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Baseball takes 2 of 3
Published 9:18 am Thursday, March 15, 2018
Senior Guy Brunelli reaches for a throw at first during a game against Lake Norman.
Davie's varsity baseball team mustered six, three and five hits in three games last week. Thank heaven for Landon Bandy and Spencer Nifong, whose pitching toppled two of the three opponents.
After Davie opened with losses to Carson (5-2) and Alexander Central (4-2), Bandy's complete-game five-hitter in a 4-2 win at South Iredell on March 5 was exactly what the doctor ordered.
Bandy's night couldn't have started any worse; he allowed a leadoff homer on his fourth pitch. The Vikings walked and doubled while pushing the margin to 2-0 in the second.
"(South's first batter) kills three squirrels up in that tree and you're thinking: 'Oh gosh, here we go,'" coach Bobby Byerly said. "Landon walked off the field and I pulled one of those Bull Durham moves. I said: 'He just missed that one, didn't he?'"
But Bandy was masterful from the third through the seventh, allowing two runners past first base and finishing with two walks and eight strikeouts. Seventy of his 103 pitches were strikes. He fired first-pitch strikes to 20 of 28 batters. Not bad for a guy who last year he worked 8.1 innings and had no decisions in five relief appearances. What an outing in his first varsity start on the mound.
"What a gem he threw," Byerly said. "It was unbelievable. It's one of the best thrown games that we've had in a long time. He was all over the plate. Every pitch was working. He kept them offstride. His breaking stuff was making his fastball look 90. And he got stronger as the game went on. He knew he was going to have to step up on the bump."
Leadoff man Guy Brunelli was a major factor in the win, going 2 for 2 with two runs, two walks and a double. Bandy even helped himself with two hits in the two hole.
In the third, Brunelli and Bandy had back-to-back singles before Cody Hendrix plated Davie's first run with a ground out. Davie tied the game at 2 on Carson Whisenhunt's grounder.
In the fourth, Aaron Williams singled and advanced on a sac bunt by Michael Shelton. Courtesy-runner Jacob Campbell scored on a wild pitch, giving Davie a 3-2 lead.
Brunelli sparked the insurance run in the fifth, walking, moving up on a grounder and scoring on an error.
"That ball has got to look like a beach ball coming into Brunelli right now," Byerly said. "He is squaring everything up, hitting it to every part of the field. He's in the zone right now."
Whisenhunt (1-4) and Williams (1-2, walk) had the other two hits for Davie. Even though Hite Merrifield was 0 for 2 with a walk, he made his presence felt with one swing.
"Hite may have hit the hardest ball I've seen hit in 10 years," Byerly said. "He hit a rocket up the middle. It didn't get four feet off the ground, but it was hit directly to the feet of the center fielder. He caught it off his shoestrings. A foot or two over, it would have been to the wall. And if it had any lift on it, it would have been a 400-foot shot. You could hear everybody gasp. He has squared up quite a few lately, too."
Two nights later, Lake Norman treated Davie the way a bona fide state-championship contender should treat a team that is hitting below .200.
With ballyhooed Justin Jarvis on the hill, Davie was the ultimate underdog in the first game on its new field. Davie, which lost 12-0 in five innings, faced a heralded pitcher for the second time in the young season (Carson's Owen White was the other). Like White, Jarvis is projected to be a first-round pick in the June draft. He attracted scouts from the Yankees, Nationals, Mets, Royals, Cardinals, Braves and Diamondbacks.
Jarvis went four innings, throwing 54 of 75 pitches for strikes. He gave up three hits (Brunelli, Merrifield and Garrett Chandler had them), fanned eight and threw 15 first-pitch strikes to 19 batters.
"Jarvis was filthy," Byerly said. "I think the gun had him 92 to 94. And it was 38 degrees with the wind blowing about 30 miles an hour out. Yep, he was impressive. His breaking ball popped off the table."
Davie actually had two chances to nick Jarvis before the Wildcats dealt the thumping loss. Davie loaded the bases in the first and third, both times with less than two outs. It came away empty both times.
"Good pitchers bear down with runners in scoring position, and he definitely was one of those," Byerly said. "He had that extra gear when he needed it."
Chandler's hit was a triple. Bandy and Whisenhunt both drew two walks. While Davie watched the Wildcats collect 10 hits off two arms, Davie's average dipped to .177. It allowed the most runs in 58 games (13-7 loss to Lake Norman in 2015), and it was the worst loss in four years (13-0 to Alexander Central in 2014).
The War Eagles seemingly faced long odds against visiting Southeast Guilford on March 9. They came in averaging four hits and two runs. They were facing the third-ranked team in 3-A. They were 1-3. And they had a sophomore on the hill.
But Nifong was undaunted. Davie's offense was opportunistic and the lefty made a robust opponent look inept as Davie won 6-1 to improve to 2-3.
You know the old baseball adage that you can't hit what you can't see. With Nifong, the Falcons could see what they couldn't hit – and that had to be exasperating.
"He had his knuckle-curve working and kept them offstride," Byerly said after Nifong tossed a complete-game three-hitter with no walks and nine strikeouts. The only run was unearned. "What a game. Spencer was ridiculous. He had command of all three of his pitches. He had those guys spinning like a top. Some of those really good hitters, he made them look silly."
In his first varsity appearance against Carson, Nifong lasted three innings. In this one, he had 58 strikes in 79 pitches, faced six over the minimum, recorded three 1-2-3 innings and dropped his ERA from 7 to 2.10.
After striking out two in the seventh, he has 12 Ks against zero walks in 10 innings. Holy mackerel.
"He's the Greg Swindell of our pitching staff," he said. "Swindell threw 79 miles an hour and was the (national player of the year) his senior year in college (at Texas in 1985). We've got a bunch of great kids, but Spencer just wants it."
Davie struck early. Hendrix walked with two outs in the first and stole second. After Merrifield got a free pass, Williams plated both with a double to left.
"We needed a clutch hit with two outs and Aaron came through," he said. "He's going to be a good one. He's another sophomore, but it seems like nothing fazes him. He has no facial expressions no matter what's going on."
Davie put the game away in a four-run fourth. Williams and Grayson Keaton reached on errors before Shelton singled. Southeast committed its third and fourth errors of the inning to help Davie's cause.
The War Eagles had more RBIs (six) in this one that they had in the previous four games combined (five). Even more amazing: Nifong and his team tamed an opponent that was 3-0 after wins over East Forsyth (7-1), Asheboro (5-0) and Reagan (3-0).
Notes: Brunelli, Bandy, Hendrix, Williams and Shelton had one hit each. … Hendrix is a weapon behind the plate, with opponents only stealing one base in five games. "The only successful steal was when our shortstop dropped the ball," Byerly said.


In Santiago de Chile, Carlos Melo, deputy secretary for transport for the government of Chile, explains how sub-par bus service, high levels of pollution and Chile's commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030 pushed the city to invest in electric buses. The city views electric buses as an opportunity to deliver on its climate targets and decrease air pollution, achieving multiple goals at once.
"The most important challenge is the lack of trust that operators have in this new technology," says Melo. Building confidence in these new technologies, by creating incentives allowing operators to embrace them, is a challenge that cities all around the world are facing.
To lessen the financial burden for Bangalore, the city planned to use a hiring model rather than purchase buses outright, which lowers the total cost of ownership.
Each year, nearly 10,000 people die from the long-term effects of air pollution in London. Richard Harrington, engineering director at GoAhead London, highlights the critical need to cut emissions in the city. In 2019, London will implement an ultra-low-emission zone within which most vehicles will need to meet strict exhaust emission standards or pay a daily fee. Additionally, there will be 12 city corridors in which vehicles are required to meet the European Union's Euro 6 emission standards.
"Any city in the world can transition to electric bus technologies," says Harrington, pointing to planning, preparation and a high level of coordination between city officials, manufacturers and power suppliers as important components for success.
While striving toward the same goal, each city faces distinct barriers. Many sustainable development projects, from electric buses and bike sharing to more energy efficient buildings, stall due to lack of funding, limited internal expertise, or challenges in coordinating across different public and private sector agencies. The Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative is helping cities address these challenges by bridging ideas and implementation through the development of innovative business models and identifying the ingredients of successful sustainable urban projects around the world.
This video was launched at World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Talia Rubnitz is Communications Assistant with WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.


