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FAU Community Health Center Receives Quantum Foundation Grant to Increase Healthcare Access in Westgate Community
The Westgate community has long been recognized as a vulnerable, medically underserved area in need of a location providing accessible and comprehensive health services. To help increase healthcare access for this community, Quantum Foundation recently awarded a grant of $205,000 to the FAU Community Health Center, a center of Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing.
The Center was established in January of 2014 to provide all-inclusive primary care and mental health services, as well as social services for children and adults in the underserved region.
"The grant will enable us to increase access to healthcare services offered in Westgate and will also increase the number of College of Nursing students who can contribute to the center and gain community healthcare experience," said Eugenia Millender, director of the FAU Community Health Center. "We are so pleased Quantum Foundation has funded this important project, allowing us to expand our healthcare programs and train our future community-based healthcare workers."
The Quantum Foundation grant will allow for a growth in the number of people with access to healthcare in Westgate; increase the number of early screening and prevention services provided in Westgate; and help to raise the number of College of Nursing students with community healthcare services experience.
"Healthcare is top of mind for many people in the county. Quantum Foundation is focused on ensuring that we have a robust pipeline of committed, highly-skilled healthcare workers for years to come," said Quantum Foundation President Eric M. Kelly. "That passion for a healthcare career starts with our young people, and Quantum Foundation funds initiatives from primary and secondary schools through medical residency programs to ensure our communities benefit from a healthcare workforce that wants to practice and care for people right here in our county."
With more than 750 patients served since opening its doors, the Community Health Center provides all-inclusive primary care and mental health services, including well-child services, chronic disease management, nutrition services, laboratory services and more. The Center also encompasses the FAU Diabetes Education and Research Center, which focuses on diabetes care and education for children and adults.
For more information on the FAU Community Health Center or to make an appointment, call 561-803-8880 or visit www.faucommunityhealthcenter.org.
Former Keetoowah Cherokee Chief Jim Henson to be Awarded Honorary Doctorate by FAU
Florida Atlantic University will bestow an honorary doctorate on Jim Henson, a former tribal chief of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, for his extensive work promoting the health and wellbeing of Native Americans and indigenous people worldwide at the summer commencement ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. at the Carole and Barry Kaye Auditorium, FAU Student Union, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
Most recently, Henson collaborated with a Native American professor, John Lowe, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, of FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing in securing a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year research project to test the effectiveness of the Native American Talking Circle approach in preventing substance abuse in Native American youth. The project will focus on sixth graders in three tribal communities: the Ojibwe/Chippewa in Minnesota, the Choctaw in Oklahoma and the Lumbee in North Carolina. Project sessions will work toward increasing students' cultural identity as Native Americans while decreasing substance abuse. Tribal personnel in the three regions will be trained on implementing the Talking Circle as a permanent intervention tool in their communities.
Annually, about 150 FAU nursing students engage with Henson during their intensive clinical practicum rotation in the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians' capital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Henson is also a frequent guest lecturer at the College, presenting to faculty and students on Native American culture and consulting on various research projects. During a visit to the Boca Raton campus, he conducted a Talking Circle for members of the FAU community.
"We are so pleased that the University is recognizing Chief Jim Henson with an honorary doctorate," said Marlaine Smith, Ph.D., dean of FAU's College of Nursing. "His tireless effort and expertise in working with indigenous populations around the world has been an asset to the College."


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Ultrafine Particles Come Under the Microscope
Nanotechnology is an umbrella term for the science and technology of controlling the structure and properties of materials and systems at the scale of 10-9 meters , 1/100,000 the width of a human hair, or less than 0.1 . Growth projections for nanotechnology applications are 33% a year, according to the National Science Foundation, which has estimated that by 2015 such applications may total $1 trillion in the global economy. The federal government's support of nanotechnology is illustrated by Congress's swift enactment of The 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act on Dec. 3, 2003. This authorizes $3.7 billion over four years in federal support for nanotechnology.
The strong growth prospects of nanotechnology are prompting an increase in government attention to the potential health effects of nano- and other ultrafine particles (UFPs), which can be even smaller: less than 0.01 . So, this column reviews this interest and the nascent stage of research into these health effects.
Are there health risks?
Research so far on health effects is limited. Some studies link UFPs with respiratory tract toxicity and indicate that UFPs pose a greater risk of producing an inflammatory response in the lungs than larger particles. These studies show the ability of UFPs to cross the blood-brain barrier, which has the potential to adversely affect the central nervous system. Most recently, on June 1, the American Heart Association issued a statement that exposure to airborne particulate matter poses an increased risk of death due to heart disease. According to the statement, several studies link a greater incidence of heart disease with exposure to particulate pollution. Some experts say that such UFPs ultimately may present a far more substantial health threat than particulate byproducts of nanotechnology applications.
Researchers recommend undertaking inhalation studies to try to discover the operative toxicity mechanisms causing these adverse effects. The federal government agrees, and several federal agencies, including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the National Toxicity Program (NTP), EPA, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are engaged in such research.
Some work will focus specifically on nanomaterials. For instance, NTP intends to evaluate in research animals the toxic and carcinogenic potential of inhalation exposure to quantum dots (tiny devices that contain a droplet of free electrons) and nanotubes. EPA also is slated to initiate $4 million in research beginning in fiscal year 2004 to investigate the toxicology of certain manufactured nanomaterials.
Occupational hazards also are a primary focus of current government concern. NIOSH has staked out nanotechnology as a key research area and is now developing a National Nanotechnology Research Center to coordinate its research initiatives. NIOSH acknowledges that more research is necessary to understand the effects of exposure to nanoparticles.
Another area NIOSH has identified for further study is the potential toxicity of nanoparticles that contact skin. In vitro assays have yielded strong evidence of oxidative stress and the destruction of dermal cell structure. Further research is needed to understand the relationship between nanoparticles and dermal sensitization or irritation.
The research now underway will shed more light on the toxicity of UFPs and nanoparticles. Companies employing or planning to use nanotechnology should monitor these developments to ensure that their practices and hazard communication strategies remain current and fully reflect health effects research in these areas.
By Lynn Bergeson, regulatory editor. She is a founding shareholder of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., a Washington, D.C.-based law firm concentrating on chemical industry issues. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author.
