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The company reclaims mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) for UK customers and has introduced its Work Small Live Big campaign to provide an improve working environment and enhance their staff's work-life balance.
And as part of changes at the company, full times hours will decrease from 40 to 35 hours per hours – but there will be no reduction in salaries.
Recruitment for the new posts will start immediately and WFAC said it anticipates support more staff positions will become available as a result of the recruitment drive.
The announcement came on the same day that figures showed unemployment in Wales has fallen by 3,000 to 97,000 to the three months to June.
And WFAC head of communications, Simon Evans, said: "As a progressive, major employer of young people in South East Wales, we are delighted to announce a number of new roles here, and added to that we are excited to be basing those roles around a sensible work-life balance agenda.
"We have seen the talent available in the local economy, and we are keen to recruit from the widest range of talent available, and as a result we are creating a number of part-time roles that we hope will help attract parents back into the working environment, as we value the experience that they can bring to our business.
"This is just the beginning of moving towards a truly agile working environment for our staff, and we will continue to introduce new initiatives that will be of benefit to our current and future staff, and to the wider economy."


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Episode Title: "Dominion"
Writer: John Chisholm
Director: Justin Hartley
Previously on "Smallville":
Weeks before his immanent marriage to Lois Lane (Erica Durance) and his emergence as Superman, Clark Kent (Tom Welling) was stunned when a new hero called Booster Gold (Eric Martsolf) came swooping into Metropolis and stole the spotlight away from Clark's alter ego, The Blur. During one of Booster's first rescues, a teenager called Jaime Reyes (Jaren Brandt Bartlett) was accidentally joined with an alien weapon. At the same time, Lois tried to coach Clark in his new nerdy persona to allow The Blur to emerge without wearing a mask.
Booster confronted Clark and admitted that he came from the future to steal Clark's destiny. But Clark's words on the nature of heroism moved Booster enough that he was able to help Jamie gain control over the weapon and become a new hero, the Blue Beetle. Later, Clark came to terms with his new public identity but he was blissfully unaware that his friend Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley) had been infected by Darkseid months before.
As Clark and Lois slowly unpack in their new apartment, Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman) calls and tells them that Slade Wilson has been found comatose, despite the fact that Clark locked him in the Phantom Zone. Theorizing that someone from his bloodline must have released Slade, Clark makes arrangements with Tess to enter the Zone and plug the leak. Olivier offers to come with him, but Clark refuses his aid. In response, Olivier simply jumps after Clark while the portal is open, propelling them both into the Zone. Once there, they notice that several skulls bear the Omega mark of Darkseid. They also find that the crystal that powers the gate home has been removed.
Back on Earth, Lois arrives at Watchtower as Tess tries to reestablish contact with Clark. But in the Zone, Clark and Oliver are captured by Phantoms and taken before the new ruler of the land: Major Zod (Callum Blue). Zod explains that the new Kanorians exiled him to the Phantom Zone where he merged with the Phantom of the original Zod. He even says that Clark and he are "blood brothers" now, which is how he freed Slade on Darkseid's behalf to lure Clark into the Zone. He then forces Clark into a gladiatorial match to the death. When Clark wins and refuses to kill his opponent, Zod simply does it for him.
Back on Earth, Lois realizes that Tess intends to destroy the portal back to Earth if Clark and Oliver don't arrive home in two hours. Lois holds Tess at gunpoint and is stunned to learn that Tess was acting on Clark's orders. Tess tells Lois that a hero's wife needs to accept sacrifices while Lois retorts that her role is to never accept defeat. Back in the Phantom Zone, Zod senses that Oliver has been touched by Darkseid and he tries to sway him to his side by promises of power and brotherhood. He then sets Oliver and Clark up in a brutal match against each other. Without his powers, Clark is beaten and fatally stabbed by Oliver.
However, Zod insists upon finishing off Clark himself, allowing Oliver to grab the crystal from his neck and give it to Clark; who heals almost instantly. As they travel back to our world, Clark crushes the crystal to ensure that Zod and his followers remain trapped. Back in Watchtower, Tess treats Oliver's wounds while Clark admits that their battle in the arena was all a part of their plan. Clark then goes to see Lois at their apartment and he is stunned to find that she unpacked completely. Lois explains that Clark was gone for three weeks but she never lost faith that he would return. She didn't even postpone their wedding, which is in two days.
Later, Oliver is about to confide in Clark about being infected by the Darkness, but Clark continues his knack of saying just the wrong thing by suggesting that anyone they know who gets infected will have to be locked up. Oliver than meets with Tess in secret for help in finding the Bow of Orion, an object on Earth that may be a weapon that will work on Darkseid. But as Oliver walks by an angel in church, its eyes spontaneously bleed.
I'm kind of torn on this episode. There are definitely things I like about it as well as things that I can't stand.
First off, the return of Callum Blue as Zod was extremely welcome and the twist that he is now both versions of Zod is actually really brilliant. If there was something that the ninth season of "Smallville" did better than this season, it was the way that Zod was always present as a villain. This year, we've only gotten a few glimpses of "Darkseid" and what should have been an epic storyline has felt like an afterthought. Instead, we got episodes ripping off "The Matrix," "Inception" and even the f***ing "Hangover"!
To add to that, this week's episode was a riff on "300" and "Spartacus: Blood and Sand." I have no idea why the producers of "Smallville" have been so hellbent on making several episodes of their final season into low budget knockoffs of popular movies, but it's extremely annoying. There's a kind of inherent laziness to that which I don't appreciate. I was happy with the return of Zod and I can live with the gladiatorial games. But did it have to be so derivative? That lens flare really got on my nerves as well.
I sometimes wonder about Cassidy Freeman's acting abilities, because when she's called upon to hold her own in dramatic scenes like her confrontation with Lois, she looks like she's a deer staring into headlights. The whole "countdown to shutting off the portal" was a poorly executed ticking clock, especially since Clark and Oliver were gone for weeks instead of hours.
However, the Lois and Clark scenes really worked well. I attribute that to the chemistry between Welling and Durance. That last scene between them in the apartment was especially good. It's refreshing that Lois wasn't in histrionics when Clark returned and that her faith in him was so strong that she didn't even push back their wedding. Although I'm curious how she explained his absence from work.
Even Clark's partnership with Oliver was a welcome change from the last few installments. For better or worse, Oliver's been Clark's Batman for the last few years and he needs to be in the show through the end. But I'm hoping the whole "Omega brand" story for Oliver wraps up next week. The finale should be about Clark's story and nothing else.
And I'm more than ready to finally see Clark become Superman.
Crave Online Rating: 7 out of 10.


