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EVANSTON, IL – June 7, 2022 – Magnetar Capital ("Magnetar"), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today that its founder and CEO, Alec Litowitz, has selected David Snyderman to be the firm's Managing Partner. Litowitz will transition to Senior Advisor while remaining an owner in the firm, co-founder Ross Laser will continue to guide the firm in his role as Magnetar's President and Snyderman will continue in his role as CIO of Magnetar's Alternative Credit and Fixed Income (ACFI) business. As part of this transition, Magnetar also intends to elevate its next generation of leadership by equitizing key team members across the organization.
"When Ross and I founded Magnetar in 2005, our vision was to construct an enduring firm that would generate stable returns across markets and time, and attract a team of world-class investors through a culture of innovation and collaboration. It has been a privilege to work with Ross and Dave to build Magnetar. They have been great partners and our friendship will remain an important part of my life. Today's announcement is a key step to fulfilling our original vision and positioning the firm for the next decade," said Litowitz.
Litowitz continued, "I have worked closely with Dave for over 20 years. He is an extraordinary investor and leader, and has been a critical part of the firm's success. Dave's investment acumen, his track record in developing teams and businesses, and his ability to create solutions for our clients, uniquely qualify him to lead Magnetar going forward."
Commenting on his appointment, Snyderman said, "It has been a pleasure and privilege to work in close partnership with Alec. He had the vision and foresight to build Magnetar into a collaborative, integrated firm that could capitalize on whitespaces and the convergence of asset management approaches and strategies."
Snyderman continued, "It is from this vision that Magnetar has thrived for almost two decades. The firm has grown to be the steward of ~$13.8B of AUM through May 1, 2022(1) and returned a net profit to investors, inception through Q1 2022, of ~$9.7B(2). Our culture has attracted and retained top talent – with one-third of our staff tenured 10+ years. Through the Magnetar Capital Foundation, we donated more than $16M and 22K employee hours to connect high school students to best-in-class financial education programming, positively impacting the lives and opportunities of many. Ross and I look forward to building on this legacy."
"17 years ago, I made the decision to partner with Alec to build something special in the asset management industry. I recognized then that Alec would be a great partner. He's a brilliant investor with the ability to see around corners and innovate as opportunity sets evolve," said Laser. "I look forward to working closely with Dave and all our employees to chart Magnetar's winning course for the next decade and beyond."
Commenting on his decision to elevate to Senior Advisor, Litowitz shared, "I believe the firm is well positioned for this transition given the depth of our investment and leadership teams, and the strength of recent performance across our businesses. After 28 years being day-to-day in the hedge fund business, I'm excited about having more time to embrace my curiosity for visionary ideas and to leverage my previous investment experience to solve some of society's biggest challenges. I believe we're at a unique moment in time where many rapid advances in data and technology, coupled with major shifts in human behavior, will drastically alter the future of how we live, work and play."
"I hold Magnetar dear to my heart and will remain significantly invested in the firm's success both as an owner and investor in its funds, while offering counsel in the areas where I can have the highest impact," said Litowitz.
About Magnetar:
Founded in 2005, Magnetar is a multi-strategy alternative investment manager with approximately $13.8 billion of assets under management as of May 1, 2022. Magnetar seeks to achieve stable risk-adjusted returns by opportunistically employing a wide-range of alternative credit and fixed income, energy and infrastructure, and systematic investing strategies. Magnetar invests across regions and business structures, in both public and private markets, taking advantage of the deep rigor of fundamental and quantitative analysis. The firm is based in Evanston, Illinois, with additional offices in London and Houston. For more information, visit www.magnetar.com.
About the Magnetar Capital Foundation:
Established by Magnetar's founders in 2011, the Magnetar Capital Foundation's key mission is to democratize access to high-quality financial education across the U.S. The Foundation's financial education programming originated as Magnetar Academy, a self-built curriculum serving Chicago-area schools. In 2016, the Foundation joined forces with UChicago STEM Education to create the Magnetar Capital UChicago Financial Education Initiative, releasing its best-in class financial education curriculum, finEDge, three years later. To date, efforts have collectively educated more than 27,500 high school students through over 1,200 classes.
As of October 2022, Alec Litowitz has completed the transition of his day-to-day responsibilities and will continue to hold an interest in Magnetar.
1 Assets Under Management (AUM) reflects approximate investor capital managed by Magnetar and its affiliated investment managers, on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis, including designated investments in side pockets and unfunded commitments (money committed to any fund managed by Magnetar and its affiliated investment managers as of the report date, but not yet transferred by the investors).
2 Represents the net amount of realized and unrealized profits and losses of collective investment vehicles and separately managed accounts, as well as capital committed to co-investments and any capital that has been side-pocketed (collectively, "Magnetar Accounts") in the aggregate, and is net of management and incentive compensation, as well as all deal and trade related investment expenses and any fund-level operating expenses. Particular investors in Magnetar Accounts may have experienced net losses or gains, based on various factors, including the time period and/or vehicle in which they invested. Date of inception for Magnetar is September 8, 2005.
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Perhaps the only drawback to the phone would be that it's still running on the 2014 Android Lollipop operating system, making the phone seem outdated. But despite this, the phone itself comes with many state-of-the-art features. Like the Vivo V5 Plus, the Oppo F1S has great fingerprint scanning technology. The F1S also does a good job in keeping its temper once you play any games, even 3D games–it won't heat up. The front facing camera is capable of taking 1080p resolution film and you can manage to get about ten and a half hours of continuous video playback with the F1S. Let's hope the F1S will update from Android Lollipop sooner or later.
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To put it simply, the OnePlus 5 is widely known for their stellar specs at hundreds of dollars less than competing phones. It comes with excellent camera features–good low-light shots, less digital artifacting, and more accurate white balancing–all due to the amazing processing technology from OnePlus. With an 18 hour battery life, an exceptional Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, and the giant RAM, the flagship phone is worth the dough. However, an oddity within the OnePlus 5 is that the black variety costs more because it offers a unit with upgraded specs.
The Xperia XZ Premium deserves its name mainly because of their snappy and fast hardware and performance. Its top-notch color and sharpness makes the experience like no other. Upon playing games like Final Fantasy IX, the flagship phone offers a powerful display and gives the users the freedom of adjustments to the white balance, color contrasts, and a copious amounts of display modes. Although the chunky design makes the phone less enjoyable to hold, it gives amazing 4K display and even better 960 fps capable slow-motion camera.
I personally think that the world's most popular phones aren't necessarily worth the price when you look at the features and specs compared to the phones highlighted above. However, because of the popularity of Apple and Samsung phones, I have chosen to follow the crowd and own an Apple iPhone myself, simply because there's a lot more technical support and app development for these phones. For example, Apple's proprietary functions such as Apple Pay and Airdrop are just some of the conveniences that keep me loyal to the brand. However, if these features aren't that important to you, I encourage you all to be open to less popular options out there because many of them are definitely worth a shot.


