Who's excited to hear my voice for 140 games next season?
So if you haven't heard yet, the Sand Gnats have partnered with STAR 1400 AM to broadcast all 140 games in 2009 locally in Savannah!!! I'm super pumped and excited because it means it makes it that much easier for you the fans to follow your Sand Gnats while they are on the road or if you're late to the ballgame! Big thanks to STAR 1400 AM. It's going to be a fun season and I'll do my best to blog from the road as much as I can with tips on places to eat, visit and the like.
Other than that, its same-old, same-old here in the trailer. I've been putting a lot of time in designing themed templates and such for people around the office lately. Nothing too exciting. SCAD baseball has their first game Friday and it will be nice to have baseball back in Historic Grayson Stadium. I've also been working with new headshot designs for the SCAD team so that hopefully some of them will translate to Gnats stuff when the season starts. I like to test my stuff out before to see if everything looks cool and readable.
That's it for now. Lost is on tonight so I'm always excited about that!
It's really cold here this morning in Savannah. I check my iPhone before I left the house and it said it was 23…that's ridiculous. A very cold, frozen Mike Passanisi blogging from the Sand Gnats headquarters at Historic Grayson Stadium.
I watched American Idol for the first time in a while last night because A. they were in the Yay Area (San Francisco) and B. all of my roommates watch the horrible television program. The show didn't disappoint, it was dreadful. Did you see the girl who brought all the diagrams and stuff to the show? She couldn't even pronounce half the body parts she was talking about correctly, let alone sing.
Other programming that was much better was the Obama Inauguration. Obama is an excellent public speaker. He sells whatever he is saying very well and I'm not one to dive into politics but I'm kind of excited to see what happens.
On the Sand Gnats front, things are starting to pick up quite rapidly as we approach February. Before we know it, Opening Day 2k9 will be here and that's crazy. Right now, I'm working on the design of our 2009 Pocket Schedule and still trying to finalize our group brochure (we're waiting on a couple of loose ends) but those should hopefully be done shortly.
I'm excited to see who the Mets invite to big league camp in a month or so. I really think that Tobi Stoner, Josh Thole and Mike Antonini have a shot to be invited. I would say one of those three could very well be a late season callup come September when rosters expand. As for the '09 Gnats, we still have no word on our coaching staff but it was around the beginning of February last year that we heard Donovan Mitchell was our manager, so that announcement might be coming up soon.
Now how many of you are excited for LOST tonight?! Probably one of the best shows on television in my professional opinion. It's crazy and confusing but it's just so addicting. For those of you that haven't watched, I'd say rent the first season and you'll be so hooked you'll watch all of it in probably three days time.
Well, I've got to go put out a press release. Check back later today to find out what it's about.
91 DAYS UNTILL BASEBALL SEASON!


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Twin Cities Daily Planet (https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/minnesota-women-advocates-important-nationally-says-calif-congresswoman/)
Minnesota women advocates important nationally, says Calif. Congresswoman
By Julia N. Opoti (Mshale) | January 8, 2008
California Congresswoman Maxine Waters (center) during her visit to Minneapolis in December. Photo: Lucius Luther
Historically, Minnesota has been at the forefront of the women's movement. With the endorsement of Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Office of the President of US, the Minnesota Women's Political Caucus continues to support progressive women in office.
Although Maxine Waters represents a Californian district in Congress, she attributes her political success to women both in her district and in many other parts of the country including Minnesota.
"I was the underdog without the support of the political establishment and with no budget for a campaign," she said. "I got support from women."
Congresswoman Waters was speaking at the 29th annual luncheon of the Minneapolis Women's Political Caucus, where she gave the keynote address.
There is progress but …
With about 90 women in Congress, Waters asked women to continue running for public office.
"Women pay attention to not only women's issues, but are involved in all areas of public policy," she said.
She argued that having more women engaged in matters of public policy would improve not only the rights of women and children, but also general policies.
In response to a question from the audience about income disparities between genders, Waters advised women to get more involved and participate in board decision making, teach young women their worth and educate women on compensation and job numeration.
Studies show, that across the board, women still earn less than men, about 77 cents on every dollar.
"Do not support women who demonstrate that they do not care as they do not advance the women's cause," she said, in reference to actions and comments made by conservative public commentator Ann Coulter.
In a couple of interviews Coulter has said that because women, mostly single women, are liberal, their right to vote should be taken away to allow for only Republican administrations.
In an apparent continuation of her dissent in Congress against the war in Iraq, Waters said, "Not another nickel! Not another dime! Not another soldier! It is unpatriotic and un-American to allow a senseless war."
Other speakers included the president of the National Women's Political Caucus, Lulu Flores, who congratulated MWPC for being one of the most active women's political caucus in the country.
"In endorsing Senator Hillary Clinton we are encouraged that she will overcome the final barrier for women in this country."
Over the last year, MWPC has been working towards increasing the participation of women of color in public office. As part of this initiative, MWPC has launched its Diversity Outreach Project.
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Books to Celebrate Israel at 70
Seventy years is a biblical lifetime, 70 rabbis make up a Sanhedrin, the Torah presents us with 70 faces, and today Israel is 70 years old. We asked 70 leading Israeli and American scholars, novelists, critics, policymakers, and public intellectuals for their favorite books about Israel. Here are their top choices.
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
Our contributors recommended many wonderful histories, memoirs, and novels. But the book that received the most votes overall is a rich combination of the three. Robert Alter explains: "This is surely Oz's best book, exhibiting his gifts as a novelist. It tells the story of his growing up in Jerusalem in the 1940s. It is of course a personal story, centering on the death of his mother when he was twelve, but it also conveys a rich sense of life in the Yishuv in the last decade of the British Mandate, incorporating wonderfully comic scenes as well as wrenching ones."
Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
"A beautifully written account of seven young paratroopers and, through them, of Israel today," says Elliott Abrams. Asher Lopatin adds: "This book really lays out the political and social landscape of Israel better than any other." (The late Alan Mintz reviewed it for us when it first appeared.) Other personal accounts and war stories that topped our list: Avraham Shapira's The Seventh Day: Soldiers' Talk about the Six-Day War, about which Rachel Biale said, "It was here that I began my journey of discovery into traditional Judaism." We also recommend Matti Friedman's Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War, which Sara Hirschhorn calls "a searing memoir of the Lebanon war and how it shaped a generation." Matti Friedman himself recommends Yoram Kaniuk's autobiographical novel Tashach (English title: 1948).
David Grossman, To the End of the Land
Adam Kirsch told us, "If any book qualifies as the great Israeli novel, it's this moving, ethically searching story about a woman who fears she might have to sacrifice her child for her country." (Alan Mintz reviewed that one for us, too.) Many other novels were enthusiastically recommended, including Only Yesterday, S. Y. Agnon's masterpiece about the early Jewish pioneers. A little farther off the beaten path and new to English readers is Yitzhak Shalev's Parashat Gavriel Tirosh (forthcoming in Hillel Halkin's translation as The Gavriel Tirosh Affair). Ruth R. Wisse recommended it to us, saying, "This is the novel I would have wanted to read as a teenager. The teenager in me still powerfully responds to it." On the American side, we received several nominations for two Philip Roth novels, The Counterlife and Operation Shylock.
Theodor Herzl, Old-New Land
Shlomo Avineri has written that Herzl's classic Altneuland is a bad novel but an important and prescient book. Historian Michael Brenner, author of the very recent In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea, suggests that readers should revisit Herzl's utopian novel every seven years. Alternatively, you can read one of the many Israeli novels that respond to it, for instance Eshkol Nevo's Neuland, set in a fictitious, modern-day Israeli diaspora in Argentina. If exploring Zionism through novels is not your thing, you can instead opt for Ehud Luz's Wrestling with an Angel: Power, Morality, and Jewish Identity (Michael Walzer describes it as "a history of Zionist thought that illuminates the present moment") or Arthur Herzberg's classic, The Zionist Idea. Or try contributor Gil Troy's recently released overhaul: The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow.
