10 million bottles of rosé are concerned, according to the DGCCRF (Direction General de la Concurrence, de la Consummation et de la Repression des Frauds www.economie.gouv.fr/).
It follows a two-year investigation by the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Controls (DGCCRF) checking-up since 2015 that wines has being imported into France, mainly from Spain, were being properly labeled.
While the investigation initially targeted wine importers, it was later extended to include distribution companies, as well as the on- and off-trade, and restaurants, hotels, supermarkets.
The vast majority of wines checked were labeled correctly, for example as "Vin de Espagne" or "Vin de la Communauté Européenne" (VCE) when they are blended with wines from other countries of the European Union.
At the producer level, investigators found that a mention of origin to be absent or misleading.
The fraud authority acknowledged that since 2015, French producers have been facing "strong competition" from Spanish wines in the entry-level segment, particularly with regards to varietal wines. While pressure on supplies of French, and in particularly Provence, rose have more recently been brought into focus as demand has surged.
The Parisian reveals on this July 9th the results of the Customs investigation on Spanish rosé wines made up in French wine.
The newspaper reveals today that 70 000 hl of Spanish rosé wines were made up with French labels, are sold under a packaging or a merchandising which can be confusing on the origin of wines. At this beginning of holidays, where the consumers are particularly attracted by rosé wines, the scandal will be neutral but this serious matter will probably not disappear like a matter on the film of Harry Potter! So there is a "Lack" of French rosé wine in this summer 2018.
Of course it is not the best period for revelations the producers from the Languedoc have been waiting during three years. Nevertheless, it will doubtless be welcomed by the production with relief. Through various more or less violent actions, the producers did not stop denouncing these practices. The Customs investigation of the frauds was very wide being not only interested in importers but also in labels, in shelf spaces of the mass-market retailing, large distribution, and finally in the restaurant owners, and wine stores.
Criminal procedures for deceit, misleading commercial practice, deceit in organized group or usurpation of quality signs are opened. The incurred punishments go of two years of prison and at least 300.000 Euros fine penalty.
An investigation of the Head office of French DGCCRF is a section of French Customs.
The consumption and the repression of the frauds (DGCCRF) shows that millions of liters of Spanish rosé were sold for some French wine; reveal 10 million concerned bottles have been seized. Having received the alerts at the end of 2015 on unexpected labels of French Rosé wines, the DGCCRF launched a survey investigation in 2016 and 2017. Mr. Alexandre Chevallier, the Senior Head Director of the DGCCRF explains that "these cases of monkey business with French franchised labels concern more than 70.000 hectoliters of wine ". Let it be the equivalent of 10 million bottles of rosé.
A much cheaper Spanish rosé. In near an establishment check and controlled on five, the rosé presented as French was Spanish and much cheaper in reality, because in 2016 the Spanish bulk rosé was sold to 0,34 Euros / liter for 0,75 in 0,90 Euros / liter for the French rosé, according to DGCCRF and Le Parisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/economie/dix-millions-de-bouteilles-de-ros...) daily newspaper 22 % of the checked and Customs controlled establishments presented an anomaly of labeling. Orders of stakes in conformity, reports, fines and criminal procedures for deceit were launched by the DGCCRF.
Misleading labels with funny French flags, Castles, In other instances, a fleur-de-lis symbol, the image of a French cockade, the mention "Produced in France" or "Bottled in France" were fore grounded, while the original mention "Vin d'Espagne" or "Vin de la European community" appeared on the back of the bottle making it difficult to read.
Among the numerous guiles to deceive the consumer, we find in particular the presence of labels playing on the fuzz and vagueness. On bottles, with French flags, castles evoking the France and producers of Rosé area or still the mention " bottling in France ",which attracts the attention it is also guarantee not at all, indeed, that the wine is French. These Funniest labels of Rosé French wine were made in Spain in order to mislead and to confuse the wine lovers and buyers on the stores.
Those facing charges have not yet been identified.


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In the new Microsoft series, How AI Transforms Business, Microsoft talks to customers and partners that are transforming businesses through the power of artificial intelligence. In a conversation with Joseph Sirosh, CTO of AI in Microsoft's worldwide Commercial Business, our very own Chief Analytics Officer, Davide Roverso shares his thoughts about AI and how it is being applied in the infrastructure industry.
Sirosh and Roverso talk about how AI is being applied in the infrastructure industry. They also talk about how utility companies are forced to fly manned helicopters missions over live electrical power lines today, just to perform routine inspections, and how – using AI – it is possible to have safer and more effective inspections that do not expose humans to this sort of risk.
Video and podcasts versions of this session are available below. Alternatively – just continue reading a transcript of their conversation below.
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Joseph Sirosh: Davide, would you tell a little about eSmart Systems and yourself?
Davide Roverso: eSmart Systems is a small Norwegian startup, was established in 2013. The main area in which we work is building SaaS for the energy and utilities sector. So basically, it was founded by a group of people that had been working together for over 20 years in the energy and utilities space. They were first working a lot on power exchange software, and delivered power exchange to California, among others. And then, about 2012, they went for a kind of exploration trip to the US, to Silicon Valley and that area, and they visited Google and Amazon and Microsoft and Cloudera and tried to find what were the new biggest trends. And they came back home with a clear idea that they had to focus on cloud and AI. And of course, they used that in their core business and that was power and utilities. So that's how eSmart Systems started.
JS: And so, you have an analytics team, or now is it an AI team?
DR: We have 10 data scientists, so more than 10% of the company is data scientists, so we have a big focus on AI. When I started in eSmart Systems about three years ago we were just two, so I built quite a good group since then. And we use machine learning in a lot of different areas. Two main areas are specifically time series analysis and predictions, and the other is more on analyzing images – we use that for inspecting, for instance, power lines with drones.
JS: You must have a lot of interesting projects. So, tell me, in the power and utilities industry, where is AI used?
DR: Well, we mainly work with the DSOs, distribution system operators, which are kind of responsible for distributing power to end users. Up to few years ago they were basically operating blind because the last lowest voltage network is not instrumented. But since the introduction of smart meters, every home now – well in most of the European countries they are rolling out smart meters and the same in most of the US – every home now basically has a sensor. So now, suddenly they have much more data they can use to more intelligently steer the grid. So, there AI we use mostly to make predictions of loads and consumption from different types of customers, both household and industry customers.
And this is very important information, especially now, with the large introduction of distribution energy resources – all the renewables that are coming online. A lot of people are installing solar panels on the roofs. A lot of end users are now what we call prosumers, so they both produce and consume electricity, so there's a two-way flow of power and data. So, there are lots of opportunities to optimize this new kind of smart grid that is becoming more and more widespread now.
JS: Very interesting. So, what are some of the most exciting AI applications that you have seen now in the power industry and in what you are doing?
DR: We are developing some very exciting applications in the space of inspections. We are combining AI with drones. Of course, the electrical infrastructure is relatively old and requires quite a lot of maintenance and inspections. And, so far, these inspections have been mostly done manually, so periodically people actually walk along the lines and climb up the poles and check infrastructure. And the last few years they have started using helicopters, and they fly helicopters – quite dangerous missions because they have to be quite close to the power lines, and every year there are reports of near incidents. So, it is quite an expensive process, but it is, of course, necessary, and even more necessary as the infrastructure ages even more.
