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Charlie Giancarlo is Chairman and CEO of Pure Storage. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Before joining Pure, Charlie served as Managing Director, Head of Value Creation and later Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners from 2007 to 2015, where he focused on business improvement and investment opportunities across strategic and operational initiatives for Silver Lake's portfolio companies.
Prior to Silver Lake, for over a decade Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer. At Cisco, Charlie led Cisco's multi-product growth, and was at the forefront of the Company's R&D efforts for all product lines, with entry into new markets, including IP Telephony, WiFi, VPNs, TelePresence, and the SMB market.
Charlie received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Brown University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
David Hatfield (a.k.a. "Hat") has been in an executive management role at Pure since joining as President in January 2013. Dave is responsible for leading all go-to-market strategy and execution globally, including sales, solutions engineering, customer and partner success, channels and alliances, and the marketing and business development functions within Pure. Dave has been instrumental to Pure's growth – as the company has scaled revenues from single digit millions and looks to target $1 billion in FY18, and the employee base has grown from less than 100 to the now thousands of Puritans worldwide -- faster than any other storage systems company in history.
With over 25 years of experience building high performance teams at innovative software and cloud infrastructure companies including Akamai Technologies, VERITAS Software, Symantec, Limelight Networks and others, Dave has a wealth of experience in successfully navigating hyper-growth and profitability. He has participated in 3 successful IPO's (all remain independent companies to this day) and one of the largest enterprise software mergers in history.
Dave is an investor in many next generation technology companies and is a member of the PureGood Foundation Board of Directors.
Tim Riitters serves as CFO for Pure Storage, and leads the company's financial and accounting operations worldwide. Tim joins Pure Storage from Google, where he spent 10 years in finance and was responsible for overseeing the company's annual planning and budgeting processes. Additionally, he led the finance team responsible for predicting revenue trends and increasing revenue opportunities. Earlier in his career at Google, Tim was based in Dublin, Ireland and oversaw the company's European financial operations, and served as CFO of its European payments business.
Prior to Google, Tim served as a product manager in Siebel Systems' business intelligence applications group and helped this team drive triple digit year over year growth in revenue. Tim began his career at Deloitte where he served both as a consulting manager and auditor and specialized in business intelligence application development, financial systems selection and implementation, business process redesign and M&A auditing and accounting.
Tim holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (with Honors), and a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of Minnesota (with Honors).
Joe FitzGerald serves as VP, and General Counsel for Pure Storage and is responsible for overseeing and managing legal matters for Pure. With over 20 years of high technology related legal experience, Joe joins Pure after almost 12 years at Symantec (via the VERITAS Software acquisition), where he served as Senior Vice President, Legal & Public Affairs. During his time at Symantec, Joe successfully built a world-class IP program, growing Symantec's patent portfolio from a literal handful of patents to almost 2000 today. In addition to active involvement in every major strategic transaction, Joe managed the technology licensing, product support, litigation, IP, and brand protection legal teams as well as the Global Government Affairs team that works with governments around the world on cyber security and other regulatory issues. In addition, Joe handled the strategic antitrust and competition related legal issues for this Fortune 500 software company.
Prior to Symantec, Joe worked in-house at a number of Silicon Valley companies including New Focus, Sun Microsystems and Nikon Research Corporation of America. Prior to Nikon, Joe was in private practice at Graham and James in Los Angeles. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and a JD from Catholic University of America.
Johanna Jackman is a globetrotting, results-oriented leader with an unrelenting passion for enhancing team and business performance. Johanna believes achievable scale is made by leaders who elevate company culture, include employees in the journey, and never stray from their vision. That is why she joined Pure.
Prior to becoming a Puritan, Johanna was Vice President, HR at LinkedIn. Joining post-IPO, she was responsible for scaling and managing various HR functions from hyper-growth to a mature business. During her tenure, she helped create a talent platform that saw a 10x employee base grow to 10,000. A core focus also included an external pivot, in partnership with sales, to deliver innovative HR products and solutions to customers.
Johanna's experience also includes time at Microsoft where she specialized in talent management and business partnership for several years holding key roles in Seattle, EMEA and Australia. Johanna earned her bachelor's degree in Business at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
John "Coz" Colgrove was one of the founding engineers at VERITAS Software (merged with Symantec in 2005), where his 20-year career culminated as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Data Center Management Group. Coz was the primary architect for the hugely successful VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File System (VxFS), and later served in various other engineering, management, and consultative roles. During his time at VERITAS, Coz became one of the industry's foremost experts on optimizing I/O streams and data structures for the unique idiosyncrasies of rotational hard drives, a challenge he's now re-solving for solid-state Flash memory. Prior to VERITAS, Coz was with Amdahl Corporation, where he was a key contributor to the development of the UTS mainframe UNIX operating system kernel.
After leaving Symantec in 2008 to pursue personal interests, he joined Sutter Hill Ventures in the role of Entrepreneur in Residence. It was there he observed the growing acceptance of solid-state storage by enterprises that led him to co-found Pure Storage with John Hayes, with the goal of fully exploiting the advantages of the new technology. Coz is a graduate of Rutgers University, and holds over 70 patents in the areas of computer system and reliable data storage design.
Todd Engle serves as VP, Operations for Pure Storage, and is responsible for the company's overall strategic business operations, overseeing product forecasting, manufacturing and supply chain vendor relations. Todd joins Pure Storage after 12 years at Xiotech, where he served as VP of manufacturing. Under Todd's direction, Xiotech successfully expanded its global manufacturing operations, implemented an improved supply chain management system and streamlined its order fulfillment processes, achieving 99-percent on-time delivery and 95-percent production forecast accuracy rates.
Prior to Xiotech, Todd served as director of business operations at Computer Network Technologies, where he successfully automated the company's sales, revenue and production forecasting systems. He holds a BA in accounting from Metropolitan State University.
Colin Mead has more than two decades of international support and services leadership experience in the high tech industry, supporting global enterprise, government and managed services IT environments. He joins Pure Storage from Riverbed Technology where he was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Support. Colin was responsible for all aspects of its $450M post sales support business including technical support, logistics, renewals, support partner program and system operations. While in this role, he was awarded the Technology Services Industry Association's (TSIA) highest award for customer service excellence four years running, in addition to being recognised by JD Power for providing an "outstanding customer service experience."
Colin is a graduate of Thames Valley University in the UK and St Mary's in Moraga, CA. He also held executive positions at Mirapoint and N.E.T.
Kevin Delane serves as Pure Storage's Vice President of Worldwide Sales where he oversees the company's global go-to-market strategy and ensures customer success. He is also responsible for international expansion and growth. Kevin was previously the Vice President of Global Accounts, Service Providers and International Sales for Pure.
