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The following immigration-related bills were introduced into the House of Representatives and the Senate in August 2011-October 2011 and summarized below by AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association):
Senate Bills
Introduced by Sen. Rubio (R-FL) on 8/2/11 Prevents the Secretary of the Treasury from expanding United States bank reporting requirements with respect to interest on deposits paid to nonresident aliens.
Introduced by Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) on 9/13/11 Designates Taiwan as a visa waiver program country under INA Section 217(c).
Introduced by Sen. Landrieu (D-LA) on 9/19/11 Measures the progress of relief, recovery, reconstruction and development efforts in Haiti following the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, and for other purposes.
House Bills
Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2011 (HR 2730)
Introduced by Rep. Bass (D-CA) on 8/1/11 Better enables State child welfare agencies to prevent human trafficking of children and serve the needs of children who are victims of human trafficking.
Introduced by Rep. McDermott (D-WA); Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) on 8/1/11 Extends by two years the special rule relating to eligibility for benefits under the supplemental security income program for certain aliens and victims of trafficking. Amends section 402(a)(2)(M) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Introduced by Rep. Rivera (R-FL) on 8/1/11 Amends Public Law 89-732 to increase to 5 years the period during which a Cuban national must be physically present in the United States in order to qualify for adjustment of status to that of a permanent resident
Doctors for Underserved Areas in America Act (H.R. 2805)
Introduced by Rep. Lofgren (D-CA) on 8/5/11 Amends Section 220 of the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make the section permanent.
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011 (H.R. 2830)
Introduced by Rep. Smith (R-NJ) on 8/30/11 Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
Introduced by Rep. Rivera (R-FL)on 8/30/11 Amends Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act to make ineligible for adjustment of status under Section 1 individuals who return to Cuba after admission or parole into the U.S.
American Specialty Agriculture Act (H.R. 2847)
Introduced by Rep. Smith (R-TX) on 9/7/11 Establishes a H-2C nonimmigrant visa for an alien having residence in a foreign country which he or she has no intention of abandoning and who is coming temporarily (10-month maximum per contract period) to the United States to perform agricultural services, including the pressing of apples for cider on a farm. Requires an employer or employer association to file an H-2C petition.
Compassionate Visa for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 2878)
Introduced by Rep. Cohen (D-TN) on 9/9/11 Amends INA with respect to temporary admission of nonimmigrant aliens for the purpose of receiving medical treatment.
Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885)
Introduced by Rep. Smith (R-TX) on 9/12/11 Makes mandatory and permanent requirements for use of E-Verify for employment verification.
Legal Agricultural Workforce Act(H.R. 2895)
Introduced by Rep. Lungren (R-CA) on 9/12/11 Amends INA to provide for a temporary agricultural worker program.
Chinese Media Reciprocity Act of 2011(H.R. 2899)
Introduced by Rep. Rohrabacher (R-CA) on 9/12/11 Establishes a reciprocal relationship between the number of visas issued to state-controlled media workers in China and in the U.S.
Immigration Backlog Reduction Act of 2011(H.R. 2952)
Introduced by Rep. Hunter (R-CA) on 9/15/11 Provides for expedited removal of certain aliens.
Senior Citizenship Act of 2011 (H.R. 2957)
Introduced by Rep. Nadler (D-NY) on 9/15/11 Amends INA to exempt certain elderly persons (75+ years; 5 years as LPR) from demonstrating an understanding of the English language and the history/government of the United States as a requirement for naturalization. The bill also permits other elderly persons (65+ years; 5 years LPR) to take the history and government examination in a language of their choice.
Restoring Protection to Victims of Persecution Act (HR 2981)
Introduced by Rep. Stark (D-CA) on 9/21/11 Amends the INA to eliminate the 1-year deadline for application for asylum in the United States.
Illegal Immigration Sentencing Uniformity Act of 2011 (HR 2991)
Introduced by Rep. Culberson (R-TX) on 9/21/11 Disapproves of a certain sentencing guideline amendment submitted by the United States Sentencing Commission, and for other purposes.
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (HR 3012)
Introduced by Rep. Chaffetz (R-UT) on 9/22/11 Eliminates the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, and increases the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants.
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act of 2011(H.R. 3083)
Introduced by Rep. McDermott (D-WA) on 10/3/11 Extends eligibility period for supplemental security income benefits for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants.
Protecting American Families and Businesses Act of 2011(H.R. 3119)
Introduced by Rep. Lofgren (D-CA) on 10/6/11 Amends the INA to remove the per-country limitation on employment-based immigrant visas and adjusts the per-country limitation on family-sponsored immigrant visas.
Student Visa Reform Act (H.R. 3120)
Introduced by Rep. Lofgren (D-CA) on 10/6/11 Amends the INA to require accreditation of certain educational institutions for purposes of a nonimmigrant student visa.
Introduced by Rep. Alexander (R-LA) on 10/12/11 Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from implementing certain rules relating to employment of aliens described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2011 (H.R. 3168)
Introduced by Rep. Jones (R-NC) on 10/12/11 Prohibits the payment of funds to a state under any program by DHS unless the state 1. compiles statistics on persons arrested, charged, convicted or incarcerated, including immigration status and country of origin; 2. reports such statistics monthly to the FBI; and 3. certifies compliance with requirements of this Act.
Source: "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 11110234 (posted Nov. 2, 2011)"


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A grieving Oregon mother who battled Facebook for full access to her deceased son's account has been pushing for years for something that would prevent others from losing photos, messages and other memories — as she did.
"Everybody's going to face this kind of a situation at some point in their lives," says Karen Williams, whose 22-year-old son died in a 2005 motorcycle accident.
The Oregon Legislature responded and took up the cause recently with a proposal that would have made it easier for loved ones to access the "digital assets" of the deceased, only to be turned back by pressure from the tech industry, which argued that both a 1986 federal law and voluntary terms of service agreements prohibit companies from sharing a person's information — even if such a request were included in a last will and testament.
Lobbyists agree the Stored Communications Act is woefully out of date but say that until it's changed, laws passed at the state level could be unconstitutional.
"Everybody wants to do the right thing, but the hard legal reality is the federal communications act," said Jim Hawley, a vice president at TechNet, an industry group that represents companies such as Google and Microsoft.
Oregon lawmakers moved ahead anyway with a proposal that would have given "digital assets" — everything from photos and messages stored online to intellectual property and banking information — the same treatment as material property for estate purposes.
"I think it's time for us to really look at what we can do now," said Democratic Sen. Floyd Prozanski after hearing Williams testify about her loss last month.
Two weeks later, however, language in the bill that would have covered social media accounts, from Facebook to Flickr, was stripped as tech lobbyists said the federal law and company privacy policies trumped anything that the bill would have included.
"I recognize the emotional toll these types of decisions can have on a family who's lost a loved one," Prozanski said Thursday. "But some of these issues may have to be addressed when we have more information than we currently have."
Still, the problem persists, and discussions on the issue are gaining momentum. As unlikely as such a case might be, even if a person willingly gives over login and password information to someone they authorize to access a given digital account, it would violate most terms of service agreements and both people could be charged with cybercrimes and face civil action from Internet companies under current law.
Currently, five states have digital assets laws, which vary widely. This group includes Oklahoma, which passed a law two years ago allowing estate lawyers to access digital assets, even social media accounts. That measure did not face the opposition that has emerged in Oregon.
"There is some question if laws like the one we passed in Oklahoma would stand up to a challenge by Facebook and Gmail saying their terms of service agreements supersede laws like this one and the one being discussed in Oregon," said Ryan Kiesel, a former Oklahoma legislator who wrote the law.
