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IBM expanded its flash array portfolio with DeepFlash 150 for big data workloads.
The DeepFlash 150 offers a high storage density of up to 170TB per rack which means that seven petabytes of all-flash can be placed into one standard rack.
Customers will be able to use the JBOF in a 3U chassis that customers can use as a standalone or with the company's Spectrum Scale storage software. Spectrum Scale is based on IBM's General Parallel File System and is capable of running on separate server hardware.
The company said that DeepFlash 150 is designed for companies in need of high capacity, high density and cost-optimised all-flash arrays for big data workloads.
Some of the benefits are that it provides a building block for software-defined storage infrastructures designed for big data, media and entertainment streaming, high-speed database, and hyper-scale environments.
One of the big selling points of the product is its cost, which has long been an issue for all-flash arrays. The company said that the basic hardware platform is priced to under $1 a gigabyte. The hope is that the barrier to entry has been lowered enough by the price that more people will see it as a viable option for their big data workloads.
By combining the all-flash system with Spectrum Scale it becomes more of an array in terms of storage functions, this means that it will then offer snapshots, replication, and compression, encryption is also included in the software layer.
The all-flash market has become a lot more competitive over the past year as significant advances have made the product much cheaper and therefore easier to sell.
Pure Storage is one of the vendors pushing the technology use with unstructured data with FlashBlade and EMC with Project Nitro, an all-flash version of Isilon storage, although this is only just heading into beta stage.
DeepFlash 150 is equipped with 64 multilevel cell flash cards instead of using SAS or SATA solid-state drives. These are provided by Western Digital's SanDisk division by virtue of a partnership with IBM.
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Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present Pastorale, an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Karen Wilberding Diefenbach. Inspired by the landscape of Tuscany, Diefenbach's work is known for its evocation of tradition and its exploration of our complex interaction with the natural world.
Fascinated by what she has called the "determined survival" of the ancient trees in Tuscany and their silent witness to the events of history, Diefenbach has been interested in the cyclical changes of the seasons and the constant transformation of the natural environment. In her new paintings, such as Pastorale (2023) and Pastorale #2, Old Olive Tree (2023), Diefenbach's large scale paintings of vibrant trees reflect this theme of temporality. Unending swirls of bright color form the towering branches of Diefenbach's trees, conveying the strength and majesty that has endured for hundreds of years.
This exhibition also explores Diefenbach's ongoing series of works focusing on the Pecore Massese – a unique breed of sheep originating in the Alpi Apuane – that she first encountered in the hills above the town of Camaiore. Diefenbach came to see the Massese sheep's strange forms as a metaphor for ritual and historical continuity. Seemingly out of time, they graze on the ancient hills as they have for many centuries. Yet in recent years their population has rapidly declined. Diefenbach's work thus takes on an elegiac tone, and her artistic meditations have come to evoke a place and a way of life that is increasingly under threat.
Il Gregge (The Flock) (2023) exemplifies the formal simplicity with which Diefenbach approaches her subject. Exploring the inherent seriality of nature, she renders a flock of sheep with a linear geometry and an expressive palette. In San Macario #1, Three Pecore (2023) individual animals look out at us, their wide-eyed gaze meeting ours. With a flattened perspective and a dappled, abstract application of paint, San Macario #1, Three Pecore captures both the familiarity and the uncanniness of the ancient animals.
Alongside the Massese sheep, Diefenbach has recently begun to depict the large white Chianina cattle –considered one of the oldest cattle breeds in the world –which provide a similar living connection to history. With an attention to form and a sensitive handling of material, Diefenbach's depictions of the animals and landscape of Italy contemplate our relationship to ritual and form a meditation on nature and place.

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With an aim to infuse knowledge on career making in the youth, a one day free ' workshop on career counselling programme was held at Tangla College wherein around 250 students participated. The programme was organized by Dept. of Education & IQAC cell of the college. The programme was inaugurated and presided by Dr. Prasen Daimari Principal and Prof Chandan Baruah of the College respectively.
