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Marketing Research Chapter 1. An introduction to Marketing Research Marketing – is a process of all activities necessary for the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives.
Marketing Research Chapter 1. An introduction to Marketing Research Marketing research – is the process of designing, gathering, analyzing, and reporting information that may be used to solve a specific marketing problem. The purpose of marketing research – to link the consumer to the marketer by providing information that can be used in making marketing decisions.
Marketing Research Chapter 1. An introduction to Marketing Research 1. Identifying Market Opportunities and Problems Ex. Research shows, that one in twenty 12 -year-old is dieting. + There is a demand for diet products for the teen market segment • Market segment identification • SWOT – analysis • Product/service use studies • Environmental analysis studies • Competitive analysis. What are the Uses of Marketing Research?
Marketing Research Chapter 1. An introduction to Marketing Research 2. Generate, Refine and Evaluate Potential Marketing Actions. What are the alternative ways of appealing to the teen diet market? Would a new diet drink, chain of "teen" health clubs or specially formulated diet pills? What marketing mix? • New product testing • Pricing testing • Advertising testing • TV and recall studies • In-store promotion effectiveness studies • Distribution effectiveness studies. What are the Uses of Marketing Research?
Marketing Research Chapter 1. An introduction to Marketing Research 3. Monitor Marketing Performance. These studies help to evaluate how well marketing mix is performing • Image analysis • Customer satisfaction studies • Employee satisfaction studies • Distributor satisfaction studies • Tracking research 4. Improve marketing as a process These studies are needed to expand knowledge of marketing as a process • Predictors of new-product success • The impact of long-term ads on consumer choice • Measuring the advantage to being the first product in the market. What are the Uses of Marketing Research?
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Marketing Research Chapter 2 – Defining the Problem and determining research objectives Defining the problem is critical to setting the direction for all subsequent steps of the MR process. This is particularly true for custom-designed research as opposed to standardized research.
Marketing Research Chapter 2 – Defining the Problem and determining research objectives Sometimes marketers confuse problem with symptoms. Xerox become concerned a number of years ago that it was rapidly losing photocopier sales to Japanese competitors. Is it a problem or symptom?
Marketing Research Chapter 2 – Defining the Problem and determining research objectives Consider, for example: The new-product introduction for which sales are below target. symptom The marketing management problem – what to do about the shortfall? — Should the target be revised? Was it too optimistic? — Should the product be withdrawn? — Should one of the other elements of the marketing mix, such as advertising, be altered? One of the possibilities – the adv. campaign, supporting the new-product introduction has been ineffective (was not creating sufficient awareness) This suspicion could serve as the basis for a research problem. What is the research problem?
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Q: Javascript replace() function This is a simple replace() question - and I can't get it working to replace a substring in the function below.
function linkOnClick(){
    var anyNameYouLike = 'some sort of text/string right here';
    anyNameYouLike.replace('right','in');
    alert(anyNameYouLike)
}

It should return "some sort of text/string in here" but doesn't. What am I doing wrong?  I'm fairly new with Javascript (if it isn't obvious...)

A: In javascript, strings are immutable (they are never modified).  As such, the .replace() function does not modify the string you call it on.  Instead, it returns a new string.  So, if you want anyNameYouLike to contain the modified string, you have to assign the result to it like this:
anyNameYouLike = anyNameYouLike.replace('right','in');

For more info, refer to the MDN description of the .replace() method which says this:

Returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by
  a replacement.  The pattern can be a string or a RegExp, and the
  replacement can be a string or a function to be called for each match.

And, in the description of the .replace() method, it says this:

This method does not change the String object it is called on. It
  simply returns a new string.

A: anyNameYouLike = anyNameYouLike.replace('right','in');

