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South Coast Rep Presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL Starting 11/29
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Orange County's beloved holiday tradition, returns to South Coast Repertory for its 29th season. Adapted for the stage by Jerry Patch and directed by John-David Keller, Dickens' classic tale runs on the Segerstrom Stage from Nov. 29 through Dec. 27. Low-priced previews begin Nov. 29. Opening night is Dec 5. Tickets are available by calling the box office at (714) 708-5555 or by visiting www.scr.org.
Hal Landon Jr., who has never missed a season since he originated the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1980, returns as the world's most celebrated miser. Joining the cast for the first time as Fred is Louis Lotorto, who has appeared at SCR in Taking Steps, Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. Karen Hensel and Tom Shelton return for their second season as Mrs. Fezziwig, and Jacob Marley and The Spirit of Christmas Yet-to-Come.
The production features the return of Founding Artists and long-time cast members Richard Doyle (The Spirit of Christmas Past) and Art Koustik (Joe), as well as SCR regular Timothy Landfield (The Spirit of Christmas Present). Director Keller also appears for the seventh season as Mr. Fezziwig. Returning in the roles of Bob Cratchit and Mrs. Cratchit are Daniel Blinkoff and Jennifer Parsons; and Jennifer Chu and Ann Marie Lee are back for their third seasons as Belle and Sally, respectively.
A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 as a novella and quickly became a perennial holiday favorite. The story of love and redemption remains one of Charles Dickens' most widely recognized and popular creations. On Christmas Eve, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge is his usual miserly self, chasing off solicitors for the poor, chastising his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, for wanting to take off Christmas Day and insulting his nephew Fred for celebrating a holiday that "has never put a penny in anyone's pocket." But that night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, who portends the arrival of three spirits who will show him the desolate path he has chosen and offer him a chance to correct his ways.
Joining the cast of A Christmas Carol are four graduates of South Coast Repertory's Professional Intensive Program: Matt Bartosch (Thomas Shelley), Jill Maglione (Elizabeth Shelley), Jake Wells (Mr. Topper) and Dan Behnke (Young Jacob Marley). The cast also includes 16 local students selected from South Coast Repertory's Youth and Teen programs. This year's group of Cratchit kids and street urchins consists of (by hometown): Huntington Beach – BriAnna Beach, Lucas Blankenhorn; Irvine – William Hopper, Bahaar Tadjbakhsh, Sanaz Toossi; Lake Forest – Courtney Kato; Los Alamitos – Jordan Boggess, Mission Viejo – Christopher Bautista; Newport Beach – Christopher Huntley, Jasmine O'Hea; Rancho Santa Margarita – Grace O'Brien; Rossmoor – Jamie Ostmann, Nick Slimmer; Seal Beach – Matthew Tanaka; Yorba Linda – Mason Acevedo.
The creative team for A Christmas Carol includes Tom Buderwitz (set design), Dwight Richard Odle (costume design), Tom and Donna Ruzika (lighting design), Dennis McCarthy (musical arrangement/composer), Drew Dalzell (sound design), Dennis Castellano (vocal director), Sylvia C. Turner (choreographer), Hisa Takakuwa (assistant director) and Jamie Tucker (stage manager).
George and Julianne Argyros are Honorary Producers. KOCE-TV and Orange County Register are the Media Partners.
TICKETS to A Christmas Carol can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or by visiting the box office at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa. Performances begin on Nov. 29 and continue through Dec. 27. Ticket prices range from $24 to $58. Low-priced preview performances are available from Nov. 29 - Dec. 2. Performance times: Previews: Saturday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 30 at 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Regular Performances: Monday, Dec. 22 at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday - Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. and Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Note: there are no evening performances on Wednesday, Dec. 3 and Thursday, Dec. 4. Discounts are available for children 12 and under and groups of 15 or more. There will be an ASL-interpreted performance on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2:30 p.m.
Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Of SCR's more than 400 productions, 108 have been world premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations with Margaret Edson's Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole in 2007. Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.
Hal Landon Jr. (Ebenezer Scrooge) is an SCR Founding Artist who recently appeared in Hamlet, Nothing Sacred, Man from Nebraska, Born Yesterday, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A View from the Bridge, Habeas Corpus, Cyrano de Bergerac, Safe in Hell, Antigone, The Drawer Boy (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nomination), Major Barbara and The School for Wives. Other credits include Arcadia, Our Town, Sidney Bechet Killed a Man, BAFO, Six Degrees of Separation, An Ideal Husband, A Mess of Plays by Chris Durang, Play Strindberg, Faith Healer, Ghost in the Machine, Green Icebergs, Morning's at Seven, The Miser, Our Country's Good and Waiting for Godot. He created the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in SCR's A Christmas Carol, and has performed it in all 29 annual productions. He appeared in Leander Stillwell at Mark Taper Forum and in Henry V at The Old Globe in San Diego. Other resident theater roles include Salieri in Amadeus, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Gordon Miller in Room Service. Among his film credits are Trespass, Pacific Heights, Almost an Angel, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Playing by Heart.
Christian Barillas (Undertaker/Young Ebenezer) returns to the cast of A Christmas Carol after making his SCR debut in the 2006 production. Most recently, Christian was awarded Colorado's Henry Award for his work in the world premiere of Octavio Solis' Lydia at Denver Center, which he will reprise at Yale Repertory in 2009. Other theater credits include Sonia Flew at Laguna Playhouse (West Coast premiere), Cornerstone's As You Like It at Pasadena Playhouse, Center Theatre Group's A VERY OLD Man with Enormous Wings at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (West Coast premiere), A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello at Theatricum Botanicum and Vieux Carré at Ivy Substation. Los Angeles highlights include the title role in Anatol with Pacific Resident Theater Company, of which he is a member, The Tempest with Ark Theater Company and The Beaux Stratagem. Film credits include The Appointment, Sabotage, Incitement and 'Til Parole Do Us Part. On television he has appeared in NBC's "Passions," "The Playbook" for Spike TV and the pilot episode for "I See You." Barillas attended the University of North Carolina, and received his MFA from UCLA where he was the recipient of the George Burns Fellowship in Comedy and the Jack Nicholson Prize in Acting.
DANIEL BEHNKE (Young Marley/Cop) is making his SCR debut after having recently completed SCR's Professional Intensive Program. Theater credits include Tracers, Arcadia, Beyond Therapy, Glengarry Glen Ross and How the Other Half Loves at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Tape at Oakton Theater.
Daniel Blinkoff (Bob Cratchit) returns to SCR as Bob Cratchit for his sixth consecutive year. He has previously appeared at SCR in An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville, Nothing Sacred, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Major Barbara, The School for Wives, Nostalgia and Pinocchio. Other Los Angeles area theater credits include Pera Palas at The Theatre @ Boston Court, A Distant Shore at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and Road at Yale Cabaret Blue. Regionally he has appeared in The Imaginary Invalid and A Kiss for Cinderella at The Cleveland Play House, Are We There Yet? and The Seagull at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Stepping Out with Mr. Markham at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Summer in Gossensass at Theatre Row (directed by Maria Irene Fornes), Dinosaur Dreams and The Last 60 of 99 at New York Stage & Film, The Beaux Strategem and Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory Theatre, Leander Stillwell at Stage Left Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Citation) and Flesh and Blood at Chicago's Bailiwick Repertory Theatre (Joseph Jefferson nomination - Best Actor). Film and television credits include Rockabye, With Honors, Crossing the Bridge, Dandelion, "Close to Home" (recurring), "Charmed," "NYPD Blue," "Law & Order" and "Missing Persons." Blinkoff is a member of The Antaeus Company in L.A. as well as The Actors Center in New York. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
JENNIFER CHU (Belle/Ensemble) returns to SCR's annual production of A Christmas Carol for her third consecutive year. Other SCR appearances include Life Is A Dream, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The Only Child and the NewSCRipts reading of Happy Valley. Other theater credits include the world premiere of Nuevo California at San Diego Repertory Theatre, The Triumph of Isabella at Geffen Playhouse, Rashomon at Sierra Repertory Theatre, Medea at Theatre @ Boston Court, Gretty Good Time at Falcon Theatre, The Merchant of Venice at LAWS @ the Ivy Substation, The Conquest of the South Pole at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (LA Weekly nomination) and A Little Night Music at Edison Theatre in St. Louis. Film and television credits include "Moonlight," "Heartland," "E-Ring," "Six Feet Under," Overnight, The Astronaut Farmer, The Terminal, Beyond the Ring, The Gene Generation and The Shift (Cannes, LA Film Festival). Chu received her MFA in acting from UCLA and currently can be seen selling airplanes, Big Macs, and home improvement appliances.
