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Stop by one of these must-visit destinations across the country. They're the best of the best.
See: Neon Museum in Las Vegas
More than 150 signs from the Vegas Strip, along with the preserved La Concha Motel lobby, are on view at this Sin City "cultural" spot. (neonmuseum.org)
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Downtown Glen Cove was abuzz during last Thursday evening's bi-monthly car meet, Autostrade Glen Cove.
This event, sponsored by Martino Auto Concepts of Glen Cove, is held at the corner of Glen and School Streets. More than 125 vehicles showed up and gave a $10 donation to the Glen Cove Volunteer Fire Department as the required entrance fee.
Jewelry designer Paola Giordano has been creating wearable art for more than a decade, showcasing her pieces at select stores and craft fairs. Her long-term dream was to have her own gallery, but the costs and logistics involved in owning a storefront didn't seem worth it. So, she decided to go in a different direction with a mobile gallery, in the form of a refurbished FedEx truck.
"For a couple of years now, I have been mulling over the idea of opening a gallery, and had also been considering purchasing an old truck, and seeing what I could convert it into," says Giordano.
"Recently, an opportunity presented itself, and I purchased an old FedEx truck, and revamped it into what will be Long Island's first mobile art gallery."
Glen Cove School Board President Richard Maccarone was officially sworn in at Thursday night's annual reorganization meeting. After serving as a board trustee for the 2013-14 school year, Maccarone assumed the role of board president, a position he held in the 2011-12 school year before taking a one-year hiatus. Maria Rianna was sworn in as school superintendent, Donna Brady was sworn in as board vice president, and Barrie Dratch and Maureen Pappachristou were sworn in for three-year terms as board trustees.
"I was board president two years ago and I'm happy that the board has enough faith in me to re-elect me once again to this position," said Maccarone. "This is one of the best boards we've had in a
long time and I believe our school district is headed in the right direction. I have only one goal in mind and that is to make this school district better."
Dozens of kids participated in the annual Children's Bike Parade celebrating Independence Day in Glen Cove on Saturday, July 5. Rescheduled from July 4 due to rain, the parade had a large turnout of kids dressed in red, white and blue, with their bikes also decorated festively. Mayor Reginald Spinello, Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton and City Council members Pamela Panzenbeck, Tony Gallo, Jr. and Efraim Spagnoletti also participated in the parade, as well as many parents. Mayor Spinello offered the kids a chance to go up on stage and sing a song of their choice; several youngsters gave heartfelt renditions of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Call Me Maybe."
Cheryl Carmody started the parade 32 years ago because she wanted to keep the "hometown" feel of the holiday alive for her daughter, who was 2 at the time. It has grown into annual tradition that kids look forward to every year.
SAFE's Annual Family Awareness Day, held at Morgan Park on June 14, was created seven years ago to promote family unity and a substance-free environment. Well-attended, the free event once again had something for everyone.
There were several vendors, food, games and music, including a visit by the Glen Cove Fire Department and EMS. Participating agencies and area businesses included: the Tobacco Action Coalition of Long Island, Kiwanis Club of Glen Cove, Glen Cove Child Day Care Center, Chiropractor Maxine Mayreis, Psychotherapist Gabriela Weinberg-Gitlin, GMA Martial Arts, Economic Opportunity Council (EOC), Cove Sports Academy and Nassau County Council of Girl Scouts.
On July 13, the 4th annual Sea Cliff Summer Craft Fair will take place.
Four summers ago, Sea Cliff Arts Council co-chair Kathleen DiResta and longtime Sea Cliff resident Donna Barrett decided to organize a small, intimate affair showcasing local artists, since many of the local makers were lost in the shuffle at Mini Mart. The first Sea Cliff Summer Craft Fair took place on a warm, sunny day in the beautiful Memorial Park overlooking the Sound. There was a steady flow of people who visited the booths of about 15 local artisans, many who still participate in the fair. The booths were filled with all types of artwork, including local scenic photography, handmade body essentials, jewelry, and so much more. To top it off, Kris Rice played her guitar and sang her lovely songs.
The demolition of the former Ruby Tuesday on Brewster Street officially began on July 1, signaling the first phase of construction for the Glen Cove Piazza project. The building, considered for many years to be an eyesore in Glen Cove's downtown business district, is being torn down to make room for the building of a free-standing Panera Bread eatery. Panera Bread will have a drive-through component; the building is expected to be completed in October.
Shore Thing Rentals has given the Sea Cliff and Glen Cove beach community access to the upcoming and popular water sports for the past three summer seasons.
Located in the Brewer Yacht Yard adjacent to The Boathouse restaurant, Shore Thing Rentals has been a hub for kayaks, paddleboards, peddle boats, bikes and much more.
Michelle Capobianco, owner, started the business when people at local beaches would ask her for kayak rentals.
On July 9, local Glen Cove author Mariah Leal will be hosting a workshop at Bayville Public Library to talk about her series of children's books, The Adventures of Piper. They revolve around a Bull Mastiff puppy named Piper as she is taken into her new home and learns how to live and interact with people and other animals.
Leal writes to educate others about puppy training and socialization in order to promote fruitful training and handling of dogs. In the United States there are an estimated 4.7 million dog bites a year and half
of them involve children; out of all the dogs that are put into shelters, 90% of them have had no training. Leal hopes to decrease these statistics.
Months after the death of Councilman Nicholas DiLeo left a vacant seat on the Glen Cove City Council, the seat remains open, despite the efforts of the mayor and council members to reach an agreement.
In a meeting that quickly turned from ambitious yet efficient to contentious, at points getting downright ugly, the vote to appoint Joe Capobianco to the council was ultimately tabled.
The resolution for the appointment was saved until the very end of the meeting, and Mayor Reginald A. Spinello announced the decision to appoint Capobianco to the seat, reading the city charter, which states that the decision is left to the council for filling the seat until the next general election. He started to call for public comments when Councilman Tim Tenke suggested that was against protocol.
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I've bought this WP theme but after I've install it I found out that the theme it's really slow. (incude the administration). Can you help me please to find out a solution?
We do not provide support here in comments for various reasons. Please ask support related questions in our support system and datcouch.com . And also when opening a ticket please provide site credentials there, so our support team can investigate the problem.
Hello, I am really sorry, but I opened a ticket on Friday, I have a lot of questions. Today is Tuesday and I do not know what to say to my client. I feel like it is going to take a long time to resolve all my questions. I do not have enough time for a long problem solving… Please answer me. Thank you!
We answered your questions in our support system, please let us know if that helps
I need help Signing up for support on the datcouch.com Site. There is no contact email listed for help with your registration process. I have all my newly purchased info on this theme. Your system simply tells me that my name exists pick another or that ID and Password don't match. Could you check > opcode90 is my username. I don't mind recreating it… Thanks so much.
Hello. Did you followed this instruction? http://datcouch.com/article/article/
My envato id which is opcode90 does not work on datcouch.com. If I try to register it tells me Username already exists. Try a new one. If I try my envato username and password it says Username and Password didn't match. I'm stuck in a loop with no other options….
I never get far enough for they system to ask me for my purchase code. Please help.
There is no user in our system named "opcode90".
Please signup here http://datcouch.com/signup/ , enter your envato id which in your case is "opcode90", email and password (of your choice).
And when you'll open a ticket, then it will ask you your purchase key.
I'm am precisely trying to do that. I am using my exact Username, Password and Email address that I use here on Envato and it simply tells me that "Username already exists. Try a new one" now what do I do?
I can not sign in with that info, nor can I create a sign in with that info. My email address is email@example.com, my Envato id is "opcode90", I've now given you everything except my Password, and I still can not sign into your site.
OK… I SOLVED IT MYSELF….. the one piece of info it must have been rejecting was my EMAIL Address as being a duplicate. I used my Envato Username and Password and Chose some alternate Email Address that I did not want to use but I am now Registered on your Site….
