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Thank you for your interest in Red Funnel. Our media centre includes the Company's latest news releases, our news archive and an online resource kit for journalists and media who are interested in our brand and the destinations that we serve.
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The Company has two PR Agencies - Fourbgb look after national and regional public relations whilst Carswell Gould are responsible for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and should therefore be the first point of contact for local editors and journalists from these areas.
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Red Funnel is the original Isle of Wight ferry company with roots tracing back to 1820, today it employs some 460 people. Based in the UK port of Southampton, Red Funnel carries 2.3m passengers and over 857,000 vehicles on its ferry route between the UK port of Southampton and East Cowes and over 1.1m passengers between Southampton and West Cowes on its Red Jet Hi-Speed service.
In addition to ferry travel, Red Funnel is the only cross-Solent operator to offer ferry inclusive bonded holiday accommodation, attraction tickets, festival and event tickets and activity packages. Sub-brands include 'Red Jet' (the Hi-Speed passenger only ferry service serving West Cowes) and two food & beverage brands, 'Steam Coffee Company' and 'ReFuel'.
The Company is a founder member of Visit Isle of Wight Ltd, the Island's not for profit destination management organisation and Red Funnel sponsors or supports most of the Island's premier events including the IW Festival, Bestival, Cowes Week, IW Literary Festival, IW Newport Jazz Festival, IW Walking Festival, Walk the Wight, Ventnor Fringe Festival and Wolverton Manor Garden Show as well as a range of community and niche interest events.
Red Funnel's 2016 charity of the year is Isle of Wight based 'Ability Dogs 4 Young People'.
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Two of the four favorites advanced in the first round of Bellator Fighting Championships' welterweight tournament on Friday.
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The winners move to the semifinals of the eight-man tourney to determine a challenger for the winner of next week's 170-pound title fight between champion Ben Askren and Douglas Lima.
Lozano tapped out to a rear-naked choke. After a cautious opening minute from both men, Amoussou threw a kick that opened a cut on Lozano's head. Although Lozano caught the kick and turned it into a takedown, Amoussou quickly reversed positions to mount him, followed by a rapid flurry of punches that caused Lozano to turn away, expose his back and leave an opening for the choke.
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Highly touted female fighter Marianne Kheyfets, also debuting for Bellator, suffered her first loss in six pro fights when Munah Howard knocked her out with 15 seconds left in the second round. Howard dropped Kheyfets multiple times in the round before the knockout.

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What with the annual NCAA office betting tournament in full swing, March is a good month to conduct field studies of that famous human-related species, the "sports nut." (Also read: March Madness databases for your research and viewing pleasure) Over at The Verge, Carl Franzen talks with psychologist Daniel Wann about how the "March Madness" college basketball tournament amps up the crazy in sports land. Here's Wann's money quote:
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April 3, 2008
Chairman Edwards and Ranking Member Wamp, good afternoon. Thank you for your invitation to discuss the President's Fiscal Year ( FY) 2009 Information Technology ( IT) budget proposal for the Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA). As we look forward to the upcoming year, we remain focused on VA's primary mission-the health and well-being of our Nation's veterans. To ensure that we succeed in our mission, it is imperative that we employ all of our resources, including IT, in the most effective way possible.
Let me begin this afternoon by recapping the major aspects of the IT reorganization and highlights of our experience to date. From FY 2006 to FY 2007, the Office of Information and Technology ( OI&T) began the transition to a new centralized organization by detailing 5,010 IT personnel outside of OI&T and combining them with the original OI&T staff of 519 personnel. In FY 2008, OI&T has the budget authority to consolidate all 1,151 IT development FTE, along with the 5,535 operations and maintenance FTE, for a total staffing level of 6,686.
We have been operating under this new organization for about a year and continue to learn a lot about what it takes to provide effective and efficient IT support to an organization the size and complexity of VA. As we move forward, we will continue to build upon our successes; however, we remain aware that our work is far from complete. As a result of the clarity we have been able to bring to the management of IT through the consolidation, we are discovering activities that need to be improved and enhanced from an overall management stand point. This is especially true in the area of data security and privacy and infrastructure improvements. We have increased our emphasis on certification and accreditation and are developing better procedures for asset management. Progress is being made but there is still much to be done in establishing the organization and providing the IT support that VA and veterans deserve.
Working with our new centralized organization has certainly been a challenge for all of us, but the other critical change we are dealing with is the new IT appropriation which was established in 2006. In that regard we continue to focus our efforts in structuring and funding the IT appropriation along programmatic lines-relating IT to the principal missions of VA. Since this is a line item appropriation, prior planning is critically important and establishing the funding correctly up front is essential.
As you are aware, VA is requesting $2.442 billion to support IT development, operations, and maintenance expenses including payroll for FY 2009, an 18.9 percent increase over the FY 2008 level. This request reflects the consolidation of VA IT into one appropriation, with certain exceptions such as non-payroll IT for credit reform programs and insurance benefits programs. In FY 2009, the majority of increases represent program priorities to enhance the support to veterans both directly and indirectly, especially in the area of medical care.
The move toward a centralized IT Management System has been challenging, but it also served to reinvigorate IT capability within VA. Placing all IT staffing, equipment, and budgetary resources under the VA Chief Information Officer ( CIO) has provided an objective capability with visibility over all IT activities across the Department. This capability will also provide for a more standardized approach to our critical developmental efforts. Of critical urgency is accelerating the design and implementation of electronic health records which meet the national health IT standards and are interoperable with the Department of Defense ( DoD). Electronic Health Records will help to streamline the benefits claims processing through improved IT support so claims may be adjudicated timely and efficiently, and ensure portable IT equipment for benefit counselors traveling to DoD sites is encrypted and service members' privacy is protected.
The non-pay portion of the FY 2009 budget has been realigned from previous submissions to delineate veteran strategic issues into two major classifications - veteran facing IT systems and internal facing IT systems. This has been done to better link the appropriation to the mission of VA. Veteran facing IT systems enable support of VA programs for veterans, such as, providing medical care, delivering compensation benefits, providing pension benefits, enhancing education opportunities, delivering vocational rehabilitation and employment services, promoting homeownership, providing insurance service, and delivering burial service. Veteran facing programs account for $1.295 billion of our request (The payroll portion of that budget is $729.2 million). Internal facing IT systems are those that provide the capability to work more effectively in managing IT resources - such as corporate management, financial resources management, asset management, human capital management, IT infrastructure, and information protection. Internal facing program budget totals $418 million.
These amounts reflect a sizable increase over FY 2008 which will be very helpful in the improvement of IT support to VA. Over the past several years VA IT has had a fairly level budget yet, at the same time, the organizations we have to support have been increasing in size; especially in terms of facilities and people. And, as you well know, whenever you do that, you have to apply the necessary IT talent and tools to those activities. The increase will allow us to provide the needed funding to accelerate such programs and keep most of them on track. Highlights are provided below.
Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Application Development
VistA Application Development consists of the enhancement and development activities that support the movement of the existing MUMPS-based applications from the "as-is" into the "to-be" VistA architecture, new data structures, and desired capabilities. (MUMPS is an acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System.) Vista Application Development, in conjunction with VistA Foundations Modernization, will take the necessary steps toward building VA's next generation health care information system.
VistA Foundations Modernization
Another extremely important developmental program in the medical area is the modernization of VA's world class Electronic Health Record. For the past two and a half years, VA has been working hard to support the President's vision to have electronic health record capability for most Americans by 2014, and to implement the associated Executive Order. For example, VA and DoD have partnered on state-of-the-art software applications, including Bidirectional Health Information Exchange ( BHIE) and Clinical Health Data Repository (C HDR ). These applications allow VA and DoD to exchange health data for veterans including injured service members as they move from DoD treatment facilities to VA health care facilities for continued treatment. This allows VA to care for all veterans, including seriously injured service members more efficiently, effectively and safely.
VistA Foundations Modernization is the capital investment that provides the architecture and foundational elements of VistA HealtheVet that support the delivery of the re-hosted/reengineered applications. In the FY 2009 Deployment Toolkit, Business Rules Engine and Workflow Engine will be delivered along with new testing services capabilities. Standardization activities in support of VA/ DoD sharing will continue as well as ongoing work to establish a common architecture to eliminate redundancies in coding, support common terminology sources between applications, and promote software and data use.
