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The title of Pfeilschifter's (P. hereafter) book, his first monograph, is somewhat misleading, for although Flamininus is in many ways the protagonist (but not hero) of the book, he is far from its main focus. It is in fact an admirably wide-ranging and meticulously detailed consideration of Roman political interaction with the mainland Greek world, primarily in the decade of the 190s BC. Flamininus' uniquely active career in Greece forms the structural framework for this study, and for its central question of whether Roman strategy in the Greek world was characterized by long-term comprehensive policy goals led by a cadre of "Eastern experts," with Flamininus the preeminent member. His answer to this question is a definitive no, and his painstakingly built and convincing argument that Rome made decisions in the East ad hoc is a valuable contribution to the subject of Roman foreign policy that goes well beyond the old debate on "imperialism." On the other hand, his view of Flamininus as an irascible, vainglorious, and spiteful political mediocrity may overstate the evidence.
P. articulates an ambitious new perspective on the material, an attribute this volume shares with the works P. identifies as his intellectual forbears, those of Badian, Gruen, and Ferrary.1 Unlike these authors, however, P. primarily limits himself to a very restricted time and space, and rather than employing a systematic approach that relates much diverse material to a single "great" theory, tends to consider every incident on a case-by-case basis and in exacting detail.
Like most histories, the book is divided into three parts, an early (up to 199 BC), middle (198-190 BC) and late (after 190 BC) period. An odd duality is exposed in the early and late sections of the book, for both include biographical chapters on Flamininus (his early career and "retirement," respectively) and chapters discussing events in Greece during the time period. In other words, P. gives the background information for both a biographical study (which he states in the introduction that this is not) and a thematic study of Rome's involvement in Greece in the 190s. Although P. deals judiciously with such issues as Flamininus' alleged membership in various political circles in Rome, many of the issues he takes up in these chapters are not relevant to his overall argument. P.'s scholarly tenor and the limited temporal scope of the study make it somewhat unlikely that it will attract many readers who do not already know well the circumstances under which Rome first became embroiled in conflict with eastern Mediterranean powers; it thus seems otiose to rehearse those particulars that have no direct relevance to his thesis.
The heart of the book is the middle section corresponding to Flamininus' Greek floruit. Rather than a chronological structure, P. breaks this section down into chapters about Flamininus' interactions with the most important powers of the Greek world: Philip V, the Aitolians, the Achaians, and Antiochos III. These chapters again reveal a dual purpose, examining both the nature of Roman policy and the character and temperament of Flamininus. Moreover, this structure means that the same main incidents of the era are reviewed four separate times, a choice that demands much from the reader in what is already a long and difficult study. One reason for this choice is no doubt P.'s wish to highlight the differences in Flamininus' relationships with each power in the service of reconstructing his character. This attempt seems to me fraught with methodological problems, and ultimately serves to distract from what is otherwise a sober and persuasive argument.
Even the best-known Roman contemporary of Flamininus, Marcus Porcius Cato, makes a dubious case for a biographical sketch despite significant fragments of his literary output; Flamininus, although certainly well known by the standards of the second century, is a significantly more obscure character. All we really know of his life are the political and military highlights and a handful of anecdotes drawn from sources at an unknown remove from the events they discuss, in nothing like the quantity or quality that are extant for first century Romans. Though P. does a good job pointing out the limitations of his sources in his introduction, he in no way restrains himself from parlaying them into a full-blooded portrait of the man. He follows in the footsteps of Holleaux and Badian in arguing that Flamininus was guided primarily by personal ambition (and hence was a typical example of the second-century Roman magistrate).2 This at least has the textual support of his cynical manipulation of the peace conference with Philip in Lokris and similar abandonment of the war against Nabis. But P. extends the argument with the claim that Flamininus won support in Greece more by power politics than by personal charm or by loyalty to his allies. His Flamininus is a poor diplomat, quick to take offense, slow to forget imagined slights, and envious of the successes of his Greek allies.
This reading of Flamininus' nature often relies on evidence that is ambiguous. For instance, it seems to draw support from an anecdote mentioned by Plutarch in which Flamininus was allegedly irritated by an epigram by Alkaios because it gave pride of place to his Aitolian allies in its mention of Kynoskephalai.3 Certainly Flamininus did take a personal interest in the poem, for an edited version that removed the reference to the Aitolians is also preserved, and another line from the offending poem is also incorporated in a separate epigram Alkaios wrote to honor Flamininus. However, this episode permits other interpretations than that Flamininus was a prickly fellow. Flamininus' interest may show not just a concern for Roman or personal glory, but a recognition of the potency of the poem's propaganda value. Plutarch's own account mentions the great popularity of the epigram; Flamininus may have seized on it as a culturally appropriate way to broadcast Roman deeds. Indeed the poem honoring him contrasts Titus who invaded Greece to free it with Xerxes who invaded Greece to enslave it, a clear echo of the freedom propaganda issued in his Isthmian proclamation in 196. Perhaps this controversy is best seen in the context of the propaganda battle begun after the post-war settlement when the Aitolians, disappointed not to receive the Thessalian cities they expected, accused Rome of replacing Philip as the masters of Greece. Thus Flamininus' irritation changes to a strategic concern not to surrender the high ground in the battle for the hearts and minds of the Greek world.
Similar examples of cultural diplomacy are in fact not uncommon in Flamininus' Greek career.4 Of course his Isthmian proclamation is the best-documented example, but he was also responsible for offerings at Delos and Delphi, the latter inscribed with Greek epigrams again emphasizing freedom for the Greeks. He minted gold coins in a Greek style and weight standard, but depicting himself in the place of a Hellenistic monarch. These examples may have been shamelessly self-promoting, but they also followed paradigms well established in the Hellenistic world and seem designed, like Alkaios' second poem, to palliate the charge that Romans were barbarians out to conquer Greece.
Another illustration of P.'s use of ambiguous historical evidence to support his view of Flamininus is the case of Elateia, the Phokian city that became the base of operations for the Roman army in the winter of 198/7 BC. Wishing to illustrate Flamininus' insensitivity to Greek opinion, P. argues that he was responsible for the forced expulsion of its Greek population after the capture of the city from a Macedonian garrison.5 The evidence for this is an inscription honoring the city of Stymphalos for hosting the exiled Elateians. However, this inscription does not preserve the circumstances of their eviction. A more likely scenario is that the Aitolians, who received Phokis as the prize for their aid to Rome in the war, seized the Elateian's property, as they were known from a series of contemporary inscriptions to have done at Delphi. Both the Stymphalian and Delphian inscriptions prominently mention Manius Acilius Glabrio's role in the restoration of property in the respective communities, and these benefactions most likely shared the same motive of stripping the Aitolian League (by then an enemy) of its ill-gotten gains.
P. takes for granted the inevitability of Roman victory in the Second Macedonian War, arguing that even if Philip had won the initial battle, Rome would have sent a second and then a third army until victory was achieved. I think this view is more a product of hindsight than a considered view of the historical context. This war was unpopular with the Roman plebs before it began; one or more defeats as disastrous as Cannae or Trasimene in a war on foreign soil may well have brought the senate to rethink its further commitment to an overseas quagmire, especially one without a clearly articulated objective after the defeat of Carthage. Indeed, the superiority of the Roman legions is an article of faith throughout the work. This would not in itself be a problem, if not for the fact that P. imputes the same belief to the Greek allies and enemies of Rome. By his formula, every time a Greek power defied Rome it was a failure of Roman diplomacy, but every ally won had made the pragmatic calculation that Rome had military superiority. This circular reasoning makes it impossible for him to give credit even for a diplomatic coup as unexpected as the alliance secured with the Achaian League, traditional Macedonian allies, before the battle of Kynoskephalai.
