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To help you get started, check out the following qualified big data partner solutions, validated by the AWS Partner Competency Program to help you build a complete big data solution.
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Any input, quick integration, and manage schema changes
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Attunity CloudBeam enables organizations to simplify, accelerate, and automate data transfer to, from, and across AWS regions. Supported services include Amazon Redshift, RDS, S3, and EC2.
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Bryte empowers users to load, integrate and blend data with just a few clicks with a comprehensive software suite featuring Enterprise Grade Data Replication and ELT / ETL integration technologies. Supported AWS services include RDS, EC2, S3, Redshift, Kinesis and Hadoop on Amazon EMR.
CloudBasic offers cross-region and cross-cloud replication engine for all versions of SQL Server.
With CloudBasic, S3 BI data lakes, Redshift integrations, and data migrations can be setup in minutes. Clustered deployments with fast failover are also available. CloudBasic specializes in the development of enterprise multi-cloud AlwaysOn/Geo-Replicated relational database technologies focused on the MS SQL Server. CloudBasic customers have implemented solutions for DR, High Availability, BI, Data warehousing, Reporting.
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Set up data pipelines and transformations (ETL) from many sources into Redshift in less than 10 minutes, without writing any code. It's the powerful and analyst-friendly ETL solution for Redshift.
Accelerate and scale high-performance data management for AWS, with ease and confidence.
Informatica Intelligent Data Platform accelerates AWS data management for data warehouse, data lake, data migration and data cataloging with Redshift, S3, RDS/Aurora and EMR, leveraging ETL/ELT, 100s of connectors, templates and intuitive development.
ironSource allows the customer to collect any data type from any location with our multi-region deployment.
Atom is an infinitely scalable big data flow management solution that transfers your logs to Redshift in a secure environment, with multiple backups along the way. Atom handles all your data, regardless of origin and type, while giving you full control.
Matillion ETL for Redshift. Data management in Amazon Redshift has never been simpler.
Simplify data loading, transformation and orchestration in Amazon Redshift. Matillion delivers a modern ETL/ELT solution built specifically for Amazon Redshift, on available on AWS Marketplace. Integrates with Redshift, S3, RDS and SQS.
Data Self Service platform for intelligently and quickly preparing raw data into clean, contextual, ready-to-use information at scale.
Paxata delivers an interactive, visual, analyst-centric data preparation experience powered by an intelligent and unified set of technologies for comprehensive data integration, data quality, semantic enrichment, collaboration, and governance.
The SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud empowers enterprises to make informed decisions by visualizing large volumes of data and uncovering trends, patterns, and behavior.
SnapLogic's platform-agnostic approach supports a distributed, web-oriented architecture for large datasets on-premises, in the cloud, or both – giving maximum visibility to Spark, Hadoop, ETL, etc.
Automate AWS integration, and execute native Spark code using 900+ connectors and components from Talend
Natively supporting big data, Talend's open and unified solutions take the complexity out of any integration project and equip IT to be more responsive to the demands of the business, at a predictable cost.
Xplenty is a data delivery platform that allows organizations to easily integrate, transform and process data from all of their major sources.
Xplenty is a platform that simply gets your data delivered and frees you from the hassle of traditional data integration.
The C3 IoT Platform is currently in large-scale production at over 20 leading enterprises in North America, Europe, and Australia.
The C3 IoT Platform leverages the full power of AWS for the rapid design, development, deployment, and operation of next generation IoT and big data SaaS applications – applying AI at scale across a multiplicity of data sources to generate and manifest predictive insights in real time.
Cloudera delivers the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies.
The world's leading organizations trust Cloudera to help solve their most challenging business problems by efficiently capturing, storing, processing and analyzing vast amounts of data.
Digital transformation is being driven by evolving customer expectations for extraordinary experiences with the brands with which they choose to interact.
Couchbase is a full-featured Engagement Database. Built on the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase Server gives you the flexibility to constantly reinvent the customer experience.
Dataguise provides optics into the entire sensitive data of an enterprise; structured, semi-structured or unstructured. Due to this powerful metadata, DgSecure can surgically mask and encrypt the sensitive data, and monitor it for unauthorized access.
To enable secure business execution for data-driven enterprises by delivering data-centric security solutions that detect and protect sensitive data assets in real time wherever they live and move across all repositories.
MemSQL is a real-time data warehouse designed for cloud and on-premises that delivers immediate insights across your live and historical data.
MemSQL provides an adaptable database for real-time applications that require transactions and analytics in a single high performance platform. The distributed solution uses scalable SQL to enable real-time analytics required of modern applications from enterprises like Uber, Kellogg's, Dell/EMC, Comcast, and more.
Real-time insights from operational workloads on the leading NoSQL database.
MongoDB's expressive query language, aggregation framework, and native support for MapReduce allow users to extract near real-time business insights from their data. Both editions of MongoDB are available on AWS.
Panoply is a Smart Data Warehouse built for the cloud, using Redshift. Panoply delivers the industry's fastest time to insights by eliminating the development and coding typically associated with transforming, integrating, and managing big data.
Eliminate the divide between data transactions and analytics in a single, modern architecture.
SAP HANA One accelerates transactional processing, operational reporting, OLAP, predictive and text analysis streamlining both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) processing by working with single data copy in the in-memory columnar data store.
Snowflake handles diverse data and analytics at any scale of data, workloads, and concurrency--without the cost and complexity of alternatives.
Snowflake provides a data warehouse built from the cloud up for today's data and analytics. Uniquely architected for cloud, Snowflake brings together the flexibility of big data, the elasticity of the cloud, and the power of SQL in a single system.
Snowflake provides a data warehouse built from the cloud up for today's data and analytics. Uniquely architected for cloud, Snowflake brings together the flexibility of big data, the elasticity of the cloud, and the power of SQL in a single system.
Snowflake handles diverse data and analytics at any scale of data, workloads, and concurrency--without the cost and complexity of alternatives.
Snowflake handles diverse data and analytics at any scale of data, workloads, and concurrency--without the cost and complexity of alternatives.
Harness the power and freedom of Teradata software in AWS. Analyze anything, deploy anywhere, buy any way, and move anytime.
Teradata enables powerful hybrid analytical ecosystems with 100% software consistency across all deployment modes. Leverage your existing investments, bring workload portability to life, and analyze any kind of data wherever it resides – at scale.
Snowflake provides a data warehouse built from the cloud up for today's data and analytics. Uniquely architected for cloud, Snowflake brings together the flexibility of big data, the elasticity of the cloud, and the power of SQL in a single system.
Snowflake handles diverse data and analytics at any scale of data, workloads, and concurrency--without the cost and complexity of alternatives.
Snowflake handles diverse data and analytics at any scale of data, workloads, and concurrency--without the cost and complexity of alternatives.
Collect, store and analyze your data with our plug and play analytics infrastructure in the cloud.
Reduce complexity and confidently scale your analytics infrastructure. With 300+ connectors, collect all of your data into our data lake without worrying about schema and efficiently load into Redshift.
Delivering Enterprise-Class Big Data Analytics on AWS for Any Size Organization
Vertica maximizes cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives by delivering blazingly high-performance query access and elastic scalability for rapid deployments on AWS. Packed with the most comprehensive set of features and deep integration with S3, Vertica manages massive amounts of data quickly and reliably to give you fast analytical insight. With Vertica, you can perform queries much faster than other analytical databases, without breaking your budget.
Zaloni (ZDP) is a big data management, governance and self-service platform that operationalizes the data lake, catalogs metadata, orchestrates workflows and eliminates data silos for centralized management of all data sources to improve business insights. ZDP provides control throughout the data pipeline from ingestion to analytics, with data management, governance and self-service data preparation.
Sift through large datasets to uncover hidden patterns, correlations and other insights.
Higher productivity for data teams, faster deployment of data pipelines, democratize data access.
Databricks offers a cloud platform powered by Spark, that makes it easy to turn data into value, from ingest to production, without the hassle of managing complex infrastructure, systems and tools.
Deloitte Analytics uses many technology solutions and tools to enable data analytics including BigData.
Many of the world's leading businesses count on Deloitte to deliver powerful outcomes, not just insights, for their toughest challenges. Deloitte Analytics practice is built around the wide range of client needs.
Qubole greatly simplifies, speeds, and scales big data analytics workloads.
Qubole is a Big Data processing service, with offerings for MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Pig, and Presto. Qubole provides a web UI and programmatic access via SDKs to run advanced analysis using Hadoop-based technologies with little to no set up time.
Splunk software scales to collect and index hundreds of terabytes of data per day, across multi-geography, multi-datacenter and hybrid cloud infrastructures. Because the insights from your data are mission critical, Splunk software provides the resilience you need, even as you scale out your low-cost, distributed computing environment.
Splunk software helps you unlock the hidden value of this data. And with the ability to bring in insights from your other tools, you can get value from the full spectrum of your data, not just a sub-set. Now you can collect, index, search, analyze and visualize all your data in one place. Splunk provides a unified way to organize and extract real-time insights from massive amounts of machine data from virtually any source.
Secure and scalable machine data analytics to help you build, run and secure your modern applications.
With Sumo Logic, you're up and running in minutes with an AWS-native advanced analytics platform powered by machine learning, discovering meaningful patterns in your log data and detecting performance, usage and security anomalies for faster issue resolutions.
Stop spending time fulfilling data requests. Empower everyone in your company to explore their data without relying on the data team
Quickly and easily visualize your Amazon Redshift data alongside all your business data with an interactive interface everyone in your company can use. Chartio is a powerful data analytics platform used by companies like Optimizely and Rackspace to help everyone query and analyze their data.
Domo is a business management platform that puts real-time data in the hands of everyone in the organization - from CEO's and business leaders to front-line employees.
With Domo's over 400 pre-built connectors (including Redshift, Athena and S3) anyone can securely access, consume and interact with the data they need to optimize business performance. Domo, built for the cloud, web and mobile, helps foster collaboration, improve insights, speed decision making, increase organizational productivity and most importantly optimize business results.
Looker was architected from the cloud up to take advantage of the new kinds of powerful analytic data stores.
Looker opens up a new way to think about business intelligence in the cloud. A modern approach to BI that's fast, agile, and easy to manage, Looker leverages your AWS infrastructure without needing to move or unsecure your data.
Enterprise-grade business intelligence - Full range of analytic functionality.
Get all MicroStrategy software suite including mobile, web, architect and all of the admin tools. Each MicroStrategy subscription includes standard technical support which includes email and phone support as well as access to MicroStrategy knowledge base and community forums.
Periscope Data brings data science and advanced analytics to the world of BI.
Built on AWS, Periscope Data allows organizations to gain deeper, more actionable insights across the business, enabling both data teams and their business stakeholders. Ingest, store, analyze, visualize, and report on data in one, unified platform.
Embed analytics. Surface answers. Make happy customers.
Jaspersoft for AWS is a cloud reporting and analytics server that can be purchased and/or deployed on AWS. It is fully equipped to run standalone but is more commonly embedded into web and mobile-web applications. Automatically detect and connect to Amazon data sources like RDS, Redshift and EMR.
All you need is your data and the questions you want to answer.
Tableau Software makes it fast and easy to create beautiful analytics from virtually any source of data (Redshift, EMR, RDS being some of our most popular). Tableau is a natural fit for organizations that are looking to deploy with lightning speed.
WingArc's user friendly dashboard enables creation of charts from different data sources into a single customizable board.
MotionBoard is a BI dashboard solution that help visualize data from various data sources, database, Excel, and Cloud. Users can discover real time situation of the business wherever they are, connecting art and science of their business decisions.
Zoomdata is Fastest Visual Analytics for Big Data
Designed for the cloud, Zoomdata's microservices architecture and Data Sharpening™ technology delivers visual analytics of big datasets in seconds for real-time streaming and historical data without the need to move or transform data.
Learn more about qualified consulting partners with AWS big data expertise in your region.
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To learn more about the Competency Program and apply for the Big Data Competency, click here »
Note: All solutions on the Big Data Partner Solutions webpages are created, sold, and implemented by the third party.


