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Scales Sent Outright to AAA
The Cubs opened up a second slot on their 40-man roster today, as they sent IF-OF Bobby Scales outright to AAA Iowa.
The 32-year old switch-hitter made his big league debut in 2009, hitting 242/312/411 in 51 games (138 PA) for the Cubs, while playing 2B, 3B, LF, and RF. Scales was acquired by the Cubs from Iowa on May 4th, after spending ten-plus seasons and playing 1,000+ games in the minor leagues with San Diego, Philadelphia, Boston, and the Cubs.
Scales did his best work for the Cubs coming off the bench, leading all MLB pinch-hitters (minimum 15 PA) in BA, SLG, and OPS in 2009, hitting 500/533/1.204 with 2 HR & 5 RBI, two doubles, and a triple, as a PH.
The University of Michigan alum is eligible to be a Rule 55 Minor League FA, which means he will be free to sign with another organization when the MLB Free-Agent Filing Period ends 15 days after the conclusion of the World Series, unless he opts to sign a 2010 minor league contract with the Cubs.
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scales to AAA? bye bye 2010. i hate this f'n team.
how in the hell can you let a talent like that just waltz off the roster?
fire hendry and screw you lou.
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Whose balls do you have to cup to stay on the roster? Apparently only Aaron Miles knows.
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The mere thought of Aaron Miles pisses me straight the fuck off. The guy can't even hit in the PCL. The fucker is either still working for STL or needs to be taken back behind the barn and shot. Fuck Aaron Miles and his C- defense and F bat.
The Cubs better not open the 2010 season with Aaron Miles on the roster.
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LOL.....and I totally concur. I really didn't think I could hate a 25th man more than Neifi or Jose Macias, but I was wrong. Miles needs to be dowsed with gasoline and set on fire.
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How can you not like Bobby? He's a good character and contributes here and there as evidenced by his PH numbers cited by AZ Phil.
That said, under ideal conditions, he's not playing for your big league team.
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How can you not like Bobby?
he's not good at playing baseball?
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That's a little bit rough.
"He's not good enough at playing baseball", is probably more fair. After watching Alfonso Soriano and Jake Fox play left field for the majority of 2009, I never thought I would see the position played more incompetently. It took Mr. Scales two games to disabuse me of that notion.
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he's not good at playing baseball at the major league level.. is of course the intended meaning...
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Why doesn't Aaron "I'm Not Even as Good As Neifi" Miles receive equal scourge one might wonder.
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miles can at least field...he's got that going for him if nothing else.
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after a little more thought, and to add...
even with the fielding deficiency scales isn't a bad option off the bench or as an occasional starter. he's not trash at the bat even if it's not slick. he's got a touch of pop in his bat, too.
a lot of people's issue with scales wasn't him failing (except his horribly stiff play at 2nd base or his no-strength arm) as much as it was him playing over jake fox, sam fuld, and/or hoffpower so much.
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oh I hate Miles more, don't worry
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I saw Bobby Scales play in spring training. He looked damn good, assholes.
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Apparently TCR has ruled and Bobby Scales sucks ass.
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Morbid stuff on Geremi Gonzalez. Rest in Peace GG...
The Top Fielders in 2009 according to TotalZone ratings
(from the Hardball Times)
1. Franklin Gutierrez, CF, +28
2. Nelson Cruz, RF, +23
3. Chone Figgins, 3B, +20
4. Evan Longoria, 3B, +18
5. Yunel Escobar, SS, +18
6. Casey Blake, 3B +17
7. Ichiro Suzuki, RF, +17
8. Brendan Ryan, SS, +17
9. Pedro Feliz, 3B, +16
10. Carlos Beltran, CF, +15
11. Willy Tavares, CF, +14
12. Carl Crawford, LF, +13
13. Brett Carroll, RF, +13
14. Colby Rasmus, CF, +13
15. Torii Hunter, CF, +13
Comment: TotalZone seems to have a tilt to the left.
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I'm very surprised by about half of that list.
