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The Hub is proudly turning its programming over to the dogs this week. Its "Dog Days of Summer" stunt features a week of canine-themed movies (don't miss Air Bud 4: Seventh Inning Fetch tonight at 8, and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Friday at 8), culminating Saturday with a marathon of The Hub's hit series Pound Puppies. The marathon will begin at 9am and feature several favorite episodes along with a new one, "The Accidental Pup Star."
It's all part of a larger campaign called The Hub's Pup-ularity Contest, which encouraged viewers to send in photos of their smiling pooches for a chance to win $2,500 in cash, a trip to Hollywood, and a doggie spa certificate. There also will be a donation made in the winner's name to the animal-rescue nonprofit Petfinder Foundation. Find out who the winner is Saturday during the Pound Puppies marathon.
Pound Puppies star (and animal lover) Alanna Ubach, who voices Strudel, Mr. Nut Nut and the squirrels, took some time to talk with me about her work on the series and why she's so devoted to animal rescue.
Channel Guide Magazine:Â You came of age in the 1980s when the original Pound Puppies were popular. Were you a fan back then, and what's it like to be a part of the franchise now?
Alanna Ubach: It was one of the favorite Christmas gifts as a child growing up. I'm honored to be playing character that I loved as a child. In fact, I owned a Pound Puppies toy as a child. I received it as a gift. I remember that it came with the adoption papers.
CGM: You voice at least three different characters on the show. Do you have a favorite, and with this show and all the other voice-over work you do, is it ever tough to keep the characters straight?
AU: My favorite part is playing three characters who are talking to each other at the same time. Playing Strudel, Mr. Nut Nut and the squirrels at the same time. It's a challenge, but it really keeps you going. And I don't' find it difficult to keep the characters straight. That's the fun part!
CGM:Â In voice acting, do they ask you to come up with a voice, or do they generally have a voice in mind that they want you to emulate?
AU: Most of the time, they come up with a breakdown description of the character. If you're lucky enough, you will see the animated character. Then you have to use your imagination and creative input to create the voice. And hopefully they agree with the voice you create.
CGM: Does the cast ever record together? If so, it must be fun getting to play off actors like Eric McCormack and Betty White.
AU: Eric and Betty are amazing! It's ironic that we can all be in our PJs and do the same work. We pick up things and learn from each other. I've seen the wonderful work ethic of John DiMaggio and Yvette Nicole Brown. I've never met a voice actor that I didn't like. It's just a wonderful business to be part of.
CGM: Talk about what being a part of the series, and this "Pup-ularity" contest means to you as an animal lover.
AU: When I was a child, I remember watching Lady and the Tramp and falling in love with dogs. I wanted a dog right away, but my parents thought a 6-year old would find it difficult potty training and walking a dog. What I really love about Pound Puppies is that shows how not only to take care of a dog, but really how to love a dog. And also stresses the importance of rescuing dogs. I have two rescue dogs myself. It's really important to put that message in the conscience of kids.
CGM: What do you think the secret to a happy pup is?
AU: A lot of love and a lot of attention. Treat him or her as a member of the family.
CGM: Your whole career you've seemingly had your feet firmly planted in projects aimed at kids, and projects aimed at adults (Hung). Is it important for you to maintain that balance, or has it just worked out that way?
AU: It's very important. It's such a relief that you're not working on something that isn't palatable to my little cousins. Pound Puppies isn't too adult or too boring for them. I can call my little cousin Alex to tune into The Hub and watch Pound Puppies. Playing an animated dog is hilarious to my family members. That is the fun part!


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After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into a newly opened waterpark.
Night Wolf (2010)
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.
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A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm.
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When David and his clumsy brother Peter kidnap the daughter of a powerful gangster, they bring Tracey to a cottage in the countryside in the trunk of their car. Peter calls Tracey's father and asks a ransom of one hundred thousand pound to be delivered to her step-brother Andrew. When the bag is delivered to the moron Andrew, he does not check the content and is followed to the remote location by two Chinese hit-men hired by Tracey's father. When the abductors discover that the bag has only paper, David drives to a nearby village to make a phone call to demand the money. When he returns, he finds Andrew fainted and later that Tracey had reverted the situation and escaped with his brother as hostage. Meanwhile an insane and deformed farmer has just killed the killers and Tracey and Peter are heading to his farmer seeking a phone to call her father.
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Sick Day Photo Shoot
What does one do when quarantined inside the house for days on end with a sick baby? Have a photoshoot of course! I mean, this face! Those BROWS! I don't know how this kid ended up as cute as he did, but I'll take it.
In other news, I promise to blog more. Even if nobody reads it, I need to document this precious time in our lives. Before we know it, Westley will be off to college and we'll be like, "Where did our baby go?" Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that.


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Offering up a slice of reality in the world of fashion, Model City introduces viewers to 8 young models looking to expand and excel in their careers. Watch as they battle for the top spot. Tune in at 8pm Thursday starting February 18th!
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Model City, a Centric original series, takes an up-close look at the world of black male models. The reality series follows the lives of four Black and Latino male models of RED Model Management NY, as they work to make a name for themselves, while dealing with the various challenges of "making it" in the female- dominated modeling industry. Models Wendell, Ibrahim, Nelson, and Zeric grant viewers exclusive access into their fast-paced lives, and their never-ending 24/7 grind to become fashion's elite faces. Model City documents the contrast of model's glamorous runway lifestyles with the realities of being a black model; less jobs, more competition, as well as the general struggle to stay on top of the game while handling rejection, exhausting schedules, jealous girlfriends, and the personal insecurities that can come along with the job. The Series is executive produced by Sean Joell Johnson of LeftCenter Entertainment and Kelly Welsh of CrossRoads Media, in collaboration with Centric's Executive Vice President and General Manager Paxton Baker, and Centric's Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development Essie Chambers.


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It's Time for the News! But First, a Brief Report from Sick Bay...
August 2010 has been an interesting month. A few weeks ago I noticed a slight twinge in the right shoulder. The twinge soon became an ache, followed by loss of mobility and muscle tone in the right arm. The pain varies but is always there. As this is being written, I can raise the right arm less than halfway to shoulder height, and can't come near straightening it in front of me. I can flex the right hand but can't lift anything much heavier than a bottle of juice or cola. The muscles in the left shoulder / upper arm are also sore, but so far (knock wood) without any noticeable loss of mobility or strength in the arm or hand (I'm left-handed). To date, I've tried chiropractic and massage, and have been to a physical therapist. I'll have a CT scan this week, followed by more physical therapy, massage and whatever else is needed. Meanwhile, everyday acts, such as shaving, showering, putting on one's shirt and so on have become mini-adventures. Obviously, I am still able to type, else you wouldn't be reading this. The hope is I've only pulled or strained a muscle (or more), or pinched a nerve (or more). If that's the case, time and proper care will resolve the problem. If it's something else, I'll have to deal with that in the best way possible. And so ends the report from sick bay. In other news...
Leon Breeden: He Set the Bar High
In 1959, when Leon Breeden arrived at the University of North Texas (then North Texas State College) to succeed Gene Hall as director of the school's Jazz Studies program, no one said muchout loudabout the program, which Hall had founded in 1946 and led under the guise of "dance band" music, as jazz had earned an unsavory reputation within the precincts of academia. Breeden set to work changing that perception, and by the time of his departure in 1981, the UNT Jazz Studies program was not only accepted but widely applauded as its flagship ensemble, the acclaimed One O'Clock Lab Band (named for its daily rehearsal time), became one of the nation's outstanding college-level bands, recording extensively and garnering half a dozen Grammy Award nominations between 1975 and 2009. In 1967, the One O'Clock Band shared the stage with Duke Ellington and Stan Getz in a command performance at the White House, and three years later performed at the prestigious Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival.
