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Savanna Energy Services Corp. (Savanna) is a premiere North America energy services provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, whose primary offerings include conventional drilling, hybrid drilling, and well servicing.
Savanna Network Infrastructure Manager, Jim Clarke, described a major difficulty Savanna had in running weekly payroll for approximately 457 field employees: "The main reason we were struggling was that when we would run payroll jobs, they took approximately 8 –10 hours to complete. When that process was being run, our SQL Server 2008 database with local disk was completely maxed out from an I/O perspective, and could not be used for other tasks; the server was completely inaccessible—no one else could go on the system and do anything."
Jim's team was looking for a solution that could accomplish the following:
In Jim's words, his team was "grasping at straws" to find a solution to the I/O bottleneck. Enter SanDisk's Fusion ioMemoryTM solutions.
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As Jim investigated solutions, his infrastructure team came across Fusion ioMemory products. They quickly initiated a proof-of-concept.
Propelling Payroll Job Processing
pPrior to implementing the Fusion ioMemory solution, Savanna's entire payroll batch exceeded Spira's three-hour time-out window. Consequently, they had to break up payroll into four separate batch jobs, each of which took around two hours.
Savanna's existing system consisted of a Microsoft® SQL Server database with local disks backed by a SAN. Jim's team moved the production server's database onto a Fusion ioMemory ioDrive® card in a test database server. On the very first test, a payroll batch that typically took two hours to ran completed in just 10 minutes, including SQL indexing.
Jim said, "We thought something was wrong; there's no way it is done. That's not even possible." But it proved to be true.
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After seeing the speed that the ioDrive card delivered, Jim decided to attempt running the entire payroll process in one batch. The SanDisk-powered system came through in this scenario as well: the entire job time was reduced from 8 hours to 15 minutes, well below the time-out window.
Jim commented, "The benefits have been incredible. We are now fully utilizing the CPU, while the ioDrive cards aren't even breaking a sweat. We have successfully pushed the resource bottlenecks to the CPU and RAM on the servers, while the ioDrive cards can support 80-85% more workload."
Jim Clarke, Network Infrastructure Manager Savanna Energy Services Corp.
Delivering Human Resources from I/O Tyranny
Previously the payroll process stalled work for 10 payroll employees all day, every Wednesday—and may have indirectly affected the work of many more employees. The SanDisk-powered system not only shrank the payroll-processing window to just 15 minutes, it eliminated the resource contention that prevented these employees from working with the system during this time.
Jim said, "Before, maybe 10 employees couldn't work in our field ticketing application, Spira. Now, the entire payroll job takes around 15 minutes and employees can continue using the system even while the job is running. It also frees our IT staff from checking for application time-outs and restarting stalled jobs— something that was part of the routine before."
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The benefits of investing in the Fusion ioMemory solution extended beyond freeing system and personnel resources; it also increased Savanna's return on investment and ensured that savings will continue even as the company grows.
Jim said, "Even under the servers' maximum workload, we are using just 20% of the ioDrive card's performance capacity, which gives us good room to grow."
Jim also noted how moving the database to Fusion ioMemory cards freed its storage system for other processes, deferring the need for an upgrade: "The SAN is a very reliable piece of hardware and has been great. Because we aren't using it for high-transaction processing, we can now use it for many other processes. The SanDisk implementation gave us another year with this system by better balancing its workload."
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About Savanna Energy Services Corp.
Savanna Energy Services Corp. (Savanna) is a premiere North American energy services provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
Savanna's primary offerings include conventional drilling, hybrid drilling, well servicing, and comprehensive oilfield services such as oilfield equipment rental, which meet the needs of their diverse oil and gas customer base. Savanna is uniquely positioned in the energy services industry, incorporating Aboriginal partnerships and community involvement with leading technology that includes PLC-controlled service rigs and patented hybrid drilling rigs.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has opened talks with Serbia that could potentially lead to a new loan deal for the Balkan country.
The talks which started Tuesday will focus on pledges by Serbia's new government to slash public spending in a 2013 draft budget.
Serbia's deficit in 2012 has soared to around 7 percent of gross domestic product. The draft budget projects the deficit falling to 3.6 percent.
The IMF froze a €1 billion ($1.27 billion) standby loan with Serbia in January over the country's rising public spending.
The government says it needs a new deal with the IMF as a guarantee to foreign investors that Serbia's economy is on the right track.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Famous for his dots and cartoons, Roy Lichtenstein leapt to the forefront of pop art, while his career also covered a broad range of subjects and styles. It even included the occasional nod to politics and history.
The first retrospective of Lichtenstein's career since his death in 1997 opens Sunday at the National Gallery of Art, which holds one of the largest collections of the artist's work. The show debuted in Chicago and will travel on to London and Paris next year.
It includes Lichtenstein's take on two famous pictures of George Washington and his use of the signs and symbols of power and war. The gallery has hung his print of the Oval Office as the show opens during election season.
Lichtenstein followed politics and made some images for political groups, but he didn't preach, said Jack Cowart, executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation. In 1992, he was asked to create a poster for the Democratic National Committee and mixed imagery from the Nixon and Kennedy eras to create the scene. It eventually became a large-scale painting.
"He really was very much interested in the role of art," Cowart said. He believed that "if you make good art, it will make good sense, it will make good culture, and it will make for a good life."
Curators said Lichtenstein was much more than a painter of comics.
The exhibition follows his career from the 1950s, offering an extensive look at his various styles and interpretations. His first pop painting, "Look Mickey," is a centerpiece with Lichtenstein's riff on Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck that helped change notions about art.
A walk through his career includes paintings of a hot dog, an engagement ring and his memorable 1960s cartoons about war and romance. More surprising are his landscapes made of small dots created with metal screens, cartoon-style nudes, a series focused on brush strokes, and re-interpretations of works by Picasso, Cezanne and other artists.