P. is at pains to show that Flamininus had a consistently negative attitude towards the Aitolian League from virtually the moment he arrived on Greek soil, adducing as evidence for this a handful of reported conversations involving the allies before the decisive battle at Kynoskephalai in 197. It seems to me that two tendencies would explain this perceived attitude as well as P.'s apparent assumption that Flamininus simply disliked the Aitolians: the (ancient and modern) historians' tendency to retroject the enmities that built up after the battle and finally led to war in 192 to the period of the active alliance between the powers, and the Achaian Polybios' well-documented tendency to depict the Aitolians as barbarous cut-throats.
Similar special pleading occurs in P.'s discussion of the Achaian League, in which he argues that Flamininus had no direct role in wooing the League into an alliance with Rome because his brother Lucius handled the negotiations and Titus never sent a legate from his own camp. To suggest, however, that Lucius did not directly represent his brother's position seems farfetched; indeed it was the close coordination expected between the brothers that led the senate to assign Lucius the naval command in the first place.
Ultimately, despite the excellence of P.'s core argument on the nature of Roman policy, I suspect that this book will not achieve the same influence as those of Badian and Gruen. His inadvisable concentration on Flamininus' personality and the complicated structure dictated by it will likely prove daunting to non-specialist graduate students and professionals for whom the mechanism of Roman interaction with the Greek world might otherwise be of interest; his deliberate style of argumentation may also be an obstacle to those less proficient in German. It will, of course, be required reading for those who specialize in the interaction of the Roman and Hellenistic worlds and those interested in the processes of Roman expansion.
1. Ernst Badian, Foreign Clientelae (264-70 BC), Oxford 1958; Erich Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, Berkeley 1984; Jean-Louis Ferrary, Philhellénisme et impérialisme, Rome 1988. 2. Maurice Holleaux, "Les conférences de Lokride et la politique de T. Quinctius Flamininus (198 av. J.-C.)" Revue des études grecques 36 (1923) 115-171; Ernst Badian, Titus Quinctius Flamininus: Philhellenism and Realpolitik, Cincinnati 1970. 3. P. 153f. with note 58. The passage is Plutarch, Flam. 9.1-5. 4. These are articulated in a chapter of this reviewer's doctoral dissertation, Roman Cultural Diplomacy at Panhellenic Sanctuaries during the Conquest of Greece, UMI 2000 (not cited by P.). 5. P. 98f. with note 17.


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Herbert Rose Barraud
Herbert Rose Barraud
|[1]August 24, 1845
|1896 (aged 50–51)
Herbert Rose Barraud (24 August 1845 – 1896) was a noted portrait photographer who had studios in London and Liverpool. He produced cabinet photographs of many famous Victorian statesmen, artists, and members of the aristocracy, many of which were published in his two-volume work, Men and Women of the Day, 1888-89. Most of Barraud's images were Woodburytypes, then a newly developed process which lent itself admirably to portraiture, being able to render middle tones accurately.
Between 1873 and 1880 he had a partnership, Barraud & Jerrard,[3] with George Milner Gibson Jerrard (1848–1918).[4]
Barraud's studios were at 96 Gloucester Place, Portman Square in 1883, at 263 Oxford Street ("A few doors west of 'The Circus'") between 1883 and 1891, at 73 Piccadilly from 1893 to 1896, and at 126 Piccadilly in 1897.[5] Another studio was located at 92 Bold Street, Liverpool.
Herbert's brother was Francis James Barraud (1856–1924), an artist celebrated for having created "His Master's Voice", a painting used in advertising by the early HMV gramophone records.[6]
Selected works[edit]
Media related to Herbert Rose Barraud at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975". FamilySearch. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ "Barraud, Herbert Rose". www.photolondon.org.uk. photoLondon. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ "Barraud & Jerrard". www.photolondon.org.uk. photolondon. Retrieved 5 January 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "George Milner Gibson Jerrard". www.photolondon.org.uk.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Pritchard, Michael (1994), 'A directory of London photographers 1841-1908'
- ^ PhotoLondon
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The enemy at this point is a simple fact of life: with every pass through a novel, our blinders grow more tightened to anything we've missed. We're quite right to search with new fury for typos, spellos and grammos that have slipped past our eagle eyes. At the same time, though, we need to renew our hunt for wrongos that can undo us: inconsistencies, lapses in logic, glitches in the timeline, etc.
I'd also add to this list small wait-a-second spots. These are especially deadly for writers of suspense, for they break the charmed narrative spell and cause readers to scratch their heads in wonder: Wait a second, haven't we established that the character's wearing brown socks and not green?...Wait a second, now the author's saying that his character was warned by X about Y two or three chapters ago? Where's the warning hidden?...Wait a second, the hero was listed as fourth on a list of seven victims--and now he'll be the third to go?
Wrongos occur for good reasons sometimes, A character was dropped, for example, resulting in the changing of a list. Or the timeline was condensed to add some more oomph to the story or simplify things for the reader. And, not to be too unkind to ourselves, wrongos are inevitable when we're spending months, even years, on our books. Even with the best of charts, our characters' eye colors may change on us...or, God save us, we may forget the color of their socks.
I'm happily hunting for wrongos these days as I work on RC, my new winter release. And each day's work starts with this mindset: small slips are waiting to get me and I need to take them down. I owe that to my readers.


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PRESS RELEASE: Secretary Hillary Clinton to Make Historic Visit to Laos
Posted: Jul 6, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Channapha Khamvongsa
Executive Director
Legacies of War
Secretary Clinton's Visit to Laos Provides
Historic Opportunity for U.S. to Renew its Commitment to Ending the UXO Crisis in Laos
On Wednesday, July 11, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Vientiane, Lao PDR, marking the first time that an active U.S. Secretary of State has visited the country since 1955. Legacies of War has been pushing for this groundbreaking trip since July 2011, when it joined with all six former U.S. Ambassadors to Laos in encouraging the Secretary to visit the country and to make a long-term commitment to addressing the crisis caused by unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over by U.S. bombings during the Vietnam War era. "The important progress Laos has made . . . in matters of economic liberalization, trade, and religious freedom has already led to a remarkable improvement in U.S.-Lao relations," wrote the Ambassadors in a joint letter to Secretary Clinton. "We feel strongly that the United States should acknowledge this progress by reaffirming our commitment to help Laos overcome the UXO crisis."
Secretary Clinton's historic visit demonstrates that she "recognizes that bringing along the less developed countries of the lower Mekong region is key for stability and development in the region," said Brett Dakin, Chair of the Board of Directors of Legacies of War. "However," he added, "Laos will not reach its full potential as long as much of its land is still contaminated with unexploded bombs."
An estimated one third of Lao land is still littered with UXO from over 40 years ago, making land unavailable for food production or development, and 20,000 people have been killed or maimed by UXO since the bombings ended.
The bombings were part of the U.S. "Secret War" in Laos, unauthorized by Congress, to stem communist ground incursions from the North and to interdict traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. dropped the equivalent of one planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day on a country the size of Minnesota. One ton of bombs was dropped for every man, woman, and child in Laos at the time, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita in history.
"The people who continue to suffer from the bombings are ordinary Lao villagers," said Channapha Khamvongsa, Executive Director of Legacies of War. "We are hopeful that after witnessing the human impact of UXO in Laos first hand, the Secretary will reaffirm the U.S. commitment to helping Laos solve this problem once and for all."
