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Andrew was Group Finance Director of Domino Printing Sciences plc from 1998 until the sale of the company to Brother Industries in 2015. He joined Domino in 1986 and held senior Finance, Operational and General Management roles prior to joining the Board in 1998. He has extensive experience of managing profitable growth in a global business, including acquisition and disposal strategy and line management of overseas subsidiaries. Andrew has a BA in Business Studies from Hatfield Polytechnic and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Andrew joined the Board of Midwich Group plc on 13 April 2016. He is also Non exec director of Xaar plc.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Stephen joined Deloitte and worked for 16 years in the corporate finance team, latterly in the Cambridge office. Stephen joined Midwich as Finance Director in 2004 and became the Managing Director in 2010. He has led the Group's acquisition and development programme. Stephen has a BSc in Accounting and Financial Analysis from the University of Warwick and is an associate of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Stephen is a chartered accountant, and has over 20 years' experience in finance, built up through a career working in high growth, international business services organisations. Before joining Midwich, Stephen was the International CFO at Iron Mountain Inc, supporting the profitable and cash generative development of the International business. He has held senior financial positions at IWG plc (CFO, Europe) and Experian plc (Group Director of FP&A, FD, Decision Analytics and CFO, Asia Pacific).
Stephen has a BA in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Nottingham and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Mike is currently the Chief Commercial Officer ("CCO") of the P&H division of Travis Perkins plc, having originally joined this group in 2014 as CCO of its retail business Wickes. Prior to this Michael led the turnaround of Harvard International PLC (formerly Alba PLC) as Chief Executive Officer, culminating in the successful sale to a listed Chinese consumer electronics business. Michael was a member of the Executive Board for five years with 30 months as Chief Executive Officer, experiencing and driving several corporate transactions.
Mike has extensive retail and consumer experience through senior commercial, marketing and strategic roles at Boots, Argos and Dixons Retail Group. Michael completed retail MBA modules at Manchester Business School sponsored by Home Retail Group. Michael joined the Board of the Company on 13 April 2016.
Hilary is currently the Group HR Director of Domino Printing Sciences plc. who she joined in 2016. Her background was formed in retailing and more latterly with Cambridge based engineering and technology companies where she has gained her global experience as well as involvement in a number acquisitions. She has held both strategic and operation roles and devised and led the HR direction for significant global growth (ensuring people development, succession planning and talent acquisition are aligned for transformational change).
Hilary is a Fellow of the Charted Institute of Personnel and Development


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Why Live in Dunedin, FL?
Why live in Dunedin, FL? The question really should be, "Why not?" Dunedin is on the west coast of Florida, right on the Gulf of Mexico. Just to the west are Honeymoon Island and Caladesi Island.
There are so many things to do in Dunedin that most people can't get to them all. Starting with January, every Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, there is an open air farmers market in Pioneer Park. This market, with local farmers selling fresh produce, meats, breads, honey, hand-crafted items, spices, sauces and so very much more, is right on the downtown Main Street. Admission is free, so you can browse the area until something tickles your fancy. Or, just walk around to each vendor, chat for a bit, and sample their wares. This way, you know exactly what you are getting.
If the Farmers market doesn't do it for you, there is the second Friday Wine/Art Walk. This starts about 5:30 in the evening and shops stay open late for downtown visitors. Stroll along the sidewalks, sample some wine at various shops and locations, have a nice meal at any of the many restaurants - even outdoor patio dining at several establishments.
There is a huge Arts and Crafts Festival in January, in downtown Dunedin Main Street. This is one of the best crafts festivals in the Southeast so you really don't want to miss it. Check out the various hand-made products, from knit scarves to cutting boards, to blown glass, to beautiful artwork paintings, to metal sculpture and so much more. Of course, there is lots of great food to eat as you amble along. Because Dunedin is very dog friendly, bring your favorite canine along, to socialize with the other dogs.
February brings one of the year's most anticipated events - the Mardi Gras parade. There will be more than 50 floats from around the area. There will be all kinds of things going on, pirates, fun, LOTS of beads and when it is all over, the crowds will head to downtown for fine food and drink. Top it all off with a visit to Strachan's Hand Made Ice Cream shop and you have a perfect February evening. And for the Snowbirds, there is NO snow.
March brings something different, the Trashy Treasures event. This is held at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center on Friday and Saturday. It is lots of fun. Naturally, the Open Air Market is going on Friday and Saturday, the second Friday Wine/Art walk is still on as are all the other normal activities in the area. And you simply can't forget the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration, hosted by Flanagan's Irish Pub. There will be a full day of music, food and perhaps a wee bit of beverages. For this day, everyone has their Irish on.
March also is spring training for Major League Baseball and Dunedin is the home of the Toronto Blue Jays for spring training. Come to the ballpark to watch your favorite players and future stars warm up for the coming baseball season. For the snowbirds, it is great entertainment, and they can break out the tee shirts and shorts a couple months early. Just might want to check out real estate for sale in Dunedin, as a thought.
Moving into April, Films in the Park take center stage. These are held in Pioneer Park each Friday evening for the month of April. The movies begin at dark. Bring your own chairs, folding chairs are great. Bring your own snacks too. It is all FREE, so don't hesitate. It is a great evening of family fun and entertainment. You can even bring your dog. And for the summer, the Dunedin Jays play almost downtown against other budding baseball stars. It is great entertainment, and the cost is very low. You just might catch a souvenir baseball.
May brings outdoor concerts to Weaver Park, on the water. The music starts at 7 pm and goes 'til 9 pm. There are snacks available for sale, or bring your own. Again, your own chairs are welcome. Just get there early as the whole area fills up quickly. While enjoying the outstanding music of some of the area's finest musicians, catch the sunset and realize how great it is to be living the Dunedin lifestyle. And it is all free, the music, the sunset, and the seating.
Bring your camera, you might see a musician who played with some of the biggest bands in rock 'n roll, playing on stage just for your delight and edification, and because they just love to play music.
By the way, the hand cut fries are hot and delicious. We are just getting warmed up on why live in Dunedin. You just might want to find out what a house you are looking at is worth, and if you do, click on the sunset.
June brings yet another Arts and Crafts Festival to downtown. It will be Friday and Saturday with lots of interesting hand crafted items to touch, smell, and buy. There just might be some food and one never knows, but the hand squeezed lemonade really tastes good on a warm June afternoon. Then the Open Air Market has it's last month of fresh produce and other tasty offerings in June, since the summer is just a bit warm for open air market. This means it is your last chance to stock up on some of your favorite sauces, specialty coffees and teas, and why not get just one more loaf of hand crafted bread or other simply scrumptious baked goods.
Come July, people are thinking of the beach. There is the Dunedin Causeway, with fishing, wind-surfing, jet-skiing, sun bathing and swimming to offer. Or drive across the Causeway to Honeymoon Island and enjoy the stunning beach, dubbed the best beach in America by Dr. Beach in his annual rating. Stay tuned for more on Honeymoon Island in another post.
August sees the end of school vacations and families are getting ready for that. Football is in the air, with pre-season getting fired up. High schools are geared up for football, the NFL is all atwitter about the coming season. The Tampa Bay Bucs are an easy drive away from Dunedin. And the minor league baseball teams are jockeying for their playoff positions. Sports are big in the area this time of year.
If sports are not for you, get involved. There is the Fine Arts Museum, Friends of the Island - for Honeymoon Island, or clubs such as the Dunedin North Rotary, whose motto is "Doing good and having fun."
September finds some of the best outdoor weather of the year. Boating and fishing are exceptional. You can kayak on the grass flats to relax, or fish for redfish and speckled trout, or paddle across to Honeymoon Island. Or drive across the Dunedin Causeway to Honeymoon Island, then hop on the ferry to Caladesi Island for an afternoon picnic.
