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Crosby helps lift Canada past Sweden
SOCHI, Russia -- Sidney Crosby skated in alone on Henrik Lundqvist, faking Sweden's goalie to the ice with a textbook-quality deke and sliding a perfect backhand into the net.
Canada did everything by the book at the Sochi Olympics, winning all six games with a ferocious commitment to defense and discipline. When Canada's captain finally got his first goal of the Games Sunday, it had none of the dramatics of Crosby's last Olympic goal four years ago in Vancouver.
But it was every bit as golden.
Jonathan Toews scored in the first period, Carey Price made 24 saves in his second consecutive shutout, and Canada defended its Olympic men's hockey title with a 3-0 victory over Sweden.
"We're just an amazing team to watch, the way we work together," Toews said.
Chris Kunitz also scored as the Canadians confirmed their worldwide dominance in their national game by winning the gold for the third time in the past four Olympics. No team in the NHL era has controlled a tournament like this group, which allowed just three goals in six games and never trailed at any point in the 12-day tournament.
"Not quite as dramatic as the other one," Crosby said. "Just real solid all the way through. We knew the way we wanted to play, and the last couple of games, we were solid. With each game, we seemed to build more and more confidence."
Canada became the only repeat Olympic champ in the NHL era and the first team to go unbeaten through the Olympic tournament since the Soviet Union in 1984.
Canada won its record ninth Olympic hockey gold medal -- its first outside North America since 1952 -- and joined the women's team to complete Canada's second straight Olympic hockey sweep.
The Canadians didn't allow a goal in their final 164-plus minutes at the Bolshoy Ice Dome.
"That was the hardest-working team I've ever seen," Price said. "I really can't say enough about that group of defensemen and that overall team in front of me. Our work ethic was what won us this championship."
The Canadians exchanged hugs and leaped over the boards at the final horn, gathering at Price's net for a celebration that had seemed inevitable since Crosby scored in the second period.
Toews, who scored on a first-period tip-in, and Crosby are among Canada's 11 returning players from the 2010 championship team. Kunitz, widely criticized for failing to finish chances earlier in Sochi, capped the scoring with a vicious wrist shot in the third.
If these games were the last with NHL players joining their national teams, Canada's pros put on a landmark show. The NHL won't decide for several months whether to allow its players to go to Pyeongchang.
"It is amazing to see the guys that have the raw talent and ability commit themselves to doing all the little things right," said Toews, who has two Stanley Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals at 25. "We knew that's what it was going to take in this tournament to win the championship, and guys were willing to do that."
Lundqvist stopped 33 shots, but the depleted Swedes couldn't keep pace with the new Big Red Machine in Russia.
While Canada got goals from its two best centers, Sweden had to play without its top three centers. With Henrik Sedin and Henrik Zetterberg already out for the tournament, Nicklas Backstrom was scratched shortly before game time. Swedish Olympic officials said Backstrom had a positive drug test because of an allergy medicine.
"With all the turnovers, Hank could only do so much for us," Sweden captain Niklas Kronwall said. "We thought that if we played a perfect game, we'd have a chance. ... It doesn't feel great. I didn't feel like we gave ourselves an honest chance."
After both teams hit a post in the opening minutes to put a little buzz into the quiet Russian crowd, Canada went ahead nearly 13 minutes in when Jeff Carter threw a quick pass in front to Toews, who deflected it underneath Lundqvist for his first goal in Sochi. Toews also scored Canada's first goal in the gold-medal game in Vancouver.
Late in the second period, Crosby scored after forcing a turnover at the Canada blue line. Loui Eriksson couldn't catch him, and Lundqvist couldn't stop the backhand with his sprawled toe.
When Backstrom was ruled out shortly before game time, Sweden was left without its top three pivots. Jimmie Ericsson attempted to fill in between Daniel Sedin and Eriksson, but he's not a natural center, and he lost all six of his faceoffs in the first period.
"They had a good game plan against us, and they stuck to it," Sweden defenseman Erik Karlsson said. "We couldn't really break through a brick wall."


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Apollo Ups Ante in Bidding War for Great Wolf Resorts
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- After a lull, the stakes are rising in a bidding war between private equity firms KSL Capital Partners and Apollo Global Management (APO) for theme park and hotels operator Great Wolf Resorts (WOLF) .
After meeting an earlier $7 bid by KSL, Apollo management reacted to a $7.25 rebuttal bid made earlier this week by KSL with its biggest raise yet on Friday -- a 60 cent increasing its offer to $7.85. The rising stakes in the private equity buyout of Great Wolf Resorts have its takeover price closing in on what frustrated shareholders and analysts target as the company's fair value.
The increased bid from Apollo comes after one shareholder called for Apollo and KSL to raise the stakes in their Great Wolf Resorts fight .
A sale process that began with a $5 per share bid by Apollo and accepted by Great Wolf Resorts in March has proven dramatic for the emergence of a competing bidder in KSL. While management has sided repeatedly with Apollo bids at $5, $6.75 and most recently $7, KSL has raised the private equity giants bid each time. With a $7.85 bid on Friday morning, Apollo appears to be in it for the win, while KSL lingers.