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Allan MacPherson, Chief Engineering Technical Specialist, FM Global explored "Sprinklers Evolved" and gave an overview on the present status of "sprinklers"
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During the early days of my career in the fire industry, I was fortunate to witness the start of a sea change in thinking. I saw the emergence of a radical departure from the prescriptive codes that impacted in every aspect of fire safety and protection. A British Standard Committee had been tasked to develop a standard heralding a new, and more flexible approach to fire safety for buildings. The result was new British Standard Draft for Development DD240. Whereas prescriptive codes were often seen as obstacles, DD240 gave the fire engineering profession an alternative way forward.
Delegates attending the highly successful PPE & Duty of Care Forum held in Birmingham in February experienced the complexities surrounding the evolving process of ensuring that firefighters remain safe not only today but also throughout their lives. Highlights by Jose Sanchez de Muniain.
BRE briefing paper investigates the causes of unwanted fire alarms and provides 35 recommendations.
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
New Creem Anthology… Boy Howdy indeed!30
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Just had my Amazon order of the new Creem anthology delivered to me at work. Don't want to say too …
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Meant to mention this last week: On the website/blog Cover Stories, Mike Goldstein takes an album cover, and writes about it at length–extraordinary …
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Question of the Week: What Are Your..4
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pet peeves when it comes to music journalism? This includes reviews, narratives & interview formats. Swing away!
Stylus to Cease Publication3
October 27, 2007 by admin
Stylus Magazine, Respected Online Music Publication, Will Fold After Halloween (New York Observer) This is really unfortunate news. As a …
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October 22, 2007 by A.C. Rhodes
at an interview or while reviewing a show? This includes en route and return. Extra points if you work in …
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RAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight, a story produced by our online team for our website as part of our 9/11 anniversary coverage.
We think it's worth sharing with our broadcast audience.
JONATHAN HYMAN, photographer: My name is Jonathan Hyman. I am a documentary photographer.
I have spent the last 10 years, five years full-time, since — starting with the day of the attacks, documenting the vernacular response that people made through artwork in response to the September 11th attacks.
It was this kind of rare intersection that Americans in the past haven't had much practice at. We haven't been subject to wars very often on our own territory or attacks on our own territory. And I realized that there was this very interesting intersection between people who wanted to express their private emotions, but do it publicly.
And so once I was realized what I was going to do, I made a conscious choice early on to not come into New York right away. And I had it in my already from watching the news and speaking to people that everybody with a camera was at ground zero.
So, I decided that what I would do was focus on what was happening 52, 200 miles outside of New York. I was seeing all kinds of very interesting things appearing on the side of the road and in public places right where I lived in Sullivan County, N.Y.
It was very important for me to show a broad range of expression and sentiment. There's a picture that has a very aggressive missile in the shape of — in the shape of — it's an American flag in the shape of a missile flying into Osama bin Laden's head. He's got horns. He's clearly being depicted as the devil.
So there's everything from that kind of very aggressive, angry sentiment to other things that are more about healing, love and peace. And for me, my goal was to simply say, this is what I saw. Here it is.
There are many different ways in which I came to take a picture. Sometimes, I would pick an area and drive around if I suspected that that area would have murals or people with tattoos. I would go to fire stations, police stations, ambulance buildings, American Legion halls, places where people will have been — would be likely to have either known about some kind of 9/11 response in public or they might know someone who did.
And so these kind of informal conversations that I had led me to objects that I would have never found. The subject of this tattoo is a deeply private person. I was able to convince him that my intentions were pretty good. And, you know, we made an agreement, by the way — no pictures of his face. He didn't want his picture taken from the front.
And I honored that. And, in the end, he honored me back, and we ended up having a very good relationship. And, in fact, this picture on the five-year anniversary went all over the world.
Many people in this country looked at the material in my collection, the photographs in my collection, and people saw red, white and blue, and tended to think that either my collection represented some kind of nationalistic expression, or other people thought that I was a great patriot because there was so much red, white and blue, when, in fact, it's my contention that many of the people who made this vernacular artwork that I have documented used what was available to them in their popular culture.
These are people who, for the most part, with the exception of some of the muralists — not all the muralists — heretofore have not had a self-image as someone who can express themselves in public, they have never really made art, and they don't believe that they are artists or could ever be an artist. So they drew upon the things that they know.
That's what made this so interesting. That public expression of private, personal emotion is really probably the most profound and distinguished element of what I think I saw.
RAY SUAREZ: Jonathan Hyman's photographs are on exhibit at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery in Lower Manhattan until October 8.


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See the work of FACT's new director at Analogue
26 February 2007
Analogue explores the history of video art and aims to explain how a versatile and politically charged medium made the transition from marginal to mainstream contemporary practice.
Mike Stubbs' Greetings from the Cape of Good Hope (1985) will be shown as part of five one-hour video programmes alongside work by artists such as David Critchley, General Idea and Józef Robakowski on Friday 02 March and repeated throughout Saturday 03 March.
A panel discussion with Canadian curator Peggy Gale, UK artist and curators Catherine Elwes, and Chris Meigh-Andrews and Polish Art Historian Aneta Krzemien will discuss the different social, economic and political contexts that helped shape the development of video art the UK, Canada and Poland.The event also includes In Two Minds, a live video performance by Kevin Atherton, in which the artist has a mediated conversation with himself through video technology.


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Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart Stores on Friday said it has made an all-cash offer to buy Distribucion y Servicio D&S SA, which operates the largest supermarket chain in Chile. If completed, the deal would give Wal-Mart a foothold in Chile's highly competitive retail market. Santiago-based D&S is Chile's largest grocery chain, with more than 140 locations.
D&S said late Friday that the offer would be made within 10 days and was for 40.8 cents a share. It was made in the name of Inversiones Australes Tres Limitada, a unit of Wal-Mart.
"Moving into Chile is an important step in implementing Wal-Mart International's strategy. We continue to focus on portfolio optimization, global leverage and winning in every market," said Michael T. Duke, vice chairman, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. "A successful tender offer will give Wal-Mart the opportunity to be a significant participant in Chile, which continues to have a strong and growing economy among South American countries."
Craig Herkert, Wal-Mart International president for the Americas, said Wal-Mart and D&S share "a laser focus" on price leadership, according to the Associated Press.
"Both companies also have the same core values and business philosophies: respect for the individual, service to the customer and striving for excellence," Herkert said.
Wal-Mart said the tender offer is contingent on the approval of investors holding at least 50.01% of D&S shares. The Ibanez family that controls D&S has agreed to tender a portion of its shares, Wal-Mart said.
The purchase would reinforce Wal-Mart's growing strength in Latin America, where it already operates stores in Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; and Puerto Rico.


