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Starring Valerie Buhagiar and Don McKeller
Written by Don McKeller & Bruce McDonald
Directed by Bruce McDonald
Rating: Not Rated
Original Release: 1989
Roadkill is part of a rock 'n' roll trilogy. This film was the beginning. Bruce McDonald's story and Don McKellar's screenplay became an immediate classic Canadian film.
Ramona (Valerie Buhagiar) was born and bred in Toronto. Having lived in a big city and never really travelled, she had never even learned how to drive. Her boss sends her to Northern Ontario to end The Children of Paradise's tour. Hailing a cab to take her to the train station, Ramona realizes that the cab driver wants to take her all the way to Sudbury. Ramona meets some interesting characters along the way, including a young man who has taken a vow of silence (Shaun Bowring); Russell (Don McKellar), an aspiring serial killer; and Bruce Shack (Bruce McDonald), the documentary filmmaker. Ramona must realize what her role is in this story as she wanders from character to character. She realizes that she is what everyone is missing and figures a way to solve their problems.
As with most Canadian films, not many people have heard of this film or seen it. Not even Canadians. Shot low budget on 8mm film in black and white, the film immediately has a style of its own. More attention seems to have been focused on the visuals and audio is ignored. This does leave something to be desired as the audio levels drop during conversations.
The Roadkill DVD has more extras than would be expected from an independent Canadian film made in 1989. Two short films are added, Elimination Dance and Fort Goof, both of which were directed by Bruce McDonald. A very funny audio commentary is also available with Don McKellar and producer Colin Brunton.
McDonald's rock 'n' roll trilogy began with this film, continued with Highway 61 (which was also penned by McKellar), and ended with an adaptation of Michael Turner's book Hard Core Logo. Each film seems better than the one that preceded it, but the bare elements of Roadkill and Ramona's story make Roadkill a classic.
Cheers: The Complete First Season
Starring Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, Rhea Perlman, and John Ratzenberger.
Original Release: 2003
Cheers is a Boston bar where you can go and feel at home. The NBC sitcom, starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long, began its eleven-year reign in 1982 and it was arguably the best sitcom since The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Through its long run, Cheers told great stories with a great heart and a lot of laughs. While some television series take a few years to get into their groove, this one started with a bang. After a slow pilot that stumbled to introduce the characters properly, the first season of Cheers had some great episodes including "The Coach's Daughter," which featured Coach's daughter wanting to marry an asshole, and "Pick A Con… Any Con," which featured guest star Harry Anderson (as Harry the Hat) helping Coach get back his money from a card shark.
What made Cheers so great in the beginning was the chemistry between Diane Chambers (Long) and Sam Malone (Danson). Sam seems obsessive about a challenge, feeling he can get any woman he wants. Diane proves the first challenge in his romantic life, and whether or not he actually likes Diane, he feels he still must conquer. Diane and Sam are so obviously wrong for each other, yet the audience enjoyed watching their relationship as their personalities clashed.
The romantic tension helps build two very strong characters in Sam and Diane that are supported by the one-liner quirkiness of innocent and simple bartender Coach (Nicholas Colasanto), the bitter barmaid Carla (Rhea Perlman), self-depricating barfly Norm (George Wendt), and his cohort Cliff (John Ratzenberger), the know-it-all mail carrier. All of the characters marvel in watching Sam, the master of seduction, get the ladies and provide the humour as Sam works to advance the plot.
After watching Cheers: The Complete First Season on DVD, it became apparent that some of the best moments of the series were during this season, and it's a great laugh. The worst part of the DVD set is the lack of special features. The fourth disc features a handful of clip compilations that compress the season into 10 minutes and a short interview with Ted Danson telling the audience that he likes all of his fellow cast members. Paramount could have done a much better job at digging up old interviews with the cast and crew and/or putting in audio commentaries.
All in all a great season that loses points for its lack of extras, but definitely deserves a place on the DVD shelf.
Jersey Girl
Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin & Liv Tyler
Written & Directred by Kevin Smith
"Why in gods name would I wanna keep writing about characters whose central preoccupation are weed and dick and fart jokes? I mean, ya gotta grow man. Don't you ever want anything more for yourself?" – Holden, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
If you are looking for jokes about gay sex and farts, Jersey Girl is not where you will find them. Writer and Director Kevin Smith takes this opportunity to do something different. After putting to rest the title characters in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Smith is moving ahead. Now a father himself, Smith writes about a single father who must raise his daughter while trying to come to terms with a life he never saw himself in.
Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) had the perfect life. A wonderful wife (Jennifer Lopez), a child on the way, a great job and lots of money. Everything changes when his wife dies during their daughter's birth. Leaving his daughter with his father, Trinke tries to balance work with raising a child and ultimately loses his sights on her. After losing his job, Ollie reluctantly takes the job as Gertie's father while still keeping his eyes open for his old job to return.
George Carlin plays Ollie's father Bart. Carlin gives an incredible performance, guiding and teaching Ollie to be a father. There are three emotional arcs to the movie: the featured arc between the Jersey girl Gertie and Ollie, the arc with Ollie and new romance Maya (Liv Tyler), and between Bart and Ollie. Bart and Ollie's relationship is what keeps the movie and Ollie grounded. Bart is whom Ollie can turn to when he needs a hand.
Jersey Girl is about Ollie's realization that being a father is more important than what he had lost before. Smith creates a wonderful story and executes it well. Funny, smart, romantic, and silly, Jersey Girl provides the audience with humour that is true to Kevin Smith's previous movies. Comparable to Smith's third film Chasing Amy, The film is serious while still giving the audience some laughs.
The DVD is packed with special features. Two audio commentaries: one featuring Kevin Smith and Ben Affleck, and another with Kevin Smith, Scott Moser (producer) and Jason Mewes (who played Jay in all of Smith's previous movies but does not appear in this one). As Smith's DVDs always have been, the audio commentary is funnier than the movie. Also featured on the DVD are half a dozen short films made for The Tonight Show. Those should also keep you laughing.
Kevin Smith will have a hard time living up to the high point that was Dogma, but Jersey Girl tries to get there kicking and screaming.
DVD Review: Triplets of Belleville
Written & Directed by Sylvain Chomet
Rated: PG-13
Champion sweats his way through the dark cobblestone streets, the spokes of his bicycle's wheels bending under his labor. Behind him, on his first tricycle, rides his tiny grandmother, Madame Souza, chirping steady encouragement through a whistle. He's been obsessed with bicycles since he was a small child, and now she is training Champion for the Tour de France.
But his training is brought to an astounding halt when he's whisked away during a race by an unknown man in black, and his grandmother, along with the faithful family dog Bruno, gives chase. It is during this seemingly hopeless quest that they meet the marvelous Triplets of Belleville.
Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Animated Feature Film and Best Song), The Triplets Of Belleville was written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The animation style is a bit of a throwback to old Disney movies, with the opening sequence reminiscent of the 'Steamboat Willy' cartoon, and washed-out, neutral colors are used throughout most of the film. The result is a dreary, sad undertone despite the outstanding music and the uplifting, eccentric characters that are the Triplets.
Most unusual is the almost complete absence of dialogue. Aside from the lyrics accompanying the music and the odd bystander's completely random observation, the characters communicate largely in grunts, cackles and whines. But for this strange and wonderful little movie, it works very well and places the onus on the animators to convey the characters' emotions, as pendulous as they may be, entirely through their actions.
On DVD, the movie is accompanied by a featurette narrated by the director, who explains more about what went into each scene, rather than the making of the movie in its entirety. As well, Chomet explains the animation process he uses from start to finish, from blue pencil drawings to the unique 2D and 3D combination scene in the film. At the very end is the music video for 'Belleville Rendezvous', the Oscar nominated song, and the video is nothing if not, let's say, abstract. A live action character is inserted into various scenes from the movie, as well as an animated depiction of the singer. The video starts with a therapy session and moves into a creepy little dance number, with the singer's head superimposed onto animated bodies. That video, and a sweet, concise tale of love, devotion and loyalty, make this DVD a worthwhile purchase indeed.
DVD Review: Six Feet Under – The Complete Second Season
Starring Peter Krause, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Michael C. Hall, Richard Jenkins, etc.
I have been obsessed with the Alan Ball (American Beauty) produced HBO series Six Feet Under for about two months now. Unfortunately, I am a little behind. A late convert to the series (I didn't have access to HBO before recently), I rented disc one of The Complete First Season upon recommendation from a friend. I was immediately hooked and within a few weeks, I had finished all of Season One, and took the plunge by purchasingThe Complete Second Season. Fortunately, I was not let down, as Season Two provided just as many plot twists and turns as the first season, and each character continued to develop throughout.
The Fisher family consists of the recently widowed Ruth (Frances Conroy) along with her three children. Ruth's character development is brilliant in Season Two, as we find her in unique un-Ruthish relationships, while she is doing her utmost to better herself. Finally getting over the death of her husband and beginning to come to terms with the guilt of having an extramarital affair, Ruth comes into her own as a powerful matriarch. Her eldest son, Nate (Peter Krause), who returned just in time for his father's death in the first episode of Season One, has taken his new role as funeral director quite seriously. He has also found himself in a serious relationship with Brenda (Rachel Griffiths), and their tumultuous relationship becomes a focus of Season Two. David (Michael C. Hall) goes through a great deal of instability in this season, dealing with his conflicting conservative religious beliefs and his homosexual lifestyle, leaving him confused and self-deprecating throughout. The somewhat angsty teenager, Claire (Lauren Ambrose), deals with having been raised in a funeral home in her own way. She comes of age in a very subtle way, finding herself confused and kind, sometimes too much so on both ends. Six Feet Under doesn't limit itself to simply focusing on the Fisher family, but also other characters important in their lives. The Complete Second Season also continues to teach us a lot about Frederico (Freddy Rodriguez), an employee at Fisher & Sons funeral home; David's love interest Keith (Matthew St. Patrick); and Brenda's entire family, including her psychologically unstable brother, Billy (Jeremy Sisto).
This is the first television series I have found myself truly caring about for quite some time. I like each character and worry about what will happen with each curveball fate tosses them and even find myself feeling disappointed in some of their decisions. No one in this show is perfect, and they all have very natural flaws. At the same time, none of the characters seem to fit in with any predictable stereotypes, leaving us surprised by their development.
The Complete Second Season is an excellent DVD collection, compiling all 13 episodes from the second season. The extras are pretty standard, with audio commentaries on a handful of episodes along with "Anatomy of a Working Stiff," a twenty-minute special on the process of creating realistic corpses for the series. The commentaries are interesting and insightful, and the featurette is informative, but perhaps a bit long for what it is. Still, the episodes stand up on their own as well directed, written, and acted. You will find yourself, as I did, watching episode after episode, wondering what will happen to these strange and fascinating characters next.
DVD Review: City of God
Starring Alexandre Rodrigues and Leandro Firmino
Written by Brulio Mantovani
Directed by Fernando Meirelles
Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Cinematography, Editing, and Adaptation.
Theatrical Release: 2003
Rated: R
What do you want to be? Fishmonger, policeman, or hood? I certainly know who most of us like to watch, and City of God provides a sensational spectacle. City of God is an epic, following a generation of kids growing up in a nearby Rio de Janeiro slum during the 1960s and 1970s. In the dead-poor neighbourhood, lacking even electricity, career options are unsurprisingly limited. Over half of the workforce is involved in the drug trade and gang life is commonplace. Ostensibly within the gangster genre, the story revolves around hold-ups, drug deal take-overs, and revenge plots all overwhelmed with a sense of depressing fatalism. Our protagonist, Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues), has chosen to be right in the middle. He is the only to admit that his fear of getting shot prevents his career as a hood. Naturally, he's more interested in losing his virginity.
The story develops at an excellent pace. Screenwriter Brulio Mantovani has playfully divided the conflict into a handful of vignettes. "The Suckers Life" is soon followed by "Flirting with Crime." The main plot line explores the escalating mob war and as soon as the viewer's interest may falter, our passive protagonist acquires a camera and gets himself involved. I could recommend the film to fans of photography alone. The artist's eye seeking the decisive moment and all those delightful theories are quite relevant in City of God.
The cinematography is breathtaking and highly inventive. Every modern technique is on display: 360 ° spins, frenetic bullet cam, sudden freeze frames and time dissolves. Styles change as needed: a moving "documentary realism" camera is used during emotionally charged moments and the childhood sequence is pervaded by a nostalgic feel from its warm saturated colours.
Be warned. The violence is brutally realistic. Of course, it's nothing most cinephiles aren't used to (and would come to expect). If tortured children upset you, then look away. The number of guns on fetishized display rivals even The Matrix. I've personally been tired of excessive gunfighting, but here the violence is integral to narrative development. Lil'l Zé (Leandro Firmino) is one of those really evil villains you love to hate.
As the credits roll, we learn that the horrible events were based on a true story. The real Brazilians are shown next to their fictional counterparts. The viewer is led to compare the city's violent situation to contemporary situations around the world, and the movie has not proposed a single solution. City of God is less a thoughtful contemplation on the issues, and more a celebration of their entertainment value. The DVD supplements are sparse, but an hour long documentary, "News From a Personal War", investigates the back story. I would have enjoyed more about the making of the film, but I'll take an insightful doc over a handful of trailers and publicity photos anytime.
When I got the DVD from the video store, the clerkwarned me that the movie is in Portuguese. On further inquiry, it turns out the company needs employees to inform us of the subtitles. Apparently, over 90% of customers return those troublesome movies after realizing their mistake. Fuckers. God forbid they might broaden their world view.
So what do you want to be? Fishmonger, policeman or hood? Or maybe a photographer? It certainly is best to watch.
DVD Review: Nero Wolfe Complete First Season
Starring Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton
A&E Home Video
Nero Wolfe (played by Maury Chaykin) is a fat man who rarely leaves his home, is easily enraged, loves his orchids and only enjoys the finest foods. Fortunately, Archie Goodwin (Timothy Hutton) knows how to get what he wants. Goodwin is the narrator for the story and the man who provides the audience with the insight. Through the eyes of Wolfe's right hand man, the audience gets a front seat in the action.
The series is based on a collection of novels and novellas written by Rex Stout, who began publishing his stories just after World War II. The television series is set during this time period. The art direction in this series is absolutely wonderful and it leaves no doubt in your mind that what you are watching is happening during the late '40s and early '50s.
The best part of this series is the relationship between Wolfe and Goodwin. The constant bickering and mutual respect that the two have for each other is just great and gets the viewer hooked onto the series. With a solid and very enjoyable supporting cast, Colin Fox plays the often hilarious chef Fritz while Bill Smitrovich's Inspector Cramer tries to solve the mysteries before Wolfe can.
Timothy Hutton not only stars in this series as Archie Goodwin, but he also takes on the role of executive producer for the series. Hutton also does an excellent job at pointing the series in the direction it will take by directing the first few episodes. The style of the drama's narrative is superb, and is a direct translation from the books.
The stories unfold exactly as the books do. Having read the story "Door To Death" before seeing the episode, I was disappointed to see that little changed through the adaptation. This is perhaps one of the most upsetting aspects of the show, because the creative staff didn't try to provide an interpretation of the book, like film versions of Harry Potter and The Lord Of The Rings did so well.
The three-disc DVD set of the complete first season of Nero Wolfe is an amazing set of mysteries with great characters and an excellent cast. However, the DVDs contain absolutely no extras. No commentaries, not even promo spots. Nothing to entice people to buy it, other than the great stories, and the fact that the episodes are no longer aired on A&E. I would have given the series four stars, but with the lack of any special features, it must be knocked down to three. Still, it's well worth the money.
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Program Library for Quantum Simulation Leaps to Version 0.9.1
If you'll pardon the pun, the Libquantum C library has now leaped from version 0.2.4 to 0.9.1 after three years of seeming inactivity. The new version includes a new API which gives users the ability to simulate quantum mechanics.
The project was launched in 2002 to simulate quantum computing. The latest version gives users the ability to simulate general quantum mechanics over time, say the developers.
The new version now includes documentation for the API that integrates the Schrödinger equation. This gives users the ability to solve general quantum mechanics problems, says Hendrik Weimer, a physicist and one of the developers of the library. The two-man developer team is releasing its quantum simulation library under the GPLv3, and at the same time forking the library into a stable and a developer version.
According to the developers, the special thing about the Libquantum simulator is that can simulate the effect of decoherence. The biggest problem in quantum computing is that non-ideal, that is real, quantum mechanics systems are impacted by measurements (decoherence). Björn Butscher and Hendrik Weimer's Libquantum not only implements registers and gates but simulates measuring errors. The source files are available in the form of a gz archive from the download section of the homepage.
The C library was used in 2004 within the scope of a biophysics program for the Coreworld project in Harvard: the project simulated an artificial environment with the hypothesis that quantum life forms capable of using the logical gates specific to quantum computers and implemented as simple Assembler programs, would have a selective advantage over non-quantum lifeforms in an otherwise natural, abstract biosphere.
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Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules
OwnCloud Founder Resigns
Frank Karlitschek will continue to lead the open source ownCloud project
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS released
"Xenial Xerus" comes with a new packages format and several improvements for the enterprise.
MS Visual Studio Code Editor is Available for Linux
Linux users can now download and install the Windows code editor
Open Container Initiative announces Image Format Project
New initiative will address security and interoperability concerns around container technology.
Red Hat Lures Developers with Free RHEL and Container Development Kits
Developers can use RHEL as a development platform without a subscription fee.
Microsoft Brings the Linux Command Line to Windows
Windows users will soon have native access to the Bash shell.
Internet Research Group Proposes Better Email Standard
Improvements to SMTP will provide better guarantee of confidentiality
New Nvidia Driver Offers Wayland Support
Graphics vendor embraces new reality in Linux graphics