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State v. Maness, 363 N.C. 261 (June 18, 2009)
Criminal Offenses > Robbery > Continuous Transaction
If the events constitute a continuous transaction, a defendant may be convicted of armed robbery when the dangerous weapon taken during the robbery also is the weapon used to perpetrate the offense. In this case, the defendant fought with a law enforcement officer and "...
State v. Rogers, 227 N.C. App. 617 (June 4, 2013)
There was sufficient evidence that a theft and use of force were part of a continuous transaction. A witness testified that the defendant went to the victim's mobile home with the intent to rob him, shot and killed the victim, and left with money and drugs.
State v. James, 226 N.C. App. 120 (Mar. 19, 2013)
The evidence was sufficient to show that either the defendant or his accomplice used a firearm to induce the victim to part with her purse.
State v. Flaugher, 214 N.C. App. 370 (Aug. 16, 2011)
Where the evidence showed that the defendant's attack on the victim and the taking of his wallets constituted a single, continuous transaction, the evidence was sufficient to support an armed robbery charge. The court rejected the defendant's argument that she took the victim's wallets only as...
State v. McMillan, 214 N.C. App. 320 (Aug. 2, 2011)
The evidence was sufficient to sustain an armed robbery conviction when the item stolen—a handgun—was also the item used to threaten or endanger the victim's life.
State v. Blue, 207 N.C. App. 267 (Oct. 5, 2010)
There was sufficient evidence that the theft and the use of force were part of one continuous transaction when the defendant formed an intent to rob the victim, attacked her, and then took her money. The court rejected the defendant's argument that his rape of the victim constituted a break in...
State v. Porter, 198 N.C. App. 183 (July 7, 2009)
The defendant's use of violence was concomitant with and inseparable from the theft of the property from a store where the store manager confronted the defendant in the parking lot and attempted to retrieve the stolen property, at which point the defendant struck the...

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Havells India Becomes the First Indian Electrical Company to Be Part of Dow Jones Sustainability Index – Emerging Markets
Havells India Limited became the first Indian Electrical Company to be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index. Also, Havells is amongst the only 12 Indian Companies to be included in the index which is essential for assessing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performances. The company also moved one position to become 6th most sustainable company in the "Electrical Components and Equipment" sector globally.
Speaking on the recognition, Mr. Anil Sharma, Head – Corporate Communications |CSR| Sustainability, Havells India Limited, said, "We are ecstatic and proud to be part of Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Emerging Markets especially in the second year of our participation. This recognition is the result of hard work over the years and our core philosophy of 'Shubh Laabh' where we believe in 'doing good deeds and profits would follow'. This recognition further strengthens our resolve to keep doing good for the environment and communities around us."
Havells has undertaken a lot of efficient initiatives that have resulted in drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The company is reducing its dependency on fossil fuel-based electricity by installing roof top solar power plant across its manufacturing units. Along with that, the company is planting 4 lakh trees annually with an aim to develop over 800 hectares of forest cover by 2023. Promoting the concept of circular economy, the company continuously recycles and reuses more than 94% of the waste generated at its manufacturing units. Havells is the only electrical company in the country to be a "water positive" and "zero fatality" organization and is moving to become wood and paper positive company.
Manjit Jus, Head of ESG Ratings, RobecoSAM said, "We congratulate Havells India Limited for being included in the DJSI – Emerging Markets. The SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment has again raised the bar in identifying those companies best positioned to address future sustainability challenges and opportunities. This year – which marks the 20th anniversary of the DJSI – record corporate interest in the SAM CSA reflects the enduring relevance of the DJSI for measuring and advancing ESG practices."
Launched in the year 1999, Dow Jones Sustainability Indices is the longest running global sustainability benchmark evaluating the sustainability performances of over 4700 companies across the globe based on various parameters and is a key reference point for several investors and companies.


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Christmas is approaching quickly. During this time, kids request toys and games from their parents. And the parents, of course, buy them!
The reason I'm creating this video is to let you know that my good friend Coolice has come up with something called Toy Store Clone.
So, what is Toy Store Clone?
Basically it's a ready-made, WordPress Amazon store.
Your visitors can go directly to the type of toys and games they want, with the click of a button.
They can also look for toys by price. Toys that cost less than $25, all the way to $200+.
And of course, they can find games according to age. From birth, all the way to 14 years old and up.
If the visitor clicks the "Buy on Amazon" button, they will be taken to Amazon to buy the product. Amazon is a big and trusted name, and people don't hesitate to buy from there.
The post also has an add-to-cart button. If a visitor adds an Amazon product to their cart, the life of the Amazon affiliate cookie gets extended from 24 hours to 90 days. This means that, if your visitors buy anything within the next 90 days from Amazon, you will get credit for that.
Each post also contains screenshots of the product, its features and the product's description.
In the footer of the site, there is a disclaimer that Amazon associates are required to have on their sites.
The prices of the products are updated regularly when updates run on your website. This could be set up hourly, daily or weekly.
And of course, you can use more plugins on the site, to extend it's functionality. Including my own plugins.
Click on the image on the left once and then click on the new image again to see it in full size.
The regular single-site version of Toy Store Clone comes with 1,595 posts (products) in 19 categories and 12 brands.
But for the demo site I set up, I used the unlimited, multi-site license which has more than 10 times the content. The unlimited license has 15,732 posts in 225 categories and 51 brands.
And it took me less than 10 minutes to set up everything from start to finish.
Also, If you are thinking of buying this business in a box, use the link on this page. Why? Because I will also send you an extra bonus of your choice. You can use it to make your Toy Store Clone site even more successful.
Only 20 bonuses will be given. Current status: Available.
STEP 1: Go to Toy Store Clone and purchase the package.
Note: The price of the regular version will go up from $37 to $67 on December 22nd, 11:00 AM, EST.
Btw, there are some bonuses that Coolice has made available to affiliates. These bonuses will help you promote your store and get traffic to it. Many affiliates will promise these bonuses to you, if you buy Toy Store Clone through their affiliate link.
1) Toy Store Clone isn't just a WordPress "theme" or "plugin" – it's an already-made WordPress Amazon toy store. You get to upload a zip file on your hosting account, and then you set up your site following an easy "wizard" interface.
2) This is a ready-made store that sells Toys and Games. It cannot be customized to promote products in other niches.
3) "Unlimited" and "multi-site" isn't related to "WordPress multisite." It just means that you can install Toy Store Clone on unlimited domains you own.
4) You need to have your own domain and hosting account. A domain will cost about $10/year. I use Namecheap.com. Hosting is $5-$10 per month (for probably unlimited sites). I use Hostgator.com. Coolice has a list of 100 domains that will work great in the "Toys & Games" niche, and, if you are quick, you can register one (or more) of them. That domain list basically gives you domain ideas.
6) The single-site license covers Amazon.com (US locale) only. The other locales are unlocked with the Unlimited version: (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan). With that said, you can sell worldwide with both versions. The other locales are there to target other markets with products retrieved specifically from that Amazon locale website. However, Amazon.com ships worldwide anyway.
7) The unlimited license basically costs $104. But you can pay the $67 as an upgrade, after you pay the $37 for the normal license. So, the way to get the unlimited license is to invest $37+$67=$104 total.
8) As far as duplicate content goes: Unique content is always the best choice. Ready-made sites are a way to start in this niche for those who don't want to write any content.
9) The posts are not drip-fed. They are all available right away.
10) Several guides are included with your purchase that show you how to promote your Toy Store Clone website.
I live in the USRM (United Socialist Republic – MAINE). I am not eligible to participate in Amazon because our "government" doesn't want me to make a living outside of our state…..
Sorry for the rant. Nice product!
Sorry to hear that, Brian! I hope the "rules" change in your area!
Everything i see that Coolice designs is done with the intention of being complete…………Just jump in turn the key and drive…I like all his clone store designs.
Yes, a lot of work goes into these sites!
George you have some great plugins and recommendations!
can we alter the ordering of any contents?
1. Ex. – Home page I like, but when go to Top Menu items – or Menu tabs below slider – the category pages display *all the menu tabs* BEFORE the images.
>> Can we get the images/ slider to always show First, above the tabs??
individ. items from the Azon RSS [ API ] so they don't appear?
they are pulled-in to WP?
1. Yes, the slider can be enabled for all pages on the site and always show up on the top.
2. Yes, you can easily remove certain products, categories or brands that you don't want to have on your website from the back-end.
Hi George cool offer you have here…. My state won't allow amazon affiliates . Is there another way to promote this ? thanks .
Not one that I can think of, right now, Lee!
It mean the unlimited version work with Amazon Germany also with german products ?
Yes, ToyStoreClone Unlimited works with Amazon.de (Germany) and retrieves German products. The contents of the posts would be in German as well.
can i also use the clon for other niche besides toys? is it possible to customize it later on?
You said at point 6) The single-site license covers Amazon.com (US locale) only. The other locales are unlocked with the Unlimited version: (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan). With that said, you can sell worldwide with both versions. The other locales are there to target other markets with products retrieved specifically from that Amazon locale website. However, Amazon.com ships worldwide anyway.
But if i use the plugin 'Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer' where i put my affiliate IDs of the other countries of Amazon, doesn't it redirect to the other Amazon countries?
I haven't tried the plugin you mention to be honest. If you have used it in the past and it's reliable, then it should work with Toy Store Clone as well.
I'm no coder and was wondering if there are video tutorials to teach how to setup.
Also I was not aware that this was a plugin for WordPress.
If you contact Coolice, he will set up everything for you for free.
Thanks for info, but where can I get the PDF Guide?
Please disregard the previous question.
Once I thought ToyStore was a plugin I didn't bother to look for any instructions for upload. I use Godaddy for hosting my sites and I have a primary site hosted with other sites hosted under it. I guess I would just upload both files: importbuddy.php and back up file into my root folder of the site I plan to use. Do I need to use an ftp client or can I just go into my file manager within my control panel.
You can do it either with FTP or cPanel file manager.
Or, you can just ask Coolice to set it up for you. Free installation is included.
I am wondering if the title "ToyStoreClone" that shows next to the logo can be changed to the domain name? Or are all these stores that are being set up with this theme going to say "ToyStoreClone" ?
… and then added my name to it (with a free graphic-editing software like Paint.net), uploaded it to the same location and replaced the old image with the new one.
Thank you, George. I clicked on the link you provided and the image has not changed to George's Toy Store. So, I'm not sure why. It still says "Toy Store".
Can you try again, Barbara?
Thanks, George. At first when I tried again, nothing had changed. So, I cleared my cache and now I can see "George's Toy Store". Thanks for the help.
Barbara's correct the link you provided does not take us to George's Toy Store.
Can you please check again? I'm positive that the logo says "George's Toy Store." Maybe you need to clear your browser's cache?
I was also wondering if the content provided is copyrighted, including the videos. Can we use these freely, or are they protected? I don't want to get into trouble.
The content come from the Amazon API, which is allowed.
The videos are just Youtube videos that are embedded in the posts.
I looked at your demo site and see you have a blog also. Is that built into the Toy Store clone package?
The blog is mine. I just installed Toy Store Clone in a directory of my site (toy-store-clone-site).
I also noticed that when you click the Customer Reviews button it redirects to the Amazon page for the reviews. If they order the product by going to Amazon reviews page, do I get the commisions for the sale?
How did you get your blog at http://www.georgekatsoudas.com/toy-store-clone-site/toy-blog/ to look just like the amazon toy store?
Toy Store Clone looks like this out of the box. It comes with two themes: a black one and a "silver" (gray) one.
Because when I use cron job the price still shows same date as above.
The point of the cron job is to do exactly that: Update the post automatically. You can set the cron job to run daily, weekly etc.
Please allow a little time for the cron job to run, the very first time you set it up in cpanel.
I just purchased ToyStoreClone – Unlimited Version. How do I get Coolice to set it up?
Don't forget to email me for your bonus as well!
can i add products in other niches at the unlimited oto version ?


