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You just won a hard-fought battle to secure the line item for new systems in your company's existing network infrastructure. Now you're about to leap into the fray of competing vendors, all of whom say they are the right one to provide the new systems, integrate them into your network, and provide support down the road. The success of this project—and how it reflects back on you—could well depend on choosing the right vendor.
Like any other battle, the struggle over choosing a vendor shouldn't be entered into without a strategy. George Kondrach, an executive vice president of Innodata, a content services firm whose clients include IBM, McGraw-Hill, and LexisNexis, says he sees a lot of ways that technical executives try to limit the field. Some ways of winnowing down the vendors to the right one are better than others, Kondrach said.
As a vendor representative, Ian Jarman, IBM's eServeriSeries product marketing manager, said the greatest mistake he sees is "looking at the vendor from the bottom up." For instance, deciding on a vendor based on one criterion, such as the processor speed of the system or systems they offer to provide. This is a very poor practice, Jarman said. "You may be missing the bigger picture," he explained. "You need to know if the vendor can support everything you need in your business."
Kondrach'slist of don'ts include:
- Don't shop by price: When it comes to vendors, customers often get exactly what they pay for.
- Don't shop for pleasing answers: If a vendor doesn't see any problems and if a vendor says it will be done smoothly, then run, don't walk, away. If they aren't going to communicate problems with you now, they won't later, Kondrach said.
- Don't go back if they accept "no" right away: These are vendors with "the almost Zen-like acceptance of being told no," Kondrach said. These vendors believe anyone who tells them "no" will realize later how badly they need them and will come crawling back. "It's the attitude of 'they'll be back,'" Kondrach said. Don't go back, crawling or otherwise.
Jarman and Kondrach's list of do's for narrowing down the vendors and choosing the right one is much longer, but all the items on this list center around a best practice, which Jarman described as finding a vendor "with more breadth." If you find the vendor with "breadth," then you'll have the one who can provide the plan, product, implementation, and support you need to make your project a success. To find a vendor with breadth, Jarman and Kondrach recommend looking for the following qualities:
(1) Understanding of your overall business strategy
For a vendor to understand your overall business strategy, you have to have one. In other words, don't go shopping for a vendor for each job, such as adding a file system to an existing network. "Don't buy something that is cheaper today," Jarman said. "We don't do that at home. We don't look for a refrigerator that is cheaper today. We look for something that's going to last."
Jarman recalled one client who built systems from spare parts and added them, hodgepodge, into the existing network with no clear idea of the network's goals. "Some of these things can end up costing you more," he said. "Having a consistent strategy is always a good idea." It's usually a better idea to work with a vendor who already knows—and may even have set up—the existing network. This way, the IT manager is working with a vendor with whom he or she has an established relationship and who already understands the department's overall goals and strategies.
(2) Depth
"Don't buy services from someone who is dependent on one person to get a job done," Kondrach said. "If there is no redundancy in a given area, you might as well go out and hire an individual to do the same job for a lot less." The risks, Kondrach said, would be the same.
In particular, avoid a vendor who says so-and-so will be in charge of a project and gravitate towards those who have more than one person. This means if one person isn't available, someone else will be able to fill in.
(3) Employees aren't too stressed
You want to be sure the vendor's employees aren't stretched too thin, Kondrach said. Many vendors hire good people but set unrealistically high "billable times" for them to reach. "They want people billable 90 percent of the time, even 100 percent of the time," he said. "Which means their people don't have any time—except maybe their own personal time—to sit back and think about what they're doing and to learn new skills.
"A lot of IT companies have burned out a lot of good people by forcing revenue out of them." This can lead to constant employee turnover rates—something else to watch for, and avoid, in prospective vendors.
(4) Problem-solving skills
"Anyone can do a good job if everything goes smoothly all the time," Kondrach said. "What you want to know is how these people will take care of problems when they crop up."
Kondrach likened this skill to going on safari "looking for big game" and hiring the most qualified guide. "Anyone can go into the jungle with a rifle," he said. "How many can come back alive and bring the game with them?"
Determining how well a vendor will solve problems on your project isn't easy. After all, any vendor will tell you it has excellent problem-solving skills. Kondrach suggests a few questions to ask prospective vendors that will help you determine how well they really deal with problems:
- "What are some problems you've seen in similar projects in the past?"
- "How did you deal with those problems?"
- "Did you finish that project on time?"
- "Did you finish that project on budget?"
(5) Staying power
"Think about the Yugo," Kondrach said, the much maligned discount automobile from the former Yugoslavia that was last imported to the United States in 1992. While many people bought the Yugo when it was first introduced, it now is almost impossible to get service for the vehicle. A better idea for these car buyers would have been to buy a vehicle from an established dealer, Kondrach said.
Applying the same principle to an IT vendor can be tough because the industry is still relatively young. Kondrach recommends looking for vendors who've been around a few years and score high in other ways as well.
However, even a vendor who's been around a few years may show signs of slipping, Kondrach warned. Avoid anyone "full of tech babble" who offers a plan "jotted down on a napkin," even if the strategy seems sound, he said. "These IT battles aren't won just because someone has a good strategy," Kondrach said. "They're won because someone was able to deliver on that strategy."
(6) Adaptability
In a vendor, this means being able to adjust to the changing environment in which the project operates. "What you don't want is someone doing what they're told to do, just because it's in the specs," Kondrach said. "What you do want are vendors who think beyond their assignment."
For instance, once a project is underway, if the vendor discovers a new technology that would be well suited to the project, that vendor should be able to change course. A vendor you should keep would be the one who will bring that technology to your attention and know how to implement it into the existing plan and your overall strategy. The vendor to pass by would be the one who will pass the new technology by because it isn't in the specs, Kondrach said.
(7) A good match
"People tend to gravitate to vendors who appeal to their internal value system," Kondrach explained. Finding that right vendor can be tough, especially for customers who are used to selecting vendors based on the lunch they bought them or the T-shirts they provide.
However, the last project's good match may not be a good match this time. Make sure to match the vendor, not just to the company, but also to the project.
(8) Check support agreements
One way to narrow down the vendors is to deal only with those who have acceptable support policies, something that will be very important should something break down. "So ask about support," Jarman said. "Is their support going to be next day or can they deliver 7x24? That's going to be critical, whether you're talking about hardware or software."