U.S. funding for UXO clearance began in 1997 and remained at an average of $2.6 million per year until recently, when Congress directed that funding be increased to a record $9 million in 2012. Legacies of War joins its supporters in the diplomatic community and in Congress in asking Secretary Clinton to commit to allocating at least $10 million per year over the next ten years to help bring UXO clearance operations up to scale and make significant progress toward clearing Lao land for farming and development.
Legacies of War was founded in 2004 to raise awareness about the history of the Vietnam War-era bombings of Laos and advocate for greater U.S. funding to clear UXO. Legacies seeks to provide space for healing the wounds of war using art, culture, education, community organizing, and dialogue among the Laotian-American community and the broader U.S. public. The organization is based in Washington, D.C.
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Nilly is the one maintaining the server with his own pocket money, along with some donations from generous players.
According to Nilly a total of $200 to host the game server and the official forum page a month.
Nilly is a young programmer living in the Bay Area. He discovered his coding talent during high school, when he started making hacks for the real RotMG.
His hacks were among the best, and garnered a lot of praise from the community where he published them, MPGH.
It was also in this community that he first met a group of enthusiasts who where working hard to create the original private server, Phoenix Realms. Nilly's interest was piqued.
Later on, Phoenix Realms and its successor, Phoenix Realms 2, fell apart due to a lack of unity among its developers.
Meanwhile, after graduating from Stanford, nilly was looking for something to fill the void in his heart.
He used the source code from the Phoenix Realms project as the foundation for Nilly's realm, which has come a long way since then to become what we now enjoy.
During his time on MPGH, nilly was thought to be female. However, later on, he identified himself as male. Nonetheless, "his" true gender remain a mystery.
Some said the nilly is a computer program built by the government that gained self-awareness and went rogue. That might well be the truth, as the original RotMG server was hosted by Kabam on Google's Bay Area data center,
which happened to be where US Military NatMind Project was secretly hosted, explaining why nilly is so into RotMG.


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SVP Mary Beth Cunin Departing CMT
EXCLUSIVE: Mary Beth Cunin, CMT's SVP of Programming Strategy, is leaving the network at the end of the year. Originally based in CMT's Nashville headquarters and reporting directly to Brian Philips, President, CMT, Cunin oversees program scheduling, promotion scheduling, acquisitions and digital content strategy for the network. Cunin relocated to Los Angeles in August. CMT is expected to name a replacement, to be based in Nashville, in the new year. During her nine-year tenure at CMT, Cunin acquired off-network shows Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Trading Spouses and negotiated a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to bring original episodes of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? to the channel simultaneously with broadcast syndication. On the original programming front, Cunin's highest-profile initiative was the 2011 launch of a CMT original movie division to produce TV movies for the network. It has since been shelved.


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ZURICH, May 9 (Reuters) - The Swiss blue-chip SMI was seen opening 0.1 percent higher at 8,956 points on Wednesday, according to premarket indications by bank Julius Baer.
Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks:
Zurich Insurance generated $9.33 billion in property and casualty premiums in the first quarter, up 5 percent in dollar terms but down 1 percent like for like as Europe's fifth-biggest insurer focused on profitability, it said on Wednesday.
An attorney for Stormy Daniels on Tuesday detailed payments he said were made to U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, by U.S. telecommunications company AT&T, Swiss drugmaker Novartis and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. Daniels' attorney said he discovered four payments of just under $100,000 each by Novartis to Essential Consultants, a company used by Cohen to make payments to Daniels.
Credit Suisse subsidiary DLJ Mortgage has agreed to resell about $17 billion in first- and second-lien mortgages to Pacific Investment Management Co, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing sources, a day after Capital One announced the sale of the mortgages to DLJ.
* Tamedia's takeover of Goldbach Group has been postponed until September or October after the Swiss Federal Competition Commission decided to carry out an in-depth review.
* Schaffner Holding posted 9.0 million Swiss francs ($8.97 million) in operating profit for its half-year reporting term, up from 6.0 million francs during the prior-year period
* Banque Profil De Gestion SA: Q1 net profit of CHF 247,357 compared to a net profit of CHF 309,196 as of March 31, 2017
* Bucher Industries announced its hydraulics division will be forming a Chinese joint venture by acquiring an 80 percent stake in Wuxi Deli Fluid Technology, subject to approval
Results of monthly government bond tender due around 0900 GMT ($1 = 1.0034 Swiss francs) (Reporting by Zurich newsroom)


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Reliability and Performance with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Version 4.1
IBM Redbooks Solution Guide
Published 19 June 2014
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Authors: Paolo Bruni, Willie Favero
IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator V4.1 expands the value of high-performance analytics. DB2 Analytics Accelerator 4.1 opens to static SQL applications and rowset processing, minimizes data movement, reduces latency, and improves availability.
The IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator for IBM z/OS® (simply called DB2 Accelerator or just Accelerator for this IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide) is a high-performance appliance that integrates the IBM zEnterprise infrastructure and the IBM Netezza technology to accelerate data-intensive and complex queries in a DB2 for z/OS highly secure and available environment (see Figure 1). DB2 and the Accelerator appliance form a self-managing hybrid environment, concurrently and efficiently running online transaction processing and online transactional analytical processing together with business intelligence and online analytic processing workloads.
Figure 1. DB2 Analytics Accelerator
IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator V4.1 expands the value of high-performance analytics. DB2 Analytics Accelerator V4.1 opens to static SQL applications and rowset processing, minimizes data movement, reduces latency, and improves availability.
The IBM Redbooks publication Reliability and Performance with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Version V4.1, SG24-8213 helps technical decision makers understand the benefits of the Version 4.1 Accelerator when used with DB2 11 for z/OS. The installation of the new functions and the advantages to existing analytical processes as measured in a controlled test environment are described. The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS V1.1, a tool that facilitates the data population of the DB2 Accelerator, is also introduced.
Did you know?
By investing in the DB2 Accelerator, query elapsed times can be significantly reduced, CPU cost for query processing can be moved to the Accelerator, and storage cost for data that is no longer modified can be reduced by moving that data onto less costly disks attached to the Accelerator, all while protecting the IBM System z® investment.
The Accelerator has also been enhanced in recent releases to handle not only dynamic SQL but also static SQL. This improvement can extend query processing to the transactional and batch workloads for those queries that qualify for acceleration. The possibilities that this improvement brings to System z is almost endless.
Business value
"Wicked fast!" was the phrase used to describe the DB2 Accelerator by a customer during the implementation of a proof of concept (PoC).
The DB2 Accelerator, using Netezza technology, and combining with DB2 for z/OS creates a solution capable of increasing query processing by 2000X. It allows for the completion of analytics queries in seconds that used to take hours (see Figure 2). Most important, it allows queries that would never have completed because of their complexity to finally produce an answer, in only seconds or minutes.
Figure 2. DB2 to Accelerator query comparisons
In the Accelerator's more recent release, it can process static SQL in addition to dynamic SQL. This allows it to be used for long running production SQL that in the past would have been relegated to batch and second and third shift. With the ability to complete an SQL in seconds or minutes rather than hours, It frees up resources and restriction of when SQL can be executed.
Although not its primary purpose, it can also reduce mainframe MIPS (millions of instructions per second) usage. If a query that ran for 2 hours for example on the mainframe is now executed on the Accelerator, not only does it complete in a significantly shorter elapsed time, the MIPS that would have been consumed by running that query on the mainframe are now available.
