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So you've put in all the hard work to write the bid, and you've been successful enough to be invited for a panel review. But you know that this will be challenging. How do you ensure that you best represent yourself, your colleagues and your work?
Answer – assemble a "red team" to critique your presentation (and indeed your original proposal) so that it is as clear, communicative, compelling and robust as possible.
Philip Guildford, Director of Research and Finance in the Engineering Department, described the "Pyramid Principle". Iteratively craft your 'governing thought' (the one sentence that summarises your proposition) and build below that a pyramid of supporting evidence. Each layer of argument or evidence adds more detail in support of the layer above – all the way to a compelling governing thought. This discipline enables you to edit out extraneous material – if it doesn't fit in the pyramid of logic then it doesn't add to the argument and should be left out.
With your argument sound you then move on to the question of how to sell it. Philip explained the Situation, Complication, Question, Answer sequence. Begin with a simple statement of a prevailing situation – your audience will agree and be nodding their heads. Then identify the problem – the complication. That raises a question – and now your audience is waiting for the answer. And, of course, your research will find the answer to the question, so resolving the complication and easing the situation. It's no accident that this sounds like a film script – "It was a dark and gloomy house. Suddenly the door creaked open and there in the doorway stood…. What could it be?" An engaged audience is much more interested in your answer – so hook them in.
Professor Rob Miller of the Whittle Laboratory picked up the thread and described how he had assembled a red team of academics and industrialists to critique his bid and presentation for a CDT in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics. He attributes the bid's success to trying hard to understand their customer's perspective – so arguing explicitly why a CDT is needed (to support the UK economy) and how the CDT addresses this (by providing a holistic education that spans three institutions integrating many tools and techniques) and that adds special value (students that understand the sector and its technology).
He assembled a red team that included Sam Beale, now a Visiting Professor in Innovation and previously Head of Research in Rolls Royce. Here is a man who has heard many pitches in the area from industry and academia and knows how to ask the difficult question.
Rob highlighted the area of uncertainty that the red team raised – how would the CDT be managed? What would happen if the research didn't go to plan? From where would they get an outside perspective? This advice enabled the CDT team to create simple diagrams, replacing paragraphs of text, bringing to life an elegant answer to the question – a question that a review panel would be likely to raise.
Dr Tim Minshall, Reader in Innovation and Technology Management, focused on the power of pictures – for both good and ill. A page of text that repeats the content of the bid borders on the insulting – have the reviewers read it and did they understand it? So start with greater impact – a memorable quote or, in Tim's case a picture of the Hype Cycle. This grabs a review panel's attention. Work hard to find the single diagram that simply and elegantly explains the core of your proposition. Then use this.
Best of all is to have a framework for your project – a diagram that you can use throughout the document and the presentation. Hang off this framework all your important point. By using the same framework throughout you can keep your audience with you and maintain a unity to your story.
Finally Tim pointed out that not all pictures are interpreted the same way by everybody! One diagram he tested with his red team could be interpreted in two very different ways – the way Tim saw it and designed it, and in a way that obscured and confused. So check how people see your pictures and diagrams! Don't assume it's obvious!
Philip, Rob and Tim then responded to questions and comments.
Your bid sinks or swims in the first few minutes – so if you confuse or alienate your review panel you will find it hard to recover. So test your presentation!
Your red team will be tougher than the review panel – so you can work on your agility and response to nasty questions. Get the nerves out of the way in a practice session!
Recruiting a red team is remarkably easy – colleagues are generally willing to help and you can also ask your Knowledge Transfer Facilitators as well – here's a list by department www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/rso/iaa/ktf/. If you are a member of the University you can also access examples of good applications at www.researchandfinance.eng.cam.ac.uk/funding/successful-apps .
You have so little time to present that you may wish to show a diagram that gives the overall picture, but that hints at the detail behind. If you stimulate a question about the detail then you can demonstrate your competence. Similarly, under the constraints of your bid you must weed out the unnecessary paragraphs – no matter how elegant they are. As Rob Miller said – "you may love that paragraph or argument, but if it doesn't help then it has to go!"
Tim Minshall raised the importance of "knowing the rules of the game" – so look here for the reviewer forms and guidance notes www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/assessmentprocess/review/rev/ . There's a lot more on adjacent pages on the EPSRC website.
If you'd like a copy of the slides contact Charles Boulton (cb683 at cam.ac.uk). And if you would like to hear an industrial reviewer's perspective then come along to the session on Monday 13th April, when the Visiting Professors of Innovation will be describing their perspective, the questions they ask and why. See our Upcoming Events on the right of this blog for details.
