September 27, 1996: Signed Matt Bullard as a free agent.
October 1, 1996: Signed Matt Maloney as a free agent.
October 1, 1996: Signed Joe Stephens as a free agent.
November 27, 1996: Signed Elmer Bennett to a 10-day contract.
February 12, 1997: Signed Joe Stephens to a 10-day contract.
March 1, 1997: Signed Sedale Threatt to a contract for the rest of the season.
March 3, 1997: Signed Eddie Johnson to a contract for the rest of the season.
June 25, 1997: Selected Rodrick Rhodes (1st round, 24th pick) in the 1997 NBA Draft.
July 26, 1997: Signed Joe Stephens as a free agent.
October 28, 1997: Traded Sam Mack to the Vancouver Grizzlies for a 2000 2nd round draft pick (Jake Voskuhl was later selected).
June 9, 1998: Traded Kevin Willis to the Toronto Raptors for Roy Rogers, a 1998 1st round draft pick (Bryce Drew was later selected) and a 1998 1st round draft pick (Mirsad Turkcan was later selected).
June 24, 1998: Selected Michael Dickerson (1st round, 14th pick), Bryce Drew (1st round, 16th pick), Mirsad Turkcan (1st round, 18th pick) and Cuttino Mobley (2nd round, 41st pick) in the 1998 NBA Draft.
January 21, 1999: Signed John Coker as a free agent.
January 21, 1999: Traded Mirsad Turkcan to the Philadelphia 76ers for a 2003 1st round draft pick (Carlos Delfino was later selected).
January 21, 1999: Signed Anthony Miller as a free agent.
January 22, 1999: Traded Roy Rogers and a 2000 2nd round draft pick (Jake Voskuhl was later selected) to the Chicago Bulls for Scottie Pippen.
January 22, 1999: Signed Antoine Carr as a free agent.
February 5, 1999: Signed Stanley Roberts as a free agent.
March 11, 1999: Traded Rodrick Rhodes to the Vancouver Grizzlies for Sam Mack.
June 30, 1999: Selected Kenny Thomas (1st round, 22nd pick) and Venson Hamilton (2nd round, 50th pick) in the 1999 NBA Draft.
August 27, 1999: As part of a 3-team trade, the Houston Rockets traded Antoine Carr, Michael Dickerson, Othella Harrington, Brent Price and a 2003 1st round draft pick (Marcus Banks was later selected) to the Vancouver Grizzlies; the Orlando Magic traded Don MacLean and a 2001 1st round draft pick (Jason Collins was later selected) to the Houston Rockets; the Orlando Magic traded a 2002 2nd round draft pick (Matt Barnes was later selected) to the Vancouver Grizzlies; the Vancouver Grizzlies traded Steve Francis and Tony Massenburg to the Houston Rockets; and the Vancouver Grizzlies traded Lee Mayberry, Makhtar N'Diaye, Rodrick Rhodes and Michael Smith to the Orlando Magic.
September 2, 1999: Signed Thomas Hamilton as a free agent.
September 29, 1999: Signed Shandon Anderson as a free agent.
October 2, 1999: Traded Scottie Pippen to the Portland Trail Blazers for Stacey Augmon, Kelvin Cato, Ed Gray, Carlos Rogers, Brian Shaw and Walt Williams.
December 10, 1999: Signed Devin Gray as a free agent.
January 6, 2000: Signed Anthony Miller to the first of two 10-day contracts.
January 7, 2000: Signed Devin Gray to the first of two 10-day contracts.
January 13, 2000: Signed Bill Curley to the first of two 10-day contracts.
January 26, 2000: Signed Anthony Miller to a contract for the rest of the season.
January 27, 2000: Signed Devin Gray to a contract for the rest of the season.
February 8, 2000: Signed Moochie Norris to the first of two 10-day contracts.
February 28, 2000: Signed Moochie Norris to a contract for the rest of the season.
June 28, 2000: Selected Joel Przybilla (1st round, 9th pick) and Eduardo Najera (2nd round, 38th pick) in the 2000 NBA Draft.
June 28, 2000: Traded Joel Przybilla to the Milwaukee Bucks for Jason Collier and a 2001 1st round draft pick (Jeryl Sasser was later selected).
June 28, 2000: Traded Eduardo Najera and a 2001 2nd round draft pick (Kyle Hill was later selected) to the Dallas Mavericks for Dan Langhi.
August 25, 2000: Signed Maurice Taylor as a free agent.
September 28, 2000: Traded Bryce Drew to the Chicago Bulls for a 2005 2nd round draft pick (Robert Whaley was later selected) and a 2006 2nd round draft pick (Dee Brown was later selected).
December 8, 2000: Signed Anthony Miller as a free agent.
February 28, 2001: Signed Sean Colson to two 10-day contracts, then signed to a contract for the rest of the season.
June 2, 2001: As part of a 3-team trade, the Detroit Pistons traded a 2005 1st round draft pick (Fran Vazquez was later selected) to the Orlando Magic; and the Orlando Magic traded a 2001 1st round draft pick (Brandon Armstrong was later selected) and a 2001 1st round draft pick (Jeryl Sasser was later selected) to the Houston Rockets.
June 27, 2001: Selected Richard Jefferson (1st round, 13th pick), Jason Collins (1st round, 18th pick) and Brandon Armstrong (1st round, 23rd pick) in the 2001 NBA Draft.
June 27, 2001: Traded a 2003 1st round draft pick (Carlos Delfino was later selected) to the Atlanta Hawks for Terence Morris.
June 27, 2001: Traded Brandon Armstrong, Jason Collins and Richard Jefferson to the New Jersey Nets for Eddie Griffin.
August 2, 2001: Traded Hakeem Olajuwon to the Toronto Raptors for a 2002 1st round draft pick (Bostjan Nachbar was later selected) and a 2002 2nd round draft pick (Tito Maddox was later selected).
August 10, 2001: As part of a 3-team trade, the Houston Rockets traded Shandon Anderson to the New York Knicks; the Dallas Mavericks traded Kyle Hill to the Houston Rockets; the Dallas Mavericks traded Howard Eisley to the New York Knicks; the New York Knicks traded Muggsy Bogues to the Dallas Mavericks; and the New York Knicks traded Glen Rice to the Houston Rockets. Dallas also received a trade exception from Houston.
September 10, 2001: Signed Oscar Torres as a free agent.
September 26, 2001: Signed Tierre Brown as a free agent.
October 1, 2001: Signed Damon Jones as a free agent.
October 22, 2001: Traded a 2002 2nd round draft pick (Dan Gadzuric was later selected) to the Milwaukee Bucks for Kevin Willis.
June 26, 2002: Selected Yao Ming (1st round, 1st pick), Bostjan Nachbar (1st round, 15th pick) and Tito Maddox (2nd round, 38th pick) in the 2002 NBA Draft.
September 30, 2002: Signed Juaquin Hawkins as a free agent.
December 18, 2002: As part of a 3-team trade, the Houston Rockets traded Kenny Thomas to the Philadelphia 76ers; the Houston Rockets traded a 2004 2nd round draft pick (Vassilis Spanoulis was later selected) to the Denver Nuggets; the Denver Nuggets traded James Posey to the Houston Rockets; and the Philadelphia 76ers traded Mark Bryant, Art Long and a 2005 1st round draft pick (Joey Graham was later selected) to the Denver Nuggets.
June 11, 2003: Traded a 2005 2nd round draft pick (Dijon Thompson was later selected) to the New York Knicks for Jeff Van Gundy (coach).
July 26, 2003: Signed Eric Piatkowski as a free agent.
August 7, 2003: Signed Adrian Griffin as a free agent.
September 8, 2003: Signed Mike Wilks as a free agent.
September 8, 2003: Signed Alex Scales as a free agent.
September 9, 2003: Signed Torraye Braggs as a free agent.
September 30, 2003: Traded Glen Rice, a 2004 2nd round draft pick (Pavel Podkolzin was later selected), a 2005 2nd round draft pick (Robert Whaley was later selected) and a 2006 2nd round draft pick (Dee Brown was later selected) to the Utah Jazz for John Amaechi and a 2004 2nd round draft pick (Luis Flores was later selected). Houston also received a trade exception from Utah.