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June 2007 - Blabbermouth Archive
ENSIFERUM: Concert Footage From NUMMIROCK Festival Available
Fan-filmed video footage of ENSIFERUM's performance at the 21st edition of the Nummirock festival — which took place June 22-23 in Nummijärvi, Finland — has been posted at YouTube. ENSIFERUM recently entered the German chart at position No. 37 with its third album, "Victory Songs". The CD also debuted on the Finnish national ...
ZAKK WYLDE: Performance From DIMEBAG's ROCKWALK Induction Available Online
If you missed the "Headbanger's Ball" airing of Zakk Wylde's (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) performance at "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's Hollywood's Rockwalk induction — which took place May 17, 2007 in front of the Guitar Center at 7425 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California — you can head on over to www.zakkwylde.com and click ...
ROB ZOMBIE Presents 'The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto'
From the demented mind of Rob Zombie comes "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto", a comic about the strangest crime-fighters you've ever seen. Image Comics has collected the entire hit series in one volume, including over 50 pages of never-before-seen illustrated story! "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" is a 288-page trade paperback and is ...
AXEMASTER Prepares To Record New Album
Ohio-based metallers AXEMASTER have issued the following update: "We're happy to let everyone know that the writing for AXEMASTER's long awaited new full-length CD, tentatively titled 'The Second Coming', has been completed and the recording will start soon. It will be a long process as there are 15 songs and everyone involved want to take ...
GOATWHORE Drummer Jams AC/DC With Cabo Wabo House Band; Video Available
GOATWHORE drummer Zack Simmons recently sat in with the Cabo Wabo house band and played some AC/DC while on break from touring. Watch video footage at YouTube. GOATWHORE's video for the track "Forever Consumed Oblivion" can be viewed here. The clip was shot during GOD FORBID's Chains of Humanity Tour, on ...
HEAVEN AND HELL Performs In Bulgaria; Photos Available
HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler, singer Ronnie James Dio, and drummer Vinny Appice (BLACK SABBATH, DIO) — performed live in Kavarna, Bulgaria Thursday night (June 28) in front of about 6,000 people. The group was the first-night headliner of the three-day Kaliakra Rock Fest, ...
Night Train Special For GUNS N' ROSES' New Zealand Concert
Mathew Dearnaley of The New Zealand Herald reports: GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose has given Auckland transport officials a good disaster planning workout — trying to match ultra-late services to his erratic concert times. Nervous about reports that the temperamental frontman has been leaving it until close to midnight before making stage ...
EXTREMA: Video Footage From HEINEKEN JAMMIN' Festival Available
Photos and video footage of EXTREMA's performance at Italy's Heineken Jammin' Festival (sharing the bill with heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, MASTODON, STONE SOUR and more) is now available. You can check the clips for "This Toy" and "Displaced" by following the links below: "This Toy": Video "Displaced": Video A ...
WAKO, TUMULUM Confirmed For Portugal's CAOS EMERGENTE FEST
WAKO, TUMULUM and DEAD MEAT have been confirmed for this year's Caos Emergente Fest - Open Air, set to take place September 7-9 in Recarei, Porto, Portugal. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED ALCOHOLOCAUST ALTAR OF GIALLO ANAL PENETRATION BELPHEGOR BENEDICTION BLACKSUNRISE DEAD INFECTION DEAD MEAT DECAYED DISAFFECTED DISTROFIA ...
TESTAMENT Guitarist Selling Gear
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Expected to be a tight race for the top spot between Murray State and preseason favorite Morehead State, the Ohio Valley Conference was Murray State's race to lose from early December. That is when the Racers knocked off Morehead State by 30 points and sent a message. Murray State went on to get off to a 16-0 start before falling to Morehead in the next-to-last game of the season. Morehead finished in second at 15-3, two games back of Murray State. Three teams tied at 11-7, while five teams finished below .500. The Racers struggled in the conference tournament, but knocked off Morehead State in the title game and then upset Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. They took Butler to the wire in the second round before losing by two. They are the favorite once again in the conference.
1. Murray State: The defending OVC champions were two points from the Sweet Sixteen, and they could get there this season. They are loaded on the perimeter, and have Ivan Aska down low.
2. Morehead State: Can Kenneth Faried carry the Racers to the Big Dance? He will have help in the backcourt with all-conference guard Demonte Harper.
3. Eastern Kentucky: Justin Stommes is one of the tougher match-ups in the league, while Joshua Jones and New Orleans transfer Devin McDonald are solid guards.
4. Eastern Illinois: The Panthers won seven straight games to end the regular season last year, and have a very good guard duo in Tyler Laser and Jeremy Granger.
5. Austin Peay: The Governors return four starters from a third-place finish last year, including all-conference forward Anthony Campbell and center John Fraley.
6. Tennessee Tech: Look for the Golden Eagles to improve from last season, due to the return of Kevin Murphy and the addition of Zac Swansey.
7. Southeast Missouri State: The Redhawks finished ninth last season, but they return three starters and bring in JC transfer Marcus Brister at guard.
8. Jacksonville State: The late loss of Trenton Marshall really hurts, but guard Nick Murphy is a very good scorer and rebounder, while Jeremy Bynum is solid.
9. Tennessee State: The inside-outside trio of guards Jacquan Nobles and Will Peters and forward Robert Covington will carry the Tigers this season.
10. Tennessee-Martin: Don't completely write off the Skyhawks, who won only one OVC game last season. Benzor Simmons is a solid go-to-guy.


