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LAFAYETTE, LA - The community is invited to join the Bayou Vermilion District's Vermilionville for their free monthly cultural film series, Les Vues held the last Monday of the month (except for holidays) at 6:30 p.m. in their Performance Center.
The free film series is curated by filmmakers and enthusiasts, mostly from around the state. The films will range from features, documentaries, student film, shorts, animation, etc. that focus on the themes surrounding various aspects of culture. Following the screenings will be an open discussion between the audience and the curator about the themes of the movie and how they apply to that culture as well as ours.
August's screening will be held on Monday, August 26 at 6:30 p.m. and will be curated by Emile Ancelet who will be screening Trashed by Candida Bradey featuring Jeremy Irons. More details about the film below. Following the screening will be a discussion about Lafayette's ongoing problem with trash as well as discussion about the Bayou Vermilion District's efforts on the Vermilion.
Admission to the film series is free, but a suggested $5 donation will go towards screening and curating costs. Refreshments will be made available for this all ages free film series. To find out more about upcoming films, view trailers or for more details visit Vermilionville.org or call (337) 233-4077.
In the new docu-feature TRASHED, a Blenheim Films production, produced and directed by British filmmaker Candida Brady (Madam and the Dying Swan), Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. Brady's narrative is vividly propelled by an original score created by Academy Award winning composer Vangelis.
Jeremy Irons stands on a beach beside the ancient Lebanese city of Sidon. Above him towers a mountain of rubbish-a pullulating eyesore of medical waste, household trash, toxic fluids and dead animals-the result of thirty years of consumption by just one small city out of how many in the world? As the day's new consignments are tipped on top, debris tumbles off the side and into the blue of the Mediterranean. Surrounded by a vast reach of plastic bottles, a forlorn Jeremy Irons stares at the horizon. "Appalling," he mutters.
"We hope the film will demonstrate that by changing the way we live our lives, we can contribute to our own survival and well-being and ultimately that of the planet." - Jeremy Irons
Emile Ancelet is an active outdoor enthusiast with experience in wilderness and eco-tourism, previously working as a UL student aide in the Center for Cultural & Eco Tourism. Ancelet has also worked as a bio-fuel intern in the department of Renewable Resources through the Institute for Coastal Ecology and Engineering (ICEE). Currently he is working for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries.
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DENISON, TX-The Denison Chamber of Commerce ask for your help to make sure area kids have the tools they need when they come back to school after the holiday break.
That's why they're hosting the 6th annual "Kits for Kids" school supply drive. Chamber president, Anna McKinney said they are collecting school essentials like notebooks, pens, pencils and paper. They are also collecting clothes.
She said so far, they have collected $1,500 in donations and they're hoping to raise $6,000 in cash and supplies.
"We always go all out at the beginning of school. But it seems when they go back from the holiday break, there's a big need again for new pencils, new crayons, new paper," she said.
You can drop off donations at the Denison Chamber of Commerce.
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Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP) Health officials say they've identified 160 people who have had close contact with a 19-year-old woman who died of tuberculosis last week.
Kalpana Dangol of Nepal lived in Colorado Springs and was a nursing student at Colorado State University at Pueblo.
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Tuesday links: the fading fear premium
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- January 29th, 2013
Quote of the day
Eddy Elfenbein, "The U.S. stock market isn't rallying so much as the fear premium is slowly fading away. The net effect, of course, is the same—rising share prices. " (Crossing Wall Street)
Chart of the day
Markets are feeling little fear. (CNNMoney)
Is the golden age of stockpicking finally here? (Quartz much earlier Abnormal Returns)
Where did all the market drama go? (The Reformed Broker)
Retail buying need not be the end of the rally. (The Source)
More signs of an overbought market. (Humble Student, Pragmatic Capitalism)
Low volatility NFL bets. (Falkenblog)
There's no holy grail in investing. (Pragmatic Capitalism)
We worry about the wrong risks. (NYTimes)
Asset allocation and rebalancing will get you most of the way there. (Capital Spectator)
Why the time of day matters for company conference calls. (SSRN)
Do fund managers who use technical analysis generate better returns? (SSRN via CXOAG)
Just how long a shot is a Yahoo! ($YHOO) turnaround? (Pando Daily, WSJ)
Homebuilder stocks have gotten pricey. (Michael Santoli)
What Harley-Davidson ($HOG) says about the US economy. (Wonkblog)
Why Warren Buffett still likes the banks. (The Brooklyn Investor)
Investors are the big winners of the ETF price war. (Fortune)
Closed-end funds are still the go-to sector for leverage. (Bloomberg)
Why India is right to start cutting rates. (Quartz)
Canadian banks are getting downgraded on fears of a housing bubble. (FT)
Italy has a gambling problem. (The Daily Beast)
China is losing its edge as a low-cost manufacturer. (ValuePlays)
Case-Shiller points toward higher housing prices. (Calculated Risk also WashingtonPost)
Are Americans becoming more empirical? (Big Picture)
Mixed media
Big changes are coming to StockTwits. (StockTwits Blog)
Streaming will not put food on the table of the vast majority of artists. (NYTimes, Quartz)
McDonald's ($MCD) stores are for some wi-fi hotspots of last resort. (WSJ)
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Encryption for HANA in the cloud
with Intel, Vormetric, and Virtustream [COIL Palo Alto, Nov 2014]
Used by enterprises for transactional data operations as well as for real-time analytics, SAP HANA stores and processes sensitive enterprise data. Encryption of the mission critical data managed by HANA becomes more and more critical for many of our customers, especially when HANA is deployed in the cloud and offered as a service. Working closely with Intel, Vormetric, and Virtustream, SAP Co-innovation Lab (COIL), with the help of our HANA product management team, HANA Enterprise Cloud team, and many other SAP groups, has shown that with the recent AES-NI innovations in the Intel Xeon processor family and the Vormetric encryption software enhancements optimally exploiting AES NI, large data sets on SAP HANA can be encrypted or decrypted with virtually no performance overhead.
Check out Kevin Liu's blog to get an overview of the project. Detail findings are available in a technical deep dive COIL whitepaper, and an Intel paper for a business summary.
SAP Customer Activity Repository Pilot on HANA
with SAP Retail Development and IBU [COIL Palo Alto, Oct 2014]
A retailer customer based in the US would like to work with SAP to look into deeper insights into their customers and sales by bringing all customer data together from various sources, including their ERP system, online stores, and social media sites. With this project, a pilot was conducted leveraging a landscape for CAR (Customer Activity Repository) deployed at COIL to analyze the strategic fit of this new solution to their customer centricity approach. Close collaboration among COIL, SAP Retail IBU, and the customer.
Vendavo Migration to HANA – Performance Validation
with Vendavo [COIL Palo Alto, July 2014]
Vendavo is a long time SAP partner. With this COIL project, the two companies working on porting Vendavo Price and Margin Management to run on HANA. The COIL focus is performance validation.
Current version of Vendavo PMM (Price and Margin Management) is a Java EE application that requires a relational database in production deployment. Two databases are supported – Oracle Enterprise Database and IBM DB2. Profit Analyzer, analytics module of PMM, uses Pricemart as an OLAP engine. Pricemart is an in-memory database developed by Vendavo.
After ported to HANA, Vendavo Profit Analyzer will connect to HANA using JDBC adapter, use HANA capabilities for analytics, and simplify ETL process required to load SAP ECC data.
SAP HANA HA Enterprise Storage Certification for Violin MemoryMarketing on SAP HANA
with Violin Memory [COIL Palo Alto, May 2014]
Violin, in combination with Fujitsu and COIL established a 2+1 HANA high availability environment to fully test and certify a Violin 6264 array according to SAP Certification Specifications HANA-HWC-ES 1.0.
Results: All performance tests were exceeded. All fail-over tests were successful. Certification was obtained 27 May 2014.
Impact: Violin 6200 Series arrays are now available for HANA HA environments and bring significant performance improvements in cache swapping and writing logs, delta changes and backups.