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What's the advantage of looking at machine learning from the platform perspective? Breadth and depth, says Skytree co-founder and CEO Martin Hack. In contrast to a single point algorithm that learns about one thing really well for a particular need as it goes about analyzing more and more Big Data sets, Skytree takes the tack that there's a whole universe of algorithms and methods that can be applied to support a variety of use cases.
The company is a startup, closing a Series A funding round this spring to the tune of $18 million. Skytree's algorithms are available in different packages for application across industries, or even to fit different needs within the same industry or company. The six biggest machine learning use cases across industries, Hack says, are classification, regression, clustering, entity estimation, dimension reduction and multidimensional querying, and those six tasks, individually or in combination, provide the foundation for performing advanced analytics such as outlier detection or value prediction, among others, that are applicable to various scenarios. "Outlier detection could be used in trying to detect fraud or to find terrorists," he says. "It's virtually the same platform. The data changes and the output changes, but the computation part is the same."
Even within the same company, there can be a call to leverage machine learning algorithms for diverse reasons. In financial services, for example, there are marketing and risk constituents that usually operate separately for regulatory reasons, he notes, but their requirements from an analytics point of view are very close. "Literally can use the same platform," he says. Organizations, he adds, "can just keep adding the services they need to satisfy their data demands. The product scales linearly so they can keep adding another system to have more firepower available."
In fact, Hack says, it's increasingly the case for machine learning use cases to be driven by marketing and sales executives. "Marketing is very into advanced analytics," he says. Skytree supports the CMO role with advanced marketing analytics to apply to the full customer lifecycle, from targeting to conversion to retention. "Those three components have machine learning one way or another. And the nice thing is the algorithm, whether you are scoring a customer for this or for their risk for a financial transaction, it's the same. The data is different but the algorithm is the same, so it's very repeatable and universally applicable," Hack says.
Another advantage Skytree points to is that customers can go from a modeling environment to a production environment in one step. "In the past there were many steps that made it cumbersome, because usually the modeler would build the risk or prediction model on a sub-sample on the desktop, then someone has to rewrite for the mainframe," he says. "You don't have to do that with ours. It's a click and apply model on an enterprise instance."
As Hack sees it, Big Data is creating a real sea change across business at large, in terms of their desire to understand that data to transform their enterprise. A few years ago, the idea of applying machine learning was still pretty esoteric, he said. But now, "the large Fortune 500s who may not have been sophisticated with advanced analytics, but does know basic BI – we talk to lot of them now, and they want to get to the next stage, from what we do with BI today to those six tasks [noted above]," he says. "The analog is 25 to 27 years ago, when RDBMs arrived on the market and people said why do we need one. You wouldn't ask that now. We see the same thing happening – companies asking, 'Can we just buy a system? We just want to be the best analyst on our own data.'"
That said, many executives in those companies who want to leverage machine learning, like those in marketing, don't necessarily want to have to become experts at it themselves. "What they couldn't get was how to buy vs. build themselves," Hack says, and now with Skytree's off-the-shelf approach they don't have to.
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Greta Gerwig is one of those girls. One of those girls that's getting a lot of "buzz" and is being dubbed an "it girl" with "effortlessly cool" style. If you've heard of her already, you undoubtedly want to be friends with her. If you're just now tuning in, she's about to be one of those girls that you won't be able to ignore.
Gerwig, 29, wrote and stars in Frances Ha, a black-and-white indie darling set in New York, with her boyfriend, director Noah Baumbach. "Here," writes a New Yorker reviewer, "[Gerwig] puts the movie on her back and carries it from begining to end." Ha is a light exploration of the increasingly-familiar struggles of the 20-something: love, friendship and finding yourself. It's about becoming "a real person," a transformation that both Ha and Gerwig have seemingly struggled with. But Gerwig, who recently chatted with The Guardian about the film and her burgeoning career, has been determined to succeed from a young age. It was only a matter of time before one of her "obsessions" stuck.
"I was an intense child," she says. "When I loved an activity, I had trouble doing it halfway. It was scary with ballet – I would have gone to class for four hours a day, seven days a week, if I could have."
When Gerwig finally directed her intensity towards acting (by way of stage management and technical theatre), she wasn't an overnight star. One of the reasons that Gerwig's character, Ha, is so inherently likeable is because she's so relatable — and there's a lot of Gerwig herself in Ha. She finally thought she'd hit her big break with Greenberg, a Ben Stiller movie also directed by Baumbach. But she didn't. And instead of giving up, she worked on improving her craft.
"I was really depressed [after Greenberg]. I cried a lot. It was a hard year. I was 25 and thinking, 'This is supposed to be the best time and I'm miserable.' Looking back, I wish I had taken that time and written more, but it felt like acting was happening for me, and I went back to acting classes. The blessing and curse of my life is that I think I thrive when I have a singular purpose and a calling. But actually I'm happiest when I'm doing lots of things. And I have to reconcile that."
And she kept going. And then Lola Versus happened. And then Ha happened. And then Gerwig happened — the good ol' fashioned way, with cultivated talent, determination and hard work. Now that's a girl I can get behind.