"That's a question that remains to be answered," he added.
Several other states, including Nebraska — guided in part by the story of Williams' 22-year-old son, Loren — are also considering proposals. And the Uniform Law Commission, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that writes model legislation for states to help standardize laws around the nation, is examining the issue.
"This law is a real need as we have moved into a digital world," said Lane Shetterly, an Oregon lawyer and a representative on the commission's drafting committee. The group is responsible for standardizing a range of legislation, including commercial transaction regulations and child custody laws.
Proponents say the need is clear. Without clarity or direction, the digital information left behind by a deceased person can spark emotional legal battles, pitting big business against devastated families. And as more and more memories are being stored online, new tools are necessary to make sure loved ones can easily access personal details that could be lost forever.
"If this were a box of letters under his bed, no one would have thought twice," Williams said.
Months after the death of her first-born son, who was away at college in Arizona, Williams found comfort in his Facebook page. There, she was able to click through photos and letters that helped ease the pain of her loss — for two hours.
She learned of the page from his friends and wanted access to his memories to keep them from being deleted, which was Facebook's policy at the time. Unaware of Internet privacy regulations, she reached out to Facebook for help. As she waited for a response, one of his friends provided a tip that helped her discover his password. "It was like a gift," she said.
Shortly after, however, the site's administrators changed the password, citing company policy in denying her. Williams sued and won, but she never received the full access she sought. Eventually, the account was taken down. In the end, she gained little more than a symbolic victory and a role as champion of a cause that didn't exist before the digital age.


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MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — Crews recovered about 4,500 barrels of oil and water after a crude oil pipeline ruptured in central Arkansas, officials said Saturday.
An ExxonMobil pipeline sprung a leak Friday afternoon in Mayflower, a small city about 20 miles northwest of Little Rock.
ExxonMobil and local officials said in a Saturday news release that they suspected a few thousand barrels of oil spilled but are preparing a response for more than 10,000 barrels "to be conservative."
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the spill. The city said Saturday that it recommended that 22 area homes be evacuated. On Friday, officials put the number of homes at dozens.
Crews have mobilized more than a dozen vacuum trucks to the site to clean up the oil, according to the news release.
Professional hygienist authorities are also monitoring air quality, officials said. There are precautions in place to keep oil away from nearby Lake Conway, the news release said.


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The way things went for the Los Angeles Galaxy from March through June, it seemed nothing would stand in the club's way for the remainder of the season.
But the month of July, the famed dog days of summer, proved to be a tough stretch for the Galaxy, who didn't come out unscathed. While their MLS record is still strong, LA were bounced from the US Open Cup and all but ousted from the CONCACAF Champions League.
Entering Sunday's match against Chicago, the Galaxy are possibly at the lowest point of the season to date. But that may not be a bad thing, Galaxy forward Edson Buddle said.
"It puts you in check," Buddle said. "The game always does that to you when you get a little relaxed or you get a tough game or you lose at home. Those [tough stretches] kind of put things in perspective for you."
After a scoreless draw in Toronto on June 26, the Galaxy held a dominant 10-1-2 record and had given up all of four goals at the time. In July, though, the Galaxy went 2-3-1 in all competitions, had no shutouts and allowed 12 goals while scoring eight.
Perhaps complacency has set in, or maybe other teams have figured out the vulnerable spots in the Galaxy's formation. Whatever the case, this stretch is a positive in that it's happening in July and not in October.
"You need that, especially at this time," Buddle said. "It could have happened later on in the season, but to happen at midseason is probably a good thing."
The Galaxy's latest setback was a 4-1 loss to Puerto Rico in the first leg of a CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round match on Tuesday. The Galaxy gave up the most goals they've conceded since Sept.2009, lost by their widest margin this season, and gave up two first-half goals for the first time all year.
The match, though, was a bit of a perfect storm for Puerto Rico, and might be written off as such, Buddle said.
"Being out there, it felt like everything they did was right – loose balls bounced right to them, they cleared the ball and it went right to them, they shot the ball and it went right in," he said. "It was kind of a perfect game for them."
The Galaxy will need a four-goal victory in Puerto Rico next Wednesday to have a chance of advancing to the group stage of the Champions League. But before then, the club will have to play Chicago at the Home Depot Center.
While the club still holds a nine-point edge over Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference table, a continued run of poor form could help RSL make a dent in that position.
What also helped get the Galaxy to the top of the table was timely breaks for the club, and now that the ball is bouncing the other way, Buddle said the Galaxy must make breaks for themselves.
"Especially with how the season's been going, it seems we've been getting more breaks. I guess we have to push the game sometimes. When things aren't going our way, we have to fight through those times," Buddle said. "We just have to put more energy and fight through bad times like that."


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True Life, True Grit: The Uncrushable Rose
True grit doesn't simply exist only in the Old West.
In her memoir Bambi Nancy Shen reflects on her birth in Saigon, her childhood in a Japanese concentration camp, and her life of survival at the crossroads of world events: WWII, the Chinese Civil War, and the Vietnam War. She struggled with her mother's disappointment that Shen was born female, moved to the United States to study, and twice entered marriages that reflected her low self-esteem. But by discovering her personal strengths Shen became a model of contemporary true grit.
Shen is a Kansas City businesswoman, author, teacher, international tour director, public speaker, interpreter, and co-founder of a nonprofit charitable organization.


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It is possible that the main title of the report Colitis, Ulcerative is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of unknown cause. It is characterized by chronic inflammation and ulceration of the lining of the major portion of the large intestine (colon). In most affected individuals, the lowest region of the large intestine, known as the rectum, is initially affected. As the disease progresses, some or all of the colon may become involved. Although associated symptoms and findings usually become apparent during adolescence or young adulthood, some individuals may experience an initial episode between age 50 to 70. In other cases, symptom onset may occur as early as the first year of life.
Ulcerative colitis is usually a chronic disease with repeated episodes of symptoms and remission (relapsing-remitting). However, some affected individuals may have few episodes, whereas others may have severe, continuous symptoms. During an episode, affected individuals may experience attacks of watery diarrhea that may contain pus, blood, and/or mucus; abdominal pain; fever and chills; weight loss; and/or other symptoms and findings. In severe cases, individuals may be at risk for certain serious complications.
For example, severe inflammation and ulceration may result in thinning of the wall of the colon, causing tearing (perforation) of the colon and potentially life-threatening complications. In addition, in some cases, individuals with the disorder may eventually develop more generalized (systemic) symptoms, such as certain inflammatory skin or eye conditions; inflammation, pain, and swelling of certain joints (arthritis); chronic inflammation of the liver (chronic active hepatitis); and/or other findings.
The specific underlying cause of ulcerative colitis is unknown. However, genetic, immunologic, infectious, and/or psychologic factors are thought to play some causative role.
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The enterprise ain't what it used to be.
That's the message from Google today as it changes the branding of its business products from Google Enterprise to Google At Work. The new brand will be applied to the business version of Google Apps (including Gmail), the Google Cloud Platform, and the Google Search Appliance, among other products.
Amit Singh, the president of Google at Work, explained why Google is changing the name now, more than 10 years after the company began selling products -- initially the Search Appliance and Gmail for Domains -- to businesses.
"Corporate is normally associated with long sales cycles, centralized purchasing, and software that sits on a shelf. Many of the things associated with the word 'enterprise' are not what we do. The dissonance kept growing bigger."