As she greeted well-wishers at a champagne soiree in a high-rise loft space on New York's West Side, Karen Katz looked like she had just won the lottery. And the Neiman Marcus CEO had good reason to be grinning from ear to ear.
The legendary Dallas retailer recently announced its first New York store, to be located at the huge new Hudson Yards complex. To celebrate, Katz hosted a Fashion Week reception Friday night with Stephen M. Ross, chairman and founder of Related Companies, which is developing the project.
The party attracted top real estate titans, designers and retail officials. One sign that it was a tony crowd: Sleek black town cars lined the entrance to the building as drivers waited to pick up the VIPs at party's end.
CEO Karen Katz admitted she was "very skeptical" when developer Stephen Ross approached her with the idea for a Neiman Marcus in the Big Apple. "She thought we were nuts," Ross said.
Katz admitted she was "very skeptical" when Ross first approached her with the idea for a Neiman Marcus store in the Big Apple.
"She thought we were nuts," Ross interjected.
"But conversation after conversation, we became real believers," Katz said. "And, frankly, we can't believe we are putting a Neiman Marcus store here in Manhattan, in what we believe will be the second most extraordinary location in the city."
That comment drew chuckles from the crowd, as Katz was referring to "the beautiful" Bergdorf Goodman, the other crown jewel in the Neiman Marcus Group and New York retail fixture. It has long been believed that Neiman Marcus would never put a store in Manhattan because it may compete with Bergdorf Goodman.
But officials now think the timing is right for Neiman's, particularly with rivals like Nordstrom opening a store in Manhattan and Saks Fifth Avenue's plans for a second New York City location in Lower Manhattan. Also, one official pointed out, Neiman's carries brands like Tory Burch that Bergdorf's doesn't.
"We are now hooked up with the best retailer we believe in the world," said Related Companies president and CEO Ken Himmel. "For all of those who keep asking how is a Dallas-based firm going to execute a project in New York, we are looking at a leader with years and years of great experience in Bergdorf's.
"It's absolutely thrilling to be able to bring this kind of quality to the project. In a city that is known for only big and great things, we are taking that definition to a whole new level."
Guests sampled Southern delicacies like fried okra, deviled eggs and mini-hamburgers as they looked at a model of the new project and gazed out the windows of the 10th-floor loft space, which overlooks an empty lot where Hudson Yards will be built. The 250,000-square-foot store is planned to open in 2018 as part of the first phase of the mixed-use project.
Also joining in the celebration were Neiman Marcus president Jim Gold, fashion director Ken Downing, vice president of corporate communications Ginger Reeder, designers Lela Rose and Rachel Zoe, Alexander Wang president Rodrigo Bazan, Edie Parker founder and creative director Brett Heyman, Gucci North America president Christophe de Pous, and LMVH Perfumes & Cosmetics CEO Pamela Baxter.
The Bergdorf Goodman contingent included president Josh Schulman, fashion director Linda Fargo, and vice president and general manager John Capizzi — whom longtime Houstonians may remember as the manager of the Neiman Marcus Galleria store.