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require 'pathname'
require 'dm-validations/formats/email'
require 'dm-validations/formats/url'

module DataMapper
  module Validations
    class UnknownValidationFormat < ::ArgumentError; end

    # @author Guy van den Berg
    # @since  0.9
    class FormatValidator < GenericValidator

      FORMATS = {}

      include DataMapper::Validations::Format::Email
      include DataMapper::Validations::Format::Url

      def initialize(field_name, options = {})
        super

        set_optional_by_default
      end

      def call(target)
        return true if valid?(target)

        value = target.validation_property_value(field_name)

        error_message = (
          @options[:message] || ValidationErrors.default_error_message(
            :invalid, field_name
          )
        )

        add_error(
          target,
          error_message.try_call(humanized_field_name, value),
          field_name
        )
        false
      end

      private

      def valid?(target)
        value = target.validation_property_value(field_name)
        return true if optional?(value)

        validation = @options[:as] || @options[:with]

        if validation.is_a?(Symbol) && !FORMATS.has_key?(validation)
          raise("No such predefined format '#{validation}'")
        end

        validator = if validation.is_a?(Symbol)
                      FORMATS[validation][0]
                    else
                      validation
                    end

        case validator
          when Proc   then validator.call(value)
          when Regexp then value ? value.to_s =~ validator : false
          else
            raise(UnknownValidationFormat, "Can't determine how to validate #{target.class}##{field_name} with #{validator.inspect}")
        end
      rescue Encoding::CompatibilityError
        # This is to work around a bug in jruby - see formats/email.rb
        false
      end

    end # class FormatValidator

    module ValidatesFormat
      extend Deprecate

      # Validates that the attribute is in the specified format. You may
      # use the :as (or :with, it's an alias) option to specify the
      # pre-defined format that you want to validate against. You may also
      # specify your own format via a Proc or Regexp passed to the the :as
      # or :with options.
      #
      # @option [Boolean] :allow_nil (true)
      #   true or false.
      #
      # @option [Boolean] :allow_blank (true)
      #   true or false.
      #
      # @option [Format, Proc, Regexp] :as
      #   The pre-defined format, Proc or Regexp to validate against.
      #
      # @option [Format, Proc, Regexp] :with
      #   An alias for :as.
      #
      #   :email_address (format is specified in DataMapper::Validations::Format::Email - note that unicode emails will *not* be matched under MRI1.8.7)
      #   :url (format is specified in DataMapper::Validations::Format::Url)
      #
      # @example Usage
      #   require 'dm-validations'
      #
      #   class Page
      #     include DataMapper::Resource
      #
      #     property :email, String
      #     property :zip_code, String
      #
      #     validates_format_of :email, :as => :email_address
      #     validates_format_of :zip_code, :with => /^\d{5}$/
      #
      #     # a call to valid? will return false unless:
      #     # email is formatted like an email address
      #     # and
      #     # zip_code is a string of 5 digits
      #
      def validates_format_of(*fields)
        validators.add(FormatValidator, *fields)
      end

      deprecate :validates_format, :validates_format_of
    end # module ValidatesFormat
  end # module Validations
end # module DataMapper

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Patrick Hamilton
Decca Publishing's Patrick Hamilton is a flag bearer for the next generation of producers, composers, and arrangers. A leading figure in classical crossover music, his ambitions, which are shared with his publisher, include the verticals of artist production alongside film and TV score composition, which together bring his unique skill set to the adult contemporary classical space.
Although artistically diverse, Patrick's DNA is rooted in the classical space. Classically trained at the Royal Conservatorium Bruges & Ghent in Belgium, he started his career as a session player with many leading Belgian artists, which led to more and more work as a producer-engineer.
At that time, his work was focused on Belgian and Dutch artists/television programmes (Swingpaleis, Pop Idol, The X-Factor,…) and musicals (Dance of the Vampires, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, Oliver,…). It was the duality of these genres, the classical and the popular, which led to Patrick becoming a leading figure in adult contemporary classical crossover – a rapidly expanding genre sitting alongside core classical and straight pop.
As word of mouth spread, Hamilton became the go-to producer for a range of international artists – Katherine Jenkins, Alfie Boe, Fernando Varela, Mark Masri, Richard Clayderman, Trystan Llyr Griffiths, David Garrett, Bryn Terfel, Branden & James, Alberto Urso, Luke Evans, Shaun Escoffery, to name a few.
He has worked with the best-selling classical female artist, Katherine Jenkins, over several #1 albums, including her 12th studio album, 'Cinema Paradiso', which was released July 2020 on Decca Records (#1 Classical charts, #3 pop album charts, UK), where he took the helm for production duties alongside arranging and writing.
In 2019 Hamilton signed a record deal with the Swedish modern classical label 1631 Recordings (distributed by Decca Records UK). Through 1631 and Decca, he has released three solo piano albums since 2020 (most recently 'Moodland' in 2021) which have garnered him millions of streams on Spotify. Currently, Hamilton is developing several film and TV score compositions alongside his ongoing production duties.
In addition to his successful producing career, Hamilton runs his own The Globe Recording Studios (founded in 2002) as well as operating BROMO Music.
PATRICK HAMILTON FEATURE INTERVIEW
here aren't many areas of the music business Patrick Hamilton hasn't plied his trade in. A classically trained musician, his...

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Our guide, Leeheng, stops abruptly, holding up a hand for quiet.
The rest of our hiking group piles up behind me, tripping over each other as the sudden halt takes us all by surprise. We begin to giggle until the seriousness of Leeheng's face quickly hushes us.
Standing in the middle of the trail, he's listening intently to the sounds of the steamy Cambodian jungle around us. A monkey gibbers away in the trees nearby and the ever-present hum of tropical insects is relentless.
I'm just about to slap a thirsty mosquito away from my already-mauled arms when I hear something else too. In the distance, faintly perceptible, like the crack and shuffle of undergrowth being trampled.
Excitement ripples through our group. It's the final morning of our 3-day hike through the jungle-clad Cardamom Mountain range in south-west Cambodia, and we've all been hoping to have an elephant encounter beyond stepping over their enormous droppings on the trail. After all, this one of the last remaining wild elephant corridors in Asia and witnessing one in its natural habitat is at the top of all our bucket lists.
Days earlier, as our group of eight (three Italians, two Australians, and our three Cambodian guides) had sprawled out on a peaceful grassy plateau – sweat-drenched and out of breath after scrambling up a steep jungle incline. Leeheng had waved an arm across the outstretched plain and announced that the elephants were finally returning.
"Few years ago, none here. They got scared by the hunting and the guns and moved away, to Thailand. Now, they come back again." His smile had been enthusiastic and proud. Understandably so; only two decades prior, this plain had been a battlefield, then a hunting ground.
When Pol Pot's murderous regime collapsed in 1979, his loyal guerrillas literally fled for the hills – retreating to the thick cover of the Cardamom Mountains. For 15 years, they brought chaos to the local communities, like Leeheng's village of Chi Phat. Landmines were laid, grisly battles fought, and many villagers killed. It left many with little option but to enter the rampant and lucrative poaching and logging trades to survive.
In 2007 the US-based conservation NGO, Wildlife Alliance, approached village elders with an idea: to protect the Cardamom Mountains' rich flora and fauna (including leopards, elephants, gibbons and the highly endangered pangolin) from hunting, and develop a community-based ecotourism project with Chi Phat at its heart.
Villagers like Leeheng became wildlife conservation warriors, leading cycling, kayaking, and trekking tours, training as cooks, or opening guesthouses. Transforming the Cardamom range and the lives of its residents completely.
As we'd scoffed down our dinner the previous night, a mouth-watering curry of forest root vegetables, Leeheng had opened up about his experiences poaching, and how life had changed since. Hunting a deer back then would have meant $100 USD for his family, he'd said, but today, he only cares about protecting them.
To those travellers, like my hiking buddies and I, Chi Phat offers the promise of an intrepid adventure totally different to the usual Cambodian backpacker trail highlights. Just getting here was an adventure; a 4-hour bus ride from Phnom Penh followed by a 40-minute motorbike ride through fields. But while others jostled for front-row sunrise positions at Angkor Wat, we'd woken up in our hammocks to first light peeking through the tree canopy.
During the day, we broke open tamarind pods to taste their sticky sweetness, drank water from vines, learnt to track animals, and dove under refreshing waterfalls to cool off from the tropical sun. At night, as backpacker bars pumped out dance music at beach parties in other parts of Cambodia, we'd swapped stories about our families and lives by the campfire and fallen asleep to the sound of the wild jungle.
After a month of following the standard backpacker route in Cambodia, it was exactly the kind of authentic and offbeat adventure I'd craved. So, to be standing in the middle of the trail right now, listening to the sounds of elephants grazing nearby, it feels as though our experience is complete. Leeheng doesn't quite share our enthusiasm, reminding us with the calm patience of a school teacher that these are wild elephants. As in, not the kind you want to run into on a hiking path while you're on foot. Walk quickly and silently until it's safe, he instructs.
As we begin to move stealthily along the path, Leeheng pulls a small axe from the side of his bag and swings the back of it hard against a tree; a gunshot-like sound ringing out through the forest. The elephants might be returning, but they haven't forgotten the days when bullets used to land amongst their herd, and Leeheng knows their fear of the sound will keep them well away from us.
Under his watchful eye, we manage to escape any face-to-face meetings with our wild friends – though they do get within 100m at one point – and eventually, we traipse back into Chi Phat a few hours later, elated and buzzing with adrenaline.
The group is unanimous: if our mildly close encounter is the price of Chi Phat thriving and the Wildlife Alliance achieving their goals of protecting the area's elephant population, we'll happily take it. And sitting on the stilted wooden floor of homestay family's house later we agree: long after we've returned home, this adventure through the Cardamom Mountains and its communities is the Cambodia we'll always remember.
Explore the secluded Cardamom Mountains for yourself and see the elephants of Chi Phat on our Temples & Beaches tour of Cambodia.
Yes,wid elephants are very dangerous. I wouldn't want to meet one on foot,but I'd like to see some from behind a big tree.


