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Jeff Passan
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Joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams
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HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD, in the country that thus far has stifled the coronavirus better than any, they're playing baseball again. The games are intrasquad scrimmages. The players sometimes wear masks on the field. It is sports with a dystopian twist. And yet South Korea has pitchers throwing pitches and hitters swinging bats and fielders gloving balls, and the rest of the world doesn't.
The fragility of it all isn't lost on Dan Straily. He is 31 years old, a right-hander who for eight seasons pitched in Major League Baseball. In December, he signed a one-year contract with the Lotte Giants of the Korean Baseball Organization, a 10-team league that has served as an incubator for young talent and a proving ground for veterans seeking an alternative path back to the major leagues.
Today, the KBO is much more: a test case being watched by sports leagues around the globe. As seasons in almost all sports are postponed indefinitely, and as increasing numbers of people lock down to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Korean baseball is forging ahead with a plan to take advantage of its country's thus-far-successful response. Exhibition games between KBO teams are scheduled to begin April 21. Following six preseason games, the regular season could begin.
Other leagues have had similar plans derailed. The Chinese Basketball Association delayed its scheduled restart. Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan paused its return after three Hanshin Tigers players, including star pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, tested positive for COVID-19. The same level of care in Korea that allowed the KBO to find itself in this situation -- streaming intrasquad games on YouTube now, two weeks away from being the highest-level sports league in the world to play actual games -- is also the greatest impediment to its return.
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"If anybody, anybody -- if the No. 1 starting pitcher to the person cleaning, security, R&D -- anybody gets sick in that time, we postpone two weeks," Straily told ESPN in an interview from Busan, South Korea, a city of 3.5 million where the Giants play. "We've got to make sure that no one else got sick."
Little did Straily expect to be educating himself on the finer points of geopolitics and epidemiology when he flew from his home in Oregon to California to Australia, where the Giants would hold spring training, on Feb. 1. He joined a Lotte team that turned over most of its staff and emphasized familiarity with MLB. Among the new employees: Hank Conger, the longtime Los Angeles Angels catcher, who took a job as a catching coach; and Josh Herzenberg, a former scout and coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, who joined as a pitching coordinator and quality-control coach.
The Giants returned from Australia to Busan in mid-March, two weeks later than planned, and were greeted by a culture that registered almost completely foreign to the Americans. Conger went into a bank without a mask covering his nose and mouth and was told by a security guard he wasn't welcome. At Costco, Straily was stopped at the door so someone could wipe down his shopping cart and ensure he was wearing a mask before he entered.
"When we first got back from Australia, I thought the government was a bit overwhelming," Herzenberg said. "Now I know I was wrong."
TO UNDERSTAND WHY Korean baseball might return before any other organized sport, one must understand day-to-day life in coronavirus-times South Korea. It is a society that trades short-term personal liberties for safety, emphasizes public over self, rewards discipline and relies on functional government policies that value process and adhere to epidemiological tenets. It is why, regardless of KBO's return date, it might not provide much of a road map for MLB: The United States has failed to replicate almost all of Korea's institutional successes that allow the KBO to even consider playing again.
Preventing the coronavirus spread occupies every sphere of public life in Korea -- a public life that has, to a reasonable extent, reopened with the number of cases flattening. South Korea witnessed a sudden surge in COVID-19 before the end of February but was able to significantly lower the numbers and minimize the spread by the middle of March. The nation averaged 658 new cases from Feb. 29 to March 5 but averaged only 99 new cases in a 25-day stretch from March 12 to this past Sunday. The U.S., by comparison, has witnessed almost a steady rise in the amount of new cases over that same stretch, from as low as 329 to as high as 34,196, reached Saturday.
As Herzenberg spoke from Busan late last week, he said 40 or so children were riding on bikes and scooters and playing on a plaza near the Giants' stadium. They could do so because of the precautions taken around them. Upon the first positive coronavirus test in early February, the government ramped up testing capacity and quickly offered free, same-day testing stations around the country. Members of the Giants have been able to get tested and receive the results within 10 hours or less.
Teams in the KBO, such as the LG Twins, are holding intrasquad scrimmages in empty stadiums and broadcasting them on YouTube. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
When someone tests positive, the government is authorized to scrape cellphone and banking data to get a full accounting of potentially at-risk locations. Text and social media blasts sent to large swaths of the population include the times, dates and locations of potential infection points. Following a 2015 outbreak of MERS that killed 36 and shut down thousands of schools, the government vowed to take measures well beyond those of a standard democracy in aiming to stem the spread of a potential pandemic. It is the macro complement to the micro inconveniences to which those living in South Korean have grown accustomed.
Hand sanitizer is ubiquitous. Masks are compulsory. Screen grabs from a recent Giants scrimmage went viral because it felt so unusual to see players and coaches donning surgical masks on a baseball field. The method was short-lived; the team scrapped the masks after a small handful of practices because the players found it difficult to breathe while playing. But even now, with the country endeavoring to return to normalcy, social distancing remains common. Before walking into most buildings, Herzenberg said, someone takes his temperature with a forehead thermometer. Those with high temperatures are not permitted in. At the Giants' stadium, players and employees walk through a thermal camera that measures body temperature. Recently, a Giants player was feeling ill and ran a slight temperature, shy of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Practice got canceled because it's not worth the risk," Straily said. "If someone wasn't feeling well, he went to get tested for the virus and we all stayed home and stayed in our condos for the day until like 5 or 6 p.m. We got a text saying, hey, he's completely fine. Just not feeling well, but he's negative for the virus. So, you know, go get yourself some food outside your house finally."
Getting to go outside is a perk to which Straily has grown accustomed. His wife, Amanda, who is a nurse, pointed out recently that Straily hasn't been quarantined once. During the seven weeks the Giants spent in Australia, there was no stay-at-home order, and since they returned to Busan, he and Adrian Sampson, the former Texas Rangers right-hander, have explored the city cautiously, finding a barbecue spot and chicken joint and even a place for Straily to get his hair cut.
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Straily is getting used to life in Busan, hoping he'll be there for the remainder of the year. He has grown accustomed to the light that automatically switches on in on his condo if he walks too close to the door at night. He has plowed through the "get to know South Korea" PowerPoint presentation curated by Sung Min Kim -- a former writer for FanGraphs and The Athletic who joined the Giants as a do-everything front-office official in the offseason -- and Straily is transitioning to learning a new word in Korean every day. So far, all he has is annyeonghaseyo (hello), joh-eun (good) and kamsahamnida (thank you), but there's time.
