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Spirent Communications, the leader in networks, devices and applications testing solutions, today unveiled Spirent Velocity, a virtual lab environment that helps validate Software Defined Networks (SDN) / Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies and deployments. Selected as the Best of Interop 2014 Finalist in the Cloud category, Spirent Velocity helps accelerate time to market and reduce expenses associated with traditional virtual and physical test beds.
For SDN/NFV technologies, predicting how networks, applications and security devices perform is a significant challenge since there are multiple elements involved, from the network layer through the compute and application layers. Spirent Velocity allows users to quickly set-up a predictable and repeatable virtualized test fabric to a desired deployment architecture, including choice of hypervisors, guest operating systems, reference server setup, NFV and other network elements such as SDN controllers and switches.
Spirent Velocity's cloud-based design seamlessly incorporates the Spirent TestCenter Virtual and Spirent Avalanche Virtual test appliances, simplifying setting-up and running test cases using a database of methodologies for testing performance, availability, security and scale (PASS) of SDN/NFV. The cloud-based framework lets test engineers utilize physical and virtual test products of their choice on the platform, including other various test appliances or open source tools, to take advantage of existing investments and resources.
"With its cloud-based design, Spirent Velocity provides our customers a new platform to test a new generation of virtualized devices," said Patrick Johnson, vice president of Cloud and Virtual Solutions at Spirent Communication. "With Spirent Velocity, enterprises, service providers and network equipment manufacturers are able to build out a predictable and repeatable virtual test environment that ensures they qualify their systems for performance and scalability with confidence, while minimizing the investment needed in test equipment or expertise."
For more information on Spirent Velocity visit: www.spirent.com/products/velocity
About Spirent Communications plc
Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT), a global leader in test & measurement, offers an extensive portfolio of solutions to test data centers, cloud computing and virtualized environments, high speed Ethernet networks and services, 3G/4G wireless networks and devices, network and application security, and positioning technologies. For more information visit http://www.spirent.com/about-us/News_Room/About_Spirent_Communications_plc.aspx
SYS-CON Events announced today that Venafi, the Immune System for the Internet™ and the leading provider of Next Generation Trust Protection, will exhibit at @DevOpsSummit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Venafi is the Immune System for the Internet™ that protects the foundation of all cybersecurity – cryptographic keys and digital certificates – so they can't be misused by bad guys in attacks...
Aug. 24, 2016 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,549
Pulzze Systems was happy to participate in such a premier event and thankful to be receiving the winning investment and global network support from G-Startup Worldwide. It is an exciting time for Pulzze to showcase the effectiveness of innovative technologies and enable them to make the world smarter and better. The reputable contest is held to identify promising startups around the globe that are assured to change the world through their innovative products and disruptive technologies. There w...
Aug. 24, 2016 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 330
SYS-CON Events announced today Telecom Reseller has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms.
Aug. 24, 2016 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 442
Smart Cities are here to stay, but for their promise to be delivered, the data they produce must not be put in new siloes. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mathias Herberts, Co-founder and CTO of Cityzen Data, will deep dive into best practices that will ensure a successful smart city journey.
Aug. 24, 2016 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,432
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...
Aug. 24, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,844
DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long dev...
Aug. 24, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,093
In today's uber-connected, consumer-centric, cloud-enabled, insights-driven, multi-device, global world, the focus of solutions has shifted from the product that is sold to the person who is buying the product or service. Enterprises have rebranded their business around the consumers of their products. The buyer is the person and the focus is not on the offering. The person is connected through multiple devices, wearables, at home, on the road, and in multiple locations, sometimes simultaneously...
Aug. 24, 2016 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,251
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - comp...
Aug. 24, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,506
For basic one-to-one voice or video calling solutions, WebRTC has proven to be a very powerful technology. Although WebRTC's core functionality is to provide secure, real-time p2p media streaming, leveraging native platform features and server-side components brings up new communication capabilities for web and native mobile applications, allowing for advanced multi-user use cases such as video broadcasting, conferencing, and media recording.
Aug. 24, 2016 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,084
Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
Aug. 24, 2016 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,657
SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom 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. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ...
Aug. 24, 2016 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,751
Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings in the last year, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT – especially in the connected home and office. Amazon is extending its reach by building on its dominant Cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, recently announced Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, the 6-7 strategic...
Aug. 24, 2016 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,183
19th Cloud Expo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterpri...
Aug. 24, 2016 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,941
Akana has announced the availability of version 8 of its API Management solution. The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment. Version 8 introduces a lot of new functionality, all aimed at offering customers the richest API Management capabilities in a way that is easier than ever for API and app developers to use.
Aug. 24, 2016 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,407
Personalization has long been the holy grail of marketing. Simply stated, communicate the most relevant offer to the right person and you will increase sales. To achieve this, you must understand the individual. Consequently, digital marketers developed many ways to gather and leverage customer information to deliver targeted experiences. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lou Casal, Founder and Principal Consultant at Practicala, discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated our abil...
Aug. 24, 2016 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,879
With so much going on in this space you could be forgiven for thinking you were always working with yesterday's technologies. So much change, so quickly. What do you do if you have to build a solution from the ground up that is expected to live in the field for at least 5-10 years? This is the challenge we faced when we looked to refresh our existing 10-year-old custom hardware stack to measure the fullness of trash cans and compactors.
Aug. 24, 2016 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,591
The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/CIO at nfrastructure, outlined these key challenges and recommended approaches for overcoming them to achieve speed and agility in the design, development and implementation of Internet of Everything solutions wi...
Aug. 24, 2016 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,889
Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things. And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is expected in the amount of information being processed, managed, analyzed, and acted upon by enterprise IT. This amazing is not part of some distant future - it is happening today. One report shows a 650% increase in enterprise data by 2020. Other estimates are even higher....
Aug. 24, 2016 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,846
I wanted to gather all of my Internet of Things (IOT) blogs into a single blog (that I could later use with my University of San Francisco (USF) Big Data "MBA" course). However as I started to pull these blogs together, I realized that my IOT discussion lacked a vision; it lacked an end point towards which an organization could drive their IOT envisioning, proof of value, app dev, data engineering and data science efforts. And I think that the IOT end point is really quite simple…
Aug. 23, 2016 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,230
"My role is working with customers, helping them go through this digital transformation. I spend a lot of time talking to banks, big industries, manufacturers working through how they are integrating and transforming their IT platforms and moving them forward," explained William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interoute, 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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Three of its sails unfurled, the USS Constitution sailed in Boston Harbor on August 19, 2012. It was only the second sailing of the ship, under its own power, in over 100 years.