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Christ Healing the Blind Man. St. John (9:1-7) describes the episode how Christ restored the sight of a man blind from birth: He put an ointment on the eyes of the man and sent him to wash in a pool, on his return the blindness was cured. St. Matthew (20:29-34) describes a similar incident when 2 blind men were cured near Jericho.
See: Duccio di Buoninsegna. Maestà: The Healing of the Blind Man.
El Greco Christ Healing the Blind Man.
Nicolas Poussin Christ Healing the Blind.

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Located in the north of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou Heli Machinery Co., Ltd is a professional and international production base of foundry molds. Following the principles of "Integrity, Efficiency, and Innovation", the company pursues excellent and high-quality products, as a leading full-service provider.
The company has more than 150 employees, including 1 researcher, 8 senior engineers, and 10 engineers. Treating technology as the core competence, the company designs and produces sets of molds with CAD / CAM technology, and tests with CMM to ensure quality. With the rapid development of foundry industry, foundry mold has become increasingly important for casting production. On pursuing the higher stage of more precise, automatic, and effective production, the company bought many high-accuracy professional equipments, such as high-speed processing center, gantry machining center, vertical machining center, and three-coordinate measuring machine.
The company is capable of turn-key projects. It has established a long-term and stable cooperation with hundreds of clients such as Shanghai Volkswagen, Shanghai GM, Huadong Teksid Auto Co., LTD, Jianghuai Automobile Co., LTD, Chery Automobile Co., LTD, Hangzhou Auto Engine Co., LTD, Shanghai Diesel Engine Co., LTD, Sinotruk jinan power Co., LTD, Shanghai Sandmann Foundry Co., LTD. We have produced a variety of complicated molds of cylinder blocks, cylinder heads, crankshafts, bell housings, valve bodies, pistons, intake-tubes, which have been widely used in different applications of automobiles, tractors, power-driven machines, machine tools, ships, pump valves and has won a lot of good reputation among our customers.
We are struggling for better molds and hope to cooperate with friends over the world to create a bright future.


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Angelina Jolie pleads for flood-hit Pakistan
'Salt' star raises awareness to combat compassion fatigueLONDON -- Angelina Jolie says it's vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue.
The floods have displaced 20 million people, but donations are below those for catastrophes like the Haitian earthquake or the Asian tsunami.
Jolie said she understood that "it is getting hard for people -- they see Haiti, they see these other events ... and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around."
But she said Pakistanis face "mass death, mass displacement, and this situation is going to get worse."
Jolie has visited Haiti, Iraq and other countries as a U.N. goodwill ambassador.
The star says she might visit Pakistan once "the cameras go away."
Jolie spoke Monday at the London premiere of her spy thriller "Salt."


