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The Business Council of New York State Inc. has released its 2012 Voters' Guide, which measures New York State legislators' commitment to promoting fiscal reform and improving the state's economic climate by scoring their votes on key legislation during the 2012 session.
All 212 seats will be up for re-election in 2012, and the Voters' Guide provides an opportunity for voters to review individual legislators' records. The Business Council will be using its combined 2011-12 rankings and other factors in making endorsements in advance of the November legislative elections.
Overall, the scorecard shows generally positive performance by both legislative houses, but clear leadership on pro-growth issues in the state Senate Majority and Assembly Minority.
"The pro-business momentum we saw in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions needs to continue in order for New York to regain its economic strength," said Heather Briccetti, president and CEO of the Business Council. "In November, business leaders and all New Yorkers can use the Voters' Guide to identify and support legislators who are committed to a pro-growth, pro-jobs agenda."
The Business Council 2012 Voters' Guide includes 15 priority bills that were subject to a floor vote in one or both houses of the state legislature. The list includes nine pro-growth proposals and six bills that would have imposed new costs, new mandates and/or new hurdles on the state's business community.
The Senate Majority, led by Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Sen. Thomas Libous, Sen. George Maziarz and others, were all at the 90 percent support level.
The Assembly Minority had nine members at 92 percent (11 pro-growth votes out of 12 bills voted on in that house).
A complete list of the Business Council's priority legislation and the 2012 Voters' Guide are available at http://www.bcnys.org/voter-guide/.


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Seven players from the NRL grand final feature in the 19-man Kiwis squad named today to play the Kangaroos on October 13 in Townsville.
Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor have both been picked from the victorious Melbourne Storm and the Canterbury Bulldogs contribute Greg Eastwood, Sam Kasiano, Frank Pritchard, Krisnan Inu and Sam Perrett.
Kasiano confirmed after the grand final he would play for the Kiwis and he is one of two newcomers to the squad. They other is Manly centre Dean Whare.
Kasiano was recently named the NRL's Prop of the Year and is an Otahuhu Leopards junior. Whare, who was born in Rotorua, is a former Junior Kiwi who can play centre, wing or fullback. The only other uncapped member of the squad is Proctor, who toured with the Kiwis to the UK in 2011 but didn't take the field.
There's no room, however, for Warriors winger Manu Vatuvei, who was in the train-on squad, and former Kiwis vice-captain Adam Blair also paid the price for an indifferent season with the Wests Tigers. Others to miss out include Jason Taumalolo and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.
Kiwis coach Stephen Kearney and the selectors have retained the three players who made their national debuts in April - Bromwich, Josh Hoffman and Shaun Johnson - and there have been recalls for Eastwood, Inu, Perrett, Proctor and Elijah Taylor. Manly's Kieran Foran returns after missing April's Anzac test through injury.
New Zealand squad to play Australia in Townsville on October 13: Benji Marshall (Wests Tigers - c), Gerard Beale (Brisbane), Jesse Bromwich (Melbourne), Greg Eastwood (Bulldogs), Kieran Foran (Manly), Josh Hoffman (Brisbane), Krisnan Inu (Bulldogs), Shaun Johnson (Warriors), Sam Kasiano (Bulldogs), Issac Luke (South Sydney), Simon Mannering (Warriors), Ben Matulino (Warriors), Sam McKendry (Penrith), Sam Perrett (Bulldogs), Frank Pritchard (Bulldogs), Kevin Proctor (Melbourne), Jeremy Smith (Cronulla), Elijah Taylor (Warriors), Dean Whare (Manly).
Seven players from the NRL grand final feature in the 19-man Kiwis squad named today to play the Kangaroos on October 13 in Townsville.
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GREENVILLE, Ill. - Greenville College baseball surrendered the final contest of their four-game homestand as NCAA DII McKendree University cruised past the Panthers 22-7 in Tuesday afternoon's slugfest.
Freshman Dalton McFarland lead the Panther's efforts at the dish, going 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored. Junior right-fielder Cole Lawson also posted a noteworthy 2-for-3 effort at bat with a run scored.
On the mound it proved to be a tough day for the Black & Orange hurlers. GC was forced to use five arms and failed to throw a pitcher for than three innings against the bats of McKendree. Starting sophomore lefty Cody Hinterscher was dealt the loss, walking six of the ten batters he faced in the first with eight runs eventually earned.
The Bearcats of MU (3-9) sent 16 batters to the plate in the first inning, scoring 11 runs. McKendree poured on the runs in the second, third, and fourth frames, eventually hammering their way to a 20-0 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth.
Greenville (0-5) got on the scoreboard with two runs in the bottom of the fifth to cut the deficit to 20-2. McKendree answered in the top of the sixth, delivering a two-out, two-run double for a 21-2 lead. The Panthers plated a run in the bottom of the sixth before the Bearcats closed out their big offensive outburst with one more run in the seventh inning. The Panthers scored four times in the bottom of the seventh to account for the final 22-7 margin.
Greenville College baseball now sets their sights on Thursday, March 8's meeting with Rose Hulman in Terre Haute, Ind. which will kick-off the first of a 13-game road trip for the Panthers. First pitch is set for 2:00 pm and junior ace Derek Reckmann has been named the starter for the afternoon contest.


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Andrew's first profile work was playing in the house band on the Channel 4 series, The Richard Blackwood Show. Since then he has enjoyed a varied career combining a busy live schedule with appearances on television, at the theatre and in the recording studio and which most recently has seen him joining Sophie Ellis-Bextor's band.
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After a brief stint as a graphic designer Guy decided to pursue a career in music which took off when he was asked to join the then massive in Australia Icehouse for a world tour at the tender age of 19. (Which included supporting David Bowie on his legendary "Serious Moonlight " Tour of 1983.)
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In their relatively short career they have emerged as one of the most exciting British bands. Borne out of the sleepy confines of East Preston, The Ordinary Boys matured from early hardcore experiments to the fully formed rock 'n' roll band that has been causing such hyperbole in the UK press.
