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2018 ASAP Global Alliance Summit To Provide New Business Perspectives and Proven Leadership Practices
Posted By John W. DeWitt and Cynthia Hansen, Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Some 50-plus seasoned alliance managers and business insiders to share their know-how and valuable content in the form of sessions, workshops, talks, and panel discussions from 35-plus leading companies, educational institutions, and consultancies
The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), an international association dedicated to the leadership and practice of alliance management, partnering, and business collaboration, announced the theme for the 2018 Global Alliance Summit: "Propelling Partnering for the On-Demand World: New Perspectives + Proven Practices for Collaborative Business," to be held March 26-28 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The largest international management education opportunity of its kind, participants have access to the latest trends in the profession from a range of leading industry thought leaders providing groundbreaking talks, practical workshops, and cutting-edge sessions.
The 2018 Summit particularly emphasizes programming for veteran alliance mangers that focuses on how to apply leading edge practices and seasoned know- how at a time of considerable change with increasing multi-industry partnering. The thought leaders representing numerous industry verticals will include influential c-level and senior executives from Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
The Summit will provide a rich mix of:
Fifty-plus facilitators, speakers, and panelists representing 35-plus industry-leading companies, educational institutions, and consultancies
Twenty-eight education sessions and in-conference workshops
Ten-plus hours of business development and networking opportunities
Eight different in-conference tracks
Six pre-conference workshops
A biopharma leadership panel session
The renowned ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards ceremony
Ample networking opportunities and an engaging roundtable session
Strong international participation in past Summits has created a diverse, global, cross-cultural climate with 25 percent attendance from countries such as Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Summit is offering intensive leadership-related pre-conference workshops Monday, March 26, on topics such as ASAP's newly launched in-house TE-AM Training, another on overcoming obstacles and conflict, leveraging the new ISO 44001 Collaborative Business Relationship Management Standard, Game Theory in strategic decision making and negotiations, Alliance Management 201 as a follow-up to the 101 session, and CA-AM exam preparation.
The event will start off Tuesday, March 27, with a timely keynote address by tech insider Tim Minahan, senior vice president of business strategy and chief marketing officer at Citrix. A leader in global marketing strategy and operations, he is responsible for securely deliver the world's most important apps and data. A tech eclectic, Minahan has served in a broad range of business leadership roles at leading enterprise software, cloud, and services firms. He is particularly adept at defining new markets and positioning companies to own them. He previously spearheaded SAP's successful transition to the cloud as CMO of the company's cloud and line-of-business unit. He joined SAP when the company acquired Ariba, where he was Ariba's global CMO and senior vice president of business network strategy where he led the commercial strategy for the Ariba Network, the world's largest and most global business network. He also oversaw the design and execution of go-to-market programs and marketing initiatives to fuel Ariba's growth as a leading cloud company.
Before the day's close, attendees will be privy to the winners of the ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards, a big favorite as companies are honored for their alliance capabilities in specific categories. The Summit will also highlight four scheduled plenaries from top-level speakers: two from pharma companies, including Mark Noguchi, Roche's VP and global head of alliances and asset management and Lucinda Warren, VP, business development, neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson Innovation; two from high tech companies, including Russ Cobb, global VP of alliances and channels at SAS and Wayne Usie, senior vice president & chief market development officer at JDA Software. The remainder of the Summit will include a wide variety of sessions in eight different tracks that are geared toward enhancing alliance performance, such as the life sciences, tech, and leadership. The Summit will be strongly weighted toward higher-level alliance education, such as how to think strategically and how to drive collaborative leadership throughout an organization. A new, particularly strong leadership panel session will be comprised of biopharma executives David Thompson, CA-AM, CAO at Eli Lilly and Company; Mark Noguchi, VP and global head of alliances and asset management at Roche; Casey Caperelli, head of alliance and integration management at Amgen; Nancy Griffin, CA-AM, VP of alliances with Novartis.
Attendees can expect to receive strong content from recurring Summit rainmakers, such as:
Ben Gomes-Casseres, CSAP, Brandeis University and author of Remix Strategy partnered with Greg McGahan, PwC deals partner and alliances/joint venture practice leader, in their session "Alliances in Corporate Development: Back to the Future?"
Stuart Kliman, a partner and head of alliance management practice at Vantage Partners with "Realizing the Value of Non-Traditional Partnerships in Pharma/Biotech and Technology"
Jan Twombly, CSAP, president, The Rhythm of Business, and Jeff Shuman, CSAP, principal, The Rhythm of Business, and professor of management, Bentley University with "Joint Development of Complex Solutions Requires Extreme Partnering"
Joe Schramm, vice president strategic alliances, BeyondTrust, and Morgan Wheaton, senior director, global partner alliances & channels, JDA Software with "Partnering with Change in a World of Ongoing Disruption"
Dr. Ard-Pieter de Man, CSAP, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with "Building Your Collaborative Business Model"
Additionally, a mix of sessions will be providing strategic perspectives and management insights in a range of industries, such as:
"Architecting for Transformation: The Next Generation Partner Ecosystem," by Russ Cobb, global vice president alliances and channels, SAS Institute, and Norma Watenpaugh, CSAP, founding principal, Phoenix Consulting Group
"How to Optimize Value and Gracefully End Alliance Relationships," by Jeff Hurley, CA-AM, alliance management director, Eli Lilly and Company, and Ron McRae, CSAP, director of alliance management, Janssen Biotech
"Alliance Management: A Growing, Enterprise-wide Activity," by Karen Denton, CA-AM, alliance management director, BD&L alliance management, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and Christoph Huwe, CA-AM, PhD, strategic alliance manager therapeutics, global external innovation & alliances, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
"Centralized vs. Decentralized Alliance Organizations: How to Survive and Thrive in Both Ecosystems!", by Tony DeSpirito, CSAP, vice president/general manager of operation services, Schneider Electric, and Scott San Antonio, CA-AM, global director for IoT and edge compute alliances, Schneider Electric
This is a representative selection of what's on the docket. For more information about the Summit keynote, agenda, sessions, workshops, and other programming, go to: http://asapsummit.org/.
Tags: Amgen Bayer Casey Caperelli Cindy Warren Citrix Eli Lilly and Company Janssen Biotech Jeff Hurley Joe Schramm Johnson and Johnson Innovation Karen Denton Mark Noguchi Nancy Griffin Novartis Roche Ron McRae Russ Cobb SAS Institute Schneider Electric Tim Minahan Tony DeSpirito Wayne Usie
Pervasiveness of the 'Alliance Journey': ASAP president's opener reflects on Summit challenges with humor on how our alliance journey can involve surprisingly high waters, police escorts, and fire
Posted By Cynthia B. Hanson, Thursday, March 30, 2017
Updated: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
"Come hell or high water" is an apt description of this year's pre-Summit preparations in "sunny" San Diego for the 2017 ASAP Global Alliance Summit "Profit, Innovation, and Value for the Partnering Enterprise." A unique "alliance journey" is how Michael Leonetti, CSAP, president and CEO of ASAP, summed it up in his clever opener in the Marriot Mission Valley hotel ballroom. Record-setting torrential rain and the swollen San Diego River set the stage for a unique gathering fraught with "headaches"—but fortunately laced with humor. Sound familiar?