Breeden, who died from an abdominal infection August 11 at age 88, became renowned as one of the country's leading jazz educators and held the position of Professor emeritus of the UNT Jazz Studies program. When he came there in 1959, the program had 75 students and four lab bands; when he retired 22 years later, there were 500 students, nine lab bands and a library of more than 4,000 arrangements. Among Breeden's students were pianist / composer Lyle Mays, trumpeter Marvin Stamm and saxophonist Lou Marini. The program won admiration and praise from a number of jazz greats including Ellington, singer Ella Fitzgerald and bandleader Stan Kenton who willed his entire big-band library to UNT. Breeden, who grew up in Wichita Falls, TX, was a clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and arranger who before taking the reins at UNT was music director at Grand Prairie High School and band director at Texas Christian University. He played in bands at NBC Radio and wrote arrangements for Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops as well as for the Cincinnati and Cleveland orchestras.


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Barbra Streisand: Tell Me A Story
The Advocate reports:
Trailblazing superstar Barbra Streisand was feted at a star-studded gala last night and encouraged other women to create material and tell stories.
Streisand was among nine top Hollywood female stars who were honored at Ellemagazine's 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute in Beverly Hills. Jennifer Aniston, Freida Pinto, Evan Rachel Wood, Naomi Watts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Viola Davis, Dreamworks chief Stacey Snider, and newcomer Elizabeth Olsen were the other honorees, but much of the attention was focused on a rare public appearance by Streisand, who picked up the L'Oreal Paris Legend award.
Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, who was presented the best director Oscar for 2009's The Hurt Locker by Streisand, called her "a world icon" and "somebody who has mastered virtually every art form imaginable: directing, acting, composing, singing, producing, writing," when she introduced her on stage.
Slumdog Millionaire's Pinto said she was honored to be "sharing the same oxygen" with Streisand. "You're a legend not only in Hollywood but literally all over the world," Pinto said to Streisand. "I can say that because I come from India."
During her acceptance speech, Streisand spoke about the dearth of female filmmakers, saying, "Let's be bold and don't wait for the phone to ring. Create your own material. Tell me a story."
Tipped by Javier O. (@KyoHMA) and Richard K. (@callmericardo). Not saying that this was pushed down my throat (no pun intended) and nor I was forced to post this cause at the end of the day, blonde Scandanavian muscle men with big hammers (as Richard wisely put it) it ain't something I'm against of. Chris Hemsworth is quite fit for the role, I'd say. I usually love Natalie Portman's performances, so this seems promising. Though I must say that by watching Clark Gregg on the trailer I can't stop expecting to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus at any moment in the film. Not that long ago I watched "A Perfect Getaway", and since then I haven't been able to take my mind off of Chris (without knowing about his upcoming film), so though our interests are, I'd dare to say, a little different, like my friend Javier, I can't wait to watch it. I'd be posting more about movies. I'll try to give a better balance to the topics I say this blog is about. I'm open to suggestions as well.Thor - Trailer
So The Hangover 2's Trailer Offended The MPAA, But Not The Dilemma's?
I wanna watch this so badly. But apparently, the MPAA has an issue with this.
Queerty reports:
Warner Bros. yanked its trailer for The Hangover 2 from theaters because the fourth graders at the Motion Picture Association Of America, which holds sway over the ratings of all trailers and films, got pissed. And no, not because Bradley Cooper's character is paging another Dr. Faggot, but because it was too raunchy.
(A trailer for the movie, which is rated R, appeared before screenings of the PG-13 The Source Code; the MPAA didn't give permission.)
So what was the problem? A scene where the monkey puts its mouth on the man's fake erection? Whatever.
Just note that while the MPAA has a problem with trailers that adult men doing stupid things while drunk, it does not have a problem with trailers for PG-13 films where sober adult men make "that's so gay" jokes. (The Dilemma's revised trailer, sans "so gay" line, was put out not because of the MPAA's involvement, but from the negative publicity.)
Elizabeth Taylor Dies At Age 79
The Huffington Post reports:
Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at age 79.
The passing was first reported ABC's Good Morning America. In a tweet sent out at 9 am on Wednesday, the show wrote: "Breaking: Elizabeth Taylor has died, @GMA confirms."
Taylor had been hospitalized in February for congestive heart failure, a condition she learned she had in 2004. A two time Oscar winner (for "Butterfield 8" in 1960 and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966), Taylor was also known for her eight high profile marriages.
In mid-March, her publicist, Sally Morrison, said she was in stable condition at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Taylor's son, Michael Wilding, released a statement on the passing:
"My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love. Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world. Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS, all make us all incredibly proud of what she accomplished. We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts."
Joe.My.God. reports:
Details are sketchy, but it's being reported that Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure this morning in Los Angeles. She was 79. Gay men will perhaps most fondly recall Taylor for her early and relentless work as an HIV/AIDS activist.
Best actor nominees include James Franco ("127 Hours") , Jeff Bridges ("True Grit"), Colin Firth ("The King's Speech"), Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network"), and Javier Bardem ("Biutiful"). Best foreign film nominees: Biutiful (Mexico), Dogtooth(Greece), In a Better World (Denmark), Incendies (Canada),Outside the Law (Algeria). Complete list here.2011 Oscar Nominations
Best actress nominees include Annette Bening ("The Kids Are All Right"), Michelle Williams ("Blue Valentine"), Nicole Kidman ("Rabbit Hole), Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone"), and Portman ("Black Swan").
Best supporting actress nominees include Amy Adams ("The Fighter"), Helena Bonham Carter ("The King's Speech"), Melissa Leo ("The Fighter"), Hailee Steinfeld ("True Grit") and Jacki Weaver ("Animal Kingdom).
Best supporting actor nominees include Christian Bale ("The Fighter"), John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone"), Mark Ruffalo ("The Kids Are All Right"), Geoffrey Rush ("The King's Speech") and Jeremy Renner ("The Town").
Best director nominees are Joel and Ethan Coen ("True Grit"), Darren Aronofsky ("Black Swan"), Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech"), David O. Russell ("The Fighter") and David Fincher ("The Social Network").
The movies up for best picture are "Black Swan," "The Fighter," "Inception," "The Kids Are All Right," "The King's Speech," "127 Hours," "The Social Network," "Toy Story 3," "True Grit," and "Winter's Bone."
"We haven't grown at all, have we?" the actor asked Letterman after being asked if he worried about his image as a heterosexual leading man after playing gay. Lovely.Carrey Slams Letterman
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Here are some pictures from last night premier of Burlesque in LA. Enjoy!!!
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Taking the family away for a break can be more stressful than relaxing unless the hotel is geared to children. Here are some easy-going hotels where your children will be made to feel an asset and not an intrusion. Some hotels may run courses and activities specially geared to children; others may simply welcome them with open arms and cater to their needs.
Mawgan Porth, Cornwall
Excellent family-friendly beach hotel - modern but with great beach views, two pools, a kids club and a spa.
St Mawes, Cornwall
A smart, classic coastal hotel overlooking the bay of St Mawes and beyond. Ideal for weekend or longer retreats with good walks and sailing nearby but otherwise few facilities within the hotel. Good restaurant.
Rock, Cornwall
Breezy, family-friendly hotel with golf, and beach on the doorstep, in buzzy Rock. Sailing club and classes, rib rides and waterskiing.
Dittisham, Devon
Quirky and delightfully informal hotel run on house party lines, near the River Dart - 'quintessentially English' - full of art, a fine lawn, with an indoor pool, gym and grass tennis.