Mark King | Level 42 - AL-MK500 Amp Head ABM BENTLEY 410 LTD Cabinet
"This amp takes my sound to a whole new level" reports a delighted Mr King from the band's North London rehearsal studio. "It's so dynamic, so alive - I actually use less EQ than ever and don't need harmonic emphasis at all."
The new head is partnered on the Level 42 stage with a pair of Ashdown's gorgeous Bentley Limited Edition 4 x 10" cabinets, and a pair of specially made 2 x 10" Ashdown monitors, enabling Mr King to 'hear it like it is'.
Nick Fyffe | Jamiroquai - ABM RPM-1 EVO II Preamplifier, ABM APM 1000 EVO II Power Amp, ABM C410T-500 EVO II Combo x 2, MAG monitor 12
Nick Fyffe of Jamiroquai has been another convert to the charms of the MAG range.To compliment his live rig of an Ashdown ABM900 and ABM810 he uses a MAG MON 12" in his new studio.
Paul Duffy | The Coral - ABM C115-500 Combo
Scott Wiber | Pink - ABM 500 EVO II Head, ABM 810 Cabinet
Scott comes from western Canada, and now lives and works out of London. He has toured extensively on both sides of the Atlantic with a variety of groups, ranging from rock and funk to blues and jazz. He has toured and recorded with Canadian artist Shannon Fayth, and has worked and jammed alongside artists such as Abe Laboriel Jr. Sir Paul McCartney, Todd Sharpville, Paddy Milner and Freelance Session Work
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from Mohawks
on Fri 2/20 9:08 ET
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Well, MLSsoccer.com has their fantasy site up and running
now. For the first time, I feel that they've actually taken it very
seriously and have done a good job with it. Despite concerns
with arbitrary scoring, I think it does look pretty decent and
they do have some good money prizes.
I'm going to make a division again for us MFLSers, but instead
of naming it MFLS again, we should get a more creative name.
Any ideas from anyone?
I might make a quick site and run that division similar to how
we run our MFLS ones if anyone is interested. One division for
the league, and a head to head division for our league cup.
from Warwick United
on Fri 2/20 10:57 ET
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Sounds good from Arrows SC
on Fri 2/20 11:59 ET
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I vote for the name "MFLS". from Plattsburgh United
on Fri 2/20 15:11 ET
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Agreed MFLS from The Laws of Lalas
on Fri 2/20 17:32 ET
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i like MFLS too, let's represent! from Mohawks
on Fri 2/20 18:21 ET
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Alright I'll keep it at MFLS then!
Main League: MFLS
Code: 2283-1089
Cup: MFLS League Cup
Code: 2283-1091
The MFLS league is points only for the year. The league cup league
is head-to-head, starts week 1, and has a four round knockout at
the end of the season for the top 16 teams.
from Mohawks
on Fri 2/20 18:24 ET
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Very sad note.. so far:
MFLS - 157 teams
MLS:FM - 4,406 teams
And MFLS has been open for a week longer :/
from The Laws of Lalas
on Fri 2/20 22:23 ET
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well, mlssoccer.com is the official site, so makes sense that their fantasy league would dwarf this one (though i still believe this is the best). also, it looks like yahoo is back in the game:
from Shaolin Mystigods
on Sat 2/21 1:11 ET
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I just took a look at the yahoo game for the first
time ever. Some of the salary anomalies are real
head scratchers. To be fair that is a difficult
task. I think Mark's are calibrated better, but
maybe that's because I'm so used to his.
from Stormin Union
on Sat 2/21 9:37 ET
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I've played some of the european leagues on yahoo and they are called 'casual leagues' which means they aren't well supported compared to mfls and mls fm which are well supported and more accurate. It's worth checking out but I usually check my fantasy soccer teams and scores less often on yahoo (although their NFL and NHL fantasy games are very good) than other leagues that are more competitive and have less glitches and inaccuracies. from Stormin Union
on Sat 2/21 11:59 ET
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Signed up for the mfls leagues on the mls fm site, thanks Todd
for setting it up
from rancho chevron fc
on Tue 2/24 13:26 ET
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Set up my squad, however i can't seem to set my
starting lineup or change my formation . And then i
read auto subs or i have to wait until the first game
begins before i can sub?? Am i processing this
MLS.com game correctly?? Could someone let me talk
to the Brandsen family so i can ask them how to do it??
Confused but i got into the leagues okay if that counts
for anything.
from Mohawks
on Tue 2/24 15:18 ET
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You should be able to just click the player and then click sub and choose the other. from Sasha Juniors
on Wed 2/25 9:57 ET
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How do you join multiple leagues in MFLS? from Mohawks
on Wed 2/25 14:33 ET
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In MFLS you can't. In MLS Soccer's game, just go to leagues and hit join league and put in the codes.
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Hendrix to Oasis tourist trail: putting Englands rock locations on the map: Officialdom spots visitor potential 50 years after the rock'n'roll revolution
The Guardian, 05.02.07
For decades the done thing has been to bury Britain's rock heritage rather than praise it….But the era of official neglect is over. A new map of England's rock and pop heritage aims to celebrate nearly 200 destinations linked to famous musicians…. It crowns a resurgent 12 months for British pop. Despite turmoil in the industry, homegrown music is in fashion and bands such as Snow Patrol and Razorlight helped British artists grab a 60% share of the album market last year.
The map is intended to boost internal tourism in a year which is expected to see increased interest in rock tourism. The printed version of the map features 113 locations while the website at www.enjoyengland.com/rocks has 190, along with audio samples. The map marks an official endorsement of pop music unthinkable just a few decades ago. Conor McNicholas, editor of NME, said: "I think there is definitely a shift going on. The reason for that shift is that we are 50 years away from the greatrock'n'roll explosion and the people who were part of that are now part of the establishment, and are in a position to do something about it."


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After dogs, Moleskine turns its attention to cats. To organize and remember the most important moments in your cat's life, Moleskine introduces the Cat Journal. The notebook begins with information on different breeds, followed by a graphic legend explaining a cat's mood based on the position and movement of its tail.