(9) Know your upgrade options
Jarman said his franchise has 210,000 customers worldwide who have iSeries and AS400 systems deployed. "These customers are very interested in upgrading their machines," Jarman said. And well they should be. The network installed today will be out of date in a few years.
"This is why you need to have a three-to-five-year outlook," Jarman said. "Of course, everyone will say you can upgrade your hardware and software, but the simplicity of that statement and how accurate it is will vary widely, depending on the service or vendor you're talking about." The forward-thinking IT manager will have an understanding and relationship only with vendors who also are looking ahead and will be ready to upgrade systems as soon as the department is ready.
(10) Keep it simple
Look for vendors who offer scalable solutions and "the best of breed" in every technology, Jarman recommended. Doing the opposite can create confusion on the network and drive up the number of vendors. "If you do that, you probably are going to end up with multiple technologies, and you'll have to deal with multiple vendors," Jarman said.
"And that's OK if you understand all of those different technologies. But that's not the simplest way to get to the simplest solution."


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However, Steven Agnew has given The Green Party new life. Where Alliance's ideology is often perceived to be mostly about being non sectarian and non tribal with The Green Party their left wing, green, social justice ideology is clear for all to see. That they are also non sectarian and non tribal is accepted without question but there's no danger of anyone thinking that is what they are all about. For the first time, an important section of Alliance's voters have a feasible and attractive alternative.
The importance of students to Alliance should not be underestimated. They are crucial to the continued survival of the party. The students going through our universities over the next few years will be the last ones to have any first hand knowledge at all of the conflict that shaped much of our politics. The arguments of old are, for the most part irrelevant for them. It is natural that young, educated people, empowered to make their own Political choices will turn to a party that offers progressive, non tribal politics. The party that recruits them can reasonably expect that in 20 & 30 years time, they will still count them as members and supporters. That is surely the long term strategy for Alliance. It most certainly is for The Green Party. The battle for student votes will be fought between those two parties and Alliance may well be about to burden that population with even more debt.
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Celiac.com 04/29/2016 - Efforts to develop gluten-free version of traditional grains like wheat have been underway for some time, with limited success.
Now, scientists in Australia say they've developed the world's first World Health Organization-approved "gluten-free" barley.
Since barley is a key ingredient in traditional beers, you might imagine that the beer viewing world would be keenly interested in such a development, and you would be right.
Developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the product, called Kebari barley, has already drawn interest from a number of commercial breweries. One German brewery, Radeberger, has already ordered 70 tons of the product.
Kebari is not genetically modified. Instead, it is the end product of "cross-breeding low gluten barley varieties," CSIRO told Reuters. While Kebari is not 100 percent gluten-free, it is bred to contain "10,000 times less gluten than traditional strains, or about 5 parts of gluten per million, well below the World Health Organization's (WHO) 20 parts per million for classification as a gluten-free grain," according to Reuters.
With gluten-free foods and beverages being of the world's fastest growing consumer trends, gluten-free barley could prove to be a very popular ingredient for making celiac-safe beers in the traditional European style.
"A true gluten-free barley variety is a true game changer; there is going to be a massive market for the product," Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank, told Reuters.
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So what sort of ppm of gluten could one expect in beers based on this grain? This could be great if it's low enough.
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I suspect far less than 5ppm, and gluten can't be detected under 3ppm, so bring it on!
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I would be happy to guinea pig these new beers.
For, uh...scientific reasons.
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There could also be a market for this barley as GF flour.
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I've been drinking the beers from Glutenberg which are made from millet. They are quite good, way better than the awful sorghum based beers. They make an American Pale Ale, an IPA and a blonde ale. I'm very happy to have found a GF beer that actually tastes like beer.
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If this results in a low-cost GF beer that tastes as good as Aussie or Euro ales, I'm in deep trouble.
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Yep. Initially I had the full panel. DGP was the only positive and it's the only one my doctor orders now.
Well I wish mine was dia. earlier, I got all kinds of other food issues, and other auto immune disease that came up as complications. If you deal with and change over now you can prevent a even more limited diet. I was running a bucket list thinking I was going to die before my dia. I had slight ...
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Most Popular Guardians of the Galaxy Character by Country? Glad you asked!
It is no secret at Raidious that I LOVE comic book movies, and am especially excited about all things Guardians of the Galaxy, especially the Vol 2 teaser trailer. So, we spent a few minutes looking at social volume surrounding the trailer and wondered if certain countries favored a particular character more than others. We put the question to our social research and listening platforms, and split things out geographically.
And the results are in! Here are the countries of the world showing their love for the Guardians:
Groot wins hands down! Across the United States and around the globe, people were overly excited about our favorite little twig. And I do mean the little guy, affectionately known as "Baby Groot" by many, owned 70% of overall mentions of Groot.
The ladies especially love Baby Groot, who is the most discussed character among those that identify as female where Drax is the favorite among identified males. Before anyone gets upset with the DATA here, I should note that 59% of males loved Baby Groot, too.
This data doesn't surprise me much. Drax laid down some serious shade on Starlord while setting his expectations with Gamora…
"There's two types of beings in the universe: Those who dance and those who do not. You just need to find a woman who's pathetic. Like you." – Drax the Destroyer GotG Vol2
And Baby Groot shows up at the end of the trailer in the cutest way possible. Look at his little jacket!!!
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NEW YORK – By Tuesday morning, gray clouds and a bracing chill had arrived from the north, scattering bits of infield dirt across the mound's tarp, stirring the bunting draped along Yankee Stadium's loge and mezzanine.
The clubhouse was crowded with U-Haul boxes, small square ones for the spikes and clothes and photos, tall rectangular ones for the bats.
A seventh consecutive October will pass without a championship in the organization of heaping payrolls and imposing expectations, the Yankees sitting it out while the youth and energy in Cleveland, Arizona and Colorado press on, while the blood rivals from Boston play on.
By early Tuesday afternoon, a Yankees PR man stood in the clubhouse and threatened to withdraw all access if news organizations didn't call back their photographers from the front of Joe Torre's home in Harrison, N.Y.