The differences are trivial. Straily still isn't quite certain when an umpire is calling a ball or a strike. The Giants' stretching routine takes adjusting to. A stiff bed caused Straily's back to hurt, so Lotte got him a mattress pad. He had grown used to using a sauna while with the Miami Marlins, so the Giants bought one and are installing it in the clubhouse. The little things still register in South Korea because the pervasive fear of the coronavirus hasn't paralyzed the country as it has so many others. And it informs the KBO's approach: forward-thinking and exceedingly cautious.
"This is just my opinion, but I think the first thing they did was they threw the bottom line out the door and they were like, this is not about the money," Straily said. "This is about keeping the people safe. This is about keeping our employees safe. It's about keeping our fans safe and keeping as many people from getting sick as they could possibly control. And they've made us feel very comfortable to be here. I was pretty nervous to come to a foreign country during all this, and these guys have done an incredible job of making us feel comfortable, making us feel safe, since we got here."
Straily regularly receives text message updates from Min-Kyu Sung, the team's new general manager, who spent more than a decade with the Chicago Cubs and is overhauling a team that went 45-85 last season. Straily expects another soon, as every Tuesday the league meets with high-ranking team executives to inform them of the latest plans. The season has been pushed back multiple times already, so even with optimism and the lack of a positive test from a player, fear over what could be remains.
"Let's say that everything does go good and we do decide to start the season," Conger said. "What are you gonna do if a player on a team has it? Are you just gonna go ahead and shut down the season again or are you gonna try to isolate and quarantine him for two weeks? No one really has the right answer for it, so that's the whole kind of uncertainty around everything.
"Yeah, we're trying to get a timeline going to start everything. But it's just tough because you don't know what's going to happen -- you don't know what's going to happen if somebody gets it. What are you supposed to do at that point? Is there really a right answer about what to do baseball-wise?"
NO, ACTUALLY. THERE is no right answer. However much South Korea tries to control the coronavirus, until a vaccine is available, risks abound. It helps, Herzenberg said, that he's in a country with a functional, robust response to outbreaks -- and that baseball is a sport that almost naturally socially distances, with limited physical proximity let alone contact. He's also aware that neither inures players, not when so many elements of baseball that are taken for granted are suddenly clear hazards.
"You go to your mouth, you go to your forehead, you touch your face constantly as a pitcher," Straily said. "I don't know why we do, but we do. The way things work here, one thing that's like a little different, too: They don't rub up the baseballs. The baseballs are basically pre-treated. So when they show up to you pearly white, they have a little bit of tackiness to them. They're just not this smooth, glass-tabletop leather that they have in MLB. It's got a little bit more than that.
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"Basically the idea is that there's no foreign substances needed. You have sweat and rosin and you have all the grip in the world that you need. So the baseballs haven't been touched by seven people to get to you. They've been touched by the ball boy and the umpire, which is still two too many when you're going to be touching your face in times like this."
In times like this. Every moment is big, every decision consequential. It's why Ji-Man Choi, the Tampa Bay Rays first baseman, chose to return to South Korea after MLB shut down spring training March 13 and postponed the season indefinitely.
"I made the decision to go back to my homeland for one because there's no place to train in the States," Choi said in an email. "My agent and I had tried to find a place but it seemed almost impossible. There was also the uncertainty of time frames. Problems like 'how soon are we even going to overcome the coronavirus and play baseball' made it easy for me to make a decision."
Choi arrived in South Korea on March 24, eight days before the country ordered all incoming travelers to self-quarantine for 14 days. Choi imposed the restrictions on himself, remaining indoors even though the government allowed him to venture outside for groceries. In a couple of days, Choi will allow himself to begin working out on a baseball field again. He doesn't know when MLB will return or what will augur the proper time. Conger wonders about baseball with fans, which in South Korea and MLB seems unlikely regardless of the differences between the countries. At one point, more than 60% of cases in South Korea were linked to a church in Daegu, and the size of crowds and proximity of fans in stadium settings concern medical officials, who say large gatherings are the greatest culprit for community spread, whether in South Korea, the United States or elsewhere.
"So just imagine: 15,000, 20,000 people one foot away from each other," Conger said. "I know everyone loves sports and everyone wants to watch sports, but at what cost? Being one foot away from somebody, right now, even back in the States, you wouldn't wanna be next to somebody even remotely close watching a ballgame."
Straily thinks about these things, about his health, about the safety of his wife and son more than 5,000 miles away, about the world in which he lives now, which feels like a novel. Like Herzenberg, he sees kids playing outside the stadium, too, throwing balls around, riding on scooters, and it gives him hope. That and baseball.
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"I think it keeps me sane," Straily said. "I talk to a lot of guys that are back in the States and they're all curious, like, what are you guys doing, when are you guys starting, how are things going? A few of them had opportunities to come over here that chose to stay in America. And at this point, it's looking like I made the right choice to come over here just for the simple fact that I'm playing and getting a chance to be out here. And, you know, not that we know for sure that we're gonna play our season, but we're pretty sure what's gonna happen pretty soon. This is what I'm good at. Like, there's one thing in the world that I'm good at. It's playing baseball."
So he works on his new curveball, the one whose grip he learned from 24-year-old teammate Se-Woong Park, whose thumb placement he refined using a high-speed Edgertronic camera and whose spin rate of 2,700 rpm could allow him to be the latest to develop a new pitch in Korea and return to MLB. He spends his days immersed in this, and in making sure the woman at the chicken joint knows that just because he's American he can handle a little more spice, and in trying to make life a little more normal.
The truest arbiter of that for Straily, though, won't be seen in South Korea.
"I hope there's baseball in America because that means that things are doing much better," he said. "I think that'll be a big sign that everything's going in the right direction, that everyone can stay the course but take a deep breath when there's that announcement that, hey, Major League Baseball is going to start on this date. Even if there's no fans allowed. I don't think any fans at this point would be upset about that.
"Once it's announced that, hey, baseball's coming back, that it'll be a great sign that things are heading in the right direction because it's not going to be allowed until they are. So my big hope for this whole thing is that we get baseball soon."