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Levar has lost his job. Now he gets to broadcast illegally from his place. Watch out Levar.
Rated 4 / 5 stars March 11, 2006
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Tehhee, that stuff is sick, twisted and well funny. reading rainbow is not for the light hearted, especially this one. Its a laugh, so I liked it.
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In the sequel to one of the funniest series on Newgrounds, we are treated to another hilarious parody of one of the world's favorite children's shows, Reading Rainbow! Having seen this several years ago, I must say it brings back memories, when artwork was not the only thing that determined whether or not the movie was good, but rather also on humor and plot. It's goofy and deranged at best, the artwork is incredibly basic and basically poor. The audio really makes you laugh at the poorness, the bleeping, and how it makes you think it is real at times. It's something to see, from the past - to the future.
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RSMA is an adapted military service regiment. SMA is military service carried out overseas, where there are high levels of unemployment among young people. SMA offers them training so that they can find a job at the end of their one-year contract. They are all volunteers, with an average age of 18 to 20.
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Enterprise Networks
Converged Access (BYOD and mDNS)
Trustsec, ISE and the Catalyst 3850 combine to facilitate on-boarding for both wired and wireless devices. This integrated approach enables ease of policy setting across all types of users, devices and networks. Prime Infrastructure 2.0, Aironet 3600 Access Point and Catalyst 3850 work together to deliver one comprehensive management solution for wired and wireless networks simplifying operations and providing complete control. Catalyst 3850 enhances the way wired and wireless is controlled, managed and monitored. Learn about consistent workflows to adopt for BYOD, enable application optimisation, enforce business policies and gain network-wide visibility across wired and wireless, while achieving high resiliency and unmatched scale.
802.11AC Mobility (Local Profiling, HA, 11ac)
Cisco is first to market with the new 802.11ac standard - providing faster throughput to devices on WiFi networks on the new 3700 Series Access point. Providing unprecedented availability and ensure performance and reliability at every point of your wireless network. High Availability on Wireless LAN Controller minimises the downtime without impacting the business critical applications. It shows seamless transition of the clients and APs from the active controller to the standby controller. Client Stateful Switch Over (Client SSO) in Wireless LAN Controller shows that active client doesn't need to re-authenticate when the primary controller goes down.
iPAD and Android devices access network are profiled by the wireless controller (5508) and ISE assigns security policy based on the profiled identified by the controller. Based on the device type customised URLs are available for IPAD , Android devices access. Integration with RADIUS server and Bonjour gateway services also shown.
Instant Access
The Cisco Catalyst Instant Access Solution simplifies campus or large branch network deployment and operations. IT staff can deploy access switches instantly through a single touch point with feature and configuration consistency.
Campus LISP and IPv6
Improve campus-addressing flexibility with Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). LISP is a routing architecture that provides new semantics for IP addressing across traditional campus boundaries.
Cloud Services Router (FlexVPN)
The Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series comprises single-tenant software routers in virtual form factor that deliver WAN gateway functionality to multitenant, provider-hosted clouds. The CSR allows enterprises to extend a WAN to off-premises Clouds and Cloud providers to offer enterprise-class use cases.
Intelligent WAN – Cisco Performance Routing (PfR)
Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) delivers an uncompromised user experience over any connection. Now, you can benefit from the right-size connections for your branch offices, while gaining operational simplicity with lower costs. Performance Routing (PfR) complements traditional routing technologies by using the intelligence of a Cisco IOS infrastructure to improve application performance and availability. PfR can select the best path for each application based upon advanced criteria such as, reachability, delay, loss, jitter, and mean opinion score (MOS).
Office in a Box – UCS-E SeriesHighlights the comprehensive service integration available on the Cisco Integrated Services Router 4451-X with Cisco UCS E Series server module.
Application Visibility and Control
The Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) solution is a suite of services in Cisco network devices that provides application-level classification, monitoring, and traffic control. See how this can improve business-critical application performance, support capacity management and planning, reduce network operating costs.
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module
SDN promises great improvements in network agility, ease of deployment, and manageability. Ultimately, it can lower your cost of operations. The key to realising the benefits of SDN is policy model that allows the abstraction of the underlying complexity of network elements. In this model, the controller is responsible for translating business intent (expressed through policy) into network configuration.
Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) EN module automates the translation of business intent (how applications communicate) into network configuration. Learn how the Cisco APIC Enterprise Module enables a policy based approach to the operation of enterprise networks, that extends the policy model from the DC to the end user. Industry experts will share their real-world experiences and demonstrate multiple solutions across the data center, WAN, and access domains as well with third party ecosystem development partners. This will to help you formulate your own SDN strategy.
Next Generation IPS - Threat Defence
The Sourcefire Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) arms security teams with the protection needed in today's rapidly changing environments. Based on core competencies of real-time contextual awareness, automation and advanced threat protection, NG IPS reduces the surface area of attack through granular control while offering total visibility of the network.
Next Generation Firewall – Visibility and Control
The Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) helps your customers to provide greater visibility and security without compromise. With Cisco's ASA 5500-X Series NGFW, you can run multiple advanced security services (application control, web security, intrusion prevention, AnyConnect, and cloud web security) combined with the industry's most proven, widely deployed stateful inspection firewall. Cisco ASA 5500-X Next-Generation Firewall delivers greater security to protect your organisation against misuse of user behaviour, applications, threats and more. Cisco Prime Security Manager helps organisations reduce management complexity with simple, unified management of core ASA functions like firewall/NAT and NGFW Services including Application Visibility and Control (AVC), Web Security Essentials (WSE), and NGFW IPS.