In other words, the big shift in business technology over the last ten years -- from centralized IT buying products and forcing them down the throats of users, to users choosing their own tools for work regardless of what IT wants them to use -- has been the big driver of Google's enterprise business. Now the company wants to embrace that trend by abandoning what it sees as a legacy term with negative associations for many users.
Google at Work security director Eran Figerbaum told the story of how he joined Google in 2007, and it reflects this shift perfectly.
"I was previously the chief security officer of a very conservative financial organization. All of a sudden we're getting these calls from the support team, everybody's installing Google Desktop Search. They're saying it's a violation of our security policy, it gives all this data to Google."
He continued, "A week later, I called a friend of mine who was the CIO of Google at the time, I told him 'You're killing us with this product, we have to go around and kill this on people's machines.' He replied, 'If you think I'm killing you now, wait until you see what's coming next.' He was talking at that point about Gmail for your domain."
A year later, Figerbaum joined Google to help drive that shift.
Figerbaum admits that Google's approach to enterprise security was pretty rudimentary at the beginning -- "trust us, we're Google" was the company's mindset -- but over the last 7 years Google has added a ton of enterprise security features, including various certificatoins (like FISMA for its government customers) and encryption at rest.
Figerbaum says there's still pushback from some traditional IT customers, but in general companies are much more comfortable moving to the cloud than they were, and they've realized that if they don't give users the tools they want, they'll lose control completely as users move to their own tools.
Singh also said that 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now paying for Google at Work products, and boasted that this statistic only includes paying customers with entire divisions using the products -- not just a pair of developers building on the Google Cloud platform, for instance.
How does Google get beyond 60 percent? By providing plenty of onramps for business customers, from email to apps to cloud computing, and making it as easy as possible for customers to sign up.


text: In the United States, employee benefits such as maternity leave, two weeks vacation and sick days are all things Americans have grown accustomed to, but are also perks that some employers have slowly been taking away, according to NBC News writer Ben Popken. A recent study by the Human Rights Watch supports this fact and reveals that, while American companies are chipping away at benefits and rank lowest for maternity leave, other countries often provide nontraditional benefits that put U.S. companies to shame. Apparently every employee should have the right to botox at some companies. Mercer, a research and consulting company, compiled a list of 9 unusual employee benefits in other countries.


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The country watched last night as J.P. Rosenbaum proposed to Bachelorette star Ashley Hebert and she said yes! But will it be a happily ever after for the newly engaged couple?
While Ashley revealed on the After The Rose special last night that things are going very well between the two of them and that she is planning to move to New York City to live with J.P., the couple will have some major hurdles to overcome.
Like most past Bachelor couples, the tabloids have been having a field day with J.P. According to reports, he is a jealous controlling man with a wondering eye and might already be cheating on Ashley.
An In Touch Weekly report from weeks ago stated J.P. has not been acting like an engaged man while out and about in NYC. A source told the mag that on June 24, he met a male and female friend at a local bar and "he held the girl's hand and looked into her eyes." The witness continued, "They looked really close. Before she got up to leave, she gave [AF] a huge hug; it was really intimate."
And during another outing, a different source reveals J.P. "was so aggressive and drunk" with the women there that he almost got kicked out of the venue.
Perhaps the most damning revelation is a woman who claims J.P. flat out asked her out recently. "If Ashley picked him, he's not being faithful – he's asked me out a bunch of times," said the source. Another source insists J.P. is not who he portrayed himself to be on the show. "He seems genuine when he's talking to Ashley, but he's actually kind of a jerk."
Another report also came out last week claiming J.P. was still not over his ex. As for Ashley, it appears she is choosing to stand by her fiance for the time being. The two appeared together on GMA this morning to gush about their relationship and Ashley even tweeted the photo below of both of them at the ABC studios.
Only time will tell if these two will end up making it down the aisle but surely these types of tabloid reports can't be helping their relationship.
Meanwhile don't feel too badly for Ben Flajnik following his heartbreak as he has already moved on from Ashley. Ben is reportedly dating Bachelor alum Britt Billmaier, who competed with Ashley on Brad Womack's second season of The Bachelor. "They're having fun together. He's definitely not wallowing over the break-up with Ashley," says a source. A picture of Britt is below!


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Palm oil industry shifts gears, commits to market transformation
To date RSPO members have produced over 5.2 milion tonnes of palm oil certified to strict standards that help ensure that forests, species and communities are not harmed by palm oil production.
"The entire value chain needs to be part of the solution and not the problem," said Adam Harrison, Senior Policy Officer for WWF UK and WWF's representative on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Executive Board. "The RSPO has moved from just certifying growers to transforming the whole industry, which says to me that the organization is growing up and is starting to deliver on the ambition it set for itself. Nevertheless, in order for the RSPO to deliver on this transformation, companies along the entire value chain need to be more transparent and take control of the oil palm they are producing, trading, using and selling."
More transparency, better traceability
According to WWF, one of the major hurdles facing the future of CSPO is the industry's overall lack transparency and limited efforts to implement proper traceability. The WWF's Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard 2011, which was released in Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday, identified both of these as major challenges, saying that the lack of collective will to solve these problems is risks becoming a major disincentive to further certification.
WWF says that buyers of CSPO need to take control of their supply chains and declare how much certified sustainable palm oil they are using. This would provide growers with the reassurance they need to say in business, and show consumers that they are serious about their commitments and acting responsibly.
Transforming the market also requires strong support from traders, who wield considerable influence. Traders must ensure the traceability of the palm oil they are buying and supplying to their customers, which could act as a major catalyst for future market growth and offer the assurances currently lacking along the supply chain.
Meanwhile, growers would benefit from increased transparency and better traceability by gaining a stronger sense confidence, more control over their management units, and an overall increase of returns on their commitment to providing certified sustainable palm oil.
Palm oil industry shows resolve in addressing climate change
Another key recommendation that emerged at the 3-day meet was that the RSPO's Principals & Criteria should include a 0 net carbon emission clause, setting a new benchmark for companies that aim to produce palm oil in a responsible manner.
"Reducing greenhouse gases is a huge challenge facing the industry in the region, and it is a very welcome sign that the RSPO has reached consensus on how to tackle GHGs and made a recommendation to change the organization's standards to accommodate this critical issue," said Irwan Gunawan, WWF Indonesia's Corporate Engagement Manager.
Update: The RSPO has announced that due to insufficient quorum, eligible members that could not attend the General Assembly are expected to cast their ballots via email:
On November 24th 2011, the 8th General Assembly for the RSPO Members was held at Sutera Harbour, Kota Kinabalu. Due to the insufficient quorum (50% of the total Ordinary Membership required: 549 in total), the 224 attending members voted that the following procedure be adopted:
1. I. A balloting/voting process by the attending members of all the resolutions proposed
2. II. Thereafter, an email will be circulated to all eligible members who could not attend the General assembly, to cast their ballot on the individual resolutions.
3. III. All votes received via email will be reconciled with those that were cast during the GA8 and all members will be informed on the final results which will also be published on the website.
No specific timeline was given for the results of the final vote.
For more information, please visit http://www.rspo.org/?q=content/announcement-8th-general-assembly-24th-november-2011


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This year, Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem joins the long list of actors, from Dr. No's Joseph Wiseman to A View to a Kill's Christopher Walken to Quantum of Solace's Mathieu Amalric, to face off against the world's most famous British spy. In Skyfall, Bardem plays Raoul Silva, 007's unhinged, tech-savvy nemesis. Shortly before the film's Nov. 9 U.S. release, the Spanish actor sat down with TIME to discuss his Bond inspirations, becoming a bad guy and the reasons behind the character's extreme blond hair.