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SPECIAL REPORT: Are Aliens Abducting Heavy Metal Fans?
Posted by Keith Spillett in Uncategorized on July 10, 2015
Three more public officials today denounced a new sub-genre of heavy metal growing in popularity amid recent widespread media attention. Known by fans as aliencore, the newest addition to the already saturated landscape of extreme music has been both praised and scorned by fans and critics alike. Now, some government authorities are calling for an outright ban of the music over allegations that it may be dangerous to its listeners.
The emergence of aliencore was first reported by music writer Budd Hopkins in an April 8th New York Times article. Investigating an increase in the number of missing persons cases among heavy metal fans, Hopkins inadvertently discovered an unusually high influx of new metal bands fronted by undocumented immigrants. Hopkins coined the term "aliencore" to refer to the new sub-genre created by these bands. Described by noted heavy metal documentarian Stanton Friedman as a cross between death metal and the drone of honeybees, aliencore has since garnered major radio airplay across the country and several bands have performed to national televised audiences.
The Times article references several of the more popular aliencore bands. In an interview with the founder of a group calling themselves Rings of Uranus, Hopkins quotes the musician as saying that he and his bandmates come from a small Italian town called Zeta Reticuli and, among other enigmatic statements, that he formed his band "around the time of the dawn of human civilization."
The drummer of a band called Children of Kecksburg spoke to Hopkins about the artistic influences of the new aliencore movement. "It runs the gamut," said the drummer. "Everything from 1950s-era civil defense films to cosmology and astrophysics to Whitley Strieber books."
The members of another aliencore band called Hypnotic Regression seemed to imply that their music had an altruistic objective. "The mission of our band is to serve man."
Despite the growing popularity of the sub-genre, several critical reviews have appeared. Phillip Klass, in a Rolling Stone review of a new album called The Drake Equation, referred to songs like Intergalactic Border Crossing and Paradoxical Paranoiac Probing as "nonsensical drivel."
But the real controversy over the music stems from a report in the May edition of Scientific American that cited a connection between aliencore music and the disappearance of at least 750 self-described metalheads around the world. According to numerous local police sources, all of the missing people had attended a performance by an aliencore band only hours before their disappearances. While authorities continue to investigate, this circumstantial evidence has led several politicians and community leaders to call for the cancellation of all scheduled aliencore performances in their jurisdictions until a full investigation can be concluded.
Kenny Lofton, police chief of Gulf Breeze, Florida, held a hastily scheduled news conference this morning to announce the disappearance of at least 15 concertgoers from a performance by the band Sacred Hive the previous night. "We're taking this extremely seriously," said Chief Lofton. "Until further notice, I've issued a townwide prohibition against any further performances of this so-called aliencore music."
At the same time, aliencore fans are expressing their support for the right of the bands to perform. Barney Hill of Rachel, Nevada, told CNN that be believes the disappearances have been blown out of proportion. "So what if a couple of dirtbags down in Kingman, Arizona, didn't come home after an aliencore show last weekend? They probably got stoned and went camping or something. This is about free speech."
In Europe, heavy metal fans have been as outspoken as their freedom-minded American counterparts. Herb Wells of Woking, England, was quoted by Sky News as saying that he fully supports the "right of these bands to perform. It's the same thing every couple of years. Some group of parents or politicians wants to censor this kind of music."
But in Aurora, Texas, Mayor Andy Van Slyke today ordered the destruction of all aliencore records from the local Sam Goody and Tower Records stores following the disappearance of three teenagers from a concert last week. "We're fully cooperating with state and federal authorities," said Mayor Van Slyke, "but in light of the many published reports concerning the possible connection between this music and the recent disappearances, we can't risk any more of our children going missing."
In recent days, several aliencore bands have gone on the record to defend their music. During an interview on MSNBC, Fhru Glarmorkiop, the bass player for a band called Fgoppreasewwmoarcqert, said "Yuydjh duirttyuu op rertnyopriy morkeeportuni nerlio."
He went on to inform viewers that his band will defy any performance or recording bans and still plans to enter the studio next month to record its debut album, As the Wormhole Turns. The album, said Glarmorkiop, will feature a song played entirely in binary, called 001101000100100111010100, and include an aliencore cover of the Megadeth classic Hangar 18.
However, in the most stunning development of this unfolding story, an aliencore band called Hydrocephahic Hybrid may have admitted that a sinister connection does indeed exist between the music and the missing persons cases.
On a segment of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News last night, the band's lead vocalist told host Bill O'Reilly that aliencore bands have been abducting their fans since late last year. "Look, we've been doing it the old-fashioned way for far too long now," said the singer. "It's tedious. You have to fly down during the middle of the night, shine some bright lights through the windows, float them out the door… We were hanging around one night and we realized it would be easier to get them to come to us. Your average heavy metal fan isn't exactly the smartest knife in the cutlery rack, if you know what I mean. So a bunch of us formed metal bands and started playing shows and the next thing you know we've already met our quota for the year."
Despite the growing sense of alarm, Hydrocephalic Hybrid will embark next week on a three-month tour of Midwest wheat fields and trailer parks in support of San Diego-based deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation.
(Dirty Dave on The FM is a special investigative reporter for Tyranny of Tradition. Hours after he filed this report his office was ransacked and he went missing. If you have seen Dirty Dave please contact the Tyranny of Tradition offices as soon as possible)
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The Internet of Things is without doubt the 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on the rail sector cannot be overestimated. Now is the time for the whole of the rail sector not just to keep up with, but to overtake other transport providers by fully signing up to the digital world.
Christian Sprauer
Daniel Adamka
Daniel MacGregor
Fabian Ringwald Klassisch
Head of IT Products & Operations
Florian_Auer
Director of Technology & Innovation
Gerhard Kresss
Director Mobility Data Services
Holger Bartels
Head of Asset Intelligence Center
Ignasi Oliver
Director of Transit Service, of Maintenance and Projects Area
Jéan-Cedric Bienfait
Program IoT Manager
Jude Carey
Head of Asset Management
Marc Valette
Director of Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Marcel Van Velthoven
Global Transportation Industry Principal
Head of System Requirements and Cyber Security for Command & Control
Mikhail Wall
Blockchain Team Lead
Mikko Alanko
VP of Digital Services
Mohamed Labdoui
Data/IoT Platform Manager
Remigijus Skirkus
Railway Infrastructure Directorate
Rene Zeilinger
CTO FTS
Tim Flower
Professional Head of Maintenance
Global Head of Condition Monitoring & Digitalization Competence Center for the Rail Industry
Markus Basler
Director Digital Business
Inge Hofland
Manager Infradata & GIS
Pedro Conceicao
CBM Technical Sales Consultant
Javier de la Cruz
LeadMind Managing Director
Vanessa Langhammer
Head of Digitalization
David McGorman
Unipart Rail & Manufacturing Technology Managing Director and Instrumentel, Managing Director
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AMOSA has many Rail customers from all over the world, who appreciate the practical approach the company and its consultants offer. Analysing the need of the customer regarding Digitisation and their ability / maturity to get involved in this kind of projects. With our practical approach we get the people on board, realising where they really are and what their journey should be in the world of Rail digitisation. AMOSA has a number of strategic partnerships with Rail IT system suppliers, to have a good understanding what the market has to offer. We analyse the suppliers with their vision and products to be best able to inform our customers what they should consider, like architects are able to offer the best materials for the buildings they design. We like to design and implement IT Asset Management systems.
Frauscher Sensonic is the first company to develop railway-specific solutions based on fibre optic sensing (FOS). The goal is to offer easy-to-integrate, yet highly efficient end-to-end solutions in our markets worldwide. The base technology for this is the latest FOS generation, which enables quantitative measurements.
Together with our customers and partners, we adapt this FOS technology for specific requirements and applications in the railway industry – and we are already offering minimum viable products. This makes us the industry leader in the area of FOS-applications for international railway market.
Nexxiot enables transparency and business process automation for rail freight operators, lessors, shippers, partners and cargo owners.
With a focus on non-powered mobile assets, Nexxiot provides the necessary IoT hardware, connectivity, interfaces and analytics to improve efficiency, accountability and service levels throughout the transportation chain. This is achieved by gathering asset data and transforming it into usable information to support decisions and extract more value from the fleet.
This opens new opportunities to reduce equipment and operational costs and increase revenues by enhancing services to customers and cargo owners. Designed to be zero-maintenance, the devices are quick to install and the information is easy to integrate and use. A service based business model in combination with the dedicated platform and analytics, means Nexxiot is ready to support the rail industries ambitions to play it's part in the digital supply chain of tomorrow.
NEM Solutions offers digital solutions to maximize productivity of train fleets; to lengthen life-cycle and to optimize maintenance and operational strategy. The principal purpose is to attain maximum profit, which facilitates the decision-making process and management. Through A.U.R.A. technology NEM Solutions provides real time predictive analytics for operators and manufacturers. Beyond a shadow of doubt we can say that, the A.U.R.A. system, for optimal and efficient maintenance, guarantees an increased useful rolling stock life-cycle, and, due to this, reduced operational and maintenance costs.
By combining domain knowledge and real-time diagnostics, NEM Solutions can detect deviations. Through data, it increases availability in operational strategies and maintenance. The operator assumes total data control and enables the decision-making process and the follow-up of set objectives, in real time, a global vison of the fleet situation.
OSIsoft - a global leader enabling operational intelligence, is the maker of the PI System - an open enterprise software infrastructure that connects asset and sensor-based data, operations and people to enable realtime and actionable insights. OSIsoft empowers companies across a range of asset and process intensive industries to make better use of streaming operational data to optimize and enrich their businesses. Since 1980, OSIsoft customers have trusted the PI System to deliver process, quality, energy, regulatory compliance, safety, security, and asset management and health improvements across their operations. OSIsoft is a privately held company, headquartered in San Leandro, California, USA with offices around the world.
Plasser & Theurer - has influenced the progress in the construction and maintenance of railway tracks more substantially than any other company. As a full-range supplier operating worldwide, the Austrian family business supplies track maintenance machines of almost all kinds and sizes and provides high-quality services over the entire life cycle of the machines. Our success story began with the production of tamping machines that stood out from all other products on the market due to their technical superiority. To this day, Plasser & Theurer tamping machines are the standard in track maintenance. Over decades, new machine models have been added to the machine programme. Today, the machines we offer cover almost all works to be performed when maintaining, laying and renewing railway tracks. In addition to machines for all track gauges in all parts of the world, we offer machines in all output categories meeting our customers' needs. From a classic machine manufacturer to a modern full-range supplier.
Today, Plasser & Theurer is more than just a machine manufacturer. As a full-range supplier collaborating with 19 partner companies around the world, Plasser & Theurer offers comprehensive after-sales services, covering training, spare parts supply and technical service. The farreaching innovations in mechanised track maintenance not only involve new machine technologies, but also set new standards for the cost-efficient operation of machines. Developed by Plasser & Theurer, the PlasserSmartMaintenance initiative provides digital solutions that ensure greater transparency, connectivity and efficiency for both the maintenance of individual machines and entire machine fleets.
Sustainable quality increases cost-efficiency The contributions we make towards the cost-efficiency and sustainability of the railway system define our success. We set store by quality, innovative technologies and solutions providing the customers with real economic benefits.
Railnova provides predictive maintenance and fleet management solutions for railway fleets. Their all-inone hardware and software platform enables operators to continuously build return on experience: with the Railster (real-time monitoring device) and Railfleet (fleet and data management platform) operators are able to explain breakdowns and prevent them in the future, thereby reducing corrective maintenance costs and optimising preventive maintenance processes.
