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The new car makes use of the vanity panel to cover the stepped nose, while the team has also reverted back to Coanda-effect exhausts having ditched the system at the end of the 2012 season.
Having watched Rosberg behind the wheel all morning, Hamilton said he was looking forward to his turn driving the car in the afternoon.
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Yesterday was the US launch of the racing game Dirt 2, and what better way to promote virtual off-road rallies than, ya know, a Flash app that lets you tattoo some woman's breasts. The app is called "Dirty Tats." And that's not even the worst part.
The obviously sex starved Codemasters who created the tattoo game know how to do creepy well, albeit unintentionally. After the intro of loud and just plain bad pop-metal, you're treated to gooey come-ons from a voluptuous vixen who purrs "I like the personal touch," or "Looks like you have some hidden talents." My special talent was not vomiting while trying to get the words "misogyny" across her chest via the Lettering tool.
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Yesterday VCE and their proud parents announced revenues had reached an annual run rate of a billion dollars. Today VCE announced some new products along with enhancements to others.
Before going forward though, let's take go back for a moment to help set the stage to see where things might be going in the future. A little over a three years ago, back in November 2009 VCE was born and initially named ACADIA by its proud parents (Cisco, EMC, Intel and VMware). Here is a post that I did back then.
BTW the reference to Zen might cause some to think that I don't how to properly refer to the Xen hypervisor. It is really a play from Robert Plants album Now and Zen and its song Tall Cool One. For those not familiar, click on the link and listen (some will have DejaVu, others might think its new and cool) as it takes a look back as well as present, similar to VCE.
On the other hand, this might prompt the question of when will Xen be available on a Vblock? For that I defer you to VCE CTO Trey Layton (@treylayton).
VCE stands for Virtual Computing Environment and was launched as a joint initiative including products and a company (since renamed from Acadia to VCE) to bring all the pieces together. As a company, VCE is based in Plano Texas just north of downtown Dallas and down the road from EDS or what is now left of it after the HP acquisition The primary product of VCE has been the Vblock. The Vblock is a converged solution comprising components from their parents such as VMware virtualization and management software tools, Cisco servers, EMC storage and software tools and Intel processors.
Not surprisingly there are many ex-EDS personal at VCE along with some Cisco, EMC, VMware and many other people from other organizations in Plano as well as other cites. Also interesting to note that unlike other youngsters that grow up and stay in touch with their parents via technology or social media tools, VCE is also more than a few miles (try hundreds to thousands) from the proud parent headquarters on the San Jose California and Boston areas.
As part of a momentum update, VCE and their parents (Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel) announced annual revenue run rate of a billion dollars in just three years. In addition the proud parents and VCE announced that they have over 1,000 revenue shipped and installed Vblock systems (also here) based on Cisco compute servers, and EMC storage solutions.
The VCE announcement consists of:
- SAP HANA database application optimized Vblocks (two modes, 4 node and 8 node)
- VCE Vision management tools and middleware or what I have refered to as Valueware
- Entry level Vblock (100 and 200) with Cisco C servers and EMC (VNXe and VNX) storage
- Performance and functionality enhancements to existing Vblock models 300 and 700
- Statement of direction for more specialized Vblocks besides SAP HANA
Images courtesy with permission of VCE.com
While VCE is known for their Vblock converged, stack, integrated, data center in a box, private cloud or among other descriptors, there is more to the story. VCE is addressing convergence of common IT building blocks for cloud, virtual, and traditional physical environments. Common core building blocks include servers (compute or processors), networking (IO and connectivity), storage, hardware, software, management tools along with people, processes, metrics, policies and protocols.
I like the visual image that VCE is using (see below) as it aligns with and has themes common to what I have discussing in the past.
Images courtesy with permission of VCE.com
VCE Vision is software with APIs that collects information about Vblock hardware and software components to give insight to other tools and management frameworks. For example VMware vCenter plug-in and vCenter Operations Manager Adapter which should not be a surprise. Customers will also be able to write to the Vision API to meet their custom needs. Let us watch and see what VCE does to add support for other software and management tools, along with gain support from others.
Images courtesy with permission of VCE.com
Vision is more than just an information source feed for VMware vCenter or VASA or tools and frameworks from others. Vision is software developed by VCE that will enable insight and awareness into the Vblock and applications, however also confirm and give status of physical and logical component configuration. This means the basis for setting up automated or programmatic remediation such as determining what software or firmware to update based on different guidelines.
Images courtesy with permission of VCE.com
Initially VCE Vision provides (information) inventory and perspective of how those components are in compliance with firmware or software releases, so stay tuned. VCE is indicating that Vision will continue to evolve after all this is the V1.0 release with future enhancements targeted towards taking action, controlling or active management.
Some trends, thoughts and perspectives
The industry adoption buzz is around software defined X where X can be data center (SDDC), or storage (SDS) or networking (SDN), or marketing (SDM) or other things. The hype and noise around software defined which in the case of some technologies is good. On the marketing hype side, this has led to some Software Defined BS (SDBS).
Thus, it was refreshing at least in the briefing session I was involved in to hear a minimum focus around software defined and more around customer and IT business enablement with technology that is shipping today.
VCE Vision is a good example of adding value hence what I refer to as Valueware around converged components. For those vendors who have similar solutions, I urge them to streamline, simplify and more clearly articulate their value proposition if they have valueware.