Assaf Inbari, Habayta
Assaf Inbari
Several recommenders enthusiastically endorsed Assaf Inbari's Habayta (Home), which Itamar Rabinovich calls "an excellent example of contemporary Israeli writing." Want more on kibbutzim? Try Kibbutz Makom, "A wonderful, multi-generational narrative history of an unnamed kibbutz (later revealed to be Beit Hashita), which tells the story of the kibbutz movement and of the founding of the state through a series of powerful interviews," says Yossi Klein Halevi.
Anita Shapira, Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
Several contributors recommended Anita Shapira's recent biography of David Ben-Gurion. Prefer autobiography? We can also recommend Gershom Scholem's classic memoir From Berlin to Jerusalem or Chaim Weizmann's Trial and Error. Those who are very ambitious might enjoy diving into Joseph Schechtman's epic two-volume biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky: Rebel and Statesman and Fighter and Prophet.
Yehuda Amichai, The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
We had many poetry recommendations: Natan Alterman's Stars Outside, Rachel Bluwstein's Rachel's Poems, Avrom Sutzkever's Lider fun togbukh (Poems from a Diary). But Amichai far outstripped them all. Here is the poet himself on Jerusalem, translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav:
Jerusalem is low, crouching between her mountains,
Not like New York, for example.
Two thousand years ago, she crouched
In a wonderful lunge.
All other cities ran great
Circles in the arena of time, won or lost,
And died. Jerusalem remained in a lunge:
All victories are taut and concealed in her. All defeats.
Her strength grows and her breath is calm
For a race even outside the arena.
What are you reading this Yom Ha-atzma'ut?
Happy birthday, Israel.
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I still like Yoram Hazony's The Jewish State. And for war novel Haim Sabato's Adjusting Sights. Incredible.
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The Red Beret and the Rabbis
Shmuel Rosner
What has happened to the Religious Zionist rabbinate?
In Brief, Spring 2012
Baseball, Beats, and Scandals in Satmar.
Hollywood's Anti-Nazi Spies
Laura Rosenzweig
In 1934, Hollywood's Jewish moguls met secretly at the Hillcrest Country Club to hear an unusual pitch. A former ADL official was running a network of World War I veterans who had infiltrated the local Nazi organization. The intelligence was alarming, and he needed funding.
Crumb's Genesis
Harvey Pekar, Tara Seibel
Harvey Pekar's take on Robert Crumb's illustrated book Genesis.
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Welcome to Farmer's Dwelling Renovation Sequence. This would come with the labor to fully redo tile, completely install new fixtures, full any necessary wiring and plumbing, and have the whole lot inspected afterward. To the previous condition which was walls made from drywall and tile on these partitions.
#1 you probably have a tub you may refinish it so it appears to be like like new & leave it there; relating to the shower., you do not have to tug it out, get a frameless bathe door and make sure it's frameless. I've already torn all the partitions right down to the studs and had a tub encompass installed.
I did must order a shower kit because the builder thought it would avoid wasting labor time. For my space, the common value for a bath transform was ~ 14K last 12 months to ~ 18K this 12 months. Owners have many choices once they transform a toilet and the entire cost is determined by type and funds.
Tiles could be installed by the home-owner with somewhat skill and persistence. New floors: Installing new wooden flooring will price about $4,four hundred, whereas laminate, which is less expensive, will set you again about $2,800. Common Value: The average value of having a bathtub or shower installed is around $three,000.00. Shower/tub combos contain extra plumbing and may cost somewhat extra.
Even if in case you have the talents to DIY your toilet remodel, you should still need to pull permits. I'd have an interest in the man you used as I shall be present process a kitchen and toilet renovation in Nashville TN. I have heard so many horror tales of jobs going well past accomplished dates and extra bills being added as they go.


The provincial election will take place on April 19, 2016. The voting choices made by the estimated 168 000 Manitoban adults with disabilities will make a huge difference between real progress on disability issues through to 2020, or years of inadequate resources and attention. When you consider the friends and family members of those 168 000 Manitobans, the voting impact is even more powerful. The voting choices made by people impacted by disabilty will have a considerable bearing on which party forms the next government.
1. To ensure that all Manitobans with disabilities can participate fully in election activities.
2. To promote priority attention to disability issues in the election.
3. To support Manitobans in making informed voting decisions.
Please visit the website at www.disabilitymatters2016.ca. You will find links to sign up for updates, volunteer to become involved and make a donation to this worthy campaign.
The coming months are sure to be exciting. Let's band together and show the collective power of our voices! We look forward to your participation and support.


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Preview : Daegu FC vs Pohang Steelers
Muyeol Jung July 18, 2017 read ( words)
Promoted side Daegu FC is set to host Pohang Steelers this Wednesday night, a side ranked 7th in the K League Classic table. Both teams need three points to bounce back from their disappointing result in recent matches; Daegu will be hoping to get out of relegation zone whilst Steelers will want to keep chasing the leading pack and get back into the top six.
Image via Daegu FC Facebook.com/daegufc2002
Graphics from Soccerway.com
Daegu traveled to Gwangyang to face Jeonnam Dragons last Saturday in search of three points. Despite going 3-0 down, Daegu leveled the game 3-3 at the 65 minute mark, but Feczesin gave the Dragons a dramatic win to make it 4-3 and seal his hat-trick. In spite of disappointing defeat, the visiting team showed some bright moments for the next games. This was the only game Daegu scored more than three goals in a single game this year and so it seems there is sort of perception among the players that there is crisis which is making players more solid and well-gathered as a team.
Meanwhile, Pohang hosted Suwon Bluewings last Saturday and they recorded another bitter defeat. Steelers played pretty well, but a brilliant performance from Johnathan paid off and eventually preserved the visitors' unbeaten away record. With this defeat, the Steelers are caught in the bottom half of the table and so will be desperate to pick up a win to keep competing in the K League title race with other teams.
Daegu clashed with Pohang Steelers last on April 15th and were beaten 2-1 in a game that was being watched by less than ten thousand supporters. In that match, Seo Bo-min's performance was outstanding even though he didn't score. He played sharply on the right and in middle of a pitch as if he had two hearts. The first goal from Lulinha was started from his long throw-in into the goal mouth. In the second half, Daegu made the game even with a great header from Evandro, but Yang Dong-hyun found the net on 83 minutes and in the end gave his team a dramatic win.
Daegu have extended their winless records into eight games and are in a danger of being relegated. For Daegu, Daegu do need something to bounce back from the bottom of the table; such as recruit some decent players from outside. So far, one good thing is that Daegu recently signed Jeon Hyun-chul from Busan IPark in exchange for Lee Jae-gwon. In fact, Daegu have many players, but there are few options in attack. So, the signing of Jeon Hyun-chul would give Daegu more dynamism and more options. Meanwhile, Park Tae-hong will be out for the rest of the season as he tore his Achilles tendon. As a result, Daegu's back line will be inevitably affected. Han Hee-hoon could step in again as he did before.
The Adversary
Pohang have lost their last two games but they are still most likely to win the game against Daegu. With poor results from the lasts two games, Pohang will be playing very actively from the beginning with their top players. The most threatening player to Daegu will be Yang Dong-hyun, has been on fire this season with 13 goals. In addition, Kim Seung-dae, former Yanbian player, recently joined his hometown club again and made an appearance in the Steelers' last game. Kim Seung-dae will give Pohang a variety of options up top if Yang Dong-hyun needs a bit of help.
Daegu 1 – 2 Pohang
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Justin Hayward Releases Folky New Song 'Living for Love'
Songwriter issues track shortly before launching U.K. tour the Voice of the Moody Blues.