October finds Halloween. There are events for the children all month. There is the big Our Lady of Lourdes Fall Festival, with a huge carnival midway with rides, games of chance, cotton candy and more, a massive flea market tent with outstanding bargains, and barbeque. The fires start a couple days early so the pits are ready for hundreds of pounds of ribs, pulled pork and more, all cooked on site.
Then November comes and people are getting ready for Thanksgiving. The weather is cool, still no snow though, for you snowbirds. The Open Air Farmers Market starts up again, so you can get the unique blend of coffee beans, or that special cheese or loaf of bread you couldn't find in the grocery store.
December brings another special and signature Dunedin event, the Old Fashioned Christmas. There will be S'Mores made to order over hot coals, games and toys from the 1890s for the young at heart to try out, outdoor concert, and even "snow" over Main Street by the historical museum.
Then the incredible boat parade with dozens of elaborately lighted boats to celebrate the holiday season. The boats parade off-shore a bit, from the north down to the Clearwater Causeway, turn around and take turns coming into the Dunedin Marina so all can see the fun handiwork on each decorated boat. The culmination of the parade is the last boat, bringing in Santa Claus to light the holiday tree in Edgewater Park.
Yes, Dunedin is a unique, fascinating and fun place to live. You too can share the Dunedin lifestyle, which is what makes it such a great place to live. There are always things to do in Dunedin, and the people love to share.


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By now everyone has heard the exciting news of Spider-Man and Marvel being reunited. With the announcement that Spidey will now inhabit the same big screen world as Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and more, some of us had our heads spinning. Looks like we superhero fans weren't the only ones who had our minds blown by the big news, however, as this recent clip of Hugh Jackman proves he too was actually quite surprised.
I think we can all agree as evidenced by the above video that Jackman was caught off guard by the announcement of the Marvel/Sony Spider-Man deal. He was actually promoting his latest film Chappie, by writer/director Neill Blomkamp (District 9), which makes sense as to why he may not yet have heard. Nonetheless, it made for some pretty good entertainment. While he/we didn't get to soak up that element of surprise and wonder as much as we all would have liked, seeing his genuine, momentarily shocked, expression if even for only a moment in the above interview with ScreenCrush as he heard the news was definitely fun to watch.
It's also always cool to see someone like Jackman geek out a bit like he did with his response to the question of what the deal's impact could mean for Wolverine, as far as the character making an appearance in a Marvel pic. I think he speaks for most of us when he says it would be amazing to see Iron Man face off against Wolverine on the big screen. Come to think of it, this isn't the first time he's opened that conversation. In an interview with Screen Rant back in 2014 the actor discussed, on the set of The Wolverine, the idea of The Avengers sharing continuity and he brought up the Iron Man/Wolverine possibility, with seemingly the same giddiness:
One of the great things about this movie is that a lot of people from Marvel are here and it seems a lot more inclusive than it has been in the past. I don't know what's happening behind the scenes, but I think it's fantastic. I actually just asked the other day, I said, 'I don't know what the legal situation is, but why don't these companies come together? Why isn't it possible?' Because personally, I would love to mix it up with Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man and kick his ass. It'd be great.
Sony and Marvel may have finally reunited Spider-Man with the rest of the MCU, but with Fox still owning the rights to X-Men, it's likely we won't be seeing Wolverine interact in the shared universe anytime soon.
Things are still in the very early stages as far as the newly announced partnership concerning Spider-Man, Sony and Marvel, so it's likely we'll be hearing news in the coming weeks and months about the first MCU Spider-Man film, who will direct it and, probably of more speculative interest than anything else, who will star as the heroic web-slinger.


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The Lydiate Learning Trust is a developing network of schools and academies across the North West of England. The Trust is founded on the belief that every child should be afforded the very best opportunities in life. The Trust believes all students are entitled to attend a school where the aim is to excel in all that we do so that everyone flourishes and achieves their full potential. Lydiate Learning Trust partners with schools and academies across the region to ensure that this opportunity is extended to as many students as possible.
The expertise and resources of the Trust guarantee that, alongside partners, a culture of academic excellence is ensured that provides outstanding diverse opportunities for students throughout partner schools. Each school and academy in the Trust should create a culture and ethos that inspires their students to find their passions, pursue their goals and fulfil their potential.
Our partner schools and organisations are listed below. Click on the logos for further information. For more information on Lydiate Learning Trust click here.
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Mindfulness: Your Connection to the DivineGuest Article by Richard Singer consciousness, Mindfulness
Mindfulness: Your Connection to the Divine
Visitors Essays
Mindfulness is the secret of life. A life lived mindfully is a life lived full of peace, tranquility, joy, bliss, ecstasy and compassion. Mindfulness is our direct link to the Universe. It is the solution that we as human beings have been seeking outside ourselves since the beginning of modern times. The simple practice of mindfulness has been around for thousands of years; however most human beings discard this approach to life and instead search for more complex and intellectual philosophies or techniques. Unfortunately, this external journey never resolves itself. There are many individuals and texts available that also complicate and over analyze mindfulness. It seems that our ego is programmed to complicate even the simplest solutions. Mindfulness is meant to be simple, yet a profound way to live. This present centered solution allows us to live authentic lives.
So, what exactly is mindfulness and how do you apply it to your life?
Mindfulness is a specific form of meditation or simply put awareness of the moment. There are many different forms of meditation, however we are going to specifically focus on mindfulness meditation, which this author believe to be the most practical and pure meditative exercise. Mindfulness involves directly participating in each moment as it occurs with complete awareness of your present experience. Life only exists in the Here and Now when practicing mindfulness. The moment we experience is pure and unadulterated. Mindfulness is a "living" meditation that you can practice each second of your precious life. There is no need to escape to a secluded place, as you can engage in mindfulness anywhere and at anytime, no matter what is happening around you.
Instead of presenting the reader with one rigid definition of mindfulness, a few but concise definitions will be presented below drawn from the wisdom of various experts and practitioners of mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, the best selling author of Wherever You Go There You Are and the creator of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, describes mindfulness meditation as "paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally."
Levey and Levey in their magnificent book, Simple Meditation and Relaxation, state " Mindfulness liberates us from memories of the past and fantasies of the future by bringing reality of the present moment clearly into focus." They also express that "mindfulness makes us aware of life's everyday miracles."
In one of the ancient Buddhist commentaries, it is stated that mindfulness is "presence of mind, attentiveness to the present... "
Stephen Levine, author of A Gradual Awakening, says that mindfulness is a " moment to moment awareness of whatever arises, whatever exists."
Meditation teacher and author Sylvia Boorstein states that mindfulness is having " the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It is not more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to or rejecting it."
These simple yet profound use diverse expression and terminology, but what they all share in common is that mindfulness is being completely and fully present for life. It is being aware of what is going on within and around you in each moment of your miraculous existence. We simply practice awareness without judgment, accepting our thoughts and emotions exactly as they are.
As you may have noticed mindfulness is a simple yet, powerful way to live our lives. Its simply being Right Here, Right Now: immersing your entire being in the present moment and fully experiencing your life. That's it! It really is that straight forward. It is not necessary to over analyze, intellectualize, or complicate what it is to be mindful. Of course our ego wants to distract us in any way possible, but don't allow this. Recognize the presence of your ego, say hello, and then calmly dismiss it. All there is to being mindful is to Simply Be. While there are plenty more advanced explanations on this topic available for you to further explore if you desire; what has been described here is the simple and pure essence of mindfulness meditation.
As you leave this article and continue your journey of mindful living or if you are just beginning, this writer suggests that you dive into the ocean of Now and intimately acquaint yourself with the pleasure of what is directly in front of you. As expressed in the Zen tradition, "When eating, eta and when walking, walk."
Are you Right Here, Right Now? If not, center yourself and experience the bliss and ecstasy of the eternal moment. Enjoy your journey!
