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On the new drama series Beauty and the Beast, premiering on The CW on October 11th, Catherine Chandler (Smallville's Kristin Kreuk) is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective haunted by the murder of her mother, which she witnessed as a teenager. She would have been killed as well, if a mysterious beast hadn't been there to save her. Years later, a case leads her right to Vincent Keller (Jay Ryan) and possibly some of the answers that she has been waiting for.
While at The CW portion of the TCA Press Tour, actress Kristin Kreuk talked about the concept of everyone having a dark side, the challenges of playing a cop, getting to do fight scenes, what she loved about the original Linda Hamilton/Ron Perlman series, how she would love for Linda Hamilton to do a guest appearance on the show, working with Jay Ryan and developing their chemistry, the possibility of other love interests, what she's currently watching on TV, and what it's like to be a part of this generation's Superman, with her work on Smallville. Check out what she had to say after the jump.
Question: Does Catherine have her own dark side?
KRISTIN KREUK: I think the whole concept is that we all do. It's not necessarily a dark side, but there are things about ourselves that we want to hide and that we think are bad, and sometimes they are destructive and violent. Even if it's something where you say something to me and I get pissed, and I say something mean to you, that's violent. Catherine has got a lot of stuff that she's buried down, and her impulse towards revenge, which is a violent act that isn't okay, she understands is an impulse towards stopping these people that hurt her mom. She believes that somehow it's going to make it better. But Vincent, in some ways, knows that it won't. No matter how much you exact justice in the world, it won't make the feeling go away. That is her darkness.
What's it like, playing a cop?
KREUK: That's tough for me. I don't walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think I have a certain amount of strength. So, it's tough for me to play authority without feeling uncomfortable. I love it because it's such a challenge for me to go out there and take that position.
Have you done any ride-alongs for research?
KREUK: I haven't gone yet, but I'd like to. I talked to a couple female detectives, which was amazing. One of them is a consultant on our show now. She's got long blonde hair, and is small and show, like me. She's been a detective for 20 years, and she consults on Southland, as well. It was really interesting to talk to her and hear what her experience has been like. People have been like, "How could Kristin be a detective?" But, there are women in my position that are like me, and who do this, all the time. I think that's really interesting. It would be very challenging to go in and be with dead bodies, every day.
Will there be fights for Catherine, in every episode?
KREUK: I don't think they'll be in every episode, but I think there will be some to carry it through. That wouldn't make sense. She's a detective. She's not going to go around taking people, all the time. I think that will happen sometimes. I think people will respond to it a lot, so they're going to want to do more. It will be interesting to see how it goes.
How long did it take to shoot the subway fight scene in the pilot?
KREUK: I was really sick, during the shoot of the pilot. We did a two week shoot, and I was really sick, so I didn't learn the fight sequence until pretty late in the game. I think we had a full day to shoot that. Since then, I've done a huge fight that was at the end of the day, after multiple chase scenes. It's started getting faster, but I learn most things quick. I have a dance background.
In the original series, Catherine's purpose was to be rescued a lot, but this Catherine is a really good martial arts fighter. Is it fun to play someone who is really good at defending herself?
KREUK: Yeah. After Catherine sees her mom killed in front of her, she's very committed to being somebody who doesn't have that happen, ever again. So, it's cool for me to be able to take all that I've learned, in the span of my life, and have that be something I can pull from. I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.
What's your strength as a fighter, in real life?
KREUK: I can't use it. I would get destroyed. I'm not Maggie Q. I can look decent doing it, but I'd probably not want to fight anybody.
What's fun about the discipline?
KREUK: I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words. There's something very satisfying about the practice of it, even in yoga. It feels centering to use my body, in that way.
Have you seen the original series, with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman?
KREUK: I've only seen a little bit. I didn't have TV, growing up. My parents didn't watch TV either.
What did you like about what you saw of it?
KREUK: I loved the romance between them, and his goodness. I'm very interested in morality, so that was really important. How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person. I liked that about it.
Are you glad that you're not visiting the sewer to see Vincent?
KREUK: In many ways, I'm glad that we're not in the sewer. That's helpful.
Is it true that you received a note from Linda Hamilton?
KREUK: Yes! She's been shooting in Toronto, doing a guest spot on Lost Girl, and she actually signed photos for Jay [Ryan] and I. It was unexpected and surprising and wonderful. I got it on our first day of work, and it's in my trailer. It feels really cool to have her know about what we're doing, and wish us well. It's rad!
Do you think she might ever do a guest appearance?
KREUK: We would love her to. I think all of us have talked about it.
Do you watch more TV now?
KREUK: I do watch more TV than I used to watch. I love Breaking Bad. I know everyone says that, but I love it. And I love Game of Thrones. I like to take series and watch them, all the way through. The Wire is my favorite show ever made. There is some really good TV right now.
What was it like to move to the east side of the country, going from Vancouver to Toronto?
KREUK: It was tough. Honestly, it was really hard. This cast is incredible and we're really tight, so that makes it easy. And I work every day and am in every scene, which also makes it easy, in that sense. But, it was hard. I have my boyfriend, down here. I've got my dog, my family and my best friends that I've had, for years and years and years. You can't build those old friendships right away. They take a long time.
What's it like working with Jay Ryan?
KREUK: Jay and I get along really well. It's so wonderful. I feel very comfortable with him. I feel like we giggle a lot. There's an easiness to it. So, we have a good friendship developing already and that makes it so easy.
How did you develop that slow-burn romantic tension, which is at the core of the show?
KREUK: That's an interesting question. I think that's just the nature of how the two characters relate, based on their own individual struggles. Catherine doesn't want to acknowledge that she might feel vulnerable, in that way, so she's making it about the case. She's like, "We need to just figure out what happened to my mom, and this will be over." She really doesn't want to connect to that vulnerability. It's uncomfortable for her.
Will there be other love interests for her?
KREUK: Yes, I think so.
Jay talked about auditioning with you, with half of his head shaved and having to wear an awful wig. What went through your head, when you see him looking like that?
KREUK: Well, I came in and he had the side of his head shaved, and I was like, "That's an interesting hairdo," but I didn't really think about it. I think he focuses on it more than I focused on it, to be honest. It was a terrible wig and he was self-conscious about it, but it was fine. I wasn't focusing on that. I've seen bad wigs before.
Do you look forward to pushing the envelope with this?
KREUK: Absolutely! I want to push the envelope. I want to really challenge myself. Where we started and where we ended with Smallville was a huge shift. I think that we can do that, faster and better here, so I'm excited about that.