The Railster ensures safe access to real-time data, so that railway operators can confirm predictive diagnostics in the cloud via rule-based or machine-learning alerts, and dispatch digital work orders to their various internal ERP and MMS systems or subcontractor workflows.
The multi-company Railfleet software fills the gap between asset data and maintenance management systems. Operators, maintainers and lessors can efficiently manage their mixed fleets online, turn asset data into predictive alerts and condition-based maintenance orders, and automate ECM day-to-day management. The Railfleet open APIs enable clients to push work orders to their existing maintenance management systems or their external partner systems.
Siemens Mobility is a separately managed company of Siemens AG. As a leader in transport solutions for more than 160 years, Siemens Mobility is constantly innovating its portfolio in its core areas of rolling stock, rail automation and electrification, turnkey systems, intelligent traffic systems as well as related services. With digitalization, Siemens Mobility is enabling mobility operators worldwide to make infrastructure intelligent, increase value sustainably over the entire lifecycle, enhance passenger experience and guarantee availability. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, the former Siemens Mobility Division posted revenue of €8.1 billion and had around 28,400 employees worldwide.
SKF Insight Rail - Is your maintenance strategy working as hard as possible to keep costs low, keep trains running on time – and keep customers satisfied? At SKF, we can help make sure it is. With our core in the bearing industry we know that there is potential to run longer between maintenance than what is done today. And there are now ways to do it without increasing risk. Our diagnostic and analytic digital tools give you unparalleled understanding of the real-time condition of your rolling stock, while you can call in our expert support with services that range from training, inspection and installation through to refurbishment and remanufacturing. By applying our industry insight, our technology and our specialist services, we can help you drive smarter, more efficient practices right across the maintenance lifecycle.
voestalpine Railway Systems is the global leader for system solutions in the field of railway infrastructure, offering outstanding products, logistics and services for rails, turnouts, signaling and monitoring applications. A fully integrated material chain and value-adding industry setups beyond steel enable voestalpine to understand the interdependencies of all the track components in order to optimize the performance and life cycle cost of the system.
An international network of companies and their access to customers is the basis for our know-how and ongoing product and process improvements. More than 50 production and sales facilities ensure maximum understanding and knowledge of local conditions and customer demands.
With smart digital solutions voestalpine Railway Systems provides the basis for modern track management concepts to guarantee "Performance on Track®".
ABB solutions help some of the world's largest railway operators minimize network risks, enhance operational and financial performance, and execute the right strategies for the future. Our extensive software solutions drive superior passenger experience and help develop the next level of asset transformation, rail sustainability, passenger and worker safety as well as digital network management
Nomad Digital is the world's leading provider of passenger and fleet connectivity management solutions for trains, metros, buses and trams globally.
We are a specialist in offering benefits to both passengers and operators by improving connectivity for transport on the move.
Founded in 2002, and headquartered in the UK, currently serving more than 50 global customers - Nomad designs, builds, deploys and manages passenger WiFi, on-board passenger infotainment and remote online condition-based monitoring and maintenance solutions for optimising fleet management, operational performance and improving fuel economy.
Our Vision is connecting everything, our aim is to be the world leader in connected transport, renowned for continuous innovation of technology and provision of quality solutions to deliver the intelligent journey
Nomad is committed to innovation and continued development of its solutions. This philosophy has resulted in many of the world firsts in ICT fleet connectivity.
eMaintenance365 empowers Smart Industry to see into the future. We offer a service that brings insights to operations and maintenance processes to greatly increase effectivity and efficiency of our customers. Our service uses advanced analytics of Big Data and systems modelling of the clients actual processes to create predictions and prescriptions of physical failures in a process. With an extensive experience and deep knowledge from both industry and academia, our organization is built to serve customers based on an understanding of their unique setup and needs.
Clever survey that leads the way in smart maintenance. Fugro offers a safer, faster and more affordable way of delivering accurate, up-to-date rail infrastructure data. We can accelerate and de-risk your railway engineering projects by lowering the costs of rail maintenance whilst improving track safety.
Our unique RILA technology is a remote, flexible, train-mounted survey system that connects to a regular service train in under two minutes and surveys the tracks at line speed (i.e. up to 200 km/h). RILA measures absolute track position and geometry to engineering-accuracy simultaneously incorporating georeferenced video to record track assets and a laser scanner to capture an ultra-high-density 3D mesh of the surveyed corridor. This information-rich dataset delivers a digital twin of the entire railway corridor and offers a clear health and safety benefit as no surveyors are required to be on or near the tracks during survey acquisition. Clever survey – smart maintenance.
LEVEL, s.r.o. is a leading Czech company in R&D of equipment and technologies in the fields of M2M communication technologies. As a result of a 25-year-tradition in applied R&D, LEVEL has developed its own development platform which helps produce different products and solutions for different market segments very efficiently. It helps combine the most modern communication technologies in the product like GPS /GNSS, GSM/LTE, WiFi, RFID/ long distance RFID, BT / BT low energy and sensors 3D G, air pressure, temperature, ambient temperature, humidity, gyro and create the best product for the particular user requirement. Together with R&D of equipment LEVEL also develop own cloud system Positrex))) (www. positrex.com) for on-line data collection and client access. The products and services provided are mainly monitoring and security for road and railway vehicles and machinery.
STIMIO designs and produces Wireless Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to connect assets and measure performance. Our solutions help customers to improve their operational efficiency and propose new business models.
We have developped a Railway certified solution, STIM-TRAIN, that connect train's equipement and boost the operational maintenance of rolling stock. It is composed of a Generic IoT Box (RAILBOX), and a cellular gateway (RAILGATE). RAILBOX is completely autonomous (with an embedded battery) and wireless. This makes it very easy to install on legacy equipment, enabling advanced predictive maintenance of assets on-board such as water/lubricant/sand tanks, doors/HVAC, pantograph etc. The RAILGATE bridges the RAILBOX to legacy wired train network and/or a 3G/4G network. STIM-TRAIN leverages the latest technologies of the industrial IoT, and adapt them to the railway industry.
The 4th Industrial Revolution underpins our business. Right across the Unipart Group we are implementing Digital systems in our own and our customers' operations, as well as up-skilling our team with digital awareness and capabilities to drive change across the organisation and industry.
The Condition Based Supply Chain (CBSC) is our vision for the rail network - a solution that involves the seamless management of real-time data and information, combined with multiple data sources relating to the asset, to deliver increased operational efficiencies and maintenance savings.
CBSC draws on our position in the supply chain and our expertise in using sensors in CBM that turns data into actionable information to drive targeted maintenance, a highly responsive supply chain and continuous product and service improvement.
A1 Digital advises companies on questions of digital transformation and supports them in the digitalization of their business areas. The focus is on industry-specific applications in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) as well as on cloud-based products for the modern workplace and security solutions for the cloud and IoT. With its scalable services, A1 Digital is also an ideal partner for digital projects in medium-sized businesses. As part of the Telekom Austria Group and thus of América Móvil, the company has access to the established infrastructure of one of the world's largest mobile operators. In addition to its German headquarters in Munich, A1 Digital has regional sales organizations and offers cloud solutions via data centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
EKE-Electronics Ltd. is supplying intelligent train automation and onboard data systems since over 30 years to vehicle manufacturers and operators. EKE provides solutions for trains, metros and trams.
SmartVision™ by EKE is a remote diagnostics and condition monitoring system, which has been selected e.g. by London Underground and Queensland Rail. In early 2019, EKE acquired Humaware, a UK firm specialising in condition monitoring and predictive analytics. As a result of this acquisition, the available services in SmartVision™ now include remote diagnostics and condition monitoring as well as adaptive anomaly detection, diagnostics and prognostics based on Humaware's unique technology.
EKE and VR Fleetcare have announced their cooperation in developing advanced predictive analytics for both bogie and track condition monitoring to enable condition-based and data-driven maintenance. Sensor data has been collected and diagnosed since mid-2019 and various edge and cloud-based analysis methods have already been developed.
Real Use Cases for Predictive Maintenance in Rail
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How to move towards, and prepare for, predictive maintenance (a checklist). As with any digitalisation project, there's no magic bullet for predictive maintenance
Five important steps you should follow in order to successfully deploy predictive maintenance
Two examples of real predictive maintenance case studies in rail and our approach to each of these use cases
Christian is the founder and CEO of Railnova and a former engineering & operations director at Alpha Trains Locomotives. At Alpha Trains he oversaw a fleet of 400 locomotives across 12 countries. He previously also held a position at Alstom Transport in the service and maintenance division. Christian holds and MBA London Business School, UK, and a msc mech. engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Daniel Adamkar
Using big data for network optimization
Where and when is the demand for transport
How to react quicker on demand changes
Increase the usage of multimodal solution
Daniel Adamka is general manager of Arriva in the Czech Republic with more than 3500 employees. He studied Transportation sciences in Czech Technical University. He started as a dispatcher on railway. In the years 2002 and 2003 he worked as a transport coordinator for the regional organizator of the Prague Integrated transport, then replaced several managerial positions in the multinational company Keolis with 3 years international experience in TransPennine Express in UK as timetable manager. Between 2008 and 2010 he was head of the Czech Railways Quality department where he implemented new quality standards. He then worked as a development manager at Veolia Transport, then in the company Arriva. The CEO of Arriva for the Czech Republic became in March 2014
Cargo owner services, the elastic supply chain and a sensor roadmap
How value can be delivered and revenues captured from cargo owners
What do the different industries need for their rail supply chain success
Which sensors are coming, what can they do and what do they deliver
Co-Founder, Nexiot AG. Business Development for the EmbeddedLab, a research and engineering lab at the ETH Zurich for Physical Computing/IoT, the foundation of Nexiot AG. Industrial IoT evangelist and digital shaper.
Daniel MacGregor has over 20 years' experience in applying technology to business needs. Since 2014 he has focused on digitisation of the supply chain. Daniel has worked for the EmbeddedLab at ETH Zurich, going on to become a founder of multi-million Swiss technology company Nexiot AG.
Daniel focuses on uncovering business needs and applying Nexiot's cutting edge IoT solutions to optimise operations and the clients own service portfolio. This is done through an end-to-end solution from sensor, to information intelligence, to knowledge sharing. Supply chain participants can deploy IoT to differentiate their services and monetise digital insights. The philosophy is to leverage knowledge derived from big data for continuous business improvement.
SBB Cargo Rolling IoT & Digital Services
Rolling IoT and Automation @ SBB Cargo
Digital Services: Turning data into Products
Bridging the gap: From the challenge of making a difference end2end
Fabian Ringwald is a passionate digitizer with a consistent focus on strategic business success through digital transformation. As a computer scientist with an MBA, his current task is the digitization of SBB Cargo - the Swiss freight railway. In previous positions, he was successful in digital topics within the energy sector (energy trading), in consulting, in the game industry and in various start-ups. Following the sound belief, that with a lot of curiosity, based on knowledge, the world can be made a better place – Fabian is enjoying working in and with teams that grow beyond themselves, believing complexity is bearing more excitement than complicacy.
Florian Auer
Digital transmission of an On-track machine supplier
Technical University of Graz; Civil Engineering with focus on Railway Engineering at Prof. Rießberger