Superb all-round hotel in its own estate: the perfect retreat for families or couples with top notch rooms, spa, indoor pool, and great dining.
nr Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
Eccentric, fabulous family castle hotel stuffed with antiques and four posters in pretty rural setting midway between the Lake District and the Dales. Good base for expeditions if you have a car. Excellent for children and families.
Snettisham, Norfolk
Charming traditional pub with a stylish twist - well adapted for families, with log fires and within easy reach of the beach.
Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Characterful windmill B&B overlooking marshes of Cley, a pretty village near shingle coast where locals swim. Good birdwatching nearby.
Lively pub overlooking Brancaster estuary. Popular with families and sailors.
Isles of Scilly
Delightful family-run hotel set in a star-shaped castle on St Marys.
Seaview, The Isle of Wight
Eccentric family run hotel in a fabulous setting - the 1930s with a '60s twist. Forget en suite bathrooms, but for families wanting a very relaxed seaside atmosphere at reasonable rates, with lots of friends to make, it's an experience. The antithesis of boutique.
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Superbly run and classic country house hotel near Bath with spa and equestrian centre - extensive grounds, a grand house, and Michelin star dining - a pampering treat. Family friendly.
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Traditional Jacobean manor house with superb children's facilities and spa for the grown ups. Geared for families, there are a range of activities, and time off for adults.
North Yorkshire
Glorious views outside, vibrant colours inside this funky and informal estate hotel, a contrasting twin to the more formal Devonshire Arms. Good family suites and laid back brasserie. Access to pool and spa facilities of its sister hotel.
Beaminster, Dorset
Renovated country town hotel, with great food, for romantic weekending. Stylish mix of contemporary and traditional, in an excellent town for antiquing surrounded by great countryside.
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, North Wales
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Press Release: VETERAN CHALLENGES PRESIDENTS' ABILITY TO CIRCUMVENT LAWS WITH SECRET EXECUTIVE ORDERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 May 2012 Michael New Legal Defense Fund
Contact: Daniel New, Project Manager 254-785-2617 www.MikeNew.com/
Herbert W. Titus, Lead Attorney 757-421-4141
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(Iredell, Texas, May 24, 2012) An American soldier who was court-martialed in 1996 for refusing to wear a United Nations uniform and deploy as a UN mercenary, has returned to court with new evidence which he believes will support his position that the orders were unlawful.
Attorneys for former Specialist Michael New filed a petition last week with the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, challenging the legality of the court-martial conviction which resulted in a Bad Conduct Discharge for SPC New, who was a medic with 3rd Infantry Division in Germany in 1995.
The Michael New Action Forum has released the following statement: "Because the court martial was fundamentally flawed, the resulting trial and conviction is deemed to be constitutionally unfair. In all criminal trials under our system of justice, the government had an affirmative duty, a duty it refused to perform, to provide the defense team with all evidence reaching the innocence of the accused; Evidence reaching the innocence of the accused is called "exculpatory evidence" but again the government in the trial of Michael New repeatedly refused to produce that evidence which now – after 16 years – has been forced into the public domain. By the revelation of that exculpatory evidence it is now clear that Michael New was unfairly convicted at his court martial of failing to obey an illegal order – when in fact we now know that the Presidential Order was itself illegal. As result, the conviction and sentence of the court martial is subject to being set aside. The Extraordinary Writ of Coram Nobis permits this new information to be brought to the court's attention long after the end of the trial in order to correct an unjust conviction and sentence. It is the innocence of Michael New that is now, after 16 years, revealed to the court for the first time and it is expected that the court will set aside this miscarriage of justice."
The secret version of Clinton's executive order, Presidential Decision Directive #25 (PDD 25) revealed that President Clinton had authorized himself to place American armed forces under the control of UN peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations, in knowing disregard of legislation which limited his use of such troops. Instead of complying with the United Nations Participating Act, PDD 25 arbitrarily changed the rules and suggested that Congress might remove the restrictions at some future appropriate time.
New's attorneys point out in the brief that it is not necessary for the court to determine that the deployment order for SPC New to serve on a U.N. deployment in a U.N. uniform was unlawful to reverse the court martial. It is only necessary for the court to determine that the actions of the government prosecutor denied SPC New his constitutional and statutory right to present a complete defense challenging the lawfulness of President Clinton's order. Rather than getting the law changed, the Clinton administration simply classified its illegal orders and proceeded ahead as if nothing was wrong. Hiding behind the presumption that all military orders are lawful, SPC New was denied access to those documents as part of a Clinton cover-up.
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Note from Elias Alias: In October of 2011 I posted an article here at Oath Keepers national, about Mike New's long legal battle for justice. Mike New is an American hero and Patriot supreme, having stood firmly against wearing the UN blue while on active duty as an American soldier. He was the only man in his entire battalion who refused to wear the UN blue. There is more info and background on his stand against the subversion of our Constitution at our article from last year. Please also read the article at the below link:
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From drunken dares and talent shows to war-like fights and sexcapades - 'The Ruins' cast reveals their favorite unseen moments from this season.
my boy wes a freak gave kellyanne that D
i would **** kenny, johnny Marry- derrick, evan Kill- wes, dunbar
why would you let the drunk person have top bunk??
i absolutely love the Kenny and Evan Bromance. haha
i freakin love susie
i freakin love susie i hope she does more challenges and more **** they shoul have showns
did anyone else notice that at like 16:20 or around there, it said Johnny was Kenny...?
Guys **** -kenny or johnny Marry-brad derrick or evan Kill-wes danny Girls- **** - kellyanne veronica johanna Marry-evelyn katie Kill-casey susie kimberly
That's Ibis
evan is ugly ! johnny is a d- bag and wes is a nice guy
oh he is hahah mustve missed that
Derick is in cutthroat too
i agree with u except NO wes he is a D-bag but johnny and evan hella yeah
this was definitly my favorite season so far they had all my favorite guys (evan brad derrick johnny bananas and kenny) and it was hilarious ive rewatched this season about 20 times and evan johnny and kenny never make me stop laughing and brad and derrick play the game nice sure they have some dirty little tricks but ill never stop loving them im sad that cutthroat was brads last season and this i think derricks last season and im sad if it is he was always so nice and i loved it when derrick just took evans iPod when he was yelling at the girls and evan didnt notice always will miss this season!!!
Adam was on this season, he just didn't last that long -.-
Katie forgot west virginia and new hampshire
Why is adam there at 11:45?


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ARTICLE: Distinguished panelists examine the complex landscape of cloud computing standards efforts, including international organizations, governments, consortia, and the overlapping needs and concerns of all in the field. The insights here are from the very people leading many of those activities, and include practical as well as insider views on where things are headed with regard to interoperability in cloud computing.
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VIDEO: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Bertrand and Annie Meyer about the Eiffel programming language, software engineering, and object-oriented approaches.
VIDEO: Ephraim Feig, the chair and founding member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) discusses the challenges of working with the US Social Security Administration to migrate legacy systems to the cloud. His insights are instructive to any enterprise with a large installed base, as well as more nimble start-ups. He identifies challenges from foundation to technologies and user expectations relating to services computing. After this talk, he joined a panel discussion on the topic at the Cloud 2012 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.
ARTICLE: Climate change and global warming are viewed by many as the two most challenging problems facing the Earth. Green IT and in particular, green computing, are two ways the information and communications technology community is working to address those problems.
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ARTICLE: In the ninth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses, Computing and the Law contributors Brian M. Gaff, Brian P. Murphy, Ralph A. Loren, Christine A. Dudzik, and Lisa Swiszcz examine strategic considerations in seeking and defending against new post-grant review procedures under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.