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don't be..it's a bullshit stat.
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here's a rundown of it if anyone wants to learn about it
I hadn't even heard about it until today...
I'll say besides Cruz, Ryan and Carroll I would have expected most of those guys to be considered very good defenders. Does have some odd love of 3bmen, yet not one 2b and only 2 SS?
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it really seems to gives a lot of credit to IF'rs who play deep (chone/longoria/b.ryan).
dunno what's up with some of those OF ranks...nelson cruz #2 what? colby ramsus, really?
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The problem with ZR and Total ZR and one of the problems with UZR is that they don't take into account fielder preference. If a ball is hit between third and short (or left and center) that both players can make an out on, the third basemen gets there first and gets credit for it. Each of those systems gives too much credit to the third basemen and center fielders because of this. According to Total ZR all pretty much all center fielders are good and all corner outfielders are crap, though there are one or two exceptions.
UZR incorrectly breaks down the balls that go through as hits when assigning 'blame' to third base and short. ZR and Total ZR are 'blameless systems'.
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If Miles is not on team who will Lou have pinch
hit in the fifth inning?
I am with every one else screw Miles trade him for
a Harry Caray beer stein.
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This pundit in Naples, Florida thinks the Cubs want to move there...
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Cubs execs visit Collier to scout spring training sites
NAPLES: A group was formed four months ago with the purpose of making Collier County the spring training home for the Chicago Cubs, the Naples Daily News has learned.
And that group already has met with the Cubs - both at their headquarters in Wrigley Field, and earlier this month in Naples for a two-day visit by new owner Tom Ricketts and CEO Crane Kenney.
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AZ Phil -- A while back you posted your thoughts on the possibility that the Cubs may leave their Spring Training home in Mesa. I believe you thought there is a good chance the Cubs will leave Mesa, but will likely stay in Arizona. With the push from Naples, has your thinking changed? What are you hearing from the press (and your many contacts) in Arizona?
McGwire to be Cards hitting coach?
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I thought you were kidding about Mark McGwire, but Carrie Muskat (quoting ESPN's Buster Olney) says it could happen. And if Carrie says it, it must be true.
I wonder why the Cardinals fired Hal McRae. Didn't the St. Louis offense overachieve this year?
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put that in your fucking pipe and smoke it.
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Hal McRae didn't tell Albert Pujols, Mark Derosa, and Matt Holiday how to hit. And in case you are wondering, Jaramillo isn't going to teach Soriano, Lee, Ramirez, Fukudome, Bradley, or anyone else whose been in the big leagues more than 2 years how to hit.
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The job of major league hitting coaches is not to teach hitters how to hit, it's to keep them going consistently, help them with their strategy and to keep them from getting into bad habits. Players learn to hit when they're kids.
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And McGwire is going to teach them how to hit? I think the biggest thing McGwire offers the Cardinals is his drug dealer's phone number.
If I'm Bud Selig I grow some balls and block that hire.
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Do we really have to go over Mark McGwire's whole life again? The guy was hitting bombs in little league and still holds California state records for it. So he must of been juicing in little league right?
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so you don't think McGwire was taking anything?
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'The bottle was there for everybody to see, but Wilstein was the only one who dared to look. He wrote down the name of the substance_"a-n-d-r-o-s-t-e-n-e-d-i-o-n-e"_in his notebook, did a little research and discovered andro was a form of testosterone-producing steroid banned by virtually every other sport except Major League Baseball.
Wilstein asked the hulked-up, bulked-up McGwire about the substance, and McGwire not only admitted to taking it, he stated unabashedly, "Everybody I know in the game of baseball uses the same stuff I use."'
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LaRussa got pissed that McRae wouldn't give his hitters PEDs, so he fired him and hired McGwire.
Indians new manager...
Manny Acta set to get the gig...
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Pujols gets a new source for hgh rumors...
mm confirmed, not the current cubs vp either
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That announcement, you would think, would border on the type that's generally off-limits during the playoffs.