September 30, 2003: Signed Jim Jackson as a free agent.
October 16, 2003: Signed Anthony Miller as a free agent.
October 28, 2003: Signed Scott Padgett as a free agent.
November 9, 2003: Signed Alton Ford as a free agent.
November 23, 2003: Signed Alton Ford as a free agent.
December 30, 2003: Traded John Amaechi and Moochie Norris to the New York Knicks for Clarence Weatherspoon.
January 15, 2004: Signed Mark Jackson as a free agent.
March 18, 2004: Signed Charles Oakley to the first of two 10-day contracts.
June 24, 2004: Selected Luis Flores (2nd round, 55th pick) in the 2004 NBA Draft.
June 24, 2004: Traded Luis Flores to the Dallas Mavericks for Vassilis Spanoulis.
June 29, 2004: Traded Kelvin Cato, Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley to the Orlando Magic for Reece Gaines, Juwan Howard, Tyronn Lue and Tracy McGrady.
August 9, 2004: Signed Bob Sura as a free agent.
August 9, 2004: Signed Charlie Ward as a free agent.
September 8, 2004: Traded Adrian Griffin, Eric Piatkowski and Mike Wilks to the Chicago Bulls for Dikembe Mutombo.
September 30, 2004: Signed Ryan Bowen as a free agent.
October 4, 2004: Signed Derrick Zimmerman as a free agent.
October 28, 2004: Signed Andre Barrett as a free agent.
December 23, 2004: Traded Tyronn Lue to the Atlanta Hawks for Jon Barry.
December 27, 2004: Traded Jim Jackson and Bostjan Nachbar to the New Orleans Hornets for David Wesley.
January 15, 2005: Signed Brandin Knight to a 10-day contract.
January 19, 2005: Signed Rod Strickland as a free agent.
February 24, 2005: Traded Maurice Taylor to the New York Knicks for Vin Baker, Moochie Norris and a 2006 2nd round draft pick (Steve Novak was later selected).
February 24, 2005: Traded Reece Gaines, a 2006 2nd round draft pick (David Noel was later selected) and a 2007 2nd round draft pick (Ramon Sessions was later selected) to the Milwaukee Bucks for Zendon Hamilton and Mike James.
March 19, 2005: Signed Torraye Braggs as a free agent.
June 28, 2005: Selected Luther Head (1st round, 24th pick) in the 2005 NBA Draft.
August 2, 2005: Signed Stromile Swift as a free agent.
August 22, 2005: Signed Derek Anderson as a free agent.
September 8, 2005: Signed Lonny Baxter as a free agent.
October 3, 2005: Signed Keith Langford as a free agent.
October 4, 2005: Traded Mike James to the Toronto Raptors for Rafer Alston.
October 5, 2005: Signed Chuck Hayes as a free agent.
December 9, 2005: Signed John Lucas III as a free agent.
December 11, 2005: Signed Stephen Graham as a free agent.
December 29, 2005: Signed Josh Davis as a free agent.
January 18, 2006: Signed Chuck Hayes to a 10-day contract, then signed to a contract for the rest of the season.
February 9, 2006: Traded Lonny Baxter to the Charlotte Bobcats for Keith Bogans.
February 13, 2006: Traded Moochie Norris to the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets for Maciej Lampe.
February 23, 2006: Traded Derek Anderson to the Miami Heat for Gerald Fitch. Houston also received a trade exception from Miami.
June 28, 2006: Selected Rudy Gay (1st round, 8th pick) and Steve Novak (2nd round, 32nd pick) in the 2006 NBA Draft.
June 28, 2006: Purchased Lior Eliyahu from the Orlando Magic.
July 12, 2006: Traded Rudy Gay and Stromile Swift to the Memphis Grizzlies for Shane Battier.
July 14, 2006: Traded a 2008 2nd round draft pick (Maarty Leunen was later selected) to the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets for Kirk Snyder and a 2008 2nd round draft pick (Sasha Kaun was later selected).
October 2, 2006: Signed Scott Padgett as a free agent.
October 20, 2006: Signed Bonzi Wells as a free agent.
February 13, 2007: Traded Scott Padgett to the Memphis Grizzlies for Jake Tsakalidis.


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Women In Energy: Rosa Escobar
The Women in Energy series is a joint project between USEA and USAID that was developed out of USEA's Engendering Utilities Partnership, a program funded by USAID to improve gender policies and gender outcomes at their respective organizations.
Every month we feature a woman who has shown exemplary leadership. We want to showcase your story this month. The women among you come from diverse backgrounds and roles, and they bring with them a unique perspective to gender equality within the energy sector.
Rosa N. Escobar is the Engineering Manager at LAGEO, S.A. de C.V., the only company that generates electricity through Geothermal Resources in El Salvador, Central America. Among the Key functions is the development and Management of all the Geothermal Projects, from design to construction and commissioning, which guarantees the maintenance of existing geothermal fields and the development of new fields in El Salvador. She is also in charge of developing low enthalpy projects, directly using geothermal energy for productive projects, such as coffee and cocoa drying. From the management position, the standards on industrial safety and respect for the environment are fundamental pillars for the successes of the projects; the company's environmental unit is also under her charge.
Architect, with studies in Business Administration and specialization in Geothermal, Rosa Escobar, has been supporting the constructive part for the optimizations and improvements of the existing fields Ahuachapán and Berlin, as well as the exploration and development of the new geothermal fields of San Vicente and Chinameca.
In 2019, she had the privilege of being awarded the "GEOTHERMAL LEADERSHIP MVP" award in Geolac, which is the most important geothermal congress for Latin America and the Caribbean and is held every year in different countries.
She is currently the ambassador for El Salvador for WING (women in geothermal energy), which has led to the increase of more women in this industry, and specific training has been developed for those employed in office and geothermal plants.
Within the geothermal company where she has been working for 21 years, she has been recognized for practicing the values of Passion and Teamwork, two values that are part of the values of the company and that year after year the most representative employee is rewarded.
She has actively participated in the organization and realization of the Geothermal Diploma Course, which year after year is carried out in LAGEO with the support of the Icelandic government, as well as in the realization of short courses in Geothermal and Direct Uses of Geothermal Energy from which Latin American and Caribbean professionals participates.
*USEA does not alter the substance of the responses from the women featured. The answers are their own.
Women in Energy Interview Questions
How have your education and career path led you to where you are now?
"I'm the only daughter among 3 siblings, my parents come from a traditional family, in my family I was the person who brought the idea of equality and what we were given was the result of effort and struggle, not for being male or female. I loved to design clothes, that was my passion as a child, but in El Salvador there were no design studios at that time (90s), so I became interested in architecture, and with that I worked hard on developing my creativity and the resolution of spatial problems. My first and only job has been in LAGEO, I joined the company 21 years ago, and since the first day I have been able to learn about each geothermal process, I have lived in the geothermal fields of El Salvador, and I have been present in the geothermal development of my country since 1998. I never said "I can't do that job", that doesn't mean I never felt fear, fear is normal when something is new, but I learn to see every problem as a challenge and my profession helped me to apply creativity to solve all the challenges that I went through. In LAGEO I have been trained in many areas: geothermal, social, environmental, administrative, etc., and one of the main pillars in which I have always supported myself in my work is GOD, and now that I am in engineering management leading a group of excellent professionals, I continue to learn, and although my passion as a child and my university studies were not initially synchronized with geothermal energy, LIFE brought me here, and the passion I put into things made me love my work and leave the best of me in every design, in every construction, in every decision and in what I do in the geothermal industry."
Over the course of your career, have you witnessed changes in the sector that have launched more women into leadership positions?
"Definitely yes, and I am an example of that.
I reflect on the issue of equality, and I think that since a girl decides to study a university degree, at least in my country there is a cultural influence that some careers are for men, as an influence it does not allow more women to exist in the scientific and technical fields, leaving less professional women for Geothermal Energy, however this is changing, and an example of this is the participation of more professional women in the geothermal graduates that are taught at LAGEO every year, young people from Latin America are chosen to train in geothermal for 6 months, this program supported by the Icelandic government, has allowed many women to train and return to their countries with a specialty in geothermal energy, and be future leaders in their companies.