ARTICLE: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss how computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives.
ARTICLE: In the tenth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets, the authors discuss the different types of corporate entities.
ARTICLE: Eric Baldeschwieler is cofounder and CTO of Hortonworks. In this talk at the Cloud 2012 conference, he presented research on increasing data variety and complexity as well as the challenges, issues, and constraints in the evolving space before participating in the ""Big Data, Big Analytics, Big Insights"" panel discussion in Honolulu, Hawaii.
ARTICLE: A series of articles in Computer magazine provides basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets; in this installment, the authors discuss the America Invents Act.
ARTICLE: Christof Ebert discusses technical debt including a Netscape vs. IE case study and provides a framework with practices for managing technical debt.
ARTICLE: Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how conflict has shaped computing and computing has changed the nature of warfare.
ARTICLE: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Rasmus Lerdorf about the creation of PHP.
ARTICLE: The twelfth in a series of articles in Computer magazine provides basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets discusses employment law issues faced by new companies.
ARTICLE: Developers and researchers face many challenges in trying to produce exascale supercomputers, which would perform a thousand times faster than today's most powerful systems.
ARTICLE: Gary Kessler interviews Irfan Ahmed about SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems.
ARTICLE: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Vint Cerf about how TCP/IP evolved from ARPANET, an earlier small-scale research network.
ARTICLE: Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column from the latest issue of Computer magazine, in which he discusses his interview with Vint Cerf about the history of packets.
ARTICLE: In-memory analytics - which probes data stored in RAM rather than on disk, as is traditionally the case - is becoming popular because it speeds up the analysis process, even as data volumes explode.
ARTICLE: The advances made in computers, communications, and the Internet in the past 50 years are some of the most exciting and significant technological changes in history. The author examines where we've been and how far we've come.
ARTICLE: "Lean Software Development" has become a popular term over the last few years. This tutorial describes where it comes from, what it means, how it relates to well-known agile development practices, and how it will evolve in the future.
ARTICLE: This video showcases Dr. Arvind and his influential work in the field. For more on the IEEE Computer Society's awards program.
ARTICLE: This podcast gives an overview of the articles in the October-December 2012 issue of Transactions on Haptics.
ARTICLE: Students at Arizona State University's School of Arts, Media, and Engineering discuss adaptive mixed reality rehabilitation research and extending interactive stroke rehabilitation from the clinic to the home.
ARTICLE: "Innovation" and "innovative architecture" are topics of broad popularity in software engineering. Yet, the two terms appear to mean different things to different people—with interpretations of both driven more by personal interests than by their true meanings. It's therefore essential for architects to have a clear understanding of what "innovation" means in the context of their projects if they are to make the right design decisions and communicate the intended messages to project stakeholders.
ARTICLE: Author Diomidis Spinellis provides an audio recording of his Tools of the Trade column, in which he discusses why well-written declarative code is easier to understand, modify, and maintain.
ARTICLE: Although trade secrets and copyright provide some protection to bioinformatics tools, a carefully drafted patent can provide the broadest available protection in an increasingly competitive market.
VIDEO: IEEE Software editor-in-chief Forrest Shull interviews Philippe Kruchten about how software engineers can be misled by their own cognitive biases, fallacious reasoning and the games architects and requirements managers play.
VIDEO: Computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. Over the last 40 years the field was concerned with making computers useful. Focus was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, data structures and algorithms. These are still important topics but with the merging of computing and communication, the emergence of social networks, and the large amount of information in digital form, focus is shifting to applications such as the structure of networks and extracting information from large data sets. This talk will give a brief vision of the future and then an introduction to the science base that is forming to support these new directions in computer science.
VIDEO: Author Humberto Cervantes from Autonomous Metropolitan University interviews Josué Martínez Buenrrostro, a Software Architect at Quarksoft in Mexico City about the design process discussed in the article "A Principled Way to Use Frameworks in Architecture Design."
VIDEO: In the late 1970s a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University made a significant breakthrough in speech recognition using a technique called hidden Markov modeling which allowed them to use training data from many speakers to build statistical speech models that were much more robust. As a result, over the last 30 years speech systems have gotten better and better. In the last 10 years the combination of better methods, faster computers and the ability to process dramatically more data has led to many practical uses.
ARTICLE: Today's recommendation systems use new approaches that let companies more effectively suggest products and services to potential customers.
VIDEO: Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, shares his perspectives on the premise that in this emerging world of ubiquitous computing, it is vital that devices, applications, and services are designed, from the start, by taking the other members of the ecosystem into account. Individually, they must offer great value, experience, and satisfaction, and combined, great design must derive value from all the other devices, applications, and services in the ecosystem, while continually reducing overall complexity.
VIDEO: Real-time business information, such as current occupancy level and music loudness, can be invaluable to mobile users planning an outing. Crowdsourcing, via real-user check-ins, can gather such information to be displayed in search or to be indexed to provide more detailed real-time business metadata.
VIDEO: The history of video games is built on a shifting foundation of constant evolution and revolution. Author Jason Pace describes how the changes in the industry have been both dramatic — as with the meteoric rise of PC power and Internet connectivity in the 1990s — and subtle, like the emergence of always-connected Internet devices giving rise to game experiences served in byte-sized increments. As major platforms continue to expand and diversify, one thing remains certain: we're likely to continue seeing the revolution-evolution cycle unfold in the years to come.
ARTICLE: Author Diomidis Spinellis provides an audio recording of his Tools of the Trade column, in which he discusses how with mean and lean code, paranoid testing, and comprehensive logging, programmers can write the systems software that their applications deserve.
ARTICLE: A word from the Guest Editors Sandeep K. Shukla and Arpan Pal seeking original manuscripts for the Special Section on Emerging Computing Technologies for Resilient & Robust Intelligent Infrastructure for the new Open Access Journal IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC).
ARTICLE: We've all read a lot about agile software development—the various flavors and methods sprouting up to tackle new issues in requirements, architecture, design, coding, and testing. But it's rare to hear real, tangible, objective lessons based on the experiences of those who have tried some form of agile development and failed. Get ready to take notes!
PODCAST: Computer magazine guest editors Theresa-Marie Rhyne and Min Chen discuss how visualization has become a formidable intellectual powerhouse that is delivering solutions to the problem of managing the data deluge. IFrame
ARTICLE: Globalization is important to most organizations. Most companies want their products — whether hardware or software — to hit the global market and cater to a global audience.
VIDEO: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Gordon Bell about how the minicomputer served as a building block for computing-enabled innovation and the eventual evolution of computing applications.
BLOGPOST: Companies in IT and software business will fail if they don't master global software engineering. Prestigious journal Harvard Business Manager recently wrote that outsourcing with global IT services and software development ranks as one of the top business ideas of the past 100 years.
BLOGPOST: Much has been written about virtualization over the last few years. Hypervisor software is revolutionizing the datacenter bymaking applications mobile, providing superior disaster recovery, and allowing IT administrators to allocate computing resources more efficiently. Virtualization has been deployed so broadly that the role of the computer server has evolved from directly hosting operating systems and ...
BLOGPOST: There are a lot of cool new technologies surrounding networking today, from the impending changeover to IPv6 to the rise of software defined networking and technologies like OpenFlow. However, while these changes are significant, they are essentially just upgrades to the existing engine of networks and the overall Internet. But one new idea for the Internet and networks is ...
BLOGPOST: Much has been written about the benefits of virtualization over the last few years. Hypervisor software promises to revolutionize the datacenter by making applications mobile, providing superior disaster recovery capabilities, and allowing IT administrators to allocate computing resources more efficiently. In May 2012, Aberdeen surveyed 137 enterprises to see what applications have been deployed on ...
