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Corsa Coal Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 and Completes the Sale of the Central Appalachia Division
Metallurgical coal sales volume increases 141% for the full year 2017 compared to 2016 levels
Record level of profitability achieved for Corsa
Organic growth story on track with second new mine expected to be put into production this month
March 13, 2018 – Canonsburg, Pennsylvania - Corsa Coal Corp. (TSXV: CSO) ("Corsa"), a premium quality metallurgical coal producer, today reported financial results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2017. Corsa has filed its audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, related management's discussion and analysis and its annual information form under its profile on www.sedar.com. Corsa also announced the completion of the sale of its Central Appalachia division as previously announced on March 7, 2018.
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Highlights
Corsa reported net and comprehensive income of $62.2 million, or $0.56 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2017, compared to net and comprehensive loss of $10.7 million, or $0.13 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2016. For the year ended December 31, 2017, Corsa reported net and comprehensive income of $83.7 million, or $0.72 per share, compared to net and comprehensive loss of $34.1 million, or $0.44 per share, for the year ended December 31, 2016.
Corsa's net and comprehensive income for the fourth quarter and full year 2017 was impacted by a net asset impairment reversal of $66.2 million which is primarily due to the improvement in the metallurgical coal market partially offset by an impairment charge at the CAPP Division as a result of the divestiture that occurred in 2018.
Operating cash flows for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2017 were $6.3 million and $31.1 million, respectively compared to cash provided operations of $4.0 million for the fourth quarter 2016 and cash used in operations of $2.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2016.
Total revenue was $58.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, an improvement of 54% as compared to the fourth quarter 2016. Total revenue was $263.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2017, an improvement of 172% as compared to the 2016 year. Metallurgical coal sales volumes increased 41% compared to the fourth quarter of 2016 and 141% compared to the 2016 full year.
Corsa's adjusted EBITDA(1) was $9.4 million and $8.0 million at its NAPP Division and on a consolidated basis, respectively, for the three months ended December 31, 2017 and $51.9 million and $47.3 million at its NAPP Division and on a consolidated basis, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2017.
Corsa achieved an average realized price per ton of metallurgical coal sold(1) at its NAPP Division of $122.25 in the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of 20% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2016. This average realized price is the approximate equivalent of $178 to $185 on a free-on-board vessel basis(2) and is comprised of a mix of 24% sales to domestic customers and 76% sales to international customers.
The Acosta Mine successfully commenced production in early June 2017. Conditions at the mine are favorable and a fourth production shift was added in early 2018. The mine has currently reached run-rate production levels this month and is expected to produce 400,000 tons per year of low volatile metallurgical coal.
The Horning Mine is expected to begin production this month. Located near Somerset, Pennsylvania, the Horning Mine is expected to produce approximately 125,000 to 180,000 tons per year of high quality, low volatile metallurgical coal.
George Dethlefsen, Chief Executive Officer of Corsa, commented, "2017 was a year of tremendous growth and record profitability for Corsa, driven by volume growth across all of our metallurgical coal platforms and a strong overall market environment for steel and metallurgical coal.
A year ago, we laid out milestones related to increasing production at our NAPP Division, expanding our Sales and Trading platform, and increasing utilization at our preparation plants. We accomplished all of these objectives in 2017. Overall, metallurgical coal sales at Corsa grew by 141%, we acquired several new international customers and one new domestic customer, and we restarted our Shade Creek preparation plant. We opened the Acosta Deep Mine in June of last year, which is going well, we opened two surface mines and this month we expect to begin production at the Horning Mine. In addition, we expect to begin production at the Keyser deep mine, another low volatile metallurgical coal mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in 2019. The production from these three mines, in combination with production from our existing mines, is anticipated to double Corsa's low volatile metallurgical coal production in 2019 as compared to 2017 levels.
The sale of our CAPP Division divests Corsa of its thermal coal mining assets and establishes Corsa as a pure play metallurgical coal producer. This move enables our team to focus its time and resources exclusively on our metallurgical growth initiatives and avoids future environmental liabilities and end-of-mine closure costs in Tennessee.
In the fourth quarter 2017, we had multiple shipments delayed by weather disruptions to the export logistics chain, thereby impacting metallurgical sales volumes and profitability. We are optimistic that these issues will get resolved in the near term. Our outlook for the future remains bullish. The steel and coke markets globally are very healthy, creating strong demand for our product. Domestically, steel prices are soaring, which has already stimulated incremental steel production and incremental demand for metallurgical coal. Supply for metallurgical coal remains tight globally, particularly for the premium qualities. We remain focused on all four aspects of our growth strategy, including the development of our permitted mines, exploration and permitting efforts, investing in our Sales and Trading platform and pursuing acquisitions."
Fourth Quarter 2017 Sales Metrics
Corsa's metallurgical coal sales in fourth quarter 2017 were 341,578 tons, an increase of 42% from fourth quarter 2016 levels. Full year 2017 metallurgical coal sales volumes were up 141% as compared to 2016 levels. A twelve month history of Corsa's metallurgical coal sales volumes is presented below.
Corsa's metallurgical coal sales figures are comprised of three types of sales: (i) selling coal that Corsa produces ("Company Produced"); (ii) selling coal that Corsa purchases and provides value added services (storing, washing, blending, loading) to make the coal saleable ("Valued Added Services"); and (iii) selling coal that Corsa purchases on a clean or finished basis from suppliers outside the Northern Appalachia region ("Sales and Trading"). For the full year of 2017, Corsa's sales were broken down into the following categories.
This is a non-GAAP financial measure. See "Cautionary Statement Regarding Certain Measures of Performance" above for more information.
Following a softening price environment in the early part of the fourth quarter of 2017, strong demand and a tight supply worked together to support increased spot prices for low volatile metallurgical coal prices both in the fourth quarter of 2017 and well into 2018. The global metallurgical coal market remains tight, with little high quality met coal available for purchase. Fourth quarter 2017 logistics issues led to long vessel queues in Australia and a resulting premium for high quality metallurgical coal cargos. Severe weather on the United States east coast also disrupted coal mining operations, limited railroad activities, and shut down export terminals late in the quarter putting additional upward pressure on spot prices. Chinese domestic metallurgical coal prices remain elevated due to strong steel production and government policy initiatives to decrease coal production capacity and consolidate coal production. The forward curve for low volatile metallurgical coal prices for calendar 2018 is supported by high levels of steel production globally, including the Indian market which is poised to become the world's second largest steel producing country. Steel production in the United States also remains strong with continued economic growth, the potential for significant infrastructure spending, and the recent steel trade actions which have lifted prices and profitability for the steel producers. We continue to see high levels of interest for low, medium, and high vol coals from our international customers.
The NAPP Division's geographic proximity to over 50% of domestic coke production capacity and short rail distance and multiple options to access the Maryland and Virginia export terminals solidify Corsa's ability to serve both domestic and international customers. Our Sales and Trading platform operations also give us the ability to market a greater variety of products, access more users and increases our ability to respond to sales opportunities.
Refer to Corsa's audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 and related management's discussion and analysis, filed under Corsa's profile on www.sedar.com, for details of the financial performance of Corsa and the matters referred to in this news release.
Management uses realized price per ton sold, cash production cost per ton sold, cash cost per ton sold, cash margin per ton sold and adjusted EBITDA as internal measurements of financial performance for Corsa's mining and processing operations. These measures are not recognized under International Financial Reporting Standards ("GAAP"). Corsa believes that, in addition to the conventional measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, certain investors and other stakeholders also use these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate Corsa's operating and financial performance; however, these non-GAAP financial measures do not have any standardized meaning and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. Accordingly, these non-GAAP financial measures are intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reference is made to the management's discussion and analysis for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2017 for a reconciliation and definitions of non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP measures.
Members of management will host a conference call on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time) to discuss the Company's results. To access the call from Canada and the U.S., dial 1.888.231.8191 (Toll Free). To access the call from other locations, dial 1.647.427.7450 (International)
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package resourceoverrides_test