... and we can go further, and reflect that being a leader is not synonymous with having a high position, you can also be a leader of a group of working women, and in this sense in LAGEO geothermal plants I have witnessed the increase of women in jobs that men traditionally did, I have seen women working in the major maintenance of the condensation units, women working 10 or 15 meters high in a cooling tower, or women working in the maintenance of a geothermal turbine. This is changing, and the WING project (Women in Geothermal) has helped us a lot to introduce the subject, to raise awareness, to spread our wings and fly."
Technology is transforming the traditional utility business model into a more modern interactive grid. Some utilities view this transformation as an opportunity to focus on change management and diversity. Research provides compelling evidence that inclusion and diversity unlock innovation and drives better business performance. What, if anything, is your organization doing to attract, retain, and promote more women into senior management positions to respond to the dramatic industry transformation?
"LAGEO is known as a reference in the region in the geothermal issue, with experience in geothermal energy that dates back to the 1960s, LAGEO has encouraged many women in these years for training and in important positions within the company. Many women who have such a great experience in geothermal energy were benefited with training abroad, there is a training program that will allow more women to be trained in different areas, and on the other hand, there has been training directed to women in the past six months in the Geothermal fields where they were taught about gender equality, leadership, entrepreneurship, sorority, emotional intelligence, among other topics. In the last 3 months of the year 2019 in LAGEO a considerable number of women have been recruited for different areas, managing to move from 23% to 25% of women's participation within the company, this is due to the leadership and vision of the presidency of the company and, in general, government support at the national level so that more women participate in strategic positions."
Are talented women within your organization making it to top leadership positions? Why/why not?
"No woman has reached a first line management position yet, but there are women that have leadership positions in the company and it's not only me, in other areas as the administrative and laboratory there are woman in leadership positions, we are overcoming this barrier, and we have to believe in ourselves and endure in order to get to the goal."
Companies that embrace diversity outperform their competitors. What type of diversity programs does your organization have in place to mentor future women leaders? How does your organization measure and report gender diversity? Is the data publicly available?
"One of the latest programs is the development of the WINGman Special Taskforce workshop, where the team consisting of LAGEO, WING global, World Bank and GIZ (German international cooperation agency) imparted knowledge on the subject and the aim of the WST is to provide the means to affect change of the gender status quo inside geothermal organizations. Through challenging the harmful, traditional perception of male and female roles, the WST aims to eliminate gender stereotypes and encourages men to be role models, champions, and advocates of gender equality. In this way WST trained the future trainers, in this way LAGEO ratifies its commitment to gender equality and in the future the benefits of this program will be published."
What actions should the energy and electricity sector be focused on to accelerate change, increase diversity, and foster a better gender balance in the boardroom?
"Focusing on the identification of women leaders, making their work known, a team of women at the level of America should be formed to inspire others, that their task is to "motivate others" to believe in themselves, to train more to overcome the fear of new challenges. Implement the idea within this industry that if there is still a company that does not have gender equality as a strategic issue, it is a company that will tend to be extinguished sooner or later, that this issue is present in all agendas of energy meetings at the level worldwide, and that related international organizations (cooperation agencies, financial agencies, programs, etc.) have gender equality and diversity in their requirements."
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James Ford (musician)
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Alexandra Savior
James Ford is an English musical composer, record producer and musician, known for being a member of Simian Mobile Disco and production work with the Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode, Haim, Gorillaz, and Klaxons.
Ford went to Manchester University, along with other members of Simian.[1].
Ford was a founding member of the group Simian and later a member the spin-off duo Simian Mobile Disco.[1]
He produced the Mercury Prize–winning album, Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future in 2007.[2] He also played drums on the album.[citation needed] Also, in that year he produced the Arctic Monkeys second album. He has done at least part of the production on each of the bands subsequent albums.[2] He played guitar on Arctic Monkeys' "Only Ones Who Know".[citation needed]
In 2008, he formed The Last Shadow Puppets with Miles Kane and Alex Turner, as both drummer and producer. Their debut album, The Age of the Understatement, earned the group a Mercury Prize nomination and also charted at No. 1 in the UK.[2] Their second album, Everything You've Come to Expect, was released in 2016. Ford once again produced, also playing drums, percussion and keys. The record earned the group their second UK No. 1.
Ford produced and played keys on Arctic Monkeys' fifth album, "AM", released in 2013. His work on the album gained him a further Mercury Prize nomination.[citation needed]
Ford has produced the 14th Depeche Mode album Spirit released on 17 March 2017, as well as the 4th studio album of the UK band Everything Everything under the title A Fever Dream, released on 18 August 2017.
In 2018, Ford co-produced the Arctic Monkeys' 6th studio album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, as well as Gorillaz' 6th studio album The Now Now.
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Simian, Chemistry is what we are, (2001, drums, production)[1]
Simian, We Are Your Friends, (2002, drums)[1]
Simian Mobile Disco, Attack Decay Sustain Release (2007)
The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of the Understatement (2008, drums, production)[2]
Simian Mobile Disco, Temporary Pleasure (2009)
Simian Mobile Disco, Delicacies (2010)
Simian Mobile Disco, Unpatterns (2012)
Simian Mobile Disco, Whorl (2014)
The Last Shadow Puppets "Everything You've Come To Expect" (2016, drums, keyboards, percussion, production)
Simian Mobile Disco, Welcome to Sideways (2016)
Simian Mobile Disco, Murmurations (2018)
Fingathing – And the Big Red Nebula Band (co-producer; 2004)
Garden – Round & Round (2005)
Test Icicles – For Screening Purposes Only (2005)
Absentee – Schmotime (2006)
Duels – The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned (2006)
Mystery Jets – Making Dens (2006)
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (co-produced with Mike Crossey; 2007)[2]
The Bumblebeez – Prince Umberto & The Sister of Ill (2007)
Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future (2007)[2]
The Lodger – Grown-Ups (2007)
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement (2008)
Florence and the Machine – Lungs (4 tracks; co-produced with Paul Epworth, Charlie Hugall, Stephen Mackey and Eg White; 2009)[2]
Peaches – I Feel Cream (2009)
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug (3 tracks; co-produced with Josh Homme; 2009)[2]
Crocodiles – Sleep Forever (2010)
Detachments – Detachments (2010)
Chrome Hoof – Crush Depth (2010)
Alex Turner – Submarine EP (2011)
Beth Ditto – Beth Ditto EP (2011)
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See (2011)
Birdy – Birdy (2011)
Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials (2011)
Little Boots – Nocturnes (2013)
Bill Ryder-Jones – A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart (additional production; 2013)
Arctic Monkeys – AM (11 tracks; co-produced with Ross Orton; 2013)
Haim – Days Are Gone (2 tracks; co-produced with Ludwig Göransson, Haim and Ariel Rechtshaid; 2013)
Jessie Ware – Tough Love (2014)
Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind (2015)
Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons – Message from the Other Side (2015)
Foals – What Went Down (2015)
Florence and the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)
Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby County Primary (additional production; 2015)
The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come To Expect (2016)
Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness (co-produced with Alex Turner); (2017)
Depeche Mode – Spirit (2017)
Little Dragon – Season High (additional production; 2017)
Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten (co-produced with Jake Webb) (2017)
Shock Machine – Shock Machine (2017)
Declan McKenna – What Do You Think About the Car? (2017)
Everything Everything – A Fever Dream (2017)
Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (co-produced with Alex Turner; 2018)
Gorillaz – The Now Now (co-produced with Damon Albarn; 2018)
Florence and the Machine – Moderation (non-album single, co-produced with Matthew Daniel Siskin; 2019)
Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 (additional production; 2019)
^ a b c d Chadbourne, Eugene. "James Ford". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^ a b c d e f g h Doyle, Tom. "James Ford: Producing Arctic Monkeys". Sound On Sound. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
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The Age of the Understatement
Everything You've Come to Expect
My Mistakes Were Made for You
The Dream Synopsis
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"My Mistakes Were Made for You"
"Bad Habits"
"Everything You've Come to Expect"
"Aviation"
"Miracle Aligner"
The Rascals
Jas Shaw
Attack Decay Sustain Release
Temporary Pleasure
Unpatterns
Welcome to Sideways
Simian Mobile Disco EP
Clock EP
Extra Temporary
A Form of Change
Sample and Hold
Mix albums
FabricLive.41
"Hustler"
"Audacity of Huge"
"Cruel Intentions"
Kitsuné
Wichita Recordings
Jamie Hewlett
Russel Hobbs
Murdoc Niccals
Demon Days
Plastic Beach
Humanz
The Now Now
G Sides
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The Singles Collection 2001–2011
Laika Come Home
iTunes Session
"Clint Eastwood"
"19-2000"
"Rock the House"
"Tomorrow Comes Today"
"Lil' Dub Chefin'"
"Feel Good Inc."