I found myself in the menu)
I opened a ticket to ask about the calendar & upcoming event order three days ago. I have not heard back from you that my ticket was even received. My issues (calendar showing the time as 10pm even though the correct time was entered in events pages & Upcoming Events not showing in chronological date order) don't strike me as being out of the box.
Please let me know how I can adjust these so that the correct times show in the calendar view and how I can better understand the Upcoming Events (i.e. will they disappear from my home page (from page builder) once the date has passed & how do I get them to show in the correct date order). This information is holding up my launch.
Appreciate your expeditious reply.
Hello. We will lunch an update for this problem on monday.
Ok – well I appreciate the update to fix the calendar – there is still another issue. I can only set the time on the hour. If I have an event that starts at 6.30pm (18.30) it will not work/show up on my calendar.
Additionally, the Upcoming Events still do not show chronologically unless I update the published date by reverse chronological order. And, I'm unclear if once the date passes, the Upcoming Events calendar (on my homepage & the events page) will rotate to only show current/upcoming events and not past events. I need to launch this website in the next few days.
I am very disappointed with this theme and hope that you can help me. These issues do not seem to be something that should be happening. I purchased this theme because of (what I thought the theme was capable of) regarding the calendar & upcoming events.
Please create a ticket with your problem in support and at once create access for us and insert it into credentials tags.
The menu (mobile responsive) is STILL not working. I apologize for leaving a message here rather that in the Dat Couch support – but the log in was changed and now it says that my email isn't found in the system. There is no other way to get in touch with you. How can I reset my log in? And, when do you expect the menu to be functioning?
Have you updated theme to the latest version ? On what device it is not working ?
I believe that I have updated the theme to the latest version. The menu is not working on the iPhone 5 or if I shrink down my browser (narrow) on a mac book pro – once the menu is responsive – the view is blank when I click "show menu".
Please navigate to Settings -> Datmenu and click "Reset" button. Then open tab "Enabled Menus" and select menus you want to show on mobile view. If you have any struggles, you can take a look at datmenu online documentation http://menu.datcouch.com/documentation
Thank you. Now I can see the mobile responsive menu. However, when I try to click on one of the navigation options, it highlights but doesn't take me to the page or drop down the sub menu (even though there is a + next to the name on the navigation line).
I believe you have an older version of this theme, please update, we fixed this issue some time ago
I have updated the files (as recently as September 13). My wordpress site isn't calling out that I need to update anything. Yet, the page builder is not longer able to be edited (I can access the pages on the back end – but can't open the boxes to edit). Secondly, the mobile menu is not working on the iPhone5. I can see the menu (after clicking "show menu") but it will not redirect when clicked. This has been an ongoing issue for me (I sent notification 18 days ago). And, unfortunately, the same issue I'm having with the page builder is happening on the datmenu page – the buttons to update are not responding/working. I am very very disappointed with this theme and the consistent issues I encounter.
Are you using any other plugins that might been outdated, cause a lot of plugins on wp 4.0 made everything crash and block some scripts. Please post a ticket on our support system so our support team can figure this thing out http://datcouch.ticksy.com . Thank you
I would love to create a ticket. However, every time I try to log in – the system tells me that the email address is not in your system. So- what should I do? I do not wish to log in under a FB profile.
If system says that e-mail address is not on the system, then you should try signing up, by clicking on "Register" button right next to "login" button. You don't have to sign in with facebook if you don't want to.
I opened a ticket 6 days ago and do not have any answers.The theme has a lot of different errors, Really bad support… sorry =(
I would not have bought it if I knew that earlier…
Sorry for hold on, we will check your ticket!
Im trying to verify my purchase code, and its not working? please advise.. (next to my name it says "purchased", here on the comment section.
my issue is just that i set the slider to 1000px yet it dosent allow it to go full size, and instead shrinks it to around 770px
Please create for us access and create in our support ticket with information.
Access put into credentials tags.
Im still waiting for a reply on my ticket i submitted 4 days ago…. Thanks
We answered your question
After the latest update mobile version does not work! I even didn't know, my client just said me about it!
Please be detailed, so that we could help you!
Ok, I deleted all theme files from server, and then uploaded them again. Now it works.
We glad you solved your problem.
Have you fixed menu?
Make sure you have updated your theme and datmenu plugin to the latest version, everything should be working fine then.
Hello, how i can do the sidebar on the site fixed. i try use some jQuery plugins, but they not help. i mean this sidebar <aside id="sidebar" class="right">
Sorry, but we are not solving support related questions in our comments section anymore. Instead please open a ticket in our support ticket system ( http://datcouch.ticksy.com ) if the question is still actual and our support team will try their best to solve it. Thank you.
Sad to say, there was an issue with the "DatMenu" well they have fixed it HOWEVER. because I got it with my THEME and the update was released for codecanyon, I could NOT get the update.. I HAD to make an additional purchase just to update the menu.. so I had to buy the Theme & The Menu..
and guess what, it works now!!!! HOORAY!!
We update our themes instantly with the newest datmenu version when we make an update for it. It is just matter of time when themeforest and codecanyon approves updates. This may be the reason for your problem. And there is no need to buy datmenu separately.
This theme uses Aqua Page Builder, which doesn't work with the latest Wordpress update. I cannot create or edit any pages on this theme, which means that the theme is unusable.
We are working on this problem. Developer that created this plugin, seems to be left this project. We will fix any issues ourselves with this plugin if not, we will make or find a replacement ASAP.
"Page Builder" is really terrible plugin !!! When will it be changed? Over 1 month I can not set the theme completely because there are always different problems…
Also, when I opened website using sell phone, there are button "SHOW MENU" when I click on it there is no any menu. So, navigation is broken too.
We are working on our own page builder. It will be coming soon.
As for menu – please navigate to Settings -> Datmenu and click "Reset" button. Then open tab "Enabled Menus" and select menus you want to show on mobile view. If you have any struggles, you can take a look at datmenu online documentation http://menu.datcouch.com/documentation
When I click on "Enabled Menu" there is no any reaction. Is it broken too?
I reinstalled Wordpress 3.9.2, tab "Enabled Menu" started to work. I selected menu I want to show on mobile view. But nothing changed. There is no menu anyway.. Look at it please http://wayofthelordchurch.com/
Please update theme to it's latest version, we just launched an update for wp 4.0 and some other fixes. If you still have any problems, please submit a ticket to our support team at http://datcouch.ticksy.com/
Have you fixed the menu?
Make sure you have updated your theme and datmenu plugin to the latest version, everything should be working fine then.
Hi guys, i asked a question the support forum 4 days ago but haven't received a reply yet,
Ticket: #280858
"After filling n the information on the contact page, is there any way to show a message that the message was sent successfully, and also have it auto clear the date afterwards?
right now the message goes through, but the user has no idea that it did, because nothing happens on the front end"
Are you able to help us out please?
I will ask our support team to review this ticket ASAP. But we will make this feature in next update.
Okay guys, it's been days and I need to update this site for a client. Page builder is broken, no update. Res menu is broken.
Can you please fix this? Theme is useless without it.
Please, could you give us more information about what appears to be broken ? We noticed that with new wordpress 4.0 some plugins crashed other plugins, are there any 3rd party plugins installed in theme ? We will investigate there problems.
Hi, other people have mentioned this issue as well. The Dat Menu is broken on mobile, and it's not possible to edit the page builder sections.
We'll release an update on this as soon as possible
Do you know about how long this will take? It's just that this theme isn't usable at all right now. My client is waiting.
We did launch an update for this, please make sure that you have updated both theme and datmenu plugin to the latest version. If the problem still persist, could you create an wp-admin account for us and post it on our support system at http://datcouch.ticksy.com/ ?
There are several major issues with this theme Version 1.1.5 that make it unusable.
I opened a ticket (#286134) and was told that there would be an update released 2 weeks ago and there has been no such update. Moreover, the support team has seemingly gone missing, with no responses to my posts in weeks.