The resource person who counselled the students was counsellor and columnist ofMelange magazine of The Sentinel Ranjan Kr. Baruah. Baruah spoke in length on the occasion, wherein he briefed the students as to what should be their target, how could the problems and hurdles be tackled and what is the success mantra for ultimate career progress. He stressed upon the students for not making wrong decisions in life, saying that one wrong decision could spoil anybody's career. He further said that"
Youths from the NE region lack confidence thus majority of them even don't even appear in the exams of jobs offered by the central government and corporate houses". He urged the students to pursue their career in the fields they are passionate about. He mentioned about various Career perspectives ranging from careers on military, para-military,allied health and para-medical to careers on special educator catered to physical disabled people,Fashion designing,film,Drama ,management,civil service,banking and finance,sports instructor,mass communication, entrepreneurship and many more. He also awared the students on various scholarships and loans offeres by government and corporate houses of the nation to meritorious students for higher education. He urged the student community to turn people's problems to prospects and there by select one's career.
Earlier the purpose of the programme was elaborated by Prof. Abdul Karin. At the end of the meeting the vote of thanks was conveyed by Prof. Dr. Satyen Chakravorty. Chakravorty thanked the students for participating in large number despite heavy downpour he also thanked the professors for holding such programmes which are highly beneficial for youth with regard to making their careers. Students attending the programme were also given certificate of participation.


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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Inspiration Challenge #36: Wine cutting boards
Whew, I'm really late today! Sorry about that - I had some stuff that had to be done this morning but I didn't want to miss the challenge entirely.
This week's inspiration piece is these cutting boards from Coldwater Creek. I really loved the style and the colors. But I kinda went astray once I actually started making my card, LOL. That was partly because I also wanted to do today's sketch challenge, which was, well, a challenge!
After a lot of indecision I went with the French Quarter stamps from Inque Boutique. I liked the images that fit together to make a circle since that was a major element of the sketch. Once I decided to use those stamps, I was kind of limited on color because I've found that the Memento inks work best, and there aren't as many colors available. I ended up using rich cocoa and potter's clay, with very vanilla and Bazzill textured cardstock. The bottom panel uses the cocoa ink but stamped off once first. The sentiment comes from Sincere Salutations and uses the same cocoa ink.
For the background I chose a paper also from Inque Boutique (the Memories pack) - the swirls reminded me of the cutting board backgrounds. I layered the circles (cut by hand) onto scalloped circles, which I also made by hand. I used the Fiskars clouds scissors, adjusting as I went so that the scallops were placed correctly. To finish I added three copper brads from Making Memories.
I like this card - I was pretty unsure about this sketch, I confess! I think this could even work as a masculine card - at least if you have a hubby like mine who likes elegant things!
I hope you enjoy this challenge and come play along. The keyword for SCS this week is DSIC36. Don't forget to leave me a comment with a link so everyone can see your creation. Thanks for visiting and for your patience today! And, don't forget the blog candy giveaway ending tonight at 8 pm Eastern - time is running out!
3 comments:
- Julie said...
Hi Lori! You did SUCH a nice job on this sketch! When I saw the sketch, I was also really unsure about it. I don't have the circle Nestabilities and the idea of cutting them freehand is..not such a good idea for me, I think. I will pass on the sketch challenge, but I do want to give your inspiration challenge a try! Hopefully I'll get that one done soon.
I will also figure out my order later today and get back to you on that! - October 16, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Teresa Kline said...
Here is my card Lori, I am not sure how I ended up with this, but I did. lol
http://enjoythevasunshine.blogspot.com/2008/10/comfort-and-joy.html - October 18, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- Julie said...
Hello! Finally, I got this one done! This was a really fun challenge, Lori! Thanks for picking such a good one.
Here's the link to my card. I'm trying to figure out why the card looks blurry on SCS, but not in my original photo. So the link might need a little time to be approved.
Thanks, as always, for the fun challenge!
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1096759?cat=500&ppuser=172162 - October 19, 2008 at 10:40 AM


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This Demonstration calculates the tension required to pull a cart with an acceleration that you vary with a slider. Force balances and Newton's second law of motion are used to calculate the tension, normal force and force due to friction. Use sliders to change the angle of the cable used to pull the cart, the mass of the cart and the coefficient of friction.
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Universal Electricity Sets New Paradigm – Let The State Build Infrastructure And Private Sector Maintain Those
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee
May 02, 2018, 01:17 PM | Updated 01:17 PM IST
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A long established 'power struggle' between the private sector and the state sector has become irrelevant with the government announcing on 28 April that all villages in the country have access to power.
This has opened up a huge possibility for reprising the role of the backend service providers in several government departments. It applies not just to the power sector though it could be the trigger to set off the virtuous cycle. Instead of demanding that the services to run the infrastructure created by the government should continue to operate through government departments, it is now possible to offer them to any entity that can plausibly provide them at the lowest cost.