Vendors including VCE continue to evolve their platform based converged solutions by adding more valueware, management tools, interfaces, APIs, interoperability and support for more applications. The support for applications is also moving beyond simple line item ordering or part number skews to ease acquisition and purchasing. Some solutions include VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod that also uses Cisco compute servers, IBM PureSystems (PureFlex etc) and Dell vStart among others are extending their support and optimization for various software solutions. These software solutions range from SAP (including HANA), Microsoft (Exchange, SQLserver, Sharepoint), Citrix desktop (VDI), Oracle, OpenStack, Hadoop map reduce along with other little-data, big-data and big-bandwidth applications to name a few.
Additional and related reading:
Acadia VCE: VMware + Cisco + EMC = Virtual Computing Environment
Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid what about Community Clouds?
Cloud, virtualization, Storage I/O trends for 2013 and beyond
Convergence: People, Processes, Policies and Products
Hard product vs. soft product
Hardware, Software, what about Valueware?
Industry adoption vs. industry deployment, is there a difference?
Many faces of storage hypervisor, virtual storage or storage virtualization
The Human Face of Big Data, a Book Review
Why VASA is important to have in your VMware CASA
Congratulations to VCE, along with their proud parents, family, friends and partners, now how long will it take to reach your next billion dollars in annual run rate revenue. Hopefully it wont be three years until the next VCE revisited now and Zen ;).
Disclosure: EMC and Cisco have been StorageIO clients, I am a VMware vExpert that gets me a free beer after I pay for VMworld and Intel has named two of my books listed on their Recommended Reading List for Developers.
Ok, nuff said, time to head off to vBeers over in Minneapolis.
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Greg Schulz - Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)
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Monday, April 30, 2012
RIP Joel Goldsmith
Joel Goldsmith has passed away at age 54. The composer was born on November 19, 1957. Throughout his career, he received three Emmy Award nominations for his music for the sci-fi hit shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis, including a nod for the latter series' main titles. His most prominent feature credit as a composer was the 1996 sci-fi movie Star Trek: First Contact, on which he collaborated with his father Jerry Goldsmith and which recently received an expanded CD release. His other feature film credits include Roland Emmerich's Moon 44, the fantasy adventure Kull the Conqueror starring Kevin Sorbo and the Kirk Douglas-starring comedy Diamonds. Among his other credits for the small screen are the mini-series Helen of Troy, the theme for the first season of the sci-fi show Sanctuary and the fantasy series Witchblade. The composer also scored the video game Call of Duty 3, which was released in 2006.
GOLDSMITH, Joel
Born: 11/19/1957, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Died: 4/29/2012, Hidden Hills, California U.S.A.
Joel Goldsmith's westerns - sound mixer, composer:4
She Came to the Valley - 1979 [sound mixer]
Brotherhood of the Gun - 1991 [composer]
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
RIP Robert O. Ragland
Robert O. Ragland, Prolific Film Composer, Dies at 80
by Mike Barnes
His credits include the campy 1972 horror film "The Thing With Two Heads."
Robert O. Ragland, a film composer for such 1970s cult movies as The Thing With Two Heads and Grizzly, died April 18 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Ragland was preceded in death by his wife Martha Montgomery, who married Ragland in 1972 after the death of her husband, nine-time Oscar-winning film composer Alfred Newman (The King and I).
A native of Chicago, Ragland served as a musical arranger for the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra before entering the advertising business. He then came to Hollywood in the late 1960s and wound up scoring more than 50 films.
In addition to the The Thing With Two Heads (1972), starring Ray Milland and Roosevelt Grier, and Grizzly (1976), which saw Christopher George battle an out-of-control bear in a state park, Ragland composed music for such films as Project: Kill (1976) starring Leslie Nielsen, Q (1982), 10 to Midnight (1983) with Charles Bronson, No Place to Hide (1993), The Raffle (1994), Top of the World (1997), Menahem Golan's Crime and Punishment (2002) and Downtown: A Street Tale (2004).
RAGLAND Robert O. (Roberto Oliver Ragland)
Born: 7/3/1931, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Died: 4/18/2012, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Robert O. Ragland's westerns – composer:
Seven Alone – 1974
Pony Express Rider – 1976
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
RIP Jan Suzin
Well-known TV presenter John Suzin is dead. He died sometime during the night between Saturday and Sunday April 22 after a long illness at a hospital in Warsaw. He was 82 years. He was recognized the voice of all Poles. He was one of the first two teachers on Television and starred when TV first aired. - He was a fantastic person in every way - says colleague Bogumil Wander, announcer and presenter of Polish Television. Suzin's began working on TV in the mid-50s and ended on November 26, 1996. Television viewers will remember him mainly as a presenter and announcer, endowed with a deep voice-over of popular programs (such as "Probe") and feature films, especially westerns. For years he was a TV presenter.
SUZIN, Jan
Born: 4/12/1930, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Died: 4/22/2012, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Jan Suzin's western - narrator:
Eukaliptus – 2001
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RIP Manfred Richter
Theater actor Manfred Richter died
The actor Manfred Richter is dead, he died last Friday April 20, aged 68 in a Berlin hospital of cardiac arrest, said his widow, Barbara Richter.
