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After inside-the-parker, Castle's James looking for more heroics in Class 4A final
Castle's James hopes to excel again in Class 4A championship game
After inside-the-parker, Castle's James looking for more heroics in Class 4A final Castle's James hopes to excel again in Class 4A championship game Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/05/26/castles-james-hopes-stand-tall-once-again-4-title-contest/647963002/
Gordon Engelhardt, Courier & Press Published 8:48 p.m. CT May 26, 2018 | Updated 9:00 p.m. CT May 26, 2018
Castle's Nate James bunts and reached base because Jasper failed to cover first as the Knights scored in the bottom of the seventh to post a 3-2 win in the Class 4A sectional semis.(Photo: JAKE CRANDALL / COURIER & PRESS)Buy Photo
EVANSVILLE – Nate James hadn't hit an inside-the-park home run in years.
"I hadn't done it in a while," said James, Castle's senior shortstop. "It was my first time in high school. It went past the center fielder. I saw him dive."
James' inside-the-parker past Jasper center fielder Jacob Lents boosted the Knights' lead to 2-0 in the fifth on Saturday in the semifinals of the local Class 4A sectional at Bosse Field.
"For a moment, I thought he was going to stop at third," said Castle coach Curt Welch. "I kept waving him in. The center fielder tried to make a great catch. It was a big run."
Jasper tied the score in the top of the seventh, but Castle responded in the bottom of the inning, posting a 3-2 victory.
The Knights (19-8) will meet North (22-8) at 11 a.m. Monday for the title. Castle has responded in pressure situations before. The Knights beat Memorial on May 15 and again two days later to forge a tie for the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference championship.
Nate James slides home inside park HR for Castle, takes 2-0 lead, 5th pic.twitter.com/EXzTQHvq2X
— Gordon Engelhardt (@EngGordon) May 26, 2018
After putting two great games back-to-back against Memorial, Welch is hoping Castle can do the same thing in the sectional.
The Knights are seeking their first sectional title since 2014. North last won the championship in '13. The Huskies posted a 3-2 win over Castle on April 4, but the Knights gained revenge two days later, 4-2.
"We'll come in with all kinds of intensity and try to get that 'dub,' " said James, who is batting .316.
Blake Ciuffetelli, who is 5-1 with a 0.91 earned run average, is expected to take the mound for the Knights while Nathan Toone (7-2, 1.98) will pitch for North.
"It should be a great atmosphere," said North coach Jeremy Jones. "Castle is playing excellent baseball right now and having the SIAC ERA leader going against us (Ciuffetelli) will be a challenge for us."
Castle players high five following their warm up during the Class 4A sectional semifinal at Bosse Field on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Castle defeated Jasper 3-2. (Photo: JAKE CRANDALL / COURIER & PRESS)
Jones has noted before that his team, isn't flashy, just effective.
"The biggest thing we have going is we do the little things very well," he said. "Our players take great pride in their defense and having quality at-bats, which has been a big key to our success this season."
Jones loves this group of Huskies.
"They are a bunch of hard-nosed baseball players that love to grind out at-bats," he said. "Having Toone and Newton at the top of the rotation also helps, as they have been great for us all year."
North has one thing in mind: winning ballgames, not personal statistics.
"And that's why we have been really good," Jones said. "These guys are so unselfish and just care about the 'W'. Our coaches have done an amazing job of setting that mindset and our kids have done everything we have asked all season."
North coach Jeremy Jones after Huskies' sectional semifinal win pic.twitter.com/7XHRDq5rmn
But the Huskies are well aware of the task at hand.
"Castle is definitely a great team with a lot of talent," said Zach Simpson, a senior first baseman who is hitting .321 with 24 RBIs. "It should be a good game on Monday but we're ready for them."
More: Castle's Messinger loses no-hitter, but wins 4A sectional semifinal with RBI grounder


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The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
Economists are widely reviled and their influence derided by the general public.
Yet their services have never been in greater demand.
To unravel the paradox, we need to understand both the strengths and weaknesses of economics.
Dani Rodrik argues that the multiplicity of theoretical frameworks - what economists call 'models' that exist side by side is economics' great strength.
Economists are trained to hold diverse, possibly contradictory models of the world in their minds.
This is what allows them, when they do their job right, to comprehend the world, make useful suggestions for improving it, and to advance their stock of knowledge over time.
In short, it is what makes economics a 'science' a different kind ofscience from physics or some other natural sciences, but a science nonetheless.
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Their training lets them down when it comes to navigating among diverse models and figuring out which one applieswhere.
Ideology and political preferences frequently substitute for analysis in choosing among models. So the book offers both a defence and critique of economics.
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Burisma Holdings: Biden's Son Joins Ukraine's Top Private Gas Company
By Sophie Song @SophieXSong
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) points to some faces in the crowd with his son Hunter as they walk down Pennsylvania Avenue following the inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama in Washington, January 20, 2009. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The Ukrainian gas company that Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, just joined is a growing conglomerate that has been compared to "Exxon in its early days."
Burisma Holdings announced Tuesday that the younger Biden will join the company as the head of its legal unit.
"The company's strategy is aimed at the strongest concentration of professional staff and the introduction of best corporate practices, and we're delighted that Mr. Biden is joining us to help us achieve these goals," Alan Apter, chairman of Burisma's board of directors, said in a statement featured as a top story on the company's home page.
Burisma is a private oil and gas company founded in 2002, under joint activity agreements with Ukrainian state-owned producers, and quickly grew to become the largest private gas producer in Ukraine. The company's average daily output stood at 10.5 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day in September 2013, and could double that figure within two years. All of the company's gas is sold to industrial customers in Ukraine.
Biden is not the only well-connected American to join the company. Just a few weeks ago, when the vice president made an official trip to Ukraine, Burisma appointed one Devon Archer to its board. Archer is a wealthy investor and Democratic campaign fundraiser with long ties to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Archer was an adviser to Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 and co-chaired Kerry's National Finance Committee. Upon his appointment to Burisma, Archer said that the energy conglomerate reminded him of "Exxon in its early days."
The company's portfolio of licenses is well-diversified across all three of Ukraine's key hydrocarbon basins – Dnieper-Donets, Carpathian and Azov-Kuban, and its fields are fully connected to the major gas pipelines in the country, allowing Burisma to keep the cost of production relatively efficient.
Natural gas is the largest energy source in Ukraine, accounting for 38 percent of total primary energy production during 2011. The country relies on Russia's gas company Gazprom currently to satisfy most of its energy needs, but will aim to reduce that dependency in coming years, and Burisma is well-positioned to boost its share of the domestic market.
"As a new member of the board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine," Biden said regarding his new appointment.
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Q&A: UA music professor takes the stage for piano recital
Published Feb 8, 2019 6:00am
By Jesse Tellez
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Daniel Linder is an assistant professor of piano at the University of Arizona. He will perform in a solo recital as part of the UA Faculty Artist Series.
Daniel Linder, an assistant professor of piano at the University of Arizona, will perform in a solo recital this Saturday as part of the Faculty Artist Series hosted by the Fred Fox School of Music.