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As a very important person, we generally try, on this blog, to steer clear of personal minutiae, adventures in consumerism, or information–cute and otherwise–about the pets in residence. However:
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A vigil in memory of Lawrence King, the 15-year-old gay student at an Oxnard, Calif., middle school who was murdered by a classmate on Feb. 12, will be held Sunday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs Road.
The event is free and open to all.
According to reports, King was shot to death by a boy in his class who was offended when King asked him to "be his Valentine." The suspect in the case has been charged with murder and a hate crime.
A total of 15 community organizations have joined together to sponsor the vigil in an effort to educate the community about school violence and the need for safe school policies that serve all youth. Several members of Youth First Texas, the only nonprofit organization in Dallas exclusively committed to providing social services, education opportunities, and recreational activities to LGBTQ youth through age 22, will sing and speak about their personal experiences with harassment and discrimination in schools.
Participants also are invited to join Cathedral of Hope for a Sunday evening Vespers service at 6 p.m.
Vigils in memory of Lawrence King calling for an end to violence and harassment directed at LGBTQ people in schools are being organized in communities across the country.
For more information regarding these vigils go to www.rememberinglawrence.org.
Sponsoring organizations in Dallas are Cathedral of Hope, Collin County Gay and Lesbian Alliance, the Dallas Bears, Equality Texas Foundation, the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network, Hope for Peace & Justice, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) 4871 The Dallas Rainbow Council, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, OUT TAKES Dallas LGBT film festival, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Resource Center of Dallas, Stonewall Democrats of Dallas, the Turtle Creek Chorale and Youth First Texas.
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In a rare treat, bay area residents have a choice of worthwhile dance performances from four companies this weekend. At the top of the list is one of the world's great companies, Parsons Dance, at the Straz Center in Tampa, as well as respected local groups at venues around Pinellas County. Here's a look:
'Remember Me'
David Parsons has been at the apex of the American modern dance world for a couple of decades, and some of the works he has choreographed for his company — including his signature pieces Caught and The Envelope — are instantly recognizable to dance fans. He was also one of the creators of Aeros, a fusion of dance and gymnastics that was hugely popular about seven or eight years ago.
Last year, Parsons created his first evening-length work, Remember Me, in which members of Parsons Dance are joined onstage with singers from East Village Opera Company. It comes to the Straz Center on Saturday.
Despite the name, East Village Opera Company is essentially a pop-rock group, though it draws upon familiar works from opera and classical music for much of its repertoire.
The work received awful reviews when it premiered in New York in 2009. A revised version earlier this year also failed to impress critics. But it's worth noting that Tampa Bay area dance audiences differ from New York dance audiences, and differ even more from New York dance critics.
The show is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Ferguson Hall at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts. $39.50-$59.50 plus service charge. (813) 229-7827; strazcenter.org.
CoMotion Dance Theatre
CoMotion Dance Theatre, the resident dance company at St. Petersburg College, celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend with a concert at the college's Clearwater campus. CoMotion, which is directed by Nancy Feagans-Smith and Cynthia Hennessy (also an artistic director of Moving Current), has developed a solid reputation. Choreography for this concert comes from college faculty and local guest artists. It's scheduled for 8 tonight through Sunday at the St. Petersburg College Clearwater Arts Auditorium, 2465 Drew St. $5; free for SPC students and staff. (727) 341-7984; spcollege.edu/spg/music.
'Dali & Dance'
Sarasota's Fuzion Dance Artists played to packed houses at the Dalí Museum in June when they performed Hello Dali, an original evening-length work inspired by Dalí paintings. This weekend, they'll be back at the museum with a similarly inspired concert titled "Dali & Dance: An Evening of Vignettes." Dancers will share the space with the museum's current exhibit, offering physical interpretations of Dalí's work, set to music by Scott Blum. The show is at 7 p.m. Friday at the Dalí Museum. The museum opens at 6 p.m. as part of the event. $15 general, $10 members and students. (727) 823-3676.
Moving Current
Tampa-based Moving Current continues to improve its artistry and expand its reputation. The recent addition of former Momix dancer Travis Mesman will no doubt help. On Saturday, the company will perform at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, basically reprising a concert from September in Tampa. Among the highlights are works by two acclaimed out-of-towners, New York's Neta Pulvermacher and Miami's Bill Doolin, plus pieces by Moving Current co-founders Erin Cardinal and Cynthia Hennessy. Tickets are $18, $16 members, $12 students for the 8 p.m. show. (727) 942-5605; tarponarts.org.


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Howdy folks, In trying to build gcl, I ran across what I think is a bug in tclsh.When gcl checks for tclsh it attempts to set a variable to the output of `tclsh < conftest.tcl`.
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Aiming to help c-stores "take back breakfast" from fast feeders
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Hot Stuff Foods has launched an initiative to help in retailer's efforts to "take back breakfast" by lowering food costs and introducing new products and incentives.
"Fast-food restaurants have amped up their efforts to take the traditionally strong breakfast business from convenience stores," said Craig VanHyfte, vice president of marketing for Hot Stuff Foods. "And Hot Stuff Foods is arming our retailer partners with lower food costs and other advantages to recapture a greater share of the market. We are boldly proclaiming with our franchise partners [image-nocss] that we are taking back breakfast while providing the unmatched convenience and choices that c-stores have long been reputed for."
According to VanHyfte, immediate steps include:
Lower Retail Pricing: Hot Stuff Foods has introduced a new pricing structure while maintaining the same high-quality ingredients and keeping portion sizes the same or greater than national QSR brands. Suggested retail prices begin at 99 cents to also go head-to-head with freestanding fast-food outlets. America's No. 1 Breakfast Carrier: Hot Stuff Foods has rolled out a full line of the most popular breakfast item in Americathe English muffin sandwich. Hot Stuff now has five English muffin sandwiches including Sausage, Egg & Cheese, Ham, Egg & Cheese, Bacon, Egg & Cheese, Egg & Cheese and Sausage.
Most Extensive Product Line Among National Quick-Serve Franchises: In addition to Hot Stuff Food's new line of English muffins, the company offers one of the most extensive menu line of any national quick-serve franchise. These include biscuit and croissant sandwiches, breakfast pizzas, Cinnobabies (mini gourmet cinnamon rolls), muffins, donuts, stuffed sandwiches, French Toast & Maple Sausage Sandwich, breakfast burritos and Chorizo tacos.
Improved "Car-Friendly" Business Driving Packaging: Hot Stuff Breakfast Sandwiches now come in the "New Breakfast Wrap." During pilot testing of the new packaging, more than 80% of retailers reported an increase in breakfast sandwich sales due to packaging changes and consumers reported the new packaging was easier to handle and more accommodating for dashboard dining.
Incentive Program: Hot Stuff Foods has designed an exclusive rewards program that incentivizes foodservice managers and employees for growing breakfast sales within individual stores.
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Hot Stuff Foods franchises and licenses its branded food concepts in more than 1,200 locations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Hot Stuff Foods also offers Lettieri's Food To Go through distributors across the United States.


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UBS (NYSE:UBS) recently released a clearer picture of the organization-wide changes it proposed to undertake in a bid to significantly cut costs. [1] The Swiss bank had hinted at radical cost cutting measures when it announced results for the second quarter of 2011. [2] The blueprint of its proposed changes released earlier marks a reduction in nearly 3,500 jobs and will save the bank about CHF 2 billion ($2.5 billion) in annual recurring expenses by the end of 2013. UBS competes with rivals such as Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS).
We have a near $20 price estimate for UBS, which is notably ahead of the current market price. We attribute the price difference to the market's negative sentiments over the the growing European debt crisis compounded by uncertainty over the impact of the U.S. debt rating downgrade.
Impact on the bank's operating segments
- Barclays Underwrites More Equity Deals Than Any Other European Investment Bank In Q2
- Fed Gives Deutsche Bank, UBS Five-Year Breather On Illiquid Fund Volcker Compliance
- HSBC Edges Ahead Of UBS To Report The Best Core Capital Ratio Among European Banking Giants
- Increase In EMEA Sovereign Debt Origination Helps European Investment Banks Gain Market Share
- European Investment Banks Seeing Mixed Equity Underwriting Performance Outside EMEA
- UBS Edges Ahead Of European Rivals To Garner Largest Equity Underwriting Market Share In Q1
The proposed reduction in headcount has been distributed among the bank's various businesses as follows:
- Investment Bank : 45%, representing about 1,600 jobs
- Wealth Management & Swiss Bank: 35%, representing about 1,200 jobs
- Global Asset Management: 10%, representing nearly 350 jobs
- Wealth Management Americas: 10%, representing nearly 350 jobs
According to the bank's annual report, its investment banking division had nearly 17,000 full-time personnel at the end of 2010 with the division's personnel expenses being about CHF 6.7 billion. The proposed reduction in 1,600 jobs should reduce personnel costs by about 10% – nearly CHF 700 million (~$900 million) each year. This signifies a boost in the division's operating margin to almost 26% from current estimates of 18% at the end of 2 years.
Similarly, the impact on the Wealth Management & Swiss Bank operating division, which had close to 28,000 personnel at the end of 2010, will be an improvement in margins to nearly 40% by the end of 2 years.
Margins for the other 2 divisions are expected to rise by less than 2% over this period.
This adds substantial value to UBS
With margins improving across all divisions for UBS, the reduction in jobs is clearly a step in the right direction. Even after considering the impact of the one-time CHF 550 million (~$700 million) restructuring cost which UBS expects to take, the proposed cost cutting measure provides a near 15% upside to our $20.08 price estimate for the bank.Notes:
- UBS update on cost reduction plans, UBS Press Releases, Aug 23 2011 [↩]
- UBS second quarter earnings release, UBS Press Releases, Jul 26 2011 [↩]