Solution overview
Business Analytics are no longer considered a "nice to have" with low performance expectations. Data warehousing and Business Analytics are becoming mission critical applications with the same quality of service (QoS) requirements as traditional Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads. The applications must be reliable, available, and secure: attributes synonymous with System z. Sometimes, there is also a need to have the analytics workload coexist with traditional OLTP in a mixed workload environment. The ability to run mixed workloads is a major differentiator when determining a warehouse-hosting platform.
Today's analytic solutions must incorporate the same ideals of all mainframe applications:
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- Transparently accelerate DB2 complex queries
- Implement highly available analytics
To best achieve these characteristics today, an analytics solution should be based on the DB2 Analytics Accelerator. The backbone of the DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is its use of the IBM PureData System for Analytics appliance, an appliance that is based on Netezza technology that delivers easy-to-use warehouse agility and performance. The IBM PureData System for Analytics appliance also enables the Accelerator to increase its overall data capacity to 32 TB of uncompressed raw data, with the ability to easily expand to a petabyte. However, when an IBM PureData System for Analytics appliance is implemented as part of DB2's query accelerator, the IBM PureData System for Analytics appliance "loses" its identity by becoming a component available only for DB2 for z/OS use. This happens because the Accelerator appears as a virtual component of DB2 for z/OS.
The DB2 Analytic Accelerator is also part of the zEnterprise Analytics System 9700/9710 solution. The IBM zEnterprise Analytics System 9700/9710 are a set of fully integrated and scalable data warehouse and analytics solutions that are designed to give an organization the insight it needs to work smarter. They combine software, server, and storage resources to put the correct answers in the hands of the corporate decision makers today; placing your business in the best possible position to answer the questions of tomorrow.
The included components have been selected, tested, optimized, and priced to enable customers to deploy a next generation decision system. They have been sized for a wide variety of configurations, ranging from the modest of database sizes and users up through the petabyte systems with hundreds to tens of thousands of users.
Deeply optimized and ready to use, the zEnterprise Analytics System 9700/9710 can help quickly turn information into insight and deliver that insight where and when it is needed.
Solution architecture
DB2 consists of multiple resource managers (for example, Data Manager, Buffer Manager, Relational Data System, and so on) that perform its various functions. When the Accelerator is installed, it essentially becomes one more resource. The difference is that these other resource managers exist as part of the DB2 subsystem and run in DB2 while the Accelerator runs on the IBM PureData System for Analytics appliance. Figure 3 is an example of DB2 for z/OS with no Accelerator attached; Figure 4 is an example of DB2 with the addition of the DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS.
Figure 3. DB2 with no Accelerator attached
Figure 4. DB2 subsystem with attached DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS
The Accelerator's subcomponent status is key to how the Accelerator processes a query. When a query arrives at DB2, the optimizer determines the best access path. With the Accelerator attached, the Accelerator becomes an extra access path. If the DB2 optimizer decides the query qualifies for offload to the Accelerator, the query is moved to the Accelerator and executed. Use of the Accelerator is transparent to any task, creating a dynamic or static SQL statement that might eventually qualify to run on the Accelerator. If DB2 decides the query will run in a more effective manner natively on DB2, then the query runs the way dynamic and static SQL has always run in DB2. Because the optimizer makes the routing decision, failure of the Accelerator is not a show stopper. The Accelerator is just no longer considered an access path resource and all queries execute natively in DB2 on z/OS without any outage. The decision of how to handle a failure at the Accelerator is controlled by a subsystem parameter (sets the default for the DB2 special register) or DB2 special register. This is the basis for no program changes being required to take advantage of the Accelerator; where to run the query is always the optimizer's decision (not the application's).
Some DB2 SQL query components and characteristics are incompatible with the Accelerator and prevent certain query types from ever being eligible to run on the Accelerator. Only read-only dynamic and static SQL statements qualify to run on the Accelerator. In addition, the SELECT statement can use a cursor that is defined as scrollable or for rowset processing (multi-row SELECT). Only the DB2 optimizer decides what queries are routed to the Accelerator.
The query data
Before DB2 can consider running a query on the Accelerator, a copy of the data necessary to satisfy the query must be preloaded to the Accelerator. Supplied DB2 stored procedures are used to define tables in the Accelerator and initiate data unload from DB2 and data load to the Accelerator. The unload and load processes can be started using either the DB2 Analytics Accelerator Studio, an Eclipsed based GUI used for various administrative tasks that are hosted by the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Studio V4.1 (this is the most current version as of this writing) client, or by explicitly invoking the DB2 stored procedures. Data is unloaded from a table or table partition to the UNIX System Services pipes and passed to the Accelerator for processing. Data in the Accelerator is historical and always "stale" to some extent. The Accelerator always contains a copy of the data that is stored in DB2. In most scenarios, data is never "moved" from DB2 to the Accelerator. The exception is when taking advantage of the Accelerator's high-performance storage save (HPSS). Also, the Accelerator provides a way to continually keep the Accelerator and DB2 in sync through incremental update by using IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for z/OS.
Using the supplied DB2 stored procedures, the Accelerator's data load process can load an entire table or just a partition of the table. It can add partitions to a table that already exists in the Accelerator, loading those added partitions, and deleting a partition's contents on the Accelerator. Loading data at the partition level is supported only for range-partitioned universal table spaces, which might be another reason for moving to universal table spaces.
Tables that are loaded by a single stored procedure are always loaded sequentially. However, parallelism is available for loading data into the Accelerator. If different stored procedure invocations start the load processes, those load tasks can run in parallel. Loading an entire partition table, or refreshing a subset of a table's partitions, those partitions can be processed in parallel. Parallel table load is supported only for universal table spaces. In some cases, the Accelerator can run SQL concurrently to a parallel data refresh.
Using the Accelerator
What needs to be accomplished for a query to have the option of running at the Accelerator? Besides a few APARs necessary to enable Accelerator processing, and the necessary software and hardware installations, the Accelerator must be enabled, data must be loaded, and the query must qualify (both the query type and the SQL functionality the query uses).
After the installation process is completed, you must set a few DB2 subsystem parameters that let the Accelerator run. One of those parameters sets the default value for the Accelerator special register, which can be set to completely disallow all use of the Accelerator, to route all eligible SQL to the Accelerator, or to route eligible SQL to the Accelerator with the option to run certain queries natively on DB2 if they fail to run on the Accelerator.
The Accelerator currently handles most commonly used data warehousing SQL features and will be continually improved.
The following major functions are delivered by the DB2 Accelerator:
- Dynamic and static query processing
- Load and incremental update
- Accelerator monitoring
- Accelerator maintenance procedures
- Running multiple workloads on one Accelerator
- High availability and balancing workloads
- Online data archiving
- DB2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS (charge based add-on product)
Usage scenarios
Looking at DB2 Analytics Accelerator usage scenarios is looking at where the transactional source data is being analyzed today.
- Rapid acceleration of business critical queries
Moving the business analytics to System z allows the corporate data to be stored, managed, and analyzed all within the single zEnterprise platform. With System z, the data and the analytics take advantage of a secure, reliable, scalable, and highly energy efficient platform design that can process multiple diverse workloads simultaneously. The overall customer solution results in performance improvements and cost reductions.
- Derive business insight from z/OS transaction systems
If the data is offloaded to a distributed data warehouse or data mart, the Accelerator might help to simplify and consolidate complex infrastructures and reduce time-consuming ETL processes. This results in lowering data latency, enhancing reliability, increasing security and decreasing overall total cost of ownership (TCO). The Accelerator is used to reduce IT sprawl for analytics.