The key to getting money from any sponsor, be they industrial or from the Research Councils, lies in absolute clarity about what you want to do, why it's valuable, and why you are the best person to do it.
And there's a simple way into this:
Situation: Your proposal to either a research council or to industry is just one of many competing for attention and funding.
Complication: Faced with lots of bids, reviewers get jaded and lose the will to wade through more turgid stuff
Question: So how do you make your proposal clear, concise and memorable?
Answer: Use the pyramid principle to organise your logic and to engage your audience.
At a seminar given to about 40 people from the Cambridge postdoc community from engineering, materials science, chemistry and the Computer Lab, held at the University's Postdoc Centre (www.pdoc.cam.ac.uk), Philip Guildford presented the Pyramid Principle (developed many years ago by Barbara Minto) and explained how it can be used to structure good proposals. A vital first step is to create a draft "governing thought" that captures the proposition. Then design a pyramid of logic, each step clearly made up of others and on a sound foundation that clarifies your premise.
Then, with your pyramid in place explore how to set the scene for your reader. Begin with a 'situation' statement – a statement of fact that gets the reader nodding in agreement that you know what's going on. Then add the 'complication' – this is poses the dilemma which is usually the core purpose of your work. Then articulate clearly the 'question' – this is the question you'd like to answer through your proposal. And finally craft a concise answer – which is the answer to the question or which describes how your work will provide the answer.
Now, the magic step. Pull together the situation, the complication, the question and the answer into a "governing thought". This is at the top of your pyramid. And now you can iterate on the SCQA and on your pyramid of logic to create a robust proposal with incontrovertible logic that shows it just has to be supported – doesn't it?
Avoid the error of first writing your proposal and then going back to impose a logic later – you'll fail or you'll have to rewrite. (And at the end you're usually tired and under time pressure!)
Take the opportunity to check your pyramid of logic with colleagues – they can help you to make it more robust and more easily understood by people who are not so close to the topic.
Obviously you'll need to tailor the situation to the interests of your audience – industry will be interested in the commercial aspects while the Research Councils will care about the scientific state of play into which your work fits.
Another use for the pyramid principle is to break a problem down so you can see the components – the answers that need to fit together to deliver the completed solution. So you can use the diagram to plan the projects that will provide the various answers that assemble to answer the bigger question. So now you, your colleagues and your sponsor can share a view of what is being done and why – even across a complex programme of projects.
If you'd like a copy of Philip's slides please contact Charles Boulton (cb683 (at) cam.ac.uk)
On Friday 12th December, amidst many questions and much debate, Julian Peck of Cambridge Enterprise described an example of the rollercoaster ride that can unfold as people take their technology to market – licensing, sublicenses, patent fields, complementary technologies, phoenix companies, personality clashes and eventual reconciliation.
Along the way and afterwards he discussed the pros and cons of trade secrets, the trade-offs to be made in choosing countries in which to patent, whether databases are protectable and how to exploit previously published work. He also talked about different business models – for example do you use a 'freemium' model or, perhaps, trust in first-mover advantage and use your leadership and agility as a way to sell a series of consultancy assignments? He also discussed the default arrangements in ownership of intellectual property for people wanting to work through Cambridge Enterprise or wanting to work directly – and faced probing questions about the trade-offs.
The case study brought to life the realities of developing and exploiting research and the rich questions from an engaged audience made the whole session fascinating.
Contact Julian at Cambridge Enterprise (email@example.com) to ask for advice, perhaps an assessment of your options or for signposting to the many other sources of help in Cambridge Enterprise and across Cambridge.
Was this the first step on the creation of a successful business? You saw it here first!
Alberto Frangini received a bottle of bubbly for the quality of his elevator pitch to the Visiting Professors of Innovation (Rick Mitchell, Sam Beale and Pieter Knook) by describing clearly and concisely how his approach to screening for drugs for Alzheimer's might make millions for a pharmaceutical company. He quickly defined the size of the prize and the problem, how his approach could help and what the next step is. In less than two minutes he'd got the audience's attention, hooking them in with some factoids – there are only five drugs available for Alzheimer's and a success rate of <0.5% even from clinical trials. So if he could help – that's got to be worth something.
Listening to pitches about better orthopaedic surgery, helping companies develop services, bringing the Dalai Lama to Cambridge, improving the sustainability of companies' manufacturing and a radical idea for calendars in emerging markets, both pitchers and audience learned a lot.
Why should your listener be interested? You'll have to explain the benefit – and your audience will not be as close to the subject as you, so don't assume it's obvious!