So, the idea here is to use drones to have a cheaper, more effective inspection. And here, it is very exciting to use all the new technology that we have today for this kind of image intelligence that we have, with deep networks and convolutional neural networks. So, recognizing infrastructure, recognizing different types of faults and anomalies.
JS: And so, how do you use the cloud?
DR: Our systems are basically deployed in the cloud. So, the smart meter / smart grid systems, they collect data from smart meters and upload everything in the cloud. And all the analysis – all the machine learning and AI – happens in the cloud. And the same for the drones. Well, there are different missions. If it's kind of a periodic inspection, then time is not the big issue, you can analyze the images in batch, and then we use cloud for that. So, we upload – it can be hundreds of thousands of images – and process them in the cloud.
JS: So, what is the advantage that cloud brings you, cloud and AI together?
DR: It is scalability. Regardless of how many drones or how many pictures our customers are sending to the systems, we are able to serve those.
JS: Near instantly being able to provision as many resources as you want. Okay, that's very good.
DR: Also, edge is very important, it's not just the cloud.
JS: Intelligent cloud and intelligent edge.
DR: Because if you're on a mission for finding a fault or outage as quickly as possible then you need intelligence on the edge. And you also need that if you want to have autonomous drones, of course. Because today, we still don't have fully autonomous drones – we still have pilots that remotely pilot the drones – but of course, the longer-term vision is to have fully autonomous drones.
JS: So, have you developed a prototype of autonomous drones that can follow power lines?
DR: Yes, to follow power lines and then position itself in the optimum spots to take the correct pictures for the detailed inspection. So the drone is not doing the detailed inspection – that happens in the cloud – but is using edge AI to localize the components, the assets that we need to inspect and take the right pictures and then move on to the next.
DR: Not today. But it can be, in the future, you know. Your probably read Bostrom's book "Superintelligence" that came out in 2014, I think. So, he envisioned like a superintelligence that will take over, and we will not even notice that because it will come so fast we won't realize. But this is a long time away. But anyway, today there are philosophical and ethical questions that are important to ask ourselves. And there are big institutes both in the UK and in the US that focus on that, so that's important. But todays technologies can be weaponized in a way, so there is that kind of scary side of it, of using AI without ethical controls, for autonomous weapons. So, there are some initiatives there. In my opinion, there should be an international agreement on how to control autonomy.
JS: But all technologies are the same way, I would think.
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JS: What are some of the most exciting AI developments you have seen recently?
DR: Well, of course, all the developments around visual intelligence as I call it – so all the analysis of images, segmentation, detecting objects, and things like that with deep neural networks, and convolutional neural networks – it's very exciting. And one very exciting development is, of course, self-driving cars. That, for me, is very exciting, and I use it a lot as an example in my presentations because it both showcases vision development / technological development but also its an application that basically touches almost everyone. Everyone drives a car, at least in the developed world, so it's one of the applications that will come – that we will feel – much more quickly than other ones. But, of course, all the developments around language and speech recognition, and all these new intelligent systems and bots that are coming, it's very exciting developments. From the research point of view, I like a lot of what is happening around the games and gaming in AI. You know, we both started working on AI in the nineties, and at that time, well since the beginning, AI has been applied to games – from checkers, and then chess, Deep Blue beating Kasparov in '97, and then, more recently, of course, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero, even more exciting and now the latest one with Open AI playing Dota 2 – so, it's a very nice way of developing new concepts. It doesn't have direct applications in the real world, but it develops kind of fundamental capabilities that real world systems are going to need.
JS: Any thoughts about the applications of AI outside of the power industry, some of the most exciting other areas that you might be able to go into?
JS: … all types of inspections. Yeah, one thing I heard sometime recently was about inspecting for lightning strikes on aircraft. And they were looking to see if you can use AI to identify, because today again somebody has to climb the airplane and go look at spots and see if there has been a lightning strike.
DR: Or inspecting like pipelines, or railways – any kind of infrastructure.
JS: Or even assets, even just counting assets, is one thing I heard, which was interesting.
DR: Almost limitless amount of applications.
JS: Very exciting. Any concluding thoughts on AI and its applications?
DR: Well, it's very exciting times. I've been working in AI for 30 years and finally we see a lot of traction, and we see an explosion of applications and interest and money nonetheless coming into AI. And real applications that are both helpful and exciting.
JS: And do you think AI is being democratized – made available to software developers much more easily?
DR: Yeah, definitely. Today, basically anyone can experiment with AI. Maybe it's still difficult to make an application that is production-ready if you are not a data scientist because you can fall in many places – you can make a lot of mistakes if you don't know what you're doing. But you can experiment and generate something useful in a much easier way than before. So, there's been a lot of progress around that and there is going to be more progress – I cannot even say in the years to come, just weeks!
JS: Wonderful, it's been a pleasure talking to you.
DR: Thank you, it's been a pleasure.
Read also our guide: All You Need to Know About Power Line Inspections With the Use of Drones.


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Title: THE WHEEL (Çerx)
Category: International Narrative Shorts
Language: Kurdish
In the 1990s, some newspapers were not allowed to enter the Diyarbakir region, under a state of emergency at that time, although they were legal. Children like Bawer and Hebûn, who were part of the distribution group, would secretly collect these newspapers from outside the city at a previously agreed location and take them to the planned meeting place in the city. There, the children changed their clothes and went out to distribute them, under the guise of other work. But they were constantly followed by those who saw the newspaper as dangerous and wanted to prevent its dissemination. Çerx is a testament to the conditions under which these newspapers were distributed to readers and the difficulties encountered.
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How to Address the PCI DSS Requirements for Data Encryption in Transit Using Amazon VPC
by Balaji Palanisamy | on 23 JUL 2015 | in Amazon VPC, Compliance, How-To | Permalink | Comments | Share
The PCI requirements for encryption for data in transit are different for private networks than they are for public networks. When correctly designed, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a logically isolated portion of the AWS infrastructure that allows you to extend your existing data center network to the cloud, can be considered a private network, as qualified by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
In this blog post, I will review the importance of understanding the logical isolation provided by Amazon VPC and then review some of the key points to consider when designing for PCI workloads that need to transmit sensitive data within or outside the AWS infrastructure. I will also demonstrate how you can use the native isolation provided by Amazon VPC for additional security.
Amazon VPC is the architectural construct of choice for AWS customers deploying workloads that are in scope for a PCI DSS assessment. Within Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2 instances must have an Internet gateway or a virtual private gateway in order to communicate with hosts outside Amazon VPC. Additionally, AWS-designed Layer 2 networking features include the mapping service, which performs checks to ensure that even packets with malformed or modified addresses cannot hop across Amazon VPC boundaries. Network access control lists (NACLs) and security groups may be used to filter inbound and outbound traffic to hosts within Amazon VPC. These controls make it difficult for data to be intercepted or diverted while in transit, and demonstrate the private nature of Amazon VPC.
Encryption of sensitive data in motion is addressed in PCI DSS version 3.1 via Requirement 4 and its corresponding subrequirements. The DSS is clear that the requirements apply to the transmission of payment card data across "open, public networks" that are susceptible to unauthorized access. The PCI DSS and the PCI Glossary describe public networks as network transport providers that connect an organization's networks to each other over a wide area network (WAN), to the Internet, or to partner networks—and not software-defined cloud constructs such as Amazon VPC.
