users aren't on the cluster when I arbitrarily decide to change the compiler from GCC-4.1.1 to GCC-4.3.2 ;) Hence the few points I mention above and the weighted importance of each of them. This said, one thing I haven't seen (explicitly) mentioned in all the replies is that you don't need a 1 to 1 correlation of OS/RAM, this is where you use Unionfs (or aufs) + an NFS-mounted root. I am currently writing up a document on how I accomplish this (Gentoo Clustering LiveCD), I'll give you a link to the beta version of the document if you want. The section describing the SSI (Single System Image) gives more details of what is discussed here. Eric Donald Becker wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Jon Forrest wrote: > > >> There are two philosophies on where a compute node's >> OS and basic utilities should be located: >> 1) On a local harddrive >> 2) On a RAM disk >> I'd like to start a discussion on the positives >> and negatives of each approach. I'll throw out >> a few. >> >> Both approaches require that a compute node "distribution" >> be maintained on the frontend machine. In both cases >> it's important to remember to make any changes to this >> distribution rather than just using "pdsh" or "tentakel" >> to dynamically modify a compute node. This is so that the >> next time the compute node boots, it gets the uptodate >> distribution. >> > > Ahhh, your first flawed assumption. > > You believe that the OS needs to be statically provisioned to the nodes. > That is incorrect. > > A compute node only needs what it will actually be running > - a kernel and device drivers that match the hardware > - kernel support for non-hardware-specific features (e.g. ext3 FS) > - a file system that presents a standard application environment > (The configuration files that the libraries depend upon > e.g. a few files in /etc/*, a /dev/* that matches the hardware, > a few misc. directories) > - the application executable and libraries it links against > - application-specific file I/O environment (usually /tmp/ and a > few data directories) > > You can detect the first and most of the second category at node boot > time. The kernel is loaded into memory and kernel modules are > immediately linked in, so there isn't any reason to keep them around as a > file system. > > The third category does need to be a file system, but it's tiny and > changes infrequently. It can easily provisioned, or even dynamically > created, at node boot. > > The fourth category is an interesting one. You don't have to statically > provision it at boot time, or mount a network file system. When you issue > a process to a node, the system that accepts the process can check that > it has the needed executable and libraries. Better, it can verify that it > has the correct versions. And this is the best time to check, because we > can ask the sending machine for a current copy if we don't have the > correct version. By having a model for "execution correctness" we > simultaneously eliminate one source of version skew and eliminate the need > to pre-load executables and libraries that will be unused or updated > before use. Plus we automatically have a way to handling newly added > applications, libraries and utilities without rebooting compute nodes. > > > >> Assuming the actual OS image is the same in both cases, >> #2 clearly requires more memory than #1. >> > > No, it can require substantially less. It only requires more if you > assume the naive approach of building a giant RAMdisk with everything you > might need. If you think of an alternative model where you are just > caching the elements needed to do a job, the memory usage is less. > > Think of a compute node as part of a cluster, not a stand-alone machine. > The only times that it is asked to do something new (boot, accept a new > process) it's communicating with a fully installed, up-to-date master > node. It has, at least temporarily, complete access to a reference > install. It can take that opportunity to cache or load elements that > doesn't have, or has an obsolete version of. > > There might be some dynamic elements needed later e.g. name service > look-ups, but these should be much smaller than the initial provisioning > and the correct/consistency model is inherently looser. > > >> Long ago not installing a local harddrive saved a considerable >> about of money but this isn't true anymore. Systems that need >> to page (or swap) will require a harddrive anyway since paging >> over the network isn't fast enough so very few compute nodes >> will be running diskless. >> > > The hardware cost of a local hard drive wasn't really an issue. It has > always been the least expensive I/O bandwidth available. The real cost is > installing, updating and backing up the drive. If you design a cluster > system that installs on a local disk, it's very difficult to adapt it to > diskless blades. If you design a system that is as efficient without > disks, it's trivial to optionally mount disks for caching, temporary files > or application I/O. > > >> Approach #2 requires much less time when a node is installed, >> and a little less time when a node is booted. >> > > We've been able to start diskless compute nodes in > <BIOS memory count> + <PXE 2 seconds> + 750 milliseconds (!) > > To be fair, that was on blades without disk controllers, and just > Ethernet. Scanning for local disks, especially with a SCSI layer, can > take many seconds. Once you detect a disk it takes a bunch of slow seeks > to read the partition table and mount a modern file system (not EXT2). > So trimming the system initialization time further isn't a priority until > after the file system and IB init times are shortened. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20080930/30dcd7d4/attachment.html>


text: Security consultant Ben McCall is alone. His wife and unborn child are dead, victims of an assassination attempt meant for someone else. He blames himself. Grieving, he disappears, dead to almost everyone and everything from his past. When his best friend is in danger Ben resurfaces, only to find his friend isn't the target of a murderer, he is.Grace Adams is one of the walking wounded. A pain specialist who treats cancer patients, she's lost her new husband to leukemia. One night she finds herself incapacitated by a severe headache. From out of nowhere a man comes to her aid. He's the man she fell in love with years before, Ben McCall. As the passion between them reignites, Grace too becomes a target of the madman who stalks Ben.Now it's not just their rekindled love at stake, it's their very lives.A full-length romance suspense.