"They're all over his property," Jason Zillo said. "I've called all the tabloids."
George Steinbrenner had practically drawn a map himself, two days before putting words and hammer into suspicions Torre's job was in peril. Now Torre was at home, reduced to a curiosity and killing the morning on the phone with general manager Brian Cashman and members of his coaching staff.
Cashman, who last October convinced Steinbrenner to allow Torre the final year of his contract, said he will meet with Steinbrenner again "in the coming days."
Asked if he would again negotiate for Torre's future here, Cashman said, "I'll reserve comment."
It is unclear if Cashman will have a say.
"I don't know," he said. "[Steinbrenner] has always picked the manager here. Obviously, I had a great deal of input in last year's process. So, we'll see."
Don Mattingly, Yankee legend, Yankee bench coach, and quite possibly Torre's successor, referenced the last few days, Steinbrenner's win-or-out edict, and the coming circus potential while passing through the clubhouse.
"I've been here a long time," Mattingly said. "You understand how things work. So, coming to terms with the way it is here is something that's not that hard for me.
"Without a doubt, the things that Joe has done here, led the organization, treated people, he deserves to be treated with respect. Anything less than that, to me, would be unacceptable. He deserves that."
Mattingly repeated that theme often, as though he feared an ugly, prolonged process or another outburst from The Boss, anything that would diminish Torre's 12 seasons in pinstripes.
Torre and Mattingly spoke by phone Tuesday.
"Joe sounds like he's in a pretty good frame of mind," Mattingly said. "Obviously he has feelings, and it hurts if you're not getting treated right. I told him he should be treated with respect. Anything other than that is not right. Sometimes it's the way it goes here, but it's still not right."
Mattingly, for the moment, stands in the speculation with Joe Girardi, along with Tony La Russa, Larry Bowa and Tony Pena, as candidates to replace Torre, should Steinbrenner follow through on his threat. While he called it "a great job," Mattingly said the man who redecorates Torre's office will find the comparisons difficult.
"Not very easy," he said. "I would think it's like following John Wooden or something. It's pretty much a no-win situation for someone coming in here, to live up to what he did. It's not going to happen. It's not necessarily a great situation."
The challenge becomes greater still if Alex Rodriguez abandons his contract, a distinct possibility given all of the chances Rodriguez has been given to deny that he would, along with the fact Cashman said again he would not compete for Rodriguez on the free-agent market.
"That would be my position, yes," Cashman said. "That would be my strong recommendation."
But, he added, "Anything's possible. We'll see. All this stuff is going to be rushing to the forefront over the next 30 or 45 days."
In his weekend interview with The Bergen Record, Steinbrenner said he expected Rodriguez to return, even if that meant tearing up or extending the existing contract.
While Rodriguez was again less than productive in the postseason, he also had his best offensive season and will again be the American League MVP.
The desperation for middle-of-the-lineup bats in places such as Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Francisco, along with a relatively poor free-agent class, makes the climate a good one for an unattached A-Rod.
Doug Mientkiewicz, the resident A-Rod expert, shook his head when asked if he had a gut feeling for his friend's plan.
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A year ago, the Clinton administration announced "the American Bald Eagle is back." Does that mean that the national symbol will be taken off the Endangered Species list? Well, not exactly. It's a question of politics, not science.
The evidence has been in for more than a year that the bald eagle is safe once again.
- The Clinton administration has found it convenient to blame loss of habitat for its delay in taking the Bald Eagle off the Endangered Species list -- even though wildlife experts expected him to do so.
- But he has put the move on hold indefinitely, and a senior Interior Department official admits the decision is political -- even though he protests it is for the good.
- In 1963, there were fewer than 500 wild bald eagle pairs in the lower 48 states.
- Today, environmentalists estimate there are more than 5,800 occupied nesting sites, or at least 11,600 mated birds, and many more juveniles and sub-adults.
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Twenty-three-year-old Rahatul Ashikim Khan was arrested on Tuesday at his home in Round Rock.
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The Mummy Case Paperback
by Elizabeth Peters
Part of the Amelia Peabody series
Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist , together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapadeThe irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is living up to his reputation as 'The Father of Curses'.
Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the 'pyramids' of Mazghunah - countless mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere.
Nothing in this barren spot seems of any interest but then a murder in Cairo changes all of that.The dead man was an antiques dealer, killed in his shop, so when a sinister-looking Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah, Amelia can't resist following his trail.
At the same time she has to keep an eagle eye on her wayward son Rameses and his elegant and calculating cat and look into the mysterious disappearance of a mummy case...
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date: 01/06/2006
- Category: Crime & mystery
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Review by riverwillow
The incredibly precocious Ramses comes to the fore in this book, as he accompanies Amelia and Emerson on their latest dig. Ramses, accompanied by his Egyptian cat, Bastet (who featured in 'The Curse of the Pharaohs), has an insatiable curiosity which gets him into scrapes which inevitably lead to a bath. Ramses is truly his parents child, as inevitably, Amelia and Emerson get entangled in a murder. which the police believe is suicide, and an antiquities smuggling ring. As usual there is a cast of disreputable and sometimes hilarious characters, sadly the missionaries, who occupy a large section of the book aren't really funny or charming and this does cast a pall over the narrative. But at the centre of it all is Amelia who is as entertaining as ever with her perceptive wit, parasol and emergency remedies.
Review by wyvernfriend
Emerson and Amelia are given a fairly poor place to dig for their season in Egypt, bringing along their son Rameses (whose real name is Walter) who is a precocious child. An Irritating precocious child, who actually also irritates and entralls his mother, who didn't really have much to do with his earliest years. Amelia stumbles upon a dead antiques dealer and this leads Amelia down a minefield of bodies and danger.It's not a bad read but I seriously wanted to teach Rameses some manners. In some ways he distracted from the events of the story and got in the way of my enjoyment, in other ways he was a linchpin of the story and I could see where setting him up could be interesting later in the series.