The Daily Wildcat spoke with Linder about his upcoming free recital that will take place this Saturday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in Holsclaw Hall on the UA campus.
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Daily Wildcat: What is the Faculty Artist Series here in the School of Music?
Daniel Linder: It's a chance for members of the faculty to share the work they've been doing with the students, the campus community and the city, as well. This is my first year here at the university, so I'm looking at it as a way to introduce myself.
DW: What pieces will you be performing?
DL: I'm playing four pieces, and three of them are very different piano sonatas. The fourth is a piece by Daniel Asia, who teaches composition here at the school. I'm playing a Mozart piano sonata in a classical form and a Chopin sonata, which is big and romantic. The latest sonata I'm playing is by Alban Berg, and it's the clearest example of sonata form. I'll be playing Berg and Chopin first. The second half of the program will have the Mozart sonata, the oldest piece, paired with the very newest piece by Dan Asia.
I played this same program just last Sunday as my final doctoral recital at the University of Southern California, so I'm officially "Dr. Linder" as of just a couple days ago. I played it in Los Angeles, and now I get to play it again here at UA.
DW: What is your favorite style of music to play?
DL: One of the things I like about classical music is there's such a huge variety of styles. My favorite, generally speaking, period to play is 20th-century music. On this program, the Berg sonata is probably my favorite piece to play. The piece by Dan Asia is a very close second, because it has a lot of minimalist writing and resonates with me in a way that the older music doesn't.
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DW: Are there past performances you are most proud of?
DL: A few summers ago, I played at a very beautiful art museum in Næstved, Denmark, and what made that so special is that I was in another country and was representing the U.S., in a way. I also think my last student recital this past weekend was important for me, because it was the final performance for my Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
DW: How did you find your passion for music?
DL: I grew up in a small town called Westport, N.Y., and my parents were not professional musicians, but they loved music. They were able to encourage me to study music and guide me. They helped find me find good teachers early on who inspired me to want to pursue a career in music.
DW: What brought you here to UA?
DL: Well, I had a very positive experience when I got my master's degree here and was very happy and honored to return to teach. My teaching requirements fit exactly with my interests, because I'm not only teaching piano performance, but I'm also teaching piano literature. This is honestly exactly the kind of job I've been preparing for. I feel really grateful for it.
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The aftermath of a cold, wet run.
I have some exciting "firsts" to report! First, on Sunday I ran my first 3-miler since my injury. It took me…a lot longer than it used to but that's OK. I am still doing 3/1 intervals (3 minutes of running, 1 minute of walking) and my endurance still has a long way to go, so I'm not at all worried about pace. I did notice that the two times I stopped (and paused my watch) during the walk breaks – once to fix my nasal strip which eventually fell off anyway and once to take a rock out of my shoe – the following run interval felt 1000x better and easier. I don't feel like I rushed myself through the 1/1 or 2/1 interval weeks at all, but it definitely feels better to walk for longer than a minute after running for 3, or just pausing altogether. But nothing hurts, and being tired and out of breath is something I need to overcome!
My plan since I got the OK to start running in September was to be ready for our first DFMC group run on December 8, doing run/walk intervals, even if only for a few miles. So far, so good because I ran 3/1 intervals yesterday – my longest running intervals since my injury diagnosis in May! It was hard as hell. My leg felt fine (aside from tightness in both calves, a constant issue for me), but my stamina has a LONG way to go. I was checking my watch pretty much 1:45 into each run segment, which meant I still had another 1:15 to go but was gassing out. I kept my pace slow, but was struggling to keep it steady. Overall, I'm so happy and relieved to know that as long as all goes well for the next month, I'm going to be exactly where I need to be on December 8 – doing 3/1 intervals with Lori for 6 miles (3 out and 3 back, Miles 15-17 of the Boston Marathon). The plan is to do the same workout Tuesdays and Thursdays as the previous weekend, then up my total running time on my weekend runs but stick with 3/1 intervals until January or even mid-December, seeing how I do running on my own next month. And until January, I'm not focusing on pace or even sharing what my pace is.
This past Wednesday was our first DFMC Team Meeting, held at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. If I wasn't already excited to start officially training for my second marathon, I certainly am now! We've got more than 470 team members already (of about 550 spots), 50% of whom are first-timers. I noticed some very young faces and have seen several posts from college students in our private Facebook group. Can you imagine being a casual runner in college and deciding to take on your first marathon AND fundraising thousands of dollars? That was definitely not something I would have been able to do as a college student, so kudos to them. One of them is only 17 and will turn 18 before the marathon (a BAA requirement)!
I sold several shirts and have now sold 20% of my inventory which already feels like a huge relief. I am so worried I'll be stuck with unsold shirts but having sold 20% this early into the season makes me feel hopeful. If you are interested in purchasing one, let me know!


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Music Thing: Ever heard a recording and thought it was a live band?
Ever heard a recording and thought it was a live band?
A lot of it's the feeling. There's an actual tangible pressure, especially from the drums. Also, the live drums will have a much wider frequency range, and won't have compression, and so on.
Basically I think it's the drums which are more responsible for the difference. I've yet to hear a recording of drums which sounds like the real thing, while everything else is basically passed through a signal chain akin to recording/playback anyway.
I HAVE entered venues where the band was using electric drums and I thought it sounded like a CD. So I'm pretty sure live drums are the main telling difference.
Can't say I've ever mistaken a CD for a real band either. Could it be down to SPL?
also, you can tell if a band is playing in most pubs I know of because you can generally hear the drummer from outside!
When all musicians are recorded in real live condition, that means all playing in the same room & indeed when a minimum of compression is used you can get similar results. Of course, this needs a minimum of recording skills. Also, if the recording room has similar dimensions than the listening room, that might be very helpful.
I agree with Fluffy about the drums.
In the beginning of that Johnny Cash biopic a couple years ago, where Cash is backstage at a prison show fiddling with a table saw, you can hear the band out on stage vamping while Cash emotes at the camera. It affected me physically/emotionally exactly the way a live band does. Of course I already knew it was a movie, but everything below the conscious level was fooled anyway. Part of it may have been that you never hear a band that way, muffled through a wall, except in real life.
But, I think somebody did a gorgeous job recording that band, and the movie theater sound system had the frequency range to make it work.
glad that you like our photo! It is actually the photo of Egrem Music Shop which sells the Egrem CD in Miramar, Havana, Cuba. The recording studio is at the adjacent building, which is not in the picture.
I was at a wedding recently and thought to myself 'Geez, that's an awesome stereo. It sounds like there actually IS a string quartet here.' Turns out there was a string quartet just out of sight at the back of the church.
So it's possible to tell even without drums. Bum notes are often a giveaway.
slightly a side issue, however I'll chuck it in.
There is (was?) a restaraunt in Clapham called 'tiger lillies'. The chefs cooked up what you selected in woks on gas powered oil drums. Lots of metal slapping sounds come from that. I noticed the place had an incredible audio atmosphere. Also the hubbub of the diners chat, forks and table noise. felt like exciting joint to be in.
