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What Does Intelligent Planning Mean for Your Finance Team?
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It's a fast-paced business world today. Finance teams are faced with more than just creating and upholding the yearly budget – they want to, and are expected to, drive strategic, data-driven decisions that lead to opportunities for the organization.
To accomplish this, the finance team needs to be able to balance strategy and execution. They must balance planning with agility. They must balance looking ahead with what's happening today. And they must balance collecting data and analyzing it.
To do this, CFOs and their teams must employ Intelligent Planning.
What is intelligent planning? It's the financial strategy that modern finance teams can employ to make data-driven decisions and quickly adapt to changing environments, while keeping the company on steady ground. With this innovative new strategy, businesses can formulate objectives that increase the bottom line, create value, keep up with digital advances and protect the business from competitive and other challenges.
The Three Pillars of Intelligent Planning
The Office of Finance is no stranger to the three pillars of Intelligent Planning. They have each been part of its function for years. What makes Intelligent Planning different is the way in which these elements are combined, and the potential results of each combination.
Budgeting – Budgeting is a cornerstone of the financial team's responsibilities. But the difference that it takes in Intelligent Planning is adopting real-time and on-going analysis of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) against, tracking and optimizing performance against plan and pivoting quickly as risks and opportunities emerge.
Forecasting – another staple of the Office of Finance, forecasting takes on new possibilities with Intelligent Planning. Using instincts and assumptions to guide forecasting is a flawed approach to corporate performance management, as is using past performance as the indicator for future success. With Intelligent Planning, companies can guide their forecasting accurately and with confidence by leveraging a wide array of data points, trends, and assumption validators to make the most informed business decisions and predict the future health of the business.
Analytics – CFOs and their teams have leveraged financial analysis tools for years. The biggest challenge has been integrating data sources and structuring the data into a meaningful way to gain insights. With the amount of data increasing at an exponential rate inside most companies, most businesses are drowning in a sea of data to data to analyze and correlate. Technology and big data innovations are moving at rapid pace bringing automation and rich capabilities typically reserved for large enterprises to small and medium sized businesses.
The Four Benefits of Intelligent Planning for your Finance Team
With these pillars of Intelligent Planning working in concert, finance teams can utilize past and present information to better predict the future financial health and position of the organization. As a result, companies and finance teams benefit in four significant ways:
Data-Driven Outcomes
Intelligent Planning gives companies the agility to confidently make decisions, faster, even when those decisions veer from the company's fiscal plan.
Increased Capabilities and Capacity
Using traditional finance tools, integrative planning increases the burden on the finance team as the tools themselves may complicate the process. However, Intelligent Planning tools like the Maestro Suite are designed to bring together budgeting, forecasting, data analysis and business intelligence and provide options for task automation. Instead of slowing the team down, these tools free them up for advanced finance tasks like scenario planning and strategic contributions to decision making.
Organizational Collaboration
Financial planning and analysis shouldn't be done in a vacuum. For planning to be accurate and agile, it must take into account data from across the organization, then share the analysis out to the rest of the company in easy to digest, customized presentations, like dashboards. This clears the way for efficient collaboration and empowers leaders across the organization to make important decisions, quickly and with minimal risk.
Bigger Contributions
When finance teams can effectively collect a broad set of data, integrate it for analysis, share it across the organization, and use it to inform strategic decisions, it makes the team a pivotal part of the organization's growth.
Intelligent Planning is important to organizations, regardless of size. The cloud-based tools in Centage Corporation's Maestro Suite offer sophisticated features needed for small and
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Legacy |Through September 8, 2018
Legacy depicts the clash of cultures of the 19th century American West. The legacy of conflicts among cowboys, soldiers, explorers and Indigenous Americans during westward expansion continues to impact America today. The exhibition also celebrates Sid Richardson's legacy of philanthropy and collecting art. The exhibition features 42 of the Museum's dynamic paintings of the 19th century American West by Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell and their contemporaries along with three bronze sculptures by Remington and Russell and one Russell painting on loan from a private collection.
"This exhibition offers a stunning view of a rapidly disappearing Western frontier. The American West underwent dramatic transformation in the late 19th century in the face of exploration, transcontinental transportation, Indigenous American confinement to reservation land and immigration. Legacy presents themes that occupied Russell, Remington and their contemporaries throughout their careers – interaction among diverse peoples, featuring images of cowboys, soldiers, explorers and Indigenous Americans. The American West intrigued several generations of artists, and it continues to do so even today. The conflicts and cultural encounters that occurred among these people in the 19th century continue to impact life in America and may be some of the most significant legacies of the era of westward expansion."
- Mary Burke, Sid Richardson Museum Director
Charles M. Russell | In the Wake of the Buffalo Runners | 1911 | Oil on canvas | Private Collection
Legacy reunites familiar works from the Richardson collection painted between 1880 and before 1942 by artists Frederic Remington (1861-1909) and Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) with rarely seen paintings by their contemporaries: Oscar E. Berninghaus, Charles Francis Browne, Edwin Willard Deming, William Gilbert Gaul, Herbert M. Herget, Frank Tenney Johnson, William Robinson Leigh, Peter Moran, and Charles Schreyvogel. The exhibition also features three bronzes, two by Remington and one by Russell, and a Russell painting on loan from a private collection.
Sid Richardson's legacy of patronage began in 1942 when the oilman and philanthropist began collecting art of the American West – its people, its history, and its landscape. In 1947, he established the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. In 1982, the Foundation's board of directors established an art museum dedicated to displaying Richardson's permanent collection and to providing educational art experiences for the public at no charge.
William G. Gaul | The Pow-Wow | ca. 1890 | Oil on canvas
Legacy | exhibition poster
Click to view the Legacy exhibition Gallery Guide

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Also check the specs of standard Blackberry Key2.
Blackberry launched the Key2 LE on August 30, 2018. Currently, it is available for pre-order in UK and Netherlands. Other regions will get it soon after. The Key2 LE 32GB is priced at $400. The 64GB variant costs $450.
Blackberry Key2 LE has similar design to the Key2. It measures 150.3 x 71.8 x 8.4 mm dimensions and 156 grams weight. There is small screen above the Qwerty Keypad of 4 rows. It comes with 3:2 aspects ratio, a selfie camera, a home button equipped with Fingerprint Sensor, and a dual rear camera setup with a LED flash.
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Blackberry Key2 LE boasts Dual 13MP (f/2.2) + 5MP Rear Camera lenses to capture bright photographs and 4K videos. There is an 8MP (f/2.0) camera on the front for selfies and video calls. It supports some nifty AI Beauty tricks.
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The Key2 LE gets a Non-removable Li-Ion 3000mAh Battery to deliver 22 hours of multimedia usage. Fast Charging Option is absent. It supports dual SIM slots, 3G, 4G LTE, wifi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, NFC, and micro USB Type C.