BLOGPOST: The recent court ruling upholding Apple's claim against Samsung ("AppSung") for violation of patent protection for certain design and software patents has unleashed the expected storm of fear, uncertainty, and doubt among journalists and analysts alike. You've heard it before: "Beware the Apple luxury tax", "The end of innovation…", etc.
BLOGPOST: Although the use of mobile video conferencing for business collaboration is a relatively recent practice, the July 2012 Aberdeen Group Sector Insight "Maximizing the Business Value of Mobile Video Collaboration" was able to compare the performance of 27 organizations that were already using mobile video with 81 that were using video conferencing without mobile capability.
BLOGPOST: The Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) phenomenon in the workplace has become an unstoppable global trend.The July 2012 Aberdeen Sector Insight "Enterprise Mobility Management 2012: the Global Perspective" tracked the emergence of BYOD, concurrent with the evolution of Enterprise Mobility itself. It identified three fundamental...
BLOGPOST: Did a butterfly in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? This is one expression of The Butterfly Effect, the term coined by mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz to explain how small changes in conditions can sometimes have large effects in far-distant parts of large, complex systems.
BLOGPOST: Some have mentioned that my titular references could be more, um, current … hence this one from the song "Human" by The Killers, released in 2008. As always, I aim to please. But from a security perspective, knowing whether your online application is dealing with an actual human end-user – or in fact another computer ...
BLOGPOST: Surely one of our many challenges in high-tech is our (ab)use of language – e.g., too many acronyms, or too many meanings for the same word.The word "token" is an example of the latter – in the context of IT Security, it may have one of several meanings...
BLOGPOST: Cloud Storage Gateways – Large Enterprises are Learning what SMBs Already Know In June, 2012 Aberdeen Group conducted a survey of end user technologies designed to support long term data storage. This survey included topics such as email archiving, Cloud storage and data archiving. One technology that has begun to emerge widely in the IT industry is the use of Cloud Storage Gateways, devices that make it easier for organizations to connect their private, on-premise storage to the Public Cloud.
BLOGPOST: In June 2012 Aberdeen Group conducted a global survey of nearly 180 enterprises and their deployments of technologies designed to support data storage, including e-discovery, Cloud storage, and data archiving. Aberdeen's analysis of 87 companies with an email archiving initiative found a distinct difference between the email archiving programs in North America (NA) and those in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA): the primary objective in North American email archiving programs is to prepare for litigation, while the primary objective in EMEA is to reduce IT operating costs.
BLOGPOST: Estimating size or resources is one of the most important topics in software engineering and IT. You will not deliver according to expectations, if you don't plan. And, you cannot plan if you don't know the underlying dependencies and estimates.
BLOGPOST: "Three may keep a secret," observed Benjamin Franklin, in his Poor Richard's Almanack, "If two of them are dead."Instead of sharing the same secret among multiple parties, what if there was a way to divide a secret among multiple parties without ever disclosing the secret itself? This is the basic idea, announced this week at RSA Conference Europe 2012, behind RSA Distributed Credential Protection, which is designed to eliminate a single point of compromise by scrambling, randomizing, and splitting sensitive data across multiple locations.
BLOGPOST: Star West 2012, located at the Disneyland Hotel, just wrapped up, and after five days full of information on the cutting edge of software quality engineering, it's pretty evident that this conference is here to stay. 2012's content-offerings were varied and interesting, but I'm here to talk about the expo floor.
BLOGPOST: First, let me set the record straight: I have not suffered (much) as a result of Hurricane Sandy. My story is about minor inconveniences and life disrupted in subtle ways – nothing as compared to the many folks who have truly suffered: loss of homes, health, livelihood, and even loved ones. To them all I wish a speedy return to safe shelter, dry clothes, hot food, and a warm bed. It is a brief and inconsequential personal account and observation on a) the lack of preparedness in modern life for the breakdown of modern life as we know it, and b) the brilliant performance during the disaster and its aftermath of that little portable SoMoClo™ endpoint, the smartphone.
BLOGPOST: With more or less regular intervals we see new software engineering fads like maturity models, RUP, XP, and scrum. This is nothing new, and many other disciplines experience the same things.
BLOGPOST: Traditional version control systems derive their requirements from software configuration management practices. The focus of these practices is to identify, control, and disseminate the software's configuration and changes. A system, like CVS or Subversion, that can retrieve the files corresponding to a specific software version, list the changes that led to it, and keep developers from trampling on each others' feet satisfies these requirements and can be a boon over exchanging files through a shared folder or email. However, configuration management mainly prevents bad things from happening during software development; it provides (valuable) control, but few tools that genuinely aid a developer's everyday life.
BLOGPOST: An IT system's setup and configuration is a serious affair. It increasingly affects us developers mainly due to the proliferation and complexity of internet-facing systems. Fortunately, we can control and conquer this complexity by adopting IT-system configuration management tools.
BLOGPOST: How can you determine how much memory is consumed by a specific operation of a Unix program? Valgrind's Massif subsystem could help you in this regard, but it can be difficult to isolate a specific operation from Massif's output. Here is another, simpler way.
BLOGPOST: Several months into my experiment with Windows 8 on a Samsung Slate tablet, I now have answers to three important questions about the past, present and future of tablet computing, the so-called post-PC era.
BLOGPOST: The latest debacle at Hewlett-Packard involving the allegations of accounting wrong-doing at Autonomy make for a particularly sticky wicket for CEO Meg Whitman. While there have been some attempts to blame her predecessor, Léo Apotheker, for the decision to buy Autonomy, it's impossible for Whitman to avoid taking ultimate responsibility for the deal. And when the dust finally settles on this latest in a series of miss-steps at HP, the question of what can be done to save this storied Silicon Valley icon from itself will be harder and harder to answer. Part of the problem is that even if Autonomy had knocked it out of the park, instead of fouling out, it never would have turned HP around. Not even close. The fact that it's now another big HP deal gone bad just adds to the sense that all we can do is watch a Greek tragedy unfolding on stage before our eyes.
BLOGPOST: Jeff Immelt of GE has the biggest calling card I've ever seen, and he wasn't adverse to flaunting it on stage late last month at GE Software's coming out party. Flanked by a 12 foot tall GEnx jet aircraft engine, Immelt took to the stage to make clear that GE's next big bet would be on the what I've called the sensor revolution, what others call the internet of things, and what GE calls the industrial internet. The risk that this bet will fail to make an impact on GE and its customers is largely zero –the company's smart devices are everywhere, from GEnx engines loaded with sensors measuring temperature, airflow, and turbine spin rates to massive locomotive engines collecting accelerometer and location data to hospital equipment sending out patient and equipment status updates to consumer appliances providing energy consumption data. These sensors are everywhere – numbering literally in the billions. Which is why this sensor data revolution is, in my opinion, orders of magnitude more valuable than the click-stream and location data that is currently being mined from consumer devices and web-based customer interactions and hyped as the primary source of the so-called big data revolution.
BLOGPOST: More than 500 years ago (or April of 2010, whichever seems more likely), I started this blog with the big, bold, brilliant idea of keeping it limited to 300 words or less about (and I quote): "The Glamorous and Exciting World of Publishing." Yeah, I talk like that.
BLOGPOST: Debt is bad. We hear this simple rule from parents when they educate their children on the proper use of money, from politicians when they try to control economy, and of course from our managers when we try to sell a proposal which needs investment. Expenses should be done from our earned money. On the other hand, success often stems from borrowed money. Apple was started in 1976 with borrowed money from an Intel executive. Later Steve Jobs borrowed millions from Bill Gates to turn around the loss-making Apple. There seems to be good and bad debt.