Next Gen Data Centre Security
Cisco provides the most comprehensive data centre security solutions in the industry, designed to address the three key issues every data centre administrator faces: Provisioning security in a simple and timely manner; Performance designed to keep up with the most dynamic data centre environments; and real time protection from the latest threats. Learn how Cisco has redesigned security, simplified management, and woven it directly into the fabric of the data centre, whether it is a Nexus physical or virtual environment, or Cisco's new Application Centric Infrastructure. Cisco's data centre security solutions provide instant provisioning, dynamically scalable performance, and comprehensive protection for today's evolving data centres.Featured Products and Technologies:
- Cisco ASA 5585-X with enhanced multi-site, 16-device clustering and up to 640 gbps performance
- Cisco's new Virtual ASA (ASAv), with fully independent hypervisor and vSwitch performance and dynamic scalability
- Cisco ACI Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Cisco Nexus 7000 switches
- Cisco Nexus 1000V hypervisor
- Cisco Identity Services Engine
- Cisco UCS Controller
Policy-Based Firewall – Rule Simplification
One of many TrustSec use cases, this demo illustrates the automatic security provisioning of new servers or VMs that allows for user access to new workloads through firewalls. This greatly simplifies adding new server resources, administration and auditing.
Service Provider
Cisco MATE: Design & Live NfV Automation & Orchestration
This demonstration shows capacity planning and predictive modelling with the MATE software portfolio. Cisco MATE software offers a complete solution for offline and online data collection in a single platform. It helps to improve network planning and analytics by gathering and maintaining information on infrastructure elements, topology, operational states, and traffic statistics. At the demo booth SMEs will show you how intuitive MATE is to use and answer all implementation questions.
Open Daylight Controller
With the exponential growth in network traffic, IT needs a way to give applications direct control over the underlying network infrastructure. We've addressed this need by introducing programmability functions and a controller/forwarding plane architecture as part of the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) architecture. The Cisco eXtensible Network Controller (XNC) is a Java application that operates on any Linux-based x86 server, such as those in the Cisco Unified Computing System.
Cisco Meraki Wired and Wireless
Join us for an introduction to Cisco Meraki and our cloud managed networking products, including wireless access points, security appliances, and switches. You'll learn how cloud networking offers greater reliability, easier management, and a lower TCO - and we'll show you a live demo of the exciting features in the Meraki dashboard.
Cisco Prime Carrier Management and Fulfilment
Cisco Prime for Enterprise is an innovative strategy and portfolio of management products that empower IT departments to more effectively manage their networks and the services they deliver. Cisco Prime is built upon a network services management foundation and a set of common attributes. Cisco Prime supports integrated lifecycle management of networks, services, and endpoints for Cisco Borderless Network, Data Centre, and Collaboration architectures with end-to-end assurance. It helps IT departments achieve:
- Improved operational efficiencies: Reduce network errors, speed troubleshooting, and improve the delivery of network services.
- Reduced operating expenses: Speed deployments, minimise IT staffing, and reduce training requirements with easy-to-use tools, workflows, and automated best practices that simplify network management.
- Lower capital expenditures: Make the most of network investments through converged management and cross-integration with existing operations, systems, and northbound processes.
- Enhanced service levels: Gain end-to-end visibility and service-aware networking and assurance that simplifies troubleshooting and make the delivery of services more predictable.
IT Operations Centre
Cyber Range
Because cyber security threats have become more complex, targeted, and persistent, they pose a serious ongoing challenge to your business. Security hardware and software products alone are insufficient to stop today's most advanced attacks. Modern cyber defenses require proactive security operations run by highly trained staff with the experience and expertise to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats. Staff with the right skills and experience are in high demand and short supply.
The Cisco® Cyber Range Service helps security staff build the skills and experience necessary to combat modern cyber threats. Based on real-world conditions, Cyber Range provides a synthetic war-gaming environment that allows staff to play the role of both attacker and defender in order to learn the latest methods of vulnerability exploitations and the use of advanced tools and techniques to mitigate and uproot threats.Primary benefits include:
- Real-life experience reacting to and defending against rudimentary and complex cyber attacks, including advanced persistent threats (APTs)
- Deeper understanding of leading security methodologies, operations, and procedures
- Advanced skills in deploying proven protection models and utilising the latest security tools and techniques
- Building teamwork and responsibility management in order to balance workload and bring focus to core competencies
Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Collaboration
Cisco Prime for Enterprise is an innovative strategy and portfolio of management products empowering IT departments to more effectively manage their networks and the services they deliver. Cisco Prime is built upon a network services management foundation and a set of common attributes. Cisco Prime supports integrated lifecycle management of networks, services, and endpoints for Cisco Borderless Network, Data Centre, and Collaboration architectures with end-to-end assurance. It helps IT departments to achieve:
- Improved operational efficiencies: Reduce network errors, speed troubleshooting, and improve the delivery of network services.
- Reduced operating expenses: Speed deployments, minimise IT staffing, and reduce training requirements with easy-to-use tools, workflows, and automated best practices that simplify network management.
- Lower capital expenditures: Make the most of network investments through converged management and cross-integration with existing operations, systems, and northbound processes.
- Enhanced service levels: Gain end-to-end visibility and service-aware networking and assurance that simplifies troubleshooting and make the delivery of services more predictable.
Data Centre Network Management (DCNM)
The demonstration highlights the benefits of Cisco's Prime Data Center Manager (DCNM) latest release and how it manages the Cisco Unified Fabric. DCNM optimizes the overall uptime and reliability of the data center infrastructure and helps improve business continuity.
Connected Mobile Experience
Harness the power of BYOD through advanced location analytics to provide an online, connected customer experience that extends to the device, in and out of a retail environment.
Internet of Things
Imagine the possibilities the Internet of Things (IoT) brings when the network plays a critical role for control and operational systems, sensors, machines, and devices. Creating a connectivity platform, discover how the IoT helps you gather data from more places in your operation so you can increase efficiency and improve safety and security. Visit the IoT booth in the Cisco stand to see how the Internet and networks are expanding to places such as manufacturing floors, energy grids, and railway systems.
- IoT Cisco Solutions: End-to-end portfolio for operational technology.
- Aquatic Demo: Cisco ruggedized products tested underwater.
- Substation Automation Solutions: Addressing security concerns for grid control systems and extending enterprise-class wide area network (WAN) capabilities to substation networks.
Internet of Everything
You'll gain insights into how the Internet of Everything brings people, processes, data, and things together to grow businesses, create and expand new markets, and help people work better together.