import (
	"testing"

	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-config-connector/pkg/k8s"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-config-connector/pkg/resourceoverrides"

	apiextensions "k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apis/apiextensions/v1"
	v1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
)

var (
	fooKind = "Foo"
	barKind = "Bar"
	bazKind = "Baz"
)

func TestResourceOverridesHandler(t *testing.T) {
	t.Parallel()
	handler := resourceoverrides.NewResourceOverridesHandler()
	handler.Register(getFooOverrides())
	handler.Register(getBazOverrides())

	fooUnstruc := &unstructured.Unstructured{}
	fooUnstruc.SetKind(fooKind)
	barUnstruc := &unstructured.Unstructured{}
	barUnstruc.SetKind(barKind)
	bazUnstruc := &unstructured.Unstructured{}
	bazUnstruc.SetKind(bazKind)

	tests := []struct {
		name              string
		kind              string
		crd               *apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition
		u                 *unstructured.Unstructured
		original          *k8s.Resource
		reconciled        *k8s.Resource
		hasOverrides      bool
		hasConfigValidate bool
	}{
		{
			name: "resource Foo with overrides",
			kind: fooKind,
			crd: &apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition{
				Spec: apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinitionSpec{
					Names: apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinitionNames{
						Kind: fooKind,
					},
				},
			},
			u: fooUnstruc,
			original: &k8s.Resource{
				TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
					Kind: fooKind,
				},
			},
			reconciled: &k8s.Resource{
				TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
					Kind: fooKind,
				},
			},
			hasConfigValidate: true,
			hasOverrides:      true,
		},
		{
			name: "resource Bar with no override",
			kind: barKind,
			crd: &apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition{
				Spec: apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinitionSpec{
					Names: apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinitionNames{
						Kind: barKind,
					},
				},
			},
			u: barUnstruc,
			original: &k8s.Resource{
				TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
					Kind: barKind,
				},
			},
			reconciled: &k8s.Resource{
				TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
					Kind: barKind,
				},
			},
			hasOverrides:      false,
			hasConfigValidate: false,
		},
		{
			name: "resource baz has overrides with no ConfigValidate",
			kind: bazKind,
			crd: &apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition{
				Spec: apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinitionSpec{
					Names: apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinitionNames{
						Kind: bazKind,
					},
				},
			},
			u: bazUnstruc,
			original: &k8s.Resource{
				TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
					Kind: bazKind,
				},
			},
			reconciled: &k8s.Resource{
				TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
					Kind: bazKind,
				},
			},
			hasOverrides:      true,
			hasConfigValidate: false,
		},
	}

	for _, tc := range tests {
		tc := tc
		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			if tc.hasOverrides != handler.HasOverrides(tc.kind) {
				t.Fatalf("expect HasOverrides() for kind %v to return %v", tc.kind, tc.hasOverrides)
			}
			if tc.hasConfigValidate != handler.HasConfigValidate(tc.kind) {
				t.Fatalf("expect HasConfigValidate() for kind %v to return %v", tc.kind, tc.hasConfigValidate)
			}
			if err := handler.CRDDecorate(tc.crd); err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
			}
			if err := handler.ConfigValidate(tc.u); err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
			}
			if err := handler.PreActuationTransform(tc.original); err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
			}
			if err := handler.PostActuationTransform(tc.original, tc.reconciled); err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
			}
		})
	}
}