There are 4 subject sections that can be filled out to keep track of every detail: getting ready, personality, cat log, health. Inside there are pages and space to record behavior and habits, useful addresses, notes on vaccinations, diet, character, memorable moments and everything you need to create a complete outline of your feline friend. At the end there are also 4 sections with tabs you can personalize containing pages for drawings, photos and notes. The double side pocket holds three pages of colored labels in blue, gray and white.
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BETHESDA, Md. - An international consortium of researchers -- led by investigators at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- have, for the first time, identified a gene for familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and found three different gene mutations that cause this inherited rheumatic disease.
The gene holds the code for making a protein the researchers call pyrin. They hypothesize that pyrin normally plays a role in keeping inflammation under control, and that mutations in the gene lead to a malfunctioning protein and uncontrolled inflammation.
Discovery of the gene mutations, published in the August 22 issue of Cell, "will allow immediately a simple diagnostic blood test for FMF," says lead researcher Daniel L. Kastner, M.D., Ph.D. from the NIAMS. "One reason that's important is that in the United States physicians are often unfamiliar with FMF. Now it will be possible to develop a simple diagnostic test for FMF that could be used in patients with unexplained, recurring fevers," said Kastner.
Researchers hope that studying how pyrin works will ultimately lead to new, improved treatments for FMF and perhaps for other diseases involving excess inflammation.
The FMF gene is one of an increasing list of human disease genes that have been found using the resources of the Human Genome Project (HGP), the multi-year, international effort to map all of the genes in the human body.
"Successful identification of the FMF gene, which was a particularly challenging target because of the subtlety of its mutations, is another example of the way that the tools and technologies of the Human Genome Project have made possible gene discoveries considered impossible only a decade ago," said Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the NHGRI. "In this instance, finding the FMF gene may well shed light on the whole mechanism by which the human body mounts an inflammatory response, and may well have spin offs that extend far beyond those individuals with this genetic disorder."
People with FMF suffer from recurring bouts of fever, most commonly with severe abdominal pain due to inflammation of the abdominal cavity (peritonitis). Attacks can also include arthritis (painful, swollen joints), chest pain from inflammation of the lung cavity (pleurisy), and skin rashes. Some patients develop amyloidosis, a potentially deadly buildup of protein in vital organs such as the kidneys. The only treatment for FMF is a drug called colchicine, which patients have to take every day for life and which causes side effects such as diarrhea and abdominal cramps.
FMF occurs most commonly in people of non-Ashkenzi Jewish, Armenian, Arab and Turkish background living in the United States and abroad. As many as 1 in 200 people in these populations have the disease, and as many as 1 in 5 to 1 in 7 carry a mutated FMF gene. A person must inherit two mutated copies of the gene -- one from each parent -- in order to get FMF.
The research groups identified the gene for FMF after years of collaboration with several U.S. groups, as well as investigators from Israel and Australia. The researchers analyzed genetic material from people in 62 families with FMF, most of them recruited through clinics in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. Out of the three FMF gene mutations identified so far in these families, the same two mutations are found in ethnic populations that have been geographically separated for over 2,000 years, suggesting that most individuals with the disease are descended from a small, ancient group of individuals.
Researchers at NHGRI, including Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Pu Paul Liu and Trevor Blake of the Laboratory of GeneTransfer, made key contributions to the cloning of the FMF gene by generating a physical map in the study and in the isolation of candidate genes in the region. The NHGRI team made several critical discoveries during screening for gene mutations which ultimately led to the identification of the FMF gene.
The three gene mutations found to date lead to changes in the same region near one end of the protein, suggesting that this region is critical to pyrin's function. Computer analyses done by the researchers show that the gene mutations in FMF lead to an alteration in the shape of the pyrin protein. This shape change presumably interferes with pyrin's normal functioning.
The pyrin protein, named from the Greek word for fire, bears a strong resemblance to several proteins found in the nucleus of cells. Some of these proteins are known to regulate inflammation. The researchers found that the FMF gene is decoded to make the protein only in white blood cells called peripheral blood leukocytes, which are the first line of the body's defense system in an infection or after certain other challenges to the body. In attacks of FMF, these leukocytes rush into the affected part of the body in massive numbers, triggering inflammation -- a typical response of tissues to injury or disease that is characterized by redness, swelling, heat and pain.
The researchers think that pyrin may normally act as a switch to shut down or dampen the inflammatory reaction. In FMF, Kastner hypothesizes, "this switch is not working quite right, so that even if you get a small provocation you can end up getting a strong inflammatory response, whereas in normal people the protein would [eventually] shut down this response." This over-reaction leads to disease symptoms such as fever and excessive inflammation.
The fact that mutations in the FMF gene are so common in several Middle Eastern populations suggests that people with only one mutated FMF gene -- who are carriers for the disease but do not have FMF -- may have some type of survival advantage such as an increased resistance to one or more disease-causing organisms, perhaps ones that are very common in the Mediterranean region.
Identifying the genetic cause of FMF is in some ways just the beginning of the story. The researchers now must pursue work such as looking at the minority of patients in whom they have not yet found mutations, and studying the pyrin protein to better understand the role it plays under normal circumstances and in people with FMF. "The longer-term payoff [of this work] is in terms of therapeutics," Kastner says. "Eventually understanding this protein [pyrin] or proteins in this same pathway might give rise to a new class of anti-inflammatory drugs."
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Review: "Bad Hair Day" by Carrie Harris.
"Bad Hair Day"
Author: Carrie Harris
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pages: 240
Summary (taken from GoodReads): Senior year is positively hair-raising.
Kate Grable is geeked out to shadow the county medical examiner as part of her school's pre-med program. Except when he's arrested for murder, she's left with the bodies. And when Kate's brother Jonah stumbles upon a dead gamer girl, she realizes that the zombie epidemic she cured last fall was only the beginning of the weirdness taking over her town. Someone's murdering kids—something really hairy. And strong. Possibly with claws.
Is it werewolf awesomeness like Jonah and his dorktastic friends think? Kate's supposed to be a butt-kicking zombie killing genius...but if she can't figure out who's behind the freakish attacks, the victims—or what's left of them—are going to keep piling up.
It's scary. It's twisted. It's sick. It's high school.