Ryan Reed
Justin Hayward Captains Inaugural On the Blue Cruise: Review
Moody Blues member took a "trip down memory lane" during floating festival.
Justin Hayward Leads 'On the Blue' Cruise 2019
Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward will be the musical host of a new classic rock cruise scheduled for 2019.
Watch Justin Hayward's New Video for 'The Wind of Heaven': Exclusive Premiere
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Justin Hayward joining the Moody Blues. Over the years, the singer and guitarist has written a number of songs with the group that have become classics. But he's also enjoyed a successful solo career outside of the band that began in the mid-'70s. His solo w...
Justin Hayward Recalls the Incredible '80s-Era Rebirth of the Moody Blues: Exclusive Interview
The Moody Blues had already pulled off a successful second act when the '80s heralded a third.
Justin Hayward On His New Solo Album And Possible New Music From The Moody Blues
For Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward, the future has become the present and certainly, many days have passed since he first joined the group nearly a half-century ago. While the band remains popular on the touring circuit performing dates annually which take them all over the world, it's been a while since there has been new music from the Moodies -- their last album was 'Strange Times' in 1999


Address: The Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8HQ.
A special exhibition of work by members of North Devon Arts in the main gallery at The Plough Arts Centre.
Opens on Wednesday 27th of May, with a preview on Friday the 29th of May from 7pm – 9pm.
On until Saturday 13th of June.


What's the Difference Between Amazon Advertising and Paid Ads on Google and Facebook? (8/10/18 GoDaddy) There's no escaping the war that's heating up between the three giants of online advertising. Yet you as a small business advertiser need to figure out how to make the most of them to sell more products and services. Understanding how they're different and where each excels will help you determine whether Amazon advertising or paid ads on Google and Facebook will work best for your particular business model and budget.
Build More Convincing Business Plans with Free Market Research from Google (7/30/18 Bizfair.org) "Proving" your business model to investors relies on being able to back up your assumptions about your market. Data about how people search or discover products brings you one step closer to making your case. Now imagine if you could get that information easily, quickly and at no cost — and create good looking charts and graphs to use in business plans, presentations and on social media.
Find the Missing Link in Your Social Media Strategy (9/19/17 Bizfair.org) An effective social media strategy depends on finding the right sites to reach your audience. Beyond the major social networks, which attract a large, generalized audience, there are plenty of niche sites which will help you build exposure and website traffic.
Build a first-rate blog for your business, but in a smart way (12/14/12): Robbin is quoted about how to create an impression with a blog reader on silive.com (Staten Island Advance).
Tech-savvy owner has a leg up on competitors (12/12/12): Robbin is quoted about the need to monitor consumer use of social media and the possibility of "Facebook Fatigue" on silive.com (Staten Island Advance).
SCOREboard: Learn to use social media to build your business (11/29/12): Robbin is quoted about how to incorporate social media into a marketing plan in the Quad-City Business Journal.
Silly Job Titles are Not Funny (11/20/12): Quoted for a comment about what titles used to mean in the Workplace Psychology blog.
Forbes: Top 10 "No-BS" Consultants (9/20/12): Robbin is named a favorite no-nonsense marketing consultant by the author in the Seattle PI.
Listen and Learn to Spark Strategy in Social Media (9/18/12): Robbin is quoted in the Reading Eagle Business Weekly.
How to Spit-Shine Your Elevator Pitch (9/13/12): Robbin is quoted in this how-to blog for Chicago business, on NBC Chicago.
Bringing Balance to Your Print and Digital Media (6/6/12): Robbin is interviewed about the value of media in Inc. Magazine Productivity@Work.
CDTV.net Interview (5/7/12): Robbin Block is interviewed about social media marketing strategy.
Seattle Bakery Makeover Drives an Additional $4000 Per Month in Sales (6/2011): Updated merchandising and branding at Sugar Bakery & Cafe in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle increases foot traffic and delivers operational improvements.
SCORE Expert Tips: Beyond Social Media (5/17/11): Robbin Block discusses some of social media's many implications on the crafting and execution of winning small business marketing plans.
Marketing strategist Robbin Block demystifies social media and signs her recently published book "Social Persuasion: Making Sense of Social Media for Small Business" at Ventures in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle on Thursday, October 14th, 6-8pm.
Book signing at Inner Chapters in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle on Thursday, April 22nd, 6-8pm.
Le Marketing en Temps de Recession (Spring 2010): Marketing spas during a recession, which was originally published in Spa Canada Magazine; translated into French for Spa Quebec Magazine.
Recession Marketing (Spa Canada Magazine, January/February 2010): How to market spas successfully during a recession in this issue of Spa Canada Magazine.


SpeedBox 2 for Yamaha PW-X & PW-SE 2019.
This is a SpeedBox 2 version especially for the new Yamaha PW-X 2019 & PW-SE 2019 E Bikes with the new display variants "A" or "C".
- The module takes away the speed limitation and increases the maximum speed up to 99 km/h (theoretical). In principle, the maximum speed is only limited by your cadence – in reality, you can reach speeds of 40 - 60 km/h with full motor support.
- The display shows correct data, e.g. current speed, daily kilometres & range (no halved values).
- The module can be activated at any time conveniently via the light button.
- Simple installation / special diagnostic devices are not required.
Only high-quality components from leading global manufacturers are used to produce this processor-controlled module. This ensures robustness, durability and insensitivity to moisture. During the manufacturing process, each SpeedBox is tested several times for correct functionality. Since only colour-coded original connectors are used when installing the module, the installation of the SpeedBox is very simple and intuitive. An accidental faulty connection is not possible. In principle, all you have to do is remove the motor cover and attach the connectors mentioned - it's very simple! Since no cables have to be cut or destroyed to install the module, you can remove the SpeedBox 2 at any time and restore your Yamaha 2019 E Bike to its original condition.
Of course, the SpeedBox 2 for Yamaha 2019 comes with connectors that are compatible with the new displays "A" and "C" (see illustrations above).
Please note: If you have a brand new Yamaha 2019 E Bike, you have to ride it a few kilometres before installing the SpeedBox 2 tuning tool.
Important hint: The new "SpeedBox 2 for Yamaha PW-X 2019 & PW-SE 2019" does not work on the "old" Yamaha E Bikes with the previous display "X". For these electric bikes you need the previous version of the "SpeedBox 2 for Yamaha PW-X or PW-SE" – "here" or "here".
Nach dem Einbau der SpeedBox 2 kann diese per Licht-Taste aktiviert und deaktiviert werden.


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Research Computing Teams #106, 22 Jan 2022
As you can see from this issue again being late (but less late!), here at RCT HQ I'm still getting into the rhythm of the new year. I hope you and your team are already firing on all cylinders.
There's several articles this issue on decision making, priorities, and strategy. I keep coming back to this, because it's important.
For research computing teams to succeed, we need priorities and a strategy. Without those, we can't even tell if we're succeeding, or on our way towards success.
Everyone agrees with that, but the next part gets uncomfortable. A strategy that doesn't clearly show which perfectly good opportunities the team would say "no" to isn't a strategy, no matter how many slide decks it appears on; it's a motivational poster. A "priority list" which doesn't explicitly deprioritize some opportunities, projects, clients, and activities is — by definition! — something other than a priority list.
Unfortunately, I see this quite a bit in academic research computing teams, especially around software and systems. New research software development teams, often one of several across campus, typically scramble to get funds in the short term, taking a "catch as catch can" approach to projects. A team led by a new leader will often have a "strategy" of something like "enabling research with high-quality software development" and "connecting domain experts in software development with domain experts in research", which distinguishes them from literally no research software development team anywhere in the world, much less on campus. (Where are the stand-alone "enabling research with low-to-moderate quality software development" teams?) This makes it impossible for them to clearly articulate strengths compared to other teams across campus, attract clients that need those strengths, and build on those strengths. But doing that is uncomfortable, because then they have to at least implicitly come clean that the team has weaknesses, and thus clients they probably can't (and shouldn't) help effectively. That's hard for a new leader, and even for some pretty seasoned and senior leaders.