Scheduling Replacement
The goals of the Scheduling Replacement project are to improve access to care for veterans, decrease wait times for appointments, and increase provider availability. The first version will be placed in production at the VA medical center in Muskogee, Oklahoma during June 2008. Several activities will occur during FY 2009 to prepare Scheduling for national deployment. Activities include improvements to the application identified by the initial installations, acquisition of the hardware and software needed to operate the application at the deployment sites, and the launch of a national training campaign. In FY 2011, VA anticipates the completion of the national rollout to all VA sites.
VistA Laboratory Information Systems Reengineering
The Laboratory System Information Systems Reengineering project will provide VA with a modernized Laboratory Information Management System that supports the business processes of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Services. In FY 2009 the system will undergo independent verification and validation and field tests. The FY 2009, increase in funding is to acquire 20 percent of the equipment needed for the deployment. National deployment will begin in FY 2010, and will be phased over five years.
Health Data Repository
The Health Data Repository ( HDR) is a repository of clinical information, normally residing on one or more independent computer systems, for use by clinicians and other personnel in support of patient centric care. Deliverables for FY 2008 include the addition of laboratory data related to chemistry and hematology to HDR and Clinical Data Repository CDR. Upon completion, this additional lab data will be exchanged with DoD on shared patients as well as all VA medical facilities. Deliverables also include the deployment of the new HDR National v2 that replaces two applications ( HDR National v1 and Clinical Data Service) and provides a more robust system. National rollout for the final HDR solution is projected to begin in FY 2009.
One of our real success stories is the application called "My HeatheVet" ( MHV). In FY 2007, MHV which is funded in FY 2009 at $18.4 million, stabilized its platform, increased its total number of prescriptions refilled online to over 2.8 million, and supported the increase in the number of MHV accounts to over 400,000. Nearly 20,000 veterans have already made the trip to VA medical centers for in-person authentication, a prerequisite for a veteran accessing their VistA information online.
In fiscal years 2008 and 2009, veterans will be able to request and store copies of key portions of their VA electronic health record in their MHV personal e VAult, along with their self-entered health information and health assessments. Veterans will be able to record medical events, medications, over the counter medications and herbals, and tests. They will also be able to track vitals and health readings (e.g., blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, and pain level) and graph results, alongside any readings or lab test results from VA care. Veterans can also keep health journals (e.g., activity and food journals), record health histories (family, self and military health histories), view upcoming appointments, get health reminders, and benefit from increasing mental health information and tools. MHV will stand up an architecture that is ready to support the continued increase of veterans seeking the 24/7 access to VA information and services from anywhere Veterans will also benefit from better communications and information sharing with their health care providers.
Pharmacy Reengineering
The pharmacy suite of applications is undergoing modernization to improve service and safety to veterans and to better support the current and future VA business needs. The project scope is to replace current pharmacy software modules with new technology through reengineering, new development, and purchase of commercial products. Plans are to deploy enhanced order checks in FY 2009, which will improve patient safety standards by reducing adverse drug events by 50 percent, with enhanced item management functionality to follow.
Enrollment Enhancements
Enrollment System Redesign, scheduled for deployment in June 2008, will replace Enrollment's Health Eligibility Center Legacy system. The first in a series of enhancements will produce a workflow component to create, assign, view, track and complete work items. It also provides for changes to VistA in order to support the technology and business changes that will occur with the implementation of Enrollment System Redesign. The capabilities that are the focus in FY 2009 are the introduction of self-service functions to reduce application processing time; access of DoD military service data and existing benefits claim information to place the eligibility burden of proof on VA rather than the veteran; and productivity improvements in the area of veteran financial assessments and income verification.
VistA Legacy
As we continue our modernization efforts, we must maintain our current legacy system-called VistA. This system will need to remain operational for the foreseeable future as new applications are developed and implemented. This approach will mitigate transition and migration risks associated with the move to the new architecture. Our budget provides $99 million in 2009 in this account.
Information and technology investments over the past several years and those planned for the future will enable new technologies to be used to facilitate processing of veterans claims and for providing the vast number of benefits to veterans and their families. The majority of development in new technology includes the enhancement of the compensation components of VETSNET, development of the Virtual VA imaging solution for compensation and pension, and operation of the program integrity and data management program. The Benefits Delivery Network ( BDN) will continue to be sustained until all programs, utilizing its shared components, are replaced. The retirement for the BDN platform is projected in early 2012. Highlights of Veteran Facing Benefits programs are provided below.
VETSNET is the replacement system for compensation and pension functions of the legacy BDN. It is a custom built suite of applications designed to support end-to-end compensation and pension claims processing operations nationwide. A key benefit of VETSNET is the migration of compensation and pension benefit payments to a modernized, stable platform. Over 42 million compensation and pension payments are made annually from BDN, which was designed and built in the late 1960s. Legacy record conversions, necessary for the payment of existing and compensation and pension beneficiaries, have begun and will be completed by July 2009 - a major milestone for VA. Thus far in FY 2008, over 96 percent of new compensation claims have been completed in VETSNET, versus 5 percent in FY 2006. As of the end of January 2008, over 863,000 are receiving their monthly compensation payments via VETSNET. This includes over 613,000 records converted from the BDN in fiscal years 2006 and 2007. Over $1 billion dollars in C&P benefit payments have been made through VETSNET during FY 2008.
Virtual VA
Virtual VA is a Web-based document and electronic claims folder repository, and is the cornerstone of our Paperless Delivery of Veterans Benefits initiative. Planned FY 2008 activities include maintenance of the existing application functionality and planning for migration to a centralized infrastructure. Expansion of existing pilot efforts in support of compensation and pension claims processing will also be targeted for FY 2008, along with a development of a comprehensive strategy for full development of the Paperless initiative. Significant execution of the comprehensive plan will carry into FY 2009, and will include integration with the C&P claims processing system, VETSNET.
IT Support for Education, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment ( VR&E), Housing, and Insurance
Education opportunities, rehabilitation and employment services, life insurance, and the housing program are provided to eligible veterans and their dependents. These programs rely on supporting IT systems to ensure benefits and services are provided timely and consistently and support staff engaged in ensuring delivery of checks, electronic transfers and other related materials are routine. BDN supports compensation and pension as well as education and vocational rehabilitation and employment.
The Education Program IT Support development costs represent 2.2 percent of the total development costs for veteran facing IT systems. During FY 2009, new technology efforts will begin the development of a rules-based infrastructure which will facilitate the adjudication of Chapters 30, 32, 35, 1606, and 1607 benefits. At full completion, it is planned that VA will automatically process the majority of claims, received electronically, by applying benefit-specific business rules and issuing payment for all claims.
Vocational Rehabilitation Program IT Support development costs represent less than 1 percent of the total development costs for veteran facing IT systems. C-WINRS is VR&E's system of workflow management, control, and reporting. At full implementation, C-WINRS will replace BDN in Chapter 31 claims processing. Beneficiary payments of subsistence allowance will be completed via interface with the VETSNET Finance and Accounting System ( FAS). Targeted activities for FY 2009 include completion of functional requirements and technical design.
Information Architecture and Legacy Document Project for Housing Program (funded through credit reform reimbursement from the Housing program) will establish online information architecture for Loan Guaranty. This project will convert critical microfiche and hand-copy documents into an electronic format with indexing capabilities. These documents would then be made available to authorized VA staff via current Loan Guaranty systems. The project will also enable Loan Guarantee to use workflow management by providing online collaboration and review capability within a paperless environment.
Internal facing IT systems link to specific management categories - corporate management, financial resources management, asset management, human capital management, IT infrastructure, cyber security, privacy, and E-Gov. VA is requesting $418 million in FY 2009. Two significant investments are in the categories of human capital management and financial resources management to replace existing systems with new technologies. The Human Resources Information System is an OMB/OPM managed project, and the Financial and Logistics Integrated Technology Enterprise system ( FLITE) addresses VA's long standing Federal Financial Management Integrity Act material weakness -- lack of a VA-wide integrated financial management system.
