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Role Call: Zeta-Jones goes home
All the glamorous Catherine Zeta-Jones has to do is tap her heels three times and, just like that, she's returning to her humble homeland of Wales to do the independent film Coming Out. Under the direction of another Welshwoman, Sara Sugarman, Zeta-Jones will produce and star in the film about a Welsh rugby team whose coach unexpectedly dies. Their only hope is to rely on the deceased coach's gay son to "choreograph them to victory." But don't think Zeta-Jones is bowing out of the limelight forever. Oh, no, she wants that Oscar. So, Zeta-Jones also will star with her equally famous husband Michael Douglas in Smoke and Mirrors. The period drama follows the efforts of a French 19th century illusionist, along with his female sidekick, to expose a sorcerer who is inciting anti-colonial revolution. Production will start mid-fall.
Roberts' Atlantic crossing
Julia Roberts, following the leads of Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary) and Gwyneth Paltrow (Sliding Doors), will most likely have to take some serious dialect lessons to perfect a British accent for a new untitled film (the one she had in Mary Reilly doesn't count). She will take on the real-life role of a Yorkshire woman whose murder led police on one of their biggest manhunts, followed by one of the most controversial miscarriages of justice in the United Kingdom. Roberts will play Wendy Sewell, whose gravitation towards elicit sex gained her the nickname "The Bakewell Tart," London's The Observer reports. Sewell was murdered in 1973. Maintaining his innocence, 17-year-old Tim Downing was convicted of killing Sewell. Local newspaper editor Don Hale spent six years trying to clear the young man's name. Interesting. Let's see what the Oscar-winning actress dishes up.
Hallstrom and DiCaprio play "Catch"
Speaking of more true stories, director Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) is in final negotiations to direct DreamWorks' Catch Me If You Can, with Leonardo DiCaprio, who certainly has taken the heat off himself in the last few years, attached to star. This is based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., the only teen to ever make the FBI's 10 most wanted list for impersonating several hundred different people and writing bad checks between 1964 and 1966. Abagnale Jr. passed himself off as a Pan Am copilot, a chief resident pediatrician and an assistant attorney general. He had written $6 million in bad checks in all 50 states and 26 foreign countries by the time he was caught. That's one busy bee. And with Hallstrom and DiCaprio together again, after their other quirky but compelling film What's Eating Gilbert Grape (DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar), Catch might one to watch out for.
Allen looking at the stars … again
Hey, why mess with a good thing? Tim Allen is no dummy. After his success in 1999's comedy hit Galaxy Quest, Allen is in talks to star in Paramount Pictures' comedy StarChild, about another romp with aliens–Roswell aliens, to be exact. A socially challenged CIA agent is assigned the task of getting a young Roswell alien back home before interplanetary war erupts on Earth. Peter Segal (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps) will direct. Think about this one carefully, Tim.
"I know nuuuth-ting!"
But we do. Looks like the brainy fellows at Revolution Studios have decided to bring the wacky and popular '60s and '70s TV sitcom Hogan Heroes to the big screen. We'll get to see all the shenanigans of Hogan (maybe Tim Allen should think about this one instead) and his oddball band of World War II POWs, as they run an underground Allied base of operations at the camp while pulling a fast one on the incompetent Col. Klink and his sidekick, Sgt. Schultz (Chris Farley would have been great). And why not? The studios haven't completely tapped out the arsenal of old TV shows as possible movie material. Ironically, the original series' star, Bob Crane, is having his own life brought to the big screen by director Paul Schrader. The film, Auto-Focus, highlights the sordid details of Crane's life after Heroes that ultimately led to his brutal murder in 1978.
Court TV makes movies
Court TV, which owes its popularity to the sensational trials of O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers, has decided on its first original movie. It is a project on the aftermath of the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, during which four black girls were killed. The case made headlines recently when an Alabama jury convicted Thomas Blanton of the crime. Blanton is the second man brought to justice in this case after the 1977 conviction of Robert Chambliss. Tentatively titled A Bombing in Birmingham, production will start in the late summer for a 2002 airing. Not sure, though, if anyone can outdo Spike Lee's extraordinary Oscar-nominated documentary on the same subject, 4 Little Girls. That's a hard act to follow.
The power of three
Indie gal-pals Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk will star in Enter Fleeing for writer/director Rebecca Miller. Based on Miller's collection of short stories, Personal Velocity, the film tells the tale of three women-Greta (Posey), Delia (Sedgwick) and Paula (Balk)-who each struggle to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom. Sounds like the ultimate chick flick–an empowering chick flick, the best kind. Shooting begins this week in New York.
Rap Queen large and in charge
Rap singer/actress/talk show host Queen Latifah is in negotiations to star and executive produce the comedy In the Houze for Disney and Hyde Park Entertainment. A man takes to the Internet to find a date but ends up embarking on an online relationship with a convict (Latifah) who makes up several stories about herself. When she's finally released, she seeks out the guy and wreaks havoc on his upper-middle-class life. This will mark the versatile Latifah's first starring role in a film, having played mostly supporting characters in films like The Bone Collector and Living Out Loud.


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Isilon ready to go live with 'Maverick' OS
EMC acquired Isilon two years ago to fill a void among big data and scale-out NAS use cases that mainstream NAS products could not handle. Now Isilon is taking steps to become better suited to mainstream enterprise applications with the latest version of its OneFS operating system that works with all Isilon hardware platforms.
EMC is making its Isilon OneFS 7.0 operating system, code-named "Mavericks," generally available Friday. Previewed at EMC World in May, OneFS 7.0 has data protection, performance, security and interoperability features more suited to mainstream NAS products than the traditional clustered NAS Isilon capabilities.
Isilon is used largely in media and entertainment, life sciences, oil and gas exploration, healthcare and other high-performance applications. Sam Grocott, VP of marketing for EMC Isilon, said the large capacity files used in those industries now increasingly show up in enterprises.
"Isilon has been used in a world of massive capacity and extreme I/O performance environments that can grow quickly," Grocott said. "Now we're seeing those types of data sets show up in enterprise data centers. For instance, we've seen much more rapid adoption of enterprise customers dealing with extremely large home directories. We're seeing up to hundreds of terabytes for a home directory."
EMC claims the new OneFS version increases single file system throughput by 25% over the former version and new caching capabilities reduce latency by up to 50%. OneFS 7.0 reduces latency by giving each storage node its own nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) with cache built in, mirroring writes to cache to other nodes' caches via InfiniBand across clusters, and confirming the write after the mirror. Previous versions of OneFS would write data to disk after caching it before confirming the write was complete.
Data protection improvements include the ability to use an active snapshot as a writeable snapshot, so a snap no longer has to be copied into an active file system to replace a lost file. Copying the snap could require a lengthy wait in a big data environment. EMC also added one-click failover and fail back to Isilon's SyncIQ replication software for disaster recovery.
New security features include compliance with SEC 17a-4 requirements for tamper-proof data protection, roles-based administration to prevent unauthorized change to files, and the creation of isolated storage pools with authentication zones.
"We're not physically creating separate storage silos, but we are logically separating access and directories," Grocott said of the authentication zones. "Service providers are big proponents of this."
Interoperability improvements include a REST-based API for third-party vendors to write to, and support for VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) and vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA).
While casting Isilon as a more mainstream storage system, EMC is stopping short of pushing its iSCSI support for block storage. The midrange VNX platform is EMC's main unified storage product, even though Isilon does support iSCSI.
"The way customers use our storage, it's predominantly file today and will continue to be that way," Grocott said. "We're going to be focusing on file-based storage."
Storage software tools can be too independent
I recently spoke with a storage software vendor promoting a product that was an independent storage management and reporting tool. The functionality it performed was impressive. There were high-value capabilities that a storage administrator could find useful. The product ticked many of the boxes for what was needed by a storage administrator.
But, it was really a standalone product. It required a separate physical server for installation. It did not integrate with any top-level management software or any other real-time monitoring software. There was no link to any other storage management tools. The product had a narrow focus. It did one thing, but it did it well. I just got this visual image that I had one type of screwdriver given to me but I had to go find another whole box of tools to fix the car and keep it running.