At issue throughout the takeover, beginning with Great Wolf's board approval of a $5 offer by Apollo on March 12, has been whether offers reflect a fair value. Meanwhile, Great Wolf Resorts has accepted multiple Apollo bids without fully engaging KSL, even as offer prices stalled at $7. But after Apollo raised its offer to $7.85, Great Wolf Resorts epic sale process and KSL's role as a rival seems to be tilting in shareholders favor.
Another mystery is why a public blow-for-blow bidding war emerged after Great Wolf Resorts conducted what it told Bloomberg News was a nine-month auction process that only netted bids in the $5 range.
Apollo's offer represents a 87% premium to Great Wolf Resorts closing share price prior to announcing its acceptance of an initial $5 offer. The 60-cent bid increase to $7.85 also is in line with some analyst expectations and brings the loss-making company near its fair valuation.
Sachin Shah a strategist at Tullett Prebon, said on Thursday that to raise KSL's $7.25 a share offer, Apollo would need to increase its bid by at least 25 cents. Meanwhile, the current offer price is close to Shah's $8 to $8.60 a share fair value for Great Wolf Resorts. In a March research note, he said that Great Wolf Resorts' core operations, its net operating losses
Shares of Great Wolf Resorts were nearly 8% higher in early trading to $8, adding to over 150% year-to-date gains as a result of the bidding war.


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CALCUTTA - As fourth-graders at Calcutta Elementary School prepared to wrap up their toy drive Friday morning, an announcement came over the intercom asking for a moment of silence for the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
It was a poignant moment that captured the spirit of Christmas that teachers have been trying to instill in their students these past few weeks.
Even as they've been collecting toys for patients at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Calcutta Elementary students have been thinking about the shooting victims and their families.
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Calcutta Elementary School fourth-graders (from left) Cierrah Thurik, 10, Kaitlin Blakovich, 10, and Isabel Bryer, 9, take a box of toys to a truck waiting outside the school Friday morning. The annual toy drive benefits children at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. (Photo by Stephen Huba)
Fourth-grade teacher Curt Kester gave his students a writing assignment, asking them, "If you could give anyone anything, what would it be?"
Kester said he was pleased with the selfless responses of the students who wanted to give a cure for cancer, help to a homeless person or life back to the shooting victims.
"That's the stuff that's on their minds," Kester said. "I found that heartwarming - the things they chose."
Fourth-grader Alexis Jordan wrote, "If I could give anyone anything, it would be to redo the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting."
Ian Sell wrote, "If I could give anyone anything, it would be a chance to change their life. And a chance to bring back the lives of those people who died at Sandy Hook Elementary."
Spencer Mattern wrote, "I would give to a homeless hobo that got hit by Hurricane Sandy." Several other students mentioned the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Madison Millhorn wrote, "If I could give to an orphanage, I would (give) them money, food, (water), toys, a home, a family, heat and anything they would want or need."
Cameron Ash said he would give a "celebration picnic for the heroes," by which he meant police officers, firefighters and first-responders.
Essays that mentioned toys for children in need, or a cure for cancer, were apropos because Friday was the last day for the school's annual toy drive, organized with the help of fourth-grade teacher Steve Hall.
The toy drive was started in 2007 by retired Beaver Local Middle School math teacher Rick Salsberry, whose daughter, Lindsey, died that same year of cancer. A patient at Children's Hospital, Lindsey had befriended a 9-year-old girl whom she wanted to give a gift to on Christmas.
After Lindsey's death, Salsberry decided to start a toy drive in her memory. The first year, the drive supplied toys for all the children in the oncology unit. In 2008, gifts went to patients and their siblings.
"It was so easy to get 100 toys there," Salsberry said. "It's just blossomed ever since."
Calcutta Elementary has been participating in the toy drive for three years, sending a note home to parents asking for a new toy, a new game or art supplies valued at about $5.
Enough toys are collected now to give to every patient in the hospital for Christmas - and then some.
"It lasts all year long," Salsberry said. "That's the spirit of Christmas."


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Democrats from Philadelphia's state Senate delegation unveiled a plan Thursday to provide $300 million more for education across the state.
During a briefing at the School District's headquarters, senators said the increased aid for schools would not require any broad-based tax increases.
State Sen. Vincent Hughes, Democratic chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said the proposal "just marks the down payment" on the nearly $1 billion needed over the next three years to restore cuts in school funding since Gov. Corbett, a Republican, took office.


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Olympic Games
- Object:
- Place of origin:
Sweden (printed)
- Date:
1911 (printed)
- Artist/Maker:
Hjörtzberg, Olle, born 1872 - died 1959 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph
- Credit Line:
Given by the Editor of <i>Commercial Art and Industry</i>. Reproduced courtesy of the International Olympic Committee
- Museum number:
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case Y, shelf 85, box 74
A poster advertising the Olympic Games held in Stockholm from 29 June to 22 July 1912. In this, the first official Olympics poster, Olle Hjörtzberg portrays the male body as a perfect machine, a symbol of supremacy. The original design, featuring nude athletes, was replaced by this version, in which strategically placed streamers have been added. The poster was printed in 16 languages and three formats, though it was not distributed to countries where it was considered the image might be thought too daring.