Richard Singer is due to release his new book, Eastern Wisdom Western Soul in August of 2016. This article is adapted from Mr. Singer's new book. Eastern Wisdom Western Soul provides the reader with the knowledge and practical applications to detach from the prison of the ego and dive into the ecstacy of the authentic self. To find more out about Richard's work and to access other inspiring resources visit his website at. www.ricksingerbooks.com
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With the adoption of this logo, U.S. Figure Skating created an official graphics standards manual to assist you in using the logo correctly. The manual explains the components of the U.S. Figure Skating visual identity program and contains the standards for usage for all U.S. Figure Skating communications including logo placement, colors, typography, placement of visuals and style. All U.S. Figure Skating clubs should have a manual along with a CD providing many versions of the U.S. Figure Skating logos, plus U.S. Figure Skating logos for synchronized skating and the Basic Skills program.
We have provided our standard versions of the logo on this page for downloading in both EPS and low resolution JPEG format (for web use only). For other versions of the logo, contact the U.S. Figure Skating Sponsorship and Communications Department.
Also available for download in the external resources at right is the generic nonqualifying event program advertisement. U.S. Figure Skating encourages clubs to use this ad in all nonqualifying event programs.
Any changes to or rearrangement of any U.S. Figure Skating logo, symbol, mark, signature or graphic element will be considered nonconforming unless first authorized in writing by U.S. Figure Skating. Approval is given on a case-by-case basis. Therefore, written approval to use any U.S. Figure Skating logo in any way other than depicted in this guide applies to that single usage only. It does NOT imply approval for similar or subsequent non-conforming applications.
Contact Kim Saavedra in the Marketing and Communications Department at U.S. Figure Skating Headquarters (719.635.5200) with questions and to gain approval for all applications of the logo. You can also contact Kim by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Historic U.S. Figure Skating Logo
This historic logo has been used by U.S. Figure Skating to help promote U.S. Figure Skating, its rules and regulations. Any proposed usage of this logo must receive prior written permission from U.S. Figure Skating's Marketing and Communication department.


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Tool in Oracle 10g to keep track of execution of queries
How can I keep track of the execution of stored procedures, functions and queries in Oracle 10g, as I used to do using SQL Server Profiler? Is there any tool in 10g for this purpose?
The Oracle SQL Trace facility is what you use here. In your session, issue the following:
ALTER SESSION SET sql_trace=TRUE;
Then run your application. At the end, set SQL_TRACE to FALSE. This will create a trace file in the USER_DUMP_DEST directory.
If you want to start a trace in another user's session, you'll have to determine that session's SID and SERIAL# values as can be seen in V$SESSION. Then sign on to SQL*Plus as SYSTEM and issue the following:
EXEC DBMS_MONITOR.SESSION_TRACE_ENABLE(sid,serial);
To stop the trace, issue the following:
EXEC DBMS_MONITOR.SESSION_TRACE_DISABLE(sid,serial);Details on the SQL Trace package can be found in the Oracle documentation.
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Saturday cute: Galaxy Quest peg people
By Grabthar's hammer, these are adorable.
By RandomlyGenerated and for sale on etsy. Because why not?
(Got a photo or image that's adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)
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Design Miami this year was a mature fair. The benchmark in international collectible design fairs with all the "usual" mid-century design names and collectible galleries present except a few noticeable absentees; R &Company, Gallery Fumi and David Gill. The latter have been absent from the fair for several editions now and we all wonder why this absence?
In the first auctions the category to take place at 30 Berkeley Square, Phillips April Design Sales totalled £8,641,000 (comfortably in the middle of their estimated total of £6.7-9.9m ) selling 87% by value and 77% by lot.
The exhibition attracted three times as many visitors compared to the previous Design auctions in September 2014.
On Thursday the 6th on June 2013 Pierre Bergé will present a sale of 21st Century Design. Lots offered include a breath of items ranging from modern to contemporary design.
Notable designers include: Louis Durot, Julian Mayor, Pol Quadens, Elisabeth Garouste, Frank O. Gehry, Philippe Starck, Gio Ponti, Adolf Loos, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Jean Royère
On June 11th 2013 at 11 am Phillips will present there summer design auction featuring 115 lots. The collectible design objects will be on view from the 5th of June at 450 Park Avenue, New York City.
Phillips is proud to announce highlights from the upcoming April Design auction, featuring 267 lots with a combined pre-sale low estimate of £3.9m and a pre-sale high estimate of £5.6m.
Lot 103 in Phillips de Pury's 28th April, 2010 Sale of Design in London.
For More information, please visit www.phillipsdepury.com
Lot 66, Phillips de Pury & Company Design Auction, 14 November 2009, New York
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Don't Forget to Take Care of Yourself Too, New Mom Go to www.plaid-enterprises.com/freebook to get your book! You're about to discover exactly what steps you will need to take to care for yourself as a new parent. It's been a long and exciting, but challenging journey through pregnancy. Childbirth was no picnic, either – and now, finally your little angel has arrived! You undoubtedly have so many questions, so many ideas about how to give your new baby every advantage possible to begin a healthy, happy life, and rightfully so! However, mommy has gone through some intense changes, physically AND emotionally – and it is extremely important that you not neglect the care for yourself as a new mother. This book will show you how! As new parents, it is so easy to get engulfed in the whirlwind that comes with raising a newborn, and it's a good thing too – your baby deserves the very best care you can give them. Unfortunately, we so often forget to take good care of ourselves in an effort to concentrate on the most positive environment for our children, and this is not a good thing. Think of the airplane speech when the attendant advises to put your oxygen mask on first before helping others. You cannot give your infant the absolute best care they deserve if you are not in good condition yourself. Here, we will find out just how to ensure that everyone is healthy in your new family! Here is a Preview of What You'll Learn…Recovering from ChildbirthFitness and managing the changes in your bodyYour diet while breastfeedingSolving Postpartum DepressionTips for new dads, too!Your Sex Life after your new additionAnd much, much more… Download Your Copy Today!
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Baby Care Guide: How To Feed A Newborn, Weaning A Baby, Bathing the Baby And Other Helpful Baby Care Tips
A Complete Baby Care Guide
Parents can be assured that once a baby arrives in their life, it is changed forever. It is extremely important to be prepared for the arrival of a newborn. The moment you notice you are fast approaching delivery it will be of great help if you are ready to face the changes. Facing these life changes requires mental preparation so reading all that there is to know about baby care is one crucial step.
This book offers some great advice on what to expect when a baby comes into a couple's life.
The topics covered in the book include:
– Handling The Baby From The Moment You Get Home
– Feeding the Newborn
– Weaning A Baby
– Bathing the Baby
– Cleaning The Baby's Teeth
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Complex challenges require interdisciplinary approaches. Find out at first hand which topics are of interest to experts. Be there when experienced physicians, engineers and computer scientists talk about future topics in radiology. And after the lectures, take advantage of the opportunity for networking and a lively exchange of opinions among nice colleagues.
Advances in healthcare and medical research are already strongly driven by information technology and engineering. Technologies like individual genome sequencing, high-performance multiparametric imaging or wearable medical devices generate exponentially growing datasets while contemporary data-mining techniques allow to extract large amounts of valuable data from existing archives of unstructured medical data. These offer the opportunity for highly specific clinical decision making and personalized precision medicine.
Further acceleration of medical innovation by upcoming technologies like artificial intelligence and smart hospital can be safely predicted. However, as complex challenges often require complex solutions, these technologies demand an interdisciplinary approach between clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, researchers, healthcare providers, legislators and many other disciplines.
We are poised to bring all stakeholders to the table to define the demands of clinicians and healthcare providers, outline technical solutions and create a common understanding of the opportunities, and also the difficulties that may arise. With the third ETIM meeting we aim to create new insights, stimulate networking and initiate a sustained flow of communication between individual experts and workgroups.