"It was raining, and we were ready to go, getting ready for board meetings, et cetera, and then the hotel had a fire with actual smoke, people leaving the building, people refusing to leave. That's when it started to remind me of an alliance journey," Leonetti quipped. "The next day in 'sunny San Diego,' there was the rain again. We were setting up an executive committee meeting … and things started to come unglued," he said while flashing a slide behind him of soggy hotel ceiling opening to the elements.
But in spite of it all, "We had a great day, a great discussion on how to make ASAP great," Leonetti said. "It just never stops with you alliance managers," he joked to the roaring audience.
Leonetti praised the audience for their perseverance with flight delays and taxi mishaps. Disruption is a component of any alliance journey, he pointed out, and that's especially true when your hotel is surrounded by a "moat."
"I've heard some amazing stories," he quipped. "Some of you arrived in canoes, fire engines, and police cars" because of the rising waters of the San Diego River. "Some got to Qualcomm Way, and the cab driver said 'get out.' A couple grabbed their bags, started walking to the hotel, and walked through water up to their knees. Then the police escorted them."
"Next morning, I wake up and the San Diego River is behind the hotel, and the hotel is surrounded by water. Which is when some of you did some amazing things to get here. We're going to have a great meeting because you're here," he said to rousing applause. "And we've worked hard, so get ready for a great ride!"
And it was. The weather turned a sunny 70 degrees, and participants enjoyed outdoor networking sessions and abundant quality content. Summit highlights included the ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards (http://www.strategic-alliances.org/blogpost/1143942/269640/Exemplary-Alliance-Management-Practices-Receive-Accolades-and-Honors-at-ASAP-s-2017-Alliance-Excellence-Awards-Ceremony), followed by a well-attended session "Meet the 2017 ASAP Alliance Excellence Award Winners," monitored by Anthony DeSpirito, CSAP, Schneider Electric. Also of note: an engaging leadership forum, ASAP Aquarium, four outstanding plenary talks, and an engrossing keynote by Alex Dickinson, PhD, founder and executive chairman for ChromaCode and recent senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the San Diego-based DNA sequencing leader Illumina. Dickinson's address, "The New Convergence: Life Science + Tech + Government," discussed the complexity of partnering as DNA sequencing and genomics technology companies, research institutions, healthcare providers, and many others (such as life insurers) have converged around an explosion of applications that leverage cloud computing for large-scale DNA sequencing, storage, and usage of genomics data.
Scroll through this blog site for additional coverage of the dynamic plenary presentations (similar in format and content to TED Talks), captivating workshops, and a wide selection of engaging sessions, which will continue to be posted through April.
Tags: Alex Dickinson Alliance Excellence Awards Alliance Managers Anthony DeSpirito ASAP Global Alliance Summit ChromaCode Government healthcare providers Life Science Michael Leonetti Schneider Electric Tech
'If You Are Looking for Answers, You Are in the Wrong Session': Finding the Value of IoT in the Brave New World of Mega-Multi-Partnering
Posted By Cynthia B. Hanson, Monday, June 27, 2016
Solving the challenge of partnering in the Internet of Things has become a major puzzle for even the most skilled alliance executives. It's a complex Rubik's Cube of possibilities with multiple cross-industry, interlinking combinations.
Take, for example, Joan Meltzer, CSAP, IBM alliance executive for Twitter and former smarter cities go-to-market leader at IBM Analytics, and a 36-year veteran at IBM Corp.; Mary Beth Hall, director of product development for IoT at Verizon, where she has worked for the past 20 years; Tony DeSpirto, CSAP, managing director of strategic accounts at Schneider Electric. These seasoned alliance leaders manipulated the Rubik's Cube in a panel discussion moderated by Jan Twombly, CSAP, president of The Rhythm of Business, entitled "Capturing the Value of IoT" at the March 1-4 2016 ASAP Global Alliance Summit, "Partnering Everywhere: Expert Leadership for the Ecosystem," held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland. Here are some snippets from their provocative conversation:
Joan: If you are looking for answers, you are in the wrong session. We are all good at managing our jobs one-on-one. If there is any area that companies can't do it alone, it's IoT. It's very complex. We still need the discipline of alliance management and strategy, and we still need to think value creation and capture to put out the whole value chain—it's how the partners are going to make money.
Tony: Schneider Electric is focused on the industrial IoT. We are in the infrastructure of everything. What we are struggling with now is how do we make money in IoT? We see value in data, but it needs to be processed through analytics. How to value the partners you have is part of the equation.
Mary Beth: Verizon has been a Telecom business for the last 20 years and is now shifting to a technology company. I am managing our ThingSpace platform [designed to simplify the development and launch of IoT applications]. How many people have an Apple watch or app for phone tracking health? That's one example of how Verizon is making money. Think about a smart sneaker, a sensor in a sneaker that tracks cadence and whether you are hydrated. How do we proliferate that? Is Nike willing to allow us to put partners in their ecosystem that were competitors? Fitbit and MyFitnessPal are allowing potential competitors into that space. We as thought leaders in that space need to adapt to that. How do we do that? There's not one player at the table any more, there are six or seven, and that is really changing the way we market things.
Tony: We in this room are unencumbered by that to a certain degree. As alliance managers, we have an ability and obligation to seek out these new business models. Thinking of how we will make money in two or ten years, the ideas are not going to come from executive management. They are going to come from peers in the room. You need to say "yes," and figure out how it will be done. For most executives, it's an uncomfortable thing to turn that "yes" into a repeatable model.
Joan: It's like sitting at a table with an elevator and escalator company, and working with them together. The elevator manufacturer is about maintenance. With IoT, the elevator can connect with the escalator, and that's a new revenue stream. The functionality evolves into our revenue stream.
Mary Beth: We need to put it together for the customer. That is some of the challenge we have seen at Verizon. Partners and customers require treading on new ground for partnership models with the unique needs of customers in mind. For example, there is a winery on the West Coast. They need to be able to fertilize the ground. We are helping provide data for the soil. It's not a hard thing for us as technologists, but it is for farmers who are not used to be in that data space. And they can in turn sell it to other wineries.
Tony: How many of your companies have IoT initiatives? Our senior leadership is thinking about how they can make their numbers today, so it's all the more incumbent upon us to blaze that trail and show them where that value is. The fundamentals of partnering don't change. It's still basic blocking and tackling. The people you are talking with might change, and the executive management of a company might need more partnering intelligence.
Mary Beth: In terms of driving change at Verizon, I am in the product role. When the product was fully ready for customers, we would launch. Now we can't do that. We're moving from a command-and-control leadership to a more servant leadership. I'm in the product and new business group, and you're going to see some cool stuff coming out of Verizon that you haven't seen before.
Joan: You need to figure out the whole chain to deliver the solution. We started to see that in the cloud. But there is a gap in the solution where we don't always have access to the marketplace.
Mary Beth: Sometimes it's about looking at a new market in a new way. Putting things together in new ways to get leadership to buy into it. Show them a little bit of what it looks like.