Typically, such public networks exhibit managed ingress and egress points that act as gateways to a shared network, with the provider managing the routing within the shared network. It is also possible that the ingress and egress points may be represented by dedicated physical hardware called the customer-premises equipment (CPE). On the other hand, the software-defined Amazon VPC abstracts any underlying hardware and allows for logical isolation. Additionally, PCI DSS testing procedures such as 4.1.c require the PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) to "observe a sample of inbound and outbound transmissions as they occur." Understandably, such procedures can increase the complexity of the assessment and consequentially the cost and the time required to complete an assessment.
Encryption of data during transmission is typically achieved using Transport Layer Security (TLS) between two endpoints. However, there are scenarios where end-to-end encryption during transmission may affect application performance or increase management overhead. For instance, a standard web application designed with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and configured to encrypt all data transmission between tiers can have up to five encryption/decryption points, as shown in the following image.
With the addition of a web application firewall (WAF), the number of encryption/decryption points increases to seven.
Upon considering additional connections, such as to other applications and other AWS services, this number can grow even larger. Each additional encryption and decryption point adds key and certificate management overhead. Though the number of encryption and decryption points by itself is not a limiting factor, organizations have to balance that number with application performance requirements and the amount of SSL certificate/key management overhead they are willing to undertake.
AWS recommends that organizations implement encryption of sensitive information in motion wherever possible. Organizations should also leverage the fact that the design of Amazon VPC inherently isolates the components within Amazon VPC from all other VPCs, to help address the PCI requirements. The isolation provided by Amazon VPC can be further enhanced by the following design elements:
Limit the number of public subnets. Public subnets within Amazon VPC are similar to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) referred to in the PCI DSS.
Route egress traffic to the Internet through a network address translation (NAT) located in the public subnet and deploy all other hosts in private subnets.
Enable source/destination checks at the instance level to provide additional safeguards around isolation of network traffic.
Ensure that security groups and NACLs are configured to address the requirements of the PCI DSS.
Consider terminating the TLS connections at the front-end ELB layer or the WAF layer in the public subnet of Amazon VPC, and configuring non-TLS connections for traffic between private subnets.
Engage your PCI QSA and other parties within the organization with a focus on risk or security management early in the process to help educate and drive risk-based decision making.
As an outside-the-box approach, some organizations choose to encrypt sensitive data via code, processing the data while it is in the web servers and before transmitting it to the next tier. Access to the decryption keys is granted to specific application servers that handle decryption requests. This scheme can be extended further, to the user side, by encrypting the sensitive data field using a public key in the client-side code before transmitting it to the web server. The organization can then control access to the private key and thereby ensure that the data is encrypted during transmission all the way through to the application component that is authorized to decrypt the data. These methods help retain the secrecy of the data while reducing the number of decryption and encryption operations in the overall data flow.
Amazon VPC is designed to provide logical isolation for a set of AWS resources, and customers frequently rely on Amazon VPC as a key design element to address PCI DSS requirements around segmentation and network control. The PCI DSS appropriately calls for greater controls on transmission of sensitive data over public networks versus private networks. Organizations may leverage the logical isolation provided by Amazon VPC and the techniques described here to benefit from designs that reduce the number of encryption/decryption operations and balance compliance requirements with application performance. For more information about AWS PCI DSS compliance, see the AWS PCI DSS Level 1 FAQs.
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Have you ever wondered what beavers do in the winter months? No? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway. I found myself wondering what on earth these busy bodies get up to when their watery homes freeze over. I did some research, so you don't have to.
Spoiler alert: Disappointingly, beavers do not launch themselves into the air and fly south for the winter. But wouldn't that be a sight.
First off, let's get some beaver facts straight. A common misconception is that a "beaver dam" is a beaver's home. This is fake news. A beaver dam is not a beaver's home. The dam is a structure that the beavers build to prevent the flow of water. By blocking off water flow, they create new ponds and lakes, making it easier for them to access food and trees on the shore.
Beavers are pretty unique. They take the natural landscape and mold it to fit their needs. They're out there chomping down trees, making new habitats. A wee bit destructive, but very impressive. Throughout the year these rotund rodents build dams, elevating water levels to allow them to store food underwater and keep it safe beneath the winter ice.
Beavers can live anywhere from 10-30 years.
A beaver home is called a beaver lodge. Lodges are often home to a monogamous beaver couple (aww), and once built, the lodge can last up to 30 years!
These fuzzbutts build their lodges in the middle of shallow ponds and riverbanks, far enough from the shore and away from predators. Beaver dams and lodges are amazingly strong, yet minimalistic. They are built with nothing but sticks, mud, and grass.
Beavers can transport their own weight in wood, most often using only their jaws. Imagine doing deadlifts with your own equivalent body weight. Now imagine doing that with your teeth (please don't try this at home). That is essentially what beavers do.
Like your grandma heading to Florida, the beaver seeks warmth at the first sign of snow. They will spend the entire winter inside the lodge, protected from the cold and predators (like wolves and foxes). It sounds a bit dull, if you ask me. They are missing out on Ontario's winter wonderland.
So what do they do to pass the time? Quite simply, they eat and they mate. Beavers mate in their lodges during the cold season. Romantic winter getaways don't get much more rustic than this.
Not only are their lodges nice and dry, but they are hot. Like actually Florida hot. While the outside temperature plummets into the negatives, studies have shown that the inside of the lodge can hover around 32°C.
Beavers occasionally share their abodes with free-loaders like muskrats. This is probably because the muskrats also help to keep the lodge warm. From the muskrat's perspective, it's worth being an awkward third wheel in order to have a warm home during the winter.
The entrance to the beaver lodge is located under water. To eat, they swim out of their lodge and under the ice to gather food. What to beavers eat in the dead of winter? Twigs. Yum. Specifically, they eat the bark off of their favourite trees (which include willow, alder, birch, and poplar). They stash their favourite twigs near their lodges during the warmer months.
Beavers can stay under water for 15 minutes at a time.
If you stumble across a beaver lodge, you can tell if the homeowners are inside by taking a look at the top of the lodge. Heat from within the lodge will rise and cause the snow at the top to melt. You might be able to hear the beavers… or smell them. You might even see steam rising from the top of the lodge.
Basically, if you see a hot steaming pile of snow, sticks, and mud this winter, it's probably an occupied beaver lodge. Just let it be. Not that this is something you'd typically want to get close to... I would not recommend approaching smelly, hot, steaming piles of anything outside, tbh.
Beaver's front teeth never stop growing!
There you have it. Everything you ever wondered, or didn't wonder, about beavers in winter. What are you going to do with all of this newfound beaver knowledge?
If the chance to see the majestic steaming beaver dam doesn't get you outside this winter, I don't know what will.
P.S. if you're wondering how many times the word "beaver" appeared in this article, the answer is 31. Well, 32 now.


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Players will be drawn into groups of 4 (or 3 when necessary) to play a machine. Whoever finishes last is out and the remaining 3 players will move on to the next round and so on until we have a winner. There will be one buy-in possibility for players to use if they want to re-enter the tournament after having tasted the sour grapes of defeat already.
Cost to enter: $10 plus coin drop. Cost to buy-in: $10.
Registration will be open from 12 pm until 1:45 pm sharp. Registration on-site only, no exceptions, so don't be late.
A maximum of 52 players will be allowed to enter.