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There are two things that drew me to living in the Historic Core neighborhood of Downtown LA: The first is the spacious, floor to window lofts that are unfound anywhere else in the city, the second is the burgeoning restaurant culture that's taking shape. Living in proximity to some of the best chefs and meals in town is not something I've taken for granted, so it's only appropriate that I break down some of my favorite places that I not only visit for picture purposes, but genuinely frequent on a weekly basis. Here's the list. 1. Baco Mercat: My most frequented stop on the list and home to the most delicious flat breads in the city. The menu is rich with flavor that pays an homage to Spanish fusion. / 2. Yxta Cocina: Unassuming on the facade, Yxta is one of those hidden gems located in the industrial no man's land between Downtown LA and the Arts District. The ingredients are fresh and will leave you second-guessing your favorite taco stand. / 3. The Commissary: Technically in the outskirts of Downtown LA, but still a worthy mention. The Commissary approaches food and a restaurant experience in a way that only the eclectic creators of the Line Hotel can create. The menu steer towards vegetarian friendly options with a Korean/Mexican flavor palette. / 4. Zinc Cafe: One of my favorite places for lunch meetings and a no-fuss no-brainer if roaming the Arts District. The menu caters to a California Cafe variety, where you can get a sandwich, burrito bowl and a traditional American breakfast / 5. Redbird: One of my new favorite restaurants by Neal Fraser, which has a menu rooted in California cuisine but taken with a distinctly unique approach with the wide range of ingredients used from a multitude of influences. Some of my favorite dishes include the foie gras and delicata squash. / 6. Terroni: Located in one of the most breath-taking buildings in Downtown and home to the most exquisite black truffle pasta that I once ate four days in a row / 7. Eggslut: Front and center at Grand Central Market, Eggslut's sandwiches are memorable for their soft brioche bun and the savory combo of meat and a warm poached egg. To avoid the three hour queue for a sandwich, drop by during the work week before or after the lunch crowd rolls in. / 8. And when all is said and done, Redbird gets another honorable mention for an off the chart dessert menu that resembles art more than food.


