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Razor – Cycle of Contempt
Nobody likes a bad-tempered pub brawler, at least when you're sitting in that pub yourself.
But as a screamer behind the microphone of a Thrash Metal band, it's a completely different story; well, you guessed it: it's about Canada's demolition squad RAZOR.
We had to wait a whole 25 years for the new album, and it was worth it; but so worth it.
The most important new feature: there is none! What a tasty message in these crazy times.
A small, iconic intro is followed by the first grenade with "Flames of Hatred", eleven more of similar calibre follow, whereby especially "First-Rate Hate" stands out to me in a particularly positive way.
Due to the largely reverb-free production, Bob Reid's piss-poor vocals sound as direct as if he were speaking to you personally, one last time before you feel the dull taste of your own blood in your inner facial area.
This is Razor we're talking about, so it's perfectly fine for the drumming to be at the opposite end of Mike Portnoy on any scale, and sometimes a bit reminiscent of a hysterical metronome. Fits like head on a bucket!
The guitars are blaring at their best, the riffs are sawing. And whoever finds a sequence of notes a bit arbitrary now and then is probably called Heino by his only name.
The guitar solos are a bit unspectacular, but fitting; and honestly, there's so much action in the songs that less is probably really more here.
Cover old school, lyrics, well you guessed it, extremely unpleasant, and that at its best. Revenge, beatings, murder and all that.
It's the overall work of art that inspires. Brutal, aggressive, rushed, neck-breaking, direct and absolutely honest. What more do you want?!?!
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Seven Sisters – Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt. 1
Dissonance Productions
Ah, so many albums are released these days, and I have to admit that without the fantastic Irishman Máirtín Mac Cormac, I probably wouldn't have taken any notice of this English band. Which would have been an indescribable loss for the rest of my life, as I have now realised.
The album begins with a not-too-long, inviting intro. Majestic and epic, it makes you look forward to more.
"Beyond the Black Stars" shines with many successful tempo changes and a progressive atmosphere, reminding me a little bit of the revered Secrecy from Bremen.
And then it really gets going: "The Artifice" is the most beautiful, most graceful song – try to believe me! – since Warlord's "Lost and Lonely Days". What masters of their musical craft!
My jaw drops, my heart glows, I listen to this album almost every day.
And I swear to you, the further material doesn't let up! Every single song is an anthem, filled with epic, drama and melancholy, carried by Kyle McNeill's crystal clear, pleasant high voice.
It hardly needs to be mentioned that every musician in the band has a grandiose command of his instrument, but at no point does a note appear that is not appropriate to the song.
The production is clear and powerful – contemporary, not modern; and at this point the cosy blue SciFi cover artwork should not go unmentioned!
The two older band albums will be my next purchase; but above all I rejoice because this album title here includes a "Pt. 1". So more is on the way!
If only life could always be as beautiful as during these forty minutes of listening pleasure!
The Troops Of Doom – Antichrist Reborn
Alma Mater Records
When you play Sepultura at home, it has to bang and crash, and the year on the cover must not be bigger than 1989?
Then this is your album!!!
The fantastically mature Jairo "Tormentor" Guedz (who already plucked the strings on the first two Sepultura vinyls) and his men Alexandre Oliveira (dr), Marcelo Vasco (g) and Alex Kafer (voc + bg) throw such a massive longplayer on the plate after two benign EPs that every inclined fan's palate drips with joy.
The ensemble has named itself after a song from "Morbid Visions" and – even better – equipped the debut album with artwork inspired by "Bestial Devastation".
A little introduction … ehhh, introduces the first song "Dethroned Messiah", and seconds later, dear friends, the manifested purgatory hunts through the auditory canals, immediately sweeps away heart and soul. This is how to hack, this is how to bang your neck and shake your hair, everything is right here in terms of speed and hardness.
The pressed vocals in the style of old Sep's proclaim blasphemous messages, everything fits perfectly.
The fact that Peter Tägtgren conjures up a pleasantly full and natural sound here, in which real thrashing drums meet fat Slayer guitars, confirms his claim that the often clinical-sounding products from his house are not due to him, but to the wishes of the bands or even their labels.
"Grief" is a pleasant little instrumental, but – gosh darn it!!! – it continues with the steam hammer "Pray into the Abyss".
Also noticeable is the high level of variety in the songwriting, and that at this tempo and level of heaviness, as well as the unobtrusive, beautiful drama drawing melodic guitar, which often so pleasantly darkens the mood. If you listen carefully, you will recognise the voice of Joao Gordo of the wonderful Ratos de Porao in the 9th song "A Queda".
The album is enriched by two cover versions: "Necromancer" by Sepultura and "The Usurper" by Celtic Frost.
Tormentor: good to have you back!
Boarhammer – I: Cutting Woods for Magickal Purposes
March 14, 2022 March 14, 2022 Merula Turdus
Demotape / Eigenproduktion
The dark duo Boarhammer have released a cassette that makes me jump for joy. Black metal in its purest form is on the programme; it rattles and thumps properly, which is to be understood as a compliment throughout.
The band thankfully avoids any sound polishing, and behind the rough shell appear enchanting guitar runs and beautifully headbanging rhythms.
The vocals don't really sound like that, but they remind me of Tschösi on the two legendary first Messiah albums.
In general, there is a wonderful old school feeling here; the music sounds as if you had ordered a Black Metal cassette from a good but unknown band in 1996, and not in Scandinavia, but rather in Eastern Europe or something.
Everything about these wonderful thirty minutes sounds authentic, dark, serious and filled with glowing metallic heart and soul.
The attitude is also a joy to listen to; in short, they don't want to have anything to do with racism, misogyny, sexism or fascism, for example.
The six interesting and high-quality original compositions are rounded off by an unusual, but great Mercyful Fate cover version.
Heart, what more do you want.
As of March 2022, there should still be a few tapes available, so shoo shoo to the bandcamp!
https://boarhammer.bandcamp.com/album/i-cutting-wood-for-magickal-purposes
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Scorpions – Rock Believer
March 14, 2022 Merula Turdus
For God's sake, what kind of cover un-artwork is that?!
Dear Scorps, this record will sell hundreds of thousands of copies, including downloads, it's the first official album in seven years and I'm sure you had a consultant, or even two, for this longed-for release.
And then a screaming woman with a bag or curtain over her head?
Granted, this is not the worst cover of your great career, but please do not take it as a compliment.
The compliments start right now, because everything else about this album is just great.
Every single song is a medium to good hit. The fact that there is no world hit rather confirms the very high average of this after all world class album.
Minus said ballads and global hits, "Rock Believer" is most reminiscent of "Love at the first Sting" and even "Black Out", but with an even warmer rock sound.
