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Big data to transform agriculture
By Charles
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Although most of us do not worry about where our next meal will come from, about 800 million undernourished people in the world today do not have that luxury. Today, a start-up in Newark, NJ, is developing a technique that with intensive use of data, might be one of the biggest contributors to solving the food challenge the world will face over the next century.
Aerofarms was founded in 2004 and has become one of the leading companies addressing the global food crisis. An environmental champion, the firm has fundamentally transformed the agriculture business by disintermediating the supply chain and enabling local farming at commercial scale all year round. Aerofarms developed its own patented technology which completely changed the concept of agriculture. With state-of-the-art, cleantech technology using aeroponics and LEDs, Aerofarms produces green leafs through indoor vertical farming, utilizing a totally controlled growing environment without sun or soil and minimizing harmful transportation miles. This technique allows the firm to produce high quality vegetables without depending on season or weather. At the same time, it reduces water usage by 95%, does not use any type of pesticides, and has a faster crop cycle and higher yields compared to traditional agriculture. It achieves 22 crop turns per years compared to three and yields 500% higher than traditional agriculture.
At the core of its model, Aerofarm relies on a sophisticated technology and expertise, which involves exposing the plants to a very specific spectrum of light. It also regulates both the intensity and frequency of it. It constantly optimizes for the amount of oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, pH and relative humidity. Through all this optimizing, it creates the perfect growing environment for the plant, being able not only to achieve efficiency in growing parameters but also optimize taste and texture. The model is summarized in looking at parameters permanently and optimizing each one of them to reach perfection.
Big data in agriculture is not new, especially precision technology. It has been providing farmers for years with both historical and up-to-date information about their crops, allowing them to measure soil quality, rainfall accumulation, fertilizer and pesticide inputs, crop yields, and harvests through satellite and GPS tracking systems. A 2014 study in the United States found that big data reduces the costs of inputs such as seeds and fertilizer by 15 percent and increases crop yields by 13 percent. Monsanto predicts data analysis could increase global crop production by $20 billion per year. Since the United States is the second largest producer of cereals and livestock in the world, accounting for 16 and 14 percent, respectively, these technological solutions could be an example for other countries to emulate.
Still, Aerofarms data analysis has entrenched to an extreme at the core of its business model. To do so, the firm operations rely in data scientists and engineers instead of agronomists. In a single growing cycle, the firm collects more than 10,000 data points, being this information the fundamental variable that has allowed for the improvement necessary to achieve the yields and quality that are driving down costs and closing the gap that is preventing the massification of the model. This data, allows to constantly optimizing according to colors, texture and taste.
Today, after all its progress and achievements, the model still has major drawbacks to overcome. First, it is very capital-intensive to start a vertical farm. To be competitive with a $10/lb retail price and 15% margins taken by grocers, Aerofarms needs to make it to the shelf below $8.5/lb. Thus, for 2 million pounds of arugula, Aerofarms has to be able to deliver it for less than $17 million. Nowadays, the facility with which the firm is able to produce such production has labor costs of $3.5 million per year, while water, transportation and rent sum up to $2.5 million. Additionally, energy costs can run very high (around $8 million), delivering a profit of $3.2 million. With a capital investment of $39 million to setup the technology, breakeven is still far away (12 years).
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Aerofarms competitiveness has been increased dramatically since its inception, and the ability to leverage technology and optimize through data has proven very successful but there is a long way to go. If it keeps on doing it, it will revolutionize agriculture and will help to address a problem that has stated to be one of the most serious that the world could face over the next century.
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November 22, 2015	 Won't Not says:
Very interesting space and company. I'm curious how much of their advantage comes in the form of well-engineered growing environments vs. data analysis expertise. If it is the former, I can see them running into the scale issues and long breakeven timelines you outline in your post. If it's the latter, I could see them tweaking their model to help other growers optimize using data (through revenue sharing, etc.). I guess both are heavily interrelated, especially since they probably need to use very specific sensor technologies.