Physical description
Place of Origin
Sweden (printed)
1911 (printed)
Hjörtzberg, Olle, born 1872 - died 1959 (artist)
Materials and Techniques
Colour lithograph
Height: 1048 mm sheet, Width: 747 mm sheet
Descriptive line
Posterby Hjortzberger for 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibition History
A Century of Olympic Posters (Liaoning Museum, Shenyang 12 March 2008-27 April 2008)
A Century of Olympic Posters (Capital Museum, Beijing 15 January 2008-28 February 2008)
A Century of Olympic Posters (V&A Museum of Childhood 17/05/2008-07/09/2008)
A Century of Olympic Posters (V&A Museum of Childhood 17/05/08-27/09/08)
Printing ink
Subjects depicted
Nudes; Stockholm
Sport; Posters; Olympics
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MURFREESBORO, TN - He was a man of great faith and conviction. He also proved to be a crack shot.
A soldier with the American Expeditionary Force in France, he is credited with single-handedly capturing 132 German soldiers. However, the actual battle site where he performed his heroic deeds was lost over time.
Now 88 years later, the World War I battlefield where Sergeant Alvin C. York won the Medal of Honor has at last been found.
After several years of study and field work, a team of researchers believe they have found the French battlefield where York of the 328th Infantry won his nation's highest decoration on October 8, 1918.
Recovery of a U-S Collar Disk -- The Big Clue
The research team led by geographer Tom Nolan, a member of the geosciences faculty at Middle Tennessee State University, and Michael Birdwell, an Alvin York scholar and member of Tennessee Tech University's history faculty, recently uncovered more than 1,400 artifacts at the site in Châtel - Chehéry, France.
The discovery of a United States Army collar disk stamped '328 Infantry G,' York's own company, added to the evidence gathered by the team. Soldiers in the U-S Army during the First World War wore these types of brass disks on the collars of their uniforms to often denote in what branch of the army, battalion or company they belonged.
The team scoured the French location with metal detectors to find and recover the treasure-trove of artifacts. The artifacts are described as items discarded by German soldiers when they surrendered to York and his men. The items include German gas masks, German gas mask filters, German bayonets, Mauser rifle bolts, fired German and U.S. rifle rounds, and spent Colt.45 rounds.
The research team relied on advanced mapping technology In their efforts to locate the York battle site. Nolan used GIS with information obtained from historic French and German battle maps as well as maps annotated by York's commanding officers, Col. G. Edward Buxton and Maj. E.C.B. Danforth.
They also used written accounts by both the German and American participants. This information was then superimposed upon the modern landscape to help the researchers focus and better target their metal-detection fieldwork.
"While historic interpretation and surface archaeology were both important, it was geography and GIS that provided the means to interpret that information and relate it to the modern landscape," observed Nolan. "Without geography and GIS, we would not have been able to do what we did, meaning find the York battlefield site."
Legendary Feats of Extraordinary Heroism
On October 8, 1918 in the Argonne Forest, York's battalion was ordered to advance across a valley and take two hills from the German forces. At this point, the combined American squads, including Corporal York's, was 17 men. Assigned to the enemy's left, the squad commanders decided to flank the enemy and try to make their approach from the rear.
During the advance, the Americans stumbled across the headquarters of the machine gun regiment. The Germans were eating breakfast at the time and were taken totally by surprise. Most of the enemy troops surrendered, but one German shot at York, who quickly killed the him with a single shot.
The Americans disarmed and organized their prisoners. However, by this time the enemy machine gunners on the hill had been alerted. The machine guns opended fire taking out nine Americans, including an officer. This left Corporal York in charge and the action would prove to be the only German high point in the battle.
As the machine gun raked the American troops, York was standing out in the open. Almost immediately, he began to exchange shots with the enemy without seeking cover. The corporal quickly saw that in order for the Germans to swing their guns into place, they had to show their heads above their trench. He later wrote in his diary, "Every time I saw a head I just touched it off. All the time I kept yelling at them to come down. I didn't want to kill any more than I had to. But it was they or I. And I was giving them the best I had."
"Suddenly a German officer and five men jumped out of the trench and charged me with fixed bayonets. I changed to the old automatic and just touched them off, too. I touched off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. I wanted them to keep coming. I didn't want the rear ones to see me touching off the front ones. I was afraid they would drop down and pump a volley into me."
A German major who had already been captured had seen enough. The English-speaking officer told York, "If you don't shoot any more, I will make them surrender." All but one of the Germans gave up. That one German even managed to throw a small hand grenade before York killed him.
The eight American soldiers now faced the overwhelming task of leading more than 80 prisoners through enemy lines. York put the German major at the head of the column, placing his Colt.45 against the enemy officer's back. The seven other men then surrounded their prisoners, keeping a watchful eye.