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Terrorists killed In Aleppo
?Units of the armed forces killed large numbers of terrorists and destroyed a weapons warehouse and rocket launch pads in different areas in Aleppo and its countryside?on Tuesday.
A military source told SANA reporter that army units destroyed terrorists' gatherings along with mortars and rocket launch pads in the villages of al-Jdeideh village and Kweiris. Many terrorists were killed and injured in the operations.
The source added that terrorists were killed in the surrounding of the Central Prison of Aleppo and in the areas of Bani Zaid, Khan al-Assal and al-Lairamoun. Terrorists' dens were also destroyed to the south of Rasm al-Abboud village and al-Atareb area.
An army unit, the source said, destroyed a weapons and ammunition warehouse and dens for armed terrorist groups to the west of al-Bab city, while another army unit destroyed a terrorists' gathering in Tall Ayyoub village in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, units of the armed forces confronted members of terrorist groups who tried to sneak into al-Kindi Hospital and into the neighborhoods of Salah-Eddin, Suleiman al-Halabi and al-Sweiqeh, leaving many of them dead and wounded.
Army units eliminate terrorists in Deir Ezzor and its countryside
Units of the armed forces carried out operations against terrorists in Deir Ezzor and its countryside, killing and injuring several terrorists, including non-Syrians, and destroying their dens along with the weapons and ammunition inside them.
An official source told SANA that the army units clashed with terrorists in al-Hweiqa, al-Rusgdeh, al-Sheikh Yasin and al-Syna'a neighborhoods, killing and injuring a number of them, including terrorist called Abu Osama from Tunisia, Kamal al-Sayah who was a leader of an armed terrorist group, Ahmad Khaza'al and Ismael Atallah Haded.
The source added that the army units killed a leader of an armed terrorist group called Abu Dujana and a number of his group's members in Sita Ila Roub'a street, in addition to destroying terrorists' dens and weapons in Hweijet Kateia and Hweijet Sakar.
It pointed out that an army unit targeted terrorists' gatherings in al-Shheil and al-Bseira towns and destroyed a number of cars loaded with weapons and ammunition at al-Hrbaisheh crossroad on Deir Ezzor-Palmyra road.
Another army unit killed and injured all members of an armed terrorist group in al-Husan village in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.
Hussein Faraj al-Bseis was identified among the dead terrorists.
Army units repel terrorists' attempt to attack villages in Homs countryside
In cooperation with the citizens, a unit of the armed forces repelled terrorists who were attempting to attack Talladai and Khalfeh villages in al-Mkharam area to the east of Homs.
An official source told SANA that an army unit pursued terrorists who fired at citizens, killing and injuring a number of them.
The source added that other army units killed all members of an armed terrorist group who were perpetrating acts of terrorism in Jub al-Sada in Haseia'a area and seized their weapons.
Terrorists' dens destroyed in Damascus and its countryside
A number of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists, some of them holding the Palestinian and Tunisian nationalities, were killed in a series of operations targeting their dens in the Eastern Ghouta and a number of villages and towns in Damascus and its countryside.
SANA reporter quoted an official source as saying that an army unit destroyed a mortar and a bulldozer which the terrorists had used in setting up barricades and blocking roads in Barzeh neighborhood in the city of Damascus.
The army units, the source added, killed numbers of terrorists in the farms surrounding Tishreen Hospital in the neighborhood. Among those was Anas al-Aghwani, leader of an armed terrorist group.
An army unit killed all members of an armed terrorist group in Erbin town, while another unit clashed with terrorists in the surrounding of al-Manasher roundabout and killed most of them, including Mohammad Sawwan.
In the Eastern Ghouta in the countryside, units of the armed forces carried out a series of special operations against terrorists' dens in the towns of Deir Salman and Hteitat al-Turkman, killing many terrorists, according to the source.
Burkan Kamal and Mwafaq Karim, leaders of two armed terrorist groups, were identified among the dead.
The source also mentioned that a unit of the armed forces hunted down a terrorist group in Ashrafiyat al-Wadi and killed a number of its members.
Another army unit carried out special operations against gatherings for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Yabroud. Tens of the terrorists were killed and others were injured with their weapons destroyed.
The source told SANA reporter that many terrorists affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra were killed in the towns of al-Ziyabiyeh and Hijjeira. Terrorist Sami al-Ahmad from Palestine and Mohammad Yehia Mandil, who is leader of an armed terrorist group, and a number of his group's members were identified among the dead.
Two terrorists' dens were targeted in al-Husseiniyeh town, which resulted in killing and injuring all the terrorists inside them and the destruction of their weapons and ammunition.
The Tunisian terrorist al-Taher Bossnin was identified among the killed terrorists.
An army unit also eliminated members of an armed terrorist group and destroyed their equipment in Yelda town.
Authorities uncover large workshop for manufacturing explosives in Damascus Countryside
With the help of locals, the authorities uncovered a large workshop for manufacturing explosive devices in the Eastern Ghouta area.
The workshop contained large quantities of chemicals sufficient for making several tons of explosives, including glycerin, antifreeze, potassium nitrates, hexamine, iron filings, fertilizer, potassium carbonates, and ammonia, in addition to several finished explosive devices rigged for remote detonation.
The workshop also contained equipment and supplies used for manufacturing explosives such as French-made remote control equipment, precise measurement equipment, some of them made in the Czech Republic, British-made paper for measuring pH levels in solutions, detonators, a cooling device, molds and metal containers.
Jordanian, Kuwaiti and Moroccan terrorists killed in Lattakia
In Lattakia, units of the armed forces killed numbers of terrorists, including non-Syrians, in the surrounding of the villages of Obin and al-Hanboushiyeh and Prophet Isaiah Mount in the northern countryside of the province.
A military source told SANA that large amounts of ammunition and weapons, including heavy and medium machineguns, were destroyed in the operations.
The source noted that a Kuwaiti sniper nicknamed Abo Anas and a Jordanian terrorist called Ali Shaaban were identified among the dead, in addition to 9 Moroccan terrorists from the so-called "Al-Sahel Brigade".
Terrorists' dens and gatherings destroyed in Deir Ezzor
In the same context, units of the armed forces clashed with an armed terrorist group that tried to sneak fron al-Sina'eh neighborhood into al-Rasafeh neighborhood in the city of Deir Ezzor, killing most of its members, including a sniper.
SANA reporter quoted an official source as saying that a number of terrorists' dens and a weapons warehouse were destroyed near the Municipality building and in the neighborhoods of al-Hweiqeh, al-Jbeileh and al-Orfi in the city.
A gathering for terrorists was also destroyed in al-Mreiyeh village, the source added.
Terrorists killed in car bomb in Hama countryside
A number of terrorists were killed in a car bomb as they were loading it with explosives in al-Hardaneh village in al-Salamieh district in Hama province, a military source said.
In a statement to SANA, the source added that the explosion caused the destruction of the den in which the car was being prepared, and all terrorists inside the den were killed.
Terrorists eliminated in Idleb countryside
An Armed Forces unit targeted a terrorist group in the village of Ein Laroud in Jabal al-Zawiye area in Idleb countryside, injuring a number of terrorists and killing others including Mustafa Anas al-Hammoud, Shaaban Mahmoud Qintar, Nawras Qintar, Abu Taha al-Halabi, Khaled al-Rajjoub, and Mohammad Zeno.
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In mathematics, a field  is pseudo algebraically closed if it satisfies certain properties which hold for algebraically closed fields.  The concept was introduced by James Ax in 1967.

Formulation

A field K is pseudo algebraically closed (usually abbreviated by PAC) if one of the following equivalent conditions holds:

Each absolutely irreducible variety  defined over  has a -rational point.
For each absolutely irreducible polynomial  with  and for each nonzero  there exists  such that  and .
Each absolutely irreducible polynomial  has infinitely many -rational points.
If  is a finitely generated integral domain over  with quotient field which is regular over , then there exist a homomorphism  such that  for each .

Examples

 Algebraically closed fields and separably closed fields are always PAC.
Pseudo-finite fields and hyper-finite fields are PAC.
 A non-principal ultraproduct of distinct finite fields is (pseudo-finite and hence) PAC.  Ax deduces this from the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields.
 Infinite algebraic extensions of finite fields are PAC.
 The PAC Nullstellensatz. The absolute Galois group  of a field  is profinite, hence compact, and hence equipped with a normalized Haar measure. Let  be a countable Hilbertian field and let  be a positive integer. Then for almost all -tuples , the fixed field of the subgroup generated by the automorphisms is PAC. Here the phrase "almost all" means "all but a set of measure zero".  (This result is a consequence of Hilbert's irreducibility theorem.)
 Let K be the maximal totally real Galois extension of the rational numbers and i the square root of −1. Then K(i) is PAC.

Properties
 The Brauer group of a PAC field is trivial, as any Severi–Brauer variety has a rational point.
 The absolute Galois group of a PAC field is a projective profinite group; equivalently, it has cohomological dimension at most 1.
 A PAC field of characteristic zero is C1.

References

Algebraic geometry
Field (mathematics)