Internal facing IT development and operational systems are those that will improve effectiveness and efficiency in managing its resources. As VA continues to meet challenges to enhance the delivery of timely, high quality services to veterans and their beneficiaries, internal system development requirements continue to grow. Operations and maintenance consists of those functions that ensure the IT infrastructure and business-critical applications have the availability, performance, adaptability, and scalability required to support business needs. Highlights are provided below.
Human Capital Management Programs
VA is requesting $92.6 million for IT human capital management programs in FY 2009, an increase of $32.8 million or 54.9 percent increase. As employees are one of VA's most important assets, investments in human resources systems will help VA meet the challenges of managing over 240,000 employees. These systems are focused on ensuring VA health care provider credentials are current and benefit claims specialists receive the latest training in an ever improving benefits delivery system. These systems also will help VA manage its mature workforce with a greater array of succession planning tools. Finally, VA will update its payroll system to a more modern, secure data information system.
Financial Resources Management Programs
VA is requesting $65.3 million in FY 2009 for IT financial systems, an increase of $14.8 million or 29 percent. These resources will enable the overall Department to better manage the $93 billion in Federal resources to deliver services to the Nation's veterans. A critical part of this program is the FLITE initiative.
Financial and Logistics Integrated Technology Enterprise
FLITE is a multi-year initiative to replace the existing financial and logistics systems with integrated, enterprise-level systems. The two primary components are the Integrated Financial Accounting System ( IFAS) and Strategic Asset Management ( SAM) project. FLITE implementation has three primary objectives: (1) to effectively integrate and standardize financial/logistical data and processes across all VA offices; (2) to provide management with access to timely and accurate financial, logistics, budget, asset and related information on VA-wide operations as well as on specific programs and projects; and (3) to establish an advanced technology environment which provides VA with the greatest capability and an extended life cycle.
In FY 2007, VA completed the prerequisite planning, which included developing the FLITE governance framework and baseline cost estimates, documenting requirements, establishing an acquisition strategy, determining the COTS solution for SAM and IFAS, and conducting a stakeholder analysis and communications needs assessment as well as other project management strategies. In FY 2008, VA will award individual implementation/integration contracts for SAM and IFAS. The pilot test for SAM will be deployed at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center in FY 2008, and the pilot preparation for IFAS will start in FY 2008. FY 2009 will include deployment of additional beta sites for SAM and pilot testing for IFAS. The budget increase from FY 2008 to FY 2009 accounts for development and testing activities.
Cyber Security
VA is thoroughly examining every aspect of our information protection program to ensure that sensitive information, primarily Personally Identifiable Information, including Protected Health Information, is neither mismanaged nor used, accessed, or disclosed for any unauthorized purpose. We have requested $93 million in FY 2009 to meet this goal. This request can be broken into two major categories (as discussed below) - support for our Enterprise Cyber Security Program and support for the Personal Identification Verification ( PIV) program. Highlights are provided below.
Enterprise Cyber Security Programs
The Data Security - Assessment and Strengthening of Controls ( DS-ASC) program, an overarching program providing focus to all activity related to data security, includes several hundred specific actions all oriented toward improving the position of VA in the area of information protection. To date, approximately 40 percent of the original DS-ASC items have been completed with the approval of VA Handbook 6500 IT Security Program and its appendices. This handbook is the primary cyber security procedural document for the Department. Recently, DS-ASC focused on the VA Office of Inspector General and General Accountability Office recommendations reported to the Congress. By reorganizing the DS-ASC around these recommendations, VA is confident that it will reach the Gold Standard for Data Security and satisfy each recommendation within the next 3 years.
Through the Enterprise Cyber Security Program ( ECSP) VA formulates and oversees the implementation of the Department-wide security program. ECSP provides a continuous cycle of risk assessment, modification of policies and procedures to reflect changes in the risk environment, identification of mitigating security controls, and the testing of those controls. ECSP is comprised of both management and technical components.
The management components establish VA IT security policies and procedures; oversee Department-wide risk management, certification and accreditation, and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) reporting and compliance programs; update the Department IT security program plan; provide for credit monitoring and fraud detection services; sponsor the Department's security awareness training, initiate role-based training for information security officers, and present VA's annual information security conference; and provide procurement, budgeting, personnel, and capital planning support for the investment. Field Security Operations and Information Security Officer Support Service (Field Ops) provide oversight for the facility-based information security officers. It also includes an incident response and risk management capability to monitor, respond, and report on data breach and other information security incidents. The incident response team has developed enterprise identity strategic and implementation plans for fiscal years 2008 through 2010.
Technical components include the Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, which directs the operation of the Network and Security Operations Center and is responsible for providing the centralized incident response and recovery capability as well as other enterprise network and security services, such as, firewall management; intrusion detection and prevention monitoring; Domain Naming System management; content filtering; patch management; antivirus program; and enhanced 24x365 monitoring of core VA infrastructure. The continued deployment of the enterprise host-based intrusion prevention, anti-spyware, and anti-spam solutions are ongoing as well as initiatives to implement e-Discovery technology and anomaly detection services within VA's enterprise architecture to further enhance our security posture and network services availability.
The information protection program is responsible for reporting on the deployment of technical controls that bring VA in compliance with Federal regulations and VA policy. The technical controls protect information in transit and in storage. Such technical controls include encryption of laptops, secure network transmissions, mobile device security, remote access security, secure emails and documents, tape encryption, and scanning of emails being transmitted through VA's Internet gateways for social security numbers.
Personal Identification Verification ( PIV) Program
This initiative replaces VA's Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure Project with a system that directly addresses Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and FIPS 201 with the implementation of processes and procedures required to issue PIV cards. PIV includes five logical components that support PIV card issuance and the business process and procedures necessary to perform data capture, data management, identity proofing, identity management, access management, logical access control, physical access control, authorization, and authentication surrounding the PIV credential. PIV is a VA enterprise system that will be interoperable across the Federal Government. Coordination with other agencies facilitates knowledge sharing between VA and other Federal departments and agencies. In FY 2009 VA will deploy the PIV registrar and issuer workstations to 113 of 225 field locations and issue 50 percent of the cards to employees.
Before closing, I would like to provide an overview of the funds requested for IT Infrastructure supporting both veteran facing IT systems and internal facing IT systems. VA's extensive and complex IT infrastructure is the foundation for the operation of information systems in VA. IT systems are critical for the delivery of veterans' services, from the delivery of health care using the Electronic Health Records to timely delivery of veterans' benefits claims and burial programs, through implementation and ongoing management of a wide array of technical and administrative support systems. VA is requesting $800 million and an increase of $140.2 million over FY 2008 operations. This significant investment is needed to begin rebuilding the VA IT Infrastructure to one that will provide effective and timely delivery of health care, benefits, and burial services to the Nation's veterans and their dependents. To keep up with growing data, network capacity, information sharing (e.g., DoD and business partners), security and privacy, and technical requirements created by innovative IT solutions, the VA IT infrastructure must be refreshed and modernized.
In FY 2007, the many different infrastructure accounts were combined to form the IT infrastructure activity now centrally managed by the CIO. This centralization allows VA to better manage computer systems, VA data networks, and voice services to better deliver veteran benefits with adequate security and continually improving cost-effectiveness. Without proper operation and maintenance of the IT infrastructure (including planning and budgeting) and implementation of new technologies, the delivery of essential services and business operations of this or any other modern governmental function would literally halt in days and the health, lives, and well being of veterans would be jeopardized.
Increased staffing and activation of new VA facilities comes with associated IT requirements and assets. Every new person hired requires IT tools, such as a desktop or laptop computer, mobile device, or printer. For example, VA projects that by the close of FY 2009, it will have implemented numerous facility activations, including 51 new community based outpatient clinics. By their nature, community-based outpatient clinics are not generally close to a medical center, and are quite often in rural areas, creating IT asset management challenges. Additionally, there are currently 209 readjustment counseling vet centers with more projected to be opened during FY 2008. Vet centers are typically small in staff size and are not located on VA property. In serving veterans, both of these facility types require reliable IT equipment that embodies information assurance and data standardization.