- Reduce IT sprawl for analytics initiatives
If the data is not being analyzed yet, because queries are set aside as a result of performance or cost challenges or because a new BI applications is being considered, then the Accelerator can be attached to the mainframe to complement DB2 for z/OS, to form a hybrid infrastructure, that best hosts this new workload. The Accelerator is used to derive business insight from z/OS transaction systems.
- Improve access to historical data and lower storage costs
The DB2 Accelerator can deliver reduced storage cost by storing non-updated data on the less expensive DB2 Accelerator disk. This moves the data not being modified to less costly disk storage attached to the DB2 Accelerator but still leaves that data readily available for use by queries running on the DB2 Accelerator.
DB2 Analytics Accelerator is also part of the end-to-end IBM zEnterprise analytic solution. This comprehensive portfolio offers data warehousing, data transformation and integration, business intelligence, enterprise planning, and predictive analytics, including DB2 for z/OS, InfoSphere® Information Server, InfoSphere Data Replication, IBM Cognos BI for zEnterprise, IBM DB2 Query Management Facility™ (IBM QMF™), IBM Cognos TM1®, IBM SPSS® and zEnterprise Analytics System 9700 and 9710.
Supported platforms
The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS runs on DB2 for z/OS (currently DB2 10 and DB2 11) environments and complies with their prerequisites in terms of System z resources.
Ordering information
You can request delivery for DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS, V4.1 (product number 5697-DAB) through CBPDO and ServerPac. These customized offerings are for Internet delivery in countries where ShopzSeries product ordering is available. Internet delivery reduces software delivery time and allows you to install software without the need to handle tapes. For details about Internet delivery, see the Shopz help information:
You may also request a quote for IBM zEnterprise Analytics System 9700 and 9710 from the following location:
Or, you may call (in the US) 1-877-426-3774; specify Info Mgmt as the priority code.
Related information
To find technical details about the DB2 Accelerator, see the following resources:
- Reliability and Performance with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Version 4.1, SG24-8213
- Hybrid Analytics Solution using IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS V3.1, SG24-8151
- Optimizing DB2 Queries with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS, SG24-8005
- White paper: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator: A revolution in performance , IMW14685USEN:
- IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS page:
- IBM Analytics on zEnterprise page:
- IBM Offering Information page (to search for announcement letters, sales manuals, or both):
On this page, enter DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS, select the information type, and then click Search. On the next page, narrow your search results by geography and language.
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This material has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is published AS IS. It has not been the subject of rigorous review. IBM assumes no responsibility for its accuracy or completeness. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a client responsibility and depends upon the client's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the client's operational environment.
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Airport system study reveals value of Idaho's airports;
An integral part of Idaho's transportation system, airports face needs that are similar to highways for infrastructure improvements, planning and funding.
The Division of Aeronautics now has a tool that will help define the future of those airports. It comes in the form of an Idaho Airport System Plan, completed in 2010 after about two years of research.
The study, explains Aeronautics project manager Bill Statham, was funded by a Federal Aviation Administration grant and began in 2008. It was prepared by the airport division of Wilbur Smith Associates, a group of engineers, planners and economists who worked with Statham and a local advisory committee. The company is based in South Carolina, with a regional office in Arizona.
T-O Engineers, HDR and ES Engineering assisted with the project.
"Success of the study is due in large part to Bill's leadership. He did an outstanding job guiding the process and keeping the study on track," said JV DeThomas, Division of Aeronautics administrator.
The goal, according to the study's executive summary, is to "provide a blueprint to ensure that Idaho's future system of airports meets the state's needs as viewed at a macro or top-down perspective. This approach allows each airport's role in the system, its demand for aviation, and infrastructure to be evaluated in this larger context.
"This study can also be used to provide increased accountability for funding decisions."
"We came up with an overall funding needs assessment for the next 20 years," Statham said. "It is a fairly detailed report card on how well the system is functioning. "
Recommendations from the study are "conservative and reachable," Statham explains.
"We wanted to take a realistic approach. Idaho's airport system needs investments of nearly $739 million over the next 20 years. That is about $150,000 more in state participation per year than the current base funding. It is well within reach if our economy improves. The goal is attainable."
The study was a "top-down" process that considered a statewide evaluation and inventory of the airport system. It established performance measures based on a review of 75 public-owned, public-use airports.
They included:
The study indicates those 75 airports are located within a 30-minute drive of 89 percent of Idaho's population.
"I was particularly surprised with that because Idaho has a modest program when compared with funding of other state airport systems. I think we're doing pretty well," Statham said.
"Of the 27 benchmarks selected for analysis of the Idaho airport system's performance, many are considered informational, providing ITD and the airports with data for future tracking and monitoring," according to the executive summary. "Other benchmarks offer the opportunity for action to improve the performance."
The base number of aircraft is expected to grow modestly, from 3,638 in 2012 to 3,889 in 2017 and 4,428 by 2027. Annual aircraft operations are projected to go from 1.6 million to 1.7 million and 2 million during those years, while the commercial airline emplanements should grow from 2.6 million, to 2.9 million and 3.9 million by 2027.
Idaho's airport system remains a significant contributor to the state's economy, according to the system plan. Airports and related operations account for 23,000 jobs (2.9 percent of all jobs in the state), with an annual payroll of about $718.5 million. Airports have an estimated annual economic impact of $2.1 billion on the state's economy.
Airports "serve as vital business links and support critical services, such as medical care, agriculture, search and rescue, wildland fire fighting, law enforcement, recreation and environmental services," according to the report.
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New research carried out by Brake, the road safety charity and Direct Line has found that the majority of people are in favour of some kind of restriction being put in place for newly qualified drivers. In their new study Brake found that 92% of people want some kind of restriction for the safety of new drivers and other road users.
The most recent figures have found that 2,088 drivers and passengers aged between 17 and 24 were killed or seriously injured on UK roads in 2015. Drivers aged 17 to 19 are involved in 9% of all fatal crashes, despite making up just 1.5% of the licence holder population in the UK.
These figures are a shock and this is why Brake has looked into whether people are interested in the idea of different legislation, restrictions and rules on newly qualified drivers. They also asked about whether there should be an extension to the length of time it takes to learn to drive.
When questioned, 66% of respondents agreed that they support the use of a "P" plate to show a driver is on probation during their first year of driving. They also back the idea of a zero tolerance drink driving limit put in place for new drivers.
50% of those who were questioned believe there should be a limit on the car engine size allowed for new drivers whilst over a third of those asked believe that newly qualified drivers should lose their licence if they break any traffic laws during that crucial first 12 months of driving.
79% of all the people questioned said they believe there needs to be a minimum time frame for learning to drive in and 62% believe this period should be at least six months. In the same vein 75% of people surveyed believe there should be a minimum number of taught driving lesson hours required before a learner is allowed to take the practical driving test. 50% of respondents believe that at least 35 hours of taught driving lessons is a good figure before allowing learners to take their practical driving test.
Youth and inexperience is a dangerous combination on the road as the lack of experience makes drivers less likely to spot all hazards and their young age makes them more likely to take risks.
Speaking on behalf of Brake, their communications and campaigns adviser commented: "Our first years behind the wheel are among the most dangerous of our lives, with one in five new drivers crashing in their first six months on the road. We must do more to help keep young people safe behind the wheel. Countries and states that have introduced restrictions for newly qualified drivers have seen big drops in crash rates. We're pleased to hear the government has announced plans for a full review into the current driving test this year, with a view to making it more like "real life driving" but the introduction of graduated driving licencing would make young and novice drivers much safer and save lives."