TIME: You've mentioned that you were drawn in by the classic Bond villain Jaws, from The Spy Who Loved Me, when you were young, but that you didn't revisit Bond movies in preparing for Skyfall. Why not?
JAVIER BARDEM: Because I'm very bad at not being interfered with if I visit somebody else's work that is related in some way, shape or form to the work I'm going to do.
Do you think that your memories of Bond villains affected your performance?
Sure, they're in the back of your mind. They're kind of in your skin. You know the essence. You know the flavors, the colors, that you have to play. But you want to play it according to what you have on the page rather than how they were played other times.
(MORE: 50 Things You Didn't Know About James Bond)
This isn't the first time you've played evil. What's it like becoming someone who's a villain?
I mean, it's a job. When you're on set or in the theater, you have to let yourself go a little bit and give permission to yourself to disappear for a while and have a nice holiday from yourself.
So did you end up feeling sympathy for Silva?
I need to feel sympathy for every role I play, no matter how horrific they are or how stupid they are or how naïve they are. It's impossible to defend something if you don't believe in it 100%.
(MORE: New Bond Girl Bérénice Marlohe on Joining the Exclusive Club—and Its Fashion Perks)
I've heard that you had a variety of inspirations, real and fictional, for Silva's blond hair. Can you tell me about those?
I prefer not to because it'll give something away. There were some people that you wouldn't know and some that are publicly known. None of them were specifically the person we were inspired by; it was a little bit of that and a little bit of this.
It seemed a little bit Julian Assange to me.
I've heard that a couple of times but I have to say that, no, that person was not on the table. But it's funny. People perceive what they perceive.
(PHOTOS: Javier Bardem on Film)
How do the character's look and his actions relate to one another?
I think the appearance, the behavior, the look, the way he reacts, the way he acts always have to have meaning. When they're done just for the fun of it, it doesn't have a meaning and, as the audience, I'm not interested because I see the actor showing off. If in that look there's something related to the story that you're telling—and in this case it is, if you watch the movie, you understand why he looks like that.
Do you think in real life you'd make a good spy?
No, I'm the worst for that. I like to talk and I like to be social. I like to be openly okay with people. I'm not very good at keeping secrets.
Since you're not becoming a spy, what are you working on next?
I finished a movie with Ridley Scott called The Counselor—which is a great opportunity again to work with one of the best—based on an original screenplay from Cormac McCarthy. And I [produced] a documentary called Sons of the Clouds about the Western Sahara that took me four years to put together.


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Dr. Tim Hudson, chancellor of Arkansas State University, and Terry Mohajir, director of athletics, issued the following statement today regarding the football program:
"Coach Gus Malzahn informed us this afternoon that he would be accepting the head coaching position at Auburn University," ASU Chancellor Dr. Tim Hudson said. "We appreciate his contributions to our conference championship season and wish him well."
Hudson said he, Athletics Director Terry Mohajir and ASU System President Dr. Charles L. Welch will begin an immediate search for Malzahn's successor.
"The back-to-back championships in the Sun Belt Conference make this a very attractive position, and we're confident we'll have a lot of interest," Mohajir said. "This administration, this community and the entire Arkansas State family have demonstrated our commitment to have a nationally prominent intercollegiate athletics program and will continue to do so."
Mohajir said he and Malzahn would be meeting to discuss the transition, "keeping the interests of our student-athletes foremost in mind." The plan at this time, Mohajir said, is for Malzahn and his staff to coach the Red Wolves in the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Jan. 6 against Kent State in Mobile, Ala.
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Monday 2nd June 2008 - Sydney Roosters (1st) Vs Wests Tigers (7th) Sydney Football Stadium Referee: Tony Archer Touch Judges: Gavin Reynolds & Steve Chiddy Video Referee: Chris Ward
This game has the makings to be a high scoring affair yet remain very close on the scoreboard. The much bigger Roosters forwards will be looking to play up the middle all game and then kick to the wingers to score tries, which has been a common ploy for them this season. The Tigers will rely heavily upon Robbie Farah's dummy half runs, as this is where the most go forward for the Tigers will come from. The Tigers will possibly opt to run on the last instead of kick when close to the Roosters line, and they'll have hard running Tuiaki and back rower Ben Te'o running at the Roosters backs as often as possible. The Roosters defence is ranked 3rd this season, and will need to be at it's best to keep out a very crafty and offence oriented Tigers outfit. The Tigers defence is less than impressive, moreso with Payten and Fulton missing from the forward pack. The Roosters side that thumped the Warriors last week has remained intact for this game. For the Tigers, the injured Liam Fulton has been replaced by Bronson Harrison on the bench, who has just come back from injury. The Roosters have won half their home games this year and the Tigers have won 3 of their 5 away games. This will be a tight contest and could go either way. Roosters by 4
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Dr. Stephen R. Kellert is the Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology and Senior Research Scholar at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Bio-Logical Capital, a firm that invests in and implements sustainable land uses on large landscapes, as well as he was a founding partner of Environmental Capital Partners, a private equity company investing in the environmental sector. His work focuses on understanding the connection between nature and humanity with a particular interest in environmental conservation and sustainable design and development. His awards include: the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award, Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Educators Association; the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; the 2009 George B. Hartzog Award for Environmental Conservation; the 2008 American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Best Book of Year Award in Architecture and Urban Planning for the book Biophilic Design; the 2005 Outstanding Research Award for contributions to theory and science, from the North American Association for Environmental Education; the 1997 National Conservation Achievement Award, from the National Wildlife Federation; the 1990 Distinguished Individual Achievement Award, from the Society for Conservation Biology; the 1985 Best Publication of Year Award, from the International Foundation for Environmental Conservation; and, the 1983 Special Achievement Award, from the National Wildlife Federation.
Dr. Kellert is also listed and described in American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. He has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been a member of the board of directors of many organizations.
He has authored more than 150 publications, including the following books: The Birthright of a True Humanity: People and Nature in the Modern World (Yale University Press, in preparation); Companions in Wonder: Reflections on Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together (edited with J. Dunlap, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011); The Coming Transformation: Values to Sustain Natural and Human Communities (edited with Gus Speth, Yale FES, 2010); Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life (co-editors, J. Heerwagen, M. Mador, John Wiley, 2008), Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection (Island Press 2005); Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development (Island Press, 1997); The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society (Island Press, 1996); The Biophilia Hypothesis (edited with E.O. Wilson, Island Press, 1993); The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World (edited with T. Farnham, Island Press, 2002); Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Foundations (edited with P. Kahn, Jr., MIT Press, 2002); and Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle (edited with F.H. Bormann, Yale University Press, 1991).


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William Knowles, 45, of 7 Lower Collins St., was found guilty in a jury trial at Rockingham Superior Court in December on three class B felony charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm: a Remington 1100 12-gauge shotgun, a 12-gauge Winchester Ranger shotgun and a .22-caliber Marlin.
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In case it weren't utterly obvious, I like my floof. If a cosplay of mine has less than ten yards of fabric in it, it's a minor miracle. If it has less than five, it's downright insane. I'm a sucker for period pieces, complete with the appropriate underpinnings. Most recently, I'm trying to break myself of a trend towards dominantly-white cosplays, since white's such an pain to keep clean. XD
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Zionsville, IN (FOX19) - A community came together Tuesday night to pray for a local boy struck by lightning over the weekend.
Ethan Kadish, 12, of Loveland, was one of three injured when lightning struck at the Goldman-Union Camp Institute near Indianapolis.