What do you like about telling stories in this genre?
KREUK: I don't think I realized it before, but you can play with metaphor, in a really intense way. You can look at Beast as someone who actually, physically turns into a beast, which is a great metaphor. When you're more of a straight drama that's very realistic, you still explore those concepts, but you don't get to amp it up to the degree that you do when you have something that's supernatural, where your metaphors can be really fun.
How does it feel to be a part of this generation's Superman, with your work on Smallville?
KREUK: It's interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. I haven't reflected on it, in that sense. I saw the trailer for the new Superman that's coming out and I was like, "That feels so different than what's been done before." It's got such a gritty realism to it that could be really intriguing. I don't know how it will turn out because it's such a short trailer and I can't tell, but I love it. I am a sucker for what it takes to build character. I like that stuff.
When you were a teenager, you were working and busy, almost always in your hometown of Vancouver. Do you see yourself as having lived a charmed life, so far?
KREUK: I do. I have had a very charmed life. I look at what's happened in my life, and I feel so lucky. I don't know how it occurred. I didn't plan it, but I got to be with my family when I needed to be with my family. I got to go and travel the world, doing these amazing projects, and I feel like I'm so privileged and grateful.


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The Colorado governor said this on CBS' "Face the Nation," Sunday but it's worth flagging a) because the utterly predictable gun-control discussion is ongoing and Hick is another guy with a less-than-utterly-predictable position and b) what are the chances you watched "Face the Nation?"
And, because Hickenlooper's a Democrat in Colorado, his absolute moral authority shield is engaged:
"This person, if there were no assault weapons available, if there were no this or no that, this guy's going to find something, right? He's going to know how to create a bomb. Who knows where his mind would have gone. Clearly a very intelligent individual however twisted," Hickenlooper said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."
The governor, who appeared on at least three Sunday morning talk shows, said his administration "will try to create some checks and balances on these things, but it is an act of evil."
"If it was not one weapon, it would have been another, and he was diabolical," he said.
Hooray for common sense, says the WSJ.
I am interested to hear how all these new gun-control proposals are going to stop a Ph.D. student in neuroscience from finding or making whatever he desires to kill a large number of people. I'd bet he's devious enough to even find a gun in the famously gun-free paradise that is Chicago if he really wanted one.
Those harkening back to the good ol' days of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban must wrestle with the fact that the law wouldn't have likely changed Holmes' artillery much. That's because Congress outlawed 19 weapons by name plus any semiautomatic gun with a combination of several cosmetic features they found sorta creepy—bayonet mounts, telescoping stocks, pistol grips, etc. As a result, gun manufacturers simply started manufacturing guns with the exact same capacity as the guns the law banned, merely removing the mostly cosmetic features of an "assault weapon." Holmes could have had one of those guns or any of the guns the law banned, as long as they were manufactured before 1994. He also could have legally bought any number of so-called "high-capacity" magazines, as long as they were produced before 1994.
Fellow North Carolinian Bob Owens, who knows his firearms, has a great piece on the basics of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban and its silliness— Part 1 and Part 2, if you'd like to gird yourself for the ideological battle you'll be doing. It was from Owens that I learned my handgun is a species of highly concealable subcompact gun spawned by Congress' arbitrary limit of 10 rounds per magazine. So, thanks, I guess? And, for good measure, here's a thoughtful gun-control advocate lamenting the ban for pretty much the exact same reasons, but using them to advocate for bigger and better gun control.
I know it makes people feel better, particularly liberals and politicians, in the wake of a national tragedy to pass some kind of law or lambast some industry or product. It makes them feel like they've done something. But the things liberals want to do to prevent gun violence demonstrably don't help, and they limit the freedoms of law-abiding citizens. Perhaps a discussion of mental illness and its recognition would be helpful, but making people like me reload every 10 shots at the firing range won't do it.
Huffington Post says Hick and the Aurora mayor "dodged" the Sunday show questions by focusing on the perpetrator:
Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan, who appeared alongside Hickenlooper on the show, placed the blame on alleged shooter James Holmes as well, rather on the need for stricter gun laws.
Um, yes, because that's where normal people place the blame. The fact that Hickenlooper, a former mayor of liberal Denver, reacts this way is a sure sign of the politics of this issue in a place like Colorado, where even Democratic voters insist their politicians not go all Bloomberg's Recipe for Anarchy on them.
Current Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, also a fairly liberal Democrat, gave a speech last week that struck me as another indication of the contrast between an average swing-state audience and national liberal politicians, like the president. Hancock's state of the city address included this plea for support of a tax hike. And, when I say plea, I mean it, because a Taxpayers Bill of Rights requires Hancock to rebate taxes to his constituents unless otherwise authorized not to at the ballot box. Here he is demonstrating the proper posture of a politician talking to taxpayers—pointing to results and begging for their indulgence:
Denver, we are currently facing another one of those pivotal moments. Throughout this recession, we have aggressively eliminated waste and reduced costs. We've worked to sustain our rainy day fund, maintain the highest possible bond rating and keep the City's budget balanced, closing gaps of nearly $450 million over the past four years.
But with another nearly $100 million shortfall looming next year, we must face reality.
The time has come to deliver for our citizens a long-term, sustainable and smart solution. I will soon submit to the City Council and the people of Denver a balanced plan to fix our budget and get back on track. It's not smart to rebate money while cutting basic services. We must remove the fiscal handcuffs of TABOR.
By retaining revenue we already collect, just like hundreds of other communities and school districts in Colorado, we can make smart investments in our city. We can hire police officers for the first time in four years. We can repave the quarter of our streets that have not been fixed in two decades. We can restore library hours and create jobs by better supporting Denver businesses.
Compare that to Obama's version of asking nicely:
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn't — look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
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In a claustrophobic jury room, following a 3 day trial, witnesses and arguments, twelve very different men set forth on what most of them feel will be brief and concise deliberations. Save one. A young man, a teenager, from the undesirable part of town is accused of murdering his father with a switchblade in the middle of the night. There are witnesses: one who heard the quarrel and saw the boy fleet the scene, another who claims to have seen the actual act take place from her bedroom window, across the L-Train tracks.
Juror One (Scott Lowell) the Foreman, patiently makes ballots, assigns seats and corrals men to their assigned seats, Juror Three (Gregory North) boisterously, almost gleefully injects how simple and quick it will be to pronounce the defendant guilty., while Juror Seven (Barry Pearl) fixates on making it to the baseball game on time. The first voice happens, and Juror Eight (Jason George) voices his doubts.