In support of the veteran facing IT systems, IT infrastructure ensures the underlying platforms and services function properly in support of the wide variety of veteran facing applications supporting mechanism to ensure funding for. By definition, the infrastructure, which is comprised of application licenses, network and computing support, and voice, data and video infrastructure, is key to effective program delivery. It provides for the hardware and communication lines and systems that allow over 240,000 VA employees to deliver health care, benefits delivery, and memorial services to a grateful Nation's veterans. IT infrastructure support for veteran facing IT systems for FY 2009 is $659.04 million. The breakout of this support across the major service areas at VA is as follows:
VA IT infrastructure serves the entire range of business functions including primary missions, handling of Congressional and other correspondence, financial operations, interaction with veterans service organizations and other agencies including DoD health care systems, data exchange with business partners, Continuity of Operations and continuity of business, radio frequency spectrum management; and implementation infrastructure for new and enhanced business applications.
IT infrastructure programs and activities for FY 2009 include work as a major participant in the GSA Federal Telecommunications Service program; transition of current long distance voice and data circuits from the Federal Telecommunications Service 2001 contract to the new Network contract; implementing compliance with the Internet Protocol version 6 mandate by OMB; continuing to strengthen VA Gold Standard for Data Security; operation of a multi-carrier backbone wide area network; exploration of new and more efficient network technologies including Internet 2, voice over IP, and unified communications; and continued standardization of the infrastructure architecture from desktop to wide area network. Infrastructure programs require an increase to meet service projections for enhancing patient care services, provide additional care for returning war veterans, teleradiology and remote medical services, fund the phased replacement of PCs across VA, and establish greater network bandwidth for facilitating communications. IT infrastructure funding is essential to protect IT resources and strengthen data security for keeping sensitive veteran and employee data safe, secure, and confidential.
Telecommunications services are an integral and fundamental component of VA. While often taken for granted, these technology dependencies and interdependencies are essential to business functions and service providers. Without these services, which may be viewed essentially as utilities, VA modern health care and benefit functions would not be possible and would be reduced to paper, other physical media (e.g., x-ray films), and physical mail or courier delivery. These services operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I am pleased to report, regarding our robust capability for Oversight and Compliance, a program that has emerged as one of our major success stories in my organization. Since its creation earlier last year, the Office of IT Oversight and Compliance ( ITOC) has achieved a great deal, and it is already showing dramatic results and measurable benefits across VA. As of today, ITOC has conducted over 200 assessments---a rate of 24 to 30 assessments per month, versus 2 per month compared to the past. ITOC is working together with VHA, VBA and NCA to correct and help eliminate the existing deficiencies found by the VA Inspector General and the General Accountability Office over the last few years. My staff and I have found that the field facilities welcome ITOC's independent and objective assessments as the leadership across VA continues to drive home to each employee the importance of securing sensitive information. ITOC is helping to effect real change to improve VA's FISMA scorecard, as well as how we are working together with other VA administrations to mentor, train, coach and optimize our valuable resources to better serve our Nation's veterans. Unequivocally, ITOC's biggest contribution has been the general raising of awareness that the functional areas they assess (cyber security, records management, privacy and information physical security) are very important, not just to OI&T, but to VA and the fulfillment of its mission. The realignment of IT resources in VA was very important to ensure our information and technology services were properly aligned with our business requirements. Subsequently, ITOC has helped ensure that those information and technology services are being provided in a consistent and compliant manner across VA. VA's senior leadership, and the senior leadership at every VA facility, is now well aware that not only is compliance with VA and Federal requirements mandatory, but that there is now a group of competent professionals that will show up at their facility to actually validate that they're compliant. As we look ahead, I ask for your support of the efforts required for the continued successes of this highly critical organization.
In closing, I want to assure you that VA IT is committed to providing effective and efficient support to veterans and in turn to the VA community at large. We have made progress over this past year and have experienced problems as well - so much more remains to be done. I appreciate having this opportunity to discuss this with you and will gladly respond to your questions.
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Verizon Wireless has embarked on an ambitious initiative to transform the customer experience across its portfolio of 1,700 company-owned stores. The new strategy emphasizes lifestyle over product and promotes in-store engagement and interactivity.
"We are transforming the focus of our stores from selling devices to enabling customers to discover all that wireless technology can do for their mobile lifestyles," said Domenico D'Ambrosio, executive director, national retail operations, Verizon Wireless.
Verizon's retail transformation was unveiled with the opening of its "destination" store format, at Mall of America, Bloomington, Minn. Designed by Chute Gerdeman, which also collaborated with Verizon on the merchandise assortment, staff training and real estate planning, the 9,715-sq.-ft. store presents products in context and offers shoppers a hands-on digital experience that is intended to help them understand the potential impact of wireless technology on their lives.
The space has a friendly, inviting vibe, with warm woods and residential accents. The store is organized into a series of interactive lifestyle zones, each dedicated to a specific interest and featuring related wireless gadgets and apps and staffed by specialists in the field. (Some of the zones include Get Fit, for fitness buffs; Amplify It, for music fans; and Have Fun, for gamers. There are also zones dedicated to home monitoring and business.) Phones and devices are displayed along a striking curved wall in the back of the store.
Interactive displays are integrated into all the zones, providing hands-on opportunities for customers to experience and learn about the technology in action. An expansive interactive screen toward the rear of the store draws customers into the space.
Training and education are core to the destination format, which includes a centrally located dedicated workshop area staffed by specialists who share tips and lead classes in front of a large touchscreen display. These live "wireless workshops" are hosted daily, with class schedules and FAQs posted on the screen when class isn't in session.
The format eschews traditional sales and service counters in favor of floating POS stations in the individual zones and "staging tables" throughout the space where customers can interact with associates. Associates are also equipped with tablets for mobile POS transactions.
Verizon plans to roll out additional destination stores in select locations. The concept is the foundation for a broader initiative that includes the redesign of the wireless giant's 1,700-plus company-owned stores nationwide to its "smart" store format. The format has the same focus on training and education as the destination store, along with many of the same lifestyle-focused elements, but on a smaller scale.
"The core concept of the Smart store is the same as the Mall of America store," said Lynn Rosenbaum, VP retail environments, Chute Gerdeman, Columbus, Ohio. "We've created a toolbox of experiences and designed modularity and flexibility into the concept to allow a scalable and fluid implementation."


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By Danny Wild / Special to MLB.com | August 25, 2008 1:57 PM ET
The league selected 13 of its best players for the roster and will reveal its individual award winners later this week. All of the honorees have spent at least parts of one season in the Majors.
Catcher Rob Johnson (Tacoma Rainiers), first baseman Joe Koshansky (Colorado Springs Sky Sox), second baseman Eric Patterson (Sacramento River Cats), shortstop Brandon Wood (Salt Lake Bees) and third basemen Matt Brown (Salt Lake) and Jamie D'Antona (Tucson Sidewinders) rounded out the league's star-studded infield.
Outfielders Nelson Cruz (Oklahoma Redhawks), Nick Stavinoha (Memphis Redbirds) and Terry Tiffee (Las Vegas 51s) joined designated hitter Dallas McPherson (Albuquerque Isotopes) as the league's other top hitters.
Shane Loux (Salt Lake), Gio Gonzalez (Sacramento) and Jason Bulger (Salt Lake) comprised the roster's pitching staff.
The league's Rookie of the Year will be announced Tuesday, followed by Pitcher of the Year on Wednesday, Most Valuable Player on Thursday and Manager of the Year on Friday.
Cruz became the latest All-Star to make the jump to the bigs Monday. He missed much of August due to injury but still put up huge numbers. The 27-year-old, who was called up by the Texas Rangers, ranks third in average (.342), fourth in RBIs (99), second in steals (24), homers (37) and on-base percentage (.429) and first in slugging percentage (.695) and runs scored (93).
Patterson, promoted to Oakland on Aug. 14, was traded by the Chicago Cubs midseason and hit .330 for the River Cats after batting .320 in 52 games for the Iowa Cubs this season.
Koshansky, who's played for the Colorado Rockies each of the past two seasons, hit for the cycle twice this summer and leads the league with 113 RBIs.
Wood, a 2005 All-Star Futures Game selection, has 30 homers for the Bees and has appeared in 29 games for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this season.