Early Wednesday morning, he left a children's hospital in Indianapolis to come back to Cincinnati via a medical transport plane. He will now be treated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
The other two children injured in the incident have since been released from the hospital and are at home with their families.
Through songs, prayers and well-wishes, congregants at the Rockdale Temple are hoping for a full recovery or Ethan.
"Your presence and your prayers have meant more to the Kadish family than you can possibly know," said Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Coran, of Rockdale Temple.
Ethan was hit by lightning while playing ultimate Frisbee with other campers. He was one of three injured. The other two were a boy and girl, both nine years old.
"The circumstances of his injuries should not be really why we're here, but his personhood, his humanity, and the boy, the young man he is becoming," added Coran.
The support to help Ethan recover isn't just coming from the Rockdale Temple, or the camp, or even Cincinnati. It's coming from all over the world.
"I want you to understand and know that across North America, across the world, there's the embrace that we all hope Ethan and his family feel," said Rabbi Steven Mills of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Ethan's family has described him as a team player, not just in sports, but with the doctors and nurses taking care of him.
"He recently hit two home runs in one game, and we hope that he is in the process of hitting a few more along the way," said Coran at the prayer service.
Mills also read some comments from the camp's director, Rabbi Mark Covitz. He also sent along his well-wishes and prayers.
The Kadish family was not in attendance, as they were still at the hospital in Indianapolis. They watched the service through a live stream on the Internet.
The Kadish family has also issued this statement:
We want to express our appreciation for everyone's support and prayers. We cannot begin to describe the gratitude we feel for the swift response of the camp counselors and staff members of Goldman Union Camp Institute. Their extensive training and the camp's preparedness allowed them to be lifesavers when the urgent need arose.
At this time, Ethan is receiving the best medical care available and responding appropriately. Words aren't sufficient to communicate our appreciation to the medical caregivers who have been involved in our son's care and treatment.
The families affected are establishing the Miracle Kids Medical and Rescue Fund at Goldman Union Camp Institute to provide medical equipment and supplies to the camp so that it can continue to have world-class assets onsite to keep the campers safe at all times.
Your continued thoughts and prayers are welcomed and needed for our son's recovery.
We also offer our own thoughts and prayers for the complete healing of the two other campers affected by this tragic incident.
We ask for privacy as we focus on Ethan's care and the needs of our other children.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 13, 2012) – Sophomore ETSU women's basketball standout Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) put together some of the most impressive numbers on the hardwood back in February, and now we are asking the Buccaneer faithful to vote for the Bluffton, Ga. native for the Atlantic Sun CRONS Achievement Award.
Six nominees and their accomplishments are listed on the Atlantic Sun Insider blog, and the recipient of the award is determined completely by fan vote. The winning school receives an award from the Crons Brand, which is the Official Motivation and Apparel Brand of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Crons began sponsoring the monthly "Achiever Award" in January to recognize what A-Sun fans deem the most notable performance of each month.
Joining Mitchell for the month of February nominees are: North Florida's Parker Smith, USC Upstate's Gilbert Kemboi, Belmont's Kerron Johnson, Mercer's McKenzie Woody and Lipscomb's Whitney Kiihnl are the nominees for February's award.
Below are Mitchell's highlights for the month of February.
Destiny Mitchell put together one of the best nine-game stretches among A-Sun players in February, which led to her being placed on the Atlantic Sun All-Conference Team … the Lady Buccaneer sophomore averaged a double-double for the month after posting 15.8 points and 11.2 rebounds, while also forcing 2.2 steals and shooting 59 percent (58-99) from the field in nine February games … Mitchell began the month with an impressive effort at Mercer after shooting 12-of-15 from the field en route to scoring a career-high 30 points … the Bluffton, Ga. native put on a clinic against the Bears as she made 11 consecutive field goals in a 19-plus minute stretch in the second half … just two days after her dominating performance at Mercer, Mitchell recorded one of her six double-doubles for the month with a 15-point (6-of-6 shooting), 10-rebound game at Kennesaw State … Mitchell's performance fueled a stretch of three consecutive games with a double-double as she averaged 16.3 points and 10.0 rebounds, while shooting 66 percent (21-32) from the field in games against Kennesaw, Jacksonville, and North Florida … after only playing 20 minutes at Lipscomb on Feb. 16, Mitchell closed out the regular season with a bang in games vs. Belmont, Stetson, and Florida Gulf Coast … Mitchell again recorded three straight double-doubles to close out the final three games of the regular season, and her performances continued to get stronger each time out … at Belmont, Mitchell tallied 15 points and 12 rebounds, while she followed that up with 10 points and then a career-high tying 14 rebounds against Stetson … however, Mitchell saved her best for last as she concluded regular season play with numbers that haven't been put up in the A-Sun in over two years – finishing with 23 points and 20 rebounds against FGCU in Johnson City … Mitchell recorded the A-Sun's first 20/20 game since fellow Lady Buccaneer standout and two-time A-Sun Player of the Year, Siarre Evans, accomplished the feat back in January of 2010.
Kennesaw State's Aaron Anderson claimed 54 percent of the fan vote on the Atlantic Sun Insider blog to win the inaugural honor for January. The second-place nominee finished with 19 percent of the vote.
The Crons Brand provides what it calls "high quality motivational apparel, merchandise, and accessories to inspire people to get better and constantly strive for their goals." It also strives to reinforce positive messages to athletes about what it takes to be a winner and the importance of working harder than anyone else in order to reach their full potential.
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Animal Species:Fortescue, Centropogon australis (White, 1790)
The Fortescue has a brown to white body with dark brown to black bars. It has two large spines on either side of the head that can be projected sideways when the fish is disturbed. The first dorsal fin has 16 strong spines that are capable of inflicting a very painful sting.
Standard Common Name
The Fortescue has a brown to white body with dark brown to black bars. It has two large spines on either side of the head that can be projected sideways when the fish is disturbed.
Size range
The species grows to 14 cm in length.
Similar Species
The Fortescue looks similar to the Soldier. Click on the link to the Soldier fact sheet on the right to find out how to tell them apart.
The Fortescue is endemic to Australia. It occurs in temperate marine waters from southern Queensland to eastern Victoria.
The map below shows the Australian distribution of the species based on public sightings and specimens in Australian Museums. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Distribution by collection data
Ozcam map of Fortescue specimens in the Australian Museums.
It lives in estuaries and bays to a depth of 30 m.
Other behaviours and adaptations
Divers often see Fortescues, sometimes in large numbers, resting motionless on the bottom.
Danger to humans and first aid
The16 strong dorsal fin spines are capable of inflicting a very painful sting. The pain of the sting can be eased by immersion in hot (not scalding!) water.
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- Genus:
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- Family:
- Tetrarogidae
- Order:
- Scorpaeniformes
- Class:
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- Subphylum:
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- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life: the plants and animals of temperate waters. Reed Books. Pp. 544.
- Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & G.R. Allen. 2006. Fishes. In Beesley, P.L. & A. Wells. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing: Australia. parts 1-3, pages 1-2178.
- Hutchins, B. & R. Swainston. 1986. Sea Fishes of Southern Australia. Complete Field Guide for Anglers and Divers. Swainston Publishing. Pp. 180.
- Kuiter, R.H. 1996. Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia. New Holland. Pp. 433.
- Kuiter, R.H. 2000. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Gary Allen. Pp. 437.
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The world of IT is in the midst of a massive structural shift from the PC and client/server-based "2nd Platform" that dominated the last 25 years, to what IDC calls the "3rd Platform," which is built on a foundation of mobile computing, social media, big data and analytics, and cloud technologies. Given that the 3rd Platform will dominate IT investments in the next decade, the data center that supports the 3rd Platform's enabling technologies is the foundation for new business models.