Review by Condorena
Each book in this series gets better. Little Ramses is a great addition
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The goalkeeper is probably the most under-valued player in professional football, perhaps because the signing of a new wide player or centre forward is always more likely to attract the excitement of supporters in the summer, selling season tickets as a result. Many are not especially fond of the man or his club, but Sir Alex Ferguson has demonstrated a knack over two decades of knowing exactly which areas of his Manchester United team require strengthening and acting accordingly. Of course, he is now at the stage where 'keeping the supporters onside' is simply not an issue, such is his god-like status at Old Trafford. However, one gets the feeling that even if this were not the case, he would utilise the funds he had in the best way that he saw fit and ignore calls to sign this or that player.
Brian Clough, who for this bunny is the greatest ever British football manager, understood the value of the goalkeeper better than anyone when he paid a national record £250,000 for Peter Shilton in 1977. When people are asked "who's your team's best player?", it is extremely rare for anyone to answer with the name of the last line of defence. However, it is the case far more frequently than is widely acknowledged, and certainly so when considering Clough's Nottingham Forest side that twice conquered Europe after winning the Division One title in 1978. 18 goals conceded in 37 matches tells all that one needs to know about the levels to which Shilts performed that season. His manager knew that when he shelled out what may have appeared at first to be an outlay that was over the odds, he was acquiring what he knew would be undeniably the most valuable asset in his squad.
Ferguson is very much of the same mould, and knew that replacing Edwin Van Der Sar after the Dutchman's retirement was both a necessary and far from simple task. £18 million remains a huge outlay for a goalkeeper, and when the man concerned is only 20 years of age, then the investment in David De Gea is in the potential and likely longevity of the player more than what they might produce in the here and now. However, it is also a fee that produces a level of pressure on both sides - on the club to immediately field the new signing in the first team, and the player concerned to deliver some level of performance with immediate effect. Two nervous and error-strewn displays later, some are perhaps asking exactly who it is that Ferguson has replaced:- Van Der Sar or Massimo Taibi?
It's almost impossible to speak too highly of Van Der Sar, a superb keeper in every technical department, a man who commanded his penalty area which calm authority and moreover a totally thorough and dedicated professional. Perhaps his greatest achievement came in the fact that when he left, people were asking how United would replace Edwin Van Der Sar, and that the ex-Juventus, Ajax and Fulham stopper had broken the curse of club legend Peter Schmeichel over a succession of Old Trafford glovemen. Even in the autumn of his career, the reflexes and shot-stopping that had been a huge part of his game remained as solid as ever, with costly errors restricted to maybe one a season. Anyone who appreciates good goalkeeping should enjoy this video regardless of whether they are a United enthusiast or not (and this bunny certainly isn't).
One of those who undeniably suffered from the post-Schmeichel jinx was Taibi, and that he has become something of a joke figure amongst fans of United and their rivals is most unfortunate. Having followed Serie A during the Channel 4 years, this bunny would agree with the fundamental analysis of the legend that is James Richardson. When discussing that howler against Southampton at Old Trafford during the 1999/2000 season (see the DVD 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Footballer'), the expert on all things calcio made a point of emphasising, "he's a good goalkeeper - he did well before United and well afterwards". Indeed so - despite being a big success with a string of provincial Italian sides, Taibi's two career failures undeniably came with AC Milan and United, easily the biggest names on his CV.
Sometimes the issue is not ability or application, but the realisation that a stage might be simply too pressurised for the player concerned. As a big fish in the relatively small ponds of Piacenza, Venezia, Atalanta, Reggina and Torino, Taibi was brilliant, at both ends of the field on occasion. I looked for a 'greatest saves' collection, but was repeatedly pushed in the direction of Le Tiss and his rather feeble daisy-cutter. However, here's a clip of that most rare and therefore enjoyable of moments - a goalscoring goalkeeper. Trailing 0-1 at the end of a match against Udinese, Reggina's well-taken equaliser comes from an unlikely source - nicely done Massimo.
So is the stage too big for De Gea? The honest answer would be that it's far too early to tell, although an average cost of a goal per game through personal errors is something that no team aspiring to win major honours can sustain for too long. Anders Lindegaard has waited patiently for his opportunity, and will surely merit a run in the first team if there are many more soft concessions like the Edin Dzeko shot that went through De Gea in the Community shield and Shane Long's bobbler for West Brom on Sunday. They say that you have to be mad to be a goalkeeper, and part of the reasoning for this almost certainly lies in the standards by which glovemen are judged. In short, they are harsher and more exacting than those applied to anyone else on the pitch.
Their existence is much like that of the wicketkeeper in cricket. Much of the goalkeeper's work is routine and expected of them - indeed, making things look simple and avoiding the 'camera save' is what often separates the solid and reliable gloveman from the flashy and unpredictable one. Telling the difference between keepers capable of operating at different levels is not always easy as a result, since most exude competence in the vast majority of what they do. However, it is the instances of uncertainty and occasional blunders that are focussed on, more than anything because of the immediate consequences of such moments. Assessed against the same criteria as a goalkeeper, would someone like Andy Cole, known as he was for needing five pops at goal to register a solitary strike, have had the prolonged and successful career with United that he did?
An alternative way of looking at the equation is:- what's the difference between missing when it's easier to score from six yards out and dropping a cross at the feet of an opposing forward? In truth, the cost of both disaster moments is a goal that could shift the momentum of a match. Yet forward players in particular are afforded a great deal more latitude and room for error than the men they might face in a one-on-one situation during that same 90 minutes. They also command greater transfer fees, salaries, name recognition and perceived value amongst supporters with regard to their overall worth to the team. As a believer in market forces, it's not for this bunny to complain or call for some higher authority to intervene in setting transfers or wages, but it appears sometimes that conventional wisdom does not give the last line of defence, who in reality is a massively important part of any successful side, a fair shake.
Two games is nothing, and this bunny hopes more than anything that in the cut-throat world that top level football has become, De Gea gets every opportunity to shake off his less than convincing start and show English supporters the talent that was deemed to be worth such a significant outlay in the first place. It was, of course more than poor Massimo Taibi got, and there is a very strong case from football history for showing faith in a goalkeeper whose natural ability perhaps gives way to nerves or stage-fright in their early performances. Check out this Bruce Grobelaar nightmare at Anfield during his first season in goal for Liverpool, then a reminder of the very good performer he became but a few years later. Form is temporary, class is permanent and we'd do well to remember that sometimes. Take care and I'll catch you tomorrow.