What, exactly, do you want? Be clear about what you need – it's so easy to describe the idea, but forget to describe what you want.
Why should your audience believe – and why you? So what are you doing? Why is it clever? And why are you the best person to do it and your approach the best way?
After which, of course, the answer is "yes". Or in this case "the bottle is yours".
Oh, and by the way, one of the pitches from last year's practice session went on to win CUTEC's Start-up Competition (www.cutec.org/congratulations-winners-tvc-startup-competition/) and then funding from Herman Hauser. VocalIQ are now up and running (www.vocaliq.com/) – maybe Alberto and his team will be next.
Ever wished you could quickly tell somebody what you do? Without them glazing over? Without them wandering off to talk to somebody more interesting?
And ever wished you could cogently describe the value of what you do so competently that people would want to support you? Give you money?
This is the art of the elevator pitch. And for those who'd like to try theirs out there's a skilled and experienced panel to help to refine the story and the proposition.
If you're interested, look at the "Upcoming events" sidebar on the right – then come and join us.
How to develop tools from your research – tools that help engagement with industry
Thursday 27 Nov 2014.
12.00 – 13.00, followed by lunch and an interactive session until 13.30.
Seminar 2, Institute for Manufacturing
Dr Imoh Ilevbare will share his experience of work being done at IfM ECS in developing tools for industry, and also draw on his experience of tool development as a PhD student. Primarily, the talk will introduce the architecture and methodology IfM ECS follows in developing new tools, focusing particularly on key issues considered to ensure that practical, useful and usable tools are developed from research. The methodology, which builds on a well-established process for tool development created within the IfM, has been enhanced to ensure it is more targeted, effective and transparent.
Please reply to Leila Alinaghian, Research Capability Development Programme Leader (firstname.lastname@example.com) to express your interest in attending.
"So, are will you be a force for good – or will you be lured over to the dark side?"
And with these words, Philip Guildford introduced the "Selling for Researchers" course, run for the third year and delivered by Marcel Dissel, again to excellent reviews and feedback.
The challenge that Philip threw out, and the insights that Marcel shared drew the distinction between "consultative selling" and "manipulative selling". In consultative selling you work with your industrial partner to develop a project (and a budget) that gives you both a win and can be the basis for a long-term relationship. Manipulative selling, by contrast, is the hard sell that leads to a slightly uncomfortable feeling on both sides and usually ends in disaster. It's manipulative selling that gives sales such a bad name.
In fact, there was quite a lot of curiosity about the dark side – and this was explored during the course as well…
What did participants want from the course? On the day it was to:
- Develop confidence through having some frameworks and some practice
- Understand the difference between selling to industry and selling to the research councils
- Learn some selling techniques
- Understand what industry cares about
- Identify which person to talk to about what
- Understand who are our competitors and how to address that
- Understand how to close the deal
Marcel then presented a very simple model of selling
and facilitated discussion around topics including
- The difference between 'farming' (long term relationships nurtured over time) and 'hunting' (looking for new business') which is the focus of this course
- The realities of hearing 'no' a lot
- How to avoid being a commodity
- Thinking about your competitors (be they other universities, consultants or the industrialist's internal R&D resources)
- A simple five step process model
- The role of open questions in finding out what really matters (as distinct from forcing your solution on the listener) ("What's your role in the business?", "Tell me about ….", "What're the challenges in your industry?" "Why might customers choose you over your competitors?")
- The importance of the 5 Ps ("proper preparation prevents poor performance" – i.e. "do your research before the meeting") – as a way to keep leadership of the conversation and to cover the topics you want to discuss
- And vitally importantly – the process by which a sales is made – see the diagram on the right
- The importance of matching seniority between the selling team and the buying team – ensure their CEO can meet your Prof or Head of Department
- The value of demonstrators or prototypes
- How to think about and develop your Unique Selling Proposition, and, of course,
- The difference between consultative selling and manipulative selling.
Then the course turned to the elevator pitches and people's chance to practice and rehearse their proposition and their pitch. As usual the range of topics was truly amazing. We heard about
- Screening techniques for diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and dementia
- How to make engineering simulators faster and easier to use, saving design time and minimising errors
- Using monitoring systems in buildings to reduce through-life costs
- How to reduce the costs of insurance fraud
- A new technique for earlier detection of breast cancer
- A new device to find missing objects (everything from car keys to patients with dementia)
- How to dream up new products and services which are more ecologically sustainable
- A service to find tenants for industrial zones in emerging economies
- A faster cheaper way of making nanofibres – with an amazing array of uses
- How to eliminate the need for passwords
The afternoon session enabled teams to explore how to sell and buy university research services by choosing some of the ideas from the elevator pitches and working them up.