After the atmospheric rocker "Gas in the Tank" and its successor "Roots in my Boots", more melancholic songs like "Knock em Dead" or "Call of the Wild" follow, alternating with heartwarming, optimistic rockers like the title song and probably the biggest banger of the album, "Peacemaker". And yes, the last song is a ballad. It's called "When you know (Where you come from)" and is definitely not on any hit parade in the world.
Admirable.
The album is also available as a limited double CD with studio bonus tracks. You can have it, but the listening pleasure won't be a bit worse without it.
Finally, a personal apology.
Scorps, after the rise of Death Metal, and even more so after the quasi-elitist Black Metal captured me in the mid-1990s, I joined the chorus that mocked and verbally tore you apart, I made fun of your perceived stale image and Klaus' accent. As if Nana Mouskouri's Greek accent and Mireille Mathieu's French accent weren't just the incentive to buy for millions of fans in the German-speaking world.
But I never wanted to go with the flow. But well, a few years ago I remembered all those moments in the 1980s when the band "Eisenherz" from Frankfurt (Oder) played "Big City Nights" live on the beach at Lake Helene and I went into the splits in a fishnet shirt and skinny jeans and headbanged, playing air guitar as hard as I could.
Scorpions, I love you. Forever.
Arcane Sun – Arcane Sun
February 3, 2022 Merula Turdus
Arane Sun – Arcane Sun
Sentinel Records
Epic Death / Doom Metal
Well, this is not really a new release, but an adequate appreciation of this criminally underrated album was sorely needed, and since Brian Taube's enterprising label Sentinel Records did a great job, giving the debut album of the Dublin metal pioneers a new coverartwork, a bonus track and a much better sound, and since many younger metalheads don't know the long out-of-print album anyway, I'll just classify it as "new".
The consistently high-class to excellent song material impresses with great variety and progressive structures, but everything is always headbanger-friendly and never over-head.
In the first song "Canto I (The Search)" you think you can still recognise friendly, somewhat chummy death metal with pleasant melodies, but with the following "I Was Alive Then …" the picture changes to great epicness and fate-laden drama. And by the way, you have hardly ever heard such an interestingly staged song transition or beginning before (or since).
"Sundrenched" starts as a heavy death metal neckbreaker before turning into melody and melancholy.
Besides the outstanding guitar work of Mr. Fergal Flannery, Mark Higgins' superb drumming, which sounds much more powerful in the new mastering, must also be emphasised.
Piano passages and sounds of nature alternate, as do sustained doom, hefty death and graceful epic metal.
And towering above it all is the unmistakable voice of Paul Kearns, who several years later helped the legendary Solstice to the best sung record of their career.
"Promised (So Many Years Have Passed)", the regular closing track of the album, once again expresses the enormous potential of the Irish, who unfortunately disbanded after a more or less unreleased second album due to lack of support.
The bonus track from the band's (or Paul's) unloved album follow-up closes this wonderful, boundary-breaking CD.
Paul Kearns and Fergal Flannery, please do it again!!!!
Fornhem – Stämman Från Berget
Trollmusic
Viking / Black Metal
Raw sound and great melodies not only make a nice pair, but also a pleasant contrast to War Metal on the one hand and Symphonic Wacken Metal on the other.
The best recent example is Fornhem from Norrköping, whose first album "Ett fjärran kall" was already inspiring, but the present second album immediately entered the first league of my heart.
The opener "Den Längsta Dagen" begins with crackling fire and gloomy laughter, a magnificent piece of Viking Metal in its powerful stomping midtempo form.
The guitar theme, as simple as it is utterly moving, is constantly developed. Very slowly, bit by bit more and more dramatic and sophisticated, it leads into the raging fast middle part of the song.
Supported by pumping drums, a croaking vocal and a raw, yet transparent and all the more powerful sound, this song, this album goes deep under the skin.
This marvel lasts eleven minutes before it opens the gates to the fast neckbreaker "Uþarba spa", where the great drum work stands out once again.
Shimmering guitars and melodic bass guitar accents announce "Förlist", a ten-minute repetitive-meditative epic of a special kind. Just this repititive element almost brings me to ecstasy, similar to "Hvis lyset tar oss".
The following title song then sets off again with a tempo that only leaves me with a broad feel-good smile on my face. Boy, when their dragon boat goes off like that, they overtake the fiercest north wind without batting an eyelid!
"Untergang" is the name of the final work on this album, a gripping piece of music, an instrumental, of dense, tension-filled drama, especially striking here the eerie, ominous drums of doom.
Of course for Trollmusic, the music is packaged in an appealing exterior, and the great sound was conjured perfectly by the master Devo Andersson.
There would be so much more to tell about this album, but you know what Frank Zappe said: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Which is why I'm off to a quick hour of polka at the Kreiskulturhaus, and you can get your hands on this album in the meantime.
Count Raven – The Sixth Storm
I Hate
Heavy Doom Metal
To call singer Dan Fondelius an Ozzy plagiarism is just as inappropriate as denying any comparisons to the gloomy Birminghamers.
Count Raven sound independent and, by the way, absolutely great, but listening to their new (sixth) album, you can't help thinking about the subject.
If at all compare, then really with the first five Black Sabbath albums, or not even rather with the first three Ozzy albums? Shame on anyone who treats these three works disparagingly compared to the mother band.
Well then, the new album starts with grandiose doom metal of the heavy metal rocking kind – that the band plays their doom far away from the extremes of funeral and death doom should be known.
Hearty, gripping HEAVY riffs meet coherent choruses, and all this is excellently packed into a crushing sound, which doesn't sound the least bit modern and yet so powerful and clear.
In the first part, to return to the opening theme, rather Black Sabbath, until the fourth, unusual and untypical song "Heaven's Door" leaves the inclined listener quite touched.
From then on, if I may say so, it becomes even more Ozzy in the sense of his early solo albums.
On the one hand, it's more likely to be a hit and more chorus-oriented.
But especially those who have lived through long, difficult and bad times in their lives in an unhealthy relationship with substances, see the early Ozzy records in a completely different perspective than the happy average person does.
That balance, that pairing of deeply tragic, sad, bitter parts with the little smile on top. Concerned people know what I mean.
So in this way dramatish and melancholic the song material turns a little and finds a brilliant climax in the poignant "Baltic Storm", for which alone I would buy the record.
The long and epic "Oden" is followed by the last song "Goodbye", and leaves the writer of these lines speechless, with salty water in the corners of her eyes.
Memories are awakened, song titles like "Changes", "So Tired", but above all "Alone You Breathe" (Savatage) force themselves upon you.
Fluisteraars – Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking
Eisenwald
Opinions were divided about the previous album "Bloem" – but I loved it before I had even heard the first note. A Black Metal record with a flower meadow on the cover, that's what I always wanted!
Opinions will also differ on "Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking" again, but maybe not on the warm, light-filled atmosphere of the predecessor, but on the really exuberant joy of experimentation of their newborn.