- Brand Experience Wall
- Two standalone kiosks that feature an interactive asset, which showcases how IoE effects daily life. Four chapters that tell the story of connected life, connected car, connected roadways and connected cities
- Interactive Experience Zone
- Internet of Everything Destination Site - global destination site for the Internet of Everything conversation, Learn/See/Explore/Customize
- Connect This With That Widget - choose two seemingly unconnected items below and explore the many potentialities of the future
- Market Industry Trends:
- Cloud - IT Consumption Models Interactive Infographic in partnership with Intel®, went in search of the bigger cloud picture. Navigate through the findings and see the impact of cloud on the future of IT come into focus. Notice the trends that represent each global area's unique perspective as you browse the insights, region by region.
- Mobility - BYOD Assessment Tool, answer six questions to measure your enterprise adoption of BYOD
- SDN – "Day in the Life of a CIO" IN PROCESS, The Internet of Everything is creating tremendous opportunities and challenges for organizations. Follow the journey and see how you can capture your share of the value of connecting people, process, data, and things.
Learn from Cisco Services experts how to get the most value from your network, IT, and communications investments. Our engineers will engage you with interactive demos and discuss your projects and challenges, showing you how Services from Cisco and our partners can help you reduce operating costs, increase network availability, and optimise network performance.
Technical Assistance Centre – TAC, Global Logistics & Hardware Replacement
Using technology, social media and geographical mapping to solve your problems faster. Come along to the TAC stand and discover our new mobile support application. This application can show you how many service requests you have open, can locate exactly where your replacement hardware is and put you in direct contact with the Cisco engineer assigned to help you.
Smart Analytics, Smart Services & Focused Technical Support
With the explosion of data from the proliferation of cloud services, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things, high-performance networks are essential for the rapid delivery of advanced business services and for accelerating insights from big data analytics. Is your network ready? Cisco provides a portfolio of network analytics to help customers realize maximum performance and value from their network investment.
We combine proactive, machine to machine support with the expertise of our Technical Engineers to ensure that your network and all it's connected devices are working well together.
Give yourself peace of mind to concentrate on your own business, knowing that Cisco has got your network covered.
Cyber Security and Managed Threat Defence
Constant exposure to cyber threats has led Cisco to develop the strongest security portfolio in the world.Hardware and software products alone are insufficient to stop today's most advanced attacks.
We introduce the disciplines of security (Detection, Prevention and Action through people process and tools) to draw the attention of architects and management who carry accountability for the posture, operational management and risk profile of IT systems and services.
Cisco's Security Posture Assessment (SPA) is to measure the extent to which vulnerabilities in a customer's environment can be utilized to achieve unexpected or unauthorized access to the OS or applications on an IP-connected host or device.
Cisco's Cyber Range will demonstrate how to detect, mitigate and analyse real world security challenges.
Managed Threat Defense helps defend against known intrusions, zero-day attacks, and advanced persistent threats. Managed Threat Defence is powered by our global network of security operations centers ensuring constant vigilance and on-demand analysis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Cloud Managed Services
Simplify the adoption and management of Cisco technologies, with continuous remote monitoring and management of your Video, Unified Communications, Security, Data Centre, Routing, Switching and Security platforms.
Cisco differentiates from traditional outsourcing to deliver an intrinsic balance of people, processes and tools with distinct value that not only removes time-consuming processes and enables you to refocus your resources on more strategic priorities, but seamlessly and proactively manages your Cisco platforms to achieve the highest operational levels. As big data, cloud, mobility and social media continue to grow in use, your enterprise can rely on Cisco experience, intellectual capital, smart capabilities and automation to dramatically increase your ability to adopt and manage technologies faster.
We will explore how Cisco's Cloud Managed Services are here to help our customers and partners:
- Accelerate the adoption and management of advanced technologies.
- Retain visibility and control of your technology services environment while simplifying operations.
- Realise a return on your technology investment faster.
- Proactively mitigate new risks and threats.
- Focus on strategic business priorities while creating higher levels of operational efficiency.
- Respond to "always on" needs with industry expertise, knowledge and best practices
Get the most out of your technology investments, work with us in new ways, come and understand the fit for your business.
CMCS: Compliance/Change ManagementMeet complex infrastructure needs for compliance and change management
Cisco's Compliance Management and Configuration Service (CMCS) provides a comprehensive set of network management tools and Cisco operational expertise to meet the complex infrastructure needs of enterprise and service provider clients, and focuses on addressing critical compliance and configuration needs across your network.
CMCS applies Cisco intellectual capital, operational expertise, and smart automation capabilities to enable compliance and configuration management through controlled change to support your business continuity and growth. The service is ideal if you need to gain insight and accelerate change to strategically address expanding compliance in your environment to resolve issues more quickly and achieve the highest levels of efficiency. It configures policies for compliance monitoring and includes configuration analytics, compliance reporting, and automation of compliance checks and remediation steps.
By combining Cisco expertise, intellectual capital, and workflow automation, CMCS enables you to manage changing regulatory, commercial, and organisational compliance requirements across your entire network infrastructure. Removing complexity, addressing ongoing regulatory change in the environment, and delivering secure, predictable performance helps you realise the full business value of proactive compliance management that delivers greater speed, accuracy and repeatable processes.
Connect once – Connect all:
Real-time, multi-sourced collaboration with strategic partners is key in driving greater customer satisfaction, differentiation and competitive advantage. ServiceGrid provides cloud delivered services management integration software offering a flexible means to join partners and automate the sharing of processes, data, and workflow in real-time.
Service Grid provides capabilities to:
- Resolve support issues across your help desk, technical support, field service and service providers faster and more efficiently through provider collaboration.
- Create a single point of control to actively track and gain actionable insights in vendor, provider performance and operational metrics.
- Span end users, partners and stakeholders to exchange requests and receive updates via a central hub in the cloud.
All of these capabilities will be showcased to highlight the ease of integration.
Data Centre Services and Cloud Services
Transform your Data Centre with Cisco's Domain Ten:
Cisco Domain Ten serves as a framework to remove complexity and help you focus your energy and resources on the IT activities that will make the biggest difference, in the combination and order that will be most effective for your unique situation. Cisco Domain Ten covers all of the important aspects of infrastructure, virtualisation, automation, software platform and applications to help you create an architectural roadmap, whether you want to take advantage of virtualisation or want to move to the cloud.