Previously he had been fighting for several weeks with a vascular disease and had been "really on the mend." His death therefore came as a surprise.
Born in Magdeburg, East Germany he's remembered for his roles in the TV detective series "Police 110" and in the family series "Stories übern fence". After the turn of the century, he was more on theater stages, most recently at the City Theater in Berlin Koepenick.
He was originally a professional boxer and a layman, before being discovered by the director Ulrich Thein for his drama "Titles I Have Not Had" (1964). Afterward he attended the School of Dramatic Art, Ernst Busch in Berlin. Since 1977, he has lived in Berlin.
RICHTER, Manfred
Born: 1/2/1944, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died: 4/20/2012, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Manfred Richter's western - actor:
Trail of the Falcon - 1967 (soldier)
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
RIP Peter Carsten
Actor Peter Carsten Dies
Lucija, 21 April (STA) - German-born actor Peter Carsten died in Lucija, Slovenia on Friday evening April 20, 2012, aged 83, his wife Lilijana Carsten Ramsenthaler has confirmed for the STA. In his long career he played in more than 100 applications from 1953-1999, but is known primarily for the role of the Nazi commander Kowalski from the German film trilogy 08/15, copied from the novel of the proposals by Hans Hellmut Kirste.
Carsten played alongside many stars of the European cinema in German, Italian, Yugoslav and British co-productions. Carsten was born on April 30, 1929 in the Bavarian-Edelsfeld Weissenbergu. Educated to be a bank employee, after World War II, he focused on studying to become an actor. He made his first stage appearance in 1948 in the Youth Theatre of Hanover.
Following the success of the film trilogy 08/15 he played in many roles as soldiers and senior officers, including the film "Nachts, wenn der Teufel Kam" (1957) by Robert Siodmak and"Hunde, wollt ihr leben ewig" by Frank Wisbarsa.
He played a role in the international co-productions, among them in the film La Grande Strada Azzurra (1957), alongside French and šansonjerja actor Yves Montand and Katanga in the movie alongside Australian actor Rod Taylor.
In addition to roles in war films and has tried in other film genres. Together with Romy Schneider starring in the romantic comedy Scampolo (1958), alongside Klaus Kinski is played in western Satan der Rache (1969).
With the beginning of the modern Slovenian cinematography, film director of Czech descent Františkom Čapom, in 1957 in Sečovlje Salina, Piran and around co-production filmed in the Italian movie Bread and salt (La Ragazze della salina), which starred alongside Marcello Mastroiannija.
In his 70th year, Carsten moved to Yugoslavia, where he participated in numerous film and television productions. Among them are a series of written-off return and Partisans and partisan film Pakleni Island (1979) and partisan squadron (1979) by Velimir Bato Živojinović.
CARSTEN, Peter (Günter Ramsenthaler)
Born: 4/30/1929, Edelsfield- Weißenberg, Bavaria, Germany
Died: 4/20/2012, Lucija Piran, Slovenia
Peter Carsten's westerns - actor:
My Name is Pecos – 1967 (Steve)
And God Said to Cain - 1969 (Acombar)
Where the Bullets Fly – 1972 (Tom Slatery/Heininger)
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RIP Marcelo Alfaro
His last appearance on television was in Montecristo. He died on the eve of the broadcast which will be watched on Tuesday.
Actor Marcelo Alfaro, who starred in numerous novels in his 30 year career in television, died Monday morning.
Alfaro appeared in fiction as Sos mi vida, Montecristo, tales and novels Los cuentos de Fontanarrosa, along with Louise Kuliok. The actor who was also a teacher of acting, was a student of Augustine Arezzo and Alberto Ure and directed several times at the Gerardo Roman theater, as in en Sexo Droga y Rock and Roll and A Corazón Abierto. The remains of the actor will be buried Tuesday in the Pantheon of Actors Chacarita cemetery
Born: 2/11/1963, Argentina
Died: 4/17/2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marcello Alfaro's western – actor:30/30 (TV) – 2001 (Demetrio Morel)
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RIP Gordon White
Gordon White passed away at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, on Monday, April 16, 2012 in his 76th year. Beloved husband of Catherine of Bracebridge. Loving father of Cynthia White, Linda McDermott (Christopher), David White (Leanne), Laura McCulloch (Kevin), Michael Gordon White and Michael David White. Proud grandfather of Eamon, Niall, Liam & Eilish McDermott, Rachelle & Katie Arsenault and Bradley, Stephanie, Kyle, Logan, Mia & Aven White. Dear brother of Eva
Friends will be received at the Reynolds Funeral Home 'Turner Chapel' on Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. A service to remember Gordon will take place in the Chapel at 11:00 a.m. Cremation has taken place. Memorial donations to the Alzheimer Society of Muskoka are greatly appreciated. Messages of condolence can be made at www.reynoldsfuneral.com
WHITE, Gordon (Gordon Harry William White)
Born: 1937
Died: 4/16/2012, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada
Gordon White's western – set designer:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – 2007
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
RIP Levon Little
Levon Helm came to fame in a rootsy rock group that featured three extraordinary voices. But you could always tell which was his: It was the sound of the lusty wildcat, the stern Southern preacher, the depleted Confederate soldier, the dirt farmer at the end of his day.