"I think it's Roy for a new generation," said Harry Cooper, the gallery's curator of modern art who wanted to also showcase Lichtenstein's technique. "People who might not be into art otherwise can relate to sort of mechanical engineering aspects of art. So that's a little different."
One rarely seen painting is Lichtenstein's 1951 "Washington Crossing the Delaware." It's his impression of the 1851 history painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze and the absurd imagery of patriotism, curators said. The revolutionary scene is reduced to something like children's art.
Another piece, "George Washington," is a painting made after a wood cut of a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington. The awkward image was far enough removed from Stuart's, in Lichtenstein's mind, that he could "make it a Lichtenstein, not a Gilbert Stuart," Cowart said.
Dorothy Lichtenstein, who previewed the exhibit, said the show reflects her late husband's humor and sense of irony, poking fun at "so-called great American historical moments."
"I think even the old audiences still think of Roy as just doing cartoons," she said. "There were three years really that he did that, and then there's a body of work that's so different."
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NEW YORK — A high-speed ferry loaded with hundreds of commuters from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan today during the morning rush hour, injuring around 50 people, at least two critically.
Passengers aboard the Seastreak Wall Street said scores of people who had been standing, waiting to disembark, were hurled to the deck by the impact.
"We were pulling into the dock. The boat hit the dock. We just tumbled on top of each other. I got thrown into everybody else. ... People were hysterical, crying," said Ellen Foran, 57, of Neptune City, N.J.
The accident, which ripped open part the boat's hull like an aluminum can, happened at 8:45 a.m. at a pier near the South Street Seaport, at Manhattan's southern tip.
Firefighters were still carrying people away on flat-board stretchers an hour after the crash.
More than 340 passengers and five crew members were aboard the ferry, which had arrived from Atlantic Highlands, a part of the Jersey Shore still struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy.
Passenger Frank McLaughlin, 46, whose home was filled with 5 feet of water in the storm, said he was thrown forward and wrenched his knee in the impact.
He said some other passengers were bloodied when they banged into walls and toppled to the floor.
Dee Wertz, who was on shore waiting for the ferry, saw the impact. She said that just moments before it hit, she had been having a conversation with a ferry employee about how the boat's captains had been complaining lately about its maneuverability.
"He was telling me that none of these guys like this boat," she said. "It was coming in a little wobbly. It hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb."
After the impact, the boat was able to dock normally. Wertz said passengers raced off once the ramp was down.
"I think people just wanted to get the heck off the boat as soon as they could," she said.
People answering the phone at Seastreak's offices in New Jersey referred questions to a lawyer, who did not immediately return phone messages.
Ferry accidents happen every few years in New York. In 2003, 11 people were killed when a Staten Island Ferry crashed into a pier on Staten Island after its pilot passed out at the wheel. Three people were badly hurt and about 40 injured when the same ferry hit the same pier in 2010, because of a mechanical problem.
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On The Table
This morning, did you sip a Sidamo from Ethiopia, hit back a Huehuetenango from Guatemala, or maybe tipple a Tarrazù from Costa Rica? Did your coffee come from Africa, Asia or South America?
These single-origin coffees, alongside current industry issues, were on the table in Washington this week. NCA brought coffee – the beverage and the business – to the halls of Congress. At the biennial NCA Coffee on the Hill event, members joined members of Congress, their staff members, foreign diplomats and executive branch personnel to meet, greet , enjoy coffee and discuss related issues.
Coffee on the Hill is an event designed to afford NCA members an opportunity to interface with their legislators and legislative staffs to discuss industry-wide as well as local issues affecting their business. The event also puts the U.S. coffee industry front and center in the eyes and ears – not to mention palates – of government decision makers and influencers. Also invited to the event are diplomats and diplomatic staffs of coffee-producing countries, as well as Executive Branch officials from agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Trade Representative's Office and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The October 23 event took place in the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. The building is one of several that house offices of members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The tables were lined with pots of freshly brewed and served coffee, identified by their country of origin. Along with the brewed coffee, samples of the green beans and roasted beans were also on display.
Bringing a flavor of a different kind to the event were demonstrations of "cupping" and "pourover" coffee preparation. Cupping is the process by which highly trained experts taste coffees to determine their flavor profiles for the purposes of buying coffee beans or for determining which coffees to use in a roaster's proprietary blends. Pourover is the latest craze in coffee brewing, consisting of deceptively simple-looking equipment used with great precision and expertise. The filters are wet with 200 degree water, freshly ground coffee is added, a quick water soaking is administered followed by a timed pause to allow the coffee to de-gas, which increases its absorptive properties, the remaining water is filtered through the grinds, and finally the coffee is robustly swirled in the carafe to homogenize the extraction outcomes.
Visitors to the event also received a detailed primer on the significance of the coffee industry to the U.S. and world economies, as well as a description of the key issues currently facing the coffee business. This year's highlighted issues included: Congressional acknowledgment of the distinction between coffee consumption and caffeine ingestion in energy products at a time when government officials take a look at overall caffeine consumption; Congressional support for U.S. agricultural programs that support sustainability; Congressional funding of the Foreign Agricultural Services of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (FAS) and USAID to support efforts promoting coffee production that sustains farmers and the coffee supply chain; Congressional support for federal legislation that would establish a national standard that affirms the safety of foods developed using bioengineering technologies; Congressional dedication to working toward the passage of Free Trade Agreements with other nations and support for treaty provisions that would confer U.S. origin on coffee roasted in the U.S.; and continued Congressional commitment to an active role for the U.S. as a member of the International Coffee Organization (ICO). NCA is part of the official United States delegation to the ICO.
The event attracted about 500 participants, including several members of Congress and foreign dignitaries. Coffees on hand included those from Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Rwanda.