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Industry Expects Higher Allocation And Incentives For Make In India In Defence
Specific allocation to pave way for the indigenous solutions through Make programs and Make 2 programs and seeing restoration of incentiviasation for the indigenous R & D and product development
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by Manish Kumar Jha
The key policy announcement post Doklam crisis was the setting up of an institutional mechanism called the Defence Planning Committee (DPC) under the chairmanship of National Security Advisor, along, the foreign secretary, chairman of chiefs of staff committee and chiefs of the Army, Navy and the Air Force as its members. The overarching body has its task out- outline threats and build up capability for credible deterrent. In zero sum, it falls on the scale and scope of modernization of the Indian Armed Forces and the money to ramp up such programs.
The former defence minister and now the Finance minister in the Modi 2.0, Nirmala Sitharaman is certainly aware of the simmering tensions along the orders of India and, beyond, the geopolitical surfeit of upheavals in the Indian Ocean and choking trade blocks in South China Sea. As an industry veteran and Executive VP, Defence & Aerospace, L&T, Jayant Patil looks at the finance minister with greater optimism said, "Now that Finance Minister is well aware of the issue involved with defence, expectation is to see higher allocation of funds being addressed."
The Indian Air Force's Balakot Strike against the suicide attack on a CRPF bus in Pulwama brought back the convention of the war to the forefront and the intermittent reality that India faces the two fronts' threat and must gear up. Twelve Mirage 2000 fighters crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and fired five Spice guided bombs on the Balakot terror camp, killing an unspecified number of terrorists. At the same time, Indian Air Force witnessed its Mig 21 being shot by F-16. This puts heavy on the fact that IAF will be within 31 squadrons against the least sanctioned strength of 42 squadrons to be able to defend two fronts in such eventuality.
Though the Indian military is considered among the top five in the world, but it is the fact that Army is still holding onto the jammed proned INSAS (India Small Arms system). Army is looking for the replacement of INSAS and a large number of light machine guns, battle carbines and assault rifles are being purchased at a cost of nearly Rs 40,000 crore to replace its ageing and obsolete weapons.
After a significant delay caused by the general elections, the Indian Navy also issued the Requests for Proposals (RFP) worth over Rs 15,000 crore for a range of warships. This includes the "Buy Indian" acquisition of six Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMV), 8 Fast Patrol Vessels (FPV), 12 Air Cushion Vehicles (ACV) and 8 ammunition barges for the Coast Guard.
However, shortage of funds impacted the Army's modernisation drive. The Army told a Parliamentary Standing Committee in March, 2018 that it was reeling under severe fund crunch and struggling to even make emergency procurements. And after the long hiatus since 1980, finally in 2018, Army procured M777 howitzers and K9 Vajra, in first major induction of artillery guns since Bofors. Under General Bipin Rawat, army stuck in the garrison full of vintage arms and ammunitions set out to modernize by instigating, Special Forces Division, Defence Cyber Agency, the Defence Space Agency and the Defence Space Research Agency along with Integrated Battle group. And, it is all about the continuity of such initiatives.
With such concerns, defence sector calls out for higher allocation as said Jayant Patil, Executive Vice President Defence & Aerospace, Member of the Board L&T points out: "Industry expects higher allocation of funds on sustained basis for implementing modernization of Armed Forces." He also talks about the capital part of the defence budget which is simply the money allocated for the new machines and equipment for the modernization said: "The ratio of capital to Revenue has seen sustained decline over the past years and expectation is to see the same getting addressed."
In the interim budget for 2019-20, announced on February 1, defence was allocated Rs 319 trillion, a hike of 6.87% compared to the previous year. Military experts termed the 6.87% inadequate (it is 1.52% of India's GDP) but the fact is that defence capital expenditure (CAPEX) amounted to 31.28% of the country's capital expenditure in 2018-19. But industry experts point out that post GST, an increase for capital incentive in fact puts the budget at par with FY 16-17 despite the increase in overall outlay in 2019 interim budget. Since there is no separate fund allocation for Tax reimbursement to the Defence OEMs, substantial part of the defence capital budget allocated is consumed for GST reimbursements.
Defence as an industry for economic growth
The perspective that security is the foremost concern and the budgetary allocation is prioritized, such framework is just the lack of foresight among the policy makers.
The capability development to ensure national security in conventional, cyber, information, space and other domains of warfare cannot be developed by Defence procurements alone, because it is unaffordable and reduces our reliability at critical junctures, hence defence manufacturing, 'Make in India' and defence industries including private sector have to be given a push. What is observed is the cumulative anticipated Capex spend over next 10 years for Defence is of the order INR 15 lakh Crore. With the Government's program boosting Indigenisation in Defence from the current 35-40 % to 70-75 % levels, and raising indigenous volume from 25000 Cr to 1.7 Lakh Cr a year over coming 8-10 years an estimated opportunity larger than 8-10 Lakh Cr will open up for the Indian Industry. As Jayant further puts it: "With Multiplier effect to the economy, this could create a staggering addition of Rs 65 to 75 lakh crore to the Indian economy (>2% of GDP) and generating more than 5 lakh new highly skilled jobs.
How does a policy implementation work and make a valiant case of the immense potential and opportunity in defence sector? Look at the export number last year which has crossed the Rs 10000 Crore target set by MoD. A clear cut target and policy at place, government mandated the DPSUs to gear up and set mechanism to explore the worldwide market. Budget must look at such provisions and incentive for the public and private players. As Sartaj Singh, Director, Solar Industries India Ltd talks about the expectation added, "We at Solar Industries expect that there should be at least 12% increase in budget allocation of Funds for Capital & Revenue procurement for Defence, over the last year, with specific emphasis on 'Make in India' Projects. As Ministry of Defence has set high targets for Defence related exports, Incentives to the Defence Industries should be provided for exports related to Defence."
That is the case for the defence industry which is at the threshold and requires handholding in terms of credible incentives in the budgetary allocation. "Specific allocation to pave way for the indigenous solutions through Make programs and Make 2 programs and seeing restoration of incentiviasation for the indigenous R & D and product development," Patil outlines the expectation from the budget on 5th June.
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Big 12 Power Rankings: Blowing Bubbles Edition
Posted by Nate Kotisso on February 11th, 2016
When the calendar turns to February, it is required that everyone must talk about bubbles. When engaging in bubble talk, we are obliged to have serious discussions about big bubbles, small bubbles, dish soap, glycerin and various bubble wand shapes. But you must also make mention of the nervous teams on the fringe of the NCAA Tournament bracket. Last week, we discussed the Big 12 bubble picture at considerable length. While we thought that teams like Kansas State and Texas Tech still had some life left in them, we weren't so positive that they could change their fortunes so quickly. Down starting point guard Kamau Stokes, the Wildcats knocked off #1 Oklahoma on Saturday because Wesley Iwundu decided the offense would run through him. (He also accurately decided his man-to-man defense on Buddy Hield would give his team a better chance at slowing down Oklahoma's potent offense.) The Red Raiders had solid computer numbers going into last night's game against Iowa State (RPI: 54, non-conference SOS: 59, two RPI Top 50 wins) but a 3-7 conference record is not where a team wants to be in mid-February. Texas Tech then proceeded to take down the Cyclones in overtime, adding another feather in the cap of a potential at-large profile.