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Danny Baker
roasthimvinnie
09-05-2019, 17:46 PM (This post was last modified: 09-05-2019, 17:46 PM by roasthimvinnie.)
(09-05-2019, 17:14 PM)Blind_Eagle Wrote: What it says about you is you'd rather spend the time denying there is anything offensive about the term 'half caste', based on your own personal experiences, rather than take the opportunity to do a bit of research about the term and see it upsets people.
Each to their own, I can't believe i'm having to defend something so basic on here.
Well personal experience for me is a far more valuable tool for learning these things than an ever changing vocabulary based on what white virtue signallers deem permissable I'm afraid . Perhaps as an authority on these things, you should write that dictionary eh ? As I said the term half caste being offensive is news to me, it probably is to millions of others too .
James O'Brien gave him an easy ride earlier. Had it been anti Semitic he'd have coated Baker.
It's the double standards I don't like.
https://mobile.twitter.com/prodnose/stat...5581309952
Been doing much apologising. Personally i believe him but I get that plenty won't.
Enjoy life, because you're gonna die.
10-05-2019, 15:35 PM (This post was last modified: 10-05-2019, 15:36 PM by Talons.)
(10-05-2019, 15:04 PM)irtually elgin eagle Wrote: https://mobile.twitter.com/prodnose/stat...5581309952
He is just embarrassing himself now.
I would not bend a knee to the outrage Gestapo.
He posted a picture in bad taste and lost his job. That is more than punishment enough.
The BBC offend many people every day. Will we all be receiving an apology or just another bill for the license?
turkish eagle
I think he's sincere in his apologies. You can watch the reactionaries try to make a martyr of him for their own cause but he's fundamentally a socially aware guy who knows how the establishment operates to screw most of us and maintain the status quo.
10-05-2019, 21:18 PM (This post was last modified: 10-05-2019, 21:33 PM by Swedish Expat Eagle.)
(09-05-2019, 17:46 PM)roasthimvinnie Wrote:
That term has been offensive since the late 1980s. In my union courses in the early 90s we were taught that. The correct term is mixed race and using the other term is illegal today and would see someone prosecuted.
But then my brother, who is 61 still thinks it is acceptable to call black people 'coloured' because he was taught that in the 70s, which was the correct PC term back then.
My problem with this situation is that you can use something 100 times and it is okay but then when used on the wrong person it is classed as racist by people.
The case in point is the monkey picture, which Baker has used before lots of times to poke fun at toffs and the royals who he has called monkeys in suits.
Then, one day through whatever reason he does the same thing and there happens to be a person of colour involved and everyone of a certain persuasion says it has to be racist. Why so? Just because people think it is? Don't they have the warped mind?
So in our every day life we have to think about what we say, not because of what we mean but because of what someone else will think we mean.
I've had it myself with the term 'call a spade a spade' which people wrongly assumed was racist.
Back in 1988 I worked at a place with 2 Arsenal fans. One of them had Korean parents and the other one kept calling him a 'gooner'. After a couple of months the guy with Korean parents was annoyed and asked me how he should tackle the racist abuse he was suffering from the other guy. I was gobsmacked as I hadn't heard anything and asked what had been said.
"He keeps calling me a gooner. You heard it and you are as bad as you smile whenever he says it!"
I said "Stuart, mate, gooner is what Arsenal fans are. He's saying it to be friendly with you against me! You are a gooner, you both are!"
He'd been harbouring these thoughts for months, pissed off and angry at racist abuse. He was a life long Arsenal fan and having been a season ticket holder for 6 years he claimed to have never heard that term.
My point is people want to be offended and it isn't their fault, they blame the person who doesn't have that intention.
Maybe Baker is lying but this is a funny to come out the closet as a racist and he is intelligent enough to do it in a more subtle way.
(10-05-2019, 21:18 PM)The Expat Eagle Wrote:
(09-05-2019, 17:46 PM)roasthimvinnie Wrote: Well personal experience for me is a far more valuable tool for learning these things than an ever changing vocabulary based on what white virtue signallers deem permissable I'm afraid . Perhaps as an authority on these things, you should write that dictionary eh ? As I said the term half caste being offensive is news to me, it probably is to millions of others too .
Your mum...
Talk sport will take him. Fuck the BBC. Think Baker said as much himself at first but might have deleted it since.
11-05-2019, 00:16 AM (This post was last modified: 11-05-2019, 00:17 AM by Swedish Expat Eagle.)
(10-05-2019, 23:02 PM)Yuri Gagarin Wrote:
(10-05-2019, 21:18 PM)The Expat Eagle Wrote: That term has been offensive since the late 1980s. In my union courses in the early 90s we were taught that. The correct term is mixed race and using the other term is illegal today and would see someone prosecuted.
Has been dead for 41 years, thanks for reminding me.
Now Baker is being investigated by the police for the Tweet... Yet Franke Boyle has a series on the BBC. Don't get me wrong, I love Frankie but the two things don't make sense.
I liked the 'curb your enthusiasm' theme music he posted. It's exactly the sort of shit that would happen to Larry David.
Problem with the fry quote is that left unchecked, you get UKIP candidates being deliberately racist/homophobic as part of supposed act. Anything's game, including rape gags.
Some people don't see the rhetoric as 'performance' and take it at face value.
Nuance is dead.
(11-05-2019, 11:25 AM)Yuri Gagarin Wrote:
That's why sensationalism sucks. Nothing can be debated on its own merits anymore. Baker was clearly making an 'in joke' and the internet decided he was being racist instead. Once it's out there and you've pressed send, you can't take it back. Instead of increasing our freedom of speech, it's restricting it by making anyone scared to say anything in case it offends someone. It's mental. Anyone could be offended by anything if they chose to.
Nuance may be dead but context is ignored. How many times have we had conversations with people on a thread and one post is taken out of context of the whole conversation because the person hasn't bothered to read the whole context?
The subject of a joke isn't always the object of a joke. As with everything, it's how it's done that is important. People just get outraged about everything. A joke about rape. Was it about rape or was rape used an a metaphor? A joke about the disabled. Same same.
Abusive jokes inciting hated or making a joke about a specific issue isn't okay but then Frankie Boyle is very left wing and practically a communist, he makes fun out of Katy Price's black disabled son (and a rape joke to boot) and people were outraged. However I could see her son wasn't the object of the joke, her mothering skills were the object.