Shall we talk about it?
After a few short drum beats, "Het overvleugelen der meute" begins with a furious tempo, shimmering guitars with a nice amount of reverb and full of heartrending, melancholic drama and immediate vocals from Bob Mollema, who, by the way, is jangling in exactly the right direction.
The piece changes tempos every now and then in just the right way, the last two minutes then consisting of more experimental sounds.
It's not that I wouldn't like the song without those two minutes – it's still fun to listen to and let yourself fall into it.
"Brand woedt in mijn graf" starts seamlessly afterwards and roughly follows in the footsteps of the first song, which is meant as a great compliment.
The third of three songs is the 20-minute "Verscheuring in de schemering", and here you would be doing the band an injustice if you regarded the experimental part of the song as an accessory – after all, it is an essential part of the song with all its surprising, not always (fortunately) easy to follow pans and changes, with its adventurous, spacey instrumentation and the spiritual mood. Which is also deeply enthusiastic in its black metal sector.
And while we're talking about enthusiasm – I especially like the biting bass in the pleasantly transparent, differentiated overall sound, the guitars are noble-black, the vocals matured and partly of the very finest really hysterical high screeching, the drums good and song-serving. Nice cover and booklet too!
P.S. If you always wanted to know how real experts transform a rock n roll riff with minimalistic variations into an epic black metal riff in no time, listen to "Verscheuring in de schemering" from 12:45 min. on.


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Fly the friendly skies with Aussie indie-rock legends Dappled Cities and their "I Need To Catch a Flight Tonight" playlist.
Flying The Friendly Skies with Dappled Cities
You'd have to go all the way back to 1997, a time when Blur's Song 2 and Chumbawumba's Tubthumping were both vying top spot in the Hottest 100 (beaten by The Whitlams, with Smashmouth at #11) to witness the very first moments of Dappled Cities Fly's conception. Since then, they've had plenty of Triple J love of their own releasing five records and a swag of EPs and dropped the 'Fly' off their name but remained so at the same time. Now they're back in the form of a new single 'That Sound'. It was recorded in Byron Bay which somewhat explains the good-time vibes and mellow flavour of the thing and bodes well for the full length due later this year.
As well as lacing us with new music the guys were also nice enough to let us join them in the VIP executive flight lounge while they waited for their private jet to refuel and they hit us up with their "I Need To Catch a Flight Tonight" playlist aka "songs to listen to while you wait for your private jet"
Here's the scoop followed by the jams themselves and then a track by track breakdown -
If there's one feeling that I adore, it's that moment where you are sitting on the tarmac in your private jet, just chilling before you hit the skies. But what do I listen to when I'm feeling that glorious buzz? Try these tracks.
Subways – The Avalanches
Beautiful throwback to the 2001 record. Makes me feel like 16 years passed in a sample-laden minute.
Augustine – Blood Orange
New track, same vibe, awesome. As I've always said, once you're onto something good, stick it in your mouth like a gobstopper and keep sucking - the layers will eventually taste new enough.
Over Matter – Big Scary
Love what this suggests about the new record. I'm thinking Everything But the Girl meets a busking saxophonist.
Oblivion – The Seshen
Good. Very good. In fact, very nice too.
AFG – Sensible Soccers
Is that a good name or a bad one? Who cares - they clearly don't care about anything if this effortless music is any hint of what they are like.
Amerika – Liima
I don't know who these guys are but I think they are from Iceland maybe and anything from Iceland right now reminds me of the soccer. And that commentator's joy. Non-sensible soccers. Obviosuly this song makes them think of America. OR Amerika, wherever the hell that is.
Blackstar – David Bowie
How the hell did this guy save such awesome stuff for his swan songs!
When I See You Again – Canyons (Duke Dumont Remix)
What a lovely voice. Husky. Like a throaty boat. On a lake of honeysuckle.
Downtown – Majical Clouds
This is a good one to listen to as your private jet takes off and you look out over Botany Bay with that mix of "I'll miss you" and "I've never stayed at the Novotel: I wonder if it's all class or a bit shit".
To coincide with the new release, Dappled Cities have announced two shows: Northcote Social Club, Melbourne on Friday July 15 and Oxford Art Factory, Sydney on Saturday July 16. Tickets for which can be nabbed via the band's website.
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Turkey Shoots Down Syrian Jet
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 4:40PM ET / Published Mar. 23, 2014 9:31AM ET
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that his country's armed forces shot down a Syrian military jet that violated Turkish airspace. The incident happened in an area where the Syrian government has been at war with rebel groups over control of a border crossing. "Our response will be heavy if you violate our airspace," Erdogan told Syria. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war.
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WHY YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP BEFORE THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS THIS NOVEMBER
By Mark Naison, PhD.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010.
One of the most amazing things about Barack Obama's improbable run to the Presidency was the role of young people in energizing his campaign and persuading their skeptical elders that Obama was the best candidate in the field
I was one of those skeptics. So convinced was I that Barack Obama could never win a Presidential election that I supported an effort to draft Al Gore as the Democratic Presidential nominee and actually printed up stickers that said, Gore/Obama in 2008. My colleagues, most of them African American, were equally wary of an Obama nomination, fearful that it might bring a powerful undercurrent of white racism to the surface with a new intensity.
It was my students, and former students, most of them white and female, who convinced me, not only that Obama was the best candidate in the field, but that he could win, because he had inspired a wave of youthful idealism that I had not seen since the 60's. These young women didn't reach me primarily with their arguments, but with their passion and hard work. They were tireless in convincing their parents, classmates and neighbors to vote for Barack Obama, putting their friendships and family ties on the line to bring a great new day in the nation that would end the embarrassment of the Bush years and make America respected once again among the nations of the world.
This passion carried through the primaries and the general election, moving a mountain once thought unbridgeable in American politics and led to the election of our first Black president. I still remember the call I got from my former student Jenn Watts, who in her mid twenties was placed in charge of organizing Southern Indiana for the Obama campaign, telling me " Dr Naison, we are going to paint this red state blue" and didn't you know it, Indiana went for Obama by a small margin
Now, two years later, I wonder of that explosion of youth activism was a dream. With critical mid term elections coming up in November, what I get from the young people in my circle is indifference and apathy. Not one of my students or former students has sent a message to my email list urging them to vote in November. Not one has posted a message on Facebook pointing out the powerful issues at stake in the coming elections. Not one has handed me campaign literature, asked me to donate money to a candidate, or even brought the elections up as a subject worth discussing.
To me, given the issues at stake in the November election, this is both disturbing and astonishing. If young people voted for "Change" in 2008, what they are going to assure, by not voting in 2010, is complete Political Gridlock.