Cloud Consumption Services
The transition to the cloud has led to new business services being adopted without the knowledge of those accountable for the design, risk, operations and governance elements within the IT department.
The adoption of cloud services presents new problems, including greater risks, increased costs and challenges in governing new cloud vendors. Come and learn how Cloud Consumption Services can help you address the challenges of moving business and technology workloads to the cloud.
Simplifying Infrastructure with ACI
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) provides a new model for deployment and the operation of applications in the Data Centre. Is your organisation ready to capitalise on this exciting new opportunity? How do you integrate ACI with your current infrastructure and how do you migrate your applications and services into this new way of working?
Application Dependency Mapping
Data centre consolidation, migration, and virtualisation requires an in-depth understanding of assets and their interdependencies. The Cisco Application Dependency Mapping Service offers a non-intrusive method to obtain the data needed to minimise the risk associated with critical infrastructure changes.
Cloud Automation and Orchestration
Managing, deploying and operating converged infrastructures is simplified with Cisco UCS Director. Common operational tasks such as VLAN management and SAN zoning can cause significant impact to business systems if not planned and managed correctly. Leveraging self-service and automation tools, Cisco can mitigate risks caused by human error.
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud provides a multi-cloud catalogue and cross domain orchestration, whilst UCS Director provides repeatable and fast Data Centre management and automation. We deliver increased agility, with clearly defined and approved automated processes that can run safely during standard operational hours.
We demonstrate a number of common, 'high impact', and customised, self-service & administrative automation processes that result in real world efficiencies.
Solutions Support
Integrated Solutions – A single hand to shake:
Join our Solutions Support experts and understand how Cisco Technical Engineers, Smart Services and our Technology Partners combine to support you in your multi vendor Data Centre. View our new Technology Labs in Sydney to experience first hand how we solve your most complex problems, and see the Energy Wise Management Suite in action. We will also be showcasing our newest Lab – the SAP Hana appliance – a multi-vendor SAP validated and certified engineered solution to deliver a high performance and reliable platform to support this mission critical application. Cisco, as the number 1 cloud technology company, and our partnership SAP means we are able to assist our mutual customers with the most complex problems, and help them to get the most out of their SAP solution.
Optimisation Services
Optimisation services provide a continuous assessment of processes, tools and technology, acting on recommendations and transferring knowledge allowing you to maintain optimal performance, save costs and drive greater value across critical infrastructure and applications.
Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the Total Economic Impact (TEI)™ and potential return-on investment (ROI) that organisations may realise by engaging Cisco in delivering an Optimisation Service.
Customer outcomes, sample ROI data and analytics tools will be showcased to further demonstrate the value that we can bring to your organisation.
EnergyWise Management Suite
Energy growth is a major cost line across businesses today that can be significantly optimised! Learn how to better leverage technology to drive large scale benefits in energy use for both building management and across technology platforms.
Cisco's EnergyWise Management Suite is a family of products and services that enable and support customers who want to reduce energy costs and optimise the energy consumption of their data center and distributed office environments by seeing, measuring, and managing the energy of all IP-connected systems.
Cisco EnergyWise Management provides continuous energy usage visibility through network-based monitoring of all devices and systems, regardless of vendor, in the data center and distributed office. -It also provides advanced energy analytics and precisely determines energy efficiency and savings opportunities by analysing energy usage and carbon emissions by any grouping such as date, time, location, device, and application. - It also allows you to reduce your energy costs and improves energy efficiency through planning and simulation, optimisation, policy enforcement, and event-driven rules, without affecting availability and user productivity. We provide insight to the 'real' return on investment in energy management, energy optimisation and ease of adoption.
Data Virtualisation - Big Data Made Easy
Big data and cloud are drastically changing today's IT landscape. The proliferation of traditional and new data sources plus the movement of data to the cloud complicates the ability to meaningfully access data assets. This creates the need to complement traditional data warehousing with an agile business solution that provides a real-time, consolidated logical view of data.
Cisco Data Virtualisation is agile data integration software that makes it easy to access data, no matter where it resides. Our integrated data platform lets you query all types of data across the network as if it is in a single place.
We will demonstrate how Cisco Data Virtualisation can transform the way businesses can take advantage, query and work with data like never before!
Collaboration Enabled Business Applications
The goal of collaboration enabled business application is to reduce the human latency that exists in a business process and avoid human errors.
Cisco delivers solutions allowing instantaneous access to experts to solve customer problems and issues. To enable this, Cisco leverages key collaboration technologies such as Unified Communications, Customer Collaboration, Business Video and solution partners to deliver a tightly coupled and integrated business service.
We demonstrate a use case highlighting customer interaction flowing through a business application, creating an escalation mechanism to alert and request a type of service and expertise. Utilising Cisco Jabber and video technologies, seamless communication is made possible to any consumer, using any device, from anywhere in the network
Technology in Industry
The nature of the changing world, from a consumer and business perspective, offers an opportunity! Gain an insight in how technology, people, process and tools coupled with in depth industry knowledge can make a difference for business, employees and the community.
We demonstrate our knowledge in emerging trends and practical real life solutions as applied to healthcare, transport and government services. Changing demographics leading to pressure on healthcare budgets, the cost of new infrastructure and mass transport necessitates new ways of driving innovation. Learn how Cisco Services is integrating our software and services to provide real solutions for our customers.
Business Internals
Email and Web Content SecurityEmail Security Appliance - Industry-Leading Email Protection
Stop blended threats and targeted email attacks with Cisco Email Security. Learn about Cisco's industry-leading approach to blocking unwanted messages, catching advanced malware, and disarming malicious links. Visit the booth to get a walkthrough of Cisco's unmatched threat visibility and drill-down reporting capabilities.
Web Security Appliance – Single Appliance Solution for Web Security
Cisco's industry-leading Web Security Appliance (WSA) now includes Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) from Sourcefire. Learn more about how you can benefit from the unique capabilities of AMP through a simple license add-on to WSA. Visit the demo for a preview of AMP on Cisco WSA, including file reputation scoring and blocking, file behavioral analysis, and retrospective alerting.