Helm, 71, who as a drummer backed a pair of legendary musicians and then became a star himself with The Band and as a solo artist, died today from throat cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
"Thank you, fans and music lovers, who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration," said his daughter, Amy, and wife, Sandy, in a statement released Tuesday before he died. "He has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage."
As a young man out of Elaine, Ark., in the early 1960s, Helm hooked up with fellow Arkansan and rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins (Who Do You Love?), moved to Toronto and recruited four Canadians to join the backing group: guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist/vocalist Rick Danko, pianist/vocalist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson.
Known as The Hawks, they toured with Hawkins, then split and eventually became Bob Dylan's backing band just as the folk king was embracing electric rock. Though Helm left the group to work on an oil rig for two years, he rejoined his mates, and they and Dylan settled near West Saugerties, N.Y., in the latter half of the '60s. Countering the psychedelic trend that dominated the fractured music scene, they wrote and recorded songs steeped in old-time country, soul, R&B, '50s rock, gospel, blues and folk ballads — with lyrics that spoke of an older America.
Helm and the four Canadians got a recording contract of their own, and as The Band they released 10 studio albums from 1968 to 1998. In its heyday, the group appealed more to the rock intelligentsia than the masses, but on the strength of two highly influential albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band, and timeless songs such as The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Helm sang lead and drummed on all three), they earned enshrinement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys in 2008.
Singer Rosanne Cash, herself the daughter of another Arkansas icon, Johnny Cash, recalls singing The Weight with Helm at an Americana Music Association event a year or so ago: "My whole body was tingling throughout the song. I didn't want it to end. It was like going back in time to revisit some of the searing musical moments that made me want to become a musician. Levon was so sweet, so full of light. … I'm heartbroken he has moved on to 'find a place where he can lay his head.' But I hope he found it."
The Band broke up in 1976 — Helm had become estranged from Robertson. partly because of disputed songwriting credits — and filmmaker Martin Scorsese chronicled the group's all-star farewell concert in The Last Waltz film and soundtrack, with Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Hawkins, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton and others participating.
At Saturday's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Robertson told the audience that "We all need to send out love and prayers to my Band mate Levon Helm."
The members regrouped without Robertson in 1983 but called it quits for good in 1999 after the deaths of Manuel and Danko.
Helm used the first break to launch a side career: From 1980 to 2008, he acted in more than a dozen films, most notably as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter opposite Sissy Spacek.
But he never strayed from music, even while he was battling throat cancer beginning in the late 1990s. His sturdy tenor voice had become raspy from radiation treatments, but he continued to record and during the past decade staged a series of popular Midnight Ramble concerts involving a variety of guest musicians at his barn-like studio next to his home in Woodstock, N.Y. Helm said at the time that the concerts raised money to pay his medical bills.
Of the more than a dozen solo and informal group albums that Helms recorded, the final three, 2007's Dirt Farmer, 2009's Electric Dirt and 2011's live Ramble at the Ryman, each won Grammys. The award for Electric Dirt was the first to be given in the newly created Americana category — wholly appropriate, since Helm was first and foremost a man who swore by the mud below his feet.
HELM, Levin (Mark Lavon Helm)
Born: 5/26/1940, Elaine, Arkansas, U.S.A.
Died: 4/19/2012, Manahttan, New York, U.S.A.
Levon Helm's western - actor:
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - 2005 (old man with radio)
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RIP Nicola Tirone
TIRONE, Nico (Nicola Tirone)
Born: 9/18/1944, Sambuco, Agrigento, Sicily
Died: 4/12/2012, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Nico Tirone's western - singer:
I'll Sell My Skin Dearly - 1967 [sings "Come se fosse gia'autunno"]
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
RIP Dick Clark
Dick Clark, 'Bandstand' Host, Dead at 82
Dick Clark, affectionately known as the "world's oldest teenager," has died. He was 82.
Richard Wagstaff Clark became a national icon with American Bandstand in the late 1950s, hosting the show for more than 30 years. Clark also hosted the annual New Year's Eve special for ABC for decades. He weathered scandals, hosted game shows and renewed his Bandstand fame with a new generation by producing the nostalgic TV drama American Dreams.
Clark's emergence on the national stage owed much to his being in the right place at the right time. After a childhood immersed in the world of radio — his father worked as a station manager at WRUN in Utica, N.Y. — Clark became an announcer with WFIL radio in Philadelphia and hosted the local show Bandstand.
Four years into his time at WFIL, Clark got his big break. A Philadelphia TV host on a local teen dance program called American Bandstand had been accused of sexual impropriety with some of the teenage dancers and arrested for drunken driving. The station faced enormous pressure to cancel its most lucrative program, and the producers needed a new host.
Music historian John Jackson says Dick Clark "had a clean-cut, impeccable image. He had a boyish look about him, an innocent look." In other words, he was the ideal candidate.
At the time, rock 'n' roll still carried an air of danger and controversy, but as host of American Bandstand, Clark would make the scandalous look tame. He changed American pop culture by creating an image of wholesome American teen life to which bubbly pop music was fundamental.
Clark was one of the first to take kids seriously as consumers and use the music they liked as a marketing tool. Today the kids-as-consumers concept drives much of television programming, so it's hard to imagine the kind of resistance Clark met from ABC studio executives when he first proposed that Bandstand go national.