I, like many users of this theme, (paying customers) have clients waiting. DatCouch has gotten paid for their theme, but because of issues with the product and the lack of support we can not proceed with our projects, which reflects poorly on our businesses.
Support Team – At the very least please let me know when to expect an update to be released so I can relay that to my client, and plan accordingly. Thank you.
Hello, Sorry for the hold on, the update will be launched by the end of this week. We apologize for the inconvenience this have caused you.
Page builder still does not work, Main menu too. I've been waiting for three months for the update …
Make sure you have updated your theme and datmenu plugin to the latest version, everything should be working fine then.
There are the same problems with page builder.
Am I supposed to buy the Dat Menu plugin? In WP admin there is no any updates for it. Version 1.1.1. I know there is version 1.1.2 , but how can I update it?
There will be a file datmenu.zip in "core\TGM-Plugin-Activation\plugins" extract it over the existing datmenu plugin in "/wp-content/plugins" and you will have the latest version of the plugin.
After update Nothing changed, I have the same problem.
Please open up a ticket on http://datcouch.ticksy.com/ regarding this issue, we will take a look into this and try solving this problem ASAP.
Hi i downloaded the latest version installed it and still said need to update theme. How to go about fixing this.
Could you open up a ticket at http://datcouch.ticksy.com/ and give more detail about this problem? We'll get back to you ASAP.
There seem to be several issues with Page Builder and maybe a couple plugins on this theme. Is this still an issue? Will this theme work as purchased or are there updates to be applied from here and there? In other words, will this theme work out-of-the-box? It looks like a good fit for a project I am working on, but the issues mentioned are concerning to me. Thanks.


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Qatar's Qtel has made a $2.2 billion offer for the 47.5% share of Kuwait's Wataniya it does not already own.
The operator says it has already won the approval of Kuwait's Capital Markets Authority for the deal.
The announcement comes just two months after Qtel doubled its stake in Iraq's Asiacell to 60% for $1.47 billion.
Backed by the cash-rich Qatari state, Qtel is increasing its holdings in fast-growing businesses at a time when other big telecoms operators would struggle to fund deals.
Cisco Systems Inc offered little hope that dire economic conditions in Europe would come to an end any time soon but pleased investors with a 75 percent dividend hike as the company posted quarterly results that beat estimates.
The world's largest network equipment maker had spooked investors three months ago, when Chief Executive John Chambers cautioned that macroeconomic conditions in Europe could hurt technology spending but now analysts expect Chambers to remain cautious.
U.S. communications regulators will allow T-Mobile USA to test the impact of commercial wireless broadband on a highly sought after swatch of airwaves currently used for government operations, the company said on Wednesday.
Testing by T-Mobile, the U.S. unit of Deutsche Telekom AG
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Shelley C. Chapman this afternoon extended a critical document discovery deadline in the LightSquared
The deadline was extended to September 28 from September 11 in U.S. bankruptcy court, effectively allowing the parties involved more time.
A group of lenders holding over $1.08 billion of secured debt at LightSquared LP, the company's main operating subsidiary, seeks to investigate the propriety of a $279 million loan extended to the holding company for LightSquared last July.
Israel's two largest mobile phone operators Cellcom and Partner Communications are planning television-over-Internet services as weak earnings highlighted their need for profitable new earnings streams.
Haim Romano, Partner's chief executive, said on Tuesday the company was working to accelerate TV Internet services. "Once the conditions are ripe, Partner will offer an innovative, quality and attractive solution also in this area," he said.
Cellcom CEO Nir Sztern also said he was examining Internet TV as well as an entry to the cellular credit card business.
Big retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores, Target Corp and Japan's 7-Eleven are planning to develop a mobile payment network, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people involved in the initiative.
The Merchant Customers Exchange (MCX) is an initiative taken by these retailers to match similar services from Google, which began operating it last year on its Android devices, the WSJ said.
It was unclear how much each merchant would contribute to the network's development, the paper said.
Brazil's energy regulator has stunned the industry by announcing that smart meters will be installed at existing premises only if customers request them.
The National Agency of Electrical Energy (ANEEL) has given suppliers 18 months to offer consumers electronic meters under two separate schemes. Suppliers must install meters at no cost if consumers opt simply for time-of-usage tariffs, but can charge installation fees if customers choose plans that provide specific details about the service.
BB10, the operating system set to replace QNX on Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices, is attracting interest from companies in the healthcare and smart grid industries, according to a story published earlier this week on CNET.
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins is reported to have told CNET that healthcare and smart grid businesses have already shown interest in the new operating system and that BB10 could ultimately support devices used across a range of industries.
Indian authorities have given the green light to a new pilot of smart grid technology in the state of Kerala, according to a report in the Times of India newspaper.
The pilot will target 2,500 so-called "industrial consumers" in Kerala and benefit from a total investment of 280 million rupees ($5 million), with 40% of the funding to come in the form of a government grant.
State authorities hope the introduction of smart grids will help address the frequent power failures and voltage problems that plague industries in Kerala.
Japanese IT and engineering conglomerate Mitsui has announced plans to invest $15 million in Viridity Energy (Philadelphia, USA), an energy-demand specialist.
The investment is pending approval by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but it would give Mitsui an equity stake in Viridity, of an undisclosed amount, and a position on Viridity's board.


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Anyone who has thought about public education must surely recognize how woefully obsolete our century old classroom model of one teacher delivering the same instruction to 35 diverse students is in the 21st century. For anyone who hasn't thought about the topic, perhaps a brief mental experiment would be in order.
Think about the last time you observed the pedestrian traffic along a busy city sidewalk or in a shopping mall after school hours. Wasn't 90% of the school age population fidgeting with some sort of mobile device: reading or sending text messages, surfing social network sites, updating their own, or simply endlessly scrolling who knows what?
Retaining this image of a digitally addicted generation, now try to visualize these young people caged in a stereotypic classroom sitting at wooden desks, all with their textbooks opened to the same page, and ostensibly listening to a teacher droning on about something that some of them will typically already have learned, some may not have an adequate background to follow, and some are studiously ignoring. And, dress codes and architecture aside, would a classroom 100 years ago have looked that differently?
Now try to visualize a classroom 100 years from now. Don't you image that things will have changed a bit by then? Will there even be an adult standing in front of the classroom at all? Wouldn't he or she be more likely to be seated at the rear at a raised workstation, electronically monitoring students working individually on digital devices at their work stations? What need, after all, would there be for the current teacher role of idiosyncratically preparing and delivering lessons when every component of the curriculum has been digitized and individualized based upon what each student had already learned?


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Many data scientists are comfortable working with structured operational data and unstructured text. Newer techniques like deep learning have opened up data types like images, video, and audio.
Other common data sources are garnering attention. With the rise of mobile phones equipped with GPS, I'm meeting many more data scientists at start-ups and large companies who specialize in spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Analyzing "moving dots" requires specialized tools and techniques. A few months ago, I sat down with Rajiv Maheswaran founder and CEO of Second Spectrum, a company that applies analytics to sports tracking data. Maheswaran talked about this new kind of data and the challenge of finding patterns:
"It's interesting because it's a new type of data problem. Everybody knows that big data machine learning has done a lot of stuff in structured data, in photos, in translation for language, but moving dots is a very new kind of data where you haven't figured out the right feature set to be able to find patterns from. There's no language of moving dots, at least not that computers understand. People understand it very well, but there's no computational language of moving dots that are interacting. We wanted to build that up, mostly because data about moving dots is very, very new. It's only in the last five years, between phones and GPS and new tracking technologies, that moving data has actually emerged."
In professional sports teams, Second Spectrum found an audience struggling to make sense of large amounts of "tracking data." Maheswaran explained:
"It turns out that sports is one of the areas where they have really, really great data. For example: in GPS, there's noise issues and in phones, there are sampling issues; in sports in the last year, there have been tracking technologies placed in all major sports where they're tracking all the players and the ball at a very, very high frame rate. You get all this really fantastic movement data, and then you have all these people like coaches and front offices and media who want to find patterns in this data. There's great data, there are people who really care about the problem, and it's a great place to build this science.