Texas Tech head coach Tubby Smith may have received some help from above in last night's upset victory of Iowa State.
(Michael C. Johnson/USA TODAY Sports)
What does this all mean? It means there are 23 days until the final day of the Big 12's regular season on March 5. Some teams will rise, some will fall, and some will be Kansas. If you are not Kansas, you, a Big 12 conference member, have been sentenced to death in the wings of a flightless bird. They may not fly, but they sure can claw.
All hail the mighty Jayhawk.
The power rankings are below.
1. Oklahoma — 4 points (Chris & Nate — 1st, Brian — 2nd). Comment: "This is the first week that Brian, Chris and myself have not unanimously voted the Sooners No. 1 in quite some time. I might be turning myself into #thatguy, but… something's clearly up with Oklahoma, right? The Sooners' somewhat sluggish play might be because of the rough 48-hour turnaround that Saturday-Big Monday games will do to players, but Texas outscoring the Sooners by 14 in the paint isn't good. Texas owning the paint with just one legitimate big man inside isn't good. Oklahoma going ice cold late in a game (sans Buddy) in Norman isn't good. Am I making a bigger deal from probably nothing? Maybe, but then again, maybe not." – Nate Kotisso (@natekotisso)
2. Kansas — 5 points (Brian — 1st, Chris & Nate — 2nd). Comment: "The much-maligned Landen Lucas was the most active defensive player for Kansas Tuesday night, hauling in 16 rebounds and blocking four shots. It was the first such performance by a Jayhawk since Jeff Withey in the 2013 Round of 32, when Kansas knocked off North Carolina behind Withey's 16 points, 16 rebounds and seven blocks. It will probably be a while before those two are mentioned in the same sentence again, so Jayhawk fans are advised to print out these rankings and display them in their offices." – Brian Goodman (@bsgoodman)
3. West Virginia — 9 points (All voted 3rd). Comment: "Has the Big 12 finally discovered some cracks in the Mountaineers' press? West Virginia's last eight opponents have all registered turnover rates below the Mountaineers' season-long defensive average of 26.1 percent. If coaches are doing a better job of scouting West Virginia, and it looks like they are, the Mountaineers will need to find a way to adjust if they want to stay in the thick of the race." – BG
4. Texas — 12 points (All voted 4th). Comment: "Weird trivia time! Had Texas knocked off the Sooners a few days ago, they would have been just the second Big 12 team since West Virginia and TCU joined the league to win at Baylor, at West Virginia and at Oklahoma in the same season. The first team to pull this off was 2012-13 Kansas State. Perhaps losing in Norman was for the best." – NK
5. Baylor — 15 points (All voted 5th). Comment: "With Rico Gathers unavailable because of illness, the Bears got pummeled on both backboards against Kansas State Wednesday night, so they turned to an unlikely source for help: the free throw line. While Baylor had excelled at getting to the stripe this season, entering the game ranked second in the Big 12 in offensive free throw rate, they also entered it ranked just sixth in free throw shooting. Led by Lester Medford's 11-for-11 effort, though, Baylor calmly hit 29-for-30 attempts in the 82-72 win, quieting the talk of Kansas State's narrow chances for an at-large bid – at least for now." – BG
6. Iowa State — 18 points (All voted 6th). Comment: "While Steve Prohm hopes Jameel McKay's suspension will help the Cyclones in the long run, it's certainly not helping in the short run. Without its sole rim protector against Texas Tech on Wednesday, Iowa State blocked just two shots, allowed the Red Raiders to shoot 80 percent (12-of-15) at the rim and hauled in just 62.5 percent of available defensive rebounds." – BG
7. Texas Tech — 22 points (Chris & Nate — 7th, Brian — 8th). Comment: "It feels like it might be a while before the Red Raiders move up in our rankings because their 4-7 Big 12 record isn't close enough to .500. But if it does, we'll gladly oblige an ascension." – NK
8. Kansas State — 23 points (Brian — 7th, Chris & Nate — 8th). Comment: "From off the bubble to on it to back off it in the span of five days, it's been a busy week for the Wildcats. Then again, if you told Bruce Weber this time last year that flirting with an at-large bid would constitute a busy week, chances are he'd take it in a heartbeat." – BG
9. Oklahoma State — 28 points (Brian & Chris — 9th, Nate — 10th). Comment: "From the Kansas win to Monday's loss at TCU, these last few weeks have encapsulated Oklahoma State's tenure under Travis Ford: numerous moments of failure mixed in with brief moments of brilliance. The end is near." – NK
10. Texas Christian — 29 points (Nate — 9th, Brian & Chris — 10th). Comment: "I voted ninth for the Horned Frogs this week because: a) they share identical conference (2-9) and overall records (11-13) with Oklahoma State; and b) they have a head-to-head win over the Cowboys. The climb out of the Big 12 cellar is nearly complete." – NK
Big 12 Video/GIF of the Week
This week's winner was a late entry but wound up being the best regardless. With 1:34 left in overtime and two seconds remaining on the shot clock, Texas Tech's Keenan Evans grabbed the inbounds pass and hoisted a desperation three from the Southwest Texas area of the midcourt map that smoothly banked in. It's one of those shots that, when it drops, gives your team a boost. For the other team, however, it represents a dagger to the heart. (h/t The Cauldron)
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Five Big 12 Games You Better Watch
Saturday: Kansas at Oklahoma (1:30 PM CT, ESPN)
Saturday: Texas Tech at Baylor (7:00 PM CT, ESPNU)
Saturday: Texas at Iowa State (7:30 PM CT, ESPN2)
Monday: Oklahoma State at Kansas (8:00 PM CT, ESPN)
Wednesday: Oklahoma at Texas Tech (8:00 PM CT, ESPNU)
| big 12, microsites, power rankings | Tagged: bruce weber, buddy hield, iowa state cyclones, Jameel McKay, kamau stokes, kansas state wildcats, Landen Lucas, lester medford, oklahoma sooners, oklahoma state cowboys, rico gathers sr., steve prohm, tcu horned frogs, Texas Tech Red Raiders, travis ford, tubby smith, wesley iwundu
Big 12 Power Rankings: This League Is (Still) Off Its Rocker Edition
Posted by Nate Kotisso on January 22nd, 2016
We're almost four weeks into league play, which typically means a select group of contenders have asserted themselves and are heading for the summit they call "Conference Champion Mountain." It's a grueling hike to the top, but totally worth it once you get up there. You get to look out at the rest of your conference mates with the knowledge that your better was better than their better. You think about that banner you get to hang in your arena's rafters that will forever stamp just how good your regular season was. Then, all of a sudden, you realize that you're up really high. You struggle to breathe. Now, you can't breathe AT ALL. After fighting for breath, you fall off the mountain, not because of the altitude. No. You fall off the mountain because a scrappy No. 14 seed has ended your quest for a national championship before you had a chance to get out of the Tournament's first weekend.
Or, at least that's usually how it goes in the Big 12. This season, though, has brought a special kind of craziness – one none of us could have imagined even a few short weeks ago.