"He was laughed out of the studio," says Jackson. "They said to him, 'Who wants to watch kids dancing in Philadelphia?' "
As it turned out, a lot of people did.
American Bandstand premiered nationally on Aug. 5, 1957, with Billy Williams singing "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter." The show was an instant success, and in addition to bailing out the struggling ABC, it helped sell hundreds of thousands of records.
It's difficult to overestimate Bandstand's influence on the music industry — and as a cultural bellwether.
"We got serviced with the latest releases," Clark said in a 1998 NPR interview, "and we had a huge teen audience watching who were trendsetters. So radio-station program directors used to assign their assistants to watch the program and copy down what we played. And within a day it was being played everywhere."
Rocker Brenda Lee says the Bandstand experience was transformative for musicians like her.
"If you were on the Clark show with a new record, it was almost like Dick Clark giving his blessings and saying, 'This record is gonna be a hit,' " she told NPR in 1998.
Among those transformed were musicians Fabian, Frankie Avalon and Freddie Cannon — all of whom Clark and his show made into teen idols.
"People today can't imagine how much power he had. In the 1950s, when Dick Clark started, he was the only national disc jockey," says historian Jackson, who wrote a history of American Bandstand.
Using the earnings from his fabulous success, Clark began to acquire record companies — a move that got him into trouble in 1959 when Congress began to investigate "payola," or the exchanging of bribes for record promotion. Clark, it turned out, was hyping records that he secretly owned.
When the dust settled, Clark had to choose between his music-industry interests and hosting American Bandstand. Needless to say, Bandstand won.
Clark would continue to diversify his portfolio, though, buying radio stations and oil wells — and pouring money into TV. He produced and hosted game shows like The $10,000 Pyramid and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, and ventured into the movie business with popular exploitation films like Psych-Out (1968), The Savage Seven (1968) and Killers Three (1968).
In an unlikely role reversal, Dick Clark plays a TV announcer critical of youth culture run amok in Wild in the Streets (1968).
"Who in America can truly resist the clarion call of youth?" the announcer asks. "Never has it been so brazenly sounded. Experience? It has brought you nothing."
It's an uncharacteristically cynical pronouncement from a man whose uncanny youthfulness was essential to his brand. More likely, Clark will be remembered for empowering youth culture — and for quotes like "Music is the soundtrack to your life."
And, of course, his signature Bandstand signoff: "For now, Dick Clark. So long" — followed by that jaunty salute to the camera.
CLARK, Dick (Richard Wagstaff Clark)
Born: 11/30/1929, Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 4/18/2012, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Dick Clark's westerns – actor, producer:
Stoney Burke (TV) – Sgt. Andy Kincaid
Branded (TV) – J.A. Bailey
The Guns of Will Sonnett – 1967-1969 [producer]
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New Release: Identity Crisis by Grace Marshall
Available from:
Xcite Books
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Other links will be added here as they become available: http://gracemarshallromance.co.uk/books/identity-crisis/
Reclusive romance novelist Tess Delaney is the alter ego of Garrett Thorne, bad-boy brother of business tycoon Ellison Thorne. When Tess is nominated for the Golden Kiss Award, Garrett recruits PR specialist, Kendra Davis, to keep his secret and be Tess for the awards despite their mutual animosity. But when Tess is stalked by a rabid fan, an identity crisis is eclipsed by a battle for survival, and Tess Delaney, the woman who doesn't exist, just might understand Kendra and Garrett's hearts even better than they do.
Garrett felt like a naughty teenager as they sneaked out the back door, through the gate of the privacy fence and down the alley. He wore a shapeless track suit with the black hoodie pulled up over his head and a scruffy pair of Converse sneakers that weren't exactly meant for dancing. And Kendra, well she hardly looked ratty, in his opinion. She wore low rider jeans, and where they weren't hugging her body like a second skin, they were full of threadbare, flesh revealing holes. The black sweat top she wore was cut short enough to show a tantalizing flash of her navel and hips bones when she moved just right. It slid off one shoulder to reveal the thin lacy strap of a red bra. She wore all of her russet locks tucked up under a leather beret. Her fashion statement was topped off with black ankle boots. She looked very, very dangerous. And hot. Of course she didn't need to dress the part for either, he thought. He was already certain on both counts.
'You live a little closer to The Boiling Point than Dee does.' She took his hand and nodded to where the alley T'ed with the street, and then gave way to the park on the other side. 'She never goes there, of course. Well she did once, but that was just for Harris, then he hated it.' She giggled. 'God I wish I could have been there for that.'
'Am I going to hate it?' he asked.
She shook her head. 'Probably not. You're much more of a bad boy than Harris is, or is that all an act?'
The long line of shiny chrome Harleys out front of the squat cinder block building gave Garrett the first clue that this was not Dancing with the Stars. Kendra waved them away absently. 'The Boiling Point's not really a biker bar, but it's kind of the warm-up act, I suppose you could say. Lots of bikers start off here before they head on to their usual haunts. Makes for an exciting mix. Later in the night there are almost no bikers. But there are always lots of interesting people.'
Any other time, Garrett would have been up for meeting interesting people, but tonight he couldn't imagine anyone interesting him more than the woman on his arm. He paid the fee at the door and a surly man the size of small house with fire-engine hair and a scruffy beard stamped their hands with a red ink TBP.