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I would also like to acknowledge my Parliamentary colleagues, including Minister Cash and distinguished guests present here today.
Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, a date that marks the adoption of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others on 2 December 1949.
This Convention was a significant milestone, as it was the first international instrument on trafficking.
So the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention is a timely opportunity for us to celebrate our many achievements and to consider the challenges ahead.
In launching the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking and Slavery 2015-2019, Minister Keenan has reiterated this Government's strong commitment to combatting human trafficking and slavery in Australia.
Human trafficking and slavery are serious crimes that violate human rights and can never be tolerated.
As Minister for Social Services, I have portfolio responsibility for the Support for Trafficked People Program.
The Support Program is an important component of the National Action Plan, as it provides timely assistance to all victims of human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices, including forced labour and forced marriage, who meet the eligibility criteria.
Since 2004, the Support Program has provided practical and compassionate support to 254 clients.
We will continue to work to ensure that victims of human trafficking and slavery are provided with a range of supports that respond to their unique and complex needs.
This includes considering the needs of victims of human trafficking and slavery more broadly in Government policy.
The National Action Plan launched today already has strong linkages with a range of Commonwealth policy initiatives, including the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022.
On the 27th of June this year, I launched the Second Action Plan of the National Plan with the Prime Minister and Assistant Minister Cash.
The Second Action Plan sets out 26 practical actions that all Australian governments agree are critical to reducing violence against women and their children. This includes addressing complex forms of violence, such as forced and servile marriage.
Under the Second Action Plan, the Government has committed $28 million to continue the valuable services of 1800RESPECT or 1800 737 732 over four years to 30 June 2017.
1800RESPECT is Australia's first national telephone and online counselling service for domestic and family violence and sexual assault to be staffed by professional counsellors.
I am proud to announce today that 1800RESPECT will be expanded to provide victims, and those at risk, of forced marriage with tailored, appropriate support and assistance nationwide.
We know that victims of forced marriage, as well as those at risk of being forced into a marriage, come from a broad range of backgrounds.
They may be Australian citizens, here on a valid visa or have overstayed their visas.
They may have limited understanding of what support and assistance is available to them, or where to go to seek that assistance.
They may feel they have no one to talk to about their situation, or to recover from the trauma they have experienced.
The expansion of 1800RESPECT will empower victims and those at risk of forced marriage by ensuring that they can access appropriate support and assistance, wherever they are, at any time of the day or night.
The expansion of 1800RESPECT responds to the recommendations for the establishment of a 24-hour national forced marriage helpline made by people and organisations represented here today.
This expansion is reflective of the productive working relationship between Government and civil society organisation through mechanisms such as this Roundtable.
I would like to think we are all continuing the work of William Wilberforce who did so much to abolish slavery in the British Empire and its trade on the high seas almost two hundred years ago.
I look forward to hearing about the dialogue that will take place today and thank you for your participation.
I would now like to handover to my colleague Minister Cash.