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Open innovation is the process of sourcing ideas and solutions to problems from outside an organisation. Read our guide to how it can benefit your business.
Innovation has traditionally followed a silo and secrecy mentality. Keen to hide their ideas from others for fear of them being copied, internal research and development departments would work on ideas, develop them into something real and only then make these public.
To prevent this secrecy and facilitate the sharing of ideas, patents were introduced with the inventor given sole rights to commercialise the idea for a limited period. That system has been in place for 200 years and while it mostly works, it has its critics.
The open-source software movement was developed in the 1990s with the belief that source code should not be owned by a single organisation. Linus Torvalds created the Linux software operating system in 1991 and it now runs on 90% of cloud infrastructure and 75% of smartphones.
In the 21st century, the pressure and pace of global competition rapidly increased, and we began to see more sharing of ideas through open innovation.
The term 'open innovation' was first coined in 2003 by Haas School of Business professor Henry Chesbrough in his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. He described open innovation as, "A paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology."
Chesbrough added: "No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services."
We recently spoke to Mat Hunter, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Plus X, to learn more about why open innovation is so important. "Open innovation occurs when a business that is working on new ideas seeks engagement from other people, including those outside of the organisation," he said.
"Great, modern business leaders realise that they can't create enough innovation only from their internal people."
The Benefits of Open Innovation
Open innovation has many advantages, including:
1. MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP IDEAS
By embracing an open innovation strategy, businesses can access ideas they might never have come up with otherwise. Many big brands have already made great use of open innovation, including:
Proctor & Gamble's innovation model Connect and Develop is a great example of a large business seeking external ideas. Connect and Develop was set up for inventors, small businesses and large companies to submit innovative products and technologies for a potential partnership.
LEGO Ideas is a platform for fans of the plastic bricks brand to share creations, enter competitions, submit proposals for new LEGO sets and vote on models built by fellow customers.
For nine years until 2018, Starbucks ran MyStarbucksIdea.com, an online community for customers to share and discuss ideas on how to enhance the Starbucks experience. Over 150,000 ideas were submitted with many being put into action. In 2013, Starbucks reported it was selling an annual 5.8 million 'cake pop treats', the idea for which was originally submitted by customers through its My Starbucks Idea platform.
But open innovation isn't only beneficial for big businesses. Mat Hunter said there is often a "psychological hurdle" among small businesses about open innovation because they believe it's not for their type of business. That's where innovation hubs like Plus X can help. They provide a place to meet, connect, engage and collaborate – making innovation part and parcel of growing a business.
"Once founders see other people with similar scale businesses having the same challenges, it demonstrates that they are not alone and they realise they have peers who can help," Hunter added.
2. LOWER COSTS
Doing your own research and development can be expensive. Open innovation helps to cut costs because you can develop ideas with others without having to employ your own expensive experts.
The Plus X Brighton workshop is a great example of this. The state-of-the-art prototyping, product development, and batch production facilities give small businesses access to world-class machinery and a specialist workshop team that would normally cost thousands.
"Plus X has been set up in a way to cope with the fact that small businesses need support," Hunter explained. "They often really struggle with the time and the money to try new stuff. We make it cheap, easy, quick and safe to do innovative things."
3. ATTRACT CUSTOMERS AND INVESTORS
An open innovation strategy can raise the profile of your business and attract interest.
By widening your network when developing ideas, businesses can build connections with influential people such as investors looking to back companies like yours.
Open innovation can also help to attract sales. Businesses that open themselves up to feedback and ideas from customers often build a strong community. It helps to develop customer loyalty and a tribe of fans who are happy to spread the word about your product or services to others.
How to deliver open innovation
There are various ways to practice open innovation. Your options include:
Online community platforms: Use these to gather feedback and ideas from customers.
Startup/corporate partnerships: Large and small businesses come together to develop new products or services.
Startup incubators and accelerators: Get access to business experts and funding.
Intrapreneurship: Encourage innovation amongst your employees by giving them support and funding to develop new ideas.
Open Innovation at Plus X
Some specific examples of open innovation we offer within the Plus X innovation hubs network are:
BRIGHTON RESEARCH INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE (BRITE)
Delivered by Plus X and the University of Brighton, BRITE creates opportunities for business leaders to collaborate with other companies, access expertise, and develop their ideas through supported innovation programmes.
Growing businesses can also get support in the development of physical products and be matched with academic experts to help guide their business to the next step.
Noel Sesto, Director of mobile technology specialists ControlFreq joined the INSPIRE programme in 2021. "BRITE helped me to realise that innovation can also be a business model or a service," he said. "I knew I wanted my business to head towards the solution and service side and that I needed to change how my business worked. My time on the BRITE project has been instrumental in supporting me to do this, and we're currently rolling out a new service-based solution for a major high street retailer."
PLUS X CORPORATE INNOVATION
Whether corporate businesses need to fix a big organisational innovation challenge, generate better ideas, move more quickly, embed agile thinking or attract talent, Plus X corporate innovation can help.
Through our extensive network, we provide access to startups and scaleups with solutions ready to plug into, the opportunity to reach a new audience and tools to cultivate a culture of intrapreneurship by motivating staff and unlocking new ideas.
We also offer support for large businesses with sustainable innovation challenges. The Better World Collective brings corporates together with innovative scaling businesses to fast-track environmental change. In regular Innovation Summits, we create the connections to enable open innovation and create lasting change.
James Edwards, Innovation Lead at Kimberly-Clark, said: "For any startup looking to work with an organisation like Kimberly-Clark, my one piece of advice to you is to come prepared with what your roadmap looks like for your end solution. It's about the startup coming to us and helping us understand how we can be a part of that future and part of that overall vision that you have for that product or solution."
KPMG's Nicole Lowe also shared her experiences of open innovation with Plus X: "It was a pleasure to work with Plus X to deliver a startup programme helping businesses to raise their first major round of investment. The team are brilliant to work with, passionate and knowledgable. The quality of the startups they recruited was really high and the programme received extremely good feedback."
The CRL Accelerator is a programme for product makers and hardware pioneers. Held at the Central Research Laboratory, participants benefit from access to experts in product design, manufacturing, customer testing, marketing and investment.
Previous cohorts have greatly benefitted from access to the experienced product development team, and gained access to expertise that opened doors for their innovations.
Chris Chavasse and Florian Richter, Co-Founders of Muddy Machines and recent CRL Accelerator alumni said of the programme, "Being in an environment that allowed us to make new connections and build a network has proven to be really useful. The PD team added a lot of value: a year ago we asked for quotes to get an MVP and we were asked £30,000, and we got an MVP basically for free thanks to the PD team and the programme."
Others have praised the programme for creating connections with big names. Founders of O-Innovations, Matt Taylor and Dominic Taylor, said, "We got many exciting contacts (KPMG, developers, Gatwick Airport, etc) out of the Gala. Inviting our guests was great and discussing O-innovations plans in a more relaxed setting was extremely helpful. There were many people there but the CRL team did a great job at suggesting who we should speak to and making the connections after the event. Extremely useful!"
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Wall Street's Quest To Process Data At The Speed Of Light
Dr. Steve	Innovation	 21 Apr 2007 18 Feb 2018 11 Minutes
Financial firms use physical proximity to overcome the technical barriers of data latency
By Richard Martin, Information Week
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WKLLSLTGL0NVQQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=199200297&queryText=rubinow
When the New York Stock Exchange celebrated its Euronext NV merger at the closing bell on April 4, the trading floor erupted in boos and jeers–and the ringing of cowbells.
The cowbells came from NYSE officials hoping to drown out the catcalls of traders, who see the merger as yet another threat to their livelihoods. With the spread of computerized trading–electronic trading now makes up 60% to 70% of the daily volume on the NYSE and algorithmic trading close to half of that–the manic floor traders look to be headed the way of the exchange's in-house barber (long gone). In the last year, the number of traders on the NYSE has dropped by a quarter.
Executing complex strategies based on arcane mathematical formulas, algorithmic trading systems generate thousands of buy and sell orders every second, many of which are canceled and overridden by subsequent orders, sometimes only a few seconds apart. The goal of these computer traders is to profit from minute, fleeting price anomalies and to mask their intentions via "time-slicing," or carving huge orders into smaller batches so as not to move the market.
A 1-millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm, by one estimate. The fastest systems, running from traders' desks to exchange data centers, can execute transactions in a few milliseconds–so fast, in fact, that the physical distance between two computers processing a transaction can slow down how fast it happens. This problem is called data latency–delays measured in split seconds. To overcome it, many high-frequency algorithmic traders are moving their systems as close to the Wall Street exchanges as possible.
Twiddling the knobs on these fantastically complicated, blindingly fast systems are human traders known as quant jocks (for quantitative trading tactics) and stat arbs (for statistical arbitrageurs). They work for major brokerages such as Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch, or for little-known, publicity-shy hedge funds such as SAC Capital and Renaissance Technologies (both of which declined to comment for this story). They're competing to shave fractions of seconds off transaction times in order to pinpoint share prices.
Wall Street's quest for speed is not only putting floor traders out of work but also opening up space for new alternative exchanges and electronic communications networks that compete with the established stock markets. Electronic trading has reduced overall volatility in the equities markets, because volatility is a product of herd buying or selling, and electronic trading–responding instantaneously to tiny price fluctuations–tends to smooth out such mass behavior. And it has provided established exchanges with new revenue opportunities, such as co-location services for companies that wish to place their servers in direct physical proximity to the exchanges' systems. Electronic trading also has created opportunities for a new class of vendors–execution services firms and systems integrators promising the fastest possible transaction times.
At its most abstract level, the data-latency race represents the spear point of the global movement to eradicate barriers–geographic, technical, psychological–to fair and transparent markets. "Any fair market is going to select the best price from the buyer or seller who gets their order in there first," says Alistair Brown, founder of Lime Brokerage, one of the new-school broker-dealers, which uses customized Linux servers to trade some 200 million shares a day. "At that point, speed definitely becomes an issue. If everyone has access to the same information, when the market moves, you want to be first. The people who are too slow are going to get left behind."
That reality extends beyond Wall Street. While no other industry depends so much on split-second response times and high throughput between many different agents, the need for speed is growing in other sectors. Rich-media companies (those involved in videopostproduction, digital animation, broadcasting, and Web 2.0), oil and gas producers, big retail chains, research institutions–they're all finding that rapid access to data is increasingly a competitive differentiator.
"A lot of different industries are trying to relieve input/output bottlenecks even if they're not operating at the sub-100-millisecond level like financial traders," says Josh Goldstein, VP of product marketing at DataDirect Networks, a provider of high-end storage systems, including a highly optimized algorithm called DirectRAID for storing and instantly retrieving large files. "They need faster times to gain insight on their data, and they can see how that's driving their competitive advantage."
The high-speed data transfer segment of the storage industry is growing 20% to 25% a year, Goldstein says, while DDN's own business is growing even faster. In that sense, Wall Street's latency-reduction efforts are helping drive the development of network and storage technologies–tiered storage that deposits different types of data according to how often it's accessed, advanced interconnect technologies like InfiniBand, and high-speed, front-end controllers that provide data access to multiple computers–that will spread to other industries, for everything from 3-D seismic exploration information to archived video.
VALUE IN MILLISECONDS
On the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel, in an anonymous three-story building, is one of the financial world's most important data centers. Pushing the door bell at the unmarked main entrance won't get you inside–it's merely a facade. The real entrance is harder to find.
The servers for five electronic exchanges are located in this data center, along with computers belonging to dozens of trading firms. Run by hosting company Savvis, the Weehawken facility is home to some of the most advanced trading technology anywhere. Much of Savvis' growth can be traced to the spread of what's known as direct market access. In the past, traders used consolidated feeds–market data updates such as those provided by Reuters and Thomson. Distributing those feeds, however, could take up to 500 milliseconds, far too long for today's automated trading.
"Now you're seeing a lot of the market data providers and vendors who have direct exchange-feed connectivity," says Varghese Thomas, Savvis' VP of financial markets. Savvis provides connectivity from the exchange directly to the client without having to go through a consolidated system.
The exchanges themselves also are profiting from the demand for server space in physical proximity to the markets. Even on the fastest networks, it takes 7 milliseconds for data to travel between the New York markets and Chicago-based servers and 35 milliseconds between the West and East coasts. Many broker-dealers and execution-services firms are paying premiums to place their servers inside the data centers of Nasdaq and the NYSE.
About 100 firms now co-locate their servers with Nasdaq's, says Brian Hyndman, Nasdaq's senior VP of transaction services, at a going rate of about $3,500 per rack per month. Nasdaq has seen 25% annual increases in co-location the last two years.
Physical co-location eliminates the unavoidable time lags inherent in even the fastest wide area networks. Servers in shared data centers typically are connected via Gigabit Ethernet, with the ultrahigh-speed switching fabric called InfiniBand increasingly used for the same purpose, says Yaron Haviv, CTO at Voltaire, a supplier of systems that can achieve latencies of less than a microsecond, or 1 millionth of a second.
Later this year, Nasdaq will shut down its data center in Trumbull, Conn., and move all operations to one opened last year in New Jersey, with a backup in the mid-Atlantic region, Hyndman says. (Trading firms and exchanges are reluctant to disclose the exact locations of their data centers.)
The NYSE will begin reducing its 10 data centers, including those associated with Euronext, to two in the next couple of years, says CTO Steve Rubinow. Co-location, Rubinow says, not only guarantees fast transactions, but also predictable ones. "If you've got some trades going through at 10 milliseconds and some at 1 millisecond, that's a problem," he says. "Our customers don't like variance."
One of the biggest co-location customers is Credit Suisse, which handles about 10% of all U.S. equity trades daily and which helped pioneer black-box trading systems with exotic algorithms that go by monikers like Sniper, Guerrilla, and Inline. Credit Suisse maintains Sun and Egenera blade servers, some running Linux and some Windows, in all the major U.S. markets, says Guy Cirillo, manager of global sales channels for Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services unit, which serves major hedge funds and other buy-side clients. The AES trading engine in Credit Suisse's Manhattan headquarters is replicated in London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
Guaranteed transaction times for AES clients–from the time the order is received on the Credit Suisse system until it gets an acknowledgment from the exchange, electronic communications network, or "crossing network"–has dropped from 15 milliseconds to 8 in the last year, Cirillo says. Total execution time also includes any delays within the exchange or "liquidity point" itself, a latency variable over which Credit Suisse has no control.
"That response time is something the ECNs and the exchanges compete on as well," Cirillo says. "Their latency, their turnaround time, and their infrastructure are all part of the electronic game."
Founded in 1971 as the first all-electronic equities market, Nasdaq has made a series of acquisitions of upstart ECNs, buying the Brut and INET electronic trading systems in the last few years. Nasdaq is now shifting its legacy trading platform–called Supermontage, based on Hewlett-Packard, Stratus, and Dell servers–over to INET's hyper-rapid system. The NYSE, meanwhile, purchased Chicago-based Archipelago in April 2005.
Hyndman, who oversaw the acquisition of Brut and INET, says they've allowed Nasdaq to offer the fastest possible transaction times. In migrating to INET, "we've reduced latency from 10 milliseconds down to 1," he says, referring to the time it takes once an order is placed on Nasdaq's system to acknowledge it electronically. "It gives customers the speed they're looking for, with the tremendous throughput, reliability, and stability they're looking for in a matching engine."
Also driving Wall Street's electronic revolution has been government regulation, specifically the Regulation National Market System, or Reg NMS. Intended to modernize and standardize equity markets, Reg NMS has several provisions, the most significant and controversial of which is the trade-through rule, which essentially states that all customer orders must be routed to the exchange with the best price at the moment the order is entered. One consequence of that mandate, which took effect for exchanges in early March and will be applied to broker-dealers later this year, is that holdout manual exchanges, such as the NYSE and regional exchanges in Philadelphia, Boston, and elsewhere, must finally go electronic. In late February, the NYSE finished rolling out its Hybrid Market system, which integrates aspects of the auction market with automated trading.
Traders are being forced to rely on automated systems more and more, according to a report from Wall Street consulting firm the Tabb Group titled "Trading At Light Speed." And they're using automation "not only to filter the data for them, but increasingly to process that data, interpret it, and drive automated trading decisions," according to the report.
Many observers, especially high-frequency traders and new-fashioned broker-dealers such as Lime, see even hybrid systems such as the NYSE's as a stopgap. Soon, they argue, all markets will be completely electronic, and transaction times will be the ultimate arbiter of who gets the best trade at the best price.
"Computers are just so much faster and more efficient that there's no point in doing things the old-fashioned way," says Mark Akass, CTO for BT's global financial services unit. "Computers make both the decision process and the execution so much faster that eventually everything will be done electronically."
That doesn't mean that they're infallible. The sequence of events that followed the sharp decline in the Chinese stock market in late February was compounded by a computing error that made it appear that the Dow Jones industrial average had dropped 178 points in a minute. Automated trading systems responded, and the Dow plunged 416 points, or 3.3%, on the day. The NYSE was forced to suspend electronic trading that afternoon.
Regardless, high-speed, automated trading over electronic networks eventually will make the traditional exchanges obsolete, or nearly so, predicts David Cummings, CEO and founder of BATS Trading. Founded in June 2005, BATS (for Better Automated Trading System) was built from the ground up to take advantage of the new black-box trading schemes and, says Cummings, to compete with Nasdaq, which he regards the way a fighter jet pilot might look at a biplane.
Tough-talking Cummings is perhaps the leading proponent of the theory that the push to reduce data latency represents not just an imperative for Wall Street traders but a new era for Wall Street itself. "Nasdaq spent $1.6 billion to buy out INET and Brut," pronounces Cummings. "I told my investors, 'For $30 million or $50 million we can rebuild it.' And we are."
BATS's trading system, based on multicore HP servers running proprietary software, initially cost all of $2 million, and it averaged response times of less than a millisecond, Cummings says. That kind of performance earned BATS the top spot from research firm Celent in its latest industry-benchmark rankings of executions speeds, above Nasdaq's trading engine. And, Cummings says, it will get BATS to 1 billion shares traded per day by the end of this year, from just over 300 million in February.
BATS isn't the only trading network to spring up in response to the new techniques and technologies. Direct Edge, CBSX (an offshoot of the Chicago Board Options Exchange), and Liquidnet (which last month acquired Miletus Trading, a broker-dealer for algorithmic trading) all have appeared in the last few years.
Meanwhile, established providers of market data have introduced products to serve high-frequency black-box traders. Responding to the direct-feed explosion, Reuters last year rolled out Reuters Data Feed Direct, a managed service for high-end traders that offers latency of less than 1 millisecond and a "full liquidity view of the market," says Kirsti Suutari, global business manager for algorithmic trading in Reuters' enterprise trading division.
"The use of machines begets the use of machines," notes Suutari. "As the market becomes more electronic and more appropriate for machine-based trading, we've seen this huge increase in the market data update rate. We needed to create a product more designed for that kind of volume of data flow."
The stock market's update rate–the real-time data flow on prices and transactions–has now reached something like 83,000 messages per second, Suutari says.
Also offering a new avenue for high-frequency trading is BT Radianz, which resulted from BT's 2005 acquisition of trading-platform provider Radianz. Launched in March, its Ultra Access service provides sub-1 millisecond order-routing services between traders and exchanges in the New York area. That's as fast as you can get, says BT's CTO Akass. "After you get below 1 millisecond, you get to the speed-of-light limitation," he says. "There's not a lot you can do in terms of getting faster."
BEYOND WARP SPEED
Therein lies the rub for ultrafast trading: Once you hit physical limits to data-transmission speeds, where do you go from there? "If anybody knows how to get a signal transmitted faster than the speed of light, I'd like talk with them," says Cummings.
There are two schools of thought on this issue. One is that traders, exchanges, and brokers must shave latency from other parts of the system–in the applications they use, for instance–and that the race will continue.
The other is that latency will cease to be an issue once everyone has access to the same trading infrastructure and that other, older-school elements of the business such as customer service and market savvy will, once again, become the differentiators. "Shortly, we'll be talking micro- versus milliseconds, and at that point speed will probably have less and less relevance," says Brown of Lime Brokerage. "Once you've got half a dozen systems that can all handle that kind of throughput, then you have to distinguish yourself somewhere else."
For now, though, the quest for speed continues. And Wall Street's transformation goes on, at faster and faster rates. "Five years ago we were talking seconds, now we're into the milliseconds," says BATS CEO Cummings. "Five years from now we'll probably be measuring latency in microseconds."
Millionths of a second? If there's a will–and a multimillion-dollar stock trade at stake–there's bound to be a way.
–With Elena Malykhina
Published 21 Apr 2007 18 Feb 2018
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Welcome to the final installment of the Speedway Police Department's 2017 year in review!
The Speedway Police Department invited residents of Speedway to join members of the Department in celebrating our National Night Out crime prevention event. The event brings communities together to promote the partnership between the police and the community.
Highlights of the National Night Out event included free food and drinks, police demos, and information about various anti-crime initiatives. We also had music, kids' activities, information booths from public safety-related organizations, civic groups, town departments, and much more!
Thanks to all who attended National Night Out-we hope you had a great time, had plenty of food and enjoyed meeting with SPD!
Thank you Barbecue and Bourbon for providing an excellent lunch once again for our Crime Stoppers Shred Day volunteers. Much appreciated!
Speedway PD – Guardians of Speedway – had a great time at Trunk or Treat! It was freezing but so much fun!
The Speedway Police Citizens Academy graduated its 8th class, congratulations and we look forward to you continuing your relationship with the Speedway Police Department through volunteerism, continuing education and other partnership opportunities!
Mrs. Alisia Apple of Pride Academy was presented the Jefferson Award today! Thank you Alisia for all the wonderful things you do for the children and the community! You are an amazing woman and we are so lucky to have you and Pride in our community!
On Monday, December 4th, 2017 the Speedway Police Department hired its newest police officer. Officer Karl Brown, 35, was sworn in by Clerk-Treasurer Monty Combs during a ceremony held at the Speedway Town Hall. Officer Brown resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife L'America Brown. Prior to working for the Town of Speedway, Officer Brown was employed as a Police Officer with the Indianapolis Airport Police Department. He is a graduate of Indiana Law Enforcement Academy class 2015-205 and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Indianapolis. Please help us in welcoming Officer Karl Brown to the Town of Speedway.
Speedway Police and Fire sandwich challenge at GetGo Speedway PD vs. Speedway Fire Department in a sandwich making contest for charity at the new GetGo in Speedway. Unfortunately SPD lost for following the rules! Thanks to Speedway GetGo for the donation made to the department during their long awaited grand opening.
It was a great 2017 and we look forward to an even better 2018!


