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And the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which investigates whenever workplace fatalities occur, reviews compliance with federal workplace law, a spokesman said. Though it is investigating the shootings, OHSA'S jurisdiction is safety and health issues, not personnel issues, spokesman Edmund Fitzgerald said Friday.
Associated Press National Writer Jesse Washington in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
LOS ANGELES – A judge ended Lindsay Lohan's supervised probation on Thursday, giving the actress her freedom after nearly two years of constant court hearings and threats of jail.
Lohan thanked Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner for her patience and let out a sigh of relief as she exited the courtroom after the brief hearing.
The judge had imposed a series of strict probation requirements including cleanup duty at the morgue and counseling sessions last year, and Lohan met all the requirements by Thursday's deadline.
"I just want to say thank you for being fair. It's really opened a lot of doors for me," Lohan said.
Sautner told the problem-prone actress she was not going to give a lecture, but reminded her that she will remain on informal probation until May 2014 for taking a necklace without permission last year.
"You need to live your life in a more mature way, stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work," Sautner said.
The hearing came as Lohan's career is showing hints of a comeback. She is due to guest star on an upcoming episode of "Glee," recently hosted a highly rated but criticized episode of "Saturday Night Live" and is set to star as Elizabeth Taylor in a television movie.
Roles have been hard to come by for Lohan in recent years, as she has been in-and-out of courtrooms, spent time in rehab and was sentenced to jail.
Her failure to complete alcohol education classes in 2010 prompted a judge to sentence her to jail for the first time since the actress served 84 minutes for a pair of drunken driving arrests in 2007. A court-ordered rehab stint was cut short, but Lohan relapsed before year's end and was sent by another judge to the Betty Ford Center, where she was involved in a fight with a rehab worker.
Within three weeks of her release in January 2011, Lohan was accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace from a store near her Venice home and soon landed in Sautner's court. The judge rejected rehab and tried to send Lohan to jail as punishment. Overcrowding reduced a November 2011 sentence to a few hours, although the actress did serve 35 days on house arrest earlier in the year.
An entire cloud ecosystem is emerging in Australia with companies setting up shop to offer cloud building tools, cloud platforms, cloud brokering and cloud consulting - what's still missing though are cloud standards to avoid lock in.
At a media roundtable event held in Sydney today organised by VMware - which is now selling tools starting at $300 a month to allow even the smallest private clouds to be constructed - participants pointed to the rise of the hybrid cloud model, where users curated a variety of public and private cloud services to meet their needs. Increasingly end users are working with industry partners to help navigate the different cloud services and models on offer.
However Rob Livingstone, a consultant and author of Navigating through the Cloud, warned that despite the range of different clouds now on offer it was; 'Not simple to switch clouds,' given the lack of agreed standards and companies also needed to remain mindful of the hidden write offs that might accompany a move to the cloud if an organisation still had significant amounts of legacy systems in operation.
He also warned that unless organisations were running 'rock solid vanilla offerings the public cloud is quite limiting,' Instead organisations were turning to hybrid solutions and working with a range of different companies now offering cloud related services to orchestrate those cloud solutions.
Nicki Periera, general manager of ZettaGrid which offers infrastructure as a service, said this was particularly attractive to the SME sector which liked the cost predictability that cloud models delivered but wanted to harness the flexibility they promised.
Commissioning a cloud however isn't as simple as turning on a tap for a drink of water, and paying the bill according to what you use. Companies for example need to remain mindful of the need for disaster recovery and business continuity in the event of either a cloud outage, or an inability to access the cloud over communications networks; and how different clouds can work together so that data from one application hosted on one cloud can be made available to an application which may be running elsewhere.
It's here that another part of the cloud ecosystem is emerging in companies such as Perth based IntegraNet which provides consulting services, or NewLease which can provide companies with help managing different subscription software licences.
Doug Tutus, director of NewLease explained that while public clouds served a purpose, their offerings were often pretty rigid, which was leading to more organisations considering a hybrid approach where they might offload some of their 'cookie cutter' applications to a public cloud, but also integrate them with private clouds developed to run their less standard business processes.
Separately Josh Rubens, director of the Cloud Solutions Group, a consulting business specialising in cloud computing, said that one of the key issues that needs to be tackled was the lingering confusion about what cloud was and how it could be introduced to a business.
Mr Rubens said that he was carving out a business providing strategy and roadmap advice to potential cloud service users. For most he said the transition away from on premise solutions to cloud based systems would be a long journey.
'Very few of them are forklifting everything to the cloud tomorrow - this will take years,' said Mr Rubens.
He warned though that many current cloud providers were still trying to lock customers into lengthy contracts, and that end users needed to carefully examine what they needed and determine whether they should opt for a private or public cloud, or more likely a composite or hybrid cloud solution.