In fact, the data center is the most important point of contact with customers, defining the customer experience. Business leaders in financial services, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare expect their data center operators (internal or external) to reliably and dynamically deliver compute, data, and network capacity, on time – with no delays, and no excuses.
When IT asset provisioning is measured in minutes, IT teams must aggressively exploit technologies such as flash that play a key and multifaceted role in higher-performance, more agile, and more efficient data centers. Flash-enabled solid state drives (SSDs) deliver better latency and throughput in many use cases. They consume roughly one-half of the power on a "per device" basis compared to hard disk drives (HDDs) and much less than that on a "per storage solution" basis. SSDs also enable more scalable utilization of Tier 1 data services like compression, deduplication, and thin provisioning that are at the core of enterprise-class systems.
Intelligent use of flash in both servers and storage systems dramatically boosts performance, while also reducing the cost of instance or resource deployment and change. While performance is the key driver, there are a number of secondary economic benefits that dominate total cost of ownership (TCO) as SSD capacities grow. These include the following: far fewer devices required to hit performance requirements, reduced energy and floor space consumption, and lower software licensing costs. In support of the 3rd Platform build-out, IDC expects that spending on data center flash, taking into account server (internal) flash, along with all-flash storage arrays and hybrid storage arrays (combining HDDs and SSDs), will reach $10.91B by 2018.
Organizations should prioritize their use of flash-based solutions to gain major benefits for a range of applications, including:
SanDisk®, a leading supplier of flash technologies with over 25 years of industry experience, is driving the optimal use of NAND flash technology in storage devices. Its products are designed to deliver high endurance and provide predictable performance as configurations scale, delivering the reliability that enterprise-class solutions require. SanDisk's solutions include sophisticated flash management techniques that recognize and treat flash differently from mechanically-driven HDDs. Innovations in the areas of write minimization, wear-leveling, garbage collection, error detection and correction enable SanDisk's server and storage partners to deliver enterprise system flash-based products.
Figure 1 shows the enterprise SSD revenue forecast for servers, which includes flash attached directly to the memory bus, added in the form of PCIe cards, or integrated as 3 or more SSDs attached to SAS or SATA interfaces, and storage, which includes flash in AFAs and HFAs (regardless of whether it is used as a cache or a tier).
Figure 1: Worldwide Enterprise SSD Revenue by Location, 2013–2018
From 1985 to 2010, the world of IT was dominated by the PC and client/server-based "2nd Platform" (see Figure 2). Today, IT leaders are extending their data centers into the "3rd Platform" era – an IT environment built on the foundations of mobile computing, social media, big data analytics, and cloud technologies. The three characteristics that define a 3rd Platform-ready data center are:
Business innovation, today, is based on leveraging the 3rd Platform to gain new functionality. IT organizations are extending the value of tens of thousands of existing 2nd platform applications with mobile and analytic add-ons. They are also creating millions of high-value, transforming solutions and services that are based exclusively on this new platform in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare.
In this new world, where businesses rely upon mobile computing, social media, big data analytics, and cloud to deliver a superior customer experience, the data center can no longer just be the place where an organization keeps its computers. Rather, the data center organization must play the leading role in addressing key business challenges, including:
Technologies like flash that directly address scale, speed and scope will be greatly valued by data center managers. These enabling technologies will demonstrate that value by dramatically boosting performance, improving reliability and reducing per unit costs for energy and space, taking on a key role in shaping the modern data center.
Figure 2: The IT Industry's 3rd Platform for Growth and Innovation
Data Center Workloads: Changing the IT Conversation
In this rapidly changing era of the 3rd Platform data center, it's no longer sufficient for IT to talk about workloads solely at the level of individual server and storage systems. Now, IT has to think about the workloads at the level of the data centers themselves.
What are the primary data center workloads?
A key data center workload – the one that is most familiar to most IT organizations – is transactional, involving changes and queries to systems of record that are usually measured in terms of Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS). In today's organizations, however, three new workloads are driving considerable data center expansion:
Transitioning to the 3rd Platform – Moving Beyond Transactions Alone
If one looks at workloads in terms of the dollars, time, and staff resources, most organizations believe that their data centers are built, first and foremost, for transactions. This perception is a remnant of the era of the 2nd Platform. IDC's surveys and interviews with leading IT architects make clear, however, that organizations' data centers are actually handling a range of content serving, big data and analytics, and archiving functions as well. These systems of engagement, analysis, and preservation are growing at a much faster rate, consuming more data center space and resources.
In this new IT landscape, IT teams must focus on deploying significant IT assets that are optimized to deliver the performance required across each of these very different application workloads. Flash is one of the key technologies that play a critical role across all of these data center workload environments.
With the 3rd computing platform build-out, storage performance requirements are changing significantly. The server consolidation driven by virtual computing presents mixed workloads to storage systems that demand not only more throughput and lower latencies, but very predictable performance. The applications in this build-out – high performance enterprise applications and databases, media-streaming applications that require high sequential performance, VDI, and dense mixed virtual workloads that leverage both structured and unstructured data – need consistently high performance and introduce extremely high I/O spikes. HDD-based configurations are having significant difficulty meeting these requirements cost effectively.
SSDs provide an excellent solution to this problem. Able to consistently deliver at least an order of magnitude better performance than HDDs, SSDs offer a number of benefits to data centers looking to deploy the most cost-effective storage solutions for their combination of 3rd and 2nd platform computing environments.
Impacting Operational Costs
Flash requires far fewer devices (in the form of SSDs) to meet performance requirements and consumes about half the power that HDDs do on a per-device basis.
Data centers that had been adding significant numbers of HDD spindles to meet performance requirements will find that in many cases they need 50% to 80% fewer SSDs to meet performance requirements, resulting in potentially significant floor space savings. The lower device count associated with SSDs reduces power consumption requirements even more, compared with HDDs. Far fewer servers are needed to drive storage performance when flash is in the mix, resulting in license cost savings. These secondary economic benefits of flash deployment really start to kick in as data centers increase flash capacities, driving a "tipping point" after which HDD deployments for primary storage will become more difficult to cost-justify.
Flash is Permeating the Data Center
Flash is permeating the data center in a number of different ways. In servers, flash can be attached directly to the memory bus, added in the form of PCIe cards, or integrated as SSDs attached to SAS or SATA interfaces. Server-side flash typically delivers the lowest latencies because there is no network hop – and is a great fit for application environments like big data and analytics that require extremely high performance but no high availability/failover. It is appearing in standalone servers, in blade servers, and in converged and hyper-converged servers as an efficient way to boost performance. Many of the new converged and hyper-converged solutions that leverage scale-out architectures leverage flash to cost-effectively deliver the extremely high performance that the real-time analytics applications for which these platforms are used require.
In the network, flash can appear in caching appliances or in shared storage arrays. All Flash Arrays (AFAs) use only flash – and are generally targeted at application environments that require consistently predictable sub-millisecond response times as well as high availability. Hybrid Flash Arrays (HFAs) use a mix of SSDs and HDDs to deliver much better performance than traditional HDD arrays, but they do so at an acquisition cost lower than AFAs at a particular capacity point. In the long run, as flash-based arrays become more capable of effectively handling mixed workloads while delivering predictable performance across large deployed capacities, they will ultimately become the enterprise storage workhorses for primary storage. Even today, there are many data center environments in which flash-based arrays already offer compelling economic advantage relative to pure HDD-based solutions in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO).