Let us examine the basis for this assertion, closely. The established wisdom in Indian public policy has run as follows: India is land of scarcity, where essential services are not available beyond the limits of large cities. Wherever they are available, the quality of the service is indifferent. This is true for the entire swathe of services that citizens of developed countries assume as given. The list includes primary education, healthcare and housing, going down to even mundane road connectivity, electricity supply, fuel and sanitation services and also to the less apparent but equally necessary services like internet and banking. Ergo, the services can only be provided by entities created and run by the state.
This can be confronted because of the developments in the recent years. The Indian governments, particularly under Narendra Modi, but even earlier, have begun to make huge investments to make a large range of services available across the country to all citizens. Given their transformative nature, beginning from the Jan Dhan Yojana to the latest announcement of providing electricity to all villages, those have created an opening to change the narrative of public policy.
Critics notwithstanding, it has been progressively acknowledged that the scale of services has begun to reach out to vastly more people than those who remain excluded. In fact as a new breed of officers, at least at the top echelons of the government, put their personal stamp on many of these projects, the chances of type I error that is exclusion by accident has got seriously minimised. For instance, in response to the complaints that the Union Power Ministry had gone overboard to claim that electricity has reached all villages, since that is not the same as reaching every household in every village, it has issued a statement saying that it will indeed do so by December 2018.
But the agency the departments have to often rely on are spasmodic in their performance levels. Flogged by the political executive they spring to life episodically but once the vigour has passed they slip back to their vapid conditions.
For instance, any company should jump at the chance to add to its consumer base by multiples as the government intends to do in the case of rural electrification. Instead the often bankrupt discoms are running scared at the prospect of adding more consumers. They have reasons of course. The consumers do not pay and the larger supply of electricity the discoms have to purchase to meet the additional demand, pushes them more into red.
Their squeamishness mirrors the same apprehensions of state-run insurance companies, state-run banks and oil companies as the governments have pushed them aggressively to mop up customers. It is at the base of the weakness of India Post to act as the first choice as micro finance institution, recent efforts notwithstanding. These agencies share the same reason for their flash in the pan performance. There is no linkage between performance and the reward\punishment environment for their employees. I am not saying anything new here.
In the present context, they create a new constellation of risk for the target driven approach the Modi government has taken on. So while these companies had added the names of consumers to their ledgers, they would drop those names as soon as they realise that the political executive is not paying attention to what is going on. Which means that the gains achieved to bring the low income Indians into the orbit of customers of various services could soon be dissipated. The implications are horrendous.
To forestall this calamity, it is necessary that the state cuts the link between its inclusion programmes and persists with the state-run companies or agencies to deliver them. It should rope in private agencies by the dozens. The constant criticism against the political executive in India has been that in a regime of scarcity it uses the meagre resources of the state to satisfy the demands of the rich. Despite clear evidence of graft and worse in those agencies like wastage (example: Air India) the party in power would persist with more of the same as it tried to provide the services to the poorer sections. The result was year after year of pusillanimous efforts that brought little political brownie points to the state.
Yet attempting to engage with the private sector was considered disastrous. Even in a city like Delhi, when the government led by Shiela Dikshit tried to experiment with water supply through private agencies she created her nemesis, Arvind Kejriwal. The counter argument was crisp. The government uses the state-run companies to service the rich while it throws the poor at the mercy of the private sector. It has proved impossible to argue against this logic by attempting to demonstrate the higher efficiency of the private sector to clean up the mess in the worst performing enclaves of poor supply (remember: Orissa power reforms).
The narrative could not be cracked, as long as the scope of the supply of the service was not made truly universal. But where it has, it should now be far easy to change the rules of engagement. When everyone is able to draw upon the services with carve aways for subsidy to the poorest, there is no play to create a political movement on the supposed marginalisation of any income group. Yet the risks can return if the state having created the infrastructure cannot keep it disciplined. And that can very well happen if the reliance on state-run service providers is not broken. It is just impossible to make the linesman of a state-run discom to respond to a call for electricity breakdown in a town. Would you imagine, he would travel out 10 kilometres from the city limits to do the same job, even once in a year?
It is here that creativity is needed. The state should concentrate on the business to build engineering solutions but farm out the job to maintain the service infrastructure to companies. The companies would be chosen through bids.