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SEATTLE — Before serial killer Israel Keyes ended his life in an Alaska jail cell in 2012, he talked about leaving behind a trail of death.
The FBI Tuesday released more information about its investigation into the former Washington state man.
The interactive page is complete with video, a timeline and a pin map of Keyes' movements. It reflects results of the investigation that the FBI continues to pursue in conjunction with law enforcement agencies around the country.
Keyes lived in Washington from 2001 to 2007. Investigators believe Keyes is responsible for at least 11 homicides. Among other killings, he claimed to have killed at least one person and dumped the body in Lake Crescent on the Olympic Peninsula.
"He gave us a number of clues," Anchorage-based special agent Jolene Goeden said in a press release. "He talked openly about some of the homicides, but much of what he said only hinted at the things he had done. So we are trying to get information out there about what he did tell us. We are letting the public know the types of cars he rented, towns he visited, campgrounds he frequented. Anything that might spur someone's memory could help us."
The FBI's Seattle office has been working with local police and tribal officers in Washington, reviewing unsolved homicides and missing persons cases.
The investigation has all but ruled out Keyes as being responsible for the still-unsolved murders of a Seattle mother and her daughter while they were hiking on the flanks of Mt. Pilchuck in 2006, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich said Tuesday.
"Based on that review, FBI investigators find that it is highly unlikely that Mr. Keyes is connected to the tragic deaths of Mary Cooper and her daughter Susanna Stodden on July 11, 2006 on the Pinnacle Lake Trail in Snohomish County, Washington," she said in a press release.
Cooper, 56, and Stodden, 27, were fatally shot and left deep in the woods along a hiking trail. Snohomish County sheriff's detectives continue to search for whoever killed the pair.
The FBI urged anyone with information about the killings of Cooper and Stodden to call the sheriff's office tip line at (425) 388-3845 or Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound toll-free at 800-CRIME13 (800-274-6313).


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by Tom Utescher
Going back a number of years, former Penn Charter girls soccer coach Eddie Mensah didn't hesitate to start players as young as ninth grade – or even eighth grade – if he felt they were up to the task.
These athletes started to truly come of age in 2012, when the Quakers finished second both in the Girls Inter-Ac League and in the Pa. Independent Schools Championships, and despite graduating four players from that team, PC is back this fall with a talented roster and plenty of varsity experience.
In addition, the team also has an excellent new coaching staff to lead them into the 2013 campaign. A former Division I and professional soccer player, head coach Darci Borski is also the new Associate Athletic Director at Penn Charter (see feature story in the 6/20/13 LOCAL).
Borski is a product of the strong soccer tradition in Northeast Philadelphia, as is assistant Ashley Maher, who played high school ball for St. Hubert's and then joined the team at Division I Seton Hall University. The Quakers' other assistant coach, Kellyn Jaspan, played for Germantown Academy and then returned to the Patriots as an assistant coach for four seasons during Borski's tenure as GA head coach.
Leadership on the field for the Quakers will come from the senior tri-captains, Kristina Kubach, Stephanie Soroka, and Leigh Steinberg. Lauren Dimes is another skilled, experienced senior, and the fifth 12th-grader on the roster, Julia Casasanto, is just completing her recovery from a broken leg she suffered last fall. Aside from Casasanto, all of the seniors started in Charter's home field scrimmage against Little Flower Catholic High School last Friday afternoon.
Eliza Jacobs also got the starting nod; her companions in the team's junior class are Abigail Evans, Maddie Mahoney and Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate Colleen Clark.
Dominique DeMarco and National Team player Jlon Flippens are both sophomores who have been starting for the squad since they were in eighth grade. Two of their classmates, Hannah Fox and Ayanna Matthews, are great all-round athletes who've been first-string players for the PC basketball team since they were eighth-graders.
