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IBM invests in UK data centres as tech sector defies Brexit worries
Global IT group IBM will triple the number of its cloud data centres in Britain, it said on Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in investing in the UK after its vote to leave the European Union.
[LONDON] Global IT group IBM will triple the number of its cloud data centres in Britain, it said on Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in investing in the UK after its vote to leave the European Union.
IBM said it would build four new data centres to meet demand from its corporate and public sector clients who were increasingly storing data and managing their businesses in the cloud.
IBM Europe's general manger for cloud services, Sebastian Krause, said the investment reflected the strength of the UK economy and the size of the opportunity in cloud computing.
"UK customers truly understand the capabilities of cloud to drive innovation, to be more flexible on their business model, to have better insight for decision making, and to deliver better customer service," he said in an interview.
IBM had evaluated its cloud capacity in Britain before the June "Brexit" vote, he said, but it saw no reason to change course as a result of the decision.
"Everyone has concluded the UK economy will continue to be very strong and there will be significant opportunities with or without Brexit," he said.
Tech bosses have been balancing Britain's enthusiasm for technology and a deep pool of talent, fuelled by world class universities, against the uncertainty of the country's future relationship with the European Union, and in particular the ability to attract workers from across the trading bloc.
Companies including Google and Facebook have decided the advantages outweigh the risks, but they've emphasised the importance of being able to attract the best people.
IBM said its footprint in Britain would increase from two data centres to six, serving customers such as travel group Thomson, which is owned by TUI, retailers Boots and Dixons Carphone, and National Grid, as well as the government. It did not disclose the size of the investment.
Brexit also creates uncertainty about Britain's future compliance with European data protection rules, which have recently been overhauled.
Mr Krause, however, said IBM was "well-equipped" for any post-Brexit scenario, and it had 10 data centres in continental Europe that it could also use if Britain did not adhere to any European standards in the future.
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Luke Pearson is the Co-Founder and Director of PearsonLloyd, a product, furniture and innovation design studio led by founders Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd, and based in Shoreditch, East London. For the last twenty years, the agency has designed products, systems and environments for the home, workplace, transport and healthcare sectors. Its close relationship with clients including consumer brands, manufacturers and retailers has given the agency unparalleled experience in understanding the needs of users and the demands of business.
The studio works across the aviation, workplace, urban design and healthcare sectors with a goal to identify and respond to the shifting patterns of behaviour in contemporary life. Recent projects include the design of the Economy Class Cabin of Lufthansa's new A350 fleet, the design of a new global guest room for Intercontinental Hotels, 'A Better A&E' project for the Department of Health, Totem Intelligent Waste for Joseph Joseph & furniture projects for brands including Teknion, Bene, Modus, Walter Knoll, Alias, Senator and more.
Luke was awarded the distinction of Royal Designer for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts in 2008, and in 2012 was named, alongside Tom Lloyd in the top 50 designers 'Shaping the Future' by Fast-Co Magazine in New York. He is member of the advisory panel for High Speed 2 (HS2) rail network and a regular speaker at talks and conferences about design. Luke trained in Industrial Design at Central St Martins, (BA Hons 1991) before completing a Master's Degree MA in Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art in 1993.
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from america\'s patriotic shirts that tiger woods burned to keep himself warm to europe\'s suede jackets... there have been some major fashion errors throughout ryder cup history
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Ryder Cup\'s 42 th edition officially began, scoring its first goal on Friday morning at Le Golf National in France.
Americans have a slight affection for retaining the crown won in haztin two years ago, but their recent run away from home shows that Europe may regain its bragging rights.
Justin Ross and Jon Ram will play Brooks copperka and Tony Fino in the first of four games on Friday, after Captain Thomas Björn and Jim
While both teams want to make their presentations on the pitch over the next three days, some teams in history have left a lot of what they need on their gear.
In the course of the game\'s history, some teams wear some terrible costumes.
Here, the sports Post records some of the worst clues for the glorious history of the Ryder Cup. USA -
In this country, the club\'s Americans did not try to hide their patriotism, but in 1999, the team\'s jerseys raised their love for the country to a new level.
There are many photos of the former American Ryder Cup team on their jersey.
Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, and Davis Loff III were photographed roaring as they helped Americans celebrate
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For Europe, the last day is definitely a day worth forgetting.
They entered the final round with a 10-6 lead, and it took only 4 points on the last day to keep the championship, but let it slide to the re-rising us.
While this shirt has a special memory for some, Tiger Woods wants to forget it soon.
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2004 atomakland Hills Country Club mickelson and Woods are partners in two games in 2004 and to be fair, things are not going well.
For the first time, they were beaten by Colin Montgomery and padilaig Harrington and then won against Darren Clark and Lee Westwood.
Maybe the worst thing about their partnership is the suits they wear.
Compared to the golf course, at Twickenham\'s home, the United States is wearing a blue polo shirt with white stripes and gray trousers.
Woods accompanied him in a gray cardigan, but he didn\'t seem to have an impression of the dress.
The Americans also fell to nine-
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In the same year, 2004 victorious Europeans landed at Heathrow Airport in brutal costumes.
The champions of Bernhard Lange certainly cannot be missed in the arrivals hall as they take photos in a mustard suede jacket, gray trousers and brown casual shoes.
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Two years later, at K Club inKildare\'s K Club, 2006 of Americans apparently did not learn the lesson of fashion.
You can see Chris Di Marco and colleague Tiger Woods shaking hands at Green Stadium on the 18 th and wearing some terrible jump shots that are more suitable for men over the age of 40.
Mainly Brown, the jumper has white pattern stripes on the whole body, and a white Ryder Cup trophy is sewn in the middle.
It seems that the United States has not learned from their mistakes on the pitch, because they have suffered another serious failure and lost 18 games this time. 9½. USA -
2010 after a relatively low-key event in 2008, in any case, the poor taste of Americans in the fashion field was highlighted in the Celtic Manor in 2010.
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There is a strange gray pattern on the right hand side of the polo shirt, while the right chest has a random black line that goes right through the button.
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They All Float! IT Wasn't Scary At All
Sorry folks but that clown was about as scary as a fluffy bunny wearing a pink bow. Now I'm not talking about the recent film remake in the cinema that is getting good reviews right now. Oh no – I want to take a look at the original TV mini-series that aired back in 1990.
For those not in the know. IT was an adaption of the Stephen King novel of the same name. Many people consider the novel to be pretty damn terrifying, though it tends to drag on in places – its a horrific story done in that Stephen King style. There's blood, gore, violence and even an underage gangbang.
The story revolves around a groups of kids living in Derry, Maine during the late 1950s who call themselves 'The Losers Club'. They are haunted by a mysterious creature who manifests itself as the kids most deep rooted fears; a mummy, a leper, a werewolf and most famously – a clown. The kids manage to fight of this creature, this IT and the kids make a pact they they will return to Derry to fight of IT again if IT ever returns.
Of course IT does return later as its stated in the book that IT must feed every 27 years. The kids are now grown up and IT begins to terrorise the children of Derry once more. So as adults, 'The Losers Club' reunite to defeat IT once and for all.
So that's the basics of the novel – lets take a look at the mini-series.
The Mini-series
Originally aired on the ABC network on TV in 1990 and split into two parts shown over two consecutive nights totalling a 192 minute run-time – the later DVD release has a 187 run-time and has several scenes removed or shortened.
And this is the main problem for this mini-series. The fact it was made for TV in 1990. You see, TV can get away with pretty much anything these days. We have bloody/gory TV shows full of violence everywhere now. But this was not the case back in 1990, while the mini-series does have its share of blood – its really nothing compared to the novel. EVERYTHING is watered down. Just as an example: the novel opens with a kid, Georgie chasing a paper boat down a gutter. This is where we first meet IT the clown, 'Mr Bob Gray' as he introduces himself (A.K.A 'Pennywise'). As Georgie reaches into the gutter to retrieve his paper boat, Pennywise pulls Georgie's arm off – and this is all depicted in gruesome detail. In the mini-series, you have Georgie chasing his boat and meeting Pennywise who does grab the kid's arm… and then it cuts to black and you see nothing.