Jan: The fundamentals of partnering are the same, but how do you keep the same with six to seven partners? How do you make sure everyone is getting the value?
Tony: The concept doesn't change. I believe that when you try to get six to seven people to agree, it won't happen. There will always be someone who will win and lose because of the complexity. When things are tough, I go back to the fundamentals, like let's get together at least once a quarter.
Mary Beth: We had to break the barrier between legally what we felt we could do and what the market was asking for. We said "We are going to open everything up, we are breaking down barriers." We put in governance around the partners in that space, and they are partners that are reselling that service. But the complexity in IoT is still there. We are desperately trying to simplify it. We are not there yet.
Joan: We are all about repeatability, but you have to have assets that are repeatable. With smart cities, we are able to package things up and periscope it. I expect the same thing to happen with IoT. But you may not be able to resell that solution. I hope next year we will be able to talk about repeatability because none of us can afford to be in an on-and-off business.
Tony: We need to get our leaders out of the comfort zone. That's what we get paid for.
Joan: You need a really solid project manager who will require everyone to come together. Ask what's hot? Healthcare, the automotive industry, airplanes—anything with asset management is very hot.
Tony: With the industrial portion of manufacturing, the technology on the factory floor is 30 to 40 years old. That's slowly opening up. There is money to be made in the data that is involved in manufacturing. That is a data rich environment.
Mary Beth: Simplify the complexities with your partners, be innovative, and finally, don't be afraid to go after something you think is there.
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How to Manage Mega-scale Partnering in the Era of the Internet of Things from the Vantage Point of Schneider Electric
Posted By Cynthia B. Hanson, Thursday, January 28, 2016
When it comes to Schneider Electric, the company operates in a seemingly unlimited world of opportunities for establishing connections. Its partnering mantra seems to be "think globally and act locally, globally, and everywhere in between."
Now add the Internet of Things, and Schneider is broadening its scope to partner in complex and creative ways with some of the biggest companies in the world, such as Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and IBM Corporation. That's the topic Anthony DeSpirito, CSAP, managing director, strategic accounts at Schneider Electric, is scheduled to address during the panel discussion "Capturing the Value of the Internet of Things" March 1–4, 2016, at the ASAP Global Alliance Summit "Partnering Everywhere: Expert Leadership for the Ecosystem," at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA. The discussion will focus on generating revenue from the complex partnering and business models driven by IoT. Other participants scheduled for the panel discussion are Nancy M. Green, global practice lead, healthcare strategy & thought leadership, at Verizon Enterprise Solutions and Joan Meltzer, CSAP, smarter cities go-to-market leader at IBM Analytics, IBM Corporation.
Schneider currently manages more than $30 billion in energy for 4,500 clients in 147 countries. The company integrates solutions in large numbers of physical structures, such as electrical and SCADA systems (data acquisitions and control systems for power or water treatment systems), and has access to vast amounts of data about the physical environment. The information is then provided to an analytics platform that turns physical data into information that allows partners, such as Verizon and IBM, to make better-informed decisions.
Such complex, mega-scale strategic alliances require large teams and significant investments of time for planning. Schneider has 14 alliance managers. Key components need to fall into place for mega-partnership to fly: "Alignment is absolutely critical at the executive level," DeSpirito pointed out during a recent interview.
For example, Schneider's alliance with IBM to provide cutting-edge cloud services for the utility industries required the fundamental first step of having problem-solving meetings at the executive vice president level. "Once they agreed, it … cascaded throughout the organizations. Now the sales areas have agreement, and there is a cadence of communications between the two teams doing workshops and basic education. Now we need to bring discipline and cadence through quarterly business reviews," he explained.
The early-stage, innovative ADMS cloud-based service solution could radically change the utility industry if it gains regulatory approval because it could provide services to utilities that can't afford ADMS as a stand-alone product. Electrical power plants use a distribution management software system called DMS that allows them to be efficient in production and distribution. Schneider's system is ADMS, where "A" stands for Advanced. The system is "much more customizable, much more efficient, and allows a utility to become more productive," he says. If a proof of concept with ADMS that is underway in Canada is successful, "we anticipate it will move into production, … which should manifest itself in lower operation costs, cheaper electric, and allow us to go to smaller utilities," he explained.
From a partnering standpoint, this is a brand new business model, and also an example of the complex alliance management planning often required in large company alliances, DeSpirito added. "This is not just buying and selling software and space in a data center."
Tags: ADMS alliance management alliances Cisco Systems cloud DMS electrical and SCADA systems IBM Corporation IoT Joan Meltzer Microsoft Nancy M. Green Schneider Electric Tony DeSpirito utilities utility industry Verizon Enterprise Solutions
A "Get Smart" Opportunity for Alliance Managers—ASAP Smart Cities Summit in Brussels to Improve Partnering Practices for Industries and Planners
Posted By Cynthia Hanson, Friday, May 1, 2015
In the last decade or so, we've incorporated Smartphones, cars, appliances, and other technologies into our daily lives. Now this technology and planning are merging at a mega-scale to create Smart Cities to form the best combinations of the smarts. Alliance managers have a mega-role in this trend, and the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals has jumped on the bandwagon with a ASAP EU Smart Cities event, in Brussels, Belgium, June 12, at the Brussels44Center, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to create smart alliances from master planners and technology gurus to develop best alliances practices for the future.
Annick De Swaef of Consensa Consulting, president of the BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Chapter of ASAP in Brussels, and an ASAP EPP (Education Partner Provider) (see Q1 2015, Strategic Alliance Magazine, "Europe's Alliance Evangelist," Pg. 34) is on the cusp of this trend as moderator and local co-organizer of the event. "The purpose of the Smart Cities event is to bring together a variety of professionals involved in designing and implementing Smart Cities project consortia, alliances, and eco-systems," she says. "The event aims to assemble different industries—from engineering and construction to telecom and technology."
For more information and registration, visit http://www.strategic-alliances.org/page/smartcities .
The first global ASAP EU Smart Cities event of its kind will be attended by both international and local participants, as well as representatives from both large and small enterprises. The Smart Cities committee decided to locate the global event in Brussels because it's the capital of the European Union and the European Commission and European Parliament are located at the center. The metropolitan is also home for many European agencies directly involved in Smart Cities programs across Europe.
The event promises to provide some of the best Smart Cities experts in the industry, such as British architect and urban designer Kelvin Campbell, chair of Smart Urbanism, an open-source urban research and development organization; Dr. Henriette van Eijl, policy coordinator of the Directorate of "Innovative and Sustainable Mobility" in the European Commission's Directorate-general for Mobility and Transport (MOVE); Kim Möric, a renowned legal advisor in European administrative and public law, partner at DLA Piper UK LLP, and Chairman of the nonprofit organization "PPP Wallonie-Bruxelles: réseau de competences" (PPP Network). For the schedule of events, visit http://www.strategic-alliances.org/page/smartcities .