The High Efficiencies of Flash Deployment
IDC has no doubt that the data center is evolving toward greater adoption of architectures for which flash is a key element in meeting growing performance requirements and reducing overall operating costs. The high efficiencies of flash deployment benefit administrators who are contending with data center footprint and local power grid constraints. Operational costs (opex) are impacted by flash-enabled systems. A smaller infrastructure requires less power and cooling, takes up less floor space, and is easier to manage than the larger infrastructures that solely use HDDs. IDC study data shows that fully 51% of data centers have deployed flash already as a way to improve I/O performance, and in the next 12 months the remaining 49% plan to consider it. IDC recommends that all enterprises should be deploying at least some flash in their data center, with the deployment method dependent upon their workload mix.
Flash Benefits for Specific Workloads
As noted previously, data centers are handling an expanding set of new workloads that require support for a growing variety of application types. Flash-based solutions offer a number of benefits across a number of application types, including:
Transaction-Oriented Databases
In enterprise database environments, throughput and latency are particularly important. Over the years, databases were optimized to increase performance in HDD-based environments with features such as transaction logging and write coalescing. Time-consuming complex storage administration techniques like "short stroking" and striping were used to improve performance, requiring very sophisticated administrators. Flash delivers performance very simply, providing a storage solution for database environments that is much easier to manage and offers much higher performance. For many enterprises, the ability to complete more transactions per second creates new business opportunities or drives higher revenue.
Database environments will no longer have to be significantly over-provisioned to provide performance – and energy and floor space costs will be reduced on a per-database basis. Database software licensing costs will also be reduced, because fewer servers will be needed to drive required storage performance levels.
Big Data and Analytics and High-Performance Computing
With the increasing importance of big data and analytics to business operations, scale-out architectures are becoming widely adopted in enterprise data centers. Instead of moving data to compute resources across networks, these architectures effectively bring compute to the data to increase performance. Because big data applications crunch through enormous amounts of data, very high storage performance is critical to performing these types of operations in near-real-time, for quick response to changing conditions.
It is common for hyper-converged architectures to include processors, memory, an SSD, and one or more HDDs – all housed within the same chassis or rack. The addition of flash, combined with intelligent caching and/or tiering software, allows these compact configurations to maintain extremely high performance for big data and analytics operations. Because of IT considerations for infrastructure power, cooling, and floor space requirements, flash-based storage configurations are also much more cost effective, resulting in significant TCO reductions over time relative to legacy storage architectures utilizing only HDDs.
High-performance computing (HPC) includes engineering and data-intensive workloads like seismic analysis, oil and gas exploration, weather forecasting, market simulations, and other big data and analytics applications. These HPC workloads often require high-volume processing of large data sets, which greatly benefit from the use of flash technology.
Agile and Efficient Virtual Computing
Virtual computing (virtualization) is the mainstream deployment infrastructure for the 3rd Platform, allowing much higher utilization of computing resources. Workload consolidation onto virtual infrastructure creates a storage challenge called the "I/O blender effect." Because of the way hypervisors work, the I/O patterns from virtual hosts are much more random than those from physical servers that were generally running only a single application. As VM density increases, this problem gets worse. When computing environments experience extremely random I/O patterns, latency for HDDs is increased on a "per I/O" basis, while reducing overall throughput by as much as 40% to 60%.
Given the IOPS level provided by flash-enabled systems, storage efficiency technologies like compression, data deduplication, thin provisioning, and space-efficient snapshots and clones can now be used without impacting application performance to further reduce raw storage capacity requirements for enterprise and cloud systems. Flash high capacity and density results in smaller infrastructure requirements, with all of the reduced power and cooling costs that come along with that. Those characteristics drive compelling economic reasons to use flash in virtual environments.
Virtual environments improve IT efficiency and business agility, allowing new VMs to be quickly spun up to meet increasing demand for data services. For certain businesses, the ability to bring up a new VM almost instantly is an important aspect of the customer experience. Online on-demand gaming and VDI environments are workloads that leverage flash to store templates or linked clones. This enables the creation of new VMs within seconds (rather than minutes), providing a meaningful performance differentiator for customers and/or end users.
VDI environments have other needs that require flash. VM densities are much greater on the servers that are hosting virtual desktops, exacerbating the "I/O blender effect" mentioned previously. Certain tasks, like booting desktops, logging in and logging out, produce I/O spikes, referred to as boot, login and logout storms, which can increase the IOPS requirements by a factor of 10 over the steady-state IOPS requirements of Windows desktops. Flash-based technology is the perfect medium to cost- effectively handle these types of widely varying I/O requirements, delivering performance that is equal to or better than physical desktops at a storage cost per desktop better than what HDD could provide. This is why, for many enterprises, VDI is the application environment where flash is first deployed.
Content- and Archive-Oriented Storage Applications
Newer, but very fast-growing, storage applications like content archives, backup/restore, and disaster recovery typically do not require the type of performance that transactional applications do, but they tend to require significantly more capacity. For that reason, $/GB has historically been an important consideration for these "secondary" storage use cases.
The largest-capacity SSD products on the market today support 4TB, whereas the largest HDDs support 6TB. For extremely high-capacity applications that require very little performance, HDDs may be a more cost-effective storage solution today, but within the next year or so, the capacity of available SSDs will outstrip the single-drive capacity of the largest HDDs.
IDC forecasts that by 2017, the raw $/GB of enterprise-class SSDs and HDDs will be very close. The reasons for this include: advances in flash technology, growing volumes, and competition in the marketplace that is reducing pricing differences with HDDs. With all of these trends in mind, we note that SSDs are becoming increasingly cost competitive with HDDs, even for workloads that have historically been considered to be capacity-intensive.
There are areas in secondary storage today for which high performance offers needed value. Many content archives will write a file or an object once, but will read it many times. SSDs excel at providing blazingly fast read performance for both random and sequential access patterns. Media archives, for example, that play movies or other video content back on-demand require some level of performance to deliver media-streams with consistent quality of service (QoS), and they are a good fit for flash. In backup and archive environments, flash-based metadata indexes can be used to speed search operations.
For many enterprises, recovery time objectives (RTOs) are measured in seconds or just a few minutes. Most recoveries, particularly file- or object-level recoveries, are done from the most recent backup, which represents a relatively small percentage of the required overall backup capacity. Flash is often used in purpose-built backup appliances to serve as a very high performance landing pad for backups. Maintaining the latest backup on flash storage in these appliances can also help to support extremely low RTOs (because the data can be restored from flash much faster than from disk).
SanDisk, with over 25 years of experience in the flash industry and over 5,000 related patents, is a leading flash storage vendor. SanDisk's close relationship with Toshiba, a flash component fabrication partner, gives SanDisk significant advantages in delivering compelling flash solutions to the market, including lower cost, strict quality control, and an ability to design features in at the die level that it can leverage upstream for better performance and longevity in its flash solutions.
SanDisk's enterprise flash portfolio consists of memory channel and PCI Express (PCIe) attached flash as well as SSD drives with SAS, SATA and memory channel interfaces; FlashSoft software; and innovative SanDisk foundation technologies that are leveraged across all enterprise flash products:
SanDisk recognizes that optimal use of NAND flash technology requires sophisticated flash management techniques that treat flash differently from HDDs. SanDisk Innovations, including SanDisk's patented Guardian Technology, implement wear-leveling algorithms, bad block management techniques, error detection and correction, and write minimization to deliver flash products with high reliability, long service life, high performance, and excellent data integrity. These types of capabilities provide the foundation layer around which to build the most cost-effective flash-optimized storage systems architectures. SanDisk stands behind its SSD products with a five-year warranty.