When I see research systems teams fumble on clear articulation of priorities and strategy, it's usually a little different — a stubborn refusal to admit aloud that they are implicitly prioritizing certain kinds of workflows (and thus clients) over others. Typically it starts with queuing and allocation policies put in place at the beginning of the systems team, aimed to support their first big user groups. Then as time goes on, those policies somehow become "decisions made for technical reasons" and "the way things are done here" rather than what they actually were, an explicit prioritization choice. At that point, saying aloud "we specialize in support for users [X]" is scary even though it's manifestly true and would be the first step in deciding whether continuing to specialize in support for users [X] is in fact the right approach.
Prioritization and strategy, when done in a way that isn't meaningless, is scary. Unfortunately, prioritization, strategy, and decision making is the core responsibility of managers and leaders. Every decision for something is a decision against something else. Every high priority area explicitly deprioritizes all other possible areas. A strategy necessarily implies a long list of paths not taken. If your priorities and strategies aren't choices that could be wrong, they aren't priorities or strategies at all.
With that, on to the roundup!
How to Write a Strategy Statement Your Team Will Actually Remember - Michael Porter, Nobl Academy
Saying "no" - Mike McQuaid
Porter's article highlights an idea that's come up a few times in the roundup - a very clear way to write out priorities or strategy is to contrast two things, both positive, and explicitly say that your strategy values one over the other. It's too easy to write out "motherhood and apple pie" strategies: "we value moving fast and solid code". But those statements are fluff that don't mean anything; you might as well be announcing that water is wet. No one disagrees that those are good things with value. Hard decisions come when good things are in conflict. When writing a new chunk of solid code will require moving slowly, which one wins? Those choices are your priorities, the outlines of your strategy.
And once those choices are made, you have to start saying no to things that go against those choices. Last January (#56, #57, #58) we had a series on stopping doing things; the first step is saying "no".
McQuaid talks about saying "no" as "frontloading disappointment", and maybe surprisingly as a way of building and maintaining trust. He also talks about Brené Brown's BRAVING framework for trust (Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability, Vault, Integrity, Nonjudgement, Generosity). He writes that having a clear and explicit "API", where it's clear that if you say yes to something it's going to get done, and that you say no early so they can move on, builds trust long term in exchange for a small bit of friction in the short term.
Make Yourself Obsolete: Your Team Will Thank You - Nathan Broslawsky
Porter's article above had a simple measure of success for strategy statements - in your absence, would the team be able to make the decisions you would have made based on the stated strategy?
Broslawsky's article continues on that theme and expands it. A good leader and manager is continually growing their team members, giving them broader responsibilities, and that means giving up some of your tasks. This means coaching rather than directly problem-solving, it means giving team members opportunities to take on high-visibility efforts, and making your old job description obsolete. That frees you, too, to take on other responsibilities.
If you like this article, a related article that roundup #79 included, Always Be Quitting, generated several positive comments from RCT readers.
The Decision-Making Pendulum - Candost Dagdeviren
Our Role in Effective Decision Making - Kathy Keating
Everyday Decisions, Done Dirt Cheap - Matt Schellhas
Dagdeviren talks about the decision-making pendulum, the spectrum of decision-making processes ranging from authority ("Because I said so"), through advice and consent, to consensus decision making ("So say we all"). The processes at the extremes aren't great for either the teams or the decisions that likely result (I don't agree with everything Manager-Tools says, but I think they're 100% right about consensus - consensus is a desirable outcome of a decision-making process, but it is a bad choice for a decision-making process). Within the middle, the important thing is that the decision-making process is explicit, input is gathered and seen to be taken seriously, and decisions are communicated clearly.
That input gathering and discussion-facilitation phase before and after a decision made takes some practice. Keating gives us (from the point of view of an inveterate introvert!) an overview of facilitating discussions, which can be especially tricky in the cross-disciplinary world we work in, so that the full range of ideas and information becomes available and shared.
And Shellhas gives us a bit of breathing room when it comes to decision making. The "best" decision is unknowable beforehand, when you actually need the decision; even in retrospect, determining whether it was best available is usually still impossible. It's not a power given to we mere mortals to watch all possible timelines unfold.
But there's often one or more nearly-tied, "good enough" decisions available. Unless a given decision has huge ramifications — which does happen, but isn't the common case — quickly making a good-enough decision in some consistent and transparent way (maybe, say, given some underlying strategy and priorities!) is probably better for you and the team than agonizing over trying to optimize over the unknowable.
Becoming a Better Writer - Gergely Orosz
Work for others is getting more and more remote and asynchronous. It's always been a bit that way for us, with large multi-institutional collaborations a routine part of work. Whether it's a new or ongoing challenge, we do better with clearer writing. It's a fundamental tool for clarifying our thoughts, and for communicating those thoughts to a community of work. That's true whether it's for a pull request, a changelog, an email to users, or an institutional strategy document. And as we grow in our responsibilities, our community of work becomes broader with more diverse expertise. Writing clearly gets more and more important.
There's only one way to get better at something - and that's intentional practice with real feedback. Orsoz recommends writing a lot, critical editing - by ourselves and others - and actively soliciting feedback. Orosz also recommends a couple of tools, including Hemingway Editor, which I keep coming back to. In academia we write long, rambling sentences. Twitter and Hemingway Editor help me tighten my text. As long time readers will know, it's a continuing struggle.
Middle Managers: The Forgotten Heroes of Innovation - Ben M. Bensaou, INSEAD Knowledge
Something to remember as we rise in our careers: middle management has an undeserved poor reputation. It's glue work, which is largely unsung and hard to even understand the value of from the outside. But middle management is where much of the cross-discipline collaboration across a large organization happens. ICs and front-line managers are typically too focussed on their individual functions, and the view from the executive suite is typically too high-level to see fine-grained opportunities to work together. Large companies like Bayer rely heavily on middle-managers to find novel ways to collaborate across the organization, as Bensaou describes.
Product Management and Working with Research Communities
Former Google CEO invests in computing help for university scientists - Adrian Cho, Science
Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic foundation founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, will be investing $40m over 5 years to establish a Virtual Institute for Scientific Software across Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, and U Wash. Research software developers will be hired at each site.
So this is unambiguously good news, all great stuff, and it's getting really frustrating that we need to have wealth tech patrons like Google's ex-CEO or Mark frickin' Zuckerberg (through the Chan Zuckerburg Initiative) to fund in dribs and drabs the absolutely fundamental work of research software development and maintenance. And at least for software there are those programs - other areas of research computing and data don't even have that.
The article ends:
[UWash Dean of Engineering] Allbritton hopes federal funders might take note of the initiative. "One might imagine," she says, "that NIH and NSF could pick up on something like this and really amplify it."
Might one? At this point it's not clear.
Code Review is Feedback - Linnea Huxford
A reminder that code review isn't just about the code in question, it's feedback. So that means it's an opportunity to give nudges to inform future behaviours (code submissions), it's an opportunity to give positive as well as negative feedback, and it's important that all team member are providing consistent feedback.
Git Organized: A Better Git Flow - Annie Sexton, Render
Make debugging suck less. Keep a logbook - Conor Lamb
A couple short articles nudging us to do a little better for ourselves when debugging, and for others when committing changes.
Sexton issues a plea for more coherent commits, suggesting following the "commit (locally) as you go along" approach with a git reset (which doesn't change the working tree unless requested to) and then bundling changed files into coherent commits. Even parts of a file can be added to a commit with git add —patch or via editor support (in VSCode you can "stage select ranges").