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With the addition of 248,000 jobs in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a significant drop in unemployment rate to 5.9% on Friday. This is reduction of -0.2 percentage points from August. Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate has dropped 1.3 percentage points and the number of unemployed persons has been reduced by 1.9 million. This is the lowest the unemployment rate has been since July 2008 when it was 5.8%.
Additionally, the Associated Press reported this week that the number of individuals applying for U.S. unemployment benefits dropped to it's lowest level in more than eight years. The number of individuals receiving aid is the fewest since June 2006 – 18 months before the start of the Great Recession.
The September Jobs Report also included revised numbers for July and August. Originally, July reported 209,000 new jobs, but was revised up to 212,000 in August's report. It has been revised up again – this time to 243,000. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for August was revised up from 142,000 to 180,000. Combined, the July and August revisions account for 69,000 more new jobs than had been reported previously.
September's Substantial IT Growth Statistics
The industry sector that includes IT, Professional and business services, reported a gain of 81,000 new jobs in September. Compared to the average of 56,000 new jobs per month, this is a substantial gain for the sector.
Of the 81,000 new jobs in professional and business services, 30,283 can be attributed specifically to IT. Management and technical consulting services reported 12,510 jobs which was an increase of 4,900 from August. With an increase of over 11,500 from August, computer systems design and related services reported significant growth with the addition of 17,773 new jobs in September.
Increased Competitiveness in the Tech Hiring Space
With the growth in the September Jobs Report as proof, the tech sector is expanding at a rapid rate and becoming more and more competitive for employers hiring IT professionals. Our 2015 Salary Guide Resource Center is filled with expert insights on the evolving tech workforce to assist you in attracting and retaining top talent in this competitive hiring space. Check it out here.


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Delight Your Marriage | Relationship Advice, Christianity, & Sexual Intimacy
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Hi, I'm Belah. Discover with me the secrets to an incredible marriage and physical intimacy in it! Join in as I interview inspiring and amazing wives and intimacy experts who share stories of their difficulties, joys, relationship advice and secrets to a lasting marriage. I ask each guest to share advice about sexual intimacy as well! Listen in to find out how long-time wives have kept the fun, peace and passion alive!Read more »


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Revenge! Tottenham star Lewis Holtby does epic tackle on referee Howard Webb
Most Premier League players have probably dreamed about flooring a referee every now and then, especially when they make a call against them or their team.
Most with never live that dream (without picking up a lengthy suspension), but Tottenham midfielder Lewis Holtby is one of the lucky ones.
Having just returned from a loan spell at Fulham, in which he helped the Cottagers get relegated to the Championship, he took his mind off things by playing in Ledley King's testimonial.
It was a light-hearted affair, and in what was probably meant to be a moment of comedy (honest), Holtby went in for a slide tackle on referee Howard Webb.
The man with the whistle soon went tumbling, much to the delight of the crowd. There was a cheeky dive from Webb, who then got up and shoved Holtby over.
Lewis Holtby, we salute you.


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Fantasy Football Week 13: Larry Fitzgerald Will Outperform These StudsDecember 1, 2010
After giving thanks and stuffing your carcass with stuffing, you may be feeling too stuffed to do any fantasy coaching this week. Fear not, bloated ones, as I, your faithful adviser and fantasy nut, will do the picking for you. If you're one of the lucky guys who own WR Larry Fitzgerald of the Cardinals or TE Joel Dreessen of the Texans, I'll make it easy for you—start em'.
Larry's No Mary
In week 13, Larry has a great matchup at home against the St. Louis Rams. After getting Krispy-Kremed by San Francisco 49ers' offense of second stringers (did you see the trolley mow through the Cardinal's defensive front?), the Cardinals will be playing angry, or at least QB Derek Anderson will. If you don't believe me, check out his last interview.
The fact that I'm highlighting one of 2009's top five wide receivers is a testament to how low he's fallen. I can almost bet all communications leading to Kurt Warner are "out of service" due to an overflow of messages from Fitzy. Larry should rise like the phoenix this week, however, since the Rams don't have the talent to pressure the quarterback, meaning Anderson will get a number of passes close enough to Larry's body for him to make completions and touchdowns.
I estimate between 60 -100 yard and 1-2 TDs for Mr. Fitzgerald.
Here are the wide receivers I would start Larry over:
1) Calvin Johnson—That's right. I wrote it. Big and brass, mine are. Chicago's pass defense is nothing to laugh at.
2) Percy Harvin—It's just too easy to run on the Bills, and the Vikings own RB Adrian Peterson. Plus WR Sydney Rice is reestablishing himself in the offense.
3) Anquan Boldin—QB Joe Flacco has been looking at Boldin like a third option. Even Housh got more yardage last game. Do you expect things to change Week 13 against the Steelers?
4) Miles Austin—Why would I pick Larry over such talent? Easy. Dez is Kitna's darling. Although Austin scored big fantasy points last week, they came from a 60 yard rushing touchdown on a trick play. I don't expect that happening every week.
5) Darrius Heyward-Bey & Chris Chambers (Combined)—Just for fun.
6) Bernard Berrian—I don't care if he's injured. I add him because I can. You gonna stop me?
Joel's in Control
Joel Dreessen's situation is fairly easy to sum up. Philadelphia Eagles' CB Asante Samuel will make his return Thursday, meaning better coverage on wide receivers. Opportunity knocks for Dreessen. The Eagles rank 28th for FFPTS allowed to tight ends, so Dreessen could repeat last week's performance with more yardage.
I would start Joel over these tight ends:
1) Ben Watson—This hot and cold tight end should be chilly playing the Dolphins, who are 3rd for FFPTS allowed to tight ends.
2) Chris Cooley—Same as the Ben Watson situation, except the Giants register at fifth for FFPTS allowed to tight ends.
The Bet
If I'm wrong about Larry or Joel outperforming these guys, next week I'll cradle one of those mini bowling balls over my lap with a wet Bounty paper towel for one minute, but if I'm right you'll have personal knowledge as to whether Bounty paper towels are REALLY as sturdy as the commercials say they are.
About Me, Wendell "Papa Smurf" Gaymon
I'm not really a little, blue, hairless, half-naked leprechaun who lives in a decked out mushroom. I'm an average Joe like you, who spends his eight hours of sleep obsessing over this game we call Fantasy Football. You'll find I'm a bit off-kilter with my picks, but I think that's how you win best—picking the best players with the best matchups.