Appalled, his fellow jurors demand he not prolong the deliberations and confess to see what is obvious to them all.Juror Eight insists that he is not proclaiming the defendant is innocent, but simply that he has doubts, doubts that must be satisfied if he will vote to send a man to his death. Slowly, Juror Eight's skepticism infects the other jurors, beginning with Juror Nine (Adolphus Ward) the eldest member of the group.
As the evening progresses, some men reveal themselves to be reasonable, others have their own prejudices reveal and a few reveal their blatant bigotry. All this, making for an intense gathering of twelve very angry men.
Barring difficulty hearing the actors, I enjoyed this production. Director Sheldon Epps has chosen to draw a bright red circle around the issue of race relations with this enduring classic. By composing the jury with both White and Black actors, Epps draws direct references to race, where the original incarnation arguably focused more on class and social standing. However, this production mines the text for those correlations and exposed them expertly.
The production elements of this show are terrific. For me, there are no stand-out performances, which I think it to the credit of casting director Michael Donovan. It gave credibility to the supposition that these are blue collar men, with no special legal expertise; simply their common sense and desire to be conscientious citizens and decent human beings. Stephanie Kerley Schwartz's costume and production design are quite smart modern wardrobe with a good splash of suspenders in a room that feels old like the institution over government. Well done to Brian L. Gale for the great yet subtly lighting design.
My only critique is my lament at Epps' choice to embellish upon the language. More and more bigotry is coded in the language people use. It would serve audiences to hear that code, fueled by those powerful performances, so it is identifiable. Racial slurs are obvious, helping audiences recognize the code is far more provocative, especially when leaving the original text as is, may allow people to hear the code when they themselves are saying.
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By now all of you should be aware of the fact that the newer 3D Vision ready monitors (including 3D displays in gaming laptops) supporting the Lightboost technology are a much better choice for stereoscopic 3D gaming than the older models, but it turns out that going for a Lightboost-enabled 3D monitor can benefit 2D gamers that want to take advantage of the supported 120Hz refresh rate. What the Lightboost technology does is to strobe the backlight instead of having it always on like on traditional monitors, and while this leads a lower overall brightness in 2D mode (actually making it look brighter in stereo 3D mode and with less crosstalk). The strobing of the backlight with Lightboost enabled makes the backlight turn on only when the pixels have reached their final stage in building the new image and the backlight stays off while the pixels transition from one stage to another. As a result all motion blur is being eliminated, making fast movements appear much smoother now. You can see how the image is being shown on the display without Lightboost enabled and with Lightboost on on the slow-motion video above made by Mark Rejhon who has experimented a bit with Lightboost and shared his interesting findings in our forum.
If you already have a 3D Vision ready setup and are using Acer HN274H B, ASUS VG728H or BENQ XL2420TX Lightboost-enabled 3D Vision ready monitor with integrated IR emitter, or have ASUS VG248QE, ASUS VG278HE, BENQ XL2420T or BENQ XL2411T along with an external 3D Vision IR emitter you can easily enable Lightboost in 2D mode as well. In fact some of you may have unintentionally seen this happen after exiting a game played in stereo 3D mode with the monitor remaining in 3D mode when back in the desktop (it seems darker than normal). All you have to do is set the Nvidia driver to always have the 3D monitor set in 3D mode from the Stereoscopic 3D panel int he Nvidia Control Center. The only disadvantage of having Lightboost enabled in 2D mode (have the monitor always run in stereo 3D mode) is that the brightness is lower than it is with Lightboost not being enabled, so you may need to increase the contrast more than you need it in stereo 3D mode. And while the lower brightness caused by the backlight not being constantly on due to the Lightboost being active can be considered as a disadvantage, these 3D monitors have way too high brightness in 2D mode anyway, so the reduction isn't that bad, it actually brings the level of brightness closer to the level that won't tire your eyes that much over a long periods of use… and you have no motion blur anymore.
And if you are not using 3D Vision and only have a 3D Vision-capable display, but no integrated IR emitter or an external one you would have to resort to using and EDID INF override driver to make the Nvidia drivers think that you actually have a compatible 3D monitor with full support for 3D Vision. This actually makes the ASUS VG248QE, ASUS VG278HE, BENQ XL2420T or BENQ XL2411T 120Hz capable monitors a lot more interesting for people that are willing to be able to play games in 120Hz 2D mode and don't care much about stereoscopic 3D gaming. The reason you need to trick the video drivers you have 3D Vision is that the Lightboost technology has been developed for use in stereoscopic 3D gaming, and though it can also benefit people playing in 2D, probably nobody though about that at the time is has been developed. So without the drivers thinking you have support for 3D Vision (even if you don't actually have IR emitter) you can still enable Lightboost in 2D mode.
– You can take a look at Mark Rejhon's blog for some more details on the topic…


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Seven more fall victim to Karachi violence
[Pak Daily Times] Unabated wave of violence on Friday claimed seven more lives of people in the city.