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That's what I was thinking too. I was even surprised about the Manny Acta announcement in Cleveland.
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shame what's happened to baseball in tucson...
i think they got some indie league team playing in TEP now and even trying to reach out to asian countries for them to hold their league's spring training exhibition games there.
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One of the things that the Naples News columnist is hanging his hat on to push Naples/Florida is that 15 of the last 18 World Series champions have Spring Training facilities in Florida. Is there a legitimate reason for this? Do teams even think about things like this?
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This is probably Bradley didn't hit with RISP news, but some good news on both the Bradley trade front and the restricting of Hendry stupidity front near the bottom of the column.
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Another exec says that Jaramillo also relates exceptionally well to Latin players- good news for the Cubs, who need left fielder Alfonso Soriano and catcher Geovany Soto to bounce back
Soriano and Soto are both Latin?
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Last I heard, the country of Puerto Rico is Spanish-speaking, so since Geo was born there - and still calls it home - he could still "qualify" as "Latino".
However, since he speaks English perfectly well, it is an absurd statement if that is what the exec actually said.
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Actually... I actually do think that there is something to being able to relate to players from different cultures. It isn't just about language.
I just find it amusing that people call them "Latin" players.
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It's probably just a typo.
I find it more amusing that people call Puerto Rico a country.
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I find it more amusing that people call Puerto Rico a country.
Heh... I missed that. Nice catch.
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He relates well to Latin players? That's certainly a non sequitur.
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sale's skills and insane value makes it almost too hard to have a market for the guy...he's got 3/38m owed to him over 3 seasons (2 team options). he could easily pull in 30m/yr if he was on the market as a FA.
he's throwing a bit differently this season, especially with more sliders and less changeups like earlier in his career, but all his stuff still looks great even if the HRs are a little elevated and the Ks are down.
Torres, Happ, McKinney, Jimenez, and Candelario for Sale. Deal or no deal?
"The White Sox are reportedly asking for "five top prospects" for Chris Sale, FanRag Sports' Jon Heyman reports."
Unless he develops 30+ HR power and keeps his walk rate close to his K rate at the MLB level, he's not going to turn into Prince Fielder. And even if he does turn into Prince Fielder, he's gonna have a short prime. His very limited athleticism is likely to also detract some value from his ability to reach base--I don't buy making an out as being preferable to base clogging, but you'd certainly prefer just about any base runner other than Vogelbach, David Ortiz, etc.
seeing as arod has played a total of 27.1 innings of D at 1st/3rd and somehow managed a -0.5 dWAR with his 1 error at 1st and an overall positive total zone rating...he might end up even more in the shitter via the characteristics/flaws/whatever of how some sites determine various WAR values. dWAR doesn't directly lead to a WAR value, but the 2 main entities pushing the most popular variations of WAR sometimes lead to some interesting discrepancies in value.
I have a lot of faith in Baez that he's going to turn into a more consistent, solid player. It looks like it took him about a half season or so of futility at the plate to figure out he was not talented enough to get away with the crazy approach he had. I think his running game will eventually have a more measured aggression.
I hope the D and bullpen show up. Cubs haven't had much luck against Davies, and he's been going well lately. A little uncomfortable with the Cards only 6.5 back--feels like they're right on our tails compared to the 11 game lead I've grown accustomed to.
Cardinals, stop that. Right now.
In a year or two, a lot of fans are going to point at trading him as a mistake. He'll probably be slashing something like 280/400/480 for Seattle at the time. Of course, by WAR, he'll still be worth less than 3, since we're talking zero defensive value.
vogelbomb debut for tacoma (AAA SEA)... 3-3, 1bb, 1 HR, 1 double...DH'd.
while he mostly played 1st considerably more than DH for AAA CHC, DJ Peterson is probably going to see most of the time at 1st for AAA SEA.
Carl Jr.! Very nice!
Baez with another "WTF?" play trying a delayed steal with a runner on 3rd and one out.. Remarkable talent, needs to make better decisions.
m.montgomery up in the pen with a man on 2nd, 2 out, and rondon 20 pitches into the inning.
