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HP Accelerates Enterprises' Path to Big Data Value
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2013 — HP Enterprise Services today announced a new information management and analytics (IM&A) service designed to help clients rapidly gain increased value from Big Data assets to support their efforts to drive new revenue opportunities, improve efficiency, reduce risk and lower costs.
While executives understand the importance of taking command over the variety, velocity and volume of information, many regard their organizations as unable to address the associated challenges. According to global research commissioned by HP,(1) more than one out of two business executives reported that their organizations are not equipped with the right solutions to gain insight from Big Data. In addition, they lack the expertise as well as a cohesive strategy to bring all of the components together to incorporate new and old data sets. With greater insights, enterprises can take action to improve and transform their enterprise.
The new HP Big Data Discovery Experience simplifies and accelerates the entry path for clients to unlock the value of their information. The service provides a scalable discovery environment where clients can explore different technologies to experience insights gleaned from their own data. This enables them to move from high-level concepts of Big Data to the reality of harnessing and acting on the information.
For example, these insights can help an enterprise optimize real-time, cross-channel marketing, customer service and demand prediction. Other use cases include supporting client efforts in detecting and preventing fraud, ensuring compliance in real time, and using social media for risk management and brand reputation.
The HP Big Data Discovery Experience supports a low-risk, rapid path to leveraging Big Data technologies for innovation and better business outcomes. Offered as a service with Big Data consultants and data scientists, facilitated processes and advanced technologies, the HP Big Data Discovery Experience doesn't require clients to make an initial investment for skilled resources, software and hardware.
"A Big Data solution is a significant investment of time and money for any organization, regardless of industry," said Markus Ruff, vice president, Information Management and Analytics, HP Enterprise Services. "HP's approach brings business and IT together from the beginning to help clients shorten the time to start a Big Data initiative and discover new business insight to make better and quicker decisions."
Evaluate and experience the value of Big Data
The HP Big Data Discovery Experience helps clients align business and IT strategies related to Big Data, enabling them to understand their data and the value that can be gained from it. This insight helps clients accelerate the development of an information strategy.
As part of the HP Big Data Discovery Experience, HP consultants work with a client's staff to advise on and identify the core parameters of success, conducting a series of planning sessions to assess current and future state requirements. Additionally, HP drives diagnostic assessments across the critical dimensions of people, processes and data readiness.
The HP Big Data Discovery Experience enables the discovery of key insights based on client data to create a functional proof of concept, roadmap and business justification. The service provides clients with an information ecosystem through which to explore different types of data with industry-specific use cases and analytical models. HP also can deploy the insights-based applications in production processes.
The HP Big Data Discovery Experience provides consulting-led advisory services combined with rich solution functionality in a standard configuration that combines best-in-class structured and unstructured data capabilities, application design and deployment tools, as well as leading security, privacy and confidentiality capabilities. The platform-as-a-service delivery approach leverages a variety of HP technologies, including software from HP Autonomy and HP Vertica, along with infrastructure and cloud offerings from HP. It also leverages open source frameworks such as Hadoop and partners such as TIBCO Spotfire Analytics.
Pricing and availability
The HP Big Data Discovery Experience is available now in the Americas region and in select countries in Europe, priced as a service according to customer engagement. Worldwide availability is expected by the end of the year.
Additional information is available at www.hp.com/go/bi.
HP's premier Americas client event, HP Discover, takes place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.
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Lawmakers want the Executive Council's declaration-of-interest system to include its members' liabilities as well as assets, amid the controversy over Exco member Barry Cheung Chun-yuen and his failed Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange.
They say Exco members should declare how much money they have borrowed from whom, if the amount is large.
They made the remarks after the exchange, chaired by Cheung, handed back its trading licence to the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) last week. Only two years after it was established, its trading revenue was not sufficient to support its operating expenses with thin trading in gold futures.
Reports have suggested that Cheung borrowed huge sums of money, including from a property tycoon, to save the struggling commodity exchange, raising suspicion of collusion among tycoons. Cheung fended off these claims in a statement on Sunday.