One day I was the first evening customer and got chatting to the head waiter. He pointed out that just below ceiling height they had (piezo?) mics, the ones realistic/tandy used to do , the square black plate that you stuck to the wall. Ambient mics people used to call em. What the place did was mix the sound of the room from those, back into the room through the soundsystem. Well below feedback level. This would totally excite the atmposphere and bring out the metallic clanging of the chefs.
Really worked. Diners would almost compete with their own voices, though they didnt know it.
I asked the guy did they ever record the sound and use it when the place was not so full. Waiter said once he did. was pretty funny.
i suspect it's a combination of types of instruments (acoustic helps) , recording situation (importantly, as purple said, similar room sizes) and most probably psycho-cultural factors like knowledge of music and expectation. if these people had been walking into a launderette, they wouldn't think that the buena vista lot were playing around the corner...(nor a church organ unless it were a church).
and let's face it, given the sound in most live situations, to mistake a recording for the real thing, it would have to be a pretty dire recording.
Supposedly the BVSC album was recorded and mixed without or with very minimal use of compression and equalization. There is something to be said for mixing without concern for competing in the loudness game. It creates an atmospheric experience that attempts to place you in the room with musicians, instead of trying to push the instruments through your ears. I'd love to see the mic setups for that album.
A good jazz recording, classical recording, or a nice natural recording like BVSC, really tries to mix everything how it would sound if it were in front of you. the drums arent spread throughout the stereo mix, they have simple miking and are placed somewhere in the middle. if it's a good performance, no overdubs get used and the whole group can be recorded in one room. you won't really find a rock or pop recording like that. in those, the vocals are up front, the drums and bass are underpinning the rest of the mix, and there is significant production and engineering done to every track. this is not anything new of course, it's been done since the advent of mixing (1940's?) and has little to do with the loudness issues of the last 20 years. Another factor which might creat this illusion is the wide placement of a PA in a place like a bar or restaurant. Non-standard placement of the speakers might create the illusion that the instruments are bouncing around from some band around the corner that you can't see. This might be true of any 'more natural' recording, even a rock one. I've heard this illusion before, though I can't place the exact places or recordings. Elevated, decent PA speakers, far apart from each other, like they have in restaurants, creates a stereo so wide it can really mess with your head.
(continued) and of course, the way live performances usually sound - if you see a live performance that isn't at a Huge venue, you hear the real band with some degree of reinforcement. You'll hear all the instruments in a natural place, with kick, snare and vocals really pushed up to give you a more listenable group. (we're talking about rock and pop etc here). So if you put a natural recording, which would be natural placements of instruments with some unnatural reinforcement, in a big echoey room like a bar or restaurant, it might create that same live sound you are used to.
I play techno from a laptop, and sadly this happens to me all the time when I play live.
It's all about "room sound".
The Buena Vista Social Club CD is the perfect example of this. The closer to an instrument a micrpophone is placed, the more instrument than ambient sound is picked up. Also, the closer the mic is, the less "natural" the sound is, as no one listens to an acoustic guitar with their ear 1 foot away, or to a trumpet with their ear 1 foot away.
The sound of an instrument really develops over distance. An acoustic guitar through a piezo or similar pickup will generate frequencies down to 30 Hz in some cases, yet when you sit out in front of an acoustic guitar, you'll NEVER hear those frequencies -- you'll hear the "natural" sound of the instrument, along with the sound of that instrument's sound bouncing off all surfaces in the room, and becomes really rich, sonically, in a pleasant way. This is room sound.
What I perceive as Ry Cooder's school of thought: let the music live and breathe; capture the music and vibe the musicians are creating. The opposite school of thought: close mic each individual instrument in an isolation booth for maximum control to "Sculpt" the sound afterwards.
I prefer the former, because if the performance and vibe are good, the sonics will all come together as they should!
Don't know if the BVSC-recording had been mastered this way.
I have been fooling myself with the Zoom H4 recorder. I had recorded an acoustic session in my flat and at some point my phone was ringing. When I heard that recording the other day again, I immedeately went to the phone when the ringing sounded. Ha!
After a lifetime spent in various acoustic environments we all become unconsciously adept at sensing when a sound is _right_ in a particular acoustic space. If an instrument has been recorded in a space with a large reverb (church etc) it's always going to sound 'big', even if the recording is played in a small room. Your ears/brain pick up on the subtle clues (early reflections etc) to determine the immediacy of the sound (part of our evolutionary fight/flight reflexes). Our ears are also exceptionally good at 'localising' audio...i.e. telling from what direction it comes. This is due to the way soundwaves 'bend' around our heads (the head related transfer function HRTF).
These conscious/unconscious clues allow us to determine if the sound in a venue is 'live' or not, generally with a high degree of accuracy based on our past experiences of similar spaces/sounds.
Sometimes the recording may have been done in a space similar to that in which it is played back, using appropriately placed speakers and this may be what leads to the real/recorded confusion.
The nature of modern recording (mostly stereo) also means that what we hear on CD etc is only an approximation of a real 3D acoustic environment and our ears can often tell the difference (check the difference in headphones between a standard stereo recording and a binaural one...you'll find the binaural one much more 'real').
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Mentoring could help plug skills gap, research suggests
Mentoring could be a valuable tool in the ongoing effort to plug the 'talent drain', according to a new report from HR services group Penna.
The company commissioned a survey which found that one in five (20 per cent) employees are not currently mentoring or being mentored, but would like the opportunity.
Forty per cent of the 2,000 people participating in the poll said they had never been given the chance to be a mentor or a mentee.
A reservation held by many employers is that staff will simply use mentoring schemes to help them find a new role with a different company, but the research suggested that this is relatively rare.
Only one in ten (ten per cent) respondents who had participated in mentoring programmes did so in the hope of finding a different job, while 59 per cent wanted to acquire new skills.
Two-thirds (65 per cent) of employees said relevant expertise is the most important characteristic in a mentor, while strong rapport with others (62 per cent) and being challenging (59 per cent) were also identified as desirable traits.
Penny de Valk, managing director of Penna's Talent Practice, said: "Talent management slipped down the agenda during the recession, but individuals are clearly hungry for opportunities to learn and develop and businesses can provide this through mentoring schemes."
She added: "Without it, businesses are at risk of losing talent who will seek learning opportunities elsewhere - even though mentoring can provide a simple solution to aid retention and engagement."
Ms de Valk also said it was "no coincidence" that 70 per cent of Fortune 500 businesses run mentoring schemes, while three-quarters (75 per cent) of executives believe this provision played a key part in their personal career success.
In the latest Employee Outlook survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 19 per cent of all workers and 38 per cent of public sector staff said their employer had responded to economic adversity by cutting back on training.


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Teradata Takes On Cloud and Developers with Big Data & Analytics
Posted by David Menninger on Sep 22, 2016 9:29:59 AM
Teradata recently held its annual Partners conference, at which gather several thousand customers and partners from around the world. This was the first Partners event since Vic Lund was appointed president and CEO in May. Year on year, Teradata's revenues are down about 5 percent, which likely prompted some changes at the company. Over the past few years Teradata made several technology acquisitions and perhaps spread its resources too thin. At the event, Lund committed the company to a focus on customers, which was a significant part of Teradata's success in the past. This commitment was well received by customers I spoke with at the event.