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Type: New Feature
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Component/s: highlighter
Correcting Fix Version based on CHANGES.txt, see this thread for more details...
Issue Links
- relates to
LUCENE-1522 another highlighter
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Koji, with mutli-term fields, Highlighter would return the single value that matched. FVH however merges values in the fragment returned. Is there a way to get the same behavior as highlighter in this respect (in my use case, i only want the value that matched to be highlighted)?
When using Dismax, the fast vector highlighter fails to return any highlighting when there is more than one column in qf (eg. "qf=Name Company")...
Right. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2243 .
When using Dismax, the fast vector highlighter fails to return any highlighting when there is more than one column in qf (eg. "qf=Name Company")...
The patch includes:
- eliminate hl.useHighlighter parameter
- introduce hl.useFastVectorHighlighter parameter. The default is false
Therefore, Highlighter will be used unless hl.useFastVectorHighlighter set to true. I'll commit in a few days.
Hmm, FVH doesn't work appropriately when fragsize=Integer.MAX_SIZE (see test0FragSize() in attached patch. It indicates FVH cannot produce whole snippet when fragsize=Integer.MAX_SIZE).
Now I think I should change the (traditional) Highlighter is default even if the highlighting field's termVectors/termPositions/termOffsets are all true, then only when hl.useFastVectorHighlighter is set to true, FVH will be used. hl.useFastVectorHighlighter parameter accepts per-field overrides. Plus FVH doesn't support 0 fragsize.
I have noticed an exception is thrown when using fragSize = 0 (wich should return the whole field highlighted):
"fragCharSize(0) is too small. It must be 18 or higher. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: fragCharSize(0) is too small. It must be 18 or higher"
Thanks, Marc.
Solr 1.4 uses NullFragmenter that highlights whole content when you set fragsize to 0. But FVH doesn't have such feature because of using different algorithm.
In the attached patch, Solr sets fragsize to Integer.MAX_VALUE if user trys to set 0 when FVH is used. This prevents runtime error.
I think it is necessary in Solr level because Solr automatically switch to use FVH when the highlighting field is termVectors/termPositions/termOffsets are all true unless hl.useHighlighter set to true.
I have noticed an exception is thrown when using fragSize = 0 (wich should return the whole field highlighted):
"fragCharSize(0) is too small. It must be 18 or higher. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: fragCharSize(0) is too small. It must be 18 or higher"
I'm introducing <fragListBuilder/> and <fragmentsBuilder/> new sub tags of <highlighting/> in solrconfig.xml in this patch, rather than <searchComponent/>. I think we can open a separate ticket for moving <highlighting/> settings to <searchComponent/>, if needed.
In the meantime, you may be interested in the maxChars attribute of copy fields (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-538). It permits fast highlighting if only the beginning of documents.
Voting for this issue because of the following email from Bess Sadler, which sums up the need quite well:
One of the feature requests we get pretty often with Blacklight is
search term highlighting. The main reason we don't have it yet is
because it's a performance drag. We have attempted to add it a couple
of times, but it kills performance so much for large collections or
large text fields that we had to remove it again.
I just had an interesting chat with Erik Hatcher, and he pointed me at this:
It seems Lucene 2.9 has a faster highlighting solution available now,
FastVectorHighlighter. However, it hasn't yet worked its way into
solr. If you are one of the people who would like to see search term
highlighting (or, maybe just faster search term highlighting) in
blacklight, vufind, Fac-Back-OPAC, helios, or any of the many other
library apps that use solr, you might want to go vote for the jira
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Playing shortstop and leading off for your Brooklyn Cyclones against the Lowell Spinners at noon Monday in Coney Island, No. 7, Jose Reyes.
Yes, although he is eligible and healthy enough to come off the disabled list Monday, the National League's leading hitter will make his return in a Class A game to make sure everything checks out, even though the Mets have a makeup game against Florida on Monday night at Citi Field.
It's not what manager Terry Collins originally envisioned. He worried about Reyes getting plunked by an out-of-control young pitcher. But as Collins said following Reyes' successful workout before Sunday's 8-5 loss to Philadelphia, "I got overruled. If we activate him and he plays and, all of a sudden, the game affects him, now you're talking about player moves."
Reyes spent about 30 minutes running the bases hard in front of a crowd of reporters and showed no sign of a problem with the left hamstring he strained July 2. "No doubt, I feel very good," Reyes said. "I was able to test it out with no problem. So that's a good sign. I don't feel tightness; I don't feel soreness. I feel normal."
Before one reporter could finish a question about what might happen if Reyes hits one in the gap against St. Louis Tuesday night at Citi Field, Reyes cut him off with a one-word answer: "Triple."
That drew a big laugh, considering Reyes' major-league leading 15 triples this season. Reyes has been advised not to overextend himself playing for Brooklyn this afternoon, but he'll be as aggressive as usual against major-league opposition.
"If I get in the game and hit a ball in the gap, I'm going to try to get the triple because that's the way that I play the game," Reyes said. "I don't know why I have to stop [at second]."
Mindful of his past physical problems, Reyes admitted his relief over having no setbacks.
"I didn't expect it to come this quickly," Reyes said. "I run home to first base in 3.8 or 3.9 [seconds]. That's what I do when I play the game normal. I'm very happy about that."
So, are his Mets teammates. Centerfielder Angel Pagan, whose .245 average is more than 100 points lower than Reyes' .354 mark, has struggled in the leadoff position, although he managed an RBI single in the Mets' three-run eighth inning rally to cut Philadelphia's lead to 8-4.
"Having Reyes in the lineup is a whole different story because the way he's hitting this year, he's going to get on base and put pressure on," Pagan said. "He's going to make the pitcher make a mistake over the plate. That's when we get runs early in the ballgame, and that's the key. Every time Reyes is on base, it's 85-90 percent we're going to get a run early in the ballgame."
In losing two of three to the Phillies, the Mets dug an early hole in both losses. But that early-inning spark might return with Reyes.
"I can't wait," Reyes said. "I want to continue to do what I did in the first half to position us every day to win a game. I love the game, and I don't want to be on the DL. I want to be on the field."


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MR. CAVUTO: Reaction as well now from New York (sic) Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone.