"Dare"
"Dirty Harry"
"El Mañana" / "Kids with Guns"
"Stylo"
"Superfast Jellyfish"
"On Melancholy Hill"
"Rhinestone Eyes"
"Doncamatic"
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Celebrity Take Down
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We can put this another way: what counts as data, given that it must be treated as certain? I can know some necessary truths, like mathematical and logical truths, with something like certainty, but what about the real world? It is often said, in a kind of "of course" tone of voice, that all observation is theory laden. If that is the case, then there would be nothing to be taken as given, and all probabilities would be merely hypothetical. Science would just be a game of "imagine if …". To overcome this, there must be some raw data from which we can begin.
Perhaps you think that there are some ideas that are practically certain, that we can just assume those and get on with it. But which ones? Remember that these are the statements from which we calculate probabilities, so we can't just say that any statement with a probability greater than 0.999 … is practically certain. In any case, I think we can do better.
Let me head out on a limb (I still haven't totally convinced myself). I think that part of the answer is the certainty of first-person experience. There seem to be contingent truths of which I can be certain. I can be certain that I am having the experience of seeing a red chair. There may not actually be a red chair – I may be dreaming, the light may be fooling me, I may be colour-blind, and so on. But I know my own thoughts immediately and incorrigibly. I can be certain that I think that there is a red chair. I know my own mind immediately, directly, without having to infer it from anything else.
We now at least have a starting point. If I want to know whether there really is a red chair over there, I will need to calculate the probability of there being a red chair over there, given that I think there is a red chair, plus the sum total of my other experiences of the world and any other necessary truths I know. That probability may be not be obvious, or may turn out to be lower than I expect, but at least we are asking more than a hypothetical question.
These rather abstract considerations have a practical application: the data D (and the background B, for that matter) should be as raw as possible. Jaynes gives the example of an experiment in which a psychic predicts a randomly drawn card with a success rate much higher than chance. What is the data? If we take D = the experiment, then we are liable to be too easily convinced of psychic powers. But D is not given. What I know is that that some ESP experimenter claimed that the experiment occurred as described. Psychic powers remain a possible explanation, but now several others come into view – hoax, poor procedure, gullibility, selective reporting etc.
In practice, we rarely need to retreat all the way back to subjective experience to draw useful probability conclusions. But they at least provide a bedrock of contingent yet certain beliefs from which we can build. The regress stops here.
It is possible to update probabilities without assuming some proposition is certain (your "DB"), but I've never seen anyone do it in a real problem. MaxEnt allows you to update based on constraints in the space of possible probability assignments. Your "2. DB" thing could be replaced by, for example, "P(DB) = 0.99". This is sometimes called Jeffrey conditionalisation (not Jeffreys!).


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You've got about a month to get down to Salem and see American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals at the Peabody Essex Museum. It's the first exhibition in more than 25 years to focus on his work from visits to the tiny archipelago visible a few miles off the New Hampshire coast. If you grew up in the southeast corner of the the Granite State, as I did, you've probably visited the Isles of Shoals and sailed around them. If you also grew up with a print of Hassam's At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight) hanging over the couch, as I did, you may have Hassam's perspective deeply implanted in your brain. Even if neither is true, this is a show very much worth seeing. Co-organized with the North Carolina Museum of Art in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory, the exhibit runs through Nov. 6.
Beginning in 1886, Dorchester native Hassam visited the isles often for three decades, mainly in summer, hanging on his friend poet Celia Thaxter's porch on Appledore and painting what he saw. There's not much of man here, aside from sailboats in the distance, as like a good impressionist he focused on foliage, landscape and the ever-present sea. The main subjects here are Thaxter's famous garden (Thaxter published An Island Garden in 1894 with illustrations by Hassam) and the rocky shore.
Many of the images embody impressionism as it's most commonly thought of, as sun-dappled and dreamy as the Giverny of Monet. Some of these are just pretty, but others are beautiful in a deeper way. (Below: Childe Hassam. Poppies, Isles of Shoals, 1891. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz. Image courtesy National Gallery of Art.)
A few paintings use more vigorous lines that inject craggy landscapes with mysterious life in a way that reminded me of Van Gogh. (Below: Childe Hassam. The Laurel in the Ledges, Appledore, 1905. Oil on canvas. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Promised gift of Ann and Jim Goodnight.)
At the end of the exhibit, there's a sample of the watercolors Hassam made late in his relationship with the islands, which are very different and surprisingly modern in their use of the simplest gestures and almost abstract components. There's a boldness in the best of these that's missing from the "prettiest" paintings in the show. (Below: Childe Hassam. The Cove, 1912. Watercolor on paper. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas. John W. and Mildred L. Graves Collection.)
PEM has installed rocking chairs and a table of postcards near the end of the exhibit, a nod to the island experience. There's also a selection of 12 black-and-white photographs of Appledore today by Alexandra de Steiguer. Both are the sort of curatorial flourish that seems de rigeur in the modern museum experience, but they're superfluous. Hassam's best paintings carry us to Appledore in a more profound way that needs no such help.


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Cecille Rodrigues exposes scams by both the Congress and BJP candidates of Taleigao in a series
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Aam Aadmi Party Taleigao candidate Cecille Rodrigues has exposed yet another scam by both the Congress and BJP candidates of Taleigao, urging Goans not to waste their votes on such parties that only care about their own development.
Rodrigues pointed out that the current Taleigao MLA Jennifer Monseratte, who in the last election promised a health care facility, grand market complex, Children Park and Joggers' Park in Taleigao has failed to deliver on her promise in the last five years.
She further said rather, the Monseratte family sought to advance their own interests and built two hotels, in addition to selling public utility spaces to big builders and buying farms for public utility projects.
Rodrigues said, "Monseratte has promised a health care facility, including a blood bank and blood donation center, as well as free medicine and medical checkups. In addition, she said that she intends to build a grand market complex, for which GSIDC has already approved a budget plan, and land has been acquired. However, Taleigao has not seen either of these projects yet".
Adding she said, "Monseratte has also promised a Children Park and Jogger's Park. But they have yet to materialize. Now, a big commercial construction is coming up in the vicinity of proposed Jogger's Park. The Children Park that was proposed at the Taleigao football field with a free Wi-Fi zone is now filled with trash".
She stated that the Congress candidate for Taleigao, Tony Rodrigues, illegally acquired the land of the St. Inez Church when he was the president of the Confraria organisation, an organization of the St. Inez Church that owns all the lands and the assets of the parish.
She said, "Rodrigues was supposed to hand over the documents of all movable and immovable assets to the new president. However, after one year of waiting, the new president said that the documents of movable and immovable properties had not been handed over to him. Afterwards, the new president followed up on the issue and obtained documents".
Adding she said, "Among the said documents, one of 38 thousand sq.m land was sold to Tarkar builders for 20 lakhs in 1997. Out of which 14.5 lakhs were paid and 5.5 lakhs remained unpaid. As Tarker builders remained non-compliant, a recovery case was filed and this case was snoozed for 10 years. In 2007, the court opened the case and summons were issued to the Confraria organisation of the St. Inez Parish".
She said, "Tony Rodrigues was the President in 2007, and no lawyer was hired to fight the case and the case was thrown out after two summons. Since the Tarkar builders had mortgaged the property to the bank and defaulted on the EMI payments, the bank auctioned the property".