I also had a chance to talk with Oliver Ratzesberger, Teradata's EVP and chief product officer, about the company's focus and product direction. For the near term, Ratzesberger said, its focus remains on selling to and supporting new and existing customers in the largest 1,000 global enterprises, but in the longer term Teradata wants to win over the development community, too. As a large-scale provider of databases and big data management tools, Teradata competes to some extent with the Hadoop ecosystem I have written about. Teradata likely has encountered new challenges in growing revenue since the advent of Hadoop, but the company also embraces Hadoop. Its Aster Analytics product now runs on Hadoop (and AWS), the company offers a Hadoop appliance as well as Presto for SQL on Hadoop, and Think Big, its analytics consulting group helps design, implement and manage Hadoop-based systems. Management took these steps after recognizing that the company needs to coexist with the growing Hadoop ecosystem.
Ratzesberger pointed to other developer-friendly changes as well. Teradata Query Grid 2.0 has become a platform for monitoring and managing a heterogeneous combination of data sources, not just a tool for routing queries. Workload management has always been a strength of Teradata, and it is now seeking to extend those capabilities to non-Teradata systems via Query Grid. Teradata Listener, for ingesting streams of information such as Internet of Things (IoT) device data, allows developers to simply register the service, get an API key and develop in their language of choice using a RESTful API and JSON data structures.
Concurrently with the event Teradata announced new cloud-based offerings including for AWS and Azure. These options should make it easier for developers to get started with Teradata since there is no hardware to acquire and install. The company has been moving in the direction of embracing the cloud for several years and now offers a full range of private cloud, managed cloud and public cloud options. As part of the conference, I gave a presentation entitle Why Your Data and Analytics Should Live in the Cloud. Among the most significant findings from our benchmark research that I shared is that 40 percent of organizations reported that they expect the majority of their data to be in the cloud within 12 months and twice as many (86%) said they expect the majority of their data to be in the cloud eventually.
My key takeaway from the conference is that while we may not see changes overnight, there are signs that Teradata is seeking to extend its influence beyond the largest organizations in the world. Much of new development emanates from smaller companies that seek to embrace open source, low cost and easy-to-adopt technologies. The announcements Teradata made at the Partners conference help to move the company in that direction. If you are evaluating cloud-based analytical databases, I recommend that you consider Teradata as one of the options.
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harare - The former first lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe, is suspected of large-scale smuggling of ivory and diamonds. She would have stood at the head of a syndicate that brought tons of elephant tusks and diamonds out of the country.
The British newspaper The Telegraph has an interview with the Australian photojournalist Adrian Steirn, who has done an undercover operation to expose the wife of Robert Mugabe. He would have found such strong evidence that the new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, immediately opened an investigation.
It is not clear whether the now-rejected president himself would have been involved in smuggling.
Grace Mugabe would have used the ivory supplies of the Zimbabwean national parks, with the story that she wanted to give other first ladies a gift. As a first lady, she was not checked at airports, and so was her luggage.


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How The Digital Customer Experience is Transforming Museums
On Customer Experience
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Museums are now using digital technology to understand and build better customer experiences to help curate and customize a specific journey for each individual during their visit, while enhancing the institution's relationship with each individual user.
Since as early as the sixth-century BC, museums and their curators have been careful keepers of culture. They have provided a sanctuary and destination for the general public to experience art, history and science that aren't accessible anywhere else. In the digital age, however, where every fact or research report and every image of the world's greatest works of art can be instantly accessed on the web, what is the role of museums?
Re-Examining the Role of Museums in the Digital Age
Just as libraries have been transformed through electronic media, museums are having to re-examine their mission in light of new technological possibilities and figure out how digital connections can further that mission. To remain sustainable into the future, museums have to be freshly relevant and engaging to every new generation.
Additionally, with today's digital tools available in everyone's pocket, every person is an artist. This means that infinite quantities of content are simultaneously competing for our attention on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and so forth. Given this saturation in the market, how do museums successfully capture the attention of their audience? Many cultural institutions are looking to digital for the answer. In a recent research report by Museums and the Web and Axiell, 60 percent of museums report that they are creating a digital strategy to attract and keep their users. Furthermore, these strategies are bearing fruit, as 50 percent of museums have seen their website traffic increase and 82 percent are seeing greater numbers of users engage with them on social media channels.
It's All About Experience
The value of museums will always center on direct experience. Being up close and personal with artifacts you can look at, and in some cases touch, is a distinctly different and more powerful experience than viewing content online. No amount of digital technology is ever going to replace real life. It makes sense, therefore, that as museums define their strategy for digital transformation, they are focusing on ways of using technology to enhance the experiential aspects of visiting the museum. The museums and the Web survey found that 50 percent of the institutions that responded are prioritizing ways to enhance the visitor experience using mobile apps, 30 percent had digitized at least one-fifth of their collections and 86 percent are prioritizing creation of new educational opportunities.
The BYOD Revolution
Much of today's digital enhancement of customer experience is based on an understanding that people almost universally bring their own devices (BYOD) everywhere they go. Where museum-goers once only pulled out their phones to take photos or communicate with friends, personal devices are now recognized by museums as being key portals through which to reach out to and connect with visitors. Based largely on the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets, museums are now using digital tools to create an omnichannel customer experience. This experience is made up of interactions in four categories: Personalized Experiences, Directed Experiences, Educational Experiences and Ongoing Experiences. Here's an overview of each of these channels and of the way in which digital is deepening and intensifying them:
Personalized Experiences
Museums are using digital technology to understand user preferences and help curate and customize a specific journey for each individual during their visit. This interactive dialog with visitors is particularly valuable in museums with collections so vast that they can't be covered in one day. Extensive collections can feel overwhelming, and visitors will feel happier (and thus more likely to offer financial support) if they can select the exhibits that mean the most to them personally. These personalized apps also make use of Bluetooth beacon technology to answer immediate visitor questions such as the location of the nearest restroom or cafe.
New York's American Museum of Natural History offers the Explorer App (one of their nine apps), which asks visitors to select their interests and then recommends the most appropriate path to take through the museum. This app includes various other functions, including augmented reality experiences, social media sharing and the ability to buy tickets without standing in line.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has exceeded expectations for customer experience by offering an app that the NY Times calls "beautifully designed" and "a rich, accessible experience on its own, primarily because of original content and a pleasingly cheeky tone." This app proves that a well-executed digital tool can extend and add to a brand's reputation. The Met spent one full year developing its app, according to the museum's Chief Digital Officer, Sree Sreenivasan, "to be simple, useful and delightful."
Directed Experiences
Once visitors decide what to see, the next big challenge is to find it, which can be particularly tricky in the crowded acreage that make up some of the world's most important museums. Museums are using mobile and Bluetooth beacon technology to help visitors find their way in between exhibits (wayfinding), recommending where to go next depending on visitor preference and even unlocking special content depending on the user's location.
