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- Recreational vehicles will stalk each other in Perris demolition derby - Riverside Press Enterprise
| Former Poulsbo Council Member Takes on Incumbent - Kitsap Sun Posted: 19 Oct 2009 05:41 PM PDT Poulsbo City Council: Position 7Kimberlee Crowder Age: 46 Education: High school graduate of Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, Ariz.; continuing education in business and marketing and more than 30 years experience in the hospitality industry. Work history: Co-owner Scott's Dry Foam Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning, 2000 to present Owner The Poulsbo Tea House, 2004 to 2006 Poulsbo city councilwoman 2006 to present Event coordinator Whiskey Creek Ranch House, 2009 to present Jim Henry Age: 72 Education: High school graduate of David G. Farragut High School, Chicago, Ill.; Associate of Arts, Olympic College. Work history: Retired U.S. Navy, 1955 to 1986 Retired U.S. Civil Service, Engineer Technician, 1986 to 1999 Former consultant for several defense contractors Poulsbo city councilman (Position 3), 2000 to 2007 Poulsbo Wal-Mart greeter, 2007 to present 
Kimberlee Crowder 
Jim Henry POULSBO — The candidates running for Poulsbo's only contested City Council race have one thing in common: They both want another stab at local politics. Incumbent Kimberlee Crowder has held the position 7 seat for four years and feels like she is coming into her own. Former councilman and challenger Jim Henry has been out of office for two years and wants to return to pursue the projects he was pushing for during his previous terms. Each offers reasons why they believe they're the better choice to represent their district. "I am a person that has been in business, is in business, I am a mom, I am in the trenches," said Crowder, 46. "I think the benefit of the past four years will definitely help me voice my opinion in the next four years." Comparing his two terms in office to Crowder's one, Henry, 72, feels he has the upper-hand. "I think I have been more involved," he said. "I was retired and I could do that and I did. I went to a lot of trainings." Henry, who was defeated by Becky Erickson in his run for re-election in 2006, said he's better equipped to help the city weather what will likely be the largest budget shortfall Poulsbo has seen in recent memory. The city faces a $1.1 million gap in balancing next year's budget. Crowder believes her business experience — she owns and operates a carpet and upholstery cleaning business — has prepared her to handle the city's financial challenges. She also said she brings a "fresher and more current" voice to the council. "If I don't stay on, it worries me. If my voice is missing from the council I'm not sure what could happen," she said. "I like to come from a very positive, positive place. What I try to bring to the table is people working together and trying to come to a solution." Both candidates want progress on the city's transportation front. Crowder would like to see a trolley system added to move people around the city. Henry is interested in picking up where he left off on the discussion of running a foot ferry from Poulsbo to Seattle. "I will never let that die," he said. The city continues to look into grant funding for the proposed trolley system, Crowder said. When it comes to efforts to build the economy, Crowder boasts her suggestion to create the council's economic development committee. The southern area of Viking Avenue has grown vacant since the departure of Poulsbo RV and the scale-back of the Courtesy Auto Group. Crowder wants the city to meet with interested parties to create a master plan for how the area should be developed. But, she also wants to make sure the city doesn't grow too fast. "I think the community thinks we're growing too quickly," she said. "I think we need to slow down." Henry also wants a plan for the revitalization of Viking Avenue, but he's concerned about it being implemented instead of being placed on a shelf. "We have to develop that because if not, you don't want the whole place to turn into tattoo parlors and the like," he said. "I would go for two-story buildings there." Henry said that if elected, "there's a lot of things I have to get up to speed on." But he said he's made a point to watch council meetings regularly on television. As a planning commissioner, Henry was involved in the 2009 draft comprehensive plan update, and he said he's done his best to stay plugged into the council's happenings. "I try to become a fly on the wall and just listen," he said. Crowder said she's realized during her term that many don't realize the scope of work the council does. To help educate young, aspiring politicians, she wants to see the creation of a junior council that would provide North Kitsap students the opportunity to learn about local government. When not campaigning or doing city business, Crowder and her husband, Scott, operate their business, Scott's Dry Foam Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning. The couple moved to Poulsbo from Ballard in 1995 and have two children, KayAnna, 20, a student at Pacific Lutheran University, and Conner, 12, a student at Poulsbo Middle School. Henry has lived in Poulsbo with his wife, Ann, since 1982. The couple has three children: Dona, 45, Shona, 41, and Iain, 40. Since being off council, Henry has spent his nights working at the Poulsbo Wal-Mart as a greeter. He requested the graveyard shift, saying he applied because he was intrigued by a job that would pay him to socialize with people as they enter the store. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Riverbed strengthens technology leadership in WAN optimisation with ... - Computerworld Australia Posted: 19 Oct 2009 04:50 PM PDT Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced the upcoming release of version 6.0 of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®), which powers Riverbed's award-winning WAN optimization solutions. With RiOS 6.0, Riverbed® continues to deliver industry-leading performance for the broadest range of applications and platforms being used in today's distributed IT and cloud infrastructure environments. Riverbed continues to enable organizations to support more users on more platforms, with RiOS 6.0 featuring new and improved support for Citrix XenApp, Mac clients, Oracle E-Business Suite 12 and many web applications, such as Microsoft SharePoint and SAP. In addition, Riverbed is building upon its lead in delivering solutions to enhance disaster recovery (DR) scalability with new features and higher performance for data center-to-data center replication. This enhanced version of Riverbed WAN optimization is the most comprehensive to date, providing organizations the best approach for their distributed IT and private cloud infrastructures. The Need for Speed Enabling Citrix success without having to upgrade the WAN Many organizations using Citrix XenApp have struggled with the performance and feasibility of delivering desktop virtualization across the WAN, impacting employee productivity and usability as a result. To expand its current acceleration for Citrix XenApp applications, Riverbed has simplified configuration and enhanced QoS capabilities for Citrix, with RiOS 6.0 delivering up to 83% bandwidth reduction and up to 50% better response times in real world environments. This reduction in bandwidth will allow organizations to deploy more than twice the number of XenApp clients without having to increase bandwidth at remote sites, while improving performance at the same time. "As more client platforms become common in the workplace, Riverbed continues to enhance its products to support the enterprises ever-changing needs," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president at Yankee Group. "In this release Riverbed is providing companies with more options to support cost-cutting initiatives like IT centralization, virtualization and data center consolidation. CIOs are continuing to look for tools that will help them solve the ongoing dilemma to cut costs while increasing performance. WAN optimization is proving to be a viable solution to help them meet this challenge." Macs up to 60 times faster Consumer-side momentum with Apple products has been slowly making inroads in the enterprise, with more employees pushing IT departments to support Macs. As end users expand their options for accessing information, they expect the same performance no matter their location, platform or client. In RiOS 6.0, Riverbed introduces the ability to accelerate Mac clients with CIFS application-specific optimization. According to Thai Tran, the infrastructure administrator at ESA, a Riverbed customer, "Our Apple Mac users working across the WAN were experiencing delays browsing and accessing files. After we applied the new Mac CIFS optimization feature, the delay was dramatically reduced. For example, prior to RiOS 6.0 an ESA employee downloading a 6.37 MB PDF located in the San Francisco office would wait more than three minutes to open it from a remote location. Once the Mac CIFS optimization was implemented, the same file took on average only three seconds to open. By accessing information 60 times faster, we're able to increase employee productivity and create a better end user experience." Web apps even faster than before In RiOS 6.0, Riverbed extends its technological leadership by further enhancing web-based application optimizations. The enhanced functionality within RiOS 6.0 works with both HTTP and HTTPS, and optimizes SAP Netweaver, SharePoint, Microsoft CRM, Agile, Pivotal CRM and additional web applications, in some cases up to 20 times faster. In this release Riverbed also introduces the ability to optimize Oracle 12 applications, making Riverbed the only vendor to provide this application-level optimization. This capability extends Riverbed's existing support for Oracle, as Riverbed had previously announced with its introduction of RiOS 5.0 that it was the only vendor to provide application-level optimization for Oracle11i. Speed Up Data Center Operations, While Cutting Costs Given the importance of data protection, DR and business continuity, Riverbed continues to invest in developing WAN optimization enhancements to support data center consolidation and strategic disaster recovery initiatives. Riverbed has forged