If Republicans win control of Congress in 2010, here is what it is likely to mean:
*No major investments in infrastructure repairs
*No national commitment to developing alternative energy sources or providing incentives to drivers, homeowners and businesses to become more energy efficient
*No construction of a high speed rail system comparable to those that exist in Europe and Asia
*An end to unemployment benefits for people experiencing long term joblessness
*No pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, even those who have been working and paying taxes for years
*No expansion of rights for gay workers and families
To put the issue more bluntly, the Obama administration, in its first two years, helped prevent a Depression, and created a health care plan which began to extend coverage to the nation's more than 45 million uninsured people. What it was not able to do was begin to modernize the nation's roads, rails and electrical grid, and make the investments in wind and solar energy necessary to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and retard Global Warming.
These are precisely the programs that are needed if our economy is going to be able to compete with other advanced nations and if we are going to be able to maintain our standard of living without putting intolerable pressure on the world's resources.
In short, what is at stake in November is precisely the issues that young people ought to be getting excited about, as it is THEIR futures that are going to be compromised if progressive infrastructure policies, environmental policies, immigration policies and human rights policies are not introduced
So my students and former students, it's time to get the fever for change back and make sure you vote in the November elections.
You still have a month left. The game isn't over
Get off your butts and get everyone you know to join you at the polls.
The future you save may be your own.
With thanks to New Black Man.
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NIU nursing student volunteer Adam Hassan checks Tom Schroeder's blood pressure while he plays pinochle with his friends at the clubhouse of Sycamore Golf Club on Monday, October 20, 2014. Sycamore has no space for a senior center so they share space at the golf club. The Sycamore park referedum is part of the Sycamore Park District's Vision 2020.


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One of the advantages of doing the work yourself is that you only have a single website to focus on. Sometimes, outside SEO agencies may be swamped with work from other clients. That means that they may not be able to get to your site as quickly as you would like. When you optimize your site, however, you can focus solely on it, which may help you get the work done more quickly. You also have complete control over the optimization strategies that are used.
Outsourcing your SEO, on the other hand, also has some benefits. For one thing, you have the advantage of working with experts who are intimately familiar with the most effective optimization strategies. As long as they don't have too many other clients, these companies can also usually get the work done more quickly than you could on your own.
* The cost to train your staff to handle SEO can be quite high. There are also usually equipment costs involved since you need to make sure that your office is well-equipped to handle the work. Outside SEO companies, on the other hand, already have the necessary staff and resources in place.
* SEO companies employ knowledgeable professionals who already have the training and expertise to effectively optimize websites.
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The product works really well and gives us a ton of storage. All of the management is done via the Azure portal and very rarely have we ever had the need to login directly to the controllers. I think the best part of this solution is the fact that you can easily setup backup and retention policies within the Azure interface. They're simple, intuitive, and easy to monitor once they've been set up.
I dislike that you have to have downtime in order to upgrade the firmware on the disks. I think you should be able to just pull the trigger, controller 0 does its upgrade, fails over, and then controller 1 does its upgrade. Currently, the process involves manually plugging your laptop into each controller, running some commands via Powershell, and sitting there for two hours while the upgrade happens. Not fun.
This is a solid solution that works really really well. The support team is phenomenal and knows the product really well.
We use the StorSimple to manage our in-house file shares that serve the business. We also use it to house another copy of our Veeam backup data so that we have a repository on our ExaGrid as well as a copy on our StorSimple.
"Cheapest solution for bulk storage that is auto-backed up to Cloud."
The price for 10s of TBs of data is extremely low.
The setup and startup is simple and straight-forward.
Backup and Restoration are done in just a few clicks with an existing Azure account.
Restoration can be rather slow from Cloud recovery.
Once a device is setup with an Azure subscription, it cannot be moved to another subscription.
MAC users have issues with folder navigation with file shares on the device - it takes a very long time to browse an unexplored folder for the first time.
The device has been rock-solid and a "no-brainer" decision when comparing to other disk-to-cloud backup solutions.
We needed a better and cheaper backup solution for large file shares - especially non-critical data.
What Hybrid Cloud Storage solution do you use?
The implementation of the 8600 was pretty straightforward and trouble free. Once set up, data transfer to cloud performed well. And generally would recommend.
but there are a few things lacking. One: 25TB limit on NFS shares. Not sure why this is in place, but it immediately invalidated the hardware for use in resolving a local storage issue. Two: You have to deploy a VM appliance to HOST a NFS share. Other products do this out of the gate. To get fault tolerance, you have to cluster the appliance in some fashion. Too many extra steps! Three: Dedupe and compression rates are not trackable via reporting features. StorSimple needs to expand reporting options quite a bit.
The amount of storage is amazing and this helps organize a lot of data. This is also a very cost effective program that can be used like onedrive but with far more options. Primarily my company would use this as document storage and so things could be organized.
It is difficult to transfer data once it has been added to azure storsimple. So, I would recommend having a backup of all the data used just to save you the hassle.
Mostly we use storsimple to have access to widely used company documents. By using storsimple it makes locating files and using them an easy convenience.
"good products good support "
we can easily setup the system by following the vendor tutorials. they prepared the tutorials with easy terms so anyone can understand the tutorials easily.
I feel there are charges is little bit high. I feel one flat yearly cost would be better.
i can blindly trust this. Try and enjoy it.
The hybrid cloud makes our system for more storage and easy across multiple locations.
It is one of the best storage provider in the world. Not only storage provider it is also help us to do backups and integrate with different sources.Also pricing of it is also very lower than othee related providers.
Biggest disadvantage is it is very slow when doing recovery.. And it is not that much of user friendly.Need more and more improvements.
You can blindly believe this. It is facilitated with mass storage with cost efficiency. Try and enjoy it.
We stored several datas in this. Also it is very safety if any chances for file missing we can easily recover those data.
"Great cloud system, easy to set up and use"
The online tutorials made it easy to set up and get started. The ease of backing up data, and the potential for disaster recovery.
I feel there are too many a la carte charges. I feel one flat yearly cost would be better.
The hybrid cloud makes storage easy accross multiple locations.
"very good for cloud storage"
It meets the needs of performance and capacity-centric applications and gives you a complete hybrid cloud storage solution for enterprises.
Lack of Hyper-V snapshot support, Inability to upload custom Images.
Accelerate disaster recovery , improve compliance.
"Azure StorSimple - Hybrid cloud storage"
We use Azure StorSimple for some of backups, Disaster recovery site and file storage. Great features and cost effective.
Vry dislike part is this application is very slow.
This will make more storage and easy across multiple locations.
This is a one of the good and best storage provided in the world. This application not only storage provided. It's help to backups and integrate different sources. This application is lower than other providers.
This application disadvantage is very very slow when doing recovery. This application not much user friendly. Neet more improments.
This application is very safety. We can easily to recover data.