The private sector companies (no angels, certainly) will not get the space to complain that they have to invest massively to build up the infrastructure for supply of power, sanitation services, cooking gas or to build houses. That will still remain the remit of the state, at the federal or at the provinces.
It is so easy. The performance standards to keep the working assets in shape are easy to write as standard contracts. There are no devils of hidden capital costs to ferret out from the contracts, since there will be nothing to build. Even the least efficient state can write a contract specifying the standards at which the service of supply of cooking gas, or of ensuring education levels should be maintained by the franchisee.
In this context, the useful experiences are that of the telecom service providers. Faced with the prospect of having to set up cell towers, these companies have underperformed in connectivity targets in remote rural areas. Yet as the government has rolled out BharatNet – the optical fibre network at its cost to the same remote panchayats, the bids from private parties to maintain the same are expected to see aggressive quotes. Clearly a walk down this road would create a huge satisfaction level among those who are serviced.
There are also larger fiscal benefits. Since the fees can be shared in any easy ratio between the state and the franchisee, it is quite easy to create financial structures to take advantage of the periodic payouts. Here too, the state can encourage companies to float structures like infrastructure investment trusts. These are trusts but whose papers can be bought and sold in the bond markets. They are backed by the returns from the capital assets created, like the internet or power cables, or the houses leased out to the homeless, and so on. The possibilities in terms of employment generation, creation of a new order of companies and so on, are massive. They only need the political executive to stop equating mass supply of services to the Indian population with the continual felt need to ring fence the fortunes of state-run companies or agencies like discoms.
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By Renee Ticzon
QUEZON CITY -- Ateneo's King Eagle Thirdy Ravena is unshaken by his non-participation in the first five against the De La Salle Green Archers on Sunday.
"It was different, but then again, it's about doing our roles."
Thirdy, a usual starter for the Blue Eagles, was tasked to come off the bench for the Blue Eagles in their match against the Green Archers. Adrian Wong took the place of the King Eagle, which was something Thirdy was happy to accept.
Coming off the bench, Thirdy knew nothing is going to change in the manner he played. The Blue Eagle talked about how much he trusted his coaches' decision, especially in a game as crucial as this.
"I'm just doing my job, just like my other teammates." he added.
For Thirdy, his focus is far off from personal achievements and recognition in his fourth season in the UAAP -- his focus is on the championship.
Ravena did not want the eyes to be all on him because he stressed how every person in the team was important, focusing on their team mantra: next man up.
Because of a suspension he incurred after an unsportsmanlike foul from the recent Ateneo-UP match up, Ravena is no longer eligible to receive any individual awards from the league. However, this does not bother the veteran because he says that his focus is on the championship and nothing else.
As an individual, Thirdy feels that he needs to focus on his role in the team. He has always stressed how every game, he would not focus on grabbing a certain number of points and rebounds; rather, he would just do what the coaches instructed.
"I don't think I was consistent this season, tulad ng last year" he says. Thirdy's statistics this year reached a peak of 23 points and 12 rebounds, but there are also some days that the Blue Eagle stays quiet.
This could be attributed to the kind of role Thirdy is expected to play per game. Sometimes he needs to focus on scoring, sometimes he needs to make plays for the team. And for Ravena, being the veteran that he is, these are just shoes he needs to fill in to allow his team to move closer towards their goal.
"It's all about doing your role, it doesn't matter what the results say. What matters is that I do my job."
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OMG, There's Reportedly Hope Scott & Sofia Might Get Back Together
OK, don't get too excited but there's reportedly hope Scott Disick and Sofia Richie are getting back together. "Scott and Sofia's breakup is definitely a real breakup, but they have been staying in touch and texting since they split," a source reportedly told Us Weekly on May 30. "Their friends think that there is a big chance they could get back together at some point." (Elite Daily reached out to reps for both Disick and Richie about the chance of a reunion but did not hear back in time for publication).
TBH, any time one of my friends breaks up with their partner and then continues to text them... they usually wind up getting back together. So, if the reports are true, I'm feeling hopeful.
Fans started speculating that something was up with Richie and Disick on May 21 when Richie was spotted by TMZ in Malibu with another due. At the time, TMZ reported that Richie was "staying at a Malibu mansion over the last [three] days at the beach house owned by a guy... a guy people seem to think Sofia's now dating."
"Scott and Sofia are on a break until Scott straightens himself out more," a source reportedly told Us Weekly on May 21, just a few days after she was spotted in Malibu. "Scott is in an OK place right now and is trying to get better and focus on work, but he has to prove himself."