Brake are one of a number of organisations campaigning for graduated driving licences and with the government looking into changes for the driving test, they may consider changes to licensing too.
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Trap House Boys is a fairly new site that was launched in May 2015. The site focuses on rough black studs and thugs in hardcore bareback action. They try to accentuate the whole gangster theme by using the name trap house, which is a slang term for a crack house.
The guys here are good looking, but I wouldn't really call them handsome - they are masculine, well built, hot and horny, and they're ready to fuck. Most definitely have a rough look; you wouldn't want to piss these guys off, and you won't mistake them for male models or porn stars. Their muscular bodies are covered in tattoos, and they've got huge slabs of black meat - sometimes uncut - swinging between their powerful thighs. These guys are amateurs, most in their twenties and maybe early thirties, and they certainly know how to put these big dicks to use.
The men here are really into getting down on camera, and the action at Trap House Boys is hot and sometimes gets quite rough. There's lots of deep-throat cock sucking, ass licking, and huge raw dicks pounding hungry mouths and round asses, followed by creamy cumshots which often land on a face or inside an ass. You'll also find kissing, mutual jack-off sessions and more, but eventually all the scenes get to hard, raw fucking. The action here is bareback, and there are hardcore duos as well as threesomes. If you are into black thugs with impressive tattoo-covered bodies as well as big fat cocks and bubble butts, then read on to discover what's in the members area.
When you first log into this site, you will land on a page that shows videos from two different sites. You would need to click the Trap House Boys logo at the top, and that's where things get a little odd. There are 179 videos listed, but the majority of these are clips from less than a minute to over 7 minutes each, and all these clips seem to be taken from 9 full scenes - the scenes run from over half an hour to just under an hour. The site says it will be updating once a week, although so far updates aren't very regular. By the way, when they add the clips from a scene, they're all added on the same day.
The videos, which are exclusive to the site, can be downloaded in two different sizes of MP4. The larger one comes in full HD at 1920x1080 while the other one plays at 960x540, which is still pretty good-sized. They are good amateur quality, but there is room for improvement when it comes to framing of the models and the camera angles. The videos are DRM-free and you can download several files at once. If you prefer, you can stream the videos online at a default size of 960x540, and you can enlarge the player to fit the size of your screen without losing too much of the quality. There are no mobile-optimized vids available, and since the smaller videos are pretty big in size, if you have an older or non-smart phone you may not be able to play them.
Trap House Boys offers 14 photo sets, of which 10 match match the videos. These are digital stills offered at a mind-blowing large size of 3465x5202, and since they're huge in file size, they load pretty slowly for pics. There's no hands-free slideshows or downloadable zip files, but you can download individual photos. The images are of decent quality, although sometimes grainy when viewed at full size, but they look pretty good when viewed to fit most monitors. There are between 100 and 1,000 pics in a set, and not surprisingly the large number of pics mean sets can be pretty repetitious. It's worth mentioning that the pic sets are not included with the scenes - they're listed in the network pic section.
Trap House Boys shares its member area with a site called Teenage Bareback, and members get access to both of the sites. Teenage Bareback was launched around the same time and currently contains 15 scenes. As an additional bonus, members get access to a DVD archive which contains 2,009 scenes from 553 DVD titles. The movies are dated and not exclusive, but there are loads of black and bareback action to enjoy.
The site has some issues. First, it's small and updates aren't regular - two new videos have been added in the past month, and also a few of the videos that were only available in clips have had their full scenes added, however with recent dates; this makes it seem like they're fresh updates. Trials recur at $10 more than the monthly price, and you may get a pop-up when exiting the join page. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the many short clips except that they make the site look bigger than it is. The photos are too big and there are way too many of them in a set. There is a large advertisement for a webcam service at the top of every page in the members area. The claims on the tour are misleading as there isn't a huge exclusive content base and the way the tour makes it appear that there are more videos than there actually are. I think that a monthly membership fee of $29.95 is too expensive for a site with 9 videos, and it is unclear whether trial memberships are limited. And there are pre-checked offers on the sign-up page that, if left checked, will sign you up for 2 additional sites when you join this one.
I have a few last complaints regarding the members area personality. The site itself doesn't have its own members area, and while that's getting pretty common, it's not so common the bury the site's own picture sets in a section with pics from another site. There's no info about the models at all, and I'd like to know more about them. There's also no scene descriptions of any sort nor info about the studio or how they find the guys.
There's one last issue, and this is a weird one. Not only are the videos broken into short clips, but all but the newest repeat on the listing pages. Each set is listed more than once, and that makes it look at a glance like the site is much bigger than it is. It also means that you may find yourself watching the same clip more than once, listed on different pages.
The Trap House Boys tour looks very appealing and the performers are smoking hot black thugs, mostly muscular with tattoos and impressively hung, however the owners have failed to impress me. There are just too many issues for such an expensive membership, and that's disappointing as the men and the action are so fucking hot. There are 9 full scenes to stream or download, but they're broken into many clips that can be very confusing and make the site seem much bigger than it is; the site has added two full scenes in the past month. If you like what you see on the tour, you might want to give the Trap House Boys trial membership a go, but I am unsure whether you will be getting full access.


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Schutzhund is a competitive dog sport that started in Germany at the turn of the 20th century. It was designed to evaluate a dog's mental stability, courage and protective instinct as well as the ability to scent, willingness to do his job, and the ability to be trained.
The events in Schutzhund (tracking, protection and obedience) were developed by Max von Stephanitz, the German breeder responsible for creating the German Shepherd Dog. By the time the GSD had been developed, the job the breed was originally bred to do – herding – was on the decline in Germany. The German Shepherd has always been a versatile dog capable of doing far more than just herding, and von Stephanitz developed Schutzhund as a sport to maintain the working ability of the breed.
The German Shepherd Dog Club refined the sport in the 1920s to continue the quality of the breed. Other guardian breeds also excel in this intense competition, although most can't meet the intense training and challenges of Schutzhund.
The German word Schutzhund means "protection or guardian" dog. When Schutzhund was first devised, it was used to select the highest quality German Shepherd dogs to mate. It was a way to evaluate mental and physical soundness, character, willingness to learn, and temperament. It wasn't long, though, before breeders of working dogs like the Doberman, Rottweiler, Belgian Malinois and Giant Schnauzer began adopting Schutzhund to test their dogs.
Guarding dog breeds include flock guardians like the Anatolian Shepherd, Great Pyrenees and Komondor. Herding breeds include the Border Collie, Belgian Sheepdog and Australian Cattle Dog. Flock guardians and herding breeds make good watch dogs because they are alert and instinctively protective of the animals they watch over. However, flock guardian breeds are also independent thinkers accustomed to working on their own, and can be difficult to train. Breeds from the Mastiff family are also excellent dogs for protection and alerting their owners. However, Schutzhund is much more intensive training than the average pet goes through.
Dogs that excel in this sport need specific characteristics to be successful. Schutzhund uses the natural instincts of working dogs to get positive actions and reactions by understanding the individualism in each canine and help him reach his full potential as a well trained, socialized and obedient dog. The challenges of the sport are intense and rigorous, and many dogs fail to achieve even the first level of success in the sport.