func getBazOverrides() resourceoverrides.ResourceOverrides {
	ro := resourceoverrides.ResourceOverrides{
		Kind: bazKind,
	}
	o1 := resourceoverrides.ResourceOverride{}
	o1.CRDDecorate = func(crd *apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition) error {
		return nil
	}
	return ro
}

func getFooOverrides() resourceoverrides.ResourceOverrides {
	ro := resourceoverrides.ResourceOverrides{
		Kind: fooKind,
	}
	o1 := resourceoverrides.ResourceOverride{}
	o1.CRDDecorate = func(crd *apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition) error {
		return nil
	}
	o1.ConfigValidate = func(r *unstructured.Unstructured) error {
		return nil
	}
	o1.PostActuationTransform = func(original, reconciled *k8s.Resource) error {
		return nil
	}
	o1.PreActuationTransform = func(r *k8s.Resource) error {
		return nil
	}
	// ResourceOverride only modifies the CRD
	o2 := resourceoverrides.ResourceOverride{}
	o2.CRDDecorate = func(crd *apiextensions.CustomResourceDefinition) error {
		return nil
	}
	ro.Overrides = append(ro.Overrides, o1)
	ro.Overrides = append(ro.Overrides, o2)
	return ro
}

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Headless CMS vs Decoupled CMS: The Complete Guide
Tessa Roberts
Interest in headless CMS has seen a spectacular rise recently, with an increasing number of businesses using a headless CMS to push content to their users.
This shows in Google search trends as well, with a significant uptick in people searching for "headless CMS".
With so much noise surrounding headless CMS, it can be hard to wrap your head around it and really understand it - let alone figure out whether it could even help your business.
This quick guide will help you on your way - whether you've had some exposure to headless CMS or you've never heard of it, this guide should immerse you a little deeper into the world of headless!
What is a Traditional Content Management System (CMS)
The traditional CMS (sometimes referred to as a "coupled CMS") is perhaps the simplest in terms of layout and general functionality. In a traditional CMS stack, your backend and frontend are tightly coupled together; there is no API in between to handle the communication.
If you're looking to make a relatively simple marketing site, a coupled CMS is a good choice for its simplicity.
For those looking to host multiple sites, apps or kiosks or single page applications (SPAs) more complex systems such as a decoupled, headless, or hybrid CMS, would better suit these needs.
Unlike a traditional or 'coupled' architecture (where the backend is deeply integrated with the frontend) in a headless CMS, frontend and backend are completely separate systems.
In a headless system however, the 'head' - i.e. the frontend - is chopped off. All that remains is the content database and a user interface to insert, edit and manage content. In order to get the content published, it is up to the developing team to add an API and a frontend development framework.
The headless approach may seem counter-intuitive. After all, most investment in content management has been focused on optimizing delivery.
The point of a CMS has always been to have a strong delivery component, so content creators didn't have to mill around in code. Now, with the head 'chopped off', the delivery component has been removed, which means with many headless CMSes content creators lose a WYSIWYG interface, previewing and other common CMS features.
So as innovative as headless CMS is, it does create some new challenges. Luckily, there are many solutions as well!
What is a Decoupled CMS?
The decoupled CMS is in some respects more complex than the traditional (or coupled) CMS. However, it offers advantages that the tightly-knit design of the traditional does not.
A coupled CMS architecture provides templating, design and channels in one go.
The architecture of headless and decoupled is quite similar - both feature a separation between the content repository at the backend and the publishing tools at the frontend.
Decoupled CMS, however, comes with a built-in API that handles the front end, eliminating the need to build a custom-made API.
Headless CMS vs Decoupled CMS: What Is The Difference?
On the surface, it sounds great - combining a set of developer-friendly tools with a content creator-friendly environment.
But at a deeper level, decoupled has a few drawbacks.
Headless offers more options to develop each head separately. Every channel will need a different approach - this is especially true for newly developed channels and devices, such as smartwatches, VR headsets and IoT devices.
It does this by allowing your developers to develop a new frontend from scratch and gradually implement it, or simply use the existing frontend. This will help them tailoring the CMS to what your business needs today and in the future.
In a nutshell, headless is more flexible, powerful and versatile than decoupled - you'd have to look long and hard to find a roadblock you can't overcome in headless.
Headless is great for developers, but could mean marketers and other content creators lose features such as preview and a WYSIWYG interface.
So what's the solution?
You have two options. Either go for a Headless Experience Cloud that acts as the "head" for your headless CMS, equipping with it content editor features like preview and drag-and-drop.
Or your second option is to develop a custom frontend.
Although headless doesn't allow for advanced marketer functionality out of the box, features can be added as the frontend is developed.
Your developers may still need to be more involved in publishing content, but can make any adjustment on the fly, speeding up publication.
In addition to that, most industry experts see headless as the next step towards agile CMS, allowing for more powerful and more efficient content creation, collaboration and development.
Read this next: 3 Key CMS Features to Make Your 2019 Content Strategy Easier [blog]
Headless CMS Advantages
A good way to look at headless CMS is that it separates authoring from publishing. Authoring at the backend is completely separate from publishing at the front end.
We're entering an era of immersive interaction that takes us beyond screens. It's important to start thinking beyond multiple screens - content will flow to the user in ways we don't even know about yet.
At the same time, users will start playing a much bigger role, interacting with content in new ways and providing the content creators with more feedback.
That's why traditional CMS won't be enough for many companies in the near future. It'll pay off prepare for this now by adopting advanced technology.
To get you started, let's take a look at some benefits of headless CMS.
Headless CMS let you push content through all possible hannels
Of course, traditional CMS can also publish to different channels (think of WordPress and its ability to publish to a browser on a computer, tablet and phone at the click of a button).
But, as devices and channels are multiplying and becoming more distinct, a headless solution offers the flexibility websites need.
This fits in the general trend in content marketing and merchandising: content is created once and pushed through multiple channels using a COPE strategy (Create Once, Publish Everywhere).
A headless CMS is ready for this multichannel approach: it's built into the design.
It'll help you publish content faster and will be easier to use for marketers.
All they need to do is create the content and publish it everywhere it is needed at the click of a button.
Implementing headless CMS means future-proofing your business
With Internet of Things in full swing, huge opportunities will be created for content delivery. Your fridge will give you advice on food spoilage, your phone will use AR technology to help you choose a pair of pants and your VR headset will give you tips on what in-game content to buy.
Even in more mundane channels, customer expectations are growing.
Chatbots not only need to be as eloquent as humans, but also as helpful - drawing relevant information from a large content repository.
You can achieve complete coding carte blanche with headless CMS
Developing teams usually prefer a headless CMS over a traditional one, as it gives them a level of flexibility and freedom that just isn't available to them in a traditional setup.
Let's have a look at the main benefits for developers:
Frontend agnostic: Dev teams can use the programming languages and SPA frameworks they are most familiar with, increasing efficient coding and minimizing bugs.
Easy code editing: Developers can make changes to the frontend without impacting the backend (and vice-versa).
Compatibility: Developers are not limited to the tools offered by the CMS, but can use whatever framework they want, including Angular and React to create advanced SPAs.
Permissions: even though you're dealing with multiple systems, you can still have an advanced permissions mechanism in place, with levels allowing user and administrator levels to view, create, edit and publish.
Cloud scalability: With the frontend and backend completely in the cloud, it's easy to scale as your business grows. Developers won't lose time with editing, debugging and testing reams of code.
Headless CMS let you create the best possible experience for your customers
Ultimately, your customers are the ones who count, and they benefit hugely from a headless CMS.
A headless CMS delivers the content you need where you need it, through an API. As customer touchpoints evolve, you can simply set up your system to deliver existing content to those new touchpoints, without the need to reprogram or rewrite content at the backend.
This means you can publish content faster, making sure it's always relevant to your customers.
This will help you to unify and streamline your messaging so you can serve your customers better by optimizing their experience.
Read this next: Customer Experience (CX): Definition, Importance and Ways to Improve It [blog]
Which Types of Businesses Benefit From a Headless CMS?
We posed this question to Todd Zeiger, Senior Manager of Business Development and Marketing at digital agency Authentic, who shared his take:
"Headless CMS solutions are perfectly suited for any organization aiming to create a truly differentiated customer experience. While we feel that every business – regardless of size or industry – would benefit from the adoption of a headless CMS, we believe that these solutions are particularly advantageous for Financial Services organizations, as well as for businesses that have a commerce element to their digital offering.
Headless CMS Solutions
"The financial services space is currently undergoing a significant transformation. As the agents and 3rd parties that used to represent these businesses are disappearing, financial services organizations are engaging more directly with their customers across the digital channel.
"Aiming to establish a differentiated customer experience, these organizations need to craft an engaging, fun, and intuitive digital presence that personifies their brand. Using a headless CMS-based solution in conjunction with an Angular or React.js application, these organizations can more readily establish best-in-class digital experiences that can be managed by smaller teams and with less overhead."
Watch this next: How Bosch Power Tools Adopted a Headless Experience Platform [webinar]
Use Cases for Headless CMS
There are a huge number of use cases for headless CMS - that's the beauty of it, every business can tailor headless to meet its unique, specific needs.
Still, some use cases seem to pop up more frequently than others.
Here's an overview of the most important use cases where headless CMS will work better than a traditional CMS:
Multichannel content: Content creators can push their content through all imaginable channels. They can also re-use content across channels. Whenever a new channel is added to the marketing mix, it'll be easy for developers to add a few lines of code to the API. This is a classic win-win situation for both marketers and developers.
Read this next: What is Omnichannel Commerce? Definition, Benefits and Trends [blog]
Ability to use JavaScript frameworks: Developers can set up SPAs using frameworks such as VueJs, React and Angular. This will integrate advanced functionality for content creators - combining a headless CMS at the backend with Single Page Applications at the frontend.