The 215-year-old USS Constitution has sailed for the first time since 1997, taking a 17-minute cruise across Boston Harbor.
The USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. The ship is seen here moving under it's own power for the first time since 1881, as it sets it's sails during a shake down cruise in Massachusetts Bay off of Marblehead, Mass.,July 8, 1997.
The earliest known depiction of USS Constitution in 1803. The ship's maiden voyage was on July 22, 1798.
Capture of the French Privateer Sandwich by armed Marines on the Sloop Sally, from the U.S. Frigate Constitution, Puerto Plata Harbor, Santo Domingo, 11 May 1800.
Painting depicting the boats of USS Constitution towing her in a calm, while she was being pursued by a squadron of British warships, 18 July 1812.
The first frigate-to-frigate battle of the War of 1812 occurred on August 19, 1812 between the British HMS Guerriere and the American USS Constitution, just two months after the declaration of war.
During the fighting an American sailor noticed that some of the British shot hit, but rolled off Constitution's hull – "Huzza! Her sides are made of iron!", he exclaimed, and thus the nickname "Old Ironsides" was born.
This photo shows a detail of the sword of the USS Constitution's famous Capt. Isaac Hull, bearing the inscription "Capt. I. Hull U.S.N." Capt. Hull was best known for leading USS Constitution to victory over the British ship HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812.
Earliest known photo. USS Constitution undergoing repairs at the Navy yard, Portsmouth, N.H. 1858.
An extremely rare 19-star United States Ensign from the USS Constitution.
USS Constitution in dry dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1874.
USS Constitution as a barracks ship ca. 1905 with the caisson gate for Dry Dock No. 1 at the Charlestown Navy yard floating in the foreground
USS Constitution passing through Gaillard Cut on her Atlantic to Pacific transit of the Panama Canal, 27 December 1932. Alongside is the Canal tug Gorgona.
1947 stamp issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of USS Constitution
The 1997 sailing of USS Constitution was the first time the ship had sailed under its own power since 1881.
The length of the ship is 207 feet billet head to taffrail and 175 feet at the waterline. Its width is 43 feet 6 inches. The height of the mainmast is 210 feet (bottom of keel to truck).
USS Constitution fires a 21-gun salute toward Fort Independence.
USS Constitution fires her guns in salute while underway in Massachusetts Bay, escorted by the frigate USS Halyburton (FFG-40) (center) and the destroyer USS Ramage (DDG-61) (right), as the United States Navy's "Blue Angels" pass overhead. Commissioned on 21 October 1797, Constitution set sail unassisted for the first time in 116 years on July 21, 1997.
The USS Constitution is towed by a tugboat into Marblehead Harbor, July 20, 1997, on its 200th birthday trek from Boston. Thousands of people on sea and land watched the oldest commissioned warship afloating by its own power for the first time in 116 years.
Walter Cronkite takes the helm of Constitution 21 July 1997.
The ship's present crew consists of three officers and 67 enlisted sailors.
USS Constitution returns to her pier after an underway to celebrate her 213th launching day anniversary on July 21, 2010.
On April 13, 1814,The U.S.S. Constitution was being chased by two British frigates. The ship was near Marblehead Harbor, which was a seen as a safe refuge. The entrance into the harbor is treacherous. Samuel Green, a member of Constitution's crew and a native of Marblehead, volunteered to guide the ship into the harbor. Green steered the ship between Marblehead Rock and Marblehead Neck. The cannons at Fort Sewall kept the British frigates from following.
The ship's sail compliment;
Fore topsail – 2,369 square feet
Main topsail – 3,366 square feet
Largest sail: 56 feet wide at the head (top), 50 feet high at the leeches (sides), and 74 feet wide at the foot (bottom).
Mizzen topsail – 1,617 square feet
Spanker – 1,697 square feet (weather/wind dependent)
The USS Constitution sets sail in the form of Forever stamps to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. All 25 million War of 1812: USS Constitution stamps will be available beginning Saturday, August 18.
U.S.S. Constitution was undefeated in the 33 engagements of her total wartime service.
On Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, the warship was tugged from its berth in Boston Harbor to the main deepwater pathway into the harbor for a historic 10-minute cruise.
Chief Petty Officer Frank Neely says 285 lucky people were aboard Sunday as the Constitution reached a maximum speed of 3.1 knots.
Crowds watching the ship from Fort Independence on Castle Island
Other spectators watched the ship sail from the water.
The short trip marks the day two centuries ago when the Constitution bested the British frigate HMS Guerriere in a fierce battle during the War of 1812.
It follows a three-year restoration project and is the first time the Constitution has been to sea on its own since its 200th birthday in 1997.
Tugboats stood by as a precaution while the Constitution sailed on its own.
The Constitution crew begins to furl some of the sails as it makes its way back into the inner harbor.
No longer sailing under her own power, a tugboat guides the ship back in.
Making her way back in past Fort Independence on Castle Island.
With Deer Island in the background, USS Constitution sails into the inner harbor as a sailboat passes along side.
This set of photos was taken from the vantage point of the Odyssey, which provided a place on its Sunday cruise.
A flotilla of pleasure craft trails USS Constitution as the ship makes its way back in.
As the ship fires a 21-gun salute -- the smoke can be see at the bow --- a plane is on approach to Logan Airport.
Pleasure craft are off the port side as the ship fires its cannons.
Firing its guns off Fort Independence.
The crew rolling up the sails as the ship drifted back into the harbor.
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|By Jeremy Thake
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|February 2, 2013 12:00 PM EST
In a webinar entitled 'Business Drivers and Checklists for Successful SharePoint Governance', Randy Williams, SharePoint MVP and AvePoint Enterprise Trainer & Evangelist, and I discussed the business drivers that come from individuals outside the IT department for SharePoint as a service within an organization. These drivers often result in policies being defined to set the expectation with the business and to focus alignment with the IT department.
Over a series of posts, I will focus on horror stories, from some of our 8,000+ customers we have here at AvePoint, which provided the genesis for these business drivers. The intention of this series is to proactively help your organization understand what "could happen" and what the business drivers are to help you structure your organization's governance system. I'm fortunate enough to get to meet a lot of our customers in person to discuss their SharePoint pain points, and enjoy referring them to resources all over the Internet to help them to cure these pains. I often feel like a SharePoint therapist of sorts, and selfishly enjoy hearing the pains as it triggers new ideas for products and articles we can share more broadly.