As York and his men led the captured Germans back to their own lines, German soldiers and other machine gunners attempted to fire on the Americans. York forced the German officer to order them to surrender. All but one willingly gave up. According to York, "I made the major order him to surrender twice. But he wouldn't. And I had to touch him off. I hated to do it. But I couldn't afford to take any chances and so I had to let him have it."
By the time York and his small squad reached the safety of the American lines they had captured 132 Germans, including three officers. Word quickly spread that York had single-handedly "captured the whole German army." An Army inspection of the battle scene revealed 28 dead German soldiers.
The Army's Investigation of the Battle
According to the official Army report, York's description of the battle was accurate though "York's statement tends to underestimate the desperate odds which he overcame."
A general once asked York how he managed to accomplish his feat. York told the officer, "Sir, it is not man power. A higher power than man guided and watched over me and told me what to do."
For his bravery, York was awarded the Medal of Honor and was also promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Thirteen years later, Warner Brothers released the movie entitled Sergeant York. It starred Gary Cooper, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the backwoods soldier.
York donated his profits from the movie to the Alvin C. York Institute, which he had established in 1926 to provide educational opportunities denied him to the boys and girls of Fentress County, Tennessee.
York was a true American hero and his story still inspires many Americans today.
French Officials to Erect Historic Marker
At present, the research team is identifying and cataloging all of the artifacts from the battlefield for museum display.
As a result of the team's find, French authorities intend to erect an historic marker at the location of the machine-gun nest overlooking the once-lost spot where Pall Mall, Tennessee, native York fired his weapons and where the nine soldiers were wounded or killed.
"They are planning to dedicate the marker next October at a ceremony to be attended by the research team, and hopefully, by representatives from the State of Tennessee and the presidents of Middle Tennessee State University and Tennessee Technological University in October 2007," Birdwell said.
The Sergeant York Project, Lisa Rollins, Middle Tennesee State University, Tennessee Tech University, New American Magazine and the Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation contributed to this story.
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DNA analysis has led authorities to bring a capital murder charge against a Houston man already in prison on a burglary conviction.
Jean Carlo Ayala Madrid, 20, has been charged with capital murder in the July 8, 2010, shooting death of Ernesto Moreno in the 15100 block of Ella Blvd.
According to court records, Moreno and his roommate were at home when a group of men tried to force their way into the apartment.
As Moreno tried to close the door, one of the men reached his arm inside and shot Moreno in the head and neck, records state. Investigators took a swab from the front door where the men had been pushing, and the DNA was analyzed by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science.
A comparison with the Combined DNA Index System known as CODIS identified a match with Ayala Madrid's DNA, according to court records.
In May, a homicide investigator with the Harris County Sheriff's Office visited Madrid in prison, where he is serving a two-year sentence for an unrelated home burglary, records state.
According to online law enforcement records, Ayala Madrid pleaded guilty to the burglary charge in October 2011 and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Ayala Madrid told the deputy that he and three other men had gone to Moreno's apartment to rob him. According to the complaint from the Harris County District Attorney's Office, Ayala Madrid said he knew one of the men with him had a gun when they went to the apartment.
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A Saugus woman who turned herself in for a hit-and-run collision that allegedly happened a year a half ago has pleaded not guilty to the charge filed against her, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
Imelda Gonzalez Lara, 53, appeared in San Fernando Superior Court Friday and entered a plea of not guilty to a single felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident, said Shiara Dávila-Morales.
Lara turned herself in at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station and was arrested Jan. 16, according to the Sheriff's Station arrest log.
She was ordered Friday to appear back in court March 20 to set a date for her preliminary hearing. During that hearing, prosecutors will present evidence in the case, and the defense can respond, after which the judge will decide if the case should go to trial.
Lara was arrested in connection with a collision May 15, 2012, in which a man was hit by a car in the driveway of a home in Saugus north of Saugus High School, Sheriff's Detective Doyle Winslow said shortly after her arrest.
"He had a broken arm, fractured ribs and two broken vertebrae," he said. "He has lasting injuries."
Almost three months ago, Winslow issued a warrant for Lara's arrest.
"I advised her about the existence of the arrest warrant and I advised her that she should turn herself in," the detective said.
She was released on bail, which had been set at $150,000, the day after her arrest.
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TAYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, MI — Johnnie Blair, 8, ran into his parent's bedroom at 3 a.m. Sunday yelling that his bed was on fire.
Johnnie and his parents made it out safely, but their home, which stood at 10490 Dorwood, was destroyed.
"I yelled to my mom 'my bed is on fire!' The door to their room was open. I yelled and then ran outside," Johnnie said as he pointed to where his bedroom once stood.
Nicole Blaney, Johnnie's mother, said the situation has been bitter sweet.
"We're sad. We lost everything. We have nothing. But, besides some burns on me and my husband inhaling smoke, we all made it out OK," Blaney said.
The family lost several pets in the fire, including their 6-month-old kitten, a bird and a gecko.
"Our three dogs made it out and our cat, Furball, was outside roaming so he survived," said Blaney.
Johnnie's cub scout leader has spent the last few weeks going over fire safety and what to do if you see a fire.