Improved product information on eCommerce sites: This is especially the case for CMSs that are targeted at the kind of information an eCommerce merchandiser generally has to deal with - high volumes of highly structured information.
Read this next: The Ultimate Guide to Headless Commerce [blog]
Mobile apps: When it comes to non-web content like mobile apps, a headless CMS is crucial. You will need an API to push content to the app, so a traditional CMS simply won't do the trick. Apps are just the start - non-web content is likely to explode over the next few years.
Getting Started with Headless CMS
We spoke to Authentic, an award-winning digital agency, on how to introduce a headless approach to your organization, including getting buy-in, migrating old content, and the mistakes they've come across that you can avoid. Todd Zeiger, Senior Manager of Business Development and Marketing, takes us through it:
Q: How do you convince management to switch to a headless CMS? How do you get buy-in?
"When explaining the benefits of a headless CMS to management and other business stakeholders, it's important to highlight the technical advantages of the solution model, as well as their future-proof and extensible nature."
The Headless Model
"While traditional implementation models require the CMS and UI to be developed in unison, headless solutions allow the CMS to evolve at a different rate than the UI. In establishing a true separation of roles, businesses can infuse speed into the digital maturation process, more readily align development with prioritized initiatives, and overcome the challenges often associated with more methodical and lengthy implementation patterns."
"Headless solutions are also uniquely positioned to evolve alongside the ever-changing expectations of the modern consumer. Using a headless CMS solution, additional channels and emerging touchpoints - such as kiosks, apps, and even voice assistants – can be incorporated into the solution over time, with all content centrally maintained in a single platform.
"Delivering a highly future-proof architecture, headless solution models provide agility, simplify cross-channel engagement, and position businesses to more readily adapt to the newest customer experience trends."
Emerging Frameworks
"Additionally, using a headless CMS solution allows brands to leverage innovative frameworks, like React and Angular, to craft truly best-in-class experiences.
"When we take inventory of the brands that are setting the pace for customer experience across the digital channel, like Tesla or Netflix, we are see that they have developed applications that are built on Angular or React.js (and often based on a headless content management solution).
"In an age where each of our customer experience expectations are often set by our personal interactions with these brands and sites, businesses should welcome the opportunity to use these frameworks and craft equally compelling experiences for their customers."
Q: How do you you start migrating content to a new CMS?
"Often times, businesses migrating to a headless CMS model will try to leverage a highly developer-oriented design, in which content is treated as nothing more than data that is being queried by an external application. While this pattern works well for certain structured content - like menus - it fails to account for the truly experiential nature of the bulk of content residing in the CMS.
"When beginning the process of migrating content to a new headless CMS platform, it is imperative that businesses take time to consider what the end-experience is going to look like and complete appropriate mapping exercises to guide the migration effort."
Q: What are the most common mistakes you've seen, when it comes to companiesadopting a headless CMS?
"The most common mistake that we've seen companies make when adopting a headless CMS is designing a developer-oriented solution. When adopting a headless model, it is all too easy to design a developer-first publish model, in which content is misperceived as nothing more than data. In this model – in which the application simply queries data from the CMS - businesses often sacrifice the authoring and preview controls for which the CMS was selected.
"When introducing a headless CMS, it is imperative that the solution establishes intuitive content management controls and advantageous patterns for both authoring and preview. It is also important to select the correct technology on which to base your solution.
"If you're not using a platform like brXM, you increase the likelihood of winding up with a form-based solution that inhibits advancement and success within a digital transformation initiative."
Wrap Up: Going Headless
Ultimately, the decision whether or not to use a headless CMS depends a lot on what you aim to achieve with your content and merchandising strategy.
As content is being consumed through an increasing number of channels and content strategies become more complex, more and more companies would benefit from a headless solution.
The people who matter most here are your (potential) customers and the experience you can give them. Harvard Business Review wrote about this as far back as 2013 - good customer experience is likely to generate huge rewards.
Since then, the case for better experience has only become stronger.
Customers (including you and me) are being spoiled like never before - they have access to incredible amounts of information that is being constantly updated and fed to them through dozens of channels.
Companies should make it as easy as possible for customers to consume their content, absorb information and - most importantly - buy their products.
This is essentially what headless does - it starts by looking at what the consumer needs (i.e. a convenient and interesting experience) and then considers how developers, marketers, merchandisers and the rest of the business fit in.
Headless CMS will help you connect with your customers at a much deeper level, more quickly - you'll be ready for a future where content flows freely through channels and customers interact with you in an ever-growing number of ways.
If this is what next-gen content management looks like - will you be a part of it?
Download a PDF version for easier offline reading and sharing with coworkers.
Tessa is a content marketer specializing in digital marketing, content strategy, social media strategy.
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Top PayPal Alumni: "Silicon Valley Lacks Radical Innovation"
It was a sold out event: Peter Thiel and Max Levchin at the Inforum Club SF - the club for under 36 year old members of the Commonwealth Club.
Mr Thiel and Mr Levchin are two prominent members of what some call the "PayPal Mafia." This is a large number of unbelievably successful entrepreneurs; the Paypal alumni have gone on to help found an extraordinary number of successful startups.
The first time I met Messrs Thiel and Levchin I was working at the Financial Times, not long before the PayPal IPO. The IPO was successful and soon after, Ebay bought the company for $1.5 billion.
A big chunk of that Ebay money went back into the Silicon Valley economy, funding dozens of startups, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tesla, etc.
Later at SVW I would meet regularly with Mr Levchin as he showed me the first version of Slide - a simple photo slide web service (sold six months ago to Google for $200m) and Yelp, the successful global restaurant review site.
The pair were slightly bashful Wednesday evening in San Francisco, sitting under bright lights as Brad Stone from BusinessWeek ran through a list of questions.
ML: Groupon is probably under-valued. The fastest growing company ever. I came across a startup recently that had a Powerpoint and no engineers, no product and it had a $16 million valuation. That's an over-valued company.
PT: There is no bubble in tech. This is not like 1999. But valuations are all over the map.
ML: It's using Y Combinator as an Index Fund. It's not true anymore that YC has small companies. But it shuts out some of the more value conscious angel investors.
PT: It's a brilliant move. Some of those companies will become very valuable.
PT: There is not enough happening to take us to the next level. There is an extreme disconnect. Outside Silicon Valley, California is nearly bankrupt. Need to do more.
ML: There is no insane abandon. When I was growing up, the space race galvanized an entire generation, my parents' generation. There is nothing similar. Today, the news was dominated by reports of an iPad 2 screen, it's not that radical. It takes a JFK to motivate a new generation to create the rhetoric. No one in government is doing that.
PT: Everything is short-term focused no one is looking into the future, 15 to 20 years like they used to in our parents' generation. A lot of what our parents generation did: building interstate highways, Manhattan Project, etc, could not be done today.
PT: It's a project that we helped fund to encourage discussion and we are looking at business plans n this area.
ML: It's not for me, I get sea sick very easily.
PT: It is good to wait. Google set the precedent. If it had gone public earlier, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL would have probably been able to figure out how to compete with Google. That's why Facebook is waiting (he sits on Facebook board).
The Goldman story and reaction was probably part of the general anti-Wall Street saga and not much to do with the Facebook investment.
ML: We went public (PayPal) just before Sarbanes-Oxely and it was very onerous. I slept at the printers for several days with lawyers kicking me awake to ask about patent issues. Once you go public it is a big distraction to staff, they are checking their stock price all the time. If it is down, they are depressed and when it is up, nothing can touch you.
When you go public your organization is probably working at half productivity. Going public slows you down, you should make sure you get most of your innovation done first. You should make sure, as Meg Whitman once said, that monkeys can run the train, then it doesn't matter that your productivity is down.
ML: They got people, ideas and a lot more. I'm sure they at least got their monies worth. I can't say what I'm working on. One thing I've learned in 6 months at Google is that it is good at keeping secrets.
PT: Google is focused on people and not products. It wants the smartest people and that's the competition with Facebook. When the top engineers started joining Google instead of Microsoft that was bad for Microsoft.
ML: There is not enough radical innovation in Silicon Valley. Focus is too narrow. Too many companies that are featurettes.
PT: For investment, we look for a powerful narrative and people looking to change the world. That's very rare. How will you recruit that 30th or 40th employee? What will motivate them to join the company? We need breakthrough tech.
ML: There are lots of opportunities in the cracks where PayPal isn't, lots of new features are needed.
PT: I'm glad I didn't know about payment systems before PayPal. It's very hard, it's a chicken and egg situation, payments are a networked product. How do you get started?
PT: I don't believe in the wisdom of crowds, it's over rated. I don't see too much ground breaking tech coming out of China, there are too many other ways to make money there, and things to be done first, such as MacDonald franchises.
ML: I invest in areas that I know and in countries where there is a rule of law. I've invested in the Ukraine but have lost money so far.
What is your idea to change the world?
PT: We need breakthrough technologies in many areas, applying computer technologies to biotech, agriculture, etc.
ML: We should be willing to take more risks as a society, such as develop safer nuclear energy and also develop better healthcare, fix our bodies.
Afterwards, the two spent a fair amount of time answering questions from the audience and many were looking for investments.
I'd love to know why the "PayPal Mafia" have been so successful. After all, there are plenty of other successful alumni around but none that can be so closely identified in such a large group.
- Steve Chen - Youtube co-founder.
- Chad Hurley - Youtube co-founder.