"Azure StoreSimole is not a good solution solution"
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On low speed add 1/3 of the dry ingredients, and once almost combined, add half the wet ingredients, continuing to alternate dry and wet until all are combined.
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Mintra | Cyber-crime – not just a virtual reality in the digital age
Current: Cyber-crime – not just a virtual reality in the digital age
Cyber-crime – not just a virtual reality in the digital age
Gareth Allan
If the Covid-19 pandemic had taken the world in its grip in 1990, how would that generation have responded to the crisis? There would have been no Teams platform to keep businesses running, no family WhatsApp group chat to maintain social contact, and certainly no Tik-Tok videos to while away the hours in lockdown.
We've been forced to stay apart physically, but technology has allowed us to remain together virtually. It has truly shown its worth over the past year – particularly to cybercriminals who have discovered that our existence in the online world is a lucrative hunting ground.
The switch to online activities and people working remotely led to a surge in cyber-crime in 2020, with an estimated 80% of businesses reporting a rise in attacks.
It is believed that one cyber-attack took place every 39 seconds last year: cloud-based attacks increased by a staggering 630% in the first quarter with phishing attempts up by 600%.
This tells us in the most unequivocal terms that cyber-crime is no longer only a problem for multinational corporations or those in possession of high-value intellectual property. In fact, small-medium-sized enterprises are often a target for hackers as they see the supply chain as an easy and profitable route into large organisations.
Companies of all sizes – and operating across all sectors – need to seriously consider how they keep their IT systems and data safe as we continue to drive forward with the digital transformation agenda and remote working becomes the new normal.
At Mintra, we are fortunate to have access to our suite of online training courses, including cybersecurity awareness. Our cybersecurity eLearning course is applicable to all business personnel who need a general awareness and understanding, but do not require detailed in-depth information on dealing with threats.
I acted as the subject matter expert for the course content, but I recently found myself on my own learning journey when Mintra decided to undergo assessment for Cyber Essentials Plus certification.
Cyber Essentials Plus – a UK Government initiative - aims to demonstrate a company's commitment to ensuring the safety of its IT and data security. The process involved a rigorous external audit: staff within the IT department were interviewed, auditors tested our processes and randomly selected devices for physical verification.
We passed all the requirements with flying colours and while that gives us and our customers an assurance that we are adequately set up to prevent a cyber-attack, it gave me cause to reflect on how cyber security has changed over the years. Gareth Allan, Group IT & Service Delivery Director
Most organisations are aware that their first line of defense – their people – is often the weakest part of the security chain. Indeed, this is borne out by 2020 statistics which show that fewer than one in 20 breaches exploit system weaknesses.
Many system breaches are achieved through social engineering – when cybercriminals use people within your organisation to unwittingly help them gain access to your networks. It works in the virtual world the same way as it does in the real world: criminals manipulate people in such a way as they give up information including passwords and commercially sensitive data.
This tactic may not tie in with the Hollywood image of a hacker using sophisticated computer equipment to breach security, but it's the reality. It's far easier for cybercriminals to exploit our nature to trust than it is to put time and effort into hacking a network.
And, of course, there's the good old-fashioned phishing scam where a member of staff is sent an email and encouraged to click on a link or attachment. In many cases, the link will contain a virus or enable malware to be installed on a PC. Quite often the emails may appear to come from a genuine source, such as a customer or supplier.
It's estimated that around 19% of the subject lines in phishing emails appeal to employees' desire to be compliant with cybersecurity – for example, a request to perform a password check – while 16% related to orders with online retailer Amazon. Offers for free goods account for 10%, while those purporting to come from online banking make up 8%.
Despite human error being the root cause of many breaches, statistics would suggest that only 20% of businesses provide dedicated staff training on the theme of cybersecurity.
It's a risky strategy. Medium and large firms put the average cost of a cybersecurity breach at £5,220. That's not a figure you would happily write off when the expense could have been avoided, but most companies can absorb the cost and chalk it up to a bad experience.
But, really, what is the actual cost to your company's reputation? Have you considered the consequences of having to contact a customer to inform them their sensitive data may have been compromised? It's difficult to win back trust and the cost further down the line is going to be lost revenues.
Investment in education, helping your staff to identify potential cybersecurity risks, should be a fundamental part of any mitigation strategy. Indeed, earlier this year the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) officially called for maritime companies – one of our largest customer sectors – to address cyber risks in their systems and this resulted in an upswing in demand for training.
The auditor assessing our Cyber Essentials Pus certification noted the training that we provide to all Mintra staff, including regular testing and mandatory training when our people cannot identify simulated security threats.
But we recognise that even when people are aware of the risks, mistakes still happen. That's why we have robust additional measures in place to protect Mintra when the first line of defense fails.
Using extra security such as antivirus software and endpoint protection gives that further layer of confidence that, even when an employee clicks on a link in a suspect email, our systems will not be breached.
The Cyber Essentials Plus audit justified the investment and focus that we have put on our IT and data security in the past two years. Although we have a very high level of knowledge and understanding in our team, we simply cannot know it all and to have that partner endorsement – an extra set of eyes scrutinising our measures and verifying that they offer protection – was very important to us.
Any organisation that recognises the need for adequate cybersecurity and the growing threat posed by cybercriminals should invest in an audit. Knowledge is power – it is only by identifying the weak points in your systems that you can begin to properly address them.
It's thought that around half of all businesses have carried out an internal or external audit in the past year, but the quality of the process varies greatly. Some, it seems, are part of a broader financial audit that does not actually examine cybersecurity in depth. Be careful not to pay lip service to it.
Although we now have Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation, this is the higher-end audit available within the scheme. A great starting point for any organisation new to the process is the entry-level Cyber Essentials certification. This does not involve external auditors carrying out a hands-on investigation, but it does demonstrate a commitment to good cyber health.
More than that, the certification is something that many companies and the UK Government will look for when selecting a future partner or supplier. Dedicating the time and effort needed for the audit makes financial sense on so many levels.
For Mintra, the success with Cyber Essentials Plus is a stepping stone towards bigger things. Our next target is to achieve ISO:27001 for Information Security Management Systems – an even more in-depth assessment of our IT and security processes to internationally recognised standards.
Group IT & Service Delivery Director


Three drivers from Team Achilles would stand on the podium over the weekend, with Daigo "The Ninja" Saito, winning the PRO round for the third consecutive time.
Formula DRIFT pro drivers, Daigo Saito and Robbie Nishida, will be signing autographs at the 2014 SEMA Show.
Irish Drift Championship dubbed "Global Warfare" by the series.


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When the Internet Takes Over Radio Stations
This week, radio industry muckraker Jerry Del Colliano published a blog post announcing his acquisition of a "secret memo" from Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman to executive staff. The details of the memo itself are hidden behind Del Colliano's blog paywall, but the preview is worth a gander.