2002 – Dec. 2012 Austrian Federal Railways, Maintenance Engineering, Track Design Engineer, head of life cycle management team
PhD on "How to reduce wear in sharp curves"
International Activities: Member of a couple of Euronorms, head of UIC working group "Under Sleeper Pads in track"
Since Dec 2012 working for Plasser & Theurer (as Senior Expert Track Technology)
Since May 2017 Director of Technology
Internet of Trains – How IoT can transform rail
Asset Performance Management enables new thinking for Rail
Examples from customers, showing how analytics can help to create value
A partner ecosystem can provide even more value towards customer
Corporate digitalization strategy for Siemens, background in IT services and strategic consulting with McKinsey & Company. Education degrees in Physics and International Relations and European Studies
Building a Data-as-a-Service Platform for Asset & Maintenance Digitization
Open Source Tech Stack & Architecture
The Joy of Data Virtualization
Live Use Case Samples
Holger Bartels studied Media Management and Interactive Marketing in Wiesbaden, Germany and Mexico City. For more than a decade he has worked with architects, data analysts and application developers and built global big data products and platforms across various industries. Since 05/2017 he is leading the asset intelligence center at DB Cargo which provides the basis for analytical intelligence use cases such as condition-based maintenance, reliability analysis, lifecycle costing and camera based damage detection.
Recommendations to succeed in the digitalisation and data analysis of assets in metro networks
Profits obtained and lessons learned from real experiences to build up the systems
Organisational adaptation
Necessary requirements to succeed, overcome fear and catalyse real change
Ignasi Oliver joined TMB in 1988 in Metro de Barcelona as engineer of Remote Control Systems department. After that he has been manager of several departments of maintenance and of projects. Nowadays he is the Director of Transit Service, of Maintenance and Projects Area, leading +200 people in a team in charge of signalling, remote control, communications, ticketing, tracks and catenary. He has been involved in the major changes in the metro network, introducing automation, adapting installations, procedures and organisational charts to the needs of the metro operation and driverless lines. His main focus has been to provide the best availability to get the best metro service with limited costs. To do that he introduced technical improvements, RAMS management, monitoring systems and the team of engineers to take benefit of it. Now is leading the change of processes and culture to get a true transformation by mean of the digitalisation.
Jean-Cédric Bienfait
IoT, digital twins and the convergence towards a "phygital" world: a tough journey
Setting the foundations: establishing a digital asset base
Juggling with varying physical and digital assets lifespans
Shaping a corporate wide digital culture
Jean-Cédric Bienfait is a seasoned, agile professional who blends a master degree in Business Administration with solid IT knowledge and deep, transverse business experience gained in railways, airlines, bank & insurance, energy, European institutions and various other industries.
Making sense from the growth of data in the digital railway
Data acquisition from large volumes of assets
The role of analytics to generate actionable outcomes
Simplifying the HMI in large scale and complex environments
John graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1990 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He joined Jaguar Cars as a graduate trainee and spent 18 years in the automotive industry working in a number of senior engineering, manufacturing and product strategy roles, including a period with the Jaguar Racing Formula 1 team.
John joined the rail industry in 2009, leading the Intelligent Infrastructure programme at Network Rail, one of the most extensive applications of asset monitoring in the rail sector.
Since April 2018 john has held the position of Chief Executive Officer for voestalpine SIGNALING Fareham, the UK based centre for rail infrastructure monitoring, part of the voestalpine Railway Systems group.
As an engineer, John is passionate about the global transformation of railways through the safe, reliable and innovative application of digital technologies.
Utilising IOT to improve performance in Irish Rail
The challenges for Irish Rail to develop IoT in both rolling stock and Infrastructure
A hidden benefit of our IoT development
Outlook for the future
Jude Carey is Head of Asset Management for Irish Rail. He is responsible for developing the Asset Management Capability of the Irish Rail network in line with ISO55001 and for the development of Irish Rail's Asset Management Information Systems. He joined Irish Rail in 2007.
Since 2011 he has been an active member of the Asset Management Expert Working Group in the International Union of Railways (UIC). This group's membership comprises eleven leading European Railways. The purpose of this group is both to share and develop best practice in Rail Asset Management. He is co-author of the UIC publication "A guide to implementing Asset Management in Rail".
He is a member of the founding committee of the Institute of Asset Management in Ireland.
Challenges for implementing pragmatic digitalisation in CFL Multimodal, a small freight actor
The visions and challenges of being a small Railway when introducing innovation
Importance & need for pragmatic & applicable solutions due to the contraints of resources
Capacity to transform quickly in operations the added value provided by innovation
experience in the field of freight and logistics. He worked on different positions (consulting, operational, sales and managerial) in the fields of transport and logistics services. With an engineering and management background, he had to cope with the challenges associated with the recent supply chain evolution. Especially, in the last years, with an increasing importance of information within operations besides technical and HR matters, his concerns integrated more and more the digitalisation as a key to implement new, more flexible and efficient solutions. Now in charge of innovation at CFL Multimodal, He will explain how his group handles innovation as strategic function. The main goal is to prepare and ensure the future by introducing new technologies such as IoT solutions, vision and remote control to ease operations processes as well as creating new services to enforce the business development and client satisfaction.
The challenges of Digitisation in Rail, what is fact and what is fiction, a realistic view.
Wrestling with the challenges with what to do with the latest IT technology
The experience from the Port of Rotterdam with rolling out Digitisation
What can IT do in the Rail market with Digitisation
Marcel van Velthoven has been working in the IT industry since 1986, since 1996 he worked in the area of Maintenance and Asset Management with P&L responsibility. In 2019 Marcel started AMOSA realising that many companies, especially in the Rail world have a need for an Architect, a person guiding them in the world of Asset Management and Asset Management Information Systems. He build a very seasoned team, supporting the (Rail) customers to understand why they should get involved in Asset Management and get the support of IT systems. AMOSA has many Rail customers from all over the world, who appreciate the practical approach the company and its consultants offer. Analysing the need of the customer regarding Digitisation and their ability / maturity to get involved in this kind of projects. With our practical approach we get the people on board, realising where they really are and what their journey should be in the world of Rail digitisation. AMOSA has a number of strategic partnerships with Rail IT system suppliers, to have a good understanding what the market has to offer. We analyse the suppliers with their vision and products to be best able to inform our customers what they should consider, like architects are able to offer the best materials for the buildings they design. We like to design and implement IT Asset Management systems.
Overcoming the challenges of supporting a network-wide program when digitalising your operations
Recognising the technical barriers that effect progression during the lengthy public tendering process
Proof of Practice - highlighting several national deployments in Rail
Compare lessons learned to best practices in other critical infrastructure industries
OSIsoft's Transportation Industry Principal has a broad background in developing industrial electronics, automated control and information system software for OEM's and enterprises. Matt has been working with leading technology firms to bring real-time operational intelligence tools to the supply chain and smart city initiatives, resulting in dozens of innovative products being brought to market.
Cybersecurity in Rail – Securing the digital future
Facing and structuring the challenge
How to stay flexible with security for safety
Crypto and Firewall – That's it?
Max Schubert graduated as diploma engineer for electrical engineering in 2010 and started as expert for power supply for safety systems within DB Netz. 2011 he added the field of light signals and became head of light signals, electrical systems and level crossings in 2014. In this time Multi Color LED and Fiber Optic Sensing have been introduced to DB Netz AG. In 2018 he took over the lead of Requirement Management and Security for Rail Applications, being responsible for the technical setup of the starter package and the security measures for the legacy and digital safety rail applications.
Mikel Martin
Digitalisation of Rolling Stock Maintenance: Not only a matter of predictive diagnostics.
Brief overview of the pros, cons and state of the art of predictive diagnostics
What else can the digitalisation bring to Rolling Stock Maintenance?
Digitalisation success cases beyond the predictive diagnostics
Mikel Martin: Telecommunications Engineer with a continuous professional development within the rail industry (focused on real time diagnostics and early failure detection projects aimed to apply a Condition Based Maintenance). Worked initially in data analysis and train-ground communication, before taking a project management role where developed skills and experience in managing projects to help rolling stock OEMs, maintainers and operators implement CBM solutions around the world. Currently working as Chief Operating Officer within the Mobility Business Unit of NEM Solutions.
Wheelsets Life Cycle Monitoring Service
Prerequisites for the development of the project
How choice about blockchain technology was made
Architecture of the project
Mikhail (Michael) Wall is Blockchain Team Lead with 5 years of software development experience and 3 years of blockchain experience at OCRV, Russian Railways affiliated company. His team are developing blockchain based project for monitoring life cycle of wheelsets. Previously worked as a Software Engineer at cryptocurrency exchange dsx.uk. Held computer science degree from top Russian university - Saint Petersburg State University.
Optimising maintenance and operation planning through enhanced asset management of a train bogie
VR Maintenance is developing capability to provide bogie availability instead of bogie maintenance
Combining real-time condition measuring with sophisticated mathematical optimization makes is possible to increase availability and decrease the amount of assets in stock
New revenue models can be introduced both to maintenance companies and asset owners
I work currently as the VP of Digital Services at VR Maintenance Ltd, which is a subsidiary of VR Group, the Finnish railway operator. My mission is to find new ways how digitalization and data can change rail fleet and track maintenance and create more value to the asset owner. I have previously led the fleet planning at VR Group and therefore understand the complex world of rail operator and fleet owner. I have a strong development mindset mixed with wild imagination
Big Data and IoT Cloud Platforms Manager at SNCF
Define the strategy and the trajectory of the Data/IOT services to meet SNCF business needs
The keys of data and IoT project success
How the cloud and collective intelligence are accelerating the time to market
Mohammed-Simoh Labdoui is 37 years old who graduated from high school in Paris as a research and development engineer. He is passionate about data and believes in its precious value as the limitless oil of tomorrow.
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Most recently, Mohammed-Simoh joined SNCF in 2016 as Data and IoT Platforms Manager to help SNCF to become a data company and make its data a way to improve its robustness and fight against competition.
The evolution of the diagnostic process at the Lithuanian Railways
Diagnostics for track geometry
Optimizing Big Data for smarter asset management
Ways and approaches to overcome current challenges
Remigijus Skirkus PhD in Mechanical engineering technology science and Director of diagnostic department, Railway Infrastructure Directorate, JSC "Lithuanian railways ". Interested in:
Data digitalization
Diagnostics systems
Diagnostic Department inspects and controls the quality of the track condition from substructure to superstructure, automation systems, communication and power supply equipment, prepares projects for the repair, installation and renewal of tracks, electricity supply facilities, prepares and periodically updates the technical documentation. Also, inspections of locomotives safety, communication systems and general technical condition. Department responsible for equipment metrology periodical inspection of infrastructure tools.
Quantitative DAS and Machine Learning enable a quantum leep in real-time train positioning
Quantitative DAS is the next evolution of distributed wayside sensing
In combination with machine learning, this technology provides more accurate information
Real-time train localisation, detailed information on train length and train integrity will enable new and efficient approaches for future proof train operation
Rene Zeilinger has worked in the Software Engineering industry for more than ten years as a software developer, industrial researcher, project manager, product manager/owner, and CTO. His career started after graduating in Business Informatics at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz in 2005. After several years as a software developer a return to research allowed him to learn more about software/system development processes and methods. In 2011 he applied this knowledge to lead a successful software development project in the mechanical engineering industry. In 2015 he started work at Frauscher Sensor Technology as a product manager with the focus on a new sensor system based on Distributed Acoustic Sensing. In the course of the last few years he has built up and is now leading the research and development department for this product - Frauscher Tracking Solutions FTS.