Even though a lot of us were trained in science, we can lose our scientific approach in the heat of a debugging session. Lamb suggests keeping a logbook; this is a good idea, coupled with the approach of having hypotheses you test during debugging rather than my usual approach of just flailing.
Stewardship of Software for Scientific and High-Performance Computing - US DOE
Responses to DOE RFI on Stewardship of Software for Scientific and High-Performance Computing - Various, organized by Todd Gamblin
The DOE put out a RFI on Stewardship of Software for Scientific and High-Performance Computing describing the problem and current state of things. There were 39 responses, most of which are online, but the official government website is a pain to review. Gamblin organized the responses in a GitHub repo - there's a lot of good stuff there, worth reading. I'll try to distill some of the common (and uncommon!) responses in a future issue.
Research Data Management and Analysis
Getting Started with R and InfluxDB - Gourav Singh Bais, The Next Stack
There's a number of time series databases available these days, which are analytic optimized for collecting an extremely large number of (timestamp, value) pairs for a potentially large number of variables. Queries are aimed at identifying windows of time that meet some criteria within a variable or across several time streams, and potentially doing some analysis within that window. Sometimes there's tools for removing old data or at least keeping it at only larger and larger granularity.
If you're curious about knowing if something like that is appropriate for your usecase, this is an InfluxDB-sponsored post on The Next Stack for quickly playing with some example data (COVID-19 cases) in InfluxDB using an R client.
SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux - Liam Proven, The Register
CentOS 9 Stream Is Now Available but Should You Use It? - Jack Wallen, New Stack
Well that's interesting - it looks like SUSE (drags on cigarette - It's been a long time since I've heard that name) will be releasing a "classic CentOS" type distro based on RHEL, but with much its much newer kernel.
As you know, I think slow moving, long-term-stable OS images are a trap for research computing systems teams, albeit one that's hard to dig out of until vendors stop using them as an excuse to update their device drivers as seldom as humanly possible. But if it's a trap you find yourself in, there's a new option from an organization a little less fly-by-night than Rocky Linux.
Alternatively, CentOS 9 is the first Stream version of CentOS, which is kind of the staging area between the faster-moving Fedora and the carved-in-stone RHEL. After a new version or package has been kicked around in Fedora for a while, it goes into RHEL nightly and CentOS stream. Honestly, I think something like that could be close to a sweet spot for some research computing clusters; the issue, as always, is cheap and lazy vendors updating their drivers only when absolutely forced to. As a community, we should force them to more often.
SSH Bastion Host Best Practices - Sakshyam Shah, Teleport
Restricting SSH agent keys - Jake Edge, LWN.net
A pair of SSH articles this week.
In the first, Shah describes a good set of best practices for setting up a bastion host. None of the individual steps here are ground breaking - that's what best practices means - but the collection of them all in one place is useful. Strip down the packages and services on the host OS, lock down networking capabilities, limit user accounts, add OS-level logging and send the logs elsewhere, add host intrusion detection systems like OSSEC or Wazuh, harden OpenSSH by limiting ciphers, regenerating host keys, etc., add 2FA/MFA, use certificates where possible, and deploy. There are recommended tools, steps, or parameters for each step, which is nice.
In the second article, Edge describes an experimental feature in the upcoming OpenSSH 8.9, where keys can be ssh-add'ed to ssh-agent for limited uses, e.g. only connecting to certain hosts or even to certain users at certain hosts.
Lets Encrypt for internal hostnames - Julien Savoie
Savoie describes using dynamic DNS (RFC 2136) capabilities in certbot to temporarily create TXT records for relevant internal-visible-only hostnames so letsencrypt can generate certificates.
AWS Free Courses - AWS
AWS has moved a lot (most? all?) of its self-paced online courses to being free, possibly following Azure's lead - e.g. here's an FSx for Lustre Primer. It's a good move, but I don't know why it took so long. I genuinely can't comprehend why some vendors charged or even continue to charge money for this kind of training; if I were in charge of such a company I'd be chasing technologists down in the streets trying to get them to get certified in my various technologies. Yes, good courses cost real money to develop, maintain, and even run if there's a lot of (e.g.) cloud resources that get spun up for hands-on components. But do you want them using your stuff or not?
Kubernetes at Home With K3s - Bruno Antunes
We've spoken before about edge distributions of Kubernetes like k3s (#40, #56). Here Antunes walks us through the next step of playing with Kubernetes after poking at Minikube - running a real (if lightweight) Kubernetes with real pods on your system using k3s and virtual box, and auxiliary tools like k9s (think top), lens (a GUI), and Portainer, then setting up a simple web service with nginx ingress, let's encrypt, and storage, and then more complicated stacks (like using Kompose to translate a docker-compose setup of a wiki, BookStack, into a helm file).
Refreshingly, Antunes is less Kubernetes fan and in more of a "well, I guess this is what we need to use given the alternatives" sort of situation, so it doesn't come off as a sales pitch. And by the time you've worked through this post, you will have seen a fair chunk of Kubernetes functionality.
NVIDIA Research Plots A Course to Multiple Multichip GPU Engines - Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Next Platform
There's some interesting material here riffing on a paper by NVIDIA Research that went online in Dec 2021, describing how NVIDIA might make multichip GPUs - probably not shocking, since AMD is already going there (#100). Maybe more interesting, and certainly catching the attention of HPC twitter, is that the same paper suggests that deep learning and HPC are going to de-converge a bit, with proposed different GPU SKUs specialized for HPC and for AI/DL. The deep learning specialized GPUs will have even larger caches. Under NVIDIA's simulations, HPC workloads benefited less from high-bandwidth access to large caches, while the AI workloads needed a very large "resident set" of high-bandwidth memory.
Still a flurry of new-year CFPs and summer REU opportunities:
Call for May 2022 mentoring communities - Outreachy, Community deadline 25 Feb
Humanitarian open source communities or Open Science communities can apply for $6,500 to hire an intern from non-overrepresnted groups; like Google Summer of Code, communities apply for a place, then mentors submit projects, then candidates apply and are matched.
4th Workshop on Benchmarking in the Data Center: Expanding to the Cloud Workshop (BID 2022) - 2 or 3 Apr, Virtual, Papers due 31 Jan
This and GPGPU are held in conjunction with PPoPP22. From the call:
High performance computing (HPC) is no longer confined to universities and national research laboratories, it is increasingly used in industry and in the cloud. Users need to be able to evaluate what benefits HPC can bring to their companies, what type of computational resources would be best for their workloads and how they can evaluate what they should pay for these resources. Recent general adoption of machine learning has motivated migration of HPC workloads to cloud data centers, and there is a growing interest by the community in performance evaluation in this area, especially for end-to-end workflows. Benchmarking has typically involved running specific workloads that are reflective of typical HPC workloads, yet with the growing diversity of workloads, theoretical performance modeling is also of interest to allow for performance prediction given a minimal set of measurements.
We invite novel, unpublished research paper submission within the scope of this workshop. Paper submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Multi-, many-core CPUs, GPUs, hybrid system evaluation; Performance, power, efficiency, and cost analysis; HPC, data center, and cloud workloads and benchmarks; System, workload, and workflow configuration and optimization
The 17th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning - 3 June, Lyon, Papers due 31 Jan
iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms.
The 14th Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPU (GPGPU 2022) - 2 or 3 Apr, Virtual or Seoul, Papers due 8 Feb
From the call:
Massively parallel (GPUs and other data-parallel accelerators) devices are delivering more and more computing powers required by modern society. With the growing popularity of massively parallel devices, users demand better performance, programmability, reliability, and security. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss massively parallel applications, environments, platforms, and architectures, as well as infrastructures that facilitate related research. This year, we are no longer limited to GPU applications and architectures. We welcome research related to any highly parallel computing accelerators and devices. Authors are invited to submit original research papers in the general area of massively parallel computing and architectures.