I'm a big fan of mind mapping, and over time, I've collected these pains and sorted them into some distinct business drivers, influenced by the other SharePoint governance experts in the field I discussed in one of my previous posts. Here are the main business drivers (for more explanation of each of these, check out Randy's recent post on the topic here):
- Accountability
- Quality
- Appropriateness
- Restrictions
- Discoverability
- Compliance
- Training
- Adoption
- Service Level Agreements
- Continuous Improvement
To refer back to the policy areas defined in the governance system that the 21 Apps team came up with (IT Governance; Project Governance; Information Governance; Business & IT Alignment; and Continuous Improvement), there is overlap between the drivers and the policies - not a one to one mapping. This would make for a tidier diagram, but you can't have everything I guess!
To start this journey through the business drivers, I will start with one of the pain points that I have heard at every single customer, small or large, this past year - accountability.
The definition of accountability - "the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable" - really does sum it up well with respect to SharePoint content. When I state SharePoint content, I really mean being accountable at a document, library, sub site, site collection, web app or farm level. There are obviously other forms of SharePoint content outside this stack, such as in service applications including the managed metadata term store, user profiles, and business connectivity services external content types.
Typically, in an organization the IT department has the accountability of the farm level from an operational and maintenance level.
From a web application level, these are typically the workloads such as a collaboration system, document management system, intranet, internet, business intelligence system and so on. Within an organization, these cross-business workloads are often owned by either the IT department or a specific business unit such as human resources, communications, information management, or marketing. For business-specific workloads like internet sites and business intelligence systems, they are typically owned by the departments who requested them and are charged for them by the IT department.
Accountability starts to get a little hazy at the site collection level and below. The main reason for this is that content at this level, especially in cross business workloads such as collaboration systems and document management systems, typically start to separate at this level. For instance, in a document management system, each department may have its own site collection or, even further, a project management office may have a site collection per project. There are so many varieties of information architecture at the site collection and sub site level that accountability is not often the business owner of a department. This would also be the case for a project site collection where the accountable person would be the project owner.
The major pain point within organizations I talk to is how to track accountability at each of these levels. At a farm level, this can be done easily with the farm administrators group. At the web application level, this can be done with the web application policy settings. This can be accomplished on site collections with site collection administrator level. At the sub site level, this can be achieved via the owners group level. The biggest problem with assigning users to these settings is that it not only is an easy way to track accountability, but it also gives heightened permission levels to them. The main challenge here is that often these accountable people are not trained in SharePoint and don't require 'god mode' of the container against which they have been tracked.
The other side of the accountability is not only tracking it on provisioning of these containers, but for the entire lifecycle of the containers. A common issue among customers is that the original people held accountable have transferred roles or left the organization entirely. Typically, containers require archiving for legal reasons and storage constraints. Or, IT just needs to reach out to the accountable person to notify them of a change request. Without having an up to the minute accountable person, these decisions are harder to make and can cause rifts between IT and the business.
Why do your mobile transformations need to happen today? Mobile is the strategy that enterprise transformation centers on to drive customer engagement. In his general session at @ThingsExpo, Roger Woods, Director, Mobile Product & Strategy – Adobe Marketing Cloud, covered key IoT and mobile trends that are forcing mobile transformation, key components of a solid mobile strategy and explored how brands are effectively driving mobile change throughout the enterprise.
Aug. 30, 2016 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 457
With so much going on in this space you could be forgiven for thinking you were always working with yesterday's technologies. So much change, so quickly. What do you do if you have to build a solution from the ground up that is expected to live in the field for at least 5-10 years? This is the challenge we faced when we looked to refresh our existing 10-year-old custom hardware stack to measure the fullness of trash cans and compactors.
Aug. 30, 2016 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,854
The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/CIO at nfrastructure, outlined these key challenges and recommended approaches for overcoming them to achieve speed and agility in the design, development and implementation of Internet of Everything solutions wi...
Aug. 30, 2016 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,236
Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things. And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is expected in the amount of information being processed, managed, analyzed, and acted upon by enterprise IT. This amazing is not part of some distant future - it is happening today. One report shows a 650% increase in enterprise data by 2020. Other estimates are even higher....
Aug. 30, 2016 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,048
Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like "How is my application doing" but no id...
Aug. 30, 2016 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,935
Smart Cities are here to stay, but for their promise to be delivered, the data they produce must not be put in new siloes. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mathias Herberts, Co-founder and CTO of Cityzen Data, will deep dive into best practices that will ensure a successful smart city journey.
Aug. 30, 2016 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,666
DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long dev...
Aug. 29, 2016 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,490
Identity is in everything and customers are looking to their providers to ensure the security of their identities, transactions and data. With the increased reliance on cloud-based services, service providers must build security and trust into their offerings, adding value to customers and improving the user experience. Making identity, security and privacy easy for customers provides a unique advantage over the competition.
Aug. 29, 2016 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,445
SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom 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. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ...
Aug. 29, 2016 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,984
Almost two-thirds of companies either have or soon will have IoT as the backbone of their business in 2016. However, IoT is far more complex than most firms expected. How can you not get trapped in the pitfalls? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tony Shan, a renowned visionary and thought leader, will introduce a holistic method of IoTification, which is the process of IoTifying the existing technology and business models to adopt and leverage IoT. He will drill down to the components in this fra...
Aug. 29, 2016 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 351
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - comp...
Aug. 29, 2016 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,747
Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
Aug. 29, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,033
There is growing need for data-driven applications and the need for digital platforms to build these apps. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Muddu Sudhakar, VP and GM of Security & IoT at Splunk, will cover different PaaS solutions and Big Data platforms that are available to build applications. In addition, AI and machine learning are creating new requirements that developers need in the building of next-gen apps. The next-generation digital platforms have some of the past platform needs a...
Aug. 29, 2016 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 868
19th Cloud Expo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterpri...
Aug. 29, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,205
SYS-CON Events announced today Telecom Reseller has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms.
Aug. 29, 2016 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 976
Pulzze Systems was happy to participate in such a premier event and thankful to be receiving the winning investment and global network support from G-Startup Worldwide. It is an exciting time for Pulzze to showcase the effectiveness of innovative technologies and enable them to make the world smarter and better. The reputable contest is held to identify promising startups around the globe that are assured to change the world through their innovative products and disruptive technologies. There w...
Aug. 29, 2016 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 837
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...