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Over the summer months, SoonerNation will take a closer look at each player on Oklahoma's roster in our Crimson Countdown series. We will analyze each player's impact on the program since they arrived on campus, their potential impact this fall and their long-term impact in the daily series. Starting with No. 1 Kendal Thompson, the series will go in numerical order until our final analysis of No. 99 Chaz Nelson.
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Big 12 Ultimate Road Trip: Week 8
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Ranking the Big 12's top five all-time offensive linemen
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OU's Westbrook arrested on trespassing charges
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College football roundtable: Most intriguing conference game
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You already know how much we love Leandra Medine who's fashion blog The Man Repeller keeps us constantly entertained. It's not only her wit that we love but her "arm parties" (featured on In Detail here) and her pile-it-on approach to jewellery for which she is well-known. Spotted here outside Temperly London last week, she shared with us her totally amazing collection of rings which included Thorny "crown" rings by Annelise Michelson,/ Knuckle band rings by Catbird / and all other rings by Khai Khai.
what's the point of wearing gorgeous diamond rings when you don't take care of your nails ? a tiny bit of nail polish would have made a big difference
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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3ef33fbe-ef29-49e8-b7c9-5c988e6ce98d System Networking Brings Speed and Intelligence to the Data Center Fabric - Tags - low Thoughts and opinions on the growing area of System Networking. Learn how the data center network is enabling the next generation of applications. 6 2016-04-09T03:42:07-04:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-8ad63304-7896-43af-ad4c-520bc40a55db Networks Go Flat So Data Can Go Faster Vikram Mehta, VP System Networking email@example.com 2700045AWF active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2011-09-27T13:42:40-04:00 2011-09-27T13:52:51-04:00
 Networks Go Flat So Data Can Go Faster