Richard Doyle (Solicitor/Spirit of Christmas Past/Gentleman) is an SCR Founding Artist. He appeared most recently in An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville and last season in A Christmas Carol and The Importance of Being Earnest. Other credits include Hamlet, My Wandering Boy, Life is a Dream, Nothing Sacred, The Adventures of Pør Quinly, Born Yesterday, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Habeas Corpus, as Eddie in A View from the Bridge, Intimate Exchanges (1993), The Last Night of Ballyhoo and the world premieres of The Beard of Avon, On the Jump, But Not for Me, BAFO, The Interrogation of Nathan Hale, She Stoops to Folly, Wit, Hospitality Suite, Highest Standard of Living, Relatively Speaking, Proof, Major Barbara, Much Ado about Nothing, A Delicate Balance and Intimate Exchanges (2004), for which he earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Award nomination. He won an LADCC Award for his role in Sally Nemeth's Holy Days and was nominated for his role as Reverend Hale in The Crucible. He was a guest artist at The Pasadena Playhouse in the world premiere of Matter of Honor playing Gen. John M. Schofield. "Cheers" fans will remember him as Woody's snooty father-in-law Walter Gaines. He has many other film and television credits. As a voice-actor, Mr. Doyle has become a familiar voice in commercial advertisements, CD-ROM games (i.e. MGS-4), documentaries and animated series. Doyle's voice can be heard as Senator Kelly on "Wolverine," the new X-Men series and the holographic host in the Union Theatre at the new Lincoln Library in Springfield, IL.
Karen Hensel (Mrs. Fezziwig/Solicitor) has been associated with SCR since her debut in Spokesong in 1979. Her performances at SCR have included The Heiress, Cold Sweat, Hotel Paradiso, Bosoms and Neglect, Unsuitable for Adults and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a production that was also presented at the Singapore Theatre Festival. She also appeared in Cloud Nine, Our Country's Good, Hay Fever and, memorably, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, which was also presented by SCR at the Westwood Playhouse and for which she was awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. She has performed at Mark Taper Forum, Pasadena Playhouse and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. A member of the Broadway cast of Zoot Suit, she might be remembered by television viewers as Doris on "The Young and the Restless" (12 years), or for her many guest spots on nighttime dramas. She is currently the Director of the Adult Program and the Professional Intensive Program at SCR.
John-David Keller (Mr. Fezziwig/Gentleman) is a member of SCR's resident Acting Company. He has been with the company since 1973 working as both an actor and director. He directed SCR's Theatre for Young Audiences productions of The Adventures of Pør Quinly, Pinocchio and The Emperor's New Clothes and acted in Bach at Leipzig and The Wind in the Willows. Keller has directed A Christmas Carol for its entire 29-year history. He has directed SCR's Educational Touring Productions for 32 years, and this year will direct Indian Summer, which begins touring in January 2009. Among his other SCR directing credits are The Importance of Being Earnest, Godspell, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, In Fashion, The Real Inspector Hound (SCR's first Equity show), Peg O' My Heart and Tomfoolery. He has also acted in over 100 plays at SCR. He has been the concert host for the fifth grade concerts for the Orange County Philharmonic Society for 19 years. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Philharmonic and was part of the Sundance Playwrights Festival for ten years.
Art Koustik (Joe/Ensemble) is an SCR Founding Artist who has appeared in scores of productions, including Much Ado about Nothing, The Hollow Lands, Of Mice and Men, Tartuffe and Ah, Wilderness! He also appeared in BAFO, Six Degrees of Separation, She Stoops to Folly, The Taming of the Shrew, The Misanthrope, A Streetcar Named Desire, Loot, Lettice & Lovage, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Miser, Shadowlands and Hospitality Suite. Other appearances include Twelfth Night, Hard Times, The Crucible, Prelude to a Kiss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Galileo, The Foreigner, Rum and Coke, The Show-Off, Saint Joan, Playboy of the Western World, Coming Attractions, American Buffalo, The Elephant Man, Time Was, The Time of Your Life, Comedians, Rubbers, That Championship Season, and most annual productions of A Christmas Carol. Outside SCR, he has been in Anything Goes, Chapter Two, Guys and Dolls, Brigadoon, numerous commercials, and film and television such as La Bamba, "Valerie," "Hill Street Blues," "Moonlighting," "The Golden Girls," "Dallas" and "The Young and the Restless."
Timothy Landfield (Spirit of Christmas Present) returns to SCR, where he was previously seen in Bach at Leipzig, Pinocchio, The Clean House, The Norman Conquests, Round and Round the Garden and Hay Fever. He recently appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic, The Miser at A Noise Within and in the Broadway revivals of Company and The Sound of Music. He appeared on Broadway in Rumors, Arsenic and Old Lace, Wild Honey, The Crucifer of Blood and Tartuffe. Off-Broadway, he was in the original production of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Actor's Nightmare, as well as the musical Charlotte Sweet. He has played major roles in regional theaters across the country including Phileas Fogg in 80 Days at La Jolla Playhouse. Television and film credits include "Bones," "Six Feet Under," "Without a Trace," "Monk," "Frasier," "Boston Public," "CSI," "Family Law," "Law & Order" and The Cooler with William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin. He is on the faculty at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.
Ann Marie Lee (Toy Lady/Sally/Scavenger) appeared at SCR last season in A Little Night Music and A Christmas Carol and previously in the Theatre for Young Audiences production of Pinocchio. Lee is a resident artist at A Noise Within, where her roles have included Rosalind (As You Like It), Anne (Man and Superman), Varya (The Cherry Orchard), Laura (The Glass Menagerie), Estella (Great Expectations) and Myra Arundel (Hay Fever). National tours include Peter Pan and Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? among others. Off-Broadway and regional credits include "Sondheim: A Celebration At Carnegie Hall," A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the West Coast premiere of And the Winner Is at Laguna Playhouse and recently The Constant Wife at the Pasadena Playhouse. Film and television includes "The Nine" (recurring), "Nip/Tuck," "7th Heaven," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "ER," "Providence," "Titus," HBO's "Breast Men," "Any Day Now," "Picket Fences" and "L.A. Law" (recurring). Radio plays include Hollywood Theatre of the Ear and NPR's Beyond 2000. Audio books narrator: Books-On -Tape, Blackstone, and Lakeshore Learning. BA in Drama, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.; Performance/ Teaching Fulbright in American Drama to Poland.
LOUIS LOTORTO (Fred/Gentleman) has previously appeared at SCR in Taking Steps, Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. Los Angeles theater credits include the Ahmanson Theatre in the Royal National Theatre touring production of An Enemy of the People with Sir Ian McKellen, the L.A. Philharmonic, International City Theatre, Mark Taper Forum's Taper Too, The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, six seasons with A Noise Within, most recently earning an Ovation Nomination nod for his portrayal of Camille in A Flea in Her Ear. A company member and on the artistic advisory board of The Colony Theatre Company in Burbank, he has appeared there as Dr. Watson in Sherlock's Last Cast, Tom in The Glass Menagerie and as several characters in the West Coast Premiere of Almost, Maine among others. Regional theatre credits include two seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. (Helen Hayes Award nominee for Ariel in The Tempest), four seasons at the California Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Portland Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and most recently starring as Charlie in The Foreigner at San Jose Repertory Theatre. Film and television credits include Fire in the Sky, Under Suspicion, Body Language, Fade to Black, The Marla Hanson Story and "Nowhere Man."