The vendor had great pride in what the product did and that was understandable. The term "best in class" fit the product. But it was only one screwdriver. The tool would be useful, but the scope of managing storage is much bigger than that.
There was opportunity for the product. There would be IT storage administrators who needed that specific tool. The specialists that would use an independent tool are primarily in the high-end of the enterprise market. The lower segments of the industry typically have fewer unique specialists. The administrators there have multiple responsibilities, which in many cases now include server virtualization administration, operating system, networking and storage.
A tool that can work in an environment where the administrator is not necessarily focused on storage and does not have the specialist training would be much more useful. How this reconciles with the "best in class" designation may cause a rethinking of the parameters applied to that definition.
It comes down to being uncompromising in the way the tool operates versus making it work for a broader segment of the market. If there are enough sales of an independent product, the vendor will continue with this method. What constitutes enough sales depends on the vendor and the price of the product. The determination about making the product work in a more integrated environment has many considerations – additional development time required, changes that occur outside of the vendor's control, which integrated environments to target, etc.
For the IT customer, the evaluation of storage management processes and tools needs to include the different offerings available and the needs for the environment. "Best in class" may not always be best in the environment.
(Randy Kerns is Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm).
FalconStor hires banker to explore sale or funding options
After another rocky quarter, FalconStor has hired investment banker Wells Fargo Securities to evaluate "strategic alternatives."
FalconStor CEO Jim McNiel stopped short of saying the data protection vendor is for sale but said he is considering all options. He said FalconStor cannot fund all the projects on its development roadmap without a cash injection.
When asked during FalconStor's earnings call Wednesday if he would consider selling off patent licenses or other intellectual property, McNiel said, "the main purpose behind retaining Wells Fargo is to explore all strategic alternatives. We have a sizable R&D pipeline and a number of key products we would like to invest in. We are developing [disaster recovery and next-generation deduplication and backup storage repository products], and those initiatives are being funded from operations. There are other projects we would love to fund, but we can't do it from operations."
McNiel predicted that the new data protection products in development would bring FalconStor revenue to double-digit growth, and he said he expects the company to be cash flow positive this quarter after cost-cutting moves including layoffs. But FalconStor's $17.1 million revenue last quarter was down from %18.9 million last year for a 9% drop. FalconStor lost $3.6 million last quarter. That's not as bad as the $5.4 million lost in the same quarter of 2011, but leaves the vendor with $25.8 million in cash and assets.
FalconStor is counting on $10 million in annual savings from its recent reorganization, but McNiel said it is difficult to close sales because of soft IT spending and heavy discounting by competitors.
"We weren't terrifically happy with the results," McNiel said on the earnings call.
He continued to paint a rosy product picture for the future, however, saying FalconStor's near-term product roadmap represents a "new day of innovation."
Rivals like to remind potential customers of FalconStor's rough recent history, including a $5.8 million payment to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle criminal and civil charges that the vendor bribed a customer. Those charges prompted founder ReiJane Huai to resign as CEO in September 2010, and he committed suicide a year later.
While McNiel said the goal of any transaction would be to increase shareholder value, several FalconStor channel partners said they welcome a sale of the company when McNiel replaced Huai in 2010.
Scale Computing wary of EMC's 'VMware trap'
Scale Computing will use the $12 million funding round it recently closed to market its HC3 "hyper-converged" platform that combines storage, virtualization and networking. That marketing job includes explaining why the startup chose to use Red Hat's KVM as the embedded hypervisor instead of VMware.
The funding release that went out last week claims that Scale has close to 100 HC3 deployments in the first four weeks of its launch and it accounted for half of the startup's sales in the third quarter. Scale still sells storage-only systems but is clearly shifting its focus to its converged box.
"HC3 is now the foundational product for the company," said Pat Conte, Scale's general manager of worldwide field operations.
While much of the funding round will be spent on marketing, Conte said there are product enhancements on the short-term roadmap. One new feature will be the ability to migrate virtual machines from the user interface. Others include "more complex networking, and things that will enhance the UI but not change functionality."
One thing Scale will not change in the near-term is its decision to use the KVM hypervisor instead of VMware inside the HC3. Conte said Scale supports VMware for customers who want to use HC3 as a SAN connected to external servers. But the servers inside HC3 are built on KVM along with Scale's clustered file system.
Conte said Scale chose KVM over VMware because it is cheaper to license and "KVM is the fastest hypervisor we found."
That's the technical reason for snubbing VMware. There is also a strategic one, which Scale CEO Jeff Ready laid out in a recent e-mail exchange with me. Pointing to Hitachi Data Systems' new Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged stack, which is managed through VMware vCenter, Ready charged that HDS is the latest vendor to fall into EMC's VMware trap. He added that having an integrated hypervisor is a crucial part of a converged stack, but EMC rivals should avoid using VMware because EMC is the majority owner of VMware. He expects EMC to integrate VMware into its hardware and work more closely with VMware than other storage vendors can.
"When products move to fully integrated hypervisors, it is EMC who sits in the driver's seat with their relationship with Vmware,"Ready wrote. "And all hardware vendors who are driving customers to a semi-converged solution requiring VMware are falling into the trap EMC has set for them."
Ready claims Scale avoids the EMC trap by using KVM, "eliminating VMware licensing costs entirely, and offering an elegant, powerful solution that steers customers clear of this EMC trap." He also maintains the days of VMware's vendor neutrality are over.
"To me, VMware, as we've known it, is dead," "Ready added. "The hypervisor itself, as a differentiator, is dead. What matters are the applications, the management tools, and the automation. Selling those types of tools — often at very high licensing costs — is the world of EMC. VMware is EMC. What we are offering is an alternative solution to this, one that leverages the current hyper-convergence trends – and builds its tools, licensing and integration into a package built specifically for the midmarket."
Of course, basing your survival on the death of VMware is either lunacy or genius. That makes Scale worth watching either way.
Nasuni pulls in $20 milliion in a Series C funding
Storage cloud provider Nasuni Corp. today announced it has secured $20 million in a Series C round from a new anonymous invester. In total, the company has raised $43 million since its founding in 2009, which includes the $8 million it raised in a Series A round and another $15 million it raised in a Series B funding round.
Andres Rodriguez, CEO and co-founder, said most of the new money will be used for to expand sales and marketing. "We have to be in more places with more prospects," he said.
The Natick, MA.-based Nasuni has 45 employees and expects to double its headcount in the next year. "We ended closing the round sooner than expected because we got so much interest that we decided to take it. I had intended to close the round at the end of the year, " said Rodriguez.
Nasuni's strategy is to target the storage-as-a-service market. It's cloud product is a controller that is placed on a customer's site and works as a translator so data can be stored in the Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure cloud. The controller is available on a hardware appliance or as a software virtual appliance that customers can install on any hardware. The company targets primary storage along with built-in backup and replication.
Some of Nasuni's more recent product announcements include adding a block interface to it cloud storage controller, which had supported NFS and CIFS, so it can deliver unified storage for enterprises' remote and branch offices. The company also recently announced it is delivering offerings for mobile access to cloud-based storage to help organizations keep up with demand from employees to view, share and collaborate on files from any mobile device or location.,
Besides the anonymous invester, previous investors Fybride Capital Partners of Boston, North Bridge Venture Partners of Waltham and Sigma Partners of Boston took part in this Series C financing.
Per-TB licensing changes behavior, impacts efficiency
Once again I've run into an information technology director faced with acquiring software for storage that was licensed on a per-terabyte basis. Like others I've talked to in that situation, he made his decision based on that charge and not by taking into full consideration what he needed. The cos-per-terabyte charge can be so large that it has an impact on efficient storage operations.
The cost-per-terabyte charge applied in storage varies depending on the product and the vendor. Vendors are not even consistent from product to product on the charges. A few of the different ways they are represented to their customers illustrate this frustrating point:
Per terabyte of managed capacity is a common charge for storage management software. Unfortunately, vendors definite managed capacity differently.