"…It's kind of like Moneyball, except three orders of magnitude higher because Moneyball was using box score data, which is hundreds of events a game, and now with tracking data, you have millions of events per game. Now there are positions of every sort of player and the ball, so the question is: if I have a big pile of numbers, somebody just dumped a million numbers about the game, how do I actually extract value from that? How do you extract patterns, meanings, stories, and semantics that people care about: that's the challenge."
In the near future, coaches will have access to this data and to analytic tools during live game situations. This would represent an interesting example of one of the trends were tracking — cognitive augmentation: the combination of big data, algorithms, and efficient user interfaces. Maheswaran said it's just a matter of time and increasing interest:
"I think that's going to happen very soon. It's not the case today, but I would at least hope that within three years, once we have all this data in real time, coaches will want to do it. It will change the game. It's going to go out to the fans anyway, so if the coaches don't get it, the fans are going to see all kinds of information in real time that the coaches won't have, so eventually the coaches will want that. I think that everybody in the sports leagues want to improve the game, and I think just having this data in real time is going to facilitate that."
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Looking back at the evolution of our Strata events, and the data space in general, we marvel at the impressive data applications and tools now being employed by companies in many industries. Data is having an impact on business models and profitability. It's hard to find a non-trivial application that doesn't use data in a significant manner. Companies who use data and analytics to drive decision-making continue to outperform their peers.
Up until recently, access to big data tools and techniques required significant expertise. But tools have improved and communities have formed to share best practices. We're particularly excited about solutions that target new data sets and data types. In an era when the requisite data skill sets cut across traditional disciplines, companies have also started to emphasize the importance of processes, culture, and people.
As we look into the future, here are the main topics that guide our current thinking about the data landscape.
Note: This document represents our thinking as of October 2014. You can keep up with the latest analysis and developments in the data space through the O'Reilly Data newsletter.
The combination of big data, algorithms, and efficient user interfaces can be seen in consumer applications such as Waze or Google Now. Our interest in this topic stems from the many tools that democratize analytics and, in the process, empower domain experts and business analysts. In particular, novel visual interfaces are opening up new data sources and data types.
Bring up the topic of algorithms, and a discussion on recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) is sure to follow. AI is the subject of an ongoing series of posts on O'Reilly Radar. The "unreasonable effectiveness of data" notwithstanding, algorithms remain an important area of innovation. We're excited about the broadening adoption of algorithms like deep learning, and topics like feature engineering, gradient boosting, and active learning. As intelligent systems become common, security and privacy become critical. We're interested in efforts to make machine learning secure in adversarial environments.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) will require systems that can process and unlock massive amounts of event data. These systems will draw from analytic platforms developed for monitoring IT operations. Beyond data management, we're following recent developments in streaming analytics and the analysis of large numbers of time series.
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Analytic projects involve a series of steps that often require different tools. There are a growing number of companies and open source projects that integrate a variety of analytic tools into coherent user interfaces and packages. Many of these integrated tools enable replication, collaboration, and deployment. This remains an active area, as specialized tools rush to broaden their coverage of analytic pipelines.
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Many popular components in the big data ecosystem are open source. As such, many companies build their data infrastructure and products by assembling components like Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and ElasticSearch, among others. Contrast that to a few years ago when many of these components weren't ready (or didn't exist) and companies built similar technologies from scratch. But companies are interested in applications and analytic platforms, not individual components. To that end, demand is high for data engineers and architects who are skilled in maintaining robust data flows, data storage, and assembling these components.
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To be clear, data analysts have always drawn from social science (e.g., surveys, psychometrics) and design. We are, however, noticing that many more data scientists are expanding their collaborations with product designers and social scientists.
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"Data-driven" organizations excel at using data to improve decision-making. It all starts with instrumentation. "If you can't measure it, you can't fix it," says DJ Patil, VP of product at RelateIQ. In addition, developments in distributed computing over the past decade have given rise to a group of (mostly technology) companies that excel in building data products. In many instances, data products evolve in stages (starting with a "minimum viable product") and are built by cross-functional teams that embrace alternative analysis techniques.
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Every few months, there seems to be an article criticizing the hype surrounding big data. Dig deeper and you find that many of the criticisms point to poor analysis and highlight issues known to experienced data analysts. Our perspective is that issues such as privacy and the cultural impact of models are much more significant.
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I am pleased to announce a joint program between O'Reilly and Databricks to certify Spark developers. O'Reilly has long been interested in certification, and with this inaugural program, we believe we have the right combination — an ascendant framework and a partnership with the team behind the technology. The founding team of Databricks comprises members of the UC Berkeley AMPLab team that created Spark.
The certification exam will be offered at Strata events, through Databricks' Spark Summits, and at training workshops run by Databricks and its partner companies. A variety of O'Reilly resources will accompany the certification program, including books, training days, and videos targeted at developers and companies interested in the Apache Spark ecosystem.
Offering certification in Spark reinforces O'Reilly's commitment to help companies and developers keep pace with the latest innovations in the big data space. Over the past 18 months, Apache Spark has become the most active open source project in big data. Through June 2014, there were more than 300 contributors from more than 50 companies.
Spark-related proposals for our Strata conferences have surged — Spark was a trending topic among submissions for the upcoming NYC and Barcelona events. These speaking proposals come from companies already using Spark in production and who are using Spark to solve fundamental problems. Interest in Spark Camp (a training day at Strata in NYC and Barcelona) has been strong, and we plan to offer Spark Camp at future Strata events as well.
Many of the companies I interact with are using components of the Spark ecosystem (some companies have built their entire "data stack" out of these components). In the second half of this year, the different Hadoop distributions and vendors rallied to make Spark the "standard processing engine for big data." At the most recent Spark Summit, Databricks demonstrated how complex data applications can easily be built on top of Spark.
When I first started using Spark a few years ago, one still had to learn Scala, and the analytic libraries were still fairly limited. From the outset, I was attracted to its speed, scalability, and the fact that I could use the same programming model for a variety of problems (batch, real time, interactive, iterative). Today, the Apache Spark ecosystem has a much richer set of libraries for machine learning, graph analytics, and interactive (SQL) analysis. APIs in Python and Java have significantly broadened its user base (I have met many avid users of PySpark).
The Apache Spark ecosystem continues to grow — new libraries are announced in every release. There are now Spark meetups in cities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Through our publishing program and this new certification, we hope to help nurture current and future users and contributors to Spark.
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Long before the advent of "big data," analysts were building models using tools like R (and its forerunners S/S-PLUS). Productivity hinged on tools that made data wrangling, data inspection, and data modeling convenient. Among R users, this meant proficiency with data frames — objects used to store data matrices that can hold both numeric and categorical data. A
data.frame is the data structure consumed by most R analytic libraries.
But not all data scientists use R, nor is R suitable for all data problems. I've been watching with interest the growing number of alternative data structures for business analysis and advanced analytics. These new tools are designed to handle much larger data sets and are frequently optimized for specific problems. And they all use idioms that are familiar to data scientists — either SQL-like expressions, or syntax similar to those used for R
data.frame or
As much as I'd like these different projects and tools to coalesce, there are differences in the platforms they inhabit, the use cases they target, and the (business) objectives of their creators. Regardless of their specific features and goals, these emerging tools1 and projects all need data structures that simplify data munging and data analysis — including data alignment, how to handle missing values, standardizing values, and coding categorical variables.
As the data processing engine for big data, analytic libraries and features are making their way into Spark, thus objects and data structures that simplify data wrangling and analysis are also beginning to appear. For advanced analytics and machine learning, MLTable is a table-like interface that mimics structures like R
data.frame, database tables, or MATLAB's dataset array. For business analytics (interactive query analysis), SchemaRDD's are used in relational queries executed in Spark SQL.