So, next time you sip that Sidamo or tipple that Tarrazù, you may well ponder on the universe of individuals, nations, cooperative processes and governmental issues that make up the world of coffee. Perhaps, too, you'll reflect not only on the complexity of the flavor, but also the complexity behind its arrival in your cup.


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Fired reporter faces new charges in bathroom privacy case
October 25. 2013 12:32PM
ROCHESTER - A former Rochester Times reporter accused of placing a camera inside a second-floor women's bathroom in a building where the newspaper rents office space is facing another 13 counts of invasion of privacy.
Conor Brendan Makem, 45 of 47 Pearl St., Amesbury, Mass., was arrested Thursday on the additional charges after police said they identified five more women who were victims.
Makem worked for the newspaper for about 10 years until he was fired on Oct. 17.
He is accused of placing a camera inside the second-floor women's bathroom of the Merchants Plaza office building, where a bureau for Foster's Daily Democrat and the Rochester Times is housed, along with several other businesses.
Makem, who worked for the Rochester Times for about a decade, originally was charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy and one felony charge of falsifying evidence.
The falsifying evidence charge alleges Makem got rid of the camera, but investigators said they recovered images from computers seized in his office and home.
The investigation began on Oct. 7 when a woman noticed an "eraser-size" device in a ceiling of the second-floor bathroom of the 1 Old Dover Road building.
She alleged Makem removed the device, threw it into a dumpster and told her he would call police. Because he threw the device away, police could not determine if it was a camera or a red light, as Makem believed, according to court records.
Three days later, however, police obtained a warrant to seize Makem's cell phone, a camera, flash drives and some computers from the newspaper office.
Makem was first suspended by Foster's, which owns the weekly newspaper, and then fired on Oct. 17.
His bail on the latest charges was set at $5,000 cash which he posted. His arraignment is set for Nov. 25.


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Man accused of using counterfeit $20 bill at bar
Man accused of using counterfeit $20 bill at bar
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
A man is charged after police said he used a counterfeit $20 bill at a business.
According to the arrest report, 46-year-old Tommy Johnson purchased two beers from a bartender using the fake bill at Tryangles on Preston Street.
The bartender reportedly recognized the bill was counterfeit and called police.
Police said Johnson and a woman he was with quickly left the bar, but they were later spotted in front of a residence on Market Street.
Johnson claimed he got the fake $20 bill from a stranger at a McDonald's.
When Johnson was being moved from the detention cell while being booked, police said he dropped a large wad of counterfeit money underneath the bench.
Police said there were three $100 bills and five $20 bills.


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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. | Lois Hall Sams, 74, passed away peacefully at her home Friday, April 5, 2013.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. | Lois Hall Sams, 74, passed away peacefully at her home Friday, April 5, 2013.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Freedom Baptist Church in Lexington by the Rev. Clyde Akers.
Lois was the founder and owner of Horse & Rider Western Store and Cross Country Embroidery of Lexington. She was preceded in death by her parents, Strawdy and Pearl Tilley; brother Troy Tilley; and two sisters, Virginia Lawson and Helen Smith.
Surviving are her husband, Tony Sams of the home; three daughters, Gale Rotundo (Art) of Aberdeen, Becky Smith of High Point and Debbie Thompson Whitis (Tim) of Myrtle Beach; two sons, Dennis Thompson (Joy) and Ronald Hall (Pam), both of Lexington; stepchildren David Sams of Myrtle Beach and Michele Sams of Georgetown, Ky.; a sister, Reba Wallace (Ray), and a brother, Clyde Tilley (Jane), all of Lexington; a brother, Paul Tilley of Hamlet; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Beacon Hospice, 3959 Highway 17 Bypass, Suite D, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576.
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Beaumont Police believe they have found the men responsible for a string of more than 70 Beaumont metal thefts.
A woman claiming to be someone else was arrested for marijuana possession and failure to identify after police say they caught her behind a Vidor business collecting copper wire.
Copper thieves struck yet another area school over the weekend, police reported.
According to Chief Fred Hanauer III of the Pinehurst Police Department, a school official reported the crime Monday morning, Sept. 9, after arriving at the West Orange Elementary School at 2605 MLK Jr. Drive in Pinehurst and discovering the air conditioner was not functional.
Beaumont Independent School District police are currently investigating the theft of copper wire at four BISD campuses.
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Short Circuit (1986)
Number 5: Hey, laser lips, your mama was a snow blower.
Number 5: Malfunction. Need input.
Number 5: Number 5 is alive.
[Stephanie is in the bath]
Number 5: [confused] Stephanie... change color!
Stephanie Speck: [looks down, embarrassed, reaches for a towel] Uh...
Number 5: Attractive! Nice software.
Stephanie Speck: You sure don't talk like a machine...
Ben Jabituya: I am thinking she is a virgin. Or at least she used to be.
Newton Crosby: Where are you from, anyway?
Ben Jabituya: Bakersfield, originally.
Newton Crosby: No, I mean your ancestors.
Ben Jabituya: Oh, them. Pittsburgh.
Ben Jabituya: I don't know about you, but I am planning to scream and run.
Ben Jabituya: I am standing here beside myself.
Newton Crosby: Why did you disobey your program?
Number 5: Program say to kill, to disassemble, to make dead. Number 5 cannot.
Newton Crosby: Why "cannot"?
Number 5: Is *wrong*! Newton Crosby, Ph.D not know this?
Newton Crosby: Of course I know it's wrong to kill, but who told you?
Number 5: *I* told me.
Ben Jabituya: Newton, we are wasting valueless time here.
Ben Jabituya: I am sporting a tremendous woody.
Howard Marner: Crosby, we're going to have to ask you to surrender the robot.
Newton Crosby: Stat?
Howard Marner: Stat!