Chairman, Department of Radiology, Chief Medical Officer, IT department, University Hospital of Essen Dean of Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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3D Printing in Hospitals - Hype or Must-have?
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Real-world application of deep learning in radiology: fully automated bone age assessment
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AI end to end solution, integrated into the clinical workflow
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Can we use AI to detect and quantify multiple sclerosis with human level accuracy?
Already Aristotle pointed out very early on the importance of community sense and networks. For a few generations we see that political, private and business networks can be very successful.
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FC: The Wild Wetlands!
1: WELCOME TO THE WILD WETLANDS By; Bailee, Zay, and Myranda
2: Wetlands are ecosystems found where aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems meet. They include swamps, bogs and marshes. Each type of wetland has its own variety of plants.
3: Plants that live in the wetlands get water from the soil. The soil in the wetlands is very rich. | There are all kinds of different plants in the wetlands, for example there is the cat tail, milk weed, and wild flowers
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5: theses are the wildlife animals of the wetland Biomes. these are just a few
6: location- they are usually located in large, swampy, wet areas! There climate is wet and sticky. and warmer which means it can host special species!
8: Precipitation- 75% Temperature range- 58 degrees F to 75 Degrees F Soil Type- wet and saturated Description- usually called swaps, bogs or marshes
10: Biotic and Abiotic Factors | Abiotic factors are the living things in the environment. Biotic things are the non-living things in the environment.


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Now I know we are all thinking...does my child spend too much time in front of a screen? Are the games too violent? Will this keep them interested? I am here to tell you- as a Nintendo kid from the 80's and a gamer mom- THIS WILL SAVE YOUR TRIP. The Nintendo 3ds has everything your child needs to keep themselves entertained- and if they get bored- guess what? You get to play.
Here is what you do- buy your survival kit. This includes the Nintendo 3ds Xl- (read our review on the device itself here) case, back up battery ( I don't think I need to remind you on how important a backup battery is) charger, and for your sanity- as well as everyone else in the car- headphones- oh yeah and games- multiple games. Put this all in a bag separate from all the other things you have packed for your child's entertainment. This is plan b- and when you are traveling there is always a need for a plan b.
If your child does not have a 3DS XL and will be receiving this for the first time- make sure you do some recon. Before your trip- make sure you turn the device on, It may need to update- do all the
set up BEFORE HAND- this will save you when things are tough and entertainment is needed. Set up, the Wifi- if your car is so enabled, parental control settings, an account for the eShop (for handy dandy last minute game purchases in the hotel if it rains, or if someone gets ill).
If your child already has a 3DS XL make sure you make it clear that you will not be bringing it on the trip. So in essence- lie. Yes lying is bad and wrong and all of that- but this is in the name of vacation, and family bonding so it's OK. Plus you read this online so that makes it automatically true. There will be fighting about this one- but just remember that you may lose a battle and win the war. Make sure you pack the games that they are playing at the time, and do yourself a favor and pick up an extra title that they have been asking for- just write it off as a travel expense- it will be worth it.
|Nintendo themed book bags-
Great for travel as well!
Be prepared for squeals of delight- if they are getting this for the first time- or "OMG YOU DID BRING IT" if they already own one. Make sure you get many many thank you's out of them before they start to play- and for the love of God make sure you have them put on their headphones- because gosh darn it you deserve the amazing sound of silence that is about to come forth from the back of the car. You are about two hours in by my calculation- and you deserve it.
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Now, when you get to where you are going- it goes without saying that you do not have your kids playing during the vacation- that is for time with your family and there should be little to no screens as possible. However if it rains, if someone gets sick- this will be a lifesaver. Make sure you have your back up charger at the ready at all times- make sure when they are not playing that the DS goes right into the secure hard case so that if it gets bounced around it will be safe.
|So many games to choose from!
The trip is now over- and it was AWESOME! Oh yes- everyone got along, no one got sick, there were no lines on the rides and you got tickets to every show you wanted to see. Everyone is tired, and ready to get home. Your kids do not think you have anything else that you could possibly pull out your pocket to make the ride home be any cooler. Oh how the youngin's know nothing because YOU my friend have bought a brand new game along for the ride home. Just like on the ride there you wait until they have gone through all the toys, games books in the plan A bag- then whined no more but no less than three times that they "are bored" or said the words "are we home yet?". You pull out the brand new sealed Nintendo awesomeness. Enjoy the rest of your ride home Mom and Dad- you have earned it.


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Rejoinder to Rashid Shaz's appeal to Indian Muslims to join the Modi bandwagon
By Arshi Khan, The Milli Gazette Online
Published Online: Jun 04, 2014
Below is the full text of the press release, minus typos, we received from Dr Rashid Shaz, who now teaches at the Aligarh Muslim University, on 27 May 2014. It is a long journey indeed for this thinker from agitating for Khilafat to falling in the lap of the Hindutva icon. Equally strange is Dr Shaz's resurrection of "Milli Parliament" which died and lay buried for two decades. Intellectuals are the first to betray said Lenin and here is our super intellectual proving it a century later – Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor,The Milli Gazette.
To read Dr Arshi Khan's Rejoinder scroll down or click here
Mr Modi's victory is a welcome development. Now, for the first time in independent India, Muslims are able to see the 'stark political realities that otherwise have been hidden by the secular hypocrisy of the Congress', said Prof Rashid Shaz while addressing a group of students on the side-lines of a debate at the Aligarh Muslim University. Prof Shaz, an internationally acclaimed author known for his reform writings on Islam and formerly President of the Milli Parliament, is probably the first Muslim heavy-weight who has openly asked the Muslim Indians to welcome and adjust to the new political reality.
According to Shaz, the Nehruvian secularism was a mirage, an unending trail of false hopes and hallow promises. It created a fear psychosis among Muslims. The Congress demonised 'the political other', posing itself as protector of Muslims - a promise that it never kept.
From communal riots to the illegal ban on Muslim organizations and from arbitrary arrests of Muslim youths to the refusal of their demand for a judicial probe of Batla-House encounter, the Congress displayed a ruthless insensitivity towards Muslims. Now, that dark era of pseudo-secularism is over.
The new political reality may look even more depressing to many of us, but at least we are able to see today where we really stand. Those who believe in the protection of the Congress and its ilk should know that they are no more in a position to defend us, but those who believe in Allah Almighty should know that He is all-powerful and hence no need to despair.
One of the most positive aspects of the new political development is the fall of un-Godly Muslim clergy who worked as middle-men between the Muslim masses and the ruling elite.
They were the Congress satellites constantly beaming message of fear and false hopes. With long flowing beards and empty rhetoric, they made us believe as if without the support of their Congressite masters, Islam had no future in India. They are the criminals of Islam, working for their political masters yet posing to be true to their faith.
Now in the new situation the Muslims have got an opportunity to build a direct bridge with a party that has no obfuscating mullas and no middlemen. The BJP does not feel shy of declaring what it stands for. And this is the first pre-requisite of a true dialogue.
Mr Modi's recent remarks that in his victory he sees the victory of 1.25 billion Indians and that he wants to create a 21st century India, are all indicative of the fact that he is open to a meaningful dialogue with Muslims.
Mr Modi wants to consolidate what he has achieved through hard work and determination. He has been sending feelers for mending, rather improving his relations with India's 250 million-strong Muslims. But are Muslim leaders ready for a meaningful dialogue? Those accustomed to receiving only a patting from the Congress may find it difficult to enter into a bridge-building dialogue on equal footing. But this is the only way to survive and prosper. I believe, it's a God-sent opportunity, said Dr Shaz. There is no need to be apprehensive. The new rulers too are humans. They have a human heart. There is no reason then that we cannot reach out to them. Today, we Muslim Indians may find ourselves in a crisis but, never mind, a crisis is always full of new opportunities. It is for us how we make use of the new situation.[End of Rashid Shaz's Press statement]
Contesting Rashid Shaz on Endorsing the Sangh Parivar-led Government
Dr. Rashid Shaz's statement in the Times of India and his unwarranted press release on the present political development has disappointed all of those who endorse the constitutive principles of governance in India.