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          provider_class :VMPP
          collection_name :vmpps

          identity :reference

          attribute :alarm_config
          attribute :archive_frequency
          attribute :archive_last_run_time
          attribute :archive_schedule
          attribute :archive_target_config
          attribute :archive_target_type
          attribute :backup_frequency
          attribute :backup_last_run_time
          attribute :backup_retention_value
          attribute :backup_schedule
          attribute :backup_type
          attribute :description,         :aliases => :name_description
          attribute :is_alarm_enabled
          attribute :is_archive_running
          attribute :is_backup_running
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          attribute :recent_alerts
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        end
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For example, you might get a lot of endorsements for 'Microsoft Word' (which used to happen very often), and if you think it won't help in branding yourself, then, just delete it. If you're adding certifications from LinkedIn Learning courses to your profile, it adds skills that you are expected to have learned after watching the videos.... It�s hard to get an endorsement of the company you love if they don�t know who you are. Building a strong social media presence around your music, the gear that drives your inspiration, and don�t forget to share occasional facets of your personality that truly make you who you are.
Without a doubt one the most important recent LinkedIn innovations is the introduction of endorsements. In this article I explain ten excellent tactics to help you get more LinkedIn endorsements.... To ensure you get a customized recommendation, prompt the person you ask with a couple topics or questions. Just make sure to do it gently and courteously. After all, this person is doing you a favor -- you don't want to seem demanding.
LinkedIn Help - Requesting a Recommendation - How do I request a recommendation? Attention screen reader users, you are in a mobile optimized view and content may not appear where you expect it to be.... Endorsements increase the strength of your profile and help keep you connected to your network. While these may not carry as much weight as other elements of your profile, endorsements help add to the overall value of your professional profile.
Company Pages with profile pictures get six times more visitors than those without. Choosing a profile image is straightforward: take your company logo (the same one you�re using on your other social media channels) and resize it to fit with LinkedIn�s requirements.
Displaying endorsements from former employers, clients or suppliers on your LinkedIn network profile can help get you noticed and further your career, particularly if you are applying for new jobs and want to stand out to prospective employers.