- Terabytes presented to the host is another measure that requires reading the fine print to understand. It usually means the capacity that that the operating system can see from the storage system. That method of measuring does not reduce the license cost for data reduced with deduplication or compression by the storage system.
- "Terabytes used" is a broad brush charge specific to the application. It usually means the amount of actual data being stored.
- Total capacity is the amount of raw terabytes of the storage system, regardless of the efficiency of utilization.
- Replicated terabytes is a common measure for remote replication software that charges by the amount of data moved to the replicated storage system. Usually this is raw terabytes, and is charged if the data is compressed or not.
Charging by the terabyte often causes unnatural behavior by IT. There can be big efforts to move data around to isolate it from the per terabyte charge of software. Another behavioral change is that IT makes a decision to not use the best management software based on evaluations but go with one that has a more favorable (in their terminology, "a less ridiculous") pricing model. These actions mean that the best features of the storage software are not used, and the best product does not always win out.
Vendors have reasons for charging by the terabyte. It produces a continuing revenue stream for them, and they argue that customers continue to get value from their product so they should continue to pay. They usually add a maintenance charge to pay for support and updated versions.
There is a stark contrast in the way the storage system is priced compared to the software. The storage system is purchased with a single price in most cases, and there is a warranty period for several years. The charge per terabyte software licensing appears to be gold mine compared to the payback from the storage hardware.
Maybe the charge per terabyte is not really equitable for customers, and their dislike of the practice (much stronger terminology would be appropriate) is justified. It certainly gives validation to the open source movement.
Licensing charges do affect product and management decisions, and lead to less than optimal solutions. They also lead to a product not being as pervasive (number of accounts using) as would be expected from the product's value. Making the customers change their behavior because of the pricing model is an example of vendors not listening to the customers and inviting competition.
(Randy Kerns is Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm).
Apple, Facebook still love Fusion-io
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn said the server flash vendor is selling into more enterprises who want to speed database performance. But the bulk of its business continues to come from standbys Apple and Facebook.
Fusion-io reported $118.1 million in revenue last quarter, up 59% year-over-year and up 11% from the previous quarter. The company had net income of $14.9 million, up 52% from the previous quarter.
And it had Facebook and Apple largely to thank for its success. They have been Fusion-io's largest customers almost from the start, and last quarter combined for 56% percent of its revenue. One of the two – Fusion-io didn't disclose which one – placed an unexpected $10 million order that put Fusion-io over its forecast for the quarter. Another 14% percent of the revenue came from sales through Hewlett-Packard, which sells Fusion-io cards in its servers.
Flynn said traditional enterprises are using Fusion-io products, particular its ION Data Accelerator software, to improve database performance and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is also becoming a key application for flash.
Flynn said Fusion-io's recently announced partnerships with NetApp and Cisco will not produce substantial sales until early next year. He also said Fusion-io is a better partner than Violin Memory, whose reseller deal with HP for its all-flash arrays is under fire.
"Our products and go-to-market strategy are designed to complement our partners' existing storage and server businesses," Flynn said. "But contrast, the proprietary flash appliances offered by Violin Memory are not designed to complement but instead to attempt to replace.
"The Violin relationship with HP has been strained for a long time. [Violin] hadn't really made a good partner because its prodcuts are more in confliction with HP's."
Quantum spins up disk sales as tape withers
Quantum might have turned the corner with its disk backup and storage software products last quarter, just as its tape sales took a big dip.
Quantum reported $42.4 million in revenue from disk and software last quarter, topping the $40 million it needs to break even on those products for the first time. Disk and software revenue grew 18% year-over-year, and CEO Jon Gacek said it could hit $50 million this quarter.
However, a steep decline in tape sales caused Quantum to lose $4.9 million on its $147.3 million in overall revenue. Gacek blamed the tape sales drop on customers waiting for the transition from the LTO-5 to LTO-6 format. Quantum's overall revenue fell 3% from last year, mainly because of a $13.6 million drop in OEM tape automation sales.
Quantum's disk and software category consists of its DXi disk deduplication target appliances, vmPro virtual machine backup and StorNext archiving for large files. Revenue from those products increased 18% year-over-year and 38% from the previous quarter. Gacek said the DXi8500 enterprise platform increased 30% year-over-year and 129% sequentially, the midrange DXi6700 slipped 6% and the entery-level DXi4000 was up slightly.
Gacek also said the DXi win rate was 55% against the competition, which in almost every case is EMC Data Domain. He said the win rate was even higher for the DXi8500 despite EMC's attempts to throw its weight around.
"EMC is not trying to compete based on products," Gacek said. "They're trying to play the big-company gain of saying 'We're the market share leader, we're so much bigger than [Quantum], look at [Quantum's] market share, they don't even make money.' Sometimes that works, but sometimes it backfires with customers looking to make a technology buy."
Quantum added 120 new DXi customers and 65 StorNext customers in the quarter. It sold the first of what Gacek called a "wide area storage" product combining OEM object-storage technology from Amplidata with StorNext.
"That's not even generally available yet, but one customer was super excited and took a pre-GA system," said Gacek, adding the customer was a government agency.
Quantum forecasted an uptick to $160 million in revenue this quarter. Gacek said besides a possible tape rebound, he's looking forward to continue increases in disk and software and early sales in Quantum's fledgling Q-Cloud backup and disaster recovery offerings.
"If we're going to be a specialist in backup, we have to give the customer different than the competition," he said. "EMC doesn't offer anything like [Q-Cloud}, and I don't think they will. I don't thik the revenue piece is as important as our ability to engage with the customer in a provocative way. "
Seagate updates Savvio, Constellation hard drives
Seagate Technology has refreshed three of its enterprise hard disk drives, the Savvio 10K.6 for enterprise-level performance, the Constellation ES.3 for bulk data storage and Constellation CS for replicated bulk storage in the cloud.
The company has split its Constellation 3.5-inch family of hard drives into capacity-optimized devices and cost-optimized hard disk drives. Seagate's Constellation ES.3 drives, also called the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD, are high-capacity drives for bulk data center applications. The ES.3 enterprise drives have an increased capacity of 4 TB in a 3.5-inch form factor for tier two storage.
The ES.3 HDDs run at 7200 RPMs and they are optimized for replicated storage in cloud systems, cloud storage servers, cloud storage arrays and cloud backup storage. They are available in 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB capacities and targeted for high-workload, multi-drive data centers with SAN, NAS and direct-attached storage arrays. The devices come with 64 MB or 1 28MB cache and feature 6 Gb per second SAS or SATA interfaces, while sustaining 1.4 million hours MTBF compared to the previous 1.2 million.
"The 7200 drives store lots of data that is not immediately available. It's more of a workhorse of the storage system," said Barbara Craig, Seagate's senior product marketing manager.
Seagate's low-powered, entry-level Constellation CS drives, also called the Seagate Enterprise Value HDD, are designed for high capacity, bulk storage needs specifically for cloud service providers who build replicated environments that handle replicated cloud storage, cloud storage servers, cloud storage arrays, cloud backup storage in DAS and NAS systems. The devices, which have an instant secure erase option, come in 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB capacities with 6 Gbps SAS interface. The 7200 RPM drives can handle 0.8 million MTBF.
Seagate's third new drive is the Savvio 10K, 2.5-inch drive, also called the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10k hard drive. It comes in a smaller form factor and it has a faster performance compared to the previous Savvio 10K.5 version. The new 10.6K drives come in a 2.5 inch form factor and are available in 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB and 900 GB capacities. The drives are designed with 6 Gbps SAS or 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces, and the 900 GB capacity drive has a self-encryption Drive (SED) feature. The Savvio 10K.6 also has a sustained data rate of 204 MB per second.
"It has up to 50 percent more capacity and it's in a smaller form factor," said Craig. "It is 21 percent faster to the prior generation and it is equal to a 3.5 inch, 15K-RPM sequential performance. We also added a RAID rebuild feature. We do more of a copy function. The good data is copied to reduce the time to rebuild by 80 percent."