In the first incident, a joint in-charge of MQM was
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Similarly, a bank employee affiliated with labour wing of
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Hello Felix, On 2011/09/08 17:49, Felix Sasaki wrote: > Hi Antoine, > > I am putting the i18n core group into the loop. This group has a lot of > discussions like these, with arguments like you are bringing about IRIs: > "Many of our readers won't need to know about it, if just because they do > not really need it". In many cases, there is indeed no need. But that applies to the individual identifier, not the overall infrastructure. > I assume that even if the library identifiers may work > with ASCII only, I'm not familiar with library identifiers in a more narrow sense, but I can easily imagine e.g. that in a library in an Arabic-speaking country they'll use Arabic characters rather than Latin ones. I'd guess the situation would be about the same as with number plates for cars and such. > there will be in the future more and more a push towards > domain names that are internationlized, The National Diet Library in Japan > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Diet_Library > Already has an entry in the Japanese wikipedia that is an IRI > http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%9B%BD%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%B3%E6%9B%B8%E9%A4%A8 That's trivially an IRI like any other URI because all URIs are IRIs. The 'real' IRI is http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/国立国会図書館. This makes tons of sense, because that's how a wiki works: The terms and topics get directly reflected in the Web address. > I think librarians also outside of Japan should how to handle these kind of > identifiers. Definitely. > Background for the i18n core folks: this is about adding a paragraph related > to IRIs in the "library linked data incubator group" report. Paragraph or sentence may be up for discussion, but not mentioning it would be a very sad omission. Regards, Martin. > Felix > > 2011/9/8 Antoine Isaac<email@example.com> > >> Hi, >> >> I'd object against adding this as a self-standing recommendation. Indeed, >> it seems more like a general linked data or even web problem, something that >> goes beyond our library-focused scope. And it would make an extra layer of >> complexity too visible: the huge majority of material on LD (including >> TimBL's principle page keep to URIs, and even if it's a quite bad practice, >> that's for a reason (I expect, mostly because the "difference" between URLs >> and URIs is hard to get, next to all the other technical LD stuff). >> Many of our readers won't need to know about it, if just because they do >> not really need it -- even the more technically savvy ones. >> That being said, it would be really fair to slip in somewhere one sentence >> refering to IRIs and their advantages, e.g., when we mention best practices >> to create identifiers, or in the technology section. >> >> Antoine >> >> >> Here I would disagree. The use of IRIs is pushed forward in many specific >>> Web standards - just search for "IRI" under www.w3.org/TR/< >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/> , or for internationalization in many W3C >>> charters. So the "general web practice" is to mention IRI as much as >>> possible. I would propose to do the same here. >>> >>> >>> Felix (being active in the w3c i18n activity for some time). >>> >>> >>> 2011/9/8 Karen Coyle<firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> >>> >>> >>> I see this as a general Web issue, not a Linked Data issue. Presumably >>> Linked Data will follow Web practice. >>> >>> kc >>> >>> >>> >>> Quoting Tom Baker<firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>>: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> It has been brought to my attention that our report neglects to >>> acknowledge a >>> need for library linked data to consider a growing requirement for >>> non-Latin-based URIs -- i.e., Internationalized Resource >>> Identifiers, or IRIs >>> [1]: >>> >>> "Since resource identifiers play a crucial role for the Semantic >>> Web, the >>> internatinalization of resource identifiers is of high importance. >>> It turns >>> out that the prevalent resource identification mechanism on the >>> Semantic >>> Web, i.e. URIs, are not sufficient for an efficient >>> internationalization of >>> knowledge bases. Fortunately, with IRIs a standard for >>> international >>> resource identifiers is available, but its support needs much more >>> penetration and homogenization in various semantic web technology >>> stacks. >>> In addition, we review various RDF serializations with regard to >>> their >>> support for internationalized knowledge bases. The paper also >>> contains an >>> in-depth review of popular semantic web tools and APIs with regard >>> to their >>> support for internationalization. " >>> >>> I'm not aware that anyone raised this during the comment period, >>> but now that >>> it has been raised at the eleventh hour, I think we need to find a >>> way to >>> acknowledge this -- perhaps in an additional sentence or half >>> sentence in the >>> Recommendations section [2]. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> [1] http://iswc2010.semanticweb.__**org/pdf/385.pdf< >>> http://iswc2010.semanticweb.**org/pdf/385.pdf<http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/pdf/385.pdf> >>>> >>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/__**Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft___** >>> recommendations_page_take2#__**Create_URIs_for_the_items_in__** >>> _library_datasets<http://www.w3.org/2005/__Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft___recommendations_page_take2#__Create_URIs_for_the_items_in___library_datasets>< >>> http://www.w3.org/2005/**Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft_** >>> recommendations_page_take2#**Create_URIs_for_the_items_in_** >>> library_datasets<http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft_recommendations_page_take2#Create_URIs_for_the_items_in_library_datasets> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tom Baker<firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Karen Coyle >>> firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> http://kcoyle.net >>> ph: 1-510-540-7596<tel:1-510-540-7596> >>> m: 1-510-435-8234<tel:1-510-435-8234> >>> >>> skype: kcoylenet >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Prof. Dr. Felix Sasaki >>> Senior Researcher, Language Technology Lab >>> DFKI GmbH, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany http://www.dfki.de< >>> http://www.dfki.de/> >>> >>> phone: +49-30-23895-1807 (fax: -1810) >>> ------------------------------**------------------ >>> Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH >>> Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern >>> Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. 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Located in the trendy Pearl District of Portland, Henry's 12 Street Tavern offers something like 90-plus beers on tap. The beer is served alongside what the company described as "innovative tavern fare including urban burgers, locally crafted sausage, fresh salads, brick oven flatbread and artisanal sandwiches." Prices are in the $16 – $22 range.
Thanks to our friends at SeattleEater.com, we can tell you that Henry's on First will be in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood at 1518 First Ave. South, very near Safeco Field. If this new Seattle location is anything like the original Henry's location, the beer list will feature a lot of local, Washington-brewed beers. I say that because the beer menu at Henry's 12th Street Tavern in Portland is fiercely provincial, featuring Oregon beers almost exclusively.
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Personally having already thrashed the original instrumental to within an inch of its' life I can't help feeling a little ambivalent about Yolanda's vocals plonked on top of 'Way U Make Me Feel', though it works superbly in the context of an album that has been programmed with precision and nous. Guido makes it sound ridiculously simple, yet anyone who has ever grappled with a minimal sound palate will know that just isn't the case, and it's impossible not to be floored by the unfathomably deep subs, crafty melodies and macroscopic sound design.
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Archaeologists in China say they have discovered 12 new underwater cultural relics sites near the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.
The sites were found during a 250-mile patrol by law enforcement agencies involved in the protection of underwater cultural relics, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
A total of 260 diving operations lasting 220 hours were conducted during the patrol, officials said.
Archaeologists examining 12 known cultural relic sites and 12 new sites collected relics including ancient pottery and porcelain wares, copper coins and boat parts, Li Jilong of the cultural heritage bureau of Hainan province said.
The Xisha Islands are a group of about 40 islets, sandbanks and reefs, and researchers said in ancient times many Chinese merchant ships struck the reefs and sank while on their way to Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East.
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A post for the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories
Christmas Eve is the time for the mince pie to be laid out ready for the visit from Father Christmas. Apart from that I don't remember doing anything else out of the ordinary either then or now.
This year was a little different, as today my parents popped round for a turkey lunch. The menu was roast turkey with feta and bacon stuffing, home-baked bread, home-grown salads and potatoes, home-grown strawberries, and a ridiculous number of chocolate-themed desserts (choc-mallow fudge, jaffa truffles, plum pudding truffles, chocolate pretzels, chocolate pinwheel cookies, and, erm, chocolates - I have an awful lot of chocolate cookbooks and couldn't narrow it down any further!)