The European Union has launched an ambitious Investment Plan for Europe, worth €315 billion, to encourage investment in strategic projects, such as ones aimed at developing Smart Cities, De Swaef explains. "Different economic and societal challenges need to be tackled urgently in the coming decade in Europe. In one form or another most of these challenges relate to leveraging the existing housing, transport, energy, and digital infrastructure into sustainable drivers for growth and welfare. For ASAP, it's the right timing to intensify the promotion of the alliance management discipline as a tangible added value for companies to participate successfully in Smart Cities initiatives across Europe."
ASAP sponsored two Smart Cities events in the United States last year in conjunction with Schneider Electric through the New England and Southeast Chapters. The global Smart Cities event is sponsored by ARCADIS, SAS Institute, and Schneider Electric.
The cost to attend is €200 for ASAP Members, and €450 for non-members click here to register today. If non-members join ASAP BEFORE registering for the event they will save €250 on their event registration. Join ASAP online by clicking here or call Lori Gold, Director of Member Services at +1 781.562-1630 ext. 203.
Tags: Alliance Management alliance practices Annick De Swaef ARCADIS ASAP EU Smart Cities Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals Brussels44Center European Commission European Union SAS Institute Schneider Electric smart alliances smart cities
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Real Madrid: Defender Achraf Hakimi eyed by Juventus
Juventus have identified Achraf Hakimi – currently on loan at Borussia Dortmund from Real Madrid – as a summer transfer target.
That is according to a report in Calciomercato, which highlights how right-back has been a priority position for strengthening for the Bianconeri, who have failed to replace Dani Alves since his 2017 exit.
Mattia De Sciglio, Danilo and Joao Cancelo are among the players to have not worked out in the position for Juve while even winger Juan Cuadrado has had to fill in there.
Last month, a report in Diario AS said Madrid want Achraf back at the club for next season but are aware they would not be able to guarantee him first-team football and were in a dilemma over his future.
The defender arrived in Germany on a two-year long loan deal in the summer of 2018 and is now entering the final months of that arrangement.
It is unclear where his future lies – he appears to have regular game-time at Dortmund while at Madrid, his preferred position of right-back is already occupied by Dani Carvajal with Alvaro Odriozola and Nacho Fernandez also in that position.
"Real Madrid are the club I call home," Hakimi told Telefoot, in quotes cited by Diario AS.
"I've really enjoyed my time there and played lots of games there. If Real Madrid want me to go back, I'll go back. And if not, I will need to write the next chapter at another great club."
The player told Cadena Ser in February: "Returning to Madrid is what my contract says, but anything can happen in June and we will see what happens in the summer.
"In my head, I have to want to be playing and keep growing where I am given first-team opportunities, like has been the case here in Germany.
"I want to showcase the player that I am and do what I enjoy doing the most – playing football."
In January, Marca reported Bayern Munich have approached Madrid over the player and it is said that the German champions valued his versatility.
Hakimi, 21, has already amassed 22 caps for Morocco, including all three group matches at the 2018 World Cup.
The full-back had represented the Bundesliga title challengers 33 times last season and was largely very impressive before being ruled out for the remainder of the campaign in March.
He has once again return to action this season and has appeared in 36 games since the summer including a starring performance in November's 3-2 win over Inter in the Champions League – where he netted twice.
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In plain English, the goal of the competition is to predict the difference between the Zestimate and the actual sales price of homes. This may help Zillow identify where their algorithm falls short.
Kaggle provided real estate data from three counties in and around Los Angeles, CA. Each observation had 56 features; no additional features from outside data sources were allowed in the analysis. The data was split into two files: a training set with the actual logerror and feature information for 90,725 properties and a prediction set with only the feature information for 2,985,217 properties. Submissions were scored based on the mean absolute error across all predictions.
Since we had only two weeks to complete the project, we implemented a workflow with four major components: exploratory data analysis (EDA), handling missingness, feature engineering, and modeling. As shown below, we repeated the process to improve our model until the project deadline.
As illustrated above, the process was iterated, tuned and recycled until the project deadline when final submissions were due.
We began by exploring the training and test data to gain more insight into the overall task. As we were predicting log error and training our models on a subset of data, we first wanted to ensure that the data was normally distributed. This is an important step for maintaining the consistent distribution and performance. If we randomly split our training data into a training and test set, the model can perform differently on our test data if we do not have the same type of distribution.
There is a Gaussian (normal) distribution to the log error; this means that the random sample we use to test our model will have the same distribution as our overall data, and we can guard against overfitting.
In order to begin to understand which of the 56 features were useful for our models, we looked at the absolute log error in relation to some categorical variables. For example, we can see that the absolute log error distribution is closer to 0 for higher quality buildings.
We also visualized the data using latitude and longitude to identify any additional features that might help us predict the error more accurately.
In the visualization above, pockets of newer homes are highlighted. Looking at the log error (transformed for the purposes of this graph), we can see that Zillow does a better job of predicting the actual sale price for newer homes.
One of the major pitfalls of building a predictive model is overfitting. A model that has been overfitted will perform well on training data but fail to accurately predict new observations. In order to address this, we compared the training data to the prediction data.
Overall, the distributions of the training and test data (full properties set) were similar. There were some slight differences which may have impacted the accuracy of our models.
Given the total number of features, we looked at the correlation of numerical features with both the absolute log error and each other to identify variables that might be particularly helpful in prediction.
While we did not find any numerical variables strongly correlated to the absolute log error, we did identify groups of correlated features.
We also used Principal Component Analysis (PCA), to find groups of related variables. The PCA biplot (shown above) groups correlated variables. The closer the features are to one another, the more positively correlated they are. Features across from each other are negatively correlated. As expected, PCA grouped the tax variables and variables indicating home size (e.g., bedroom count, bathroom count) together. These analyses helped us understand the relationships between features in our data set.
Both the training and test data had a large number of missing values that required or attention. In the training data alone, 17 variables had over 90% missingness.
In the base case, we utilized three imputation techniques. First, we identified several binary variables and imputed with 0 and 1. Second, we imputed continuous numerical variables using the mean and discrete numerical variables using the mode. Next, for variables with a larger percentage of missingness, we imputed randomly, using a weighted distribution of observed values in an attempt to maintain the original distribution.
Following imputation, we dropped variables based on three principles: extreme missingness, duplication, and zero variance. Variables with over 90% missingness and no feasible way to determine the correct value were dropped. If variables captured the same information, such as FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard code) and Zip Code, we only kept one. Finally, variables with the same value across all observations were dropped as they would have had no impact on our model.