November 22, 2015	 GA says:
Interesting post Charles Poblets! Although the idea and technology Aerofarms has developed sounds amazing, I agree with you that the economics are not attractive today. Do you have an idea on how are they working on it?
Another difficulty for Aerofarms is to get customers to accept the product, and buy it for a premium. The fact that Aerofarms can "play" with the flavor and texture of the leaves, may discourage some customers to buy them. If you tell me you can make an "indoor" lettuce that tastes better that a common lettuce, my first impression is that this product is "fake".
November 22, 2015	 Mati G says:
great post Mr. Poblets. I agree with the issues mentioned by GA, I would also be a little bit concerned about how the customer would perceive this "lab veggies". I definitely believe its a great idea, but I would love to know how these people are thinking about customer perception. Do customer really know what the product is about?
How difficult is to grow other vegetables? apples? quinces?
November 22, 2015	 uilc says:
It seems like the company can also use big data to understand what influences certain characteristics/outcomes of a plant. For example, the company can create the secret formula to naturally create the most crunch and the best tasting spinach by understanding what inputs and stress points significantly impact the plant. Furthermore, the rest of the agriculture industry is so behind on data collection this could be a huge advantage for AeroFarms. I am very interested in seeing how consumers respond to the technology. There's no doubt that there will be large benefits for society as long as people accept it.
November 24, 2015	 Jon Malankar says:
Cool post. As GA mentioned, I'm wondering what they are doing to reduce costs. I also just went to a session yesterday on GMO foods, which sparked another question regarding this company. To what extend are consumers comfortable with their food coming from non-traditional farms? I'm sure those at the bottom of the pyramid would just want food period, but higher income consumers will likely push back. Given the costs to set these farms up, I would imagine them being popular in the developed world before they enter the emerging world, no?
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The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
That Helen Oyeyemi wrote her debut novel aged 18 while studying for her A-Levels is certainly an impressive feat. And, as debuts go, The Icarus Child is by no means a weak one. As this happens to be the third book I've read of hers I can see just how much her writing has grown […]
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The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
The Lake is narrated by the quintessential Banana Yoshimoto protagonist. While Yoshimoto's sparse yet dreamy makes for an easy reading experience this is definitely not one of her 'strongest' novels.Chihiro, daughter of an 'unconventional' couple, moves to Tokyo in order to pursue a career graphic artist. She's still grieving her mother's death and spends most […]
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The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo #1) by Keigo Higashino
The Devotion of Suspect X is an unusual detective novel. By the end of the first chapter readers witness the murder that is at the centre of this novel. We know the identity and motivations of the perpetrator. What follows is a compulsive game of cat-and-mouse between 'detective Galileo' and Suspect X. At times this […]
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What could have been the perfect historical mystery for bibliophiles ended up being an unnecessarily long-winded and frequently dull novel. "Looking up from my work, I suddenly realized that someone had left a book whose spine I had never seen before among my own textbooks, which sat on a shelf above my desk. The spine […]
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Angeles, Maria; Romera, Martin (2018): Contra el oficio y contra natura. Parcialidad, sodomía y self-fashioning en los procesos contra Fernando de Vera y Vargas, corregidor de Murcia (1594-1595). In: Cuadernos De Historia Moderna, Vol. 43, No. 1: pp. 157-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CHMO.60662
By studying an extraordinary case, that of the corregidor of Murcia Fernando de Vera y Vargas, accused of sodomy in 1594, this article analyses how different types of trials - a residencia and a sodomy process-require different self-fashioning strategies from the same individual. In opposition to the identity as corregidor, based on merits and the appropriate performance of an impartial loyal officer, in the sodomy trial Vera is presented as a distinguished citizen, from an honorable family and closely related to powerful local families as evidences of a noble character, incompatible with a crime against nature. Despite the differences between the two trials, both of them work on a complementary way to reveal a kaleidoscope of social tension that descends from the well-known sixteenth century Murcian factions. Beyond the self-fashioning analysis focused on discourse, the present work proves that the success of said discourses depended upon its confirmation by a determined fraction of the society and, in order to assure that confirmation, the display of a particular behavior that supported the intended self-portrayal was indispensable.