HANA SP07 Re-qualification Tests with Hadoop Distributors: HortonWorks and Intel
with Intel, HortonWorks [COIL Palo Alto, March 2014]
In supporting the SAP premium qualification process and our Global Partner Organization, COIL conducted a set of functional smoke tests with Intel and HortonWorks from December 2013 to March 2014. The COIL tests re-qualified Intel IDH 2.5.1 and HDP 1.3.2 with HANA SP7, and the re-qualification is mandatory for SAP to resell the partners' solutions.
SAP Lumira Customer Workshops
with SAP Lumira Solution Management [COIL Palo Alto, March 2014]
Leveraging a landscape deployed at COIL, SAP Lumira solution management team worked with COIL to offer a set of workshops to drive customer adoption for SAP Lumira. The workshops provided customers with onsite hands-on experience of Lumira using customer datasets and use cases.
The first workshop offered at COIL Palo Alto facility attracted 30 participants representing 10 customers. At the end of the workshop, participants were able to confidently use large and complex datasets to create beautiful visualizations that help with interactive and structured storytelling and decision making.
In these one-day hands-on workshops, customers worked with subject matter experts on their specific use cases, the agenda covers the following:
- Installing and getting started with SAP Lumira software on their own laptop
- Connecting data from single/different data sources and transforming data via calculations, manipulation, and aggregation
- Analyzing data and sharing interactive visualizations using SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud, and SAP Lumira Server
- Using SAP Lumira SDK to create custom charts and extensions and leveraging SAP Lumira Marketplace to leverage the community
Multilevel Marketing on SAP HANA by GERA
with GERA [COIL Brazil, March 2014]
GERA is a company specialized in offering solutions to direct sales and multi-level marketing. Together with SAP Co-Innovation Lab, GERA started a proof of concept to migrate their direct sales solution to the SAP HANA platform. In a five week based project, SAP HANA allowed GERA to rethink the performance vs. complexity tradeoff, obtaining performance gains of ~800x. Starting from this perspective of pure performance optimization, GERA also realized during the project that SAP HANA could enable not-yet-possible features to be included in their solution, attending specific customer needs such as "what-if" scenarios and real time evaluation of sales consultants performance within a sales campaign. Due to the accelerated learning curve and use of SAP HANA, GERA was invited to present their PoC during the Co-Innovation Forum in December 2013 at the SAP Labs Latin America.
with Robert Bosch Engg and Business Solutions [COIL Bangalore, November 2013]
Sales Prediction Powered by HANA and Predictive Analytics
SaPHAL is the next-generation forecasting tool powered by SAP HANA that will accurately predict Sales using complex algorithms that take into account a diversity of factors: Rainfall, Secondary Sales, Stock Coverage, Competitor information, Vendor Fulfillment as well as Past Sales History.
With the help of Predictive algorithms and through instant simulation of scenarios, the Sales Team and Product Managers will be able to respond quickly to market dynamics powering the entire supply chain.
This co-innovation solution was built as a part of the SAHANA India program in SAP Co-innovation Lab, Bangalore.
Key Benefits:
Accurate Sales forecasting enables better planning leading to
- Quicker reaction to unachievable plan
- More realistic Sourcing (purchasing)
- Better Inventory management
Real time decision support for Marketing schemes, promotions
- Co-relating past data on schemes and extrapolating to current environment
- Simulation based on past schemes data
with vCentric Technologies Private Limited [COIL Bangalore, November 2013]
Leverage SAP HANA platform for enhancing operational efficiency in Logistics Industry
In Logistics and Transportation Business, delivery efficiency is the key for high customer satisfaction. Routes can be defined and optimized routes can be pre-planned using SAP standard Transportation Management or any other application. But the complexity comes when handling operational dynamics and quick decision making in order to achieve optimal fleet usage improve delivery efficiency.
LogiSwift is a packaged solution by vCentric for Logistics & Transportation industry, built in collaboration with SAP Co-Innovation Lab, Bangalore. LogiSwift aims towards enhancing operational efficiency in Logistics Industry and provides a real time solution for real time problems of the industry.
Key Benefits:
- Improved visibility on the fleet
- Quick and informed decision making
- Avoid or minimize delays with optimal re-routing
- Ontime delivery of shipments leading to customer satisfaction
- Real-time/Near real-time solution
- Effective resource utilization
- Comprehensive, flexible, scalable and extensible solution
Connected Car - Analytics and Diagnostics
with KPIT Technologies [COIL Bangalore, November 2013]
Connected Car Analytics and Diagnostics application from KPIT built on SAP HANA addresses real time vehicle data processing to improve efficiency and trouble free running
The need for Connected Vehicles has been growing steadily with Fleet Owners, Dealers, Service Outlets and Customers demanding solutions that let them manage vehicles remotely. There is a huge volume of data that is generated due to the large number of data points per second per vehicle and the large number of vehicles in a fleet that needs to be collected and managed in real time. This co-innovation solution was built as a part of the SAHANA India program in SAP Co-innovation Lab, Bangalore.
This solution addresses this by using the HANA platform effectively to collect this data using the Sybase Event Stream Processor into the HANA system, processing it in real-time using complex algorithms to provide the relevant insights. It also enables integration with other systems like SAP Business Suite for added/end-to-end functionality.
Key Benefits:
- Early fault detection, service and warranty management
- Engine / Battery / Hybrid usage analytics
- Implement better driving best practices
- Efficient Fleet management
with Defiance Technologies Limited [COIL Bangalore, November 2013]
Move Contact Center business from a Cost Center to a Profit Center
Contact center business generates huge data volumes on a regular basis across multiple geographical locations of operations. Quick and actionable data analysis in the present requires extensive manpower and large timeframe to provide partial insights, which by the time of application becomes irrelevant and outdated. These incomplete or often non-existent insights also results in lower up selling of products and services.
SMARTANA by Defiance Technologies presents a solution for these issues with smart analytics for contact centers. SMARTANA leverages SAP HANA - to aggregate huge volumes of data to provide real time analytics aiming to increase overall up sell revenue. It provides actionable insights like top selling products, the queries those product sales are associated with, and the effort required to sell such products.
The solution also provides summary of Business operations and resource utilization with 3 levels of data drill down for further analysis.
SMARTANA provides authorized access to reports which:
- Are persona based.
- User Friendly, visually appealing and comprehensible.
- Provide actionable Operations-summary view of business .
- Enable real time decision making based on facts and analysis through cost-impacting/revenue impacting and customer satisfaction KPIs.
- Provide opportunities for higher upsell by providing Sales trends across geographies and process types, top selling products and associated queries and real time sales figures/trends.
- Provide insights on Agent performance, Agent utilization and Average call Handling time.
Trendwise RealTAM – Easy access to TRP ratings
with Trendwise Analytics [COIL Bangalore, November 2013]
Trendwise RealTAM is a Big Data Analytics solution that provides real time TV Audience viewership information, trends & Predictions thereby providing actionable insights to Marketers, Broadcasters and Direct To Home (DTH) providers.
The present system of Television Audience measurement uses people meters, an ancient methodology of measuring Television audience viewership that can cover only few thousands of homes. This measurement is done manually and reports generated are based on the old recorded data which are inaccurate and obsolete. The solution, Trendwise RealTAM, built on state of the art SAP HANA real time data platform, in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, provides real time & accurate measure of viewership of television programs as it extracts the data from set-top boxes or directly from DTH Service providers.
Key Benefits:
- Provides real time viewership information and analytics.
- Captures feedback of the audiences about the programs they watch and offers sentiment analysis from social media platform.
- Trends and predictions about future viewership.
- Channel producers will have an insight into the profitability of the programs.
- Advertisers can evaluate the effectiveness of their Ads aired on TV.
- DTH service providers will be able to package the TV Channel offers in a way to get maximum return out of it.