We also created new variables based on our findings from PCA, including Total Room Count (bedrooms + bathrooms), Age of Home (2017 - year built), and Value Ratio (parcel tax ÷ property tax).
We began by fitting a multiple linear regression model to our data to better understand how our features related to each other and impacted log error. As with any line, the regression line is described by an equation that relates the predictor and response variables by assigning coefficients to the predictor variables. The coefficient is the "influence" of the predictor on the response, holding all other predictor variables constant. The equation for the regression line is the predictive "model." In the equation below, the 𝜷 are the coefficients, the "xi" are the predictor variables and the "yi" is the prediction.
Fitting a linear model requires a number of assumptions: homoscedasticity of residuals, independence of errors, linearity, normally distributed residuals and independence of predictor variables. Our model violated most of these assumptions, but we proceeded for the sake of exploration. We tried some standard transformations (e.g., Box Cox) to address these violations, but they did not yield better results.
As anticipated, model effectiveness with regards to Adjusted R^2 did not improve by much, but it was interesting to see the significant predictors across the different methods.
The other models we used for this project fell into the regression tree-based category. Tree-based modeling is based on a structure in which the data is partitioned repeatedly at each "decision node" to minimize the residual sum of squares (RSS), or the distance of each point to the average of that group in the partition.
Tree-based algorithms implement a recursive binary splitting approach to "grow" the tree that is both "top-down" and "greedy." "Top-down" means that the data set is split into binary components successively starting with one, initial node. "Greedy" means that splits at each node are based on the option with the best possible outcome at that node, not based upon a future segmentation that may lead to a better final result.
One downfall of this approach is that it may lead to overfitting. In the extreme case, each observation would have its own partition (aka terminal node). In this case, the RSS would equal 0, but the model would perform poorly if required to predict a new observation that is not in the data set.
Bootstrap Aggregation (aka "Bagging") is a method to mitigate against over-fitting by simulating a larger training data set to reduce overall variance. Bootstrapping takes a sample of observations with replacement from the training set to create a new data set with an equal number of observations. To estimate the testing error of a bagged model, the model predicts the response for "out of bag" observations that were not used to grow the tree. The results are then averaged to calculate the out of bag error.
Random forest is an ensembling, tree-based modeling technique that uses bootstrapped training sets to build a "forest" of decision trees. Random forest helps decrease correlation and reduce model variance by randomly selecting a subset of predictors to analyze at each node of the decision tree. Overfitting is unlikely due to the random, de-correlated nature of the tree building process.
GBM builds trees sequentially using the residuals from the previous trees to build the next tree. Given a decision tree model, we fit a new tree to the residuals of the current tree. The new decision tree (based on the residuals) is then added to the current decision tree, and the residuals are updated. To combat overfitting, the tree depth (number of splits away from the initial node) is limited, and a learning rate (shrinkage rate) is introduced.
For all models, K-fold cross-validation was performed in order to prevent overfitting and search for the optimal hyperparameter settings over a tuning grid. K-fold cross-validation involves splitting the data into K folds, setting one fold aside, training a model with the other folds and testing with the fold that was set aside. The results are then averaged together for a single estimation with reduced variance. Due to time and computing power limitations, we limited our analyses to 5 and 10-fold cross-validation.
We also partitioned 25% of our training data and held it out for testing before we trained a full model with all training data. This helped us quickly assess model performance without predicting log error for 2,985,217 observations and submitting our prediction to Kaggle for feedback.
Hyperparameters are the "higher-level" model properties that have an effect on the model training process (e.g., learning/shrinkage rate, tree depth). Our team used a grid search to obtain optimal hyperparameter settings for all models considered. Conceptually, a grid search iterates a model through a hyperparameter grid to find the combination of hyperparameters that minimizes the loss function (or maximizes the objective function, i.e. ROC). We also used a random search for optimal hyperparameters, but the results were similar and the random search took much longer than the standard grid search.
With more time, we would have attempted a Bayesian Optimization hyperparameter strategy since research suggests that this technique yields better results while expending less computational power and taking less time. Bayesian Optimization retains information from previously sampled points when searching for the global minimum/maximum of the objective function.
We treated the results from our first round of modeling as a baseline and returned to the beginning of our workflow to try to improve our models. We implemented several strategies independently to see how they would affect our results.
Trimming Features by Importance: In order to reduce model complexity, we aggregated the most important features from each of our best initial model runs and chose 11 features to test. Reducing model complexity actually reduced the accuracy of our models.
Additional Feature Engineering: We created additional features based on the most important features in our initial models. For example, we created a metric to represent the ratio of the home's structure tax to its land tax. Some of these features improved the accuracy of our predictions and were used in predicting our final submission for log error.
Adding External Features: Although not formally allowed by the Kaggle competition rules, we wanted to see if adding external features would help predict logerror. We incorporated several variables from the Census Bureau's 2015 American Community Survey, including median income, population, and monthly housing costs. Unfortunately, adding these features did not improve our results.
Re-Imputation: In our second attempt, we used a "simpler" imputation strategy. Features that were originally imputed with a random weighted sample were instead imputed with either the mean or mode. This method did improve our results.
Handling of Outliers: Several features in our data set had outliers (observations greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean). We suspected these outliers might be affecting our model performance and tried a few strategies to replace them, including replacing them with the median and complete removal. All of these strategies decreased the predictive power of our models.
Ensemble Learning: Ensemble learning is used in machine learning because the generalization ability (predictive power) of an ensemble is greater than a single "learner" (model). For the best results, correlation between learners should be minimized - where one model is deficient, another might excel. Ensemble learning did not improve our results, likely due to high model correlation.
Given the amount of missing data and relatively large number of features in this project, imputation strategy and feature engineering were very important with respect to reducing prediction error. Using a simple imputation strategy was the most significant factor to improving our results.
With more time, we would continue to iterate on our workflow and introduce new strategies to improve our model results. There were several modeling techniques that the team did not have a chance to explore due to time constraints, including Neural Networks and Support Vector Regression. Given the importance of choosing the right imputation method, we would attempt methods that require more time and computational power, such as KNN.