Some people say it's the uneducated who make such jokes but I'd say it is the uneducated who get offended. Danny Baker and Frankie Boyle, both lefties to different degrees, are well educated who have been too clever for their own good.
(12-05-2019, 00:05 AM)The Expat Eagle Wrote:
(11-05-2019, 11:25 AM)Yuri Gagarin Wrote: Problem with the fry quote is that left unchecked, you get UKIP candidates being deliberately racist/homophobic as part of supposed act. Anything's game, including rape gags.
As my dear old Dad would have said, 'Bakers dropped a right bollock there son'
No Lineker and Baker pod this week...
Razorsedge
I am a bad man
I never listened to Linekar's podcast, has he ever said anything that is worth listening
(17-05-2019, 21:04 PM)Razorsedge Wrote: I never listened to Linekar's podcast, has he ever said anything that is worth listening
A lot of anecdotes about Gazza. I listened to one today, it wasn't bad to be fair.
(17-05-2019, 21:10 PM)elgin eagle Wrote:
Oh ok, I may listen to it then.
(17-05-2019, 21:21 PM)Razorsedge Wrote:
(17-05-2019, 21:10 PM)elgin eagle Wrote: A lot of anecdotes about Gazza. I listened to one today, it wasn't bad to be fair.
The world of podcasts is new to me, but I downloaded some of the recommendations from the podcasts thread. Made a long flight much more bearable, I have to say. Usually I just sit there or play candy crush like a long haired teenager.

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Satya Nadella's 'new' Microsoft has done some thing the 'historic' Microsoft would certainly not do. It's firmly embraced the conception of software-described networking (SDN) by using constructing an information heart network operating outfit in keeping with Linux. Microsoft belives that doing so gives it a Great deal more advantageous manage over its network management software than what networking businesses can offer.
similar to cloud rivals comparable to Amazon web functions, Google and fb, Microsoft designs its data core hardware via itself, and likewise creates a lot of the utility it runs. The approach lets businesses build a technology stack that does exactly what they need it to accomplish – hence, it's significantly more advantageous.
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although it doesn't construct its own switches, Microsoft does construct its personal servers the expend of specs from the open-source Open Compute task, a facebook-led initiative it joined closing year. ACS uses the swap Abstraction Interface (SAI) spec, an open API for programming swap ASICs that falls below the Open Compute assignment, so as to Run on different agency's hardware.
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Apr 18, 2019 (Heraldkeeper via COMTEX) -- New York, April 18, 2019: This study covers and analyses "(SDI) Software Defined Infrastructure Market" globally. Bringing out the complete key insights of this industry, this report aims to provide an opening for players to understand the latest trends, current market scenario, government initiatives, and technologies related to the market. In addition, helps the venture capitalist in understanding the companies better and grasp informed decisions.
SDI market is an emerging market in ICT sector. Increasing adoption of mobile, cloud, Big data analytics are some of the factors supporting the SDI market growth. SDI is a combination of software-defined compute, software-defined storage, and software-defined networking. The point of this technology is to reduce cost, augment the trade agility, and improve management efficiency by delivering IT services on demand. SDI is the evolution of the data centre, integrating cloud, and computing technologies to build and manage the resources. This will enable the companies to become service oriented and more efficient.
The increasing require for IT solutions from the business, incessantly rising require for cloud, and mobility-based services are driving the market. The global SDI market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 24.5% for the age 2018-2024.
The SDI market is analysed by three major solutions - Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Compute and Software Defined Networking. The SDC solution is expected to contribute more than 40% of the market participate followed by SDS for SDI growth.
Further, this market is analysed by major verticals, namely BFSI, Retail, Healthcare, Education, Transportation, Telecom, Utilities & Energy, etc. Globally, BFSI and Retail are set to subsist major verticals and are contributing more than 40% of the market participate for SDI growth in 2016.
In March 2017, IT consultant Andrew Waterston claimed, in an article in DCN, that data heart infrastructure management (DCIM) was a 'Dead Camel In Motion,' not delivering on its vow and due for replacement.
At the time, it was limpid that DCIM was not delivering a recur on investment (ROI) for terminate users or even vendors. Around that time, when the acronym DCIM was mentioned in conversations, people shivered, but some of us didn't give up hope so easily.
We believe DCIM has been on extended leave mid hype cycle, but now, it's time to resuscitate the camel. It's not dead – it just needs a shrimp support in reaching its potential.
The industry is working arduous to create birthright software-defined data centers (SDDC) or Smart DCs, but this requires an knowing link, middleware connecting the facilities to the IT. How can they accomplish this without DCIM?
We believe DCIM is necessary for an SDDC or a Smart DC, but accept that it's not easy. They want to give DCIM a belt and an identity that vendors can conform on, in order to drag it out of the trenches and restore its potential.
Many DC operators now absorb a functioning DCIM system and can point to you how they implemented one of the larger product offerings, but it is normally a work in progress. DCIM isn't dismissed out of hand any more: There are lots of live implementation programs out there actually starting to deliver existent value.
In July 2013, Gartner positioned DCIM on its "hype cycle" curve, as slipping well into the Trough of Disillusionment, with a two to five year timeline to gain the Plateau of Productivity. But, by 2015, it was soundless in the very section, and left a dry tang in many wallets of DC owners, as it soundless wasn't reaching its potential.
Broadly speaking, middleware enables a heterogeneous environment by bridging disparate applications and infrastructure. Whatever cognomen they use, surely this is what their data centers need to become smart and to embrace the internet of things (IoT) and the industrial IoT.
Middleware solutions are generally employed to minimize the throe of integration between IT systems, but in the data center, it must accomplish more, simplifying the complexity, and facilitating problem-solving across the data heart in a transparent, holistic, and rational manner. Moreover, it needs to subsist able to see the entire stack of architectures in order to align the various aspects of the business, technology and facilities, which famously absorb different pecuniary horizons.
This means that finding a successful DCIM solution is not an effortless bewilder to solve.
Fred Koh from Graphical Networks wrote recently that "the most accurate artery to define DCIM is this: DCIM is in the eye of the beholder," which doesn't sound very promising, and he may well absorb a point. Every environment will always subsist slightly different from the next.
Koh argues that no sole DCIM system should subsist fit for every organization, which leaves us back at the drawing board in terms of a sole market definition. Koh highlights a yoke of DCIM companies who absorb withdrawn from the market, and they absorb likewise seen some mergers and acquisitions.