Civic Party lawmaker Ronny Tong Ka-wah said there was a need for Exco members to declare their liabilities. "They can be compromised to offer confidential government information in exchange for loans."
Democratic Party legislator Albert Ho Chun-yan said Exco members should reveal details of large loan amounts.
At present, Exco members have to declare remunerated directorships in public or private companies and land and property in or outside Hong Kong.
Exco member Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung said it was not necessary to tighten the rules on declaration of interest.
"It is a usual business practice for companies to have liabilities, and a declaration of liabilities for Exco members would make the system too complicated," he said.
Christopher Cheung Wah-fung, the Legco member who represents brokers, said the SFC had adopted double standards in handling the HKMEx closure.
"In my 30 years' experience as a broker I have never seen the SFC allow a broker with financial problems to simply surrender its licence like it did with the HKMEx. We have to ask why the SFC gave the HKMEx and its chairman Barry Cheung such privileged treatment."
The HKMEx settled all 181 outstanding contracts yesterday.
A spokesman for New World Development said its chairman, Henry Cheng Kar-shun, and the group had never had any financial dealing with Cheung. It said its link with the Urban Renewal Authority was strictly business.
The URA said Cheung - its chairman - always observed its declaration-of-interest system.
An Exco spokesman said Exco's regular Tuesday meeting would not take place today because "there is nothing on the agenda". It had nothing to do with the controversy surrounding Cheung, the spokesman said.

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Establishment Clause
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". This prohibition was extended to the States and their school districts by the Fourteenth Amendment. While it originally meant that the federal government could not tax people to support a particular sect, it has developed into a rule that the government shall remain neutral toward religion.
The Pledge
The Pledge of Allegiance was created by Francis Bellamy in 1892. As originally recited, it was:
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
In 1942, after "my Flag" became "the Flag of the United States of America", it was adopted as a sort of national ritual by Congress. Shortly thereafter, children in public schools were punished for refusing to recite it, even if they had religious objections. The Supreme Court held that forcing children to recite the pledge violated the First Amendment. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943): "the action of local authorities in compelling the flag salute and pledge transcends constitutional limitations on their power and invades the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from all official control."
At the time Barnette was decided, the Pledge did not include the phrase "under God". It was a purely secular and patriotic ritual, challenged by members of a minority Christian sect (Jehovah's Witnesses) who objected to being forced to bow and swear to a national idol. It should not escape a historians notice that members of the same sect of Jehovah's Witnesses, who similarly refused to participate in Führer-worship, were being hauled off to death camps in Nazi Germany as Barnette was being argued and decided.
In 1954, Congress amended the federal statute to insert the phrase "under God" after "one Nation". As it currently appears in the United States Code, 4 U.S.C. § 4 (1998), it reads:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The Newdow Case
Michael Newdow is an atheist whose daugher attends public elementary school in the Elk Grove Unified School District. California law requires public schools to begin each school day with ?appropriate patriotic exercises? which may include the Pledge. The Elk Grove district requires "Each elementary school class {shall} recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag each day." Newdow's daughter was not required to recite the pledge (which would clearly be illegal under Barnette).
Rather, he claims that his daughter is injured when she is compelled to "watch and listen as her state-employed teacher in her state-run school leads her classmates in a ritual proclaiming that there is a God, and that our's {sic} is 'one nation under God'." Newdow v. U.S. Congress Slip. Op. at 9111 (9th Cir. 2002).
Newdow, representing himself, initially sued the Congress, the President, the State of California, the school district where his daughter was in school, and the school district where he intended to move his daughter. The district court threw out the entire lawsuit on a motion to dismiss.
Newdow appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. (Appellate courts in the federal system are divided into regions known as "Circuits" from the days in which judges would actually ride around to the different courthouses and hear cases. The Ninth Circuit is the Court of Appeals for certain Western States, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Alaska, and Hawaii, as well as the Pacific Territories).
On appeal, Newdow was denied relief against most of the defendants, except the Elk Grove School District. However, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reached the issue whether 4 U.S.C. § 4,the statute which codified the Pledge as amended in 1954, violated the U.S. Constitution.