By May 27 multiple sources had confirmed to E! News and People that Richie and Disick had reportedly ended things after Disick's stint in rehab.
"The quarantine has put a spin on things for Scott. He's always had issues, especially with addiction, and that's always been a concern on the Kardashians' end and Sofia and her family's end," a source told Us Weekly on May 29. "Sofia noticed that he wasn't doing well and gave him an ultimatum, and in the end it seemed like Scott was more focused on Kourtney and his kids than her." The next day, on May 30, another source told Us Weekly that Richie's family, specifically her dad Lionel and her sister Nicole, also "played a big role in their issues."
Here's to hoping the reported exes are doing whatever is right for them, whether or not they're actually "staying in touch."


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Vanessa from Punkin Patterns shares a free applique template for this sweet chocolate bunny. She used freezer paper stencil to paint the image on the fabric, which she then appliqued on to a shirt to make a cute Easter tee. It's finished off with a little bow around the neck. Get the template and tutorial for making the applique.
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Looking for more Easter themed sewing patterns? Check out these fun Easter Sewing patterns we found on Etsy.
If you are looking for Easter print fabric visit Fatquartershop for some fun Easter fabric designs.


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Chapter 2. Preparing to Install Linux
This chapter represents your first step in installing Linux. We'll describe how to obtain the Linux software, in the form of one of the various prepackaged distributions, and how to prepare your system. We'll include ways to partition disks so that Linux can coexist with Windows, or another operating system.
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Distributions of Linux
Because Linux is free software, no single organization or entity is responsible for releasing and distributing the software. Therefore, anyone is free to put together and distribute the Linux software, as long as the restrictions in the GPL are observed. The upshot of this is that there are many distributions of Linux, available via anonymous FTP or mail order.
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Teen Dating and Sex Hit Record Lows for Recent Decades
Teens today just aren't that into dating or sex, compared to decades past.
Posted October 7, 2017
Compared to the teens of decades past, today's adolescents just aren't that into dating or sex. New analyses of 40 years of data (1976-2016) show that the percentage of 12th graders who have ever gone on a date has never been lower. A quarter century of data on teenage sex (1990-2016) indicate that the percentage of students in the 9th through 12th grades who have ever had sex has also reached a low point. The research report, by Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, and Heejung Park of Bryn Mawr College, was just released by the journal Child Development.
As the authors noted:
"Twelfth graders in the early 2010s went out on dates about as often as 10th graders did in the early 1990s. Having sex went from being the majority experience for high school students (54 percent of 9th to 12th graders in 1991) to the minority experience (41 percent in 2015)."
The decline in these behaviors, and other activities the authors describe as typically associated with adulthood, was not specific to particular demographic groups. It occurred for "boys and girls, Whites and Blacks, lower SES and higher SES adolescents, in all four regions of the United States, and in rural, urban, and suburban locations."
Percentage of 12th graders who had ever gone on a date
The research on dating among high school seniors was based on more than a half-million 12th graders surveyed between 1976 and 2016. (Eighth and 10th graders were included from 1990 through 2016.) The authors analyzed the data in 5-year intervals.
In the three time periods between 1976 and 1989 (1976-1979; 1980-1984; and 1985-1989), the share of 12th graders who had ever gone on a date was either 86 percent or 87 percent. The percentages for the subsequent years are below. Notice that percentages decrease consistently over time.
Percentage of 12th graders who had ever gone on a date:
- 1990-1994: 84 percent
- 1995-1999: 81 percent
- 2000-2004: 76 percent
- 2005-2009: 71 percent
- 2010-2016: 63 percent
Percent of high-schoolers who had ever had sex
The research on the percent of high-schoolers who had ever had sex was based on data collected in surveys, starting in 1991. More than 175,000 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders participated.
Between the early 1990s (1990-1994) and the early 2010s (2010-2015), the percent who ever had sex declined for every age group:
- 9th graders: 38 percent to 29 percent
- 10th graders: 47 percent to 40 percent
- 11th graders: 59 percent to 52 percent
- 12th graders: 68 percent to 62 percent
What does it all mean?
Dating and sex were only two of the behaviors that Twenge and Park analyzed in their study of U.S. adolescents. Others included driving, working for pay, drinking, and going out without their parents. All of the activities declined over time.