And this little picture provides a simple map for how to plan and run a good meeting.
The feedback, lessons and discussions continued unabated
And then, finally, Marcel provided his famous "summary slide".
(And by the way, if you'd like to be put in touch with any of the pitchers to follow up their research then just contact cb683 (at) cam.ac.uk)


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TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 07/28/14 -- iSIGN Media Solutions Inc. ("iSIGN" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ISD)(OTCQX: ISDSF), a leading provider of interactive mobile advertising solutions that serves advertisers, manufacturers, retailers and advertising agencies throughout North America, today announced that, further to its press release dated July 18, 2014, it completed a bridge financing by way of private placement of unsecured convertible promissory notes (the "Notes"), for aggregate gross proceeds of $1.5 million.
The Notes have a term of three months (subject to adjustment upon certain events, as discussed in further detail below), and will accrue interest at a rate of 8% per annum, payable upon maturity.
The principal amount outstanding under the Notes shall automatically be converted into units of the Company (the "Units") at a price equal to $0.25 per Unit upon closing of the previously announced acquisition of P.O.S. Canada Inc. ("POS Canada") by the Company (the "Acquisition"). Each Unit shall be comprised of one common share (a "Unit Share") and one common share purchase warrant (a "Warrant") of the Company. Each Warrant shall be exercisable to acquire one common share of the Company (a "Warrant Share") for a period of two years following the date of issuance of the Warrant at an exercise price of $0.50 per Warrant Share, subject to adjustment in certain events. The Unit Shares and Warrants (and, if applicable, the Warrant Shares) will be subject to a hold period of 4 months from the date of issue of the Notes. All accrued and unpaid interest under the Notes is payable by the Company in cash on conversion of the Notes.
In the event that, prior to the maturity of the Notes, either (i) the memorandum of agreement dated May 28, 2014 between the Company and POS Canada in respect of the Acquisition is terminated, (ii) the definitive agreement to be entered into by the Company and POS Canada in respect of the Acquisition (the "Definitive Agreement") is not signed by the parties on or before July 31, 2014; or (iii) the Definitive Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms prior to the closing of the Acquisition, all obligations under the Notes shall, at the option of the holders of the Notes, accelerate and become forthwith due and payable, subject to the approval of holders of Notes holding not less than an aggregate of 50.1% of the obligation owing by the Company from time to time pursuant to the Notes.
The proceeds from the sale of the Notes will be used for software development, operations and product manufacturing.
One of the purchasers of the Notes, Korona Group Ltd. ("Korona"), is a "related party", as such term is defined in Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"), of iSIGN, holding approximately 10.4% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company. As such, the issuance of Notes to Korona is a "related party transaction" for the Company. For this transaction, the Company has relied on the exemption from the formal valuation requirements of MI 61-101 contained in section 5.5(a) of MI 61-101 and has relied on the exemption from the minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in section 5.7(a) of MI 61-101.
The securities described herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from those registration requirements. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor shall there by any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About iSIGN Media
Since 2007, iSIGN has been developing multiplatform advertising and marketing solutions for brands to better attract, engage and retain customers through their mobile devices. The data and SaaS (software as a service) company collects and analyzes shopper preferences so that brands can deliver targeted messaging and personalized offers to consumers' mobile devices, in-location and in real-time. The Company's interactive proximity-marketing technology is capable of gathering average price points, typical purchases, in-store dwell times and other shopper metrics to deliver business intelligence and insights into emerging consumer behaviours that can help brands make better business decisions and measure their marketing efforts. Utilizing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and location-aware technologies to deliver relevant and timely messaging to any screen or mobile device, iSIGN delivers rich media, permission-based messages free to consumers that can drive immediate brand engagement, increased customer loyalty and deliver higher ROI on marketing dollars spent. Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with R&D and customer support operations in Vancouver, BC and Tampa, FL, the Company has also grown to become the largest owner-operator of in-store digital media in Canada with 5,600 digital signs in about 1,400 locations. Partners include: IBM, Keyser Retail Solutions, Baylor University, Verizon Wireless, TELUS and AOpen America Inc., with solution distribution by GraphicMedia, Inc. and BlueStar Inc. www.isignmedia.com
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, shared some of the new revenue sources that IoT created for Restcomm – the open source telephony platform from Telestax.