Robert Alonso
Transportation Solution Executive, Power Grids and Grid Automation
A Chartered Engineer, with a Master of Science and an MBA. A track record of delivering organizational and operational improvements in the rail industry over 21 years. Before joining ABB's Enterprise Software division as the Transport Solutions Executive in Oct 2017, Robert held the role of London Underground Ltd's Systems and Data Manager in the Maintenance Operation Directorate. Robert is motivated by exploiting asset management good practice and digital technology, through systems, software and data to unleash real value for customers who are responsible for Infrastructure Assets. He combines both management and technical know-how, along with a driven and enthusiastic personality and an appreciation of the bigger picture, to work with the industry to secure lasting and positive change.
Intelligent Infrastructure: Delivering the data driven railway
Why do we need Intelligent Infrastructure and what is Network Rail's strategy for digitising asset performance management
What progress has been made so far and what is coming this year
How do we engage current and future staff to fully realise the benefits
Tim joined the rail industry in 2001, working on several asset and maintenance data roles before moving on to managing on track machine planning and maintenance performance.
In 2009 Tim moved into Network Operations Programmes, delivering the Maintenance Effectiveness Programme, including Plain Line Pattern Recognition, and leading on resolution national maintenance issues.
Tim was appointed as Head of Maintenance in July 2016, and in July 2017 took on the lead engineering role for the Network Rail Intelligent Infrastructure Programme.
On-board IoT solutions applied for reliable maintenance extension of safety critical railway wheel-set
Railway industry is facing challenges to increase traffic capacity while reducing maintenance cost and increase service reliability.
Bogies maintenance represents high percentage of the train life cycle cost and wheels life have been considerably extended during last years
Wheel-set bearings are safety critical components with fixed maintenance intervals, are becoming the limiting factor for wheel-set and bogie overhaul maintenance extension.
Holds a MPhil in Mechatronic Engineering, a MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a Master in Business Administration from IESE Business School. He is also expert designated by Spain like member of European Committee for standardization, technical committee 256 for wheel-sets and bogies working groups.
Presently he is Global Head of Condition Monitoring & Digitalization Competence Center for the Rail Industry at SKF Group. Prior to joining his current role he was Business Development Manager for Rail and other several segments like Defense and Construction Machinery Business Unit at SKF Group.
Victor has rich experience in various functions in the industry spanning several years. He also held several positions in companies of telecommunication and automotive sector, related to technology development, engineering consultancy, project management and sales development
Deploying Big Data in automatic ticketing for:
Identification of a passenger's mode of transportation
Indoor positioning
Markus Basler holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and ICT, as well as an Executive MBA. With more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry, he has worked as a business consultant for several major companies in the European market. Being engaged as a senior strategy consultant at Swiss Federal Railways since September 2014, he is currently shaping in the digital transformation of the company in his role as Director Digital Business. Markus Basler is married, father of two daughters and lives in Baden, Switzerland.
Optimising Infradata and IT technology to predict and prevent failure to overcome the challenge of handling 30% more rail passengers by 2030
Why the solution is not only more rails and more trains
Why we see Geo information as strategic theme for our success
Why a shared view is necessary in our challenge for 2030
Inge Hofland is Manager Infradata & GIS at ProRail. She's specialized in creating functions, algoritmen and innovations with data. Managing datadriven projects with DataLab and Data & Analytics in co operation with businesspartners at ProRail. Inge is working at ProRail since 2006 fullfilling several positions like Information Analist, Project manager, Change manager and IT Manager.
Pedro Conceição
Supporting Nomad Digital's business development in Remote Online Condition Monitoring and rolling stock engineering, Pedro has over 12 years' experience in rolling stock engineering, maintenance management and planning both in Portugal and in Switzerland. Involved in hands-on implementation of Reliability Centred Maintenance projects and special rolling stock engineering and maintenance consultancy projects. Pedro has a degree in Mechanical engineering from the Faculty of engineering of the University of Porto.
Digitalisation of Rolling Stock Maintenance: Not only a matter of predictive diagnostics
Industrial engineer at Zaragoza University (Spain) and automotive engineering at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France). He started working in automotive sector for Renault and IDIADA but in 2004 entered in the railway sector as North America and ROW Operation Manager for CAF. From 2012 to present he has been Ingenieering Director for CAF Rail Services being highest responsible for Digital Train LeadMind, RAMLCC and Maintenance ingenieering divisions.
Due to his experience and continous formation (Artificial Intelligence: Imprications for Business Strategy (MIT Sloan School of Management), Digital Transformation Management (IE Business School), Big Data and Business (Deusto Business School) he was chosen by CAF Board of Directors to lead the Digital Transformation of the company.
Challenges and opportunities of Big Data in a complex legacy IT infrastructure
Our challenge: optimally connecting numerous different data sources to our legacy systems
We can only rise to the challenge through more cooperation and collaboration
Agile product development is both a possible solution to this and a great opportunity
My current position is Head of Digitalization (CIO/CDO). Having defined the 5-year digital transformation strategy for the company, my team and I are now implementing this program with a focus on process & technological redesign of Rail Cargo's entire business model while safeguarding the continuity of the existing IT landscape as well as allowing for continuous improvement during the transition phase. The key factor is our combined strategic top-down and operational bottom-up approach to get people involved in cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Prior to this role, I held various positions within the Rail Cargo Group related to process management, allowing me to develop a strong perspective on how to improve cross-business unit collaboration. I hold a degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from the RWTH Aachen, Germany and I am an active mentor for women in technical and managerial roles.
Condition Based Maintenance and the importance of Actionable Information
Data acquisition and large number of Rail assets and the importance of understanding your data
Case studies showing how Condition Based Maintenance can create value, operational efficiencies and savings
How Condition Based Maintenance informs our Condition Based Supply Chain, creating a Digital dynamic supply chain of the future
Dr David McGorman, is the Managing Director of Instrumentel Ltd, a British company that specialises in precision electronics and telemetry, including Condition Based Predictive Maintenance. With significant experience in the management of technology companies and a strong technical background, David has a proven track record of delivering strategic projects within harsh and difficult to access environments, including the Rail Industry. Instrumentel is part of Unipart Rail which addresses the challenges of the rail industry across the asset lifecycle by working collaboratively with its partners to deliver technology and supply chain solutions that improve performance, reduce risk and optimise cost. David is also Unipart Rail & Manufacturing Group Technology Managing Director. As Managing Director David is responsible for the performance of Instrumentel Park Signalling and Metlase. David also has responsibility for all Digital activity across Rail and Manufacturing Group, and works closely with the Unipart Digital team.
With a background in Geoscience & Geoinformatics, Dennis has worked with management and development of data & analytics in the public sector for more than 20 years. Dennis' Department (Data & Digital) has a leading and coordination role in the digital transformation in Rail Net Denmark.
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Local Company Provides Car to St. Jude's Ranch for Children
Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014, 1:52pm
A local nonprofit that provides a home for neglected, abused and abandoned children in southern Nevada received help from a local company.
Findlay Toyota in Henderson presented a new 2014 Toyota Sienna van to St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City. It was all part of Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program.
The automaker gave away 100 cars to 100 non-profits over the course of 50 days. Winners were selected each day through voting on Facebook.
"We are a children's charity and so donations matter, not only in terms of cash donations, but in-kind donations such as this, is just priceless for us because we have 60 children that are on the move and this will really help us get them where they need to get to safely," Christine J. Spadafor St. Jude's Ranch for Children said.
St. Jude's Ranch for Children transforms the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless children and provides them with the tools they need for a brighter future.
St. Jude's Ranch to Host Easter Celebration Saturday
Friday, March 29th, 2013, 2:33pm
St. Jude's Ranch for Children will be hosting its annual Community Easter Egg Hunt this weekend.
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, the ranch will open its doors to families from around the community to enjoy a number of activities, including egg hunts, visits from the Easter bunny and games.
There will also be food and beverages available for purchase. Wristbands that allow access to all activities are just $10.
Besides the activities for kids, there will be a silent auction for several different prizes. The car museum, gift shop and chapel will also be open.
The money raised during the event will benefit the ranch which provides a home for abandoned, neglected and abused children from around southern Nevada.
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St. Jude's Needs Holiday Cards for Recycling Program
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013, 1:39pm
As the holiday decorations come down a lot of people are probably trying to figure out what to do with Christmas and other holiday cards.
The St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City is accepting those cards for its recycling program.
The ranch takes in all kinds of cards, recycles them and packages them for resale. The money raised helps fund the ranch, which provides a home to neglected, abused and abandoned children in southern Nevada.
The program also helps kids in the ranch's care to learn entrepreneurial and life skills. According to organizers, the program has received nearly 1 million cards from around the world.
To see which kind of cards can be accepted, or to get the address for donation, go to stjudesranch.org.
Night of Lights Set for Saturday to Benefit St. Jude's Ranch
Friday, December 7th, 2012, 2:58pm
St. Jude's Ranch for Children will host its sixth annual Night of Lights holiday event Saturday.
The holiday celebration is from 5 to 9 p.m. at the ranch, 100 St. Jude's Road in Boulder City. Admission is $25 for an all-access wristband, which includes food from the owners of Campione D'Italia Restaurant. Children under 3 are admitted for free.
Families will enjoy the lighted grounds of the ranch, carolers, arts and crafts activities, a s'mores dessert station and a silent auction.
Santa will be escorted to the event by the U.S. Secret Service. He set to arrive at 5:30 p.m. Children will get a chance to get a photo with Santa.
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Gingerbread House Competition This Weekend
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The Boulder City Elks Lodge will host the annual Gingerbread House Competition and Christmas Faire this weekend.
The event starts at noon on Saturday. Gingerbread houses will be for sale through a silent auction with proceeds benefitting Gingerbread House Miracle, Inc., which provides help to kids with medical and dental needs.
Unique Christmas items will be for sale. Children can enjoy story time. Cash prizes will be given out to the best gingerbread house.
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Q: Issue creating and using my own exception class I have a JUnit test class, which I'm new to making. I also trying to learn how to make my own exception classes. I have been creating a BigInt class, and one of the constructors takes in Strings. This bit of code is looping through an array, and its supposed to be checking if the character at each position is an integer. Right now there is an error that says "Unreachable catch block for BigIntFormatException. This exception is never thrown from the try statement body" Any ideas for why?
    String[] s = { " - - 1424", "+ + 14324", "a142432", "1432 3413",
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    for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
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So far this is what my BigIntFormatException class just looks like, so any help with this part would be appreciated too.
public class BigIntFormatException extends Exception {
    public BigIntFormatException() {
        super();
    }
    public BigIntFormatException(String message) {
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    }
}