Womp womp. (Screengrab via ESPN.com)
This is where we are now, so expect a wild and crazy edition of our Big 12 Power Rankings. Here we go.
1. Oklahoma — 3 points (All voted 1st). Comment: "The Sooners have two losses in Big 12 play, but both of them came on the road against upper echelon competition. Buddy Hield is continuing to play like a National Player of the Year and he has Oklahoma in position to be KenPom's favorite in the Big 12." – Chris Stone (@cstonehoops)
2. Kansas — 6 points (All voted 2nd). Comment: "Defensive struggles were at the heart of Tuesday's upset at the hands of Oklahoma State, but the Jayhawks have been in a bit of a rut offensively, too, averaging only an even 1.00 point per possession over their last four games. One of the biggest factors has been the regression of Wayne Selden, who is scoring just 9.5 points per contest on 37.8% shooting since opening conference play with 24 and 21-point outbursts. The Jayhawk's depth, along with Bill Self's coaching ability, is strong enough that I trust Kansas to get back on track sooner rather than later." – Brian Goodman (@BSGoodman) Read the rest of this entry »
| big 12, microsites, power rankings | Tagged: baylor bears, bill self, buddy hield, chris washburn, iowa state cyclones, kansas jayhawks, kansas state wildcats, monte morris, oklahoma sooners, oklahoma state cowboys, shaka smart, steve prohm, texas longhorns, travis ford, Wayne Selden
Big 12 Power Rankings: Kansas State's in First Place??? Edition
Posted by Nate Kotisso on January 19th, 2015
The Big 12 is weird. It doesn't even have twelve teams in it. This brown-suited man is their commissioner. Kansas State's best player was benched in its conference opener, a loss; and now, the same team that was 7-7 two weeks ago occupies first place in the whole dang league. Aside from weird, the Big 12 is still a very deep basketball league. Kansas State's place atop the standings is evidence of this fact. But where did the Wildcats' 4-1 start originate? Better end-game execution? A little bit, yes. Better effort on both ends of the floor? That's part of it. But the transformation of K-State began with a change in mindset from their benched star, Marcus Foster. Foster came into his sophomore season with lofty expectations after bursting onto the scene last year. Some of those expectations were self-imposed and his focus was to meet them instead helping toward the greater good of the team. "Sometimes you do think to the future," Foster told The Wichita Eagle last week. "You think about, maybe I can play in the NBA and maybe I need to start doing this. But I think my mindset is back to worrying about today and getting better at what you need to get better at every day. That is all it took for me to get in a few good games." Following that January 3 loss to Oklahoma State, Foster scored 23 off the bench to help defeat TCU, hit the game-winning three at Oklahoma, led his team in scoring (14) and assists (four) to get by Texas Tech, and grabbed three steals in the weekend's upset over Baylor. There is still a lot that this team's resume needs between now and Selection Sunday, but as long as Foster continues to focus on the greater good over self, his team will have a chance. And that's all it needs, really.
It's not hard to look for the key to K-State's 4-1 start: Marcus Foster. (AP/Charlie Riedel)
Iowa State — 3 points (All voted 1st). Comment: "The Cyclones finally delivered the first punch in their attempt to end The Streak (TM). Three of their next four games come at home with the only road trip in that stretch set to take place at Texas Tech. This means that there's a decent chance Fred Hoiberg's team comes to Lawrence for the return game with a stellar 7-1 league record. However, if the first two weeks of Big 12 play have taught us anything, it's that holding the fort in this conference is anything but a given." – Brian Goodman (@BSGoodman)
Kansas — 6 points (All voted 2nd). Comment: "The Jayhawks have the top-ranked offense and defense during conference play and only lost by five on the road at Iowa State. They could get back to the top spot with wins over Oklahoma at home and Texas on the road this week." – Chris Stone (@cstonehoops) Read the rest of this entry »
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Top 25 Snapshot: 02.29.12
Posted by zhayes9 on February 29th, 2012
Zach Hayes is an editor, contributor and bracketologist for Rush the Court.
As the calendar flips from February to March and the college basketball world rejoices at the prospect of another rapidly approaching NCAA Tournament, it's time to take stock as to where the top teams around the country stand. When the long-awaited tournament does commence, the path to glory evolves into a narrative predicated on matchups rather than rankings, so allow this to serve as more of a final snapshot as the regular season winds to a conclusion. Who is peaking at the right time? Whose style of play translates best into the grind of March? What perceived flaws could derail a run deep into March? Let's begin with the team most currently resembling a seemingly unflappable juggernaut:
The Spartans crack the top 5 in the latest rankings
1. Kentucky (28-1, 14-0)
Locating a potentially fatal weakness in a team one buzzer-beater away from an undefeated record isn't an easy task. Freshman point guard Marquis Teague, much like his predecessors at the position under John Calipari, has improved substantially throughout the season, posting 52 assists compared to 21 turnovers in his last nine SEC games. Their athleticism will render even the best man-to-man defense ineffective and the combination of Doron Lamb and Darius Miller can make shots over any zone look. Kentucky also boasts arguably the best perimeter defender in the country in Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – whom Calipari utilized to suffocate Dee Bost in the second half of their comeback win in Starkville – and the best post defender in National POY frontrunner Anthony Davis (4.8 blocks per game and countless other alterations and denials). If there's one nitpick it's the fact Kentucky rates #84 in the country in three-point defense and rarely forces turnovers defensively; if Teague reverts to his sloppy ways, Lamb/Miller have an off-shooting night against a zone and a team is able to make jump shots over their length, Kentucky could slip in a one-and-done scenario.
2. Syracuse (29-1, 16-1)
The Orange still only have one blemish on their resume – a blowout loss at Notre Dame without indispensable center Fab Melo – but they haven't exactly been blowing away the opposition the last few weeks, edging West Virginia, Georgetown, Louisville and Connecticut by three points or less and barely getting by both USF and Rutgers with late runs. There's room for improvement, especially on the offensive boards where opponents are snagging 38.3 percent of available misses, one of the drawbacks of playing every possession in a zone defense where no specific man is assigned to keep off the glass. They compensate for plenty of those second-chance points with the best zone defense Jim Boeheim has employed in recent memory and a capacity to convert a Dion Waiters steal (tenth in steal percentage) or a Melo swat (fifth in block percentage) into a transition opportunity where the Orange excel. Their enviable depth also allows Boeheim to shuffle in and out as many as ten different players depending on opposing personnel, foul trouble, the flow of the game and Scoop Jardine's focus level.
3. Kansas (25-5, 15-2)
Thomas Robinson deservedly receives most of the accolades, but Tyshawn Taylor's been the best at his position in the Big 12 since conference play began. He's a matchup nightmare for opposing point guards because of his size, strong frame, quick first step and blazing end-to-end speed. Taylor is also efficient shooting the basketball from both inside (51 percent) and outside (44 percent) the arc while correcting his career-long battle with turnovers, committing just six or more in a game just twice during Big 12 play. With Elijah Johnson taking on more of a distributing role, Travis Releford as a glue guy defender and zero guard depth on the roster, the much-maligned Taylor has had to shoulder a heavy load and is a gigantic reason why Kansas continued their incredible streak of eight consecutive conference titles. Robinson and Taylor will pack a punch, but their prospects in March may come down to whether Jeff Withey can provide a third scoring option and Connor Teahan hits outside shots off the bench. Withey injured his ankle and played just nine minutes against Missouri, a loss that won't be absorbed so easily in the NCAA Tournament against a bigger frontline.