He said that before embarking on any cloud adventures companies needed to consider their data needs - where it was stored and how it could be accessed, the privacy and security of that data, and the back up and disaster recovery plans available once applications were operated in a cloud.
6 Pennell – made amends for his missed tackle on Murley with a sublime grubber kick for Howe’s try but was then undone by the bounce of the ball in the lead-up to Quins’ second score.
7 Howe – made a couple of handling errors in the first half but was a dangerous runner and did brilliantly to get on the end of Pennell’s kick to touch down.
6 Te’o – allowed Smith to nudge Quins ahead at half-time after being pinged for not rolling away but was a real handful when he smashed forward.
6 Mills (c) – fronted up defensively but failed to make a telling impact on the game as he was replaced at half-time by Venter.
7 Heem – following the birth of his first child the wing had more to celebrate when he latched onto Weir’s cross-field kick to score and was a threat throughout.
6 Weir – set up Heem’s try and landed two pressure penalties from range but also missed seven points from the tee and his loose pass led to Tapuai’s touchdown.
7 Hougaard – made the odd error but played with bundles of energy, making several bursts into space and put in a decent shift on the wing as well.
7 Black – had a strong 40-minute showing as he scrummaged well and held firm in defence before being replaced at the interval.
6 Annett – aside from one throw being judged to have not gone straight he executed well at the lineout but had to receive a talking to by referee Ruiz for his back-chat.
7 Milasinovich – made his presence felt in the opening period, earning a scrum penalty early on and almost forced his way over the try-line.
6 Fatialofa – was part of a pretty powerful tight-five in the first half but was not as effective in the loose as he made way for Barry at the break.
6 Phillips – after a lively start the lock suffered a blow to the head and although he returned for the second period he was not the same player.
8 KIRWAN – put in some meaty hits, notably slamming Brown to the ground and managed to break the gain-line when he hammered forward. My man of the match.
6 Lewis – got stuck in as usual but was unable to stop Murley going over and his evening’s work lasted 54 minutes before being replaced by fit-again du Preez.
7 Cox – did some great work in the tackle to secure a couple of turnovers for his side but his powerful surges were met with a Quins wall.
Replacements: Taufete’e 6 (Annett 41), Waller 7 (Black 41), Kerrod 7 (Milasinovich 41), Barry 5 (Phillips 38-40, Fatialofa 41), du Preez 6 (Lewis 54), Heaney 6 (Heem 54), Venter 7 (Mills 41). Not used: Van Breda.
Harlequins: Brown; Murley, Alofa, Tapuai, Chisholm (Saili 59); Smith (Catrakilis 61), Care; Boyce (Auterac 54), Elia (Crumpton 41), Collier (Ibuanopke 19), Merrick (Glynn 6), Horwill, Bothma (Luamanu 51), Robshaw, Clifford. Not used: Hidalgo-Clyne.
Half-time: Worcester Warriors 5-8 Harlequins.
10-8: Howe try, 46mins 13-8: Weir penalty, 61mins.
Full-time: Worcester Warriors 16-18 Harlequins.
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican tribunal that convicted the pope's ex-butler of stealing private papal correspondence sharply condemned the theft on Tuesday as causing "reprehensible" damage to the pontiff, the Holy See and the entire Catholic Church, and said investigations are continuing.
The three-judge tribunal issued its written explanation of how it reached its Oct. 6 verdict against Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted of aggravated theft and sentenced to 18 months in prison, currently being served under house arrest.
The Vatican spokesman, who had spoken previously of the "concrete" likelihood that Gabriele would be pardoned by the pope, backed off that assertion Tuesday after the written verdict was released, saying only it that a pardon was "possible."
Gabriele confessed to photocopying papal documents and giving them to an Italian journalist, saying Pope Benedict XVI wasn't being informed of the "evil and corruption" around him and that he believed that exposing the problems publicly would put the church back on the right track.
The revelations of petty bureaucratic infighting, intrigue and allegations of corruption and homosexual liaisons marked the biggest Vatican security breach in modern times.
Noting what they called Gabriele's "simplistic" intellectual capacity, the judges acknowledged that he had thought he was doing the right thing by leaking the documents. But they said Gabriele's crime was a "reprehensible" violation of trust that damaged the pope himself and the rights of the Holy See, the Vatican City state and the entire Catholic Church.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, noted that the investigation into Gabriele remains open and that prosecutors could charge him with other crimes.
The judges said Gabriele betrayed the good name of all the people involved in the case and also the secrecy that is owed to the pope in his role as a sovereign — a hint at the direction Vatican prosecutors might go if they pursue further charges.