partnerships with leading storage vendors, including NetApp, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems, and, with RiOS 6.0, the company has continued to enhance its solutions in order to provide customers with the best data center-to-data center performance and security. Riverbed recognizes that data workloads vary significantly by application and environment, as do the goals of optimization. To adapt to the differing requirements of each organization, RiOS 6.0 recognizes DR traffic and applies additional optimizations to improve throughput and acceleration on a per-TCP connection basis. RiOS 6.0 allows a Steelhead® appliance to automatically adjust compression and deduplication techniques to optimize throughput and bandwidth usage based on the customer scenario. These controls can also be manually adjusted by IT managers if needed. This enhancement gives organizations the flexibility and agility to protect more data in less time, and still reduce costs and complexity. Installation and Management Made Easy Ease of installation and management are some of the key reasons that customers experience cost savings from the Riverbed WAN optimization. According to one study conducted by IDC, customers experience a payback within approximately seven months when implementing Riverbed solutions. "We've worked with Riverbed for over 3 years and have always been impressed with the ability to easily install and manage. Again, and again, our administrators rave about the management capabilities," said Jason Schroeder, senior solutions consultant at Net Direct Systems, a Riverbed Diamond partner. "Our experience with RiOS 6.0 has been just as impressive. For example, the difference in optimizing SMB signing is dramatic – literally from minutes down to a couple of seconds. Simplifying the administration and management tasks increases productivity while reducing costs for our customers." In RiOS 6.0, Riverbed further improves the customer experience: • Consolidation Initiatives – Companies are leveraging the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) to consolidate up to five branch services within the Steelhead appliances running on the VMware platform. With RiOS 6.0, the RSP offers enhanced virtual disk support and enhanced virtual machine high availability. RSP makes it easier to further consolidate branch office services that organizations do not want moved to the data center. • Security – RiOS 6.0 continues to increase the simplicity and scalability of Riverbed's industry-leading SSL acceleration functionality by adding server IP auto-discovery, which enables organizations to quickly and easily add a range of servers and also yields improved performance for secure connections. • Visibility and Manageability – RiOS 6.0 introduces a number of features that help tie the Steelhead appliance into the wider network operation and management tools that customers rely on. These features include support for Netflow v9, SNMP v3, pass-through traffic reporting, and easier setup of SMB signing compatibility. This integration with the broader IT environment creates additional insight and easier management for users, and ensures that Riverbed operates smoothly even in secure environments. RiOS 6.0 is expected to be generally available on November 23, 2009. To hear more about all of the new features in RiOS 6.0, please visit: http://www.riverbed.com/company/media_center/rv.html?s=3&v=4 Forward Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements regarding performance results of Riverbed solutions, including RiOS 6.0, and customer payback following implementation of Riverbed solutions that may suggest likely or certain outcomes, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on July 30, 2009. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time. About Riverbed Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com. Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, Think Fast, the Riverbed logo, Mazu, Profiler and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| As auto jobs dwindle in Hoosier State, hopes for future persist - Detroit Free Press Posted: 19 Oct 2009 02:06 PM PDT Roughly 11,000 Indiana workers work in motor vehicle manufacturing today — down 19% from a high of more than 13,600 in late 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those who've kept their jobs have seen a lot of change over the past year: In Mishawaka, the Hummer H2 Assembly Plant is idled -- part of GM's restructuring -- and Hummer itself is on the verge of being bought by a Chinese company. But there's new hope that AM General's MV-1, a vehicle to transport people with disabilities, will bring job security. In Elkhart, tens of thousands were laid off in the wake of the RV industry collapse, but some companies are building what they hope are the pickups of the future: those powered by electricity. In Fort Wayne, the General Motors pickup truck assembly plant gained work at the expense of out-of-state assembly plants, and workers are hopeful that the economic rebound will give Chevy Silverado sales a boost. In Greensburg, the Honda Civic plant that opened last year hasn't been the boon that residents had hoped for, but longtime residents feel confident that they'll see growth over time. And in Lafayette, workers at a Subaru plant were pleased to be part of a brand that didn't see sales fall off a cliff in early 2009. Come back to Freep.com on Tuesday to read Cars.com's reports on how Indiana's auto industry is changing. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| A walkout ends, and strikers find a changed world - Republic Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:44 AM PDT ACCESS DENIED