Congressman, thank you for waiting around. New Jersey, I should say. I apologize, Congressman. What do you make of the market's reaction, not only today where we now have gone back to around 11-year lows but really steadily, not only through the end of the last presidency but the beginning of this one, that anytime the government tries to step in to help or do something, the market just keeps selling off?
REP. PALLONE: Well, I think that the market is just a function of the fact that the recession continues to worsen. I don't think it's a reaction, necessarily, to anything that President Obama has done today or in the last few weeks. I think the problem is, you know, we continue -- people are still not buying, you know, the housing market is a problem, unemployment continues to go up. And so generally speaking, the recession continues, and we haven't reached bottom yet.
MR. CAVUTO: But Congressman, aren't you surprised that normally when we get prescriptions that look favorable or advantageous or something that could potentially reverse that, the markets move up on that. Now they've done just the opposite.
REP. PALLONE: Well, I think that the idea --
MR. CAVUTO: I want to be fair. This has happened under the last president and this president.
REP. PALLONE: I understand.
MR. CAVUTO: Is it the market's way of saying, look, you can make a bad situation worse, Congress, and you are?
REP. PALLONE: But the problem is that the market, I think, is not just responding to what we do in Washington but also to what's happening around the world. And the fact of the matter is that, you know, the problems of the recession continue to deepen. I think if you listen to President Obama and what he just said in this fiscal summit, he's saying, look, we're trying to do certain things now, but you've got to understand that, you know, they may not have an immediate impact. I mean, obviously, the fear factor is there. We want to overcome it by taking certain actions in Washington. And every day and every week, you know, he tries to address different aspects of this recession. But we can't kid ourselves into saying that, you know, it's not likely to get worse before it gets better. And it's worldwide. So I think that's really what the market is responding to.
MR. CAVUTO: Congressman, thank you very much.
Source: http://www.fnsg.com/transcript.htm?id=20090223t4866&nquery=&query=pallone


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Novelist Sebastian Faulks in conversation with Monica Lanman
Venue: UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE
Date: Sunday 15 November 2009
British novelist, Sebastian Faulks talked to psychoanalytic psychotherapist Monica Lanman about his work, with a particular focus on two of his more recent novels, Human Traces and Engleby, both psychological tours de force in their different ways.
Sebastian Faulks was educated at Elstree School, Reading, and Emmanuel College Cambridge and was a journalist until 1991. His first novel, A Trick of the Light, was published in 1984, and was followed by The Girl at the Lion D'Or, the first of three concerned with war-time experience. The next of these, Birdsong is perhaps the best-known, with its interweaving of a love story with an extraordinarily powerful evocation of the traumatic experience of the trenches, and the tunnelling under the battlefields of the First World War. Charlotte Gray, his fifth novel, about the psychological journey of a young Scottish woman involved with the French resistance during the Second World War, was adapted as a film in 2002. In 2008 Sebastian Faulks wrote a one-off James Bond novel, Devil May Care, to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth. He can be heard on Radio 4's literary quiz The Write Stuff.
His latest novel, A Week in December, set in modern London, was published by Hutchinson in September 2009.
He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Literature, was awarded a Hon D Litt from Tavistock Institute and appointed CBE 2002. He lives in London.
Monica Lanman is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and couple therapist. She works at the Tavistock Clinic, the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships and in private practice.


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As of this moment: Matt is out in CO helping with the family. His wonderful, steadfast Grandpa became ill fairly suddenly and is in the hospital. He will not be able to return to regular life as we all think of it, again. This is emotional and stressful for everyone. Although I miss Matt tremendously, I am so thankful for his strength and faith and the wonderful support he can provide to his Mom and the family.
The girls and I are doing okay. It is not easy being at home over the extra long weekend with pouring freezing rain and a very angry neighbor. But, God has truly made himself known to me and turned yesterday into a wonderful day and today really was fun too.
I truly felt God had left me on my own after a huge explosion from Annabelle yesterday morning (following a donut treat) which left all of us in tears. But, He came through and all was turned around. I took some deep breaths, and then took the girls over to see the new house (they hadn't seen it yet). I told them to run around like crazy and make a ton of noise! This was extremely soothing for everyone (except maybe the realtor).
I also decided to eliminate sugar for Annabelle for the rest of the weekend. Wow! What a change in her. She seems normal. Not one explosive episode since. She has been upset and even had a timeout. It's not like she turned into some kindof alien-perfecto child. But, she can recover. She can control her emotions. She is happy and more level.
I also eliminated sugar for me. Ouch.
This was an act of empathy. Also I have wanted to do it for a while but have been unable to muster the courage. So, we made a trip to the store for some Stevia (I'm not giving up my coffee too!) and I threw away the donuts. Yep. Threw them right in the trash. I'm noticing some definite headaches and a bit of shakiness. I think I was more hooked on it than I had realized.
On the neighbor/moving front: We put an offer on a house and are waiting for the details of the renovation loan to be worked out. Yep, it's a fixer-upper. It looks kindof like a diner car from the outside and my childhood 1970's era home on the inside. (Good ol' 5th place) But, it has good bones, a great yard, beautiful trees and we can make as much noise as we please!
Prayer is appreciated. We hope to close on April 1 and then they are saying 30 days to do the work needed. Our landlord has agreed to let us out of our lease (!) and we are supposed to be moved by April 15. Where are we staying in between? Hmmm. Your guest room? Ha! God will provide - that I know.
God is so good and so surprising and so faithful. I can hardly sing His praises loudly enough.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|PCT number
|Publication date
|Jun 17, 1997
|Filing date
|Feb 12, 1993
|Priority date
|Feb 14, 1992
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Staffan Gunnarsson
|Original Assignee
|Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (21), Classifications (22), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to a system for communication, that is transmission of information, by means of microwaves in at least one direction between at least one data carrier, a so-called transponder and a terminal, a so-called central unit. The invention also relates to a communication unit to be used in such a system.
When moving objects short or long distances, that is commonly "object transportation" in its modern form there are demands for identification of the objects in question. These may be individual objects, pallets with objects, boxes or containers or other. The identification is important when considering efficiency or safety.