HANA Enterprise Cloud - Cloud Frame/HANA Cloud Cell and Fabric Co-innovation
with Arista, NetApp, Intel, and Colfax [COIL Palo Alto, December 2013]
With this COIL project, SAP worked with Arista, NetApp, Colfax International and Intel to develop the underlying HANA systems technology for the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. Key innovations explored at COIL include Cloud Frame, HANA Cloud Cell for HANA Enterprise Cloud, and next generation fabrics.
The work at COIL enabled the HANA Cloud Computing and Systems Engineering teams to achieve a series ground-breaking researches:
- Engineer next gen cloud systems utilizing high speed interconnect fabrics, lower cost x86 Xeon compute, and service provider centric storage.
- Explore new persistence models for In-memory computing
- Explore cloud computing manageability frameworks for elastic, physical provisioning and management of high performance compute, network, and storage for large scale in-memory computing
HANA StartUp Focus Program with Apptimyze, Kinghtscope, 41ads, Trendicy, and Clevermap
with Apptimyze, Kinghtscope, 41ads, Trendicy, Clevermap [COIL Palo Alto, December 2013]
Launched in 2012 to support startups to develop new applications on SAP HANA, the SAP Startup Focus program is a joint initiative of SAP Technology and Innovation Marketing, TIP Chairman Projects, SAP HANA Product Management and the SAP Co-Innovation Lab. COIL provides a solid infrastructure to make SAP HANA's breakthrough capabilities easily available to the startup community for development.
In 2013, more startup participants of the program have their HANA showcases running at COIL Palo Alto, including Apptimyze, Kinghtscope, 41ads, Trendicy, Clevermap, et al.
HANA SP 7 development for Hadoop Big Data federation layer
with Intel [COIL Palo Alto, December 2013]
With this COIL project, Intel and SAP explore a joint engagement to integrate the Intel distribution of Apache Hadoop with SAP HANA and associated products in SAP portfolio, and bring to market a certified/optimized Big Data solution from SAP and Intel. The deliverable of this project is included in SAP HANA SP07.
OSIsoft PI Streaming Adapter for SAP ESP and HANA - Phase 1
with Intel [COIL Palo Alto, December 2013]
OSISoft wishes to extend their PI infrastructure to allow streaming sensor events captured by PI-managed sensors into SAP HANA via SAP Sybase ESP. To that end, OSISoft and SAP plan to undertake a joint functional proof of concept where: a) OSISoft will build an adapter for their PI infrastructure to stream sensor events in to ESP using the ESP .NET SDK and b) SAP will configure ESP projects and HANA tables to capture, store and analyze the sensor events. If the project is successful, OSISoft plans to deliver an ESP/HANA adapter in its product portfolio.
Phase 1 of this project focuses on SAP internal business alignment, integration architecture, design and planning. Phase 2 is planned for 2014 for the development and GTM of the adaptor.
FITCON Payment Calendar migration to HANA – DB requests improved by 100 times
with Fitcon [COIL Moscow, November 2013]
Fitcon, the first partner of COIL in Russia, presented their project based on HANA during the Co-Innovation Day in Moscow on the 30th of October. Fitcon has been a service partner of SAP for many years and created some solutions that are very well adapted to local market requirements. Not only growing data volume but also increasing customer requests for the flexibility and interactivity of analytical tools became a challenge for Fitcon, namely for their SAP based solution "Payment calendar". In collaboration with COIL, Fitcon could start a project aimed at dramatically improving the performance of their solution, based on HANA as an analytical database (DB). For the data transfer from ERP to HANA, SLT server was used in the PoC. Already in the 1st phase of the project, the performance of the DB requests was improved by 100 times. "Knowledge that you get from doing a real PoC is absolutely different from theoretical knowledge, especially when we are talking about a new technology," according to Fitcon, who shared their project experience during the Co-Innovation Day. "And, an expert support for the new technology during PoC was also quite useful."
Read about the Co-Innovation Day and this project at this voice from the press.
Migrating Java Open-Source Application From ORACLE To SAP HANA
[COIL Shanghai, November 2013]
Kaiser HANA POC - Enhance Management Information and Analysis
with Cisco [COIL Palo Alto, November 2013]
This PoC at COIL enabled Kaiser Permanente (KP) to partner with SAP on a significant initiative that will positively impact the quality of care that KP delivers to its members. As the result, KP obtained technology and services from SAP to enhance its MIA (Management Information and Analysis) to provide a "Shared Service" for the Northern and Southern California regions. This Shared Service will provide analytics for the Regional Presidents and their senior leaders across the Hospital/Health Plan continuum. SAP solutions will help MIA leverage best practices to drive standardization, as well as consistency and efficiency in the access and use of information for strategic analysis.
Virtualized HANA with VMware
with VMware and HP [COIL Palo Alto, November 2013]
This project showcases how joint SAP and VMware customers may deliver the maximum value when deploying HANA on the VMware vCloud Suite. In order to realize the promises of the Software-Defined Data Center, network attached shared storage is a fundamental requirement. Configuring HANA on shared storage will enable many of the functional capabilities around automation, flexibility, and efficiency our SAP customers expect when deployed on the vCloud Suite. The capabilities showcased at COIL include vMotion, HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Site Recovery Manager, and vCenter Operations Management.
VMware has chosen Hewlett Packard as the preferred server vendor to participate in the project.
SAP Hana Encryption With Vormetric, Virtustream, and Intel - Phase 1 feasibility check
with Intel, Vormetric, and Virtustream [COIL Palo Alto, November 2013]
This is an exploratory project to demonstrate how Vormetric and Virtustream, leveraging chip level capability from Intel Ivy Bridge processors can add further robustness to the native dB encryption functionality of SAP HANA. The solution will offer the following to our joint customers:
- Provide an additional layer of security for Hana systems running in the cloud by encrypting the data and providing customers with the ability to manage the encryption keys and access to the data.
- Encrypt persistent storage, logs and configurations
- Maintain governance over keys, policies and data
- Control data access from Enterprise and Cloud privileged users
- Reduce threat surface available to APTs and Malware acting as "Insiders"
- Gain data access security intelligence through audit and alert on data access
- Ensure minimal performance overhead
HANA and Intel Hadoop Distribution Premium Qualification with SAP HANA SP6
with Intel [COIL Palo Alto, October 2013]
Enabled by a dedicated COIL landscape and engineering support, SAP Ecosystem and Channels group completed the Premium Qualification tests for Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop (IDH) 2.5.1 with SAP HANA SP6. The Premium Qualification is a prerequisite for SAP to resell IDH as a Solution Extension to HANA.
Testing HANA C# driver for customer Allegro
with SAP HANA Team [COIL Palo Alto, October 2013]
With this project, COIL provided infrastructure and engineering support for the SAP TIP HANA team to validate HANA's high throughput and other performance characteristics while addressing specific use cases for Allegro using SAP-provided C# driver for Windows. The deliverables of this PoC proved HANA's capability to support customer specific applications on Windows platform.
Development of Red Hat OpenShift Cartridge for Sybase ASE
with Redhat [COIL Palo Alto, October 2013]
SAP is looking to grow the ecosystem and achieve 10,000 partners by 2015. As a platform provider partner Red Hat is helping SAP with this goal, by tapping into the ecosystem and developer communities through OpenShift.
Also as part of the Oracle takeout strategy, the development of Red Hat OpenShift Cartridge for Sybase ASE provides a Platform as a Service environment for customers to build applications on ASE database on an easy to access on-demand platform.
Smart Network for HANA with Cisco and CA Technologies
with Cisco and CA Technologies [COIL Palo Alto, March 2013]
With HANA in-memory technology removes one of the traditional performance hurdles with database layer, network may become the next performance bottleneck in a comprehensive SAP environment. This project showcases how to combine the best of the two worlds of application performance management and network performance management to provide our customers the best of breed solutions for monitoring the healthiness of their landscape. The integrated solution offers intelligences to enable our customers to take necessary corrective actions automatically or manually to avoid major downtime.