The 5th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'22) - 5 April, Rennes, France (hybrid), Papers due 11 Feb
Co-located with EuroSys 2022, this workshop aims to "discuss the latest research ideas and results on edge systems, analytics and networking, especially those related to novel and emerging technologies and use cases."
25th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2022) - 3 June, Lyon, Papers due 13 Feb
JSSPP welcomes both regular papers as well as descriptions of Open Scheduling Problems (OSP) in large scale scheduling (see below). Lack of real-world data often substantially hampers the ability of the research community to engage with scheduling problems in a way that has real world impact. Our goal in the OSP venue is to build a bridge between the production and research worlds, in order to facilitate direct collaborations and impact
HPC-IODC: HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop - 29 May - 2 June, papers due 24 Feb
This workshop held with ISC is looking for papers covering "all aspects of data centre I/O", including:
Application workflows
User productivity and costs
Dealing with heterogeneous storage
Data management aspects
Archiving and long term data management
State-of-the-practice (e.g., using or optimising a storage system for data centre workloads)
Research that tackles data centre I/O challenges
Cloud/Edge storage aspects
The argument in favour of using unsigned ints by default. Relatedly, gotchas from the "usual arithmetic conversions" in C/C++.
The simplest web server in bash, with while + nc. Relatedly, carbon.now.sh for making pretty images of short snippets of source code.
GitHub actions will now suggest possible workflows when you start to create a new workflow.
Five options for creating backups of git repositories.
iOS shortcuts for disabling twitter (or other time-wasting apps) before a certain time or unless you've done a certain amount of something else.
A key to being a good decision maker is having a good sense of the likely accuracy of your assumptions. How confident are you in your answers to true/false questions?
An immutable, tamperproof, cryptographically secure, centralized database.
I needed this a few weeks ago, when I had to pass a variable to an awk script (I just did, ok?) - passing runtime data to awk.
Another fast and nerdy shell prompt - starship.
Embedded and HPC development have in common the resource-limited need for parsimony - in embedded because the resources are small, in HPC because the need for resources is large. Trice is a small tracing library for embedded software.
A SQL playground in the browser based on SQLite - SQLime.
Another random one-on-one question generator.
Tuning vector addition and GEMM matrix-matrix multiplication in webassembly.
Fast hash tables for (single-node) parallel programming.
Simultaneously learn DMARC and test your own SPF/DKIM/DMARC setups with the "Learn and Test DMARC" console. If none of those acronyms mean anything to you, you have made better decisions in life and email hosting than I have; count yourself lucky and move on.
Whether you support work in the digital humanities or microscopy or fluid simulations, being able to rapidly and interactively shows user huge images is valuable. Here's how the Rijkmuseum has optimized large full-screen images.
CryptoLyzer - a cryptographic settings analyzer for TLS, SSH, and HTTP.
Edge computing, including support in tools like fly.io or cloudflare workers, is going to be interesting for large-scale data collection for some kinds of research projects. If you're interested in playing with fly.io (they're doing interesting work with networking, firecracker…), they now have 3GB of free storage and even Postgres DBs.
Like cryptography or linear algebra libraries, licenses and other legal documents are not a roll-your-own kind of deal. However one might feel about it, there are real, legally sound "open source for non-commercial purpose" licenses out there - don't try to cobble together a dual-license MIT, but not for commercial use situation, it doesn't work.
If you're going to implement a work queue in a database, first, you shouldn't. Second, you should know about SKIP LOCKED.
University of Oxford - Senior Data Scientist/Research Data Manager, Oxford UK
Accountabilities will include working jointly with researchers to define projects, capture data requirements, manage, transform and curate the electronic health record in readiness for large scale data analytics and modelling. In addition, the post-holder will generate written documentation such as reports to funders and internal policies/guidance documents. The postholder will work closely with a wider team of programmers, clinicians, clinical researchers and administrators in multiple departments within the Medical Sciences Division. You will have an undergraduate qualification or equivalent in a scientific or health-related field; experience in data management e.g. data processing, data cleaning, data manipulation and a high level of attention to detail in order to deal with and process large complex datasets. As the team expands, the post holder will provide guidance to other members of the research group including research assistants, PhD students, and/or project volunteers and users of the QResearch database.
Senior Software Engineer, Graph Sampler - RAPIDS - NVIDIA, Austin TX or various remote USA
NVIDIA is looking for a self-motivated software engineer with strong Graph and Graph Neural Network (GNN) application and development experience to join NVIDIA's RAPIDS cuGraph team. RAPIDS is the open-source suite of libraries for GPU-accelerated data science, with cuGraph being the library for accelerated large scale graph analysis. RAPIDS cuGraph is growing support for GNN training through better support for substantial graph and faster sampling. As graph sizes grow, sampling can consume a significant portion of the GNN training time. We are looking for an engineer to help us both expand the list of sampling techniques and improve performance across all size graphs. RAPIDS supports customers and partners ranging from individual data scientists to the world's largest supercomputers and Fortune 500 companies. As a member of RAPIDS cuGraph team, you will help develop new algorithms, heuristics, and techniques for solving complex graph problems faster. Join our diverse team to support NVIDIA's vision by developing Python code for addressing the toughest problems in graph analysis and graph neural networks
Data Services Manager - Queen's University, Kingston ON CA
The Data Services Manager is responsible for the overall planning, delivery, monitoring and performance management of the Centre for Advanced Computing (CAC)'s data services strategies and solutions. This position provides strategic guidance to the CAC leadership team and University research community on data management policy and plan design, development and implementation, and advises the Director, Research Enablement team, and Systems team in making strategic decisions for research data (public, PHI, PII, IP) and non-research data (IP, PII, and KPI metrics). This includes the ingestion, creation, visualization, analysis, storage, backup, transfer, and sharing of data in compliance with the University's research data policy. The Data Services Manager plans, coordinates, analyzes and adapts business processes and procedures to advance Data Management practices in partnership with key business areas, and oversees execution for data management related projects, special initiatives and activities managed within the CAC.
Software Engineer - Experienced - Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque NM USA
Do you enjoy working with others to design solutions to challenging technical problems, and then making those solutions a reality? We are seeking an experienced software project leader to lead software engineering teams and work closely with other partners to develop software engineering solutions that support a wide array of computational science and engineering (CSE) efforts. This position offers the opportunity to tackle important problems that meet the requirements of a wide variety of customers across CSE and provide general and robust software solutions. Lead various planning, standup team meetings, demos, and retrospectives, per multiple projects' software development lifecycle processes, then coordinate design, development, and deployment of software. Lead teams to develop efficient and robust software solutions to technical problems that can be easily maintained by future engineers
Software Development Manager - Anyon Systems, Vancouver BC or Montreal QC or Toronto ON CA
Anyon Systems is a quantum computing company . The company's headquarter is in Montreal, QC and we have satellite locations in Toronto and Waterloo, ON as well as Vancouver, BC. We work at the cutting edge of technology to develop and commercialize superconducting quantum computers. We deliver near term superconducting quantum computing platforms including the quantum computing hardware as well as software stack to early adopters such as High Performance Computing (HPC) centers, government agencies and enterprise research labs. You will be leading our Infrastructure Software Team, a team of engineers and scientists dedicated to the develop the software infrastructure that allows users to use our quantum computer. Your primary focus is building a world-class team (hiring and coaching), and putting them in the best position to succeed. You must also efficiently coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.
Machine learning / High Performance Compute Program Manager - AMD, Markham ON CA
As program manager in AMD's machine learning software engineering team, you will drive end-to-end delivery of leading-edge technology in high performance GPU-accelerated compute and machine learning for the Radeon Open Compute software and Radeon Adrenalin Software stacks. You will learn about how the power of open-source software can be applied to tackle real-world problems. You will interact with product management, customers, software and hardware engineering teams, quality assurance and operations in a new and growing team.