At the recent Spark Summit, start-up Adatao unveiled and announced plans to open source Distributed Data Frames (DDF) — objects that were heavily inspired by R
data.frame. Adatao developed DDF as part of their pAnalytics and pInsights products, so DDF comes with many utilities for analysis and data wrangling.
Inspired by idioms used for R
data.frame, Adatao's DDF can be used from within RStudio. With standard R code3, users can access a collection of highly scalable analytic libraries (the algorithms are executed in Spark).
ddf <- adatao.getDDF("ddf://adatao/flightInfo")
adatao.setMutable(ddf, TRUE)
adatao.transform(ddf, "delayed = if(arrdelay > 15, 1, 0)")
# adatao implementation of lm
model <- adatao.lm(delayed ~ distance + deptime + depdelay, data=ddf)
lmpred <- adatao.predict(model, ddf1)
For interactive queries, new R packages dplyr and/or data.table can be used for fast aggregations and joins.
dplyr also comes with an operator (
%.%) for chaining together data (wrangling) operations.
Among data scientists who use Python,
pandas.DataFrame has been an essential tool ever since its release. Over the past few years pandas has become one of the most active open source projects in the data space (266 distinct contributors and counting). But pandas was designed for small to medium sized data sets, and as pandas creator Wes McKinney recently noted, there are many areas for improvement.
One area is scalability. To scale to terabytes of data, a new alternative is GraphLab's SFrame, a component of a product called GraphLab Create. GraphLab Create targets Python users: it comes with a Python API and detailed examples contained in IPython notebooks. SFrame itself uses syntax that should be easy for pandas users to pick up. There are plans to open source SFrame (and some other components of GraphLab Create) later this year.
# recommender in five lines of Python
import graphlab
data = graphlab.SFrame("s3://my_bucket/my_data.csv")
model = graphlab.recommender.create(data)
Badger is a new tabular analytics library being built at DataPad — a start-up led and co-founded by Wes McKinney. A C library coupled with a Python-based interface, Badger targets "business analytics and BI use cases" and has a pandas-like syntax, designed for data processing and analytical queries ("more expressive than SQL"). As an in-memory query processor, it features active memory management and caching, and targets interactive speeds on 100-million row and smaller data sets on single machines.
Badger is currently only available as part of DataPad's visual analysis platform. But its lineage (developed by the team that created pandas) combined with promising performance reports have many Pydata users itching to try it out.
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This means that researchers and companies will need to produce real-time tools and techniques that scale to much larger graphs (measured in terms of nodes & edges). I previously listed tools for tapping into graph data, and I continue to track improvements in accessibility, scalability, and performance. For example, at the just-concluded Spark Summit, it was apparent that GraphX remains a high-priority project within the Spark1 ecosystem.
Another reason to be optimistic is that tools for graph data are getting tested in many different settings. It's true that social media applications remain natural users of graph databases and analytics. But there are a growing number of applications outside the "social" realm. In his recent Strata Santa Clara talk and book, Neo Technology's founder and CEO Emil Eifrem listed other uses cases for graph databases and analytics:
The widening number of applications means that business users are becoming more comfortable with graph analytics. In some domains network science dashboards are beginning to appear. More recently, analytic tools like GraphLab Create make it easier to unlock and build applications with graph2 data. Various applications that build upon graph search/traversal are becoming common, and users are beginning to be comfortable with notions like "centrality" and "community structure".
A quick way to immerse yourself in the graph analysis space is to attend the third GraphLab conference in San Francisco — a showcase of the best tools3 for graph data management, visualization, and analytics, as well as interesting use cases. For instance, MusicGraph will be on hand to give an overview of their massive graph database from the music industry, Ravel Law will demonstrate how they leverage graph tools and analytics to improve search for the legal profession, and Lumiata is assembling a database to help improve medical science using evidence-based tools powered by graph analytics.
Interactive analyzer of Uber trips across San Francisco's micro-communities
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1. Full disclosure: I am an advisor to Databricks — a startup commercializing Apache Spark.↩
2. As I noted in a previous post, GraphLab has been extended to handle general machine learning problems (not just graphs).↩
3. Exhibitors at the GraphLab conference will include creators of several major graph databases, visualization tools, and Python tools for data scientists.↩
Good features allow a simple model to beat a complex model.
(to paraphrase Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira)
The terminology can be a bit confusing, but to put things in context one can simplify the data science pipeline to highlight the importance of features:
Feature Engineering or the Creation of New Features
A simple example to keep in mind is text mining. One starts with raw text (documents) and extracted features could be individual words or phrases. In this setting, a feature could indicate the frequency of a specific word or phrase. Features1 are then used to classify and cluster documents, or extract topics associated with the raw text. The process usually involves the creation2 of new features (feature engineering) and identifying the most essential ones (feature selection).
Feature Selection techniques
Why bother selecting features? Why not use all available features? Part of the answer could be that you need a solution that is simple, interpretable, and fast. This favors features that have good statistical performance and that are easy to explain to non-technical users. But there could be legal3 reasons for excluding certain features as well (e.g., the use of credit scores is discriminatory in certain situations).
In the machine-learning literature there are three commonly used methods for feature selection:
Expect more tools to streamline Feature Discovery
In practice, feature selection and feature engineering are iterative processes where humans leverage automation4 to wade through candidate features. Statistical software have long had (stepwise) procedures for feature selection. New startups are providing similar tools: Skytree's new user interface lets business users automate feature selection.
I'm definitely noticing much more interest from researchers and startups. A group out of Stanford5 just released a paper on a new R language extension and execution framework designed for feature selection. Their R extension enables data analysts to incorporate feature selection using high-level constructs that form a domain specific language. Some startups like ContextRelevant and SparkBeyond6, are working to provide users with tools that simplify feature engineering and selection. In some instances this includes incorporating features derived from external data sources. Users of SparkBeyond are able to incorporate the company's knowledge databases (Wikipedia, OpenStreeMap, Github, etc.) to enrich their own data sources.
While many startups who build analytic tools begin by focusing on algorithms, many products will soon begin highlighting how they handle feature selection and discovery. There are many reasons why there will be more emphasis on features: interpretability (this includes finding actionable features that drive model performance), big data (companies have many more data sources to draw upon), and an appreciation of data pipelines (algorithms are just one component).
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(0) The quote from Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira is associated with big data. But features are just as important in small data problems. Read through the Kaggle blog and you quickly realize that winning entries spend a lot of their time on feature engineering.
(1) In the process documents usually get converted into structures that algorithms can handle (vectors).
(2) Once can for example create composite (e.g. linear combination) features out of existing ones.
(3) From Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads: "Using credit score as a feature is considered a discriminatory practice by the insurance commissions in both California and Massachusetts."
(4) Stepwise procedures in statistical regression is a familiar example.
(5) The Stanford research team designed their feature selection tool after talking to data analysts at several companies. The goal of their project was to increase analyst productivity.
(6) Full disclosure: I'm an advisor to SparkBeyond.
These trends are particularly apparent in a set of technologies that originated from UC Berkeley's AMPLab: the number of companies that are using (or plan to use) Spark in production1 has exploded over the last year. The surge in popularity of the Apache Spark ecosystem stems from the maturation of its individual open source components and the growing community of users. The tight integration of high-performance tools that address different problems and workloads, coupled with a simple programming interface (in Python, Java, Scala), make Spark one of the most popular projects in big data. The charts below show the amount of active development in Spark:
For the second year in a row, I've had the privilege of serving on the program committee for the Spark Summit. I'd like to highlight a few areas where Apache Spark is making inroads. I'll focus on proposals2 from companies building applications on top of Spark.
Real-time processing: This year's conference saw many more proposals from companies that have deployed Spark Streaming. The most common usage remains real-time data processing and scoring of machine-learning models. There are also sessions on tools that expand the capability and appeal of Spark Streaming (StreamSQL and a tool for CEP).