JILL MAGLIONE (Elizabeth Shelley/Fan/Pursued Maiden) is pleased to be making her SCR debut after completing SCR's Professional Intensive Program. Theatre credits include The Night of the Iguana and Henry IV, Part 1 at A Noise Within, The Sound of Music and Anything Goes with The Andrean Players, Secret Confessions at Creative Artists Laboratory and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center. Film and television credits include Freedom of Speech, Desert Island, The Fallen, "What a Relief" and "How to Look Good Naked."
Jennifer Parsons (Mrs. Cratchit) returns for a fifth year in A Christmas Carol and most recently appeared at SCR in The Heiress and The BFG (Big Friendly Giant). She also appeared in James and the Giant Peach, The Only Child, Bunnicula, Cyrano de Bergerac, Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards, Our Town, She Stoops to Folly, The Importance of Being Earnest and Buried Child. Other stage credits include How I Learned to Drive at San Diego Repertory and Talley's Folly at International City Theatre in Long Beach. In New York she appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway in Quilters, Steel Magnolias, Smoke on the Mountain, Native Speech and Unchanging Love. Other regional theater credits span from the Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, Kennedy Center and Chicago's Royal George to The Abbey (Ireland). As a company member at Theatre 40 she has performed leading roles in Holy Days, Heartbreak House, Little Murders, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Yiddish Trojan Women, Chapter 2 and many others. Among her most current television appearances are guest star roles on "Without a Trace," "Boston Legal," "The OC," "Judging Amy," "JAG," "The West Wing," "For the People," "Philly" (recurring), "NYPD Blue," "The X- Files", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek: Voyager"and "The Jersey" (recurring). Film credits include American Girl, Dragonfly, Never Been Kissed, Box Boarders! and Self Medicated.
Tom Shelton (Jacob Marley/Spirit of Christmas Yet-to-Come) returns to the cast of A Christmas Carol for the second consecutive season, after his previous appearance as Topper in the inaugural production 28 years ago. Other SCR productions include Hotel Paradiso, Galileo and The Merchant Of Venice. More recently, he appeared in several Theater for Young Audiences productions including this season's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Wind In The Willows, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The Adventures of Pør Quinly, James and the Giant Peach and The Only Child. At Laguna Playhouse he has appeared in Red Herring, What The Butler Saw, Travels With My Aunt and The Woman In Black, among many others. He toured the nation in that theater's production of Copenhagen. Other Southern California stage appearances include Loot and Twentieth Century at ICT and All My Sons at La Mirada. In New York he appeared Off-Broadway in The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Jesse James and The Member of The Wedding.
JAKE WELLS (Puppeteer/Mr. Topper) recently made his SCR debut in An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville after having completed SCR's Professional Intensive Program. Theater credits include The Diviners, The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Man of La Mancha at Rose Center Theater; Lend Me a Tenor, Cash on Delivery! and Alice in Wonderland at Huntington Beach Playhouse; and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chapman College's Shakespeare Festival. Television credits include "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Just Jordan."
Photo of Hal Landon Jr. in SCR's 2007 Production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL Courtesy of South Coast Repertory.


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Sensitivity analysis determines the effectiveness of antibiotics against microorganisms (germs) such as bacteria that have been isolated from cultures.
Sensitivity analysis may be done along with:
Antibiotic sensitivity testing; Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
After the culture (sample) is collected from you, it is sent to a lab. There, the samples are put in special containers to grow the microorganisms (germs) from the collected samples. Colonies of microorganisms are combined with different antibiotics to see how well each antibiotic stops each colony from growing. The test determines how effective each antibiotic is against a given organism.
Follow your health care provider's instructions on how to prepare for the method used to obtain the culture.
The way the test feels depends on the method used to obtain the culture.
The test shows which antibiotic drugs should be used to treat an infection.
Many organisms are resistant to certain antibiotics. Sensitivity tests are important in helping find the right antibiotic for you. Your provider may start you on one antibiotic, but later change you to another because of the results of sensitivity analysis.
If the organism shows resistance to the antibiotics used in the test, those antibiotics will not be effective treatment.
Risks depend on the method used to obtain the specific culture.
Smith MB, LaSala PR, Woods GL. In vitro testing of antimicrobial agents. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 58.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff took part in a 45-minute conference call on Thursday to talk about the nine-year strategic partnership announced this week. The stated purpose was to give the press and financial analysts a chance to ask questions, but the two executives spent so much time lavishing compliments on each other and emphasizing the comparatively simple act of integrating cloud apps that they left little time for questions. What's more, some of the questions that were asked weren't adequately answered.
It has been a monumental week of strategic partnerships for Oracle, starting with the cloud partnership with Microsoft announced on Monday, the Salesforce.com partnership announced on Tuesday and the NetSuite deal unveiled late Wednesday. Oracle President Mark Hurd fielded questions for the red team during the joint press calls with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and NetSuite CEO Zack Nelson, respectively. Benioff, the former Oracle employee who often cites Ellison as one of his mentors, was given an audience with his former boss.
The two executives started by revisiting the basics of their nine-year partnership. Salesforce.com will standardize on Oracle Linux, Oracle Database, Oracle Java Middleware and Oracle Exadata; Oracle will integrate Fusion HCM, the Oracle Financial Cloud and other applications with Salesforce.com for rapid implementation and interoperability. Then it was on to the glowing remarks.
Benioff: I want thank Larry, because Oracle is always there for us whenever we need them, and they are a true partner.
Ellison: Virtually every time we buy a company they are running Salesforce.com CRM.
[ Want more on Oracle's deal with Microsoft? Read Oracle Goes All In On Microsoft's Cloud. ]
Benioff: There's no better product in the world in the database area than Oracle.
Ellison: We see Salesforce.com all over the market. They are the market leader, and our customers expect us to work gracefully with Salesforce.com.
Benioff: After so many decades of leading Oracle, Larry's leadership has really ensured that Oracle is the best database product in the world.
You could boil the script down to three key messages: Oracle is a great database vendor that gives us secure, reliable, cost-effective and high-performance infrastructure; Salesforce is the leading cloud company and the CRM leader; We're going to find ways to work better together so customers can integrate our products quickly, save time and money and get better performance.
Largely off the script during this week's conference calls was the question of where these partnerships leave Oracle's strategy. You're left with the impression that it's abdicating cloud platform leadership to Microsoft Azure, cloud CRM leadership to Salesforce.com and cloud ERP leadership to NetSuite.
How does this make Fusion applications more appealing, Ellison was asked?
"We have a lot of customers that use Oracle applications. It's a graceful upgrade from our current on-premises ERP applications to Fusion ERP in the cloud and Fusion HCM in the cloud," he began, but then he returned to the "we're going to work better together" script.
"We don't want each and every one of those customers to have to hire a third-party or to have to spend a lot of money to wire up a Salesforce application with Oracle applications," he said. "That makes Fusion applications much easier to adopt."
At the very least this is a frank admission that Salesforce and NetSuite are much bigger in the cloud than is Fusion, so they're in a better position than Oracle itself to pull along sales of Fusion HCM and Fusion Financials. But if you're a current or potential buyer of Fusion CRM or Fusion ERP, Oracle's endorsements and ready-made integrations with Salesforce and NetSuite have to leave you wondering if they're really in the game.


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So since i started disc golf (about a year now) i'v been somewhat of a brand junkie with my discs and only threw discraft but it seems like everyone mostly throws inovas, so basically i'm just asking for someone to "Build" me a bag in terms of discs i should look at getting.