BLOGPOST: Nobody talks about it, everyone's got it, but who is using it best? Open Source software is hardly ever mentioned when people talk about their business' core IT foundation. It seems like everyone has some form of Open Source software supporting their business, but the stigma appears to be that Open Source is looked upon as the redheaded step-child no one wants to admit they have. Commercial and proprietary software certainly rules a large portion of enterprise solutions, but there's still a goodly amount of tools enterprises stand upon that fall into the Open Source bucket.
BLOGPOST: I vividly remember my first foray into application performance testing. While working as a reviewer at PC Week Labs, I needed a tool that I could use to test the performance capabilities of the then emerging web and application server market. Back then I used a simple web load simulation tool that ran on an SGI Indy system.
BLOGPOST: Aberdeen's extensive research into virtualization adoption has found that server virtualization has been widely accepted by companies of all sizes. While most organizations have deployed hypervisor software on their servers (See "Is the Hypervisor Market Expanding or Contracting?" September 2012), fewer companies have deployed desktop virtualization.
BLOGPOST: Requirements and architecture of any system thus are highly interdependent. Projects without early architecture evaluation will overlook critical requirements. They will fail in prioritizing requirements. They face budget overruns and rework due to inappropriate and late design changes. This blog looks how to bridge the twin peaks of requirements and architecture.
BLOGPOST: No matter the shape or size of an organization, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are the backbone for managing a company's interactions with customers, clients, and sales prospects.
BLOGPOST: In January 2013, Aberdeen surveyed 123 organizations to learn how they use the Public Cloud as part of their IT infrastructure. This Blog will focus on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a platform for enterprise applications and the surprisingly high percentage of survey respondents that reported losing data from their SaaS applications. This report is a warning to all that have mission critical data in Public Cloud SaaS deployments — you may not be as well protected as you believe.
BLOGPOST: There's never enough solid competition in the enterprise software market, and it's been tempting to see the top tier of the market as a three-horse race, with SAP and Oracle the dominant players, and Microsoft, in the form of Dynamics AX, moving fast to catch up, particularly in the large enterprise. It's looking like that's about to change.
BLOGPOST: In January 2013, Aberdeen surveyed 123 organizations to learn how they use the Public Cloud as part of their IT infrastructure as well as the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). With SaaS as a platform for enterprise applications and its growing importance as an application deployment method, companies now have an alternative to purchasing a software license when they decide to use a commercially available application. Findings from the recent Aberdeen research report "The Growing Importance of SaaS as an Application Deployment Platform", shows wide use of Cloud-based SaaS applications in many different parts of today's enterprises.
BLOGPOST: We increasingly rely on complex electronic functions to ensure functional safety. These functions are realized by systems of sensors, actuators and interconnected electronic control units. To mitigate product liability risks associated with such systems as well as to ensure the high level of quality under varying operational conditions, significant improvements to engineering processes are necessary. This blog shows how to master functional safety.
BLOGPOST: An emerging trend – dubbed "the Internet of Things" — is the growing prevelance of interconnected devices in our lives. These connected devices range from "smart" refrigerators to intelligent production machines in factories and warehouses. Each of these devices is collecting and sending data back to a central collection point specific to their business role —whether it is the system running the manufacturing plant, or the "smart" home core computer. As more data is collected, data analytics processes can be applied, resulting in the refrigerator compiling a grocery list from items previously consumed, or the automatic delivery of a replacement part to the manufacturing plant for the one pending expiration.
BLOGPOST: Some things are just too good to be true, and Microsoft's vision for Lync 2013 – its desktop unified communications product – is a good case in point. It's almost a shame, because rationalizing the many different channels of communication that business users have access to – email, chat, social, video conference, voice – under a single application has enormous potential for optimizing how people collaborate. And Microsoft's vision for Lync, as spelled out at its sold-out first-ever Lync conference last month, was a singularly beautiful vision of instant-on, real-time communications enabling amazing feats of collaboration never before possible. Too bad trying to make this vision happen with the current product set is just a dream – or actually, if my example is any indication – a bloody nightmare.
BLOGPOST: Aberdeen has been following the adoption of Cloud computing for many years. In May 2012, Aberdeen surveyed 123 organizations to learn how they use Cloud computing as part of their IT infrastructure. The adoption of Cloud computing technologies by midsize organizations — companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees — has allowed them to become more flexible, increase end-user involvement in managing their own infrastructure, and reduce the overall cost of IT services. However, according to the Aberdeen research report "How Private Clouds can Transform IT in Midsize Companies" midsize organizations have not taken this technology as far as it can go to fully transform the way their IT organization supports the lines of business.
BLOGPOST: We've witnessed the rapid emergence of the term "big data" as a key technology trend in 2012. There is no shortage of insights and conversations that focus on the importance of big data and best practices to leverage big data as a key business differentiator.
BLOGPOST: When visiting my mom, who does not live close by, I try to play Geek Squad and help her with any open technology issues. Most recently, we set up a new Wi-Fi service for her new Windows 8 laptop (that's right, my mom has newer capabilities than I do).
BLOGPOST: There is a continuing revolution in how IT deploys enterprise applications; today there are many platform options on which to deploy applications, including physical servers, virtualized servers and multiple versions of the Cloud.
BLOGPOST: Microsoft Dynamics has many ambitions, many of them warranted, to become a force for innovation and change in the broad enterprise software market. And Dynamics has a problem, or really a set of problems, that in essence originate from a single source: the rest of Microsoft. As Dynamics performs yeoman's service defining, or at least trying to define, the enterprise value of its parents company's increasingly broad innovation portfolio, the rest of Microsoft is having trouble following suit, or a times even playing in the same card game. Windows 8 and Windows 8 phone were both launched largely devoid of any mention of the enterprise, and the Yammer acquisition was jammered into the Office division, where the desperately needed business context for making social collaboration relevant is missing in action (unless you think collaborating over a PowerPoint preso is the raison d'etre of social collaboration). Lync 2013 was launched in a similar way – despite a lot of sloganing and some nifty demos, there was no link to real business processes (or to anything but Lync, apparently).
BLOGPOST: With the rising importance and ubiquity of devices such as tablets and smartphones, it's becoming trendy for technology pundits to say that we are moving to post PC times, that not only will the importance of the PC dwindle, but that we will soon cease to use them completely.
BLOGPOST: Have you been hearing lately, as I have, about the "DSD Top 4"? This refers to the Australian Government Department of Defence's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), and its recently updated publication called "Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions".
BLOGPOST: Predictive analytics is moving mainstream — big data is making it so. Aberdeen's big data research ("Go Big or Go Home? Maximizing the Value of Analytics and Big Data") indicates that 90% of organizations working with big data were also using predictive analytics. This is a natural fit — as data sets get bigger and more complicated then the human eyeball is going to find it much harder to find patterns in data. Time for smart software in the form of predictive analytics and data mining technology to step in and help.
BLOGPOST: If you're not old enough to relate to the musical reference in the title, you may also not be old enough to know that two-factor authentication didn't just become fashionable in the last couple of months – as you might otherwise surmise based on announcements (both actual, and rumored) by Twitter, Microsoft, WordPress, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google and others. In ge
BLOGPOST: Michael Lock, Peter Ostrow, Trip Kucera and I have been speaking at many IBM Business Analytics Summits recently. One of our big talking points has been this: Where business users are able to use analytics self-sufficiently, with very little (if any) assistance from skilled IT staff, analytics is used more pervasively throughout the organization. In other words, analytics gets into the hands of a greater percentage of employees.