Data integration3 and Data processing: At the heart of many big data applications are robust data fusion systems. This year's Spark Summit has several sessions on how companies integrate data sources and make the results usable for services and applications. Nube Technologies is introducing a fuzzy matching engine for handling noisy data, a new library called Geotrellis adds geospatial data processing to Spark, and a new library for parallel, distributed, real-time image processing will be unveiled.
Advanced analytics: MLlib, the default machine-learning in the Spark ecosystem, is already used in production deployments. This year's conference includes sessions on tools that enhance MLlib including a distributed implementation of Random Forest, matrix factorization, entity recognition in NLP, and a new library that enables analytics on tabular data (distributed data frames from Adatao).
Beyond these new tools for analytics, there are sessions on how Spark enables large-scale, real-time recommendations (Spotify, Graphflow, Zynga), text mining (IBM, URX), and detection of malicious behavior (FSecure).
Applications: I've written about how Spark is being used in genomics. Spark is also starting to get deployed in applications that generate and consume machine-generated data (including wearables and the Internet of Things). Guavus has recently begun to move parts of their widely deployed application for processing large amounts of event data to Spark.
There are many more interesting applications4 that will be featured at the upcoming Spark Summit. This community event is fast becoming a showcase of next-generation big data applications. As Spark continues to mature, this shift in focus from tools to case studies and applications will accelerate even more. [NOTE: If you're interested in attending the Spark Summit, use the following 10% discount code.]
New release: This week marked a major milestone for Apache Spark with the release of the 1.0 version. The release notes have a detailed list of enhancements and improvements, but here are a few that should appeal to the data community: a new feature called Spark SQL provides schema-aware data modeling and SQL language support in Spark, MLLib has expanded to include several new algorithms, and there are major updates to both Spark Streaming and GraphX.
True AI has been "just around the corner" for 60 years, so why should O'Reilly start covering AI in a big way now? As computing power catches up to scientific and engineering ambitions, and as our ability to learn directly from sensory signals — i.e., big data — increases, intelligent systems are having a real and widespread impact. Every Internet user benefits from these systems today — they sort our email, plan our journeys, answer our questions, and protect us from fraudsters. And, with the Internet of Things, these system have already started to keep our houses and offices comfortable and well-lit, our data centers running more efficiently, our industrial processes humming, and even are driving our cars.
Of course, these systems don't exist in a vacuum; in fact, some of the most fascinating aspects of machine intelligence arise from their deep interconnections with other technologies. The impact of big data and the Internet of Things will both be magnified once these massive information streams can be interpreted and acted upon by truly intelligent systems.
Semantics matter as well: artificial intelligence and related labels (machine learning, strong or true AI, artificial general intelligence) refer to a wide range of systems built with varied goals, technologies, and even philosophical foundations. In addition, attitudes associated with "AI" have shifted radically over time, from wild optimism to skepticism, and even deep stigma. We plan on disentangling these definitional issues in at least one upcoming post.
AI has been through several hype cycles, but after years of being pushed into the shadows in favor of more limited and domain-specific machine learning efforts, there is a new boom in frankly — and unapologetically — ambitious AI projects at companies like Google, Facebook, and IBM, as well as research organizations like the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Researchers finally have the compute power to aim high, confidence won from recent advances, and resources from the explosive growth of the tech industry. These AI efforts are key to these companies' long-term growth and competitiveness.
Some see this commercial vision as naive, shortsighted and limited — some very smart folks argue that real AI could be our last invention. But is this singularity scenario realistic, whether the resulting intelligences are friendly or not? More generally, how are forecasts led astray when we extrapolate from present trends — for instance, the supposedly inevitable consequences of exponentially-increasing compute power.
With two sides — marketing boosterism and the doomsayers — both vying for mindshare, it's hard for journalists and other interested observers to interpret new developments. It's also hard to evaluate claims of progress on their merits; the history of AI is full of approaches that showed early promise, only to turn out as blind alleys and false summits. In fact, Facebook's AI lab director and neural network pioneer Yann Lecun compares AI research to "…driving in a thick fog and we don't realize that our highway is really a parking lot with a brick wall at the far end." Many smart people have made that mistake, and every new wave in AI was followed by a period of unbounded optimism, irrational hype, and a backlash. We likely won't know which approach succeeds in creating "true" AI until we see it.
With these difficulties firmly in mind, we strive to place new developments in context, including turning a critical eye when appropriate. The field is moving fast, and there is no shortage of genuinely exciting progress, along with misguided endeavors, naked opportunism, and even deliberate bubble inflation.
Some questions we'll explore:
Over the last few years, we've had some deep discussions about probabilistic programming and AI with our friend Beau Cronin. These discussions coalesced into the notion of a new series covering AI topics, and we're thrilled that Cronin can serve as lead correspondent for Intelligence Matters.
Beau has both an academic background and a wealth of practical experience in the AI field, combined with a deep curiosity and a keen desire to share his knowledge. He holds a doctorate in computational neuroscience from MIT and co-founded two startups that used probabilistic inference. We're excited to have Beau on board to cover the exciting world of AI and other intelligence matters, and we invite you to participate: please join the discussion in the comments section or by connecting with Beau on Twitter.
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In many domains, networks graphs can be the primary visual objects with conventional charts used to supply detailed views. I recently got a preview of some dashboards built using Financial Network Analytics (FNA). In the example below, the primary visualization represents correlations among assets across different asset classes1 (the accompanying charts are used to provide detailed information for individual nodes):
Using the network graph as the center piece of a dashboard works well in this instance. And with FNA's tools already being used by a variety of organizations and companies in the financial sector, I think "Network Science dashboards" will become more commonplace in financial services.
Network Science dashboards only work to the extent that network graphs are effective (networks graphs tend get harder to navigate and interpret when the number of nodes and edges get large2). One work around is to aggregate nodes and visualize communities rather than individual objects. New ideas may also come to the rescue: the rise of networks and graphs is leading to better techniques for visualizing large networks.
This fits one of the themes we're seeing in Strata: cognitive augmentation. The right combination of data/algorithm(s)/interface allows analysts to make smarter decisions much more efficiently. While much of the focus has been on data and algorithms, it's good to see more emphasis paid to effective interfaces and visualizations.
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This simple idea can be hard to execute in practice (think volume, variety, velocity). Unlocking value from disparate data sources entails some familiarity with domain-specific1 data sources, requirements, and business problems.
It's difficult enough to solve a specific problem, let alone a generic one. Consider the case of Guavus – a successful startup that builds big data solutions for the telecom industry ("communication service providers"). Its founder was very familiar with the data sources in telecom, and knew the types of applications that would resonate within that industry. Once they solve one set of problems for a telecom company (network optimization), they quickly leverage the same systems to solve others (marketing analytics).
This ability to address a variety of problems stems from Guavus' deep familiarity with data and problems in telecom. In contrast, a typical general-purpose platform can come across as a hammer in search of a nail. So while I remain a fan (and user) of general-purpose platforms, the less well-known verticalized solutions are definitely on my radar.
Better tools can't overcome poor analysis
I'm not suggesting that the criticisms raised against big data don't apply to verticalized solutions. But many problems are due to poor analysis and not the underlying tools. A few of the more common criticisms arise from analyzing correlations: correlation is not causation, correlations are dynamic and can sometimes change drastically2, and data dredging3.
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German business sentiment fell for a second straight month in June to its lowest level in over two years, in the latest sign Europe's largest economy is beginning to feel the pain from the euro zone debt crisis.
The Munich-based Ifo think tank said on Friday its business climate index, based on a monthly survey of some 7,000 companies, dropped to 105.3 in June from 106.9 in May.
This was the lowest level since March 2010 and slightly worse than expected, with a Reuters poll of 44 economists forecasting the index would fall to 105.9.
"The euro crisis is really hitting home," Klaus Wohlrabe, an Ifo economist, told Reuters. "It's right on the front doorstep."
The Ifo data add to concerns that Germany's economy is losing stamina and may have contracted in the second quarter after it steamed ahead in the first three months of the year, helping the euro zone avoid recession by growing 0.5 percent.