Cloud Web Security – Complete Protection for the Distributed Enterprise
Cisco Cloud Web Security (CWS) delivers complete protection across the attack continuum: before, during, and after an attack – with easier deployment and substantially lower costs than on-premises products. Visit the booth for a demo of the new capabilities now available on Cisco CWS, including Advanced Malware Protection from Sourcefire, and Cognitive Threat Analytics for reduced time to discovery of threats inside your network.
Managed Threat Defence (MTD)
Managed Threat Defense helps defend against known intrusions, zero-day attacks, and advanced persistent threats. Managed Threat Defence is powered by our global network of security operations centers ensuring constant vigilance and on-demand analysis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Cisco Powered
Cisco Powered services are based on a best-in-class portfolio of flexible and scalable solutions designed to minimize the complexity of the entire technology lifecycle, resulting in faster adoption, higher productivity, and more reliable operation. Service providers offering Cisco Powered services must undergo a rigorous certification and a third-party audit of their solutions to verify your services will be deployed over proven architectures with superior levels of professional service, security, and 24/7 support. You'll also automatically benefit from industry-wide innovation and leading technology as a result of Cisco and its partners' ongoing R&D investment, giving you a powerful advantage over your competition. Learn how you can connect with confidence at the Cisco Powered booth on the Cisco Stand in the World of Solutions.
Connected Platform Group (B4)
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. For the past two years the Connected Platforms Group has been revamping the Cisco Digital Media Solution. The Cisco Digital Media Solution is comprised of two primary components. First is the hardware component with our next generation digital media players, like the Edge 340, which is a price performance intel based extensible platform for digital media applications. The second component is software for creating and managing applications as well as device management and control. Cisco has teamed up with Appspace to provide that cutting edge application creation, control, and management solution.
Using the network as the platform, the Cisco Digital Media Solution provides customers across a wide variety of industries—financial services, retail, government, education, healthcare, sports, entertainment, safety and security, and transportation—with innovative tools for marketing and branding, sales, education and training, communication, and collaboration.
Strategic Partner Organisation
Cisco Strategic Partner Organisation (SPO) is focused on executing on the vision of building the best partnerships recognized by customers, partners and employees.
Engaging with the most powerful players in the market and combining with Cisco's unique strengths, we can deliver unique value to our customer and accelerate our profitable growth.
The SPO engages with transformational partners, major system integrators, technology partners and independent software vendors (ISVs). The focus of the engagements is on accelerating time to value for customers through key industry verticals solutions.
Cisco SPO works on partnerships that create solution using existing Cisco technologies and various go to market methods such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS leveraging Cisco powered cloud partnerships.
Inside Cisco IT
Take a look inside Cisco IT. Find out how Cisco addresses many of the same IT challenges you face every day. Benefit from practical experience and lessons learned deploying Cisco products and technologies in a global enterprise infrastructure. See how these solutions help to implement strategies that get results.
Because IT is instrumental in turning company business strategies into reality, IT professionals need information that helps them plan and develop successful technology deployments. Through success stories and other resources, you'll get practical information about Cisco IT's own deployments. Find out how these network solutions are yielding productivity gains, cost savings, and other business benefits.
Cisco Certifications and Testing
Cisco Certifications and Testing addresses the need for technical talent worldwide for Cisco customers, partners, and network professionals by providing the educational training, certifications, social communities, knowledge systems, and consulting services necessary to accelerate productivity, opportunity, and growth and to recruit, train and evolve talent. Cisco Certifications and Testing drives the talent development needed to evolve the workforce of today to meet the demands of tomorrow, and to close the global networking skills talent gap.
From award-winning certifications and training to the first social learning community, the Cisco Learning Network, and state-of-the-art technology games, Cisco Certifications and Testing helps the world master the language of the network.


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New research released today by the Institute of Advanced Motorists in the UK doesn't tell us much we didn't know before, but it does put it in context. The smartphone is headed for ubiquitous usage, and the wonderful real-time communications and information services it offers are making the roads considerably LESS safe due to the distraction. Due no doubt to its higher levels of engagement, social networking while driving is considerably less safe than texting, drinking to the legal limit and smoking marijuana. And yes, talking on a mobile phone with or without a hands-free is definitely not good for your health, or the health of other road users. Read More
If you've been having trouble comfortably wrapping your brain cells around the concept of what were once proud national symbols of excellence changing countries, such as the Malaysian-owned Lotus, the Chinese-owned Saab and MG or the Indian Jaguar and Range Rover, then please be seated before reading further. It seems that India's Hero MotoCorp, the world's largest manufacturer of both bicycles and motorcycles is considering the purchase of Italy's deeply loved manufacturer of sports motorcycles, Ducati. Read More
It's the ultimate sleeper! Brabus' US$500,000 matte-black stealth coupe has no outward pizzazz whatsoever (at least to the untrained eye), but with a 788 bhp twin-turbo V12 under the hood, it can hit 100 km/h in 3.7 seconds, 200 km/h in 9.8 seconds, 300 km/h (186 mph) in 23.8 seconds on its way to a top speed of more than 370 km/h (230 mph). Read More
We first saw Volkswagen's plug-in petrol-electric hybrid Cross Coupé concept at the Tokyo Motor Show. Now there's a new Cross Coupé concept to be shown at the Geneva Motor Show this week that use a turbodiesel direct injection engine (TDI) and two electric motors to achieve 1.8 liters per 100 km (around 157 mpg) with CO2 emissions of just 46 g/km. Read More
Ferrari F12 Berlinetta - the fastest Ferrari yet built
When Ferrari's new 740 bhp, 6262cc, 65° V12, F12berlinetta hits showrooms later this year, it will be the fastest naturally aspirated car to see series production, taking over from the McLaren F1. The replacement for the 599 is the fastest Ferrari ever and boasts an array of technologies we haven't seen before, such as Aero Bridge, Active Brake Cooling, a new generation of carbon-ceramic brakes (CCM3), a further evolution of the magnetorheological suspension control system (SCM-E) plus the usual E-Diff, ESP Premium, F1-Trac, and high-performance ABS control systems. Read More