Inside a live band had just begun to play to a full, but not yet crowded house. 'The place gets raided from time to time,' Kendra said. 'I don't know what all goes on. I just come here because it's interesting.'
'A good raid and us carted off to the police station will really give the press something to talk about,' Garrett observed.
'Don't worry,' she yelled to be heard above the band's bass-heavy version of Highway to Hell. 'They just got raided last week. They'll be good to go for a while now. We can relax and enjoy ourselves.' She pulled him onto the dance floor. 'Best dance while there's room. In a few hours it'll be a real tit squeeze.'
Kendra Davis was just as stunning dark and dangerous as she was golden and romantic, as she was naked in his kitchen, and she definitely knew how to move on the dance floor. But it made Garrett more than a little nervous that he wasn't the only one who seemed to be noticing the way the woman could shake her booty. He thought about asking her to try not to draw to much attention to herself, but he wasn't even sure it was possible for Kendra Davis not to draw attention.
The place smelled of leather and beer, and sweat. Already there was a thick haze of pheromones invisible to the eye, but everyone there breathed them it, gave them off and reveled in the dark anticipation of what the night might bring. The look in Kendra's eyes was bright and wicked, like she would do anything, try anything, like all the boundaries were suddenly negotiable.
And fuck, as amazing as she was like that, as much as he wanted to lose himself in the place, in the experience, there was no way he could keep from thinking about who might be watching her in that crowd, about who might be waiting for just the perfect opportunity.
As though she were reading his mind, she pulled him to her with a hand curled around his neck and spoke against his ear. 'Oh would you relax, Garrett. Do you really think this is the kind of hang-out Tess Delaney would frequent?'
Then she slid both arms around his neck and let him pull her into a deep, hungry kiss. When it ended with an aggressive flick of his tongue, she offered a throaty giggle. 'Marking territory, are we?' Before he had a chance to respond, she returned the favor, plunging her tongue in deep, and tightening a fist in his hair to pull him closer.
He moved a hand to the small of her back and gave her the full frontal rub-up, enough to be sure she knew she'd gotten his cock's attention. 'You see where this is leading if you keep that up?'
She pulled away and gave his crotch some breathing room as the music settled into a heavy metal beat that filled the dance floor with lots of heavily booted bikers and their spandex and leather women. Garrett was surprised to find more than a few men in pressed jeans and designer polo shirts bellied up to the bar in the mix that looked like it was probably mostly low-brow. He wasn't the only man who looked like he'd just come from a work out at the corner gym and Kendra's shredded jeans seemed to be the fashion statement of more than a few women among a smattering of Goth and grunge and plain old red-neck jeans and tee-shirts with baseball caps.
With each song the band played, the dance floor became fuller and fuller. The strobe light flashed and the disco ball bathed the floor in sparkles as people rocked and strutted and sweated, and it became more and more difficult to tell who was dancing with whom. Garrett was about to grab Kendra by the hand and reel her back in so they could stay connected when a biker in a ZZ Top tee-shirt that smelled like an ashtray and looked like it might have been painted across his bulging pecs managed to slide in between them, turn his back on Garrett, and focus his full attention on Kendra. And suddenly all Garrett could see was his broad back.
'Kendra,' he called, but his voice was drowned out in the roar of Def Leppard. And that might have been okay if the man hadn't been so fucking big. Kendra was certainly entitled to dance with whomever she liked. But he couldn't see her. He fucking couldn't see her! Not even her feet between the man's shuffling boots. 'Kendra!' He called again. Louder this time. That at least got the man's attention, but when he turned to see what Garrett wanted, and he could see beyond the biker's bulk, Kendra was not there! The woman the man was dancing with had cropped blonde hair and a leather bustier several sizes too small.
'Kendra!' Garrett called out, louder this time, shoving his way past the biker, who pulled the blonde to him protectively. Frantically Garrett scanned the burgeoning crowd on the dance floor, scanned the women with hats. There were cowboy hats, police hats, even a few stocking caps, but there were just too many people, too many lights, too much noise. In his mind he could only think of Razor Sharp's horrid email and Kendra's response to it. Why the hell hadn't he forced the issue? Why the hell hadn't he made her tell him why she was so upset, made her tell him about the stalker Dee had mentioned. And fuck! Why had he let her talk him into bringing her here?
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Gena Hamshaw of the blog Choosing Raw eats a mostly raw, vegan diet without losing time, money, or her sanity. Let her show you how to make "rabbit food" taste delicious and satisfying every other Thursday on Food52.
Today: A quick look at vegan history -- for Gena personally, and for the movement as a whole. Plus, two vegan superstars -- quinoa and hemp seeds -- make an appearance in lemony quinoa with hemp seeds, peas, and basil.
I remember the first time I heard the term "vegan." I was in college, and in spite of the fact that I hadn't eaten red meat regularly since childhood and ate very little poultry or fish, I didn't exactly classify myself as a vegetarian. When a vegetarian friend told me she was thinking of "going vegan," and I asked what she meant, she responded by telling me that vegans not only avoid all meat, poultry, and fish, but also avoid all animal products -- eggs, dairy, chicken stock, and even honey. "Now that," I said, "is just crazy."