Other recent data have also pointed to a slowdown. Manufacturing activity is at its weakest level in three years, according a purchasing managers' survey published on Thursday.
Imports tumbled at their fastest rate in two years in April, while exports have declined on weakening demand from within the euro zone, where Germany sends roughly 40 percent of its goods sold abroad.
Firms were more optimistic about current business conditions but a sub-index on business expectations fell to 97.3 from a revised 100.8 in May.
The biggest decline in the June Ifo data was in manufacturing, a sector that has driven German growth over the past year.
The figures were released hours before German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Rome to meet with her Italian, Spanish and French counterparts to discuss solutions to the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis.
A significant weakening of the German economy, which has so far remained largely immune to the crisis hitting southern economies like Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, could encourage Berlin to take bolder steps.
"The German ship is more solid than all other euro zone ships but latest indicators have been good reminders that even the most solid ship can capsize in a rough thunderstorm," said ING's Carsten Brzeski.
"Maybe there is one upside to the latest batch of disappointing data from the euro zone's biggest economy: it shows that a fundamental solution to the euro zone crisis is also in the interest of the German economy."
Deputy Energy Minister Jaime Himende said that "Mozambique has great hydroelectricity potential, and recently they have taken some bold steps to use renewable resources efficiently"
Obama, who hosted Modi in Washington in September, will in January become the first U.S. president to visit India twice, completing a remarkable warming in the relationship
The combined damage inflicted on Russia's economy by Western sanctions and falling oil prices totals about $140 billion.
PM Mahlab said that Egypt eyes sustainable growth to improve the living conditions of Egyptians, noting that the Egyptian economy is currently recovering.
The French economist calls for redistribution of global wealth, which he says is too concentrated in the hands of the few.
Bank cites high financing costs and financing difficulties as challenges that need to be addressed to sustain growth.
Smuggling is denying Tanzania some 80 percent of receipts accrued from the precious gemstone
The Africa initiative will create "one huge free-trade union" allowing foreign investors in Egypt to more easily reach 260 million consumers from South Africa to Ethiopia.
Budapest says the collapse of the rival Western-backed Nabucco project to bring gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, and stalled plans to build inter-connector pipelines within eastern Europe, have left it with no alternative.
In Russia, the idea of a Saudi-U.S. plot against Moscow has become common currency as the economy struggles under the effects of low oil prices and Western sanctions imposed
Lithuania's new LNG terminal represents an end to Russia's gas monopoly in Lithuania, says Lithuania's president
The minister said the militants considered the eastern Syrian cities "safe for them" and thus transferred wheat and barley in Nineveh "to preserve it".
Decreasing oil prices are intended to pressurize and punish Iran and Russia: Int. Financial Markets expert says
Prices rise 30 percent as new president's deeply unpopular subsidy cut takes effect.
Japan's prime minister is to turn to the polls to see if his decision not to hike taxes can gain electoral support.
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Question: I have a rosemary topiary planted in the ground. Large sections have turned brown and died. However, new growth is coming out in other parts of the bush. My question is, will new growth eventually fill in the large gaps? ---- Carol Answer: Yes, Carol, if you trim the dead areas back until you find live plant material, eventually they will fill in. Q: About six weeks ago, I started tomato seeds inside my house. They grew nicely and are now ready to transplant, but the weather has been ...
Home & GardenCRAWFORD: Onion grower needs term help
Oct 24, 2010, midnight
Question: Please explain the terms "short day" and "long day" as they pertain to onions. When I complained that the little onion sets that I bought did not produce onions but just grew tall and bolted to seed, I was told that it was because they were not short-day onions. The young man at the nursery could not give me a satisfactory explanation; he just kept repeating that they were not short-day onions and that I should not expect more than green onions from them. How do I get these ...
Home & GardenLawn runs into rabbit problem
Aug 29, 2010, midnight
Question: Help! Our front lawn is being ruined by rabbits. I have been told that it is not the rabbit eating the grass that ruins it, but that they urinate while eating and that burns the grass and kills the lawn.What can a person do? Would it help to put food out for them, or would that just draw more rabbits? I do not want to do anything to harm them or kill them; I would just like to know if there is any way we can protect the grass. ...
Home & GardenLittle tree has a big problem
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Question: My dwarf navel orange tree has a water basin around it, but it seems to drain slowly. The trunk is around 10 inches in circumference; the soil is brown clay. Since it was planted four years ago, it gets blooms and some pea-size fruit that drops off the tree. It is 3 feet tall and does not seem to be growing any taller. The ground seems very hard. I can dig down 12 inches, and it gets much harder beyond that depth. I tried using liquid gypsum and citrus ...


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HootSuite has launched The Love List, a recurring monthly report which ranks more than 450 of the world's top brands on which are seeing the most love on social media. The Love List uses data provided by uberVU via Hootsuite, a robust listening, social monitoring, and advanced analytics solution, to pull in hundreds of millions of publicly available social media posts. Brands are ranked in order on The Love List using three key data points, including the total number of brand mentions received, the sentiment score for the particular brand and the percentage of social conversations about the brand containing the word "love" over a month period of time. Using this formula, each brand is assigned a score between one and 100. Read the rest of this entry »
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Stream: The Shapeshifters "No Holds Barred" And Celebrate 10 Years Of Dance
The Shapeshifters - made up of Simon Marlin and Max Reich - have long been established as one of the UK's most successful dance acts of all time. Their relentless touring and timeless hits like "Lola's Theme," "Back to Basics," and "Incredible" have been remixed and dropped by almost every DJ-producer on the planet. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the house duo, and to commemorate a decade of danceable delight, The Shapeshifters are dropping "Analogue to Digital...and Back Again," a two-disk EP packed with a flurry of remixes of their classics, as well as five new tracks (June 24). Listen to "No Holds Barred" (to get second wind needed for the clubs this weekend), filled with bouncy house beats that serve as a perfect Friday jump-off track.
Buy the song as well as a remix from Little Boots on Beatport.


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A federal hearing on the constitutionality of South Dakota's one-drug capital punishment procedure will go on as planned Thursday, and convicted killer Donald Moeller will be there.
Judge Lawrence Piersol, faced with an apparent attorney tug-of-war in the case, ruled Wednesday that Moeller must be present to determine whether he agrees with attorney Mark Marshall's filing to dismiss the case.
Attorneys with the federal public defender's office in Little Rock, Ark., have been representing Moeller in the federal case. They contend that the execution method that will likely use pentobarbital violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The 60-year-old Moeller is to be executed in late October or early November in the 1990 killing of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell.
Piersol canceled a scheduled viewing of the execution chambers Thursday.
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The person who wrote this little The Rolling Stones vignette really has Heinlein's writing patterns down pat:
"Chief Engineer Grandma?" Meade said sweetly, ducking her head into the room. "Would you please tell Buster to stay out of my garden? He may think he's clever, but he's killing my broccoli. I'd tell him myself, but he obviously doesn't listen to me."
Hazel looked across the chessboard at Lowell. "Best do as she says, Junior," she commented.
"But she's wrong about the salinity gradients-" he protested.
"Grandmother dearest," Meade said, her hands on her hips. "Why does everyone aboard this ship assume I am incapable of doing math?"
"Beats me," Hazel said. "I tutored you myself; you can handle a differential with the best of 'em."
Really. The voices, the way the characters speak, that mixture of banter and infodumping, it's all prime Heinlein and Kalirush has done a great job capturing it. I wish they'd do more Heinlein stories.


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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
::Black Dining Room::
I did it! I finally painted the dining room black. We're still a harvest table away from being able to really make it the room we envisioned, but it's on it's way. The top half is all chalkboard. Mama's chalkboard. I expect smudging and the occasional doodle to appear at about kid-height, but it's meant to be my own personal transformable wallpaper.