This Christmas, may all my blog readers and fellow Wing genealogists have a plentiful table, and wonderful family and friends gathered round to share it with. And perhaps some spare time over the Christmas holidays to share some quality time with your ancestors, as well.
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Annual to bamboo-like; roots generally fibrous
Stem generally round, hollow; nodes swollen, solid
Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, generally linear; sheath generally open; ligule membranous or hairy, at blade base
Inflorescence various (of generally many spikelets)
Spikelet: glumes generally 2; florets (lemma, palea, flower) 1many; lemma generally membranous, sometimes glume-like; palea generally ± transparent, ± enclosed by lemma
Flower generally bisexual, minute; stamens generally 3; stigmas generally 2, generally plumose
Fruit: achene-like grain
Genera in family: 650900 genera; ± 10,000 species: worldwide; greatest economic importance of any family (wheat, rice, maize, millet, sorghum, sugar cane, forage crops, ornamental, weeds; thatching, weaving, building materials)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1951 Manual grasses US, USDA Misc Publ 200; Clayton & Renvoise 1986 Kew Bull Add Series 13]
See Glossary p. 26 for illustrations of general family characteristics. Generally wind-pollinated.
Annual, sometimes perennial herb
Stems decumbent to erect; internode spongy inside
Leaves basal and cauline; sheath generally glabrous; ligule generally 0; blade generally flat, upper surface generally glabrous
Inflorescence panicle-like, ± dense; branches generally ascending to appressed, axis generally glabrous; spikelets generally many, 12 per node, short-stalked to subsessile, ± on 1 side of axis
Spikelet falling as one unit, ovoid to compressed; glumes unequal, lower < upper, short-bristly to hairy, generally green to purplish, upper glume generally awned; florets 2, lower floret sterile or staminate, lemma generally like glumes, upper floret fertile, lemma leathery or hard, shiny to dull, margin inrolled, tip abruptly pointed, palea free from lemma
Species in genus: ± 35 species: warm temp, subtropical, worldwide
Etymology: (Greek: hedgehog grass, from bristly spikelet)
Reference: [Gould, Ali, & Fairbrothers 1972 Amer Midl Nat 87:3659]
Stem erect, 2.515 dm
Leaf: sheath 37 cm; blade 0.530 cm, 620 mm wide
Inflorescence 610 cm; 1° branches 37 cm, axis glabrous or hairy; spikelet 1 per node, stalk 0.51 mm
Spikelet 34 mm, ± 1.52 mm wide, lanceolate to elliptic; lower glume ± 11.5 mm, 35-veined, upper glume ± = spikelet; florets subequal, lower sterile, lemma 57-veined, acuminate
Ecology: Waste places, often wet sites, fields, roadsides
Elevation: < 1500 m.
Bioregional distribution: California (especially California Floristic Province)
Distribution outside California: worldwide; native to Eurasia, Africa
Flowering time: JulOct
Synonyms: E. c. var. zelayensis (Kunth) Hitchc


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|Those Dominion attack ships have really gone downhill. When we first saw them, three of them killed a Galaxy class Starship! Now even a Runabout is more than a match for them. Trek is always doing this - introduce some new uber-baddie to make us all go "oooooh!", only to then make them much weaker over time so that our heroes can actually defeat them. Voyager's treatment of the Borg is the classic case, but the Dominion fares little better.
They hide the Runabout in a "Kuiper belt". Kuiper belts are real things - a shell of lumps of ice in the outer part of a solar system. It's believed that many comets come from the Kuiper belt, when some disturbance there sends one arcing into the inner system. However, no Kuiper belt could ever be as dense as what we see here. There is literally an "iceberg" every few hundred metres. If such a shell surrounded a solar system, you'd never be able to see any of the stars at night! In reality, objects such as this would be at least hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart in a Kuiper belt.
Odo spends hours on the Runabout with Weyoun. If I were him, I would have had Weyoun dictating 'Important Facts of the Dominion War' into the Runabout computer for that entire time. That way even if Weyoun died, Odo would return with a priceless trove of Dominion war secrets. As it is, he asks one question about a new Ketracel White facility and otherwise just engage in chit-chat.
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|This episode introduces the idea of the Great Link having been contaminated with a sickness that will ultimately threaten to destroy the Founders. We will eventually discover that the virus was created by Section 31; Odo was infected in the episode "Homefront", back in the 4th season, and he passed it on to the link when he went to the Founder's home planet to be turned into a solid in the episode "Broken Link" at the end of that season. He may have been cured of the virus when he was turned into a solid, in which case his linking with the Female Founder during early season 6 would have re-infected him. This would explain why Odo is one of the last of the Changelings to exhibit symptoms of infection, even though he was the first to be infected.
This is Jeffrey Combs's favourite episode, partly because he got a lot of screen time in it, but also because he enjoyed the challenge of having to play a "good" Weyoun and a "Bad" Weyoun. He especially enjoyed the idea that what the Dominion regarded as a 'defect' in Weyoun would be regarded by others as 'enlightenment'.
The Rio Grande Runabout is the one used in this episode - the same one which crashed in "The Ascent". Presumably the wreck was tractored into orbit, repaired, and returned to service.
The original idea for this episode had Weyoun defecting because the Dominion was breeding a new race called the Modain, a much tougher and more loyal warrior species than the Jem'Hadar. Weyoun convinces Sisko to attack the facility where the Modain are being created. However, once the facility is destroyed it is discovered that Weyoun was lying, and the Modain were actually a replacement for the Vorta. The script was modified because Ira Steven Behr had been on the lookout for a good Odo/Weyoun story for a while, and thought the idea of a Weyoun defecting would fit.
Nog's B Story was based on the novel Catch 22, with Nog as a more benign take on Milo Minderbinder. Aron Eisenberg loved the idea that Nog could work towards Starfleet goals, but do so in a very Ferengi way.
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Kate takes on the "no fatties" dating site controversy at Broadsheet.
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Lauredhel talks full body scanners, disability, and privacy at FWD.
Latoya inaugurates "Moff's Law" at Racialicious, and we are totally copying her on that. It starts so deliciously and just gets better:
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Union Pacific and Progress Rail Services said that the ultra-clean diesel PR30C-LoNOx locomotive being tested in intermediate line haul service has successfully achieved more than 500 operational hours. The locomotive -- powered by a 3516 Caterpillar engine -- has been retrofitted with a state-of-the-art after-treatment system, making it one of the cleanest locomotives operating in the United States.