Oh, how the times have changed. I've been eating a vegan diet for six years now, though I flirted with the lifestyle for at least a year before that. In those six years, I've taught myself how to cook, fallen in love with various global cuisines, gotten to know well over a dozen vegetables I'd never even heard of before I became vegan, and become generally enthusiastic about the food on my plate.
That's not at all what people expect to hear about a diet that excludes a great many of the foods that we're all accustomed to. I grew up in a Greek family. Cast aside what you've heard about the "Mediterranean Diet": the two major food groups in my Greek home were lamb and cheese. Though I stopped eating lamb pretty early on, I spent all of my pre-vegan years eating plenty of rich Greek food. And, like most people who are just learning about veganism, I once uttered the words, "I could never live without cheese."
What's amazing to me now is that I so rarely think about the foods I don't eat anymore; if anything, my diet seems so much more abundant than it ever did before. There's a learning curve involved, of course, but if you're serious about experimenting with a vegan diet -- even just a little -- I promise you that new vistas of vegetable, legume, and grain dishes await you. And I can assure you that, whether your vegan cooking experiments end up becoming part of a lifestyle change, or they simply inspire you to try a few vegan dinners each month, you'll be really impressed with the beauty and healthfulness of vegan cuisine.
So what is veganism, exactly? How does it work? In spite of the fact that most of us kind of understand what veganism is, most of us (even some of us vegans!) get a little confused about the details. So, let's dive into the basics.
A Little Bit of HistoryThe phrase "vegan" was coined in 1944, when a British pacifist named Donald Watson started to draw connections between the meat and dairy industries. Realizing that calves born on dairy farms were often sold to beef farmers, and that egg-laying hens were often sold to poultry farms after their prime, he came to the conclusion that a truly vegetarian diet was one that excluded all animal foods -- not just meat, poultry, or fish, which vegetarians over the centuries had chosen to avoid already. Ultimately, Watson's definition of veganism came to include animal commodities, like leather and fur, as well as animal foods.
The working definition of veganism remains largely the same today: most vegans avoid all animal foods and don't purchase leather, wool, or fur. Most vegans also check cosmetic labels for animal products or testing, too, and are mindful of sneaky animal by-products, like gelatin, and production methods, like the use of isinglass in wine making (vegan wine is a topic for another post!). Honey tends to be a matter of discretion; some vegans don't consume it out of a sense of philosophical consistency and because conventional honey has been shown to be somewhat deleterious to bee populations; others support local, small honey operations.
An interesting development, especially in recent years, is that a lot of people have become interested in veganism for health reasons. (See: Bill Clinton.) These folks often choose to identify as "plant-based eaters," rather than vegans, to distinguish between health motives and motives that are tied to animal wellfare. I began my vegan journey for health reasons and now identify with animal rights, too; your own interest in veganism may be a combination of a lot of things, and it might change over time!
Getting Started with Vegan EatingWhen you first start to explore vegan cooking, it's inevitable that you'll feel a little overwhelmed. The important thing is to remember that a lot of the foods we already know and love -- oatmeal, rice and beans, curry, salad, smoothies, risotto -- already are, or can easily be made, vegan. The other important thing to be aware of is that there are a ton of vegan substitutes that are now readily available at grocery stores. No, I don't mean "fake meat," which some vegans love, but doesn't always appeal to foodies who are used to the "real thing." I mean minimally processed and high quality substitutes like organic almond or soy milk. While there's a good chance that your vegetable, grain, nut/seed, and legume creations will be totally self-sufficient, just be aware of the fact that there are a couple of handy products that can fill in for what you're used to -- if you need them.
The other thing to remember is that it's important to start small. Nobody goes vegan overnight (well, OK, maybe some folks do, but it's not the norm). Whether you're hoping to get a little healthier, add more vegetables to your diet, help to reduce your impact on the environment, or do something for animals, you can explore veganism one plate at a time. It isn't an instant commitment, and it doesn't have to feel scary. If it's helpful, think of it as a culinary experiment; treat it as you would an effort to master the art of pasta making, or explore Indian food. All you're doing is coming up with a few great dinners that consist of vegetables, beans, grains, nuts, seeds, and fruits -- and you've got a big pantry full of vegetable oils, soy sauce, herbs, and spices to help you!
That's hemp on the left and quinoa on the right.
"Complete"-ly EasyThe following dish is a great example of a vegan "starter meal." For one thing, it'll help you to master one of the most trendy vegan grains: quinoa (pronounced "keen-wa"). Quinoa is actually a "pseudograin" (more seed than grain), and it's popular not only because it's got a wonderful, nutty flavor, but also because it's a "complete" protein. As you probably know, "where do you get your protein?" is the number one question that new vegans are asked. We'll talk vegan protein very soon, but for now, suffice it to say that there are some foods that naturally contain all of the "essential" amino acids we need to thrive. By pairing various legumes, grains, and plants together, vegans can absolutely get all of these amino acids, but it's always nice when a vegan food -- like quinoa or hemp seeds -- provide all of those amino acids for us. Along with good flavor (of course).
This dish shows off hemp seeds -- also a source of complete protein -- alongside the quinoa. Both of these ingredients are sort of famous for being "hippie foods," but as you'll see, they're both perfectly accessible and delicious, especially when paired with fresh herbs and a squeeze of lemon. Feel free to substitute the basil for dill, oregano, or another herb of choice; no matter what, they result will be a tasty, satisfying, and simple meatless meal!