Brown, batting .326 in the Minors, has appeared in five Major League games this season and was named PCL Star of the Game in the Triple-A All-Star Game. He flew to Beijing with Team USA for the Olympics and homered in the bronze medal-winning game against Japan.
D'Antona is yet another All-Star with Major League experience in '08. A Futures Game selection in July, D'Antona enjoyed a brief callup to the Arizona Diamondbacks earlier this month and is hitting .351 for the Sidewinders.
Johnson, who spent time with the Seattle Mariners last season, is batting .311 with nine home runs and 45 RBIs behind the plate for Tacoma.
McPherson was an easy choice as designated hitter. The Major League veteran leads the Minors with 40 homers and is batting .275 with 91 RBIs and 89 runs scored.
Stavinoha, batting .337 with 16 homers and 74 RBIs for the Redbirds, appeared in a dozen games for the St. Louis Cardinals this season before being sent down Aug. 6.
Tiffee, who has also seen time at third base, hit over .400 for much of the year and earned a promotion to Los Angeles, where he appeared in six games this summer. The PCL All-Star also won a bronze medal with Team USA in the Olympics this month.
The Angels were also well-represented amongst pitchers. Loux, named the league's top right-hander, had his contract purchased Aug. 5 and has pitched in five games for Anaheim. He was 12-6 with a 3.98 ERA in 22 starts for Salt Lake.
Bulger, named the league's best reliever, was recalled by the Angels on Aug. 24 after a brief stint in April. In between, the righty went 4-0 with a 0.66 ERA and 15 saves in 35 games for the Bees.
Gonzalez, currently in the Majors with the Oakland A's, was selected as the league's top southpaw. He was 8-7 with a 4.24 ERA in 22 starts for Sacramento before his promotion.
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Good read, thanks for doing this. The experts are bad, but holy crap were there some dumb trade suggestions.
Im enjoying this (keep it relevant). Good job Lance. Go Sixers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Nice work. I look forward to this every Sunday.
I just wish Jrue would stop his point guard masquerade. Stop the masquerade, Jrue!
What about Jrue makes these idiots think he's a shooting guard?
I have no idea whatsoever. He seems like a pretty pure point guard to me.
not watching the games and going off of scouting reports that are 2 years old, like Bucher is doing.
Man, the Cavs are just complete garbage. Maybe worse than I thought they were heading into the season. Getting blown out by Detroit tonight after getting blown out by Minnesota last night. I'd bet anything they don't make the playoffs (unless they trade for Iguodala).
Jason Smith and Willie Green -- who have become regular rotation members for the 12-5 Hornets in exchange for Darius Songaila and Craig Brackins, who have combined for 37 minutes in Philadelphia.
Stuff like this cracks me up. Smith and Willie both got off to uncharacteristically good starts in New Orleans, everyone goes nuts saying they're great players, and guess what? After 20 games, they're both back to where they were with the Sixers, sucking. And having them in the rotation, and playing to their abilities, probably has a lot to do with New Orleans' nosedive. Chris Paul is going to want out of that situation by year's end.
Man when it comes down to these trade rumors it must be nice to be shopping a player most of these people overrate like Melo instead of one they underrate like Dre. Maybe I should stop reading them because they keep making me look at the word Kaman every time and I want to throw up.
Don't know what to say except this is just awesome stuff.
Don't know how you do it, but I hope you keep doing it.
It's how I relax honestly
I've spent 8 god damn hours today trying to do this homework assignment ( I HATE REG EX) for form vliadation and I just quit it - cause i have another one due before midnight - wish i had some stuff to skim instead
I hate regex, i hate form validation
I kist read an article about Johnny Flynn being sent to d-league.. What are peoples thoughts on if the Sixers sent Evan Turner to the d-league to get heavy minutes/experience/ maybe even confidence?
The Wolves sent Flynn to the D-League, to get back into shape after being injured, not because they want to improve his confidence. I'm not sure any team sends a player to the D-league if he is good enough to be a consistent part of the rotation which Turner is, even on his worst days.
It's an interesting idea but i don't see it happening. He's had the chance to dominate D-league type of players in college. He needs to learn how to do it in the NBA now.


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Microsoft Q3 2014 Financial Resultsby Brett Howse on 4/24/2014 10:32 PM EST
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Sttm - Thursday, April 24, 2014 - linkI see three areas where MS could be very strong this year:
WP, I see a weakness with the Android offerings this cycle in the SGS5 and One M8 as they are both rather lackluster upgrades, giving MS a chance to catch up and strike hard with WP 8.1 if they manage to get competitive hardware to market with the marketing to back it up.
Windows, Finally putting the start button back in, that + death of XP support should = better sales.
Office, now that it is on iPad, it just cements it as the only real option for serious work on almost every platform.
Im iffy on Xbox One. Big negative in it's not outselling PS4, but I am not sure it has to. It's also still pretty early. It needs a killer app, Titanfall is kind of, but being on 360 and PC it's not really. Reply
darkich - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkWP can only go down after Nokia acquisition.
If you think people all over the world will embrace "Microsoft Mobile Lumia" then you are deluded.
They will face a hard wall of reality with this move..deservingly so for ruining one of the greatest European companies. Reply
damianrobertjones - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkHow have they ruined Nokia? At times I really do think that people imagine these things and, if anything, the Lumia line with WP has SAVED Nokia. Reply
Penti - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkHow so, they have fired about 30,000 people and nothing of the soul or the core is left. All their suppliers (semiconductors) was left out when shifting, forcing at least two to exit the market. Nokia sold 100 million smartphones in 2010 and was profitable till after the quarter of the burning memo platform, 8.1 is just now getting features that Nokia had on even Symbian multitouch capacitive smartphones in 2010 and the platform they changed to didn't exist so they had nothing to sell all these years. They get new teams in China that can develop cheap smartphones, the business in Europe is pretty much defunct in the mobile phone side. The sales in NA is pretty much not there and lower than European markets, which doesn't bode well now that management moves to Redmond. They didn't succeed in their home market. In Finland more than 5000 got money because of the layoffs a few thousands quit before they could claim any, a few thousands more was transfered to other business and was subsequently laid off and they also got funds from the EU to deal with it, pretty much everybody works with other stuff now. Windows Phone sales is lower than even Xiaomi's (new Chinese maker, been around just under 4 years) sales this quarter. They are not in the top ten smartphone makers. Reply
darkich - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkThank you for taking the time and patience to sum that up perfectly Reply
eanazag - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkI was tracking you till you said Symbian. Symbian was suck @ss for too long. Reply
lmcd - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkYeah their only real hope was MeeGo, but took too long bringing it to market (even before Elop, the N900 was popular but far from mainstream with Maemo). Reply
Penti - Saturday, April 26, 2014 - linkStill WP7.X was worse and NA market share for WP is about five percent at most today. WP is a catastrophe in NA so that Symbian was marginal there doesn't really matter. Phones like Nokia N8 was quite popular here in Europe. They had a path forward for Maemo that did realize into MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan N9 device, the software platform at that time was complete and ready, it wasn't an enthusiast platform any more, but was already in the process of being dismantled by the Microsoft deal under the guise of getting that 1B USD year for keeping Windows Phone as the smartphone track. Did try to emphasize even when writing even Symbian.
Symbian shared development framework / tools with MeeGo – Qt was standard from 2010 – so it was part of a much more agile and modern strategy than to say that they sat the ships on fire while Microsoft had nothing to deliver. They announced that they would cease supporting their own products and go exclusive with Microsoft while Microsoft still had nothing to give them, not even Mango. It took four years after Mix 2010 for 8.1 (preview) to materialize, four years! If that is not slacking and ignoring the market (which you can't say about Nokia's previous plans pre-MS deal, with MeeGo, Qt, QtQuick, QtMobility and other efforts in full swing) I don't know what is, that is being totally lousy and lying to the market for too long if I have ever seen it. Reply
errorr - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkNokia would have folded if not for the WP cash injections. So they ruined Nokia by saving it. They eventually just had to buy it because WP was such a failure. So your claim the M$ killed Nokia has a faulty null hypothesis. Reply
Morawka - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkThe suppliers are not needed. MSFT has their own hardware suppliers thanks to Xbox One and Surface Hardware. No need in having a completely different supply chain. This is just efficient business management.