...and rondon ends it 22 pitches in with a popout to RF.
I gotta say with the crappy defense the Brewers have displayed outside of Fowler I'm pretty disappointed the offense hasn't shown more and Rizzo seems to be very swing happy lately. That said my god am I happy Madden has finally given Carl Edwards a chance after multiple times up with nothing. I don't think he could handle a starting role with his body frame but his stuff plays so well in a relief role and he seems to be able to handle high stress situations very well.
2nd at bat. Fowler is good for the Cubs run differential.
welcome back fowler.
More slow news...
Did Davey Martinez have to bring the shotgun?
glad to see almora going to AAA to get work.
.265/.291/.422 through 86PA...2hr, 7 doubles.
i don't expect too much of an improvement when he's taking over CF next year, but the team doesn't really need him right now as much as they need him to get regular work (imo).


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I'd made an appointment with the orthopod yesterday, a follow up visit from when I had the injection in my hip last month. The effect has pretty much worn off, and I'm taking the meloxicam again - trying for half a pill a day, or every other day - as little as possible. But anyway, we're looking at hip surgery come summer vacation. That's okay by me. I've had numerous surgeries. No worries!
God makes appointments too. But we don't know about them all the time - there's no reminder call from His office. We just need to be aware when the time comes to act, to step up to the moment.
A couple of years ago I was proctoring a test for a class where I didn't know any of the kids. When most had finished and were just finding something quiet to occupy their time until they could be "sprung" from the testing room, I noticed one young man was reading. This is thrilling, in a city school where many of the students are way below grade level. I, meanwhile, was reviewing one of my hand-written journals of one of my trips to Peru. The youth asked about it, and I offered it to him to peruse - but the handwriting was a little beyond him. (I gotta write my memoirs and publish them!) But we had a nice quiet chat, and ever since then, when we'd see each other in the halls, we'd greet each other. He was even at the pajama-movie night at my granddaughter's school, for his little brother.
So earlier this semester, a couple weeks into the semester, doesn't he come in with his English class to the computer lab. He chooses a computer next to me, and we chat a bit. We give each other Facebook info and friend each other. Not many conversations - he'll say "sup" and little chit chat phrases. But that's okay. Then - his class stops coming to the computer lab. But we maintained FB contact.
Now, since Sunday I had held off from going to Facebook, seeking to draw closer to the Lord. I was going to do this for 3 weeks, kind of fasting from FB. Well, yesterday he stopped by the lab during his lunch, and just started to talk about how he was feeling - like he was just ready to give up, he didn't care any more, his home life sucked (stepfather issues)...I spoke encouragingly to him, trying to impress on him that he has a purpose. I later concluded, "Okay, Lord. I'll just skip the games on FB and use it as a ministry tool." I posted a song on his wall -
and when I get home will post some other words of encouragement.
That was one of God's "follow-up" appointments.
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The other day I was looking at a web application that was using MongoDB as its central database. We were analyzing the application for potential performance problems and inside five minutes I detected what I must consider to be a MongoDB anti pattern and had a 40% impact on response time. The funny thing: It was a Java best practice that triggered it.
Analyzing the Application
The first thing I always do is look at the topology of an application to get a feel for it.
Overall Transaction Flow of the Application
As we see it's a modestly complex web application and it's using MongoDB as its datastore. Overall MongoDB contributes about 7% to the response time of the application. I noticed that about half of all transactions are actually calling MongoDB so I took a closer look.
Flow of Transactions that access MongoDB, showing 10% response time contribution of MongoDB
Those transactions that actually do call MongoDB spend about 10% of their response time in that popular document database. As a next step I wanted to know what was being executed against MongoDB.
Overview of all MongoDB commands. This shows that the JourneyCollection find and getCount contribute the most to response time
One immediately notices the first two lines, which contribute much more to the response time per transaction than all the others. What was interesting was that thegetCount on the JourneyCollection had the highest contribution time, but the developer responsible was not aware that he was even using it anywhere.