I'm 6 foot tall and have quite a strong arm.
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So all of the guys I regularly play with throw forehand and have very little to offer concerning backhand throws, which, is all I've really worked on. Here are a couple vids from this weekend, any and all help is appreciated. FWIW, I'm throwing a 146g Blizzard Katana and both of these throws went about 270'-280'.
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Pasta with Sausage and Cream (Kalyn's Kitchen Cooks The Best Recipes in the World)
Pasta with Sausages and Cream
(Recipe adapted from The Best Recipes in the World.)
1 pound Dreamfields Penne (1 box)
1 1/4 lbs. (5 links) hot Italian Sausage (use turkey Italian sausage to reduce the fat)
3/4 cup half and half
1 T butter
salt and pepper to taste
freshly grated parmesan for serving
Add drained pasta to pan with sausage mixture and stir, adding reserved water if it seems dry. (I did need the water when I made it.) Serve immediately with a green salad and plenty of fresh grated parmesan to grate over each serving.
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With the changes I made, this is certainly a more diet-friendly recipe than the original version Mark Bittman tried in Italy, but this would definitely be a very rare treat for South Beach Dieters, probably best saved for phase 3, and even then a "once in a while" treat.


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'"It's definitely a source of motivation," Briere admitted Wednesday. "All of my life that's what I've been thriving on. There have been lots of comments: that I wouldn't make it to the next level; that I wouldn't be drafted to the NHL; that I wouldn't make the NHL; that I would only be a power-play specialist. "Those comments after my arbitration award were in the back of my mind coming into this season. I know what people were thinking. At the same time you want to prove to your own team they didn't make a mistake picking up the award."'
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AN AMERICAN Pitbull owner who set his dog on his new girlfriend has been jailed for two years.
James Guilfoyle, aged 22, had denied assault but a jury at Truro Crown Court convicted him after hearing how the dog called Marley had jumped onto his victim and bitten her arm and leg.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, 24-year-old care worker Gemma Nicholls told the court that she met Guilfoyle through a social internet site about four months before the attack and moved in with him in Oakfield Road, Falmouth, in November last year.
On February 13 last they argued after he had gone upstairs to his sister's room and refused to let her in. He did not come down for about two hours by which time his mood had changed.
He pushed her in the chest, punched her on the chin and threw a nearly empty bottle which struck her on the head.
"Miss Nicholls went to the ground and was kicked, and Guilfoyle told Marley to 'get her'" said Mr White. "She leapt out of the lounge window and ran down the road to a neighbours, wearing only her pyjamas and nothing on her feet. Guilfoyle and the dog followed her."
In the witness box Guilfoyle told the jury that he had been upstairs with his sister planing a surprise Valentine's Day card and present for Miss Nicholls. She had drunk about three quarters of the bottle of wine before they argued.
He alleged that his girlfriend had picked up a knife and threatened him. He had not set Marley on her and had not run after her down the road. Marley, he explained, was afraid of knives because it had suffered four stab wounds in the previous November.
Neighbour David Wicks said he had been awakened by loud banging on the door and found Miss Nicholls distraught and crying. The dog followed her into the house but was quite calm, pet-like.
Defence counsel Brian Fitzgerald said that Guilfoyle had a drink-driving conviction but none involving violence. A factory worker in Falmouth, Guilfoyle had taken courses while in custody and he was supported by his mother and loving family.
Judge Graham Cottle told Guilfoyle he had committed a sustained and vicious attack in which he had encouraged his dog to bite Miss Nicholls, who was terrified.
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The last 20 years has brought unprecedented developments to Chinese agriculture, but it has also brought challenges that shook the whole food chain in recent years leading to an undermining of consumer confidence. Companies that dare to make changes while sticking to their core survived and those utilizing the latest technologies will have a bright future in the world's largest swine, aqua and feed producing country.
Alltech Founder and President Dr. Pearse Lyons shared his vision with Chinese industry professionals at the Alltech China 20 Year Celebratory Summit held in Beijing. The event was organized both to celebrate the global animal nutrition company's twenty years of successful presence in the Far East and to explore where the Chinese feed and food industries are heading.
"China must be able to feed itself," said Lyons, while addressing more than 700 attendees at the Summit.
The Middle Kingdom has 7% of the world's arable land and 20% of the world's population. Yet, the country is depending heavily on grain or milk imports. Although more than 50% of the world's pig production takes place in China, the country is a net importer of pork meat. The agriculture sector in China has gone through tremendous changes, but previous food safety scandals have clearly shown the areas where significant developments must be made.
Lyons believes that the last 20 years were a time of consolidation moving from backyard farming to large, modern integrations. The next two decades will focus on how companies will increase their production efficiency in a sustainable way without damaging the environment and maintaining their profitability.
China is currently experiencing a growing demand for dairy products and its ever conscious consumers are increasingly concerned about food safety. According to Alltech North China General Manager, Gordon Gao, who addressed the dairy session of the Alltech China 20 Year Celebratory Summit, China urgently needs to increase milk production efficiency, maintain profitability and focus on food safety.
"Chinese dairy farmers need to find sustainable ways to maintain profitability by lowering costs and increasing the level of production and Alltech can provide solutions for these issues that Chinese dairy farmers face," Gao said.
Chinese companies have the capability to quickly adapt technologies and learn from other markets. In 2013, China contributed 30% (80 million tons) of the total 267 million tons of global swine feed produced. China is set to remain the largest pork meat producer and consumer in the world and the Chinese perspective on pig production has global implications.
Lyons spoke about the very recent Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) cases in the US and Canada. After another recent outbreak of the virus, many industry members are now reassessing their feed ingredient sources and tightening the reins on the traceability of their overall management and nutrition programs.
"While it is unrealistic to believe that a simple nutritional change will result in the elimination of the virus from a herd of pigs," Lyons said. "Alltech's distinct set of technologies can help in maintaining healthy pig populations, which is the first step in dealing with a herd crisis."
It will also soon be critical that Chinese companies use alternative raw material sources. Lyons predicts that systems such as Solid State Fermentation (SSF) will soon allow the production of customised enzyme cocktails for improving digestion, animal performance and health. Algae has already began to play an increasing role in animal production as a source of sustainable vegetable protein or oils (DHA).
As part of Alltech's China Now strategy Dr. Mark Lyons, Vice President corporate affairs commented that "Alltech has committed to investing $2.5 million by 2016 in research alliance programs with leading Chinese universities and our partnership with Ocean University of China in Qingdao will contribute to a sustainable future for the Chinese aquaculture industry."
"Alltech today is a $ 1 billion company. We were one of the very first companies who came to China twenty years ago. China has become one of the top three key markets for Alltech over the years and will be a strong contributor to our global goal of $4 billion in sales in the near future. We have never been as excited as we are today about the opportunities in China and we look forward to closely supporting the industry in the next 20 years as well," Lyons concluded.
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After months of burglaries and break-ins, a neighborhood effort is succeeding.
"We haven't had any (home break-ins) in 30 days," Tina Encarnacion announced Saturday afternoon during the Carriage Oaks neighborhood watch group meeting.
Encarnacion, the group leader, said eight burglaries also have been prevented by members of the group since Jan. 22.
"It's making a big difference," a member said. "I also get to know more of my neighbors."
The group of about 135 people has been diligently patrolling the North Vallejo neighborhood after getting tired of being victims of a rash of burglaries.
At a special meeting Saturday attended by about 50 people, Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis was invited to answer questions from the neighborhood residents, who had suggestions to improve safety themselves.
Inviting the Solano County District Attorney to a meeting to explain the juvenile court system was one suggestion, since a few of the suspects arrested in the burglaries have been under 18.
"They are just getting slaps on their hands, and being released back out," a concerned resident said.
When asked what Davis' plan on getting more officers into the department, he said that his goal is to add 10 more officers into the upcoming city budget, and another 10 into the following budget.