There are three main points in his press-release. He commended the RSS-led Modi government, condemned the Congress party and used insulting words for our religious personalities.
First, Shaz says,"Mr. Modi's victory is a welcome development. Now, for the first time in independent India, Muslims are able to see the stark political realities that otherwise have been hidden by the secular hypocrisy of the Congress." RSS has formed its government in India which is certainly not a welcome development. Sangh Parivar was thoroughly engaged during the BJP campaign and the ministerial allocation was made after the approval of the RSS. Stark political reality cannot be presumed on the basis of unexpected EVM results in the Hindi belt as voters other than the Caste Hindus are bewildered over the magic of the EVMs. Even if 'polarisation' is the accepted game of politics today in India, it is more manufactured than natural as India cannot be free from its religious and caste prejudices. In fact, Muslim voters have lost doubly this time as they are under-represented due to the absence of the 'proportional representation' system and the magical job accomplished by the EVMs.
Of the 23 cabinet ministers who were sworn in, a staggering 17 have their roots in the RSS and its affiliate organisations. The second in command to Modi in the cabinet is Rajnath Singh who will handle the significant home department. Each and every cabinet level leader who has been sworn in was approved by the RSS top brass, including a reminder to Modi that the core issues of Hindutva, for which the cadres worked, would have to be brought to effect.
Mr. Modi's victory has resulted into the following developments.
Sanjeev Baliyan, who is an accused in Muzaffarnagar riots nine months ago, was made minister of state for agriculture and food processing. Balyan was part of a mahapanchayat held last year despite prohibitory orders that inflamed tensions. He was charged by the police with violation of prohibitory orders and promoting enmity between two communities. Swagat Sabhas of close to 50 persons each stood every 2 kms to welcome this MoS -- from Delhi to Muzaffarnagar -- on May 30 to welcome his cavalcade. The announcer at Khatauli raised slogans of "Bharat Mata ki jai, Gau Mata ki jai" to rouse the crowd, while at Mansoorpur, "Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi" filled the air. After results too, Baliyan had taken out a victory procession in Muzaffarnagar ignoring prohibitory orders.
Dr. Shaz also "asked the Muslim Indians to welcome and adjust to the new political reality." It is really disgusting on his part as the role and rights of the citizens in a democratic country become important when they happen to be a 'minority' under the kind of a government which has the record of hatred, violence and discrimination particularly against the Muslim community in the country with plethora of objectionable statements, instigated riots, humiliations, threats and role in various bomb-blast cases across the country. Even the Hobbesian (Leviathan) State had guaranteed security and dignity of its subjects. Muslims need the fulfillment of their constitutional rights for which the Republic of India was created. Muslims cannot accept a State worse than the colonial masters as they were not so much cruel, dishonest and violent against their subjects. The citizens are not hosts to welcome a government but to watch it and to criticize it if it goes beyond the statutory rim. Muslims cannot object a Hindu brother showing his choice for Ganga but for a Prime Minister such preference is anti-constitutional as the country belongs to all communities and it is not the monopoly of one culture, one language and one group. India is a plural society in which the Sangh Parivar is not 'all' but part of the whole.
We must differentiate between Mahatma Gandhi and Nathuram Godse, between Jawaharlal Nehru and Golwalkar, between Rahul Gandhi and Varun Gandhi. Both are Hindus. One followed Hinduism and the other Hindutva.
To Dr. Shaz, Muslim Indians [should] welcome and adjust to the new political reality…. Look at the new realities here. Every third newly-elected member of Lok Sabha has a criminal background. An analysis of 541 of the 543 winning candidates by the National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms shows that 186 or 34% newly elected MPs have in their election affidavits disclosed criminal cases against themselves. Of the 186 new members, 112 (21%) have declared serious criminal cases, including those related to murder, attempt to murder, causing communal disharmony, kidnapping, crimes against women, etc. Partywise, the largest numbers 98 or 35% of the 281 winners from the BJP have in their affidavits declared criminal cases against themselves.
Dr. Shaz says, "Nehruvian secularism was a mirage; an unending trail of false hopes and hallow promises. It created a fear psychosis among Muslims. The Congress demonized 'the political other', posing itself as protector of Muslims – a promise that it never kept." This is not a type of criticism to legitimize Hindutva forces in power. Nehruvian secularism was neither European nor Leninist in nature but a product of the 'social contract' reached among all Indians who wanted to live together after Independence. The relationship between a political party and the Constitution is highly crucial. The Congress can be rightly blamed for its failure particularly in the area of reining in communal forces but the BJP has no 'harmonisation' principles and policies vis-à-vis the Constitution of India. One cannot find anyone in any party other than the BJP who asks voters to shift to Pakistan if not voting for the BJP; and urging people in Uttar Pradesh to vote for BJP to take revenge. This is not the culture of a country run by the present Constitution.
When Chidambran and Shinde earlier spoke of 'Bhagva atankwad' only the BJP opposed it alongwith the Anti-Corruption movement started by Ramdev in December 2010 which diverted the issue of inquiry against Pragya, Purohit and Indresh Kumar. Now their records would soon be tampered with to erase charges of terrorism against them like many files on the demolition of the Babri Mosque disappeared during the previous NDA rule. Moreover, those who killed hundreds of Muslims, raped their women and looted and burnt their properties, in addition to bomb blasts in different parts of the country, would simply be free from the Rule of Law.
Dr. Shaz needs to be reminded that on this June 1, senior Gujarat Police officer G L Singhal, 48, who was suspended after his arrest in February 2013 for his role in the killing of Ishrat Jahan, was reinstated by the state government. June 15 will mark 10 years since 19-year-old Khalsa college girl Ishrat Jahan, her associate Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, and Pakistani nationals Jishan Johar and Amjad Ali Akbar Ali Rana, were killed in a fake police encounter on Ahmedabad's outskirts. The four were branded Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) fidayeen assigned to kill the then chief minister. As per the charge-sheet filed on 3 July, 2013, and court records accessed by The Indian Express, a close scrutiny of the CBI's charges against him shows that Singhal is accused of being complicit at every stage of the alleged plot to kill them -- right from the abduction of the victims, their confinement, planning the murder, execution and planting of weapons on the victims' bodies.
Before his arrest in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Singhal was a star anti-terror cop in Gujarat. Singhal claimed to have cracked the Akshardham temple attack case a day after it was transferred to him in August 2003. (Two fidayeen had killed more than 30 people on Sept 24, 2002). Last month, the Supreme Court acquitted all the six arrested and said the "police caught innocent people and got imposed the grievous charges against them which resulted in their conviction and subsequent sentencing". Singhal was the investigating officer in the 2002 communal riots revenge case in which there was a trial against 44 accused and in January 2010, the Special Court (POTA) acquitted 22 of them. The other 22 were subsequently released by the High Court (The Indian Express, 2 June 2014, p.4)
Look at the mind and the language of Shaz in his words: "One of the most positive aspects of the new political development is the fall of un-Godly Muslim clergy who worked as middlemen between the Muslim masses and the ruling elite. They were the Congress satellites constantly beaming message of fear and false hopes. With long flowing beards and empty rhetoric they made us believe as if without the support of their Congressite masters, Islam had no future in India. They are the criminals of Islam, working for their political masters yet posing to be true to their faith. Now in the new situation the Muslims have got an opportunity to build a direct bridge with a party that has no obfuscating mullas and no middlemen."