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technology routes the exhaust through a diesel oxidation catalyst prior to
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standards for new locomotives.
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this type of technology launch. With the 500-service hour milestone complete,
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service plateau. This durability and performance testing will continue in Texas
for the next several weeks to ensure safe and dependable performance before the
unit begins operating in revenue service in California in the fourth quarter.
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This egg biriyani caught my interest the first time I came across Shn's post on the recipe. Immediately I bookmarked it in my favourites. Last year at Christmas, I decided to give this a try. Just because it was just the three of us on Christmas, I didnt feel like preparing an elaborate meal. And coincidentally I fell sick the two days before Christmas. By that time I really needed something simple. We were all happy with the egg biriyani which is actually a little more complex than the name suggests. One would expect the biriyani to be biriyani rice and masala with just hard boiled eggs. But this recipe is a bit more complex with egg omelettes and homemade masala. I was a bit overwhelmed with all the steps, probably because I was not feeling well. Anyways, try this out and you wont be disappointed.
Check out Shn's Egg Biriyani at Mishmash!
I really dont have to say how much I love desserts. When Sujatha posted this Pista Kulfi recipe, I was itching to make it as soon as possible. But since I am on a small sugar-high dessert ban, I had to be patient. The recipe remained attractive among all my bookmarked recipes. Finally a few weeks ago, I made the kulfi and it was out of the world!! I am not kidding, it was awesome! It was melt in your mouth kind which no one would be able to resist. The best part about the recipe is its simplicity and can me mixed together in minutes. JM absolutely loved it, he was willing to have it for breakfast, if I would let him! The recipe was enough for probably 12-14 kulfi-sicles but they were gone in a day! I just cant thank her enough for this delicious dessert. Dont believe me?, try it out for yourself......
Do try out Sujatha's Pista Kulfi recipe at Spicy Khazaana.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Hit the road, Jack!
Do you have two people in the room? Do you have the office manager or the doctor do it? At the end of the week or the beginning? What about the time of the day? What about a severance package?
What is the reason? Downsizing, poor job performance, patient complaints, tardiness? Florida is a right-to-work state, so other than a few federal laws against discrimination, you can terminate someone for just about any reason you want.
Some people go into long drawn out reasoning. Others say just make it quick, short and final. I would think you want to try to be nice about it. You hear all the crazy stories were someone comes back and shoots up the place. It happened just a few years ago down in Orlando.
I guess in the ideal scenario, everyone would shake hands and tell each other everyone is great but it just did not work out. But that is probably not the normal scene. Sometimes there are nasty words and anger; other times, crying and shock. I have seen even indifference where they seemed to know it was coming.
Afterwards there employee dynamics temporarily shift. I swear that a third of the remaining office staffs (we have about 14 staff members) are glad the person was terminated and know all the reasons. One third does not really care and go about their week almost like nothing happened, and the other third are upset and just cannot believe you did that.
I have never regretted letting someone go because they just were not doing their job well enough to warrant them remaining. I thought some were nice people but it just did not work. Some were just not nice people and I was glad to see them go.
What always works is when someone that you were preparing to fire leaves on their own. Then you can always be nice and act sad when you are really jumping for joy. That is always the easy way out.
I really stress out about terminating someone because I do not like to deliver bad news. But every time is has proven to be the right choice in the long run.
The responsibilities of being an owner and leader are not always fun. It is a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Have a good week.
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Firing somebody sucks. It isn't fun and here it isn't cheap either. I don't know about your severance laws, but here it's a week's pay per year service, minimum. Usually it's advised to pay more to avoid a civil suit. Imagine the newly pregnant 6 year employee who has turned bad. If you fire her she could claim it's due to her pregancy, then you're talking a 100K suit or more. The severance I've been advised to give is 30K. What a joke.
- November 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM
I don't see why you can't fire someone without any repercussions these days. That really upsets me. The employee has all the rights and the employer does not have the right to expect employee will do the job correctly.
- November 9, 2011 at 9:35 AM
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The employee definitely has all the rights.
- November 9, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Actually, my attorney stated that here in California we have an at will state. Employment is at will of the employer. However, he does have two exceptions:
1) you are sleeping with the employee
2) employee is pregnant
Of course if condition #1 led to #2 then you have bigger problems
- November 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- Rajnish said...
A business owner always fires someone with a heavy heart. It is a sad thing but needs to be done with empathy and grace.
- November 9, 2011 at 10:03 PM
- navygatordmd said...
Well Florida is an "at will' state we do not have any requirments for any severence very employer friendly. Still have to be carefull about upsetting people anyone can file a bogus law suite for anything and your insurance carrier will probably pay them of 10-20k just so they do not have to take it to court, too much. Makes you look guilty when all you are trying to do is get rid of a bad employee or reduce your overhead. Can you day "rock and a hard place". I am surprised to hear California is an "at will" state. The north east area of the US sounds brutal for small buisness owners.
- November 10, 2011 at 9:37 AM
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Mo Li Hua (Chinese: 茉莉花; pinyin: Mòlìhuā; literally "Jasmine Flower"; is a popular Chinese folk song. The song dates to 18th century. In time, many regional variations were created, and the song gained popularity both in China and abroad.
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The actress wowed onlookers on the red carpet with her embellished Oscar de la Renta gown – but the spaghetti straps didn't last the evening.
Her "The Dark Knight Rises" co-star Gordon-Levitt took to his Facebook.com page and revealed he helped fix the strap on Hathaway's dress with a sparkly red pin, and uploaded a picture of the two together.
In an accompanying post, he added, "Annie tore the strap on her dress, but luckily I had a pin."
Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the Critics' Choice Awards for her turn as prostitute Fantine in "Les Miserables," while Joseph Gordon-Levitt's thriller Looper was named Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie.


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It looks like an expensive bracelet, but the contraption laced in titanium beads gets placed around the esophagus rather than the wrist.
The LINX Reflux Management System is a new treatment for acid reflux, a digestive order that causes heartburn, nagging cough and other chronic symptoms in 10 million to 20 million U.S. patients. The condition occurs when a weak valve where the esophagus meets the stomach, known as a sphincter, won't close properly, allowing bile and acid to wash up.
Some doctors say the device, approved by the FDA last year, shows promise as an alternative for patients who don't find relief from drugs that reduce acid in the stomach, but don't want to get major surgery. In one such surgery to treat the disease — a procedure called Nissen fundoplication — the top of the stomach is wrapped around the esophagus to tighten the sphincter.