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"Sustained financial support for research, especially student researchers, will help establish Nachusa as an internationally-recognized research center.
Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University
Recipient of research grants awarded by Friends of Nachusa
Dr. Nick Barber earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from St. Louis University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in ecology. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Barber has studied the impacts of bison on plants, insects, and soil bacteria in the restored prairies and remnants at Nachusa. Dr. Barber also mentors numerous students through the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergrads and NIU's Research Rookies programs.
Restorations at Nachusa Grasslands are going pretty well. Why should prairie lovers care about research?
Nachusa is already a world-class restoration site, and the staff and stewards have developed management techniques to achieve this result. But managers also know that there are always opportunities to improve and to more fully understand the consequences of their actions. This is especially critical given the changes in climate and other factors that Nachusa and other prairies are facing today. A more thorough understanding of prairie ecosystems and prairie management helps practitioners like the staff at Nachusa plan for the future.
How does Nachusa Grasslands compare with other research sites? What's it like for you and your students interacting with the volunteer stewards?
Interacting with stewards makes Nachusa unique compared to most research stations. One of the most valuable resources for researchers working here is the knowledge of the staff and stewards. Their intimate knowledge of sites and prairie plants helps researchers understand the patterns we observe, and their curiosity and detailed observations can help generate new research questions. Interactions between researchers and stewards are a key part of why the community and partnerships at Nachusa are so strong.
What would Friends be surprised to know about the research experience at Nachusa Grasslands?
This relates to why prairie lovers should care about research. There are still countless mysteries to be solved and discoveries to be made, even at a place as well established as Nachusa. Our research on insects regularly documents species new to the site, including those that play important roles like pollinators or the beetles that help decompose bison dung. In fact, the vast majority of soil bacteria we study are unknown to science — we can detect their unique DNA but are unable to culture them in a lab. Research at Nachusa is exciting! Both the potential for discovering something new, and the knowledge that these discoveries can help support such a beautiful site, provide great motivation for scientists!
What will it take to make Nachusa Grasslands a prominent grasslands research center?
Sustained financial support for research, especially student researchers, will help establish Nachusa as an internationally-recognized research center. Scientific research is especially productive when it is paired with education because students bring new ideas and curiosity to projects. Working with students to develop research questions and carry out their projects not only generates new knowledge, but also builds a new generation of scientists and restorationists so that the benefits extend beyond Nachusa to other ecosystems across the country and around the world.


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Excellent addition to any
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Buy THINK Music
1. Variety (7:37)
2. Watercorps (5:07)
3. Drops (8:19)
4. Draw Conclusions From ... (13:59)
5. Last Door (3:15)
6. More Drops (7:54)
7. All That I Remember (6:46)
- Rodrigo Ramor / vocals, percussion
- Gerd Pohl / electric & acoustic guitars, vocals
- Kajo Sandrik / piano, organ, violin, viola, percussion, Fx
- Frank Voigt / flute, effects
- Ricky Ramor / bass
- Frank Wördehoff / drums, percussion
Artwork: Rodrigo Ramor (photo)
LP Menga - MEL 3301 (1973, Germany)
LP Long Hair - LHC181 (2017, Germany)
CD Garden Of Delights - CD 077 (2002, Germany) With 2 bonus tracks recorded at Blackfield's, Gelsenkirchen, 18/5/1972
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THINK was one of many German incidents in the early 1970s which produced one album and then disappeared for ever and ever. The band featured skilled musicians, for example two from Hungary and one Czech who some day played in Germany with the Philharmonia Hungarica ... and then decided to stay. Soon they found some German mates to build up a six-piece crew and came in contact with the Marl/Ruhrgebiet based label Menga which 1973 released their sole album 'Variety'. This is an appropriate album title by all means.