"His cub scout leader ran drills. They all had whistles and flashlights and had to practice getting out of a fire safely," Blaney said. "Now he didn't have a whistle here, but he remembered exactly what to do. He got out fast. We started yelling at him to get out and he was already headed out the door. Cub scouts is the best money I've ever spent."
"He's my little hero. It's not every day an 8-year-old saves his entire family. I owe everything to him."
A sparking wall outlet because of a wiring problem caused the fire. Johnnie's bunk bed is against the wall and the sparks caught the wooden frame on fire.
Blaney said within 20 minutes the house was engulfed.
Her one-year-old twins, Makenzie and Zachariah, were staying with family members Saturday night.
"I'm so glad they weren't here. They just turned one and all of their new clothes are ruined. Hangers melted to clothes. They had the cutest clothes," she said while holding up dresses and shirts.
Johnnie said he misses his animals, who he added are now in animal heaven, and his Nintendo DS.
"We found the DS but it was melted," Blaney said. "He's been strong about it though. He lost everything. When he ran outside, he went so fast he didn't grab any shoes. So I threw some shoes outside for him before they could burn."
Blaney and her husband tried to put the fire out but it spread too quickly.
The family is staying with relatives for now. Johnnie's school bus drops him off in front of the burned home every afternoon after school.
"We've spent a lot of time here going through to see if there is anything to save," Blaney said.
"There's been great community support. T&A Tattoo in Burton gave Johnnie a Nintendo GameCube and an iPod nano. His school and the church have given us gift cards," she said.
There is a fund set up at Community State Bank in the Blaney family name for anyone who wishes to donate.
Johnnie and the twins also need clothing. Johnnie wears size 8 clothes and size 5 shoes. Makenzie wears size 12-18 months and Zachariah wears 9-12 months.
"We'll get through it. We have family helping us. One day here soon we're going to clean this all up," she said, pointing to the remains of her house.
"I'm just thankful to have Johnnie, my little hero. I'm so glad he woke up and acted so fast," Blaney said.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JF Mezei [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
> Sent: December 30, 2007 5:12 PM
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Subject: Re: Samba Gains Legal Access to Microsoft Network File
> Protocols
> Main, Kerry wrote:
> > Well, pure personal opinion, but at some point I believe the industry
> is
> > going to realize that it can no longer afford these "industry
> standard"
> > OS's like Windows and Linux - especially for mission critical
> workloads.
> Consider that even today, VMS is rarely considered by the majority of
> shops. And by the time they realise Windows is costing them a lot more
> than other systems, VMS may no longer be available to new customers and
> its features will have lagged far more than now and will truly be only
> good enough for legacy apps.
[sky is falling and black helicopter stuff snipped..]
Like I (and others) have said before - nobody here is saying that
marketing and other areas (past and present) discussed at length in this
newsgroup could not have been done differently or be improved.
However, the blind doom-and-gloom you portray without any recognition
of some of the good things happening is also not beneficial to those
in this newsgroup.
Heck, getting Mark Hurd to do a personal video testimonial for a single
product (remember that HP is a $100B+ company & has hundreds of products)
was a major accomplishment by folks like Sue and others in BCS working
with her.
And here are some recent testimonial video'sall links are to HP site)
"See how Deutsche Börse, the largest financial exchange organization in
the world, uses HP OpenVMS running on HP Integrity servers to keep their
electronic markets up and running."
http://tinyurl.com/2mt3cp - Acision and OpenVMS Blades
"Acision uses HP OpenVMS running on HP Integrity servers & HP Blades to
help deliver more than half of the world's text & multimedia messages &
serve three quarters of all videomail users."
http://tinyurl.com/34886x - Australian Stock Exchange & OpenVMS Integrity
"Operating Australia's chief financial markets, the Australian Securities
Exchange relies on HP OpenVMS to deliver products and services that play a
major role in the economy down under."
So, yes there is still lots to do, but lets also not lose sight of some
Of the positive things happening as well.
Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-592-4660
Fax: 613-591-4477
(remove the DOT's and AT)
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You'll have to look sharp during the funeral scene of Passions, a CBS movie to be shown this spring, but if you do you may spot a bearded lady in the throng of mourners. Richard Crenna, whose character is deep-sixed in the film, decided to pull a Tom Sawyer by attending his own funeral. Unbeknownst to Joanne Woodward (who plays his wife), Lindsay Wagner (who plays his mistress) or the film's director, Sandor Stern, Crenna slipped onto the set disguised in widow's weeds. When he stepped forward between takes, the cast and crew had to take a 15-minute break to regain their composure.
Leslie Browne, who danced off with an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress in The Turning Point six years ago, may resume her film career soon. Herbert Ross, who directed Browne in The Turning Point and Nijinsky, is considering the American Ballet Theatre dancer for a role in Protocol, starring Goldie Hawn....
HBO Premiere Films is close to signing Jackie Bisset for an upcoming film titled Last Jews in Berlin. Bisset would play an aristocratic German who risks her life to protect her Jewish lover during World War II.