Kevin is a technology sales veteran with 30 years of experience. He came to Pure Storage from IO, where he was the Senior Vice President of Sales. Prior to IO, Kevin spent more than 18 years at EMC in sales leadership roles including Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Isilon.
He holds a Bachelor of Science from Providence College.
Liza Adams is a transformative leader with a passion for innovating to enable business growth and to change the way we work and live, as well as developing the next generation of leaders. As the VP of Product and Solutions Marketing at Pure Storage, Liza's mission is to develop integrated solutions, building demand and market awareness across the company's technology portfolio.
Prior to joining Pure Storage, Liza was VP of Solutions and Segment Marketing at Brocade and Head of Service Provider Strategic Marketing at Juniper Networks where she and her teams drove business growth with customer-centric go-to-market strategies and marketing approaches.
Liza and her teams are recognized for developing and launching some of the world's first cloud-based and managed network, security, and mobility services; establishing companies in leadership positions in key categories; and driving demand during her stints as VP of Marketing at Virtela (now NTT Communications) and Level 3 Communications. Prior to that, she held leadership roles in marketing, product management, sales engineering, and operations at WilTel/LDDS Worldcom. Liza was also an industry analyst covering leading-edge networking technologies, products, and services.
Liza has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri.
Matt Kixmoeller is a storage veteran who saw first-hand the last major storage technology media upgrade: the move from tape to disk in the backup market. Matt was Vice President of enterprise product management for Symantec's Information Management products, including the NetBackup and Enterprise Vault. Matt oversaw product strategy and vision, engineering direction, and go-to-market activities for this $1B+ global product line. During his tenure, Matt also held similar roles managing other Symantec products such as the Storage Foundation and CommandCentral Storage.
Matt joined Symantec in 2005 as part of the merger with VERITAS Software Corporation. Prior to joining VERITAS Software, he was co-founder of Centrata, a leading provider of IT service management software. He has also held positions with Adaptec and Gemini Consulting (now Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young). Matt holds a degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan serves as Pure's Vice President of Americas Sales. Prior to this role, he was responsible for Pure's West and Central sales teams. Dan is a 20+ year veteran executive with experience in successfully leading global and regional teams varying from start-ups to large technology organizations. With a track record of growing markets both domestically and internationally, Dan excels at developing passionate, high performance sales teams.
Prior to joining Pure, Dan held several executive sales leadership roles, most recently serving as SVP, Global Sales at SOASTA, where he led the team from inception to operating in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC and ultimately to a successful M&A exit. Additional leadership roles include VP of North America at Limelight Networks through an IPO, West leader at Symantec, and VP of Sales at Gartner.
Michael Sotnick is a channel veteran and was most recently Executive Vice President and Channel Chief at Moovweb. Prior to Moovweb, Michael was Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Quest Software (acquired by Dell). He also served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at ActivIdentity, where he was responsible for all customer-facing operations including management of the direct sales and channel team.
Before joining ActivIdentity, Michael was the Senior Vice President of Small and Midsize Enterprise for SAP America, Inc. and was responsible for defining and executing SAP's channel and partner strategy. Additionally, he was the architect and execution leader of SAP America's multi-dimensional coverage model for this customer segment. This includes oversight of the SAP reseller channel and related operations.
Prior to SAP, Michael served as Vice President of Partner Sales for VERITAS Software
Corporation (acquired by Symantec in 2005). At VERITAS, Michael established the global multi-tier channel strategy and managed North American Partner Sales. He is a graduate of the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
Arthur Johnson is Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategic Planning at Pure Storage with a charter to drive the company's corporate strategy and M&A activities to accelerate the company's rapid growth and transformation.
Arthur's tenured 20+ years of experience has included expertise in Strategy, Operations, M&A, Business Development, and Finance spanning many areas of technology including APIs, Developers, SaaS, AI/ML, Collaboration, Big Data, Mobile and Security.
Arthur was most recently at Twillo, serving as the Vice President of Strategy, Corporate Development and Global Partnerships. Previously, Arthur was an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Chief Operating Officer for Cisco WebEx. Arthur's other roles have included Vice President, Corporate Development at Intuit and leading Hewlett Packard's Software Division's Strategic Planning group. Arthur began his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
Arthur holds a B.S. degree in Finance from California State University, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
James Petter joined Pure after 16 highly successful years as a sales leader in EMEA, with specific focus on the UK and Ireland on global account programs for companies including EMC, Cisco, Telstra and Coca Cola. James brings strong operational discipline to Pure Storage, with a proven ability to implement and execute sales strategies that support high growth and high margins. Throughout his tenure James has built a business based on 100% channel in the Commercial marketplace, has created a highly successful business in Public Sector in the UK, and personally has served as an Advisor to the central government.
A graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, James served as an officer in the 2nd Royal Green Jackets for six years. He also holds a BSc from the University of Surrey and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from Bristol University.
Alp joins Pure Storage from Polycom, where he served as the president of Polycom Asia Pacific and Japan, running all sales and marketing, service and support operations across the region. Previously he was the vice president of the EMC Backup and Recovery Solution and Data Computing Division in EMC APJ, after the Data Domain acquisition where he led the team across the region. Before this, Alp ran the Channels business at EMC and was well known as the architect and driver behind EMC's aggressive move into emerging and commercial markets through the channel from 2006 to 2009. His 25 years of industry experience also includes positions at Teradata, Oracle Corporation Australia and NCR Corporation.
Wilson joined Pure Storage in 2014 and is the VP of Latin America. Prior to Pure, Grava was responsible for Sales, Pre-Sales, Sales Ops, Marketing and Channel for Latin America & the Caribbean at NetApp. Before joining NetApp in 2011, Grava was the VP for Latin America at Symantec, a leader in security and systems management solutions. Previously, Grava was responsible for McAfee's operations in LatAm. His career began at CA Technologies, where he held technical, Marketing, Acquisitions, Education and International Channel management positions. Grava holds an Executive MBA from ESPM and a BSc in Data Processing from the Universidade Mackenzie, both in Brazil.
Matt Burr is Vice President and General Manager of FlashBlade at Pure Storage. With more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Matt excels at building teams and strategies that grow revenue at both early stage companies and large complex organizations. He has held leadership roles within Symantec (via the VERITAS Software acquisition). In addition, Matt previously led growth strategy for the Western Region at Limelight Networks.
Prakash Darji joined Pure Storage in June 2018 as the General Manager of the FlashArray Business Unit, responsible for the overall strategy, GTM, growth, and advancement of the company's flagship product.
Prior to Pure Storage, Darji spent several years at SAP in numerous leadership roles and most recently the SVP & General Manager of the Platform as a Service cloud business. During his tenure at SAP, he built a new software business in the Database Technology Space that grew from $0 to $1B in five years and a cloud platform-as-a-service business that reached triple-digit growth.