A: Simply put, this compilation failure is quite clear:  neither the constructor to BigInt nor the assertion declare that they are going to throw BigIntFormatException.
Since Exception is the class of checked exceptions (meaning that you do have to wrap them in a try-catch block), you must declare them to be thrown in your constructor of BigInt.
Here's the way you would do that.
public BigInt(String str) throws BigIntFormatException {
    // logic
}

A: You need to throw the exception in your BigInt class
    if(/*error condition*/) {
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    }


I've installed the Photoshop Extensions for Craft.
When I try to sync an Artboard to my existing prototype, it gets stuck in "Syncing" and never finishes.
Hi Zack, welcome to the Community. As this could require some troubleshooting to get to the bottom of this, I'm going to open a ticket with our Support team to help. Keep an eye out for a separate message from us. Thanks!
Hi Henrik, thanks for letting us know you're also having trouble. I'm opening up a ticket as our Support team hasn't quite determined what the issue is here just yet. Keep an eye out for a message from us so we can help troubleshoot.
If possible I can share one of the files I am having trouble with. Just to check if there is something with my file.
Great suggestion! Could you please share a copy of your file in the support ticket we sent your way? This would be most helpful for our Support team while they troubleshoot. Thanks again, Henrik!
Having the same issue. Sync for Photoshop takes 4EVER. I get the crazy long "Transforming" dialogue (to where I can't even do anything in Photoshop while I wait), and even once that finishes it takes ages to finish the sync. It does eventually seem to work, but we're talking up to an hour for a couple screens (desktop size @2x resolution).
Curiously, the Sync window in Photoshop suggests it's syncing 5 artboards, when I've only selected 3 to sync (see below). I've noticed this almost every time I sync.
This is killin' my workflow, as syncing anything more than 1 or 2 screens is practically impossible. Has there been any solution (or temp fix) found for this issue?
Hi Johnny, sorry to see you're having so much trouble syncing! So we can determine the cause of all this, I'm opening up a support ticket on your behalf. Keep an eye out for a separate message. Thanks!
Hi, I am having the same exact issue as Johnny Hill. I have been using this feature for a few months now and this issue started for me about a week ago.
Hi Alex, sorry to see you're also having similar trouble. I'm opening a support ticket on your behalf as well, as we're still working with Johnny to determine the root cause. Thanks!
Have the same problem. Neverending syncronysing.
Hi Artem, sorry to hear you're also having trouble. I've opened a ticket with our Support team to help get to the bottom of this. Keep your eyes peeled for another message from us. Thanks!
If you are also experiencing trouble syncing with Photoshop and Craft, please contact Support.
I'm having the same issue. I just updated to the latest Craft Manager v1.0.41 but still having to wait forever for the "Transforming" and "Converting Colors" progress bars every time I sync an artboard.
Elizabeth, has this been resolved? Is there a way to fix this on our end or do we need to wait for a Craft Manager update? Please let us know. Thanks.
PS: I'm using Photoshop CC on Mac.
Hi Fabrice! Our Support team is working with the others to determine the root cause, here. So we can get some answers your way, I've opened a ticket with Support on your behalf to provide you more information.
This thread has been closed for comments. If you are also experiencing trouble syncing with Photoshop and Craft, please contact Support.