Reportedly, the memo is entitled "Expanding iHeartRadio onto the Terrestrial Platform" and outlines exactly how the broadcast conglomerate plans to do this. It is unclear from the preview just what the plans are, but it definitely signals that Clear Channel aims to use its iHeartRadio streaming platform as a primary content provider to some (if not most or all) of the company's radio stations. The Pittman plan also reportedly suggests that iHeartRadio will become the company's "main source of revenue" in the process.
If true, it's a huge step toward the evolution of terrestrial broadcasting in the U.S. away from live-and-local service into something where radio stations effectively become advertising, promotional and content-relay nodes that work in subservience to a broadcasters' streaming platform. The implications for what this means for the future identity and service goals of radio are profound – but Clear Channel's strategy in this regard has been developing for quite a while.
I first wrote about this more than a year ago, when Clear Channel conducted a mass-firing and began to heavily promote its radio stations under the iHeartRadio brand. Since then, the firings have continued, "Radio" has been removed from iHeartRadio's own URL (the word has also been dropped from CC's corporate name), and the service has developed Pandora-like customizable content "channels" for users.
This is all part of a larger struggle radio is having about how to leverage the internet usefully. A few broadcasters have turned over their stations to app–platforms which actually allow listeners to "program" them; one station in Tampa Bay, Florida now does this 24/7, with "DJs" only involved in maintaining the station's playlist and editing user-submitted commentary and shout-outs.
Mass firings in radio have been taking place for years, as heavily-indebted conglomerates (including Clear Channel) cut operating costs to the bone in order to compensate for the stations they swallowed in the post-1996 consolidation heyday, when station prices were wildly inflated in a buyer's bubble (sound familiar?).
Yet many broadcasters still continue to be wary of streaming itself and don't understand how to design and market their online presence. Lots of them (both commercial and noncommercial) have opted to not go it alone, preferring instead to become "affiliates" of Clear Channel's iHeartRadio – giving the company powerful leverage over the streaming profile and permissions of those broadcasters who sign onto it. The company's also made significant advances getting the iHeart app installed in many automakers' infotainment systems.
It's well-established that Clear Channel is a market-maker in many aspects of the radio industry, so it'll be interesting to see just how this nebulous new strategy affects the industry's relatively chaotic dance with online platforms. But if what Del Colliano insinuates is true, it's a major move toward the subsumption of a legacy media platform in homage to convergence.
Author diymedia_tu6doxPosted on January 31, 2013 Categories Digital RadioTags clear channel, iheartradio, streaming
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Big Bang Theory star to be commencement speaker
Alum Kunal Nayyar ('03) was a business major
By Janea Melido | March 20, 2022 12:15pm
UP Alum Kunal Nayyar will be this year's commencement speaker.
Media Credit: Connor Lorber / The Beacon
Kunal Nyyar, UP alum and star of "The Big Bang Theory," will be this year's commencement speaker, the first in-person since 2019, Acting President and Provost Herbert Medina announced in an email to the UP community.
Three different commencement ceremonies will be held at the Chiles Center from April 30 to May 1.
Speaking for the School of Nursing commencement on April 30 is Marla E. Salmon, former dean at UW and Emory University Schools of Nursing and professor of nursing and global health at the University of Washington.
Valedictorians Jake Riegel for the School of Nursing, Grace Adam for the Pamplin School of Business and Marlee Bennett for the School of Education will be delivering valedictory addresses at their respective ceremonies. A handful of honorary degrees will be awarded, as well.
Spring 2022 Commencement Schedule:
Saturday, April 30:
Air Force & Army ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, 10 a.m.
School of Nursing Commencement & Pinning Ceremony, 1 p.m.
Baccalaureate Mass, 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 1:
Pamplin School of Business and Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering, 10 a.m.
Valedictorian: Grace Adam
College of Arts & Sciences and School of Education, 2 p.m.
Janea Melido is a reporter for The Beacon. She can be reached at melido24@up.edu.
Eighty-five days to Commencement 2022
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COVID gap year: Learn about the experiences of 4 UP students
by Kimberly Cortez and by Tiffany Marquez Escobar


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Home artists Michael Lasater
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www.michaellasater.net
Michael Lasater is a professor, musician, filmmaker, and new media gallery artist. He holds degrees in music from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School, and performed for more than a decade with ensembles including The Metropolitan Opera, The New Jersey Symphony, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra-Tanglewood, and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Italy.
His training and degrees in video, media, and communication are from Syracuse University. He is the creator and producer of a number of documentaries on subjects in music and literature, with broadcast and distribution by the National Educational Television Association (PBS), Barr Films, Kentucky Educational Television (KET), and Coronet Film & Video. His work has won awards from the American Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, International Film and Television Festival of New York, National Monitor Awards of New York, and U.S. Film and Video Festival, Chicago.
His gallery work in video, animation, and sound has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Significant venues include the Hun Gallery, New York; Art in General, New York; Örebro International Videoart Festival, Sweden; Vetlanda Museum, Sweden; artvideoKÖLN, Germany; Los Angeles Center for Contemporary Art; Kansas City Artists Coalition; Union Street Gallery, Chicago; Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas; California Museum of Photography; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana; Athens Institute for Contemporary Art; Dallas Center for Contemporary Art; CEPA Gallery; Target Gallery; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Pennsylvania School of Art & Design; South Shore Art Center/Boston Cyberarts Festival; and Georgia Museum of Art/University of Georgia.
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Showing one's face via self-portraiture is, at its best, not just a representation of one's physical appearance but also a reflection of one's existence in human society. We are each the expression of all our inheritances, environments, influences, and histories. We are not single beings, independent and self-made. We are each a summation of all who came before us and all around us.
One, Two is a self-portrait of the artist as a young boy. The inherited complexity of this boy is already evident in his opening split image, one side a related, but asymmetrical, version of the other. In the audio, a single claves strike, doubled at the octave, mirrors the visual motif. The video, developing in multiple planes, and the audio, playing in an equal number of voices, express the boy's psychology in growing facets, each representative of—perhaps–past, present, and future, but each derived from a genesis in a single image, a single sound.
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Also known as a membrane, it is a boiler part that is normally located within the diverter valve or hydraulic section of the Heatline boiler. Its main purpose is to move a pin that then operates a micro switch which in turn sends a signal to the printed circuit board. The signal is normally to indicate the pump is running or there is a demand for hot water. They are sometimes referred to as the pump proving ? flow diaphragm or the domestic hot water DHW diaphragm.


I try to use the output of the SCALAPACK routine pdgetrf (LU factorization) as input for the LAPACK routine dgesv.
In the first phase the factorization is done with several MPI processes (pdgetrf).