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Posted by zhayes9 on January 24th, 2012
Parity is the most overused expression in sports. Commissioners use it as a crutch to promote the competitive balance in their sport. When a small market teams upends their high-payroll counterparts to win a division championship, cries of parity rain from the masses. Any time there's an abundance of teams still fighting for a playoff spot on the last week of the season, you'll undoubtedly hear that parity has never been stronger.
As we geared up for another college basketball season last November, something strange happened: the word parity was nowhere to be found. We had just completed an off-season where a number of expected lottery picks – from North Carolina's Harrison Barnes to Ohio State's Jared Sullinger and Baylor's Perry Jones III – eschewed NBA riches for a return to esteemed programs. Following a Final Four that featured Butler and VCU, this was supposed to be the season where order was restored, the cream rose to the top and we could identify a privileged class of elite teams at the top of the rankings. The 2008 season, where four #1 seeds reached the Final Four, acted as a good comparison.
That expected narrative has been flipped on its head. Instead of "great" teams emerging after a two-year hiatus, there's as much turmoil as any season in recent memory. Winning on the road is seemingly unfeasible. There's turnover atop the rankings every single week. So called mid-majors are standing toe-to-toe with storied programs, evident by a three-loss Kansas team that fell to Davidson suddenly looking like a top-five outfit. Unpredictability is alive and well.
There are countless times in sports where that clichéd phrase parity is thrown around wildly and irresponsibly. The 2011-12 college basketball season is not one of those times.
Calipari's Wildcats are back atop the rankings
1. Kentucky (19-1, 5-0)- Incredibly, they still have not dropped a game at home during the John Calipari era. Alabama played uncharacteristically well on the offensive end, punched Kentucky in the mouth and the young Wildcats responded. The true tests of this team's mettle will be road visits to Vanderbilt (2/11), Mississippi State (2/21) and Florida (3/4). Kentucky ranks second in two-point field goal percentage and first in block percentage largely due to the presence of Anthony Davis inside, while freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist provides athleticism, scoring and toughness beyond his years. One concern has to be freshman point guard Marquis Teague, who has 17 assists and 16 turnovers during SEC play.
2. Syracuse (21-1, 8-1)- Dropping a road game in conference shouldn't send the Orange faithful to the nearest ledge, but the way in which they fell to Notre Dame was concerning. The Irish followed the blueprint of controlling tempo, limiting live-ball turnovers and making timely threes, while I felt Syracuse became panicky and erratic in their offense way too quickly. The loss of Fab Melo for an undetermined amount of time deprives Syracuse of a crucial shot-blocking presence on the back line of their zone. The Orange are still far and away the best team in the Big East, on track for a number one seed and Scoop Jardine played phenomenally against Cincinnati, but make them play a half-court game and Syracuse is far from invincible.
3. Missouri (18-1, 5-1)- The oft-repeated theme regarding Missouri was that a team with size, athleticism and length in the post would capitalize on the fact the Tigers only employ two players taller than 6 feet, 8 inches. While Kansas State exposed this flaw, Baylor's switching defenses had no answer for the most efficient offense in America. Missouri shoots a ridiculous 57% from two and ranks fourth in turnover rate, largely due to the proficiency of point guard Phil Pressey and his pick-and-roll partner Ricardo Ratliffe, who is on pace to break the all-time field goal percentage record. Missouri will be favored in every game the rest of the season, placing them on a fast track for the #1 seed in the St. Louis region.
4. Ohio State (17-3, 5-2)- My heart still tells me Ohio State will be playing on the first Monday in April and, unlike Syracuse, the Big Ten will sufficiently test them for the NCAA Tournament grind. The Buckeyes may have the best point guard (Craft) and center (Sullinger) in the country, but the departures of David Lighty and Jon Diebler has negatively affected William Buford, whose offensive rating and shooting percentages have dipped from last season. Make Craft go left, attack Thomas/Sullinger defensively, dare them to shoot threes and Ohio State is vulnerable. Two recent wins by a combined 51 points against Indiana and Nebraska leads me to believe the Brandon Paul Show in Champaign was a wakeup call.
5. Kansas (17-3, 7-0)- Nothing this season has changed my mind that Bill Self is one of the top five coaches in America. Think about it: the Jayhawks have won seven straight Big 12 titles, lost three draft picks, two more key senior contributors, two freshmen to academics, has no bench and once again sits at the top of the rankings. A major reason has been the progression of enigmatic point guard Tyshawn Taylor, who has scored 95 points on 58 percent shooting in his last four games while turning the ball over just 11 times, including zero in 34 minutes at Texas. Buoyed by Taylor and national POY frontrunner Thomas Robinson, Kansas' starting five can compete with anyone in the nation.
6. North Carolina (16-3, 3-1)- Store this factoid in mind for your bracket in March: no team has ever won it all after losing by 30 or more points during the season as the Heels did at Florida State last Saturday. They responded well in Blacksburg, but losing Dexter Strickland to a torn ACL is an extremely costly setback. Strickland is Roy Williams' preferred perimeter stopper, a task which must now be delegated to inexperienced sophomore Reggie Bullock. Strickland served as an efficient glue guy who simply knew his role. Carolina is still Final Four talented, though. They're a tremendous rebounding team that rarely turns the ball over and keeps you off the free throw line.
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CHRONICLE Helmer Set for A Stand-Alone STAR WARS Film
Second 'Star Wars' standalone hires 'Chronicle' director…
Late last month it was revealed that 'Godzilla' and 'Monsters' director Gareth Edwards had been set as the director for the first of Lucasfilm and Disney's stand-alone 'Star Wars' films.
Now it has been confirmed that writer-director Josh Trank of 'Chronicle' fame has closed a deal to take the helm of a second 'Star Wars' spin-off. "The magic of the Star Wars Universe defined my entire childhood," said Trank in a statement. "The opportunity to expand on that experience for future generations is the most incredible dream of all time."
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added "We're thrilled to welcome Josh into the family. He is such an incredible talent and has a great imagination and sense of innovation. That makes him perfectly suited to Star Wars, and for this new slate of movies that reach beyond the core characters and storylines of Episodes I through IX."
As with Edwards' stand-alone project, plot details for this second spin-off are firmly under wraps. Trank is currently busy prepping 20th Century Fox's reboot of 'The Fantastic Four.'


Nijinsky, with Lester Piggott up, wins the 1970 Epsom Derby. Photo: AP Photo/Staff/Worth.
First run on Sept. 24, 1776, less than three months after the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the St Leger at Doncaster is the oldest of the five Classic races that form the backbone of the flat season in Britain.