Aug. 28, 2016 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,084
I wanted to gather all of my Internet of Things (IOT) blogs into a single blog (that I could later use with my University of San Francisco (USF) Big Data "MBA" course). However as I started to pull these blogs together, I realized that my IOT discussion lacked a vision; it lacked an end point towards which an organization could drive their IOT envisioning, proof of value, app dev, data engineering and data science efforts. And I think that the IOT end point is really quite simple…
Aug. 27, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,412
Personalization has long been the holy grail of marketing. Simply stated, communicate the most relevant offer to the right person and you will increase sales. To achieve this, you must understand the individual. Consequently, digital marketers developed many ways to gather and leverage customer information to deliver targeted experiences. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lou Casal, Founder and Principal Consultant at Practicala, discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated our abil...
Aug. 27, 2016 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,105
Is the ongoing quest for agility in the data center forcing you to evaluate how to be a part of infrastructure automation efforts? As organizations evolve toward bimodal IT operations, they are embracing new service delivery models and leveraging virtualization to increase infrastructure agility. Therefore, the network must evolve in parallel to become equally agile. Read this essential piece of Gartner research for recommendations on achieving greater agility.
Aug. 25, 2016 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 939


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Property Location With a stay at Quality Inn Stone Mountain in Stone Mountain (Decatur - Stone Mountain), you'll be close to Stone Mountain Golf Club and Stone Mountain Park. This hotel is within close proximity of Yellow River Game Ranch and Summit Skyride.
Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 60 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access is available. Bathrooms have deep soaking bathtubs and designer toiletries. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Nikon D700 - tune-up?
Hi, I have a D700 that I've been using professionally since it came out and it's been a work horse for me. I really haven't had any problems with it, but am getting ready for my upcoming photo season and was wondering if I should have it looked at before it starts.
Does anyone have any comments about this?
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#1. "RE: Nikon D700 - tune-up?" | In response to Reply # 0ajdooley Nikonian since 25th May 2006Wed 29-Feb-12 11:07 AM | edited Wed 29-Feb-12 11:09 AM by ajdooley
Two theories:
-- If it ain't broke... don't fix it, or
-- A periodic health check up is good for photographers AND their cameras
If you are making money with one camera body, and you can have it away for a couple of weeks, sending your Nikon off for a general cleaning and check up may be prudent (I hate that word -- it usually means "politically correct")
Get a sensor cleaning, check up and update of any firm ware.
Now -- if you have several special settings, go into your menu and copy them onto a flash card. Nikon will reset your setting to "factory new" default settings when they work on it and you will have to restore your selected settings, which you can then upload from the flash card! Otherwise you will be in for a session of head scratching and trying to remember how your camera works.
I have two D700 bodies and they are on more or less of a health checkup schedule. I have never had a Nikon fail me in 40+ years, but if your general luck parallels mine, if you have one body and are at a critical money-making juncture, THAT'S when it will go belly up!
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#2. "RE: Nikon D700 - tune-up?" | In response to Reply # 1kmathew Basic MemberWed 29-Feb-12 03:28 PM
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I only have one D700 body and YES, if it's going to go wrong, it will with me too!
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#3. "RE: Nikon D700 - tune-up?" | In response to Reply # 2ajdooley Nikonian since 25th May 2006Wed 29-Feb-12 11:39 PM
Kathy -
Mine go to Nikon in Mellville, NY. But if you go to the Nikon USA web site they list Nikon authorized service facilities and I'd have equal confidence in them. They've got a pretty short leash on them! I am an NPS member though and use Nikon in NY. I can't speak for Nikon, but they will accept your camera and give you an estimated cost if you wish. That of course slows the process, but it is useful, especially if you are worried about controlling costs. I've not used authorized service providers, but you can of course call them and see how they do things. Realize, even having your camera serviced is not a 100% insurance against problems. I "flew solo" for sometime but finally took the plunge for a second body for just this reason. I make money with my cameras and cannot afford to be without. In fact, I'll likely pick up a 3rd D700, or maybe a D800 (probably the former - I am very satisfied with my D700s.)
FYI - The technical people at Nikon USA are super, IMO. They are there very long hours and can answer almost any technical question you may pose.
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I may be slow on posting - but my first market was a huge hit! I was feeling a wee bit skeptical of how things would do on a weekday late morning by the library, but I was pleasantly surprised with lots of visitors, a few sales, and zero rain (which was the forecast)! Hooray! Here's a peek at my set up:
I'm trying to purge out some of my less popular items since I have such limited table space (and SO SO much stuff to sell) and there is still some tweaking left to do before it is perfect. Heck, let's be honest. It will never be "perfect." Perfect would be an enormous brick and mortar shop with lots of traffic and zero rent. Alas. One day....As for my market goings - I am about to do my first farmer's market this Saturday so here's hoping the weather stays reasonable for me and I have boatloads of sales! Yay!
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
off to market!
Looks like market season is upon us and ready or not, I'm signed up and starting markets this week! Oh my!
There are two craft markets happening this year in my hometown so I will be seasonally vending at the Kamloops Regional Farmer's Market (link) on Saturdays (8-12) as well as casually vending at the Kamloops Artisan Market (link) on Thursdays (10-2)! As usual my crafty/"likes to be way over prepared" self is hustling my buns trying to get ready in time for my first markets but hey, at least I have an enormous inventory of crafty goods to sell! So if you're around - come pop by for a visit! Heck, mention this post and you may even get a free button if you're nice. Wish me luck!
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
taco eclipse
Blog honesty time - my life has been pretty much falling apart over the last four years.
Okay - perhaps I'm being a bit melodramatic but I certainly haven't been able to keep my life together and even more so haven't been able to keep up with blogging (or, you know, mental health for that matter). I feel like loads of people on the internet try to show the shiny lovely sides of their lives and tuck away that "I'm a complete mess" part away. I certainly like to try to stay positive but sometimes things just don't go how we'd like and you deal with it the best you can. I'm dealing. There are still lots of wonderfully kitten-y good things I'm surrounded with (heck yes to my awesome supportive hubs and first world living), but I have been bogged down with snowballing chronic disease making it extraordinarily difficult for me to function. My autoimmune health problems have split off into some serious chronic pain and fatigue disorders and my mental health has taken an enormous hit as I lose my mom to Alzheimer's. As always, things could be a lot worse so as part of my attempt to pull my life back to a good place I'm hoping to share some fun crafty and geeky things on my blog again and work in some extra self-acceptance and self-love while I'm at it. I'm a work in progress so I doubt I will be to daily blog posts in the near future but it's a start. The social media and blogging community can be one heck of an amazing place sometimes so I'm going to dip my toe back into that sea and go from there. Readers and comments are just the icing on the blogging cake so the fact that you (yes you) are here is pretty special and who doesn't like extra sprinkles on their dessert?