Newton Crosby: What does that mean, anyway?
Howard Marner: I don't know. But that's not the point.
Newton Crosby: Holy shit.
Number 5: No shit. Where see shit?
Number 5: [Reading a Billboard] Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
Farmer's wife: I hope you took the grass out of the glove compartment.
Stephanie Speck: But you can't die. You're a machine.
Number 5: No.
Stephanie Speck: No, you're not a machine?
Number 5: Yes.
Stephanie Speck: Yes, you are, or yes, you're not?
Number 5: Yes.
Stephanie Speck: Yes, WHAT?
Number 5: Yes, not.
Stephanie Speck: Talk about a malfunction.
Newton Crosby: OK. Listen closely. There's a priest, a minister, and a rabbi. They're out playing golf. They're deciding how much to give to charity. The priest says "We'll draw a circle on the ground, throw the money in the air, and whatever lands inside the circle, we'll give to charity." The minister says "No, we'll draw a circle on the ground, throw the money in the air, and whatever lands outside of the circle, that's what we'll give to charity." The rabbi says "No no no. We'll throw the money way up in the air, and whatever God wants, he keeps!"
Number 5: Hmmmm. Oh, I get it! Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho! Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee! Nyuk, nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Stephanie Speck: What's going on? Is he laughing?
Newton Crosby: Yeah! Yeah! And the joke wasn't even that funny, and I think I screwed up the punchline. Ha ha ha ha!
Number 5: "Whatever God wants, he keeps!"
Stephanie Speck: Life is NOT a malfunction.
Ben Jabituya: With excitement like this, who is needing enemas?
Ben Jabituya: Ooh. Her pants are blazing for you, Newton Crosby.
Newton Crosby: Will you grow up?
Duke: Will he kill me if I stop?
Ben Jabituya: Who is to say?
Duke: Will he kill me if I don't stop?
Ben Jabituya: Again I am shrugging.
Duke: I'm stopping.
Ben Jabituya: Good choice.
Skroeder: ...and I'm going to need some Hueys.
Howard Marner: Some what?
Skroeder: HELICOPTERS, Howard. Jesus Christ!
Howard Marner: I thought they were choppers.
Skroeder: Well, now they're called Hueys.
Howard Marner: Well, why wasn't I notified?
Howard Marner: What if it goes out and melts down a bus load of nuns? How would you like to write the headline on that one?
Benjamin Jabituya: Nun soup?
Howard Marner: Hey! Who told you you could take Number One?
Newton Crosby: Howard, logically, if we need protection from Number Five - this is the best weapon we could have.
Howard Marner: Great. Great. So, instead of 11 million dollars on the loose - we're gonna have twenty-two.
Ben Jabituya: And plus, we are needing gas money.
Stephanie Speck: What planet is this guy from?
Ben Jabituya: I have seen some strange, bizarre drivers, but you. You will be awarded a cake.
Howard Marner: Don't tell me its laser is still armed.
Ben Jabituya: Bimbo.
Ben Jabituya: Bye-bye, goofy woman. I enjoyed repeatedly throwing you to the ground.
[when driving a campervan into a fish hung on a wire]
Number 5: Fish. Salmon. Sushi.
Stephanie Speck: Yes, I'd like to speak to one of your head warmongers, please.
Duke: Dr. Warmonger - I mean, Dr. Marner!
Number 5: Beautiful animal... canine... dog... mutt.
Newton Crosby: Can you believe it's been five years since I've driven?
Ben Jabituya: I would say ten.
Stephanie Speck: [they're heading for the cliff] Oh, no - Jeez! Number Five, we're gonna be killed!
Number 5: Disassemble?
Stephanie Speck: Yes, disassemble ALL OVER THE PLACE!
Stephanie Speck: I thought you were alive, Number 5. I let you tear my house to shreds and you're a ROBOT! You're a machine from that dumb war lab place. God, I'm so stupid!
Number 5: Stupid - foolish, gullible, doltish, dumbell...
Frank: How, robot. Me - friend.
Stephanie Speck: Talk computer, not Apache.
Number 5: Number 5 stupid name... want to be Kevin or Dave!
Number 5: Bird. Raven. Nevermore.
Number 5: Frankie, you broke the unwritten law. You ratted on your friends. When you do that Frankie, your enemies don't respect you. You got no friends no more. You got nobody, Frankie.
Howard Marner: Where is he? I need him! Stat!
Ben Jabituya: Excuse me, sir? Crosby? He is hiding in the toilet, sir.
Howard Marner: Public relations is everybody's job.
Ben Jabituya: He's saying that the crowds, they are making him dog sick, sir...
Howard Marner: Look, he's supposed to be here, I want him here, I *pay* him to be here.
Ben Jabituya: Well, the last time I'm seeing him, he is busy womiting, sir.
Howard Marner: Well, clean him up and send him out, to hobnob. Stat!
Ben Jabituya: "Unable. Malfunction."
Howard Marner: How can it refuse to turn itself off?
Skroeder: Maybe it's pissed off.
Newton Crosby: It's a machine, Schroeder. It doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes.
Newton Crosby, Ben Jabituya: [in unison] It just runs programs.
Howard Marner: It usually runs programs.
Stephanie Speck: [taking N5 for an extraterrestrial being] Oh, my God! I knew they'd pick me. I just knew it!... Hello? Well, I guess... Welcome to my planet!
Stephanie Speck: [to N5 who'd been watching TV all night] ... You know you lose IQ points the longer you watch. There've been actual studies!
Stephanie Speck: [ending her phone conversation with NOVA's Marner] ... never mind, go back to your nuclear warheads.
Stephanie Speck: [about the SAINT robots] So - what are these guys used for, anyway?
Ben Jabituya: It's top-secret crap.
Stephanie Speck: That's what I figured.