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The Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference (LAK16) is happening this week in Edinburgh. I unfortunately, due to existing travel and other commitments, am not in attendance.
I have great hope for the learning analytics field as one that will provide significant research for learning and help us move past naive quantitative and qualitative assessments of research and knowledge. I see LA as a bricolage of skills, techniques, and academic/practitioner domains. It is a multi-faceted approach of learning exploration and one where anyone with a stake in the future of learning can find an amenable conversation and place to research.
Since I am missing LAK16, and feeling nostalgic, I want to share my reflections of how LAK and the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) became the influential agencies that they now are in learning research. Any movement has multiple voices and narratives so my account here is narrow at best. I am candid in some of my comments below, detailing a few failed relationships and initiatives. If anyone reading this feels I have not been fair, please comment. Alternatively, if you have views to share that broaden my attempt to capture this particular history, please add them below.
How we got started
On March 14, 2010, I sent the following email to a few folks in my network (Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Dave Cormier, Grainne Conole, David Wiley, Phil Long, Clarence Fisher, Tony Hirst, and Martin Weller. A few didn't respond and those that joined didn't stay involved, with the exception of Phil):
As more learning activities occur online, learners produce growing amounts of data. All that data cries out to be parsed, analyzed, interrogated, tortured, and visualized. The data being generated could provide valuable insight into teaching and learning practices. Over the last few years, I've been promoting data visualization as an important trend in understanding learners, the learning process, and as an indicator of possible interventions.
Would you be interested in participating in a discussion on educational analytics (process, methods, technologies)? I imagine we could start this online with a few elluminate meetings, but I think a f2f gathering later this year (Edmonton is lovely, you know) would be useful. (Clarence, Alec, and I tackled this topic about three years ago, but we didn't manage to push it much beyond a concept and a blog ).
At the same time, I sent an email to colleagues in TEKRI (Rory McGreal, Kinshuk, and Dragan Gasevic) asking if this could be supported by Athabasca University. Dragan promptly replied stating that "I can say that most of the things we are doing with semantic technologies are pretty much related to analytics and I would be quite interest in such an event". Then he told me that my plan for a conference in fall 2010 were completely unrealistic asking "[who] would be a potential participant? How we can get any audience in December?".
Dragan and Shane Dawson, who I connected with through a comment on this blog, are two critical connections and eventually friends. Except Shane. He is mean and has relationship issues. SoLAR would not exist without their involvement. Another important connect was Ryan Baker. Ryan started the International Educational Datamining Society a few years earlier. The fact that Ryan was willing to assist in the formation of a possibly competing organization speaks volumes about his desire to have rich scientific discourse. We ended up publishing an article in LAK12 about collaboration and engagement between our fields.
Organization was slow plodding for the first LAK conference. We built out our steering committee (defined by anyone who agreed to join) to include Erik Duval, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Caroline Haythornthwaite). We set up a Google group at the end of March on Education Analytics. The bulk of the planning for the first conference happened in that Google Group. By the end of June, I had seen the light of Dragan's wisdom and agreed to move the conference to 2011. The LAK11 conference was held in Banff, Alberta in March. Important to note that we paid $500 for that logo. It should have come with a hit of acid.
The financials of any first event are critical. There is always risk. I've had events fail that cost a fair bit of money – a social media conference that I ran in Edmonton was a pleasant financial failure. For LAK11, we received financial support from Athabasca University, CEIT (University of Queensland), Kaplan, D2L, and the Gates Foundation. We generated a profit of ~$10k and that was forwarded to the organizers of LAK12 (Shane Dawson) to help seed the next conference. We didn't have a formal organization to share in the expenses so each organizer for the first several years had to bear the financial risk. Paying past success forward made things easier for the next event. Leading up to LAK14, we were legally organized as SoLAR and took on the financial risk for local organizers.
Finding a publisher
In order to improve the scholarly profile of the conference, we pursued formal affiliation with a publisher. For many academics in Europe and Latin America, this was important in order to receive funding for travel. Dragan made numerous attempts to get Springer's LNCS volume affiliation for the conference. The LNAI affiliation ended up being the avenue that we were suggested to pursue. Dragan put in the application on September 11, 2010. Springer stonewalled us at great length. We finally received confirmation that they would publish on July 17, 2011. Needless to say, as a professional organization, we did not want to work with a partner where that type of delay was considered acceptable. We were fortunate to connect with ACM and our first proceedings were published with them. Simon Buckingham Shum and Dragan were critical in securing this relationship, and in many ways for the academic rigour now found in LAK. I have been appropriately criticized by top researchers like Ryan Baker that the conference proceedings aren't open. It was a decision that we made to broaden, oddly enough, access to travel funds to researchers from other countries.
My momma don't like you
Not everyone was a fan of the idea of learning analytics. As this discussion thread on Martin Weller's blog post reveals, there were voices of doubt around the idea of learning analytics:
Wish you luck in pursuing this Next Greatest Thing. Maybe next year's can include the words "Mobile" "Emergent" and "Open" to broaden its hipness even further…really, really, really have been trying very hard not to make any comments since I first saw this announced early in 2010. I mean REALLY hard, because that comment above doesn't even start to capture the amount of bullshit this smells like to me. But I am sure it will be a smashing success, a new field will have been invented, and my suspicions that there is no 'there there' even more unfounded. History will surely side with you George, of that I have little doubt.
Some of these doubts have become reality due to a techno-centric view of analytics, as is often captured by Audrey Watters. Interestingly, one of my first interviews on LA was with Audrey when she was writing for O'Reilly. The field has sometimes moved distressingly close to solutionism and Audrey has rightly turned toward criticism. We need more criticism of the field – both from researchers and practitioners and I find people like Audrey who are bluntly honest are essential to progressing as a research domain.
Leading up to LAK11, I organized a LA MOOC (haha, MOOCs were so cool back then). This served as an opportunity to get people onto the same page regarding LA and to broaden possible attendance to the conference. LAK11 was fairly small with about 100+ people in attendance.
About two days before LAK11, I sent out an email stating:
We are expecting a week of nice weather – beautiful for strolling around Banff and enjoying the amazing scenery. Weather in the Canadian Rockies can be a bit temperamental, so it's advised to pack clothing for the possibility of some chilly days.
Well, I lied. We were expecting -2C. We got -35C. Freaking cold for those of you that haven't experienced it before. Also, it generated exceptionally high attendance rates as few people wanted to be outside.
The conference agenda (here) reveals the significant contributions of early attendees. While my first email to colleagues included my blogging network (Stephen, Alec, Dave, Martin) the LAK conference itself resulted in me engaging with a largely new social network disconnected from much of what I had been doing with connectivism and MOOCs, though there were points of overlap. In many ways, I see both MOOCs and LA as an extension of my thinking on connectivism as my more recent focus on the social, affective, and whole person aspects of learning.
Expanding and Growing
Following LAK, we spent some time organizing and getting our act together about what we had created. Over time it became clear that we needed an umbrella organization – one that was research centric – to guide and develop the field. On Oct 2, I sent the following email to our education analytics Google Group. I include the bulk of it as it reflects our transition to SoLAR – the Society for Learning Analytics Research.
With interest continuing to grow in learning analytics – at institutional, government, and now entrepreneurial levels – some type of organization of our shared activities might be helpful.
Based on the sentiment expressed at the post-LAK11 meeting on developing a group or governing body for learning analytics, a few of us have been working on forming such an organization. In the process, I've had the opportunity to meet and chat with several SC members (Erik Duval, Dragan Gasevic, Simon Buckingham-Shum) on different organizational structures that might serve as a model. We've done enough organizing work, we think, to open the discussion to a broader audience…namely the LAK SC (that's you).
We've decided on Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) as a name for our organization. The term was coined by Simon Buckingham-Shum (program co-chair, LAK12). Obviously, we would like to invite existing LAK conference steering committee members to be a part of it. Are you interested in transferring your SC role to SoLAR? If so, please provide an image of your lovely head as well as a preferred link to your site/blog/work and a few sentences about how awesome you are.