So absorb they figured out what DCIM is yet, and has it establish its place? If vendors soundless define it differently, then it can't yet subsist classed as mature, and this may subsist one intuition why it's stuck in the quicksand of the trough of disillusionment.
The problem is that people's DCIM requirements vary widely. Companies absorb a key client group who are their main income so they cater for those clients first. If they are whole in one industry or trade sector this particular DCIM implementation becomes tailored to that market.
As the wider IT group gets involved in DCIM and sees the advances that absorb occurred over the eventual few years, they can now identify where they could expend this information to assist in change management, capacity planning and pro-active growth management. A proactive strategy will prevent reactive growth, and reduce risk because people absorb more time to design properly and survey for pitfalls rather than discovering them.
The smart DC is seen by some as a cost saving exercise, by others as a means to improve efficiency, but it could subsist so much more: A fully automated, connected and autonomous facility that can manage the physical elements of data heart management as well as the connected software, using AI, a smattering of robotics and a bit of innovation. It will only grasp one adventuresome company to pioneer this approach and they may see another sea change in the artery data centers can subsist operated.
This was never an effortless problem to solve, but DCIM is the first step towards delivering change management, incident handling, asset registers and other things.
Involving more areas of the trade than ever before, and encompassing more systems than ever before, the data heart soon will subsist smart. A existent SDDC is nearly here.
Software Defined Networks should make IT execs mediate about a lot of key factors before implementation.
Issues such as technology maturity, cost efficiencies, security implications, policy establishment and enforcement, interoperability and operational change weigh heavily on IT departments considering software-defined data centers. But perhaps the biggest consideration in software-defining your IT environment is, why would you accomplish it?
"We absorb to present a pretty convincing narrative of, why accomplish you want to accomplish this in the first place?" said Ron Sackman, chief network architect at Boeing, at the recent Software Defined Data heart Symposium in Santa Clara. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Prove to me there's a intuition they should travel accomplish this, particularly if they already own whole of the outfit and packets are flowing. They would need a compelling expend case for it."
And if that compelling expend case is established, the next assignment is to accumulate everyone onboard and cozy with the notion of a software-defined IT environment.
"The willingness to accept abstraction is kindly of a trade-off between control of people and hardware vs. control of software," says Andy Brown, Group CTO at UBS, speaking on the very SDDC Symposium panel. "Most operations people will recommend you they don't reliance software. So one of the things you absorb to accomplish is win enough reliance to accumulate them to subsist able to adopt."
"If you survey at it from a security perspective, the best security for a network environment is a capable design of the network itself," Sackman says. "Things devotion Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs backstop your network security, and they absorb not historically been a Big cyberattack surface. So my concern is, are the capex and opex savings going to warrant the risk that you're taking by opening up a bigger cyberattack surface, something that hasn't been a problem to this point?"
"What sort of assurance does someone absorb particularly if this is open source software that the software you're integrating into your solution is going to subsist secure," he asks. "How accomplish you scan that? There's a Big progress time security vector that doesn't really exist at this point."
Policy might subsist the key to ensuring security and other operational aspects in belt pre-SDN/SDDC are not disrupted post implementation. Policy-based orchestration, automation and operational execution is touted as one of SDN's chief benefits.
"I believe that policy will become the most vital factor in the implementation of a software-defined data heart because if you build it without policy, you're pretty much giving up on the configuration strategy, the security strategy, the risk management strategy, that absorb served us so well in the siloed world of the eventual 20 years," UBS' Brown says.
Software Defined Data Center's likewise vow to crash down those silos through cross-function orchestration of the compute, storage, network and application elements in an IT shop. But that's easier said than done, Brown notes interoperability is not a guarantee in the software-defined world.
"Information protection and data obviously absorb to interoperate extremely carefully," he says. The success of software defined workload management aka, virtualization and cloud in a artery has created a set of children, not whole of which can necessarily subsist implemented in parallel, but whole of which are required to accumulate to the terminate state of the software defined data center.
"Now when you mediate of whole the other software abstraction we're trying to interpolate in parallel, someone's going to bawl uncle. So whole of these things need to interoperate with each other."
So are the purported capital and operational cost savings of implementing SDN/SDDCs worth the undertaking? accomplish those cost savings even exist?
"There's a huge amount of cost take-out in software-defined storage that isn't necessarily there in SDN birthright now," he said. "And the intuition it's not there in SDN is because people aren't ripping out the expensive under network and replacing it with SDN. Software-defined storage probably has more legs than SDN because of the cost pressure. We've got massive cost targets by the terminate of 2015 and if I were backing horses, my favorite horse would subsist software-defined storage rather than software-defined networks."
Sackman believes the overall savings are there in SDN/SDDCs but again, the security dubiety may do those benefits not currently worth the risk.
"The capex and opex savings are very compelling, and there are particular expend cases specifically for SDN that I mediate would subsist Great if they could solve specific throe points and problems that we're seeing," he says. "But I think, in general, security is a Big concern, particularly if you mediate about competitors co-existing as tenants in the very data heart -- if someone develops code that's going to poke a pocket in the L2 VPN in that data heart and export data from Coke to Pepsi.
"We just won a proposal for a security operations heart for a exotic government, and I'm thinking can they present a better expense point on their next proposal if they present an SDN switch solution vs. a vendor switch solution? A few things would absorb to befall before they feel cozy doing that. I'd want to hear a compelling narrative around maturity before they would propose it."
Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 27 years, 22 at Network World. He likewise writes The Cisco Connection blog and can subsist reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy.


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HomeWorldNew Zealand PM reshuffles cabinet
New Zealand PM reshuffles cabinet
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday made changes to her Cabinet line-up by replacing ministers for Police, Immigration and Justice.
Chris Hipkins who was responsible for Covid-19 response takes over as Minister of Police, and Ayesha Verrall who is currently the associate Health Minister will be in charge of Covid-19 response, Ardern said after a Cabinet meeting.
The move was in response to the wide criticism of government inaction towards increasing gang violence in several New Zealand cities and deteriorating public security, reports Xinhua news agency.
The new police focus will be on supporting the police, implementing the record investment in the frontline, passing further gun law reforms and developing additional measures to deal with the current escalation in gang tensions and violence, said the Prime Minister.