HP no longer plays duet with Violin
While preparing to go public, solid-state array vendor Violin Memory's relationship with Hewlett-Packard (HP) is cooling.
Violin was the subject of two Bloomberg stories last week. Last Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Violin had quietly filed its initial public offering (IPO) to become a public company. No surprise there. Violin is heavily funded with more than $150 million, and CEO Don Basile has talked of going public for months. Bloomberg followed that on Friday by reporting that HP is ending a reseller deal with Violin that has been in place for Violin Memory Arrays (VMAs) since 2010. HP indicated it doesn't need Violin because its sells all-flash models of its flagship 3PAR storage array.
Losing the HP stream of revenue could damage Violin's IPO plans. Violin has not commented on the IPO filing but a Violin spokeswoman released a statement about "rumors and speculation floating around" concerning the HP deal.
According to Violin:
"The current HP Violin relationship remains unchanged. The VMA product family (the Violin 3000 and vSHARE software) continue to be available to customers via HP as per the announced relationship. HP engineering continues to certify the VMA with additional servers, operating systems and joint selling and promotions. POC (proof of concepts) are currently active as are additional HP certifications.
"HP has stated 3PAR is the long term strategic direction for their company. Violin offers other products like the Violin 6000 through both our direct sales and our global reseller network as well as other software and system vendors which have been announced over the past 12 months."
HP's response was not exactly warm and friendly towards Violin. An HP spokesman answered Violin's claim by saying "HP 3PAR is our strategic platform for solid-state storage." That was the same statement that appeared in the Bloomberg story Friday. If HP wanted to back track, its response would have been more elaborate.
Another source familiar with HP's strategy said the original reseller deal is still in place but HP will not extend it. It will, however, honor the deal if customers want to buy a Violin array from HP.
Reading between the lines tells me HP will strongly pitch a 3PAR solid-state array before selling anything from Violin. The reseller deal remains in place, but a reseller deal on paper means nothing if the company that is supposed to do the reselling ignores it.

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Thanks for the bday wishes. Still offline & will be for a bit. Just popping on to say hello.
Stick, you old muckity muck. I hope you had a super great birthday and got yourself a new big purple pimp hat!
Happy birthday!
Heya Sharp!
We have a growing group that is getting back into LOTRO and we're wanting to resurrect the U's Kinship and Kin house on Brandywine. I did some forum research and your name came up as someone who could maybe help us do that.
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Happy birthday, Stick! Stay away from the kind of trouble you can't sweet talk your way out of and have a great one.
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Established in 2004, Multi Food Industries is Pakistan's Largest manufacturer and exporter of Ethnic Frozen Foods. Based in the Karachi Export Processing Zone, we produce the widest range of frozen foods exported from Pakistan. We are exporting in our own brand PRIME HARVEST MAZEDAR as well as private label brands world wide. We have ISO 22000, HACCP and HALAL certifications. In 2011, we were the FIRST PROCESSED FOOD MANUFACTURER in Pakistan to be BRC certified.
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I'm in holiday for 1 week since yesterday and I decided to draw something:).......but i don't like it:(, and i have a bad day today......:(!!!
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Woah! This is amazing! The eye is so detailed its awesome! So are the gems :D 5H + faves
this is AWESOME!!!! couldnt be better!!! 5H!!!!!!
Minunate culori!
This is lovely.. don't feel down.... Love the colours :)
Aww don't feel so bad, these are my favorite colors! You did such a great job on it!
thats something so cool and different , i like the idea , details n colors 5
Well, I love it. It is beautiful. I hope you are having a better day!
Thats the best red eye I ever saw in my life 5/5
This is gorgeous ,I love the colours and the style,.Great to see a new drawing from you Aly :)
Aww, sorry it was a bad day, Aly. ((hug)) The drawing is really pretty, though! I like the sparkles and her iris. :) 5 ♥s


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North Park Jack in the Box court case surprise
"I am not going to subject my clients to abusive declarations by Mr. Briggs."
Dorian Hargrove 1:15 p.m., Sept. 25
Columnist Jeff Jarvis of the UK's Guardian publication quotes the editor of the Los Angeles Times saying that online ad revenue is now sufficient to cover entire editorial payroll costs, including both print and online. Jarvis calls it a "moment in history," and it is, if it is true. It gives hope to ailing daily metro papers. Nielsen Online data for September indicate that the LA Times electronic publication is fourth among U.S. daily newspapers behind the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The Union-Tribune is not among the top 30 in the Nielsen list. The U-T has just laid off 20 percent of its pressroom employees -- 20 workers, including seven journeymen and 7 apprentices. Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, has implemented a program requiring most US. employees to take a week off without pay. The publication eMarketer estimates that U.S. newspaper ad revenue declined 16.4 percent last year to $37.9 billion. It will be down to $28.4 billion by 2012, says the publication.
How does the LAT editor know what the financials look like?
Not. True.
Response to post #1: He probably spoke to the publisher. Editors have to know something about the books. I would think at any large paper, the editor would be told about how much revenue online was bringing in. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #2: Possibly. Editors can lie with the best of them. Best, Don Bauder
OK, we've covered the print and online editorial payroll. Now we can move on to the electric bill, taxes, capital expenditures, janitors, accountants, IT people, maintenance, lawyers, publishers, window washers and advertising personnel.
They'll cut the IT people first. You always cut first what you don't understand.
Response to post #5: Good point. Editorial costs are only part of the whole. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #6: Papers are also making the grievous error of, when cutting the editorial talent, getting rid of the best writers and reporters, who happen to have the highest pay. This leaves the paper with a bunch of kids right out of college in key editorial slots. It shows. And hurts circulation. It's the same mistake some retailers make: cut the salespeople who are best paid. Pretty soon customers realize they can't get qualified help anymore at the store. Best, Don Bauder
Driven by a 40 percent reduction in advertising since 2006, The San Diego Union-Tribune today (1/16) announced a sweeping cost-reduction plan that will temporarily reduce its top executives' pay, eliminate 401(k) matches, suspend merit-based raises and include unspecified staffing cuts.
Response to post #9: Yes, that is discussed in the post above. Best, Don Bauder


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Phone: 513-529-7099
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Beginning her first season with Miami women's track and field, Stacey Wannemacher was named Miami's throws coach in October of 2011.
Wannemacher, who was already serving as the program's director of operations as a graduate student at Miami before being hired as throws coach, came to Miami from Purdue, where she graduated in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership and supervision.
"We lucked into Stacey, having her here already as a graduate student, it made it an easy transition. She has great chemistry with the girls, threw at a very high level and knows what it takes to train and be an All-American. I couldn't be happier to have her join our staff," said head coach Kelly Phillips upon her hire. "Not many coaches have the knowledge of their event and can actually get in the ring, show you how it is done and more than likely out-perform you too. She is a great role model for her girls."
While at Purdue, Wannemacher was a three-time All-American in the shot put, qualifying for the Outdoor NCAA Championships in the event all four years and earning a spot at the Indoor Championships twice. She also qualified for the Outdoor NCAA Regionals in all three throws events (discus, hammer, shot put) all four years as a Boilermaker. Wannemacher captured the Big Ten title in the hammer throw as a junior as well in 2009.
Wannemacher is the indoor and outdoor school record holder in the shot put and is the only thrower in Purdue history to qualify for the Indoor NCAA Championships in both the weight throw and shot put, doing so as a redshirt junior in 2010. At the 2011 U.S. Outdoor Track & Field Championships, she placed 10th in the shot put and will continue to compete on the professional level while coaching at Miami.
Prior to becoming Miami's throws coach, Wannemacher handled various duties as Miami's director of operations, such as helping with recruiting, organizing travel arrangements and developing the program's newsletter.
In addition to Wannemacher's bachelor's degree, the Ottoville, Ohio, native also earned a minor in law and society and certification in entrepreneurship from Purdue.


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Thanks Teavivre for the sample!