"A Delhi builder bought the property in auction, and immediately Tony Rodrigues purchased it from them for seven crores and resold it again. This is how corrupt people like Tony Rodrigues operate. If he is able to acquire the land illegally, he can sell our beautiful Taleigao", she added.
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Many people don't understand what we do or how what we do impacts their industry. It's understandable. Translation and localization are complicated. If they weren't, we wouldn't have a job.
But translation is important across all industries including health care, technology, education, hospitality, travel, customer service, and entertainment. Supporting customers in their own language matters. Why? Because if you can't translate your goods and services to the communities where you'd like to sell them (localization), you simply can't sell them. And if you're an established name entering a market that speaks a language your support agents don't speak, as soon as a competitor comes along doing something similar in that language, guess who wins your customers' favor? The other guy or gal.
Here are six reasons why customer support translation software like LinguistNow matters to your business.
Don't have twenty marketers people to market your product? If you use social media and email services like MailChimp, you can reach more people in an hour than a door-to-door salesperson can reach in a week. This is the beauty of technology. It's scalable.
The same applies to localization and translation. If you can't afford to hire call center staff that can speak the language every one of your customers speak, software like LinguistNow can serve as a chat translator and email translator for you. We enable your existing, single-language-speaking support staff (who already know your product inside and out) to scale their support services across all the languages you need to support.
Students who heed this advice quickly understand how far a phrase or two will go. Locals respond much better when you speak their language than when you forge ahead in English only.
Personalization is everything. Think about it. Are you more receptive to someone who addresses you by name, or someone who addresses you generally? You're more receptive—and often times more impressed—by the person who addresses you by name.
Translation/localization software such as LinguistNow allow your company to speak to people in their language. It makes everything personal. And when customers feel things are getting personal in a positive way, they react favorably.
This means you need to be ready to help customers in a variety of ways at any time from any digital channel. A consumer may start reading your frequently asked questions (FAQs) and then switch to live chat or send an email. Later, they might tweet a question to @YOURCOMPANY. If your support software is not equipped to funnel all of these channels into the laps of your support agents – who are then equipped with LinguistNow to speak the customer's language - you're not everywhere your customers are.
In the olden days, customer support involved numerous real-world "channels" within which a customer would reach out to a business.
The Front Door Channel – a customer walks into your shop and asks to speak with someone.
The Telephone Channel – a customer picks up a telephone (often connected to a wall) calls your business and aks to speak with someone.
The Snail Mail Channel – a customer writes a letter (on paper!!) addresses it to your business and asks to speak with someone.
Technology has evolved these real-word channels into a company website, chat, email, social media and mobile phones. But the latest trend to promote efficiency within a support organization is to enable agents to respond to queries sent via all these channels inside one, consolidated CRM (Client Relationship Management) platform. There is no reason that your customer service agents should have to launch a separate app for chat and another for email. Further, because LinguistNow allows for CMS integration inside the largest CRMs like Salesforce and Oracle, we enable consolidation of the translation process across all of those channels as well.
If you are still managing these channels in separate apps, you know the difficulty of tracking engagements with a single customer across social media, FAQs and email. Or the difficulty of pulling a translated FAQ link into an agent's email response. When your channel and translation support is consolidated inside the CRM, the cross-channel synergy drastically improves agent efficiency.
If translation truly were as easy as putting something into Google translate, hitting translate and posting that content on the relevant platform, there wouldn't be any need for translators. As it is, language is too complicated for such a simple solution. What we think we're saying and what we actually say can be miles apart.
This is why now, more than ever, marketing departments are getting involved in translation. They want to make sure the fun, flippant communication style you've developed for your American customers is not translated literally for your Japanese customers. Those customers might not appreciate the humor. Because messaging and translation is so complicated, working with a reliable, accurate translation service is key. We don't just perform literal translation of your marketing content, we re-write then translate content for marketing targeted to a specific locale.
If you don't have professionally translated, easy-to-understand FAQs in every language that your customers speak, you are prohibiting them from helping themselves.
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When you get that first bite -- real buying interest -- from an overseas customer, how do you handle getting paid? Do you leave it to chance (referred to as open account), ask for a wire transfer of funds in advance of the sale or talk to your banker to figure out your best payment options?
Here we outline how PayPal can be effective collecting payment on smaller international transactions.


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The cult of Tim Tebow
Fans root for him because he's an aspirational reflection of themselves
Rick Reilly — a decorated sports analyst for ESPN and former Sports Illustrated columnist — has brought some fundamental branding ideas into light. In his latest article, Reilly focuses on former University of Florida and current Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow, who is threatening to become an NFL bust.
What makes Tim Tebow so interesting to me?
"He was the best quarterback on arguably the best team at the time and he had a foundation of principals that resonated with many."
Like Duke men's basketball and the New York Yankees, Tim Tebow is one of the most definitive brands in all of sports. Love him or hate him, Tebow has meaning to his fans. He represents the good American boy with strong biblical values. He's handsome and charismatic, not to mention a devout Christian. He will not shy away from painting biblical references on his face for games. Analysts promptly claim "Tim Tebow is not just an exceptional athlete, but an exceptional human being" and the fans of Tebow eat it up.
While a superstar in college, the "Cult of Tebow" was born. He had the perfect platform for it. He was the best quarterback on arguably the best team at the time and he had a foundation of principals that resonated with many.
But now?
As Reilly wrote, "Tim Tebow is not cutting it in the NFL. According to sources…he is not within a plastic spork of cutting it."
And because of this comment, Reilly is under fire. In fact, his biggest critic, Randy Cross, is accusing him of being "anti-Christian."
Forget that. Forget that a brilliant college superstar is not currently cutting it on the professional level.
Instead, note that, for those dedicated to the brand of Tim Tebow, Tebow is still just as important as ever.
Because, like Apple and Google and the other truly great brands, there is a sense of self-identification that comes with embracing that product. So much so that you may even cast a blind eye to the limitations of that product because you are so deeply invested in that brand. That brand has become an extension of you. How can you reject yourself?
Remember Apple's Newton Platform? The Apple personal digital assistant was a complete failure. Yet, those loyal to the brand continued to believe that Apple was still different and better.
Think of this: How was Apple able to sell black and white monitors at a time when color was on the landscape? Because people believed in the brand of Apple and that it was always worth rooting for.
Just as some fans still root for the brand of Tim Tebow.
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Baar Baar Dekho [2016] : As confused as the protagonist!
by Shikhar Verma
Baar Baar Dekho is a confused film. It tries so hard to be smart, savvy and good looking. But not a single aspect of the film lights up emotions or sends tragic signals down your veins. It's About Time Bollywood realized that A Time Traveller's Wife should never be Katrina Kaif. It has become so mundane and incredibly sad to see her speak, dance and even show us some mighty curves. But it's not just Kaif's fault here. Nitya Mehra's film that's about a 'mathematician' trapped in a 'time-lapse', doesn't follow any laws governed by either. It neither works on logic nor does it want to. If only the director paid more attention to the plot and not the prosthetic hair, makeup and the VFX for the year 2034, this would have been at least watchable. But then again, that's just me being overly hopeful for something that wouldn't happen.
The bewildering idea of love at the time of uncommon time-travel is so half-assed and superficial that after like 20 odd minutes you stop paying attention. There is no soul, no heart and no mind put into this mind-numbing piece of a carcass that's being sold as a high-concept love story. It's best described as a science-fiction made by someone who has seen, maybe the above 2 mentioned science fiction films in their entire life's existence. Anyone with a cohesive mind can pinpoint that there's no moment of spark, fun or love to be had here.
Baar Baar Dekho is about Jai (Siddharth) a mathematician who teaches a class of ogling girls to miss out on his girlfriend's art exhibition. About Diya (Katrina) an artist who never seems to have anything to her personality that's even strikingly similar to an artist in the entirety of the film. Most of her time is spent on wearing revealing clothes, dancing and begging her better half into being less of a mathematician and more of a human being. In a complete swap of personality in Nitya's film Jai comes across as a calculative bitch & Diya an over-indulgent lovelorn fool who just wishes to pave over her artistic abilities and succumb to living in the shadows of a man who has no sense of understanding and yet calls himself a genius.