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Review: Hand Lettering for Everyone: a creative workbook
I've always been a sucker for a good creative book and this lovely piece by Cristina Vanko is no exception. Behold - Hand-lettering for Everyone!:
Heck - even the cover art has me sold. Could you imagine being able to make your own beautiful letters and sayings with your own two hands (well more likely with one hand since very few of us are ambidextrous)? I certainly have high pen pal aspirations for myself and although the extent of my hand lettering at the moment is attempting to print legibly I have been dabbling with more exaggerated handwriting that I stitch up with my embroidery hoops and it is all sorts of fun. Why not take that lettering to a new level and take a peek at a whole publication dedicated to helping you hone your own pen written style?
I really like how the pages in this book flow and (as you may know about me and my themed book reviews) I do enjoy a creative workbook. Cristina starts off this book with the basics and moves over to more sketchbook journal type exercises - all with interesting fonts and images to draw you in, just look at that contents page:
I really enjoy the contrast and use of black and white that helps the beautiful hand written text pop and stand out for its form. How gorgeous does this round and loop-y page look?
I may be bias for that tea reference - but you can decide what you think for yourself.
Throughout my self-taught designing years I have picked up quite a bit about the history and fundamentals of print and font but it's nice to see it all spelled out for you without being too dry or repetitive.
I especially enjoy how the author takes each element of lettering styles and shows you how to change up little details to make your own personal font style - like she does here with the serif's:
She even throws in loads of examples and interesting facts to keep you going:
According to this I am an open, visionary, relaxed and artistic type! Oh my! Flattery clearly makes me like this book even more. Haha.
Throw all the information together and in no time you'll be lettering like the best of them!
I totally want to start using these creative techniques and inspirations in my embroidery work and will be sure to keep you posted if I come up with anything amazing (here's hoping anyways).
So my verdict? This book rocks. It covers enough background and factual information to give you a good design basis and leads you through loads of exercises to stretch your creative bones. Good on you Cristina Vanko!
So what about you? Do you have your own hand-lettering style? Ready to dabble into more creative font making?
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Monday, November 9, 2015
16mm glass tile love
For the first time in what seems like decades - I got bored. How is it remotely possible that someone who is usually bursting with creativity and aspirations lands up with boredom? Illness - that's how. I'm not sure why my immune system decided to give up on me but for the last week and a bit I came down with one heck of a cold/flu/infection which left me completely useless. All I seemed to be able to manage was laying in bed (but not actually sleeping) and feeling beyond frustrated with my inability to do anything remotely productive. I spent all my time focusing on being able to breathe and searching for tissues. Ugh.
Well I am finally beginning to see the light at the end of the sickness tunnel and although the stomach virus seems to be still tormenting me with being super nauseated with some nice spouts of laying on my bathroom floor - I can almost breathe from my nose now which I call major progress! Aha! I'm also furiously daydreaming up crafty ideas to work on once I am useful again and decided I should write a blog post and share! What a concept! I think is also what is known as "procrastination" since instead of actually doing something - I am writing about doing something instead. Masterful I know.
As you may recall (if you follow me on social media) - I've been having loads of fun dabbling in the world of glass tile jewelry. I expended my glass tile necklace selection to include new sterling silver vintage images of mammals (and kittens and pulp science fiction) as well as came up with a bunch of 8mm and 12mm glass tile earrings! Such fun! I even recently made 200 new 16mm glass tile rings to take to my last craft show and loved all the patterns, colours and images I got to use. Take a peek:
So what is next on my glass tile obsession? Why magnets and wine charms of course! Just what the doctor ordered! So I hit the internet to order up some more supplies (probably one of my favourite seemingly productive (but not really) things to do) and am not stocked with materials to make my crafty dreams come true! Now come in your help (pretty please)! What sort of sets do you think I should make? If you were to pick put a magnet or wine charm set what would you want it to look like? Washi tape patterns? Vintage kittens? Anthropomorphic kate drawings? Sure a giant selection is great for an actual craft booth but it doesn't transfer to online sales very easily and since I'd love these to be added to my Etsy inventory I need a little direction. What do you think?
posted by kate mccurrach at 10:24 AM 3 comments
Friday, October 9, 2015
crochet amanitas!
With fall in full swing and winter around the corner (ack!) I've caught a wicked crochet bug and even though I am attempting to prep up for my next craft show (eep! less than 3 weeks away!), I really want to get my hook out and make up some cute things - like these (link):
Oh man - add a little wide eyed smile on these and I'm sold. Maybe I will get ahead on my crafty prep and me able to whip up some happy little amigurimi pals to sell at my booth too! What a thought! Have you ever knit/crochet for profit? Is it ever actually worth it (other than fun of course)?
Oh man - add a little wide eyed smile on these and I'm sold. Maybe I will get ahead on my crafty prep and me able to whip up some happy little amigurimi pals to sell at my booth too! What a thought! Have you ever knit/crochet for profit? Is it ever actually worth it (other than fun of course)?
posted by kate mccurrach at 7:36 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
More crafty preparation begins!
Lovely news craft friends! Despite incredibly unlikely odds - I managed to get into this year's RIH xmas craft show! Hooray!
According to my vendor cohorts from the farmer's market this is the big event to participate in for the holiday season and pretty much everyone from Kamloops attends in hopes to find loads of crafty xmas presents. Sounds perfect! The show is Sunday November 1st and runs from 10am to 4pm at Riverside Coliseum (apparently now called Sandman Centre). So looks like I am back to the craft preparation as I restock my goods for this show! Now what to make...
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Complaint Review: CAMCO Capital Acquisitions And Management Company
CAMCO Capital Acquisitions And Management CompanyP.O.Box 5247 Rockford, Illinois U.S.A.
CAMCO Capital Acquisitions And Management Company ripoff Class action? Blatantly violating FDCPA and non-compliance with Consent Decree Rockford Illinois
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Second, I received (just today) a letter from them about the same account (long since gone). In addition to just being incorrect, they also blatantly violated the FDCPA by writing false and misleading information in that letter.
Third, they are not in compliance with the Consent decree dated 3/24/04 regarding the "notice requirements" that must be a disclosure "CLEARLY AND CONSPICUOUSLY" contained within each written collection communication.
clearly and conspicuously??? it wasn't there at all!!!