The Country Wife represents both a departure and a watershed in my development as a composer. It is by far the most economical — some might say relentlessly repetitive — music I've ever written. But the obsessive goings-over of the music, and the remorseless unfolding of so much of the text, befits and accentuates the mindset of the protagonist in her quest for release. At least, I certainly hope that's the case.


Some scholarships have essay contest along with an interview. For this type of scholarship you need the form, reference letter, transcripts and essay writing. Community organizations like national honor society, church and religious organizations offer academic scholarships.
To get an academic scholarship you need to fill out an application form and submit it before the due date. Just follow the instructions given in the application form. This is one of the best ways to find talent and give the recognition. Some organizations not only give this type of scholarship to academic scholar students, but also to all well-rounded students. The basic idea of offering academic scholarships is to develop the leaders and encourage the students towards the humanitarian needs and balance geographical distribution of scholars.
With this type of scholarship, interviews are taken for detecting the inclination of a student and motivate him towards a better future. This is a very important for the case of minorities and left handed people. These funds also help to encourage the student and increase educational opportunities and dedicating professional and personal life to improve the quality life of the community.
In the application form of the scholarship, certain information has to be entered such as your strengths and weaknesses, future plans, reasons for applying, public speaking, interests and activities. When it comes to financing education, it can be big help for the student. So you have to fill out the application forms very carefully. If you do not get an academic scholarship in school or high school it does not mean you will not get a scholarship after high school. So you need to prepare for the academic scholarship. If your school, college or academic institution does not offer you academic scholarships that does not mean that you can not get the scholarship from a third party. Students can also search for an academic scholarship online. Every week you can apply to as many scholarships as you can. So aim high to get the academic scholarship. Scholarships vary from subject to subject and are merit based, need based, student specific and career specific.
These are purely merit based and these are also need based awards that are dependent on the student and family's financial condition. Student specific scholarships are offered to minority and left handed people. Career specific scholarships are offered to high in demand professions. Some scholarships are bounded by bond. When any firm is offering scholarships to you; then after education you need to work for that organization for the stated period in the bond. With little efforts these scholarships can be achieved and you can benefit a lot in your academic field.