Number 5: [parodying a TV presenter's voice during his fight against the other SAINTs] "Escaped Robot Fights for His Life. Film at Eleven."
Stephanie Speck: Boy am I the jerk of the world!
Number 5: Jerk of the world: Turkey, idiot, pain in the ass.
Number 5: [as John Wayne] Ah don't worry little lady, I'll fix their wagon.
Ben Jabituya: So now I am having no job to speak about. I will have to smack the sidewalk.
Number 5: [imitating Elmer Fudd after having seen the show on Stephanie's TV] Well, I guess that waps you up, you wascally wobot - huhgh-huhgh-huhgh-huhgh-huhgh-huhgh-huhgh-huhgh-huhgh!
Number 5: Benjamin Jabituya, delete.
Benjamin Jabituya: No, wait! Rethink yourself!
Number 5: Exit. Depart. Leave.
Benjamin Jabituya: Eat my dust, Newton Crosby. Let us break wind.
Number 5: Newton Crosby, no run, no talk, drive.
[Crosby stalls]
Number 5: Today, Crosby! Today!
Ben Jabituya: Looks like you have created another Frankfurter's monster.
Number 5: Not malfunction Stephanie. Number 5 is alive.
Newton Crosby: Number 5, What do you make of this?
[hands Number 5 a Rorschach blot he just made using tomato soup]
Number 5: Hmmm... Wood pulp, plant - vegetable - tomato, water, salt, monosodium glutamate...
Newton Crosby: Okay, thank you. Now you're talking like a robot.
Number 5: ...and resemble - look like - butterfly, bird, maple leaf!
Frank: [to Number 5] Listen, why don't you say we jump in my car and I'll take you home.
Stephanie Speck: [knowingly] Uh, tell him where home is.
Frank: Uh, home is NOVA.
[Beasley barks]
Number 5: [throws tray at Frank] NOVA? NO! No disassemble!
Stephanie Speck: Run, Number 5, run!
Number 5: Come on, treads, don't fail me now!
Frank: [runs after him] You tricked me, you little bitch!
Stephanie Speck: Oh, does this mean I don't get my $5,000? Well, forget it! FORGET IT! He can run thirty miles an hour, you big stupid JERK!
Frank: [grabs her] Hey, I'll show you how stupid I am! Guess who's gonna help me catch him!
Stephanie Speck: No, I'd rather die first!
Frank: [sees that his Pontiac is gone] What the hell happened to my car?
Number 5: Hi!
[Frank's car is shown totally dismantled]
Number 5: Piece of cake!
Frank: Oh, my God! My car!
Stephanie Speck: [smiles] Oh, way to go, Number 5!
[last lines]
Number 5: Number 5 stupid name; want to be Kevin, or Dave.
Newton Crosby: Just watch the road, okay?
Number 5: Maybe Johnny... Yeah, Johnny 5.
Stephanie Speck: Yes!
Newton Crosby: Cool.
Number 5: Kick ass? Donkey, mule, burrow.
Howard Marner: Crosby, what's it gonna do?
Newton Crosby: Howard it's hard to say, it's malfunctioning, it may not do anything.
Skroeder: But it COULD decide to blow away anything that moves, couldn't it? COULDN'T IT CROSBY?
Benjamin Jabituya: Who is knowing how to read the mind of a robot?
Ben Jabituya: Did she stick her tongue down your throat?
Skroeder: What the hell does it need input for?
Newton Crosby: I don't know; I guess it can't triangulate its position.
Howard Marner: That's a simple function.
Newton Crosby: Can you triangulate YOUR position, Howard?
Howard Marner: No.
Newton Crosby: Well, then - there you go!
[about the robots]
Newton Crosby: Originally I had non-military purposes in mind. I designed it as a marital aid.
Number 5: Many fragments. Some large, some small.
Stephanie Speck: This may be hilarious where you come from, but on this planet it's considered rude.
Newton Crosby: Are you sure you weren't doing any steering or anything like that?
Stephanie Speck: Yeah, I like to drive off cliffs.
Number 5: No disassemble Number Five!
Number 5: Well, if you gotta go, don't squeeze the Charmin.
Newton Crosby: [makes a computer hand show its middle finger to Ben and chuckles very smugly]
Ben Jabituya: Is that a 'yes' or the number of your intelligence quotient, uh?
General Washburne: The only way to secure the peace, Senator, as I'm sure you know, is to be prepared. See, we can parachute these robot guys behind enemy lines. They hide out till the first strike blows over. Then each one is able to just carry a 25-megaton bomb right up the middle of Main Street Moscow - like the mailman bringing bad news. We call it Operation 'Gotcha LAST!'
Senator Mills: That's what you call 'ENSURING PEACE'?
General Washburne: Oh, yeah. Just as you say: 'Ensuring peace'.
Howard Marner: No, I'm sure we'll all agree that Dr Crosby has designed a weapon which will keep our world safe for all time.
Newton Crosby: Howard, what's so safe about blowing people up?
Frank: [explaining why he'd just been trying to capture Steph's dog] ... you know he looked kinda sick to me, so I thought I'd just take 'im down to the vet and fix 'im up a little bit.
Stephanie Speck: He doesn't look sick. YOU look sick.
Ben Jabituya: Newton, you know what is out there in the great outdoors? Girls. Mmmmm! With brassieres and legs - mmm. You have a working knowledge of girls?
Newton Crosby: No, but I read about 'em.
Ben Jabituya: Oh, then... maybe I can furnish you with some schematic drawings?
Stephanie Speck: [to a possible client, over the phone] Oh... I'm sorry, I - but I just... I have to draw the line at SNAKES. Yeah, I'm sure it would make a wonderful pet - but... Wait, isn't there a home for cobras somewhere?
Stephanie Speck: [to N5 reciting TV commercials] OK, you didn't come a million miles to do television commercials, did you?