"A bigger police presence in the community will deter crimes, but it alone won't automatically make our community safe," Davis said. "We'll still need neighborhood watch groups."
Davis said he realizes that there are budget concerns when hiring police officers.
"That's subject to negotiation," he said. "While I respect the police and what they do, I'm one to say that the city can only pay what (it) can afford."
Davis estimated the 10 new officers would cost about $2 million.
The department is now budgeted for 98 officers, including five that are financed through Measure B, a 1 percent sales tax that Vallejo voters passed in 2011.
With recent attrition, the force has 87 sworn officers, and at least six of them are expected to retire by May.
Davis said he's encouraged to see the turnout of Saturday's meeting.
"They are really concerned and active," he said. "They've become the eyes and ears for the police department."
Two Vallejo police officers also attended the meeting.
The group had previously met with Vallejo police Chief Joe Kreins to voice their concerns. Members of Citizens on Patrol have since been patrolling the neighborhood, in addition to the regular police patrol.
Contact staff writer Irma Widjojo at (707)553-6835 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @IrmaVTH.


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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was created as a part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010, has finally released the rules and guidelines concerning the definition of a qualified mortgage (QM).
I won't go into all of the details and will instead discuss what the new rules imply for banks, lending and housing activity.
There are two basic types of residential QMs that banks may originate: loans that don't allow borrowers to sue lenders after the fact for faulty underwriting and those that do.
I'll discuss that more in the future as we begin to get data indicating how bank lending is proceeding.
But for the most part, this is a huge positive event for banks, borrowers, mortgage backed securities markets and the economy overall.
The creation of the new rule is removing the concerns banks have had since Lehman crashed and especially since the passage of Dodd-Frank in July 2010. The opaque regulatory environment they've been working with since then has caused all lenders to maintain overly-conservative underwriting standards. The new rules are providing transparency again and that should result in a steady increase in banks' willingness to make more loans and their assertiveness in doing so.
For the most part, the new QM rules reflect what banks have been doing for the past few years anyway. Low and no documentation loans are disallowed and all borrowers must provide proof of income, assets and credit.
The big news is that QMs will allow for a total debt-to-income ratio of up to 43% for borrowers. That is a big deal. Prior to the underwriting mania of the early 2000s the Fannie/Freddie total debt-to-income ratio was capped at 36%. There have been concerns that that level or lower was what the CFPB was going to require for QMs.
The higher the total debt-to-income ratio allowed, the greater the aggregate pool of eligible mortgagors there is. This will help to support the housing market and the creation of new mortgages.
To put in context, during the mania underwriting years the debt-to-income ratio was largely undefined in practical terms, with borrowers having ratios above 50%, 60% or 70% being automatically approved regularly by computers and by the ratio not being considered at all because of low and no documentation loan alternatives.
But this news isn't equally good for everyone. Borrowers with incomes that fluctuate or are difficult to determine, like commissioned sales representatives and small business owners, will discover that their access to credit is not enhanced by the new transparent rules.
For investors, the easiest straight line play to capitalize on this is through Wells Fargo (WFC).
As I discussed last week, it is the only money center that is actively positioning itself and already prepared to grow further into the mortgage origination business.


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Hardcore Minis, established more than 20 years ago, is one of the oldest clubs in Florida and is known for the high level of enthusiasm it brings to the sport. Whenever the group arrives at an event, everyone looks to see the latest outrageous comment displayed on the club's T-shirts. Our favorite: "Hardcore, Keeping Cops Employed Since 1989!" More family than club, this close-knit group maintains its annual tradition of remembering a fallen friend, Larry Neal Oliver Jr. The 13th Annual LNO Memorial Show helps keep his memory alive and reinforces the close ties that the club has with its members as well as the Oliver family. Proceeds from the event are used to help local charities. Although the origin of the event is serious, it's also a celebration of life with plenty of fun on the menu. In addition to the great collection of vehicles, everyone enjoyed the wacky club games, lots of giveaways, and the spectator favorite: the wet T-shirt contest. Besides T-shirts and hats, some of the gifts flying off the stage into the crowd were OBX intakes, gauges, Meguiar's Car Care products, and more. The cool collection of 101 trophies added to the fun and now have become treasured mementoes on mantlepieces around the Sunshine State.
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Show Name: Hardcore LNO Memorial Show
Date: December 6, 2008
Venue (City/State): Central Florida Fairgrounds, Orlando, Florida
Spectator Attendance: More than 400
Total Vehicle Entrants: 251
Show Name: Hardcore LNO Memorial Show
Date: December 6, 2008
Venue (City/State): Central Florida Fairgrounds, Orlando, Florida
Spectator Attendance: More than 400
Total Vehicle Entrants: 251
Awards Given: Joe Cochran's 2002 custom Chevy 4X4 was loaded with stereo as well as horsepower. Strong enough to win the "Pull Off" and cool enough to capture Best of Show, Cochran's lifted Chevy was hard on the competition. The Oliver family chose Chris Sewell's flame-painted, body-dropped '99 Ford F-150 as their favorite. Greg Intzegian's flaming '98 S-10, complete with dancing skeletons, took Best Paint while Todd Jackson's radical audiovisual Avalanche took the Best Interior award. More than 100 other drivers went home with trophies.
Special Events: Hardcore always packs lots of action into it's events. This year, in addition to the motorcycle stunt team that performed throughout the day, there was a smoky burnout competition, and 4x4 tug-of-war, as well as the always fun club games that included the traditional Peanuts in Da' Whipped Cream, Chubby Buddy Marshmallow Cram, Root Beer Chug, and the perennial spectator favorite, the wet T-shirt contest
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I believe that the more you practice anything, the easier it will become. That goes for nutrition as well. My diet of plant-based foods, whole grains, fresh veggies, no preservatives, minimally processed foods and little sugars isn't a diet in the way we have some to think of "diets". We tend to think of nutritional change in a more healthful direction as something so difficult that it's hard to get started. I get that eating well is also really expensive and because of the way our food industry is set up, not affordable for a lot of people. It's cheap to eat less healthy. I hope someday soon that changes. In the meantime, I suggest starting with one meal a week. Take the time to get a recipe, go to the market and get ingredients and make a fresh, home cooked meal, preferably vegetarian while you're at it.
I'm lucky that I love to cook and play in the kitchen, so it's easy for me to stay on a healthy eating routine. Last night's dinner is almost always tomorrow's lunch, be sure to make extra but be mindful of your portions. I have been posting a recipe of the week in my weekly race reports. Each recipe highlights a Bob's Red Mill product. For some midweek meal options here are some of my favorites:
Roasted Delicata Squash with Pearl Barley: http://thevegandelicious.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/roasted-delicata-squash-with-seasoned-pearl-barley/
Easy Pasta Alfredo: http://thevegandelicious.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/easy-alfredo/
Chickpea Cutlets: http://thevegandelicious.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/chickpea-cutlets-or-bites/
And lastly, the best way to avoid eating non-nutritious items is to not buy them. Yes, sounds simple but most of us fall out of sync with healthy eating by purchasing unhealthy midday snacks or drinks loaded with sugar and empty calories.


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The Ayrshire Breeders' Association honored two young Ayrshire breeders with the Outstanding Young Ayrshire Leader Award at the National Ayrshire Convention in Appleton, WI, on June 29, 2012. The award recognizes young breeders who are making significant contributions as leaders by giving of their time, energy and expertise to the Ayrshire breed and dairy industry, as well as their communities.
Katie (Zumbach) Stoll of Cascade, IA, grew up with Ayrshires and learned a strong work ethic early in life. She has deep Ayrshire roots, as she is the daughter of Gary and Carla Zumbach and granddaughter of Louis and Velma Zumbach.
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Gregory Evans of Georgetown, NY and Katie Stoll of Cascade, IA.