Hundreds of protesters thursday blocked the entrance of the Kano State Government House, demanding the immediate resignation of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
The protesters under the aegis of Northerners Arewa Solidarity Front (NASF), accused Saraki of ridiculing President Muhammad Buhari and Nigeria's international image with budget padding and non-clearance of some federal government political appointees.
The chairman also said: "We call on the national leadership of the APC to pursue the immediate removal of the incompetent Senator Saraki, who emerged Senate president through a fraudulent exercise. We urged the national chairman to prevail on our distinguished senators to save the image and restore the glory of the Senate by replacing Saraki, who has so far built bad image of a leader.
In a similar development in Kaduna, the Arewa Solidarity Group (ASG) thursday staged a peaceful protest in the city, insisting on the removal of Saraki as Senate president.
In a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, which was later delivered at the Kaduna State secretariat of the party for onward delivery to Oshiomhole, the group urged the party to pursue his immediate removal as head of the Senate.
The letter which was signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the group, Haruna Maikano and Bitrus Magaji respectively, appealed to the leadership of the APC to ensure that Saraki who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not retain his position.
"We resolved to formally write to you and intimate you on the position of the mass majority of northerners regarding the conduct and performance of Saraki.
"We have been following with keen interest happenings in the National Assembly in the last three years and wish to register our disappointment with the poor leadership of the Senate under Saraki," the group said in the letter.
The group also endorsed Senator Godswill Akpabio for election as Senate President, saying it intends to meet with all the Northern senators to further drum support for the replacement of Saraki with Akpabio.