Ivelin Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who founded Mobicents, an Open Source VoIP Platform, to help create, deploy, and manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is the co-founder of TeleStax, a... Feb. 26, 2015 03:30 PM EST Reads: 3,838 |
By Carmen Gonzalez The industrial software market has treated data with the mentality of "collect everything now, worry about how to use it later." We now find ourselves buried in data, with the pervasive connectivity of the (Industrial) Internet of Things only piling on more numbers. There's too much data and not enough information.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Bob Gates, Global Marketing Director, GE's Intelligent Platforms business, to discuss how realizing the power of IoT, software developers are now focused on understanding how industrial data can create intelligence for industrial operations. Imagine ... Feb. 26, 2015 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,029 |
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Sick, a Senior Manager and Big Data Architect within Ernst and Young's Financial Servi... Feb. 26, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 2,217 |
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Apache Hadoop is emerging as a distributed platform for handling large and fast incoming streams of data. Predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization, and Internet-of-Things analysis are examples where Hadoop provides the scalable storage, processing, and analytics platform to gain meaningful insights from granular data that is typically only valuable from a large-scale, aggregate view. One architecture useful for capturing and analyzing streaming data is the Lambda Architecture, representing a model of how to analyze rea... Feb. 26, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,027 |
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Don DeLoach, CEO and president of Infobright, will discuss how companies need to rethink their data infrastructure to participate in the IoT, including:
Data storage: Understanding the kinds of data: structured, unstructured, big/small?
Analytics: What kinds and how responsiv... Feb. 26, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,064 |
By Pat Romanski The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - is now accepting submissions to demo smart cars on the Expo Floor. Smart car sponsorship benefits include general brand exposure and increasing engagement with the developer ecosystem. Feb. 26, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,575 |
By Pat Romanski Since 2008 and for the first time in history, more than half of humans live in urban areas, urging cities to become "smart." Today, cities can leverage the wide availability of smartphones combined with new technologies such as Beacons or NFC to connect their urban furniture and environment to create citizen-first services that improve transportation, way-finding and information delivery.
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By Liz McMillan Sensor-enabled things are becoming more commonplace, precursors to a larger and more complex framework that most consider the ultimate promise of the IoT: things connecting, interacting, sharing, storing, and over time perhaps learning and predicting based on habits, behaviors, location, preferences, purchases and more.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tom Wesselman, Director of Communications Ecosystem Architecture at Plantronics, will examine the still nascent IoT as it is coalescing, including what it is today, what it might ultimately be, the role of wearable tech, and technology gaps stil... Feb. 26, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 484 |
By Liz McMillan Sensor-enabled things are becoming more commonplace, precursors to a larger and more complex framework that most consider the ultimate promise of the IoT: things connecting, interacting, sharing, storing, and over time perhaps learning and predicting based on habits, behaviors, location, preferences, purchases and more.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tom Wesselman, Director of Communications Ecosystem Architecture at Plantronics, will examine the still nascent IoT as it is coalescing, including what it is today, what it might ultimately be, the role of wearable tech, and technology gaps stil... Feb. 26, 2015 12:30 PM EST Reads: 2,151 |
By Carmen Gonzalez When it comes to the Internet of Things, hooking up will get you only so far. If you want customers to commit, you need to go beyond simply connecting products. You need to use the devices themselves to transform how you engage with every customer and how you manage the entire product lifecycle.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sean Lorenz, Technical Product Manager for Xively at LogMeIn, will show how "product relationship management" can help you leverage your connected devices and the data they generate about customer usage and product performance to deliver extremely compelling and reliabl... Feb. 26, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,100 |
By Carmen Gonzalez SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, an IBM company, has been named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place June 9-11, 2015 at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place November 3–5, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With a global footprint of data centers and network points of presence, SoftLayer provides infrastructure as a service to leading-edge customers ranging from ... Feb. 26, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,551 |
By Liz McMillan SYS-CON Events announced today that Open Data Centers (ODC), a carrier-neutral colocation provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Open Data Centers is a carrier-neutral data center operator in New Jersey and New York City offering alternative connectivity options for carriers, service providers and enterprise customers. Feb. 26, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,700 |
By Liz McMillan There's Big Data, then there's really Big Data from the Internet of Things. IoT is evolving to include many data possibilities like new types of event, log and network data. The volumes are enormous, generating tens of billions of logs per day, which raise data challenges. Early IoT deployments are relying heavily on both the cloud and managed service providers to navigate these challenges. Learn about IoT, Big Data and deployments processing massive data volumes from wearables, utilities and other machines. Feb. 26, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,782 |
By Pat Romanski The true value of the Internet of Things (IoT) lies not just in the data, but through the services that protect the data, perform the analysis and present findings in a usable way. With many IoT elements rooted in traditional IT components, Big Data and IoT isn't just a play for enterprise. In fact, the IoT presents SMBs with the prospect of launching entirely new activities and exploring innovative areas. CompTIA research identifies several areas where IoT is expected to have the greatest impact. Feb. 26, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,879 |
By Elizabeth White The 16th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open until February 28, 2015. 16th International Cloud Expo, to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today! Feb. 26, 2015 11:15 AM EST Reads: 2,360 |


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Dr Mark-Ken Erdmann will join Rickmers Holding in Hamburg as Deputy CFO as of 1 July 2012.