Stoll attended Iowa State University where she served as President of the Dairy Science Club, was a member of the intercollegiate dairy judging team and a member of the team that won a First Platinum award in the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge contest. Following graduation from Iowa State, she was employed as a dairy consultant for Triangle Agri Service where she worked with dairymen to make their herds more profitable. She has also taught vocational agriculture at Maquoketa Valley and introduced many students to the dairy industry.
She has served on the ABA Youth Committee for 10 years and as president of the Iowa Ayrshire Association for two years. She has also managed several Iowa Fall Ayrshire Sales. As an active dairy promoter, she has served as president of the Jones County Dairy Promotion Board, the Ayrshire representative to the Iowa Purebred Dairy Cattle Club, a 4-H advisor, and on Iowa Holstein Association committees. She received the Iowa Ayrshire Association Distinguished Member Award in 2010. Katie also uses her talents to judge county dairy shows.
Since her marriage to Matt Stoll, Katie has focused her attention on the family-owned Stoll Farm herd where she is responsible for marketing, mating and record keeping. The 250-cow milking herd includes Ayrshires that trace back to her family's Zumbach herd and high genetic animals that have been purchased. The farm hosts judging teams and college classes. The Stoll's have two daughters, Lilly, age 4, and Reagan, age 1.
Gregory Evans of Georgetown, NY, is a member of the eighth generation to live and work on the home farm of Sunny Acres. Greg helps operate the 235-acre farm with his parents, Doug and Kathe, and brother Andrew.
Ayrshires have been an integral part of Greg's life. Over the years he has bred 10 Excellent and several Very Good cows. He has exhibited several open and junior All-Americans and Reserve All-Americans. He presently owns 26 head of cattle. In 2011, one of his homebred cows, Sunny Acres Nolan's Satin, was the 3rd high cow in the Ayrshire breed for protein. He is extremely proud of the fact that his cows not only show well but that they have also produced several records between 20-30,000 pounds of milk. His pride and joy is Sunny Acres Harmony's Kennedy, EX-94, who was the 2012 Mid-Atlantic National Show Senior & Grand Champion and best bred and owned Ayrshire.
Although everyone has input, Greg's specialty at Sunny-Acres is in breeding plans and bull selection for the herd. Sunny Acres often hosts tours and visiting judging teams. Greg is the detail man that manages to round up his neighbors and friends and puts the final touches on the farm's public presentation. Additionally he assists with his father's vet practice on weekly herd checks on large dairy farms.
Greg is developing a career-marketing cattle. He helped select cattle for the 2011 National Sale in Maryland and thoroughly enjoyed the process of bringing people and Ayrshire cattle together. Greg recently added reading pedigrees to his work with the Ayrshire breed, working at the NY Spring Carousel Heifer Sale in Syracuse and the Northeast Ayrshire Sale in Rutland, Vermont. Several purchases of exceptional cattle have been made in partnerships with an eye towards developing bull mothers that exhibit both milk and type that will appeal to breeders nationally and internationally.
Evans participates on ABA committees. He was a member of the Chenango County 4-H program for 10 years where he was a member of the dairy judging team. Greg was also a member of the New York State Dairy judging teams competing at Louisville, KY, and Madison, WI. He has taken these opportunities and uses his experience to help coach the Chenango County 4-H Dairy Program.


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Employment opportunities for physical therapists remain robust. The need for PT's is expected to increase into the foreseeable future as the US population ages, chronic conditions increase, and the demand for physical therapy services grows. The Bureau of Labor suggests that with changes in restrictions on reimbursement from third party payers, there will be an increase in demand for service. Improvements in medical technology will also increase the manner in which PT's are able to provide service to individuals with movement dysfunction. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (2010-2011 report) forecasts a 30% growth in employment of physical therapists from 2008 to 2018, much faster than the average for all occupations (http://www.bls.gov/oco; accessed 08-08-2011). The average annual starting salary for a physical therapist ranges from $55,000 – 75,000.
A 2009 workforce study completed by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) on job vacancy rate noted a 10% vacancy rate in acute care/ hospital facilities, 11.2% in private practice settings, and 18.6% in skilled nursing facilities (http://www.apta.org; accessed 08-08-2011). The APTA also notes a 0.2% unemployment rate among physical therapists, noted as the best employment conditions since the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Physical therapists ranked 4th in a list of the 100 "Best Jobs in America" featured in the November 2010 issue of CNNMoney.com.
Graduates of the DPT program who choose to work in the field of physical therapy enjoy a 100% placement rate.


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" Brand: Lush / Type: Soap "
Like I've said previously I used Lush soaps before until my birthday when my friend bought me a soap gift set, I kept it in mind that I really enjoyed them and when browsing through Ebay I came across the Christmas 2012 gift set tin packed with goodies, this included the Northern Lights and the Snow Globe soaps. As I've done more research it turns out the Northern lights was originally a 2011 Christmas limited edition soap. The design of this soap came about when the Lush team took many trips to see the Northern lights but were unable to see them so they have attempted to re create the lights in a fun soap.
This can be bought in weights of 100g and 500g however if you go into the Lush store you can have a piece cut to your desired weight, Unfortunately I don't know the price of just the soap but the whole tin set cost me it's original price of £32 which had eight goodies in it. The soap itself it quite nice to look at, it's made up of neon colours, the soap on a whole it is neon yellow but this has streaks of bright green and red through it.
The scent of this is supposed to be Lime and Pine so when you use it, it feels like the fresh crisp arctic outdoors. The Lime was very obvious scent which was lovely but sometimes over powering so I had to cut my soap up into chunks, this reduced the scent and made the soap more manageable at the same time. I love fruit smells but I prefer the sweeter smelling products, this reminded me of cleaning products and it was a bit too chemical smelling to me but I finished using the soap anyway.
When this lathered up all the colours mingled in the bubbles on my exfoliating mitts which created a green colour, which is nice since it smells of lime. This cleaned me really well but left my fingers feeling really dry because I was of course touching it with my hands all the time, the rest of my skin didn't feel dried out and it felt quite soft but I think that it mainly due to my mitts and not the product I was using, however it does include rapeseed and coconut oil which have moisturising effects.
On a whole I would recommend this soap and it does exactly as it should, however the scent is not one of my favorites as I prefer the sweeter scents.
"Whip up your own light show"
"We have an ongoing obsession, here at Lush, with the Northern Lights. Many a trip has been taken, but rarely have they been observed. Meaning they have become something of a holy grail for us.
So yet again, we are left trying to recreate them in soap, rather than watch them in real life. But it does mean that you get amazing wonderful soaps from us."
Lush as most people know is a company that make different toiletries and are firmly committed to creating eco friendly products. They are vehemently against animal testing and try to buy Fair trade ingredients and use natural ingredients where they can.
I love Lush as I really support their views re animal testing and find the staff in the shops to be enthusiastic, well informed and so keen to share the benefits and excitements of their products with you and they are NEVER pushy.
Every celebration is an excuse to create new fun products and each year at Christmas Lush bring out some old reliable popular festive products such as Snow Fairy and they also bring out some new and different ones too. This Northern Lights soap was one of the festive offerings this year for Christmas along with quite a few products and I bought mine in the 50% sale.
The soap is rather neon coloured and a bit bright for my tastes if I am honest. The colours are kind of neon yellow, green and orange and it smells strongly of lime and pine. The colours are inspired by the creators watching the Northern Lights on TV but I am not sure if they had special glasses on because I can't see they would really be THAT bright.
My piece is all those colours in a large rectangular chunk. It is quite a stunning sight in full size but even my slice is pretty darned eye catching. You certainly wouldn't miss it in a bathroom. I can imagine this one being a popular colour with kids if you were willing to share it.
"This soap was made by Wesley, who perfectly matched the colours of the auroras he watched on the internet, and then found a special way to pour the soap to represent the natural light show.
Then Pia, our trainee perfumer from Finland, came up with an electric, fresh pine and lime perfume to finish off Wesley's work. Together they will make you feel like you are in the crisp climes of the arctic circle, with nature's amazing light show performing about you.