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Freaky Friday: Pacific University
This week we travel to Forest Grove, Oregon– home to Pacific University. Founded in 1849, Pacific is no stranger to unearthly happenings. Jessica Hamlet, a Pacific University graduate, shares stories of one ghost who is determined to scare you to bits.
Pacific's resident ghost is Vera, a young woman who haunts Knight Hall, which is now home to the University's admissions department. In the first part of the 20th century, Knight Hall housed the music department. It is rumoured that Vera was upstairs one night, practicing the piano, when her boyfriend stopped by to visit her. In her haste to greet him, she reportedly fell down the stairs and broke her neck. She has haunted the building ever since.
Tales of Vera haunt Pacific University's Knight Hall.
Vera spends her time like any other ghost—closing doors and windows, moving furniture, making noises, and even writing on the chalkboards in the basement. She also occasionally appears in the upper windows in the evenings, and sometimes even ventures out of the house and across the street to one of the residential buildings, Walter Hall.
That's where my college friend first spotted Vera.
My freshman year, one of my friends was living in the north wing of Walter, closest to Knight Hall. She said that she woke up one night to find her window open and Vera sitting at the desk, watching her sleep.
Being a music student, Vera has strong opinions about any sounds being played in the building. She's been known to turn off the radio if she doesn't like the music. When the building was still home to the music department, Vera would sometimes play the piano and sing. There is a report of a student who was in the building one night and began to play the piano. The room suddenly became very cold, and a young woman entered the room. She approached the piano, said "please stop," and left the room. The student followed her into the hall, but she had disappeared. The student reportedly returned the next night with more people and began to play the piano again. Although Vera did not reappear, the students reported hearing a very loud, very dramatic sigh when the piano player hit a wrong note.
Jeff Grundon is an admissions advisor who currently works in Knight Hall. He too shared these stories of Vera:
"I've had over 50 encounters with Vera. She has locked doors on me, picked up my briefcase and moved it while I was looking at it, and turned on a fan that was off. She has made smells in one spot in my office, walked up and down the stairs, closed doors, laughed at me, and whispered to me and my brother. She's turned on the lights in the building, then I'd turn them off and come back later and she had turned them all on again."
– Jessica Hamlet, Guest Blogger, Pacific University '08
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A Few Things About Frank Sinatra
Miss Cellania • Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 5:00 AM
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
This post was selected because today is the 97th anniversary of the Frank Sinatra's birth.
He was "the Chairman of the Board." "Old Blue Eyes." There is no debate about whether he was a great singer. That would be rather like debating whether Michael Jordan was a great basketball player. The debate is whether he was the greatest popular singer of all time. He also happened to be a brilliant, underrated movie actor. He was the ultimate "swinger," leaving countless swooning women and girls in his wake. He loved to brawl, and he loved his Jack Daniels. He was a completely original and unique character in the history of show business.
Okay, that being said, here's a few facts you may not have known about the one and only Mr. Frank Sinatra.
A forced delivery at birth left permanent scars on his neck and cheek and ruptured an eardrum. This eardrum injury is what kept Frank from enlisting and serving in World War II.
When Frank was born, his parents had wanted a girl. They had already picked out the feminine name "Frances," so when Frank was born, they changed the chosen name to "Francis" for a boy.
According to Mia Farrrow (who Frank had been married to briefly), Frank offered to have Woody Allen's legs broken for her after he found out Woody was having an affair with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
Frank loved the color orange. It was his favorite color.
He permanently injured one of his fingers in a fight scene in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He threw a karate chop and his hand went through a solid wooden table, breaking several bones in his little finger. The footage was left in the film.
In 1950, Frank attempted suicide by sticking his head in the kitchen stove and turning on the gas. The failed attempt occurred after a fight with Ava Gardner, who he was madly in love with. The two married the next year.
Frank was flat broke in 1951, so wife Ava Gardner had to pay for his plane ticket to Africa so he could accompany her while she was filming Mogambo (1953).
Although the song "My Way" is often thought of as his signature or theme song, at first he didn't want to record it. He thought the song was "self-serving and indulgent."
Frank suffered from severe insomnia. He enjoyed talking to people on the CB radio in the middle of the night. Late in his life came the computer era, and yes, Frank, like so many of us, enjoying using the internet and writing email messages in the middle of the night.
He loved playing with his beloved electric train set. He had a track set up that traced his entire career, starting at a replica of the Hoboken, New Jersey, train station.Many know that Frank won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here To Eternity in 1954. But Frank had already won a special Oscar for a short film about intolerance called The House I Live In in 1946.
When actor Bela Lugosi died virtually penniless in 1956, Frank quietly paid for his funeral.
It was during the filming of a kidnapping scene for the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) that Frank found out that his son, Frank Sinatra Jr. had been kidnapped.
It was during the filming of a funeral scene for Robin and the Seven Hoods that he found out that his close friend, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated. For obvious reasons, the scene was never used in the movie.
Frank was the first choice to play Harry Callahan in the 1971 film Dirty Harry, but he had to bow out when he broke his finger.
Frank was offered the lead in the movie Death Wish (1974) but he turned it down and the role went to Charles Bronson instead.
Sinatra's epitaph: "The Best is Yet to Come."
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BLACKLISTED: Roy Hinkley • 14Dec12 1:58pm • 0
Frank was great - there will never be another like him
BLACKLISTED: Tariq • 13Dec12 8:49am • 0
How was Sinatra overrated as a singer?
BLACKLISTED: Patty O'Heater 1 • 13Dec12 4:10am • 1
Missing from these things about Sinatra: he was the most overrated "singer" in history.
BLACKLISTED: Neil D. • 12Dec12 10:40pm • 0
Ah... The Chairman of the Board... Sinatra was as big as they come for an entertainer.
For those under 50 years of age, one has to go back into newsreels and archival footage to see the impact that Frankie had on females of all ages. It was incredible! Here was a scrawny little guy, who in my opinion, didn't resemble a handsome Casanova, but he had an aura about him and a voice to match, that made the girls hysterical over.
Frank Sinatra conquered the world of music. He did pretty good at the box-office, and he commanded standing-room-only in concert halls and stages. But one place Sinatra had difficulty achieving heights with, was television. Sure, his specials were really well made They were top-notch, had a lot of guest stars and music, but they didn't capture the magic Sinatra had in other aspects of his career.
I remember Greg Garrison (Producer of The Dean Martin Show) once saying, "When Frank and Dean are performing together in front of the camera, everyone takes notice of Frank because he's considered a master singer, but slowly your eyes drift away from Frank and you can't stop focusing your attention on Dean".
He was right, and Sinatra's jealousy and hesitation would show through. He wanted the magic that he once had early in his career, and what he saw that Dean had... that twinkle in the eye and the little mannerisms that endeared the TV audience to their star.
I loved Eddie's article, mainly because I think the magnitude of Frank Sinatra's career and life is slowly dissolving with time. Not because he wasn't great, but because people are starting to forget. Unlike Audrey Hepburn or Elvis Presley - not enough is being written about Sinatra to keep his history and flame burning as bright as it once did - even after his passing.............Thank's Eddie! Long live The Man and His Music!
BLACKLISTED: Keith Allison • 12Dec12 10:47am • 1
Wee correction -- Frank Sinatra did not pay for Bela's funeral. He paid for Bela's rehab. The funeral rumor was started, unintentionally, when Joey Bishop was doing an interview and stated that Frank paid for the funeral, when he meant Bela's hospital stay.
"A Few Things About Frank Sinatra"