We have also reserved the domain name: solaresearch.org for our society.
We envision SoLAR as an umbrella group that runs the LAK conference, engages in collaborative research, work with research students, scholar exchange, applies for grants, provides access for researchers to broader skill sets than they might have on their team, produces publications, etc. SoLAR is expected to be an international society/network where learning analytics researchers can connect, collaborate, and amplify their work. It is possible that SoLAR may occasionally provide feedback on policy details as states and provinces adopt LA. Maybe that's a bit too blue sky…
Over the next few months, various documents will be drafted, including a charter, mission, and decision making process for SoLAR. For example, how do we elect officials? How do we decide where the conference will be held next year? etc. We (currently: Shane, Simon, Dragan, Caroline, John (Campbell), and myself) recommend that an interim SoLAR leadership board – the group just listed – be tasked with developing those documents and sharing with the SoLAR steering committee for comment and approval. Once this interim leadership has completed its organizing work, we will then open the process to democratic elections based on SC and society membership. We haven't yet determined the criteria for being a SoLAR member (fees? attend a conference? invite only?) or how long SC members serve. Currently we are a self-organized group. Everyone is here either by an invite or expressing interest. Laying a clear, democratic, foundation now will help to position SoLAR as a strong advocate for learning analytics in education.
LAK12 was a tremendous success. Shane was a spectacular host. It became clear to us that interest was high in LA as a research activity and practice space. We arranged a meeting following the conference where we brought in ~50 representatives from funding agencies, corporations, and government officials. The intent was to discuss how LA might evolve as a field, what was needed to broaden impact, and how grant and foundation funding might assist in improving the impact of work.
Following LAK12, SoLAR engaged in a series of initiatives to improve the sharing of research and increase support for faculty entering the field. We had spent time in late 2011 discussing a journal, but didn't get much traction on this until 2012. In early April, Dragan and Simon had put together an overview of the journal theme and it was approved by SoLAR executive and announced at LAK12. Dragan, Simon, and Phil were the first editors. Simon stepped down shortly after it started and Shane stepped in. Shane and Dragan have been the main drivers of the Journal of Learning Analytics.
A mess of other activities were started during this time including workshops at HICCS (organized by Dan Suthers, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Alyssa Wise), Storms – local workshops, Flares – regional conferences, events affiliated with other academic organizations such as learning sciences. Basically, we were putting out many shoots to connect with as many academics and practitioners as possible.
One activity that continues to be highly successful is the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI). In August of 2012, I sent Roy Pea from Stanford an email asking if he'd be interested in joining SoLAR in organizing a summer institute. We felt the Stanford affiliation signalled a good opportunity for SoLAR. Roy agreed and we started organizing the first event.
Roy and I didn't connect well. Roy felt I was too impatient. I was pushing too hard to get things organized. Academic timelines always give me a rash. We managed to secure significant funding from the Gates Foundation and the first LASI was a success, in no small part do to Roy's organizing efforts. After LASI, we decided to move the institute to different locations annually – a perspective that I strongly pushed as I didn't want LASI to be affiliated with only one school. Due to my head bumping with Roy and suggestions to host the next LASI elsewhere (Harvard it turned out), I was written out of the final learning analytics report that he produced for the Gates Foundation on LASI. Academics are complex people!
A list of LASI, Flare, and LAK events can be found here.
Getting the finances right
Follow LAK11, we started exploring university subscriptions to SoLAR. This was informed by Shane's thinking on paying an annual fee to be involved in groups such as NMC or EDUCAUSE. We set up a series of "Founding Universities", each committing about $10k to be founding members. This served to be a prudent decision as it gave us a base of funds to use for growing our membership and hosting outreach events. Our doctoral seminars, for example, are funded and supported by these subscriptions.
We had strong corporate support as well with organizations like D2L, Oracle, Intel, Instructure, McGraw-Hill, and others providing support for the conferences and summer institutes. Corporate support has proven to be valuable in running successful conferences and enabling student opportunities. We decided to stay away from sponsored keynotes so as to ensure academic integrity of our conferences. I continue to be disappointed that we have been largely unable to get support from pure LA companies such as Civitas and education research arms of companies such as SAS. The students that we graduate grow the field. LA companies benefit from field growth. Or at least that's my logic.
The founding members and current institutional partners are listed here. Each one has been central to our success.
Enter Grace
Grace Lynch joined SoLAR work in 2012. During LASI at Stanford, she pitched the idea of hiring someone to do administrative and organizing work with SoLAR. Up to that point, we were run by academics devoting their time. The work load was increasing. And those who know me also know my attention for detail is somewhat, um, varied. Hiring Grace was the best decision that I made in SoLAR. She was able to get us organized, financially and administratively. The success of SoLAR and LAK and LASI events is due to her effort. I frequently hear from others who first attend a SoLAR event about how impressed they are with the professionalism and organization. That's Grace's doing.
Engaging with with big ideas
During LAK11, we expressed our goals as an association:
Advances in knowledge modeling and representation, the semantic web, data mining, analytics, and open data form a foundation for new models of knowledge development and analysis. The technical complexity of this nascent field is paralleled by a transition within the full spectrum of learning (education, work place learning, informal learning) to social, networked learning. These technical, pedagogical, and social domains must be brought into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders.
In order to serve multiple stakeholders, beyond LAK/LASI/Journal, we also held leadership summits and produced reports such as Improving the Quality and Productivity of the Higher Education Sector: Policy and Strategy for Systems-Level Deployment of Learning Analytics.
We have also been active in helping to shape the direction of the field by advocating for open learning analytics – a project that is still ongoing.
Losing Erik Duval
When one's personal and professional worlds come together, as they often due in long term deep collaborative relationships, individual pain becomes community pain. Erik Duval, a keynote speaker at our first LAK conference, passed away earlier this year. He shared his courageous struggle on his blog. Reading the Twitter stream from LAK16, I am encouraged to see that SoLAR leadership has set up a scholarship in his honour. His contributions to LA as a discipline are tremendous. But as a friend and human being, his contributions to people and students are even more substantive. You are missed Erik. Thank you for modelling what it means to be an academic and a person of passion and integrity.
What I am most proud of
LAK is a unique conference and SoLAR is a special organization. I have never worked with such open, non-ego, "we're in it because we care", people in my life. I wish that future leadership also has the pleasure of experiencing this collegial and collaborative spirit. Our strengths as a community are in the diversity of our membership. This diversity is reflected in global representation and academic disciplines. As a society, we have better gender diversity than what is found in many technical fields. It is not where it should be yet. And the progress that we have made is due to the advocacy of Caroline Haythornthwaite and Stephanie Teasley. The current executive is a reflection of that diversity.
What's next
At LAK15, I stepped down as founding president of SoLAR. I felt like it was time to go – I've seen too many fields where a personality becomes too large for the health of the field. We've always emphasized that SoLAR should be a welcoming space where individuals from different disciplines and research interests can find a place to play, to work, to connect. In order for this to happen, fluid processes for getting opinionated people out and new ideas in is important!
My attention is now primarily focused on two areas: developing LA as a field in China and increasing the sophistication of data collection. Recent visits to China, Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University as well as an Intel LA event in Hangzhou in fall, have made it clear to me that LA is robust, active, and sophisticated in China. In many of the projects and products that I've seen, they're well ahead of where the current state of publishing in English suggests that we are. In conversations with colleagues at Tsinghua, we have agreed to make the development of a research network and academic community in China a key priority.
Secondly, at LINK Research Lab, we have turned our research attention to wearables and ambient computing. As I stated in my keynote at LAK12, increasing and improving the scope and quality of data collection is needed in order to improve the sophistication of our work as a field. Physiological and contextual data will assist in advancing the field, as will a greater focus on social and affective aspects of learning. Cognition is only one aspect of learning. As a consequence, focus on affective, social, meta-cognitive, and process and strategy is required. To get there, we need better, broader data.
Well, that's my reflection how we got here with LA and SoLAR. What have I missed?