Cover impressions: I had the first book in the series, "Bad Taste in Boys" on my radar thanks to its gleefully kitsch 50s sci-fi B-movie synopsis yet never got around to reading it, mainly because I could never find it in UK and I'm too cheap to pay for shipping. I began reading the 2nd in the series with the typical hesitations of a reader coming into a series without the full story, but luckily it was easy enough to pick up in this short, if tiresome read. Once again, this is a paranormal YA that promises big and doesn't deliver.
I really should have written this review straight after finishing the book, but university work got in the way, because it was entirely forgettable and I'm having trouble remembering simple elements such as character names. This isn't a good sign. Unfortunately, "Bad Hair Day" is generic in every sense of the word. The heroine is the geek who doesn't know she's pretty, the handsome but bland love interest, the shoe-horned in romantic conflict, the quirky but mostly absent parents and sibling, the casual disparaging comments towards girls who present a threat – they're all here. At times it feels like join-the-dots storytelling, especially since the pacing for this short book is completely erratic, veering between fumbled exposition and drawn out and entirely unnecessary romance subplot and shorts bursts of action that do nothing to liven up what should be a short, silly read. Despite the attempts at humour – and I did snigger once or twice – the book never fully decides whether it wants to be a camp take on kitschy horror and sci-fi or a conventional paranormal tale. I'm personally quite disappointed that it didn't take the latter route since the genre desperately needs less po-faced seriousness.
The book reads younger than YA, with the immaturity of the supposed genius teenage heroine seeming more suited to a middle-grade character. There is potential present in the spin on the zombie and werewolf mythos, grounding it in science rather than legend, but it falls flat due to painful exposition and a lack of focus. There's nothing in this book to outright hate, it's just too bland and inoffensive for that.
My ARC was received from NetGalley.com. "Bad Hair Day" will be released in USA on 13th November 2012.


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Lots of companies these days are stretching their hardware and energy dollars by consolidating print, file, DNS, and Web servers on virtualization platforms such as VMware. But not many companies boast of running their entire production infrastructure on virtual machines. An exception is Arvato Mobile, a division of Bertelsmann that builds mobile solutions for network operators, media companies, and Internet portals and delivers digital entertainment content to consumers around the globe.
Based in Hamburg, Germany, Arvato Mobile handles mobile game management for O2 Germany, fixed-line ring-back tones for Vodafone, and general mobile content delivery for a number of telcos, including Connex, Orange, and T-Mobile. The company also provides DRM-protected music to Mobilcom and delivers high-definition movies for JPC, Terra Lycos, and Warner through its own peer-to-peer distribution network on the same day the DVDs become available in stores.
"For music labels such as EMI, we do the central content aggregation, partner distribution, and transcoding of their soon-to-be-released albums," says Lukas Losche, the company's director of IT operations. "All of these applications need to have 100 percent uptime, and they are very demanding in terms of system resources, system scalability, and especially system security. Imagine an unreleased music album being stolen from our systems prior to its release -- this must never happen."
Despite these heavy demands, all of these applications run on a virtualized infrastructure. The server virtualization platform is SWsoft's Virtuozzo. As opposed to hypervisors such as VMware ESX and Xen, Virtuozzo virtualizes the operating system, meaning that all of the guest operating systems must share the same kernel. The downside is that Linux and Windows VMs -- which SWsoft dubs VPSes (Virtual Private Servers) -- cannot share the same physical hardware. The upside is very low overhead, allowing many virtual servers to share the same hardware without affecting performance.
Arvato Mobile is running about 600 virtual servers, both Linux and Windows, comprising nearly the entire infrastructure for development and testing, internal apps, and critical applications, including content processing, licensing, distribution, royalty management, and user support. Even the company's Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL database clusters and Business Objects reporting servers run on Virtuozzo. Behind the servers, several hundred terabytes of disc and tape storage are virtualized, using grid storage components, into a single file system namespace.
Every VPS has a specific purpose, says Losche, either a particular application or specialized service. Five to 10 virtual servers are loaded on each physical server, with the exception of databases, each of which is loaded on a single box. All take advantage of the real-time resource management, integrated backup, live migration, and disaster recovery that Virtuozzo provides.
"If we detect a hardware error, we are able to move a database server from one hardware node to another with practically zero downtime," Losche reports.
Migrating applications from physical to virtual systems has become easier since SWsoft provided a P2V (physical to virtual) wizard late last year.
"Until now, we've always had physical servers inside different VLANs and security zones," Losche says. "In the future, we'll loosen this concept so that only the VPSes reside in different VLANs, but the hardware nodes have fixed trunks inside the same VLAN. That way we won't need spare resources for each security zone but instead can have a pool of spare resources for all zones and assign them dynamically."


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SEATTLE -- Reaction to an impending cybersecurity executive order could be as polarized as the debate that hog-tied Congress from enacting new laws to assure basic Internet safety.
President Obama is expected to release a cybersecurity executive order on Wednesday, the day after his annual State of the Union address, according to a report in The Hill. The online publication cited two people familiar with the matter. White House spokesperson Caitlin Hayden refused to comment.
Asked at a press briefing Monday whether Obama will speak about cybersecurity in the State of the Union, White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to get into specifics. "You know that the President believes that cybersecurity is a very important issue," Carney told reporters. "It represents a huge challenge for our country. He has called on Congress to take action. Unfortunately, Congress has thus far refused legislatively."
Harriet Pearson, a privacy and information management attorney at law firm Hogan Lovells observes that "last year there was a wide-open door for cybersecurity legislation, but Congress tried to fit a truck through."
Pearson credits the Obama Administration for seeking "considerable input to develop the Executive Order.The deliberative process is a good sign for a complex topic like this one."
The order is expected to establish a critical infrastructure cybersecurity council manned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, staffed by members of the departments of defense, justice and commerce, and national intelligence office, according a preliminary draft leaked in September.
The council will draw up rules for federal agencies to propose new regulations, or broaden existing ones, including criteria for the sharing of data between private corporations and the federal government.
The Department of Homeland Sercurity and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are likely to play key roles promoting collaboration between key industry sectors and the government.