Revenue Intelligence 1.0 runs natively on SAP HANA – Certified via ICC on HANA Apps
with Choice [COIL Brazil, March 2013]
Choice Technologies released its Revenue Intelligence Portfolio 1.0 - energy-theft detection solution. It enables detection and recovery of revenue loss due to theft and fraud on power lines, meters, and from the non-payment of energy bills. Choice worked closely with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab to migrate their existing solution to natively run on SAP HANA. The solution now runs 1100+ times faster when run on SAP HANA, enabling the creation of new complex fraud detection scenarios that were previously not possible. Revenue Intelligence is now also certified via the SAP Integration and Certification Center as HANA-App, and Choice was selected as a SAP Pinnacle Award finalist under "SAP HANA® Application Innovator of the Year".
Further information can be found in the official SAP Press release (Portuguese only), as well as the certification announcement by Choice, and the SAP Pinnacle Awards Finalist information from Choice & SAP.
with Choice [COIL Brazil, December 2012]
Choice, a Brazilian company, has developed an application called Revenue Intelligence (RI), which enables detection and recovery of revenue loss due to theft and fraud on power lines, meters, and the non-payment of energy bills. Choice has committed to develop a version of RI that natively runs on HANA, working closely with Co-Innovation Lab. Current benchmarks of the first development phase indicate that the solution on HANA runs a thousand times faster than without SAP HANA.
with IBM and Cloudera [COIL PALO ALTO, December 2012]
Almost every company today is faced with managing vast amounts of data from a variety of data sources – from traditional databases managing transactional data generated by business applications to enterprise data warehouses that facilitate deep analysis to Hadoop distributed file systems that store large volumes of mostly unstructured data that can be mined for new insights. The challenge for IT organizations is how to access and integrate relevant data for
deeper insight.
leverage meaningful information in real-time. The findings are made available in a recorded demo and a COIL whitepaper.
with Citrix [COIL PALO ALTO, December 2012]
With this COIL project, OSIsoft and SAP worked together to create a proof of concept application to automatically aggregate and push time-series manufacturing and process data into SAP HANA. Once in HANA, the data can be consumed by analytical and reporting tools such as SAP EERM or SAP
BusinessObjects BI platform. OSIsoft is a COIL member since 2009, and the OSIsoft PI system deployed at COIL has over 2 years historical data tracking the energy usage of COIL data center and the power offset by the building's solar arrays. This data was used to demonstrate the technical capabilities and business values of the integrated solution.
In cooperation with COIL and hardware partners Cisco und NetApp the SAP HANA Center of Excellence Schweiz has set up a special lab. The new HANA Lab performs proof of concepts for projects around SAP's software appliance, but in addition develops customer-specific demo scenarios or executes development tasks. In addition COIL will use the HANA lab in collaboration with Cisco and NetApp to enable more partner solutions based on HANA (first example GK Software AG - First POS solution based on HANA presented at SAPPHIRE Madrid 2012). Read more about this at SAP im Dialog (German only).
SAP partner Vistex as a domain expert of complex business processes teamed up with IBM to build a PoC at COIL that demonstrates the significant performance improvement via running Vistex real-time profitability analytics on SAP HANA and IBM hardware. The team targeted two major use cases running on HANA: Gross-to-Net Profitability analysis and Pricing. In the gross-to-net analytics case, the PoC demonstrated significant results by performing the analysis 100x faster with HANA compared to a traditional Data Warehouse. While supporting large volume of online sales order processing transactions, the HANA enabled ERP and BI system is able to process reports of 20 Million records in less than 3 seconds. In the pricing case, the team reduced the processing time for more than half compared to traditional way.
Besides various other occasions the first solution PoC was showcased at SAPPHIRENOW EMEA 2011 in Madrid. Now, the project parties published a whitepaper to share with you this unique co-innovation experience. Please read as well about the great co-innovation experience in Kevin Liu's blog.


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Mid-range dinner in Yorkville; No steak, no sushi
Hubby and I are having an overnight date in Toronto this weekend. We are staying in Yorkville. We are big walkers so we a) would prefer not to drive or cab it anywhere, and b) we don't mind walking a few kilometres.
We are pretty adventurous eaters with regard to exotic spices and such, but we are definitely not into eating brains or hooves or whatever. Hubby doesn't like sushi and I don't like big slabs of meat (although I'm not a vegetarian). Dessert isn't really important to us.
-Price range: $15-25 per entree
-Ambience: romantic, but we define that term pretty generously (i.e. no need for candlelight necessarily)
Late night:
-Live music
-Good quality beer
-to-die-for bar snacks
REAL 100% maple syrup, smoked salmon, eggs benny...
Options I'm wondering about:
-93 Harbord
-Ciao Wine Bar
-Dynasty (but this would be our first dim sum experience so please provide suggestions!)
-Over Easy (breakfast, obviously)
-Panorama (late night)
Many thanks in advance!
93 Harbord is great, though not terribly romantic. Another option with Middle Eastern flavours and a bit more ambiance is Mideastro in Yorkville. It's rather underrated on this board, but it's not a bad option at all in Yorkville.
But for the most romantic spot in Yorkville, I'd have to say go to the back patio at Caren's wine bar.
re: TorontoJo
Mideastro would be a great option but just note that the entrees don't fit the OP's price range for dinner - entrees are $28-36, with only the vegetarian dish priced below $25.
re: bluefirefly
Oy, sorry, I guess I've misremembered the price point at Mideastro. Thanks for the correction!
re: bluefirefly
Thanks for catching that bluefirefly.
re: TorontoJo
Mideastro would be a great option but just note that the entrees don''t fit the OP's price range for dinner - entrees are $28-36, with only the vegetarian dish priced below $25.
re: bluefirefly
Yep, got you the first time. ;o)
re: Vinnie Vidimangi
Allow me...OP, go to Jac
re: Vinnie Vidimangi
Allow me...OP, go to Jacques on Cumberland. It's really close and has a variety of options (all french)
I'd skip Ciao, Panorama and Over Easy.
Lola's Kitchen is around a 10 minute walk from Yorkville, and much better option for breakfast than Over Easy. Lola's Kitchen would be the place to find real maple syrup, and various bennys. Cafe Boulud also might be worth considering for brunch in Yorkville.
Cantine on Avenue Rd south of Davenport is within a 10 minute walk of Yorkville, and serves brunch. I haven't been recently, but it used to be a decent brunch option. Maybe someone who had been to Cantine more recently can comment.
Globe Earth in Rosedale is another brunch option, within a 20 minute walk of Yorkville, if you're up for a walk.
I wasn't impressed by past Eggs Benny at Caren's or MoRoCo, which are located in Yorkville, and I would probably venture beyond Yorkville if I wanted a good Eggs Benny.
I like Dynasty. I'd stick to around 6 dishes for 2 people. I give credit to jlunar for the quick calculation of 2 dishes/person + 2 for the table, which she mentioned to me back in 2007! Most beginners like har gow (crystal shrimp dumplings), siu mai (steamed pork and shrimp dumplings), char siu bao (steamed bbq pork buns), black bean spare ribs, egg tarts (egg custard filled tarts), various fried dumplings. If you're feeling more adventurous, try the cheung fun (rice flour roll with various fillings- slightly slippery texture which might be unusual to a dim sum newbie), nor mai gai (sticky rice in lotus leaf), ham su gok, jin deui (sweetfried sesame balls). The servers can help you choose some other dishes.
Second CocoaChanel's recs of Caren's and L'Unita. 93 Harbord would be at least a 20 minute walk from Yorkville. If you're considering Harbord Street for 93 Harbord, also consider the Harbord Room, which has good food and interesting cocktails. Another place on Harbord, that's kind of romantic in good weather, is the patio at the Boulevard Cafe. It is a several blocks further west than 93 Harbord, so it might be closer to a 25-30 minute walk from Yorkville.
Second TorontoJo's rec of Mideastro.