Another 10th grader, Josie Dutton, is a new student at Penn Charter, but she stepped right into a starting role last Friday, when Matthews also joined Flippens and DeMarco on the field for the opening whistle.
Once again, the Quakers' starting line-up included an eighth-grade athlete – DeMarco's younger sister, Giovanna.
The one position where PC doesn't have a lot of varsity experience is in the nets. After each of the last two seasons, the team has seen its starting goalie graduate the next spring. Sophomore Alexa Herskowitz has spent time in the cage in JV competition, but Coach Borski's other prospect is a rookie in goal.
Freshman Mireyah Davis is a new arrival on School House Lane who is primarily a basketball player, but her height (5'11"), reflexes, and game sense indicate that she'll be quick study as a keeper. She got the start on Friday, and Herskowitz played the second half against Little Flower.
As soon as the scrimmage got underway, Flippens shell-shocked the visitors by scoring a goal in each of the first two minutes of action. She soon completed a natural hat trick to make it 3-0 just over five minutes in, but then Little Flower regrouped and began to play with more poise and physical control.
Five minutes into the second half Flippens almost made it 4-0, but on a run into the right side of the box her shot tracked just outside of the far post. Four minutes later, she crossed the ball toward the goalmouth from the same side, and making a well-timed run for the tap-in was Giovanna DeMarco, netting her first varsity goal at Penn Charter. However, PC's four-goal advantage lasted less than a minute, as the Sentinels went right up the field to finally snap the shutout.
Flippens did eventually notch a fourth goal in the contest, scoring from close range off an entry pass by Dulton. Little Flower answered that goal to make it 5-2, and that's they way it ended after another promising shot by the visitors struck the right post with 10 minutes to go.


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Thursday, November 12, 2009
I smell Christmas
10 comments:
Isn't being a Mom the absolute best? There is no greater joy then to see your child grow and develop....she is beautiful :)ReplyDelete
She is precious. I can see how much you love that little bundle.ReplyDelete
Cute dress too!!!!!!
what a sweet, precious little outfit!ReplyDelete
She is adorable and you are very luckyReplyDelete
Hug her tight...I just registered out oldest for college and omgoodness...he was a little fellow not that long ago.ReplyDelete
I love her eyes! You are blessed!
She reminds me of my daughter, who is now 14. It seems like yesterday she was just a baby! We are still very close and I enjoy every minute with her.ReplyDelete
Sophia is adorable!
What a sweetie! Yes, our children are our blessings!ReplyDelete
what a great blog ;-) She is a beauty I love the dress! I found my girls dresses last year at khols after Christmas.. I should dig them out and make sure they will fit everyone! aren't little girls fun. Did you make her hair bow? I love itReplyDelete
adorable dress!ReplyDelete
and Sophia is a sweetie ! There will be lots of squeals of delight on Christmas morning at our house...I love the delight in the eyes of children , still half asleep, then their eyes nearly pop out of their head when they spot their gifts under the tree!
the dress is perfect for her! and you are right, don't blink!!ReplyDelete
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Received this in an email.
Spammed it out to all that I know… at the same time PRAYING and HOPING the content is untrue or will not come true.
If you agree with me, please do the same.
ABU's video here is in line with the email.
_____________________Content of the Email___________________________
Email , post on FB / Twitter / Blogs this message to as many voters as possible.
PRU13 – BN has received report that they will lose. Now the campaign will get dirtier, including all media carrying content to incite fear and hatred. The Rakyat must counter this by staying clam, vote early and vote in full force on 5th May. Inikalilah!! Pls send to as many people as possible.
_________________________Rumour from a source privy to BN's internal intelligence Report as of last weekend (28 April),
The report stated – BN will lose majority seats in Parliament … Pakatan Rakyat will win enough seats to form the new Federal Government.
So starts what will be dirtier than an already dirty campaign for PRU13.
Among the rumoured desperate last gasp moves by UMNO/BN will include:
1) Create shortage of supply at markets and supermarkets – cooking oil, sugar, rice, salt etc… to propagate the feeling of people storing up in case of Emergency.
2) Broadcast the film "Tanda Putera" (about May13, 1969) on ALL mainstream TV and cable stations starting Thursday/Friday (2nd/3rd May 2013) to incite anger among the Malays and fear among the non-malays.
Hoping to keep urban non-malay voters at home on polling day… and also inciting the unthinkable come 6th May if BN loses power.
3) Creating more politically motivated violent incidents around the country.
4) Playing up (even more) on the DAP + PAS issues in the media.