In this position, he will be responsible for a broad range of corporate functions including Accounting & Controlling, Tax, IT, Human Resources, Legal Affairs, as well as Mergers & Acquisitions. He will report to Dr Ignace Van Meenen, who in addition to his role as CFO, was recently nominated Deputy CEO of the Rickmers Group.
Dr Erdmann is joining Rickmers from Bertelsmann AG, where he has been CIO and Member of the Corporate Centre Board, as well as CEO of the in-house consulting division "Bertelsmann Business Consulting". Dr Erdmann reported directly to Bertelsmann Group's CEO, Dr Thomas Rabe. Between 2005 and 2008, he was Senior Vice President responsible for Projects and Policies within the Bertelsmann Group's Corporate Financial Reporting. Before joining Bertelsmann in 2003, Dr Erdmann gained more than four years of cross industrial experience at Ernst & Young AG and finished his PhD in Management Accounting. In October 2011 he was also nominated for an Honorary Professorship by the academic senate of Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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The 14th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (COMPIT) will take place from 11th to 13th May 2015 in Ulrichshusen, Germany.
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Norway listed dry bulk shipper Jinhui Shipping said the tough market that owners faced last year will become tougher in 2015. Dry bulk shipping market Environment
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Battle Between Miami (OH) and UMASS Has Both Teams Hungry For A Win
The Miami (OH) RedHawks and the UMASS Minutemen will square off on Saturday with each looking to earn their first victory of the season and get the monkey off of their back this weekend.
The RedHawks are ranked 120th in the nation in passing offense averaging 106.8 passing yards per game. The running game has struggled averaging only 91.6 rushing yards per game. Points have been hard to come by with the RedHawks averaging 8.8 points per game (125 in the nation). Freshman quarterback turned running back Austin Gearing has been the lone bright spot of the offense. On the year, Gearing has accumulated 248 rushing yards for a 4.9 average and is coming off a 100-yard rushing game in the loss last week to Central Michigan (108 rushing yards).
UMASS is ranked 112th in the nation in passing offense averaging 148.8 passing yards per game and is 105th in the country averaging 114 rushing yards per game. The Minutemen are scoring seven points per game and are ranked 126th in the country in points scored. Sophomore wide receiver Tajae Sharpe has emerged as a solid No. 1 receiver with 31 receptions for 279 yards and three touchdowns.
Defensively, both teams have surrendered a ton of points. The RedHawks have allowed 35.6 points per game and the Minutemen have yielded 31.6 points per contest. This game could come down to turnovers, and the RedHawks hold the advantage in this category. Miami (OH) has been very aggressive in forcing turnovers with a +5 in turnover margin and UMASS is even in turnover margin.
Game time is set for 3:00 pm at UMASS.