The Brooklyn Museum in NYC has rolled out an interactive app entitled "Ask." This enables users to send their questions to a team of historians and curators, who answer in real time, providing background as well as recommendations for what to see next. The app relies on beacon technology that tells where in the museum the visitor is when they're asking their question.
The National Slate Museum in Wales was the first national museum anywhere in the world to use iBeacon technology to provide interactive maps as well as curated multimedia content and activities.
The Philips Museum uses the location technology in the architecture of its interactive family game, Mission Eureka.
Augmented Reality powered by mobile devices adds an additional layer of engagement onto museum exhibits.
The American Museum of Natural History Explorer App has two AR experiences: "Be the Bear" and "Dino Detective," which enrich existing exhibits with beautiful educational animations offering a quest-like storyline for visitors. The museum's eight other apps offer multimedia content focused on specific exhibits, including a family AR game on micro-organisms featuring nine "Micro-crises" that players must resolve.
Google's Arts & Culture App partners with over 1,100 institutions to provide a rich educational experience. A virtual reality tour lets visitors move around remotely in a museum, while an audio tour talks about what they're "seeing." However, the goal is to get the user physically into the museum in real life, at which point the "Art Recognizer" portion of the app comes into play. This provides an experience that's similar to a traditional audio tour, but without any need to input keypad codes. Instead, the app simply recognizes what the phone's camera is pointed at, and automatically provides video and audio background information.
The multimedia guide for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts works similarly on open-source TAP architecture.
Ongoing Experiences
Museums rely on donations, so they want to enrich visitors' experiences and keep them coming back for more. When exhibit content comes alive, even outside the museum, then the excitement and curiosity of the audience connect them to the museum. Making large portions of museum collections available online has increasingly become a way that museums claim their place among the world's storehouse of culture. It also happens to be a way that Google chose to showcase its platform's capability with the Google Art Project in 2011.
The Louvre is an example of an institution's beneficial partnership with a private app developer. While the Louvre's official app is a work in progress, the Louvre HD app developed by Evolution has won widespread praise for its virtual tours and HD zoomable images of over 2000 paintings. The app also provides users with the ability to download images for offline viewing and to search by various criteria.
The Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) offers a similar experience, encouraging their visitors to download their app prior to their arrival at the museum. The app includes the ability to purchase reproductions of the artwork, and it also offers a Family Quest virtual game along with numerous other features.
New virtual reality tools and partnerships are proliferating, as the digital world continues its leap out from computers and smartphones into the 3D real world. One VR tool that's just at the beginning of its life is Google Cardboard, which offers inexpensive and DIY headsets that work with various apps to deliver an immersive VR experience.
The Guggenheim Museum has partnered with Google to create a virtual museum tour for anyone in the world. The Google Cultural Institute, which sponsors this partnership, is working to make immersive cultural experiences available to people anywhere in the world.
The Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) and The Uffizi Gallery (Florence) have also partnered with Google to offer virtual tours to whet the appetites of visitors.
It requires skill and judgment to provide a digital user experience that encourages more visitors to come through the door of a museum. No matter how immersive and real a virtual exploration may be, museums exist to preserve and display the physical objects that make up our cultural heritage. For a museum, going digital must transform and enhance the institution's relationship with each individual user so that each successive generations finds fresh excitement in the irreplaceable treasures of the past.
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For the last 7 years we made an annual family trip the the pumpkin patch.
Started with one little girl.
Unfortunately the place we used to go to closed this year.
So in order to keep the tradition alive we tried out a new place.
And this place is like our old pumpkin patch on steroids!
So did the girls miss the old pumpkin patch??? yeah, I don't think so.
I admit, I have issues with letting go.
Weirdly enough, we spent so much time doing all the activities we didn't even get a dang pumpkin!


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The Rangers and Josh Hamilton are talking about a minor league deal
By Craig CalcaterraDec 15, 2016, 8:53 AM EST
Jeff Wilson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the Texas Rangers and Josh Hamilton are talking about a minor league deal.
Not at all surprising. The Rangers released Hamilton last August, but that was simply to make some room on the 40-man roster. His season was already toast due to the surgery he underwent to repair lateral and meniscus cartilage in his left knee which had the added bonus of revealing that he had an ACL injury as well, which required reconstruction. At the time of his release both he and the Rangers made noises about him coming back on a minor league deal in 2017.
There's nothing to lose here. Smart money has it that his big league career is over, but Hamilton would be silly to retire given that he is owed $30 million next season. That the Angels are paying $26.41 million of that makes it far less painful for the Rangers as well. If he can hit in the spring, hey, let him DH some. If not, no skin off of anyone's nose.
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Orthopedic Surgery and Outpatient Services Help Iron Range Residents
Contact: Maureen Talarico
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A small bucket is just not going to cut it for Mary Kay Dougherty. The active 73-year old from Hibbing has a lot of things to cross off her list in the future. First is a trip to Africa, a trip she had the opportunity to go on a few years ago, but decided against, because of a painful hip.
"I like to be active and stay fit, but I have arthritis and my hip joint was starting to wear away," says Dougherty. "The pain had been going on for a couple of years and was really beginning to hamper my lifestyle."
Dougherty was visiting with a friend of hers and commented about her hip pain, and her friend suggested she see Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Joseph Signorelli, who had just replaced her friend' hip.
"So, I made an appointment and four weeks later had the surgery," Dougherty says. "I was amazed, I was up and moving hours after the surgery."
That was in July of 2016, now a year later, when she returned for her one-year checkup, she didn't have to drive 75 miles to Duluth. Starting this summer, Dr. Signorelli now schedules two days every week to see patients, perform surgery, and follow up with their care, right on the Iron Range at Essentia Health-Virginia.
"It is great to bring the care to the patients, rather than the patients to the care," says Dr. Signorelli. "The people and the facilities are great and everyone has been so accommodating while we build the joint replacement program."
Dr. Signorelli says demand is strong and expected to grow for orthopedics services on the Range, bringing the same orthopedics program in Duluth, now to Virginia. The newly expanded program is based on research that shows a high number of Iron Range patients had surgery in Duluth, despite a living more than an hour from the Twin Ports. "We are starting with a focus on hip and knee arthritis care and replacement, but we'd love to expand the program with other surgeons as time goes on," he adds.
And the surgeon is quick to point out it' more than he that brings this level of care to the Range, it takes an entire, committed team, including nurses, therapists, primary care teams, and surgical care. And he' glad that his patients, like Mary Kay Dougherty, can get this care, close to home.
"The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive; both from patients as well as everyone who works in Virginia and clearly takes pride in the local community," Dr. Signorelli adds.
Dougherty agrees, freshly back from a three-week trip to Spain and Portugal, she' looking forward to planning that trip to Africa, and being able to stay active on vacation and with her friends.
"I had a wonderful experience overall," she says. "Everything was positive and the outcome was remarkable. Dr. Signorelli is a wonderful physician , warm and caring, and I would highly recommend him. In fact, I have!"
To learn more about Dr. Signorelli and the orthopedic services offered in Virginia, please call (218) 741-0150.