They are trimming all the fat that made nokia unprofitable, and using key patents they acquired with the acquisition to strengthen their platform. Nokia Windows Phones will become much better because they can do like apple and integrate hardware, software and ecosystem.
Yes its sad so many lost their jobs, but that's how the business works. Reply
Penti - Saturday, April 26, 2014 - linkThey were needed for Nokia to stay in business, you know make money as you suppose to do as a good capitalist, for Texas Instruments to stay in the mobile field and so on. Now they had to choice to exit the market instead, while Microsoft gained about 10 000 assembly workers in Asia. While Qualcomm/Microsoft hindered them to continue to focus on camera tech.
Nokia was profitable, if you read the damn post I point out that the Devices & Services division didn't make a loss until the quarter after Elop pulled the rug under everybody's feat with his memo. Microsoft couldn't buy a 60 000 employee firm, and they don't care that the business they bought still makes huge losses, they just need somebody peddling Windows Phone devices to be able to make the claim that they aren't ignoring the growing markets of mobile devices. You can't claim that it helped them in any way. You don't put forward any arguments or facts to back that up.
Microsoft didn't acquire any of the patents. Neither will the phone business become part of the Windows Phone-group as they will keep the OS development separately, they will source and fab their phones at different facilities (their own in many cases) than those who make their Xbox's and computers. And so on. Reply
MartinT - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkI don't think the Lumia line produced a single quarter of profits in the 3 years since Mr Elop announced Nokia's decision to go with Windows Phone. Reply
darkich - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkExactly..numbers show that their smartphone division was their biggest money loser ever since the dismissal of Symbian and Meego.
It was their feature phone and Asha lineup that kept the company from falling apart Reply
melgross - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkIt's not a matter of them ruining Lumina. It's a question of what percentage of those left who are buying Lumina devices are buying them from some sense of loyalty to the old Nokia. Let's face it, many if us pretend to ourselves that we are making an objective choice, when we're not. So if a fair percentage of that fairly small number of people still buying Nokia phones are mostly buying them BECAUSE they are Nokia phones, they may lose interest when they are labeled Microsoft phones.
Microsoft tablets haven't taken off, and the Microsoft name on them hasn't helped. Neither has Microsoft's marketing dollars. So it will be interesting to see what will happen here. Reply
lmcd - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkMicrosoft tablets, no, but Windows tablets, yes.
We'll see if it improves, but I'd bet it will. Reply
Lord 666 - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkBackwards compatibility for Xbox 360 is the killer app for Xbox One. Reply
cmdrdredd - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkWindows phone will beat up Android because you think hardware sells a device? No...software does. If the phone can't do half of what people do every day with the apps available on Android and iOS, it just won't sell. It's that simple.
As for the XB1 and what you say "killer app". Those don't exist anymore. Look at how many PS4s and XB1s sold in 4 months time with the release lineup they had. Seems people are finding different reasons to buy them today, not for the single ultra hyped game that nobody else has. Those help move some units, but they don't define a console anymore. Reply
meacupla - Thursday, April 24, 2014 - linkThere are still plenty of SGS3, Nexus 4 and iphone 4s floating around in the market place and they are still very usable thanks to firmware/software updates, where as windows and blackberry have become obsolete junk thanks to lack of updates.
If microsoft wants more windows phone customers, it needs to up the software support for (soon to be) older hardware, or end up like BB and their, basically, garbage hardware that no commoner wants. Reply
tiwi13 - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkThe ORIGINAL WP7 phones got their last update March 2013 (and they were released in October 2010). That's pretty substantial.
Barring carriers "testing updates" (basically jamming their fingers up their asses), every WP8 released since October 2012 is running the latest stable version.
Plus, they've opened up the "Developer Preview" (WP8.1 Beta) to ANYONE for free. Even if your carrier hasn't decided to do anything with it. Reply
Alexvrb - Friday, April 25, 2014 - linkBarring carrier interference, every WP8 device should get 8.1. They've already gotten multiple GDR updates... they're supporting WP8 quite well, actually. But it's pretty obvious to anyone here that you don't have much experience with the platform, given that you're attempting to compare it to Blackberry. Reply
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In the following question, some idioms, phrases and sayings have been given in bold at the question places. Each of them has been followed by four options of its meaning or sense. Out of the given alternatives you have to choose one which denotes the most suitable sense or meaning of the given idiom/ phrase / saying.
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Main topic is the marvelous Twitch Plays Pokemon, we explain it to Brendan and Matt and talk about the lore/mythology behind it and how we love it! Also discuss Irrational cutting back, PS4 sales, Chroma, and we also get off topic alot for fun stories!
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DataSys 2017
June 25 - 29, 2017- Venice, Italy
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July 23 - 27, 2017 - Nice, France
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September 10 - 14, 2017 - Rome, Italy
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ThinkMind // SERVICE COMPUTATION 2011, The Third International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing // View article service_computation_2011_4_30_10083
A Pragmatic Online Authentication Framework using Smart Cards
Authors:HongQian Karen LuAsad AliKapil SachdevaKsheerabdhi Krishna
Keywords: Authentication; security; smart cards; usability
Abstract:Like most security systems, designing a secure two-factor online authentication framework is hard, but designing one that is also intuitive to use and easy to deploy is even harder. While a secure, but overly complex framework may offer little security in the end since it never gets used, an overly simplistic one that focuses merely on usability may gain initial acceptance but will inevitably lead to data breaches. To address this design paradox, we present a new online authentication framework that provides security, usability, and ease of deployment. This framework combines the proven hardware security of smart cards and the universal ease of web access through browsers, without imposing the deployment and usability complexities generally associated with conventional smart card systems. The resulting authentication solution is applicable to existing smart cards already deployed, intuitive for users, and convenient for service provides to both develop and maintain.
Pages: 84 to 91
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: September 25, 2011
Published in: conference
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011


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For nearly three hours, Sandrine Bonnaire grimly mopes through ''Secret Defense,'' the French director Jacques Rivette's dreary contemporary retelling of the Electra myth. Ms. Bonnaire is Sylvie, a dour cancer researcher who is interrupted one day in her laboratory by her emotionally distraught younger brother Paul (Gregoire Colin), who arrives toting a gun. Insisting he has evidence that their father, who ran a guided-missile factory, was murdered by his right-hand man, Walser (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), Paul announces that he intends to avenge the crime.
Paul is certain that their father, instead of accidentally falling from a moving train, was pushed. As proof, he produces a snapshot found among his father's belongings showing Walser, who claimed to be elsewhere, standing several feet from their father at the station platform shortly before his death.
The screenplay, written by the director with Pascal Bonitzer and Emmanuelle Cuau, doesn't begin to make the details of the story credible. Yet the movie, which opens today at Anthology Film Archives, is reasonably well acted (Mr. Radziwilowicz's porcine Walser is a weirdly ambiguous semi-villain) and sustains an atmosphere of glum mistrust.
Sylvie, deciding that her brother is too unstable to carry out the murder, decides to do it herself. And the scenes of the taut, nervous scientist determinedly boarding a series of trains on her way to kill Walser have a hypnotic suspense. Confronting Walser at his lavish country estate with its glowing red interiors, Sylvie draws a gun but is intercepted by his secretary and girlfriend Veronique (Laure Marsac). As the two women wrestle over the weapon, it goes off, accidentally killing Veronique. For the rest of the film -- and it has a long way to go -- Sylvie is so stricken with guilt and fear that she can barely speak.
Walser, to Sylvie's amazement, disposes of Veronique's body and enlists her as an ally in covering up the death. Complicating matters is the arrival of Sylvie's younger sister Ludivine (Ms. Marsac). Walser's bizarre strategy for allaying Ludivine's possible suspicions is to promptly seduce her. It also develops that Sylvie's mother, Genevieve (Francoise Fabian) might somehow be in cahoots with Walser. But why? Might it have something to do with the death years many earlier of Sylvie's teenage sister Elizabeth? And why are the technicians at a top-secret project in Walser's company walking around in rubber space suits?
As the glacially paced film inches forward with its halting conversations and accusatory glances, it tests your patience. And when the truth ultimately tumbles out and more violence erupts, don't expect a catharsis.