The breeds that excel at Schutzhund are alert and prepared to react to a threat, whether it's real or imagined, but they aren't looking for a fight. They don't react immediately and stand their ground watching and evaluating how crucial the threat is. If it's determined to be an imagined threat, a well trained dog relaxes and backs down while remaining watchful. They are assertive without being overly aggressive, and are able to accept unfamiliar people without resorting to intimidation, especially when a person they don't know is around their owner. Guard dogs are naturally aloof and wary of strangers, but that doesn't mean the dog isn't sociable.
The bond between handler and canine is an important aspect of Schutzhund training. Guardian dogs excel at this sport because they have mental ability and stability, confidence, fearlessness, physical size, willingness to work and a desire to please their owner. Guardian breeds do not rush into a fight, opting instead to size up a situation to determine if a threat is real or not. A properly trained dog that competes in Schutzhund is well socialized, reliable and obeys his owner, which makes him the perfect pet for the entire family. The dog is safe to be around other people and in different environments because his overall temperament has already been tested. These are dogs that trust in their owner's judgment and obey without question.
Schutzhund has always been about the working ability and character of the German Shepherd dog. When the test was first designed, the only German Shepherds allowed to breed were those that successfully passed a herding or Schutzhund test. In Germany, it's the working ability of the GSD that's important, and dogs still have to pass either test before they are bred to ensure each generation carries on the proud and cherished legacy of the breed.
It's important to remember Schutzhund is a sport with specific training that is different from the training received by canines used for protection, in law enforcement or the military. Any dog, including mixed breeds, can compete in Schutzhund, but it's the guardian breeds that excel at this sport. Schutzhund is a team sport that showcases the importance of a solid bond and unwavering trust between human and dog.
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Middle and bottom photos by Michael Hart
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Reports on Meetings and Events of Interest to Members in 2013
The fourth session of ICTSW was held in Geneva from 25 to 28 November 2013. Among its main outcomes the session:
– Reviewed the draft ICAO Standard and Recommended Practices (SARP) for space weather information support to international air navigation and the related CONOPS;
– Approved the ROB (Belgium) Sunspot product for inclusion into the Product Portal;
– Recommended the evolution of the Product Portal to a new "Product Access Guide";
– Agreed on guidelines for harmonizing severe space weather warnings;
– Noted and supported the development of the GTEX format for GNSS slant TEC data;
– Noted and welcomed the planned CMA format for FY-3C GNOS radio-occultation data;
– Recommended NICT (Japan) to become a WIS DCPC for space weather information;
– Noted and encouraged the WIS demonstration actions involving four products;
– Noted the inventory and categorization of space-based space weather observing capabilities in OSCAR and took action to review the measurements-instruments links;
– Exchanged views on the current plans and strategic goals of members for space weather, discussed the global need for coordination of operational space weather activities and agreed that a proposal for a "Space Weather Watch" should be prepared in response to the request from the 16th WMO Congress;
– Stressed the need to advocate the long term continuation and expansion of essential space weather observation infrastructure and to seek support from WMO Members to the space weather coordination activities undertaken within WMO.
The full report on the Fourth Session may be found by clicking here
Using the recent typhoon Haiyan as an example, that in order to minimise the impact on life and property, an ability to understand and predict such extreme events is paramount. In this context, satellites are an important tool for deriving real-time information about such events, highlighting the importance of the SCOPE-Nowcasting initiative.
The initiative must be firmly based on user requirements, and that it considers the need to bridge the "last mile" – the delivery, uptake and visualisation of the data. A cross-section of users was represented at the workshop through NMSs (BoM, CMA, IMD, JMA, KMA), SWFDP and the WWRP Nowcasting Working Group. Satellite operators were also represented through CMA, ESA, EUMETSAT, JMA, KMA and NOAA. To view the full report click here
Following a brief report from the Chair of the TT-ICA, Dr Steve Cohn and a presentation by presentation by the Chair of the ICG-WIGOS Task Team on WIGOS Regulatory Material, to set the context within which revision of the International Cloud Atlas, Volume I of which comprises Annex 1 of the WMO Technical Regulations, was being considered by CIMO, each task leader then provided a summary of the work performed under their assigned task. They discussed the conclusions reached by the sub-group that had addressed that task, and the implications for the proposal that the Task Team would submit to the CIMO Management Group (CIMO-MG) in regard to revision of the ICA.
Following the welcome speeches and presentations by the WMO Secretariat and the Chair of RA I, the participants of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia made presentations on the status of the observing networks, and the telecommunication and data transmissions systems as well as their preparation for the implementation of the WMO Information Systems (WIS) in their respective countries. They highlighted the main problems of their NMHSs in particular in human resources and financial constraints.
The situation in Libya was described as special due to the 2011 political unrest in this country. Six (6) synoptic stations were destroyed including telecommunication and data transmissions systems. There is an urgent need to replace the missing instruments of these stations as well as the equipment of the Central Calibration & Maintenance Workshop, and to re-establish the communications networks between the National Meteorological Center of Libya and the regional and international centers.
Following the keynote presentation of Dr Lamine Bah, President of RA I on the "RA I Requirements on Observation and Information Systems meeting the needs of Weather, Climate, Water and Environmental Services: Status, Challenges and the Way Forward" there were presentations on WIGOS and WIS.
These presentations helped the participants understand the overall concept of WIGOS, and WIS, the management requirements for the Sub-region and the key activities areas for their implementation.
All the 16 countries in West Africa were represented: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cap Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and, Togo. The participants made presentations on the status of the observations network in their respective countries including existing observation networks in the country not belonging to the National Weather Service. They highlighted the main problems their NMHSs encounter.
The meeting reported on the current status concerning deliverables of its terms of reference
Application of regional ocean observations for increasing society's understanding and forecasting of typhoons.
The previous week TT-AvXML had released final draft of version 1.0 of the XML standard for representing meteorological information to support civil aviation that allowed the information content of METAR, TAF, SPECI and SIGMET to be exchanged in XML. The meeting agreed the work needed to steer the draft through the approvals procedures, proposed governance arrangements for the standard, and decided on technical approaches to support the use of the XML standard.
The standard will be known as IWXXM-XML, and consists of sub-packages METCE-XML, OPM-XML and SAF-XML. These are based on "logical data models" of the same name (without the –XML suffix). TT-AvXML recommended that WMO publishes and maintains METCE and OPM, but that although SAF and IWXXM would need to be published and maintained by WMO in the short term, they should be published and managed by ICAO in the longer term, but that the creation of the XML schemas associated with them should be generated by WMO.
The meeting reviewed the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and IOC user requirements for the collection of meteorological data from remote areas (including buoys, ship-based observing systems, seal level observing stations, Automatic Weather Stations, Polar Observations, profiling floats, and animal tracking). It reviewed the capabilities and the tariff schemes of the satellite data telecommunication systems that are mostly being used for the collection of environmental data from remote areas, and discussed the role that they could play in the future Forum. The meeting noted that the future Forum is meant to provide guidance to the WMO and IOC users on the use of Satcom systems, including guiding them on how to make the best arrangements for the purchase of airtime. The Forum will provide detailed information on satellite systems capabilities so that users will be able to make informed decisions on which system to use.
During the technical and scientific workshop organized during the first day of the session, 21 presentations were delivered on a wide range of topics of concern to the DBCP. Developments in the technologies of Drifting Buoys, including technical issues concerned with the longevity of the buoys were reported. Approximately 70 participants from 19 countries attended the meetings. The Panel concurred with the five recommendations made by the workshop and adopted them.
Reports were provided by the DBCP Task Teams, the Action Groups and the Pilot Projects, and decisions were taken according to their recommendations.