Prize money goes to 1st place (30%), 2nd place (25%), 3rd place (15%) 4th place (10%), and 5th-8th place (5% each). There will also be trophies for the top finishers.
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Comeback of the fuel cell: Why Le Mans organizer ACO is relying on hydrogen for the 24-hour classic from 2024 onwards
12. January 2021 Moritz Nolte Business, Hydrogen, News, Racing, Technology
Hydrogen power could make its big comeback – interestingly enough, in motorsport. With the "HYRAZE League" (HYdrogen RAcing Zero Emission), a racing series is to start in 2023 that relies entirely on hydrogen. The company behind the project is HWA AG, which was responsible for Mercedes-Benz's DTM entries until 2018.
And with the "Automobile Club de l'Quest" (ACO), another major player is venturing into fuel cell motorsport. The organizer of the legendary 24-hour race at Le Mans wants to have its own hydrogen class compete in the motorsport marathon on the Sarthe in 2024.
Therefore, the ACO has teamed up with the technology and motorsport company GreenGT, which began developing a fuel cell race car back in 2012. Together with the petroleum company Total and the tire manufacturer Michelin, the makers are fine-tuning the new Le Mans prototype class under the name "Mission H24".
The first Le Mans Prototype (LMP) with a fuel cell was presented in 2018 as "LMP H2G". In 2014, the H2 developed by GreenGT reeled off its first test kilometers. In September 2020, Mission H24 presented the new prototype "H24" in the supporting program of the 24-hour race – according to the company, "technologically advanced and faster than the current LMP H2G".
The new "hydrogen category" is scheduled to be introduced at both the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship (WEC). According to Bernard Niclot, Innovation Manager at Mission H24 and formerly Technical Director at the FIA, the fuel cell racers will not compete in their own series. Rather, they will start together with LMP1, LMP2 and LMGTE.
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Police have closed a road in Tavistock because of a crash - and because it is now 'a sheet of ice'.
Roads Policing Sgt Olly Tayler took to twitter to warn motorists to avoid Green Hill - and said police are in the process of closing it.
Shortly before 7pm, he said: "Currently at an #RTC on Green Hill in #Tavistock. The hill is sheet ice top to bottom. Do not attempt to drive it. In the process of closing it."
The crash and road closure comes as Devon and Cornwall wrap-up warm while temperatures plummet - with an urgent warning being issued to motorists by the Met Office.
Road users are being advised to check the weather forecast and road conditions before they travel tomorrow afternoon as snow has been forecast across parts of the region.
Highways England is working closely with the Met Office in monitoring the weather conditions and as a result of the forecast, they have issued a severe weather alert for snow.
Road users are advised to take extra care when travelling, to allow plenty of extra time to complete your journey and to consider whether the journey is absolutely necessary before setting out, by first checking the very latest forecast and road conditions.
The south of the country, including almost the whole of Devon, is facing "very significant snowfall" with temperatures expected to plunge to at least minus 10 degrees Celsius across the country, the Met Office has warned.


Thanks for everything anyways, spesh Boomer ^^"! and im very sorry!
Since that's ur choice. . . Fine then . . . I dont even know why m i still fkin here posting stuffs when im nt playing at all. Just a fkin waste of time . I'll leave too. Ciao guys.
Ill be back into TnG !
OMG JY AND KATTHY HOT GIRL. DONT LEAVE!! YOUR LEAVE I EMO!!
Yay ~! Glad that u've changed ur mind kathy ! ^^ I'll change my mind too !
LOL. I'm not hawt but kathy is >< . Thanks anyways Bren bren lolx !!
Good job in bringing her back Boomer XD !!!!


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\nMr. Zezima lives on Long Island with his wife, Sue. They have two daughters, two granddaughters and many creditors.
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\nMr. Zezima is the author of three books: \"Leave It to Boomer,\" \"The Empty Nest Chronicles\" and \"Grandfather Knows Best.\"
\nAs a chilling example of just how low journalistic standards have sunk in this country, he has won many awards, including seven Excellence in Journalism Awards for Humorous Writing from the Society of the Silurians, which is based in New York City and is the oldest press club in the United States, and six awards for humorous writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
\nMr. Zezima also has written for such magazines as Reader's Digest and Family Circle. He has written and recorded humorous commentaries for such public radio programs as \"Marketplace\" and \"All Things Considered.\" He has done funny reported segments for WLIW of Long Island, N.Y., one of America's largest public television stations, and he wrote and recorded a commentary for \"CBS News Sunday Morning.\"
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Jerry Zezima, Contributor
Humor columnist, The Stamford Advocate
"The Zezimas' 2016 Christmas Letter"
By Jerry Zezima
Since I am in the holiday spirit (and, having just consumed a mug of hot toddy, a glass of eggnog and a nip of cheer, the holiday spirits are in me), I have once again decided to follow in that great tradition of boring everyone silly by writing a Christmas letter.
That is why I am pleased as punch (which I also drank) to present the following chronicle of the Zezima family, which includes Jerry, the patriarch; Sue, the matriarch; Katie and Lauren, the childriarchs; Dave and Guillaume, the sons-in-lawiarch; and Chloe and Lilly, the granddaughtersiarch.
It sure has been an exciting 2016 for the Zezimas!
Jerry had a particularly exciting year, which began with the publication of his third book, "Grandfather Knows Best." Like his first two books, "Leave It to Boomer" and "The Empty Nest Chronicles," it's a crime against literature. It also comes in handy for propping up wobbly table legs. Somehow, it didn't make the New York Times bestseller list.
Jerry reached the pinnacle of his journalism career when he got a paper route. On a rainy night, he helped his newspaper carrier fling papers into subscribers' driveways and returned a lost dog to her grateful owners, which was the best delivery of all.
Jerry also completed his two-year term as president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists without running that otherwise august organization into the ground. Members attending the NSNC conference in Los Angeles celebrated with a four-letter word: beer.
Jerry's other adventures included being a server for a night at a restaurant. To ensure that the place wouldn't go under, he waited on his own family (Sue, Lauren, Guillaume and Chloe) and got a nice tip: Don't quit your day job.
That same group went bowling and Chloe, in an outing to celebrate her third birthday, beat everybody in the first game. She kindly let Jerry, whom she helped roll a strike and a spare in two late frames, win the second game.
Chloe also had her first sleepover at Nini and Poppie's house and began a tradition of making breakfast (scrambled eggs, sausage, toast and a bagel) with Jerry, whose scant culinary skills pale in comparison with those of his granddaughter.
Chloe got her first haircut (Jerry got one the same weekend, approximately his millionth) and got her first big-girl bed, where she keeps her stuffed friends. (Jerry, who goes to bed when he's stuffed, keeps pajamas and other dirty clothes on his.)
Sue and Jerry refinanced the mortgage on their house, a hellish process that took months and was almost undone by a three-year-old unpaid traffic ticket. Now Jerry is afraid to drive to the bank to pay the new mortgage.
Jerry turned 62, which means he is eligible for Social Security and can, if he wants, retire. Considering his financial obligations (see above), he is convinced he will be working posthumously.
Speaking of death, Sue and Jerry lost Bernice, the last of their four cats, who at age 17 went to that big litter box in the sky. To fill the void (Bernice was fat), they welcomed Maggie, their sweet granddog, who is 11 and living with them temporarily. She keeps the house safe by being a canine alarm system, which makes her more valuable than Jerry.