The Holding
The Reasoning
There are three (3) "tests" courts use to determine whether government conduct has run afoul of the Establishment Clause:
To survive the Lemon test, government conduct must:
The Lynch test in essence collapses the first two ?prongs? of the Lemon testing-fork into one: whether the government is directly endorsing or disapproving of religion.
These tests are best suited to determining whether the government has got involved where it should not, for example, giving tax money to religious schools, promoting relgious holidays, etc. The court first asks whether there is a non-religious basis for the involvement, for example, Christmas may be promoted because it's good for business. Then it looks to whether the Christmas display endorses or inhibits religion.
In school cases, there is an added element of compulsion. Kids have to go school: it's the law. This makes the school cases, especially school prayer cases, more suited to the "coercion" test from Lee v. Weisman. This test recognizes, as a Constitutional minimum, that no one should be forced or compelled to support or participate in a particular religious practice. (One is reminded here of the various practices of religious obeisance to the Emperor which were used to weed out early Christian troublemakers).
In Newdow the court first finds that the Pledge, as amended in 1954, clearly endorses a kind of religion --monotheism-- and does not appear to be impressed by any of the alleged secular purposes advanced by the defendants. Likewise, while the court acknowledges that the religious content of "one nation under God" is minimal, it underscores the age and impressionability of schoolchildren.
The dissent's best argument is that the Pledge is not a big deal, or in legal terms, its coercive or entangling effects are de minimis. Passing references to "God" are part of a "ceremonial deism" which has been encountered throughout American life, politics and political writing such as the Declaration of Independence, without undue harm to religious freedom. The dissent warns that little known verses of our national anthem will have to be avoided (like they aren't already?) and songs like "God Bless America" and "America the Beautiful" "will be gone for sure".
What's Next?
Prognosticators, including members of Congress, predict this case will be taken up by the Supreme Court and overruled. They may be disappointed. First, review by the 9th Circuit itself is likely. The decision reported is a 2-1 decision from a panel of three (3) judges. The decision conflicts with a decision on the same issue by another Court of Appeals. Sherman v. Community Consolidated School District 21, 980 F.2d 437 (7th Cir. 1992). The issue is not a matter of life or death, but it has great symbolic and political ramifications. This makes the case a likely candidate for en banc review. Review en banc technically means all the judges of the Court of Appeals look at the case, but the 9th Circuit is too big for that, and en banc review means a super-panel of eleven (11) judges looks at the case. These eleven judges may reach a different conclusion than the two (2) who voted to find the Pledge unconstitutional.
On February 28, 2003, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit announced that it would not grant a rehearing in the Newdow case. The opinion of the original 3-judge panel now stands as the decision of the Court and is subject to appeal to the United States Supreme Court by a petition for a writ of certiorari.
The circuit court's rules for en banc review require the votes of eleven (11) of the twenty-four (24) active judges in the Ninth Circuit to grant a rehearing: there were only six (6).
Vociferous public outcry, including the derision of President Bush and a Senate resolution against the original ruling, seems to persuaded some judges not to disturb the unpopular decision. "We may not -- we must not -- allow public sentiment or outcry to guide our decisions," Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote in a concurring opinion. The constitutional protections against the "establishment" of religion are, of course, intended to protect minority religious views against the will of the majority.
The Supreme Court is not required to review the decision, and in the vast majority of cases, does not. Since there is no particular urgency in resolving the matter, and only two of the twelve federal appeals courts have considered, my guess is that the Supreme Court will deny the writ of certiorari and let the decision stand, and wait until the other circuit courts ruled on the issue, before taking it up.
I was wrong. The Supreme Court did grant certiorari. I correctly surmised, however, that the Court would duck the issue: whether the Pledge is constitutional.