Who said soap was boring?"
That was from the Lush website and I have to say that this soap is far from boring in either colour or scent.
There is a really powerful scented almost eye watering scent. The lime is really packing the main punch but the pine is there giving it a good go too. This is a fresh lively, wake me up, scent and certainly the colour is not one that you would choose to have a lovely relaxing bath as it is bright and wake me up too.
It really is different and the smell is nose awakening with lime oil, cypress oil and pine needle oil. This sounds like it might be more toilet cleaner smelling but it isn't at all, it is fresh and clean smelling like fresh air in a pine forest drinking a fresh lime juice.
I did notice when I used this that the colour did sort of colour the lather and it left the bright colour on the soap dish and the side of the sink and bath. It was pretty bright and did colour the bath water to an extent too! My chunk was quite a piece and in the interests of reviewing I cut a chunk off mine and left the main chunk in my knicker drawer to act as a drawer fragrance. That was I got to try all my new soaps in a fairly short time and still have quite a lot left for another time.
I noticed that this like many other Lush soaps has a particularly creamy lather, thick and quite luscious. It feels very moisturising on my skin and the wonderfully fresh aroma and colourful lather are really different. I find this a really happy sort of smell in the middle of winter. I am also hoping that the colours are real as we are hoping to see the Northern lights in Iceland next week - fingers crossed here!
I notice in the ingredients that they include both rapeseed and coconut oil so that is why I feel so moisturised after using this.
Interestingly like a lot of Lush soaps this also contain salt Sodium chloride is simply salt. Salt is stimulating, cleansing, antiseptic and astringent. It is softening for the skin and also apparently hydrates the skin when used in moderation. It is also full of minerals, softens the water and helps to de -grease the skin, removes dead cells yet it leaves the natural oils so that your skin is left feeling soft and moisturised yet clean.
This is a soap so there is obviously going to be some sort of lathering agent and this is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate which is a questionable chemical agent often found in bathing products but if you are concerned you need to check.
All Lush soaps are a bit more in price than you might buy a bar in other places but they do feel a bit more luxurious to use. I am not sure I would buy this at full price but the price I paid was fair enough. A very nice fabulously bright coloured soap with a strong fresh zesty pine and lime aroma. This is more than I would pay for an everyday soap but for a special treat it is very different and I might even cut another chunk off to share with my grandsons as I think the colour would really appeal to them!
I was told in the shop the other day that this is the first ever Neon coloured soap, not sure if that is just from Lush or first ever for any company.
Thanks for reading. This review may be posted on other sites under my same user name.
Lush 'Northern Lights' Christmas Edition Soap
I received this soap as part of a gift set last Christmas and I have only just got round to using it; mainly because I have a lot of bath/body products to use but and secondly, because the scent isn't really what I would have chosen.
- Product description (from Lush.co.uk)
"This soap was made by Wesley, who perfectly matched the colours of the auroras he watched on the internet, and then found a special way to pour the soap to represent the natural light show. Then Pia, came up with an electric, fresh pine and lime perfume to finish off Wesley's work. Together they will make you feel like you are in the crisp climes of the arctic circle, with nature's amazing light show performing about you."
- Ingredients
"Water, Rapeseed Oil and Coconut Oil, Glycerine, Perfume, Sodium Stearate, Propylene Glycol, Pine Needle Oil , Cypress Oil, Lime Oil, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Citral, Linalool, Citronellol, Limonene, Colour 59040, Colour 45410, Colour 17200, Colour 42090."
- About the product
This soap comes in a range of sizes from the 100g version that I have up to 500g and I think you can have a piece cut for you in store to what size you want. The soap is supposed to have the main scents of: pine and lime. The soap contains mostly natural ingredients, or safe synthetics. Lush does not test their products on animals and this product is suitable for vegans to use.
- Scent
The scent of this product is definitely not what I would have picked for myself as I like sweet, floral or fruit/food scents but this scent is very cleaning fluid like - it smells to me like lemon bathroom cleaner which is not very nice, in my opinion. The scent is really strong and I personally cannot really smell the pine, as all I can smell is the lemon/lime scent which does remind me of strong cleaning substances. Overall, not a scent I like very much at all and I wouldn't buy this for myself or anyone really because of the strong lime/lemon scent.
- Using the product and results
I have the 100g soap and I have been using the whole block as a hand soap - I have been using it as a hand soap for about two weeks now and the soap is still very much a large block. The soap to look at is really nice; it is bright well neon yellow and it has areas which are green and red although mine is now just neon yellow. I thought that the neon yellow would possibly stain the Muji soap box I have this in or the surroundings but it doesn't. The soap lathers really quite well when used as a hand soap so it cleans my skin well. As a hand soap this product works really quite well, I find that it doesn't really dry out my skin that much but when compared to my favourite soap of all time (Lush porridge soap) it does make my skin feel a bit dry and tight. This product leaves my skin feeling clean, smooth, not irritated and lemony/lime fresh (well cleaning fluid fresh); I haven't had any negative reaction to this product despite the small area of eczema on my hand. Overall, the scent is horrible and strong in my opinion but some people may like the scent and the soap can be a little bit drying. Although the soap cleans well, lathers well, it looks great, the one block is really quite long lasting and it works well as a hand soap. But because I don't like the scent I wouldn't buy this for myself.
- Price and availability
This soap was part of a gift set from Lush that I received last christmas and I have only just got round to using it - this soap can be bought individually and it is available this christmas for £3.25 for a 100g block - it is available online in 250g blocks for £8.10 or a 500g block for £16.25.
*The appearance of the soap - fun and luminous neon yellow!
*Works really well as a hand soap
*Lathers fairly well
*Some natural ingredients, safe synthetics, suitable for vegans to use, againist animal testing
*Doesn't irritate my skin
*Long lasting
*Scent is very strong and it transfers to my skin but the scent doesn't last too long on the skin
*The soap can be a bit drying
*Strong lime/lemon scent that smells to me like chemical cleaning substances
*Only available at Christmas (this is a positive point for me though!)
Thank you for reading my review
I love shopping in Lush and although soap might seem a bit boring, Lush always try their best to make it more interesting! I received a block of this Northern Lights soap as part of a gift set last Christmas, as it was one of their special seasonal products which was released just for the Christmas period.
Product description: "This soap was made by Wesley, who perfectly matched the colours of the auroras he watched on the internet, and then found a special way to pour the soap to represent the natural light show. Then Pia, our trainee perfumer from Finland, came up with an electric, fresh pine and lime perfume to finish off Wesley's work. Together they will make you feel like you are in the crisp climes of the arctic circle, with nature's amazing light show performing about you."
The Northern Lights soap is really fantastic to look at. It has a neon bright colour to it with swirls of bright yellow and green giving it an almost glowing effect. Mine had been cut into a triangular sort of wedge shape and was a large size. I did notice that to begin with when I first started using the soap it did not react well to being wet and would retain droplets of water on the surface of the soap, which made it feel really slimy and was hard to grip onto when using. This sorted itself out after a while so it may have just been a reaction from the outer layer being exposed to water for the first few times.
This soap has a lovely refreshing fragrance to it, with zingy lime oil being the most noticeable scent. The soap also includes both pine and cypress oil so I would have expected it to have a bit of a woody scent, but I find that it is just very bright and citrusy without much of a heavier woody edge at all.
I only ever use bar soap to wash my hands as I prefer other products for cleansing my body. I find that this one lathers up well and gets my hands fully clean without being drying on the skin. The strong scent and bright colour makes it fun to use, but it is also very effective and leaves my hands squeaky clean.