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Q: Override a Maven filter value with an environment variable or command-line parameter We use Maven to build our java projects, with different profiles (testing, staging, production etc). Each profile has a its own filter, declared like :
<filters>
    <filter>src/main/filters/filter-${env}.properties</filter>
</filters>

(with ${env} being set to the profile name). Each filter contains the values specific to the target environment (mostly configuration parameters).
It's been working great for many years. But, sometimes, we would like to override one of the values inside this .properties filter file, without modifying the file itself.
Why? Because it happens very late in the process. We already tagged a version on the SCM, carefully tested it in testing/staging environments, communicated on this version number, and are discovering a wrong parameter value in the production filter when installing in production. It's too late to create a new tag and test again, only for a configuration parameter.
I'd like to find a way to override the value at Maven runtime : either with an environment variable, or by passing some parameters on the Maven command-line.
I suppose it should be possible by extending the maven-resources-plugin ourself, but there might be an easier way?
NB : our build does not only generate a war, but a complete package including its configuration.
Technical environment : Maven 3.3.9, launched by a Jenkins job

A: when executing a maven command, you can override your property by providing it as a system-property.
like mvn install "-Dthe.property=the overriden value"
note the " are only needed if the value contains spaces.


The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has made a major commitment toward improving safety in and around the state's roadway construction work zones. The agency is the first in the nation to help hundreds of its employees earn the "Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals™" (SCTPP) credential endorsed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
SCTPP Commission Co-chair David Walls, president & CEO of Texas-based Austin Industries, announced the state agency has entered a partnering contract with ARTBA's Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) to enable 500 TxDOT employees to sit for the professional certification exam in their Fiscal Year 2019.
The SCTPP program in May earned ANSI accreditation under ISO/IEC 17024:2012 international standard. The exam is administered nationwide at Pearson VUE Test Centers. ARTBA-TDF manages the program.
The SCTPP is targeted at significantly elevating safety awareness among the thousands of non-safety professionals in the industry—planners, designers, field supervisors and inspectors—who are in decision-making roles from project conception through completion. The aim, Walls says, is to bring thousands of more "eyes" to the task of identifying and mitigating potential hazards for workers and motorists commonly found in transportation work zones—skills identified through the professional certification exam.
As part of the partnering contract, TxDOT employees will be given 24/7 access to online SCTPP prep courses available at www.puttingsafetyfirst.org/prep-courses/. The transportation project-specific courses have been pre-approved for Professional Development Hours (PDH) to meet licensing requirements for engineers in Florida, North Carolina and New York. The 38 states that follow the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Model Rules for continual professional competency accept the PDHs as well.
ARTBA Chairman Bob Alger, president and CEO of Connecticut-based The Lane Construction Corporation, commended TxDOT for its commitment to reducing the number of deaths and injuries that occur in the state's road work zones each year. He predicted other state transportation departments would follow TxDOT's leadership in engaging the safety certification program.


Qi is our life force energy held within our bodies. It flows along meridians, blood, lymph vessels and connecting organ systems. It is pronounced "Chee" in Chinese or "Key" in Japanese.
We take an holistic approach to treatments to understand you as an individual, your emotions and medical conditions.
These ancient massage therapies were based on the basic human instinct to "rub yourself better" when there is an injury or pain. Qi can become blocked within our bodies by injury, external trauma, and invasion of external pathogens or stress.
As we find these blockages, we work on releasing Qi so that it can flow freely through your body.
When Qi is balanced, you feel alive, relaxed, healthy and more able and confident to deal with life pressures.
Musculoskeletal – Aches, Joint pain, stiffness, numbness, muscular tension and recurring injuries / weaknesses.
Shiatsu and Tui Na use a range of different massage and manipulation techniques to work along the meridians or energy network systems using carefully selected acu-points to create a Qi balance, removing Qi stagnation, and tonifying deficient energy, therefore aiding the body to heal itself.
How do they differ and what is right for you?
As these ancient therapies have evolved and been refined over thousands of years, the treatments reflect the different cultures from their country of origin. Tui Na, Chinese and Shiatsu, Japanese.
Both are based on the meridian system and the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, including what is known as the 5 elements. Carolyn will be doing more workshops on Traditional Chinese Medicine. The five elements are based on Taoist principles of living according to the seasons and its principles emotions, hence the seasonal newsletters that you can subscribe to.


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Author - James Joyce
James Joyce in 1915 when he was 33 years old.
James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 to a downwardly-mobile middle class family. He was educated at the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College before he went to University College, Dublin. It was here that he began writing. In 1902 he went to Paris where he remained for a year, returning home only to see his dying mother. He left again soon after her death and spent the rest of his life abroad.
Joyce published Dubliners in 1914 and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man two years later. But his most famous works are Ulysses, published in 1922, and Finnegans Wake, completed in 1939, two years before his death.
Here's a chance for book lovers to test their knowledge of the life and works of James Joyce. Did he marry a barnacle, a limpet, a whelk or a winkle? Find out in this quiz!
In which city was Joyce born in 1882?
Joyce was born at number 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin
Whom did Joyce marry in 1931?
Nora Barnacle
Nora Limpet
Nora Whelk
Nora Winkle
On hearing of Nora's surname, Joyce's father said: 'She'll stick with him'
In 1941 Joyce underwent an operation on a perforated ulcer in which Swiss city?
He underwent surgery on the 11th of January but relapsed the next day and fell into a coma. He died on the 13th of January and is buried in the Fluntern Cemetery near Zurich Zoo
What was the title of Joyce's final novel, published in 1939?
Brogans Wake
Hogans Wake
Logans Wake
This one was hard work; it took him 17 years to write it
Which of these is a character created by Joyce?
Molly Bloom
Molly Flower
Molly Rose
Molly Snowdrop
She's loosely based on the ancient Greek heroine Penelope
Joyce's initials were J A A. What was his third Christian name?
His full name was James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
From 1888 until 1892 Joyce attended Clongowes Wood College, a boarding school in which Irish county?
The school has educated other writers apart from Joyce including Pat Reid MBE, Maurice Healy and Aidan Higgins
What was the title of the collection of Joyce's short stories published in 1914?
Dubliners
New Yorkers
Parisiennes
Dubliners contains fifteen short stories which describe Irish middle class life in the early 20th Century, at the height of Irish nationalism
What is the title of Joyce's 1918 play?
The Examiners
The Exhibitionists
The Exiles
The Extortionists
The Exiles is based on The Dead, the final short story in Joyce's Dubliners
Complete the title of Joyce's 1916 semi-autobiographical novel - A portrait of the Artist...?
As a Young Dog
As a Young Man
As a Young Poet
As a Young Writer
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by Dylan Thomas
Author: Tony Rennick
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Something I just learned the other day that is a part of Windows XP networking is the ability to set the priority of which network connection is used. This is pretty important--I have a site where there is a large amount of laptops being used both plugged into the wired network and attached to the wireless network at the same time. Of course, I would prefer that they used the wired network exclusively for their applications while in the office, and this gives me a way to force it.
In order to enable this feature, go to Network Connections in Control Panel, click on Advanced in the menu bar, and select Advanced Options. Within this window, you can adjust the priority of the various network connections. In this way, I can free up some of the bandwidth going over the wireless connection, while making our users happier with a faster network connection to the individual computer.