There is therefore a need for a system for reading data from the objects present in object transportation. Usually, these data are required to be forwarded to some superior system or centre. In certain cases it is desired to refer information to the objects from this centre, for example with the purpose to limit the demands on the geographical covering of the centre.
There are other areas, where there is a need to forward information from data carrying objects to a more or less distant centre, for example in connection with rental cars. Also human objects, that is persons, such as sportsmen on check-ups or persons for which safety check-ups are needed can be provided with data carriers, from which information can be transmitted to such a centre.
Hitherto it has proven difficult to achieve efficient systems of this kind. One suggestion has implied that the objects in question were provided with an optic code, for example a bar code, which was read with a manually carried reading pistol that was connected to a radio transmitter for communication with the superior system, that is the centre. Quite extensive apparatus is required for the purpose, as separate media are used for communication with the object, or rather the data carrying device on it, and communication with the centre. In practice, different physical units must be used for the optic reading and radio transmission, respectively. It is difficult to get general frequency permission for radio transmission, since different radio bands are allowed in different countries. Furthermore, communication at radio frequency does not admit compact directed antennae, which leads to high demands on transmitted effect and problems with interferences between different equipment.
Another proposed system for the transmission of information from objects to a centre is presented in PCT/US91/05234. Here, a communication unit is used to communicate, on one hand with a number of objects of different kinds, all provided with small radio transmitters, and on the other hand with a centre. In the first case FM radio waves of relatively low effect are used and in the second case FM radio waves of relatively high effect are used. The communication unit is provided with a memory. Such a system shows the same disadvantages as the one just mentioned, but is still more expensive, because every object must be provided with its own radio transmitter.
Moreover, none of the two mentioned systems admits that the information data on the objects are changed wirelessly.
A technique that has been used for a long time relates to so-called transponders, that is small units, which through radiation, especially with microwaves, are brought to emit a signal containing coded information. SE-364 677 with priority from 5 May 1970 describes identification of vehicles, equipped with transponders, which are activated through radiation with a microwave signal from a questioning station, that is a centre, which is rigidly mounted.
Transponders of this kind are also described in SE-750 3620 and SE-760 9732. The latter of these patents relates to an embodiment of a central unit and transponder, which admits that data are transmitted also from the central unit to the transponder.
Transponders can contain relatively great amounts of information, but they can only be read at a relatively short distance, in the order of a few meters. They are consequently not usable for the identification of goods in various situations, for example on a loading platform or airport, where difficulties are encountered with bringing the objects within reading distance from a central unit.
The object of the invention is to achieve a system of the kind mentioned in the introduction, which admits communication between a data carrier in the form of a transponder and a terminal, here called central unit, at relatively long distances, in flexible situations. The system shall be reliable, inexpensive in construction and in all useful without hindrance due to restrictions on permitted frequency ranges etc. Secondly, the system shall also admit that the information is forwarded from a central unit to a transponder.
According to the invention a system of the kind mentioned in the introduction is characterized in that it comprises a communication unit, provided with a first means for directed reception and transmission of information from a possibly to said transponder at a relatively short distance, and to and possibly from said central unit at a relatively long distance, the communication unit also being provided with a memory for the intermediate storing of such information.
Thus, a very flexible system is achieved for the identification of objects exposed to displacement, that is goods handling. The transponder has a good capacity for data and is insensitive to filth and mechanical damages. The transponder can either be of an exclusively reflecting type, as described in SE-750 3620, in which case no other energy is needed in the transponder than what is brought to it with the microwave that is emitted from the communication unit, or be provided with an internal battery, for supplying its modulation means, which increases the possible distance between the communication unit and the transponder. The technical embodiment of the transponder and the central unit is known, partly through said Swedish patents and partly through numerous later publications, and is therefore not described here. It may be mentioned, that a number of different modulation forms have been tested through a corresponding embodiment of the electronic circuits and components of the transponder, for modulation of the microwave incident of the transponder, that is "the questioning signal", with an identifying code.
In a preferred embodiment of the device the communication unit is provided with a second means for the manual feeding of information to it, for further transmission to the transponder or central unit. This can either be effected via the memory or directly to the transponder or central unit. This second means consists suitably of a key set, for example designed as the one used on modern telephone apparatus.
The antenna device of the communication unit can be designed in various ways with the aim to achieve directivity. It is suitable to use the same antenna device for both reception and transmission with active antenna elements in patch or dipole technique. Directivity can be achieved by grouping several antenna elements. Another way to achieve directivity is, as with a Yagi antenna, to arrange one or more resonant directors in the area immediately in front of the active antenna element, and in addition locate a signal reflector at a suitable distance behind the active antenna element. The directors can for example be designed as wire elements or metallic surfaces, while the reflector in a preferred embodiment consists of a surface, suitably of metal. To limit the physical extension along the radiation axis of the antenna the directors may be located in a dielectric material, through which arrangement their mutual distance can be limited relatively if they were located in air. The antenna device of the central unit can be omnidirectional.
In a preferred embodiment of the communication unit according to the invention it is arranged to communicate with both the transponder and the central unit by means of microwaves of essentially the same frequency.
A number of possibilities are at hand with regard to the modulation forms. For example, both amplitude and phase modulation occur between the transponder and the communication unit, as well as between the communication unit and the terminal. Examples of alternatives are pulse modulation ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying), PSK (Phase Shift Keying) and QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), each one of which methods can be used with different coding, for example with different forms of direct or differential frequency shift and phase shift.
In a preferred embodiment of the device, the communication unit comprises a third means for indicating the communication functions of the communication unit. Hereby, data can be checked in the information transmission, partly from the transponder and central unit and partly the data that are fed to the communication unit via the keys, if it is provided with such a function.
The invention will be described more in detail in the following with reference to the accompanying figures. On these it is shown by
FIG. 1 a diagram on a system according to the invention;
FIG. 2 a perspective view of a communication unit according to the invention,
FIG. 3 a block diagram on a communication unit on communication with a transponder, and
FIG. 4 a block diagram on a communication unit on communication with a central unit.
FIG. 1 shows a typical situation at a goods terminal, where the transportation objects 1, for example containers, shall be identified by a person 2. The transportation objects are provided with microwave transponders 3, which communicate, that is, are read and possibly written, with the aid of a carried communication unit 4.