Anyone out there know of any class-action suits being brought against CAMCO? or how someone might look into starting one? If there's one being filed, or if there's one already on file somewhere, how do I get my name on the list of plaintiffs?
Just what will it take for the FTC to close these people down?!?!?!
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RXAuto ThermaGasket6490 Front St. Suite 210 Forestville, California United States of America
RXAuto ThermaGasket Lori RXAuto ThermaGasket ripped off my money and kept thier product too! Forestville , California
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mail package and it does not take 7 days for delivery confirmed by the post office. I called again on November 22, 2012 at 12:00pm to let Lori know that I had not received my package. She gave me the tracking number and told me to check with my post office. The post office told me that the package was undeliverable because the address was not complete. They did not include the Suite number on the package. There are 12 businesses in this shopping center and the post office requires addresses complete with suite numbers. The post office told me that the package had been sent to sorting and would be returned to the sender. I called Lori back the same day and told her what the post office had told me. Lori told me that there was nothing that she could do until the package was received and that she would call me back. I checked with the post office again on November 27, 2012 and found out that the package had been delivered on November 26, 2012 and I had not received a call from Lori. I called back the same day three times at 1:02pm, 1:14pm and 1:45pm, finally letting Lori know that I knew that the package had been received by them. She told me that she would have to send a message to her shipping department to verify it and she asked if I just wanted a refund. I told her that I wanted a refund and she stated that she would call me back as soon as she heard from the shipping department. She did not call me back so I called back the next day November 28, 2012 at 5:05pm and got an answering service. After not receiving any
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COLAGE Kids
The name Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) makes for a nice acronym, but member Daniel Wayne Lessem is also fond of another, slightly more irreverent label for himself and his compatriots: queerspawn.
Whatever its constituency is called, COLAGE is a safe place for the children of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents to meet, discuss issues, and have a good time. Gay and Lesbian Community Center youth services coordinator Melanie Joy Cohn and graduate student Lessem, both in their twenties, saw the need and put together a local chapter of the international organization.
The group has been holding meetings for adolescents and teens twice a month. This Saturday gay parents and children of all ages are invited to meet one another for the family picnic and day at the beach. Food, fun, and games will be provided. Kids can meet other kids who have lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender parents; parents can meet other parents; and friendships can take off.
Lessem, the child of a straight woman and a bisexual man, joined COLAGE several years after his father, who had remained closeted, died of AIDS.
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"I am really, really big into COLAGE, because if my dad would have been able to live in a community with an environment that was understanding, it wouldn't have been the hardship it was," he says. "COLAGE creates a more open, accepting place."
Organized by gays and lesbians but not for gays and lesbians, COLAGE offers the kids of queer parents, whatever their own sexual orientation, the opportunity to be around other kids with similar family structures. And unlike most other groups in the gay community's alphabet soup of social and activist organizations, COLAGE is not "problem-based."
"We have created a forum for kids that is fun," Cohn explains. "It doesn't have to be about having a problem with gay parents. That's important."
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To try to fix or at least work around the problem I've tried various permalink structures as suggested by several people here, but none of what I've tried has worked. So I'm hoping that someone who has been successful in solving the logout problem will kindly post their permalink solutions.
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Tye Fields Joins Prizefighter Heavyweights For May 7th
Knockout American fighter Tye Fields is the latest man to join the line-up for Prizefighter International Heavyweights Alexandra Palace on May 7.
The 6ft 8in southpaw known as "Big Sky" has 41 knockouts from his 45 wins as a pro, and his incredible knockout percentage means fans are in for a treat when the 36 year-old enters the ring in the 18th edition of Matchroom Sport's eight-man, one night tournaments, live on Sky Sports.
Fields turned pro in 1999 and he won his first 14 fights with knockouts or stoppages inside the first round. In total, 27 of Fields' 48 professional fights have ended inside three minutes – including two of his three losses – and 40 of his fights have finished inside three rounds. The Montana born fighter, who now lives in Canada, counts former World champion Bruce Seldon, Saul Montana, Ed Mahone and Maurice Harris as notable scalps in his career so far.
"I'm delighted to welcome Tye to the Prizefighter International Heavyweights line up," said Matchroom Sport's managing director Eddie Hearn. "With 45 wins and 41 knockouts, Tye is the perfect choice for the event and fans can expect fireworks from him on May 7. This event is shaping up to be a classic and all the fighters know that victory here could lead to a World Title shot later this year."
He joins fellow American Kevin 'Kingpin' Johnson who boasts 24 victories and just one defeat, a points loss to Vitali Klitschko in a WBC title challenge in December 2009, David Haye's Puerto Rican sparring partner Fres Oquendo and unbeaten Irish-based Cuban Mike 'The Rebel' Perez, who holds ten knockout victories from 13 fights, all inside three rounds.
UK Prizefighter Heavyweight champion Michael Sprott will be flying the flag on home-soil while French Heavyweight champ Gregory Tony and big-hitting German Konstantin Airich, who holds 13 knockouts from 16 wins and is remembered for a crazy fight with Danny Williams in May 2008, are also confirmed in the line-up, with one fighter still to be named.
Tickets for Prizefighter International Heavyweights at London's Alexandra Palace on Saturday 7 May are available from Matchroom Sport priced £35 unreserved, £50 and £60 ringside and £120 VIP – to buy call Matchroom Sport on 01277 359900.
wow! juan carlos gomez? this is a pretty awesome one night card...its actually hard to pick a winner because its only 3 rounds...3 of these guys have had heavyweight title shots & gomez was CW champion...i think kingpin should be…Comment by Hayehammer on 04-21-2011
[QUOTE=Freedom!;10417460][B]Juan Carlos Gomez[/B] has just been added. :fing02: Complete list of participants: [B]1. Kevin Johnson (USA) 2. Michael Sprott (UK) 3. Konstantin Airich (Kaz/Ger) 4. Mike Perez (Cuba/Ire) 5. Fres Oquendo (USA/PR) 6. Tye Fields (USA/Can) 7. Gregory Tony (France)…Comment by Freedom. on 04-21-2011
[B]Juan Carlos Gomez[/B] has just been added. :fing02: Complete list of participants: [B]1. Kevin Johnson (USA) 2. Michael Sprott (UK) 3. Konstantin Airich (Kaz/Ger) 4. Mike Perez (Cuba/Ire) 5. Fres Oquendo (USA/PR) 6. Tye Fields (USA/Can) 7. Gregory Tony (France)…Comment by joe strong on 04-21-2011
i posted this a few days ago & am quite happy hes getting back in the mix so soon after a tough loss...100000 pounds on the line..Comment by Tyrone Biggums! on 04-21-2011
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The Travelin' Man returns to Atlantic City…again-part II
In part two of Lee Groves' Atlantic City journal, the "Travelin' Man" breaks down "ShoBox's" recent broadcast headlined by Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
In part two of Lee Groves' Atlantic City journal, the "Travelin' Man" breaks down "ShoBox's" recent broadcast headlined by Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
Ukrainian prospect Sergiy Derevyanchenko won a convincing eight-round decision over veteran Elvin Ayala in a ShoBox main event in Atlantic City on Friday.
Middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin could make a defense against Curtis Stevens on Nov. 2.
The promoter of WBA middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin has made an offer to the promoter of Curtis Stevens for a Nov. 2 clash 160-pound punchers on HBO.
Gennady Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler, said Curtis Stevens "really seems to want the fight with Golovkin, unlike most of the middleweight division."
The world should know soon whether it will witness a 154-pound clash of unbeatens between WBC beltholder Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and WBA titleholder Austin Trout.
Sergey Kovalev is 7-0-1 in his past eight fights, and in search of his fourth straight victory against Gabriel Campillo.
Light heavyweight Gabriel Campillo will have been out of the ring for nearly a year when he meets Sergey Kovalev on Saturday night.
Two years after many wrtoe the obituary on Curtis Stevens' career, the heavy-handed Brooklynite has one more shot to get back on track this Saturday against Elvin Ayala.
Streaking junior middleweight Gabriel Rosado will go for his eighth consecutive win against former middleweight title challenger Elvin Ayala in the 10-round co-feature of an NBC Sports Network show from Philadelphia on Dec. 8.


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'Offices to homes' trend creating commercial property shortage - RICS
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'Offices to homes' trend creating commercial property shortage - RICS
The number of offices being sold with development rights for conversion into homes is leading to a shortage of commercial property, RICS warned today.
The trend is most apparent in London and the south but nationwide availability of commercial property is declining at an alarming rate. RICS says the lack of stock is pushing investors away from prime location and into 'B' grade commercial investments.
In its latest survey of chartered surveyors, RICS reports that 49% of respondents said 'office to homes' activity was having a 'moderate' impact on the commercial market, while almost one in five (net balance of 18%) said it was having a 'substantial' impact.
The picture across the country, however, was more polarised, with respondents in the north being less affected by permitted development rights (PDR) transactions with 49% saying it was having 'no effect' on the market, compared with 32% of respondents in the south saying it was 'substantial'.
Further compounding shortage issues, the overall availability of commercial property declined at its fastest rate since the RICS commercial market series began in 1998 with a sharp fall in office and industrial space availability.
The lack of supply to the commercial market is also pushing investors away from prime location investments and towards 'B' grade investments, RICS said. In London and the south particularly, respondents reported that growing demand and the resulting drop in yields is encouraging investors to look for opportunities beyond prime locations.
Simon Rubinsohn, RICS chief economist, said: "The pressure in the office sector is being exacerbated particularly in popular locations by the gradual conversion of some secondary space into residential.
"While making a much needed contribution to the substantial shortfall of homes, there are understandable concerns that this could be creating a related problem for businesses looking expand their footprint as economic confidence grows."
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Vt. town removing asbestos from old schoolThe Associated Press | September 06,2013WEATHERSFIELD - Officials say about two-thirds of asbestos and other hazardous materials have been removed from an old school complex in Vermont.
Multiple wings in the old Weathersfield Elementary School in Perkinsville on Route 106 have been cleared of asbestos.
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The 23-year-old, recently released by Wolves, has put pen to paper on a one-year deal after scoring threegoals in four appearances for them during a trial spell.
Winnall signed his first professional contract with Wolves in 2009, but made just one first-team appearance, in a League Cup tie against Southend in 2010.
He has had previous loan spells at Burton, Hereford, Inverness and Shrewsbury and follows fellow summer recruits Andy Dawson, Chris Iwelumo, Terry Hawkridge, Luke Waterfall, Andy Welsh, Matt Sparrow, Etienne Esajas, Sean McAllister and Deon Burton into Glanford Park.
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Console Doctor of Jacksonville Console Doctor After buying fake products they illegally advertised as OEM Parts, they accidentally sent $1300 of equipment to my house and I ended up paying the bill to send their boxes back to them! Jacksonville, Florida
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I immediately sent them an email, and once again they played nice saying it was an error and they would pay for it, I even have it in email in two separate times that they would pay for it. Well two weeks roll by and they still haven't paid, so I get on the phone, call them and tell them that I am not sending back the equipment I FOUND, not stole like Tiffany accused me of (I could have legally kept the entire contents of both boxes so how am I stealing, the woman isn't the sharpest tool in the box). So i told them I would be calling everyday until the matter was resolved, and just like so many of the Google reviews, the Jacksonville police reports, and many other negative reviews of these crooks, she refused to pay the bill, screamed at me, and hung up. I called back, and we proceeded to get into a nasty name-slinging fight, that I am not proud of, but I felt helpless and so angry that there are people like this in the world, the people that make the world SUCH AN UGLY PLACE TO LIVE IN. Only if I lived near to Jacksonville, I would walk into that hole in the wall with the Jacksonville police and demand my money. So that is where it stands. I am screwed out of $100 in package fees or boxes that one UPS girl said I should have jut kept, only if I knew what serpents I was dealing with
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Exploring the Akakus
Whilst camel treks and trailbike safaris (photos 4,5) are two of the options on offer for getting around the Akakus, most people will spend their time here in a 4x4. Toyotas are favourite choice of the Tuareg drivers who operate in the area - Land Cruisers for the client and pickups for the gear.
Some of the time you'll be driving on a hard piste known here as "reg" - a black, stony surface where the stones are so close packed that looking across it is like looking across tarmac. In other places it's sandier with far fewer stones but still a hard-packed surface that makes for good driving. This is known as "erg" - over 80% of the Sahara is made up of this and the Jebel Akakus is no exception (photo 2). Parts of it stretch out in a wide featureless plain, in other areas aeons of sand-filled winds have scoured the rock into strange formations that surround you on all sides - this is known as the "hamada".
You'll also drive through "sarir" (photo 3), the sandy basins of dry watercourses, also known as wadis. Here you'll find scrubby trees and bushes, plants that can survive on the minuscule amounts of water remain below the surface in the years between rainfall.