Lombardi repeated that Benedict has the authority to pardon Gabriele. On Oct. 6 Lombardi had said a papal pardon was "concrete, likely" — though on Tuesday he would only say it was "a possibility" and that it wasn't known if or when a pardon might be granted. He said his choice of words Tuesday was intentional.
Prosecutors have a few more days to decide whether or not to appeal the sentence, as they can do in the Vatican. Gabriele's attorney has decided not to appeal.
Once the deadline passes, Gabriele will begin serving his sentence in a Vatican detention facility, Lombardi said. Previously the Vatican had said he would serve it in an Italian prison, given that the Vatican doesn't have a long-term detention facility. Keeping him at the Vatican, though, would keep Gabriele under the watchful eyes of the Vatican police and away from a general Italian prison population, where he might talk.
Italian author Gianluigi Nuzzi's book, "His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI's Secret Papers" convulsed the Vatican for months and prompted an unprecedented response, with the pope naming a commission of cardinals to investigate the origin of the leaks alongside Vatican magistrates.
A co-defendant, Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer expert in the Vatican secretariat of state, was accused of aiding and abetting Gabriele's crime. Through his lawyer he has said he is innocent. His trial is due to start Nov. 5, Lombardi said.
In their ruling, the judges said there was no proof that Gabriele had any accomplices. Nevertheless, they noted that investigations are continuing "into the existence of other possible responsibilities in the leaks of reserved documents."
They confirmed the conviction of aggravated theft, rejecting the defense claim that Gabriele was merely guilty of "misappropriation" and detailing the way he violated the trust that had been granted him due to his position.
"Gabriele was able to commit the crime because of his relationship of service to the Holy Father, which is necessarily based on trust that allowed the pope to leave in his care documents that he illegally approrpriated," the judges wrote.
They said that while Gabriele himself may not have profited financially from stealing the documents, he obtained an "intellectual and moral" profit by doing so — a legal requirement to finding him guilty of theft.
Despite the violation, the judges said they could exclude that Gabriele was in general a criminal and, based on the length of his sentence, rejected the prosecutors' request that he be barred from work in any Vatican public office.
Gabriele, a 46-year-old father of three, is a Vatican citizen and resident of the Vatican city state. Lombardi said he didn't know if he was continuing to draw a salary or whether he would continue to be granted Vatican citizenship.
League One leaders Luton made it 20 games unbeaten with a battling win at Fleetwood.
George Moncur and Pelly Ruddock scored either side of half-time to leave the Hatters in control, with Paddy Madden pulling a late goal back for the hosts.
It was a tasty, physical affair but with the challenges flying in and yellow cards thrown around like confetti by referee Peter Banks, Luton stuck to the task at hand.
Both sides were guilty of wasting their dead balls and Luton's counter-attack was maintained for the majority of the half.
Moncur scored a goal worthy of winning any match in this division, smashing a free-kick into the top corner in the 41st minute.
Fleetwood's chance of earning their first points after conceding first was all but put to bed moments into the second half when Ruddock curled in from 20 yards.
They did set up a nervy finish when Madden rifled home in the 90th minute, but Luton held on to remain six points clear at the top.
Match ends, Fleetwood Town 1, Luton Town 2.
Second Half ends, Fleetwood Town 1, Luton Town 2.
Wes Burns (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Fleetwood Town 1, Luton Town 2. Paddy Madden (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ashley Nadesan.
Attempt missed. Paddy Madden (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Luton Town. Alan Sheehan replaces Danny Hylton.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Jack Stacey.
Attempt blocked. Paddy Madden (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Nathan Sheron replaces Jack Sowerby.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by James Shea.
Attempt saved. Ched Evans (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Luton Town. George Thorne replaces Alan McCormack.
Attempt blocked. Paddy Madden (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
James Justin (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Elliot Lee (Luton Town) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
James Collins (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Wes Burns (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Lewie Coyle (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Hand ball by Jack Stacey (Luton Town).
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Ashley Nadesan replaces Jason Holt.
James Husband (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. James Husband (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Fleetwood Town 0, Luton Town 2. Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Second Half begins Fleetwood Town 0, Luton Town 1.
First Half ends, Fleetwood Town 0, Luton Town 1.
Andrew Shinnie (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
TOKYO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital has picked Nomura and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley to manage an initial public offering of Japan’s Toshiba Memory, a deal that could happen as early as September, people familiar with the matter said.
The listing of the world’s second-largest maker of NAND flash memory chips, which a Bain-led consortium bought for $18 billion two years ago, could be Japan’s biggest IPO this year. It would also mark a swift exit by Bain - the firm had previously flagged it was looking for an IPO within three years.
“Bain is looking at an IPO as early as autumn,” said one of the three people, all of whom declined to be identified because the information is not public. Bain has retained Nomura Holdings and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities for the IPO process and other banks will participate in the global share sale, the three people said.