Not only do I find it incredibly hard to digest the love between the two leads, their chemistry which is as lame as a donkey sitting on another donkey trying to make it run towards a third donkey, but because there's no way the two people in the film could be understood to be compatible. Hence, Nitya forces a long montage of childhood love on our face. Forcing us to believe that love can blossom over 'small things'. The most baffling thing, however, is the fact that the film unpacks to deliver a message that didn't need to have a 2 and a half hour runtime. Hence, the perpetual state of mind of the protagonist never ceases to resolve issues, nor does it make things clear.
The film basically tells the prophecy that our grandmas have been telling us from back when human existences were made possible. It says that relationships and people are more important than ambitions. But the way Nitya Mehra's film routes you into believing on her completely ill-mannered, morally obnoxious film makes for a terrible-terrible watch.
Tags: Action, Comedy, Drama, Karan Johar, Katrina Kaif, Nitya Mehra, Ram Kapoor, Sayani Gupta, Sidharth Malhotra, Sri Rao
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You've just come home from a long day at school, and the thick snow on the ground started to seep through your shoes. Your feet are ice cold by the time you get home.
You sit on the edge of your bed, angry at the horrible weather outside. There was a blizzard, and you had to walk through it. You don't even know how you got home through it. As you're sitting there, you feel the air vents in your room from under your bed blowing the nice, warm air on your feet. It feels amazing, and immediately calms you down. You decide to go to bed.
You suddenly wake up. It's 2:00 AM - 6 more hours until school. You try to fall back asleep, and keep thinking about the most nonsensical things. You curse at yourself for keeping yourself up so late, the time now being 3:27 AM, and you try to go back to sleep, exhausted. Something keeps you up, though. There is a soft sound coming from somewhere, but you can't really identify it. It sounds sort of like someone breathing.
At first, you just think it's your parents sleeping in the room above you, and just let it go at that. But it starts to get louder, and louder.
Eventually, you get extremely angry at the sound. It's now 4:35 AM, and you need to get your sleep. You start looking around your room to investigate the source of the sound.
You look in the corner, and you see something. It looks like a human, but severely mutilated. It has a stump of an arm, and it's missing its legs, blood seeping from the holes where they should have been.
At first, you think it's all a dream. But the moment it looks at you, you know that you are not dreaming. Its eyes are horribly injured. Its left eye has everything from the iris up missing, and it doesn't even have a right eye. It also has a horrifying smile on its face. You're frozen in fear from the look it gives, and it starts to get up.
You aren't exactly sure how it even got up, due to its lack of legs. It just seemed to float up.
It starts to float towards you.
You don't know what to do. You can't scream from the pure terror you are experiencing, nor can you move. He gets closer and closer, and eventually, you are face to face with him.
He doesn't say anything. You and he just stare at each other for what seems like an eternity.
It just breathes on you. His breath is so nice and warm, it immediately calms you down. You feel the terror leaving your body, and you start to get sleepy.
When you wake up, the first thing you think about is that night. Did that really all happen? Was it all a dream? You decide that it was probably a dream of some sorts, and you get up and stand by your bed.
You look at the time. It's 10:56 AM. You start to panic as you realize you're 2 hours late for school, and you get ready to start booking it in your pajamas. You feel the nice, calming air flowing from the air vents under your bed on your feet.
There are no air vents in your room.


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World Middle East 13 Sep 2016 Syria war death toll ...
World, Middle East
Syria war death toll now more than 300,000: monitor
Published Sep 13, 2016, 6:01 pm IST
Updated Sep 13, 2016, 6:02 pm IST
The figure is an increase of nearly 9,000 on the last death toll published by the Observatory in early August.
The Syrian civil war has so far taken 301,781 lives, including 15,099 children and 10,018 women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo: AFP)
Beirut: More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, a monitor said in a new toll on Tuesday, the first full day of an internationally-brokered truce.
More than 86,000 civilians were among the 301,781 people killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The civilian toll includes 15,099 children and 10,018 women, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
Rebel fighters made up 52,359 of those killed.
A total of 59,006 Syrian soldiers have been killed, in addition to 48,048 other pro-government fighters from countries including Iraq, Iran and Lebanon as well as Syria.
Jihadists of the Islamic State group and the one-time al-Qaeda affiliate now renamed the Fateh al-Sham Front accounted for 52,031 of the dead.
The Observatory said another 3,645 victims could not be identified.
The United Nations and the major powers have made repeated efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria but all have so far failed.
A new ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Washington went into effect at sundown on Monday and AFP correspondents and residents reported that it appeared to be holding on its first full day Tuesday.
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Location: Lebanon, Beirut, Beirut
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Cryptocurrency mining has, up until recently, not been for everyone. In order to make a profit, one has to invest in an expensive mining rig, and be prepared for a huge electricity bill. As more tokens of a given cryptocurrency come into circulation, the processing power and electricity required to mine new tokens rises proportionally.
More recently, however, it has been possible to mine for cryptocurrency using smart devices like phones and tablets. This has allowed small-time miners to utilise the processing power of their devices when they are otherwise dormant. It has also allowed for app developers to exploit the app users by secretly using their phone to mine for tokens without their knowledge.
Earlier this year, Apple decided to ban one such app from their App Store. Calendar 2 was an app with a different business model than other apps. Rather than asking the users to pay for the app or show them advertisements, the developers opted to have the app mine for Monero tokens as a way of payment. This turned out to be a lucrative idea, as the team managed to earn $2,000 worth of Monero tokens in just three days by utilising the app users' processing power to mine.
At that point, the reason for banning the app was a violations of Apple's App Store guidelines, which states that "Apps should not rapidly drain battery, generate excessive heat, or put unnecessary strain on device resources." Since cryptocurrency mining takes up a lot of resources and processing power, the Calendar 2 app was in clear violation of the guidelines as this is exactly what happens to devices when used for that purpose.
1. Apple will allow virtual currency wallet apps, as long as they're offered by developers who are enrolled as organizations.
2. The only cryptocurrency mining apps allowed are those that mine outside of the device, like cloud-based mining.
3. Apps can help users make pay, trade, or receive cryptocurrency on an approved exchange, but the apps must be from the exchanges themselves.
4. Similarly, apps involved in initial coin offerings, bitcoin futures trading, or other cryptocurrency securities trading need to be from the banks, firms, or other approved financial institutions. And they must be lawful.
5. Cryptocurrency apps can't offer users virtual coin for tasks like downloading other apps, getting other users to download the app, or boosting social media activity.
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QNAP TS-230
A simple, affordable, surprisingly stylish NAS
byJohn R. Delaney Jul 27, 2021
The QNAP TS-230 is a reasonably priced two-bay NAS that's simple to install and offers a nice catalog of apps, making it a good choice for first-time users.
Generous app catalog
Tool-free drive sleds
Good performance
Drives not included
Lacks multi-gig ports
The QNAP TS-230 ($199) is an entry-level two-bay NAS designed for use as a personal cloud and data backup repository. It has an attractive, tool-free enclosure and is easy to install, and QNAP's QTS operating system makes it easy to create volumes, share folders, and configure the device as a personal cloud server. You also get a generous selection of apps with the TS-230, but our Editors' Choice winner, the $169.99 Synology DiskStation DS220j, offers even more apps and better performance for less money.
Simple and Stylish
With a surprisingly attractive baby blue finish, the TS-230 is designed to be placed just about anywhere in your home. It measures 7.4 by 3.5 by 6.1 inches (HWD) and has two internal hot-swappable drive bays with tool-less sleds that will accommodate 3.5- and 2.5-inch drives with a maximum storage capacity of up to 36TB (18TB X 2). As with most of the NAS systems that we review, this one doesn't come with drives.
The front of the device has LED indicators for system status, LAN activity, drive activity (one for each drive), and USB One-Touch Copy activity. There's also a power button, a USB 3.0 port, and a One-Touch Copy button that lets you copy data backups from a USB device to the NAS or from the NAS to a USB device.
The back panel is home to one gigabit LAN port, two USB ports (2.0 and 3.0), a Reset button, and a power jack. You won't find any multi-gig ports on this NAS like you will on more expensive models such as the QNAP TS-253D-4G and the Asustor Lockerstor 2 AS6602T. A single 80mm fan prevents the drives and internal circuitry from overheating.