Directed by Jacques Rivette; written (in French, with English subtitles) by Pascal Bonitzer, Emmanuelle Cuau and Mr. Rivette; director of photography, William Lubtchansky; edited by Nicole Lubtchansky; music by Jordi Savall; produced by Martine Marignac and Maurice Tinchant; released by Artificial Eye. At the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at Second Street, East Village. Running time: 170 minutes. This film is not rated.Continue reading the main story
WITH: Sandrine Bonnaire (Sylvie), Jerzy Radziwilowicz (Walser), Laure Marsac (Veronique/Ludivine), Gregoire Colin (Paul) and Francoise Fabian (Genevieve).Continue reading the main story


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saturday@theHOP: Israel Conference with Luis Cataldo
New Haven House of Prayer
Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
More About Luis
Luis was born in Chile, South America and lived there until he was 5 years old. Living in a cross-cultural family, he constantly translated between languages, cultures and generations. Jill is a native Floridian with Anglo ancestors as far back as she can trace. Luis and Jill both met the Lord through Young Life, an evangelical outreach to high school kids. They served onstaff at Young Life for 18 years.
Luis and Jill directed The Response, a national solemn assembly held in Houston on August 6th, 2011 with Governor Rick Perry. They led subsequent regional Response Prayer Meetings in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida. Luis and Jill have served together in ministry throughout their 28 years of marriage. Luis was Lead Pastor of a church in Charlottesville, Virginia before joining the senior leadership of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City in 2005. Luis and Jill are starting a tour company to take people to Israel in 2013. They live in Kansas City, Missouri.
When & Where
6262 Creekside Green
The Woodlands,
Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Let The Mahler Project Begin!
Let The Mahler Project Begin!
| Posted by LA Phil Staff in Los Angeles
A few words that keep getting thrown around when discussing The Mahler Project: ambitious, monumental, massive.
But why? After all, orchestras have certainly presented Mahler cycles before – playing each of the composer's nine symphonies in a short period. However, we think The Mahler Project is quite special. Let's look at the numbers.
Nine symphonies. Two continents. Two orchestras. And one conductor.
That's not even taking into account the (literally) 1,000 musicians that will crowd onto the stage of the Shrine Auditorium here in LA (and the Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas) to perform Mahler 8, the so-called "Symphony of a Thousand." A thousand is a big number for one stage. And this doesn't even begin to factor in the logistics of moving Gustavo Dudamel, the LA Phil and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela 3,600 miles to Caracas, Venezuela to do it all over again.
Now THAT'S monumental and ambitious, not to mention massive - and those are just the concerts themselves. Surrounding The Mahler Project are educational events, lectures, master classes with young musicians and youth orchestras. It's an event for two entire organizations, two musical families and two countries, and it culminates in this season's second LA Phil LIVE, in which Mahler 8 will be beamed live into movie theaters across the U.S. from Caracas.
And yet the Mahler Project, for its impressive size and scope, is really based on one man – LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel – and his career-long quest to understand Mahler. In this wonderful interview with the LA Times' Mark Swed, Gustavo gives a little insight into his ongoing relationship with Mahler and his music.
Maybe the most telling line of the interview is here:
"[Dudamel] maintains that the larger appeal is the way in which Mahler looms so large in his career and imagination. He is driven to get deeper into the composer. He wants to follow the journey from the young man who in his late 20s wrote what might be the most confident first symphony in history to the dying composer who succumbed to a heart infection at 50 in 1911, by which time he seemed to have absorbed the weight of the world in his music."
So, as the LA Phil, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, dozens of guest artists and audiences across two continents follow Gustavo on a journey to understand this intriguing composer, this blog will follow THAT journey. Stay tuned for a behind-the-scenes look at this monumental undertaking, including exclusive video, posts from artists, LA Phil staff and more.
Welcome to The Mahler Project!


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A Charlottetown-based software company is getting a little help to market its product thanks to $826,000 in funding from the provincial and federal governments.
Adeptio Canada's CEO Chad Griffin said it was no secret that getting funding for a startup can be a challenge.
The investment from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and Innovation P.E.I. are important investments to the company and the Island economy, he said.
"As an Islander, I believe that Adeptio does represent a very important piece of our future growth."
Griffin joined Sen. Mike Duffy and Innovation Minister Allen Roach at the company's office in Charlottetown Tuesday for the funding announcement.
ACOA has invested $500,000 to help Adeptio market its software and hire a technology director while Innovation P.E.I. invested $326,000 through labour rebate, marketing and trade assistance programs.
The software's target market is businesses that would use it to motivate employees and set out goals or objectives in a way that is interactive with a social aspect included.
Those goals could be personal, such as with an employee's health and wellness or related to the business.
The service has been available since July 2012.
Griffin said Adeptio has 10 employees, including eight in Charlottetown and the company has an aggressive growth target to increase that number by another 12 between July and October.
"The market's going to dictate how we grow," he said.
Duffy said Adeptio was an outgrowth of young people interested in computers and technology.
"This is the wave of the future for P.E.I.," he said.
Roach said Adeptio's product is meant for the global market.
"The sale of goods outside Prince Edward Island is critical to creating a bright economic future for our province," he said.


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Luis Arroyo
Note: This page links to former major league pitcher Luis Arroyo. For the former minor league pitcher, click here.
Luis Enrique Arroyo
- Bats Left, Throws Left
- Height 5' 8", Weight 190 lb.
- Debut April 20, 1955
- Final Game May 28, 1963
- Born February 18, 1927 in Penuelas, P.R.
- Died January 13, 2016 in Ponce, P.R.
Biographical Information[edit]
"In 1961 Luis "Tite" Arroyo was credited with 29 saves (15-5, 2.19 ERA) and the (Yankee) franchise record of 29 was good for 9 years . . ." - from an article about Luis Arroyo
Screwballer Luis Arroyo played eight seasons in the majors. He had a terrific season in 1961.
Luis was one of the earliest Puerto Rico-born players to come to the majors. He and Roberto Clemente came up in the same year. Arroyo was in the minors for years, beginning in 1948, before he came to the majors. In 1949 he won 21 games for the Greensboro Patriots.
As a 28-year-old rookie with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1955, pitcher Arroyo earned a spot on the National League All-Star team. The next year, 1956, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. On April 18, 1957, Arroyo hit 8th, one spot ahead of Bill Mazeroski; it would be 51 years until Paul Maholm became the next Pirate hurler to bat 8th. Although the motivation in 1957 might have been to put a real hitter in the 9th spot to start a rally before the start of the batting order, nevertheless Arroyo was a good hitter for a pitcher with a .227 major league batting average (young Mazeroski had hit .243 as a rookie in 1956).
After stints with the Pirates and Cincinnati Reds, his contract was purchased by the New York Yankees in 1960. He went 5-1 with 7 saves for the Yankees that year as the team reached the World Series. The next year, in 1961, he was even better out of the pen, going 15-5 with a 2.19 ERA and 29 saves as the Yanks went on to win the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. However, he struggled with injuries the next two years and was out of the majors by 1963.
After his major league playing days he managed three years in Mexico.
In 2010 he had a "mild heart attack" while on a cruise sponsored by the Yankees. Source: ESPN article. He was elected to the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame as part of its 2012 class.
Through 2010 he is the first of four major leaguers with the last name Arroyo.
Notable Achievements[edit]
- 2-time All-Star (1955 & 1961)
- AL Reliever of the Year Award Winner (1961)
- AL Games Pitched Leader (1961)
- AL Saves Leader (1961)
- 15 Wins Seasons: 1 (1961)
- Won two World Series with the New York Yankees (1961 & 1962; he did not play in the 1962 World Series)


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New Mexico State will be independent in 2013
As the final season of Western Athletic Conference football rolls on amid the game of realignment musical chairs, the second of its two members without seats has bowed to the inevitable.
New Mexico State will play as a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision independent for the 2013 season, athletics director McKinley Boston wrote in an open letter on the school's website Wednesday.
"NMSU is committed to continuing at the Division I level and we are committed to our football program," Boston wrote. ". . . Even though our football program will be independent in 2013, NMSU will remain a WAC member in all other sports."