Darji has a proven track record of accomplishments in growing new businesses in the areas of Financial Performance Management, Database, and Cloud Platforms. He is also the author of several publications with a broad range of expertise in GTM, operations, R&D, sales, and services.
Darji holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Software from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cathleen "Cathy" Southwick is the Chief Information Officer of Pure Storage. In this role, Southwick leads Pure's global IT strategy and advances the company's operations through the delivery of next-generation technology capabilities and systems.
Southwick is an accomplished leader with over 25 years of experience defining and executing forward-looking IT strategies, most recently at AT&T. During her tenure at AT&T, which began in 1996, she served in various IT roles where she was a core member leading cloud planning and execution of AT&T's D2 (Network virtualization) transformation journey. Most recently, Southwick served as Vice President of Technology Engineering and led a team responsible for the planning, design, engineering, capacity management, and asset management functions of IT Cloud, Mobility and Core Network.
Before joining AT&T, Southwick spent 11 years working in the transportation industry for a Fortune 100 company where she held a variety of positions responsible for IT architecture and planning, merger integration, strategic planning, human resources management, procurement, project/portfolio management, and process re-engineering.
Southwick resides in the Bay Area with her husband and has two daughters. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from St. Mary's and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Charlie Giancarlo is Chairman and CEO of Pure Storage. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Before joining Pure, Charlie served as Managing Director, Head of Value Creation and later Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners from 2007 to 2015, where he focused on business improvement and investment opportunities across strategic and operational initiatives for Silver Lake's portfolio companies.
Prior to Silver Lake, for over a decade Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer. At Cisco, Charlie led Cisco's multi-product growth, and was at the forefront of the Company's R&D efforts for all product lines, with entry into new markets, including IP Telephony, WiFi, VPNs, TelePresence, and the SMB market.
Charlie received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Brown University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Scott Dietzen is Vice Chairman of the Board of Pure Storage and served as the Company's CEO from 2010 to 2017. Under his leadership as CEO, Pure grew to thousands of employees and completed an IPO in 2015. Dietzen is a four-time successful entrepreneur with WebLogic, Zimbra, and Transarc. Before Pure, he was President and CTO of Zimbra, a vendor of open source messaging and collaboration software. Zimbra (now part of VMware) was a pioneer of the Web 2.0 and Open Core paradigms. Zimbra was originally acquired by Yahoo!, where Dietzen served as interim SVP of Communications and Communities. Prior to Zimbra, Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems, where he helped craft the technology and business strategy for WebLogic that drove BEA from $61m in annual revenues prior to the WebLogic acquisition to over $1B.
Dietzen came to BEA in 1998 via the acquisition of WebLogic, an innovator in Java and web application server technology. Prior to WebLogic, Dietzen was Principal Technologist of Transarc (acquired by IBM), a developer of distributed transaction and file sharing systems. Dietzen has made appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business and NBC's Press:Here, among others. He has also been a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
John "Coz" Colgrove was one of the founding engineers at VERITAS Software (merged with Symantec in 2005), where his 20-year career culminated as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Data Center Management Group. Coz was the primary architect for the hugely successful VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File System (VxFS), and later served in various other engineering, management, and consultative roles. During his time at VERITAS Coz became one of the industry's foremost experts on optimizing I/O streams and data structures for the unique idiosyncrasies of rotational hard drives, a challenge he's now re-solving for solid state Flash memory. Prior to VERITAS, Coz was with Amdahl Corporation, where he was a key contributor to the development of the UTS mainframe UNIX operating system kernel. After leaving Symantec in 2008 to pursue personal interests, he joined Sutter Hill Ventures in the role of Entrepreneur in Residence. It was there he observed the growing acceptance of solid-state storage by enterprises that led him to co-found Pure Storage with John Hayes, with the goal of fully exploiting the advantages of the new technology. Coz is a graduate of Rutgers University, and holds over 70 patents in the areas of computer system and reliable data storage design.
Mark Garrett served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Adobe from February 2007 to April 2018. With more than 30 years of financial management experience in the technology sector, Garrett has worked with many of the industry's leading companies. Before joining Adobe in 2007, Garrett served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Software Group of EMC Corporation. From 2002 to 2004 and from 1997 to 1999, Garrett served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Documentum, Inc., including throughout its acquisition by EMC in December 2003. Garrett currently serves on the board of directors of Cisco, GoDaddy Inc., and The Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. He earned BS degrees with emphasis in accounting and marketing from Boston University and an MBA from Marist College.
Jeff Rothschild has served as Advisor and Venture Partner at Accel Partners since 1999. Mr. Rothschild was the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook from 2005 to 2015. Mr. Rothschild previously co-founded Veritas Software Corp., where his role included product strategy, sales and marketing. Prior to Veritas, he worked with a number of companies in the areas of storage management, system software, and networking. Mr. Rothschild holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University and is the Vice-Chairman of the university Board of Trust. Mr. Rothschild currently serves as a board member at Interana, a data analytics software company, and Lytmus, a skills assessment software company.
Anita Sands has served on our board of directors since July 2015. From April 2012 to September 2013, Dr. Sands served as Group Managing Director and Head of Change Leadership and a member of the Wealth Management Americas Executive Committee of UBS Financial Services, a global financial services firm. From April 2010 to April 2012, Dr. Sands served as Group Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Wealth Management Americas at UBS Financial Services. From October 2009 to April 2010, Dr. Sands served as Transformation Consultant at UBS Financial Services. From 2008 to 2009, Dr. Sands served as Managing Director, Head of Transformation Management at Citigroup's Global Operations and Technology organization.
Prior to that, Dr. Sands also held several leadership positions with RBC Financial Group and CIBC. Dr. Sands currently serves on the board of directors of Symantec Corporation, ServiceNow, Inc. and a non-profit organization. Dr. Sands earned a B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, a Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics from The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland and a M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Frank Slootman has served on the ServiceNow board of directors since May 2011 and as Chairman of the Board since October 2016. Mr. Slootman served as Chief Executive Officer and President of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017. From January 2011 to April 2011, Slootman served as a partner with Greylock Partners, and served as an advisor to EMC Corporation from January 2011 to February 2012. From July 2009 to January 2011, he served as President of the Backup Recovery Systems Division at EMC. From July 2003 to July 2009, Slootman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Domain, Inc., which was acquired by EMC in 2009. Prior to joining Data Domain, Slootman served as an executive at Borland Software Corporation from June 2000 to June 2003. From March 1993 to June 2000, Slootman held consecutive general management positions for two enterprise software divisions of Compuware Corporation. Slootman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Mike Speiser is currently a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Mike joined Sutter Hill in 2008 from Yahoo!, where he was vice president of community products including Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Profiles and Bix. Mike joined Yahoo! in February 2007 through the acquisition of Bix, where he served as president and CEO. Prior to co-founding Bix, Mike served as vice president and technical advisor to Symantec Chairman & CEO, John Thompson. Previously, he was vice president of product marketing and product management at VERITAS, which was acquired by Symantec. Mike also co-founded Epinions.com, worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and was an analyst with CS First Boston. Mike holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, and a B.A. from the University of Arizona.