(Clearwisdom.net) On December 1, 2003, Australian Falun Gong practitioners rallied in front of Capitol Hill of Canberra, Australia to support the motion to "Rescue the Australian Citizen's Relatives." The motion was proposed by the spokesperson of the Australian Democrats Party, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja. The practitioners also commemorated citizen Ouyang Yi's younger brother Ouyang Ming who died from the persecution in China in August of this year.
Sources said on June 23, 2003 Senator Andrew Bartlett started the proposal of rescuing the Australian's relatives being detained and tortured in Chinese labor camps because of their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." After months of active campaigns, so far three Australians' relatives have been released. Other Australian's relative's situation in the prison were also improved. Ms. Li Ying was one of the Falun Gong practitioners being rescued.
Li Yang said, "I appreciated the rescue and help from the Australian government and all kind hearted people. I believe there are a lot more Australians' relatives are suffering. I hope more people will join this effort to rescue them, including my younger brother Li Liang who is still detained in Tianjin Qinpowa Forced Labor Institute, and my elder sister Li Hong who is still detained in Tianjin Banqiao Women Forced Labor Institute and many other Falun Gong practitioners."
Senator Andrew Bartlett gave a speech at the rally. He said that the basic human right to life could not be ignored. Australian Democrats would continue to support Falun Gong practitioners to rescue their relatives and request the Chinese government to stop the persecution immediately. He said that we had seen some satisfactory results. Some people who had been saved already arrived in Australia. Our appeal was not limited to Australian citizens' relatives. It also extended to all Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China. We will work with you together.
The rally of support completed at 3:30 in the afternoon. Around 4:00 p.m., the motion was passed with support from a majority of the senators.


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The 30-day Hot Yoga Challenge trend that's been popping up in hot yoga studios around the world, encouraging new and existing students to build a strong foundation or go deeper into rheir practice. Practicing yoga for 30 consectutive days is not easy – hence the word challenge – and you will go through highs and lows over the course of the month, ultimately however, your mind, body and spirit will thank you.
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Easter is one of my favorite holidays! From the pretty pastel colors, to Easter brunch and lots of candy and flowers, it's easy to see why I love this day so much! I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite spring dresses that I've come across while shopping in case you needed a bit of inspo for what to wear on Easter Day! I am leaning towards wearing something seersucker myself, but honestly it's so hard to decide when there are so many cute options out there right now! You can shop my favorite preppy Easter dresses by clicking on the links below!


The chief executive of the Region called the press to clarify the situation. Rumours of attacks on schools in the South West blew across the parts of the Region yesterday morning sending some pupils and students fleeing from school premises in Meme and Fako Divisions.
Such areas affected by the stampede included Kumba, Limbe, Muyuka and Buea. In the face of the stampede, the South West Regional Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai, issued a communique in the afternoon of yesterday (15 January, 2018) urging parents, pupils, students, teachers, business community and the entire population to stay calm against manipulations by unknown persons. He called on the population to avoid panic caused by intoxication aimed at manipulating public opinion and creating an atmosphere of insecurity around educational establishments.
The Governor further reassured the public that the administration with the collaboration of Defence and Security forces is, like in the past, taking all necessary measures to ensure the protection of pupils, students, teachers and school infrastructures. The Governor expressed his conviction of the positive collaboration of school administrators, parents, teachers and local opinion leaders to stand up as one person to refuse to remain victims of unhealthy manipulation and intoxication.
In the same vein, the killing of a military man even though as passenger aboard a public transport vehicle on the highway at Kwakwa village in Mbonge Sub-Division in Meme Division last Saturday contributed to fuel the rumour of attack on schools. Governor Okalia Bilai accompanied by General Melingui Nouma Donatien who is Commander of 21st Motorised Infantry Brigade based in Buea, spoke to the press yesterday afternoon in his Office to dispel stories of attacks on schools. The rumour had triggered parents to rush to collect their children from schools.
In the case of Buea, schools like Bilingual Grammar School Molyko refused to open their gates to parents who crowded the gate. The school authorities and the administration advised the parents to wait until school closes normally at 3pm. Security forces formed a ring around the school to prevent intruders from penetrating into the campus with the pretext as parents to create havoc. The school closed normally at 3pm and the students went home without any major incident reported yesterday.


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on my developement server but this code worked find on PHP 7 on MAMP and PHP 5.6 on the developement server.

A: Enabling short_open_tags in the php.ini resolved the issue.

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            lastName = Faker.name.lastName(),
            name = firstName + ' ' + lastName,
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            first_name  : firstName,
            last_name   : lastName,
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3 improvements Deandre Ayton must make this offseason for the Suns
Matthew Schmidt
Phoenix Suns big man DeAndre Ayton is coming off of a terrific rookie campaign in which he averaged 16.3 points and 10.3 rebounds over 30.7 minutes per game while shooting 58.5 percent from the floor and 74.6 percent from the free-throw line.
While his season was overshadowed by fellow rookies Luka Doncic and Trae Young and by the fact that the Suns were, by and large, the worst team in the NBA, there is no doubt that Ayton was impressive and seems to be well on his way to enjoying a successful NBA career.
But, just as with any other young player preparing to enter his second season, there are some improvements that Ayton needs to make in order to truly reach the next level.
Here are three things Ayton needs to work on this offseason to be better next year.
3. Improve His Free-Throw Rate
Ayton operated almost exclusively on the low block during his first season in the NBA, with about 70 percent of his field-goal attempts coming from inside of 10 feet.
Based on that, you would think that Ayton, a physical freak who stands 7-foot-1 and weighs 250 pounds, would draw a lot of contact, but he really didn't this season, as he attempted only 2.7 free throws per game.
For a guy whose bread and butter comes down low, that has to change.
There is no reason why Ayton shouldn't be overpowering most of the guys who guard him, especially in an NBA where small-ball centers are becoming all the more common.
Ayton should be getting to the line quite a bit more than he is at the moment.
2. Expand His Range
Ayton took just four three-pointers during the 2018-19 campaign and missed all of them.
Now, Ayton doesn't necessarily have to become a reliable three-point shooter in order to be a good player, but it would certainly help, as it would make him more unguardable and would open up the Suns' offense as a hole.
There is every reason to believe that Ayton can eventually start knocking down threes, as well.
He is a decent mid-range and free-throw shooter, after all, and he actually drained 12 triples during his lone season at Arizona.
The 20-year-old should spend a lot of time working on his perimeter shot this summer to make him more of an all-around offensive force going into next season.
1. Work on Rim Protection
This one is easier said than done, as it involves instincts that some guys just don't have, and it's entirely possible that Ayton doesn't really possess them.
On the surface level, it's hard to see why Ayton would not be a good rim protector. He is 7-foot-1 with a 7-foot-6 wingspan and can jump out of the gym. However, he averaged just 0.9 blocks per game this past season, a startlingly low number for such an athletic freak.
Ayton's defensive chops were not all that impressive during his rookie campaign, as he would frequently get lost on switches and got burnt countless times on pick-and-rolls.