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Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti, Ngāti Te Whatu-i-āpiti or Ngāi Te Whatuiāpiti is a Māori hapū (subtribe or branch) of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

The hapū were descended from Te Whatuiāpiti, who was a great-grandson of Taewhā, himself a son of Rākei-hikuroa, the grandson of Kahungunu, and his second wife. Ngāi Whatuiāpiti had a fierce rivalry with Ngāi Te Upokoiri, which was descended from Taraia, a son of Rākei-hikuroa and his first wife.

Marae and wharenui

Central Hawke's Bay District
The hapū is associated with three marae (meeting grounds) and wharenui (meeting houses) in Central Hawke's Bay District:

 Mataweka marae and Nohomaiterangi wharenui on Tapairu Road at Waipawa
 Pukehou marae and Keke Haunga wharenui on State Highway 2 at Pukehou
 Te Whatuiāpiti marae and Te Whatuiāpiti wharenui on Te Aute Trust Road in the Pātangata area and north-east of Ōtāne

Hastings District
The hapū is associated with two marae (meeting grounds) and wharenui (meeting houses) in Hastings District:

 Kahurānaki marae and wharenui on State Highway 2 at Te Hauke
 Korongatā marae and Nukanoa wharenui on Maraekakaho Road at Bridge Pā

Notable people

 Hine-i-paketia, a tribal leader and land seller
 Te Hapuku, a tribal leader, farmer and assessor
 Te Pareihe, a tribal leader
 Hori Tupaea, a tribal leader and farmer

References

Iwi and hapū

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"Hootenanny" isn't a common word these days. But in the 1950s and early 1960s, such a gathering with musicians was a mainstay of the folk music revival. During a hootenanny, musicians, with neighbors and families, sing and play traditional songs and a few new ones in a relaxed setting.
Every Sunday afternoon, there's such a gathering at Galveston Island Brewing on Stewart Road.
In this contemporary island iteration, initiated last year by Kevin Anthony, the musicians sit or stand in a circle, each in turn proposing and leading a song after calling out the key and the chord changes.
Song callers should know at least most of the verses of the song they launch, and, of course, each instrument must be accurately tuned.
Amateurs, in all stages of development, as well as professionals, are welcome. But there can be no amplification other than Paulo Castillo's bass guitar, which softly holds the songs together.
"No one's going to turn away a bass player," Castillo said.
Many of the attendees at the Sunday Hootenanny at Galveston Island Brewing are multi-instrumentalists. Chris Smith Gonzalez, for example, plays bass, guitar and drums.
Eric Martinez is a pilot for Southwest Airlines. On his time off, he plays guitar and writes songs.
Another amplified instrument is Jim Hall's pedal steel guitar, a key element in what Anthony calls "Americana Country." On "Faded Love," for example, the pedal steel provides a plaintive lead, while the other musicians join in on the well-known number.
The tall, stainless-steel tanks of the brewery serve as the backdrop for the dozen or more players, many with their families. Outside the open loading-dock door is a lawn with picnic tables and playground structures. Children and leashed dogs run around, all having a good time as the music plays. It's a distinctly "family friendly" scene.
Mark Dell'Osso, a tugboat captain, founded Galveston Island Brewing in 2014, having learned his craft as a home brewer and at the Beerfoot Brewery near the seawall.
Dell'Osso's vision of the brewery always included a venue of this kind, and it was exactly what Anthony was looking for.
Anthony was born in Galveston and lives with his wife and son just across from where he grew up. His heritage is Cajun, though; His parents are from Lafayette, La. The custom of outdoor Sunday get-togethers with family and neighbors to play music, eat, socialize and drink beer is a big part of his background.
After college, Anthony moved to New York City, where he played mandolin and fiddle with several groups while training in the repair of Apple products. Those groups played Irish, Cajun, country and western and folk music at clubs around town.
After more than 10 years in New York City, Anthony moved to Minneapolis, another music-friendly town, where he set up a recording studio, worked as a session musician, and composed music for television commercials. Meanwhile, he organized touring groups of traditional musicians who played gigs around the country.
He formed other groups, while establishing an appointment-only workshop on Stewart Road to repair Apple products.
His 6-year-old son, Wyatt, is learning to play the fiddle.


Youth Futures WA, which is based in Joondalup, recently received the car from Wild West Hyundai and will use it to teach students how to drive.
Chief executive Mark Waite said the non-profit organisation already ran a 'keys to employment' program, funded by the Department of Training and Workforce Development, to help disadvantaged young people obtain their driver's licences.
'For many young people, a driver's licence is necessary for employment and training opportunities,' Mr Waite said.
Balga SHS acting principal Melissa Gillett said the car company and Youth Futures were helping the school set up its own initiative based on the existing program.