Project Manager, Data, AI and DevOps - AstraZeneca, Cambridge UK
The Scientific Computing Platform (SCP) is AstraZeneca's state-of-the-art computing environment to pursue todays and tomorrows in-silico challenges. It strongly focuses on a platform concept, building capabilities and services around central building blocks. At its heart it uses 3 compute environments, a classical InfiniBand/Slurm HPC cluster, an OpenStack private cloud as well as various public cloud for elasticity and scale. To exploit these resource pools most optimally, the SCP is deploying strong DevOps tooling and cloud native technologies. It seeks to adjust and adapt according to changing requirements and follow the science.
Program Manager Data Strategy - Sanofi, Toronto ON CA or Cambridge MA USA
The Program Manager Data Strategy is an essential role in delivering on the various programs required to manage the enterprise data program and enable the data strategy. The Program Manager Data Strategy role includes components of strategy (understanding and translation of the Data Organization vision and priorities into results), operating model design (development and implementation of an operating model to deliver on product development, programs and service delivery), program management (leading highly important projects in white spaces as well as providing oversight for selected program areas), support delivery of quality work and leading flexible data pods (consultative groups responsible for the temporary support for major programs). Facilitate, manage and implement the design of a new operating model for data. Leads pods acting as in-house consulting capability, responsible for realignment and support of major program. Developing strategic documents and articulating the value associated with data products developed within the AI factory.
CAMEO Project Manager, UCD School of CS - University College Dublin, Dublin IE
University College Dublin has secured funding under the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment's (DETE) Disruptive Technology Innovation Fund (DTIF) to establish a new Earth Observation platform designed for non-specialist users. The successful candidate will report to the Lead PI (Prof Michela Bertolotto) at UCD and the Programme Steering Committee, providing leadership in all aspects of financial planning, administration, and management of the project. The Project Manager will be a key member of the management team and support the PIs in adhering to the work-plan, its associated work packages, tasks, deliverables, and milestones over the three years of the programme. They will oversee R&D activities, identify new collaborative research and future business development opportunities with partners, coordinate research personnel and stakeholders, and review/update the research work-plan and risk register as appropriate.
Project Manager – Machine Learning Department – School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA USA
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science is searching for a full-time Program Manager! In this role, you will be responsible for the full range of Project Management activities for multiple projects including handling Project Work Statements, Work Plans, and other customer contract documents; preparing special reports with information gathered from a variety of internal and external sources; identifying and recommending solutions to variances; and working with other departments and external partners to ensure a coordinated effort. Headquartered at Carnegie Mellon University, the Delphi research group was founded in 2012 to advance the theory and practice of epidemic forecasting. Our long-term mission, simply put, is to make epidemic forecasting as widely accepted and useful as weather forecasting is today. Delphi is a team of some 40 data scientists and software engineers, with projects spanning various collaborations in academia, government, tech, and healthcare. We are looking for a dedicated project manager to coordinate between and lead the group's continually diverse set of ongoing projects and assist the Delphi leadership team in translating strategy into concrete deliverables.
Computational Biology Lead - Esya Ltd, London UK
This role is an exciting opportunity for a high performing candidate with extensive multi-omics experience to join a ground-breaking start-up in London and make a significant impact on the company's development as they go into a rapid growth phase. You will lead the development of Esya's neuromultiomics platform underlying our diagnostics products, developing cutting edge solutions at the intersection of machine learning, genetic sequencing technology, biological data, and distributed systems. These contributions will drive our mission to diagnose neurocognitive impairments at its most actionable and early stages. As part of an interdisciplinary R&D effort, you will help us recruit and build a team of computational biologists, machine learning scientists and software engineers.
Principal Scientist Manager - Microsoft, Richmond WA USA
We are the Gray Systems Lab (GSL), the applied research group for Microsoft Azure Data. We tackle research problems in the areas of databases, big data, cloud, systems-for-ML, and ML-for-systems. Our mission is to advance the Microsoft Azure Data organization, and we do so in three ways: (i) innovating within Microsoft products and services (ii) publishing in top-tier conferences and journals, and (iii) actively contributing to open-source projects. As a manager in GSL, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of researchers, research engineers, and data scientists to advance state-of-the-art in the areas of databases, systems, and machine learning. By design, GSL looks ahead of where the current product roadmap is, exploring how new workloads, hardware, industry trends, or research breakthroughs could affect our products. This creates a broad charter around innovation that provides lots of freedom in problem selection. As a manager in GSL, you have an important role in guiding the problem selection and coordinate the relationship between GSL and our partner product teams. Prior experience in performing research work or technical innovation in industrial settings will serve you well in this role.


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Stock It is passionate about Renewable products and has partnered with Australia's leading packaging manufacturer's to bring the best products to the Sunshine Coast. The main manufacturers are BioPak and Greenmark in the Biodegradable space. Even with all our passion, the technology hasn't met up with demand with some of the products Stock It supply. We refer to these products as "LandFill" products just to remind everyone that these products will not compost in a practical timeframe when compared to the other compostable products.
Stock It was purchased from the previous owners who operated a warehouse in Eumundi in August 2016 by the Thomas family. A few key team members were brought on board from day 0 as David knew from the outset this business was going to quickly outgrow his family. David Thomas brings a technology background to the business and has built a custom platform which administrates the day to day operations of Stock It including the customer ordering portal and all the inventory management.
Stock It is a family owned and operated business on the Sunshine Coast in South East QLD Australia. Stock It currently operates a "Just in Time" warehouse in Coolum Beach which provides product storage and easy access to the whole Sunshine Coast.
Over the last six years, under previous ownership Stock It has focused on servicing the greater Eumundi area, specialising in the Compostible clientele in the Eumundi Markets and the surrounding cafe's. You will find the Stock It team deliverying products early every wednesday and saturday at these markets with plans to expand into more markets in the coming months.
Stock It has relocated into a large warehouse in the Coolum Industrial estate. A larger warehouse space has provided many efficients in picking orders, and give additional buying power so that we can carry more products and provide better rates to our clientele.
Beyond this this website is the next phase of focus. We will be releasing a range of products for online ordering with our partner BioPak. This will allow cafe's and other retailers across Australia to easily make Renewable and potentially Brandable product selections. The Sunshine Coast is up for grabs and Stock It is going to hit the market in a large way in the next 12 months. Ambitious sales targets and resourcing are all in the pipe line and Stock It will be the Cafe Packaging Supplier of choice for all Cafe's on the Sunshine Coast.


Query : Mera job nhi lg rha hai. Mai bahut pareshan hu.
1. Aquarius ascendant and lord Saturn is retrograde, placed in the house of ambitions. Indicating that although you have great ambitions, but due to mistakes etc. you are not able to do it properly. Ascendant lord is exchanging aspect with Jupiter and Sun. Moon is in the ascendant, which is in the influence by Saturn. Hidden enemies are disturbing you.
2. Dasha wise time of Job opportunity is running. Refresh your skills, chances of income may start after a month or so. Your lord of gains and finance is totally combust (AST). That's why not getting proper results. But results will be supported by this combust Jupiter, because is giving strength to the house of gains.
Brihaspati Pooja on Thursdays and Shani ko tel on Saturdays or Hanuman chalisa on regular basis.