His recovery and reaction time seems to be pretty slow, both in terms of dealing with players taking him off the dribble and in terms of trying to contest shots inside. He bites on pump fakes far too often, and sometimes, he doesn't give much of a defensive effort at all.
Ayton's commitment to defense will make all of the difference in whether he becomes an elite center or another Al Jefferson type of player, and he needs to work hand on getting better on that end of the floor this summer.
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Using 6 falsifying expressions is well, let's say you need to learn about it.
Isn't it nice? Thanks heaven we have got jQuery (and friends) to help us out of this. But... should it really be necessary to use a framework when simply selecting from the DOM? Not today.
Honestly, some of the developers I have worked with have invested a long time to understand the "mainstream" patterns. Not everybody is a geek. Using a non-mainstream programmin language in a mainstream environment leads to the center of ultimate chaos.
Guess not everybody reads Dr. Rauschmayers blog. It would be so easy if.
Dart does know classes and therefore does now the "extends" keyword. Pretty damn simple.
In Dart you develop in "library" scope. Means, you have a keyword "library" and only what is public is visible outside of it. In addition, every Dart script executes as its own Isolate. Means, it has a fresh state, without the mess of other scripts around. With Dart you should still think about visibility and libraries, but its way easier and for sure you don't need a book teaching it to you. Instead, just think about "Separation of concerns" and you are in the game.
Dart knows Isolates. These are little beasts similar like in Erlang. They can communicate to each other. If one fails, another Isolate can simply restart it again. Isn't that cool? And of course this makes Dart very nice for server side programming too. Yes, I have heard of Node.js. But that is not my point. Dart can do that magic out of the box.
You can extend Object or the Array.prototype which is pretty nice.
Of course you can filter with hasOwnProperty.
Finally you should look into your frameworks docs if they offer something like forEach. jQuery does.
Life can be so easy. You iterate here over a list of elements.
Dart is much more cleaner. An array is basically a List and therefore has this interface.
Again, a1 contains 5 different elements. a2 contains space for 5 elements. In addition you get nice features like "removeRange" or support for sorting. Check out Seths blog.
It seems null can be replaced by undefined in pretty much scenarios.
Dart does only know one null.
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NoaNet and COS Systems Ready to Drive Fiber Build-Outs in Rural Washington State
NoaNet and COS Systems expand partnership by launching an operator version of COS Service Zones. NoaNet has previously provided cities and public utilities with COS Systems' demand aggregation platform and support in the project execution. Now NoaNet is set to further help rural communities in Washington get connected to fiber by launching their own COS Service Zones system ready to aggregate demand for fiber in any part of the State.
Gig Harbor, WA – NoaNet (Northwest Open Access Network) is a non-profit municipal corporation which operates an extensive open-access fiber back-bone network reaching every corner of Washington State. NoaNet has partnered with COS Systems in the past to provide the demand aggregation platform COS Service Zones to Public Utility and municipal customers. Since then, many communities have reached out to NoaNet asking if they could provide them with a managed demand aggregation solution delivered as a service. NoaNet is now in the process of launching a statewide COSService Zones application that can be leveraged as part of their Community Broadband Solutions program to assist communities in evaluating their need and readiness for municipal broadband deployment.
COS Service Zones is a web-based software platform that allows a community or provider to run a "fiberhood"campaign to learn if there is enough interest in the community to invest in a fiber infrastructure and in which neighborhoods the demand is greatest. Every neighborhood has a "take-rate" target to reach in order to qualify for build-out. The purpose is to involve the community in the process and build a common will to build the new fiber infrastructure. In successful COS ServiceZones campaigns demand grows rapidly as the community engages on the platform, sharing information about the project on social media, and spreading information to their neighbors and friends.
"When NoaNet explained that there were many communities interested in better connectivity but lacking the resources or expertise to run a COS Service Zones campaign themselves, we began thinking how we could best assist NoaNet in helping those communities. We developed the concept of an operator version of COS Service Zones, which allows NoaNet to add smaller communities as separate projects on their singleplatform. Practically, this means each of these communities will have their own section of the NoaNet managed website." says Bjorn Wannman, Manager Partnerships and Strategic Accounts at COS Systems.
Chris Walker, Telecommunications Director at NoaNet is looking forward to offering this tool to Washington communities on a larger scale then NoaNet was previously able to support. "There are dozens of rural communities in Washington with limited or no access to modern telecom infrastructure. High speed broadband can make a huge impact for job creation, economic growth, high quality healthcare and smart services to increase the quality of life for our rural residents. In many cases, even if community leaders understand the need and want to close the digital inclusion gap, they might lack the resources to do something about it themselves. We're now prepared to help them understand the options to pursue a telecommunications buildout plan."
Chris has been with NoaNet through several service expansions and is excited about this new opportunity to help Washington communities help themselves increase their broadband access. He said, "Not only will we help them determine if there is enough demand to move forward and invest in the infrastructure, with our extensive fiber footprint and open access experience we will also be able to offer services in build-out and operations. This package of services will make a huge difference for rural Washington communities"
Claire Ward, Marketing and Communications Manager at NoaNet shares Chris's excitement for this new opportunity. "NoaNet has been serving Washington state for nearly 20 years by working to bring telecommunications infrastructure to underserved communities. With the experience and knowledge we have within the company paired with the tools offered in the COS Service Zones platform, I'm convinced we can serve many parallel projects across the state and help communities move the dial on their broadband access without spending exorbitant resources many just don't have, "adds ClaireWard, Marketing and Communications Manager at NoaNet, who has been involved in several previous COS Service Zones projects.
"COS Systems originates from the rural northern parts of Sweden, not much different from rural Washington State.We've seen first-hand how crucial it is for remote areas to get access to high speed broadband. In the digital economy traditional boundaries like country and city borders are getting less important. Instead communities lacking the critical broadband infrastructure will inevitably be left behind. All of us at COS are proud to support NoaNet in their mission to connect every corner of Washington state to their state-of-the-art fiber network. Fiber is an essential infrastructure for today's communities, alongside water, electricity and roads for our modern digital world." Says Isak Finer, CMO at COS Systems
About NoaNet
Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) is a non-profit wholesale only telecommunications network owner and provider which operates a fiber network spanning thousands of miles throughout the State of Washington. NoaNet engages their mission to serve Washington State by consistently looking for new opportunities to expand in meaningful ways that bridge the digital divide. For additional information, see www.noanet.net.
About COS Systems
COS SYSTEMS is a leading provider of software to plan, deploy and manage Open Access fiber networks, using a powerful yet simple self-service interface. COS Systems takes customer needs and delivers innovative software solutions that streamline operations, accelerate revenue and deliver more satisfied subscribers. Learn more about COS Systems on www.cossystems.com.
For additional information contact:
Claire Ward
Marketing and Communications Manager
NoaNet
claire.ward@noanet.net
www.noanet.net
Isak Finér
COS Systems
isak.finer@cossystems.com
www.cossystems.com
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Pallas XXV
Page last updated: 12/09/2013
Most of Pallas pictured with Michael Schmitz from Mascot Records signing on the dotted line last weekend!
The band are thrilled to announce the signing of a new 3 album deal with Mascot Records (home to Spocks Beard and Joe Bonamassa amongst others).