The soap itself feels quite solid and had a firm texture which I believe has helped to make it really long-lasting. Usually I get on pretty well with Lush soaps and they'll last me for two months or so before running out. This one lasted for more than double that and I got a full 5 months use from just one bar of soap. I don't know if it's the different consistency or if the ingredients are more long-lasting, but I was pleased that it lasted so well and this makes it great value for money even though Lush soaps can appear a bit on the pricey side to begin with. However, towards the end of the bar the soap did seem to stop working completely. It lost all its colour and the fragrance disappeared, and then it stopped lathering up. I had to chuck the small remaining chunk away but wasn't too sad about this as it had lasted for so long until that point.
Overall, I'd say that this is a long-lasting soap that offers good value for money. Highly recommended if you like lime scents, and the bright colours are fascinating, they really seem to make the soap glow!
Ingredients: Water, Rapeseed Oil and Coconut Oil, Perfume, *glycerine, Sodium Stearate, Propylene Glycol, Pine Needle Oil , Cypress Oil, Lime Oil, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, *Citral, *Linalool, Citronellol, Limonene, Colour 59040, Colour 45410, Colour 17200, Colour 42090
*occurs naturally in essential oils
This is a vegan product and Lush are against animal testing - please keep your beauty cruelty free!
The Northern Lights soap was a limited edition soap for Christmas 2011, created by and only available at Lush. I bought it as I was trying to sample all of their limited edition festive products!
The soap was inspired by the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, which appears over the Arctic skies during the winter months. It's not particularly festive in itself, but could be so I guess in terms of association with winter and snow. The soap was designed to replicate the colours of the lights, with bright yellow, green and orange used create a bright soap with a big impact. The scent of the soap was the same given to the Australian Igloo Sugar Scrub - pine needle oil, cypress oil and lime oil. This scent was designed to replicate the scent of northern pine forests in Siberia and other cold Arctic places, and is a very fresh, reviving scent. Together, the appearance and scent of the product are meant to make you think you are standing in the middle of an Arctic forest with the Northern Lights overhead! The soap contains no animal-derived ingredients and is therefore suitable for vegans.
My piece of soap was bright yellow with a bit of green on top. When I say bright yellow, I mean it - it was so bright it was practically neon, and I half expected it to glow in the dark (it didn't). It certainly looked cheerful in my bathroom on cold dull days.
The soap took a bit of effort to lather up. This was much easier when using it as a body soap as I use a shower puff, but harder when using it as a hand soap. I experienced no problems using it as a body soap - it smelled fresh and pleasant and didn't dry out my skin - but I've got loads of shower gels to use up so I generally stuck to using it on my hands.
Though it doesn't lather up too well, this does mean that it lasts ages. I've been using a third of my 100g piece for a few weeks and it hasn't gone down by all that much, unlike some of Lush's creamier soaps. I don't find that it actively moisturises my skin though, so I do have to use hand cream afterwards.
This is a pleasant soap that at £3.25 is value for money compared to other Lush soaps as it lasts so long. It is unisex and could appeal to both men and women. The refreshing pine scent and bright yellow colour won't appeal to everyone, but this is a really nice soap if it's your kind of thing.


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Burglary report. 8:23 a.m. 0 block of Winslow Street. A man called about a burglary in reference to his 2002 BMW 328i.
Petty theft report. 7:53 a.m. 0 block of Winterset Street. A petty theft was reported in a car. It occurred last night.
Burglary report. 7:42 a.m. 0 block of Sellas Road South. A caller reported a computer stolen from his Hyundai Elantra.
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Suspicious vehicle. 11:59 a.m. Hydrangea Street and O'Neill Drive. A caller wanted deputies to check for a gray truck with no front or back plates, which has been parked at the location for the past two days. The informant's husband has seen a man with a hoodie pulled over his face sitting in the same car last night.
Traffic stop. 9:41 p.m. Crown Valley Parkway and Cecil Pasture Road. A 33-year-old woman was arrested after driving the wrong way.
Disturbance. 8:40 p.m. 0 block of Mercantile Way. The caller was in a road rage with a man driving a black Toyota pickup. The man hit the caller's car with his side mirror and then got out and was physical with the caller.
Trespassing. 5:44 p.m. 0 block of Vinca Court. Two juveniles just jumped the fence to the pool.
Burglary report. 5:15 p.m. 0 block of Paddock Place. A woman reported that a wallet and cell phone was stolen out of her car.
Burglary alarm-audible. 6:30 a.m. 0 block of Maremma Lane. A carbon monoxide alarm went off.
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Missing child. 3:38 p.m. 0 block of Steeton Lane. A child was returned to the parents.
Petty theft report. 1:13 p.m. 0 block of Sklar Street. A report was taken.
Vandalism report. 8:53 a.m. 0 block of Sklar Street. Fire Station 58 responded to a fire in the men's restroom in the leasing office.
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Burglary in progress. 10:55 p.m. Friday. Ethereal Road and Platinum Circle. A 19-year-old woman was arrested after a caller reported that two men were trying to break into a car. She was released after posting a bond.
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HG La Molina hotel is situated at the foot of the ski slopes of La Molina ski resort, next to Pista Larga. As well as for its convenient position for the practice of Winter sports, la Cerdanya (Province) at only 120 km from Barcelona, offers countless possibilities for its visit all year round. HG La Molina has 65 units, (large rooms for 5 people and junior suites for 3 people), all of them fully equipped with a modern and friendly decoration. Besides, it has excellent views overlooking La Cerdanya Valley and the ski resort. The hotel offers restaurant-carvery, bar cafeteria, gardens with solarium and swimming pool, spa area ¿HG Wellness Center' (with extra charge) with pool, massage parlour, thermal circuit with multithermal showers, games room with internet, children's miniclub, parking, access for disabled guests, daily cleaning service, launderette, conference room, ski storage. There is a City Tax to be paid directly in the hotel. According to category
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This is an original WW1 era photograph (silver, gelatin print) of a pilot who had a rough time landing and sent the nose over.
The pilot stands at the nose of the plane, which has a factory camo pattern.
I do not know the name on the pilot, but I am sure that he got a good ribbing over this landing!
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Investigators focus on bridge mechanisms in Paulsboro train derailment
Residents of Paulsboro, N.J., were ordered to stay in their homes with their windows closed for most of Monday morning. Heightened concentrations of vinyl chloride were measured in the air there, three days after a derailed train fell from a bridge over Mantua Creek and spilled the chemical.
Public schools were cancelled Monday as well.
By the afternoon, after the shelter order had been lifted, traffic in tiny Paulsboro was humming again. But a helicopter circling overhead and frequent police car passes downtown signaled all was not quite right in Paulsboro.
Local baker Doug Ricotta said the whole community is nervous about air quality after the derailment.
"Nobody wants to come to a town when they're constantly watching TV and see 'Breaking news, Paulsboro, chemical spill, the air is no good,'" Ricotta said. "They start panicking and they get scared, and you can see, nobody comes down here, so all the businesses are hurting."
National Transportation Safety Board chair Deborah Hersman said the investigation into the cause of the derailment is focusing on the mechanisms that allow the bridge to open and close to allow boat traffic to pass on the creek underneath. But with cleanup efforts ongoing, the NTSB have not been able to investigate on the scene.
"We are in the preliminary phases, we're still gathering factual information, evidence, conducting interviews," Hersman said. "We still have a lot of work to do. Nothing has been ruled out."
Records show there were problems with the locking mechanism on the bridge in the days leading up to the accident.
Meanwhile, more than 100 evacuated residents will be barred from returning to their homes until at least Saturday.
"It's frustrating because (of) the comfortability of my home, and also it's holidays," said Edward Veney. He was walking his white pit bull with his stepson Monday morning outside a Motel 6 where they were staying.
"We just put up the Christmas tree," Veney said. "We want to look at our Christmas tree, we don't want to look out the window and see Rite Aid and all this parking lot stuff."
Exposure to vinyl chloride, which spilled after one tanker on the derailed train was gashed, can cause respiratory problems and dizziness. It is used to manufacture PVC plastic.


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