Aw! Look at those faces!
If there's anything we love more than a warm bagel sandwich, it's a cute dog. So Natasha Jones, a photographer and dog lover who works the drive-thru window at Einstein Bros. Bagels, may just have our dream job.
Since November 2017, the 31-year-old has been capturing the faces of adorable pups as they wait with their owners for their breakfast orders at the Melbourne, Florida, location of the bagel chain.
After initially posting the images to a private Facebook photo album, Jones decided to make them public on Imgur, so that the entire world could enjoy the goofy expressions dogs make as they eagerly anticipate the sight and smell of bagels. Her photos quickly went viral — and it's easy to see why. Then she decided to post her photos on public Instagram page, where they're getting even more attention.
Noshing on a doggie bagel is the best way to start the day.
Get a load of those sad puppy eyes.
First pup of the new year!
This dog is ready to jump out of the car at the sight of a fresh bagel.
The smell must be so tantalizing.
These backseat cuties love the fresh air, especially when it smells like doggie bagels.
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Look at that tongue! This pup is trying to taste the bagel from several feet away.
This very good boy is prepared to shake your hand in exchange for a bagel.
No wonder these pups are so excited!
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Stanko Tavčar (2 de febrer de 1898 - 11 de juliol de 1945) fou un futbolista eslovè de la dècada de 1910.