In the second phase, the distributed matrix is gathered to process 0 (pdgeadd).
In the third phase, the linear system is solved on the process 0 (dgesv).
My question is about the second phase: How to gather the pivoting information ?


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Wealdstone to face Dartford at home on opening day
Wealdstone manager Dean Brennan (pic: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo)
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Wealdstone will open their National League South campaign at home to Dartford on Saturday, August 3.
The fixtures have now been revealed for Dean Brennan's side, with the second game of the season on Tuesday, August 6 an away clash with Dulwich Hamlet.
The Stones will play eight league games in August and David Pratt and Rhys Tyler will be making a return to Grosvenor Vale when they visit with Chippenham Town on August 13.
Dean Brennan and Kavan Cotter will be returning to former club Hemel Hempstead Town on Saturday, August 17.
The festive period includes home games against Welling United and St. Albans City, while they will play Slough Town away on Boxing Day and at home on New Year's Day.
Wealdstone will visit Hungerford Town on Good Friday (April 10) and end the season at home to Hemel Hempstead Town.


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Japanese Get Best Honda Civic Type R
You get used to being ripped off if you're a motorist living in the UK. Outrageous fuel taxes, high car prices, parking fines, congestion charges and zero investment in the road network. But to find out that a popular sporting model has been brought to market that's been hobbled, not living up to it's full potential, then that's just disappointing – we're being ripped off again!
HONDA CIVIC TYPE R (JDM)
Engine: 4-cylinder 1998cc
Max Power: [email protected]
Max Torque: 158lb [email protected]
Top Speed: 160mph (est)
0-60mph: 5.5 secs (est)
The car in question is the Honda Civic Type R. Despite being a new model the engine is basically the same VTEC 2-litre unit from the previous hatch, offering 1bhp more (for 198bhp in total), but the car weighs over 60kg more. So with shorter gearing it manages to keep the 0-62 spring to the same 6.6 seconds, but chassis responses are slightly compromised with the extra weight. In the meantime, the Type R's competition has been gaining more power (and maybe a few extra kilos too), pushing the performance envelope out of the Type R's reach.
But it turns out it didn't have to be like this. Honda have saved the real performer for their own market, leaving us with second best. The Honda Civic Type R we were waiting for is currently on sale in Japan, a hardcore four-door saloon that makes fewer compromises than its European cousin.
Using a higher compression ratio and improved breathing efficiency, the naturally-aspirated K20A 2.0-liter i-VTEC engine has a peak output of 225 bhp at 8,000 rpm and a maximum torque of 158 lb-ft at 6,100 rpm. With max power arriving so far up the rev counter the engine needs working hard to give its best, but then that's always been the fun of Honda's engines. Even though they need a damn good thrashing you just know they're built to take it.
The CTR doesn't shout about its potential. The saloon body is lean and taut, with none of the flared wheelarches and fake grills that are so common on its rivals. Even the oversized spoiler at the rear has its use, being a functional part of the aerodynamic package. Riding on 18-inch 7-spoke white alloys wrapped in track-spec Bridgestone Potenza RE070s, the CTR looks full of purpose, particularly when painted in Championship White.
Aluminium is used in the construction of the body to keep weight down, helping maximise the benefit of the extra power. Adhesive bonding is also used in place of welds, which makes the body even stiffer, improving chassis response. The steering is sharp, allowing you to aim for the apex of corners with great accuracy, while the limited-slip differential allows incredible traction with minimal wheelspin.
Why don't we get all of this in the UK? Only Honda can tell us that, but I guess they think there isn't a big enough market for this hardcore Civic Type R. A softer car will appeal to more drivers, and more appeal means more sales.
So at the moment you're limited to looking to importers if you want to get your hands on a JDM CTR. Expect to pay in the region of £23k, which is expensive when compared to similarly powered competition but not so bad when you factor in the high-tech nature of its design and construction, the indestructible Honda mechanicals and the exclusivity on offer. Alternatively you can sit and wait to see if Honda UK come to their senses and start selling the proper Civic Type R over here.
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FN2R
You're so full of s**t! FN2 is better than that Jap piece of crap. It's faster too.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving such a measured argument. How is a UK-spec FN2 (198bhp, 0-62 in 6.6s, max speed 146mph) faster than the JDM FD2 version (225bhp on UK fuel, 0-60 in 5.5, max speed 160mph). Did you mean its faster at depreciating?
And when you mention that 'jap piece of crap', who do you think designed the FN2?
Don't just take my word for it, I've added the Fifth Gear comparison for a more respected opinion. Go Vikki!
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We're honoured to be part of the final day for Titan Books' tour with Sherri Smith's recently published thriller The Retreat. To celebrate, the author herself has given us her recommendations for Five Thrillers with Toxic Friendships...
Intense female friendship is as common a motif in crime fiction as marriage, because they so closely resemble one another. When good, a friendship should be supportive, genuine, intimate and encouraging. But when a friendship sours, these emotional ties turn toxic and the previous shared intimacy is used to execute harm. The result can be a twisted range of obsession, repressed love, and an urge for one friend to take possession of the other's identity. Below is a list of some of my favourite novels that explore the dark side of friendship between women.
1. Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
Burton wrote an incredibly astute essay on this topic titled 'Queer Friendship and the Psychological Thriller,'last year that I would highly recommend for anyone wanting more insight on this topic. Her novel, Social Creature, revolves around the relationship between two women; Lavinia is a beautiful wealthy socialite, while introverted Louise is struggling to pay her rent. They soon develop a deep bond and Louise is quickly swept up in Lavinia's decadent lifestyle. When their friendship eventually becomes strained, Louise's infatuation with Lavinia turns dark and violent. It's also a brilliant rumination on how social media is used to curate an idealized online self.
2. A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell
Stephanie, a widowed stay-at-home mommy blogger, is in need of a friend when she falls under the spell of Emily, a sophisticated, professional mom. They become fast friends, bonding during their sons, Miles and Nicky, many playdates. When Emily asks Stephanie to pick her son Nicky up from school, she happily agrees to this simple favor. But Emily doesn't never returns for her son. She doesn't answer calls or texts. Stephanie is terrified and uses her blog to try to find her friend. She knows something has gone terribly wrong—Emily would never leave her child.
Stephanie will eventually discover that she was a pawn all along, and nothing is as simple as it seems—this is a twisted, thrilling ride of a book. Can't wait to see the movie—I've heard both Kendrick and Lively are excellent.
3. Her by Harriet Lane
When Nina sees Emma in the street, she is overwhelmed by memories of something horrifying that happened in the past. Emma is a struggling young mother, while Nina is wealthy, cool and collected. While the two have met before, it's clear that Emma does not remember Nina at all. Soon Nina has insinuated herself into Emma's life and will stop at nothing to exact her revenge in the most disturbing way possible.