 Today's application requirements place new demands on the data center network fabric to deliver non-stop, ultra-low latency traffic flows. This traffic is increasingly "east-west" in nature to enable server-to-server communications versus the "north-south" traffic that characterizes conventional client/server and Web-based application environments. In fact, today, as much as 80 to 85 per cent of the traffic in cloud and virtualized server infrastructures – moves from server to server.

 Deployment of the network fabric to serve these "east-west" requirements ideally begins at the edge of the network, close to servers, applications, users and innovation. So, today's evolving data center architectures start with building out the fabric at the edge, connecting multiple blade servers, racks or systems, and eventually connecting multiple data centers. This is all about allowing clients to take advantage of fabric technology without expecting them to undertake an expensive and resource intensive forklift upgrade. That's why starting at the edge makes a lot of sense.

 For the intensive machine-to-machine communications required for server virtualization, cloud computing and high performance computing applications such as high-frequency trading, latency should be as close as you can possibly get to zero. There is the basic latency associated with the speed of light and the transmission medium, so as close as you can possibly get to zero defines the ideal. People in the industry have used the term the race to zero latency as a way of describing this insatiable quest for driving latency out of the system.

 Clients are deploying IT infrastructure on an unprecedented scale. For example, data centers that were deploying five to six thousand servers on an annualized basis are now are routinely looking at deploying an order of magnitude more server infrastructure. So the scale at which these clients are deploying server infrastructure and storage capacity is huge. And if the network fabric that is connecting these servers and storage devices does not scale along with servers and storage, then you've got a problem.

 While on one hand, clients are staring down the barrel of deploying an order of magnitude more servers and storage infrastructure than they ever have before, on the other hand they're also concerned about ineffectiveness as it relates to utilization of their IT infrastructure. A big focus for enterprises is to increase the utilization of their IT infrastructure. The airline industry calls this yield management. The hospitality industry calls this occupancy rates. In the context of the data center, this is all about maximizing the utilization of IT infrastructure.

 We in IBM System Networking agree with The Register's Timothy Prickett-Morgan who in an insightful article "No More Tiers for Flat Networks," writes, "For companies that need network traffic to move more efficiently at higher bandwidth and with lower latencies, then a leaf-spine network that has a flatter architecture, or perhaps a fat tree network inspired by supercomputers or a Clos network inspired by telecommunications, might be just the ticket."