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The workshop recalled the importance of ocean observations to achieve socioeconomic benefits at the global, regional, national and local levels by addressing the requirements of WMO and IOC Applications, including the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) and working in the multi-disciplinary frameworks of WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the WMO Integrated Observing System (WIGOS).
The meeting addressed several key areas relating to practices and procedures and to improving the user experience of WIS. These included: the need to progress WIS monitoring; identification of a set of WIS competencies and associated education and capacity development strategy and guidance; inclusion of all GISCs on the WIS core network and the migration to the RMDCN Next Generation (NG-RMDCN); identification and review of suitable WIS solutions or contributing applications, including the need agree on interoperability with respect to user management and authorisation; and the benefits of partnership with industry under commercial collaboration.
The two objectives of the meeting were to provide guidance on writing WIS Discovery Metadata records that could be used to create supporting and to make sure that it was possible to provide from metadata records the information needed to fulfil the use cases for WMO No. 9 Volume C1.
The meeting noted the increasing importance and need for marine meteorological and oceanographic services, particularly in relation to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
In 2013, the number of ASAP reports received at ECMWF were comparable to 2012 levels despite a decrease from 31 to 26 in the number of reporting platform identifiers. A drop in numbers later in November-December was due to problems in our data processing system affecting only ASAP reports. The problem has been fixed early in 2014. Unrelated to this issue the percentage of ascents reaching the 100 hPa level was as low as around 70% in the first months of 2013.
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Roofing – What Makes a Good Contractor
Getting a good roofer contractor is a very powerful part with any roof covering project. It should make the particular difference between a pleasing experiences together with a nightmarish a person. You prefer someone no one can offer you a good product in the fair cost, without any type of hassle and also headache. Many homeowners neglect to tell any difference between a very good contractor including a bad a until it really is too the later part of. Your perfect bet to prevent yourself from any trouble is going to be sure you may have found an excellent contractor just before signing any specific contract. So how does one start determining in cases where a contractor is certainly reputable? Luckily there are lots of things to consider that will inform you right away no matter if a company warrants your thought.
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Roofing Contractors – Various Roofing Materials Provided
It's the roof of your abode that affords you shelter with the environmental severities, thereby withstanding the many damaging effects of your outer essentials. It is without a doubt therefore obvious to be susceptible to wear out which needs to be repaired correctly and for an immediate groundwork. It is really important to hire the proper roofing contractors to achieve the necessary service and advice in choosing the most likely material, color plus design for one's house top. Roofing installers provide numerous materials designed for roofing products that has to be chosen from based upon your specifications and price range. Each cloth has their set of positives and negatives, which should be evaluated properly so that they can choose one which would be the right ones for one's roofing wants. A trustworthy contractor can help you efficiently car project together with choose the most likely products. Let's talk of the different kinds of top materials furnished by these builders:
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Cupping and also Curling Shingles – Though a lot of us don't generate a habit from inspecting this roofs fairly often, cupped and also curled shingles are really a common proof of degradation within your roof elements and can be frequently a precursor towards leaks. Sometimes cupped or perhaps curled shingles relating to residential roofing can be viewed from the road. If apparently either of on your own roof, it's time for them to call your roofing licensed contractor.
Failed Firing – Flashing is a material used while the roof fabrics connect. It usually is found all over chimneys plus where roof covering levels alter. If you will notice flashing with the ground and it's pulling far from the various roof equipment, it may perhaps be time towards inspect all the roof. If you cannot feel comfortable having a look yourself, a roofs contractor can generally study your roof for nothing, as most certainly as having a roofing estimate should there be indeed injury to the firing. If all the flashing is actually failing those gives water the opportunity to seep in the roof cloth and on the home.
Displaced Granules – On concrete shingles there are actually granules in which coat typically the shingles and include in its appropriate quality. Should the granules beginning come loosely and crash away, the shingles develop into weak having your roofing more prone to leaks and additional damage. You can on occasion see granules on the surface below an eaves of your Sarasota home after great rain. If it is a case, a different roof, or roofs repairs anyway, may wear order. Hail damage might also cause absent granules.


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The Orlando Magic and free agent big man Bismack Biyombo have agreed to terms on a four-year deal.
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The Orlando Magic and free agent big man Bismack Biyombo have agreed to terms on a four-year deal, reports Jon Krawczynski of the Associated Press.
Adrian Wojnarowski of the Vertical reports that the contract will be worth $72 million.
The proposed deal will be a major raise for the 23-year-old center, who signed a two-year, $5.7 million contract with the Toronto Raptors before the 2015–16 season.
Biyombo averaged 5.5 points and 8.0 rebounds for the Raptors during the regular season, but was one of the catalysts of the team's success in the playoffs. He averaged 6.2 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks during the playoffs, including a 26-rebound game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Biyombo is the second major addition to the Magic frontcourt, as the team traded for Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka during the draft.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
#134 "Run With Me", acrylic, 16" x 24"
Today is a snow day in Bellevue. Such fun to sleep in, look out at the snow over a cuppa, know I won't go anywhere in my car today, have time to catch up on things like blogging. So here is something from another side of my psyche. It might be finished. It might not. It has been through several incarnations already...and maybe there will be more. (I was stuck for awhile, and realized the working title was wrong. I changed the title and was able to go forward). But for right now, this is it. When I do this kind of painting I feel strong urges to include some things and eliminate others. Among other attributes this cat is carrying 3 homes, a sign for transformation (the butterfly) and the bird that I have come to see as my guide. All of these are meaningful to me. I do not yet know what the bunny going backwards means. It shows up often. This time he seems to be just taking a ride. There are icons here for beauty, ideas, and growth. The painting as a whole feels cohesive to me. The Ray for the Day is "Run With Me".
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Monday, January 16, 2012
#133 "Love Affair With Langley" calendar for 2012
Somehow I managed to forget to mention that I published a calendar for 2012 featuring 12 of the Langley oil paintings. Vista Prints did the work and they made a really lovely calendar for me. I am proud of this body of work. It is a great year when I make 12 paintings that I am pleased with. 2011 was one of those years. Think of it....that is one really successful painting a month (considering there are some months I don't paint....it's a better hit rate than that). The calendar was a big success. The two stores in Langley that carried it had to re-order and told me how much people loved it. The Ray for all the Days of 2012 is "Love Affair with Langley" calendar.
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#132 "Waiting for the Bee Keeper to Return", oil, 16" x 24"
It has been 3 whole months since I last posted. The thing is...I love posting on this blog, so you know I have been otherwise occupied. The Holidays happened (I'm really glad to see them gone, even though I had a ton of fun with family and friends), and I masterminded a fairly major remodel for our Langley condo, prepping it for our final move there sometime this Spring. I also spent a couple of weeks in Mexico in October. So those are all my excuses. Now I hope to settle down to some kind of orderly painting life. I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am a seasonal painter. For years I have told myself I should be in the studio most days of the week. My muse awaits me daily, and so forth. The truth is I rarely paint from Thanksgiving to the New Year. I also don't paint much in the Summer. I can continue to beat myself up over it, or I can accept it as my natural rhythm. The latter seems the more sane approach to me. So this painting marks the beginning of Winter Painting Season for me. The challenge in this painting was that there was not a strong light source. It was an overcast day and the light was more diffuse. My task was to convey the feeling of a cool, overcast day. And, of course, this vehicle has quite a Iot of personality. I wanted to convey the feeling of a vehicle past it's prime and still beautiful. You've seen it before and will no doubt see it again."Waiting for the Bee Keeper to Return" is the Ray for the Day.
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