The potential for electric-assisted, human-powered vehicles to play a substantial role in the transport systems of the future is immense, and there has never been a better example of this potential than the Emcycle concept. The Emcycle is a tilting, three-wheeled pedelec (electric pedal assist), with a foam-reinforced, Tegris composite monocoque body, full suspension and a kerb weight of just 36 kg (80 lb). The Emcycle is initially planned as a 500 W electric assist but could easily be built in 1000 W (1 kW) and greater versions. Importantly, the Emcycle offers many of the amenities of a car (instrumentation, wipers, entertainment etc), plus weather and crash protection, and a huge lockable carrying capacity. In terms of weight, the Emcycle can safely carry 320 pounds (144 kg), including the weight of the rider, making it ideal for the citybike rental and inner urban delivery markets. A target price of US$4000 to US$5000 is envisaged. Read More
It is a great irony that alcohol has been almost universally legislated into becoming man's most commonly used recreational drug, as it's also the ONLY drug that causes more harm to others than to the user. This is most evident on our roads, where even in supposedly civilized first world countries with low road tolls, alcohol still accounts for between a third and a half of all road deaths and injuries. Now France is attempting a bold solution - from July of this year, it will become law in France to have a working breathalyzer in every car on the road. Don't laugh! The world is fast running out of tolerance for the road toll and tougher laws everywhere are inevitable. Read More
Each year the Goodwood Festival of Speed hosts an auction by Bonhams, and due to the importance of the event and the unique crowd it draws, the best come out to play. This year there are two stand-outs going under the hammer: the first is the 1912 Rolls-Royce Double Pullman Limousine (estimated GBP2,000,000/US$3,147,000) which was reproduced in the popular Corgi Classics series of widely circulated die-cast toy cars, the second being the personal 1938 Type 57C of the Ettore Bugatti, lovingly built for Le Patron by his staff. Read More
Ford's Tourneo Custom Concept will debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March, giving what we believe is an accurate preview of the next generation of Ford Transit people movers and commercial vehicles. The styling is based on the same "Kinetic Design language" used in the latest passenger cars, the driving experience is also fashioned more on a car than a van, and even though the rear of the eight-seater is trimmed in leather with sumptuous multi-adjustable leather seats, they can be easily removed for special purposes. Read More
Mini goes commercial (again) with the Clubvan
Mini will finally add a commercial variant of its iconic design at the Geneva Motor Show, creating an interesting new niche for the growing premium small car segment. Though the Clubman-based Clubvan is only a concept, we expect the unique blend of upmarket panache, go-kart handling and delivery van load-carrying capacity to fulfill pent-up demand for a premium stylish commercial vehicle and propel the concept into production. Remarkably this vehicle has a highly successful predecessor. The Morris Mini Van was replaced in the Morris commercial fleet in 1982 after half a million vehicles - when production ceased in 2000, the van accounted for nearly 10% of all Mini sales. Read More
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The worst tv ever are the boring, obnoxious, reality shows. I mean really!!! Who wants to watch all the lives of these people and what they do or don't do. The Kardashians are a bunch of spoiled rich people that no-one cares about. All the Housewifes of pick any city are just a bunch of snobbish, boring, idiots. We look to television programming to escape from reality of our lives and find entertainment, not other people's reality. It's getting to the point that you can't turn a channel without some sort of reality on it. Bitches, brats, drunken young room-mates in Jersey, a hillbilly family ruining their daughter's life and over-dosing her on a soft drink,......they all suck. Let's get back to real entertainment for the public; that is what we want.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University is asking students to be prepared for frigid temperatures when they return to campus this week for the spring semester.
Residence halls open at 8 a.m. Monday and classes begin Wednesday.
The university says in a news release that students should stay indoors if possible after they arrive in Morgantown. Students are advised to wear several layers of clothing, along with coats, hats and gloves if they go outside.
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An MRI on Freddie Freeman's right knee revealed no structural damage, only a muscle strain, the Braves announced Wednesday. The Braves' prize first base prospect in Triple-A Gwinnett is considered day-to-day.
Freeman injured his knee stretching to match a catch at first base on Friday night during Todd Redmond's not-hitter against Louisville. Freeman had a MRI on Tuesday in Atlanta and met with team doctors on Wednesday.
The 6-fo0t-5 first baseman, considered the Braves' second-best prospect by Baseball America, is hitting .261 with five homers and 24 RBIs for Gwinnett.
June 2nd, 2010
6:27 pm
that sound you hear is the exhale of all of braves country about the future
June 2nd, 2010
6:52 pm
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June 2nd, 2010
6:52 pm
Glad he's okay. We will definitely need him in the future!
June 2nd, 2010
7:02 pm
What a relief! Hey….he might be slated as one of the September callups should the Braves still be contending. He may very well be needed! Stay healthy, Freddie!
June 2nd, 2010
7:25 pm
If Glaus continues his rampage all season, will the Braves resign him or call Freeman up? This could present a very nice problem.
June 2nd, 2010
7:48 pm
If Chipper retires at the end of this season it would be nice to have Glaus take over at third base providing Freeman is ready to be our regular first baseman. I'm so sick of watching McLouth sticking the ball in his pocket after he makes a catch while runners are taking extra bases. There is more to playing centerfield than merely catching the ball.
June 3rd, 2010
12:44 am
Lowe is at his peak and is ripe for a trade to NYY, along with Melky for Vazquez and Switzer, straight up. Kamakami, plus McLougth and O'Flaherty, should give the Astros what they need to start a "re-build" and free up the salary of the discontented Oswalt. Might take Jo Jo Reyes, to boot, to make the deal with Roy to Atlanta.
Now, if we could monetize the "value" of the consistently,vulnerable Chipper and the fabulous, but rapidly fading, Brian McCann, Atlanta could build a new dynasty with an extraordinary 12 man pitching staff and a potent group of 13 motivated,position players who can earn their keep.
Total player payroll under $75 million; coupled with a reduced front office exec payroll, minus Bobby Cox and Terri McGuirk, et al.
A great exit for Tax-free Malone and Liberty Mutual and a great entree for Blank-check, Arthur.
Then, Atlanta could begin its true run as a major league sports town
June 3rd, 2010
12:57 am
Liberty Media, rather than Liberty Mutual. But the ultimate benefits would be mutual for Braves' fans.
June 3rd, 2010
8:39 am
Mike – its way too early to be smoking whatever you're smoking.