 The definition of an ideal fabric is one that does not require clients to jump through hoops, change out servers or add unnecessary complexity. A good fabric should be one that can provide connectivity for the client's existing infrastructure. That's why IBM is a big proponent of standards, because we fundamentally believe that standards can bring not only the most innovative solutions to marketplace, but also deliver solutions that don't lock clients into a particular type of technology or a specific vendor.

 The data center network is going through a major transformation to support server virtualization and cloud computing, convergence of data storage, server-to-server traffic and new high-performance applications. To address these needs, the data center network fabric, the system network architecture that interconnects server devices and storage devices in a data center environment, has become a critical lynchpin of data center architecture. And the move to flat networks is enabling the fabric to help data go faster. And for today's requirements, faster is most definitely better.
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 IBM's "Blue Pods"

 With standardized components available for virtually every element of IT infrastructure from server to storage and network to rack, it's perhaps no surprise that the standardized data center or "Pod" is becoming increasingly popular. For example, IBM's Portable Modular Data Center is a data center in 20- or 40-foot shipping container that can be located anywhere that power and chilled water can be delivered. Other "Blue Pods" include the Enterprise Modular Data Center, a standardized raised-floor data center that can be built out in modules of 5,000 to 20,000 square feet, and the Modular High-Density Zone, which can convert an existing raised-floor space into an area that can deliver more computing capacity and power density.

 As organizations struggle to handle growth in existing data centers, most organizations need to install and operate high-density computing to keep up with IT demands. However, the majority of today's data centers are not designed to support high-density computing. So, these modular data centers offer a quick-to-deploy high-density solution with exceptional energy efficiency. And these modular approaches are ideal for organizations that want affordable capacity on demand. A Portable Modular Data Center can be designed, built and drop-shipped in as little as a few weeks to any location in the world, and does not require onerous capital outlays.

An IBM Portable Modular Data Center can cost up to 30 percent less to design and build compared to custom raised floor solutions, and can have up to a 50 percent smaller footprint. These Blue Pods are open, using industry-standard 19-inch racks and can house 1,428 blade servers or 1,178 IBM iDataPlex servers per container. This high-density compute power requires equivalent networking capacity. And this is where IBM System Networking is an ideal complement. IBM System Networking RackSwitch products consume power equivalent to standard light bulbs and are designed with server-friendly airflow that matches the hot-aisle/cold-aisle designs of the modular data center. IBM BladeCenter switches consume even less power and are tightly integrated with the BladeCenter architecture. Our VMready switch-resident software provides the networking capability to equip the Pod for the challenges of virtualization.

 As CIOs remake IT infrastructures into more agile and automated environments that can respond to complexity with operational flexibility, Blue Pods support change while helping to mitigate associated risks. They help to address the continuing pressure to do more, faster and better – with less. In many cases, Pods enable organizations to accelerate their preparations for increasing complexity without requiring a significant expansion of existing IT operations. And Pods address the imperative to do more, faster and better—with less. Pods enable the data center to perform as the engine of business growth. And that's what smarter computing is all about.

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 The Transformation of the Data Center Network

 Recently, I joined the other networking industry executives in Network World's Data Center Switching Challenge Series. Host Robin Layland points out that the data center network is undergoing a major transformation as server virtualization, intense storage growth and the increase in east-west traffic – application-to-application and application-to-storage traffic – are placing new demands on the data center networking infrastructure. Layland asserts that to accommodate these changes, data centers must become more cloud-like. That requires running a new Ethernet fabric – a high-throughput, self-configuring, low-latency and self-healing data center network that automatically forwards traffic over the shortest available path. I couldn't agree more.

 Certainly, new technology innovations including the transformation of the data center network, signal that we are entering a new era of computing that IBM calls Smarter Computing. At IBM System Networking, we believe that Smarter Computing can be achieved by connecting servers and storage with a high-speed and intelligent network fabric that is faster, greener, open and easy to manage. In Round One of the Challenge, I describe how evolving to these next-generation data centers, requires organizations to scale their infrastructures while minimizing complexity, achieving virtualization and consolidation with the quality of service required for production application workloads and successfully merging data and storage into a single network.

 As organizations drive to transform and virtualize their IT infrastructures to reduce costs and manage risk, networking is pivotal to success. Optimizing network performance, availability, adaptability, security, and cost is essential to achieving the maximum benefit from the data center infrastructure. This in turn addresses CIOs' key issues, including scalability, density, simplicity, utilization, security, analytics and total cost of ownership.

 The value proposition for IBM System Networking is to provide the essential data and storage networking solutions under the IBM brand to connect servers to servers, servers to storage and storage to storage. Clients seeking more efficient data centers with the greatest business value and lowest total cost of ownership for their data center networks can implement an open, standards-based approach to simplify management, flatten and converge the network and optimize and automation virtualization.

 In Round Two of the Challenge, Robin and I take a deeper look into the requirements for the data center network fabric in a brief podcast. The best way to look at the attributes of a data center fabric is what we call the four "L's". It's got to be lossless. It's got to be low latency. It's got to consume low power and it's got to have a very low cost of acquisition and operation. These are the essential attributes of a data center interconnect fabric. The problems on a large scale that this sort of a data center fabric is trying to solve are, first and foremost, to help clients scale their infrastructure. Second, to allow clients to increase the density of clients and storage per square foot of raised floor. Third, to make it incredibly simple to provision and manage data center infrastructure. Fourth, to enhance the security of the IT infrastructure. Fifth, to aid in the process of better analytics of a corporation's information and data repositories. Sixth, to maximize the utilization of the IT infrastructure through technologies like virtualization, and finally, to lower the total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure.

 Network World's Data Center Switching Challenge is a great place to start when you are evaluating your data center networking needs and how leading vendors are taking new and innovative approaches to address next-generation requirements.
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 IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264 Wins Communications Solutions Product of the Year Recognition

 I am happy to report that the  IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264 is a recipient of TMC's 2010 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award. See the press release here.

 The RackSwitch G8264 is IBM System Networking's innovative 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch specifically designed for the data center to provide speed, intelligence and interoperability, interconnecting highly virtualized servers equipped with 10 Gigabit Ethernet and providing seamless migration to 40 Gigabit upstream networks.

 RackSwitch G8264's is power packed with innovations that include:

 Single-Chip Switch Fabric: RackSwitch G8264 uses an innovative switching architecture to operate with low, deterministic latency, consistent bi-directional throughput at line rate across all ports combinations, better microburst absorption, greater reliability and ultra-low power consumption of just 5.8 watts per port.

 Massive Scale: RackSwitch G8264 includes 48 SFP+ ports for 10 GbE or 1 GbE operation and four QSFP+ ports for 40 GbE uplinks or 10 GbE use via a breakout cable for a total of 64 10 GbE ports. The terabit-class switch provides massive scalability for highly virtualized data center networks with up to 448 10GbE server ports in a stacked configuration for interconnecting thousands of virtual machines.

 Virtual Vision: RackSwitch G8264 integrates VMready with Virtual Vision to secure and automate Virtual Machine migrations across large data center environments. Innovative and proven VMready "sees" virtual machines (VMs) as they move from server to server, protecting virtual machines by automatically synchronizing network policies among switches and hypervisors. With the Virtual Vision central policy database, VMready provides a single point of management for VM traffic and security across an entire data center with hundreds of servers and thousands of VMs, all designed for easy transition to emerging IEEE 802.1Qbg standards.