Boasting three championship golf courses, a tennis facility ranked #1 by USTA, BallenIsles offers a unique lifestyle located in the heart of Palm Beach Gardens. The community has 1562 homes and is broken into 33 uniquely designed subdivisions within the gates. There is a newly renovated 72,000 square foot clubhouse and anew 62,000 square foot sports complex which includes the tennis facilities, a spa, salon, fitness center, and swimming pools. Built around it's members interests, BallenIsles also offers a diverse list of more intimate group activities named "Clubs-within-the-Club". With endless opportunities at your fingertips, BallenIsles is a place to consider home.


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Overmorrow / Halloween special OVERHORROR
OVERMORROW IS BACK for an extra special Halloween edition … OVERHORROR!
OverHorror is a new immersive walkthrough performance & art experience at Wilde Renate. Over 100 artists from a wide variety of art-collectives like Bad Bruises and TrashEra have created this spookalicious experience.
STRICTLY ADULTS ONLY.
by Michalina | Oct 26, 2020
Dreaming in Quarantine: Wilden Renate's Overmorrow Installation
Wilden Renate's Overmorrow is an immersive walkthrough art experience created by over 40 artists, from well-known collectives like Bad Bruises and TrashEra to newcomers. The installations, performances, and exhibitions occupy most of the indoor spaces of Wilde Renate, and offer about 1 hour of exploration in dark, morphing spaces.
The audience enters in groups of two, with 5-minute intervals, which is about the time allocated to each room, and makes their way through the 17 interwoven "Positions." The Positions range from exhibitions of oil paintings through interactive installations to performances, and are loosely tied together by the themes of isolation and future. They often overlap, reflect on each other, and can be seen or heard in advance, which adds to the dreamlike nature of the journey.
by Guest Author | Jul 23, 2020 | Art, Clubs, Pandemic
Overmorrow Immersive Exhibition at Wilde Renate
OVERMORROW is an immersive walkthrough art experience that will soon open its doors at Wilde Renate. Over 40 artists from a wide variety of art-collectives like Bad Bruises and TrashEra have come together to create an insight into what our world could look like in the near future after the global pandemic. Utopia or dystopia. Where will our common path lead us?
by Michalina | Jul 15, 2020
Feast Your Eyes on This Sexy Dinner Event: Die Weisse Maus 2022
photos: Fruit Salat Films and Weisse Maus.
Step into a time machine of the senses and transport yourself back a century to the "Goldener Zwanziger" or the Golden Twenties, of Weimar Berlin. Let yourself be intoxicated by the decadence of the smoky and sweet Berliner Luft, and pay homage to the legendary Weisse Maus. From the creative minds behind The House of Red Doors and some of Berlin's finest performance artists, chefs, musicians, and sommeliers, comes Die Weisse Maus 2022.
by Adri | Jan 26, 2022 | Events, Food
The Peepshow at Wilde Renate: A Glimpse into a Sensual Fantasy
performer: Bishop Black.
Tucked away in the depths of the Salon Zur Wilden Renate beer garden lies the Peepshow, a glimpse into a ruby fantasy.
Between the currently closed club and the self-service bar stands the peepshow box, so unassuming, from afar that you could even miss it on any casual evening downing beers and having a smoke. Luckily, tonight you're a bit more curious, and on a second glance, you notice little cutouts looking into the box, each with a small vagina plastered underneath and a sign that says "tip the slit." Just before 20:30, a voice announces to the crowd over a megaphone that there are 2 tickets left for the 20:30 peepshow. Buy one. Buy the other for your friend if you have a spare five euros.
by Adri | Aug 3, 2021 | Theater
These Berlin Clubs are the First Ones to Re-Open
photo: Birgit & Bier.
Despite many different efforts and many alternative concepts, it's the Berlin club scene that is probably suffering the most from Berlin's cultural landscape during the pandemic as the majority of the places have been locked down now for over a year. While their future is in the balance and a re-opening for indoor partying is not really inside, at least a political movement has managed that they are recognized as places of culture which makes a big difference for them when it comes to taxes and funding.
But the Berlin nightlife scene has always been inventive, so pretty much like last year after the first lockdown where the few clubs that have the luxury of an outdoor area came up with alternative usage concepts such as beer gardens to be able to partially re-open over the summer, the same thing is happening right now with the first clubs already open again for guests.
by Frank | Jun 1, 2021 | Clubs, Pandemic, Party
Berlin Offstage Captures Artists Behind The Scenes During Lockdown
photos: Aja Jacques.
It takes a lot of effort for an artist to build up a career. Berlin has undoubtedly been a center of avant-garde artists from all around the world, offering a unique platform for innovative and unstigmatized arts. However, during the last year of the Covid lockdowns, they had to sacrifice what they have built-in years. Berlin artists embellished our nightlife and arts scene with their diverse and original touch but now with no jobs, no stages, and no live audiences, they are stripped off of their platforms even though their art still radiates talent and creativity.
The photographer and former performance artist Aja Jacques created Berlin Offstage after spending the last three months interviewing and photographing some of these artists in their homes and leads us through a series of vignettes of their fears and concerns. Jacques aims to create an open space for public discussions about the struggles of the art community in Berlin that has been left in the lurch during the pandemic.
by Burak | Apr 16, 2021 | Art, Pandemic, Party
Undress to Express – A Conversation with the Berlin Strippers Collective
photos: Megan Auer.
Berlin is undoubtedly a hedonistic city. It's known for its wild sex clubs, indulgent late-night food culture, excessive drinking, and the legalization of sex work. Despite this sinful reputation, sex workers in Berlin still face much of the same stigma they encounter elsewhere. Berlin Strippers Collective (BSC) is an organization of strippers living in Berlin, working to tell their stories through art and events, while always advocating and fighting for their ultimate goal: decriminalization. Read on…
by Adri | Apr 6, 2021 | People, Stories
Clubs without Dancing: What Berlin's Clubs are Doing Without Raves
Halle, photo: Roman März.
There are many other reasons to come to Berlin apart from the clubs but they are definitely among the most popular ones. Techno has its roots in Detroit and the Afrofuturism movement but both the name and the current widespread popularity have to do with what it evolved into in Berlin.
While these parties are still relatively underground in many cities, Berlin has embraced rave culture and built a special relationship with its clubs and their audience. Berghain has already secured legal status as a cultural institution, and other clubs are fighting for the same. Club tourists are also valued by the city's government as a major contribution to the economy.
by Guest Author | Aug 6, 2020 | Clubs, Most Popular Posts, Party


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Q: Yarn Install Problems trying to install yarn in node.js. I typed in corepack enable and got the following error.

Internal Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> '/usr/local/bin/pnpm'
Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> '/usr/local/bin/pnpm'

I have also read some other replies and they suggested sudo but it is asking me for a password and then not allowing me to type when its given. Any help will be deeply appreciated!

A: You should be able to run corepack enable as normal user without using sudo.
I had the same error message. For me it was a problem with my node installation. Instead of installing node and nvm through my packet manager (apt, dnf, brew .. depending on your system) I removed node and nvm and re-installed it following the instructions from the nvm git repository
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.2/install.sh | bash

The script clones the nvm repository to ~/.nvm, and attempts to add the source lines from the snippet below to the correct profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc).
    export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

after that either open a new terminal or source your settings file
bash: source ~/.bashrc

zsh: source ~/.zshrc

ksh: . ~/.profile

Now you should be able to verify your installation with
command -v nvm

With a working nvm I installed node like this
nvm install node # "node" is an alias for the latest version

and finally could run codepack enable without any trouble.