Current Police Minister Poto Williams will continue her conservation and disability portfolios.
Hipkins, also the Minister of Education, has a degree in criminology and a long interest in working in the youth justice space, which dovetails with his education work, Ardern said, adding a significant part of his Education portfolio will move to Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti.
Meanwhile, Justice and Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi will step down from Parliament, Kiri Allan was promoted to the Justice Minister, and Michael Wood will become the Immigration Minister.
Speaker Trevor Mallard will end his 35-year parliamentary career in mid-August as he prepares to take up a diplomatic post in Europe.
Adrian Rurawhe will be nominated as the new Speaker.
The changes will take effect following a ceremony on Tuesday.
"These changes are triggered by two departures. It's also an opportunity to give newer ministers greater responsibility and to bring new members onto the team," Ardern said.
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This episode has been in the making for quite some time. Last season I interviewed a woman named, Kristen, who had a terrifying experience as a child while taking swimming lessons at an old hotel.
The story is called "Tanya" and is ep. 8 of season 1 in case you missed. It's a good one and there are a lot of evidence from other guests of this hotel who claim that a little ghost girl still roams the halls to this day.
Not long after the episode aired, Kristen's mother, Kathy, sent me an email saying that she had her own paranormal encounter from when she was a teenager that she'd like to share. I interviewed her and knew that it was a story I had to tell.
When Kathy was 14 years old she convinced her family to let her stay home alone while they went on a camping trip. But after two long dog days of summer, Kathy was yearning for some company...especially from Boy…her friend who lived in her Ouija Board. What happened that night was just as unexpected as it was terrifying and would be the end of their unique friendship.
So, sit back, try to relax as you remember that this story, The Boy in the Board, is based on true events.
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The VW-owned marque has sold more than 700,000 second-generation Superbs since it went on sale in 2008, but Skoda aims to surpass that figure with the new car by offering levels of luxury that aren't typically seen at the £25,000-£35,000 price point.
A striking new design language has been employed, featuring styling inspired from the VisionC concept, which sees more muscular lines appear on the family saloon along with a a reworked trapezoid grille, jewel headlamps and chrome accents on the window surrounds.
Inside, Skoda has stuck to its 'simply clever' motto by offering a sturdy cabin that boasts plenty of head and leg room, as well as a 625-litre boot when the rear seats are upright, 1,760-litres when folded down.
Skoda has also revealed that the new Superb will be compatible with Apple CarPlay, meaning front and rear passengers can control the infotainment system with a iPhone or iPad.
A range of efficient engines that comply with the tough new Euro 6 emission regulations is expected, ranging from a 1.4-litre turbocharged petrol that develops 123bhp to a 2-litre unit that boats 276bhp. Three diesel engines will also be available, alongside the option of both two and four-wheel drive.
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Bluntisham House
Country Life June 22, 2005
Grade II listed Bluntisham House, nine miles from Huntington is a beautiful former rectory with an interesting history.
Dorothy L Sayers, famous for writing detective fiction and who spent the final years of her life translating Dante?s Inferno, grew up at Bluntisham House. It is clear that the grandeur and elegance of the property had a profound effect on her since she mentions it in her book ?Cat O?Mary, the biography of a Prig? as well as in private manuscripts.
She refers to the dining room at Bluntisham as ?the finest room in the house?. It is indeed an impressive space with views out over the terrace and garden from three large mullioned windows. ?The exterior of one of these windows was framed in a handsome old pillared doorway, said to have been brought from Oliver Cromwell?s house at Huntingdon? she writes.
Sayers account is correct: when Oliver Cromwell?s house, Slepe Hall was pulled down, the Rector currently living in Bluntisham House bought one of the doorways and used it as a frame for the centre window. The present occupants have restored and renovated the house to a very high level, employing a renowned Italian painter to create a marble effect in the majestically paneled hallway.
Bluntisham House has four reception rooms downstairs and a substantial conservatory and heated indoor swimming pool. Upstairs there are seven bedrooms and an attic containing a sitting room and further two bedrooms. The house is surrounded by undulating farmland and stands in established gardens and grounds of approximately two acres.
For more information contact Mark Wood at Rooke, Wood and Miller, Cambridge (01223) 301616
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The ninth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County, an American reality television series, was broadcast on Bravo. It aired from April 14, 2014 until September 8, 2014, and was primarily filmed in Orange County, California. Its executive producers were Adam Karpel, Alex Baskin, Douglas Ross, Gregory Stewart, Scott Dunlop, Stephanie Boyriven and Andy Cohen.

The Real Housewives of Orange County focuses on the lives of Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Judge, Heather Dubrow, Shannon Beador and Lizzie Rovsek. It consisted of 21 episodes.

Production and crew
In November 2013, Lydia McLaughlin revealed there would be a ninth season after announcing her departure from the series.
In March 2014, the official cast, trailer and premiere date of the season were announced. The season premiere "Hawaii 5 Uh-Oh" was aired on April 14, 2014, while the eighteenth episode "All Apologies" served as the season finale, and was aired on August 18, 2014. It was followed by a two-part reunion that aired on August 25 and September 1, 2014, and a "Secrets Revealed" episode on September 8, 2014, which marked the conclusion of the season. Adam Karpel, Alex Baskin, Douglas Ross, Gregory Stewart, Scott Dunlop, Stephanie Boyriven and Andy Cohen are recognized as the series' executive producers; it is produced and distributed by Evolution Media.

Cast and synopsis
Three of the six housewives featured on the eighth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County returned for the ninth instalment.
In September 2013, it was revealed that Gretchen Rossi and Alexis Bellino had not been asked to return for season 9, despite Bellino's willingness to quit prior to season 8.
In November 2013, Lydia McLaughlin announced her departure from the series, saying, "I never wanted to make a career out of being a housewife. That's never really been a dream of mine", and "I want to build my brand outside of the Housewives. I've always been really honest with the producers about that. I knew that while I was filming it that I probably wasn't going to be doing it again." In 2015, McLaughlin said she would be open to returning to Bravo on her own show.
Recurring cast member and former housewife Lauri Peterson also leaves the series.
Joining the series in the ninth season are two new wives, Shannon Beador and Lizzie Rovsek, and recurring cast member, Danielle Gregorio. Beador is described as "quirky yet fearless," and Rovsek an "opinionated former beauty queen." Gregorio is a charitable friend to the ladies, who is brash and brutally honest. Throughout the season Gregorio finds herself in the middle of the drama among the wives.