He is contemptuous of Muslim ulama directly and he seems to have no concern for the community. Muslims as members of a religious community cannot be isolated from their ulama who were the first to contribute heavily to the freedom struggle against the colonisers in 1857 and accepted India as their homeland after partition in 1947. These ulama regularly condemned acts of terrorism in the country besides providing knowledge on religion, reading, writing and simple manners of living to most of the children for whom the bureaucracy hardly cared. What was wrong with the ulama in saying to use their votes against divisive forces? Should they have given the call to give support to the BJP? Should they become the satellites of the BJP? We should not forget the difference between Gandhi and Godse. Ulama's role is highly commendable in spreading the message of peace, harmony and tolerance and the Muslim community has emerged as peaceful members of the political community in the country as a result of their efforts. Shaz has no authority and morality to disgrace ulama as 'beardy', 'un-Godly Muslim clergy', 'criminals of Islam', 'obfuscating mullas and middlemen'. Such words from his mind and hand clearly show the make-up he wears.
Let us look at Shaz's recommendation in his words: "He (Modi) is open to a meaningful dialogue with Muslims. Mr Modi wants to consolidate what he has achieved through hard work and determination. He has been sending feelers for mending, rather improving his relations with India's 250 million strong Muslims. But are Muslim leaders ready for a meaningful dialogue. Those accustomed to receiving only a patting from the Congress may find it difficult to enter into a bridge-building dialogue on equal footing. But this is the only way to survive and prosper. I believe, it's a God-sent opportunity. There is no need to be apprehensive. The new rulers too are humans. They have a human heart."
Where is the need for dialogue for Muslims in India? Are we in conflict with our Hindu equals. Not at all. This is what is called Ganga-Jamni tahzeeb. All of us belong to Adam (peace be upon him). On the contrary, some of them categorise us as Malechh and place us outside the 'putra bhumi and punya bhumi' line of control. They also categorise large numbers of people outside the Varna system with purity and impurity differentiation. Mahatma Gandhi had asked the RSS long ago to open its membership to Muslims but failed to persuade. Dialogue without tolerance is talk-show on the screen without substance. RSS does not want dialogue with Muslims but dominance on its preset terms. Muslims in India are a big-sized minority surpassing the size of Caste Hindus. The tragedy is that one of the two numerical equals has acquired powers at all levels while the other equal is excluded and marginalised. Dialogue can be the remedy for this if it happens within the Sangh Parivar and BJP to endorse the Constitution and the Rule of Law and treat all Indians as equals.
The national government led by any political party must follow the Constitution and must not use Establishment agencies in the interest of a party or a community.
Dr. Shaz says that "Mr Modi wants to consolidate what he has achieved through hard work and determination." Everybody knows the record of the Gujarat government in the last thirteen years vis-à-vis Muslims. Where is the hard-work and achievement in the case of even those Muslims who were murdered and humiliated in 2002 and after. Shaz says that"this is the only way to survive and prosper. I believe, it's a God-sent opportunity." Prosperity is not based on survival but a dignified life and the constitutionality of the State system in which Muslims are full and equal members of the political community. The magical EVM result itself is a God-sent opportunity for the BJP to make a shift from Hegdewar-Golwalkar to Gandhi-Nehru tradition. It is not a God-sent opportunity but a challenge to the constitutional State and the Indian Republic based on the social contract concluded in the Constituent Assembly of India and the process of federal nation-building resting upon our willingness for power-sharing and adequate representation to minorities in the country.
Political analysis without understanding the purpose of the "State," "Politics" and the factor of "legitimacy" of the national Government in the eyes of the largest Muslim minority community in a multicultural setting is adulation with ignorance. Politics is neither inter-faith dialogue (as part of the US public diplomacy in collaboration with Saudi Intelligence) nor translating the wrong as the right nor seeking power by all means but to seek legitimacy on the basis of the citizens' approval. Politically, India is a Constitutional State as a Federal Nation which requires different communities to be civic and democratic in substance for the purpose of nation-building. One nation, one culture and one language idiom is not compatible with the constitutional values against which the BJP has struggled all its political history. Those who have built their political careers on hatred and violence against Muslims, mosques and madarsas, denying rights and justice to thousands of victims mainly women and children, have loyalty to a particular ideology rather than endorsing the Rule of Law as the rule of governance.
Muslims in India basically need to be full and equal members of the political community for which they always tried to seek their constitutional rights. But the Sangh Parivar and the BJP have historically and ideologically been opposed to it. Constitutional values certify the group rights of the minorities under Article 30 and dignified life under Parts III and IV of the Constitution along with affirmative action policies under Articles 15 (4), 16 (4), 46, 340, etc in addition to the federal autonomy for J&K and North-Eastern states.
India has certainly entered into a turbulent phase of its constitutional existence which will not last long.
Dr Arshi Khan is associate professor in the department of political science, AMU
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StorageTek users weigh Sun roadmap
Sun talked big about its integration plans for StorageTek at its user forum this week, but users said the proof is in the pudding, particularly when it comes to the mainframe.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Sun Microsystems Inc., was full of promises about its plans for newly acquired Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) at the 17th annual StorageTek Forum user conference this week, but some users remained skeptical of the acquisition, mainly because of Sun's lack of experience in the mainframe arena.
"The overwhelming impression I got was that they did this for Sun and Sun only," said David Woodruff, storage manager for Visa. "There was a lot of talk about them becoming a higher ranked company in the storage market, and my thought was, 'hey, you've got customers, too.' "
Woodruff said his skepticism was particularly sharp when it came to Sun's ability to offer a better mainframe product.
"Sun is an open systems company," Woodruff said. "They don't know anything about the mainframe. They're not going to make as much progress with those products."
"Are they going to take away the emphasis from the mainframe?" asked a user. It was one of the first questions shown on the tape.
It's not just Sun's lack of experience in the mainframe world that users said had them worried. Some felt StorageTek, too, had been leaving mainframes behind.
"In the last couple of years, they haven't seemed to be putting much into their mainframe products," said David Harris, senior storage manager for Visa. "Probably because they knew they wanted to sell out to an open systems company."
Nigel Dessau, vice president of the tape group within Sun's data management group , attempted to address the concern. "We are committed to [StorageTek's Virtual Storage Manager (VSM)] and other mainframe products," he said. "We have a roadmap and plans for specific performance improvements, although there are no specific announcements just yet.
"If Sun wasn't committed to the mainframe, if they hadn't convinced me of that, I wouldn't have taken this job," Dessau said. "You can't build tape without it. And if Sun wasn't going to commit to the mainframe, I'd say they just wasted $4.1 billion."
"They aren't as familiar with it," said Mehretab Berhe, manager of data center operations for Highmark, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. "But they have no choice. The mainframe is here to stay."
Rick Fink, storage administrator for Allied Insurance, said he wasn't sure where Sun would take StorageTek, but he knew what he hoped would happen -- that StorageTek's acquisition by a bigger company would help its market share and help convince his managers to stick with StorageTek to backup his IBM mainframes.
"Years went by before IBM had the capability to do snapshots at the data set level with their backups, unlike StorageTek's VSM," he said. "I hope they won't back down from the mainframe or from other vendors."
The roadmap: A few detailsIn general, according to Sun officials, there's little overlap between Sun and StorageTek product lines to begin with -- something they claim makes their acquisition a more solid one. But there are a few intersections between products, such as StorageTek's Flexline 380 disk array, which clashes with Sun's 6000 line of mid-tier products, and would probably be retired, Sun said.
Further product-related tidbits divulged by Sun include:
- StorageTek's big tape library, the SL8500, would "remain the heart of the strategy for our portfolio," according to Dessau.
- Meanwhile, though Sun's 9940 tape library would eventually be retired in favor of the newly announced Titanium 10000, Sun announced at Forum that there will be another generation of the 9840 library.
- The FlexLine 240 and Sun 6130 mid-tier storage boxes both use the same Engenio Information Technologies controller, and while Sun would continue both "through their natural product lifecycle," according to vice president for product strategy Randy Kerns, "There will be a next-generation product replacing both sometime next year."