Katie and Dave, both journalists living in Washington, D.C., had lots to report on this year and learned the wisdom of the late, great humorist Art Buchwald, who also was based in the nation's capital and famously wrote, "You can't make anything up anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it." Katie and Dave record it very well.
For the record, the best thing to happen in the family in 2016 was the birth of Lilly, Lauren and Guillaume's beautiful baby daughter. Everyone loves the adorable girl, including Chloe, who kisses her little sister and helps Lauren and Guillaume take care of her. So does Sue. Jerry tells her jokes, just as he does with Chloe. When you're a grandfather, that's your job.
Merry Christmas with love and laughter from the Zezimas.
Stamford Advocate humor columnist Jerry Zezima is the author of three books. His latest is "Grandfather Knows Best." Visit his blog at www.jerryzezima.blogspot.com. Email: JerryZ111@optonline.net.
Copyright 2016 by Jerry Zezima
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What Does It Take to Run a Golf League?
Joining a golf league is a great way to make sure you get out of the house and hit the links every week. But what about running a golf league? How are they set up, what kind of formats can you play, how much work is it, and what about weekly contests?
Why Should I Choose Golf League Tracker?
Leagues can be time consuming if you let them. Dealing with player "personalities", trying to make everybody happy, you know what I'm saying! With Golf League Tracker, league management becomes a breeze, and because everything is at the fingertips of you and your players, it makes this end of managing your league much easier and less time consuming, letting you focus on golf rather than league management.
How Do I Start a Golf League?
To start your league you'll have to gather a number of players, and contact golf courses in your area to see what time slots they have available and for what price. Some courses have specials for league play, either with green's fees or perhaps food or drink specials if you socialize at the course after play.
Most golf leagues are based on a set schedule that the league plays each week at the same time. They reserve a block of time from the golf course, have a set roster of players, have a standard format and scoring rules, a set length usually between 12 and 24 weeks, and a league champion at the end of the year. Dues for the year are usually paid ahead of time to the course, so you pay whether you show up or not. Most leagues are 9 holes since most take place after normal work hours, but 18 hole leagues are available as well.
The courses my leagues are on requirement payment for the entire season up front. I give players deadlines to get the money to me and then I pay the course. For example, if we start on April 15, then I require payment to me by the end of March. If a player doesn't get their money to me on time, I make it knows that their spot is now open and we will actively find players to replace them.
I recommend setting up a PayPal account, and create a "Money Pool" in paypal. This creates a separate link your players can use to send you money, and you can configure it for a set amount. All they have to do is click on the link you send them, and enter their credit card info.
A golf league consists of a set roster of regular players, typically 16-24, but I've seen some leagues with as many as 60 players. Each player has a handicap which Golf League Tracker calculates, and a schedule of who they play against or with each week. Ideally you want to spread out the competitions so that everyone plays against or with everyone else an equal number of times, or at least as close as possible. Golf League Tracker takes the drudgery out of creating a schedule. Enter your players, set up your teams, and click one button to create the schedule for the year.
What Kind League Formats are Popular?
There are endless formats that you can set up for your golf league, but I'll talk about the most common formats. Golf League Tracker will support individual play and 2-person teams. With individual play, you play against another player each week for points. Take a look at some Two Player and Individual Player league ideas that are the most common format.
With team play, the team can be broken into "A" and "B" players if you're playing any kind of match play. Those designations are based on the player's handicap, the lower handicapped player being in the "A" player. The team plays against another team, with the "A" players matched up against each other, and the "B" players matched up against each other. They can play for points within their individual match or points with a number of team options such as best ball, high/low, stableford, or a number of combinations. But with 2-man teams, you can also play formats such as best ball, where the best score of the teammates counts for the team, against the best ball of the other team. In this case, there are no flights, although Golf League Tracker still categorizes them by handicap.
If your league is 14 weeks or more, I recommend breaking the league into 2 halves. At the end of each half, the points the player or team has accumulated are reset to zero. This allows players who are at the bottom of the standings at the end of the first half to have a chance in the second half. This keeps everyone interested in the league throughout the season. After you have your two half winners, they would play a championship match at the end of the season to determine the league champion.
How Do I Set Up Points?
There is no right or wrong with how you set your league up for points, but I'll explain the typical league. Any of these settings can be adjusted in Golf League Tracker.
Match play is where one player plays directly against his opponent on a hole by hole basis. It's a great way to organize your league because a player can have a bad hole without completely ruining his chances at winning his match.
Points per Hole
Each player plays for a set number of points for each hole. Whoever wins the hole (i.e. whoever has the lowest score on a hole) wins the points for that hole. The points won are totaled for the player for the week, and are added to his season or half totals. Typically leagues will play for 2 points per hole.
Points per Match
The player's net score is compared to his opponent's net score, and whoever has the lowest net score wins the points for the match.
Golf League Tracker gives you a number of options for scoring your match, from adjusting the points per hole and points per match, to allowing you to set it so that the winner of the match gets a set amount for winning.
2-Player Teams
If you have 2-player teams, you have additional point options.
Points per hole, team match
This is where the team's total for the hole is compared to the opponent's total, and points are awarded for winning the hole.
Points per hole, best ball or high/low
With Best Ball, the best net score for each team is used for a specified amount of points each hole, or you can just count how many holes each team won and award an overall winner of the match a certain number of points. You can also play "high/low", where the low score for the hole of each team is compared, and the high score for the hole of each team is compared for a specific number of points.
Points per team match
Like the points per match for the individual, you can award points for the lowest net team total for the match.
Stableford Matches
Your 2-player team can also use Stableford scoring to determine who wins the match, and award points based on the winner of the Stableford match.
Additional team options
Golf League Tracker gives you the ability to override the points that the system calculates in case your league has a special rule that isn't built into the system.
Stableford Play
With Stableford, you're not playing directly against a single player, but playing against everyone else at the same time, called "The Field". In match play, your opponent's score directly influences whether you win points are not. But with Stableford, you're awarded points based on how you score relative to par on each hole. The number of points awarded are defined by the R&A and USGA, and can be found here on the USGA Rules Website. The concept is simple: the lower you shoot, the more points you win.
Those points are then accumulated each week for the players to determine the leaders. While there is a defined list of points, you can adjust those point values in Golf League Tracker if so desired.
If you have 2-player teams with Stableford, each player's points are added together for a team point total.
Other Point Options
This is just an overview of how you can configure your points with Golf League Tracker. We are adding new settings and point methods all the time, so be sure to check the latest settings list to see what's available. You can combine any point methods, although I recommend keeping it to no more than two different methods, otherwise it may confuse your players! If you don't see your point method listed, contact me and I should be able to clarify if there's an automated way of doing what you do, or I may add your format to the system. Many of these point formats were by customer request!
How Should I Handle Subs?
In Golf League Tracker, you can add as many subs as you wish to the player list. The sub's score counts for the player he's subbing for, and whatever points he wins are transferred to the regular player. There are settings in Golf League Tracker to limit the number of points a sub can win if so desired.
In an individual play league, if a player is absent, his opponent plays against "The course" by comparing his score to the par of the course. If you have team play, you have the choice of having the absent player's teammate play for him, or to have his opponent play against the course.
Often a league will collect a fee from subs, because the tee time is already paid for in advance by the regular player. I like the nice round number of $10 for 9 holes. This money can be placed into a separate fund for prizes or a year-end bash.