It takes a lot of brawn to impress Iron Man Arnold Schwarzenegger, who just wrapped Conan, King of Thieves, the sequel to his 1982 box office smash. Though Schwarzenegger gamely did his own stunts for the film, he generally steered clear of co-star Grace Jones, whose ferocious portrayal of an Amazon warrior named Zula landed a few cast members in the hospital with minor injuries. "I call her 'wild animal,' " says Arnold. "She's very physical—like nothing I've ever seen. She really hits hard." During one battle scene, he gloats, "she missed and hit herself in the leg. It gave her an idea of what it's like to be hit by a six-foot stick that's two inches thick." But Arnold may have to contend with the ferocious Grace in a third Conan film, likely to begin production within a year. In King of Thieves, Schwarzenegger notes ruefully, "Grace doesn't get killed off."
Jack Nicholson and Tim Hutton, who bowed out of Road Show because of pre-production delays on the movie, may pair up in another movie called A Talent for the Game, about a baseball scout who recruits a fireballer from Tennessee to pitch for a New York team. Filming is scheduled to begin this summer outside Nashville and Ron (Happy Days) Howard may direct. According to the film's producer, Jay Weston, "I bought the script the morning I read it, and I don't even like sports." That's a good sign, given the number of baseball movies already on deck: The Natural with Robert Redford, The Slugger's Wife with Michael O'Keefe and Glory Boys with Dustin Hoffman.
A role's appeal for an actor seems to vary from generation to generation. Take Hoffman, 46, and Matthew Broderick, 21, for instance. Broderick plays a thief named Phillipe in the film Ladyhawke, to be released later this year, and the star of Max Dugan Returns and WarGames agreed to do the movie because "I liked the action sequences. There's a lot of climbing and slithering through the mud and stuff like that, and I thought it sounded like fun." Apparently all that didn't have the same appeal to Hoffman, who was first offered the part and said he didn't have time. But Dustin, who opens on Broadway in Death of a Salesman next month, found room in his busy schedule to narrate a four-part PBS series about American abstract expressionist painters, Strokes of Genius, premiering May 8. Hoffman's segments were directed by Steven Spielberg at the Easthampton, N.Y. studio of artist Willem de Kooning, who's featured in the documentary.
Take One
updated 02/27/1984 AT 01:00 AM EST
•originally published 02/27/1984 AT 01:00 AM EST


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With that, we're back with some highlights from the WSU-UCLA game, ripped for YOUR pleasure, of course. As you'll see in a moment, very little defense in the highlights….but you know the drill. LOTS of offense to show, and for good reason. They did a pretty good job, all things considered. And to think, we saw this team in position to take a fourth-quarter lead? On the road? Against a BCS team? UCLA for that matter, a team that just won 34-12 at Texas?? I must be dreaming…
Seriously though, they really did move the ball well. And while you never want to get too high or too low, a day or so of perspective is the right move here. Yes, disappointed that the lads couldn't close the deal when the chips were down. But deep down, happy or even a little excited at the change on offense?
Ask yourself this. Think back to the offense, just back to the Montana State game three weeks ago. Remember how they only had SEVEN points heading into the fourth quarter in that one? At home, against Montana State? And then fast-foward to Saturday, and here we were with 28 points, and knocking on the door for 35 points, into the fourth on the road at UCLA. Whatever the changes, whether it's the new pistol-spread offense in the no-huddle, or that everyone from the offensive line to the wideouts to Jeff Tuel himself getting comfortable with everything, the change is quite drastic.
And for that, I'm tipping my hat towards the sideline, and saying that Wulff and Todd Sturdy deserve a pat on the back for getting this thing going in the right direction all of a sudden. While the running game is still a major work in progress, you can see the steps being taken overall.
Enough of this, on to the video! After the read more, of course….
Some general thoughts (note that the video might be a little bit grainy, as it was just uploaded Monday afternoon):
1) Jeff Tuel played a very good game. I have to admit to being critical of Tuel lately, and that his accuracy on the routine throws should be better than it has been. Go back and watch the USC or even the Montana State highlights, and you can see him missing high and sometimes behind guys who appear open. But he was much crisper this week. But best of all, after a three-INT game last week? NO TURNOVERS! And that's against a very fast, strong, aggressive UCLA defense at that. He just didn't make many bad decisions, whether he was running the ball when time was running out in the pocket or just throwing the damn thing away when nothing was there. I wonder how he'll "grade out" on the coaches film this week, but from my untrained eye, he sure looked good!
2) Marquess Wilson is 17. Think about that. 17! As they said on the broadcast, during practices players are afraid that he will "posterize" or "Randy Moss" them during practice. I LOVE Jason Hill and he was fantastic, but I can't recall that I've seen a combination of size, hands and athleticism out of a wide receiver like this at Washington State. Look at the long catch he had, where he went up and grabbed the ball around two defenders. A better throw to the outside would have been a TD catch, similar to what he had vs. SMU a few weeks ago. But he went up and grabbed it with his "ball skills", adjusting to the ball underthrown and too far to the middle of the field. Or watch the long strides when he takes in a ball over the middle and nearly goes to the house, about the 9:30 mark of the video. He runs by some of those UCLA defenders like they were standing in cement! As Sutra told me on Saturday night, we better enjoy him while he's in Pullman, because he's got see-you-on-Sunday type skills and might be on draft boards by the time he's a junior!
