Archive for November 4th, 2011

Elite Model Look Singapore 2011 Finals

Friday, November 4th, 2011

15-year-old Fiona Fussi will represent Singapore in the Elite World finals on 6 December 2011 in Shanghai and compete with 80 others for a modelling contract with Elite Paris worth up to US$350,000.

Winners of the Elite Model Look Singapore 2011 at the Red Dot Museum.

Winners of the Elite Model Look Singapore 2011 at the Red Dot Museum.

Both first and second runners-up, 18-year-old Putri Diana Abdullah and 16-year-old Louise Arild will be flown to Paris and London respectively for an all expense paid trip to cast in the two offices.

They emerged from the 13 finalists at last night’s Elite Model Look Singapore 2011 Finals at the Red Dot Design Museum.

The winner was 175 cm tall Fiona Fussi, a 15-year-old Singapore resident of Hong Kong and Austrian descent.

Winner was 15-year-old Fiona Fussi Winner was 15-year-old Fiona Fussi Winner was 15-year-old Fiona Fussi

The first runner-up was 175 cm tall Putri Diana Abdullah, an 18-year-old Singaporean. The second runner-up was 177 cm tall Louise Arild, a 16-year-old Dane.

In addition to the three Elite Model Look Singapore winners, the Blueprint Runway Model Award 2011, representing Singapore’s fashion industry across Asia and the world, was presented to the 178 cm tall Maddie Cox, a 15-year-old British.

1st Runner-up was 18-year-old Singaporean Putri Diana Abdullah 2nd Runner-up was 16-year-old Dane Louise Arild Blueprint Runway Model Award went to 15-year-old Brit Maddie Cox

The Elite Model Look Singapore 2011 competition saw over 300 online applications and close to 1000 applicants throughout casting sessions leading up to the semi-finals which unveiled 45 contestants from various ethnicities.

13 finalists showcased the Guess 2012 Spring Collection of sportswear, swimwear, ready-to-wear and evening wear in the Finals at the Red Dot Design Museum.

Micro Focus announces new Test Server

Friday, November 4th, 2011

The new Test Server from Micro Focus offers a revolutionary approach and additional test capacity to IBM Mainframe Application Testing.

“We needed to find an innovative solution that would facilitate higher quality, scalable testing,” explained José Caetano Pereira, Senior IT Manager at BES. “By detecting errors earlier in the software development lifecycle, we will be able to deliver changes faster and deliver more robust software through to the User Acceptance Test phase and subsequent production.”Micro Focus, a leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, has released Micro Focus Test Server – a unique technology that promises to accelerate testing processes while significantly reducing operating costs.

Customers such as the largest listed Portuguese bank, Banco Espirito Santo (BES), are implementing Micro Focus Test Server to enable them to improve software quality by increasing available mainframe test capacity on a Windows platform.

Micro Focus Test Server is an IBM z/OS compatible environment where application execution behaves just as it would on the target production mainframe. This makes it possible to perform a broad range of preproduction testing on readily available hardware. Testing capacity can now be easily increased to meet business-critical timeframes without incurring prohibitive costs.

Micro Focus Test Server is the first and only IBM mainframe-compatible solution for system, user acceptance and integration testing.

Micro Focus Test Server features:

  • Support for a wide range of mainframe COBOL and Assembler applications and data including batch with JCL, online CICS or IMS TM, DB2, IMS DB and VSAM files.
  • A black box test execution environment for composite applications where .NET and Java programmes invoke mainframe COBOL resources.
  • Close integration back to the mainframe with seamless and secure access to mainframe source code libraries, applications and data, enabling organizations to integrate testing with resources that continue to reside on the mainframe.
  • A proven test server engine that provides a high performance, robust execution environment for multi-region, multi-user testing.