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PAKISTAN : Surviving a violent year
The period under review has been bad for media in Pakistan. Between May 2014 and April 2015, the media in the country continued to face pressures from a variety of sources in line with the patterns from the preceding two years: from both State and non-State sources. However, media houses and media practitioners reported escalating […]
Front Page 100 journalists and media workers killed in Pakistan, Journalists face attacks, media in Pakistan, Murder of Wali Khan Babar, Pakistan surviving a violent year
Unequal responses
Freedom of Expression, Front Page
The aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo Paris attack reignited the debate around freedom of expression. Numerous conversations ensued on the horror of the attack, the condemnations it elicited, the debate on the motives of the attackers and the justifications offered and repulsed. However, while no degree of coverage provided to such atrocities can suffice when […]
Freedom of Expression, Front Page Abduction, Democracy, Freedom of Expression, harassment, Islamophobia, Journalists, media in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders, World Press Freedom
Media and the resilient truth
THE current predicament of two TV personalities in the US underscores how the media as well as perceptions of it are changing among many viewers — even among the media's own practitioners. Prime time TV anchor Brian Williams is currently serving out a six-month suspension from NBC for wrongly claiming he was in a helicopter […]
Media Ethics Argentine forces, Ethical Media, Journalistic values, Journalists in Pakistan, Lal Masjid, mainstream media, media in Pakistan, TV personalities
Media asked to refrain from carrying 'provocative' news
Broadcasting, Print Media, Television
Karachi: Sindh information secretary Dr Zulfiqar Ali Shalwani on Thursday urged the print and electronic media to refrain from printing, publishing or broadcasting items which could provoke hatred or cause conflicts. Presiding over a meeting of the media sub-committee of the Provincial Action Plan, the secretary said it was the responsibility of all print and […]
Broadcasting, Print Media, Television Electronic Media, Information secretary, media in Pakistan, Print Media
Rise to your responsibility
When we look at what is wrong in Pakistan today, we see multiple manifestations of failure – symptoms of a failing or failed state: insurgency and military conflict, unchecked terrorist attacks, killings and abductions of civilians, unemployment, hopelessness, desperation, suicides, and a shocking absence of the writ of government. The list is longer still. But […]
Media Ethics Braodcasting, cable TV, Ethical Media, media in Pakistan, Satellite
Inspection of PBA office: CCP explains action
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), in exercise of its powers under Section 34 of the Competition Act, 2010, yesterday, carried out an inspection of the premises of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) located in Karachi. CCP decided to conduct the inspection after evaluating prima facie documentary evidence, including rules and regulations of PBA, suggesting that […]
Broadcasting Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), media in Pakistan, Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), Press freedom
CCP raids PBA office, confiscates record
Islamabad: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Tuesday raided the office of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) located at Karachi and confiscated relevant record to investigate alleged cartelization among media houses. Sources told Business Recorder here on Tuesday that a team of 6 to 7 officials of the CCP from Islamabad reached Karachi to conduct […]
Freedom of Expression Attack on media, Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), Freedom of Expression, media in Pakistan, Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA)
PBA condemns CCP action
Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) strongly condemned the arbitrary action taken by Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) against PBA Tuesday in Karachi. The CCP officials entered the premises of PBA Secretariat and took away all the important original record/documents without assigning any reasonable grounds or by giving any prior information/warning. This action of the government is […]
Broadcasting Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), Freedom of Expression, media in Pakistan, Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), Pakistan government
Black out coverage of terrorists, NA body tells media
Front Page, Media Ethics
ISLAMABAD: "Just as the story of a banned group claiming a bomb blast was aired, I was approached by security personnel and scrutinised thoroughly," Jehangir Baloch, a correspondent working in Turbat, Balochistan, recounts. "After examining my phone records, family history and other details, I was able to assure security personnel that I would not be […]
Front Page, Media Ethics Balochistan, CPNE, Ethics in media, media in Pakistan, terrorism
Journalists under siege from threats, killings
LONDON: In Pakistan, journalists live under the constant threat of killings, harassment and other violence from all sides, including intelligence services, political parties and armed groups, Amnesty International said in a new report issued on Tuesday. The report –A bullet has been chosen for you – said that attacks on journalists in Pakistan, describes how […]
Freedom of Expression Abuses against media workers, Amnesty International, Democratic rule, Human Rights, Journalists under siege, media in Pakistan
Call for media houses collaboration to fend off threats
KARACHI: "You don't kill a story if you Kill a journalist," said multimedia journalist and trainer Terry Anzur during a session at The Second Floor on Thursday. The session titled 'strengthening broadcast journalism' revolved around experiences and expressions of two journalists currently on a training tour organised by the US state department. Anzur with over […]
Freedom of Expression broadcast journalism, Cable News Network, IRE, Media houses collaboration, media in Pakistan, Saher Baloch, YouTube
Make your own media: 3G or not, an alternative media is still a distant dream
KARACHI: Every day, a war rages on television screens and newspaper pages. This war is not of words; rather it is the constant struggle for higher ratings and more profits between different media houses. A panel comprising journalists, media managers and a start-up guru concluded that the mainstream media has consistently failed to fulfill its […]
New Media 3G and 4G technology, Make your own media, media in Pakistan
Media and its maladies
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for the benefit of the nation. But the media itself has become the national enigma. At the same time, other major institutions are faltering and seem […]
General News Amnesty International, Attack on Hamid Mir, Curb freedom, Freedom of Media, HRCP, Imran Khan, Jang/Geo Group, Journalists in Pakistan, media in Pakistan, World Press Freedom Day
Attack in Karachi
The attack on TV talk show host Hamid Mir is, at root, about one man's fight for life, but it also raises several questions that haunt journalists. While the individual case of Hamid Mir might be settled by the judicial commission, and the perpetrators of the attack might be arrested, there will still remain the […]
Freedom of Expression Attack on Hamid Mir, Freedom of Expression, Impunity, ISI, media in Pakistan, Violence against journalists


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Lyon's Thiago Mendes placed on transfer list as Jean Lucas closes in on Monaco move
Lyon-based outlet Le Progrès report today that, with Brazilian midfielder Jean Lucas set to leave Lyon for Monaco, Thiago Mendes has also been placed on the club's transfer list.
Les Gones director Juninho had on Sunday confirmed Jean Lucas' departure, with the former Flamengo man's transfer fee set to be in the region of €11m. The 23-year-old's compatriot is also set to leave the club – negotiations for a move to Flamengo are currently stalling, but there is little doubt that Mendes is on the transfer list.
The Brazilian had been signed for €22m in 2019, having signed a four-year contract with Les Gones. Mendes had been one of the key players in Rudi Garcia's Lyon side, but is now no longer in Peter Bosz's plans for the team.


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About Hari Hasanah
Hari Hasanah 2017
Hari Hasanah
Thank you for your Hari Hasanah initiatives. Let's continue to #DoGoodTogether
Hasanah [ha-sa-nah] means 'goodness' in Arabic
On 3 September 2017, we celebrated the inaugural Hari Hasanah where a wide network of volunteers, partner organisations and staff of the Khazanah family contributed their time and effort to do good deeds for the benefit of others.
Let's #DoGoodTogether #BerbudiBersama this September 2018
Embracing Heritage and Encouraging Fun in the Pearl of the Orient
As one of Malaysia's most recognised UNESCO World Heritage sites, Penangites have a lot to be proud of when it comes to the state's history, heritage and culture. Thus, it is important that this pride is felt not just by the elder generation but also new blood in the state. It is with this realisation […]
Supporting the Sustainable Activities of Underprivileged Kids
According to a 2014 report by Khazanah Research Institute, while Malaysia's overall poverty rate has fallen over time, the country still sees 0.6% of its population unable to fulfil basic needs. This group of Malaysians also do not have access to basic amenities such as electricity, water and medical care. "Poverty eradication is not just […]
Encouraging Good Hygiene and Grooming among Orang Asli Children
Maintaining personal hygiene is necessary either for personal confidence or for health. The simple act of washing hands before eating and after using the toilet will help to fight off germs. While personal hygiene and grooming is something that we do on a daily basis, but for some, there is still a lack of education […]
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To read more on the #dogood work done by Yayasan Hasanah and its partners towards building a better Malaysia, please visit www.yayasanhasanah.org.
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