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Ouch. I must have touched a raw spot with the column on Hebrew bloopers two weeks ago. I had more material than I could include and was deluged with additional offerings. So instead of waiting for Passover for Part II, I thought, there's no time like the present (an expression a friend swears she once saw translated into Hebrew as "ein zman kmo matana" – there's no time like a gift).It seems we continue to make a mess of meals – or at least ordering food:"An American tourist who knows a little Hebrew told me this story," offered one reader. "She was seated with some friends at a restaurant, and a young man who was just new on the job came to wait on them. She wanted to order a cappuccino with a croissant. The young waiter asked her what kind would she like (butter, chocolate, almond, etc.). So she answered, 'Sheket.' The young man looked a little shocked and asked again; she then repeated with a little irritation, 'Sheket!'" It was a second waiter who figured out that what she wanted was not "silence," but almond ("sha-ked"). Perhaps the drink was shaken but not stirred.A veteran shared this story: "Someone we know, who was then an oleh hadash [new immigrant], once went up to a fast-food stand in the Tel Aviv bus station and asked for a 'kelev ham.' The fact that he was Irish didn't help any! The guy behind the counter just looked at him as if he were crazy."Or maybe he thought he was barking mad: "Kelev ham" is just too literal a translation of "hot dog" for Hebrew speakers (who refer to the sausages as "naknikiot").Another shared this memory: "My father, alav hashalom [may he rest in peace], when he came to visit Israel in the '60s, went into the bakery on [Jerusalem's] Hapalmah Street (which is still there!) and because my father ABHORRED raisins [tzimukim] (not just hated, practically allergic – passionately hated – you get the idea), he asked the owner to give him a halla, but without tzmigim. It became a family joke, of course."I bet they never "tire" of it.THERE IS no end to new immigrants who have found themselves in some version of this embarrassing situation: "When my daughter was in the ulpan, she wanted to say to another (male) student: 'You look better without glasses (mishkafayim),' but she said: "You look better without michnasayim' (pants/trousers)."In fact, every time I ask for bloopers, I hear of some situation where someone was caught, figuratively speaking, with their trousers down – or maybe it was without rose-tinted spectacles.Here is a major (but surprisingly common) "oops" on the learning curve: "My wife and I, many years ago, made aliya with our children, the eldest a boy of six who, weeks after we arrived, started kita aleph [first grade]," recalls a fan of the embarrassing mistakes collections."My wife went to her first meeting with his teacher and came back beaming, saying she had only heard good words about our son. That night, invited to a dinner, she proudly told all the guests what the teacher had said about our six-year-old son: 'Haben shelach mizdayen.' She couldn't understand the looks of shock mixed with laughter that greeted her declaration, until somebody said, 'You probably meant "mitztayen" [outstanding].'" The mother got a fail for both misunderstanding...and very bad language – and that's the closest I can to get to spelling it out without the use of asterisks.A colleague thinking out of the box submitted this memory of a woman standing in line at the supermarket, preparing to have her groceries delivered. Since she was worried about them being crushed, she ordered: "Ten li od orgazim." You can figure out for yourselves what she said (albeit incorrectly). What she meant was "Give me more boxes (argazim)."Another reader whose memory was jogged by the last column remembers: "I was dorming at Hebrew University in the '70s, and on first seeing someone after summer vacation, blurted out, 'Bichlal lo hishtanta!' instead of 'Bichlal lo hishtaneita' [You haven't peed at all/changed at all]."Passing water, passing time, a passing phrase and phase.The same reader, "feeling so proud with my Hebrew," mixed up a "café hafuch" and "café nes" and asked for "café namuch." Café hafuch is the ubiquitous "upside-down coffee," combining espresso and a little steamed milk; nes (originally short for the brand-name Nescafe) is ordinary, instant coffee, while the reader's café namuch is her own special blend – the word itself means "short."THE IDF and military terms are often a cause for misunderstanding: More than one person has confused "tothanim" (artillery) with "tahtonim" (underpants); at least one has discussed an Armored Corps soldier being in the course to learn how to be "mefahed tankim" (although he wasn't really scared of them; he just wanted to be a tank commander, "mefaked tank").A colleague, who now knows better, admits: "For years I would hear on the radio, reporting on a military incident: 'Esh nurta mehama'arav.' I always wondered why it was never from the North, South or East....""Hama'arav" means the West...except when it comes from the verb "to ambush." Incidentally a soldier with whom I served, taking pity on my infamously pathetic Hebrew at the time, asked me in all seriousness if I knew the word "amboosh."My comrades often doubted my language skills, not so much because I muddled "hadal" (stop, as in "stop shooting") with "hardal" (mustard) – like many a new immigrant before and after me – but because I argued that the huge soft cases we used to schlep home in those days should be called "kitbags," whereas every native Hebrew speaker knew better than I that they were called "kitbegs," with the emphasis on the second syllable.An anonymous letter-writer is less than convinced that "if you will it, it is not a dream," as Theodor Herzl so famously said. Their version sounds more like an anti-union rap: "Im tirzu, ain zo aguda." Or perhaps it was a typing error, and not a Freudian slip, that turned "agada" into "aguda."Which, for some reason, reminds me of this offering from a colleague: "A friend of mine went to the Misrad Hapnim [Interior Ministry] to sort out a problem with his passport. He told the lady at the desk, 'Yesh li ba'aya im hadika'on sheli.'" Well, we all risk having a problem with depression (dika'on) during bureaucratic encounters, but the clerk is more likely to be able to solve the one concerning the passport (darkon).Another colleague tells of a woman who was hanging laundry on the balcony of her new apartment when she accidentally dropped a sock onto the porch below. She knocked on her downstairs neighbor's door, intending to ask for it back. It would, of course, have helped if she had actually said "my sock [garbi] fell" instead of "gvari" (my man).A READER admitted that it took her a while to understand that she was pronouncing my name wrong: "I thought le'at [slow] was a strange name."As an aside, we all know English-speakers who snicker at the name Dudu.The French-speakers' equivalent of "It's all Greek to me" is "It's all Hebrew." The Hebrew-speakers' version is "Zeh Sinit bishvili" – It's Chinese to me.Another Jerusalem Post staffer remembers when "a friend of mine was looking for an apartment in French Hill, and she called me to tell me the name of a street with an available place: 'Midaber Sini,' she said. A funny name for a street, she said, 'Chinese-speaker' [or more precisely, Chinese-speaking]."When you hear Hebrew that sounds like double Dutch, don't be too embarrassed to share it. We've all been there, up the wrong street (whether it was Midbar Sinai – the Sinai Desert – or something closer to home).email@example.com
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#POSTERIZED: Archie Goodwin doesn't play by your silly rules
Nov 17, 2012, 12:00 AM EST
We all knew coming in to the season that the Kentucky Wildcats, while sloppy at first, would be fun to watch.