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Good Technology Redefines the Mobile Business Experience
NEW YORK and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Good Technology, the leader in secure mobility, today announced major new innovations that change the mobile experience for the end user, IT and line of business leaders. The new Good secure mobile collaboration app delivers a next-gen mobile business experience. Designed with a contextual, more personalized user experience, the new Good solution can be deployed via cloud, on premise or hybrid, providing flexible deployment options for organizations of all sizes. The company also announced the Good for Salesforce1 mobile app, a new Trusted Authentication Framework and an expanded Good-secured partner ecosystem. The announcements are being made today from Good Exchange in New York, the company's annual conference that gathers mobile industry leaders.
Delivering Fast, Intuitive End User Experience with the New Good Secure Mobile Collaboration App
The Good secure mobile collaboration app provides secure email, messaging, contacts, calendar, document management and browsing, bringing all relevant information business users need into one place. Users can now easily navigate across enterprise apps and tasks with no compromise to data security. The Good secure mobile collaboration app also delivers the industry's first contextual mobile experience, where users are presented with personalized information based on their activities and contacts, such as custom alerts. The Good app is built on the Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform and offers a rich set of services through the Good-secured ecosystem such as secure printing and document archiving. Using the Good Dynamics services architecture, the new Good app is the first to integrate mobile presence, pulling in current status information from Good Connect or Microsoft Lync and ensuring that reaching out to colleagues is quick and natural.
"We're setting a new benchmark for the enterprise mobile experience. Businesses of all sizes, industries and requirements want their employees to move faster and make decisions wherever they are," said Christy Wyatt, Chairman and CEO of Good Technology. "The Good Dynamics platform, new Good app and broad partner ecosystem empower organizations to mobilize their business with a best-in-class usability experience, from the cloud or on-premise, without compromising security."
The new Good app will be available for beta beginning June 30.
Delivering a Better Experience for IT with Flexible Deployment and Authentication Options
As companies move to the cloud, they are looking for a fast, convenient way to adopt business mobility. The new Good app will be available via the cloud as well as on premise. Now small and mid-sized organizations can enjoy the same enterprise-grade security thousands of global organizations count on, but with the ease and simplicity of a cloud deployment. For individual business professionals, Good also announced the commercial availability of Good Pro, a secure cloud-based messaging app introduced earlier this year.
"With the rapidly changing environment of enterprise mobility, IT andbusinessunits are looking for a unified approach to secure mobile collaboration," said Chris Hazelton, research director of mobile and wireless at 451 Research. "Bringing together multiple apps into one contextual experiencewill increase organizational collaboration and provide true mobile productivity."
IT organizations are also looking for flexibility in utilizing the variety of technologies available for identity management. To address this, Good also announced the Good Trusted Authentication Framework that offers customers enhanced mobile security through new, innovative authentication methods. Smart cards, tokens and even biometrics can now be used in concert with the Good solution from partners such as Biometrics Associates, EyeVerify, Intercede, Mi-Token and Precise Biometrics.
Providing Line of Business Leaders with the Mobile Apps to Drive Even More Productivity
Line of business leaders are looking to further mobilize their business units to drive employee productivity and customer engagement. To address one of the most critical business processes, Good is introducing the Good for Salesforce1 app. Good for Salesforce1 brings together the leading mobile CRM app with the market's leading secure container. This unique offering enables IT departments to accelerate Salesforce1 Mobile App deployments company-wide, while complying with highly-regulated security requirements to protect sensitive corporate data on personal smartphones and tablets.
In addition, Good announced a host of new ecosystem partners that are leveraging the Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform to address specific needs for joint customers through secure mobile apps. New partners announced today include AirPatrol, CellTrust, Code Red, Infraware Polaris Office and InterPro, delivering enhanced functionality ranging from secure SMS and secure research management access to more sophisticated document editing and collaboration.
With the announcement of the industry's first mobile presence service, Good is launching its first server-based shared service within the Good Dynamics platform that ecosystem partners can now leverage. BoardPad, an industry-leading meeting and document collaboration solution in the Good-secured ecosystem that transforms directors' devices into highly secure digital board and meeting packs, is integrating presence to provide enhanced communication andstatus awareness between users. Presence information within BoardPadfor Goodinforms users of availability of other meeting participants, updated live, with information supplied byGood Connect andMicrosoft Lync.
For more information about today's announcements, please visit http://www1.good.com/about/press-releases.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew more slowly over the summer than the government had earlier estimated because businesses cut back more sharply on restocking of shelves.
The Commerce Department said Tuesday that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2 percent in the July-September quarter, lower than an initial 2.5 percent estimate made last month. The government also said after-tax incomes fell by the largest amount in two years, reflecting high unemployment and lower pay raises.
The downward revision was largely because weaker data on inventory building came in after the government's first estimate. Many businesses reduced their stockpiles over the summer, probably because they didn't anticipate the strength of consumer and business spending.
A decline in inventories is not always a bad sign. Economists think this could lead to stronger growth in the current quarter, if businesses foresee more demand and restock their shelves.
Economists predict growth will strengthen to about 3 percent in the October-December quarter. Many raised their estimates after seeing encouraging October reports on retail sales and factory output.
"While this report is disappointing, it is a look back in time," said Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. "It is encouraging, to say the least, to see the October data coming in stronger, which is good news for the current quarter."
Still, growth could be slowed if consumers continue to earn less. After-tax, inflation-adjusted incomes fell at a 2.1 percent rate. That's steeper than the 1.7 percent decline initially estimated and the biggest drop since the third quarter of 2009, just as the recession was ending. It also marked the second straight quarterly decline.
"For now the U.S. economy looks to be moving in the right direction," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, who predicts growth of more than 3 percent in the fourth quarter.
But the January-March quarter "could be a different story, particularly if the payroll tax cut isn't extended," Ashworth said.
The modest third-quarter growth is not nearly enough to lower the unemployment rate, which has been stuck near 9 percent for more than two years. And economists caution that their brighter outlook hinges on Europe's financial crisis, which could trigger a recession in that region and slow U.S. growth next year.