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Dirty Laundry are currently working at the New Bradford Playhouse to develop Woman Scorned- an exploration of the fine line between love and hate.
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Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World [EXCLUSIVE One-Off Screening Only]
DARK STAR: H.R. GIGER'S WORLD
Director : Belinda Sallin
Cast : H.R. Giger, Leslie Barany, Sandra Beretta.
2014 | 95 min | Switzerland | R21 (Consumer advice: Nudity)
Language: Swiss German with English Subtitles.
NOTE: All tickets sold are non-refundable.
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World -- Synopsis
Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940–2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's ALIEN. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary DARK STAR: H.R. GIGER'S WORLD shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
Behind the shuttered windows and ivy-covered walls of his residence in Zurich, Switzerland, DARK STAR brings viewers into Giger's mysterious realm: from the first skull he was given by his father at the age of six, to macabre dinner parties with his close-knit team, to the grisly souvenirs from his time spent on the ALIEN set and reminiscences about model Li Tobler, Giger's one-time muse, whose suicide reverberates throughout his work.
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Intel Debuts its Xeon Scalable Platform
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Data Centers, Intel, Silicon
In what it called its "biggest data center launch in a decade", Intel officially unveiled its Xeon Scalable platform, a new line of server CPUs based codenamed Skylake and specifically designed for evolving data center and network infrastructure.
The new silicon, which Intel has been refining for the past five years, promises the highest core and system-level performance averaging 1.65x higher performance over the prior generation. First shipments went out several months ago and are now in commercial use at over 30 customers worldwide, including AT&T, Amazon Web Services and Google. Intel says every aspect of Xeon has been improved or redesigned: brand new core, cache, on-die interconnects, memory controller and hardware accelerators.
Intel's new processors scale up to 28 cores and will be offered in four classes: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. The design boasts six memory channels versus four memory channels of previous generation for memory-intensive workloads. Up to three Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI) channels provide increase scalability of the platform to as many as eight sockets.
Intel claims 4.2X greater VM capacity than its previous generation and a 65% lower total cost of ownership over a 4-year old server. Potentially you might need only one quarter of the number of servers. For communication service providers, the claim is that the new Xeon Gold will deliver a 2.7X performance boost for DPDK L3 forwarding applications over a 4-year old server.
Key innovations in Xeon Scalable Platform
Intel Mesh on-chip interconnect topology provides direct data paths with lower latency and high bandwidth among additional cores, memory, and I/O controllers. The Mesh architecture, which replaces a previous ring interconnect design, aligns cores, on-chip cache banks, memory controllers, and I/O controllers, which are organized in rows and columns, with wires and switches connecting them at each intersection to allow for turns. Intel said this new design yields improved performance and greater energy efficiency.
More specifically, in a 28-core Intel Xeon Scalable processor, the Last Level Cache (LLC), six memory channels, and 48 PCIe channels are shared among all the cores, giving access to large resources across the entire die a
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512), which delivers ultra-wide vector processing capabilities to boost specific workload performance, now offers double the flops per clock cycle compared to the previous generation. Intel AVX2,6 Intel AVX-512 boosts performance and throughput for computational tasks such as modeling and simulation, data analytics and machine learning, data compression, visualization, and digital content creation.
Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) is the high-bandwidth and low-latency fabric that Intel has been talking about for some time. It optimizes HPC clusters, and is available as an integrated extension for the Intel Xeon Scalable platform. Intel said Omni-Path now scales to tens of thousands of nodes. The processors can also be matched with the new Intel Optane SSDs.
Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provides hardware acceleration for compute-intensive workloads, such as cryptography and data compression, by offloading the functions to a specialized logic engine (integrated into the chipset). This frees the processor for other workload operations. Encryption can be applied to data at rest, in-flight, or data in use. Intel claims that performance is degraded by under 1 percent when encryption is turned on. This function used to be off-chip.
Enhanced Intel Run Sure Technology, which aims to reduce server downtime, includes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features. New capabilities include Local Machine Check Exception based Recovery (or Enhanced Machine Check Architecture Recovery Gen 3) for protecting critical data.
Aiming for the megatrends
In a webcast presentation, Navin Shenoy, Exec Vice President & General Manager, Intel's Data Center Group, said that as traditional industries turn to technology to reinvent themselves, there are three megatrends that Intel is pursuing: Cloud, AI & Analytics, and 5G. The new Xeon Scalable Platform addresses the performance, security and agility challenges for each of these megatrends.
AT&T's John Donovan testifies, performance boost about 30%
During the big Xeon Scalable unveiling, Intel invited AT&T's John Donovan on stage to talk about the new processors/ AT&T gained access to the new processors a few months ago and has already deployed Xeon Scalable servers which are carrying production traffic. Donovan reported about at 30% performance boost for its applications over the previous Xeon generation. The net effect he said should be a 25% reduction in the number of servers it will need to deploy. Intel has been seeding the process with other top customers as well.
This 30% performance boost is certainly good, but it is probably a stretch to call this upgrade "the biggest data center announcement in a decade." For other applications, perhaps the claim is better justified. One such area is machine learning, which Intel identifies as one of the key megatrends for the industry. There are some interesting developments for Xeons in this domain.
A strong market position
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the first public cloud to put the Intel Xeon Scalable Platform into commercial operation. A partnership between Google and Intel was announced earlier this year at a Google event where the companies said they are collaborating in other areas as well, including hybrid cloud orchestration, security, machine and deep learning, and IoT edge-to-cloud solutions. Intel is also a backer of Google's Tensor Flow and Kubernetes open source initiatives.
In May 2016, Google announced the development of a custom ASIC for Tensor Flow processing. These TPUs are already in service in Google data centres where they "deliver an order of magnitude better-optimized performance per watt for machine learning." For Intel, this poses a long-term strategic threat. With this announcement, Intel said Xeon's onboard advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) can increase machine learning inference performance by over 100x – a huge boost for AI developers.
The data centre server market is currently dominated by Intel. Over the years, there have been several attempts by ARM to gain at least a toe-hold of market share in data centre servers, but so far, the impact has been very limited. AMD recently announced its EPYC processor for data centre servers, but no shipment date has been stated and the current market position is zero. NVIDIA has been gaining traction in AI applications as well as in public cloud acceleration for GPU intensive applications – but these are specialized use cases.
Zayo – Growing by leaps and bound
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 OND Commentary, Zayo
If anyone is keeping a list of the most acquisitive companies in the telecom space, Zayo Group Holdings must have a spot toward the top. Zayo got its start in 2007, when Dan Caruso, John Scarano and Matt Erickson saw an opportunity for a new play in a game they knew well – building the highest capacity network infrastructure dark fibre and lit services, including carrier-neutral colocation, mobile infrastructure, wavelengths, Ethernet and IP services. All three co-founders had previously worked at Level 3 Communications, which built a reputation for its nationwide, wholesale transport network and competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) business. Level 3 reached a high-level of prominence by its bold strategy, quick deal making and willingness to raise the huge sums of money needed for a rapid entrance onto the global telecoms stage. Zayo seems to have taken all of these characteristics and multiplied them 10x.
Zayo by the numbers (currently):
· 122,000 fibre route miles.
· 10 million fibre miles.
· 46 data centres across North America and Europe.
· Presence in 370 markets.
Quick update on the financial picture
Zayo's revenues are primarily derived by leasing dark fibre (23%), dark fibre for mobile infrastructure (6%), wavelength services (15%), Ethernet services (9%), IP services (7%); interconnect-oriented colo (10.5%), and Allstream Canada (23.1%). For its most recent third quarter, ended March 31, 2017, Zayo reported $550.2 million of consolidated revenue; including $470.9 million from the Communications Infrastructure segments and $79.3 million from the Allstream segment. Net income amounted to $27.0 million, including $17.3 million from the Communications Infrastructure segments and $9.7 million from the Allstream segment.
Getting to this stage
Since its founding in 2007 through to the current quarter, Zayo has been in a constant process of hunting for, acquiring and integrating other network operators. Outside observers give the company especially high marks in network integration, a technically difficult process requiring careful planning and methodical accuracy so as not to disturb live customer traffic on the old or new network. Zayo operates a single platform for delivering a uniform set of services despite having swallowed over 30 networks over the past 10 years. Wikipedia puts the number of Zayo acquisitions at 39. Here they are in reverse chronological order based on the year the deal was first announced:
· 2017 - two data centres in San Diego from KIO Networks for $12 million, located at 12270 World Trade Drive and 9606 Aero Drive, with more than 100,000 sq feet of space and 2 MW of critical, IT power, with additional power available.
· 2016 – Electric Lightwave.
· 2015 - Latisys, IdeaTek Systems, Viatel, a new Dallas, TX data centre from Stream Data Centers, Clearview International and Allstream, Canada's main facilities-based inter-exchange carrier which has its roots in the railway telegraph business.
· 2014 - Dallas-based data centere operator CoreXchange, Neo Telecoms and Geo Networks.
· 2013 - Austin-based data centre operator Core NAP, Access Communications, Midwest-based dark fibre operator FiberLink and Corelink Data Centers.
· 2012 - AboveNet, FiberGate, Arialink, US Carrier Telecom, First Telecom Services, and Maryland-based Litecast/Balticore.
· 2011 - MarquisNet data centre business in Las Vegas and 360networks.
· 2010 - AGL Networks, American Fiber Systems and Dolphinis Cummins Station data centre and colocation services.
· 2009 - FiberNet Telcom Group.
· 2008 - Columbia Fiber Solution, Adesta Communications assets, two sets of fibre assets from Citynet, two sets of fibre assets from Northwest Telephone and CenturyTel Regional Markets.
· 2007 - Memphis Networx, VoicePipe, Onvoy Inc, PPL Telcom and Indiana Fiber Works.
Among the latest acquisitions were two of its most significant buys: Allstream and Electric Lightwave. Allstream was a Canadian leader in IP communications and the only national provider that works exclusively with business customers. Allstream brought over 9,000 route km of metro fibre network concentrated in Canada's top five metropolitan markets (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and Calgary) that connect to approximately 3,300 on-net buildings. In addition, Allstream has an approximate 20,000 route km long-haul fibre network connecting all major Canadian markets and 10 U.S. network access points. In addition, Allstream operates colocation space in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Zayo has previously stated that approximately half of Allstream's revenue is a direct fit with its existing core business. The remaining half will be organised into two additional segments: Voice and Universal Communications (approximately one third of Allstream's revenue), and Small Business (primarily enterprise voice). Each of these will be separated into standalone business units in parallel with the formation of Zayo Canada. Perhaps Zayo will sell these operations.
Zayo agreed to acquire Electric Lightwave, formerly known as Integra Telecom, for $1.42 billion in cash. The recently-completed acquisition of Electric Lightwave, which provides infrastructure and telecom services primarily in the western U.S., was valued at $1.42 billion. Electric Lightwave had 8,100 route miles of long haul fibre and 4,000 miles of dense metro fibre in Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Salt Lake City, Spokane and Boise, with on-net connectivity to more than 3,100 enterprise buildings and 100 data centres.
Recent management changes
There has been considerable turnover in the company's executive ranks in the past year. Within the year, has Zayo recruited three high-powered execs from Level 3, although one has since gone back to Level 3.
Jack Waters, CTO of Zayo Group, was previously CTO at Level 3 where his responsibilities included global network technology, architecture, engineering, process and security. He had been with Level 3 since 1997.
Andrew Crouch, president and COO, previously served as regional president of EMEA for Level 3, where he also was responsible for its Global Accounts Division.
Ed Morche, president of sales, was previously group VP of sales at Level 3 where he was responsible for sales, sales engineering, business operations, commercial services and metro market expansion for the company's largest business unit – North America's Enterprise and Government customers. On June 22nd, Morche resigned his new position at Zayo in order to return to Level 3. His decision to return to Level 3 comes just as CenturyLink prepares to complete its acquisition of Level 3.
Telxius deploys Infinera Instant Bandwidth
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Infinera, Telxius
Infinera announced that Telxius, the global telecommunications infrastructure company formed by Telefónica, which serves around 300 million subscribers worldwide, is offering its customers on-demand, software-defined terabit capacity service activation on its SAM-1 submarine network that links the U.S., Brazil and Puerto Rico.
The new on-demand service capabilities offered by Telxius are enabled by Infinera's Instant Bandwidth software that is able to activate capacity on the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network deployed by Telxius.