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| Recreational vehicles will stalk each other in Perris demolition derby - Riverside Press Enterprise Posted: 17 Oct 2009 09:46 PM PDT It takes a certain kind of person to watch a demolition derby and decide there simply isn't enough destruction. For that person there is this: The Southern California Fair at the Lake Perris Fairgrounds will today feature what organizers believe will be the second-ever motor home demolition derby. For everyone else, banged up American-made sedans and station wagons will pile into each other until just one remains mobile. Among those driving cars will be brothers Richard and Larry Chilson, of Winchester. The Chilson brothers are regulars at the event; Larry Chilson has participated the past 20 years. The entire Chilson family pitches in. Dad, Larry Chilson Sr., does mechanic work; Mom, Rita Chilson, takes photographs when she can bear to watch. "I think it's crazy," Rita Chilson said. "They make me nervous as all heck."  The Chilson family, of Winchester, from left, Rita Chilson, 55; granddaughter Nichole Chilson, 12; Steven Chilson, 32; Larry Chilson Jr, 38; Larry Chilson, 59; and Richard Chilson, 35, are known as the first family of demolition derby. The youngest brother, Steven, usually drives too, but he's in school and taking a hiatus. Larry Chilson Jr. started driving in the derby at 18. He said the family has a love affair with demolition Each year, the previous year's cars, which have been sitting in heaps of twisted metal on Larry Chilson Sr.'s property in Winchester, are harvested for parts. This year's entrants are a '68 Plymouth Fury and a '66 Mercury Montclair. Some competitors will spend upwards of $1,500 to construct a high-end derby car, but that's not the Chilsons' style. "We just do it for fun," Larry Chilson Jr. said. "Our friends get a kick out of it." Traditional demolition derbys make use of cars and are a standard fair attraction. The SoCal fair, which ends today, will feature two auto derbies today, at 1:30 and 7 p.m., before the motor home smash-up. Six drivers will board hollowed-out RVs with viewing windows cut in the rear. They will line up, three to a side, and smash into each other until only one is still safely drivable. Bob Basile, of San Diego-based Sunnyside Promotions, has organized traditional demolition derbies at the SoCal Fair the past 21 years. The RV derby offers a more destructive experience than your traditional derby, Basile said. "The biggest difference is probably the fact that the car at least stays intact" Basile said. "These things pretty much striptease; I mean they completely come apart." Basile organized the first RV derby at the Orange County Fair this summer. According to his research, the event was definitely the first in California, and possibly the first of its kind in the country. More than 30 videos from the Orange County RV derby edition have made their way to YouTube, the video-sharing Web site. The event packed the stands, and organizers plan to do it again next year, said fair spokeswoman Robin Wachner. The event starts slowly, with six motor homes bumping into each other in reverse like malfunctioning bumper cars. Things start to pick up as the drivers circle the dirt track to get more speed, careening into each other's rides at up to 20 mph. Paneling crumbles. Metal flies. Three of the RVs in the Orange County derby ended with completely bare frames after the bodies ripped free and toppled. "We were pretty lucky" no one was hurt, Basile acknowledged. Safety modifications -- including reinforced metal frame surrounding the drivers -- were made to the vehicles after the first event. Because of the danger, drivers recruited for the event are seasoned pros, all past derby champions, Basile said. Larry Chilson Jr. said that during a normal event, all a person needs to enter is a car that meets safety standards. Though derby drivers may seem reckless, even they have limits. Larry Chilson Jr.'s 13-year-old daughter has expressed a desire to enter the competition once she's old enough. Standing outside his father's garage, where his brother was readying the rear end of his derby car, Larry Chilson Jr. said it wouldn't happen. Rita Chilson told him she doesn't buy it. "I couldn't stop you, what makes you think you can stop her?" she said, adding, "They don't listen." Reach John F. Hill at 951-375-3738 or johnhill@PE.com FAIR Where: Lake Perris Fairgrounds18700 Lake Perris Drive, Perris When: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Cost: Adults $8, children ages 6-12 $4 This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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