For late night, the rooftop bar at the Park Hyatt has good late night snacks,and it's a romantic spot for drinks. It is expensive for Toronto, but it's much better than Panorama.
re: prima
if you do consider harbord room, the same people opened up a new place thr&co just a few doors down. the room is a beautiful blend of modern club house with refined industrial finishes. a wonderful environment stuffed with modern tufted banquettes and booths. the food is quite a bit lighter than hardbord room with some interesting twists like smoked grapes on a branzino. good use of local ingredients. the drinks list is highly focused but great variety. can't remember prices but had a meal with 5 and ordered as much as we wanted and ended up with a $30pp food bill.
I recently went to Babaluu in Yorkville. It's a Salsa club that serves Spanish food. We went on a Friday night and the place was pretty full. We ordered: the seafood soup, warm mushroom salad, seafood platter, dipping platter (with hummus, guacamole, and black beans), and Babaluu paella. Everything was very good. Highlights was definitely the warm mushroom salad, guacamole, and all the seafood was very good. Portions were very generous, especially the paella. I found the paella so so because it did not remind me of any of the ones I had in Barcelona. At 9:30pm a salsa instructor teaches you the basic salsa moves and at 10:30pm the place becomes a club. A great place to try out!
re: mrsyumyum
wow Babaluu sounds like it hasn't changed. Last time I went was about 18 years ago and I remember it as being fairly decent. Good to hear they've stayed consistent!
I think Le Paradis fits the bill for dinner. Very reasonably priced mains and a very unique wine list.
re: kataboon
Arrived in Toronto a little earlier than expected. We were both feeling peckish and I managed to convince hubby to go for some sushi. I checked the chowhound boards and decided on Japango. It was great! We had the crunchy spicy tuna roll and the spicy salmon roll. Both were perfectly fresh and so tender - great mouth feel. Restaurant is tiny. Feels authentic and not pretentious at all. I thought the row of regulars' chopsticks boxes mounted on the wall was pretty cool. Enjoyed the flavour of the complimentary soup but wished it was served hot instead of warm. Prices were very reasonable. Bathroom was clean but in need of a reno' or at least some finishing. I would definitely eat a Japango again. Next stop...Caren's.
Hmm neither really do live music but Museum Tavern for dinner, Bar Volo for beer and bar snacks.
Reporting back...
Went to Carens Wine & Cheese Bar pre-dinner and had a blue cheese fondue with what the waiter described as a "huge" old-vine Zinfandel. Both were divine! We ate in the back patio area, which had a great atmosphere. I thought the fleece blankets draped over the backs of chairs for customers' use was a really nice and creative touch. We found our server very friendly and knowledgeable but his manner was a tad too informal for our taste.
For dinner we went to L'Unita and it was FANTASTIC! Very intimate, romantic setting with great lighting. Classic rock music playing in the background contrasted with the upscale setting in a very pleasing way. Our wine choice was the Syrah Exordium (very good). For dinner we ordered two pasta dishes, which the waiter kindly offered to split for sharing without us having to ask. First up was the Squid Ink Troccoli 'Al Nero'. It was so good I ate with my eyes closed. It had a slightly tangy flavour with lots of umami and the texture was spot-on. Next up was the pasta special which was hand-made farfalle with walnuts and morels and hard-ripened cheese. It was also absolutely delicious. For dessert I had the chocolate truffle cake made by the in-house pastry chef. It was rich and only slightly sweet with a silky yet substantial texture. So good. We found the service at L'Unita excellent. Our waiter was warm and personable while still being professional. He was very attentive and did a great job describing the dishes. Loved this place.
Last and most definitely least...Lola's Kitchen. We ate breakfast at Lola's this morning and were very disappointed with the whole experience. The chairs didn't work with the tables - the legs bang into each other and make it very awkward to "tuck in." Our waiter was a nice guy but had no skill whatsoever. It took at least 20 minutes for our coffee to arrive, for one thing. When he did finally bring the coffee he managed to spill sugar all over me and the table but he was so frazzled he didn't even notice. The coffee wasn't hot, and when he refilled our mugs he didn't bring more milk. My husband had the eggs benny and I had the mushroom benny. We both ordered "Lola's homefries," which turned out to be cubed sweet potatoes. Don't get me wrong, I like sweet potatoes, but when I order homefries I expect fried potatoes. My English muffin was absolutely waterlogged from all the liquid seeping down from the mushrooms and spinach. My husband's English muffin was just plain stale. It wasn't until we were finished eating and wanting the bill that we were visited by another staff person (the manager?). He asked how everything was, and we were polite but honest. He just said, "really?" in total disbelief, which gave the impression that the problem lay with us rather than the restaurant. No apology or anything. We wish we had gone for the $3.99 special at Sunset!
Overall we were very happy with our dining experiences this weekend. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. Here's the report card:
A+ L'Unita
A Japango
A Carens Wine & Cheese
F Lola's Kitchen
BTW for late-night we just went out to a random bar and drank Corona, so nothing to report.
re: kataboon
always great to read the outcome of the recommendations, especially for places i haven't been to (but long on the list - L'Unita, back patio at Caren's etc). i haven't been to Lola's Kitchen in well over a year, and sad to read about your experience, will think longer on going back there in the near future. thanks for the report!


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There's a new road block for residents affected by last week's tornado: settling insurance claims.
Stories of success and frustration are circling around the area.
And as the residents try to file claims, they're trying to reclaim their lives.
"I'm going through all of my belongings trying to figure out what I'm missing," says Wendy Regan as she shows us her long list of belongings, "I have to itemize each individual thing, each pair of shoes, pair of socks, pair of underwear, bras, everything."
Half of the first floor is all that's left of Regan's home. And now she's being asked to remember everything so she can get fully reimbursed.
"Initially we'll only get reimbursed for what it's worth now," explains Regan, "Even if we bought it many years ago for $1,000 and they say it's worth $50, that's what we're getting. We have to rebuy it and prove what it cost to get the rest."
"They're actually making them [the Regan's] take carpet swatches off the floor so they can get the carpet analyzed," says neighbor Chad Troy, "Now that gets to be a little extreme in my opinion as far as settling a claim when you've got a catastrophic loss like this."
Troy has a different insurance company and has had much better luck.
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2. Try to work with them to complete proof of loss.
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Health & Wellness Guide
Health Care, Specialists |
Dentistry |
Mental Health & Psychology; Counseling
Therapy-Speech, Language, Occupational | Research: Fundraising Events, Studies | Fun & Fitness
Nutrition & Weight Loss | Resources | DC Hospitals
MD Hospitals | VA Hospitals
Palisades Pediatrics
Christi Hay, MD MPH
Palisades Pediatrics is an intentionally small practice, with direct access to the physician, home visits and comprehensive health care, serving the Washington metropolitan area.
www.palisadespeds.net , 3301 New Mexico Ave., NW, #218, Washington, DC, 202-735-7600.
Shady Grove Hospital
The Birth Center
Everything mom wants. Everything baby needs. Level lllb NICU. The area's only birth advisor. The area's newest, private suites. Speak with our Birth Advisor.
www.shadygroveadventisthospital.com , 9901 Medical Center Dr., Rockville, MD, 240-826-6643.
Washington Pediatric Associates
Nicole V. Lang, M.D., Touchpoint Trained Pediatrician
Well-child care from newborn to age 21. Lactation consultant, nutritional counselor and early childhood educator. Same day appointment for sick children. Most insurance plans accepted.
www.washingtonpediatric.com , 1145 19th St., NW, Ste. 708, Washington, DC, 202-955-5625.
Pediatric Dental Care
John Han, DDS
Building lasting relationships with your child. Advanced oral care for all ages, including children with special needs, in a fun atmosphere.
www.kidsfirstdentalcare.com , 10614 Warwick Ave., Ste. B, Fairfax, VA, 703-383-3434.
Emmanuel Skordalakis, DDS, M.A.
Diana Tsai, D.M.D.