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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:21 pm Post subject: ProPulse waveshaper panel/PCB combination released <--fricko
Want to patch together ARP Pro-Soloist kind of sounds? You need several specialist modules, but one thing that has not been available has been their waveshaper: who has a VCO running at 512 times the audio rate which they can divide down and feed into various logic circuits to get "1/14" pulses or "2/11" pulses?
I think I have cracked it: found a way to get the same waveshapes as the Pro-Soloist pulses (indeed, a whole family of waveshapes not just the presets of the ARPs) without the logics and the supersonics.
I got out a logic simulator and plotted what each waveshape did: and I found to my surprise that the common feature was that the phase is varied as well as the pulse width: indeed that seems to be the distinguishing feature, and perhaps explains why no-one gets Pro-Soloist-esque sounds very right. (You can see the simulation and a graphic of the ProSoloist architecture here: https://fricko.home.blog/2019/07/05/pro-pulse-the-backstory/)
[The delayed pulses would presumably have the effect that when remixed with the original saw of slightly increasing or cancelling out and changiing the phase of harmonics that are present in the pulse. (A pulse of 1/n of the cycle has every n harmonics missing in a cyclic spectrum. But because these are delayed by around n, those ) The result, a kind of anti-pulse cyclical spectrum. But different in effect that merely subtracting a same-phase pulse from the saw. ]
Anyway, the PCB and a 6HP Eurorack panel is available now. It also has some other features aimed at making Pro-Soloist-esque patches more straightforward: multiple outputs, an HPF on the mix output, closer to constant-power pulse out, and so on. Notably, it has a calibration pot and blinkenlight, to cope with different signal levels. (You can see the module here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qOdCOYU3jY and I mean 1/5 not 1/12) For non-Eurorackers, the board also can take an MOTM connecter and provides its own 5V. The module home page is https://fricko.home.blog/propulse/
And, yes, if you feed it a triangle or sine, you can get double pulses. (Attached is a sound sample of a drone made by feeding two oscillators into the input and playing with the frequency of one to hear the distortion effect, for the sake of putting some sound up rather than nothing. )
ProPulseDualDrone.wav
Two oscllators droning through ProPulser. One has its pitch varied to get various distortion effects.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:08 pm Post subject:
You have a lot of interesting projects on your page, but I am a little confused by the pricing...
1 unit = $31, which would normally make 3 units = $93, but you have a "special discount" to buy three units for $99 (a $6 increase for buying 3)?
Also, how would this "discount" translate to GBP (£)?
Apologies if I'm missing something here, but it seems it would be cheaper to buy 2 items, followed by a third in a separate transaction.
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 3:30 am Post subject:
Glad to!
It is because the US$99 includes postage and packaging: the US$31 is exclusive of postage and packaging. So that is a saving of more than US$10 in most cases. The typical postage costs for different regions is given on the page "Price and Purchase".
For UK? AT current exchange rates of USD$99 is £81.90. The typical postage price is GBP £15.45. So 3x £25 + £15.45 = £90.45. So the deal is about £8-50 discount.
Is there something I should improve on the fricko.home.blog website, about this?
There is also another deal, which is on the website but I was not going to announce it until the August set of boards and products were in and QAd (I get them tomorrow), but for non-Eurorack developers there is also a deal of four PCBs including postage for USD$99 (i.e. no panels). The new ROHS boards can mostly also take MOTM headers and have holes for mounting, which are the two things that non-Eurorack developers seem to ask for most.
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Regulation Roundup
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A school in Essex, UK, has banned triangular flapjacks. A student recently suffered an injury when one hit him in the face during a food fight. Square flapjacks are still allowed; bear in mind that squares have four sharp corners, and triangles have only three. I humbly suggest that school officials concern themselves with preventing food fights in the first place, and not the shape of the projectiles.
In what may be the regulatory equivalent of an unstoppable force hitting an immovable wall, it turns out that a wind energy turbine in Nevada has killed a golden eagle, which is an endangered species. Now we find out whether the renewable energy lobby or the environmental lobby is more powerful.
Chicago is mulling banning dogs from sitting in the driver's seat of a car.
The California Highway Patrol pulled over a man riding a motorcycle in a giant rabbit costume and cited him for not wearing a helmet.
A Covington, Kentucky, man narrowly avoided 90 days in jail for falsely yelling out "Bingo!" during a game. The judge forbade him from saying the word again for six months.
Arlington County, Virginia, will now allow dogs in certain outdoor restaurant dining areas. This makes some sense, as many families routinely dine at home around their dogs with no adverse health effects.
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Panic buying as US gas stations run out of gas
Customers joined long lines to get gas (NBC News photo)
(CMR) Over 1,000 gas stations in several states ran out of gas Tuesday following a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline that supplies the East Coast last week. The pipeline has reportedly been down since the attack.
As news of the attack spread, several people engaged rushed to gas stations attempting to fill up their tanks before the situation worsens.
US gasoline demand jumped 20% on Monday compared with the prior week, with demand u by a collective 40.1% in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
According to a CNN report on Tuesday, a growing number of gas stations along the East Coast were without fuel as nervous drivers aggressively fill up their tanks. The panic-buying threatens to exacerbate the supply shock.
As of 9 pm ET Tuesday, 12.3% of gas stations in North Carolina and 8.6% in Virginia didn't have gasoline, according to outage figures reported by GasBuddy, CNN stated. The Virginia figure was up from 7.7% at 4p ET, while North Carolina was up from 8.5% previously.
Rising outages were also reported at gas stations in Georgia (8.0%), Florida (3.0%), and South Carolina (5.9%).
Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told CNN Business that "Panicked buying" is "running stations in the region dry."
He warned that the "irrational behavior" could prolong supply issues "for weeks."
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pleaded with Americans not to hoard gas as the pipeline attempts to resume operations.
"Let me emphasize that much as there was no cause for say, hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, there should be no cause for hoarding gasoline, especially in light of the fact that the pipeline should be substantially operational by the end of this week and over the weekend," Granholm said during Tuesday's White House press briefing."
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Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the town of Diss, Norfolk. It is  down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between  to the south and  to the north. It is approximately  south of Norwich. Its three-letter station code is DIS.

The station is currently operated by Greater Anglia, who also operate all trains serving it, as part of the East Anglia franchise.

Due to its location, Diss is the only station on the Greater Anglia network (and, by extension, one of the only stations in the UK) to be served exclusively by inter-city trains.

History

The station at Diss was proposed by the Ipswich & Bury Railway, as part of their route to Norwich. Such were the changes in the railway industry that, in 1847, the Ipswich & Bury Railway became part of the Eastern Union Railway, which started operating in 1849. This became part of the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) in 1854, which amalgamated with several other companies in 1862 to form the Great Eastern Railway (GER).

In 1873, there was an incident at Diss when a goods train a and passenger train collided in foggy conditions, injuring four passengers.

In 1883, a signal box was opened, possibly replacing an earlier structure.

From July 1898 to December 1915 the station master was Robert Gillingwater (1854-1923). He became a well respected figure in the town and had a staff consisting of:

 7 x clerks
 2 x signalman
 2 x motor drivers
 2 x horse shunters
 2 x station foreman
 An unknown number of passenger and goods porters

During the early part of the century the goods yard was extended twice and during World War I an Army Service Corps depot was established adjacent to the station.

Following the 1921 grouping, the GER amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

On nationalisation in 1948, the station and its services came under the management of the Eastern Region of British Railways.

Some goods shunting at Diss was carried out by horses as late as 1959.

In 1985, the line through Diss was electrified by British Rail to the 25 kV overhead system and, the following year, electrically hauled InterCity services commenced. At the same time, the signal box was closed as power-signalling was introduced to the area.

Following the privatisation of British Rail, the ownership of the tracks and station passed to Railtrack until 2002 and then to its successor Network Rail. During this period, the operation of the station and train services has been franchised to Anglia Railways (1997-2004), then to National Express East Anglia (2004-2012) and currently Abellio Greater Anglia (since 2012).

Description
A goods yard was located on the 'up' (eastern) side of the line equipped with a shed for the loading and unloading of goods, as well as cattle pens. Until the 1880s, the Scole Estate Railway (an agricultural railway for William Betts' family at Frenze Hall, which extended for seven miles and had two engines) had a connection into the station yard.