They offer a nearly eclectic sound when mixing up classical, jazzy, symphonic, heavy, folk, blues and psych elements to something very interesting and enjoyable. With other words: this is nothing rough and unpolished ... if anything than the two bonus tracks probably, earlier recordings included on the Garden Of Delights reissue. Both appear in a more heavy rock vein where More Drops is also clearly Pink Floyd infected. The groovy All that I remember shines with some experimental gimmicks. This foreshadows the trickiness of the following regular album tracks.
THINK start the album very relaxed, folksy, the title song is decorated with violin and Frank Voigt's flute, later turning to a swinging jazzy mood and even classical impressions. And so on ... they build up a surprising chain of varying impressions provided with turns and breaks where you immediately can recognize the compositional ability. Then you will meet the mellow instrumental Watercorps - of course once interrupted by a frantic hurry-up. Drops is pervaded with hallucinatory impressions as well as jazzy excursions. The epic Draw Conclusions from partially sounds like performed by the Keef Hartley Band, bluesy with playful organ ...
... so you can hear they take the album title quite literally. And it works on top of it! Vocals are surprisingly good compared to other German bands and all in all this is somewhat relaxed music. As mentioned before 'Variety' is digitally remastered and re-issued, available via Garden Of Delights. The booklet of 32 pages holds many images, illustrating the spirit of that time very nicely. A very good progressive rock effort - recommended!
Posted Saturday, May 15, 2010 | Review this album | Report (Review #282043)
Review by Mellotron Storm
4.5 stars. An interesting lineup here with three Germans, two Hungarians (brothers) and a Czech. The German lead guitarist was a big fan of KING CRIMSON and PINK FLOYD while the drummer was into LED ZEPPELIN and BLACK SABBATH. The three non-German musicians were Classical musicians. They called themselves THINK because of their interest in a thinking audience. Vocals are in English and the music is in my opinion very moving and Psychedelic in nature. PINK FLOYD is the band I thought of most often. Lots of organ, guitar, flute and viola.
"Variety" opens with gentle guitar as flute and viola join in. Vocals and organ follow. It turns jazzy after 1 1/2 minutes. Great sound a minute later. What an amazing song ! "Watercorps" opens with relaxed guitar, bass and drums to start. Vocals join in as the organ floats in the background. Flute comes in and it sounds so good. Viola after 2 minutes. Another incredible track. "Drops" is the best one of all in my opinion. Experimental intro then laid back guitar and drums lead as the vocals join in. Very FLOYD-like here. It kicks in after 1 1/2 minutes. A nice flute / bass section 3 minutes in then the guitar starts to solo. Nice. It's experimental again before 5 minutes as themes are repeated.
"Draw Conclusions From..." is the longest track at 14 minutes but my least favourite. I still think it's great though. A beat with flute and guitar as vocals join in quickly. Organ follows. We get a Blues section after 3 minutes until after 5 minutes then that earlier sound returns. Best part is after 7 1/2 minutes as the flute and organ lead. Viola follows. Nice bass too. "Last Door" opens with the door squeeking open as guitar, bass, flute and percussion take over. Vocals too. A calm after 1 1/2 minutes. Nice. It picks back up a minute later to end it. Cool tune. Two bonus tracks here.The first one "More Drops" is an earlier version of "Drops", while the other is "All That I Remember". The latter is fairly catchy with vocals. Nice guitar solo 1 1/2 minutes in. Actually the guitar is more the focus here than on the other songs.
I'm very tempted to give this 5 stars because I like it so much, but in reality it's not quite that good. Still this is one amazing Krautrock record. It makes me feel really good.