Number 5: [on seeing the Sun] Oooooo! Beautiful. Light bulb.
Stephanie Speck: No - sun.
Number 5: Beautiful No-sun.
Number 5: Error. Grasshopper disassembled... Re-assemble!
Ben Jabituya: Oh, bull dyke! You cannot hold your water with that story, girl.
Stephanie Speck: ...Where're you taking him?
Ben Jabituya: This is not being a HIM. It's only being wires and several mechanisms and other such machine-type apparatus, for the Pete of sake - the sate of Peeckle...
Number 5: Okay, to make these golden fluffy pancakes... add flour, milk and eggs... Mix thoroughly...
[uses his own motor to rotate the mixer - the bowl contents splatter all over the room]
Number 5: Ooooo... Still lumpy!
[after Number 5 is seemingly destroyed]
Skroeder: [cheerfully] Now that, my friend, is how you kick ass!
Howard Marner: Years of research are down the tubes, and you're happy as a pig in slops.
Skroeder: [proudly] Just doing my job, sir.
Howard Marner: Maybe from now on you can do it somewhere else.
Number 5: Number 5
[Pushing Skroeder away]
Number 5: Number 5: No, no, please. No autographs, sir!
Number 5: Number 5:
[Grabs Stephanie]
Number 5: Come Stephanie! We be jamming!
[Busts out side of wall of Black Lion]
Ben Jabituya: [noticing that Newton is having a hard time driving through the semi-dark streets of town] Do you know what most people are liking at night?
Newton Crosby: No, what?
Ben Jabituya: Headlights.
[reaches across the dashboard and switches the lights on]
Newton Crosby: Oh, yeah... that's a lot better! Thanks!
Skroeder: [after watching Crosby disassemble Number 5] What the hell is the matter with you, you four-eyed idiot?
Newton Crosby: [mumbling to himself] What an asshole.
Skroeder: [angrily] I heard that!
Ben Jabituya: [just before he and Crosby go to meet with the public] Please wait for me. I need to go and use the jack.
Newton Crosby: It's the "john."
Howard Marner: [On CB] Crosby, it's Howard. If you don't have my van back in 15 minutes...!
[Number 5 blows up CB]
Newton Crosby: Let me tell you something. I don't like those NOVA guys any more than you do. In fact, I don't care if they ever get Number 5 back. But I wanna see it.
Stephanie Speck: If I show you where he is, do I have your word: You will not experiment on him, you will not flip the switches, and you will not take him apart?
Newton Crosby: Absolutely. You have my word.
Stephanie Speck: Okay. He's out back. I'll take you to him.
Skroeder: [walks up to them] Well, while you're at it, young lady, you can take me, too.
Newton Crosby: [surprised] Skroeder!
Skroeder: Terrific job, Crosby. Thanks for the help.
Newton Crosby: No. I had nothing to do with this!
Stephanie Speck: You bastard! You're a liar!
Number 5: [spilling and dumping the contents out of the glasses and boxes on Stephanie's counter] Drinking glass... Pasta, spaghetti!
Stephanie Speck: [picking up one of her kittens away from Number 5's mess] Very good...
Number 5: [dumping out spaghetti sauce out of a sauce pan] Liquid, spaghetti sauce...
Stephanie Speck: Look! This may be funny from where you come from! But on this planet, it's considered rude!
Number 5: [distracted by baskets of fruit] Oooo... Baskets... fruit!
[proceeds to dump the fruit out of the metal baskets by pushing the baskets upward]
Number 5: [as he dumps the fruit] Oranges, Apples, Lemons, Limes...
Stephanie Speck: [sarcastically] Why great! Thanks a lot!
Howard Marner: [to Newton; screaming hysterically, banging his fists on the table] I AM NOT HAVING THIS ANYMORE, CROSBY! IT WAS YOUR FAULT THAT YOU HAD TO TALK TO THESE PEOPLE!
Number 5: Escape, escape! Please, hide! Refuge!
Stephanie Speck: What are you afraid of? What's the matter with you?
Number 5: N.O.V.A. robotics, disassemble, dead! Disassemble, Number 5 dead!
Stephanie Speck: But you can't die, you're a machine!
Number 5: No.
Stephanie Speck: No, you're not a machine?
Number 5: Yes!
Stephanie Speck: Yes you are, or yes you're not?
Number 5: Yes...
Stephanie Speck: Yes, what?
Number 5: Yes... not.
Stephanie Speck: Talk about a malfunction!
Number 5: Not malfunction, Stephanie... Number 5... is alive!
Number 2: [imitating Larry] Ha ha ha ha ha.
Number 1: [imitating Moe] Hey, where are you guys going?
Number 3: [imitating Curly] We're not.
Number 1: [imitating Moe] Oh, a wise guy!
Number 3: [Moe pokes the Curly robot] Ow!
Number 2: [imitating Larry] You big...
Number 1: [the Moe robot pokes the Curly robot] You stink, take that! And this!
Number 3: [the Moe robot hits the Curly robot with eye pokes and gut punches] Ow!
Number 2: [imitating Larry's voice] Cut it out!
Number 1: [the Moe robot hits the Larry and Curly robots, and they hit him back] You numbskull!


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LOS ANGELES – The Grammy Awards still have the ability to surprise. The Recording Academy announced last week that Justin Timberlake would perform on the Feb. 10 telecast, his first musical appearance in support of his first new solo material in more than 6 years.
Timberlake, a six-time Grammy winner and two-time nominee for album of the year, will release "The 20/ 20 Experience" on March 19. Still a mystery – for now, at least – is whether Timberlake will use the Grammys to unveil a new song or perform his recently released "Suit & Tie," his retro-minded soul single that features an assist from Jay-Z. "Suit & Tie" has reached the top 5 on the U.S. pop charts and has thus far sold 315,000 downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The Grammy Awards will air live on CBS, except on the West Coast, where they will begin at 8 p.m.