"Information sharing between the government and private companies needs to increase, to improve the cybersecurity ecosystem overall" says Mary Ellen Callahan, chair of privacy and information governance at law firm Jenner Block. "The information sharing element will be voluntary, but hopefully encourage more private sector-government communications on these very real threats."
Callahan points out that Obama's order will use existing law to address policy priorities for an administration.
Gant Redmon, general counsel at Co3 Systems, says he expects Obama to "highlight the benefits for industry in terms of threat intelligence to be made available to domestic targets."
Even so, many in private industry are concerned about the devil in the details. Jody Westby, CEO of consultancy Global Cyber Risk, says wider sharing of intelligence about what criminals and spies are doing is a good thing. But Westby worries that NIST, in particular, could develop an unwieldy framework of mandatory standards for critical infrastructure companies.
"This sort of overreaching by the President could result in numerous legal challenges over his ability to usurp the powers of the legislative branch," Westby says. "Just because he is frustrated with Congress does not mean that he can step on the separation of powers. His job is to enforce laws, not enact them."
Westby points out that there were some 40 cybersecurity bills in the last Congress and about 60 in the one before. None of those proposals passed.
"Congress was hog-tied because it had an insufficient understanding of the problem and tried to force mandates, disguised as voluntary measures, on the private sector and got blocked by the U.S. Chamber," Westby says. "That indicates to me that there are fundamental problems with the legislation, the need for it, and in understanding the problems."
Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream, says the "ambiguity in defining how companies could share private user information with the government" shot down all of the proposed bills. "While it is critical for the government and private sector enterprises to share threat information, it is just as important that they know where to draw the line," Archambeau says.
Chris Bronk, fellow of information technology at Rice University, says DHS and NIST may be organically restrained, even given new presidential-assigned authority, by a lack of new resources.
"I don't see any funding in the executive order," Bronk says. "Without funding, you can't build any capacity to do any additional programs or facilitate a new edifice in the executive branch. All you're doing is leaving it to the agencies to reallocate existing resources. It (the order) basically just asks for a lot of planning and reporting about what to do next."
In a related development, the European Commission last week proposed a sweeping Cybersecurity Directive underscoring that "the push for regulation in this area extends well beyond Washington," Pearson notes.
"Almost everyone agrees that the federal government has a big role to play in cybersecurity," Pearson says. "Companies will be wary of information sharing without liability protection – which is something only Congress can provide."
F. Ward Holloway, vice president of business development at FireMon, says he will be supportive of Obama's order if it amounts to a "concrete action plan to help reduce and eliminate breach events" that are occurring daily and receiving more public attention.
"Specifically, there needs to be a commitment to moving to a proactive versus reactive network security posture," Holloway says. "The technology already exists to do this."


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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert - February 26, 2006 - Evidence is pointing to Iran being behind the bombing in Samarra
Posted on 02/25/2006 6:50:46 PM PST by DoctorZIn
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While Iran blames the US. Israel and Britain for the bombing...
- Iran Focus reported that the Supreme Commander of IRGC accused the United States, Britain, and Israel of carrying out Wednesday's bomb attack.
Evidence is pointing to Iran being behind the bombing in Samarra.
- John Batchelor, The American Spectator Blog reported that the best signals source points to the Samarra mosque bombing in Iraq as the launch operation of the Iranian counteroffensive.
- Kamangir (Archer) argued that there are similarities between the attack on Samarra and an earlier attack on a holy site in Iran where one of the regime's intelligence officers confessed to attack but was seeking to blame that attack on opponents of the regime.
- Iran Focus reported that many Sunni groups believe that Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security may have been behind the bombing.
- Iran Press News reported that the Islamic regimes radio, IRIB, in an analysis, attested to planting bombs in holy Shiite areas in Iraq to create chaos and crisis.
- Chester, The Adventures of Chester argued that war with Iran may have already begun.
- Asia Times reported that after the attack several al-Qaeda members in Iran have been moved to safe houses run by Iranian intelligence near Tehran.
Bush says Iran is a "nation held hostage."
- The White House published the text of Bush's speech before the American Legion where he said: "Iran is a nation held hostage by small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people, and denying them basic liberties and human rights."
Imprisoned dissidents fear for their lives, plead for help.
- Iran Press News reported that two Iranian dissidents, Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi and Asad Shaqaqi, said: "Within the last 24 hours we have been told that we will kill ourselves either with knives or with cleaning liquid!"
- Amnesty International reported that executions in Iran are continuing at an alarming rate.
Russia and China travel to Iran for last minute talks.
- Reuters reported that leaders from Russia and China traveled to Iran on Friday to persuade Iran to accept a compromise proposal over its nuclear program.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- ISN argued that the arrest of some 1,000 Sufi worshippers is due to an increasing popularity of Sufism in Iran.
- Channel News Asia reported that Iran is now operating a 10-centrifuge cascade in a step forward in uranium enrichment; despite Western fears it is seeking atom bombs.
- Iran Press News reported that a member of 7th Majlis (Islamic Parliaments Assembly) confessed that influence peddlers have permeated the Islamic Parliaments Assembly.
- And finally, Ze'ev Schiff, Ha'aretz examined: What is spurring Ahmadinejad?
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The mosque bombing has Iran written all over it. They've had their hands involved in the "insurgency" in Iraq since the fall of Saddam. Hell, that's where Zarqawi flees to whenever it gets hot -- Iran.
Not sure about what you mean by "the war with Iran has begun". Who's going to war against them? The U.S? Iraq? Both?
Thanks for the ping.
If Iran is behind the bombing, why is Sadr suing for peace right now?
How convenient. (rolls eyes)
If Iran is LOOKING for a pretext that will involve them directly with the US, they have just about managed to poke the hornet's nest just a little too hard.
The name of the game is Muslims killing other Muslims. This would not be of major importance to most of the Western nations, except the conflict does not die down and remain within only their own borders.
There is simply no judicious way to settle this fight. The US is going to eventually have to wade in there like John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn riding out after "Lucky" Ned Pepper in "True Grit".