Ms. Taylor has served as Chief Accounting Officer of Facebook, Inc., an online social networking company, since April 2017. From January 2012 to March 2017, Ms. Taylor was the Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer of LinkedIn Corporation, a professional social networking company. From August 2009 to January 2012, Ms. Taylor was the Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer of Silver Spring Networks, Inc., a provider of networking solutions, and from October 2008 to August 2009, Ms. Taylor was the Senior Director, Accounting Policy of Yahoo! Inc., a search engine. Prior to Yahoo!, Ms. Taylor spent over thirteen years at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an accounting firm, in various accounting roles. Ms. Taylor received a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Toronto, and is a Certified Public Accounting (inactive) in California.


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I've go to be honest, even though I am a massive fan of Toyota and own one myself, they haven't been the brand to make anything exciting over the past few years. They liked to play it safe so to speak, give consumers a product that is reliable and good rather than make something dramatic and controversial. Well I'm not quite sure what happened at the Toyota HQ when they were coming up with the idea for today's car but I'm glad it did happen! Introducing the Toyota CH-R, there's many ways people are describing this car, but the best one I've heard so far is SAV. Sports Activity Vehicle for those who aren't too clued up on acronyms. It describes the vehicle perfectly and after spending a week with it and driving over 1000km I can confidently say that this car puts to bed the comment that Toyota make boring cars.
Lets talk about the styling, I mean how can you not talk about it? It's stunning, eye catching, in your face, bold and I could go on all day. While there is no clear symmetry, some how it all works and looks fantastic, it certainly is a head turner and it got a lot of people looking as a drove past, it could also be partially due to the bright blue colour but I'm sure it was more down to the bold design. The design itself makes it look like a raised sports coupe and the rear door handles being located next to the rear window gives it that illusion as well. Toyota's designers have ventured out of their shell here but at the same time kept key aspects that make it great. It was mentioned that the CH-R was actually a concept for Toyota's sub brand Scion in the USA but after it was closed down, Toyota decided to adopt the car and badge it as its own. It's funky, hip and certainly a hit with the youth and that is who the car would be aimed at but to be honest its a car for anyone. The interior is pretty awesome too with dual cylindrical dials for your instrument cluster, a raised touch screen radio, nifty aircon controls with its own LCD screen, all in a cabin that's well designed and has lots of detail and high quality textures.
The CH-R is one of the only Toyota's with a turbo engine, it has a 1.2 litre 4 cylinder turbo petrol engine which pushes out 85kW and 185Nm of torque. Not much to write home about I know but combine this with its light body and 17" alloy wheels and you will be surprised at how nippy the CH-R is. As mentioned before, I drove over 1000km during my 7 day stint with the car and was pleasantly surprised at not only the performance of the car but also the fuel consumption with me managing to do just about 640km on one tank with 4 adults and a fully stocked boot. Note that the tank is only 40 litres, and I had a manual transmission, so that in itself is damn impressive! It picks up speed well and quite fast too, with me having to check regularly if I wasn't exceeding the speed limit, thankfully the car did have cruise control so I could set a speed and let it drive for me. Around town its just as economical and because of its size and shape, it really is fun to drive.
The car is comfortable, like any other Toyota, it is a pity that they do not offer leather seats as an option but the cloth seats it comes with is nice. Like I said, I had 4 adults in he CH-R and we all sat comfortably, the ride was smooth even with the large wheels, hardly any wind noise in the cabin. The aircon worked beautifully and access in and out the car was pretty effortless given the sloping roof. The boot space on the other hand could have been bigger with majority of the space being used up for a full size spare wheel. Also with it's edgy design, its not the best car to park with many blind spots, but the car doesn't come with PDC's or a reverse camera either. Fortunately the CH-R is not very big so it isn't that difficult to get into most spots.
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On Thursday, November 10, we'll have our final Hall of Men for 2016 with Fr Benedict Armitage presenting St. Gregory Palamas.
As usual, doors will open at The Ladder at 7 pm and food will be served around 7:30 pm. At 8:30 pm we'll prepare for the lecture with the Eighth Day Convocation: hymn, patristic and scripture readings, the Nicene Creed and the Lord's Prayer. Then a great lecture followed by good questions and discussion, good fellowship, and just possibly a few good smoke rings.
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They're there: "Where do you want to go today?" Microsoft asked, plastering Comdex with its new ad theme. How about going to Intel, whose convention slogan was, "It takes you there"? IBM, meanwhile, noted with its new corporate theme, "There is a difference." But a lesser-known computer parts maker, AMP, promised to "Get there first."
Get the message: Ted Forstmann, owner-to-be of Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., drew cheers at Ziff's pre-Comdex sales meeting when he said he hadn't bothered to return a call from a competitor. Ziff insiders figure the caller was International Data Group inquiring about buying some Ziff titles. Mr. Forstmann jetted off for a board meeting at airplane maker Gulfstream before Comdex even began.
Justice, injustice: Microsoft Chairman-CEO Bill Gates was pummeled by the press with questions about antitrust matters relating to the Microsoft Network and the company's pending buyout of financial software leader Intuit. Mr. Gates shot down the claims, and Microsoft executives showed no interest in altering their hypercompetitive drive. But the antitrust issue shows no sign of going away.
Apple, too: Bill Gates' entertaining video vision of computing life in the year 2005 seemed like a sequel to a video that ex-Apple Chairman John Sculley produced during his visionary period in the late '80s. It turns out some of the people behind Mr. Gates' video, including director Daniel Pinkham, helped create Mr. Sculley's vision statement. Microsoft is selling its 60-minute video for $9.95. If the computer gig doesn't work, Mr. Gates might have a future as a Hollywood mogul.
Warp speed: Microsoft unveiled point-and-click access to the trendy Internet through a free add-on to its Word for Windows word processor. Some observers read that as a quick response to IBM's heavily promoted OS/2 Warp operating system, which got a jump on giving consumers easy Internet access.
Yet another online service: Merisel, the El Segundo, Calif.-based computer hardware and software distributor, is connecting its resellers and manufacturers with a new online service, SELline. The online network, due out in first quarter 1995, will provide product information, price lists, e-mail, education and support, downloadable product spec sheets and demos, and special product announcements.