Lemon Herb Quinoa with Hemp Seeds, Spring Peas, and Basil
Serves 4
1 cup quinoa 2 cups water, cold 1 cup green peas, fresh or frozen 1/4 cup fresh basil, finely chopped 1/4 cup shelled hemp seeds 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon maple syrup 1/4 teaspoon sea salt (plus a little extra) 1 dash black pepper
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: On Acting by Laurence Olivier
Recommended by: Joseph, Associate Librarian
This final book by Sir Laurence, generally acknowledged as the greatest actor of the 20th century, is equal parts memoir and acting instruction. Written only three years before his death in 1989, it provides a unique look into the acting profession on stage and screen by one who was in the middle of it from the 1920s onward. I highly enjoyed this book and am grateful the author chose to record both his advice and memories before leaving us to return to the warm stage lights in the sky.
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2009 Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards for excellence in the field of Science Fiction and Fantasy were announced recently. The award for the best novel went to the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Visit the Hugo Awards website to see the complete list of winners.
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Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein
Recommended by: Barbara, Library Technical Assistant
All But My Life is the biography of Gerda Weissmann Klein and is the basis for the moving HBO Academy Award winning documentary, "One Survivor Remembers". The book tells of Gerda's experiences during WWII as she loses her family and friends, suffers the deprivations of concentration camps, and embarks on long winter marches through Europe.
Though her story tells of horrors, it also mentions friendships and the goodness of people who helped her. This summer I visited a Jewish Synagogue in Poland. Because not one Jewish person returned to this town, the Synagogue now sits empty as a memorial to those who lost their lives. As I visited, I couldn't help but think of Gerta and how amazing it was that a young girl could survive what she did and still see the goodness in people.
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Verdict? Yes. The radish is very delicious, and the pork belly turned out to be soft and flavorful. I even keep some for the next day bento to work.
Radish and Pork Belly 萝卜烧肉
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1 radish, peeled and cut into pieces (use cut and tear method)
3 slices of ginger
1 stalk of spring onion, cut into long strips
2 tbsp of cooking oil
400ml of water
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 tsp of dark soy sauce
Light soy sauce to taste
1 tsp of sugar
dash of white pepper powder
1. Marinate the pork belly with a tbsp of light soy sauce and dark soy sauce each. Leave for 10 minutes.
2. Heat up oil in the wok. Fry the ginger till fragrant. Brown the pork belly.
3. Add radish, a tbsp of light soy sauce, white pepper powder to mix.
4. Pour in water and cover the lid. Leave it simmers under medium heat for about 20 minutes.
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This page details revisions to the 1973-2008 SEER Research Data, November 2010 Submission.
October 28, 2011
Hispanic Coding Issue
A problem was identified in the SEER incidence data relating to the coding of Hispanic ethnicity in the November 2010 submission. Due to an error in calculating the NAACCR Hispanic Identification Algorithm (NHIA)-derived Hispanic Origin field in the four California registries, many cases were incorrectly coded for these fields, the majority of which were Hispanic cases incorrectly coded to non-Hispanic. The problem involves the fields: "NHIA Derived Hisp Origin" and "Origin recode NHIA (Hispanic, Non-Hisp)" and is limited to data from the four California registries. Any analyses conducted prior to October 28 that use either of these fields and any of these registries will need to be updated.
Scope of Regional Lymph Node Issue
A change was made to the November 2010 SEER research data to remove information pertaining to scope of regional lymph node surgery. The change was for breast cancer cases only, defined strictly by primary site (C50.0-C50.9; represented as 500-509 in the files). For more information, refer to the Scope of Regional Lymph Node Surgery page.
SEER Cancer Statistics (updated 11/10/2011)
The Hispanic coding issue affected calculated statistics provided throughout the SEER Web site. On November 10, 2011, the statistics were updated to correct the problem with Hispanic incidence and are available in the SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2008, Cancer Stat Facts, Fast Stats, and the Cancer Query Systems (Canques). Lifetime risk statistics through 2008 were also released.
The error only affected statistics calculated with incidence data, not the 2008 mortality statistics released on October 20, 2011.
SEER Research Data Users
If you requested the data prior to October 28, 2011:
- In client-server mode, you automatically have access to the updated data.
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If you never ordered the 1973-2008 SEER research data, you must use the request form.
October 6, 2011
The SEER incidence databases were updated on October 6, 2011 and included the following changes.
SEER*Stat databases and ASCII text data files
- The files were updated to correct a problem with two fields, "Derived SS2000 (2004+)" and "Summary stage 2000 (1998+)". The problem was limited to 2004-2008 cases from six registries (Atlanta, Rural Georgia, Greater California, Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland, and San Jose-Monterey). If your analyses included these variables prior to the update, you will need to rerun them.
- The "CS site-specific factor 1 (2004+)" variable was updated to include information for Ovary and Intracranial Gland tumors.
- The "CS site-specific factor 2 (2004+)" variable was updated to include information for Prostate tumors.
SEER*Stat databases only
- The format for the Collaborative Stage schema variable, "CS Schema v0202", was modified to include all valid values, not just those that occur in the particular database. This was not a data change, just a change to the format.
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