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::Not-Halloween Party::
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
::Water Problem::
It's our system, but it isn't a perfect system. Pitchers break. We've shattered more glass than a cathedral's worth of windows. So, we gave up on glass and moved on to metal. But even pitchers that don't break only hold a finite amount of water. We fill it. And fill it. And fill it. And, I do not remember what fresh, cold water tastes like. Our poor little pitcher does not come with an in-built cooling system, nor a filter. It's only job is to hold it's contents.
Has that become my job description? Jo: Wife. Mother of six. Reservoir of old material, levels dropping, inspiration growing stale? Maybe it is. I am guilty of tapping into my own experience to diagnose, bandage and sustain myself through my present circumstances. I do it a lot. Instead of lifting a fresh, glittering drop of scripture to my lips, or letting the morning mist of daily prayer soothe my skin, I lower the ladle of my hands deep into the old, murky water of recycled thoughts and self-muddied lessons learned. I am a pitcher, filled with once-crystalline revelations, now gone warm and still.
Anyone could tell you that running water's the sweet stuff. I don't know anyone who would stand beside a leaping, chattering stream, and turn away to lap up the water from the puddle beside it. But we do that. All the time, we do that, when we don't go the God for refreshment.
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
Psalm 42
Are you thirsty? I'm thirsty. Let's not gather around the water cooler. Let's go down to the river and drink.
Posted by King's Daughters at 10:02 AM
Labels: Faith: Lofty Musings
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
::Hay bale full of cousins::
Photography has become currency. We exchange our photos like we exchange breath and words. But, I'm OK with that. Photos speak. And when words are becoming fewer-- people less connected by proximity and touch-- freeze-framed offerings are what we have to give and receive.
Our family is growing.
I can't expend enough words on the wonder of this. But I can just show you.
Our family is growing.
I can't expend enough words on the wonder of this. But I can just show you.
Posted by King's Daughters at 8:31 AM
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
::I Am the Door::
It's always a risk to gift someone with art, especially if it's yours. What if you go to visit, and it's behind the door to the basement? Or, what if it's nowhere at all? I risked it for Martin and Marissa and framed these.
Either they actually liked them, or they are extremely kind, because they hung them in the main hallway. Phew.
Posted by King's Daughters at 5:06 PM
Labels: Creativity: Artistic Endeavours
Thursday, August 28, 2014
::Red-Earthed Beauty::
A trip to the red-earthed Maritimes is how we bid our summer farewell. We nested just outside of Charlottetown in a sage green cottage, one wildflower field away from the ocean.
Our trip tasted like:
It's amazing how quickly a place becomes "home".
The sun didn't make much of an appearance, but beauty is beauty, top-lit or shrouded. We found it everywhere.
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One FC 5: Pride of a Nation takes place Friday, Aug. 31, at Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines.
The card is stacked with fighters like Bibiano Fernandes, Edward Folayang, Jens Pulver, Tim Sylvia, Andre Arlovski, and several Gracies to name but a few.
Fernades makes his debut for One FC on the card, recently joining the promotion alongside fellow Japanese-fight-scene standout Shinya Aoki.
Former UFC champions Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski meet for the fourth time, no love lost between them, to try and settle up a career-long feud, while Jens Pulver continues to defy the cries of retirement, but faces no easy task in rising star Eric Kelly.
One FC 5 also features the next generation of the famed Gracie jiu-jitsu family as Rolles, Igor, and Gregor Gracie all continue their fighting careers on the Asian fight scene.
One FC 5 streams live on pay-per-view.
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Now that Invicta FC has its distribution deal through UFC Fight Pass, they are in the swing of things. By that, of course, I mean they are back to producing regular shows every so often. Invicta is a read news >>
A quick look at every fight on the upcoming Invicta FC card, along with the available odds and potential winners. Invicta returns this weekend with another fun card of women's mma action. It may not read news >>
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Dragstrip Girl Movie Review
Who cares!? This movie is so bad that the ending (which, by the way, is just about the worst part of the film) slips out of mind as soon as the disc pops out of your DVD player. Made for TV way back in 1994 and only now getting its DVD and home video release because Wagner and Cruz have become minor stars, you won't see any hint of the performing ability you might find from them today, simply because the story is so poorly written it couldn't have been saved by Cary Grant. Just about the only joy to be found in the film is from a grizzled Traci Lords, playing the hooker next door whom our scruffy hero likes to spy on through the enormous hole in the wall.
Because life is like that.
Cast & Crew
Director : Mary Lambert
Producer : Lou Arkoff, David Giler, Debra Hill, Willie Kutner
Screenwriter : Jerome Gary
Starring : María Celedonio, Christopher Crabb, Raymond Cruz, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Traci Lords


text: German GP: Mercedes GP report 25 July, 2010 Nico Rosberg leads Michael Schumacher Jul.25 (Mercedes GP) Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher finished the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim in eighth and ninth positions today. Michael made up three places at the start to be running in eighth position with Nico shadowing him in ninth place. He made his only pit stop on lap 14 with Nico staying out longer and making his stop on lap 24. Despite the two quickest stops of the race, neither driver was able to jump Robert Kubica, with Nico's later stop being enough to move him ahead of Michael. Nico Rosberg "We made the best of our situation today but it is frustrating after being on the podium at the last race. Achieving eighth place is damage limitation really and we were able to minimise the loss to Robert in terms of points but it has generally been a struggle this weekend. My strategy was good and the guys made a fantastic effort with my pit stop being the quickest of the race. There are surely better times ahead in Hungary." Michael Schumacher "I had a pretty good start today but from then onwards, there was not much more that we could do. We were targeting to stay out long but we changed the strategy to react to the circumstances and maybe I could have finished slightly higher. But in the end, that would not have changed much in a race where we had hoped to be more competitive. What we achieved after my stop was the maximum that was possible. Of course I would have wished for more, especially as our race performance tends to be better than qualifying, but it did not work out. We will certainly not get nervous but we have to sit down, analyse the reasons and put the right solutions in place." Ross Brawn "We did a reasonable job today with the car that we currently have. It was a little bit frustrating, particularly for Nico, as he was in a very strong position to get past Robert Kubica with his strategy. Unfortunately he lost some time getting tangled up with Mark Webber and ended up coming out just behind Robert. The car was more consistent in the race than in qualifying but we have to find some more performance. The team and drivers did a great job, we have good reliability and the two fastest pit stops today, so all the foundations are in place for when we develop a better car." Norbert Haug "After Nico's podium at the last race in Silverstone, coming home in eighth and ninth places was not the result that we had been looking for at one of our home races. However our grid positions were not a good base for the race, so better than P8 for Nico and P9 for Michael were not really possible. We could not make our new upgrades work to the planned extent which compromised our speed and lap times. The team worked relentlessly to get the new parts ready for this race, so two points finishes are at least a small reward for their hard work, even if they were not the positions we were hoping for. A big thank you to all of our guys for their efforts, and now we will try to get better results next weekend in Hungary." Tweet Related NewsNo number one for Hamilton who wants to keep #44F1 drivers take to Twitter to congratulate HamiltonDennis: McLaren board will decide 2015 driversLauda: Nico will fight backHamilton: New Mercedes contract is a formalityHamilton: I celebrated with a watermelon juiceRosberg: Hamilton was the best driver on the grid this yearHamilton: I feel very happy here, no rush to sign new dealLewis and Nico shake hands at end of epic seasonHamilton family spring surprise on champ


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Fast & Furious 6
There's a temptation in reviewing the sixth film in the successful The Fast and the Furious series to resort to monosyllabic caveman speak. Something along the lines of: Car fast, girl hot. That's not precisely an insult, mind you, but more of an acknowledgment of the admirably uncomplicated formula the series has worked out for itself.
Reel World
The staff at the KiMo Theatre has assembled an epic tribute to the most cinematic of directors, Stanley Kubrick. The Stanley Kubrick Retrospective will span the filmmaker's entire career and will feature 11 of his films—from 1955 to 1999. The event starts this Saturday, May 25, with Kubrick's first feature, the 1955 film noir Killer's Kiss.
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