In an opinion filed today, June 14, 2004, the Court held that Newdow did not have standing to pursue the case. The standing ruling is based on a California state court ruling (following the original 9th Circuit opinion described above) which held that Newdow's estranged wife had sole custody of their child and the last word in all legal matters. The Court rejected the idea that, even though he could not bring a lawsuit on behalf of his daughter (as a "next friend", as lawyers describe parents acting as legal agents for a child) Newdow had standing on his own behalf based on his rights to raise his child. Such parental rights apparently do not extend to imposing his views on third parties.
Justice Scalia abstained from participating in this case. Three justices (Rehnquist, O'Connor and Thomas) dissented to the standing decision and would have reached the merits of the issue (and would have found the Pledge a constitutional exercise in ceremonial deism). Interestingly, Justice Thomas concedes in his dissent that the Pledge is unconstitutional under existing Supreme Court precedent, but argues for overruling that precedent.
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Pictures of the trial suit. One obvious fix is that I need to add length to the front to correct the balance issue. I'm also not sure what to think about the way it hugs my hips in these pictures as I do not have that issue in any of my other jackets. I'm not sure if that is due to the button point being too high or something else.
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Proving that no one can resist the charms of One Direction in the span of one week. How do they do it?!
Earlier today, the Brits were photographed with good ol' Big Bird on the iconic 123 Sesame Street stoop, where they've been busy filming an upcoming episode with everyone's favorite muppets. We're sorry to break your heart after such thrilling news, but you're going to have to wait until next fall to see it. Which is forever away, yes, though we do have some excellent instant-gratification intel for you, too:
You can watch a brand-new clip from This Is Us—right this second. The boys' movie comes out on DVD next week with a bunch of never-before-seen footage, and to get everyone hyped (as if anyone isn't already hyped!), they've been releasing a whole bunch of sneak peeks. A few days ago, we saw a rad video that was basically a big love letter to Louis, and now, everyone's waxing poetic about Zayn. It's really cute. They're really cute. You're gonna love it. So check it out!


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A Jimsonweed blossom. If you look carefully, it is not a black and white image.
The blossom is approximately three inches tall.
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This is one of those accidental shots. This was growing in my garden, and I left the flash on one evening. This is what came out. It's strange that in "Come to Me", the color of most of this flower in bud form, came from an accident, too. The bud is slightly rosy – very faint. I was wearing a brown shirt and somehow it saturated the bud brown, except for one "arm". I just printed it for a hanging in a opthamologist's office, and changed the orientation so that it is more verticle. Absolutely gorgeous. I think of all my flower shots, this is my favorite. Thanks for the comments. I much appreciate them.
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Joel Norman Quenneville is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and former head coach of the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues.
As a player, Quenneville was drafted 21st overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft. He has played for the OHA Windsor Spitfires, AHL New Brunswick Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies, New Jersey Devils, Hartford Whalers, AHL Baltimore Skipjacks, Washington Capitals and AHL St. John's Maple Leafs. He has also been a player/assistant coach for St. John's, head coach for the AHL Springfield Indians, and assistant coach for the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche. He won the Jack Adams Award with the Blues in the 1999-00 NHL season.
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The Public Library Association has been awarded a planning grant of $50,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support the research and design of a national digital summer reading (NDSR) program website application (app). PLA will work in partnership with Influx Library User Experience (Influx) to manage the grant project and plan development of the app. Expected to be built on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) platform, the NDSR app will be available to all libraries in the U.S.
This groundbreaking effort will not only enhance the resources of public libraries to connect with children and teens in an interactive and modern way, but also take advantage and showcase the possibilities of open access through the DPLA. The anticipated NDSR website app will enable children and teens to interact with public libraries and summer reading content in numerous ways, including: reading, listening, watching, playing, writing, reviewing, drawing and recording. The ubiquity and flexibility of the digital environment also offers entirely new ways to expand the success of the traditional summer reading program. "This is a very exciting development for public libraries," said Marcia Warner, PLApresident and director of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Public Library. "Many libraries struggle with the resources to present a robust summer reading program, but by developing this engaging tool and delivering it through theDPLA, libraries will have free access to an easy-to-deploy, dynamic summer reading website."