Can I just say that these are super cute? For whatever reason I think these pearls are just precious. The thing is, I generally don't like straight black teas (other than pu'erh) so this is a big step in a different direction for me.
I'm surprised how light this brewed! It is a very light, almost clear broth color. This smells very hay-like. The tea is pretty thin compared to other blacks I've had. I think I know why blacks are strange for me: they're kind of meaty. This mostly has meaty, hay notes. It's not a great tea for me, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people would really love this one!
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I've been reading multiple articles and forums about the different pistol stances. With all of these different stances, is the same hand grip used for all of the stances, or is there a different one for each stance? Also, just curious to know what stances are taught in the different military and LE sectors. Is there a more widely taught method in the combat units in the military or is it just personal preference. Thanks for the info.


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BU captain Garrett Noonan signs ELC with Preds
Nashville's fourth round pick in 2011 has signed his entry level deal.
News & Notes: Jarnkrok to Ads, Girard signs ELC and Preds picking 11th
There were actually a lot of news and notes in regards to the Preds on Tuesday.
Barry Trotz has coached his final game for Preds
When the 2013-14 season ends, Barry Trotz will be stepping down from his post as head coach.
David Poile issues statement regarding Legwand trade
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Sterling Apologizes For Remarks
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is looking for forgiveness. Nearly two weeks after the NBA banned him for life for making racist comments, the 80-year-old Sterling told CNN's Anderson Cooper he made a mistake and he's sorry. In an interview being broadcast tonight, Sterling insists he's not a racist and says it's taken him so long to apologize because he was "emotionally distraught."
Also, Sterling is reportedly having a tough time finding legal representation as he prepares to battle the NBA. According to "TMZ," Sterling has been rejected by at least eight law firms as he tries to retain counsel to sue the league. The report claims the law firms are rejecting associating themselves with Sterling because they believe he's "toxic" and could upset their other clients. (Metro Networks Inc.)


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I ran the script under database 'testdb', and that's the database I'm viewing when in pgAdmin. Here's what \df decript gave me: Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types | Type -------+---------+------------------+---------------------+-------- public | decrypt | bytea | bytea, bytea, text | normal (it finds all of the functions, in fact) However, when I run this query it says it can't find the function with the given name and datatypes. select decrypt(thenotes, 'thekey', 'aes') AS theoutput from footable -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:45 PM To: David Patricola Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Pgcrypto install (I've tried multiple ways) "David Patricola" <david(dot)patricola(at)jefferson(dot)edu> writes: > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I've tried to install the pgcrypto > module from: > 1. psql shell: i\ path/to/pgcrypto.sql > 2. pgAdmin: execute pgScript pgcrypto.sql > Both showed me multiple lines of CREATE FUNCTION with no other errors. > However, when I try to test the decrypt() function it says it doesn't exist. Hm, are you sure you're invoking the decrypt function with the right arguments? Can you see it with "\df decrypt" in psql? A different possibility is that you ran the install script in some other database of the installation. The functions need to be installed in each database you want to use them in. regards, tom lane
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A Low Glycemic Load Diet During Pregnancy in Overweight Women
This study has been completed.
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Rhodes ET, Pawlak DB, Takoudes TC, Ebbeling CB, Feldman HA, Lovesky MM, Cooke EA, Leidig MM, Ludwig DS. Effects of a low-glycemic load diet in overweight and obese pregnant women: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Dec;92(6):1306-15. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2010.30130. Epub 2010 Oct 20.


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VENICE, FL - A new year and new changes for law enforcement in south county. Starting Thursday night the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office will begin to take over all emergency calls in the city of Venice.
At first it will be late night and into the early morning. It should take a few months before they are handling all calls.
Also Thursday the south county jail as it's known will be shutting down. Sheriff Tom Knight saying the demand for the facility just isn't there. All agencies will now have to drive prisoners to downtown Sarasota individually.
Venice Police Chief Tom McNulty says they're not sure of the impact of taking more officers off the streets to transport. "We are going to assess it. We are going to give it a month or two and see if it has an impact at all. It may not. At the same time I have assigned a captain and a lieutenant to come up with a plan where we can redeploy personnel so we have extra people during our historically high times of the day for arrests."
The Sheriff says he will use the million dollars a year the south county holding facility costs and redirect to areas of need.
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Miniature Screen for bugs
Does anyone here know of or use a "pocket" type screen to collect a few bug samples when fishing.
I am certainly not in to getting a masive siene on poles and dredging the river for bug surveys. I will probably never be able to name a underwater bug. I just was wondering if their is a compact screen , seine whatever that you can whip out of your pocket or pack / vest , dredge the water and go oh it looks like a "insert midge / emerger name" and is this size ?
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I'm not sure how small you want to go, but I use one of these quick-seines... Quick-Seine Seine Net: Seine Net Improves fly fishing, fly tying, entomology. It is compact and super easy to use. I'm also no authority on aquatic insects, but this really helps me in choosing the correct nymph sizes.
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Bend a coat hanger to shape and stretch some pantyhose over it. It might not last all that long but if you can use the vinyl coated it should last a bit.
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Thanks you guys
Great suggestions, maybe I can figure out what bugs are in the water without setting up a entimilogocal dig site. Quick and easy sounds good to me
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Another option..
Google: Insta-Seine Insect Seine
about $25.
Good size and relatively sturdy
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This way, not only do you have a bug seine, but if you leave the hose on, it will protect your net bag from getting snagged in the underbrush
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Wow thats pretty sweet too
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Saw a neat home-made one, where someone took a $1 flip-top travel container for a bar of soap, cut the bottom out of it, and glued a small piece of nylon screen in the the bottom. It was small, fit well in a pocket, and you could close the "catch" in it, so that you could safely save it (without crushing it) until such time that you could look it over closely to match a hatch, or open a textbook to properly identify it.
Haven't made one for myself yet, but it's on my list of "things to do". Somehow, my wife keeps moving "finish back porch construction." above all of my fishing related things to do....
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I recently read a blog where the angler was using the mesh bucket covers available in the paint section at Home Depot as a bug seine. These covers are designed to filter out particulates in the blended paints & are the right mesh size for straining bugs off the water. They fit over a net.
After you are done with your straining experiments, just rinse them off in the stream and refold into your vest, chest pack, wader pocket, waist pack or backpack.
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Well this puts me in the "duh" category. My father has owned a very succesful painting business for the last 40 years. I spent many years running down ladders to strain paint through exactly this
Great ideal, cheap, easy could wad up small enough to fit anywhere
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Affluent Trek Fans Fuel Convention CircuitBy Michelle
August 16, 2005 - 10:23 PM
4000 Star Trek and science fiction fans spent nearly $5.5 million on room, board, entertainment and souvenirs at Creation's fourth annual Star Trek Las Vegas Convention last weekend, based on the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority's preliminary estimate.
The Las Vegas Business Press noted that convention-goers occupied 846 of the Las Vegas Hilton's 3,174 rooms and paid up to $489 for the convention's top seating package, plus autographs and photo sessions with Star Trek captains William Shatner and Patrick Stewart plus other guests. By the standards of the San Diego Comic Con, which attracted 96,300 patrons this year, this is a small crowd, but Comic Con is primarily targeted at vendors and merchandising professionals whereas the Star Trek conventions focus on the fans. Reports focused on fans' high levels of affluence and education.
"For years and years, it was a struggle to get the studios to recognize that their fans were a valuable resource, both monetarily but probably more importantly from a marketing perspective," said Creation co-CEO Gary Berman (no relation to Rick). He said that while news reports tend to focus on stereotypical overweight, absurdly dressed convention-goers and overlook the large numbers of urban professionals.
"We get doctors and lawyers and extremely well-read people who are some of the key fans of the show," agreed Deep Space Nine star Chase Masterson (Leeta). "The guys in the uniform and the ears are actually in the minority [and] there's worse things people could be spending their time and energy on."