Net gains: Marketers seeking advice on going on the Internet may get some help. IBM is considering offering consulting services on how companies can use the grand network of networks, says Kevin Clark, program director-communications in IBM's Networked Application Services Division. Mr. Clark recognizes that many non-techies want to get their companies surfing on the 'net. "It's a concept that everybody wants, but nobody knows what it is," he says.
Perfect score: January marks the 20th anniversary of a PC gracing the cover of a Ziff magazine, Ziff Chairman Eric Hippeau noted. Back then, Popular Electronics profiled an early computer sold in kit form, the Altair. Who wrote the software for that computer? A 19-year-old named Bill Gates.
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Be acquainted with the cost details of IVF treatment in Mumbai
The IVF treatment in Mumbai is a specially research and formulated treatment in the well known IVF clinics to help you to conceive the child naturally. Most of couple are unknown with the fact that IVF procedure is a naturally procedure to conceive the child, as compared to the normal pregnancy in which the fertilization take place in the uterus f the woman but in the IVF procedure the fertilization take place outside of the body than transfer to the uterus of the woman where the embryo implanted and developed naturally. The doctors and the surgeon of the Mumbai clinic will explain you the whole procedure more carefully. Even we are only one those providing the freedom and the space to interact with the doctor and explain them your whole situation. The fertility expert will discuss with you the condition and the treatment that they will provide you after knowing all the facts about your health.
Fertility investigation: First they will investigate or study your whole case and after it analysis that how old infertility is? Either it is genetic or the medical problem? What kind of infertility it is primary or secondary? Basically after analyzing all these facts they will designed a treatment for the patient. The fertility expert will look after the patient's condition and the need individually.
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The other facility with the low cost: The patient will get the Low cost of the IVF treatment cost in Mumbai but there are other facilities that the patient will get on the same price like the pick and drop services, interaction with the previous patient, staying near the IVF clinic in Mumbai.
The good success rate of IVF treatment: In the short time of span India is emerging as one of the best countries for IVF because the treatment is delivered by the experts and the good IVF success rate with including ethical practice made it more adorable. Even they are expert in all kind of IVF procedure with including the other IVF treatment as well. To have treatment of IVF cost Mumbai, is the great initiative for the medical tourism.
Easily available IVF center in Mumbai: Yes! it is very hard to find out IVF clinic because in that case the patient completely needs the security that the Doctor and the staff of the clinic are trustworthy because in any case it is the matter of the health and it is very important to have complete surety. IVF clinic should be registered and approval from the Indian council medical research. Either you are national or you are aboriginal we are ensuring that the patient will get the treatment from the best IVF center in Mumbai.
The Package Selection: it is very important as we all know that the IVF is legal in India and approval by the less country but if it is legal in any country so do you're ever notice that why the patient is coming to India for the treatment why they are selecting us? So the reason behind it is the reasonable price packages that we are providing nobody else is providing them no any other medical clinics with the complete health services and it doesn't mean that the patient should compromise with the medical services. As less countries are approving surrogacy so most of the patient is coming here because IVF treatment cost in Mumbai is very reasonable.


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Of course, organising a funeral is as tough as dealing with the sorrow of our loved one's death. Yet, it gives us an opportunity to celebrate the life of the departed soul and tell the world what importance that person had in your life. And, funeral planning can ease out our burden to a large extent. After all, when we can plan other events in our lives such as birthdays and weddings. Then, why can't we plan a funeral as well?
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Monday, May 16, 2016
PAS willing to lose Kelantan rather than give way to Amanah
"This is one thing PAS cannot compromise on and we are willing to lose all rather than work with traitors."
"I am aware of Amanah's subtle tactics and they will try to make a deal with us that they will contest for the Parliamentary seats while the state seats will be contested by PAS.
"This is a party that will be satisfied should they only win one seat in Kelantan but PAS will give no quarter to PAN," the Kelantan Deputy Commissioner said in his speech at the Pengkalan Chepa PAS division recently.
The closed door meeting was officiated by party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, and the video was uploaded on Mohd Amar's facebook on Sunday.
Amar likened Amanah to a robber who runs away with other's property, but when apprehended tries to negotiate a share of the loot.
"How can we work with these people who have betrayed the party? I want to state it very clear that we will never have anything to do with Amanah. Not today, tomorrow or ever," he said sternly.
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Carin + Josh | Utah Mountain Engagements
Carin and Josh are from North Carolina and are planning a Labor Day weekend destination wedding at Alta Lodge. I was so excited to meet them for their engagement session during a spur of the moment trip to Utah to finalize some wedding details. They were so easy to photograph. And we had a lot of fun together.
How they met:
I asked Carin to tell me how they met and this is what she had to say:
"Josh and I met back in July of 2012. I was working at Enterprise Rent-A-Car at the time as the branch manager. Josh's vehicle got side swiped while he was parked at work. So, of course he needed a rental car while his car was in the body shop being repaired. I guess it's pretty fitting that Enterprise's motto is 'We'll pick you up'! There was a line out the door of customers at Enterprise but it must have been fate because I ended up helping check Josh into his vehicle. Of course, I thought he was cute and we made some small talk… so naturally as I was walking back inside I start stalking the copy of his drivers license to figure out his name and how old he was. I guess Josh was thinking the same thing because the day he came to return the rental car he told his friend that there was a cute girl at Enterprise and he was hoping she was there so he could ask her out.
Then I guess the rest is history.
But a funny little side note – there was a little old lady sitting in the waiting area who watched our first meeting go down. When Josh left she was very eager to know if I gave the man my number. I joked and told her I had given him a fake number (even though I obviously didn't). But she was soooo disappointed when I told her that, she responded 'oh my gosh!! Why did you do that?!? He could have been THE ONE!!'"
Josh proposed at the top of the mountain in Jackson Hole, WY. We went out there to ski and we rode the tram to the top of the mountain and that is where he got down on one knee."
What a great story! Love these too! Can't wait for the wedding day! For now, enjoy these pictures!
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12 Inch Ruler
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This seminar focuses on the 12″ ruler and culminates in an informational comparison task.This seminar, designed for Math classes in Early Elementary grades, guides students to explore the themes of communication, Measure, Standard, truth, Unit.
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Socratic Seminar questions are designed to provoke creative and critical thinking. Sample discussion questions from this lesson plan include:
- Why are the inches marked on your ruler broken down into smaller units? How do they help you measure things?
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The Call Back
It's so flattering to be called back by previous clients to once again help out with their children's rooms. I completed these rooms for a gorgeous little girl and big brother boy a couple of years ago but now the family are on the move to new house so I have been asked to re-jig the rooms a little keeping in mind the new age of the kids. Here are the new mood boards!