Pediatric Dentistry-"We Are Here for The Children." Dr. Emmanuel Skordalakis is committed to providing his patients with complete and comprehensive pediatric dental care. We focus our concern on the comfort and well being of our patients.
www.Skordalakisdds.com , 46950 Jennings Farm Dr., Ste. 160, Sterling, VA, 703-421-3000.
Mental Health & Psychology; Counseling
Abrams & Associates, LLC
Dr. Kay Abrams
Progressive family-friendly practice offering comprehensive psychotherapy and assessment for children, teens and adults. Individual, group, marital and family therapy. Psychoeducational testing for ADHD & LD.
abramsandassociates.com , firstname.lastname@example.com, 3841 Farragut Ave., Kensington, MD, 301-949-2098.
Jonah Green & Associates
Quality therapy for you, your child and your family. Individual, family, group and couples psychology. Serving a variety of ages and presenting problems. "Top Therapist" rating, "Washingtonian" magazine.
www.jonahgreenandassociates.com , email@example.com, 3930 Knowles Ave., Ste. 200, Kensington, MD, 301-466-9526.
Therapy-Speech, Language, Occupational
Battaile Pediatric Physical Therapy
Britta Battaile, PT, DPT, PCS
In-home physical therapist services for infants and children with neurological, developmental, genetic, musculoskeletal, and sensory integration concerns. Serving Montgomery County MD, and NW, DC.
firstname.lastname@example.com, 301-728-5443.
The Better Brain Center
Specializing in brain-based interventions including neurofeedback and neurofeedback for cognitive, emotional, education and behavioral improvement for all ages. Also useful for migraine headaches.
www.TheBetterBrainCenter.com , 2121 Eisenhower Ave., Ste. 604, Alexandria, VA, 703-684-0334.
CREATE Arts Center
We provide individual & group art therapy, therapeutic art workshops and inclusive arts classes & camps. 301-588-ARTS (2787).
www.createartscenter.org , firstname.lastname@example.com, 816 Thayer Ave., Silver Spring, MD,
Healing Tradition
Healing Tradition is a counseling center that provides personalized therapy using music, movement and counseling. We treat children and parents/caregivers.
www.healingtradfition.org , email@example.com, 240-449-4509.
LearningRx solves what tutoring can't by identifying and training the cognitive skills that allow people to be better learners. Our brain training improves IQ by 16 points, on average. Locations in MD: Bethesda, 301-654-1205; North Potomac, 301-944-5500. Locations in VA: Chantilly, 703-657-7563; Reston, 703-689-0003; Tysons, 703-462-9570.
www.learningrx.com ,
Potomac Horse Center Therapeutic Riding
Offering programs for children and adults with physical, cognitive and psychological challenges.
www.potomachorse.com/therapeu.htm , 14211 Quince Orchard Rd., North Potomac, MD, 301-208-0200.
Very-Well Said, LLC
Andrea E. Brown, M.A., CCC-SLP
We provide comprehensive evaluations and therapys sessions in the child's natural environment, typically with children from birth to 5. We also offer consultations with parents/caregivers of all children focusing on enhancing communications skills.
www.verywellsaidllc.com , 225 I St., NE, Ste. 313, Washington, DC, 917-239-0717.
Research: Fundraising Events, Studies
Anxiety Research Study
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Health & Human Services
Is your 8- 17-year-old child anxious or depressed? Consider participation in an NIMH pediatric anxiety or depression research study. Call for information, eligibility. TTY: 1-866-411-1222. http://patientinfo.nimh.nih.gov/AnxietyDisordersPediatric.aspx#116
firstname.lastname@example.com, 301-402-8225.
Severe Irritability with ADHD Symptoms Research Study
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Health & Human Services
Does your 7- 17-year-old child have severe irritability, tantrums, rages, trouble sleeping? Participate in an NIH pediatric research study. Call for information and eligibility. TTY: 1-866-411-1222. http://patientinfo.nimh.nih.gov/BipolarDisorderPediatric.aspx#220
firstname.lastname@example.com, 301-496-8381.
Adventure Theatre MTC
Dance and musical theater classes. Learn safety, focus, spatial awareness, teamwork and self-discipline, all within the framework and artform of dance. 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, MD & 837-D Rockville Pk., Rockville, MD.
www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org , 301-634-2268.
Ballet Petite
Grace, posture, cardiovascular endurance and muscular stamina. Complete ballet curriculum for girls and boys ages 18 months-6 years, teen and adult classes too! Bethesda, Potomac, Kentlands, McLean and Mt. Vernon.
www.balletpetite.com , firstname.lastname@example.com, 301-229-6882.
Blue Box Sports
Ages 18 months-6 years. We are a child physical development program that uses a variety of fun games to delight and engage young children in physical activity. 5 locations: Chantilly, Greenbelt, Haymarket, Manassas, Washington, D.C.
www.BlueBoxSports.com , 703-953-1667.
The Center for Ballet Arts
Age 3 thru professional levels. Offering classes in Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Jazz, Tap.Intensive program-performing company.
www.thecenterforballetarts.com , 11215-H Lee Hwy., Fairfax, VA, 703-273-5344.
City of Gaithersburg Recreation
Let's Move! Gaithersburg. Be fit for life with sports, dance, yoga and fitness classes for all ages, plus cultural programs that enrich the soul. Check out the online Leisure Times guide for details.
www.gaithersburgmd.gov , 506 S. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, MD, 301-258-6350.
Dance4Life & Health, LLC
Our goal is to keep you healthy while having fun. We offer a full range of Zumba classes for ages 0-99. All classes are offered in a party atmosphere with plenty of time for social interaction.
www.dance4lifeandhealth.com/zumbini , email@example.com, 618 Center Point Way, #83584, Gaithersburg, MD, 240-686-5486.
Dynamite Gymnastics Center
15,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art facility with brand-new equipment. Structured classes for boys and girls 18 months-adult. Competitive women's artistic and tumbling and trampoline teams. Comfortable, lobby with observation area, Wi-Fi.
www.DynamiteGC.com , N. Bethesda, MD, 301-770-2700.
Earth Treks Climbing Centers
Earth Treks specializes in birthday parties, private programs, scout groups, summer camps and rock climbing instruction. Everyone, from youth to adult, can enjoy the benefits of climbing. Columbia, Timonium, Rockville. 800-CLIMB-UP.
www.EarthTreksClimbing.com ,
Flying Kick Fitness
Ages 4 & up. A top-quality program of traditional/Olympic style tae kwon do in a safe, friendly environment. Adult black belt instructors. Children, adults, families. Camps, birthday parties.
www.flyingkickTKD.com , 4711 Chase Ave., Bethesda, MD, 301-951-0543.
Great Play of Fairfax
A unique new gym for kids where they have fun developing motor skills, sport skills, fitness coordination in our amazing, patented Interactive Arena.
www.greatplay.com/fairfax , email@example.com, 11395 Government Ctr. Pkw, Fairfax, VA,
Joy of Motion Dance Center
Joy of Motion Dance Center, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable arts organization, offers dance education and performance opportunities for all ages, abilities and levels. In DC: 1333 H St., NE, 202-399-6763 & 5207 Wisconsin Ave., NW, 202-362-3042. In MD: 7315 Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 180E (lower level), Bethesda, 301-986-0016.
http://joyofmotion.org ,
Maryland Youth Ballet
Ages 2-18. Offering the highest caliber of classical ballet training and performance opportunities to young dancers planning a career in performing arts. Pre-ballet level through our release division.
www.marylandyouthballet.org , 926 Ellsworth Dr., Silver Spring, MD, 301-608-2232.
McLean Community Center
Infants-adults. Located in central McLean, the center offers a wide variety of classes, seminars and workshops for children, teens and adults. 703-790-0123; TTY: 711.
www.mcleancenter.org , 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, VA,
Michael & Son SportsPlex at Dulles
Ages 18 months-12 years. We offer fantastic enrichment classes in soccer & basketball for your rising star. We also have summer camps, birthday parties and homeschool sports!
www.dullessportsplex.com , 21610 Atlantic Blvd., Sterling, VA, 703-430-9966.