Creation's Adam Malin spoke of the difficulty of arranging the enormous concert that was a centerpiece of the convention, involving 45 members of the Las Vegas Philharmonic with a sung set by Nana Visitor (Kira). Malin, a music major from SUNY Stony Brooksaid that the concert required two years of planning, from getting the rights to the TV themes to building a stage to accomodate the orchestra.
Berman said that as Paramount has restricted its licensing agreements, Creation has increased its merchandising. "It's not like you can go to the mall and buy Star Trek stuff anymore," he observed. He felt that Enterprise star Scott Bakula hurt his show's appeal among fans by refusing to do conventions, noting that ABC had contacted Creation about possible Lost conventions when the show began to take off, and that the studio and production company for Xena had worked closely with the company to build an affinity with the fans. Some properties, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, have not taken off because the fans were younger and less affluent.
"The Star Trek audience is, obviously, an aging audience," admitted Berman. "We're hopeful that Paramount will come up with something new." But he observed as well that Star Trek conventions emerged at a time when no Star Trek was on the air.
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Elin Furubotn
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Apr. 19, 2012
With her soft-focus voice and a musical accompaniment that blurs the acoustic singer-songwriter style with jazz, Norway's Elin Furubtn skirts the territory occupied most famously by Nora Jones. On a few tracks, the thrum of electric guitar and a grave, skeletal beat push her closer to Fairport Convention. For her first international release, the Norwegian vocalist continues to sing in her native language; her best moments have a quality of quiet intensity against a backdrop of silence.


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How to discover an antibiotic
Historians of science and medicine are often terrible killjoys when it comes to great stories about discovery and genius. We have been quick to point out that the apocryphal story of Fleming discovering penicillin mould "by accident" when it blew in through a window and landed on a discarded Petri dish is, well, apocryphal. We are less unanimous about the way penicillin became a drug. Although the 'Oxford Group', led by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, developed the chemical extract as far as clinical trials, in the end it was American agricultural, pharmaceutical and military researchers who produced the first useful quantities of purified antibiotic, and who subsequently made the biggest profits from it. Scientists and historians will tell you that this shows what happens when science is underfunded, or that it warns us how much war can retard or skew scientific research.
You can hear very similar arguments made today about funding, commercialisation and patenting, so maybe we can learn something useful about drug discovery from the history of penicillin?
Hints from History
1. Use a public/private partnership.
This might seem like an unlikely suggestion, but the Almroth Wright Laboratory that Fleming worked in would probably be a sort of public/private enterprise today. It was based at the St Mary's hospital, a voluntary — that is charitable — hospital which largely served the working classes. The laboratory earned its keep by making commercially viable vaccines, sometimes using the pus and bacteria from staff and patients. In 1914 Fleming himself produced a rather expensive vaccine against acne, costing £1 and 5 shillings for just 25 cubic centimetres.
At almost every stage penicillin was developed by mixed-interest groups — from Universities, the Medical Research Council and private pharmaceutical companies in the United Kingdom, to the complicated mix of government, private, military and agricultural funding that eventually produced antibiotics in the United States.
2. Buy your vegetables locally.
Agricultural scientists at the US Department of Agriculture's Northern Regional Research Laboratory (based in Peoria, Illinois) decided to hunt out a more productive strain of penicillum mould. They initiated a global search. The most promising new strain was Penicillium chrysogenum. And where was it found? On a melon, in a vegetable market. In Peoria.
3. Concentrate on pressing contemporary problems
The death rate from wound infections for those treated on the front lines in First World War was about 12-15 per cent. For the Second World War that figure was just 3 per cent, due in large part to penicillin. With thousands of young men being injured, the pressure to reduce deaths from raging infections in otherwise non-life-threatening injuries was huge (not to mention the men who were being invalided out with venereal disease). The military support for penicillin research was crucial, not only for financing, but also facilities and human guinea pigs.
From the first grant bid to the Medical Research Council onwards, those working on antibiotics repeatedly and explicitly linked their research — whether "basic" or "applied" — to the immediate contemporary needs for infection control, particularly in wartime.
4. Ignore pressing contemporary problems
Why didn't Fleming "invent" antibiotics? Possibly because he was too busy concentrating on immediate contemporary needs. Fundamentally, he was interested in vaccines. It is how he made his living, after all. His 1929 paper on the mould was titled "On the antibacterial action of cultures of a penicillium with special reference to their use in the isolation of 'B. influenzae'".
What was useful about Penicillin was not just that it killed bacteria; it was that it killed most bacteria but not influenza. "B. influenzae" was already immune to the mould's action. This meant that researchers could use the mould to kill off other contaminating bacteria, while letting the rather fussy "B. influenzae" grow on a Petri dish, making it much easier to study this temperamental bug in the laboratory. It also improved the sensitivity of culture tests for influenza; it seemed that in many cases flu infections were missed because the bacteria in a sample were outcompeted by more robust bugs, and so never grew into identifiable colonies on a Petri dish.
Although the deaths from infected wounds in the First World War were shocking, this was nothing compared with the incredible death toll of the influenza pandemic that followed. Fleming's understandable focus on tools to study and understand influenza and make vaccines may have stopped him seeing the other potential uses of penicillin.
5. Be imaginative and spontaneous
Sometimes you have to use something in a way its inventors never intended. The Oxford team showed great imagination in making the leap from what penicillin was (a chemical tool useful for some experiments) to what it could be (an incredible drug); they also showed great creativity with their equipment, with Norman Hartley suggesting they try using hospital bedpans as growing tanks.
6. Be plodding and systematic (and read a lot).
There was no guarantee that the Oxford Group would ever find Fleming's 1929 paper: today researchers are swamped with publications, and even digital indexing and open access doesn't mean that the "right" paper will find the "right" researcher. A lot of careful, methodical reading might be necessary to find the unexpected connection in papers that don't, at a glance, seem relevant. Fleming wasn't the first, after all, there was John Tyndall's 1875 paper suggesting Penicillum acted as an antibiotic, and Ernest Duschesne's work in the 1890s curing guinea pigs of typhoid with the cheese mould "Penicillum glaucum" was waiting to be exploited...
7. Get lucky
In the 1940s, while the US concentrated on trying to grow the mould and harvest penicillin, British researchers tended to think that the antibiotic chemical itself could be cost-effectively synthesised. If this particular type of bacteria-destroying mould had no easy-grow variant (or if that melon had never been bought in Peoria), or if the chemical produced had been easier to synthesise, then the story of the Antibiotic Wonder Drug could have been very different — with Britain the first country to successfully produce industrial quantities, not the US. So, most importantly, remember to season your hard work with lots of lucky choices.
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I'm thinking of picking one up to do a bit of flat water paddling to keep fit over the summer.
Inflatable would be best as I'm currently living on the 2nd floor of a tenament block.
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Hi Everyone,
Please forgive me but I am very new to Ajax, I know a little jQuery, but was just wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction...
I am building a small store that sells T-Shirts, one t-shirt has 3 colours, so I wanted to display a colour swatch, and change the images that are displayed when the colour swatches are clicked.
You can see the effect I mean on the following website by clicking on the colour swatch button: Daily Habits - EYE EYE CAPTAIN HOOD - KON Shop - King of Nothing
I have been hunting around for a tutorial on how to achieve this, but so far can't find one.
Can anyone offer me any help/advice - or point me in the direction if a suitable tutorial?
Thank you very muchSimon
The pager example from this jQuery cycle demo page seems to be fairly close to what you're after.
Instead of the images you would have a colour swatch, and you would use a slower and different effect instead, perhaps the scrollHoriz effect.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Men's Wearhouse (MW) shares are up 1.2% to $55.87 on Wednesday after being upgraded to "outperform" from "neutral" earlier today by analysts at Cowen & Co (COWN).
The firm cited low cost synergy estimates and free cash flow related to the company's acquisition of Jos. A Bank as the reason for the improved outlook.
Must Read: Warren Buffett's 25 Favorite Stocks
TheStreet Ratings team rates MENS WEARHOUSE INC as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate MENS WEARHOUSE INC (MW) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."