Telxius manages around 65,000 km of international infrastructure encompassing high-capacity optical subsea cable systems, of which 31,000 km are owned by the company. Telxius owns and operates the 25,000 km SAM-1 subsea cable connecting the U.S. with Central and South America, where Infinera solutions are deployed; Infinera solutions are also installed on the terrestrial backhaul routes associated with the cable.
The Telxius Intelligent Transport Network is based on Infinera's DTN-X XTC Series solution with support for up to Tbit/s transmission capacity. The XTC Series is designed to simplify network operations via high-capacity optical super-channels enabled by Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits and integrated packet-aware optical transport network (OTN) switching, which also provides the flexibility to address the requirements of both subsea and terrestrial networks.
In addition, utilising Infinera's Instant Bandwidth software defined capacity (SDC) functionality Telxius is able to deploy bandwidth capacity in 100 Gbit/s increments without the need to pre-deploy additional line cards in the system. Infinera noted that Instant Bandwidth is in use by 60+ customers.
https://www.infinera.com/news/press-releases/
* Earlier this year, Infinera expanded its SDC offering with the introduction of its Instant Network solution for cloud scale networks, which enables service providers to automate optical capacity engineering and quickly scale optical capacity using its Xceed and Digital Network Administrator (DNA) software.
* Telefónica announced in February 2017 that it had agreed the sale of up to 40% of Telxius to KKR for Euro 1,275 million, representing an implied enterprise value of Euro 3,678 million and an equity value of Euro 3,188 million euros for Telxius. Telefónica retained a controlling stake in Telxius.
* Recently, Telxius, Facebook and Microsoft, together with local and regional authorities from Biscay and the Basque Country, announced landing of the 6,600 km trans-Atlantic submarine cable MAREA in Sopelana, Spain as part of a project announced in 2016. MAREA will run between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Sopelana/Bilbao, Vizcaya in Spain and provide an initial design capacity of 160 Tbit/s. The cable is scheduled to be completed in the autumn of this year.
Cogeco to acquire MetroCast cable systems for $1.4bn
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Cable, Mergers & acquisitions, Metrocast
Cogeco Communications, the 8th largest cable operator in North America, announced that its subsidiary serving the U.S., Atlantic Broadband, has entered into a definitive agreement with Harron Communications to purchase all of its cable systems operating under the MetroCast brand.
Under the terms of the agreement, substantially all of the assets of MetroCast will be purchased for $1.4 billion, while in conjunction with the transaction Atlantic Broadband expects to realise tax benefits with a present value of approximately $310 million. After adjusting for tax benefits, the purchase price represents a multiple of approximately 9x 2017 forecast adjusted EBITDA for the business being acquired.
As part of the transaction, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has committed a $315 million equity investment for a 21% interest in Atlantic Broadband's holding company, with the remaining balance of the purchase price and transaction costs to be financed through a committed secured debt financing provided by two banks at Atlantic Broadband.
MetroCast's networks pass 236,000 homes and businesses in New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia and serve approximately 120,000 Internet, 76,000 video and 37,000 telephony customers. For the calendar year 2017 the company's revenue is expected to be approximately $230 million, with adjusted EBITDA projected to be approximately $121 million.
Cogeco stated that the transaction is intended to add scale in the American broadband services segment, with Atlantic Broadband's primary service units (PSU) to increase from approximately 602,000 to a total of 835,000 after the acquisition. In addition, MetroCast's systems are mainly serve non-metropolitan markets with attractive demographic profiles and it will be able to leverage Atlantic Broadband's product and sales capabilities to expand the customer base.
The MetroCast network is fully digital and comprises 860 MHz or FTTH infrastructure across 95% of the network and supports broadband speeds of 150 Mbit/s across the footprint. Atlantic Broadband is currently the 9th largest cable company in the U.S. serving around 239,000 Internet, video and voice customers and following the transaction will have a geographic footprint extending from Maine to Florida.
The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in January 2018.
Cogeco Communications is a major cable operator in North America, operating in Canada under the Cogeco Connexion name in Québec and Ontario, and in the U.S. through the Atlantic Broadband brand.
Regarding the transaction, Atlantic Broadband president and CEO Richard Shea said, "After the successful acquisition and integration of the MetroCast Connecticut system almost two years ago, Atlantic Broadband understands the sizable residential and business growth potential that it can expect with the remaining MetroCast systems".
https://atlanticbb.com/about/press-releases
ZTE and China Unicom complete first 5G NR field test in Shenzhen
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 China Unicom, ZTE
ZTE announced that it has supported China Unicom as the operator conducted its first 5G NR (New Radio) field test based on its pre-commercial 5G base station at sub 6 GHz and featuring massive MIMO, LDPC (low-density parity check) and other key 5G technologies.
During the trial China Unicom achieved data rates of up to 2 Gbit/s for single user-equipment. The 5G NR field test carried out in Shenzhen used the 3.5 GHz frequency band with a 100 MHz bandwidth, and was conducted by ZTE working with the Guangdong branch of China Unicom and the operator's network construction department and the China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute.
The field test was designed to verify the 5G technical performance and product commercial capabilities in a live network environment and builds on the established partnership for 5G network development between China Unicom and ZTE.
In 2016, China Unicom launched a 5G laboratory to verify the feasibility of potential key technologies and accelerate the development of 5G base station designs and platforms. Following the start of 5G field testing in 2017, China Unicom is expanding its efforts for verification, with a goal of achieving pre-commercial 5G network deployment in 2019 and a large-scale roll-out in 2020.
ZTE noted that earlier in 2017, it initiated the development of NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access) technology at 3GPP, representing a core project for 5G NR. ZTE is also involved in China's national 5G tests, having completed testing in seven major scenarios, and was first to complete mMTC field tests in Phase 2 of the program.
In April this year, ZTE announced that it was implementing mobile edge computing (MEC) pilots and technical verification trials with China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile, ahead of plans to deploy the technology commercially in 2018. ZTE noted that it launched MEC pilots in collaboration with China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom during 2016.
http://www.zte.com.cn/global/about/press-center/news
Huawei details Boundless Computing server strategy and solutions
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Huawei, Servers
Huawei announced in Beijing the launch of its Boundless Computing server strategy and series solutions, which focuses on industry requirements for digital transformation and outlines the company's 5-year innovation roadmap for computing.
During the launch event, Huawei delivered an overview of the server strategy and its business positioning, and also launched its V5 series solutions, which include the all-flash SAP HANA appliance solution, a big data application acceleration solution, edge computing for smart video analytics solution, and the G series heterogeneous computing platform.
Huawei's Boundless Computing vision encompasses optimising computing for applications and bringing computing power closer to data sources to help realise the potential of computing. It also includes progressing beyond servers and enabling data centre-level resource pooling and on-demand provisioning to improve the computing efficiency of data centres.
The strategy also involves going beyond the limits the of data centre to enable smart access, and expanding computing into the data sources to enhance the intelligence of data at the remote end.
At the release ceremony, Huawei, together with customers and partners including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Tencent, SAP and Microsoft, discussed the challenges to computing development and how they can be addresses. Huawei also released the FusionServer V5 delivering five key smart features.
Describing the strategy, Qiu Long, president, IT server product line at Huawei, said, "A fully connected world is unfolding and computing will be the pivotal force behind everything… the Boundless Computing strategy is about rethinking the road to a fully connected world, that includes unlocking the potential of computing, going beyond the boundary of servers, and extending further beyond the boundary of data centres".
http://www.huawei.com/en/news
AT&T completes acquisition of Vyatta network OS assets from Brocade
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 ATT, Brocade, Mergers & acquisitions
AT&T, which in early June announced it would acquire Vyatta, has completed its the acquisition of the Vyatta network operating system and associated assets of Brocade Communications Systems through an agreement that included the hiring of several dozen Brocade employees, mainly located in California and the UK.
The transaction includes the Vyatta network operating system and vRouter product line. AT&T gains the Vyatta network operating system, including its virtual network functions (VNFs) and distributed services platform, software under development as part of its unreleased product roadmap, existing software licenses and related patents and patent applications.
This acquisition is intended to strengthen AT&T's ability to deliver cloud or premises-based VNFs, beginning with its previously announced SD-WAN cloud service offered with VeloCloud that was announced in October 2016. The Vyatta acquisition will also help AT&T to enhance its white box platform capabilities.
http://about.att.com/story/att_welcomes_brocade_employees.html
* In March this year AT&T completed a trial in partnership with other companies and industry groups to design and build white box switches designed to enable more efficient management of data traffic across its network. The trial involved vendors including Barefoot Networks, Broadcom, Delta Electronics, Edgecore Networks, Intel and SnapRoute.
* AT&T stated that the Vyatta platform will help continue to drive its network transformation, through which AT&T is aiming to virtualise and software-control 55% of its network by the end of 2017, rising to 75% by 2020.
LightCounting sees demand for DCI as mega data centres go metro-regional
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 DWDM, Lightcounting
LightCounting forecasts in its latest Mega Datacenter Optics report that there will be growing demand for high bandwidth interconnectivity as Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent move to a distributed network of data centres in metro areas due to restrictions on building larger facilities in China, while mega data centres operated by the big western cloud companies are transforming into metro-regional clusters.
More specifically, LightCounting notes that Amazon recently disclosed that it operates 25 data centres interconnected with 3,500 fibres in Ashburn, Virginia, while Facebook has expanded its mega data centres by building new facilities near to existing ones, and Microsoft has announced it intends to build more metro and regional data centres to reduce the time involved in planning new facilities.
The research firm states that most of these facilities will be interconnected using DWDM technology, thereby expanding the market opportunity for suppliers of data centre interconnect (DCI) equipment to the cloud companies. Such customers are expected to be early adopters of 200 and 400 Gbit/s DWDM technology.
In terms of vendors, LightCounting notes that Cisco recently introduced the term 'fog computing', referring to adding compute and storage capabilities in facilities located closer to enterprises to facilitate migration of private data centres to the cloud. Meanwhile, Equinix and other colocation providers are increasing their business with enterprise customers as they migrate to the cloud.
In addition, cloud companies are beginning to use colocation data centres to extend reach closer to the end users. LightCounting notes that storage (or caching) of popular videos in local data centres or the central offices of service providers was necessary to meet rising demand for video on demand, while new applications such as SnapChat and Instagram are creating the need to support these applications locally to reduce the load on long haul networks.
The research firm adds that in the future applications such as self-driving cars and IoT will require the use of edge data centres to deliver low latency performance. All of these requirements are driving a transition in the way data centres are deployed and operated.
https://www.lightcounting.com/News_071117.cfm
WorldLink selects Nokia to upgrade backbone in Nepal to 100G
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Nepal, Nokia
Nokia announced that WorldLink, the largest fixed broadband operator in Nepal, is upgrading a 650-km backbone network using its 1830 PSS (Photonic Service Switch) DWDM technology to support bandwidth-hungry entertainment and enterprise services across the country.
The WorldLink intercity network connects from Kathmandu to Bhairahawa and Birgunj, as well as providing international connectivity between Nepal and neighbouring countries including India. WorldLink serves around 120,000 residential broadband subscribers and 5,000 enterprise broadband circuits, and states it is connecting 10,000 residential FTTH service subscribers each month, creating increasing demand for network capacity.
The deployment of Nokia's optical network technology is designed to enable WorldLink to flexibly increase its network capacity, reach and density leveraging Nokia's programmable chipset, Photonic Service Engine-2 featuring super coherent technology (PSE-2s).
WorldLink is the largest Internet and network service provider in Nepal. The company owns its own leased fibre backbone and purchases IP bandwidth from IP transit locations including Mumbai, Chennai, Singapore and London, interconnecting with service providers such as Tata, Airtel, Singtel and Cogent.
The operator also interconnects with a number of Internet exchanges including NPIX in Nepal, Equinix in Singapore and LINX in London and has partnerships with content delivery network (CDN) operators such as Google, Facebook and Akamai.
WorldLink noted that it operates an advanced network based on equipment from vendors including Juniper and Cisco for IP/MPLS core and aggregation, Extreme Network for switching, Nokia and Huawei for access systems, as well as Nokia DWDM solutions. It operates an extensive national fibre backbone and access network serving 63 districts and offers services including high speed Internet up to 100 Mbit/s and HD IPTV services.
http://www.nokia.com/en_int/news/releases