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Facebook has become a tool that many businesses, including those in the travel industry, use to market to potential customers. Different types of companies in the travel industry, including airlines, hotels and car rental companies, often create Facebook pages because they hope to be able to sell their services to people using the social media website. Businesses in the travel industry cannot expect to attract Internet users by putting together lackluster Facebook pages that merely give information about their companies. To be successful at getting people to go to their pages, travel and tourism companies need to create pages that stand out and offer customers something, especially if they want people to keep coming back to their pages.


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With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's release just around the corner, analysts have come to question whether Battlefield 3 will be able to maintain its strong opening sales.
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Battlefield 3 launched 25 October to a near universal positive critical reaction. As well as shooting straight to the top of the UK charts the game boasted record breaking worldwide sales.
On 31 October Electronic Arts announced that "based on internal estimates", Battlefield 3 had sold in-excess of five million units globally in its opening week, making it EA's fastest-selling game in history.
"From Tokyo to Los Angeles, Sydney to London, millions of fans have been playing all weekend long -- we are overwhelmed by the global response to Battlefield 3," commented Patrick Soderlund, Executive Vice President of the EA Games Label on the title's opening success.
"It is extremely gratifying to deliver an entertainment experience that delights our fans, and to have the opportunity to introduce new people to the franchise. Already, we are seeing unprecedented play times and online activity which is very rewarding. This launch solidifies Battlefield as a leading entertainment brand."
Black Ops Shadow
Despite the strong opening figures posted by EA's latest entry into the Battlefield franchise, critics and fans alike have questioned the game's ability to compete with Activision's forthcoming military-shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The Battlefield nay-sayers' argument rests on the success of Modern Warfare 3's predecessor, Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Launched in November 2010, Black Ops boasted similarly impressive sales figures, remaining in the UK games chart's top 10 for months after its release.
Even more impressively, in its opening month on 21 December Activision posted its statement confirming Black Ops had broken previous sales records, breaking the $1 billion sales mark.
According to Activision's release, in its opening five days Black Ops had accumulated in-excess of $650 million through worldwide sales, beating the company's previous record holder Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which took-in $550 million its opening five days.
Following Black Ops' strong sales Activision went on to reiterate its belief that the franchise would continue to grow and that Black Ops' successors would beat the game's already impressive opening sales.
"This is a tribute to the global appeal of the Call of Duty franchise, the exceptional talent at Treyarch and the hundreds of extraordinary people across our many Call of Duty studios including Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer that work tirelessly on the franchise," commented Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard.
"Our ability to provide the most compelling, immersive entertainment experience, and enhance it with regular, recurring content that delivers hundreds of hours of audience value, has allowed Call of Duty to continue to set sales and usage records."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set for release in the UK 8 November, stay tuned at the IBTimes for a full review of the game.


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The Wimbledon Championships contested in Wimbledon, London, is the oldest and most prestigious of all tennis tournaments. It's considered the great, great, great grandaddy of them all.
Of the four Majors, or slams, Wimbledon is the only one still played on grass, grass having been the original surface on which all tennis was contested. Fittingly, the game then was called "lawn tennis."
This 2012 edition will mark the 135th year the tournament will be played at the All England Club.
Any event of significance having been staged for 134 years is undoubtedly steeped in tradition.
Wimbledon is more than a tournament. It is the tournament. It is the tradition. And it is the genesis of all that has followed, including the Australian, French, and US Opens, the other three slams.
There isn't a professional tennis player alive that at some time during development from beginner, to junior, to pro, hasn't dreamed of winning Wimbledon.
There is no greater win than to hoist the Wimbledon trophy.
It's the ultimate prize.
For most, the dream will never come to fruition. Contentment for them will come from just having their names appear in the draw, for having played a match, though a losing one, for simply having participated. That's how powerful, weighty and mystical Wimbledon is.
For two weeks the courts of the All England Club will become much more than tennis courts. They will be reduced to battle grounds on which sporting war will be waged.
In the end, one man and one woman will each be presented a handsome sum of money along with a glistening vestige of proof of the ultimate achievement–Wimbledon champion.
For them both monetary gain and trophy acquisition will be transcended by enshrinement into the annals of Wimbledon tennis history. Their names will join those of past champions, men and women who dared to dream, fought tenaciously and made that dream reality.
In just a few hours now, the quest will begin.
Six time Wimbledon champion, 16 time singles slam titlist, "The maestro," Roger Federer, will try to win the crown for the seventh time.
"The Soldier," Rafael Nadal who made shambles of the clay court season which culminated with his seventh French Open title, will be working to add a 12th singles slam title.
Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, who in 2011 arguably had the greatest single season of any player ever, will seek to repeat.
Andy Murray will try to become the first British male to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936. That's a very long drought.
In addition to having the physical tools to win, Murray now has eight-time slam winner, Ivan Lendl as coach. That's got to help.
If Murray were to win, he would quite possibly be ordained a saint or at least knighted for delivering England from the depths of tennis despair.
I vividly remember the strained appearance of Tim Henman during his years of desperately trying to win the title. It was an enormous burden to shoulder. But he bore it with grace and as much tenacity as could be mustered.
A part of me will root for Murray. 76 years is just too freaking long for England to agonize without having a winner.
Realistically, from America, only John Isner appears to have any chance to win this thing without some sort of divine intervention.
There's a very short list of other males that have the physical attributes and weaponry necessary to win. For those, belief and a little luck is the key.
On the women's side, based on results of the last few years, I can say with absolute certainty, I don't have a clue. Maybe anybody can win, I guess, maybe. But for sure, some woman will.
Of course I still believe Serena Williams is the best player in the field but strange occurrences seem to permeate women's tennis at this time in history. It could be that they are all very good players that are simply evenly matched. Or it might be a period of transition in which there are ascendant players that are just not yet dominant.
I dunno.
I do know that Wimbledon is the tournament every professional player most wants to win. But to do it, he and she must prove they can.
Wimbledon isn't just any tournament, it's the most coveted prize, the towering achievement.
Wimbledon is the proving ground.


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I asked my husband what he meant when he said NO to praying during our conversation yesterday. I said I just wanted to understand him that' all. He said he was not comfortable with it right now. I asked if he prays to Buddha and he replied he did not know. I was pleased that he said not right now because that gave me some hope that maybe one day he would agree to pray with me. He then asked about the daily devotional and asked that I reread yesterdays and then today. I don't know if he's getting anything out of it but he did say thank you even though he was half asleep. I hope to read it to him when he's fully alert so he can listen to what I'm reading. He falls asleep so quickly that's its frustrating but I'll try to do this first as to capture his attention.