- StorageTek's attempt at primary disk storage, the Flexline 680, would be continued, Kerns said, but would be taken out of the primary storage market.
- StorageTek also has a storage management software product, the GSM, which Kersaid would be brought under the umbrella of Sun's StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager.
- Sun's mid-tier tape library, the C10, OEMed from Quantum, never got off the ground. It'll be officially taken off the roster with StorageTek's integration. Meanwhile, Sun said it would be keeping two other low-end tape drives, the C2 and C4, also an OEM from Quantum, saying they are below StorageTek's market.
Fleming speculated that Sun's integration of Hitachi Data Systems Inc. products could eliminate some of StorageTek's V2X products in the long run. "They'll want to keep their relationship with Hitachi going," he said.
Services: So far, so goodFinally, users said they feared consolidation and reduction in StorageTek's widely respected services organization, but also said across the board that they had not yet seen any indication that changes would be made.
"Nothing has changed so far, and it's been 60 days," said Samuel Fleming, system analyst for storage management enterprise services with The Boeing Co. "We're feeling pretty confident. Confident enough that we just ordered new hardware from them -- we upgraded our whole VSM system for our IBM mainframe."
Fred Pharis, storage administrator for Convergys Corp., said the appointment of Eula Banks, head of services for StorageTek, had done much to allay his nervousness about Sun curtailing StorageTek's service department. "We have horror stories about service from the Sun side," he admitted, "But they put the StorageTek guy in charge of service, not a Sun guy."
"It would kind of be the tail wagging the dog," said Robert Abraham, president and analyst with Freeman Reports. "StorageTek's sales and service organization is many times bigger than Sun's."
"I don't see that they'll make any changes," said Dianne McAdam, analyst with the Data Mobility Group. "Customers would rebel."


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The good news about the Big Data market is that we generally all agree on the definition of Big Data, which has come to be known as data that has volume, velocity and variety where businesses need to collect, store, manage and analyze in order to derive business value or otherwise known as the "4 V's." However, the problem with such a broad definition is that it can mean different things to different people once you start to put some real values next to those V's.
Let's be honest, Volume can be a different thing to different organizations. To some it is anything above 10 terabytes of managed data in their BI environment and to others it is petabyte scale and nothing less. Likewise velocity can be multi-billions of daily records coming into the enterprise from various external and internal networks. When it really comes down to it, each business situation will be quite different not only from a size and speed perspective but also more important from the business use-case or requirement. A large bank's Big Data problem could be very different to that of an online retailer or an airline. If you compare what say a hospital is trying to do collecting and analyzing all the sensor patient data compared to a utilities provider running a smart-grid or a telecommunications operator. True, all could be categorized as machine generated or raw data but the exact type of data might be different not to mention the volume or growth rate. Probably the one unique common denominator across all aforementioned industries is that everyone is keeping the data for longer time-periods. No one is throwing it away - not even the detailed data.
The Many Cost Factors to Consider
Costs will of course vary depending on the individual allocated IT budget but regardless, how the company allocates IT budget dollars to new Big Data initiatives needs consideration. Let's face it, enterprise buyers didn't suddenly come into a bunch of newfound IT assets or line items on their budget and the current world economic situation would certainly not suggest so. More likely existing budgets are being re-allocated and instead of spending more on say existing traditional data warehouses or appliances, monies are being allocated to new projects running on open source projects including Apache Hadoop which promises both low cost, ease of scale not to mention the obvious best approach to managing and analyzing multi-structured data sets. The difficultly then arises how do you integrate or have your Hadoop environment co-exist with the established BI or DW environment that the business has grown to love and rely upon?
Leverage What You Already Have
Let's assume you have a data warehouse or data mart in place today and you already use various ETL or data movement tools and BI dashboard, analytics or reporting tools and you don't want to disrupt business users which could not only impacting performance levels but also training up on a new set of tools. In fact you already likely beholden to strict SLA's around response times for the various business reports and KPI's. However, at the same time the business is demanding access to new data sets in order to glean better insights either directly analyzing this data or co-mingling it with existing customer data. This could take the form of web-logs, click stream data or social media data from various interactive sites the business is now leveraging and tracking. The promise of impacting profit margins and gaining a competitive edge just cannot be avoided.
As we all know, traditional relational or columnar databases can't handle the unstructured data types so IT needs to rollout a different solution to satisfy the business demands. Evaluations can take many forms but typically will start with which Hadoop distribution, which NoSQL or NewSQL database and what query access tools in addition to MapReduce. It is certainly no easy task as there are a large number of technology solutions on the market today that claim to run on or with Hadoop providing MapReduce or SQL-like capabilities which all satisfy the requirement of managing volumes of unstructured data. Some are more mature than others; some proven and not all are low-cost. Open source on the surface looks very low cost but as soon as you require any level of support, which lets face it once it's live and relied upon as a business critical environment, you will need to allocate a line item on your budget. The Big Data line item won't just be one line as it will need to include all components required to properly rollout a Big Data solution to truly satisfy the business demands. Just like any other IT environment the obvious pieces will include: Software licensing and support, hardware, skilled dedicated resources, professional services and training and the dedicated time of business users to provide input on key requirements including specifying types of reports, queries and analysis which will naturally change and evolve over time.
Big Data Costs Can Quickly Creep Up
In terms of the hardware expenditure required to manage the new Big Data set, you may start out with a Hadoop cluster of say 10 nodes and yes that is certainly manageable but if your data velocity is significant, you can quickly reach 100+ nodes and now you will face a number of other expenses including additional headcount and skilled resources to manage the environment proactively in addition to tools for managing the cluster including system management and alerting and potentially add-on software which can vary by business use-case but might cover real-time analytics against streaming data for say fraud detection or detection of unusual patterns. You may also need a business tool to provide a front-end GUI dashboard to track specific KPIs or data visualization tools so business users can quickly understand what is going on. Very quickly the costs become less about the storage and hardware and more around the software that focuses on getting the most value from this newly collected data set.
There is no denying the fact that Big Data presents great new opportunities but reaching the point of a quantifiable ROI in a fast time frame is still a very real challenge. Everyone is talking about Big Data and all the innovative technology approaches to tackling it but it is still difficult to find lots of business success stories within any one-industry sector. It's still fairly immature but the good news is that its moving at a much faster pace than any other IT project today and certainly our data warehouse and BI forefathers have provided lessons learned over the past two decades.
Big Data Is Big Business but It Comes with Strict Requirements
If we want to examine more closely the main areas of expenditure for a Big Data project, it is probably best to look at it through the lens of a specific type of business and use-case. Let's take a large financial institution that has a number of existing traditional data warehouse / BI environments but because the business doesn't want to throw any data away (well let's face it regulations don't allow that for a number of years) and realistically the business wants to retain specific data sets for ongoing trending and analysis. This includes examining questions such as "what constitutes a low-risk client based on spending behavior patterns over a specific time period cross-referenced with customer demographics" which will help the institution better target a particular segment of the market.
Given the IT budget doesn't allow for increased spend that correlates with data growth rates, they need to seriously reduce costs and so decide to go the route of a Hadoop-based environment given its promise for low-cost scale and the fact that it can provide insights into customer patterns by capturing semi- and unstructured data. Front-ending the warehouse with a dedicated Hadoop cluster is the preferred architectural approach but the business users still want access to both the Hadoop environment and the existing traditional data warehouse environment.
Given we are talking about a financial institution, the question of security and availability quickly come to the top of the requirements list. At the same time, if business users want to access that data, SQL query access and using the current BI tool against that new set of data is also a requirement. If you can avoid having to the move large chunks of data on a frequent basis from one to the other, it will not only reduce costs but also latency. In an ideal world, being able to leverage the skill sets you already have and avoiding duplication of work is key.