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Most of us search for a job by responding to job postings we find that look interesting.
We search jobs at one or a few job boards. We may also scan the classified ads in the local newspapers. We apply for the jobs that look interesting, maybe sign up to get some sent by e-mail, and repeat the process the next day or the next week.
While checking job postings on a big site like Indeed.com or SimpllyHired.com can be excellent research (who's hiring, for what, where??), spending all your job search efforts scanning job postings is not as productive as it feels for these reasons.
Some people would call this a lose/lose situation. Studies have shown that less that half of the average 250 applicants for every job meet the qualifications for those jobs, so by over-applying, we're killing the goose that laid the proverbial golden egg (the job postings).
You lose because you must spend a lot of time finding and combing through job opportunities for the ones that match your qualifications and/or interest you.
Recruiters lose because they must comb through hundreds of resumes to find the truly qualified applicants. And, people who repeatedly apply for jobs without meeting the requirements end up on "black lists" of applicants to ignore permanently because they are too dumb or too clueless to read the job descriptions.
The successful job seekers I've interviewed selected the kind of job they wanted (e.g. bank teller, entry-level professional, senior executive), the industry (e.g. banking, retail, healthcare), and then the local employers that they liked best. Once they determined the target employers, they focused most of their job search efforts on those specific organizations.
What did these successful job seekers do?
They took the following steps:
These successful job seekers regularly checked the employer's Website for job postings.
For example, one job seeker told me that she knew that her target employer always posted new job openings on Mondays. So, she always visited the company's site before lunch on Monday. She got the job she wanted, for the employer she wanted.
They also spoke with the people in the HR department to initiate (if possible and appropriate) the official job application process.
These job seekers tracked down contacts using LinkedIn and Twitter. They also checked with friends, family, neighbors, former colleagues who worked at one of the target employers or who knew someone who worked at one of the target employers.
Then, they worked with these people, providing as much support as possible, to identify appropriate job opportunities and get their resume submitted.
Hiring managers don't want to make mistakes -- it's expensive for the employer to recruit an employee and a few "bad hires" can definitely be career-limiting events for the person doing the hiring.
Employers LOVE "employee referrals" -- potential employees referred to the employer by current employees. Most have "employee referral programs" which reward employees who refer someone who is ultimately hired and becomes a successful employee. Studies show that someone who is referred into the company by another employee is usually a successful employee.
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Nicely, politely, relentlessly following up...by phone, in person, by e-mail, or even by Twitter. Whatever works best for you and is most effective in reaching a person at the employer's office.
Early in my career, I worked for a senior manager in the Personnel Office of Harvard University, and, many years later (we won't discuss how many), I still remember the ultimately successful applicant for a major construction project management job.
He called every two weeks to see how things were progressing -- always polite, always nice, and always in touch. It worked for him (he got the job) as it has worked for many thousands of job applicants and sales people. I've used it myself, too.
You probably don't want to be doing another job search in a year or two, so use this job search as an opportunity to find a job with an employer who will be around (and keep you around) for a while. The research you've done in selecting your target employers should help you avoid the ones that will disappear or disappoint - although no one has any guarantees in life or work.
Online job search expert Susan P. Joyce has been observing the online job search world and teaching online job search skills since 1995. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a recent Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Susan is a two-time layoff "graduate" who has worked in human resources at Harvard University and in a compensation consulting firm. Since 1998, Susan has been editor and publisher of Job-Hunt.org. Follow Susan on Twitter at @jobhuntorg and on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+.
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Changes to PayServ in preparation for SSN Decoupling Conversion.
To explain changes made in PayServ prior to the conversion of SSN as EMPLID to the NYS EMPLID as EMPLID.
Affected Employees
Users of the New York State Payroll System.
The changes described in this Bulletin will be available in PayServ on October 5, 2012. Implementation of the NYS EMPLID as EMPLID in PayServ is scheduled for November 9 – 12, 2012.
In order to assist users in accessing employee records in PayServ, SSN has been added as a search field for the following pages:
Additionally, a new Employee History Inquiry page has been added to Workforce Administration > Review Job Information. This page allows agency users to search by EMPLID (NYS EMPLID) and name to review employee history information for their employees.
OSC Actions
Job aids and supplemental communications are being prepared to assist agencies with the transition to the unique ID number, NYS EMPLID. OSC will implement this change on October 5, 2012.
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I was in the middle of planning our trip for 2008 and wanted to thank you for the magnificent job you've done on your website with maps and directions to all the campgrounds. You're head-over-heels over the competition. We are six year members of Passport America and plan to continue.
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Dear Good People at Passport America,
I'm sorry to say - I will not be renewing my subscription to this great service you supply.
One time I had a problem with a campground & you took care of it immediately - for which I never thanked you - until now. It was several years ago - I don't remember what state I was passing through. Thank you.
Now, I must sell my unit due to circumstances. I've had many good times and met quite a few enjoyable people. I recommend you to anyone that sounds like they need you. You have made my travels safer and relaxing for my Jack Russell and me. Together we have crossed the U.S. 4 times by RV. Thank You again.
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We just returned from a 6 week trip. Our savings paid our dues 3 times over. We also found out that Passport America is the most respected of the 'half off' discount clubs. We have 2 others, but will not renew them.
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We LOVE our Passport America membership and often share our satisfaction with other campers.
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We have used our Passport America Membership for both one night layovers and for specific campgrounds and in all cases we not only saved significantly more than our annual dues but are extremely satisfied with the service/ attitude of the campground managers/owners. Keep up the fantastic work!
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I teach a seminar for all the RV Life on Wheels Conferences, "RV Park & Campground Discounts & Memberships," covering most of the various programs and how to make a good purchase. I urge new extended and full-time RVers in particular to stay away from membership systems for their first year or two, since where and how they RV in the beginning may well change substantially during that early phase. But the one affiliation I do recommend is Passport America. Why? It costs only 2-3 nights stay to pay for itself and requires no lengthy contract nor thousands of dollars of outlay.
I also keep a large spreadsheet of all of these groups. The one that keeps growing is Passport America. Some are declining. Congratulations on your work to keep a net gain in parks."
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Kalle Palander retires
35-year old Kalle Palander sustained yet another, and his last, knee injury last October at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup opening in Sölden. Thursday, 20th September, Palander announced that he is pulling down the curtain on his career.
"This decision is the final one. For the first time, I quit in April. But then I started training again," he says.
The final decision came after a long period of reflection beginning in February and concluding in July.
"My gear has been ready to go since Sölden last year. Yesterday I took it and brought everything from the garage to the basement," Palander said. "It felt a bit strange, I have to admit. I thought about putting the boots on one more time, but then I decided to let it be."
"It would be too easy to say that I quit because the body cannot take it any more. But that is not the reason. I am in shape enough physically to say that if I had the motivation, fire, will and faith, I could make it back to the top, I would have continued."
"I feel relieved now. There is no longer the pressure to get fit by Sölden. I had to force myself to train and then when I got there, I just wasted my time at the gym. It is time to go and do something else."
As the first Finn, Kalle Palander won slalom gold at the FIS World Ski Championships in Vail in 1999. He debuted in the World Cup in December 1996 and won a total of 14 World Cup events, both in slalom and giant slalom. He won the slalom World Cup title in the season 2002/03.