I will plan to pray as soon as I get home from work. That's usually a stressful time because I'm like a tornado flying thru at times and I know it makes things uncomfortable for everyone. I think this will help ground me, give me some peace and help me be calm. I know this has been a source of stress for my husband when I'm crabby or irritable once I get home. I know this will be a positive change for everyone in the home.
We will be reading the devotional book before bedtime and I will spend some time praying before I go to bed. I also start my morning out giving Thanks to GOD for everyone and everything in my life. I listen to gospel music as I get ready in the morning because it fills my heart with love and joy. I also spend time throughout the day reading devotional things, posts on here or watching/listening to sermons on YouTube. I feel like this all helps me become closer to GOD which I know is the most important thing right now to me.
your husband claims buddha. But he does not admit to prayer to buddha. Which leads me to believe his pride is fully involved here.
He is convicted when these questions arise and must run from them.... That is a good thing. Now you need to allow Christ to mold you more each day so that your presence is a conviction alone.


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The arrangement of data within memory forms the basis of computing. The arrangement of data is known as data structure. Every language provides a variety of built-in data structures. Languages such as C provide basic data structure mechanisms, using which complex structures can be built, whereas languages such as Java use a full-blown object-oriented approach for almost all types of data structures.
Then there are languages like Python, which takes a middle approach. In this article I will be discussing the middle path used by Python, examining two of its built-in data structures: lists and tuples. The first section will focus on lists, while the second section will focus on tuples. In the final section of this article I will develop a real world application which makes use of lists and/or tuples. That's the agenda for this discussion.
More about Lists and Tuples
Lists and tuples are two of Python's basic built-in data structures. As with all other features of Python, these in-built data structures provide both flexibility and power. The answer to how flexible and powerful they are is what I am going to discuss now. First let's look at the list data structure.
{mospagebreak title=List}
By definition a list is "An instance of an abstract data type (ADT), formalizing the concept of an ordered collection of entities." In other words, a list is a collection of objects. In contrast with an array, a list contains different objects. That's how Python also views lists. Data types (that's what Python calls built-in data structures too) such as list are known as compound data types in Python. The operations that can be performed on a list are:
- Creation
- Addition of elements
- Accessing and searching
- Deletion
Many of the library functions essentially create lists. These functions may be working on lists themselves during such tasks as accessing and searching. Here are the details:
Creation: A list is defined as a list of comma-separated values between square brackets thus:
a = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234]
where the items of the List a are of different data types. This is the most common method of creating a list. The other technique is to use the range() function. The range() function provides a list of consecutive integers. The range() function takes two arguments. The list returned contains all the integers from the first to the second, including the first but not including the second. For example,
>>range(1, 5)
Since a list itself is a data type, a list can contain another list. For example,
is a perfectly valid list.
Addition of elements: There are three ways to add elements to an existing List using member functions of the list. These are:
- Append, which adds a single element to the end of the list. For example, let li be a List, then
>>> li
['a', 'b', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example']
>>> li.append("new")
>>> li
['a', 'b', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example', 'new']
- Insert is a method that inserts a single element into the list. The numeric argument is the index of the first element that gets shifted out of position. Also there can be two elements of the same value at two different positions.
>>> li.insert(2, "new")
>>> li
['a', 'b', 'new', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example', 'new']
- Extend concatenates the list passed as argument with the existing list.
For example:
>>> li.extend(["two", "elements"])
>>> li
['a', 'b', 'new', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example', 'new', 'two', 'elements']
Accessing and Searching: For accessing and searching, one of the following techniques can be used:
- Slicing: A slice is a sub-list of a list. Slicing is done using the [n : m] which returns the part of the list from the nth character to the m-nth character, including the first but excluding the last. For example, if a_list is a list of letters of the alphabet from a to f, then
>>> a_list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
>>> a_list[1:3]
['b', 'c']
>>> a_list[:4]
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> a_list[3:]
['d', 'e', 'f']
>>> a_list[:]
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
- Indexing: An index of a given element can be found using the index() function of list. It returns the first occurrence of the element supplied as an argument. That means even if the element occurs twice, only the position of the first element would be returned. If the element is not found an exception is raised. For example:
>>>li=['a', 'b', 'new', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example', 'new', 'two', 'elements']
>>> li
['a', 'b', 'new', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example', 'new', 'two', 'elements']
>>> li.index("example")
>>> li.index("new")
>>> li.index("c")
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list
Apart from these, a list can be accessed as one would access an array by specifying the index thus:
>>>li=['a', 'b', 'new', 'mpilgrim', 'z', 'example', 'new', 'two', 'elements']
Deletion: To delete an element from a list, one can use del. It removes an element from the specified list. For example:
>>> a = ['one', 'two', 'three']
>>> del a[1]
>>> a
['one', 'three']
del also can have slice thus:
>>> a_list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
>>> del a_list[1:5]
>>> print a_list
['a', 'f']
That covers the operations on lists. The way the operations are implemented shows the flexibility of Python's middle path approach. The flexibility doesn't just stop here. Though strings are immutable and lists are mutable, strings and lists can be converted into each other.
Two of the most useful functions in the string module involve lists of strings: split and join. The former returns a list composed of individual elements of string separated by the delimiter passed as an argument. The latter creates a string out of a supplied list. Take a look at the following examples:
>>> import string
>>> song = "The rain in Spain…"
>>> string.split(song)
['The', 'rain', 'in', 'Spain…']
Here the string is split on the basis of space as a delimiter, which is the default delimiter. The next example shows the reverse of the above functionality, a string from a list:
>>> lst = ['The', 'rain', 'in', 'Spain…']
>>> string.join(lst)
'The rain in Spain…'
The joining is done on the basis of a space delimiter, which again is the default delimiter. We're finished with lists for the moment. Now let's look at the other compound data type, the tuple.
{mospagebreak title=Tuple}
According to its definition, "A tuple is a finite sequence (also known as an "ordered list") of objects, each of a specified type." In other words, a tuple is an ordered collection of objects of different types. In Python, a tuple is a list of comma-separated values but immutable, unlike a list. So the operations on a tuple are restricted to the ones that don't affect its immutability. Accordingly, the following are the operations that can be performed on a tuple:
- Creation
- Accessing
Due to a tuple's immutability, deletion and addition of new elements are not possible.