Challenges for SanDisk
Although SanDisk has a long, successful history with flash technologies, the company is a relatively new entrant to the enterprise space. SanDisk's strategy to generate the same reputation for quality product in the enterprise space that it has in the consumer space is a good one, but reputations are not made overnight, particularly in the enterprise space.
SanDisk delivers flash-based storage devices that meet the functional requirements for flash-optimized storage in host, appliance, and array-based solutions, but SanDisk will need to be clear and succinct in its marketing of these products with the right business and technical benefits. It will also need to be forceful in efforts to get the industry to evaluate the economics of flash solutions based around more relevant metrics than $/GB, making it easier for customers to cost-justify their purchases with the finance and business units that approve IT purchases. Providing a holistic view of capital expense (CAPEX) and operational expense (OPEX) should help show the business benefits of flash adoption through significant reductions in power, cooling, floor space and software licensing requirements.
The density of flash storage products will be a key determinant in continuing to ratchet down the $/GB cost of flash over time, as will the density of mixed data center workloads that flash-based arrays will be able to successfully support. The industry is on the cusp of a major advance forward in this area with the coming of 3D NAND technology, and Toshiba, SanDisk's flash component fabrication partner, is on the forefront of that evolution. SanDisk needs to ensure a seamless transition for its customer base to this new technology while it leverages the improved cost-effectiveness of its products to continue to drive down the cost of flash-based solutions.
In today's world, which is dominated by the need to extend services to customers via mobile solutions and the need to use quick analysis of data to change business outcomes, the data center has to be more than the place where an organization keeps its computers. In the world of 3rd Platform, the data center is the foundation for new business. IT executives need solutions that ensure their organizations have access to reliable and dynamically variable (rapidly expanding and contracting) amounts of transactional, content serving, archiving, and analytic capacity – and all of this has to be done on time, with no delays and no excuses.
Flash is already playing a key and multifaceted role in the evolution of IT infrastructure that enables higher-performance, more agile, and more efficient data centers. Server-based flash is appropriate for data center workloads that demand extremely low latency. As workloads have evolved, flash-based arrays are rapidly maturing to support a broader set of applications; exhibiting the same reliability, availability, scalability, and mature data management capabilities associated with today's enterprise- class arrays. The stage will be set for flash-based arrays to become the enterprise storage workhorses of the future, providing a path to the all-flash data center for primary storage for those customers that want it. Flash should already be present, in at least some capacity, in every data center that is using virtual computing, to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Flash is clearly a transformative technology that will enable the next generation data center required to cost-effectively handle the requirements of 3rd Platform computing. In the very near future, flash-based solutions will be at the core of both enterprise and service provider data centers. Aggressive exploitation of flash technologies and SSDs will be one of the key determinants of market leadership in the world of the 3rd Platform.
About IDC
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Amidst the imposing setting and striking décor of the lobby guests are invited to relax in a cozy environment with live music from noon to midnight. Here one can enjoy champagnes and other premium beverages by the glass or indulge in an Afternoon Tea ceremony with a Russian touch. Enticing appetizers, premium cocktails and the finest cigars are also available.


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Pushback against logo plan for UNH heats upBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 21. 2013 9:05PM
Discontent over an anticipated new logo for the University of New Hampshire has hit social media, with a Facebook page now dedicated to the preservation of the Thompson Hall logo as the university's calling card.
Meanwhile, a university spokesman said it has developed an online survey that will go out soon and gather feedback from students. Nonetheless, the university continued to support its notion of changing the current logo, a depiction of the administration building on the Durham campus.
"We have received hundreds of response to the logos, and a majority of that feedback has been positive," university spokesman Erika Mantz said in an email message.
Last week, the university said it will pay about $100,000 to a New York City design firm that has prepared three possible logos. The notion is to modernize the image of UNH and distant it from the single-campus model that is implicit in the Thompson Hall logo.
The Facebook page — UNH Students Against the Change of the Thompson Hall Logo — was created May 13 and had 572 likes as of Tuesday evening. Not all posts are supportive of Thompson Hall, but most are critical of the three finalists proposed by the design team.
"I think that a bunch of first graders could have come up with better designs! These are awful!" wrote Julie Glover, a 1983 UNH graduate.
Scotty Arsenault said the university should hire a local artist. "You're paying a ridiculous amount for insultingly mediocre designs. Don't limit yourselves to this shield/crest concept," he wrote.
Bryan Merrill, the UNH student body president, posted that he has been discussing the possibility of student proposals with the administration. Based on the opinions he's collected from students, alumni and administrators, the designers — Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv — need to return to the drawing board if they want to create a competitive logo, Merrill wrote.
In an email to the New Hampshire Union Leader, Merrill said the survey should be going out to all students this week, and a date, which he did not specify, has been established to hold a student forum.
Mantz said the effort involves much more than creating a logo.
"We need to compete nationally and internationally for students and dollars," she said.
UNH President Mark Huddleston will make the final decision on the logo, Mantz said.


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Inter leapfrog Lazio into fifth to keep their Champions League dreams alive, while Sampdoria drop to 13th following the encounter at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Inter kept their slim Champions League hopes alive with an impressive 2-0 win over Sampdoria at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.
The visitors opened the scoring on the verge of half-time as Rodrigio Palacio headed past Sergio Romero before adding a second late on to secure a vital three points.
Inter started brightly and could have taken the initiative in the opening few minutes, but Sergio Romero got down quickly to push the ball away from Palacio after the Argentine had beaten the offside trap and looked to round the Sampdoria goalkeeper before firing over.
Mauro Icardi then came close to breaking the deadlock on the 20-minute mark, having seen his near post header force Samir Handanovic into a smart save as both teams enjoyed an equal share of possession.
Handanovic was again forced into action with 10 minutes of the half remaining as the Inter goalkeeper tipped Nenad Krsticic's 25-yard effort over the bar.
The Nerazzurri opened the scoring minutes before half-time as Palacio met Alvaro Pereira's cross and the Inter striker did well to connect with the ball and head past Romero. The Argentine then came close to adding a second with a minute of the first half remaining, but dragged his effort narrowly wide of the far post.
The hosts began the second half strongly as Gianluca Sansone forced Handanovic into a neat save from the edge of the Inter 18-yard box with Sampdoria looking to drag themselves back into the encounter.
Shkodran Mustafi denied Palacio excellently on the 55th minute before a change of shape for Sampdoria saw the hosts look to stretch Inter as Pedro Obiang tested Handanovic from the edge of the box, but his effort was comfortably smothered by the Slovenian.
The Blucerchiati continued to press for an equaliser, with substitute Maxi Lopez testing Handanovic from a free kick, but the Inter goalkeeper held on comfortably.
Sampdoria continued to pressure the visitors, but came undone in the last minute of stoppage time as Palacio strode forward and fired under Romero to secure his side a vital victory.


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dogcrazyjen wrote:Is it just me? I NEVER mow when the dogs are out, and I make sure the Bull Terrier, who would go after the mower ( she went after the old neighbor's mower through the fence-once-then was NEVER allowed outside when they were mowing) is in a crate when I am mowing just to make sure the boys do not let her out.
That scares the poop out of me, that she will chop off her nose in the mower. I am anal about only a few things, and small fuzzies/feathereds and mowers are two of them.
Nope, you're not alone. We cannot mow OR vacuum around either of the bullies. Justice gets spastic & Munkee wants to play tug.