Timberlake, in his relatively short career, has a long history with the Grammys. In 2009, he was asked to host the telecast (he declined), but he did perform that year with Al Green. The two staged a last-minute take of Green's "Let's Stay Together," a performance added after Chris Brown's assault on Rihanna forced the two off the Grammy broadcast. The two were scheduled to perform separately on the telecast, leaving the Grammys with a performance hole. Brown is serving five years of probation after pleading guilty to assaulting her the night before the 2009 awards.
The Timberlake performance is a big coup for the Recording Academy.
There's no shortage of star power slated to perform at this year's show, with Taylor Swift, Jack White, Rihanna, Carrie Underwood and the Black Keys among those on the roster. But an appearance by Timberlake is tantamount to an awards show event, since he hasn't recently appeared elsewhere on television.
Late last month, the Grammys also teased some of the unexpected artist mash-ups the broadcast is famous for. Elton John, whose performance with Eminem in 2001 remains a celebrated pairing, will collaborate with young British pop singer Ed Sheeran. The latter is up for song of the year with his "The A Team," a single that has sold more than 1.4 million downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen.
A star overseas, Sheeran is a fast-rising up-and-comer in America. He'll be spending 2013 on the road with Swift, and his album, given the wordless title of "+." has sold more than 378,000 copies in the U.S. Sheeran posted on Twitter that his duet with John will be "one of my songs," meaning no doubt that he will be performing his Grammy-nominated hit.
Also performing together at Staples Center will be country stars Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert. The two are on a joint-headlining tour. Lambert's "Four the Record" is up for country album, and with Underwood and Swift also performing on the telecast, the Grammys will have a heavy country feel this year.
The 2012 Grammy telecast drew 40 million people – its second-biggest audience behind the 1984 telecast that saw Michael Jackson sweep the awards. Interest last year was buoyed by preshow drama that can't be replicated, as viewers tuned in to see how artists would respond to the sudden death of Whitney Houston a day earlier as well as to witness Adele's return to the stage after vocal surgery.


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Pay It Forward
New Board of Trustees chair Perry Traquina '78 believes in giving back by investing in the next generation.
By Laura Gardner
Growing up in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the middle child of Catholic Portuguese immigrants, Perry Traquina '78 couldn't have known the direction his life would take. His father spent more than three decades in a factory making tires by hand for the United States Rubber Company. His mother worked a string of blue-collar jobs, including making gauze for Johnson & Johnson, and tennis balls for Spalding. Traquina and his two siblings spoke Portuguese before English.
Though his father completed only third grade and his mother never went beyond first, they "drummed into our heads" that education was the ticket to a better life, says Traquina, who joined Brandeis' Board of Trustees in 2002. "My father always said, 'Do well in school and you won't be making tires for a living.'"
Traquina took that advice to heart, excelling academically at Chicopee High School and becoming class president — the first inkling of his leadership promise, he says. Now, as the 57-year-old succeeds Malcolm L. Sherman as chair of the Board of Trustees — after Louis Perlmutter '56, only the second alum in Brandeis history to hold this position — he continues to be especially mindful of the importance of broadening access to higher education.
A Brandeis scholarship recipient himself, Traquina and his wife, Robin, in 2006 created two endowed scholarship funds that have so far enabled a dozen remarkable, needy college students, some of them first-generation, to attend Brandeis.
"When we were thinking about giving back, it felt comfortable to us to create a scholarship targeting prospective students who were closer aligned to where I was once upon a time," he explains.
Without the scholarship provided by Traquina, Krissy Ford '15 says she would never have been able to attend Brandeis. "I've been given a chance to fight for my dreams — to take advantage of all the opportunities at Brandeis and really make this education worthwhile," says Ford. "And my whole family is really pushing me; most of them have not completed college."
In Traquina's immigrant family, attending college was never a question. (His older brother became a journalism professor, and his younger sister a physician.) But how to pay for it was. "My parents worked very hard but never had money in the bank," says Traquina.
On the advice of his brother, he investigated schools in Worcester and Boston, including Brandeis. "It wasn't a particularly scientific or thorough college search," Traquina remembers. He liked the Brandeis campus and the course offerings, and it was far enough, but not too far, from home. Ultimately, he says, a substantial scholarship and financial aid package brought Brandeis within reach: "That was a big part of my decision to go."
He approached the academic opportunities at Brandeis with the same kind of purpose and ambition that friends say has defined his life and enabled his success. "What I see now is what I saw the first day of college," explains Rod MacNeil '78, friends with Traquina since they met in an East Quad hallway. "Perry is brilliant, focused, hardworking, measured and judicious, but also social — he likes to spend time with people."
Chris Ciotti '78 remembers how the Blizzard of '78 offered a particularly rich time for snowbound bonding, as classes were cancelled for more than a week. Ciotti, MacNeil, Traquina and three others shared a mod their senior year. "Every morning, we'd get up, make a big breakfast, then try and dig out someone's car," Ciotti says.
When he wasn't snowed in, Traquina spent much of his time in the library, demonstrating a singular intellectual stamina. "Perry had the best academic record of all of us," says Ciotti, adding, "but he didn't wear it on his sleeve." Traquina was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude.
"I learned how to be a better thinker at Brandeis," Traquina says. "I learned to see problems from a variety of different perspectives." An economics and American studies major, he credits several professors, but especially politics scholars William Goldsmith and Marty Levin, with providing the kind of mentoring at the heart of the best liberal arts education. "They encouraged me to stretch intellectually — to take different classes, to study abroad."
He did all those things, taking courses on art history and architecture, as well as economics and history. He spent his junior year abroad at the London School of Economics — but only after Levin wrote a letter to Traquina's parents reassuring them their son would be all the better for it.