BLOGPOST: I don't usually like to admit I was wrong, but my love affair with Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy is over. While I still think the basic strategy is a sound one for the enterprise – a single code base for building touch-enabled apps that can live on phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and anything else Windows 8 will run on – I'm a little tired of the lack of execution on key parts of the strategy.
BLOGPOST: There is a continuing revolution in how IT deploys enterprise applications. A number of years ago, physical servers were the only choice. Today, on-premise physical servers are joined by virtualized servers and multiple versions of the Cloud. With this range of options, it benefits business leaders to make the best choice for their particular needs. To that end, in January 2013, Aberdeen surveyed the IT community to learn how they deploy their enterprise applications. This Blog examines a subset of those results — how the Best-in-Class deploy their manufacturing applications. The full report can be found at "On-Premise or in the Cloud &38212; How Best-in-Class Deploy their Manufacturing Applications".
BLOGPOST: As a follow-up to my recent blog on Two-Factor Authentication: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been (6 May 2013), about the flurry of activity around two-factor authentication in consumer scenarios, I want to call your attention to FIDO.
BLOGPOST: n May 2012, Aberdeen surveyed 137 enterprises to learn about their server environments.This report focuses on the role virtualization plays in SMB IT departments and the importance servers play in maximizing IT investments. The full report can be found at "Solving the Unique Computing Challenges of Small and Mid-sized Businesses."
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"Denying historical facts, especially on such an important subject as the Holocaust, is just not acceptable. Nor is it acceptable to call for the elimination of any State or people. I would like to see this fundamental principle respected both in rhetoric and in practice by all the members of the international community," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon back in 2005.
At an inter-religious service organized by the Vatican, a church leader has advocated "expressions for peace and the mutual respect for the dignity of the other".
One important alternative focus for Remembrance in November and at other times has been the Pacifist Memorial at the site of the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts, USA.
The World Council of Churches is a global organisation whose skills and experiences can create value for the UN, says WCC General Secretary.
A national 'Faith in Conflict' conference due to be held in Coventry next year will seek to improve the way churches deal with internal conflict.
Peace, nonviolence and social justice will once again be high on the agenda of the held at Cheltenham Racecourse between August 24th and 27th.
That God is a God of just-peace not violence is the revelation of Christ and the real truth of Christianity, two leading church figures have said.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and globally recognised peace activist, Fr John Dear SJ, is taking part in the Festival of Spirituality and Peace on 23 August.
The belief that violence "saves" is so successful because it doesn't seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It's what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts, says the late Professor Walter Wink. If a god is what you turn to when all else fails, violence certainly functions as a god. What people overlook, then, is the religious character of violence. It demands from its devotees an absolute obedience-unto-death. It requires a theological critique.


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Mary Swanson just moved to Middletown, eager to start a family and enjoy the neighborly bonds a small town promises. But when Mary befriends resident John Dodge, she is quick to discover that below Middletown's flinchingly honest exterior lies something much more complex. Middletown is a wry, human portrait of a town with two lives, one ordinary and visible, the other epic and mysterious.
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At Steppenwolf, we love to bring actors' voices alive in our programs. For Middletown, we also wanted to talk about how regular places are made important by the memories we attach to them. We asked all of the cast members to answer questions from a list of 20 – some serious, some playful – about places that left an impression in their lives. Here's what they had to say…
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We very much enjoyed our trip to Chatsworth. The farm, gardens and house were beautiful. It's a great place to explore - and you definitely need a whole day to see everything.
We very much enjoyed our trip to Chatsworth. The farm, gardens and house were beautiful. It's a great place to explore - and you definitely need a whole day to see everything.
We initially wanted to see Chatsworth because of Jane Austen's 'Price and Prejudice' and were sadly let down, no balcony to take pictures from where Elizabeth came across Mr Darcy and we couldn't find the Lake Mr Darcy took a dip in to cool off from his long and hard ride back from London :o( However from an historical point... More
I'm a big Jane Austen fan and originally discovered Chatsworth House from its being featured in both Pride and Prejudice films and The Duchess. Unfortunately, this site is PACKED with tourists. I got a bus to Baslow and then walked through Chatsworth Park (which is beautiful and free to the public) to get to the house right when it opened,... More
Historically interesting - lots to see - very well put together - something different to see in every room Beautiful grounds
This be one of those places which appear in just about every guide / picture book about England. Upon arriving here you may have to pinch yourself ! There little to add to the many reviews both here and elsewhere - it be well worth a visit - the house, the gardens / park and the old stable block. The... More
Great tour. We used the audio tour and found it really helpful. All the staff were very friendly and informative. Lovely day out We had a champagne afternoon tea in the Cavendish rooms, which was fabulous. We took a trip to the farm shop and bought fillet steak for out Anniversary dinner, which was the best steak I have EVER... More
We had an incredible day at Chatsworth, even though it was rather expensive. The grounds and house were stunning, and the afternoon tea was lovely, although again, very expensive. I would certainly visit again though if I was in the area.
We LOVED the grounds which were covered in daffodils at the time of visiting. Beautifully kept gardens and a real credit to the gardening team. The house was fascinating and FULL of artifacts. If you have an opportunity to see the front of the house which faces west in the late afternoon when the sun is going down it is... More
My husband and I have paid our first visit to Chatsworth and we were amazed by the beautiful house and grounds, we had a lovely day out and will be back for the Christmas market, the staff were very nice and we had a lovely lady called Kath who took us on a buggy ride around the gardens, she knew... More
We visit Chatsworth House many times a year and walk in the grounds. This week we decided to pay the extra and visit the Gardens and the House.The place is just magnificent .The Scenery is breathtaking and there is something to see around every corner. I can recommend the guided walks that are interesing and informative. The times are widely... More
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Love these wipes...they take off even waterproof mascara & Smashbox JetSet waterproof liner with the greatest of ease, no need to do anything but gently wipe the towelette across your face, no pulling, no tugging, doesn't dry or sting the skin and leaves no oily residue behind..actually leaves no residue whatsoever just a perfectly pH balanced face - as if you haven't even used a product on it!
Love that you can easily pick them up at Target and find them on sale as well! Now, if only I could find smaller packages for travel I would be in heaven! continued >>
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I bought these at Target for about $7. I've never used makeup removing wipes before so I don't really have anything to compare it to. I think it does a pretty good job at removing my makeup: foundation, concealer, blush, powder, eyeliner, mascara, mascara base, eyeshadow and an accumulation of glosses. This doesn't really remove my eye make-up but it does loosen it so I don't have to spend too much time tugging at mascara,liner and shadow. I've been using them for 3 weeks now and I haven't broken out on my sensitive skin. The wipes don't feel too wet to the touch but they work pretty well. These would be great on those nights where you're too tired to wash your face because they are designed to do 4 things: remove makeup, cleanse, tone and moisturize. The packaging is better than most I've seen in stores because it has a little lid even though it's in a plastic bag.
Has anyone found one that actually removes eye-makeup?
I find that it works pretty well. It retails in the U.S. at Target for $6.99. It cleanses, tones, moisturizes, and removes eye makeup. I love how it does NOT leave a greasy feeling like my Neutrogena makeup remover. I can use one wipe to remove everything. The towel can feel a bit rough on the skin, so be gentle. It takes a bit of wiping to get off that mascara. Sometimes, I need two wipes to get off the full face of makeup. Super convenient though. I would recommend that you get it.
I love these. I changed to something else awhile ago and found other products didn't clean off all my make up. I was on a sailing trip a few months ago and took these with me. I used them all over since there were no showers on board(ewww). They saved me! I am going to go back to using them nightly. I have very sensitive skin and they don't make me break out like some wipes do.