And then there is the sand and the dunes 9photo 2). The sand here is often very fine and soft. Known as "fish-fash" it makes for demanding driving. Tour drivers all make a point of including some tricky dune-driving for their clients - all great fun, but most driving is done on the erg. The dunes here are the western edge of the Idehan Muzuq - the Murzuq Sand Sea.
Our trip took 5 days, including travelling from Tripoli to our first stop at Teweiwa, but not counting the return from Sebah to Tripoli. Three more days would have been great - time to visit the oasis city of Ghat and to visit the Messak Settafet, the Black Plateau that lies between the Sand Seas of the Ubari and the Mursuq. Organized tours usually allow the same amount of time, though camel safaris take things at a more leisurely pace.
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It's not exactly easy! Part 2 - Permits, etc
A permit is essential for any tourist vehicle wishing to travel within the Jebel Akakus. These permits are only issued to a minimum of two vehicles. Independent convoys are required to be accompanied by an official guide. Your Libyan travel agent will arrange this for you.
When to go
Extreme summer heat and bitterly cold winter nights mean the best time for travel in the Jebel Akakus is Spring and Autumn.
Libyans and anyone familiar with desert conditions will tell you September through to November is the best time - the autumn weather is more stable and early mornings are warmer.
Mid-February and March are good months, though from mid-March through April the "gbili" - sand-laden desert winds that can sweep right across the country, closing airports and driving people out of the desert into the shelter of towns - can be a hazard. We had to abandon plans for our last night of wild camping due to a gbili in mid-March and the following day we drove through a haze of thick dust the whole way back to Sebah where we met people whose flight to Tripoli had been cancelled the previous day due to the wind.
Around Easter is the peak time, Christmas is popular too.
Libya is not a particularly cheap country to travel in at any time; the logistics of distance, drivers, guides, etc make a desert journey a fairly expensive proposition. These costs are countered to a degree by the low cost of accommodation - most nights will be spent either camping wild or in one of the campsites along the way. There are any number of tours available, a quick google will give you a good idea of the scope and cost of those.
Independent travellers have to bear the full cost of the required vehicles, guides, etc. These costs fall quite dramatically as the number increases. Another couple would have seen our costs fall by 50%. Of course, independent travel affords greater flexibility and the luxury of experiencing these wonderful places in real solitude.
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It's not exactly easy! Part 3 - Stage 1: To Sebah
The Jebel Akakus lies in the south-west corner of Libya, almost 2000 kilometres from Tripoli. Whichever way you look at it, simply getting to one of the gateways to the region - the towns of Al Aweinat and Ghat - involves a minimum of 2 days travel once you have arrived in the country.
Getting there
Although it has an airport, currently, there are no scheduled flights to Ghat, though it would seem there are moves being made in this direction. The most straightforward way to reach the Akakus is to fly to Sebah and then travel by road.
Libyan Airways and Buraq Air both operate daily flights from Tripoli to Sebah. The return fare is 48LYD (approx 28 EUR). The flight takes 1 and a half hours. I can't comment on either of the commercial airlines as we flew to Sebah in a company charter but tour companies use them routinely. Our flight, in a CASA-212 took nearly three hours.
The alternative is a 12 hour road journey south from Tripoli to Sebah by bus (cheap), shared taxis (dearer) or with a car and driver (expensive).
However you've arrived in Sebah, you still have several hundred kilometres to go before you arrive at Al Aweinat or Ghat.
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It's not exactly easy! Part 4 - Sebah to Ghat
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Driving from Sebah to Al Aweinat or Ghat, the two jumping off points for a journey into the Jebel Akakus, offers some real surprises - not the least of which is the 200 kilometre long Wadi al-Hayat the road travels through as you leave Sebah. Green fields of wheat and onions spread out on either side as the road passes through a string of small towns.
There are some side trips you can make along the way - the extraordinary lakes and dunes of the Ubari feature on every tour's itinerary; Germa - the modern day site of ancient Garama will also be included as a rule. Both are worth the detour if you're travelling independently, but to do so will require an overnight stop if you're intending to use shared taxis - there are campsites at Teweiwa, Tekerkiba and Germa, all of which should be able to help you organize a trip to the lakes. Germa is on the road.
Al Aweinat lies near the northern edge of the Akakus. It's a dusty little town with little to offer but its proximity to the Jebel, lying as it does just a few hours drive from the northern gateway to the area, makes it a popular choice for tour groups. From here, the approach involves a long drive over a bleak, black gibber plain before you find yourself among the rocks and dunes of the Jebel. It will be after lunch before you reach the first "gallery" of rock art that is one of the great drawcards to the region.
Ghat is an hour and a half down the road and getting to the Akakus from there involves virtually a full day's driving. This route will take you to the south of the region as it parallels the Algerian border before heading north again into the canyons and wadis, as well as offering you the opportunity to visit the ancient oasis city .
Apart from travelling with your own vehicles, a tour group or organizing a private car and driver, the only way to complete this section of the journey is by shared taxi. I haven't done it this way so can only suggest you seek current information via an up-to-date travel forum.
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It isn't exactly easy! Part 1 - Formalities
Taking off for the Jebel Akakus is not something you can do as a last-minute whim. Some serious planning is necessary, whether you're travelling independently or joining an organized tour. Visas, permits, cost, climate all have a part to play and must be taken into consideration along with the method of travel, hence my including them here as part of a series of "Getting to the Akakus"
Visas and permits
The only nationality that does not require a visa to enter Libya at this stage is Tunisian. Everybody else MUST have a visa, and if your passport is not issued in Arabic you MUST have an Arabic translation in your passport before you submit your application.
After that, visa requirements and availability varies enormously from country to country, and the regulations change from time to time. I have an Australian passport and only know what the procedure is for that. You must make sure the information you have is relevant for your own nationality.
Anyone intending to visit Libya should consult either a travel agent who specializes in travel to Libya or an agent within the country. There are any number of these listed on the web. If you are booking an organized tour the process is quite straight forward, if lengthy - allow 6-8 weeks.
Independent travellers must deal with an internal Libyan agent. For him to submit your visa application, you must have an itinerary worked out and provide details of your passport - including the Arabic translation - and your dates of arrival and departure. Other details may be required. Depending on where you live you will be notified as to whether you can collect your visa before you leave or whether it will be waiting for you at the airport of your arrival in Libya. Again, allow plenty of time.
This process will get you into Libya. Travel in the region of the Jebel Akakus then requires a permit.
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