Run over 1 mile, 6 furlongs, and 132 yards, the St Leger is the longest of that classic quintet – the others are the 2,000 Guineas, 1,000 Guineas, Epsom Derby, and Epsom Oaks – and the stamina required to win this famous old race can prove a disincentive for top-level breeders, focused as they are on producing horses to excel over 10 or, at most, 12 furlongs.
West Australian in 1853 was the first of only 15 colts to have landed the Triple Crown, and nowadays, with glittering autumn prizes forming a distraction at home and overseas, the treble is rarely attempted. A measure of the enthusiasm of the British racing community to see the feat pulled off once more is that two years ago, a sweltering crowd of 32,000 (around 20 percent higher than normal at the track's biggest day) packed into Doncaster Racecourse with one thing in mind: To see Camelot, trained in the fabled Co. Tipperary yard Ballydoyle by Aidan O'Brien, become the first horse in more than 40 years to land the Triple Crown.
Sent off 2-to-5 favourite, Camelot was narrowly denied his place in racing's most select roll of honour, beaten three-quarters of a length by 25-to-1 outsider Encke, trained by Mahmood Al Zarooni – who, within a few months, was to prove the villain of the Godolphin anabolic steroids scandal.
In 1970, 42 years before Camelot's thwarted attempt at racing immortality, another colt trained by an O'Brien (no relation) at Ballydoyle became the 15th and latest Triple Crown winner, a horse whose name resounds across the decades, an equine superstar whose frailties simply added to his magnetic appeal: Nijinsky.
By August 1968, Vincent O'Brien, master of Ballydoyle, was already garlanded as the nonpareil among the ranks of European trainers. Among his owners was Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., the American minerals tycoon who, it was said, was the model for Goldfinger in the James Bond novel. An owner on a large scale, Engelhard had kept horses with O'Brien for several years, and he asked the trainer to go over to to E.P. Taylor's Windfields Farm near Toronto to look at a potential yearling purchase, a colt by Ribot.
"This other horse" was a bay colt from the second crop of the great Canadian champion Northern Dancer, and on O'Brien's recommendation, Engelhard bought the youngster for CAD$84,000 ($77,000) – a Canadian record – at the sales a few weeks later. As pioneer of Northern Dancer blood in Europe, this colt was to prove a pivotal figure in racing history.
On arrival at Ballydoyle, Nijinsky posed a problem.
Despite earning a home reputation for non-cooperation – "I am somewhat concerned about Nijinsky's temperament," O'Brien wrote to Engelhard, "and that he is inclined to resent getting on with his work" – in 1969, the colt posted an unblemished juvenile record, winning four races at the Curragh before going to Newmarket for the prestigious Dewhurst Stakes, and his first encounter with the man who was to play such a central role in his story. Lester Piggott was not inclined to get emotional about the horses he rode, so his recollection that "with Nijinsky, it really was love at first sight" has a special significance.
Nijinsky won the Dewhurst easily, and in spring 1970, after winning at the Curragh in the hands of O'Brien's stable jockey Liam Ward (who rode Nijinsky in all his Irish races), was reunited with Piggott for the 2,000 Guineas, which he won easily from Yellow God.
Nijinsky did indeed win the Derby for her – and for his rapidly increasing legions of admirers – but he nearly did not run. Unknown to the outside world, the colt had suffered a severe bout of colic the day before the race, and for a while, his participation was in doubt. But he recovered well enough and went off 11-to-8 favourite – the only time in his 13-race career he started at odds against. He won by 2 ½ lengths from the top-class French colt Gyr.
Now the debate began. Should Nijinsky be trained for the St Leger in mid-September, when he would surely become the first Triple Crown winner in 35 years since Bahram in 1935? Or should he miss Doncaster and his training programme be focused entirely on preparation for the Prix de l'Arc Triomphe at Longchamp on the first Sunday of October? The Arc was his major autumn target, and victory in Europe's most prestigious race would guarantee gigantic earnings as a stallion, but the Leger – and thus the Triple Crown – looked there for the taking.
A week after the King George, the debate suddenly seemed academic, for Nijinsky had contracted the virulent skin disease ringworm.
At the end of August, with the St Leger coming inexorably closer, Nijinsky was still in such a sorry state that he could not be ridden for more than 10 minutes or he would bleed. Going to Doncaster seemed increasingly unlikely, but then came another twist.
Charles Engelhard's own health was deteriorating – an addiction to Coca-Cola did not help – and well aware that a Triple Crown victory for Nijinsky would bring his owner turf immortality, Engelhard persuaded Vincent to get Nijinsky to Doncaster for the St Leger if he could. And when Nijinsky started showing signs of recovery, his training regime was restructured, with Doncaster the next stop.
The police had chosen not to inform Piggott that he was a target, and his mind was soon back on the immediate matter in hand – renewing his acquaintance with Nijinsky in the paddock.
"I had not clapped eyes on him since Ascot, and to my mind the gleam in his eye was a little dimmed, and he seemed quieter than usual as we went through the preliminaries," Piggot said. Perhaps, thought his jockey, the colt – who started at odds of 2-to-7 – was still feeling the after-effects of his illness.
The race seemed straightforward enough, as Piggott recorded: "He walked sweetly into the stalls, jumped out well and settled. Looking to find any limit to Nijinsky's stamina, the leaders set a good gallop, and with a mile to go there was only one horse behind us, but the pace was beginning to tell on the front-runners and one by one they fell back.
"With its long, wide home straight, Doncaster is no place for a horse with suspect stamina and I did not want to get to the front too soon, but after the three-furlong marker, I asked Nijinsky to move up, and he steadily sidled past his rivals until hitting the front 300 yards out to a tremendous roar from the crowd. At the post we were a length in front of Meadowville.
Nijinsky's winning the Triple Crown was a magnificent achievement, but it came at a price.
"The Leger would not have helped his preparation for the Arc," O'Brien reflected, and 22 days later, Nijinsky was controversially beaten in Paris – his first defeat following 11 successive wins.
For Piggott, the writing had been on the wall before the race.
The Triple Crown winner was beaten a head by Sassafras, and argument raged about whether Piggott had left too much ground for Nijinsky to make up in the short straight. The rider was characteristically unapologetic.
"Certainly Nijinsky would have won had he not swerved almost in the shadow of the post, and certainly he would have won had his initial finishing run not been blocked on the final bend," Piggott said.
But no matter how many times you studied the replay of that contentious contest, Nijinsky had been beaten, and with retirement beckoning, Engelhard and O'Brien agreed that the colt should have one more race, in order to end a famous career on a winning note.
Thirteen days after the Arc, Nijinsky was at Newmarket for the Champion Stakes, and again Piggott entered the paddock to an alarming sight.
So Nijinsky's racing career ended on a resounding down-beat, but at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, he was to prove one of the great stallions of the modern era, siring a steady stream of top-notch horses including Epsom Derby winners Golden Fleece, Shahrastani, and Lammtarra, plus Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand (indeed, he remains the only stallion to sire the winners of both the Kentucky and Epsom Derbys in the same year – Ferdinand and Shahrastani in 1985).