Edit: Now I remember why I stopped using these! They give me milia and make me break out in tiny pimples. They have two ingredients that cause acne so do be careful!
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Some of the best wipes I have tried. Brilliant at removing most makeup, except for the heavy duty mascaras and liquid eyeliners, and nicely moisturising. I usually use these along with my normal routine, but I feel they are good enough to just wipe off the day and drop into bed if im too lazy!
The packaging is good - the snap shut lid is great, until it gets pulled off around the edges and leaves the wipes exposed. That shouldnt happen if you're careful, but i'm not and its happened more than once. the first time I hadnt even used 1/3 of my wipes. Still, its much much much much better than the usual packaging with the crappy sticky peel lid that doesnt stick back down after the first 3 uses.
I can't think of these as cheap simply because £6.50 a pop for wipes feels like a lot, but then you DO get a good amount, and they are good quality. You could spend more and get a lot worse.
Well, I think I am going to be the voice of dissent on this one. I am abit of a facial wipe junkie and I have tried alot, and this one is really just so-so for me. Its not horrible, but nothing to write home about either. I find it slightly lacking in moisture, as well as texture. That is, the wipes I prefer have some pattern on the wipe that helps in the removal of dirt and debris. This one is smooth as babies butt and I find I have to work quite hard to get my makeup off. As much of a wipe junkie I am, I am not that hard to please as I like a wide range of them from Ponds, to Lise Watier, to Rite Aid to Yves Rocher biocalmille, but this one just does not do the trick. I say save your money and get some Ponds or generic version thereof.
This is very nice because you don't even need water, you just take it outta the package and use it. It's convenience when you're on the go. it cleans your eye makeup pretty well too. I definitely recommend this.
I decided to give these a try...I hate having to wash my face at night...when I am super tired...but I love these...perfect for those nights you are dog tired and just want to get to bed. I don't like the kind you have to wet and scrub.... these are amazing and cheap..... I love love these....they are now a staple in my restroom..
Normally I don't go for wipes since I don't think they could actually take EVERYTHING off, but I got persuaded by the SA, and I am so glad that I did. It's very moisturizing, but at the same time it doesn't leave any flimy residue. It's able to remove all my eye makeup without much tugging, it's definitely great for travel or when I have my lazy days and it was able to get the MAC fluidline off!
I've tried a number of facial wipes in the past and most don't do the job, but these are super! They are soft, hard-to-tear, an adequate size, stay moist to the bottom, and best of all, cut heavy eye makeup and foundation without irritating my sensitive skin. They leave a light film of moisture without a perfumey scent, also. My teenage daughter is hooked on them now, too, so we share if one of us can't make it to Target to stock up.


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Visual intelligence can be easily increased. The ability to quickly recognize more of what you see, including more nuances, distinctions and meanings is visual intelligence.
Although we need our eyes to see, all that our eyes perceive is impressions of light. Our eyes account for only 10% of our perception of vision. People who have 20/20 vision, with or without corrective lenses differ widely in their visual intelligence.
Easily and effectively you can learn to see more by, well, seeing more. See people, places and things that are new to you.
We see through our memories. The more visual memories we have that are of different people, places and things, the more we are able to perceive.
Science has discovered that 90% of vision happens in our brains. Our brains decode the impressions of light sent by our eyes into meaningful data. We experience the brain's translation of this data as seeing.
People can be blind, or partially blind when specific areas of the brain that relate to specific types of visual recognition, such as faces, is damaged. We are all also relatively blind to what is radically new to us.
There is a documented story of a European medical doctor who was working with a tribe in Africa over a century ago during the colonial period. He became good friends with the chief who was very intelligent and they spent many off hours together. The doctor was introduced to the tribal culture, which included sculpture and other visual artistic expression, but not painting.
When a show of good European paintings (this predates the acceptance of Modern Art, so these paintings were realistic) traveled to a colonized town within a day's journey, the doctor invited the chief to accompany him so that he could share his culture's art.
After they walked through the show, the doctor asked the chief how he liked the paintings of the people and places in Europe. The chief asked what he meant.
It turned out that when the chief looked at the paintings all that he saw was colors, not people, places or things, which were wholly unfamiliar to him. The chief lacked the idea and experience of visual information being conveyed through paint.
They returned to the show, where painting by painting the doctor pointed out what was in the painting until the chief actually had enough new visual memories of paintings depicting people, places and things, that he could see them on his own. Then the chief became delighted with the art and new experience!
The above story explains how we gain greater visual intelligence. Being able to discern images that are comprised of paint, ink or pixels is something normally sighted people in the industrialized world learn to do by the time they are toddlers. But the average toddler, no matter how intelligent, cannot see everything in a detailed painting, such as a Rembrandt, that an adult can. The toddler lacks the many visual memories and encounters with works of art that are necessary to view the subtleties of Rembrandt's work
This is why young children especially enjoy books where the illustrations are simple and brightly colored. Bright, basic colors are the first ones we learn to see. Yet it is important to introduce and point out more complex shades and color variations to children as the focus it helps them acquire new visual memories and understandings.
Travel, meeting new people who are not of our own familiar racial groups, seeing art and going to movies that include new and different visual information, such as people, places and things created by special effects allows us to increase our visual memories. This means we can recognize. This increases our functional visual intelligence.
So, take the time to break out of your daily visual rut of the places you go, and the environments and people you see. The more different people, places and things you learn to see, the more you will be able to see. Increase your visual intelligence!
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Judy Rey Wasserman is an artist and the founder of Post Conceptual Art theory and also the branch known as UnGraven Image Art. Download a free copy click: Manifesto of Post Conceptual Art– A Painting's Meaning is Inherent in its Stroke.
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Flood-hit Dorset pub to close until March
FLOODING caused by months of heavy rain have forced an award-winning Dorset pub to close its doors for repair works.
The recently refurbished New Inn at Cerne Abbas had to close for a week when it was hit by floods last July.
More extensive repairs are now under way and it is hoped that the pub will reopen in early March.
Landlord Jeremy Lee was judged national Landlord of the Year 2012 by the Good Pub Guide and The New Inn was a finalist in the Best Dining Pub class at last year's Taste of Dorset Awards.
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Mr Lee said: "Sunday night was our last night for a while, sadly, which means we won't be open to serve drinks, meals or offer accommodation in any of our rooms until the beginning of March.
"The cause of the flooding is the ground water, which has been way too high since the summer."
Palmers Brewery's tenanted trade director Jayson Perfect said: "We're are very much looking forward to March and the upcoming Easter period, when this very special pub will be open for diners and drinkers once again.
Palmers Brewery made a substantial investment in refurbishing the historic pub, which reopened in June 2012 with 13 bedrooms instead of six, additional space for dining and drinking, a new kitchen and a new toilet block.


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CBN News recently spoke to one Palestinian who laid down his weapons and is now a friend of Israel and a follower of Jesus.
A Christian couple in the United Kingdom is battling for the right to become foster parents after a controversial ruling by a Briitish court. The judge said their biblical beliefs about homosexuality make them unfit to take care of children.
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This Sunday, Christians around the world will be praying for the country of Burma. The military regime there has committed just about every human rights atrocity imaginable against ethnic minorities and against Christians.
They called a time of death on Jeff. Then, his doctor heard the Lord say, 'Pray for him.'
Phil and Kay Robertson of the hit A&E television program Duck Dynasty join Terry Meeuwsen to share how their faith has been integral to their success.
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The graffiti on a building in Belgium says it all: "Welcome to 'Belgistan." In fact, some are now calling it the Muslim capital of Europe.