Influx principals Nate Hill (assistant director for technology, Chattanooga Public Library, Tenn.) and Aaron Schmidt will lead the company's efforts. The initial phase of the grant project (Summer 2012) will result in an interactive online locater of summer reading programs, while the second phase (Spring 2013) will result in a white paper reflecting user research and outlining a plan for the creation of the NDSR website app. The white paper will reside online to allow for public contributions to the NDSR plan.
Schmidt commented, "In order for the NDSR to be successful it must address real issues and ultimately deliver what potential users need and want. We plan to connect with library professionals through site visits, interviews and surveys to ensure the NDSR reflects their insight and is first and foremost a relevant and practical resource."
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The violent past of onetime Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris yields a banal biopic in "The Wee Man," returning multihyphenate Ray Burdis ("Love, Honor and Obey") to the director's chair after an absence of 13 years.
The violent past of onetime Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris yields a banal biopic in "The Wee Man," returning multihyphenate Ray Burdis ("Love, Honor and Obey") to the director's chair after an absence of 13 years. This highly sympathetic and thus controversial portrait of the ruthless enforcer fillets selectively from Ferris' own memoir, depicting a bullied child and affable teen goaded into standing up to psychotic local thugs. Stabbings, gougings and brutal slayings have proved tasty fare for bloodthirsty Scottish genre fans, delivering a surprise £239,000 ($376,000) in 10 days.
The casting of genial presence Martin Compston helps render the adult Ferris a sympathetic protag, as he rises up the ranks loyal to the local godfather (Patrick Bergin), before falling foul of the kingpin's jealous son (a vivid Stephen McCole) and a duplicitous rival player (John Hannah). The subtext-light script aggressively steers audience sympathies through a well-signposted morality tale, but there's little of distinction to appeal beyond Scotland's borders. Tech credits are adequate, although London's East End stands in for authentic Glasgow locations, reportedly necessitated by uncooperative local authorities.The Wee Man
A Carnaby Films release of a Carnaby Intl. Prods. presentation in association with Wee Man Prods., VTR Media Investments. (International sales: Genesis Film Sales, London.) Produced by Michael Loveday. Executive producers, Shail Shah, Billy Murray. Co-producers, Andrew Loveday, Terry Loveday. Directed, written by Ray Burdis.
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babel-slovenian – Babel support for typesetting Slovenian
The package provides the language definition file for support of Slovenian in babel. Several shortcuts are defined, as well as translations to Slovenian of standard "LaTeX names".
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written and narrated by David Rakoff
David Rakoff is one of those writers whose every word makes me wish I were a better writer. He dashes similes across the page with Raymond Chandler's gusto, and his reading voice is downright heavenly. The only thing one can complain about is that the cost of his erudition must be speed, as he publishes far less than the other writers I put in his category: your Sarah Vowells, your David Sedarises, and so on. That said, Half Empty is another triumph. Some thoughts:
- While Rakoff skewers everything from neo-Nazi humor to cancer survivor language with the same dry, self-loathing wit that we've come to love, I didn't find this book as funny as Don't Get Too Comfortable. I suppose it's hard to write a funny book when one is going through one's second bout with bad-odds cancer. That said, his cancer essay at the end of the book is stunning.
- I am also quite enamored of his paean to thoughtful intellectualism written about the U.S. reaction to 9/11. Rakoff blends an amusing bit of self depreciating humor into the discussion of our country's anti-intellectual "kill 'em all" mentality in the months following the attack on the World Trade Center. He makes his way into the discussion via a scientific article that suggested pessimistic people are just as effective at all the key kinds of thinking as optimists are, so we should have listened to the pessimists who said things like "Maybe they won't greet us as liberators." Sarcasm works wonders.
- The essay "Juicy" focuses on Rakoff's experience as a short, easily confided-in man who had become more and more depressed at the way gossip so easily became schadenfreude, and how little his own efforts to stem the tide of delight in others' misery offered.
It's hard to find much more to say, except that I can't get enough of his writing style, his quick turn of phrase that reveals the thing we'd been avoiding acknowledging about ourselves.