Things get interesting - the mysterious getCount call
Taking things one level deeper, we looked at all transactions that were executing the ominous getCount on the JourneyCollection.
Transactions that call JourneyCollection.getCount spend nearly half their time in MongoDB
What jumps out is that those particular transactions spend indeed over 40% of their time in MongoDB, so there was a big potential for improvement here. Another click and we looked at all MongoDB calls that were executed within the context of the same transaction as the getCount call we found so mysterious.
All MongoDB Statements that run within the same transaction context as the JourneyCollection.getCount
What struck us as interesting was that the number of executions per transaction of thefind and getCount on the JourneyCollection seemed closely connected. At this point we decided to look at the transactions themselves - we needed to understand why that particular MongoDB call was executed.
Single Transactions that execute the ominous getCount call
It's immediately clear that several different transaction types are executing that particulargetCount. What that meant for us is that the problem was likely in the core framework of that particular application rather than being specific to any one user action. Here is the interesting snippet:
The Transaction Trace shows where the getCount is executed exactly
We see that the WebService findJourneys spends all its time in the two MongoDB calls. The first is the actual find call to the Journey Collection. The MongoDB client is good at lazy loading, so the find does not actually do much yet. It only calls the server once we access the result set. We can see the round trip to MongoDB visualized in the call node at the end.
We also see the offending getCount. We see that it is executed by a method called sizewhich turns out to be com.mongodb.DBCursor.size method. This was news to our developer. Looking at several other transactions we found that this was a common pattern. Every time we search for something in the JourneyCollection the getCountwould be executed by com.mongodb.DBCursor.size. This always happens before we would really execute the send the find command to the server(which happens in the callmethod). So we used CompuwareAPM DTM's (a.k.a dynaTrace) developer integration and took a look at the offending code. Here is what we found:
BasicDBObject fields = new BasicDBObject();
fields.put(journeyStr + "." + MongoConstants.ID, 1);
fields.put(MongoConstants.ID, 0);
Collection locations = find(patternQuery, fields);
ArrayList results = new ArrayList(locations.size());
for (DBObject dbObject : locations) {
String loc = dbObject.getString(journeyStr);
return results;
The code looks harmless enough; we execute a find, create an array for the result and fill it. The offender is the location.size(). MongoDBs DBCursor is similar to the ResultSet in JDBC, it does not return the whole data set at once, but only a subset. As a consequence it doesn't really know how many elements the find will end up with. The only way for MongoDB to determine the final size seems to be to execute a getCountwith the same criteria as the original find. In our case that additional unnecessary roundtrip made up 40% of the web services response time!
An Anti-Patter triggered by a Best Practice
So it turns out that calling size on the DBCursor must be considered an anti-pattern! The real funny thing is that the developer thought he was writing performant code. He was following the best practice to pre-size arrays. This avoids any unnecessary re-sizing. In this particular case however, that minor theoretical performance improvement led to a 40% performance degradation!
The take away here is not that MongoDB is bad or doesn't perform. In fact the customer is rather happy with it. But mistakes happen and similar to other database applications we need to have the visibility into a running application to see how much it contributes to the overall response time. We also need to have that visibility to understand which statements are called where and why.
In addition this also demonstrates nicely why premature micro optimization, without leveraging an APM solution, in production will not lead to better performance. In some cases - like this one - it can actually lead to worse performance.
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University of Minnesota junior guard Rachel Banham was selected as one of the top-30 candidates for the Women's Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday. The Naismith Women's Award is given to the nation's top female collegiate basketball player and is selected by the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Board of Selectors
Banham is one of three Big Ten players on the list, joining Nebraska's Jordan Hooper and Penn State's Maggie Lucas.
With the announcement of the Naismith Trophy Midseason Top 30, Banham remains on all three watch lists for National Player of the Year. In addition to the Naismith, the guard is on the Wade Watch and Wooden Top 20 lists. Banham was also recently named to the Dawn Staley Award Watch List, which honors the top guard in the nation.