 Next Generation Data Center Networking: RackSwitch G8264 supports the DCB/CEE standards for converged data center networks for FCoE, iSCSI or NAS, IBM Virtual Fabric for flexible vNIC connectivity, HotLinks and Layer 2 failover and standard Layer 2/3 features including stacking, IP PIM multicast, dynamic routing and spanning tree.

 Congestion Prevention: Because network traffic between highly virtualized multi-core servers generates large amounts of server-to-server network traffic, virtualized servers need congestion notifications much earlier than enabled by conventional switches. IBM RackSwitch G8264 incorporates Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) and Weighed Random Early Detection (WRED), which control packet flow from servers to avoid large saw-tooth fluctuations in network throughput that can slow application performance.

 The IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264 tops in top of rack switches, and this latest award is welcome recognition of the innovation that sets it apart.

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 Cloud Computing for Rethinking IT and Reinventing Business

In IBM's Global Chief Information Officer Study– "The Essential CIO" – based on a poll of 3,000 global CIOs– shows that cloud computing has come of age with interest in the cloud increasing more than any other CIO priority. As I mentioned earlier, this 2010 study shows that 60 percent of organizations are ready to embrace the cloud over the next five years, an increase that is nearly double that of the 2009 study.

The cloud represents a profound evolution of IT with revolutionary implications for business and society, creating new possibilities and enabling more efficient, flexible and collaborative computing models. The cloud enables "IT without boundaries"—systems and processes that break down traditional silos and simplify access to information in order to deliver better business outcomes. Cloud computing offers organizations dramatic increases in agility and efficiency— innovation to ensure speedy, cost-effective delivery of products and services. To realize the benefits of cloud computing while overcoming the inherent challenges, organizations must take a holistic approach that spans business and innovation, users and applications, systems and networks.

IBM enables Smarter Computing managed in the cloud with a wide range of solutions. For example, IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager enables users to request, deploy, monitor and manage cloud computing services. IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup services provide end-to-end, cloud-based managed services to help protect business data, regardless of where it's stored. IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is an agile cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments, well suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads. IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud offers a storage-virtualization solution designed to support storage optimization efforts. The IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud provides a pre-integrated and preloaded system with software, server, storage, networking and start-up services to help take the guesswork out of establishing a virtualized data center environment.

System networking is essential to the cloud, and our Cloud Ready Network Architecture addresses the network-related requirements for private and public cloud computing. As enterprises and cloud providers seek to harness the considerable advantages of cloud computing, their networks must be equipped with five essential elements -- high-bandwidth/low-latency switching, convergence to Ethernet, massive virtualization for agile workloads, scalable fabric management and advanced energy efficiency. Cloud Ready Network Architecture is extending the performance and capabilities of data center networks from blade server to switch to SAN that will enable the scale-out performance and economies promised by cloud computing. Our Cloud Ready products include the industry's first FCoE-ready 10 Gigabit Ethernet blade server switch, a high-performance 10/40GbE top-of-rack switching solution and a massive virtualization solution that supports more than 1,000 virtual ports for the cloud-ready data center.

Cloud computing is a new model of consuming and delivering IT and business services. It enables users to get what they need, as they need it—from advanced analytics and business applications to IT infrastructure and platform services, including virtual servers, storage and networks. The cloud is only as agile and extensible as the underlying network, and IBM System Networking is committed to delivering networking solutions that enable clients to harness the cloud's transformative potential to rethink IT and reinvent business.

 Cloud Computing for Rethinking IT and Reinventing Business In IBM's Global Chief Information Officer Study – "The Essential CIO" – based on a poll of 3,000 global CIOs– shows that cloud computing has come of age with interest in the cloud increasing... 0 0 4100 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3ef33fbe-ef29-49e8-b7c9-5c988e6ce98d System Networking Brings Speed and Intelligence to the Data Center Fabric 2016-04-09T03:42:07-04:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-441739a0-3688-46b8-b073-e53203b5966e The Cloud-Ready System Network Vikram Mehta, VP System Networking email@example.com 2700045AWF active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2011-03-07T13:30:00-05:00 2011-05-20T19:49:39-04:00
The Cloud-Ready System Network

Today's competitive business needs are driving the development of cloud-based data centers that are more cost-effective, agile, and scalable than ever before. Cloud computing places higher demands on the system network in areas such as speed, flexibility, virtualization, cost-effective operation and scalability. To meet the technical and business requirements of cloud computing, the networking layer of a cloud must offer high bandwidth and low latency, converged communications and storage, agile networks for virtual machine mobility, massive scalability and manageability and advanced energy efficiency.

The essential attributes of a cloud network include terabit scalability, predictable low latency, non-blocking throughput and high-speed interconnects using 1/10GbE and the emerging 40/100GbE. For example, the new IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264 delivers throughput of up 1.28 Terabits per second and with its single-chip architecture, low latency is delivered across all port combinations. To bring even more bandwidth to the cloud, the RackSwitch G8264 is among the industry's first top-of-rack switches with 40GbE interconnects.

One of the main advantages of cloud computing is on-demand access to resources, and virtualization plays a key role in providing those resources. IBM System Networking's VMready network virtualization software enables cloud computing infrastructures with mobile, active virtual machines. Cloud computing users can gain even greater advantages from mobile virtual machines when they can be moved securely and with predictable performance not only within a cloud, but over greater distances to connect multiple clouds. Movement between clouds enables applications such as disaster recovery and data replication.

Today, cloud computing environments are deploying IT infrastructure on an unprecedented scale – data centers are expanding from 5,000 to 50,000 and 100,000 servers. For such scale-out architectures, the system network must deliver the high-density networking required to support highly consolidated and massively virtualized data center infrastructures. Today's "flat" network topologies enabled through standards such as TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) are key to this scalability.

Power and cooling are some of the biggest expenses of operating a cloud data center. A common estimate for data center cooling and distribution costs is two watts for every single watt consumed by data center equipment and networking gear is 10 to 15% of the entire infrastructure —so choosing the most energy-efficient network components is essential. As clouds grow to thousands of servers and beyond, per-component power savings are magnified into hundreds of thousands of kilowatts.