After completed reading, the person turns at a terminal building at which a terminal 5 is located. By directing the communication unit 4 at the terminal 5 the read information from the transponders can be fed into the central system. The procedure can also take place in the opposite way, that is, first the person loads the communication unit with data from the terminal, and thereupon feeds data into the respective transponder.
Suitably, the unit is provided with a trigger 8 to initiate a communication sequence, and manoeuvering means 9 for switching between communication with terminal and transponder, writing or reading and for input of different parameter values on the communication. For example, a key set can be arranged on the communication unit so that certain data can be freely written into the transponders.
An indicator 10 is used for checking the status of the unit, and for displaying actual data. In the unit, a power source 11 is encompassed in the form of an accumulator or battery. The communication unit can additionally be provided with a data storing cassette, for example in the form of memory cards or data media.
FIG. 3 showns a way to effect transponder communication with the communication unit. Starting from a microwave oscillator 12, a signal 13 is led at for example 2.45 GHz to an antenna means 14. The antenna means emits the signal as a first microwave signal 15 to the antenna and modulation means 16 of a transponder unit, where a second microwave signal 17 in the form of information side bands is formed out of the memory contents of the transponder oscillator-memory circuit 18.
The second, data carrying microwave signal is referred back to the antenna means 14 of the communication unit, is forwarded therefrom as signal 19 to a mixer 20 to be mixed with signal 21a, of the same frequency as the first microwave signal 13.
After the mixing, the information sideband and emitted signal give a low frequency data signal 21b which in a data decoder 22 is converted to control and data signals for an intermediate storing memory 23 in the communication unit. Thus, data have now been transmitted from the transponder to the communication unit.
It is also possible to write data into the transponder. Data from the intermediate storing memory 23 can then act on the microwave generating in 12 in a way representitive of data, so that when the signal is received by the antenna means 16 of the transponder, the transponder memory circuits 18 can store data from the intermedite storing memory 23. Thus, data have been transmitted from the communication unit to the transponder.
FIG. 4 shows the transmission of intermediate storing data between the communication unit and terminal.
The intermediate memory 23, with data from the transponders, then affects the production of microwaves in 12 in a way representative of data so that a data signal 24 is formed to the antenna means 14.
When this is directed towards the antenna means 25 of the terminal, the microwave signal with modulated data 26 will be fed to a signal mixer 27 in the terminal, and there it is mixed with a microwave signal 28 of a nearby lying frequency, generated in the microwave oscillator 29. For example the signal 24 can be pulse modulated with data at 2.45 GHz, and when it is mixed with a signal at 2.46 GHz from the oscillator 29 it can generate a pulsed intermediate frequency 30 at 10 MHz which with good noise factor is received, amplified and decoded in the unit 31. Thus, data have been transmitted from the communication unit to the terminal and can be emitted to a superior system via the data line 32.
Data can also be led from the terminal to the communication unit, for example to acknowledge a received message from the communication unit. Hereby, data via the data line 33 can affect the production of microwave signals in 29 so that a modulated signal 34 is led to the antenna means 25 of the terminal to be radiated out in space. The signal, which for example can be pulse modulated, is caught by the antenna means 14 of the communication unit and is led to the mixer 20 where it is mixed with a nereby lying microwave frequency from 12, to be received and decoded with good sensitivity in the decoding unit 22.
With the purpose to make sure that the message reaches the correct destination and with sender identity it is also suitable to include identification codes in the signal, not only from the transponders but also from the communication unit and terminal.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Oct 14, 1994
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Combined turnovers reshape global legal market as City heavyweight rubs shoulders with the transatlantic elite
A new global pecking order dominated by multijurisdictional giants is reflected in The Lawyer's preliminary global top 50.
The results, published today in the annual Transatlantic Elite, reveal the impact of the rampant consolidation driven primarily by US- and UK-headquartered firms. The table features a growing proportion of firms that are either headquartered in the UK or managed jointly by UK and US partners.
The combined turnover resulting from last year's merger of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells is included, as is the combined global revenue of DLA Piper.
Key to the increasing prominence of the UK on the world stage is the emergence of Norton Rose as a global top 50 firm. Last year the firm's revenue, boosted by its January 2010 merger with Australia's Deacons, hit £484m ($814m).
The firm's 2010-11 figure does not include income from its mergers with Canadian firm Ogilvy Renault and South African firm Deneys Reitz, which went live on 1 June this year.
The rise places Norton Rose 32nd in the table, above UK rivals Herbert Smith and Slaughter and May. When ranked by other metrics, Norton Rose performs less well. For example, the firm's revenue per lawyer figure of just $497,000 leaves it bottom of the table.
Norton Rose group chief executive Peter Martyr said: "The expansion of the group is a major step towards fulfilling our strategic aim of becoming one of the leading global providers of legal services. This year we've also become a top 10 international firm by number of lawyers."
The inclusion of Norton Rose, Hogan Lovells and DLA Piper, all structured as Swiss Vereins, will no doubt be controversial, particularly among firms that operate as a single partnership and share profits fully.
Sir Nigel Knowles, joint CEO at DLA Piper, said the "vast majority" of firms active in multiple countries employ more than one operating entity due to tax, regulatory, risk and currency issues.
"We find the Swiss Verein model, which is one approach to managing the financial and other relationships between the operating entities, completely enabling in terms of building and developing our business and allowing us to deliver a consistent level of service for our clients across the markets in which we operate," said Knowles.
Peter Kalis, chairman of non-Verein firm K&L Gates, argued that clients and partners would be "the final arbiter".
Kalis added: "The debate will focus, at least in part, on whether Vereins can match across their internal profit borders the seamless client service of single law firms; whether Vereins can maintain the attorney-client privilege in the face of one or more judicial rulings that Vereins contain independent law firms; whether Vereins take the high road on client conflicts and address them as single law firms do; and whether partners in Vereins really wish to struggle across profit borders while trying to serve global clients."
Official figures for the UK magic circle – Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters – will not be available until July and so have been estimated following discussions with sources at those firms.
This year's Transatlantic Elite has taken a sector-led approach for the first time, focusing on the boom of M&A activity in the global energy and natural resources market.
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