The LINX ring takes on the job of the sphincter. Surgeons wrap the device around the base of the esophagus through non-invasive laparoscopic surgery.
The beads on the device have magnetic cores which pull together to keep the esophagus closed but open up when food is detected. The device pops shut as the food moves farther down the digestive tract.
Anne Arundel Medical Center will insert the device in its first patients in coming weeks.
"Anything that is a shorter, simpler operation is good for the patient," said Dr. Adrian Park, chair of the department of surgery at Anne Arundel Medical Center, who added that there was need for a surgery that wasn't as invasive.
Park and other doctors said that early studies on the device, which covers about three years of use, are promising.
One study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February, looked at 100 people who received a magnetic sphincter device. The majority of the patients saw their symptoms reduced significantly or completely. Most also had less need to take medication.
"The early results show that the device really reduces acid exposure after it is put in," Park said. "It brings it down almost to a normal range.
The study cautioned that follow-up studies were needed to determine the long-term effects of the treatment.
One Johns Hopkins doctor said research has raised some questions about the procedure. Some patients had needed the device removed, while others had trouble swallowing after having it inserted, said Dr. John O. Clarke, clinical director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology and an assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology & hepatology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also concerned about the long-term effects.
"It wouldn't be shocking if we find in 15 years there is slippage or other adverse reactions that were not expected," Clarke said.
But Clarke said the device's preliminary results are mostly positive and Hopkins likely will use it in the near future. One physician already is trained in how to use it, Clarke said.
"I think the good will outweigh the negatives at this point," he said.
Acid reflux turns into a debilitating condition for some patients, Anne Arundel Medical Center's Park said. Some people can't sleep, have trouble swallowing and suffer with uncontrollable heartburn.
In severe cases, acid can damage the esophagus and lead to a condition called Barrett's esophagus. Damage to the esophagus causes abnormal cells to develop and its lining to become more like that of the intestinal wall. The condition can lead to esophageal cancer.
Drugs on the market treat acid reflux by neutralizing acid in the stomach or blocking the production of acid. Studies have found that 40 percent of people on those drugs do not get enough relief from symptoms. The drugs also can lead to bone thinning.
"It doesn't speak to the underlying condition, the valve that is not working," Park said.
The Nissen surgery also isn't always effective, Park said. Success often depends on the expertise and experience of the surgeon.
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Meeting with a CPJ delegation in May, President Asif Ali Zardari committed his government to the pursuit of justice in journalist murders. But with seven journalists killed, five in targeted killings, Pakistan was the world's deadliest country for the press for the second consecutive year. High-profile investigations into the drive-by shooting of Wali Khan Babar in January and the abduction and fatal beating of Saleem Shahzad in May yielded no prosecutions, replicating the country's long-standing record of impunity in journalist murders. Intelligence officials were suspected of complicity in the Shahzad case and other anti-press attacks. With Zardari's government unwilling or unable to protect journalists, media organizations stepped up efforts to protect reporters working in the field. But widespread violence in Baluchistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Karachi, and the Swat Valley--combined with the war in Afghanistan--made the challenge exceptionally difficult. At least three Pakistani journalists fled into exile during the year.
As journalists continue to be targeted, the government of Asif Ali Zardari has shown itself unable and unwilling to stand up for a free press. Whatever solutions exist will have to be found by people in the profession. Analysis by Bob Dietz
Pakistan is one of the world's worst nations in combating deadly anti-press violence, CPJ's Impunity Index shows.
Journalist murders have gone unpunished over the last decade with just one exception, the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. At least 14 journalist murders have gone unpunished during that time frame.
1. Iraq
2. Somalia
3. Philippines
4. Sri Lanka
5. Colombia
6. Afghanistan
7. Nepal
8. Mexico
9. Russia
10. Pakistan
11. Bangladesh
12. Brazil
13. India
As violence escalated throughout Pakistan, the risks to journalists increased dramatically, CPJ research shows. At least 29 journalists have been killed in Pakistan in direct relation to their work since 2007.
With 41 work-related fatalities, Pakistan is the world's sixth deadliest nation for the press since 1992, CPJ research shows.
1. Iraq: 151
2. Philippines: 72
3. Algeria: 60
4. Russia: 53
5. Colombia: 43
6. Pakistan: 41
7. Somalia: 36
8. India: 27
9. Mexico: 27
10. Afghanistan: 24
Over the past decade, the government has commissioned at least six high-level special investigations into attacks on journalists, CPJ research shows. In only one case, however, has a special inquiry led to a prosecution.
Many investigations, few results:
2002: Daniel Pearl, killed, prosecution brought
2006: Hayatullah Khan, killed, no prosecution
2010: Umar Cheema, attacked, no prosecution
2011: Waqar Kiani, attacked, no prosecution
2011: Wali Khan Babar, killed, no prosecution
Journalists were covering an exceptionally violent story, as shown by data from the Pakistan Institute for Peace, which monitors terrorist attacks and other acts of violence across the country.


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Hazelburn is a single malt whisky that is made by the Springbank distillery. It is located on the Campbeltown peninsula on the west Highland coast. Springbank is one of only three distilleries left in an area of Scotland that 200 years ago supported over 30 distilleries (Glen Scotia and Glengyle are the others). Springbank is small with a production capacity of only 750,000 litres per year, but their whiskies are highly regarded around the world. It has been owned by the same family, the Mitchell's, since it was founded in 1828 and this makes Springbank the oldest distillery in Scotland that has been continually owned by the same family.
Springbank is the only distillery in Scotland to regularly produce three different single malt whiskies - Springbank, Longrow and Hazelburn - using three different production methods. The production is split between the three throughout the year with roughly 80% of the time going to Springbank, 10% to Longrow and 10% to Hazelburn. Springbank is made in the lightly peated style, Longrow is heavily peated and Hazelburn is unpeated.
Hazelburn whisky was first distilled in 1997, with the first release in 2005 as an 8 year old single malt. It is distilled three times and is one of the only Scottish whiskies to experience a full third distillation. Only a limited number of bottles are released each year. Hazelburn is available as an 8 year old (now on its 4th release) and this 12 years old, which was first released in August 2009 and is limited to 3900 bottles. Hazelburn is named after one of the long defunct Campbeltown distilleries, as is Longrow.