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I went back to one our first CD's for my card this week - Candy Doodles. I love the little planes, trucks and cars that are in the boys section of the CD and did some paper piecing with them. I've made the card for a friends son who is 2 in August.
Polkadoodles Challenge 25 – Card for a Boy
Friday, 25 June 2010
Fabric Flowers
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Polkadoodles Challenge 24 – Male Theme
Sunday, 20 June 2010
I always make a card for my husband on Fathers Day and as we off on a cycling holiday this year, I made this the theme for my card. I used a bicycle template and cut out the pieces to make a rather rickety bike, used papers from the Not for Girls CD and some string. I'm a bit late posting as I didn't want my hubby to see it until today.
Materials used – A6 white card blank, Papers and elements Not for Girls CD, Versamagic chalk inks, Black gel pen and String.
Aunty Vi's 90th
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
We are off to visit my hubbies Aunty Vi today for her 90th birthday tea. I wanted to make her something vintage looking and really wanted to have a go at making these flowers over at Creations with Christina. I used chalk ink spritzed with a little water and large half pearls instead as I didn't have what Christina used. I was really pleased how they turned out. Have a go as they are great fun to make.
Materials used – Cream cardstock, Cricut plus Wild Card, George and Basic Shapes and Paisley cartridges ,K&Co Roam Mat pad, Versamagic red chalk ink, Woodware Sentiments clear stamps, Rub-ons, Half Pearls and Lace ribbon.
Polkadoodles Challenge 23 – Nursery Rhyme
Friday, 11 June 2010
I chose Incy Wincy Spider for my Nursery Rhyme and used papers from Not for Girls and the Halloween download. I distressed the edges of the paper, drew a very bad drainpipe for the spider to climb up!! and added googly eyes.
Materials used – White square card blank, Papers and elements from Not for Girls CD and the Halloween download, Grey cardstock, Alphabet stamps, Versamagic black chalk ink, Black brushmarker, White gel pen, Fibre and Googly eyes.
So Tweet
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Another card from the Create a Critter cartridge, still having fun with it.
Materials used – A6 card blank, Paper and card scraps, Cricut plus Create a Critter cart, Cuttlebug plus Daisy embossing folder, Imaginisce So Tweet stamp, Versamagic and purple chalk ink, Prima flower, Half pearl and ribbon.
Polkadoodles Challenge 22 – Modern/Retro Anniversary
Friday, 4 June 2010
You're Nicked
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Thought I'd have a bit of fun here. My nephew is joining the police at the end of June. My first thought was to make a policeman, but then I thought, no, I'll make a robber. He's not to happy at being nicked!!!
Materials used – Square white card blank, Assorted paper and card scraps, Cricut plus Paper Doll Dress Up, Papers and elements from Polkadoodles CD – Not for Girls, Sizzix Dress-up faces, Versamagic black chalk ink, Black gel pen and String.


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Area: 43,094 sq km (16,639 sq mi)
Population (1998 est.): 5,303,000
Capital: Copenhagen
Chief of state: Queen Margrethe II
Head of government: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
In Denmark 1998 was an eventful year, with parliamentary elections and an important referendum on Europe dominating the political scene. In a very close contest, the ruling centre-left Social Democratic-Radical Liberal minority government of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, prime minister since 1993, proved the pollsters wrong by clinging to power in a general election in March. In the vote Rasmussen's centre-left government and its leftist allies held on to a total of 90 seats in the 179-seat Folketing (parliament), including two members from the North Atlantic territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; the centre-right opposition bloc, headed by the Liberals, won 89 seats. The big winner at the polls was the far-right Danish People's Party; campaigning on an anti-immigration platform, it more than tripled its representation to 13 seats.
After the March elections the focus switched to Europe. In April, after a lengthy hearing, the nation's Supreme Court unanimously threw out a petition from a citizens' group questioning the constitutionality of Denmark's membership in the European Union (EU). This ruling paved the way for a nationwide referendum on May 28 on the country's adhesion to the Amsterdam Treaty, signed in 1997 at an EU summit in the Dutch capital. The Amsterdam Treaty made job creation a formal EU goal, supported increased cooperation in foreign affairs, and allowed for the EU to expand in order to take in countries in Eastern Europe. Much to the relief of the EU and Denmark's political establishment, the notoriously "Euroskeptical" Danes voted by a clear 55% to 45% in favour of the treaty.
In May the government intervened to pass legislation putting an end to the country's biggest strike since 1985--an 11-day action by about 500,000 private-sector workers--which crippled manufacturing industries, construction, and transportation and cost Denmark about a billion kroner a day in lost output. In June a major economic austerity package was imposed to prevent the economy from overheating, but late in the year the pace of the country's otherwise impressive economic upturn was clearly becoming dented by the global financial crisis, which caused a particularly severe drop in agricultural exports.
On a more bizarre level, Copenhagen made world headlines in January when the Little Mermaid statue, the Danish capital's tourist icon located on the city's waterfront, suffered its second decapitation in 35 years. The mermaid's severed head was quickly retrieved--in fairly good condition--after it was found in a box outside a local television station, and a Danish TV cameraman was later jailed for the act of vandalism on Denmark's 85-year-old landmark.


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> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org > [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of > greg(at)turnstep(dot)com > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:24 AM > To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org > Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL flamage on Slashdot > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Jason, Greg, > > [snip quote from Jason] > > > But you see, that's exactly my point. We will *not* differentiate > > ourselves from MySQL by slamming them at every opportunity. > > First, you should not address both of us but only respond to Jason's > points. I in no way advocate slamming MySQL, but we should not ignore > them either. Your initial argument was that we should not be competing > against MySQL. The comparison between the two will continue to be > made by many people for a long time to come. We cannot simply decide they > are not worthy of our time and stand on the sidelines, waiting for the > PostgreSQL vs. Oracle match. Whoa, I never advocated 'slamming' either. In my 1st message I said I was glad that we don't have to that. The word "hobby" is not nessasailry slamming. There are lots of good "hobby" things, like Linux, that are great products and leaders in their field. (Note: Linux is making the crossover to "professional" now, please, no flames) (and in time, MySQL may make that crossover too) I use 'hobby' vs. 'professional' to indicate robustness. I don't know about you, but I'd not use a bank that used MySQL. If they used Postgres, ok. Most of the "battling" or "slamming" is done by the vocal uninformed few that use incorrect arguments. "MySQL has transactions"+"MySQL is faster than Postgres"!="MySQL is faster than Postgres when transactions are used", but you'll find most people are arguing just that. Furthermore, these same MySQL people don't bother tuning Postgres. We all know how the config file is conservative. I think they are going to address that in the next release: there have been looong threads about that already in the PG-General list. In all my usage of the two, they seem to be comparable in speed, YMMV. But I'd rather lose 10% maybe even 20% and have all those great features. How many people tune their disks with hdparm? How many people tune their NFS block size? You can expect an even fewer amount to tune a much more complex beast like Postgres. -J
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Yeezus is raised from the dead at Indianapolis' Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Kanye West Kicks Off The Saint Pablo Tour: The 10 Best Moments
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Featuring two new verses from Yeezy.
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It's only a snippet, but it's a new snippet.
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Kanye West confirms My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy tracklist
13 tracks included.
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Kanye appears on Ellen, details star-studded "All The Lights" single
A toast for the Moms.
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Remember last month when Animal Collective cancelled their show in Brooklyn because Davey Tare's completely unsustainable style of singing landed him a king-size case of shingles? A-ha! Me neither, because it was laryngitis! And his name's Avey Tare! And his voice is obviously AWESOME! Either way, your ass has just been freakin' outed as an official Animal Collective Poseur, so you'll have to sit in the corner over there by the giant foam teeth and papier-mâché icicles listening to Foster the People while I issue the following proclamation to the AnCo Faithful:
The band has just announced a pair of NYC make-up shows at Terminal 5 in Manhattan on December 4 and 5. Fans who purchased tickets for last month's cancelled Brooklyn dates will be awarded the distinct animal-vantage of being able to purchase tickets for the new shows starting today, before tickets are available to the public on Friday, November 9. (Looks like only the December 5 show is up on Ticketmaster right now, but the December 4 show should pop up here soon, according to the band's PR animals). Additionally, Animal Collective will be donating some of the proceeds from these shows to the ongoing Red Cross Hurricane Sandy relief effort.