Two other winners of the Derby at Epsom, Kahyasi and Generous, were his grandsons, and of the dozens of other top-class horses he sired, mention must be made of O'Brien-trained Royal Academy, whose astounding win in the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park just 12 days after Piggott's extraordinary return to the saddle was one of the greatest moments of all.
Charles Engelhard, the last man to own a Triple Crown winner, died in March 1971 at the age of 54, and Vincent O'Brien, greatest of all trainers, in June 2009.
Nijinsky himself lived to the good equine age of 25 before he was put down in 1992 on account of worsening health problems.
He was a great racehorse – not perfect, but his imperfections as well as his towering talent ensured his lasting place in the affections of all who saw him run; and especially those who were at Doncaster in September 1970 to see him land the Triple Crown and join racing's crème de la crème.


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Rocker Gene Simmons' Home Searched by Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
Tim Brown / August 21, 2015
Rocker Gene Simmons , of the group KISS , recently had his home searched by the Los Angeles Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. However, the department is saying that the search had nothing to do with the family. So, why the search?
ETOnline reports:
The LAPD Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force searched Simmons home in the Benedict Canyon area on Thursday at 8 a.m, Sgt. Mike Lopez told ET.
"The Simmons family was extremely cooperative and no members of the Simmons family are suspected in the case," Sgt. Lopez said.
The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force helps "state and local agencies to develop effective, sustainable responses to online child victimization and child pornography," according to their website.
TMZ reported that sources revealed to them that someone downloaded child porn onto either one of their computers or used their internet access to do so. At the time of the alleged download, Simmons was on tour and away from his home.
"Neither Mr. Simmons nor any member of his family is a Person Of Interest in the investigation and they are cooperating fully with the investigation," said a spokesman for Simmons. "At this time, the police have requested that Mr. Simmons and his family not discuss the investigation publicly so as not to compromise it."
Simmons tweeted out:
FOR THE TECORD. http://t.co/3T3QplwGSm
— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) August 21, 2015
His wife followed up with this tweet:
Thanks for your support. We couldn't be more horrified that someone used our residence for such heinous crimes. Law enforcement is on it.
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) August 21, 2015
The first question that comes to mind is how would the LAPD know that such things were being downloaded. Second, why would they wait nearly a year later to investigate? Could it be that this is somehow tied to the Jared Fogle crimes?
Simmons, who came to stardom from being "dirt poor," has been married to his wife Shannon Tweed Simmons for nearly 4 years, though the couple have lived together for 30 years. They have two grown children, Nick and Sophie.
Simmons has also been very politically outspoken in recent years, blasting Barack Obama as a "piss poor president" and taking up for football quarterback Tim Tebow against those criticizing his Christian faith.
KISS has been known for many songs that glorify sexual immorality and other depravity. One song in particular, Goin' Blind , from the album "Hotter than Hell ," is a song in which a 93-year-old man is drawn towards a 16-year-old girl. And then there is Christine Sixteen .
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. -Luke 6:45
While Simmons is not necessarily a role model for anyone, one does have to wonder what is going on. Even if Simmons was away from home, there are a variety of programs that access one's computer while away from home. I don't understand why that would not come into play in the search.
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Gears of War Tactics release date and trailer finally confirmed
Among many other exciting reveals during the 2019 Game Awards, the Gears of War Tactics release date landed alongside a teaser trailer to show off the new Gears strategy title. The Gears Tactics release date is due to arrive on Xbox One and PC next year on April 28th.
Gears of War Tactics release date, what else do we know?
Following the reveal of the Gears of War Tactics release date last week we then got a further update from Rod Fergusson, Studio Head of The Coalition to say that the game will not feature any microtransactions, which is great, but went on to say there'd be no multiplayer mode whatsoever either!
For those asking, #GearsTactics is single player and has no micro transactions. Not even cosmetic ones. Everything is earned in game.
— Rod Fergusson (@GearsViking) December 13, 2019
Gears Tactics made its debut at E3 2018, essentially showing off the series' entry into the strategy genre. The game is a Gears of War spin-off which is set before the events of the very first Gears of War, specifically set twelve years prior. The game was a no-show at E3 2019 however, but thanks to the new trailer below The Coalition has certainly redeemed itself.
The Gears Tactics trailer above is the most we've seen so far from the gameplay and any kind of cinematics. Phoenix Point certainly springs to mind for the type of real-time strategy focus being used, although the huge monsters, heavy weaponry and the shits and giggles we know from the Gears franchise have all been added.
Gears Tactics will be a turn-based title, where you'll set up barriers between you and your enemies across the map, chucking explosives and firing bullets until one of you is taken down. As a player of these types of strategy games, I'm going in with an open mind that this instalment will be good. The tweet from Fergusson above is welcome news in terms of microtransactions for Gears Tactics, often proving to be more of a bane than something we actually want in-game. Although on the flip side, multiplayer would have been a welcome addition, there we go.
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The Italians also had a class of cab forwards, the Gruppo 670, late Gr.671 (43 were built), which were 4-6-0s with a six wheel tender for water only. The coal was carried in a bunker above and alongside the firebox.
The front of a Gr670 4-6-0 Cab-Forward with the fire box was above the front bogie.
Steam Locomotive with double expansion.
Steam Locomotive with double expansion, with over heat steam system.
Valves "Papa" type. Increased the number of pipes of boiler.
The 4-6-0 was a 4-cylinder compound on the Plancher system. There were two LP cylinders on one side, and two HP on the other. To fit them in, one LP cylinder and one HP cylinder was mounted between the frames.
There was also a class of four cylinder 0-10-0s, also Planchers, built for banking duties north out of Genoa that were Tank engines with the coal supply located as on the Gr. 670, but all their water supply was carried in four wheel tenders that could be positioned at either end of the engine, so that sometimes they too were cab forwards.
The rear of a Gr670 4-6-0, showing two LP cylinders this side, and two HP on the far side.
The engines were four cylinder Plancher compounds and hauled passenger trains down the east coast of Italy.
All the above engines were affectionately known by their crews as "Muccas" (Cows!). They were originally designed like that because of legislation that decreed that between loco and train there had to be an empty wagon, which wasn't helpful on steeply graded lines so the "tender" sufficed. Most of these were eventually converted to conventional tender engines, but 470.092 survived in original condition in the Science Museum in Milan.
The tender was a cylindrical tank and carried only water.
This loco was a four-cylinder compound with side coal-bunkers, which look rather small in capacity. Apparently coal was also carried on the roof. The difficulty of getting coal from a rear tender seems to have been the major disincentive to building the cabforward configuration.
This 4-6-0 locomotive was designed in 1900, for the Southern Adriatic railway. A prototype was exhibited at the International Railway Congress in Paris. It must have been a success, because locos of this design were working the most prestigious Milan-Bologna expresses in 1922, and in 1932 were still working on the Milan-Verona-Venice run.
They finally ceased work in the early 1940's.
There was also a single Gr. 672 built that was similar, but was used to try out the Franco system of pre-heating the feed water.