As of 2013, the station has a waiting room on each platform and toilets on the up side (platform 1). It has a ticket office and ticket machines, one located on each platform. The old station master's house, which is part of the station and mostly the station's upstairs accommodation, is currently being used by one of the town's taxi companies.

Services

Services at Diss are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia between London Liverpool Street and  every 30 minutes in each direction.

As well as the express services between London and Norwich, a local all-stations service also called at Diss serving other stations such as ,  and . This local service was withdrawn in 1966 when the smaller stations were closed.

References

Railway stations in Norfolk
DfT Category C2 stations
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
Greater Anglia franchise railway stations
1849 establishments in England
Diss, Norfolk


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Prologis makes strategic UK appointments
Prologis, the developer and owner of logistics property, has confirmed three strategic UK hires to kickstart the New Year as it seeks to enrich its skill set and further strengthen its platform for growth in a dynamic logistics property market.
Caroline Musker is joining Prologis from Lichfields, where she gained more than 17 years' experience from a number of roles, including her latest position as senior director. She has been involved in a number of Prologis' projects during this time. As a Director at Prologis, she will be taking the newly-created role of Head of Planning, helping to get projects off to a good start and exploring ways to add value for the customer and the business. She will also be helping to assess potential acquisition and investment opportunities.
Gillian Scarth joins Prologis as a director in the Capital Deployment and Leasing team, after 15 years' experience as a senior development manager at Kier Property. Gill has an impressive professional network and extensive experience of managing diverse customer portfolios offering a mix of uses in multiple sectors. She will primarily be focused on driving growth and supporting the delivery of new and existing projects in London and the South East.
Simon Perks is joining the Capital Deployment and Leasing team at Prologis UK as a director, with a specific brief to look for opportunities to further strengthen the company's asset portfolio in London and the South East. In his former role as senior development manager at The Crown Estate, he gained considerable experience in developing and adding value to a unique land and property portfolio, which includes 10 million sq. ft. of assets in areas of central London.
Paul Weston, Prologis UK regional head, added: "We are delighted to be making these strategic hires at the start of the year to help drive our growth. There has been a significant increase in demand for logistics property during the pandemic and finding land and property to develop, in the right locations is a key focus. By enriching our skill set and hiring talented people, we aim to boost our competitiveness and unlock more opportunities in the year ahead."
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Research has found that if you work shifts, you could face an increased risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This means that groups including police officers, factory workers and those that work in the hospitality industry could all be affected.
The study compared people who worked standard office hours with those who worked unsociable shift patterns, and found that working shifts increased the chance of developing type 2 diabetes by 9 percent.
Previous studies have made a link between shift work and increased weight and appetite, which are both risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The study, which was published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found that the risk is highest for men who work on a rotating shift pattern; this group was 42 percent more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than those that work fixed shift patterns at the same time every day of the week. The research involved carrying out a meta-analysis of 12 previous studies which had involved over 225,000 people, 15,000 of whom had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Previous studies into the impact that working shifts can have on a person's health found that these workers were more likely to develop digestive problems, heart problems and some cancers. However, this is the first study which has made a link with type 2 diabetes.
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We present the operation of a 1.5-Gb/s real-time Y-00 quantum stream cipher as an overlay in a modern coherent wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) transmission system. We investigate transmission performance in two different wavelength allocation scenarios. The first scenario places the Y-00 cipher signal in a vacant 50-GHz channel slot between two 50-GHz spaced real-time processed 32-Gbaud PDM-16-QAM (256-Gbit/s) channels. The second scenario puts the Y-00 cipher signal in the small gap between two adjacent 50-GHz spaced WDM channels, hence implementing a secure channel overlay in a fully loaded WDM system. In both scenarios, the Y-00 cipher signal and the 256-Gbit/s signals are transmitted over 320 km.
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Fig. 1 Basic principle of Y-00 quantum stream cipher. (a) Sets of modulation bases. (b) Basic transmitter and receiver setup. Schematics of (c) a waveform and (d) the power distribution at the center of eye diagram.
Fig. 2 (a) Probability calculation for Eve to detect the wrong level; (b) Eve's probability of detecting the wrong level vs. number of levels 2M at an extinction ratio of 3 dB; (c) Eve's probability of detecting the wrong level vs. extinction ratio at 2M = 4096.
Fig. 3 A setup of noise loading in a back-to-back configuration.
Fig. 4 (a) Bit error ratio characteristic of Y-00 cipher signals. Open circles: 4096-intensity levels, filled circles: binary intensity modulation using the highest-power basis set; filled squares: binary intensity modulation using the lowest-power basis set. (b) Eye-diagrams measured by a photodiode with 12.4-GHz bandwidth. Top: 4096-intensity levels, middle: binary intensity modulation using the highest-power basis set; bottom: binary intensity modulation using the lowest-power basis set.
Fig. 5 A setup of single channel Y-00 cipher signal transmission experiment over 320 km.
Fig. 6 (a) Y-00 cipher optical signal measured at the transmitter by a photo-detector with 30-GHz bandwidth. The white line shows the zero level. (b) Bit error ratio characteristics of the Y-00 cipher signal. Filled circles: back-to-back transmission; open circles: transmission after 320 km.
Fig. 7 Setup of the WDM transmission experiment using a Y-00 cipher signal and four channels of 256-Gbit/s polarization multiplexed 16-QAM over 320 km.
Fig. 8 Optical spectra of two different channel allocation scenarios, measured with a resolution of 0.01 nm. (a) five 50-GHz channel slots allocated, with the Y-00 signal occupying the center channel and four 256-Gbit/s coherent signals occupying the remaining four channels. (b) four 50-GHz channel slots allocated and loaded with 256-Gbit/s coherent signals. The Y-00 cipher signal is inserted in the small gap between two 50-GHz spaced 256-Gbit/s channels.
Fig. 9 (a) Q-factors of 256-Gbit/s channels for Y-00 cipher signal powers from −6 to 4.5 dBm; (b) Constellation of 256-Gbit/s 16-QAM signals when the Y-00 cipher power was + 4.5 dBm.
Fig. 10 (a) Y-00 cipher signal measured at the receiver by a photo-detector with 30-GHz bandwidth when the Y-00 cipher power was + 4.5 dBm. The white line shows the zero level. (b) Bit error ratio characteristics of Y-00 cipher signal after 320-km transmission. Squares: WDM transmission, circles: single channel transmission for reference.
Fig. 11 (a) Q-factors of 256-Gb/s channels against Y-00 cipher signal powers, PY-00. Constellation of 256-Gb/s signals at (b) λ#1 and (c) λ#2 when Y-00 cipher signal powers, PY-00 = 4.9 dBm.