Through the first three games of the season, they've put on three highly-entertaining performances and displayed numerous highlight reel plays.
A week ago, walk-on sophomore Jarrod Polson stole the show en route to a razor-close 72–69 win over Maryland. On Monday, Alex Poythress nearly broke the rims at the Georgia Dome against Duke, despite losing to the Blue Devils 75-68.
On Friday, it was time for freshman Archie Goodwin to get in on the action, this time against their first "cupcake" of the season, Lafayette.
The Arkansas-native finished off a sloppy sequence of transition plays with a marvelous and monstrous poster-dunk over Leopard's back-up guard Greg Detmer. Unfortunately, the referees believe Detmer had set his feet prior to contact, and called Goodwin for the charge.
I don't know how anybody can call this a charge:
While this may have not counted towards the score of the game, a) The game was out of reach at the half and b) A dunk is still a dunk even if it doesn't count for two.
The Kentucky Wildcats are still a work in progress. They just so happen to be a very entertaining work in progress.
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PAWS sanctuary has been asked to provide necropsy reports on wild animals who have died there, as well as recent sanctuary deaths.
Before sending its three African elephants to the California sanctuary PAWS, the Toronto zoo is insisting on what appears to be a deal-breaker: TB status reports on all wildlife, including deer and stray cats, found on the 2,300-acre site. There's no time limit specified.
"That's not going to happen," PAWS co-director Ed Stewart said Wednesday. "No request like that has ever been made of us — or anyone else. It's above and beyond ridiculous, and it's totally insulting."
The sanctuary does necropsy reports on any wild animal found dead to ensure there's no disease and no TB has ever been found. But to provide such documentation is unheard of, stressed Stewart.
The zoo also asks for necropsy reports on all animals housed at the sanctuary over the past five years, which would include bears, lions, tigers, primates and other species.
Councillor Michelle Berardinetti, who spearheaded October's council vote to send the elephants to PAWS, said she learned of the requirement from city lawyers Tuesday afternoon.
The zoo's wish list goes above and beyond what is included in the Feb. 9 legal agreement. The deal requires PAWS to let the zoo examine the health records of its eight elephants.
"They're not being anything close to reasonable," Berardinetti said. "There have been so many tricks and delays — and now they've finally given the sanctuary something they can't do."
She plans to attend a special City Hall meeting Thursday arranged by zoo board chair Joe Torzsok to try to break the deadlock. It's expected to include zoo CEO John Tracogna, Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti and a representative from Mayor Rob Ford's office.
The zoo's senior vet, Graham Crawshaw, said Wednesday that examining necropsy reports is "one of the ways of establishing disease status" among the animals at PAWS. He couldn't comment on the extent of the request but said the zoo's main focus would be recent elephant deaths and "significant disease."
Its elephants have consistently tested negative for TB, though three have TB antibodies in their blood, showing exposure to the disease at some point.
Ron Kagan, executive director of the Detroit Zoo, which sent two elephants to PAWS, said, "There's not a clear picture of the state of TB among captive elephants. Not all elephants in U.S. zoos have been assessed in the same way, nor is there clarity in the testing.
"But there's a big distinction between exposure to a disease and having the disease."
Detroit didn't demand PAWS' health records before sending Asian elephants Winky and Wanda there in 2005. "When we send animals to other zoos or sanctuaries, we don't ask for medial records, however they're a requirement when animals are coming to us," Kagan said.
Winky, who suffered from severe arthritis, died at 56 in 2008, but Kagan said he visits Wanda regularly, including two weeks ago.
"PAWS is an absolutely extraordinary phenomenon and I can't stress that enough," he said.
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