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Brooks Garth - If Tomorrow Never Comes Chords & Tabs
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Wisconsin PG Gasser tears ACL in practice, will miss season
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin starting point guard Josh Gasser will miss the season after tearing an ACL in practice.
Gasser was hurt Saturday. Wisconsin says he'll be re-evaluated this week, and will have surgery shortly thereafter. He'll redshirt the season and have two years of eligibility remaining.
After backing up Jordan Taylor the last two seasons, Gasser was Wisconsin's most experienced point guard. He averaged 34 minutes and 7.6 points per game last year, and has career averages of 6.8 points and 4.1 rebounds.
Gasser's injury means the Badgers could begin the season without two of their projected starters. Forward Mike Bruesewitz is recovering from a freak accident in practice, when he gashed his shin against an exposed screw securing the basket. He needed 50 stitches, and is limited to the exercise bike.


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We did this topic already <g> it's even referenced from the website [1]. So at the risk of repeating my super-super-duper high level view... Why are we considering putting logging into the class library implementation? Is it for our end-users? Do we expect them to turn on logging and look at the contents to discover problems in our code? or perhaps discover problems in their usage of the API? Both of these seem like flawed concepts. Is it for us as developers? Putting printf's in the code doesn't seem like a very efficient way of figuring out how the code works, and just clutters up the codebase. I'd also object to having loads of modules depend on logging. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/agreements.html Regards, Tim Nathan Beyer wrote: > There seem to be a number of places where logging would be useful > within the class library (and Java parts of the VM), but the rules of > engagement seems to be undefined, so it's not being used. Here's my > super-duper high-level swipe at it. > > 1. Use java.util.logging for normal logging (somewhat obvious). > 2. Do not use java.util.logging within luni, security and kernel > modules; this is to prevent cyclical executions. > 3. Use the class name for the name of the Logger; this is based on the > assumption that classes will be packaged appropriately such that > logging can be enabled by packages to get sub-system information. > 4. Use the java.util.logging.Level javadoc [1] as a guide for the > appropriate logging level for a particular message. When in doubt, be > conservative and use lower levels (less than INFO). > > Thoughts, comments? The big question in my mind is what modules must > be isolated from consuming java.util.logging (regarding 2 above). The > other modules that might need isolation are archive and text, but I'm > not sure about that. Any others? > > -Nathan > > [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/logging/Level.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > -- Tim Ellison (email@example.com) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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The US Cup is pleased to announce the 2010 dates for its inaugural Triple Crown All Mountain Series.
"We are excited to release our Triple Crown dates and venues to the public. We wanted to take into consideration all major UCI events and dates before we released the Triple Crown schedule. After reviewing the Pro XCT calendar which was released on USA Cycling's website two weeks ago, we felt we have made the public wait long enough for this announcement, comments US Cup Chairman Scott Tedro. "The US Cup has also, as a show of support for the Pro Riders that are chasing Olympic birth, tentatively agreed to do our part by hosting a UC 1 inscripted Pro XCT event at Fontana on March 27-28th, and feel good that we have established this series with minimal impact and overlap of existing events†adds Tedro. "The whole concept of the Triple Crown event is in conjunction with our partner promoters, incorporate 3 top tier venues and offer Pro riders a substantial amount of prize money over $35000.00 in cash payouts, not just the top 3 Pro Riders, but to the top 10, while still making it logistically possible to incorporate it with their existing race scheduleâ€.
The opening round of the US Cup Triple Crown All Mountain Series will be held at Bonelli Park on March 13-14. The second round will incorporate the Mountain States Cup series at Chalk Creek Stampede May 15-16 and the final has been awarded to Massanutten resort on June 19-20th. This concept embraces all parts of the country and we hope the racers will be excited to see a US Cup triple crown come to their home town race.
"We couldn't be more excited to work with the great folks at the mountain states cup and Massanutten venues. In our opinion they are some of the top promoters in the country and already have established themselves with the racers and cycling communityâ€, adds Ty Kady US Cup marketing director. "Chris Conroy, Keith and Sarah at MSC have been very receptive of our concept, and of course George Willetts of Massanutten has been running the Hoo-Ha for the last 20+ years and is all over the idea.â€
"The Triple Crown All Mountain series will test the rider's ability in multiple disciplines to declare the Triple Crown All Mountain winner. We have decided to make this series more appealing to the riders, sponsors and media by incorporating Cross Country, Super D and Short Track into the series conceptâ€, continues Kady. "A rider's best 2 of 3 events will be calculated to crown a winner at each race and ultimately the overall series Champion.â€
We are also going to be paying 10 deep in each discipline, plus offer US Cup bonus bucks to the top 10 male and female finishers at each individual event given certain field numbers are met. Then as an added bonus any rider male or female that can sweep all three rounds of the Triple Crown will put an extra $2K in their pocket. This could be a huge pay day for the riders!
"This couldn't be possible without all the US Cup supporters. Companies like H2O Overdrive, Specialized, Kenda, KMC Chains, GU, John Wayne Cancer foundation and others have all really stepped up their support of US Cup events for 2010â€, adds Ty Kady.
In addition the US Cup will continue with its network of Kenda Cups, that act as local and regional qualifiers. The Kenda Cups feature over 15 locations across the US, from Ashland, Oregon to French Lick, Indiana. The US Cup Invitational shootout will be on September 11-12, The US Cup will also manage a high level west coast based series that incorporates the Triple Crown opener, Pro XCT race and other California favorite venues.
Look for more details on Triple Crown scheduled payout and presenting and naming sponsors of this inaugural event as well as updates to our ever growing Kenda Cup qualifiers.
For more information on US Cup, the Triple Crown All Mountain Series, and the Kenda Cups visit www.uscup.net.


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It might not be as blatant, visually, as the EA sports ad that looked like the giant people in the Nike ad, nor is it based all in execution like the "sorry I'm late" twins, which made me contemplate the difference between Inevitable Creative Outcomes, vs Lazy, vs creative theft... ah, but I digress. It's Badlander time!
Nike has a pretty rad new ad out from w+k in Portland where the entire city turns into a video game, and the runners, much like Sonic The Hedgehog, bop up and down on things and gather points. This feels kinda familiar. Like I've seen that idea before. Oh my god, I have. In 2009. For Adidas! Quel embarrassement! Or as we say in the business...oops.
And just yesterday we received Nike "Run your city" which is pretty dang epic, as people run through an entire city as if it were a video game. There are some great special effects in this, but it also feels a little confused as some of the things run on are pixel/game stuff and other things are real items, just set up as if they were in a computer game (wooden pallets).
Do I think the Nike ad copied the Adidas ad on purpose? No. Do I think it's a hilarious similarity? Hells, yes. Do I think there might be more examples out there? Yup yup, at least similar. Enough about me, what do you think?