Heather Dubrow continues pursuing her acting endeavors and lands a guest role on Hawaii Five-0. Dubrow oversees the construction of her new family home and celebrates the breaking ground with a hoedown party. Tension arises throughout the season after some of the ladies deem Dubrow as too uptight and judgmental. The drama escalates to Dubrow and Beador feuding, causing Dubrow to kick Beador out of her home. Later the drama explodes at Rovsek's parents' house when rumors of Dubrow gossiping about Beador come to light, and some are left questioning Beador's integrity and stability. Dubrow and Tamra Judge also feel a rift in their friendship, which worsens when Dubrow invites Judge onto Good Day L.A.
Newlywed Judge considers having a child with Eddie as she deals with her son's health issues. To experience what having a child would be like, the Judges order a robotic baby called Astro. Judge is left in tears when her son Ryan drops a bomb regarding his girlfriend Sarah.
Vicki Gunvalson's divorce to Donn finalizes and she continues to struggle to find common ground between Ayers and everyone else, especially her daughter. Gunvalson worries that Briana and her husband Ryan will likely relocate to Oklahoma.
Beador experiences difficulties in balancing her career and marriage to her husband David, especially when he sends her a shocking email.
Rovsek is unsure whether to pursue her career as a swimsuit designer or have a third child with her husband Christian. During the season, Rovesk has one of the worst birthdays she has ever had. Rovsek also finds herself in the middle of Dubrow and Beador's feud, as well as finding herself feuding with Judge.

 Dubrow's husband and Beador's then-husband both appear at the reunion. Mr. Dubrow sits on the end of the left couch next to his wife. Mr. Beador sits between his wife and Gunvalson. Gunvalson and Rosvek each move down so he can be seated.

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The Sailor's Pleasure, Carrington Bowles, pre-1780, National Maritime Museum.
The Sailor's Pleasure, Robert Sayer, 1770's, Colonial Williamsburg Online Collections.
The Sailor's Pleasure, Bowles and Carver, c1793-1800, British Museum.
Carrington Bowles' print The Sailor's Pleasure was a wonderfully successful piece. After Bowles' death, his son carried on the family business as Bowles and Carver, and continued to produce The Sailor's Pleasure late in the century with some slight alterations.
As was common in the eighteenth century print market, Bowles' success inspired knock offs. Robert Sayers produced a less detailed copy to ride the coattails of his competitor. This print appears again in Sayers' Jack got safe into Port with his Prize, published in 1780.
Our happy tar down a glass from the punch bowl, and leaves his tobacco pouch open to be added to the pipe. Coins spill from his hat. This is one of a few pieces depicting sailors carrying prize money in their hats.
In every version of this print he wears a bob wig. The neckcloth is short and striped, tied neatly about his neck. The waistcoat is embroidered and single breasted, with round buttons. In the later Bowles and Carver piece, the waistcoat is blue and without buttons. Our mariner's jacket is made with finished edges and a short collar. Bowles and Carver give him a red jacket without tape, blue collars, and white metal buttons. The buttons on the earlier prints may be metal.
The hat is also exceptionally fancy. It is edged in tape, which is gold in the Bowles and Carver print. Sayer portrays his sailor's cocked hat as untrimmed. The cockade is large and appears to be silk with a large metal button.


Make happy memories with a holiday together at one of these family hotels in Tenerife.
There are plenty of activities for the little ones, from action-packed kids' clubs and adventurous sports, to pools with pirate ships and slides. Grown-ups aren't forgotten either. Take time to refresh and revive in tranquil spas with hydro suites before being pampered with a specialist massage. There are cleverly designed rooms too, with luxurious robes for adults, fun extras for children and beds for everyone. Treat them to a room with direct access to play areas or a suite with its own pool at these family-friendly resorts.
Children are the focus at the all-inclusive Hotel Be Live Family Costa Los Gigantes. Stay in a family room designed with youngsters in mind, featuring tasty treats like yoghurts and sweets in the minibar and games including a PlayStation. They'll even get a little welcome gift, as well as cosy robes and slippers for all the family. Grown-ups can unwind in a separate bedroom, decorated in soothing pale neutrals, and wake up to a fresh espresso.
Spend the day on the fine black sand of La Arena beach (a 15-minute stroll away) or stay by one of the hotel's six pools. Children can slide into their own pool or test their balance on the high ropes and zip-wire, while adults soothe their muscles in the spa's thermal massage pools or with a nourishing chocolate wrap.
Wander into the elegant marble-floored Teide buffet restaurant for main meals throughout the day. Freshly grilled meats and Italian and Spanish dishes are served in the à la carte Palapa restaurant, with views over the town's rooftops to the sea.
At Hotel Iberostar Anthelia, water babies can spend their holiday playing pirates in their very own boat (complete with slides) in one of the two children's pools. While they're busy with a crew of friends from the kids' club, you can unwind in the Finnish sauna or learn to make intricate sushi in one of the hotel's workshops. There are bikes to hire too, for family adventures along the nearby coastline – Fañabé beach is a minute's walk away.
The all-inclusive resort has five restaurants to choose from, offering freshly baked pizzas, local dishes like Canary rockfish croquettes and juicy lobster tails served by the water. For a little shade, take a seat at one of the pool bars and order a refreshing strawberry mojito.
Wake up to views of the sea in an ocean view balcony room. Decorated in light tones, these spaces have a calming atmosphere and feature a king-size bed and additional cot for little ones. For older kids, book interconnecting rooms, (so you can spread out while keeping them close by) or upgrade to a lavish suite with a bubbling whirlpool bath.
Set on the promenade of Puerto Colón beach, where kids can paddle in the shallow sea or build forts in the soft sand, Hotel Hovima La Pinta Beachfront Family lives up to its name. Peckish after a paddle? Visit the hotel's contemporary and airy buffet restaurant or order drinks on the outdoor terrace overlooking the pool.
The spacious apartment-style rooms are like a home-from-home with one or two bedrooms and a living room with an open kitchen. To relax, put your feet up with a steaming coffee on the balcony. Make the stay extra special for the kids in a marine-inspired family apartment decorated with fish swimming across a wall. They'll also have direct access to the outdoor play area in the pool.