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Most of the 'hacked' kext not shows in System profiler =). Use kext wizard to see other kexts loaded.


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Perot Museum exhibits showcase UTSW scientific, medical talent
By Cory Lukens
Visitors to Dallas' new Perot Museum of Nature and Science will find multiple galleries devoted to the scientific universe. And if they look closely, they'll find UT Southwestern Medical Center's footprints at several points along the way.
They will encounter examples of UT Southwestern's contributions to science and medicine as they explore exhibits about space, fossils, weather, ecology, health, engineering, and more.
In October, the Perot Museum announced the donation of the Nobel Prize medal of Dr. Alfred Gilman, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology. Dr. Gilman shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discovery of G-proteins and their role in signal transduction in cells.
Dr. Gilman's Nobel medal – considered the world's most prestigious honor bestowed upon an individual or an institution – is on view in the Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall. Around the corner, visitors can build a model skyscraper to withstand a simulated earthquake, or experiment with robots that can be programmed to maneuver through a maze.
"At the Perot Museum, where our mission is to inspire minds through nature and science, a Nobel Prize symbolizes the world's greatest achievements," said Nicole G. Small, the museum's Eugene McDermott CEO. "It's a tremendous honor, and we are enormously grateful that Dr. Gilman has entrusted the Perot Museum to display this treasured medal."
Dr. Gilman called the museum "a fabulous gift to Dallas by the Perot family" and others who worked to make it happen.
"Who would have thought that I would be able to make this very small contribution," Dr. Gilman said, "But it gives me enormous pleasure to do so, with the hope that it will inspire youngsters to look at the medals and say 'I can do that!' "
Another Nobel prize-winning team, Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Joseph Goldstein, is featured in the museum's Being Human Hall. Their decades-long collaboration resulted in the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism regulation. Their partnership continues today. Dr. Brown is Director of the Erik Jonsson Center for Research in Molecular Genetics and Human Disease, and Dr. Goldstein is Chair of Molecular Genetics.
The museum's Sports Hall is a favorite among current and future athletes. It features state-of-the-art interactive elements, including a 55-foot racing lane where children can compete against a 3-D, life-size cheetah, Tyrannosaurus rex, or Felix Jones of the Dallas Cowboys.
Dr. Robert Dimeff, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Family and Community Medicine, and Pediatrics, is featured in a Career Inspiration Story showcasing his expertise in sports medicine. The interactive touchscreen video allows users to select questions and view Dr. Dimeff's recorded answers on topics including reducing injuries and working with professional sports teams.
"It was an honor to be involved with the development of this amazing, interactive museum," Dr. Dimeff said. "Using the forum of sports participation to inspire young people to pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology is unique and brilliant. The Perot Museum brain trust should be congratulated on this original concept."
Dr. Kemp Kernstine, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, also provides early career inspiration to young museum visitors in the Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall. Dr. Kernstine is a pioneer in minimally invasive and robotic surgeries using computer-assisted tools.
The Career Inspiration Story of Kenneth Coulter, a medical illustrator and former Assistant Professor of Biomedical Communications, is featured in the Being Human Hall. His story explains how an illustrator collaborates with doctors and contributes to cutting-edge medicine.
UT Southwestern faculty, staff, and students can save on annual memberships to the Perot Museum through the Employee Discount Program. Go to
Dr. Brown holds The W.A. (Monty) Moncrief Distinguished Chair in Cholesterol and Arteriosclerosis Research and the Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine, and is a Regental Professor.
Dr. Gilman is a Regental Professor Emeritus.
Dr. Goldstein holds the Julie and Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research and the Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine, and is a Regental Professor.
Dr. Kernstine holds the Robert Tucker Hayes Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery.


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NantHealth Teams To Create Gene Sequencing Health Network
Culver City-based NantHealth, the healthcare technology company created by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said Thursday afternoon that it has teamed up with The Chan Soon-Shiong Insitute of Molecular Medicine, and Providence Health and Services, to create a clinical, genomic network for whole genomic sequencing. According to NantHealth, the network will help provide whole genome sequencing for cancer patients, and is expected to serve 22,000 cancer patients across five western states. The three said the network involves Illumina HiSeq x Ten gene sequencing systems, coupled with NantHealth's own "transcriptomic analytic super computer" which it says can be used to analyze that genetic data. NantHealth's Soon-Shiong said the use of the super-computer is intended to help with clinical decision support to create more targeted, effective, and efficient treatments for patients.