From a business perspective, the system network architecture for today's cloud computing applications must support incremental deployment that does not require razing an existing facility and building a new one. And as new pieces of the cloud are fitted into place, IT managers don't want to be locked into a single-vendor implementation for any aspect of the solution. They want the freedom to select best-in-class hardware and software components, and they want to deploy new capacity as rapidly as possible. For example, IBM has extended Tivoli's virtualization management capabilities so that it can provision and deploy hundreds or thousands of virtual machines an hour for large-scale enterprise cloud implementations.
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Bruce Springsteen is home on the range in his new short film, "Hunter of Invisible Game."
"Hunter" was posted on his Web site, brucespringsteen.net, on Wednesday, July 9 and it's essentially a long-form video, 10 minutes with no dialogue, for the track "Hunter of Invisible Game" from the album "High Hopes."
In it, he fires a gun, goes shirtless in a creek, rides a horse and saves a child while searching for a family in a darkened, overcast post-apocalyptic world. There are ruins, barren fields, a campfire and echoes of a contented past, all exquisitely filmed.
Springsteen co-directed it along with frequent collaborator Thom Zimny. There are references to "The Searchers," "Mad Max" and "Gladiator." It's ambitious and it fairly succeeds, furthering the vision of an artist who's not limited to three-and-half-hour concerts. The song, which kicks in about halfway through the film, is a lush waltz set off by a gentle counter melody on strings. It's haunting yet alluring, the charge of a heart searching for love and warmth, here and in the eternal.
"For a long part of the year, Thom Zimny and I have been talking about shooting a short film for 'Hunter Of Invisible Game,'" said Springsteen on his Web site. "We've finally got the job done, and we think it's one of our best. Thanks Thom for the hard work and brotherly collaboration. You and your crew bring it all. And to all of you out there in E St. Nation, we hope you enjoy! See ya up the road."
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This book was one of my favorites, the main idea is to love one another as if they were family. A kitten was left to be brought up by a family of mice. The mice family, Miggses, found this kitten and brought him up as their own. Mickey, the cat, loved his mice family until one day the human family put out a bowl of milk and showed Mickey his reflection and showed him that he was in fact a cat. The humans then took him in and Mickey visited his mice family all the time.
A mouse family finds a helpless newborn kitten and decide to adopt him. They never told Mickey that he is a cat. Finally one day Mickey finds out the truth. He then becomes a cat. But he still visits his mouse family. I like the book because it shows that no matter where we come from, we can always become friends.
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Preliminary figures released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday indicate that the number of violent crimes and property crimes reported by law enforcement across the nation during 2011 decreased when compared to 2010 figures.
The man suspected of orchestrating a drive-by shooting that killed a 24-year-old Turlock man, was arrested earlier this week in Idaho.
The Turlock Police Department is committed to helping the citizens of this community be safe and encourages people to file a police report if a crime has occurred. However, it is recommended that the drugs be left at home.
It has been more than two years since Hilmar resident Ken Winter lost his life in what law enforcement believe was an incident of road rage.
A woman under house arrest as part of the California prison realignment was found in possession of methamphetamine that she tried to conceal in a stuffed teddy bear, the Merced County Sheriff's Department reported.
The Turlock Police Department is investigating an attempted homicide in which a woman was stabbed Friday night.
A man who thought he was going to visit a friend instead became the victim of a robbery and a beating Thursday night.
A stop for a traffic violation Tuesday night led to the arrest of a father, his 14-year-old son and another adult on weapon and parole violation charges, the Turlock Police Department reported.
Here is a quick lesson in manners: If a business is kind enough to let you use their restroom without being a customer, the polite thing is to thank them and leave - and most importantly, don't steal anything on the way out.
A federal jury found an Atwater inmate guilty of 14 counts of attempting to file false liens and encumbrances against federal prison officers in violation of the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007.
Did you see a driver run a red light this weekend? According to a new report from the National Coalition for a Safer Roads, the Memorial Day holiday weekend has the most red-light violations.
A bomb-like device was discovered during the arrest of a Turlock man Sunday night that prompted the lockdown of a residential neighborhood, the Turlock Police Department reported.
An Atwater tax consultant is facing a federal criminal charge of impersonating a congressional aide in what authorities say was an attempt to solve a client's tax problems.
Justin Ferrari, son of long-time Turlock residents John and Jeani Ferrari, was killed when a gunman opened fire on a Seattle street corner on Thursday.
The Memorial Day holiday traditionally marks the end of the school year and the beginning of summer, when many Californians head out to picnics, barbecues, and outdoor events. The California Highway Patrol reminds those headed out on the road to buckle up, designate a driver, and eliminate distractions.
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It's been a while since I've ridden with a dynamo hub, so I was happy to get back on board one earlier this spring with the SV-8 from Shutter Precision (SP).
This has got to be one of the coolest school commutes in the world. It is also one of my favorite photos I've ever taken. It's about travel, tranquility, forward motion, and kids on bikes. And this photo was not staged. These students in Laos are just heading home from school.


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CBS developing pair of '70s shows
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It's those '70s shows for CBS and Showtime, as the two networks are tapping the swinging era for a pair of new projects.
CBS is heading for the hills of the City by the Bay with a remake of The Streets of San Francisco following the popular trend that has seen retro properties such as Knight Rider, Transformers, Beverly Hills '90210', and The Bionic Woman refitted for the small and big screen.
The original drama, which ran from 1972 to 1977, followed a pair of San Francisco cops, played by Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, as they investigated incidents in the city. The reboot will stay true to the original, according to the show's writers.
CBS's pay-cable net, Showtime, is also going in the wayback machine with Studio, a drama focused on Studio 54, the infamous, drug-fueled disco club that was the place to be (and have sex) in New York City in the late 1970s.
According to reports, Studio will focus on real-life club proprietor Steve Rubell's launching of Studio 54 and all the hedonistic naughty bits that went on behind closed doors.
The love-fest did not spread everywhere, though. Late last week, it was revealed that HBO was not renewing Tell Me You Love Me, its short-lived drama about several couples and their troubled relationships.
Elsewhere, ABC has picked up the US rights to the Canadian comedy 18 to Life. The show is about a pair of 18-year-old neighbors who get married on a dare.
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BudsandSuds49.29K • Show comment
Is there no more original ideas??? What the F+*k is with all these re-makes!!!! And they wonder why we torrent things instead of going to pay money for these stupid movies or TV shows.
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Gold help us if there are plans to recycle The Six Million Dollar Man and Adam 12 as well!


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1. Talent. Look at the margin of victory/loss. The Niners have scored 174 points and given up 174 points. They've been involved in only 2 blowouts, the first a +35 win, the second a -35 loss. Their wins are +4, +13. Their losses are -3, -3, -4, -7. The Niners aren't keeping it close because Jimmy Raye or Greg Manusky have discovered breakthrough innovations in offense or defense. So the one valid conclusion that can be drawn from the tiny margins of victory/loss is that the Niners' talent is on par with the best in the NFL - Indy, Minn, AZ.
2. Coaching tells in how a team plays on the road. The Niners have played 4 road games, three in the Central time zone. These teams have a combined record of 25-8. And yet, the Niners margin of victory/loss are +4, -3, -3, -4. In three of these games they've held a 4th quarter lead. That's good coaching.
3. Coach willing to change. He'll change little things -- notice how he's stoped using timeouts for mid-game pep talks? He'll change big things, like QB, even scheme. Remember back to 2007 when Smith was hurt and the offense was stuck in the mud? Remember Nolan's mantra? I do. It was, "I'm not going to change the problem." He wouldn't change players, he wouldn't change the style of offense, nothing. Nolan was afraid that change would only make things worse -- he lacked confidence. Singeltary is willing to change anything that doesn't work.
4. Niners can score points. The last 10 quarters of football show that Vernon Davis, Gore, Crabtree, Jason Hill, and Josh Morgan are legit playmakers if they have a QB with normal NFL-quality armstrength. When the offense is opened up under Smith it has scored 24.8 ppg (62 points divided by 2.5 games). Finally, FINALLY, the Niners can score, they have a modern NFL offense.
5. While Shaun Hill can't increase his arm strength, but Alex Smith can reduce his turnovers with more practice and more playing time.
Although it was obscured by the turnovers, I think a big offensive turn-around began in Houston and really got going yesterday. On Thursday it pays off with a win. And then the Niners will be a very dangerous team indeed.