Below is a quick table outlining the main cost factors to be considered and a set of comments against each of these areas that could reduce costs.
Big Data on Hadoop Cost Factors
Key Consideration to drive down cost
Look at databases that provide data compression to yield storage savings (better than GZip or LZO).
Hardware (Nodes)
Granular data compression at database level will reduce nodes over time.
Data Analytics - Skilled Resources
Examine technology solutions that provide standard SQL or BI tool access in addition to MapReduce (Pig etc.)
Cluster management - Skilled Resources
Leverage existing Dev-operations staff if you deploy a SQL-compliant data environment
Look for database solutions that provide built-in security permissions and access.
Availability / DR
Consider a data management environment that doesn't require additional tools for replication.
Consider solutions where you don't need to retrain or hire all new resources. Leverage what you have (standard SQL-skilled DBAs)
Summary: Consider All Factors and Get Business Buy-in Quickly
Big Data is fundamentally a business problem. If you begin with the question of "what is the business trying to achieve by collecting, storing and analyzing this new set of data...", you will start down the right path to realizing business gains. Whether you outsource the initiative or bring in external consultants and vendors to manage the project, the same questions will arise and in order to leverage what you already have which includes both existing IT environments and skills, you will be better able to contain costs.
Furthermore, we all love the promise of new innovative technologies including Hadoop and MapReduce but without leveraging tried and tested standards we have come to love and respect, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense from both a technical or economic sense. As you start on your Big Data journey or project, be sure to ask what exactly the business requires and how can you leverage what you already have today. We all know, getting business user buy-in and success is half the battle to a successful rollout.
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AWESOME Recipe – Vanilla Wafers
Found this recipe on SERIOUS EATS!!! (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/10/homemade-nilla-vanilla-wafers.html)
Vanilla Wafers
– makes about 8 cups of cookies (it makes a lot, but Ive never counted!) –
Though I developed these cookies to go with vanilla pudding and
bananas, they are delicious sandwiched with jam or ice cream or just
dunked into milk.
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened (1 stick or 112g)
1/4teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar (210g)
1 vanilla bean, seeds only
1 large egg white (~33g)
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon milk
1 1/3 cups AP flour (160g)
3/4 teaspoon baking powder (~3g)
1. With an electric mixer, cream butter, salt, sugar and vanilla seeds until light.
2. Beat in egg white until well incorporated,
scraping sides and bottom of mixing bowl to insure that all white has
been incorporated.
3. Beat in extract and milk until well incorporated.
4. Whisk together flour and baking powder and add
to butter mixture. Mix just to incorporate, scraping down sides and
bottom of mixing bowl to insure that all flour has been incorporated.
5. Fit a piping bag with a large, plain pastry tip
(I use Ateco #806, but slightly larger or smaller sizes will also
work). Fill bag with about 1/3 of the batter. Holding the filled bag
perpendicular to a parchment-lined baking sheet, pipe batter into
nickel-sized mounds, about 1 inch apart. To make neat, well-shaped
cookies, as you finish piping each round, sweep the pastry tip
horizontally off to the side with a slight curving motion. (The cookies
should cover 2 to 3 standard baking sheets. Batter will hold for a
while after it is piped, so trays can be baked one or two at a time, as
your oven allows.)
6. Bake at 350°F for about 15-20 minutes, until
cookies are lightly browned, rotating trays every 5 minutes or so for
even coloring. Cool completely before storing. Cookies will keep in an
airtight container for at least a week.


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Technical Paper
Electro-Hydraulic Fully Flexible Valve Actuation System for Engine Test Cell
Fully Flexible Valve Actuation (FFVA) systems provide maximum flexibility to adjust lift profiles of engine intake and exhaust valves. A research grade electro-hydraulic servo valve based FFVA system was designed to be used with an engine in a test cell to precisely follow desired lift profiles. Repetitive control was chosen as the control strategy. Crank angle instead of time is used to trigger execution to ensure repeatability. A single control is used for different engine speeds even though the period for one revolution changes with engine speeds. The paper also discusses lift profile extension, instantaneous lift profile switching capability and built-in safety features.


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24 November 2012
Hello lovelies,
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Limited Bazaar new round! Stripes
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I know I teased you with this yesterday…...
so now I will show you the inside!!
I was honored to have my drop cloth flower swag included in the Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts magazine 2014!
They contacted me last November to see if I would let them include my swag in their magazine for this years edition…..ummmmmm, HOLY CRAP!
After my husband revived me, I had to read the email again. Of course I said yes and then waited. I stopped holding my breath in May when they sent me the contract but then held my breath again. I have been contacted twice before and had things fall through so I figured when I see the magazine then I'll not only share the news, but dance with glee.
Well, the magazine came in a plain white envelope with Media in large letters on the return address. It was a busy day so I only glanced quickly and almost through it out with the rest of the junk mail!!!!!
I realized it was fairly heavy so I had better take a quick lookey loo…
OK, I started crying when I pulled it out…I'm a wuss and I don't care. It felt incredible to see my name and my idea in print.
And it felt even more incredible when I showed it to my husband and he got this big grin on his face. Even after all these years together, it means the world to me that he was impressed and happy for me.
I will tell you that this issue has an incredible abundance of adorable and classy ideas for holiday decor so please go get it and get your craft on.
Thank you again BHG for this crazy gift!!
Always being renewed,


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Scientists monitor the structure of the solar corona, the outer most regions of the Sun's atmosphere, using radio waves (100?s of MHz to 10?s of GHz). Variations in the radiowave spectrum reveal characteristics of the corona and upper chromosphere in terms of altitude profile for the local plasma temperature, density and magnetic field. Typically, the lower the frequency then the higher the height of origin. The frequency, like the solar electron density, decreases uniformly outwards with 245 MHz originating high in the corona whereas 15,400 MHz originates in the low corona. Radio bursts are associated with solar flares. The delay at Earth of the different radio frequencies during burst events is due to the outward movement of the source. Bursts can have temperatures of 10xE12 degrees Kelvin. Large bursts last 10 to 20 minutes on average. Longer radio noise storms of persistent and variable high levels of radiation originate in sunspot groups, areas of large, intense magnetic fields. These storms are strongly circularly polarized due to the intense magnetic fields. The microwave wavelength 2800 MHz daily radio flux correlates highly with the daily sunspot number and the two databases are used interchangeably. The 2800 MHz, or 10.7 cm, responds to the same conditions that produce changes in the visible and X-ray wavelengths. Schmahl and Kundu (1995) find that the solar radio fluxes in the spectral range 1000-9400 MHz correlate well with the total solar irradiance. The intermediate frequencies (at 2800 and 3750 MHz) are produced mainly by free-free gyroresonance emission from sunspot structures, while 1000 and 9400 MHz flux are produced mainly by free-free processes from structures associated with plages. They can distinguish plage-associated emission from spot-associated emission in the time series of microwave flux, both contributing opposing effects on the total solar irradiance.
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When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness,
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, "Stay awhile."
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine."
Mary Oliver, from Thirst
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thursday Poem - When I Am Among the Trees
resting easy in poetry
5 comments:
Once again, your choice of poem is among my favorites. A great reminder to go easy and be light.
Thank you.
- April 29, 2010 11:11 am
- Carolyn H said...
I should have guessed this was a Mary oliver poem. It's one I hadn't read or didn't remember reading. It's lovely. and perfect. Thanks for posting it.
Carolyn H.
- April 29, 2010 11:43 am
- the wild magnolia said...
"...to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine."
Many thanks!
- April 29, 2010 1:06 pm
When I am among the trees...
I always feel loved and understood.
It's a wonderful thing.
- April 29, 2010 5:18 pm
"I am so distant from the hope of myself".....okay, crying now. This touches me on a very personal level.
- April 29, 2010 9:33 pm
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