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Enviado desde mi Vaulient mediante Superman tapatalk
How is my brother Liontvaul?
my pm's are full, i guess i can only recieve, and even that from like mods and shit.
but i tried those, they didn't work. same error: link not supported.
i have been keeping up with a snail pace of downloading one file a day lol
I feel ya :hug:
This profile appears to be a little .... broken
Hai der
Dear beloved stalker,
Please ignore the bunnies.
Thank you.
Not on Discord tho, hehehe. Which hero are you?!
Wow, a new skin.
How ya been buddy?
Well that's mildy inappropriate
Mi habla no Español. But you're right, ich bin Superman!
Opened it. Can't say I didn't enjoy it.
YES (cant see the picture you added btw)
I heard that this sentence that I am now writing can be quite cringey but oh well the cringe Is so cringe worthy cringe.
Happy eid mubarak brother! Non-muslim here but I hope it gives you a bit of free time like the christian holidays in Germany do
Your usernames for your online gaming accounts.
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what a twat is this hat?
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"It's a family affair on "Law & Order: SVU" when Ice-T's wife and reality co-star, Coco Austin, returns to the series Wednesday. Coco, who has been on the show twice before, will make her third appearance in the Jan. 11 episode. Although it's only a cameo, it's a memorable one. Wait until you see what she's wearing and whom she's kissing.
"'I didn't have a say in what I was going to wear at all,' Coco told The Huffington Post. 'I was actually surprised when the wardrobe people called me up and said, 'You need to come in for a fitting.' I thought I was going to be in a rather cutesy outfit, but very regal and classy. When I walked in and on the hanger was this little bikini-style outfit that looked kind of like booty shorts, I was like, 'Wait, hold up! NBC is OK with this?'
"Coco appears as Venus, the goddess of love, in a play within the "Theatre Tricks" episode (10 p.m. EST on NBC)."
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Matt Smith reviews the seventh episode of Elementary season 2…
Relationships with fictional characters are certainly very strange. In some cases, they pop into your house once a week, most welcome, and show you their lives without once ever acknowledging you're even there (unless it's Malcolm in the Middle, in which case you're now more interested in his dad's secret life). I see some fictional characters more than I see certain real people. And this may sound strange, but a relationship is built up. We stand around the water cooler (which is a tired phrase and has almost been replaced by 'internet forum') and talk about them, what they could do, what they should do, almost as if we're gossiping about real people who actually exist.
To make them seem real takes a lot. Good writing; good acting; good direction to name the high profile. The characters start having relationships of their own, evolving into complex creatures that, once again, we in the real world spend a disproportionate amount of time talking about.
Sherlock Holmes is not good at relationships. That much is certain, and that's why his relationships are unavoidably stilted or awkward. People from his part come back to haunt him this week as his brother Mycroft (Rhys Ifans) and former sister-in-law Nigella (Olivia d'Abo) come over to the States just to make his life a misery. Sibling rivalry rears it's ugly head once again as the two brothers, seemingly completely different (Mycroft, charming and accepting, Sherlock, stubborn and short), butt heads over what should be done with Nigella. The woman who so cruelly destroyed a marriage and who is so irritating I thought for sure she'd turn out to be a nice person and this would teach Sherlock a lesson.
But this episode is more concerned with the idea of revenge in relationships. It may just be a coincidence, but it's fitting that the antagonist of the day is missing his ring finger in an episode concerning cheating within romantic relationships and the making of old wounds.
It's also fitting he suspects an imposter when it comes to the breeding of a horse, in a case that largely seems to be about fitting around Sherlock's social life. Nigella is linked to a case concerning drug related murders, a dangerous hitman and a thoroughbred. With all the Mafioso and assassins around I'm surprised and perplexed as to why no one's ever tried to hunt Sherlock Holmes down.
But again, this week sees a playful tone amidst a horrible situation. A multiple-murderer is about and it's up to Sherlock Holmes to save the day, as the police have tried and failed for years to track the killer down. This time, however, the tonal shifts are handled well. Last week the balance when it came to shifting to other stories, with their own background and emotion, wasn't quite right. This week the producers have managed it, though only through giving the actual case the bare minimum treatment.
Sherlock Holmes has always been about the puzzle, and though he is one in himself we haven't been able to quite see the entire picture. The producers seem to be doing well in their bid to show us their version of the character, as if he's a unique version of a character written about over a hundred years ago. To make him seem real to us, as we welcome him onto our screens.
The only thing really lacking this week, amongst the multiple storylines playing out, was the literal puzzle. Hopefully they don't forget that and stick with the metaphorical one, because Holmes is first and foremost a detective. One of the aspects that keeps the show from becoming too downbeat and depressing sometimes is the case itself. This week we saw a Holmes who takes ten minutes to solve a case then argues with all around him. And I wouldn't want to welcome someone like that into my house.
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I would have to agree with Michael Jackson on this one. Pale bright gold in colour with hints of peat and light grass on the nose being oaky and toasty. Chewy but firm starting off sweet becoming drier. The finish is spicy, assertive with small explosions, long and warming. As he says,"extrovert and expressive, but with most of the action taking place in the finish." Michael Jackson (authior "The Malt Wisky Companion")I think it is worth every penny and some more.


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Rally your team, come up with a plan, and create! We're looking for physics-themed jack-o-lanterns, or some sort of physics-themed display that incorporates pumpkins. Send a representative from your team to Olin 331 to pick up your department-supplied pumpkin and carving kit on Monday the 28th (week 7). Bring your finished creation back to Olin 331 by noon on Halloween Thursday to display. **Location change!** We will descend to the student lounge on 2nd Olin admire the pumpkin presentations and have Halloween treats during common time.


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With a stay at Locanda Del Fiordo in Furore (Fiordo di Furore), you'll be minutes from Fiordo di Furore Beach and close to Emerald Grotto. This inn is within close proximity of Church of Sant'Elia and Church of San Michele.
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Shayne Ward: Rock of Ages has made me much more confident
The cast of new musical Rock of Ages, including former X Factor winner
Shayne Ward, speak to Metro about karaoke classics, tight trousers and playing air guitar.
At first, it looks like partygoers have trashed Londonâs Shaftesbury Theatre. The auditorium is strewn with gig flyers; lingerie dangles from a chandelier; on stage, performers writhe their way through 1980s guitar hits from Bon Joviâs Wanted Dead Or Alive to Journeyâs Donât Stop Believinâ. Thereâs no doubt US retro musical Rock Of Ages, already a hit on Broadway, has arrived with a bang in Londonâs West End.
Itâs a brashly cheeky tale of star-crossed lovers Drew and Sherrie (Oliver Tompsett and Amy Pemberton), debauched rock idol Stacee Jaxx (Ward) and a motley crew from the Sunset Strip. Itâs got mass appeal and a Hollywood film version, starring Tom Cruise and Russell Brand, is already in production â although the Rock Of Ages crew never actually cleared rights for the Def Leppard song from which it takes its name.
Backstage, boisterous comedian-turned-TV-host-turned-actor Justin Lee Collins , 37, is taking a breather from his role as Bourbon Room owner Dennis Dupree. Itâs not his first musical stint; his TV shows have seen him star in hit show Chicago and impersonate Tom Jones.
âThis is perfect for me â Iâm a child of the 1980s,â he admits in his Bristolian drawl. âWhitesnake and Bon Jovi were the soundtrack to my life. The glamorous, excessive era really lends itself to musical theatre. Rock Of Ages doesnât force a moral message but it has heart.â
âWeâre celebrating a period of rock-star dreams, long hair, leather and decadence â especially in this time of recession,â agrees director Kristin Hanggi. âHistorically, in America, successful feel-good theatre comedies have happened when the country needs it.â
Hanggiâs previous works span fringe theatre to pop extravaganzas. âI love this showâs sparkle but also how its characters break the âfourth wallâ, addressing the audience,â she says. âThe show and film are different animals, riffing on the same theme.â
Rock Of Ages continues the trend for âjukebox musicalsâ, both in London (from Queen blockbuster We Will Rock You to Blondie flop Desperately Seeking Susan) and New York (where Green Day have a musical, American Idiot).
In the 1980s, musical theatre actually spawned hit records; nowadays, shows generally centre on familiar tunes. But Rock Of Ages has brilliant singers and Hanggi argues thereâs an emotional hook.
âMany people had their first kiss to these songs,â she says. âFor others, theyâre favourite karaoke tracks.â
Collins certainly seems to be relishing the challenge posed by eight shows a week. âIâm not used to scripts and I canât even play air guitar,â he says. âBut in my head, Iâd be Stacee Jaxx.â
Following The X Factorâs blandness, Ward has seized on the OTT role of Stacee with glee. The 26-year-old opens his dressing room door wearing tight trousers, eyeliner and a hair net.
Musical theatre wasnât his original ambition (âI wanted to act in gritty dramasâ) but this seems to be his calling. âWhen youâre part of Simon Cowellâs label, everythingâs clean-cut,â says Ward. âIâm not a bad boy but I have a sense of humour.â
Is being in a musical more fulfilling than pop? âGod, yeah,â he says. âI get to sing, dance and learn. Although my family will say: âThatâs just Shayne in a wig.ââ
Pop touring has seasoned Ward for the gruelling theatre schedule. âI love the adrenalin of different crowds every night,â he says.
âIâm good at looking after my voice.â Ward points at an array of healthy teas â theyâre a stark contrast to the raunchy vintage pin-ups heâs stuck to the walls. âDoes downloading posters of sexy ladies and bands from the 1980s count as method acting?â he asks.
Ward is also enjoying the cast camaraderie. âThe pop world can be lonely for a solo artist,â he says. âThis is the first time I feel like I can make some true friends. And I keep doing this, now Iâm in a rock show,â says Ward, making devil-horn gestures. âItâs made me much more confident. Now I belt things out.â
When I leave, I hear rock-star roars from behind Wardâs door. And I think â maybe if you donât axe, you donât get.
Rock Of Ages is currently previewing at the Shaftesbury Theatre and opens on September 27. www.rockofagesmusical.co.uk . Compare ticket prices here