Posted Monday, June 7, 2010 | Review this album | Report (Review #285532)
Review by Guldbamsen
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The opposite of pole vaulting
Let me introduce you to a record that really likes it, when you get drunk and turn up your stereo. It gets even more jolly and exuberant, if you then start to jump a little.....just a little in the corner - it'll sense it. Variety is very much like having an omnipresent party friend living on your shelf. He lies there dormant, until the next time his owner decides to plunge head first down a barrel of beer.
The booming organ dominated jazz rock of the first cut is a fair blueprint of what this album is about. Much in line with the sounds of the early British prog rockers, bands like Colosseum, Quartermass, Gracious and Indian Summer, Think churned out one infinitely warm and heartfelt record back in 73. The comparisons stop at the organ drive though, as Variety brings in an altogether more gooey and sticky vibe. On the first cut it shows itself in a layer that seems to come from within the organ, so as you get this streaming, oozing effervescent quality to it. Sounds absolutely brilliant matched up with the tight interplay of the rhythm section.
Then you have the small interventions happening throughout the album - popping by in the form of either a viola or the smooth guitar stylings of Gerd Pohl. The viola completely transforms the tunes it appears in, especially on that first self-titled track, where it suddenly changes the mood for a playful kind of Mozart rock. The guitar though just does what it does best, which effectively consists of pointing the band in the direction of the stars, hope for the best - and then take off!
Yet another endearing musical trait of Pohl's, is the way he riffs. Oh my word! This guy literally sounds like he's revving an old Ford Mustang! VRRROOOOOOOOOM VRRRROOOOOOUMMM!!!! Ironically, you'll have to wait until the bonus track called More Drops to get the best example of this roaring fuzzed out riffing mayhem. I can't believe this tune wasn't included on the original album! It's one of my favourite things on Variety.
Even the vocals are strangely good - considering this was recorded in Germany 1973, by Germans singing in English. Hoho.....Yeah well, I might be a little harsh, but let me tell you - we were just as horrible in Denmark, when it came to the English lingo. Damn... Anyway, on Variety the vocals are 80% accent-free, and there's additionally a pastoral shading to them that meshes incredibly well with the loftier sections, where the organ develops a quasi mellotron identity and begins to soar like a hot air balloon.
For some musical reference points, I'd say Pink Floyd in the dreamy sections, a strange mix of Black Sabbath, Amon Düül ll and King Crimson in the grainy muddied guitar riffs, and then perhaps a dash of the flute rock that made Canned Heat famous a few years prior to this release.
I think I'm with my good friend John The Mellotron rating-wise. Think's sole album is a breathtaking slice of hard edged psychedelia with a delightful jazzy twist to it. It might not have been particularly fresh and pioneering, back when it first hit the street, but then again if you decide to judge music by the same standards you do water rugby and pole vaulting, you're bound to set yourself up for nothing. Absolutely nothing. That is not zen at its finest btw, that's merely the indication of you missing the plot by several nautical miles. Music is first and foremost about feel, and that is coincidentally also the one single thing this album's got in spades! 4.5 stars.
Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #1018850)
Just as said Prog Reviewer MELLOTRON STORM in your Review #285532 An interesting collage of some very influential bands of early 70's prog rock bands, like Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, King Crimson etc.. They produces a musical landscape between jazzy, heavy and psych prog. The best moments of w ... (read more)
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the second part...
11. Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis:
though she looks positively possessed on the album cover, one quick spin of Apokalypsis and you're the one hypnotized by her haunting refrains and sumptuous music. Resembling a younger PJ Harvey isn't the only interesting Wolfe has going for her; her delicate vocals register different octaves and stylistic tricks with ease. Movie Screen simmers without boiling over but elsewhere the temper reaches sublime proportions like on the brilliant Friedrichshain as well as the thunderous riffs that propel Demons. Her flair for theatrics is evident but it's not easy trying to wring art out of the punk-doom Wolfe ascribes to without being compared to those—like Harvey—before her. Apokalypsis to its credit does manage to carve out an original and refreshing space.