Sharp 2 bedroom Cabot Cove model with vaulted ceilings. Located in the Village of Buttonwood (Apalachee Villas). Features include inside laundry room, front lanai, 1 car garage with space for golf cart, side patio, and more. Shows Very Well.
Listing provided courtesy of William Smith.


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¿Alguna Sugerencia?
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Achterhoek is a region in the east of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

Achterhoek may also refer to:
 Achterhoek (Nijkerk), a village in Gelderland, Netherlands
 Achterhoek (Overijssel), a village in Overijssel, Netherlands


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Home News Tech Google collaborates with Telangana Government for 'Digital Telangana'
Google collaborates with Telangana Government for 'Digital Telangana'
Srivatsa Ramesh
Google has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Telangana Government to build on its vision of "Digital Telangana". The aim here is to improve and get more local language content online using Google's digital publishing tool – Navlekha. The new effort is in continuation of Google collaboration with the Telangana State Government – that has already rolled out a number of initiatives aimed towards bridging the Digital divide, mentoring local startups, and enabling small and medium businesses to gain from the Internet.
Under the memorandum, Google will work with the Telangana State Government to help digitize the government's content in Telugu to make it easier for the common man to get access to all the information and services on government sites in their local languages. In addition, Google will also collaborate with the government to support its digital literacy vision and aiding in the overall digitization agenda of the state.
For efficient realization of the Telangana State Government's digitization goals and vision, Google will be involved in providing technical mentorship and advisory support to various government departments for successful implementation of multiple digital projects.
Commenting on the occasion, Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary ITE&C and Industries Department, Government of Telangana said, "Google has been a trusted partner for Telangana who have already set up their office in Hyderabad and are in the process of setting-up their 2nd largest campus in Hyderabad. We have identified that availability of content in native language over the internet is essential for all citizens of Telangana to use internet actively. We look forward to collaborating with Google to meet the vision of the internet for all which is part of Digital Telangana, increasing native language content available over the internet and improve the usability of Google Maps in villages and rural regions as well".
Google India and South Asia Director, Public Policy, Chetan Krishnaswamy, said, "We look forward to expanding our efforts in collaborating with the Government of Telangana to support it's 'Digital Telangana' vision. Improving access to Government's vast pool of information online in local languages can significantly contribute to developing an inclusive web experience for all the citizens. We look forward to working with the state government to develop an enabling environment and helping bring benefits of the internet to every citizen."
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My wife and I enjoy hiking and every year we take two significant hiking vacations. During these hikes or treks, I enjoy taking photographs of the scenery, nature and other interesting finds.
The hike to the top of Deer Mountain, Rocky Mountain NP, was somewhat difficult in parts, especially the last ascent with a steep upward grade. The view from the top was striking although the day was overcast and the colors subdued.
Nevertheless, I captured the streaks of light coming from the sky, piercing the clouds and hitting the Moraine Park area. The picture captures the mood.
I thought perhaps since the tonal values were not intense that it might be better depicted in a black and white rendition. As you can see, the subtle color of the streaks of light become lost as they blend in with the surrounding monochromatic tones. What do you think?
Longs Peak is almost directly north, far off in the distance of the leafless tree on the ledge. Here is a closeup of Longs Peak.