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People giggling at my....
EDIT: Thanks ladies...guess I was being an overly concerned silly mommy. :p
aww, well if he looks like that when other people see him they're probably giggling because he's so darn cute! i would definitely giggle too =)
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Oh, that face!!! CUTE
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omg, he is soo cute!! i work in retail and see lotsa babies every day..and now that i think about it...when i see one that is super cute, i will giggle and say awwww! but thats cuz the kid is cute..its when i DONT say anything that the parents gotta worry! HAHA!~ JK!! he is gonna be a heartbreaker one day tho!! :)
I often smile or giggle at babies or very young kids because they are so cute or they are smiling at me. I try not to do it for too long because you never know what the parent thinks LOL.
BTW I would probably smile and giggle at your cutie patootie too.
Aweee! He's a cutie petutie! I'd say it's a "cute" giggle. My baby gets people giggling too. Esp. if he smiles! :)
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text: Thanks for the information and the paper link, James. I certainly appreciate the perspective, and now see why the anti-aliasing and reconstruction filtering might best be left to clients of a resampling procedure. Hopefully at least some of the kinks in the spline interpolation (to date: obligate mirror boundary conditions, extra edge values, integer overflow) can be smoothed out. I can't guarantee that I'll have the time or expertise to deal with ni_interpolation.c, but I'll try to give it a shot some time here. Zach On Mar 26, 2007, at 1:16 AM, James Turner wrote: > PS... (sorry for all the posts, for anyone who isn't interested...) > >> Agreed, it looks like aliasing. Nevertheless, any resampling >> procedure is supposed to deal with this internally, right? Either by >> lowpass filtering (traditional case), or by spline fitting (spline >> case as described by Unser and understood by me) -- it shouldn't be >> letting aliasing bubble through, correct? > > In the general case, I don't think it is appropriate for the > resampling > procedure to use low-pass filtering internally to avoid artefacts, > except perhaps when downsampling. It probably makes sense for computer > graphics work, but there are cases where the input data are band > limited to begin with and any degradation in resolution is > unacceptable. > Where needed, I think low-pass filtering should either be the > responsibility of the main program or an option. It's not even > possible > for the resampling procedure to prevent artefacts in every case, since > the aliasing in a badly undersampled image cannot be removed post > factum (this is for undersampled photos rather than artificial > graphics, > which I think are fundamentally different because everything is > defined > on the grid, although I haven't sat down and proved it > mathematically). > I'm also not sure how the procedure could decide on the level of > smoothing needed for a given dataset without external information. > > Of course intermediate-order splines will probably keep everyone > happy, > being reasonably robust against ringing effects without causing much > smoothing or interpolation error :-). > > By the way, I think you and Stefan might be interested in a medical > imaging paper by Lehmann et al. (1999), which gives a very nice > overview > of the properties of different interpolation kernels: > > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/ > iel5/42/17698/00816070.pdf?arnumber=816070 > > For what it's worth, I'd agree with both of you that the numeric > overflow should be documented if not fixed. It sounds like Stefan has > figured out a solution for it though. If you make sense of the code in > "ni_interpolation.c", Stefan, I'd be very interested in how to make it > calculate one less value at the edges :-). > > Cheers, > > James. > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > email@example.com > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion


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Ben Stiller Doesn't Do Blue Steel Once In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Trailer
One of my favorite things is seeing comedic actors come into their own in more serious roles. After a while the same goofy schtick can get old, and audiences crave something different, especially when you've been making comedies for as long as people like Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler have. Ben Stiller is a similar case, although he has dipped his toes into quasi-serious fare, from The Royal Tenenbaums to Greenberg. But it never really stuck to the point that it arguably has for actors like Jim Carrey or Robin Williams, who still make stupid movies but have undoubtedly proven themselves to have much more to offer than silly voices. It looks like Ben Stiller is trying to carve out a similar place for himself with his new movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The fact that Stiller not only stars in it but also directed it (although it's certainly not his directorial debut) makes it even more likely to earn him street cred among the film snobs. It doesn't hurt that the new trailer for the film makes it look really promising.
Walter Mitty is a remake of a classic 1947 movie based on a short story by James Thurber. It's about a dissatisfied office worker who deals with abuse from those around him by escaping into complex fantasies while admiring his co-worker, who's played in the remake by Kristen Wiig. The remake's been trying to get off the ground for years, with everyone from Steven Spielberg to Jim Carrey to Owen Wilson attached.
I've never seen the original film, but it's billed as a comedy, and there are definitely moments of quirky humor in this trailer. But it also appears to take a very modern, artistic approach to the story. A lot of the scenes remind me of something Michel Gondry would create. Since he's my favorite director (Eternal Sunshine, hello), I approach this with simultaneous glee and hesitancy. But mostly glee, because who doesn't love some good surrealism in the midst of failing blockbusters and movies where Adam Sandler plays a woman? If you think about it, the comedians-turned-serious-actors trend has tended to involve movies in this mind-bending genre. Think The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine for Jim Carrey and Stranger Than Fiction for Will Ferrell. This movie could have the same effect on Ben Stiller.
Not that I don't enjoy watching Stiller do blue steel or talk to GOB Bluth about illusions, but his stuff hasn't exactly been top shelf of late. I mean, The Watch and Tower Heist were totally the same movie with different posters, right?


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In Washington, a surfer/designer who hated the long distance to travel to surf eventually created his own surf shack right next to his favourite surfing location.
Its a little white for me but primarily made from recycled walls its functionality and the fact shelves and beds etc. are fold out gives the maximum amount of usage in the minimal 20ft container.
Great idea and I am sure many people will see some interesting ideas for their own designs from this weekend surf retreat.
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The latest PS+ update included Jak and Daxter Trilogy for PS3 but at the time it wasn't for the Vita even though it is cross buy. Well it is free now for the Vita also. Just a heads up for those who do not check the store that regularly :)
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