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IOM began its operations in Thailand in 1975, assisting the resettlement of Indo-Chinese refugees to countries offering them permanent residence. With the Kingdom of Thailand joining IOM as a member state in 1986, the organization's cooperation with the Royal Thai Government has expanded to cover all aspects of migration affecting the Kingdom and its neighbours, including labour migration, migration health, counter trafficking, emergency and post crisis, institution building, border management, security and law enforcement.
Today, IOM has a strong presence in Thailand with over 200 staff working on more than 35 active projects in seven locations across the country. The IOM Mission in Thailand has a main office in central Bangkok and six other project offices in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, Mae Sariang and Mae Sot.
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Our Chicago nursing home neglect attorneys know that one of the key challenges to improving the care given to local residents is working to break the silence about resident mistreatment. Many more instances of nursing home abuse and neglect occur each day than are ever reported. There are many reasons for this, the most common being that the resident-victims of this conduct are often unable to understand the quality of care to which they are entitled. In that way they remain incredibly vulnerable community members who need to be protected at all costs.
One of the ways in which concerned advocates are attempting to provide more supervision of residents is through the use of video cameras. Technology improvements allow care to be monitored remotely. The footage that has already been caught on tape at various facilities is enough to shock most observers. For example, Global Saskatoon News reported this week on a startling case of nursing home abuse caught on tape at a long-term care facility.
A woman placed a hidden camera in her 68-year old boyfriend's room at the facility. The couple has been dating for 20 years, but they never officially married. The woman first became suspicious when the man began visiting her with strange cuts and bruises on his body. She suspected that the man was being mistreated and wanted proof.
Besides the bizarre psychological abuse, the woman also claims that her boyfriend was given the wrong medication by the facility. The man has been diagnosed with dementia, but he was given medication to treat epileptic seizures. It is unclear why he was provided the drug, especially since it has the damaging side effects of decreased mobility and balance.
On top of all that, an alarm system installed to alert caregivers of the man's need for help was not properly working. The alarm is supposed to beep when he gets up so that he can receive aid walking across his room. However, the system is failed to work, and so the victim was forced to walk alone. He has suffered several falls as a result.
Following her capture of the abuse, the woman initiated a nursing home lawsuit against the facility for their poor care. Our Illinois nursing home neglect attorneys know that many of the worst nursing homes are reluctant to improve the care they provide unless money is on the line. That is why nursing home lawsuits have important ramifications for both the victim of a particular case as well as all residents of the negligent facility.
The civil justice system allows those harmed by the negligence of others to seek recourse for their losses. In the nursing home context, it is well established that caregivers have a duty to provide reasonable aid to residents. They have breached that duty when they do not provide appropriate assistance. If that breach causes the resident any form of injury, then the victim has established a case for negligence making them capable of recovery.
We urge all those who suspect that a loved one has been harmed in this way to get in touch with our experienced lawyers and share your story.


If you're car is damaged in an accident, you will need to file a claim to get it repaired.
Florida is a no-fault state. That means that insurance companies pay for damages, regardless of who was at fault.
However, the insurance claims adjuster should not be the first person you contact. If the damage to your car was $500 or any damage to property in the car totals plus damage to the car totals $500, Florida law requires you to report the accident to the proper authorities. If it happened in a municipality, the proper authority is the police. If you weren't in a specific municipality, it should be the country sheriff.
What if you're not sure whether the damage is more than $500? It's better, frankly, to err on the side of caution. First, even a small amount of damage to a vehicle, especially a newer one, can add up surprisingly quickly. It may hit the $500 threshold even if you don't think it will. Second, it's always a good idea to have a police or sheriff's report on an accident. It provides official document of what occurred, which is important for dealing with the insurance company and the other driver.
You should always exchange information with the other driver after an accident. Get the name, telephone number, and insurance information. Give the other driver your information. If you were hit when parked, the other motorist should leave that information somewhere you can find it. If they did not, see if surveillance footage may be available (if you were in a parking garage or municipal lot, for example). Footage may be able to provide the license plate number.
Report the accident as soon as possible to your insurance company. Filing a claim occur with no delay, other than calling law enforcement and talking to the other driver. The sooner your insurance company hears from you, the quicker claims can be processed. Write down what happened, what the damage is, and whether or not anyone was injured. Speak calmly and clearly, and answer any questions truthfully. Many insurance companies send out adjusters to take pictures of the vehicle. If yours doesn't, take pictures with your smartphone.
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An Assessed Internship is an excellent way to get to know Shell from the inside. Immerse yourself in the Oil & Energy industry and decide what career is right for you.
Lasting typically 10-12 weeks, your time in an assessed internship will see you having a full day-to-day involvement in actual projects selected to match your interests and abilities. You will join a project team and work alongside Shell employees who are all professionals in their fields. To ensure that you will get the most from the experience, a supervisor and a mentor will support you directly while you undertake regular assessments throughout your internship. Their perspectives will contribute to your understanding of the business, and its demands and rewards.
A meeting will take place mid-way through your internship with your supervisor and mentor. The purpose of this meeting is to review whether you have met the milestones set at the start of the project, to provide you with feedback on your performance to date and to give you examples of where you are doing well and areas for improvement, using the CAR framework.
Energy fuels both the global economy and our everyday lives, and with a global improvement of living standards and population growth, we are seeing the continued rise in demand for energy. The big challenge is how to provide much more energy while at the same time significantly reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This is what we call the energy challenge.
We recognise the significance of climate change, along with the role energy plays in helping people achieve and maintain a good quality of life. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to provide much more energy with less carbon dioxide. This global energy transition therefore requires a huge undertaking – producing and consuming energy in a different way. We need to design our economies, communities and lives to thrive on these energy systems.
With a career at Shell, you'll have a part to play in uniquely innovative projects which will provide unbeatable experience.
We have a track record of world firsts, from Shell Pearl GTL, the world's largest gas-to-liquids plant, to Prelude, the world's first floating liquefied natural gas facility. These aren't just engineering achievements. They are a product of a business that genuinely prizes progress, where you will be constantly encouraged to explore new ways of thinking and working.
The scale of our challenge is exciting too. Global demand for energy is rapidly rising, and outpacing supply. We offer a Graduate Programme that will develop both your professional expertise and your leadership potential. Where you will work and learn as an integral part of a talented global team and be inspired by where your career could take you.
We've designed the Shell Assessed Internship to give remarkable students and graduates like you a real role in our business, whether you join in our Technical, Commercial Business, and or Corporate Functions area. We will provide you with the support that you need to succeed whilst completing your internship.
During an Assessed Internship, you will have a formal mid-term review with your mentor and supervisor. At the end of the internship, you will have to sit for a competency based interview. You'll also be asked to prepare a final presentation about your project.
Following the successful completion of the assessments, you will be offered an Employment opportunity in a full time role.
How well you get things done, for example your drive, resilience, self-confidence, and organisational skills.
To apply for the Shell Assessed Internships, you must be in your penultimate year of study at a recognised University.
"My assessed internship with Shell was a fantastic opportunity which gave me real life exposure to the energy industry, Shell's culture and organisation and the various scope of work that Shell undertakes.
I developed a wide breadth of knowledge in such a short period of time which has not only enhanced my understanding but has also played a key part in my current position on the Shell Graduate program. During my internship I developed diverse relationships and built a strong support network which made settling in to the company so much less daunting to what I had anticipated. The overall culture was very welcoming and It wasn't long before I could make a positive impact here as part of the team."
This is the last assessment stage. It consists of a live online session with two professionals at Shell. During this session you will be asked to discuss your thoughts on a case study, which you will have a chance to review 48 hours prior to the session. You will need to read and prepare for this, but don't worry, more information will be provided closer to the time.
On the day of your assessment, you will be assigned a topic relating to your case study and then given 20 minutes (30 for non-native English speakers) to prepare a 10-minute presentation. This presentation will be followed by questions and additional scenarios from the assessors for up to 20 minutes. Once you have cleared this round, the assessed internship will be offered to you.
Am I eligible to apply for a Technical Internship?
To be eligible to apply for any Technical role on the Shell Assessed Internship, you should be studying towards a Master's degree and in your penultimate year. For example, if are studying a 4 year MEng degree, then you can apply in your 3rd year of study.
You may be currently studying a Bachelors Engineering degree and unsure that you will be successful in applying for a Master's programme, you are still welcome to apply in your final year of your Bachelor's degree. Regardless of the length of your study programme, you should apply in your penultimate year of study.
Will Visa's be supported when I apply for an Internship?
You can track your application online by logging into your account. In the initial stages of the application process, applicants are given 10 days from receipt of their email invitation to complete each of the Online Assessments and Self Recorded Video Interview. After which if either of elements are not completed, the application is automatically withdrawn and you can re-apply in 12 months time from the date of application.
If you have not received an invitation to the Online Tests or the Self Recorded Video Interviews, you must contact our team within this timeframe to complete these elements. The Online Test and the Self Recorded Video Interview come in separate emails and may end up in your Junk mail. We cannot extend the 10 day window or re-activate the elements of the first stage if you contact us after the 10 day window. For re-activation emails, please contact our team: careers@shell.com.
Discover the benefits of working at Shell, from our outstanding training programmes to the infinite opportunities to network and collaborate.


really enjoyed this book. can't wait for the next book to come out on audible.
I'm usually a Crichton fan...but this was awful! it took everything i had to keep going. and then when it reached the references at the end...omg why?!!! why read the references?!