3) Tuel took some shots. I bet he's got bruises on his bruises today, and he took some real shots by the defense, especially late in the game when we were behind. He also took on the defense a couple of times, when maybe it would have been better if he would have just slid? The offense is just showing so much promise, the last thing we need is for Tuel to start wearing down from all the hits from Pac-10 defenses.
4) I love the four-WR sets out of the pistol, and we're starting to see some real depth develop at the position. Spread 'em out with that formation, and make the defenses adjust to what you are doing. With Karstetter, Wilson, and now Blackledge, Solomon, Barton and Simone, that's six pretty nice guys to have in the mix. As Wulff said on the coaches show a few weeks ago, Mike Levenseller says that he feels like he has added "ten years" to his coaching life based on the talent they have right now. And we're not even seeing Kristoff Williams, the other true frosh who was blowing people away in practice this fall before being shelved due to turf toe!
5) The refs did get the Tuel call right. No doubt about it, his knee was down.
All for now. GO COUGS!


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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Always close to the front but never first at the end, Tejay van Garderen would often wear himself out wondering if he could swap the white jersey that goes to the best young rider for the yellow one that goes to the winner.
Eight days through all of California's climates erased those doubts.
Van Garderen guided the BMC Racing Team with a command that suggests he could be American cycling's next big star, winning the Tour of California on Sunday for his first professional stage race title.
"It's actually a big relief," he said. "I've been close on a number of occasions. I was actually starting to get worried that maybe I just didn't have what it took to win a stage race."
Van Garderen stayed out of trouble and cruised through the smooth and scenic final stage from San Francisco to Santa Rosa without incident to lead the team to a victory in front of its home fans, edging Australia's Michael Rogers for the overall title by 1:47. Colombian Janier Acevedo was third, 3:26 behind van Garderen.
Van Garderen completed the eight-day, 727.8-mile race that has evolved into North America's most prominent cycling event in 29 hours, 43 minutes. He held the overall lead the final three days.
"I've known for years that I'm capable of a ride like that," he said. "Finally for it all to fall in place, it's really special."
With a formidable field and a taxing terrain, van Garderen showed an all-around style that will make him a strong contender in this summer's Tour de France.
He stayed within striking distance in the desert heat, powered through coastal crosswinds to grab the yellow jersey in a grueling fifth stage from Santa Barbara to Avila Beach, and dominated the hilly and technical time trial that followed in San Jose. Finally, he maneuvered up Mount Diablo behind his teammates to maintain the overall lead that set the stage for a mostly ceremonial and celebratory finale in this cycling-loving city where the BMC Racing Team is headquartered.
"I think it just showed that I was able to deliver under pressure," van Garderen said.
Peter Sagan sprinted out of the tunnel in the final half-mile to win the 80.7-mile final stage in 3 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. Daniel Schorn was second and Tyler Farrar third.
Sagan dedicated his win — his second this year and record 10th in the event — to Alex Shepherd, an 11-year-old from Oregon with a brain tumor who waited for his favorite cyclist at the finish line.
"Special day," said Sagan, who won the green jersey for the race's top sprinter.
The memorable week for van Garderen ended with a postcard-like morning ride along the bay in San Francisco's trendy Marina District, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and pedaling beside the sprouting spring vines in Sonoma wine country. He crossed the finish line with an ear-to-ear grin in front of a cheering crowd that squeezed into Santa Rosa's quaint downtown.
Van Garderen shared in the moment by kissing his daughter, Rylan, who was born in Colorado on April 7 — when he arrived from France just about an hour before his wife, Jessica, delivered the newborn three weeks early.
Van Garderen, who finished fifth in the Tour de France last year for the highest place by an American, is ready to aim even higher. The 24-year-old, often playing second-fiddle to teammate and 2011 Tour de France winner Cadel Evans, said he hopes to be in the top three when cycling's crown jewel ends in Paris on July 21.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For versus, often abbreviated v. v, vs. or vs, see Versus.