4. Bunny by Mona Awad
Samantha is an Ivy league scholarship college student who finds herself inexplicably drawn to the campus in-crowd who refer to themselves as the Bunnies. The bunnies are a privileged, ultra-feminine clique of graduate writing students. Samantha is both repelled and fascinated by them and so when the bunnies invite Samantha to join their weekly 'Smut Salon,' she can't say no.
What follows is a surreal, tense novel that perfectly captures the micro-aggressions between women and the dangers of wanting to be accepted.
5. I Invited Her In by Adele Parks
This is a chilling thriller. Out of the blue, Mel receives a message from an old friend, Abi, asking if she could stay at her place while she works out some personal issues after a divorce. Even though Mel hasn't seen Abi in seventeen years, she agrees to help her old friend. Their respective life paths since their university days were wildly different: Mel had to drop-out of university due to an unplanned pregnancy but has since married and lives with her loving husband and three children. Abi pursued a glamorous life in L.A. and is used to living the high life as a television personality. It soon becomes clear that Abi's motives are not what they seem—this is a gripping story about jealousy and revenge.
Thanks again to both Sherri Smith and Titan Books for allowing us to share this list of recommendations as part of their tour. Remember to look out for the other websites who have taken part the tour (listed above). Sherri's book The Retreat is out now, published by Titan Books.
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"Alexa, what is the capital of Israel?" is the title of my talk at the Make Random Great Again meetup at Betahaus. Looking forward to March 29th and a interesting event in Berlin!
How can software developers and startups manage location-based services in disputed territories or partially recognized state? Looking forward to present "Hey, where is my country? Software development and territorial disputes" at Factory Berlin.
This event is for members only but if you are interested get in touch, I will discuss location-based services in disputed territories or partially recognized state at other events in Berlin and Cologne in the next few weeks.
Here are the abstract and the slides of my talk "the (accidental) political developer" at Codemotion Berlin today.
As the BBC recently reported, Matthew Nimetz has spent the last 23 years trying to find a name for the republic of Macedonia that can be accepted both in Skopje and Athens. But a solution for the Macedonia naming dispute has not been agreed yet.
What name should a developer use today when working on location-based services? The user friendly Macedonia or the formal but longer The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ? How can you make your users in Skopje and Athens both happy?
This is one of the examples I might use at the next Codemotion in Berlin. I do not expect to discuss in half an hour all the geopolitical challenges targeting an international audience and their workarounds, but I am very excited to present the talk "The (accidental) political developer" .
You can find the abstract here and an introduction to the topic in my previous posts, The (accidental) political software developer and Location-based services and countries on AWS.
See you on October 12 & 13 at Kulturbrauerei!
A few weeks ago I covered my experience and challenges working with geolocation technologies for Funambol and RaceBase World, as the (accidental) political software developer.
How does it work using AWS services?
As the focus of this blog is AWS technologies, what about Amazon and their location-based services? Any way to keep those geolocation issues under control?
First of of all let's see which services Amazon offers that include geolocation capabilities.
AWS offers almost nothing. If we compare the products from AWS with Google Maps API or GeoNames, there is nothing yet that has geolocation capabilities. Of course you can run a third party AMI from the Marketplace, like MaxMind – GeoIP or IP2Location Geolocation. But that is just taking advantage of an EC2 instance, it is not a service directly provided from AWS.
Even Amazon Rekognition, a deep learning-based image analysis, does not offer the full set features that Google Vision has and that could potentially trigger location-based issues. If you upload a picture on Google Vision, thanks to Landmark Detection, you might end up with a location or a questionable place on the Earth. But if you upload a picture of the Eiffel Tower on Amazon Rekognition, you have as a result a disappointing but very safe 99.2% tower.
And you have something similar with a picture of the Western Wall in the the Old City of Jerusalem. Definitely not so accurate, but not a result that can create many controversies.
What about Amazon user interfaces and products for end users? Many photo sharing and storage services like Google Photos or Apple Photos or OneMediaHub (a white label solution provided by Funambol) create tags according to the GPS coordinates (EXIF data) of the pictures uploaded by a user. With the challenges of defining the best tag for Hong Kong or determine if Crimea is a Russian or Ukrainian territory. Prime Photos from Amazon does not. No feature, no issues.
Really nothing on Amazon or AWS?
Amazon of course still has to provide a user interface and a chance for the user to add and validate an address. They have their own interesting choices (no Kosovo, for example) and there might be some entries in the list that might be disputed by some users as countries – somehow the approach of Google of calling the drop-down location and not country feels safer. But that is hardly interesting for a developer.
To summarize, I never had to deal in the past with geolocation issues or controversies while working directly with AWS services or the Amazon platform.
But there is something new that might pose a potential challenge, the Alexa SDK and the built -in slot types that define how data in the slot is recognized and handled. And Amazon Lex, the "conversational interfaces for your applications, powered by the same deep learning technologies as Alexa".
Alexa relies on slots, that are list of values with many of them predefined by Amazon. For example, the slot AMAZON.Country is a ready list of (English) names of countries around the world. Or AMAZON.DE_CITY provides recognition for German and world cities commonly used by speakers in Germany and Austria.
Anything to be worried about? Let's test it first.
After attending a presentation at Factory Berlin and a talk at the AWS summit, both from Memo Döring and both very inspiring, I decided to build a simple dynamic skill for Alexa. The skill, called Big World, relies on data from Population.io, a project of the World Data Lab that aims to make demography accessible to a wider audience. The very simple skill, given a country name, returns today and tomorrow's population and returns the values from the World Population API. Below are a screenshot and a short audio demo, the code is available on GitHub.
Going back to the topic of this post, the only challenge was to match the names from the built-in Alexa slot to the countries of the Population.io API. The backend supports only values such as Arab Rep of Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, West Bank and Gaza or Hong Kong SAR-China. Names that it's very unlikely a user is going to say while talking to a voice assistant like Amazon Echo and that require mapping.
Q. Alexa ask Big World the population of Palestine.
A. You are not alone in this world. The population of West Bank and Gaza today is 4916233, tomorrow there will be 368 people more.
Q. Alexa ask Big World how many people live in England.
A. The world population is growing as we speak. The population of United Kingdom today is 65473338, tomorrow there will be 1101 people more.
The answer might not be 100% accurate but it is the best approximation available using the data from Population.io. As for any vocal conversation, an audio interaction with a smart speaker is more forgiving than an incorrect point or country name on a website.
Of course some users might still not be able to find results for specific and perfectly valid country names but that is down to poor coding and logic in the Lambda function and not to the specific Alexa slot.
Due to the lack of real location-based features, the services currently available on AWS do not currently present most of the challenges covered in the previous post. But for the very same reasons they do not provide a solution or any help to the developer to address or mitigate them.


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