The authors believe all the behaviors go together, because they are associated with adulthood: Children rarely or never engage in those activities, and adults often do. They use their results to make the case for a new and slower life strategy, compared to a faster strategy of the past. Teens can move more slowly toward adulthood, Twenge and Park argue, because, on average, they are in "resource-rich environments." For example, parents have fewer children than they did in the past, and so they can invest more in each one. Greater life expectancy is also associated with a slower path toward activities associated with adulthood, as is greater income.
The bigger picture
The notion of a slow path toward adult activities seems to imply that just about all adolescents will end up engaging in all the activities supposedly associated with adulthood — they will just be slower to get there. It is the way scholars have often thought about young adults — sure, they may be slower than they were in the past to get around to marrying or having kids, but give them time, and they'll get there.
But maybe they won't. For example, a Pew Research Center report estimated that by the time today's young adults reach the age of 50, about 25 percent of them will have been single their entire lives. Think about that — a cohort of 50-year-olds in which 1 out of 4 has never been married.
Americans' beliefs about what counts as a marker of adulthood have changed, too. A 2017 Census Bureau report showed that more than half of all American adults in a representative national survey said that getting married was "not important" to becoming an adult. The same number (55 percent) said that having children was "not important" to becoming an adult. Other experiences, such as completing formal schooling and having full-time employment, mattered more.
Our understanding of sexuality has also changed in ways that I don't think anyone anticipated decades ago. Perhaps most surprisingly, the concept of asexuality has made its way into our cultural conversations and into the studies of social scientists. It is a real thing, the researchers have concluded: Some people just aren't interested in sex, and not because there's something wrong with them.
The bigger story, I think, is that humans have more opportunities than they've ever had before to live the lives that suit them best. Dating, sex, marriage, kids — they aren't mandatory anymore. People can live full, and fully adult, lives without any of them. My guess is that we have much more to learn about the full range of human interests and desires. As the possibilities for living in different ways expand, humans will prove to be a much more diverse and imaginative lot than we ever realized.


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Good Morning, Fear the Wall.
Happy Monday. I hope that, wherever you are, the weather is better than it is here in Washington DC. October is objectively one of the best months of the year, but today has more of a November/late December feel. I'm typing this in a cozy French-style café, though, so I guess I can't complain too much.
Here are our top stories for today:
Germany in Trouble?
Joachim Low says Germany "broke apart" in their 3-0 Nations League defeat by the Netherlands.
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) October 14, 2018
Read more: https://t.co/uDcykwjjed pic.twitter.com/wZGkU5d2gT
Saturday's defeat to the Netherlands was nothing short of disastrous for the Germans. While I couldn't watch the match first-hand, the consensus in the media seems to be that Die Mannschaft struggled as much as they did before and during the world cup, and that Joachim Löw has completely lost the plot.
What exactly has gone wrong? Some say that Germany has become too complacent, or that Löw is too favorable to Germany's corps of aging veterans, or that his tactics are too obsolete. I'm no expert on the German national team, so I'll leave it to you guys: what are your thoughts on what Germany needs to do to improve?
FiveThirtyEight Rankings
I'm an avid reader of fivethirtyeight.com, for both their sports and political commentary, and the way they describe statistics in an accessible way. For the last several years, they've used a metric called an SPI Rating to try and give football clubs power rankings, and also have tried to gauge the probability of specific clubs winning different competitions. Here's an explanation of how they work:
At the heart of our club soccer forecasts are FiveThirtyEight's SPI ratings, which are our best estimate of a team's overall strength. https://t.co/7brumhbnom
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) August 13, 2018
Borussia Dortmund's current SPI rating is 80.1, good for 13th overall in the Champions League. For comparison, the 12th best club is Inter Milan with 80.2, and 14th is Manchester United with 79.4. The SPI rating is fluid and changes throughout the season. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly what BVB's SPI rating was at the beginning of the season, but I believe it was around 77-78, which means that BVB have markedly improved in 538's eyes.
538 also gives BVB a 92% chance to make the knockout round, a reflection of BVB's strong start to their champions league campaign. In the Bundesliga, 538 only gives Dortmund a 20% chance of winning the league. However, this is also an improvement from earlier in the season, when it was under 10%. They've probably calculated this because Bayern's SPI Rating is much higher at 90.9. If the Bavarians' struggles continue, this could fall further.
Daily Buzz
Germany will take on France tomorrow, in what could be a do-or-die moment for Joachim Löw's career. Do you think they'll be up to the task?