June 3rd, 2010
11:51 am
But Jacob, that's gotta be some good stuff! LOL
June 3rd, 2010
12:52 pm
Heh. itcouldbeworse(tm), you hit it right on the button.
June 3rd, 2010
3:27 pm
I don't think people should be so quick to jump off Brian McCann's band wagon. He's had some nagging little injuries this year that has kept him from his normal self. He's still a good receiver and has a lot of value to the team.
June 3rd, 2010
7:03 pm
what a relief
June 3rd, 2010
7:15 pm
mcant as well as all the other way over lauded homegrown stars was never as good as precieved and i think theres another caidate for that fall off the gravy train lurking in rf this year heck three years ago frenchy was untouchable will lead this franchise for the next 15 years lol things change
June 5th, 2010
8:20 pm
What ever happened to spell checkers. Did they just vanish from the face of the earth. Going by this article they must have. Or maybe the writer is a product of our present day school system.
July 17th, 2010
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Ever since the evolution of electricity, demand for electric power has been always been rising exponentially. To satisfy America's need for the ever growing demand of power, various companies are looking to generate more power by use of conventional and non-conventional methods. Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE) is one such company in the U.S. that supplies 95% of electricity in Hawaii with its customer base of over 450,000.
Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE) not only have various subsidiaries for power generations but also operates a financial institute that fund projects through American Saving Bank. The various subsidiaries of HE is Maui Electric Company, HECO and Hawaii Electric Light Company providing utility services.
The company recently declared fourth quarter 2014 results that were not alarming on revenue grounds, but earnings did beat the consensus estimates and were alarming.
Total net revenue recorded in fourth quarter 2014 was $826.4 million, marginal decline by 1.4% year ago quarter ($838.14 million). The reported revenue was also below the consensus estimates of $915 million. The decline in revenue was mainly due to a lower electricity sale and less revenue from the financial subsidiaries. Despite the revenue decrease, income showed a phenomenal growth. Hawaiian Electric Industries recorded an operating income of $72.3 million, 94% growth compared with same quarter last year ($37.272 million). Cost saving measures adopted by the company helped it to bring down the expenses by 5.8% that was recorded to $754.2 million. EPS of $0.39 for the current quarter was flat with year ago quarter but it did beat the consensus estimate marginally by $0.02.
Utility services contributed net income of $59.5 million, a growth by over $30.0 million as against the year ago quarter ($19.44 million). The banking division recorded $17.8 million a decline in net income by $4.3 million from last year. As we analyze the bottom line, we observe that Hawaiian Electric Industries Utility division majorly contributed to the growth in earnings to offset lower earnings from the banking. The low interest rates and slowdown in mortgage market was the main cause of slight decline in earnings for banking segment.
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Hawaiian Electric Industries is mainly focused on lowering the high oil bill for the customers. It is also investing in infrastructure to ensure stable services to its customers. With Enhanced infrastructure facility, it will always provide high end support to its customers, and this in-turn will benefit the future growth of the company. Its policy for acquiring and integrating local renewal energy allows it to offer lower prices as compared to oil-based energy. So the company is making some decent moves for sustained growth in the future.
The company also restored a 20 MW wind power and is now operating in full capacity. Since 2012 this plant was suspended from all operation due to batteries catching fire and creating a hazardous working environment. With the new innovative technology the wind farm is now successfully operating. This will also benefit the company in the upcoming quarters and a brighter future.
The American Electric Power (AEP) is also a power generation company with over 5 million customers in 11 different states of US.
In fourth quarter 2013, it reported a revenue of $3.8 billion, growth by $0.2 billion over year ago quarter. Operating earnings also grew from $242 million to $296 million from year ago quarter. EPS on GAAP basis was reported as $0.71, an increase of $0.66 as compared to the year ago quarter ($0.05). While operating earnings were recorded as $0.60, increased by $0.10 as compared to the year ago quarter ($0.50).
The company benefited from unbeaten rigid proceedings in several jurisdictions. It also benefited from the investment that it had made on transmission which resulted in earnings growth in each quarter of the year 2013, with transmission nearly doubling its earnings contribution in 2013.
Looking ahead, the company has entered into agreement a joint venture programs for its global power projects in various countries like Chile and Vietnam. The company also efficiently uses its asset management to invest in a newer market. This policy also helps the company to keep the operational overhead cost under control.
Hawaiian Electric Industries is a stable stock. Its 52-week band is very narrow, in the range of $24.84 to $28.30. It also offers a luscious dividend of 4.6%. This can also be a reason that investors looking for dividend paying companies can always consider this stock. The company has been divesting non-core assets and focusing on other growing regions. It is also optimistic about its long term earning growth prospects and anticipates earning growth strategy in the range of 4% to 6%, primarily driven by transmission growth and strategic investment in utility infrastructure and cost controls.


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I have made some discoveries this last evening.
Jazz (the dog)
• doesn't like having raspberries blown on her head (don't ask, but…. okay, yes, I experimented to find this out)
• loses in a stare-off
• winks up to three times a minute (when losing in a stare-off)
• has to have her 'say' at being stared at and will bemoan the fact by doing guttural dog-barky-growl things with an indignant look on her face and staring me down the whole time.
That is all. Sorry to disturb you and bring you over here for that.
Carry on, as you were.
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Hollywood Talent Agencies Place Bets on Digital as Film and TV Falter
"As film slates shrink and DVD sales decline, Hollywood talent agencies have increased their investment in digital and social ventures to make up for falling profits from shrinking star salaries.
In the last two months alone, the following developments have accelerated the pace:
»The CAA-backed mobile gaming company, Moonshark, launched its first game.
»WME made a seven-figure investment in the social video company, Chill.
»UTA added social media superstar FourSquare to its client roster.
Meanwhile, ICM Partners rebranded its digital division in May under the leadership of former Warner Bros. executive Keyvan Pemani."


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Lt. Firewall is up this week with her Video Pick of the week. She chose Big Remo's Slumdog. Keep reading and find out why:
I chose it because I was there, it took place in Charlotte during CIAA. I met a bunch of the folks from Jamla that I've known for awhile, for the first time in person. It was a great day so this vid has a special place in my heart.