Michael & Son SportsPlex at Rockville
Ages 18 months-12. We offer fantastic enrichment classes in soccer & basketball for your rising star. We also have summer camps, birthday parties and homeschool sports!
www.rockvillesports.com , 60 Southlawn Ct., Rockville, MD, 301-838-4455.
Montgomery County Department of Parks
Affordable group & privates lessons in ice skating (figure, dance, hockey) and tennis (indoors & out in season) available year-round. Get fit in Montgomery Parks!
www.MontgomeryParks.org , 9500 Brunett Ave., Silver Spring, MD, 301-495-2595.
My Gym Children's Fitness Center
Fitness made fun for kids! Award-winning programs for children 6 weeks to 13 years. Noncompetitive gymnastics, exercise, song, dance and more. We also offer birthday parties, camps and special events. Alexandria, Bethesda, Burke, Chantilly, Kentlands, Potomac and coming in January 2014 to Sterling.
www.my-gym.com ,
Potomac Horse Center
Horseback riding lesson programs sure to build physical strength and confidence. Mini-mites (5 years old) through seniors in all disciplines and skill levels.
www.potomachorse.com , 14211 Quince Orchard Rd., North Potomac, MD, 301-208-0200.
Silver Stars Gymnastics
18 months & up. Gymnastics instruction for kids. Specially designed preschool equipment. Birthday parties. Boys-only classes. Competitive teams. Summer camps. Two locations: 2701 Pittman Dr., Silver Spring, 301-589-0938 & 14201 Woodcliff Ct., Bowie, 301-352-5777.
www.gosilverstars.com ,
TK Gym & Martial Arts
Build your kid's focus and confidence! Traditional martial arts programs for tiny tots, children, adults and families. Chevy Chase/Bethesda/Potomac/DC.
www.tkmainc.com , 6831 Wisconsin Ave., P102, Chevy Chase, MD, 301-657-7782.
Tiny Dancers
Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Wiggletoes. Fun, nurturing environment.
www.tinydancers.com , 703-385-5580.
Washington Revels
After-School Workshops
K-8. With dance, movement, drama, music and games, children celebrate their creative spirit, discover self-expression, nurture their imaginations and create community.
www.revelsdc.org , 531 Dale Dr., Silver Spring, MD, 301-587-3835.
Chef on Call
Personal Chef Service
We do all the shopping and food preparation. Affordable meal plans customized to your dietary needs.
email@example.com, 703-222-9088.
Lynn's Meals in Minutes
Lynn McKee
Always fresh, never frozen, with local produce whenever possible. Customized meal planning to meet your dietary goals, offering programs such as Weight Watchers, South Beach and Atkins.
www.lynnsmealsinminutes.com , 240-476-1669.
Mr. Omelette Caterers
Complete dairy caterer specializing in omelettes, waffles, pasta dishes, crepes...made to order in your home, office or outdoors. Now featuring cappuccino & fresh fruit smoothie bars. Serving MD, DC & VA.
www.MrOmeletteMd.com , 301-340-2800.
Baby Proofing Montgomery
Professional childproofing consultants offering home assessments, products and installations.
www.babyproofingmontgomery.com , 301-984-9323.
Cold Cast
A refreezable, reusable finger splint that gives compression and ice therapy while wrist straps hold it in place so you can work and play. Just pop in the freezer.
www.mycoldcast.com ,
Monthly Mito Patient & Family Socials. Connect with other families in your area who are dealing with miochondrial disease. Bethesda location. Hosted by Mito Mom Andrea Smith and MitoAction.
firstname.lastname@example.com , email@example.com,
Children's National Medical Center
www.childrensnational.org , 202-476-5000.
George Washington University Hospital
www.gwhospital.com , 202-715-4000.
Howard University Hospital
www.huhealthcare.com , 202-865-6100.
Sibley Memorial Hospital
www.sibley.org , 202-537-4000.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
www.medstarhealth.org/washington , 202-877-7000.
Frederick Memorial Hospital
www.fmh.org , 240-566-3300.
Laurel Regional Hospital
www.dimensionshealth.org , Laurel, MD, 301-725-4300.
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Expanding our pediatric services and moving to Tenleytown! Now you have easy access to everything from cardiology and endocrinolgy to gastroenterology and neurology.
www.MedStarGeorgetown.org/Pediatrics , 4200 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 202-295-0547.
MedStar Montgomery General Hospital
www.medstarhealth.org/montgomery , Olney, MD, 301-774-8882.
Prince George's Hospital Center
www.dimensionshealth.org , Cheverly, MD, 301-618-2000.
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Friday, 26 August 2011 00:00
Sid Jacobson JCC honored the accomplishments of Great Neck's Martin Rosenman at the 26th Annual Golf & Tennis Outing, presented by Steven Schonfeld, which took place on Aug. 1, at Old Westbury Golf & Country Club. The JCC also paid a special tribute to Honorary Chairperson David Nussbaum as a Man of Distinction.
In a sold-out day of sporting and philanthropy, the Golf & Tennis Outing raised over $300,000 for desperately needed social services at the JCC. Funds will go directly to programs such as Camp Kehilla, a summer camp for children on the autism spectrum, and the Friendship Circle, a day program for the frail elderly affected with Alzheimer's and other dementias. This year's event gave participants the opportunity to take a personal interest in these populations, allowing people to purchase meals for those in the Friendship Circle or scholarships for children at Camp Kehilla.
"I have people personally who have gone through the programs at the JCC, whether it's for autism, cancer or Young Onset Alzheimer's disease," honoree Martin Rosenman said, after being introduced by JCC Board President Debra Buslik. "Sid Jacobson JCC has saved lives."
Rosenman has been active in Jewish philanthropy since he moved to Great Neck in 1972. He has served as overall chair for UJA-Federation of New York Long Island, as well on the boards of the Jewish Child Care Association, the Jewish National Fund and Sid Jacobson JCC. He is also active with the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and is an Associate Trustee of the North Shore Health System.
Man of Distinction David Nussbaum, a Roslyn Heights resident, has been a critical part of the Golf & Tennis Outing, guaranteeing its continuing existence for the last 26 years. He received the Man of Distinction Award in recognition of his tireless work within the JCC since its earliest days and the JCC's expression of gratitude.
The Golf & Tennis Outing owes its success to the hard work of Honorary Chairpersons Robert Gladstone and David Nussbaum, Golf co-Chairpersons Richard Gershman and Lloyd Rosenman, Tennis Chairperson Andrew Sandler and the rest of the Golf and Tennis Committee. Sid Jacobson JCC would also like to thank the JCC Board of Directors, volunteers and staff for helping with this tremendous event.


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By robert
Wow! Didn't recognize him without his gun! LOL
Tuesday 20 October
By Bubba
'The Dick' Cheney was tough enough to play high school football, but was never able to serve in the Military that he just loved sending off to die in a manufactured war.
Love the smirk.....hope it works for him in prison!
Sunday 18 October
By DJ
Cheney was a great secdef. Did my 20-don't remember seeing YOU there, dude. Ain't walked the walk? Keep your opinion to thyself.
Sunday 18 October
By Vet2
Your name's appropriate Bubba...believing the 6 yr. Dems propaganda campaign (paid for by Geo. Soros). Facts are ,Sadam killed 350,000 Kurds (his own people) with a WMD ..gas, 3 yrs before; he was in violation of UN Edic. # 17; three nations other than the USA believed he had WMD's; the Dem. leaders at that time saw the intel. reports, and agreed to the Iraq action; military & intel. reports stated a 50 truck caravan,less than 1 mo. after our invasion, went to Syria, believed to be WMD material; Several high ranking Iraq military leaders testified there were WMD's under development..in addition to a lethal gas supply..adn Iraq was a haven & supporter to the Taliban & Al Quida in Afghanastan. I believe the amount of daily lies by this administration, should be of greater concern than the this old
B___S___from the past!
Sunday 18 October
By pam ham
Nope. German spelling would be Fussball.