The TS-230 is powered by a 1.4GHz quad-core CPU, 4GB of flash memory, and 2GB of DDR4 RAM. It supports hardware-accelerated video transcoding and can be paired with QNAP two-bay, four-bay, and eight-bay expansion units. This NAS supports RAID 0, RAID 1, Single Disk, and JBOD configurations.
As with other QNAP NAS drives, the TS-230 uses the Linux-based QTS operating system. It has a Windows-like user interface that makes it easy to configure, manage, and customize the NAS. The main window is populated with icons for doing things like managing storage, downloading apps, creating files and shares, running malware checks, and more. More icons are added as you download apps from the QNAP App Store, which holds up to 78 QNAP and third-party apps that let you use the NAS as a multimedia server, a surveillance station for security cameras, a backup server, and more. By way of comparison, the Synology DS220j's Package Center offers more than 100 apps.
The QTS Control Panel is where you go to edit system settings, create users and user groups, manage network connections, and set up server applications. Tap the File Station icon to locate and access files and folders on the NAS, assign folder permissions, and upload files. The Storage and Snapshots icon opens a utility that allows you to monitor and manage storage. Here you can create RAID groups and storage pools, back up data using Snapshots (disk image captures), and check disk health. You can use the Malware Removal utility to scan for harmful files and remove them from the NAS, and QSync Central lets you automate file synchronization across multiple devices.
QNAP TS-230 Installation and Performance
Configuring the TS-230 for first use was relatively easy in testing. I installed two Seagate 10TB Ironwolf drives, powered up the NAS, and downloaded the QNAP Qfinder Pro utility. I opened the utility and the TS-230 was instantly recognized. When I clicked on the drive's entry in the utility, I was taken to a QTS screen where I clicked Start Smart Installation. I verified that I was using the latest firmware version, gave the NAS a name, and created a password. I used DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address and waited several minutes for the drives to be initialized.
Once the NAS restarted, I clicked on Go To NAS Management, which launched the QTS management console and created a volume and a storage pool configured for RAID 1 with a total storage capacity of 9.02TB. After waiting close to 12 hours for the drives to synchronize, the TS-230 was ready for testing.
To test NAS performance, we use a 4.9GB folder containing a mix of music, video, photo, and office document files to measure read and write performance. The TS-230 turned in decent results on these tests, but it couldn't keep pace with our Editors' Choice for affordable two-bay NAS drives, the Synology Diskstation DS-220j.
The TS-230's write speed of 72MBps was a bit faster than the TerraMaster F2-210, but the DS-220j beat it by 12MBps. The more expensive Asustor AS5202T led with a speed of 90MBps. The TS-230 managed 77MBps on the read test, tying the TerraMaster F2-210 but trailing the Asustor AS5202T by 10MBps. The Synology DS-220j led with a speed of 90MBps.
A Good NAS for First-Time Users
If you want to create your own personal cloud for storing and sharing photos, video, and important documents, the QNAP TS-230 will easily get the job done. It's easy to install an configure, provides reasonably fast file-transfer performance, and offers a wide selection of apps that let you use it for backups, as a media server, as a surveillance station, and more. That said, our Editors' Choice winner for affordable NAS devices, the Synology DiskStation DS-220j, is a bit faster and offers more apps, making it a slightly stronger buy for $30 less.
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I've been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print as PC Magazine). I spent more than 14 years on staff, most recently as the director of operations for PC Labs, before hitting the freelance circuit as a contributing editor.
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Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference in view of the political uncertainty. In January 2019 we saw a decrease of 52% in new permanent vacancies compared with January 2018. The number of new candidates increased by 42%. The number of locum roles remained fairly static. We think the increase in candidates may be an effect of the uncertainty as we have taken a few calls from partners in conveyancing practices who are experiencing a severe drop in the number of new instructions.
The recent IHT Markit/REC UK Report on Jobs found that in the last 4-6 weeks permanent appointments rose at the slowest rate since April 2017, the supply of candidates fell sharply, which led to further marked increases in starting pay.
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Mobility Airmen Employ New Parachute Device: Airmen attending the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise at Pope AFB, N.C., recently used a new emergency parachute jettison device for the first time. In development since 1997, the new tool was created to quickly and safely jettison malfunctioning parachutes during airdrop sorties involving heavy equipment. Loadmasters from Dyess AFB, Tex., and Little Rock AFB, Ark., participated in the exercise. MSgt. Steven Pyszka, a loadmaster training instructor from Air Mobility Command headquarters, said that current protocol states that aircrews must take a knife to loads that fail to drop and try to cut the lines by hand to release the load. The new device, which should be operational in 2007, initiates a quick release "at the flip of a switch," he added.


Is There Still Hope For 'How I Met Your Dad'?
After getting passed on by CBS for the fall lineup this year, How I Met Your Dad might still get a shot of getting into air.
According to TV Line, the HIMYM spinoff starring Greta Gertwig "remains in development" at 20th TV. If they greenlit the series, it's most likely to be part of the 2015-2016 TV season.
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Malaysia-Philippine Frontier: Sabah Tightens Borders After Terror Attack in Jolo
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Filipino soldiers are pictured on the site of an explosion in Jolo Island, Sulu province, Philippines, Aug. 24, 2020.
Sabah is tightening its borders to prevent Abu Sayyaf Group militants from entering its territory in search of "safe haven" after this week's twin suicide bombings in the nearby southern Philippines, the police chief in the Malaysian Borneo state told BenarNews.
At least 15 people were killed and more than 75 injured in the two explosions on Jolo Island that were carried out Monday by two widows of members of ASG, a pro-Islamic State extremist group, the Philippine military said Wednesday.
In an interview, State Police Commissioner Hazani Ghazali said "we have tightened up our borders, deployed our assets after the bombings."
"We don't want militant suspects to come over here to make Sabah their safe haven," he told BenarNews, adding, "We are on the alert."
According to security experts in the Philippines, at least three more female bombers are at-large in the restive southern region – including two daughters of an Indonesian woman who was involved in a suicide bombing at a church in Jolo last year – and the two women who carried out Monday's attacks were each paid at least 3 million Philippine pesos (U.S. $61,750) ahead of the twin bombings.
Jolo town, where the attacks took place, is the capital of the island province of Sulu, which lies close to Sabah's eastern coast. In the past, ASG members have fled to Sabah from the Sulu Islands to lie low during times when the Philippine military has conducted clearing operations against the militants.
In 2017, Malaysian police said they had foiled a plan by Abu Sayyaf to attack the closing ceremony of the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur. From 2013 to September 2018, a total of 27 Abu Sayyaf members were arrested by police in Malaysia.
Hazani Ghazali, now the police chief of Sabah state, is pictured in 2018 when he served as head of the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM). [Handout photo from ESSCOM]
On the Philippine side of the border with Sabah, which is separated by the Sulu and Celebes seas, the military said it was hunting for other suspects linked to Monday's attacks. They said the attacks were planned by Mundi Sawadjaan, an ASG operative and bomb maker who is believed to be the nephew of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the commander of the IS branch in the Philippines.
It is believed that at least three other female suicide bombers are roaming in the southern Philippines, according to Rommel Banlaoi, chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, a local think-tank.
"[They are] two Indonesians, daughters of the Jolo Cathedral bombers, and one Egyptian, the daughter of a female Egyptian bomber who died in September 2019," Banlaoi told BenarNews.
In January 2019, an Indonesian couple, Rullie Rian Zeke and Ulfah Handayani Saleh, blew themselves up at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, killing 23 people.
The couple were members of Indonesia's IS affiliate, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), according to security analysts in that country. Philippine officials have said the married couple carried out the twin bombings under orders from Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan.
In Jakarta, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism source confirmed that at least one of the couple's three children was still in the Philippines.
"[T]he daughter of Rullie, is married … [and] is still in Philippines," the source told BenarNews. He gave no other details.
ASG's use of female suicide bombers is a major shift in the group's tactics because women and girls come under less scrutiny than men, said Mimi Fabe, professor of financial terrorism and transnational organized crime at the Philippine National Police College.
Before the 2019 church bombings in Jolo, all the suicide bombers in such attacks carried out in the Philippines were male.