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From panic to peace in Lithuania
"In urgent need of a quick break yet short of time to plan one, Fiona Duncan hits a new website's 'emergency' button"
Review by Fiona Duncan, published 2nd September 2007.
We are in the queue for departures at Heathrow, but we haven't a clue where we're going. Or rather we know what it says on our tickets - Palanga, via Copenhagen - but beyond that we're pretty much in the dark.
We trudge through the security checks and into the departure lounge, and are ready for a little light airport shopping when our stress levels, hovering around acute, soar back up to alarming: our flight to Copenhagen is delayed. When we get there, we'll have only 15 minutes to catch our connecting flight to Palanga. Was this trip really going to de-stress us?
I won't bore you with how my friend Leonie and I came to find ourselves in a last-minute bid for sun, sanity and soothing surroundings, but suffice to say that mounting work loads combined with school holidays, the ghastly British weather and the need to convene (we work together, but from our separate homes) were driving us to the brink.
Do we have to meet in Basingstoke again, I moaned (it's equidistant). Let's get away somewhere sunny, somewhere different, for a few days. We had no time to research destinations, so the moment had come to press that panic button, the one I noticed on blacktomato.co.uk.
Black Tomato is a savvy new travel agency that has as its shop window not brochures but a slick website, full of ideas for short breaks all over the world, pigeonholed into Action Time, Sports Time, Stylish Time, Intrepid Time and so on. Normally I dream up my own perfect break, but Black Tomato's panic button is there to provide urgent inspiration with a few days' notice.
With some trepidation, I filled in the detailed questionnaire on the home page and pressed the button. Within minutes I received a phone call from an adviser on the panic desk. Within hours we'd plumped for a three-night stay in a country we'd never been to (Lithuania), a town we'd never heard of (Palanga), with an equally obscure natural wonder, the Curonian Spit, nearby. Within days we were off, Black Tomato having taken care of our flights, transfers, hotel and hire car. The tickets arrived in the nick of time, with two gifts: a CD and book of our choice.
When we land at Palanga it's late, we're tired and although we made the transfer at Copenhagen, our bags didn't. However, the efficient staff at the tiny airport issue us with survival kits to get us through until morning when our bags, we hope, will appear.
Palanga is Lithuania's premier Baltic-coast resort: part colourful playground with a carnival vibe, full of bars, clubs, live music, tacky stalls and fairground rides; and part calm oasis, with houses hidden in a forest of scented, sky-high pines, a huge and beautiful botanical garden and a superb beach carpeted by the most luxuriant sand I have ever set foot on, stretching for miles.
We love our contemporary hotel, an elegant construction of curving glass almost obscured by the trees that surround it. Our standard room, with balcony, is comfortable and spacious, the staff are exceptionally friendly, and the food, we discover, is excellent: fresh, contemporary and inexpensive. And there's a swimming pool and spa (pre-book treatments).
Breakfast is more characteristic of the region than dinner: an amazing spread of curd cheese with jam and cream, poached salmon, stuffed eggs, frankfurters and salads - plus all the usuals, too. We set off, stuffed, to explore the Curonian Spit.
It's an hour's easy drive from Palanga, including a short ferry crossing from Klaipeda, Lithuania's second city, to the start of the spit. You can hire a car, or take a driver or, as we did, take a guide as well. Either way, you'll find an extraordinary and fragile landscape: a 60-mile lick of sand dividing the Curonian lagoon from the Baltic.
A Unesco World Heritage Site, it has given shelter to Crusaders crossing the winter ice, provided a through-route for the coaches and fours of European postal services, and been the summer home of Thomas Mann, whose wooden house is now a museum. Mann wrote of the spit's beauty and its fantastic dunes.
The sweeping, shifting sands, responsible for burying a number of villages, are the spit's highlight, but it has other charms: the sense of calm; the scent of pines; the herons in the tree tops; and the intricate weather vanes that once adorned family fishing boats.
We lunch in the village of Nida, with its colourful houses, its fabulous beach (equal to Palanga's, without the crowds) and its remarkable cemetery. The Curonians had only sand and pinewood at their disposal, so their tombstones are in wood, carved by relatives of the deceased. The graves lie in a tranquil glade, and are still smothered in flowers and greenery.
It's been a busy day. We'd thought we needed to flop, but we find that plunging into another world, one quite outside our experience, is far more cathartic than lying prone on the beach. And anyway, next day, back in Palanga, we get our share of sunbathing, as well as cycling gently through the botanical gardens and ambling round the intriguing Amber Museum, where million-year-old flies can be seen trapped in golden coffins made of pine resin.
Waiting for each of us at home is a package from Black Tomato containing a £25 voucher for an upmarket takeaway and a copy of The Week so we can catch up with the news. That's a nice touch, too, but what we're really grateful for is a panic button that worked.
Getting there
Black Tomato (020 7610 9008; www.blacktomato.co.uk) charged £599 per person for four nights' b&b at the Hotel Palanga, based on two people sharing a twin or double room, including international flights and private airport transfers.
Most operators' websites offer a search option that will help users in a hurry find something quickly, but the questions asked - typically, "holiday style?" , "destination" and "special interests?" - are fairly broad so the results are less likely to be exactly what you are looking for.
However, several operators are introducing "welcome home" vouchers similar to Black Tomato's: Virgin Holidays (www.virginholidays.co.uk), for example, is currently inviting customers travelling between May 1 and October 8, 2008, to fill their fridge with £100-worth of food from Tesco on their return - providing they book their holidays by September 24.


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Blueprints - The Chilled Edition
Ambient Moods and Laid Back Grooves
22 tracks on one CD Album
Cat : DEEPLP0209
Label : Deepblue Records
Release date : Autumn 2009
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Your perfect soundtrack to a lazy day and your comrade on those days after the night before
01. Forerunners - Lifecycle (Forerunners Offshore Mix)
02. Manvel Ter-Pogosyan - Tears Of Armenia (Ambient Mix)
03. D-Air - Abrente (Ambient Mix)
04. Corderoy - Triango (Original Mix)
05. Adam Nickey - Perfect Destiny (Ambient Mix)
06. Soren S - Sand In Your Shoes -(Rising Morning Chillout Mix)
07. Starion - Angelsong (Original Mix)
08. Update Project - After The Rain (Original Mix)
09. Skyscraper - Jabberwock (Solarstone's Afterhours Version)
10. Haris C - Morning Sun - (Update Project Ambient Mix)
11. Alexey Selin - White Crystal - (Update Project Ambient Mix)
12. Corderoy - Simple Emotion (Original Mix)
13. Double V - Moscow Morning (Andy Hagerty Ambient Mix)
14. Solarstone - Crashing (Original Mix)
15. Skyscraper - The Hymn (Update Project Mix)
16. Solarstone and Jes - Like A Waterfall (Flipside Remix)
17. Corderoy - Distance (Original Mix)
18. Adam Nickey feat. Tiff Lacey - Letting Go
(Michael Witness Ambient Mix)
19. Andy Hagerty - Sweet Sweet Robot (Original Mix)
20. Leo G - Supersonic (Ambient Mix)
21. Solarstone - Release - (Adam Nickey Ambient Mix)
22. Corderoy - At The Edge (Endtro Version)
To celebrate 10 years of Deepblue Records and to coincide with the success of the recent commended album mixed by Filo & Peri, Deepblue proudly presents 'Blueprints - The Chilled Edition' ... A stunningly crafted album featuring 22 timeless and moving tracks, including exclusive unreleased ambient reworks as well as highlighting brand new music from some of most cutting edge ambient artists in the scene today.
Exemplifying a deeper alternative side to the label whilst exhibiting its multi-talented stable of artists, the album is a seamless journey compiled and mixed by one of the dance industries most instrumental figures over the last 10 years - producer Andy Bury... Not only head honcho of the Deepblue label, Andy is also globally known for his own work which has featured on many of the best 'chillout' compilations of the 21st Century. As the former half of Solarstone, his 'afterhours' reworks of high profile acts such as Oakenfold ('Southern Sun') and Sarah Mc Lachlan ('Worlds On Fire') are still to this day considered classics. In addition, the highly acclaimed 'Chilled Out Euphoria' album, which he also co- produced, went top 5 in the album charts selling in excess of 100,000 copies.
Throughout the Blueprints journey you will discover a vast array of ambient remixes of many tracks on the label, together with some of the better-known 'chill out' tracks which have found their way onto many of the more successful compilation albums of the genre over the last decade.
Showcasing a vast array of rising talents in the scene, the ever present aptitude of London based producer Corderoy supplies not one but four pieces of flair and finesse. Also featured is Russia's 'Update Project' whose productions make a significant contribution to the albums character.
Carefully blending between darker soundtrack-esque pieces and laid back downtempo grooves. Well known names also fall seamlessly within the soundscape, together with gorgeous remixes of anthemic moments including Solarstone and JES 'Like A Waterfall' from Big Chill stalwarts 'Flipside'
So relax and enjoy this perfect accompaniment for the 'chillout' fan, seamlessly blended heavenly-sounding expeditions through classically inspired atmospheric music.
Further Info:
Dale Russell
t: (0) 207 503 6655 / (0) 7958 914 205
e: andy (@) deepbluerecords.co.uk /
info (@) deepbluerecords.co.uk
Deepblue Records 2009 - New Album - Blueprints - A Decade Of Trance Anthems and Future Classics - Mixed By Filo and Peri


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