The Gr. 672 was a 671 adapted to the Franco - Crosti boiler system.
The idea behind the Franco-Crosti boiler system was to make better use of the heat remaining in the exhaust. The firebox gases go through a normal boiler and then a preheater, which heats the feedwater before it reaches the boiler. Here a big pipe carries the hot gases from the boiler to the preheater which has replaced the tender. The exhaust steam from the cylinders is piped back to a blastpipe just below the chimney at the rear of the preheater.
The Franco - Crosti Gr. 672 4-6-0 with its casing in place.


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This project is a simple way to get up and running with the [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/) + [Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash) + [Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana) stack, commonly referred to as the ELK stack.

The intention is to understand its set up and configuration in depth with some simple examples of an application generating some simple logs and a web server logging its requests.

## Dependencies
* [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/)
* [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)
* [Golang 1.x](https://golang.org/dl/)
* [cURL](https://curl.haxx.se/download.html)

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Once you have all the dependencies installed and correctly configured to bring up the ELK stack simply run
`./go.sh run`

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* The first application (`simple-app`) is just a simple binary file which will generate a random magic number and log it.
* The second application (`web-server`) is a simple web server application which will log the requests sent to that web server.

The web server will be running on port 8080 so you can make requests to `localhost:8080` or you can run the `./makeRequests.sh` script which will do this for you.
You will need to run this in a separate terminal window after you have brought up the ELK stack.

## Credits

* [Joe Sustaric](https://github.com/joesustaric) for updating everything to use Docker Compose and writing a readme


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A new automated aerial vehicle uses an extremely thin wire tethered to the ground to transmit power and data.
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Drones could become useful for surveillance and remote monitoring in many industries, and perhaps one day will even ferry the latest Amazon order to your front door. But there's one big limiting factor: drones can stay in the air for only so long on a charge.
The Parc drone developed by CyPhy Works.
Not the latest model developed by the Boston-based drone maker CyPhy Works, though. Called Parc, the drone can perform aerial surveillance indefinitely, using a "microfilament" that transmits power and data. Of course the fact that it's tethered means the drone can't travel very far. CyPhy Works expects it to be used for reconnaissance or as a communications relay.
Parc was launched as a commercial product this week, after CyPhy Works received an exemption allowing customers to fly the drone for commercial purposes. "It's basically a robot with unlimited time-of-flight," said Helen Greiner, the founder of CyPhy Works, speaking this week at the EmTech 2015 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "You send it up and it stays there."
The six-rotor Parc carries a high-resolution camera capable of producing infrared footage for night vision. The microfilament tether is thinner than a headphone cable but strong enough to reel the drone in if necessary. The drone can be set to fly completely automatically at a specific altitude.
CyPhy Works is also developing a small untethered drone for hobbyists and a unique kind of delivery drone. The delivery drone has rotors that can swivel, allowing the aircraft to fly more like a plane, making its flight more energy-efficient. Greiner said this drone would be able to carry a five-pound payload for five miles.
Earlier this month the company received $22 million in funding from several venture capital firms as well as UPS, which has said it is interested in exploring drone delivery.
Google committed this week to delivering products by drone by 2017, but Greiner believes that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration would probably delay that.
"By 2020 you will be seeing drone delivery," Greiner said. "Technically we could do it earlier, but if you've been involved in the struggle with the FAA since the ′90s you would not place a bet that they would allow larger, non-line-of-sight vehicles to fly over populated cities."
Currently, the FAA allows people to fly drones for recreational purposes as long as they maintain a light of sight with the drone, and as long as the vehicle stays below 400 feet, stays at least five miles from an airport, and is flown only in daytime. But the FAA is preparing to require amateur drone users to register their aircraft, and it hopes to have the rules for that in place by next month.
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Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day, Number to Know and This Day in History.
Reconcile REK-un-syle (verb) To restore to friendship or harmony; settle, resolve; to cause to submit to or accept something unpleasant -- www.merriam-webster.com
Web Site of the Day
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Kids can find info about their favorite books, series and authors on this site. There are reviews of the newest titles, interviews with popular authors and special features on children's books. Fun options include trivia games, word scrambles and contests.
Number to Know
3: Number of rushing touchdowns by Terrell Davis in Super Bowl XXXII. Davis is the only player to rush for three touchdowns in the big game, and he's tied with three other players for most non-passing touchdowns, each with three TDs: Roger Craig (Super Bowl XIX), Jerry Rice (XXIV) and Ricky Watters (XXIX).
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Red Card for Outsourced Laundry
With four training days during the week leading up to match day on Saturday, Falkirk FC's laundry needs are extremely demanding.
For 12 years, Falkirk FC outsourced the laundry of all garments worn by players, including kits, socks, bibs and waterproof jackets. The club's kitman regularly had to haul the kit, often in busy traffic, to a laundrette and it was a lengthy and challenging task to make sure it was clean and ready for training and match days. Having little control over how items are laundered also meant that the club couldn't decide for itself what detergent was used, or what temperature wash the kits should be laundered at.
Outsourcing laundry was also having a financial impact on the club. The squad and reserve team train and work out in the gym on the same day, and wear different clothing for each session. This meant up to 40 t-shirts, shorts and pairs of socks needed to be washed in one day, easily racking up a substantial laundry bill for the club in a short space of time.
Falkirk FC decided that it was time to take a whole new approach to its washing requirements and make the leap to on-premise laundry (OPL). The first challenge was finding a space for a laundry room. Using contractors, the club made a storage room into an area suitable for washing machines and tumble dryers. When managers began looking for appliances, they came across local white goods supplier Thain Commercial, and as commercial laundry experts who also happened to be big football fans, they were clearly the right fit for the job. The club's managers were looking for machines that offer programmes that specialise in washing muddy clothes. With this in mind, they selected two Miele PWT6089 washing machines and two Miele PTT7189 tumble dryers. Thain Commercial installed the machines in the new laundry room in a matter of days.
With new machines installed, Falkirk FC's kitman can now wash items as soon as the players are finished with them. As trips to the launderette are no longer required, the kitman can organise the laundry according to the club's schedule of training, gym sessions and match days.
Now in greater control of the laundry process, the club's kitman can ensure clothing that gets muddied easily, such as t-shirts and shorts, is put on a specialist sports setting that thoroughly washes the items. Detergent choice is also now down to the club, so all kits comes out of the machines smelling fresh and ready for players to wear. Investing in OPL has proved to be a successful long-term financial investment for Falkirk FC. Removing the need to outsource laundry, the club is no longer faced with high laundry bills every week for the dozens of items the team uses.
Willie O'Neil, kitman at Falkirk FC says: "While fans only see our players on match days, our players spend the week training to stay on top of their game. As a result, laundry is a daily task. Now that we have an OPL facility, I can wash garments there and then, making the process much less burdensome than when we were outsourcing the service.
"Introducing OPL meant turning a room from a storage facility into something that could accommodate washing machines and tumble dryers, so it was a big upheaval. But Thain Commercial made our transition to OPL seamless, and the team are on hand if any issues occur."
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