Requesting a Substitute
Golf League Tracker has a "Request a Sub" feature which allows your players to log in and request a sub for a date they know they won't be available. The system will send an e-mail to the players on your sub list, and the first to respond to the request by clicking a confirmation link in the e-mail will automatically be reserved, and the original player will be notified that a sub has been found.
A league secretary can also manually add a sub reservation to the system. This is useful because you can use the Print Scorecards feature on the site which will print your matchups with each player's name and handicap, including the sub's information if they have reserved a spot.
How Do I Set Up Handicaps?
Let's face it, we're not all scratch golfers. The beauty of golf is that different skill levels can compete against each other using a handicap. A handicap tries to level the playing field by awarding strokes to players based on past performance.
There are an infinite ways to calculate handicaps, but with my experience, I've determine a good range of settings for the typical league that makes it fair to everyone. The basic formula is to take a rolling average of the player's scores compared to par. There are additional options that you can institute, such as "Equitable Stroke Control" which limit how many strokes a player can take on a hole to prevent them from artificially increasing their handicap, called "Sandbagging".
Typically a league will take the last 6 scores to use in their handicap calculation. Many times a percentage is taken of that average, such as 90%, when calculating the player's handicap. This gives a slight advantage to the better players, and gives an incentive for a player to improve.
Starting in 2020, the USGA and other governing bodies around the world have converted to the World Handicap System, which makes consistent how handicaps are calculated. I suggeset using this method for your league. You can find more information about the World Handicap System on Golf League Tracker.
How To Handle New Players
If you have new players on your league, or are new to Golf League Tracker, there won't be a scoring history for the player in which to use to calculate his handicap. You have several options in Golf League Tracker to solve this problem:
Enter a scoring history
If you have a history of scores for a player from the previous season you can now easily add them to the player's history, and those scores will be used in calculating the handicap.
Set a Minimum # of Scores
The system needs to know how many scores are required before a handicap is established. I set this to "1" for my leagues, and that way the first night of play the player's score will count. This is also useful for subs that are new to your league, as they get a handicap immediately, and won't feel like they didn't count.
Set a Starting Handicap
The starting handicap can be set for your players, and if an option called "Handicap padding" is turned on, that starting handicap will be used to establish a fictitious scoring history for the player. See this article for more details on how this works.
How Do Courses Works in Golf League Tracker?
You can add as many courses to Golf League Tracker as you wish, and you can enter multiple tee boxes for' each course if you have players playing on more than one tee box. Just enter the information off the scorecard or from the course's website, paying special attention to the Par and Handicap of each hole, as those values may affect the scoring and handicap outcome depending on the format of your league.
What are My League Secretary Duties?
In using Golf League Tracker, the time you spend on weekly maintenance is reduced dramatically.
Setting Your League Up
Setting up your league consists of signing up on Golf League Tracker to tell it all of your league settings, from user id to number of players to handicap calculation. There are a large number of options available, but I've made it easy if you don't want to go through all of those options by choosing the "One Click" setup, which will default your league to the most common scoring and handicap settings. Those settings can be adjusted at a later time if you wish.
After your initial sign up, you can enter your players, golf course, and set your starting date and time for your league. Then you can create teams (even in 1-player leagues that player is considered a "team") from the players entered, and with just a couple of clicks, you can have the system create a schedule for you.
Your league settings and players carry over from season to season with Golf League Tracker, and don't need to be touched again unless you want something changed. The only requirement on a new season is to set your new starting date, and a couple of clicks to create your schedule.
There are just a few steps necessary in Golf League Tracker for your weekly maintenance duties.
Printing Scorecards
Before your round is played, you may want to print your own scorecards from the system. This will automatically print the player's name and handicap, as well as substitute information on the card, and mark which holes the players get strokes on in your matches.
I recommend using regular heavy card stock and then you can cut them out once printed. You should be able to fit 2 scorecards on a page in this manner.
Entering/Review Scores
Of course, you have to enter scores! Golf League Tracker makes it easy, as it keeps the order of the players the same as what was printed on the scorecard if you printed them out ahead of time. When entering scores, you can choose if a sub played, or if you need to modify a player's handicap just for that round for whatever reason. Golf League Tracker will show you which tee times you've entered scores for, and will walk you through step by step through each tee time. Once they're entered, you can review them all on one screen if you wish before you continue.
You have to enter the score for each hole in Golf League Tracker, and the system will figure out the rest. Hole by hole scores are also used for the many statistics I have, skins, and figuring handicaps if you have Equitable Stroke Control set. If you're used to only entering a total score and are concerned about entering each hole, the amount of time of the other things Golf League Tracker will figure out is more than offset by the extra few minutes it takes to enter hole by hole scores, and the accuracy is much better. No more addition mistakes!
Calculating Handicaps
Golf League Tracker calculates your handicaps for you automatically by default as you enter scores. If you want to choose when handicaps are calculated, you can turn automatic handicap calculation off, and instead, click one button to update all of the players in your league at one time.
Record Points
Recording points allows you to apply the points a player or team based on the settings for your league. It also gives you the opportunity to adjust any points for any special rules you may have for your league. For example, a league might award an extra 2 points to someone who had the long drive on a hole.
Depending on the size of your league, your weekly duties might take anywhere from 5-10 minutes. Once your scores are entered and points recorded, your players can log in using the player password to see the standings, pull up dozens of statistics, and even post on your league comment section!
What Kind of Side Games Do People Play?
Beside your league matches, many leagues have additional games, usually played for a few dollars, as weekly contests. With some contests, players will put money aside to buy prizes for the winners, such as a sleeve of golf balls.
"Skins" is one of the most popular games for leagues. It consists of players putting a set amount of money into a pot each week (it could be as small as $1 per player).
Gross Skins
For each player in the game, their actual (gross) scores are compared on a hole by hole basis. If a single player has the lowest score on a hole out of all of the others, he wins a "skin". Those players who win a skin divide the pot up amongst themselves based on how many skins they won. For example, 10 players at $5 each has a $50 pot. If one player wins 2 skins, and 2 other players each win 1 skin, there's a total of 4 skins, each worth $12.50. The player that won 2 skins gets $25, while the other 2 players get $12.50 each.
Net Skins
Net skins works just like gross skins, except that instead of using the player's actual score, the system uses their net score for each hole. The net score take into account their handicap. For example, if a player is a 7 handicap, he will get 1 shot on each of the hardest 7 holes. How are those holes determined? By the hole handicap as noted on the score card.
Net Skin Options
Golf League Tracker has a number of options available when calculating net skins, from disallowing strokes to be applied on par 3s, to using a percentage of the player's handicap, as well as "half strokes" for each hole. Read the post "Skins Options" on our discussion forum for more details.
Golf League Tracker handles all of these calculations automatically. When you enter the player information, you enter the number of dollars each week that they are putting in the pot. You don't even need to have everyone put in an equal amount. The stats section will even tell you how much each player owes, and how much they've won to make your book keeping even easier!
Closest to the Pin
Closest to the pin is a contest which is played on Par 3s, where a marker is placed on the green anytime a player hits his tee shot on the green in 1 shot. The marker indicates who is currently closest to the pin with their tee shot, and only is moved when another player hits his shot closer than the marker. The marker is usually a metal stake that has a piece of paper on it in which to write the player's name. The game starts with the marker being placed just off of the green.