Pel que fa a clubs, defensà els colors de ŠK Ilirija Ljubljana. Fou el primer futbolista eslovè en jugar amb la selecció iugoslava, participant en els Jocs Olímpics de 1920.

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PHILIP L. AND ELLEN V. GLASS HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATIVE SERIES: Kristallnacht, 84 Years Later: Special Commemorative Performance of The Suitcase
November 9, 2022 | 6:00pm CST
9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL 60077
Join us as we commemorate the 84th anniversary of the "Night of Broken Glass" with a program of remembrance, reflection, and performance.
This powerful intergenerational commemoration features The Suitcase, a one-man show by Tim Lorsch, the first-born son of Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, blending narrative storytelling with music and archival video.
In 2016, a suitcase was found in a little antique store in the Czech Republic. It miraculously made its way to Tim Lorsch, a producer, session player, arranger and songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. The suitcase had the name of Tim's great-uncle, "Julius Israel Lorsch," inscribed inside.
Using looping technology to weave layered story through classical string instruments, The Suitcase tells the story of the Lorsch family and Tim's discovery of their history, community, and survival.
The performance will be preceded by remarks from dignitaries, a candle-lighting ceremony featuring Survivors and descendants of Survivors, as well as memorial prayers with Cantor Roytman.
Community Partner: Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest; Sheerit Hapleitah of Metropolitan Chicago; The Ninth Candle; Beth Hillel B'nai Emunah; Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Chicago; Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
Reservations are required. Free to the public.
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It took just a couple hours after her performance for the results to be announced: but the effect of Nodoka Okisawa's victory at the 18th Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting will continue to unfold for years to come. Aside from the cash award that comes with winning Asia's longest-running competition in this field, the young Japanese conductor has been thrust into the international spotlight and will undoubtedly see new opportunities develop as a result. And, in the process, has also made history: Okisawa is the first female artist to win first prize in the half-century of the competition's existence.
"I don't feel anything particular about my gender," Okisawa remarked during a press interview the day following her triumph. (Her English was fluent enough not to require the services of the interpreter who was present.) "In fact I didn't know that I was the first one. To me it's just natural, not something unusual." Presented by the Min-On Concert Association, the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting has taken place every three years since it began in 1967; in 2014, it became part of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
While all three rounds of the competition were open to the public, Okisawa, who was born in 1987, has been invited to conduct the Nagoya Philharmonic and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony in May 2019 in a pair of gala concerts intended to introduce the winners to a wider audience in her native Japan.
Born in Aomori Prefecture in the Tōhoku Region of northern Japan, Okisawa initially considered following a career as an oboist. What led her to turn to conducting? "I played piano as a child, of course, and oboe in the school band and cello in the youth orchestra in my hometown. But I hesitated to tell my parents that I wanted to become a musician because they were paying for my sister to study cello." Okisawa thought she would focus on Japanese literature instead, but her first trip abroad – to Sydney, when she was 16 – provided an epiphany.
This was not Okisawa's first attempt with the Tokyo International Music Competition. She entered in 2012 – a year in which all three finalists were women – but didn't get beyond the first round. In fact, no first prize winner was chosen for the four competitions that were held between 2003 and 2015, when Diego Martin Etxebarria emerged as the victor.
At the start of the competition process, Okisawa was merely one of a total of 238 applicants from some 42 countries (aged 38 or younger). The international panel of nine judges (comprising eminent musicians from Japan, Austria, South Korea, Russia, the United States, and the Netherlands) selected her and 17 other contestants on the basis of video samples and other application materials. Within the period of a single week in October, this group was successively reduced to four finalists.
Like her colleagues, Okisawa worked with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in the first two rounds (nothing but a Haydn symphony for the entire first round) and was then given rehearsal time before leading the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in a program consisting of two parts: Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture (mandatory for all four finalists) and a work approved by the panel from her submission of a choice of three.
Regarding her point about the all-important aspect of communication, Okisawa says a delicate balance is crucial: "In the Mendelssohn, I tried to let them play, but not with too much leading. But in Don Juan I must have lead." Indeed, her Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage evinced a chamber music subtlety with the players clearly listening to each other.
Comparing this experience with Western competitions, Okisawa says the Tokyo event is "the most well-organised and the most formal competition." Even tangential moments were planned in great detail, from the accommodations in the hotel the contestants shared, to press events and photo ops.
This article was sponsored by the Tokyo International Competition for Conducting.


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