Creation: Creating or defining a tuple is as simple as giving a list of values within parenthesis. For example
>>> tup = (2, 4, 6, 8, 10)
is a tuple. If a tuple has only one element, it would be defined as follows:
>>> tup = (5,)
Accessing: Since lists and tuples are almost the same, the accessing mechanisms also work in a similar fashion. Elements of a tuple can be accessed in two ways:
- Index based: The elements of a tuple can be accessed using their indices. The index starts at 0. For example, to access an element at index 0 of a tuple tup, the statement would be:
>>> tup = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
>>> tup[0]
- Slicing: As with a list, slice operator can be used to access elements of a tuple. It selects a range of elements. For example the following statement selects elements between 1 and 3 (excluding 3):
>>> tup[1:3]
('b', 'c')
That covers operations on a tuple. So the question arises, when do you use a list and when do you use a tuple? A list can be used in almost all cases. However, there are certain contexts where a tuple is more useful. These are:
- When you need speed. Tuples are faster than lists. If you're defining a constant set of values and all you're ever going to do with it is iterate through it, use a tuple instead of a list.
- When your data will not change. It makes your code safer if you "write-protect" data that does not need to be changed. Using a tuple instead of a list is like having an implied assert statement that this data is constant, and that special thought (and a specific function) is required to override that.
In all other contexts, lists can be used. That brings us to the next section, which is a real world example using a list.
{mospagebreak title=Lists and Tuples in the Real World}
The example application will implement a ring buffer or a bounded buffer using a list. In a bounded buffer, once the capacity is full, then the first element i.e. the oldest element is replaced with newest element. The implementation uses a class switch pattern. Here is the code:
class RingBuffer(object):
""" class that implements a not-yet-full buffer """
def __init__(self, size_max):
self.max = size_max
self.data = [ ]
class __Full(object):
""" class that implements a full buffer """
def append(self, x):
""" Append an element overwriting the oldest one. """
self.data[self.cur] = x
self.cur = (self.cur+1) % self.max
def tolist(self):
""" return list of elements in correct order. """
return self.data[self.cur:] + self.data[:self.cur]
def append(self, x):
""" append an element at the end of the buffer. """
if len(self.data) == self.max:
self.cur = 0
# Permanently change self's class from non-full to full
self.__class__ = __Full
def tolist(self):
""" Return a list of elements from the oldest to the newest. """
return self.data
The class defines an empty list as a buffer. The nested class __Full implements the logic to overwrite the oldest element if the buffer is full. The tolist method returns the list in the correct order. Next the append method of the outer class i.e. RingBuffer appends a new item to the end of the list. It also checks whether the length of the buffer is equal to the maximum size. If it is equal, then the buffer's state is changed to full. The tolist method returns the buffer. The following is a sample implementation that shows how to use the RingBuffer class:
if __name__ == '__main__':
x = RingBuffer(5)
x.append(1); x.append(2); x.append(3); x.append(4)
print x.__class__, x.tolist( )
print x.__class__, x.tolist( )
print x.data, x.tolist( )
x.append(7); x.append(8); x.append(9); x.append(10)
print x.data, x.tolist( )
That brings us to the end of this discussion. List and tuple are the basic data structures found in Python. On the basis of these, more complex structures such as trees can be developed. How to implement them will be a topic for discussion in the future. Till then…


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Staff Writer
Sept. 19, 1982, was an historic day for Jamaica. Elected officials, civic leaders and business owners gathered to celebrate under a colorful tent on a vacant lot that was soon to be the site of a $92 million building – the new home to the Social Security Administration offices.
The milestone development was considered to be one of the most ambitious projects for the area at the time. Spearheaded by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo Sr. and former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, it aimed to revive one of the most troubled areas in the City.
According to reports from 1982, prior its unveiling in 1989, the custom-designed regional headquarters, located at the busy corner of Jamaica Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, was expected to boost the economic climate significantly, with about 2,700 SSA employees spending a hefty chunk of their annual payroll of $55 million in Jamaica's businesses.
But now, just 25 years after the 11-story federal building opened, the Queens Tribune has learned that six of its floors are being used for the storage of filing cabinets, leaving more than half of its one million-square-feet of office space underutilized and hundreds of employees unaccounted for.
Approximately two to three years ago, when the building's utilization was first called into question, Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica), whose district encompasses the headquarters, Carlisle Towery, president of the GJDC, and a representative from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office, toured the headquarters, only to confirm their suspicions.
"This was designed to bring close to 3,000 people and it seems like it was only half-filled," Meeks said.
"It's an anchor in Jamaica that we welcomed and worked very hard to get and to have it only used at half its capacity is troubling," Towery echoed.
Although it is unclear as to why six of the building's floors are not being used by staff and whether the hundreds of employees were relocated, Meeks said he believes the building's underutilization is halting economic progression.
"It hurts the community in general, because it reduces traffic flow," the Congressman said. "[Having employees there] helps stimulate growth in the community. It brings individuals into the Downtown Jamaica business atmosphere and allows local merchants to see more sales, which would allow them to employ more individuals."
In response to his findings, Meeks said that he requested the agency conduct a study to determine if the space was in fact being used to its maximum potential.
"I know they did a study, but I haven't gotten it. But I have been putting pressure on them, as I ought to know what their findings were. I think they have come to the conclusion the building is underutilized.," he said.
According to Angie Hu, a spokesperson for the Senator, Gillibrand has also been in touch with Public Building Services and the entities involved so that they can investigate the matter.
"Our office made an inquiry with the federal agencies involved and will continue to look into the issue," Hu wrote in an emailed statement.
Instead of using more than half of the regional headquarters' floors as storage for filing cabinets, Meeks said he has been putting pressure on SSA representatives to use the building more effectively, so that Jamaica can continue to economically prosper.
"They need to find additional federal agencies that are looking for places to reside and move some of them in the Social Security Building," he said. "That would make sense and maximize the flow of individuals in the building and in the streets."
He also offered an alternate solution.
"If they don't feel that there are agencies that are trying to relocate, then maybe they should sell the building, or sell the building to someone in the private industry," he said. "This way they can lease what space they need for themselves from the new potential owners."
The SSA's New York Regional Communications Director, John Shallman, confirmed that when the building first opened, it housed 2,700 employees. He declined to discuss the current numbers "due to security reasons."
Reach Natalia Kozikowska at (718)357-7400 Ext. 123 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The most south westerly town in the state, Augusta was named by Gov. Sir James Stirling in May 1830. Until 2003 it was thought the name honoured Princess Augusta Sophia, second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte. In 2003 the book "James Stirling - Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham Drew (UWA Press 2003) was published, and in it a letter by James Turner is referred to which states "a town is purposed to be built named Augusta, County of Sussex, in compliment to the Duke". Princess Augusta Sophia died unmarried, and the "Duke" is most likely the Duke of Sussex, Augustus Frederick (Hanover), the 6th son of George III. He married Lady Augusta Murray in 1793, but the marriage was deemed a violation of the Royal Marriage Act, and was declared null and void in 1794. He had children by her, and did not remarry until after she died on 5 March 1830. Lady Augusta Murray is most likely the person after whom Augusta is named.
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