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As Winona County continues to trudge through the frac sand debate and every associated issue, we should be thankful at least for this:
Our elected officials haven't done anything nearly as stupid as the ones north of here.
Red Wing mayor Dennis Egan was recently hired to lead a lobbying group for the frac sand industry. He doesn't think it's a conflict of interest to be the mayor of a town that has dealt with and will continue to deal with the processing, trucking, shipping and other businesses leaping at the chance to handle the dusty gold companies are digging out of southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin mines.
Clearly he doesn't think much at all.
Even if he chooses not to vote on a single issue or permit related to frac sand, he's still nothing more than a lobbyist lawmaker—which should be an oxymoron.
We never thought we'd be in a position to praise our elected officials for steering clear of frac sand interests.
But then again, it has proved impossible to define just how alluring a boom industry can be to people responsible for regulating it. In Buffalo County, for example, the long-time zoning administrator turned in his resignation and signed on with a frac sand development company not long after companies began crossing the county line. Without his leadership, the county is still struggling to figure out how to deal with the industry.
The debate is far from over. There are still plenty of rumors to debunk, plenty of good science to shine a light on, plenty of studying and discussing left to do on real issues.
So we should be thankful we have some good people in place leading us through it. The city of Winona and Winona County have reasonable and thoughtful people working hard to figure out how to stay on top and in front of the sandstorm.
Two in particular who deserve credit are Jason Gilman, the county's planning and environmental services director, and Winona assistant city planner Carlos Espinosa.
Espinosa guided the city through a yearlong process to write a comprehensive plan for regulating and permitting all areas of the industry. Gilman, we imagine, is swamped at this very moment reading comments on environmental reviews for two proposed mines — and figuring out whether the county will need to lead a longer and exhaustive review of Saratoga Township.
And we should be thankful, too, that our elected officials understand the difference between lobbying and lawmaking.
By Brian Voerding, editor, on behalf of the Winona Daily News editorial board, which also includes publisher Rusty Cunningham and deputy editor Jerome Christenson. To respond to this — or to anything you see on the Opinion page — send your note to letters@winonadaily news.com.


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Escaping the Crisis: Greek Kindergarten Teachers Find Work in Germany
German daycare centers are suffering a woeful shortage of teachers. A recruitment agency is hiring Greek kindergarten teachers who are desperate to escape the debt crisis. With as many as 14,000 positions unfilled in Germany, these workers are being welcomed with open arms.
Preschool teacher Kyriaki Nikolaidou moved from Kalampaki, Greece, to take a job at a kindergarten in Munich.
Athanossios Tsokos and his brother run the Axia recruitment agency, which has offices in Munich and Athens and is about to open one in Thessaloniki. He used to find jobs in Germany mainly for doctors and engineers. These days, though, his focus is on teachers for kindergartens, as preschools are called here.
He has just introduced Kyriaki Nikolaidou, 22, a trained teacher from Greece, to several kindergarten managers in the offices of the Munich child protection society, organization focused on child welfare that also operates preschools in the region. They complain that one of their vacancies was unfilled for two years and that many candidates didn't even show up to the interviews.
Highly Qualified
Nikolaidou lived with her parents in Kalampaki, a village in northern Greece. Her father drives delivery vans. She and her brother went to university. She got top marks in her high school diploma and in her college degree in pre-school teaching, she has a German language certificate from the Goethe Institute and visited seminars in cognitive psychology. She was working in a café for 200 a month when she saw the job advertisement that Axia posted on the Internet. She spoke to the company and to one of the preschool managers who flew to Athens to meet her.
Kyriaki knows that academic qualifications aren't that common among German preschool teachers -- the share is around three percent according to the most recent figures. But she says German teachers are committed, that they take the children outside and don't just want to sit around drinking coffee. She is about to take on a job that pays 3,000 per month gross in the Taku Tuka nursery in the Munich district of Haidhausen. She has decided that the children should just call her "Sandy," which is easier to say than Kyriaki.
She and a young woman from Crete who is also about to start work were surprised at the speed of German bureaucracy. At home, they said, it would take months to process applications. She was amazed that she was allowed to make free photocopies in German public offices. The lady in the citizen's registry office seemed friendly, they said. In Greece, by contrast, officials were less polite now.
"One has to explain to them that everything is very easy here," says Tsokos. And that you don't have to bribe officials in Germany.
Tsokos moves effortlessly between the two worlds. His parents moved to Germany in the 1960s. He grew up in the town of Traunstein in Bavaria. Then he studied economics in Thessaloniki. He advanced his career in the crisis.
He explains to the childcare officials that the two new teachers will inevitably get a cold. "You must get healthy, that's important for you," says the lady from the child protection society. The Greek women smile. Everything has been organized, they're ready to start.
They've been handed ginger bread hearts which they wore around their necks. The words "Herzlich Willkommen" are written on it in icing. "A Hearty Welcome."
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Alexandre Desplat is 51 years old and has composed some 130 movie scores. He's been nominated four times. This year they include three of the 104 eligible Oscar features: "Argo," "Rise of the Guardians," and "Zero Dark Thirty." His score for "Moonrise Kingdom" and "Rust and Bone" didn't get through the Academy's strict eligibility requirements (see below.) Here's TOH's interview.
Desplat is a potential final five contender--if he doesn't cancel himself out as he did last year--along with Oscar perennials John Williams ("Lincoln"), Danny Elfman ("Frankenweenie," "Hitchcock," "Dark Shadows," "Men in Black III," "Promised Land"), Hans Zimmer ("The Dark Knight Rises"), Thomas Newman ("Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Skyfall") and Patrick Doyle ("Brave").
The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below in alphabetical order by film title:
"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," Henry Jackman, composer
"After the Wizard," Stephen Main, composer
"Alex Cross," John Debney and Sebastian Morton, composers
"The Amazing Spider-Man," James Horner, composer
"Anna Karenina," Dario Marianelli, composer
"Argo," Alexandre Desplat, composer
"Battleship," Steve Jablonsky, composer
"The Bay," Marcelo Zarvos, composer
"Beasts of the Southern Wild," Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, composers
"Being Flynn," Damon Gough, composer
"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," Thomas Newman, composer
"Big Miracle," Cliff Eidelman, composer
"Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story," David Cieri, composer


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By SHELLEY HANSON
Staff Writer
WHEELING - Most people remember where they were on Sept. 11, 2001 - the day the United States was attacked by terrorists.
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Photo by Shelley Hanson
Preparing for Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church's Red, White and Blue Blood Drive on Sept. 11 are, from left, church members Bettie Steele, LynDel Norman, Carol Myers and Phyllis Riccadonna.
But one local church wants that day to also have a positive note by allowing people to donate a pint of blood - enough to save three lives, according to the American Red Cross.
Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church's, 905 National Road, Wheeling, third annual Red, White and You Blood Drive is slated from noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 11.
Church member Bettie Steele said the drive has become a tradition for some people who looking for a way to commemorate the day.
"We liked the idea of keeping it in front of people and remembering what happened that day, as well help providing blood for a need that is so great. The American Red Cross is at an urgent place again. There is a major need for blood in the area," Steele said.
The drive's goal is 60 units, or pints, of blood.
"People feel good about doing something positive that day," church deacon Carol Myers said.
Phyllis Riccadonna, American Red Cross donor recruitment representative, said because of the urgent need for blood every drop counts.
"There is no replacement for blood," Riccadonna said.
"This is an extremely important drive."
After people donate during the drive, a canteen area will be available where people can eat snacks, homemade cookies and beverages.
In addition to Vance, other Wheeling-area churches participating include Vineyard, First Baptist, First Christian Church Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ, Christ United Methodist, Edgewood Lutheran, St. Michael's, Temple Shalom, Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery, First Presbyterian, Stone Memorial Presbyterian, Warwood Presbyterian, Ohio Valley Christian Center and Covenant Community Church. Several schools and civic organizations also are taking part in the drive.