"The [latest] Jolo bombing was a strategy of the ASG to encourage more female suicide bombers among the locals … Because it gives a more chilling effect to our troops," Fabe told BenarNews.
"[Also] the Muslim women do not undergo body searches, unlike the men," she added.
Once a rare occurrence, there have been five suicide bombings since July 2018, including the latest blasts.
The two female suicide bombers in Jolo were each paid an estimated "3 million to 5 million pesos [$61,750 to 102,900]," money which is believed to have come from foreign sources, Fabe said.
"The money went to their families. In operations like this, the money is paid prior to the mission," said Fabe, adding there was a need to look into the terrorism financing aspect of the latest terrorist attack.
"I expect more bombings since the ASG receives funding from abroad. Unless we disrupt the terrorism funding, more female volunteers will step forward as female suicide bombers," she added.
According to Fabe, the two female suicide bombers were believed to have been "trained" by an Indonesian foreign fighter.
"There is a clear effort on the part of the funders and the terrorists to incite their women to engage in violent attacks," Fabe said.
Sabah: Kidnappings, illegal entry
Meanwhile, Sabah has deployed assets from the navy, military, police, and the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) to beef up security along the state's east coast, where abductions by kidnap-for-ransom groups, working in concert with Abu Sayyaf, have taken place sporadically.
"So far so good, we have no incidents," said Hazani, who took over on Aug. 12 as police chief in Sabah after serving as commander of the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM), the agency that oversees security along the eastern Sabah coastline,
Hazani said at least one kidnap-for-ransom group had been eliminated this year and there were an estimated five groups still in operation.
ESSCOM, through its intelligence unit, was tracking down boat skippers who collude with illegals to enter waters of the Eastern Sabah Security Zone, according to a report by Bernama, the state-run news agency.
Its Public Action Division director, Terry Henry said the move was aimed at breaking the chain involving the entry of illegal immigrants into Sabah.
"This is towards ensuring our country, especially Sabah, is free of illegals," Bernama quoted him as saying at the merdeka @ Kalabakan district community program organized by ESSCOM and the Tawau Information Department on Tuesday.
"Those found colluding with illegals and trying to harbor them could be jailed for up to five years or fined RM10,000 [U.S. $23,980] or both, if convicted," he said.
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Two months after Typhoon Yolanda devastated Leyte, survivors continue to clear up debris in a coastal village of Sagkahan in Tacloban City. They are under the cash-for-work program initiated by Catholic Relief Services. (Rodne Galicha)
MANILA, Jan. 14, 2014— The recovery of areas ravaged by typhoon Yolanda in Samar and Leyte may take three to five years, an international aid agency said.
As affected communities are "returning to normal", the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) said its relief effort has shifted from emergency assistance to "long-term recovery and stability programs".
The agency committed to assist 100,000 families or 500,000 people with shelter, living supplies, water, sanitation, and livelihood.
"We will focus on Leyte and Samar islands, primarily in the areas of Palo, Tacloban, Ormoc and Eastern Samar. CRS has committed to raising $50 million (around P2.2 billion)," it said.
The CRS is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.
Food aid declining
Though many survivors start rebuilding homes, the agency said that the need for durable building materials is "high" as some of them are only using what they have gathered from the rubble.
It said that removing thousands of fallen coconut tress is a major challenge given the heavy equipment required.
According to the agency, the distribution of food assistance is decreasing two months after the typhoon, pressuring the people to start earning an income.
Coconut farmers and fishermen have taken the biggest hit to their livelihoods. New coconut trees will take 5 to 7 years to mature and boats are costly to rebuild, the CRS said.
"More than one-third of the Philippines' labor force depends on agriculture for income. With land and crops devastated, we plan to help people recover their agricultural and fishing assets," it said.
To date, the CRS has provided 40,000 families or 200,000 people with emergency shelter, potable water and sanitation, and debris clearing.
The agency is also training carpenters to work with community members to build shelters and supplying them with essential carpentry tools including saws and hammers.
It also provided cash-for-work opportunities to people who work in clearing up the debris left by the typhoon in the roads and other public places.
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Once in a blue comet
This image features a comet located in the outer reaches of the Solar System: comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS). As its name suggests, the comet was discovered in 2016 by the Pan-STARRS telescopes in Hawai'i. The new image seen here was captured by a project based at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile named the Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars — or SPECULOOS for short.
Comets are balls of dust, ice, gas and rock. When they pass close to the Sun, their ice warms up, turns to gas, and escapes in a process called "outgassing". This process forms fuzzy envelopes around the comets' nucleus, called comas, and distinctive tails. Observations from SPECULOOS show that the tail of C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) changes dramatically across a single night, making for a dynamic set of images. The image shown here, and accompanying frames in the time-lapse movie, comprise observations taken on 18 January 2018 during the test phase of SPECULOOS's Callisto telescope, and were taken when the comet was 2.85 AU from the Sun (1 AU being the Earth-Sun distance) and travelling inwards.
This comet is particularly exciting because of the rare compounds and molecules that scientists have detected in its coma: carbon monoxide and nitrogen ions. These compounds give the comet distinctive blue emission lines — so much so that it is nicknamed "the blue comet". This shy comet only orbits the Sun once every 20 000 years, its most recent approach being in May 2018. This image was taken over a period of time as the telescope tracked the comet's motion; the bright streaks of light in the background are faraway stars, but the comet and its gaseous coma are all in focus, a testament to the tracking power of SPECULOOS.
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History of the First International Polar Year
The most recent International Polar Year (IPY) (2007-08) was the first initiative of its kind in 50 years. Focused on both arctic and antarctic regions, it was the largest international program of circumpolar research ever conducted.
There have been three previous International Polar Years over the past 125 years, in which scientists from different nations have collaborated on research centered on climate and geographical exploration.
Each IPY has applied Western science to the study of the earth's polar regions. As well as setting the stage for other international scientific collaborations, this has resulted in many important scientific breakthroughs. For example, IPY led to the discovery of the jet stream and the study of its climatic and meteorological implications.
IPY even launched the space race!
By emphasizing collaboration, circumpolar nations temporarily set aside their concerns over acquiring new territory in polar regions to engage in scientific research that would benefit everyone.
The Need For International Collaboration in Polar Research
Karl Weyprecht, architect of the First International Polar Year.
Up until the mid-19th century, there were two main approaches to doing science in the north. The first approach was one in which nations worked independently and in the national interest. This was the approach favoured by the British Admiralty during the Franklin Era. By the 1870s, the competitive aspect of polar exploration was beginning to show signs of weakening.
The Arctic and Global Climate
Ever since the first IPY in 1882-83, there has been recognition that the earth's polar regions might hold the key to understanding global climate. There were also definite economic benefits to arctic sciences involving hydrology, oceanography, meteorology, and navigation.
Who Thought Up the First International Polar Year?
An Austrian explorer and naval officer, Lt. Karl Weyprecht, a scientist and co-commander of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition (1872-74), first entertained the idea of an International Polar Year.
Weyprecht recognized that a single country could not undertake large-scale polar scientific research. Instead, it would have to be done through international cooperation.
Weyprecht's idea quickly generated interest. In 1879, the International Polar Commission was established. It included the nations of Denmark, Norway, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Netherlands, France, the United States, and Britain, with the assistance of the New Dominion of Canada.
Objectives of the First International Polar Year
While a great deal of research in natural history was completed, the major scientific work of these coordinated expeditions was to be directed to meteorology, aurora, and earth's magnetism, since these were where some of the greatest gaps in polar science existed.
These areas of science also promised to increase the accuracy of weather forecasting and improve navigation, developments which were of great potential economic benefit.
It seems fitting that the first IPY would be held in 1882-83 to coincide with a transit of Venus across the face of the sun, on December 6 of IPY's first year.
IPY research stations adopted standard time to synchronize their scientific observations. As only one station in Norway had access to a telegraph, all other time-keeping was based on regular, precise astronomical observations. The locations selected for the IPY bases were often chosen where earlier expeditions had already collected some baseline data. This was the case for Fort Conger, where Lady Franklin Bay had been the site of an earlier expedition by George Nares in 1875.