The colour of this Hazelburn 12 years old is an intense dark burnt amber, showing that the whisky has been matured in some serious sherry casks. The nose is highly aromatic and packed with the common characteristics associated with sherry cask maturation - plenty of dried fruits (think of raisins and candied orange peel), sweet caramel, nuts (especially something like walnut) and spice (imagine cinnamon and nutmeg). However, there are also some darker, more bitter notes on this complex nose - dark chocolate, damp wood, roasted coffee beans and just a hint of smoke, although this is slightly sulphuric and tobacco-like. On the palate, this is rich, dense and creamy with many of the elements of the nose carried through. There is sweetness coming from the dried fruit/citrus peel (there is an orange marmalade feel), caramel and nutty influences and these are balanced by the darker bitter notes such as the chocolate, coffee and spices (ginger is particularly prominent). The finish is long with lots of caramel sweetness followed by drier woody and spicy (especially nutmeg) notes.
The Hazelburn 12 years old is an interesting, intense and complex whisky. It is an enjoyable dram but the intensity of the sherry cask influence may be too much for some palates and is in danger of overpowering what is undoubtedly a lovely, creamy triple distilled spirit. It will be interesting to see how the future releases of Hazelburn are to be matured and what they will taste like. A bottle of this first release will be found in specialist whisky retailers for £45-50.


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StorSimple, TwinStrata join in HP Cloud love-in
.44 cloud magnum could blow your SAN head clean off - punk
Cloud storage gateway suppliers are cosy-ing up to HP with both StorSimple and TwinStrata emphasising their HP Cloud Storage creds.
StorSimple has certified the HP Cloud Services public beta offering, and says it can be used with its cloud data management features, like Cloud Snapshots, thin restores, non-disruptive upgrades and dual path redundancy. Its users can now have HP Cloud Object Storage as a tier of storage: "transparently extending their Windows and Linux datasets, which could be running on VMware and Hyper-V, into the cloud."
StorSimple customers can also mix and match the open source HP Cloud Services with any other cloud storage services they are currently using. HP Cloud storage customers can use StorSimple gateways to simultaneously store complete sets of data across multiple cloud providers. The company says this cuts out "the vendor lock-in on the data centre floor that is common with traditional SANs."
TwinStrata also supports HP Cloud Services through its CloudArray storage gateway, is extending a limited time introductory offer that enables HP Cloud Services customers to store up to one terabyte (1 TB) in the cloud through a free CloudArray cloud storage gateway. HP Cloud Services customers can download the free CloudArray virtual appliance here.
TwinStrata reckons cloud storage is good for backup, archival and disaster recovery. StorSimple agrees but adds primary data storage to the cloud mix as well, with local flash storage using deduplication and compression in its gateway appliance, and automatic tiering to move ageing data up into the cloud.
TwinStrata says HP Cloud Services are enterprise-class, like its gateway, which includes "features such as dynamic caching, data replication, cloud snapshots, bandwidth throttling and scheduling, in-flight and at rest encryption, compression and deduplication, volume expansion and seamless integration with existing applications."
Data centre storage with its traditional disk drive-based arrays is facing twin technology assaults. At the front-end all-flash arrays or hybrid flash and HDD arrays promise much faster I/O with an effective end to disk seek times for primary data.
The Dirty Harry Magnum Cloud Storage Service
At the back-end secondary, tertiary, backup and archive data is being targeted by cloud storage service suppliers, with gateway appliances offering various takes on a SAN or NAS array head and networking up into cloud data vaults. The extreme of this approach is to have a flash array for primary data and a cloud block or file or object vault for everything else.
Spinning disk is still used to hold the secondary or nearline data and the backed up and/or snapshotted and replicated copies of that but the drive arrays are in the cloud service provider's data centre and not the customers, saving space, power and management costs.
It comes down to trust of course. Do you trust a cloud service provider with your data? Will you get lucky or unlucky?
To misquote Dirty Data Centre Harry: "Being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful cloud storage service in the world, and would blow your SAN head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?'
"Well do ya, punk?" ®
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Train passes over woman sleeping on the tracks
Woman unharmed, unaware that train had just passed over her sleeping body
A woman who "fell asleep" on railroad tracks apparently had no idea how close she came to injury or even death.
According to WVTM, concerned residents called police on Wednesday morning to report that a woman had been hit by a train. Police arrived on the scene to find that not only had 22-year-old Lynsey Horne of Salem, Alabama not been hit by the train, but she was actually still sleeping and unaware that a train had just passed over her sleeping body.
Police captain Lorenza Dorsey told WVTM that Horne is lucky. "The train was not long - only two engines and a car. Plus, Horne had a small build and was able to lay in a way that she was not stuck by the train or hit by another object from the train."
Horne was arrested and charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
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Lessons From June 2010: A look at the the role of corporations in the primary races. [California Progress Report]
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Bundesbank and financial watchdog Bafin are conducting an in-depth probe of Deutsche Bank AG's accounts over allegations that it failed to correctly value a derivatives portfolio, sources familiar with the investigation said.
Two of the sources said on Thursday that Germany's central bank was reacting to accusations that Deutsche Bank had incorrectly valued credit derivatives from 2007 through 2010, allowing it to hide as much as $12 billion in losses.
"This is a routine investigation. There is no prejudgment," one of the people, who is close to the investigation, told Reuters, saying the regulators were starting with the assumption that Deutsche Bank's accounts were in order.
The person said the probe would include trips to New York to meet the people who had made the allegations. "But the investigators have not been there yet."
Deutsche Bank has said the allegations were unfounded and declined to comment on the investigation.
The Bundesbank said it could not provide information on measures that affect individual institutions.
"Generally, you can assume that we pursue any allegations that are made to assess their validity," a Bundesbank spokeswoman said. Bafin declined to comment.
The Financial Times reported in December that three former Deutsche employees had filed complaints with U.S. securities regulators claiming the bank failed to recognize up to $12 billion of unrealized losses during the financial crisis.
At the time, Deutsche Bank said the allegations were more than two and a half years old and that an investigation by a law firm had found them to be wholly unfounded.
Reuters had previously reported on a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower action filed against Deutsche Bank in May 2010, alleging that some of the assets in a derivatives portfolio may have been improperly valued in order to hide trading losses.
In an internal presentation given by Bill Broeksmit, head of risk and capital optimization at Deutsche Bank in June 2011, Deutsche Bank said it had been able to unwind a large portion of its credit derivative portfolio without taking heavy losses, a sign that some buyers had broadly accepted Deutsche's view on how to value certain assets.
Reporting By Alexander Huebner, Kathrin Jones and Edward Taylor; Editing by Maria Sheahan and Tom Pfeiffer