The Naismith Women's College Player of the Year presented by AT&T will be awarded on April 7, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. In March, the Naismith Trophy voting academy will vote to narrow the list to four finalists.
Banham currently leads the Big Ten in scoring average, three-point field goals and three-point field goal percentage, while ranking in the top-35 nationally in five categories. She ranks fourth in three-point field goal percentage, 14th in final points, 15th in points per game 18th in three-point field goals and 34th in free throw percentage.
The junior has scored 20 or more points 15 times this season and 30 or more points three times. In addition, Banham has scored in double figures 21 times and led the team in scoring in 20 games. She ranks sixth all-time at Minnesota in scoring with 1,755 career points.
Minnesota has had two players named as Naismith Trophy finalists, including Janel McCarville in 2005 and Lindsay Whalen in both 2003 and 2004.
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Named in honor of Dr. James Naismith, founder of the game of basketball, the Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T is awarded annually to the women's and men's college basketball players of the year. First awarded in 1969 to UCLA's Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Naismith Trophy was sculpted by Marty C. Dawe of Atlanta and has become the most prestigious national honors awarded each year to the top women's and men's college basketball players in the nation.
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A typical injection needle for subcutaneous use, as in those used for insulin injections, is ½ in (12.7mm) to 5/16 in (5mm) in length with a gauge of 28 to 31. Intramuscular injections often require an injection needle of around one in (25.4 mm), but vary greatly depending on the size of the person receiving the injection. IM needles are offered in gauges ranging from 22 to 25. Intradermal injections are used in tuberculosis testing and use a ¼ to ½ in (6.35-12.7mm), 25-27 gauge needle. IV needles are typically shorter with no greater than a 25 gauge.
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When it comes to cloud computing, the ability to turn massive amounts of compute cores on and off on demand sounds attractive to IT staff, who need to manage peaks and valleys in user activity. With cloud bursting, the majority of the data can stay on premises while tapping into compute from public cloud providers, reducing risk and minimizing need to move large files. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management at Avere Systems, discussed the IT and busin...
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There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Qua...
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In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
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"We host and fully manage cloud data services, whether we store, the data, move the data, or run analytics on the data," stated Kamal Shannak, Senior Development Manager, Cloud Data Services, IBM, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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With the proliferation of both SQL and NoSQL databases, organizations can now target specific fit-for-purpose database tools for their different application needs regarding scalability, ease of use, ACID support, etc. Platform as a Service offerings make this even easier now, enabling developers to roll out their own database infrastructure in minutes with minimal management overhead. However, this same amount of flexibility also comes with the challenges of picking the right tool, on the right ...
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DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Am...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices 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 opportuni...
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Large scale deployments present unique planning challenges, system commissioning hurdles between IT and OT and demand careful system hand-off orchestration. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Smith, Senior Director and a founding member of Incenergy, will discuss some of the key tactics to ensure delivery success based on his experience of the last two years deploying Industrial IoT systems across four continents.
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The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develo...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides modern company intranets and team collaboration software, allowing workers to stay connected and productive from anywhere in the world and from any device.
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The former head of McKinsey & Co. may have passed inside information about Goldman Sachs—where he sits on the board of directors—to Galleon Group founded Raj Rajaratnam.
The potential Goldman link to the sprawling insider-trading case comes just weeks after prosecutors told Rajaratnam's defense team that it was now looking into Galleon's trading of Goldman shares in 2008. According to The Wall Street Journal, Rajaratnam's source at Goldman was Rajat Gupta, a longtime friend and associate of Rajaratnam's who headed McKinsey from 1994 until 2003.
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Four years ago, Rajaratnam, Gupta and former Goldman executive Mark Schwartz founded a South Asia alternative investments firm, Taj Capital. While Rajaratnam has since cut ties with that firm, now called New Silk Route, managing $1.4 billion in private equity funds, Gupta remains its chairman.
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