As well as the waterpark, children have their own pool to practise swimming in and a TV and games room for older kids. Make sure they pack their dancing shoes too, for the mini discos. Soak up the sun on the terrace by the pools or hire bikes for all the family and cycle along the promenade.
Children have plenty to do at Gran Oasis Resort, from activities in the kids' club to getting competitive in the games room or in a family tournament on the sports court. Cool off in the spacious pools surrounded by palm trees – there's a smaller one for children and a babies pool – or take time out with a massage in the luxurious spa. Keen golfers, practise your swing in the sunshine on the 18-hole course.
When little tummies are grumbling, wander over to the waterside bar for a lunch buffet or enjoy the sunshine at the al-fresco bar with snacks. The elegant main buffet restaurant serves breakfasts and themed dinners beneath its ornate chandeliers. After dinner, there's entertainment, with live music and professional shows.
Make yourself at home in a sophisticated suite featuring textiles with prints of coral. Lounge in comfort on your balcony looking out across the manicured greens or the gentle sea. The one-bedroom suites have space for two additional beds for kids, or stay in a two-bedroom suite (that sleeps up to six) if you're travelling with teens.
Any fussy little eaters in the family will have plenty to pick from in the buffet restaurant at Hotel Gran Tacande. Grown-ups can tuck into meats like sizzling chicken, fresh from the barbecue, or be tempted at the show cooking stations. For drinks, the canopy of the pool bar offers a break from the rays, or wander up to the rooftop bar and watch the sun disappear into the sea each evening.
Rooms are bright and airy and some have an open-plan bathroom with twin basins. There's also a living area with a plush sofa and space for two extra beds. Take in vistas of the sea from your furnished balcony or upgrade to a sumptuous suite with your own pool so the kids can swim up to your terrace as you watch from your lounger.
When the children want to make holiday pals, there's a games programme and a kids' club. There's also a separate pool for children, where younger ones can splash about to their heart's content. For a paddle, wander down to the sandy blue-flag Playa del Duque that's just beyond the pools.
Feel like a local while staying at the charming Ona El Marques. The complex creates a little village with white-washed buildings topped with terracotta roof tiles. Each room has an apartment layout with one or two separate bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room with a sofa bed. In the lounge area, there's a satellite TV, so you can pop on one of the kids' favourite shows. Wander out on your balcony for al-fresco dinners or an evening drink, while watching the sun set behind the nearby island of La Gomera.
This low-key resort has a laid-back atmosphere for lazy days in the sunshine with a cool beer from the pool bar. Pick a spot on the sun terrace and watch the kids try to do handstands in the children's pool or swim lengths in the main pool. To explore the island, rent a car from the resort or sign up for one of the excursions.
In your apartment, cook up family-favourite dinners or take a seat in the resort's restaurant for dinner served with an evening show.
Unwind in the luxurious spa at Hotel Best Tenerife. Detox in the Turkish bath or lounge on massaging bubble beds in the pool before taking an aromatherapy shower. Sociable little ones can join in with the kids' club or play table tennis in the games room. Outside, amid the garden of tropical trees and palms, bag a spot in the Jacuzzi. Take a dip in the two pools and be drenched by the waterfall or watch the kids play in the children's pool.
For something to nibble on after a swim, pop by the snack bar. Main meals are served in the buffet restaurant with a selection of prepared plates and made-to-order dishes from live cooking stations. The refined piano bar has a sophisticated atmosphere for post-dinner drinks, or show off your moves in the lively disco bar.
Mix yourself a drink from the minibar to sip on your balcony with its views of the pool and the sea beyond. Each standard double features two double beds, so there's room for up to four and an en-suite with a bath and shower.
With six restaurants to choose from, it's unlikely you'll get bored with the food at the all-inclusive H10 Conquistador. The kids can sample fluffy pancakes that have been cooked right in front of them, or watch skilled chefs create Japanese dishes on hot plates in the Teppanyaki restaurant. For a real show, take a seat in the Senses restaurant for live performances and dancing.
Decorated with a modern flair in calming muted tones, rooms are finished with little luxuries from soft robes to Nespresso coffee machines. Relax under the water of your rainfall shower, or out on your balcony. In a junior suite, the family can stay together with an additional sofa bed in the lounge.
From swimming in the pools (there are two for adults and one for kids) to windsurfing or playing tennis, no two days have to be the same. Children can join the kids' club for a mini disco and activities like water games and painting, while teens can hang out playing PlayStation. While they're busy, take a pilates class or try out the aqua massage beds in the Thalasso spa.
Modern with neutral decor, rooms at Hotel Melia Jardines del Teide open out on to a balcony with outdoor furniture for morning coffees. Wrap up in a robe and sink into your premium king-size mattress while the children get comfy on the sofa bed to watch the flatscreen TV. Want more space for older kids? Family suites have a separate living room for the pull-out bed and larger balconies, too.
Alongside swimming in the three pools with ocean views and exploring the extensive gardens, discover the hotel's sports facilities for yoga classes, Latin dancing and games of squash. Children have busy days ahead of them too, with the kids' club, crafts workshops and even parties, while you're pampered with an al-fresco massage.
At the buffet restaurant, pick a table in the contemporary dining room or outside on the terrace for panoramic ocean views. After a swim, head to the snack bar for slushy frozen drinks, ice creams and hot dogs to keep them going until dinner. For a more romantic evening, dine in the Italian restaurant on freshly baked pizza and a choice of creamy desserts.
At Hard Rock Hotel near Costa Adeje, little divas can learn what it's like to be famous. In the kids' club, they'll be transformed into their favourite pop star or even learn how to MC. Outside, you can lie on a sun bed in the water of one of the three pools or swim-up to the bar for drinks. In the lavish spa, book yourself a treatment that incorporates the therapeutic sound vibrations of music.
Dine at one of the five restaurants including a buffet diner with pool views, and specialist Japanese and Mediterranean dining rooms. Or settle in at the sports bar serving Tex-Mex and follow the action on the giant screens. Make the most of the seafront location in the rooftop sky lounge for panoramas of the Atlantic with live background music.
Designed with decadence in mind, rooms feature dramatic high-shine black details, floating mirrors and open-plan bathrooms with a rain shower. Sink into your king-size bed covered in rich cotton sheets or put your feet up on the balcony to look across the ocean. There's a sofa too, that turns into a bed for the little ones.