When the round is finished, the markers are gathered (usually by the last group), and the winners tallied.
Longest Drive
Longest drive is also played with a marker, in which a player who hits the longest drive with their tee shot into the fairway win. The marker is moved each time a player hits it past the marker, and the player's name is written on it. Make sure you play this contest on a straight long hole. You don't want your players hitting the longest drive of their life only to hit it through the fairway right down the middle!
Straightest Drive
Not common in golf leagues because it requires a line to be placed down the middle of a fairway before the round begins, this contest evens the playing field of games by awarding the player who hits it closest to the line the prize.
Low Putts
Some leagues will have the players count their putts in addition to their score, and award a prize to the player who had the least number of putts. A shot is considered a putt when the player plays his first shot from the green surface, until he holes out. Using a putter from off the green is not considered a putt, unless a previous shot was hit from the green surface on the same hole.
Low Net
This prize is award to the player who has the lowest score with handicap, otherwise known as "Net score", for the week.
Custom Contests
With Golf League Tracker, you can set up a custom contest in which to track the results for closest to the pin, long drive, and low putts and anything else you want.
There are endless varieties of league types and rules, and Golf League Tracker takes the drudgery out of running your league, and apply these rules in a consistent manner. Take less time manging your league, and play more golf, with Golf League Tracker.
Feel free to contact us with any questions, or create your league now and give Golf League Tracker a test drive with our 4-round free trial, no obligation required!


Steve Ballmer is fired up. The Microsoft CEO has just come offstage after speaking to 16,000 Worldwide Partner Conference attendees at the Air Canada Centre, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and he is talking about a new, more competitive Microsoft. It is a Microsoft more in line with Ballmer's hard-checking, hypercompetitive style. It is a Microsoft playing offense, willing to do what it takes to win as it moves to stop Apple--or anyone else, for that matter-- from wresting away its crown as the undisputed world leader in bringing personal computing to the masses.
"We are not going to let annyyyyyyyyyyyyy piece of this [go uncontested to Apple]," he bellowed in our exclusive interview. "Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware/software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen! Not on our watch!"
There is something primal about Ballmer's anti-Apple diatribe. Think Microsoft vs. Apple circa 1980 when Ballmer was hired as the first business manager at Microsoft by co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates. Apple may have pioneered the home computing market with the Apple II, but Gates and Ballmer brought PCs to the masses. Yet today, Apple's iPad and iPhone are winning the computing war, and Apple's market capitalization of about $560 billion is more than double that of Microsoft's $240 billion.
In addition, Microsoft just reported its first quarterly loss as a public company after taking a previously announced $6.2 billion write-down for the 2007 acquisition of online advertising company aQuantive. In the fourth quarter ended June 30, Microsoft reported revenue of $18.1 billion, up 4 percent from $17.4 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Its $492 million loss, due to the online advertising charge, compared to earnings of $5.9 billion in the same period one year earlier.
Meanwhile, Apple, Cupertino, Calif., now holds anywhere from 60 percent to 70 percent of the tablet market, according to market researchers, with an installed base of 55 million and more than a half-million apps in its App Store. Microsoft and its hardware OEM partners are barely a blip on the screen. What's more, market researcher Gartner forecasts that 55 percent of the 182.5 million tablet computers it expects to be sold in 2013 will be Apple iPads, while only 8 percent will be running Windows.
A onetime channel antagonist, Apple also is now putting on a full-court channel press, led by former 12-year Microsoft veteran Francois Daumard, who is courting solution providers to sell, integrate and support the iPad. Microsoft, in contrast, has angered more than a few partners by refusing to let them sell the Surface tablet, slated to ship in October. After the Surface launch last month a number of solution providers told CRN they viewed that decision as a case of Microsoft doing an end-run around the channel.
Under criticism by some for the inroads Apple has made, Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft and its partners have ceded some of the "boundary between hardware and software innovation" to Apple, which he refers to as "the other guys, the guys I don't like."
The Surface tablet, targeted squarely at taking down Apple, clearly has him pumped up. Yet it's more than Surface, he said. The "stepped-up competitive energy and vigor" that you see from him and Microsoft is a direct result of --a "reimagining," as Microsoft calls it, of the computing experience, from smartphones and tablets to public and private cloud.
With Windows 8, Ballmer said, Microsoft is at one of those epochal moments in its history.
"The founding of Microsoft, the launch of the PC, Windows 95 and Windows 8 are the four big moments in Microsoft's history," he said. "I can say that. And if you asked me to pick, I can honestly tell you a reasonable case could be made for all of them. The founding was really the dawn of software as a business. The PC really kicked off the mainstreaming of information technology. Windows 95 is really what brought computing to the masses. And Windows 8 is really what takes us into a whole new world of mobile solutions and the cloud."
Ballmer sees Windows 8 changing the character of the company. It is Windows 8 that has brought Microsoft to break from its past and build its own hardware products--putting into question the Wintel model that was once the foundation of the $70 billion company. Ballmer called Windows 8 the "next step" with both customers and the competition.
"Gloves are off. Let's go, baby," he exclaimed. "Bring it!"
The stakes are high. Some partners say Windows 8 and Surface are make-or-break bets. They also say how big a role Microsoft will play in their business--and in businesses of all kinds--will depend on those bets and on just what kind of application traction the company gets with its new Metro graphical user interface on tablets and smartphones.
As for Ballmer, who some solution providers say has been more focused on products than on partners in recent years, how Microsoft executes his vision to take the company into the next generation of cloud, tablets and smartphones could well determine his fate as CEO.
Ballmer's big wager on making Microsoft a cloud superpower is backed up by the biggest product refresh in the Redmond, Wash., company's history. In the space of 12 months, Microsoft is swapping out nearly every single product in its portfolio with a new release. The biggest bang will come from Windows 8 (to be available Oct. 26), but among the other releases are Systems Center 2012, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2012, Office 2013, SharePoint 15, Surface, Visual Studio 2012, Windows Phone 8, SkyDrive, Yammer, Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Dynamics, Windows Intune and even Kinect.
All of it will be tied together with Metro, which is designed to allow consumers or professionals to move seamlessly from home to office, office to home, from public to private or hybrid cloud. And it comes with what by any account is a huge set of financial incentives aimed at tilting the cloud computing landscape in its favor. Microsoft is upping the incentives it will pay to partners by $200 million to $4.2 billion for its 2013 fiscal year, which began July 1. The numbers for the company with the world's largest partner footprint (Microsoft's partner ecosystem generates $609 billion in annual revenue, according to research firm IDC) are impressive: Altogether, Microsoft's cloud and solution incentive spend will be up 40 percent for its current fiscal year.
The incentives are driving serious growth at solution providers that have made significant investments in emerging Microsoft technologies along with new technical certifications and competencies.
Navantis, for example, has thrived as a Microsoft partner for 15 years, starting as a three-person company. Now a $40 million, nearly 400-person company, Navantis has doubled in size in the past two years by focusing solely on Microsoft products and services from application life-cycle management to SharePoint to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Office 365.
John Kvasnic, co-founder and CEO of Navantis, based in Toronto, sees the Microsoft opportunity quotient growing at an exponential pace. He expects Navantis to double again over the next two and a half years, given the onslaught of new Microsoft technology.