I'm skeptical of the idea that the Shi'ite government of Iran would purposely destroy a Shi'ite shrine. Also, Sadr is acting like a peacemaker in this situation. If it was his intention to exploit Sunni/Shi'ite conflict, he wouldn't be doing so. There are any number of other players who could have pulled off the bombing of the Golden Dome.
To add a bit with no response required. Whoever carried out the attack was very carefull not to damage the tombs of the two caliphs. Only the dome was taken out. If it was done by the sunni to spite the shia they would have done a far more complete demolition. This job was quite surgical in nature.
Yes I know. And no neighboring structures were damages. Al Queda is never so surgical or precise. They do as much damage as they can. So all signs point to Iran.
I basically concure after two days of argueing for possible ways zman might have pulled it off to make it look like a sunni sectarian job. All eyes are on Iran. And the questions folks continue to pose as to why if Sadr was in on it, he now is preaching peace, hugging and kissing his Sunni brothers on the cheek. I say. Sistani has had enough. Sistani wants nothing to do with the Iranian Mullahs. He pulled out years ago to be rid of them knowing they where a bunch of Godless sneaks. And he has finally put his foot down with the pup Sadr.
Sadr has gone against Sistani before
Sadr has gone against Sistani before
Time to say ..."Enough of negotiating with people who only want to kill us, time to defend ourselves."
It's us against radical Islam.
They sent the message they wanted to send to the US.
If they continue to try to create a civil war then their threat would not be credible anylonger.
It is better for them to frighten the west.
They did that.
This title is misleading. None of the posted links appear to have anything to do with evidence. They are all just speculation and marginally related news items.
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Minnesota native Joey King transfers to Gophers
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Gophers basketball team has added another Minnesota native to the roster.
Forward Joey King, a transfer from Drake, signed his scholarship tender Tuesday. His application with the NCAA to be eligible to play this season is pending.
King joins guards Deandre Mathieu, Daquien McNeil and Malik Smith as members of coach Richard Pitino's first recruiting class at Minnesota. Smith transferred from Florida International.
King is a native of Eagan. He led Eastview High School to the state tournament in 2012, averaging 24 points and six rebounds per game as a senior.
Last season for Drake, the 6-foot-9, 215-pound King played in all 32 games and was named to the Missouri Valley Conference all-freshman team. He shot almost 35 percent from 3-point range, going 33 for 95.


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Canaries Lose Duel To RailCats
GARY, IN -- The Sioux Falls Canaries lost their bid for a series sweep of the Gary SouthShore RailCats on Sunday afternoon, dropping a 2-1 pitcher's duel and losing for the first time in six games at the U.S. Steel Yard.
The loss marked the end of a 13-game road trip on which the Canaries went 6-7. Their overall record dropped to 37-50 with 13 games remaining in the 100-game season.
RailCats starting pitcher Morgan Coombs (5-2) kept Canaries hitters off balance with a mix of pitches and a career-high 10 strikeouts. He held the Canaries to one run over 8 1/3 innings pitched and did not walk a man.
Kyle Vazquez (2-3) took the loss despite a sharp outing and a quality start. He yielded only one run and three hits in six innings while striking out a career-best nine strikeouts. He walked one.
Gary SouthShore grabbed a quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Adam Klein led off with a walk, stole second and scored on Mike Massaro's double. They did not score again until Massaro singled home and insurance run in the eighth inning.
The Canaries mounted a comeback attempt in the ninth. After loading the bases with one out, J.P. Ramirez hit a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 2-1, but closer Ian Durham induced Jake Taylor into a groundout to end the game. Durham recorded his sixth save.
Canaries hitters collected just five hits, all singles, but Nick Van Stratten extended a hitting streak to 11 games.
After an off day on Monday, the Canaries open a six-game home stand against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday at Sioux Falls Stadium.
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Our Stay at the Hotel Asteara in Mlini, Croatia
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How wonderful looking that is... worth visiting, which you did!ReplyDelete
wishing you lots more of those gorgeous moments.
Have a ♥-warming welcome ABC-day / week
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Thank you so much Melody.Delete
Hotel und Umgebug sehen gut aus!ReplyDelete
Ich bin nach meinem Urlaub schon extrem im Arbeitsstress und leide nach jedem Urlaub erst sehr stark davon, daß ich wieder arbeiten muß.
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Ich hoffe der Stress lässt bald nach!Delete
Beautiful images. I hope you had a wonderful time.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2017/06/pretty-view-in-ladies-loo.htmlReplies
We did. Thanks Sue!Delete
What a beautiful resort. Great pics!ReplyDelete
What a great place to celebrate a big birthday! My son just turned 30 a week ago.ReplyDeleteReplies
That's great. Happy birthday to him as well!Delete
Happy Birthday, Mersad. Beautiful views and photos!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Marit.Delete
Your pictures show a place of beauty.Glad you were able to get away and relax.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Ruth.Delete
What an awesome way to celebrate your special day.Truly enjoyed the tour.ReplyDeleteReplies
So glad you enjoyed it. We certainly did. :)Delete
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Thank you RitaDelete
30---- A good age. Too long ago to remember for sure, though. Nice post!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Bill. Well to me it's big one right now :DDelete
Looks like you chose a good weekend to go. Weather looked great and few people. Lovely spot.ReplyDelete
Wonderful place, wonderful stay, wonderful people :)ReplyDelete
Looks the perfect place to chill out.ReplyDelete
Da möchte ich dir doch zuerst einmal noch nachträglich zum Geburtstag gratulieren. Eine schöne Anlage habt ihr euch ausgesucht, echt toll und war bestimmt ein toller Urlaub in dem ihr entspannen konntet.ReplyDelete
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The pool water is SO blue. Happy natal day!ReplyDelete
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Mersad :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful pics. Greetings.
It looks a fantastic place to stay and you photographed it very well, I think you should get a reduced bill for the advertising.ReplyDelete
All the best Gordon.
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Brandi Carlile has a bit of that alt-country thing going, and some folky roots in there, but basically, she just rocks your socks off. Carlile has opened for others at Britt several times in recent years, but now she has the following to pack the place as the headliner.