At last, XXV, the long awaited album from Heavy Proggers Pallas is to be released on the 22nd of November. As previously announced it is the sequel to the bands hugely successful 'Sentinel' album 25 years on.
Following the album release the band will be undertaking a handful of European dates before the end of the year and will be undertaking a full European and UK tour in the New Year.
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Linda Katehi speaks with reporters by telephone on May 7. Her husband, Spyros Tseregounis, is seated next to her.
The Board of Regents voted unanimous approval May 7 of President Mark G. Yudof's choices to fill the chancellorships at UC Davis and UC San Francisco.
"Linda Katehi is a great success story and a great fit for UC Davis," Yudof said in recommending the electrical engineer to be the Davis campus's sixth chancellor. She is scheduled to take up her new post Aug. 17.
The other new chancellor is Susan Desmond-Hellmann at UCSF.
"We owe them a great debt of gratitude that can never be repaid," Blum said before inviting their successors to deliver brief remarks during the regents meeting, which was conducted by teleconference.
Vanderhoef came to UC Davis in 1984 as executive vice chancellor and subsequently become provost and executive vice chancellor, until his appointment as UC Davis' fifth chancellor in 1994.
He is not leaving UC Davis; as chancellor emeritus, he plans to write a book, develop and teach a new class (a biology course for nonscience majors) and continue his work on building international links, in addition to carrying out other service activities nationally and on campus.
Desmond-Hellmann is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and medical oncology who has dedicated much of her career to cancer research.
Desmond-Hellmann recently left South San Francisco-based Genentech after 14 years as a clinical scientist, chief medical officer, executive vice president and, most recently, president of product development. During her time at Genentech, she oversaw successful trials for therapeutic drugs, including Herceptin, Avastin and Rituxan, targeting a range of cancers and other diseases.
The regents also voted unanimous approval of the Katehi and Desmond-Hellmann compensation packages, with base annual salaries of $400,000 for Katehi and $450,000 for Desmond-Hellmann.
UC officials noted that the system seeks to be competitive in the employment markets relevant to its faculty and staff hires — yet the Katehi and Desmond-Hellmann base salaries are still substantially lower than the 2008 median of $628,000 among chancellors at UC's comparison group of 14 public and private U.S. campuses with medical schools.
• An annual automobile allowance of $8,916.
• Payment of packing and moving costs for household effects, library and related equipment.
• Reimbursement of travel expenses for business-related visits to the campus during the transition period.
• Eligibility for a Mortgage Origination Program loan and payment of relocation costs if she continues in a tenured faculty position after stepping down as chancellor.
Additionally, Katehi will receive a relocation allowance of $100,000 (25 percent of base salary), subject to proportional repayment if she resigns within the first four years of appointment.
Each new chancellor, should she elect to maintain an active research program, will receive an annual allocation of campus funding for such research.
Both will receive standard pension, health and welfare, and senior management benefits, including senior management life insurance, executive business travel insurance, executive salary continuation for disability, accrual of sabbatical leave and an administrative fund.
Katehi's husband, Spyros Tseregounis — who, like Katehi, did his graduate study at UCLA, earning a doctorate in chemical engineering — holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Illinois. UC Davis will be considering him for a similar or equivalent appointment.
Katehi comes to campus: Chancellor-designate mingles with staff, faculty.
Video from the regents meeting: chancellorsearch.ucdavis.edu (click on "First impressions").
Video from the welcome ceremony: chancellorsearch.ucdavis.edu (click on "Katehi's campus welcome").
Quotes and more about Katehi's visit to campus.
Gould tapped as new regents chair.


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The spread of lava in the Puna district of Hawaii's Big Island has gotten so large it can be seen from space.
The European Space Agency tweeted unbelievable photos of the lava that has gushed from over 20 fissures on the island since Kilauea erupted on May 3. Fissures No. 6, 13 and 22 have been the most active, flowing to the southeast into the ocean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The photos were taken on May 23 and shared by the ESA on Friday.
There have been a total of 82 structures damaged from the lava so far, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Of those damaged, 41 are houses.
The fissures spewing lava in the eastern district of Puna on Hawaii's Big Island can be seen from space in this cropped photo taken May 23, 2018.
The acreage covered by lava as of Friday night in Hawaii was 2,232 acres, officials said. The Civil Defense Agency also noted that 37 homes are "isolated" either due to lava surrounding them or roads being cut off by the flow.
There's still a potential for lava to cut off all access to the Lower Puna area, which would trigger the helicopter evacuations officials have been planning.
The fissures spewing lava in the eastern district of Puna on Hawaii's Big Island can be seen from space in this photo taken May 23, 2018.
As of Friday, there were 230 people in shelters, the agency said.
ABC News' Frank Elaridi, Alyssa Pone and Clayton Sandell contributed to this report.


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Start / Blog / SAP SCM and SAP ERP carve-out and upgrade done in near-zero downtime at Kellogg's
SAP SCM and SAP ERP carve-out and upgrade done in near-zero downtime at Kellogg's
Martin Schlarmann
Kellogg's is splitting their production system
SCM and ERP carve-out with an upgrade in near zero downtime? Yes please! We finalized this complex project for Kellogg's last year, and now we had a chance to talk about it at TechEd In Las Vegas. We've met on stage with Wee Sim, Senior Architect at Kellog's, who was more than happy with the final result. On our side we had our CTO Goetz Lessmann, who presented the project from the technical side.
Kellogg's had a long-term program to split their global production system into regional ones. Datavard consultants were handling their Latin America business. The landscape consisted of ERP, SCM and BW systems, and we were managing ERP and SCM – while BW was done by Kellogg's internal resources as a full reload. We were working on the project with a partner, which was covering non-SAP topics and manual areas – code changes, testing, etc.
Upgrade of a non-unicode system in near-zero downtime
In addition to the carve-out of Latin American data into a new landscape, we were asked to upgrade the systems into the latest release. Kellogg's original landscape a non-unicode, around 15-20 years old release. Upgrading it to the newest, up-to-date database release, OS and SAP release was a complex, multi-step process.
The last, but major requirement by Kellogg's was the system downtime requirement. We had to utilize our near-zero downtime approach, where we started moving data into the new system ahead of GoLive weekend, and then simply covering the new/changed data during the downtime.
Automated testing saves time
The two biggest challenges were: the upgrade, which had to be done in multi-step approach and required some data changes due to differences in release; and the downtime requirement – where we had to migrate around 95% data already ahead of GoLive. Ensuring the correctness and consistency of data was crucial.
We have used a Datavard Validate toolkit for test automation to test out the correctness of carved-out ERP data. In the same time, we have tested the correctness of reports between old and new release. This also helped to shorten the validation time during GoLive.
The project delivered with (almost) no issues
The whole project took 9 months with 10 people working on it. We have delivered the project within planned timeframe, satisfactory downtime window and only a few issues which were quickly fixed. One larger issue was caused by a last-minute requirement in the project's scope, but we kept the system fully operational until it was fixed.
Download solution brief: "Transformation with Near Zero Downtime"