Most of the scenes of this mini-series are just like this, they have the build up, the tension – but the payoff is just not there and you're left with nothing.
Then there is the structure. The mini-series jumps around every five minuets between the 1950's period when they were kids to the 'present day' as adults. I don't mind non-linear structure (some of the stuff I write is done this way), but its overused here and gets annoying… really, really annoying. You're introduced to a character as an adult and it'll flashback to when they were a kid – rinse and repeat for every single main character in the plot. It fills in the back story but with all the jumping around – you're left with a headache and not enough time to get to know each character. This is something the new remake corrects as its split into two separate moives with the first one just following the kids and the second flick telling the story of the adults – a much better narrative.
ITs Not Scary
When I say 'ITs not scary' I mean in both the sense of the overall story and how its been diluted for TV to the IT character itself. Most of the 'scares' in this involve balloons… yes – balloons.
There's a scene where one character (Mike Hanlon) does his annoying flashback introduction thing and when it cuts back to him as an adult – a balloon is floating next to him and it pops… and this is supposed to be a scare. See the pic above for another example of a balloon scare. There's another scene where a fridge is opened and a load of balloons come out. There are balloons everywhere in this thing – in fact, I think there are more balloons than characters and its clear they're really trying to make balloons scary. They just randomly appear and pop – popping balloons are not scary. They can give you a jump in real-life when you're not expecting it I admit – but in a supposedly scary TV horror adaption?
I can just imagine how the pitch went for this mini-series…
Director: "I want to turn Stephen King's IT into a TV series."
Producer: "That's quite a violent and bloody book. You sure we can get away with that stuff on TV?"
Director: "Already have that covered – we'll remove most of the scares, blood and violence and replace it all with balloons."
Okay so the mini-series has a few decent scary moments… a few. But for something that runs at 192 minuets – its just not enough. I've seen scarier Goosebumps episodes and that was a kids TV show.
Now for the main course – Pennywise himself. He comes across as just mildly more scary then all those damn balloons. Now I mean no disrespect to Tim Curry playing Pennywise here as he's amazing. This mini-series is worth watching just for Tim Curry's performance alone. He really pours his heart and soul into this role and that shows on the screen… he's just not scary.
No, not even with those teeth. Not scary. He's funny – downright hilarious in fact. cracking jokes, making puns and that laugh.
Pennywise: "Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do! Well you'd better let the the poor guy out! HU-HA-HU-HA-HU-HA."
This is what he does best. Make bad, outdated jokes while laughing hysterically and he's brilliant at it too. I love Tim Curry in this and I love his character, he's just in the wrong genre. Tim Curry should return to the role as a kids entertainer – I'd hire him for birthday parties. I could watch Curry's Pennywise all damn day.
IT is funner than it is scary and at times it genuinely feels like a parody/spoof. Have a double feature of this and Airplane! and you're in for a good time.
Now I know what people are thinking – You're an adult. Of course its not scary now, you should have watched it as a kid.. Well – here's my rebuttal. This mini-series was made for adults in 1990, so it was adults that would've watched it back then. Besides, I'm in my 40s now. I did watch this as a kid back in 1990 (think I saw it in 91). Its not scary now and it wasn't scary then either.
There was one clown that scared my back when I was a kid and if I'm being honest, still kind of does now. And that was this fella…
And that was a doll, and inanimate object.
Pennywise is a riot, a complete laugh. If you want a load of un-scary balloons and a damn amazingly comical clown performance then the IT mini-series is a must see. Its rib-crackingly good fun. Its one of the best comedies of the 90s – well worth a watch. A terrible horror but a brilliant comedy.
I've not yet seen the recent remake (yet), but it is getting good reviews and people are saying that it is scary… but is it as funny?
Just as a side note: It is mentioned in the novel how IT returns every 27 years to feed. Well its has been 27 years from the release of the mini-series up to the release of the remake…
This entry was posted in LBoM: Editorials and tagged Adaption, horror, IT, Stephen King, Tim Curry on 19/09/2017 by Steve Perrin.
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1 thought on "They All Float! IT Wasn't Scary At All"
Angela 19/09/2017 at 13:16
It is actually more funny, and the kids play their roles to a "T" 🙂 We were actually laughing throughout most of the movie at the side jokes, and it definitely is much more scary than the mini series.