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I'm running a computationally intensive task that reads data from the viewfinder using UIGetScreenImage and does computations on it, repeatedly. After about 60 seconds (on 3GS) I'm getting a crash every time. But I can't debug it, because I get this:
Program received signal: "0".
Data Formatters temporarily unavailable, will re-try after a 'continue'. (Unknown error loading shared library "/Developer/usr/lib/libXcodeDebuggerSupport.dylib")
(gdb) continue
The program is not being run.
And at this point I'm toast, the stack trace is all blank.
I've used Instruments, object allocations, allocations, activity monitor, and they all show that I'm not leaking. In activity monitor for example physical memory used rises from 77MB to to 112 MB and stays there (up and down a bit) until the crash.
Anyone have an idea of what to try?


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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The government of Haiti says it will distribute pain medication to clinics around the country amid a surge in suspected cases of a mosquito-borne virus.
Public Health Minister Florence Guillaume says there have been more than 5,500 cases of the virus known as chikungunya. The outbreak has been spreading around the Caribbean since the first known locally transmitted case was reported in French St. Martin in December.
Haiti had around 1,500 suspected cases last week.
There is no vaccine for chikungunya and the primary treatment is medication for the high fever and arthritis-like pain in the joints that are symptoms of the illness.
Guillaume told Radio Caribe on Friday that the government has 400,000 doses of acetaminophen to distribute and that anyone with chikungunya can be treated at no cost.


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As Jennifer Longworth's students came into their classroom Monday morning, they went immediately to their desks and started working.
Longworth had left an assignment for them before they left for the weekend, and they knew their teacher would have wanted them to keep working. Longworth owned one of the homes demolished in the southside explosion and died in the blast.
The Monday-morning assignment is an example of how she operated her second-grade classroom, Southwest Elementary School Principal Beth Guilfoy said.
"She's the most organized person. When we went into her classroom (Sunday) she had everything ready — stuff for parent-teacher conferences this week, her lesson plans. The kids have what they need on their desk," she said.
The first few hours of Monday morning were the most difficult for Longworth's students, Guilfoy said.
Parents had come in to help, and the sorrow permeated the room.
The students and staff at Southwest Elementary School tried their best to structure Monday like any other school day.
Students completed math problems at the board and practiced writing cursive. They went through their morning assignments, ate lunch and went to recess.
But a massive rip had been left in the fabric of their school.
The Southwest Elementary community leaned on each other for support during what was likely the hardest day of school they'll ever face. In the wake of the explosion that killed Longworth, 36, and her husband, Dion, 34, the heavy pall of grief blanketed each classroom, hallway and office.
Extra counselors from other schools helped students who wanted to talk, as well as teachers who needed someone to listen. Even at other Greenwood schools, students were encouraged to seek help.
"There were so many people who were touched by Jennifer's life. Students in the middle school and high school who had her as a teacher remember her very fondly," Superintendent David Edds said. "It goes well beyond her own classroom."
To help them express what they were feeling, they all came together to talk about their teacher and what they loved about her.
"We shared celebrations about Mrs. Longworth. That really helped break the ice," Guilfoy said. "Two students clearly stated that she's the best teacher they've ever had. One said she really helped her learn math. Another got help with reading. They all had stories to tell."
As the school day went on, the children seemed to lose themselves in their work. Class became more normal, and students didn't want to talk about it more, Guilfoy said. Academic activities picked up, though students still had the option to stop and talk to a counselor if they needed it. Many took advantage of it.
"We let them know that we don't know why these tragedies happen. We've lost a dear friend, a trusted teacher and someone who had been a wonderful addition to the Greenwood family. She's been taken from us, and there's nothing we can do besides move on," Edds said.
Staff members wore Colts blue in honor of Longworth's avid love for her favorite football team. Some students wore the hand-knitted stocking hats or scarves that she made her class every year for Christmas.
The students themselves consoled each other. Older children were seen helping the younger ones at lunch or on the playground with a pat on the back.
"They gave them just a pat on the back, letting them know that they know how they felt, that they loved her, too," Guilfoy said.
School officials brought in additional counselors from throughout the district. No students had to talk to them but were told that they would be excused from class if they wanted to.
Clergy from throughout Greenwood also were on the premises to help explain the death in faith-based ways.
That was available for the children but also for the teachers who lost their friend and co-worker.
"This is going to be a very difficult day for the teachers. We have people there to help them and give them support," Edds said. "The biggest thing is to be good listeners, and if they need help, ask for it."
Administrators had spent Sunday afternoon calling the parents of every student in Longworth's class this year, as well as those who were in the class last year.
They let them know that Longworth and her husband had been killed in an accident and left it up to them if they wanted to tell them before coming to school Monday.
Guilfoy and others in her staff took turns going from classroom to classroom Monday, letting the students speak about Longworth.
"Our goal today was to be real to the kids, to express our emotion that we lost someone that we deeply love and care about, and that it's OK to be sad and angry and whatever other emotions are going to come," Guilfoy said.
A special education teacher at Southwest stepped in to lead Longworth's class Monday and likely will stay in that position for the next few days.
"Today has been a long, emotional day for the staff," Guilfoy said after school Monday. "It's still very fresh."


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November 4, 2012 - Had a really special experience with this old CSM cab. Started out with stinky and sour notes of cherry. Air helped unravel what was underneath, which included dried cherry and currant fruit, herbs and a slight dusting of cocoa. This old-timer also paired very well with a tasty al pastor burrito but was very enjoyable on its own too.
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October 20, 2008 - Wine of the day. As it was pointed out to me a week before this tasting, these old Chateau Ste Michelle Cabs are a whole different animal from what you would have in your glass today from the "Regular" bottling. Indeed, a mere 33 years young, and I was amazed, no, in shock, how this thing has held together. Fireworks of aged cedar on the nose seduced and enchanted both experienced taster and novices alike. The palate wasn't quite as dramatic as the nose, but it did leave a favorable impression of cassis fruit and sharp acidity. Almost no fading of structure or presence with the two hours that it sat in the decanter. A memorable experience and many thanks to my old man for sharing this with the group.
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Oklahoma news briefs for Aug. 2
Rainfall rises in some areas
In looking back on July, the Oklahoma Mesonet weather network site at Clayton led the state with 11.3 inches of rainfall. Three Oklahoma City Mesonet stations recorded at least 9 inches of rainfall, although the official observing site at Will Rogers World Airport recorded only 4.18 inches of rain. As for severe weather, the month included a 106 mph wind gust recorded at the Burneyville Mesonet site late in the evening Wednesday.
Oklahoma City
Clean water meeting set
The Association of Clean Water Administrators will hold its annual meeting Sunday through Wednesday at the Sheraton Hotel. It is the first time in its 53-year history to meet in Oklahoma City. Water directors from across the country will convene during Clean Water Appreciation Week to discuss issues that impact their states. The Environmental Protection Agency says Americans use 100 gallons of water per day. In most communities, there is a limited supply. The state Department of Environmental Quality encourages Oklahomans to use water wisely. Water conservation information is available at www.deq.state.ok.us/conservation/index.html.