Oh, and don't forget that the "Applesauce" 10-inch is coming out next week on Domino (we almost successfully reported on that before, but then something much more interesting came up). The B-side, "Crimson," is streaming here:
Animal Collective dates:
11.07.12 - Glasgow, Scotland - Glasgow ABC1
11.08.12 - Manchester, England - The Warehouse Project
11.09.12 - Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix
11.10.12 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Club
11.12.12 - Copenhagen, Denmark - CPH: DOX at the National Art Gallery
11.13.12 - Göteborg, Sweden - Pustervik
11.14.12 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
11.15.12 - Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene
11.16.12 - Lund, Sweden - Mejeriet
11.17.12 - Weissenhauser, Germany - Rolling Stone Weekender
11.18.12 - Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus
11.20.12 - Zürich, Switzerland - X-tra
11.21.12 - Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks
12.04.12 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
12.05.12 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
12.09.12 - Miami, FL - UR1 Festival
• Animal Collective: http://www.myanimalhome.net
• Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.us
• Red Cross Hurricane Sandy relief: http://rdcrss.org/TuZgOG
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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.
Spam is pretty obnoxious, but when it's used to spread racist views, it crosses the line into pure evil. I recently received some French hate mail spam and was absolutely disgusted by what I read (moving my lips and sounding out the words, of course).
Car ils savent bien, et le gouvernement sait bien, que de plus en plus de français honnêtes, travailleurs, en ont ras-le-bol de cette situation où la racaille immigrée est l'objet de toutes les sollicitudes.
Roughly translated:
As the [French] government knows well, more and more honest, hard-working French, are dissatisfied with the situation of the immigrant rabble being the object of all concerns.
My French is rusty, so that may not quite be right, but it's pretty durned close and fits with the rest of the BS warning about the "Islamization" of France.
It frustrates the heck out of me to read stuff like this, but it's so common an attitude. Le Pen is the French Pat Buchanan. For an antidote, read Silence is Evil (currently linked in my


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Had he not found religion, Sam Pollinzi might still be finishing up a 40-year prison sentence.
And had "Abby" not found Pollinzi and his wife, Sherry, she believes she might be dead.
"Some days I actually preferred that I didn't make it so I wouldn't have to go through another day of what I was in," said the former prostitute.
Now, Abby, who asked to be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons, is one of the first four graduates of Pollinzi's faith-based rehab center, Restored Hope Ministries. The Pollinzis' program, run out of an Old East Dallas house, brings in women who want to escape the sex business and get off drugs. And the Pollinzis have big plans for future expansion.
For the past year, Pollinzi, an ex-convict-turned-minister, and Sherry ask the women to forgo their families, their cellphones, social media, smoking, alcohol, drugs and privacy for a year. He gives them a strict regimen, counseling, life skills — such as cooking — and job training.
The place boasts tight security with surveillance cameras and alarms, lest a pimp or an ex-boyfriend comes looking around. The Pollinzis live in Flower Mound and have a live-in manager who watches over the women at night.
Pollinzi, who served eight years in prison for robbery and drug convictions, said he felt called to help the women, many of whom are addicts like he was in the 1970s. Walking the streets of East Dallas, he points out the spots where he used to score heroin; how he used to run into Jimmy's Food Store, owned by his relatives, and hide; and how Bryan Street is one of the few roads on which you could see the cops coming all the way from downtown.
Pollinzi was paroled in 1982 after forming a prison ministry behind bars. He later went on to stints running various rehab programs.
He and his wife opened the house last year to several women referred through Dallas County's prostitution diversion initiative, which treats prostitutes as victims, rather than criminals, and gives them resources to find help.
There were ups and downs in the first year. Pollinzi estimates that 25 to 30 women have been accepted into the house, but many couldn't tolerate the strict rules and either left or were kicked out.
But Abby made it. She said that before she came to the house, she was addicted to heroin, crack and meth. She lived in hotels and became a prostitute and a stripper. She used the money to support her boyfriend, who didn't work, and her drug habit.
"It was always trying to make some money so I could get my next fix," she said. "That was it. That was the only thing I thought about."
When she first got into the house, she said she thought she would just ride the program out until her court date. But then she said she committed to the program because she decided "the way that I was going would bring me back to the same place or worse."
She cut ties with her old life and began mending her relationship with her parents. She now gets to see her young son, whom Child Protective Services took away from her and has been adopted by another family. She recently began working at a cosmetic surgery center and has moved into a new apartment with a fellow program graduate.
Another graduate, Rebecca, said she was in a "toxic relationship" for more than nine years. She joined a biker gang that dealt meth. After she left the gang, she turned to the streets to make money and began racking up prostitution arrests.
"I would look for a way out, but I didn't realize there was a place like this," she said while sitting in the Pollinzis' office.
She said the first day she got there, all the other women in the house lined up to hug her.
"I was like, 'Wow, nobody ever hugged me like that for no reason,'" she said. "They loved me before they even knew me."
She said it "still blows me away" to have people unconditionally love her and want her to succeed.
Now, she is working as a restaurant catering manager where she's been promoted several times. A judge recently gave her back custody of her 3-year-old daughter with whom she shares an apartment.
Pollinzi said most of the calls he gets are from prostitutes and strippers who have custody of children. But he has to turn them away because he can't take kids in the house, he said.
Now, he is shopping for an apartment complex to give homes to those women. But so far, the choices have been either too lousy or too expensive, he said.
His program relies on private donations. In February, he plans a fundraising lunch with A&E's Duck Dynasty star Kay Robertson as a guest speaker.
He said he hopes to one day bring his program to other cities. But for now, he said he is happy to have turned around four women's lives.
"We want to give the girls a second chance to go out and make it," he said.


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Picking out the Tennessee Titans' controlling owner is very easy at training camp. Look for the woman wearing the red ball cap.Amy Adams Strunk, who took Derrick Henry Jerseys over the NFL franchise her father founded in 1960, spent time Tuesday signing autographs and posing for photos. Eddie George Jerseys Becoming comfortable as the face of Tennessee ownership took some time for a woman who calls herself a country girl at heart. Fans were demanding to know more about her before trusting the Titans with their hard-earned cash."It was daunting in the beginning," Strunk said. Kendall Wright Jerseys "There was a lot to do, a lot to fix. We had to get the team going in the right direction again, so I laid low for a while. I guess you could say I'm out now."Bud Adams Delanie Walker Jerseys died in October 2013 at the age of 90 , leaving the Titans to his family. Marcus Mariota Jerseys Tommy Smith, married to Strunk's sister Susie, was named Titans' president and chief executive officer later that same month. But Smith fired coach Mike Munchak after a 7-9 season in 2013 and hired Ken Whisenhunt, who went 2-14 in his first year on the job in 2014.Smith retired as team president in March 2015, and after growing up watching her father conduct football business at the breakfast table, Strunk took over as controlling owner and as co-chair of the board of directors with her sister. She also owns a farm and oil and gas company in Texas."I didn't see myself ever in this position," Strunk said. "I just had my opinions, kept them to myself as a smart daughter does at times. I don't want to say you learn by osmosis. That's silly. But being around this your entire life, this just wasn't like a new thing to me."Strunk watched as the Titans drafted Marcus Mariota at No. 2 overall only to stumble to a 1-6 start. After the Titans gave up seven sacks in Houston where this franchise spent so many decades, Strunk fired Whisenhunt on Nov. 3 and made tight ends coach Mike Mularkey interim coach.When the season ended, Strunk interviewed Mularkey along with three other candidates. She then decided to keep Mularkey two days after hiring Tennessee native Jon Robinson as a first-time general manager.
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