She built her crowd the hard way, through constant, road-dog touring built around a growing catalog of strong songs. Carlile fans tend to be a bit rabid about her. A great whoop greeted her arrival on stage Wednesday night, dressed in jeans and a sleeveless shirt that showed off the tattoo on her bicep.
She opened with "Hard Way Home," a country number that mixes a bouncy tune with slightly ominous lyrics ("Oooh, the things I have known / Looks like I'm taking the hard way home / Oooh, the seeds I've sown / Taking the hard way home").
Her second song, "Raise Hell," a minor-key romper about a love affair that ended badly, showed off the rough edges of her powerful voice. Carlile is fronting a very good band led by twin brothers Tim and Phil Hanseroth, who provide dead-on harmonies along with solid playing. But the heart of the show is the singer's voice. Carlile has a big, instantly recognizable vocal instrument which she sometimes allows to break as she belts out an emotional line.
Now 32, she started singing in Seattle while still in her teens and got a record deal with Columbia in 2004. She was on Rolling Stone's list of "10 Artists to Watch in 2005," and opened for Ray LaMontagne, Indigo Girls, Chris Isaak, Tori Amos, and Shawn Colvin while building her following. She's had records produced by T-Bone Burnett and Rick Rubin.
Carlile writes about things like loneliness, dreams, friendship, identity, mistakes, love, loss. Like most singers, she doesn't like for her music to be pigeonholed. She listened while growing up to Patsy Cline, k.d. lang, Elton John, Freddie Mercury, Roy Orbison — a list so all over the place it doesn't provide much of a clue.
In her live show, you really get the emotional investment she makes in her songs. "Have You Ever" is a song about nature and wonderment ("Have you ever wandered lonely through the wood? / and everything it feels just as it should / you're part of the life there, part of something good"). She altered the lyrics, changing "starry sky" to "an Oregon sky" and even "a cloudy sky" as raindrops began falling.
Many of her best numbers are about relationships. "What Can I Say" evokes the pain of missing your lover after she's left. "Dreams" is about longing ("I can't have you but I have dreams").
"Closer to You," one of the first songs Carlile wrote with the Hanseroth twins, with whom she used to play bar and coffee house gigs in Seattle, got a sweet, acoustic treatment. As did "100," a song about keeping your heart young.
A friend seeing Carlile for the first time remarked that even her covers kick butt. Yup. Like her take on Radiohead's "Creep," which she played solo. It started as a soft, acoustic number, whipped itself into a fury, Carlile's voice rasping with emotion, then subsided again. There was Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" done as a monster rave-up with the band tearing up the hillside as Carlile danced wildly.
I can't think of another singer who can sound like singers as different as Lucinda Williams and Sarah McLachlan. And Gibb Droll's banjo, Konrad Meisner's drums and Josh Neumann's cello, along with the twins on guitar and bass, lay down tight backing built around the singer's ballads and step out and rock hard when rocking is called for.
Is there anything Carlile can't do? Well, she's a pretty rudimentary pianist. There's a story that she confessed to Elton John, with whom she was recording her song "Caroline," that she was insecure about playing the piano. He told her to not even think about it.
Case in point: "The Story," a moving love song about forgiveness from her second album, which she sang near the end of the show, accompanying herself on piano (thank you, Sir Elton). When you have a voice like this — which nobody else does — some simple chords will suffice.
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Brandi Carlile has a bit of that alt-country thing going, and some folky roots in there, but basically, she just rocks your socks off. Carlile has opened for others at Britt several times in recent years, but now she has the following to pack the place as the headliner.


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Russians fed steady diet of conspiracy theories about Malaysia Airlines crash
MOSCOW – An assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin. A desperate ploy to draw the West into the battle for Ukraine's east. A botched mission to commit mass murder against Russian citizens.
Russian news consumers are getting plenty of explanations for the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which killed 298 people. While they vary wildly in content, all point the finger at Ukraine. None admits the possibility that Russia may bear responsibility.
The story of the airline tragedy that is unfolding for Russians differs starkly from the one that people are following in the West. As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told American TV viewers that rebels shot down the plane with Russian weaponry, Russians were being fed a diet of scenarios about forces in Ukraine conspiring to commit an atrocity in the skies.
Yekaterina Andreyeva, one of Russia's most famous TV anchors, delved into one theory hours after news of the crash broke: Putin, traveling home from Brazil, passed along the same flight path as the Malaysian passenger jet less than one hour before it was hit — suggesting an assassination attempt.
By Friday morning, the assassination theory was replaced by other scenarios.
One focused on the Buk missile launcher that brought down the plane. State-owned Rossiya TV pinned blame on Kiev by saying the rebels did not own one, while Ukraine recently deployed a Buk launcher to the area. An Associated Press journalist saw a Buk launcher — which rebels have bragged about owning in social media — in rebel-held territory near the crash site hours before the plane was brought down.
Rossiya further said that the red, white, and blue of the Malaysia Airlines logo "resembles the Russian tricolor" — hinting at a Ukrainian attempt to blow up a Russian passenger jet.
Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia's most-read tabloid, took another tack. It claimed that Ukrainian air traffic controllers redirected the Malaysian Airlines plane to fly directly over the conflict zone, publishing pictures from flight-tracking websites that appeared to show fluctuations in the plane's route.
Russia media have suggested that Ukrainian authorities orchestrated the downing to make it look like a rebel attack, in hopes it would be the catalyst for luring Western powers into military intervention.
Russian state-controlled television, which is where a majority of Russians get their news, tends to toe the official line and abrupt changes in language on the air can reflect changes in Kremlin strategy. In June, Putin began soft-pedaling his rhetoric on Ukraine after recognizing May 25 presidential elections, in an apparent attempt to stave off Western sanctions.
After the airline tragedy, Putin led the shift to a more aggressive tone.
"This tragedy would not have happened if there were peace on this land, if the military actions had not been renewed in southeast Ukraine," Putin said. "And, certainly, the state over whose territory this occurred bears responsibility for this awful tragedy."
Outrage has grown in the West over what appears to be a bungled start to the investigation. Rebels allowed a group of monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe only a superficial inspection of the crash site on Saturday before firing warning shots when two Ukrainian members of the group attempted to study wreckage.