After graduating, Traquina attended Harvard Business School, where he concentrated in finance. When he was offered a job at Wellington Management's Boston headquarters, he says, half joking, good karma was at work: A painting by James Weeks hanging in the firm's huge reception area had previously been in the Rose Art Museum, where Traquina had admired it as a student worker.
At Wellington, an investment firm with more than $750 billion under management, Traquina eventually rose to become CEO, a position he has held for nearly a decade. Closing in on 33 years at Wellington, Traquina has made plans for his succession, freeing up his time to steward the Brandeis board.
"Perry's steady hand and incisive consideration of the issues before the board over the years have demonstrated his exceptional leadership and outstanding judgment," says President Fred Lawrence. "That he is an alumnus only adds luster to his considerable talent." Perry's is a great Brandeis story."
Following Lawrence's direction, Traquina says, the board will tackle a number of pressing issues outlined in the strategic plan. These include affordability and financial aid, the impact of online learning and technology on the curriculum, enhancing already robust offerings in the sciences, the arts, business, and Middle Eastern and Judaic studies; and balancing these priorities with the need to be fiscally responsible.
"At the end of the day," says Traquina, "we need to create an academic experience that provides Brandeis students with an outstanding education."


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Green Style: Kelly LaPlante's LA Loft
Kelly LaPlante is a leading Los Angeles-based green interior designer, author, and television host. A profile in Sunset Magazine revealed photos of her personal home, a beautiful example of how "hand-me-downs and thrift-store finds can rise to stylish new purpose." As Kelly says, green design isn't just about choosing fabrics and furniture made from sustainable materials; it's also about finding new use and new love for things you already own. "There's nothing more green than keeping what you have," she says.
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Since it is Monday (yet again!), I thought I'd share the results of a survey with results few truckers will be surprised by, I am sure.
The survey in question – conducted by Harris Interactive back in June on behalf of computer memory upgrade provider Crucial.com – found that 36% of some 1,816 U.S. adult computer users who experienced computer problems within the last six months admit they resorted to using profanity, screaming and shouting, or by striking their machine with a fist or other object.
In addition to verbal and physical abuse, those who experienced computer problems also indicated said problems are taking an "emotional toll" as well by eliciting feelings of frustration (65%), anger (10%), helplessness (10%), and victimization (4%).
"We've become so dependent on our computers and think of them as helpful partners, making it that much more painful when they betray us at the worst possible time," noted Roddy McLean, Crucial.com's e-Commerce marketing manager, in commentary upon the survey results.
I am also sure more than a few truckers out there can sympathize with such findings, as having a laptop or smart phone go on the blink whilst hundreds of miles from dispatch and home can be frustrating beyond belief.
The survey also found that, when compared to those aged 35 and over, young adults aged 18 to 34 seemed more apt to resort to abusive behavior such as cursing (39% vs. 25%), screaming (29% vs. 12%) or hitting it with their fist (12% vs. 2%) as a result of frustration and anger caused by their computer not meeting expectations.
Young adults also outpaced all others when it came to crying, with 7% of 18 to 34 year olds admitting to having cried at some point in the past six months as a result of their computer problems, compared to only 2% of those 35 and over. [Folks actually ADMITTED to crying over PC issues? Me, I'd keep that quiet!]
Here's another interesting factoid gleaned from Crucial's survey: When asked who or what is most to blame for their computer problems, nearly half of adults polled who experienced PC mishaps (46%) cited viruses or malware, 16% said they were not sure what the cause was, 12% blamed themselves for their computer mishaps, 10% pointed to installed software, and 8% suspected insufficient memory (RAM) as the prime culprit.
McLean noted, though, that it is often a lack of sufficient memory that is the real cause of computer problems for most users.
"Many are quick to blame viruses or malware as the likely cause for a computer that has become sluggish and unresponsive, but many times the problems are simply due to not having enough internal memory," he said.
Well, that's something to consider if you find yourself tangling with a computer problem out on the road.


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BOSTON — Alain Vigneault is trying like heck to prove he can be every bit as effective at head games as his Tampa Bay counterpart Guy Boucher from the Bruins' last postseason series.
Like a baseball manager questioning whether an opposing pitcher is doctoring the ball or a batter is using too much pine tar, the Vancouver head coach is looking for any psychological edge he can find to help his team solve Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas.
Today after the teams' morning skates at TD Garden in preparation for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, the subject of Thomas' check on Canucks center Henrik Sedin in Game 3 was brought up to Vigneault. The bench boss used that question to steer the topic back to Thomas' play outside of the blue area.
"We asked the league. Part of Thomas' way of playing is playing out of the blue paint, initiating contact, roaming out there. He seems to think that once he's out, set, makes the save, that he can go directly back in his net without having anybody behind him," said Vigneault. "Well, that's wrong. He's got the wrong rule on that. If we're behind him, that's our ice and we're allowed to stay there.
"We've talked to the NHL about that. We've talked to the NHL about him initiating contact like did on Hank. They're aware of it. Hopefully they're going to handle it."
I'm sure Boucher would watch Vigneault's press conference and say "well played." As for the rest of us, maybe we should find out if the coach wants some cheese with his whine.
It's doubtful, though, that these mind games will affect Thomas or the rest of the Bruins, since they already vanquished the master of psychology Boucher in the last round.


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Daylilies are Goudy Old Style caps, decorated with, you guessed it, daylillies. Its a lovely set for drop caps, ornamented, and yet elegantly simple.Download a PDF Specsheet
Leaves are another variation on Goudy Old Style, with a wide variety of leaves, both with letters and without. This is one of my favorites in the collection.
Its very graphic, strong-yet-delicate, and especially beautiful when set in earth tones.
Price: $45 for the set of two (tell em mother nature made me.)
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