"It is Windows 8, the ability to manage it all, public cloud, private cloud, the ability to collaborate with SharePoint, Lync, slate[s]," he said. "It's about anywhere, anytime, anyplace on your phone, on your tablet, on your computer, on your TV set. It is seamless. There are lots of pieces, but it all connects and all works together. I don't think any other firm has everything covered [like Microsoft does]."
Kvasnic also cites the close working relationship with Microsoft from partner reps all the way to the top of the company. Navantis recently received a big sales assist from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that was critical in closing a 5,000-seat Office 365 deal with Indigo, the biggest online book retailer in Canada.
"It was definitely as a team," Kvasnic said of the win against Google's direct sales force, which dropped its price in an unsuccessful bid to seal the deal. "We had everybody from Microsoft helping us, from the president of Microsoft Canada to Kevin Turner."
Turner's rallying cry to partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference was "be tenacious, compete, and escalate to me" to drive sales growth. He gives partners his email and telephone number and urges them to get in touch if they need help closing a deal. In his keynote, he told the audience that there are 1.5 billion people on the planet that use Microsoft products, but there are another 5.5 billon "we need to go get with our partners."
It's that kind of ambition driving a new generation of Microsoft partners such as Nimbo, a two-year-old New York solution provider building a synchronization and storage application suite running on Windows Azure aimed at displacing Google Drive and DropBox.
"We've seen unbelievable growth with our Microsoft professional services business," said Nimbo COO Ira Bell. "We're only in our third year and we've seen 200 percent end-over-end growth for the first two years of our business. To put it in perspective, Nimbo hasn't been in a business a single day without at least one job opening."
Bell said the criticisms of Microsoft and Ballmer--taken to task by Forbes as the worst-ever CEO and by Vanity Fair for Microsoft's "Lost Decade"--are unfounded.
"Steve decided to take control of Microsoft's future by saying, 'You know what? We're going to own the hardware experience for Surface rather than letting someone control our destiny.' Further, he is doing something which has never been done in history before, which is to create a single unified experience across all devices with the Windows 8 theme. Some of the things I saw him demonstrate in Toronto were mind-blowing. That guy doesn't read science fiction. He creates it."
Sheldon Fernandez, a director at Infusion, a $60 million 12-year Microsoft partner based in Toronto, is also a big fan of Ballmer and the technology unveiled under his stewardship. Infusion's goal is to more than double from 400 to 1,000 employees as it tackles the Microsoft opportunity over the next few years.
Fernandez sees the biggest Microsoft differentiators as Windows 8 and the Metro interface. "It's going to be huge," he said.
"Businesses want to leverage new digital [Metro] UI experiences in ways that they never traditionally did before," he said. Combining Windows 8 mobile devices and then connecting them seamlessly to the Microsoft cloud will open unimaginable vistas for customers, he said.
But not everyone is pleased with the new Microsoft, and the company's new "era" has some partners crying foul. They point to Microsoft's decision to refuse to let partners sell Surface and its move earlier this month to discontinue Windows Small Business Server as shots across the bow of partners.
Requiring that partners buy Surface from Microsoft.com or a Microsoft retail store could have a backlash, pushing more partners into the growing Apple camp. A CRN survey of 60-plus solution providers shows Microsoft may have missed out on a big opportunity by going direct. The number of partners rating the Windows 8 tablet opportunity as outstanding or good soared from 34 percent to 64 percent after Microsoft introduced Surface, giving the product a thumbs-up. But that was before partners learned they would not be able to sell it.
Bob Venero, CEO of Future Tech, a Holbrook, N.Y.-based solution provider, said Ballmer telling partners to buy Surface from Microsoft.com is an "insult."
"It is a sad day when Microsoft wants to become Apple," said Venero. "Instead of trying to be Apple, they should stick to what makes them successful, which is their partner community. If you look at the history of what partners have done for Microsoft over the years, it is a smack in the face. We helped to create the vast enterprise that is Microsoft. If we look at the integration work, solution sets, [software] rollouts, licensing management, all of those things that we have done [for] small/medium businesses, midmarket, all the way up into the enterprise and government, that has all been driven through partners. Just because Apple is eating Microsoft's lunch on the tablet doesn't mean their route to market should exclude the partners."
Bob Nitrio, CEO of Ranvest Associates, an Orangevale, Calif.-based solution provider, sees the same kind of disregard for partners serving small-business customers. He said Microsoft's decision to discontinue Small Business Server is a move to strong-arm partners and their customers to move to the cloud.
"A lot of small businesses either because of the nature of their business or regulatory requirements don't want to or can't move certain things to the cloud," he said. "Microsoft doesn't care. They have huge investments in data centers and want to start making money off them."
John Krikke, vice president at Onward Computer Systems, a Burlington, Ontario-based Microsoft partner, said he understands the business reasons behind the Small Business Server decision. His worries center on how Microsoft gave partners little warning about the change--and what that portends for Microsoft partner relations. "I think the messaging was not handled well," he said. "The communication was poor."
The Microsoft criticism from partners comes with many looking at the Windows 8 desktop product and services onslaught as not providing a big margin kick. A related CRN survey of nearly 100 partners shows that 75 percent rated the Windows 8 desktop product opportunity as low margin or average margin. What's more, 68 percent rated the Windows 8 desktop services opportunity as low or average margin.
Ballmer, for his part, said the margin question is skewed.
"The truth of the matter is we have a lot of great partners and they compete pretty hard with one another, which is really their nature," he said. "I think what we give our partners with Windows 8--and you saw that here at the partner conference--is the ability to help their customers do things that they couldn't do before. Whether the margin is X percent or Y percent, the real opportunity is to sell X or 2X or 3X or 5X, the ability to galvanize the customer base on new scenarios, new opportunities and really drive overall volume."
One of the biggest changes sure to drive big sales volume for cloud-computing-focused partners came at the conference when Microsoft unveiled the Office 365 Open program under which partners can resell the cloud application suite, buying subscription keys from a price list and billing customers directly from a price list--removing what had become a contentious channel issue. Partners say the Office 365 decision is a watershed moment, and they hope Microsoft will follow suit with other products such as Intune and CRM Online. (Officially Microsoft said no decision on extending that policy to other cloud products has been made).
"If InTune and CRM Online go this route, it will be a game-changer, an absolute game-changer," said David Geevaratne, president and co-founder of New Signature, a Washington, D.C.-based solution provider. "A lot of MSPs want to sell a bundle to their customers. A significant population of customers want one monthly bill for all their IT products and services. Partners love this opportunity that Microsoft has given them."
New Signature, a 100 percent Microsoft-focused shop, expects its sales to be up 59 percent this year to $10 million. Geevaratne said he expects even more dramatic growth as a result of the opportunities around Windows 8, noting that desktop PCs, laptops, tablet computers and smartphones will share the same core operating system technology--a claim Apple can't make.
New Signature is just the kind of partner Microsoft is betting on as it ramps up its cloud computing market offensive.
"If we came from a world of software, we are moving now to a world in which software gets embedded in hardware and in cloud services and we are going to continue to be the company that is most channel-friendly, if you will, in embracing that," said Ballmer.
What's more, he said, partners have nothing to worry about with regard to passionate advocacy from both himself and Turner.
"We are all in," said Ballmer. "We are all in as the world gets to be a world of devices and services powered by software. We are all in with the channel."
Rick Whiting contributed to this story.


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