In Russia, meanwhile, news reports repeat that the rebels been cooperative with the observers — and blame Kiev for stalling the arrival of international investigators.
"Yesterday the OSCE group worked in the field all day at the scene of the plane crash," First Channel's Sunday broadcast began. "So far the Ukrainian authorities do not want to send a group of international specialists to Donetsk."


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Naomi Watts wants to do the late Princess Diana "justice" in forthcoming film 'Diana', a new biopic about the royal's life
Naomi Watts wants to do the late Princess Diana "justice" in the new film about her life.
The blonde actress portrays the royal - who died in a Paris car crash in August 1997 - in forthcoming movie 'Diana' and she says it was important she told her story in a truthful way.
She said: "It's very difficult to play someone who had such a deep impact and left such a lasting memory on the public. Our memory of her is still very fresh and you have to be respectful of that. It's also more complicated and sensitive when you take into account her two sons. But I want to do her justice and tell her story truthfully."
Although Naomi is expecting to get criticised for her portrayal of the much-loved princess, she says it was a role she couldn't turn down.
She added to OK! magazine: "There's a side that's terrified that my portrayal might not please the public which still has such vivid memories of her. But it's the kind of challenge I felt I couldn't refuse. You know that people will complain that you don't look enough like her, that you're not tall enough, all those things."


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Artist from Albania, Brazil, Moldova and China exhibit paintings, drawings, photographs and fiber art in "Talk Time Artistry," on view at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy.
Immigrants may find it a challenge to express themselves in English, but art is a universal language. For the first time in Quincy, talented artists who also are recent immigrants introduce themselves to the community in an art exhibit at the Thomas Crane Public Library.
"It's very hard when you can't say what you really mean because you don't know how to say it," said Andri Jorganxhi, 24, a pastry chef who moved to Quincy from Albania six years ago. "But if you're an artist, you can tell people who you are through your art and show what you can give."
Jorganxhi and four others from Brazil, Moldova and China exhibit paintings, drawings, photographs and fiber art in "Talk Time Artistry," on view in the library's main lobby through April. All are current or former students in the library's free Talk Time program, where they meet weekly to practice English conversation skills under the guidance of a volunteer leader.
Leader Linda Zhou organized the exhibit after noticing her students respond to the library's monthly art exhibits.
"They would walk by and be kind of wistful," said Zhou, who leads more than two dozen students in three conversation classes. "They'd talk about art as if they couldn't do it anymore, and I thought, 'Why not capitalize on the opportunity the library offers to exhibit?'" Many students couldn't believe that the library would give free space to show art, she said.
"That is not something that would have happened where they came from," Zhou said. "They feel empowered that they can hang their art and people will look at it. And that empowerment will carry over to other things." From the framed statement and photograph that accompanies the artwork, people can learn about the artists' backgrounds and vision. Some received formal art training or learned from relatives in their native countries, while others are self-taught. The artist profiles, as well as the work labels, were written by fellow Talk Time students in Zhou's classes.
"The beginning, intermediate and advanced students all worked together to draft, edit and polish the writing," Zhou said. "They learned from each other." Jorganxhi said he hopes his charcoal and colored pencil drawings of "Lakeside Retreat" and "Trade Off" will make people smile. One is an enticing water scene, while the other is a surreal image of a man in black and white whose head is an explosion of colors – which can be viewed as a metaphor for immigrant dreams.
"He has broken free of the old restraints and it blows his mind that he did it!," reads the wall label. "He has abandoned his old lifestyle for a colorful future."
Anna Movila, who studied art in Moldova, exhibits "Fable City," a richly detailed, vibrantly colored batik on silk of an imaginary town. Movila also exhibits pastel illustrations for a children's book, as well as an acrylic triptych of bright pink, orange and yellow flowers. A homemaker and mother since she moved to Quincy in 2011, she also is a fashion stylist who volunteers with Dress for Success.
Annie Liu, a homemaker who was a nurse in China before she settled in Quincy, discovered her love of painting through her children's school art activities. One of her landscape paintings, "Mountain Lake Waterfall," was inspired by a spot she visited as a child in southern China.
Zhaneta Mosko, a retired ophthalmologist from Albania, learned to knit and design patterns from her grandmother. She exhibits a variety of knit wear, including "Wonder Baby," a red, white and blue baby dress inspired by the American flag and Wonder Woman.
Gustavo Schiffler, a biologist who came to Quincy from Brazil in 2015 and now works as a driver, exhibits photographs that express his interest in the interaction between the human and natural world. In "Democratic Sky," a graceful flying gull seems undisturbed by the two New York skyscrapers that tower over it.
Zhou, who came to the United States from China as a student and lives in Hingham, said she is thrilled that the exhibit came together so well.
"I speak as an immigrant myself, although I have been here for a very long time," she said. "The big thing for immigrants is integrating into society, and participating in civic activities is part of that."
In the exhibit's introductory statement, the artists express their deep appreciation for the opportunities they have received.
"We are immigrants from many different countries around the world," it reads. "We share a common bond, which is heartfelt appreciation to the Thomas Crane Public Library for its many services that have helped us integrate into our new community."
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WHAT: "Talk Time Artistry" art exhibit by students in English conversation classes WHERE: Main floor lobby, Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St., Quincy Center
WHEN: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday through April
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The X-Supra G Type case is a mid tower case packed with features. With a large side window, tool-less chassis, and room for Standard ATX, Baby AT and Micro ATX form factor motherboards, will the X-Supra make the short list?
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The X-Supra comes in a striking box showing exactly what the case inside will look like. Apevia uses one box for both product lines of their cases, showing the windows version and the massive 240mm fan version, which ultimately means cost savings for the consumer. A black dot sticker shows which case is inside.
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By: Jonathon Cant, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 02 Sep 2011
We asked, you answered, we listened...here's the results.
We asked you about what kind of events you'd like to attend, what workshops you wanted and some general questions on the M2U program and here's what you said:
Thank you so much everyone, your initial input has been absolutely invaluable we had a fantastic respone with 92 people completing our survey and you have all contributed to the development and direction of the M2U program.
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