The Aggies join fellow WAC member Idaho in the world of football independence. The remaining WAC football schools found places to land. San Jose State and Utah State are bound for the Mountain West, Louisiana Tech and Texas-San Antonio are headed for Conference USA, and Texas State will join the Sun Belt.
Boston added that nine Aggies games, including the five home dates required by the NCAA to retain FBS status, are already scheduled for next year. "The entire 2013 football schedule should be available in mid-October," he said.
New Mexico State and Idaho will join Army, Brigham Young, Navy and Notre Dame as FBS independents next season.


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The Raven Money Clip
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June 05, 2012 03:06:48 PM
Edgar Allen Poe was paid $9 by The American Review for his famous poem. Would you enjoy carrying some of your own cash money in this raven-tastic money clip?
Vote: Thumbs up!
June 16, 2012 07:36:10 AM
I rather like the irony of once you spend your cash, you'll have it "nevermore."
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June 19, 2012 12:53:18 PM
I like the materials and that is made in the USA, but I don't know anyone who actually uses (or would want to use) a moneyclip.
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June 20, 2012 02:17:33 PM
What a beautiful Money Clip. I'd love to get one for my hubby.
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June 20, 2012 04:05:37 PM
I carry a large wallet with all my credit cards and club cards, etc. It's nice to leave it at home and use a money clip when I go out at night.
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June 20, 2012 04:49:27 PM
My husband LOVES Edgar Allen Poe! This would score me some serious points!
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June 21, 2012 12:06:56 AM
I use 2-3 money clips in my wallet. They allow me to organize my cash, frequently used credit cards, gift cards, and membership cards. Fabulous for organizing!!
July 03, 2012 04:58:29 AM
I don't use a money clip but I love the design and the Edgar Allan Poe quote.


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Almond-Topped Fish Recipe
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 small onion, thinly sliced
- 4 cod or haddock fillets (6 ounces each)
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dill weed
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup fat-free mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons sliced almonds, toasted
- 1. Place butter in a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish; place in a 400° oven until melted. Spread butter over bottom of dish; cover with onion.
- 2. Arrange fish over onion; sprinkle with salt, dill and pepper. Combine the Parmesan cheese, mayonnaise, parsley and lemon juice; spread over fish.
- 3. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 18-20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Sprinkle with almonds. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 223 calories, 7g fat (3g saturated fat), 86mg cholesterol, 716mg sodium, 4g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 1g fiber), 33g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 4 lean meat, 1 fat, 1/2 starch.
Reviews for Almond-Topped Fish
Average Rating
"This recipe is fantastic! I doubled the recipe and only increased the almonds. It was simple and DELICIOUS. My husband and I devoured it. Served it on top of brown and wild rice, asparagus and a spinach salad. Thanks for sharing the recipe."
"It gets a 5star wow yum yum .. We are hooked ..tried it for the first time today."
"This is sooooo good. It is also easy to make. It has a "good" resataurant mix of flavors, but not the cost. I used Tilapia."
"My prediabetic sweetheart loved this!!"
"This was excellent! I followed someone's suggestion and used basil instead of parsley. I will definitely make this again."
"My husband Loved this!!"
"I'm a big dill fan so I added a little extra...this was terrific!"
"I just substituted fresh basil from my garden for the parsley. M-M-M good."


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Could someone please expain in idiot proof language why these foods are so bad for me? I'd be most grateful!
No announcement yet.
No lentils/beans? Really?
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I've started adding legumes back occasionally (well soaked!) with no ill effects.I LOVE lentils, and they are very high in some vitamins / minerals ... look at the folate content!
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Lentils, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
Red kidney beans I love too - well soaked again, and boiled well. I can't see any harm in them - and given that cooking has been going for 250,000 years or so, (possibly up to 1.5 million years), I can't see anything wrong with cooking beans. This "if you can't eat it raw, you can't eat it" thing doesn't resonate for me. Pork??!!
If you are going to add the beans back... particularly red beans... please be aware that long soaking is not enough. Many people become sick each year from only soaking and crockpot cooking beans (especially red beans).
They must be boiled, at a good solid boil, for about 20 min to sufficiently reduce the compounds that can make you sick.
Follow good procedure and it should be OK... soak for 24 hours, drain water, boil for 20min, drain water, cook until soft... then eat. Some sites say 5-10 min boiling is enough... others 10-20... I would err to the side of caution and go the full 20 min.
Off the Contrary: Science Fact - The Dangers of Kidney Beans
I would apply those rules of bean cooking to ALL beans, not just red ones.
Except for lentils, and they would still get a good initial boil before being turned down to simmer.
I don't normally eat beans and I don't feel that I need them. But I would eat a small mount on occasion, and not worry about it if they were properly prepared.�You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.�
~Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.
I thought it would be ages till I cut out beans and lentils, and planned to keep eating them for a good few weeks after cutting out grains, potatoes, sugar et al. I found I dropped them pretty quick. I just didn't want them. Lentils are the least toxix as far as I am aware, and need the least preperation as a result.
I wouldn't ever buy and prepare pulses myself now, but I'd eat a chilli someone else had made with some kidney beans in it once in a while (and hope they had been preped properly) and I have had the odd dip of humous at parties. I find them pretty meh now so don't miss them at all and I certainly don't miss the bloating (the farting was fun though).You know all those pictures of Adam and Eve where they have belly button? Think about it..................... take as long as you need........................
Originally posted by Darz View PostYou can have legumes - just soak, sprout and boil them for about 10 mins before simmering.I Kettlebell therefore I am.
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There is no good or convincing evidence against legumes. They are really a good food choice, very satiating. Far better than the 'darling' sweet potato imo or white rice. You might not be able to call yourself Paleo or Primal if you eat legumes on the regular basis, but whole foods or slow carbs diets are your dietary label if you need one. That's what I decided last week. I guess I should get off these boards, since I abandoned the style of eating. I just see negative consequences to dropping dairy and legumes & disagree that they should be cut out. However, it is hard to keep the carb count low if you add beans. If you have 1/2 cup and some veggies you are likely to end up in 50-75 g carbs range rather than under 50 g range.Last edited by Leida; 07-06-2012, 05:57 AM.My Journal: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread57916.html
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Originally posted by Pudpud View PostCould someone please expain in idiot proof language why these foods are so bad for me? I'd be most grateful!
I Kettlebell therefore I am.
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When I read Mark's book in April and came to this site shortly after that, I could not imagine giving up cheddar, cottage, cream and Parmesan cheeses, skim milk & yogurt. Since having none but a TBS of org cream in coffee every morning, I'm amazed at how I have NO congestion anymore. I had exhausted all sources for trying to keep my nose from stopping up each and very night, sprays, inhalers, that horrid salt water, nothing worked for long. I have NOT had a moment's problem with congestion now for months!!!!
I don't know, but I do much better when I eat quark, cheese and Greek yogurt. I find that my key satiation and well-being mechanism is protein, but I can't stomach too much heavy, greasy meats, and I will never be able to meet my need for 170-180 g protein a day and stay in a non-gaining caloric range with meat. My main problem is sugar in fruit. Fermented dairy adds pleasant variety, tons of protein and helps me not to miss fruit. A touch of cocoa powder, lemon juice and stevia with my quark or yogurt or a whey smoothie, and I can ignore the familial fruit plate with a cool detachment. It also improves my digestion and I have no congestion issues. Oh, and a small slice of cheese in the evening is a bliss.Last edited by Leida; 07-06-2012, 06:34 AM.My Journal: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread57916.html
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Originally posted by TorMag View PostHow so? We are the only animal on the planet that consumes dairy after the weaning period. Humm, what are we missing?Take a walk on the wild side.


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Charles Sibley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had a big influence on the scientific classification of birds.
Sibley's taxonomy was a major influence on many organizations, such as the American Ornithologists' Union.


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Incomnig calls go to "Cisco Unity Messaging System...."
One user's Unity voicemail isnot working. Callers get "Hello, Cisco Unity Messaging System, from touchtone...." then "Welcome to Cisco Unity Broadcast Message Administrator, enter your ID followed by pound..."
Delete his Unity account and re-subscirbe didn't fix this problem.
Anyone knows what is going on? Thanks.
Unity V5.0 and CCM V4.2.