Changes are looming for the Sydenham Campus of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. Meetings take place today between management and the unions representing staff at the Wallaceburg facility.
The alliance will discuss the changes with media Friday morning in Chatham.


Fisher Labs 75 Year Special Edition Metal Detector. The Fisher F 75, the all new, multi-purpose detector for relic shooting, coin shooting and gold prospecting.
Tried an early hunt on Thu.
My turn for the gold.
Enjoyed our wee trip away.


Macro abstracts of Freesia? No way.
At least that's what I always thought. I told myself that freesia blossoms lack details to be good subject for macro photos and they are too small to stand as models for abstract shots, I thought. When my wife got a bouquet of freesias a week ago I wasn't realy interested until I saw them in beautiful warm evening light shining thru them. I grabbed a camera and looked for some compositions with magnification ratio set very near to 1:1 and what I saw simply amazed me. I took one, two, three photos, all great to me and I suddenly realized that I couldn't have been more wrong thinking that freesias can't be good subject for macro or abstract photography! I set up my tripod and my first indoors evening shooting session started.
Here is the first photo from it. Please, click on photos below to see them in bigger resolution. It is much better.
I really like how those stamens(?) look like a star symbol or a symbol from china alphabet.
Do you know that feeling when you take a photo, check it on camera's LCD and you really like it already? You "KNOW" that this is something very good? That's what I felt when I saw all the photos from this post on camera's LCD. I really, really like them and I wonder what will be your reactions.
Ok, let's take a look at another photo.
Can you see the camel? 🙂 This photo works well also upside down and I think that it would make great diptych with previous one.
I was simply mesmerized by those colours beautifully blending to each other. Freesias has many blossoms on one stem and even those can vary in colour. Every blossom is unique and it gives endless possibilities to a photographer. The bouquet contained also simply yellow and white blossoms but these weren't so interesting for me. I rather worked with those having multiple colours like the next one.
This is a crop from original photo created by cropping it from sides. I thought that in this case extension rings would be handy.
So, that's it for today. I am already looking forward having another photo session with freesias, hopefully it will be soon.
Enjoy weekend and let me know your opinions on these photos.
After the exceptionally long and harsh winter spring finally rushed into my homeland. Tulips are one of the first garden flowers which, together with crocuses and hyacinths, welcome spring every year and so I couldn't resist photographing them. The weather truly stood its adjective "foolish" this april as it was either rainy or windy so far and we still have frost some mornings. Weather was finally beautiful last weekend so I took a camera out of the house after long time and took some flower shots which you can see below. I have spring linked with beautiful smell of flowers, fresh air with a scent of rain and with strong sun rays in my mind and that's what I tried to caught in these pictures.
Not before the photos were processed had I realized that I actually never presented a single photo of a tulip and it is very probable that I never took a photo of a tulip which is really a surprise to me because it is a subject which is photographed very very often.
As you can see from these photos tulips are great subject also for abstract photography. They are available in wide range of colours and even one blossom may bear a rich palette of colours. The following photo is only a crop from the one above and by cutting the stem the subject is minimized only to curvy shapes and bright colours.
Probably the biggest disadvantage of these fragile, yet noble, flowers is that they don't last long when cut into vase so the best way to get pleasing photos of them is photographing them either outside or freshly cut.
So enjoy the beauty of spring!
Technical information: all photos were taken using Canon EOS 450D camera and Canon EF 100mm USM macro lens under natural conditions, outside and hand-held.


Shiawassee County Sheriff's office has released the name of the victim from a fatal accident that happened on Sunday.
It was a single car accident and the passenger, Seryoung Park, 22, from East Lansing, died from her injuries. She is originally from Korea.
The accident occurred at 4:50 a.m. on I-69 near the 110 mile marker just east of Perry Antrim Twonship.
Park was a student at Michigan State University.
The vehicle was traveling eastbound when it left the roadway and rolled several times.
The driver and another passenger were not injured. Police say they were on the way to the airport.
Seryoung Park was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle.


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