Sunday 18 October
By bachstradiverius
I'm sure you're referring to the Kennedy/Johnson fiasco called Viet Nam!
I would agree with you libs about getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan if you would all volunteer to sign up and fight the war, now being fought mostly by those pesky right wing Christians, when our withdrawal turns into more attacks within our country because those peaceful muslims re-group. It would be nice if you actually paid a price for your freedom to dis our country.
Monday 26 October
By wonkie1
Dick Cheney helped mturn around the war in Iraq. His military acumen is above reproach. If Obama weren't so conceited, he would request Cheney's advice on how to handle Afghanistan. Obama does extremely well in making promises people want to hear, but his "follow-thru" is disgraceful. Lying is the word that comes to mind. Case in point: He was asked by the Commander-Obama's choice-for 40,000 more troopers. How many weeks ago was that? The war thhere is not on hold, awaiting the wisdom of the Annointed One. Just maybe Obama is waiting until sending more troops wouldn't make a difference. It would be too late. I can't imagine anyone at this point-beleiving ANYTHING Obama says. He doesn't keep his promises!!
Monday 19 October
By Karl
Read 'TRANCE-formation of America' very eye opening. The TRUE Life story of a CIA Mind Control Slave written by Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips. "the dick" is a pedophile too.
Sunday 18 October
By D. Christian
Sunday 18 October
By Cat
Poor Michelle Obama, she's always looked like a battle ax! Too bad Nancy Pelosi didn't age well and had a face lift. She was halfway attractive many years ago!
Sunday 18 October
By helen
Michelle Obama did not get better looking with age. Her husband walks like a camel
Sunday 18 October
By Writspirit
Michelle has always been beautiful, from start to finish.
Sunday 18 October
By Ann
appropriately named "Cat" such a catty comment
Sunday 18 October
By email@example.com
men are evil from the inside , outward appearance are vain , if we could see their heart from then and now . we might make idols of these mere humans . power corrupts and these men that run our country are mostly ugly
Sunday 18 October
By Kevin
That Michelle is way beyond ugly. Photos of her now seem to have a much lighter skin tone and her hair (or wig) is straight. Strange how she tries to be like the race she despises.
Sunday 18 October
By Cristi
Michelle Obama Way beyond ugly? She's a Sasquatch---she's a Yetti!
Sunday 18 October
By jello
Christi--I doubt you look much better...without a bag over your head. See how childish my comment was? I'm making a point. I have no idea what you look like, but even if I did, I wouldn't make such comments about your appearance because appearance is irrelevant. Keep your lame comments to yourself. No one is interested in your sophomoric humor.
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After four weeks of struggling to find its identity, Tyner's offense simply went back to its old-school ways of power football. The result was a familiar finish as the Rams' ground game helped them claim their first win of the season, 49-30 over Soddy-Daisy in a nondistrict home game Friday night.
Tyner used six ball carriers to gain 303 yards on 53 attempts, led by senior quarterback Haasan Miller's 123 yards and two touchdowns, to go along with his 107 passing and another TD.
"It feels wonderful to finally get that win," Miller said. "Losing is not what Tyner football is about, but we've been working hard in the weight room and on the practice field to get better, and tonight it paid off. Losing those first few games just motivated us to work harder.
"I put a lot of it on my shoulders because I'm the quarterback and a senior leader, so I wanted to do everything I could to help my team get the win."
A loss would've meant the first time Tyner started a season with five consecutive losses since 1974. But Miller and fellow senior Jarrett Watson, who ran for 119 yards and a TD, assured the Rams would have momentum going into the second half of the season, which includes five straight district games.
"From here on, every week is like the playoffs," Tyner coach Wayne Turner said. "We can still win the district and make the playoffs. Tonight was a big win for our confidence. We needed it."
This was the first meeting between the two programs since 1985, and on the third snap of the game, C.J. Blue sprinted 64 yards for a Soddy-Daisy touchdown, but the Trojans' offense struggled for much of the rest of the first half.
Tyner responded with a nine-play scoring drive, converting two fourth downs into firsts, including Miller's 15-yard scoring run on fourth-and-11.
While the Trojans went three-and-out on their next three possessions, Tyner began building its lead with back-to-back eight-play scoring drives. Even after Tre Carter returned a punt 57 yards to bring Soddy-Daisy within 21-14, Willie Stewart countered with a 47-yard interception return for a score and Miller helped rebuild a commanding lead with a 58-yard TD pass to Edward Springs.
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WWF's programmatic investments are designed to address some of the toughest conservation issues of our time, requiring strategic, focused, and sustained engagement. Our work in FY12 was guided by three principles: continue to grow programs that are delivering the highest conservation value and results; ensure we have the right talent and resources to generate needed funding for those programs; and provide solid mission support while maximizing the efficiency of our work.
WWF's FY13 financial performance continued the trend of positive results we have seen in recent years. At $266.3 million, the total revenues and support represent an increase of 9% over FY12. Operating revenues and Contributions grew by 2%, while Government, WWF Network and In-kind revenues achieved total growth of 16%. Corporations and other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) rounded out the additional source of increased revenue through multiyear gifts representing growth of 335% and 240% respectively.
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Highly sick of this chase season. It not being over may or may not be a good thing.
June 5, 2012: 2012 Farmland Turned To Desert After The Flood
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I'm also redoing some old 04 and 05 accounts that have the image sizes the old small size. The ones I still have images for I'll update to the 1100 pixel wide size. Many needed reprocessed pretty bad anyway. Plus some are hotlinked off flickr and I need to get them back so they are just on my site. So far updated this one... May 28, 2004 Highway 12 Nebraska Supercell
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The #FridayFreebies fun continues!
Macworld is just around the corner, so this Friday will be our pre-Macworld edition of #FridayFreebies. Just like last Friday, check out the video to see what great stuff is up for grabs, then scroll down to read more details about the prizes and find out how to enter. Also, please let us know what else you'd like to see in upcoming editions of @Peachpit #FridayFreebies!
This week's video stars the one-and-only...Gary-Paul Prince!
- The Best Camera Is The One That's With You: iPhone Photography with Chase Jarvis
The Best Camera Is The One That's With You: iPhone Photography with Chase Jarvis reimagines, reexamines, and redefines the intersection of art and pop culture through images shot with his iPhone.
- Snow Leopard prize pack
The prize includes both Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Pocket Guide
3. Autographed copy of Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3
This prize includes AppleScript 1-2-3, a guide to AppleScript written and autographed (our last autographed copy!) by the guru himself, Sal Soghoian, AppleScript product manager for Apple. Learn more about Sal and AppleScript 1-2-3 here.
4. Macworld MemorabiliaThis prize includes two extremely rare pieces of Macworld memorabilia. The first is a pair of bunny ears, a very popular promotional item from Macworld Expo 2009. These ears were part of the first round (of two) that were snatched up within only a few hours on the first day of Macworld. They're popular among all ages! :) The second prize in this pack is a Mac Bible T-shirt, the very last of its kind. This is definitely a collector's item, folks.
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Tuberculosis (TB) Symptoms and Causes
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial infection that usually infects the lungs, although other organs are sometimes involved. TB is primarily an airborne disease. There is a difference between being infected with the TB bacterium and having active tuberculosis disease.
There are three important ways to describe the stages of TB. They are as follows:
- Exposure: This occurs when a person has been in contact, or exposed to, another person who is thought to have or does have TB. The exposed person will have a negative skin test, and normal chest X-ray, and no signs or symptoms of the disease.
- Latent TB infection: This occurs when a person has the TB bacteria in his/her body, but does not have symptoms of the disease. This person would have a positive skin test, but a normal chest X-ray.
- TB disease: This describes the person that has signs and symptoms of an active infection. The person would have a positive skin test and a positive chest X-ray.
The predominant TB bacterium is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Several people infected with M. tuberculosis never develop active TB. However, in people with weakened immune systems, especially those with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), TB organisms can overcome the body's defenses, multiply and cause an active disease.