|Look up VS, vs., or v.s. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
VS, V.S., Vs, vs, vs., or VS may refer to:
- Venstresocialisterne, (Left Socialists), a Danish political party
- Victoria School
- Victoria's Secret, an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products
- Vojska Srbije, Military of Serbia
- Vs. (magazine), a fashion and lifestyle magazine
Science, technology, and medicine[edit]
- Vegetative state, a wakeful unconscious state
- Ventral striatum, Ventral part of the Striatum subcortical brain region
- Vesicular stomatitis, a veterinary disease caused by a virus that can produce flu-like symptoms in humans
- Visual Servoing, a technique which uses feedback information extracted from a vision sensor to control the motion of a robot
- Visual snow or visual static, a visual condition
- Visual Studio, an integrated development environment made by Microsoft
- Virtual storage, a memory management technique
- Virtual synchrony, an interprocess message passing technology
- Vertical slice, a type of milestone, benchmark, or deadline in project management
- Vertex Shader, a type of shader program executed on a computer's graphics processing unit
Video games[edit]
- Vs. (video game)
- Vanu Sovereignty, in the MMOFPS computer video game PlanetSide
- Virtual Sailor, a shareware program created by Ilan Papini which allows users to operate a wide variety of vessels (sail & powered) in world-wide locations
- Vital Suit, a type of mecha from the video game series Lost Planet
- Nintendo Vs. Series
- Marvel vs. Capcom (series)
- SNK vs. Capcom (series)
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars
Music theory[edit]
- Volti subito (turn quickly), an Italian musical term indicating a difficult page turn, see Glossary of musical terminology
- Vocal score, or piano-vocal score, a music score in which the vocal parts are written out in full but the accompaniment is reduced and adapted for keyboard (usually piano)
Television, film, music, and manga[edit]
- Vanilla Sky, a 2001 film
- Vocal Spectrum, the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2006 International Quartet Champions
- VS (band), band managed by Blue's Simon Webbe
- Vs (film), a 2011 film
- VS (manga), Japanese manga by Keiko Yamada
- VS (song), the debut single by Misono
- VS. (game show), a game show with two opposing teams
- Vs. (Mission of Burma album), a 1982 album by Mission of Burma
- Vs. (Pearl Jam album), a 1993 album by Pearl Jam
- "VS.", season 4 episode of Prison Break
- "VS. (Versus)", former name of NBC Sports Network
- VS. (Other People's Heartache Pt. III), the 2014 EP by Bastille
- Holden VS Commodore, a model of GM Holden's Commodore produced from 1995 to 1997
- Virgin Atlantic Airways, the IATA airline designator
- VS, the minimum steady flight speed of an aircraft, in order to keep control of the aircraft
- VS, V.S. or V/s, Varðskip, prefix of a vessel of the Icelandic Coast Guard
- VS Lost Planet game
- Venetian Snares, Canadian breakcore musician
- Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, British author and Nobel prize winner
- V. S. Achuthanandan, Communist Leader of the Opposition of the Indian state of Kerala
- Valais, a canton of Switzerland
- Vaslui, a county of Romania and also its county seat
- VS or V.S., the abbreviated name of the United States of America in Dutch
Food, beverages, and tobacco[edit]
- Very Special, a classification of Cognac (drink), where the youngest brandy is at least 2 years old
- Virginia Slims, a brand of cigarette marketed towards women
- Vajasaneyi-Samhita, the text of the White Yajurveda
- Vikaram Samvant, a Hindu calendar
Other uses[edit]
- Versus (disambiguation)
- Vs. System, a collectible card game
- Voluntary simplicity
See also[edit]
- All pages beginning with "vs"
- All pages with titles containing vs
- US (disambiguation)
- versus (disambiguation)
- V (disambiguation)
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Shalom Chevrei Lapid,
As we have shared, our colleague Chaim Fischgrund, has been developing a draft of a Core Program around which we would like to unite all the Lapid organizations. It was developed along the lines of parallel core programs used by Taglit and Masa, with adaptations for high school age programs and the diversity they represent.
It will go far to elevate the prestige and professionalism of Lapid programs as a key pillar of the Israel programs world when we unite around a common core program, and it will enhance our lobbying efforts for the benefit of the whole category.
Best wishes,
Dan Krakow
Co-chair, Lapid
This paper was created in the past 6 months, in anticipation that the teen travel sector will be recognized and upgraded in the coming years. The ideas in this paper reflect the collective views of key players in the field. There are some differences in positions among the greater Lapid family, but the belief in the power of travel to Israel prior to age 18 surpasses all differences.
My daughter, Amelia, attended the 2 weeks' summer Kimama camp for the first time in August 2012 when she was 11. She absolutely fell in love with Kimama and came back again in 2013. She is now keen to attend every year and achieve her dream to become a Kimama Camp Counselor. Amelia has no connection to Israel as such, she doesn't go to Jewish school and does not speak Hebrew, so her visits to Kimama means so much to her (and of course me!). She made new friends in Israel and is now eager to learn Hebrew and talks about living in Israel.
I just wanted to add the parents' perspective to the fantastic work that Kimama is doing. I just wish there was Kimama for parents- I'll go! :)
It is very exciting and touching to hear that despite the hard times Isarel has been going through, and maybe BECAUSE the hard times, 350 young people from all over the world, left it all and came to join the IDF.
Good luck to everyone !
Alexander Muss High School students, spending 6 weeks in Israel, raised 2,000$ overnight for food and supplies for IDF soldiers.
The Times of Israel
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The Power of Giving, GA 2011
Ynet news.com
Lapid celebrates half a million teens on Israel high school age programs, plus triplets
Jerusalem Post
A $25,000 challenge grant has been made to the American Hebrew Academy by the parents of a recent Academy graduate.
Every year, close to 15,000 Diaspora Jews come to Israel on one of the Lapid Coalition's high school age programs