12. Grimes/D'Eon Darkbloom:
Darkbloom is a fitting title because the brilliance of the album releases itself slowly with repeated listens and opens up its delights within your headphones. It is also a bonafide album of the year contender and keeps both artists firmly entrenched in that 'next big thing' category that is increasingly centering on, of all places, Montreal, Canada. Grimes isn't fearful of letting her grooves do all the talking or trying too hard to engineer a hit. Her focus on reverb and synths is heavy but when one considers that she's been around for only a year, a track like Crystal Ball is even more stunning for that fact. The beats slam hard, colliding blissfully with her puerile vocals ('faster/ faster/ the lights will flow…'). Urban Twilight returns to her minimalism but this time the twisted vocals and nefarious beat run in a spell that works. Fresh from a critically-acclaimed debut last year (Palinopsia) d'Eon announces himself with the mobile phone buzz fest instrumental Telepathy. The remaining tracks are all uniquely brilliant dance-pop songs, the type of songs that Toro Y Moi tried but failed to pull off with his sophomore earlier this year.
13. James Blake James Blake:
the best genre albums are those that don't even sound like what they represent. The dubstep artist James Blake has been making quite a name for himself and now here, at last, is his astonishing debut. Surely critics will have the best new artist award already with his name on it and who can blame them: Unluck is a marvelous and soulful amalgamation of diverse sounds entwined and masterfully set in motion. Give Me My Month puts Antony Hegarty to shame with a stunning falsetto set to piano. It's more soulful and sincere than anything on contemporary R&B radio in ages. The diversity on display by this 22 year old Brit is the real treat; I Mind sounds as if it's being stir-fried from outer space while Wilhelm's Scream is the best soul any man has done since D'angelo.
14. The Weeknd House of Balloons:
though there'd nothing new about doing a mix-tape, Abel Tesfaye has smartly mixed original compositions with thunderous, slinky R&B beats. The production though is far from cheesy. Tracks like Coming Down manage to find the right line between sex appeal and sexual imagery. It's a new disposition we've seen heavily this year, perhaps a nod to the path unearthed years before by R. Kelly but, thankfully, The Weeknd manages to swill some well-needed D'angelo into the mix and that adds a stunning new coat to the formula he presents us with. It's a new playing field for young crooners and while they like the imagery of the past, they're also heavily rooted into the present too.
15. Alela Diane & Wild Devine Alela Diane & Wild Devine:
coming off Sharon van Ettan's brilliant solo work last year, Alela Diane picks up the slack with a truly soulful offering. This is a clever mix of blue-grass tinged soul and poetry. Her sound is like a boom and resonates long after these lovely songs end. The energy consistent challenges the confines of folk too yet it intimates such weariness that it breaks your heart—the ending grace of Rising Greatness, the jazzy coos of Heartless Highway all attest to this. She is keenly aware of pace as well and there is a natural progression from her earlier studio albums that is as heartening as it is remarkable.
16. Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean:
Sam Beam is a critic's darling for that glorious, tremulous voice alone…he was the Bon Iver of the indie scene before Justin Vernon showed up. Here, though he's unveiled a stunning type of diversity I hadn't expected from him. Your Fake Name is Good Enough for Me powers on jazzy textures of all things. Even the ballads are steeped in a stunning religious fervor that can be tricky. These nods to technique are meticulous but also show his growth being strong and not just merely as a token. Nor is he merely just turning out the same template like Fleet Foxes…not a swipe at them but they could take a listen to this record and learn a thing or two
17. Tom Waits Bad As Me:
Bob Dylan may be the most revered artist in music but Waits surely is his equally admired brother. Waits remains uncompromising with brutal songs spewed out like a master drunk (Satisfied), full of penitence (Back in The Crowd) or just, gulp, sobered up (Last Leaf). At sixty-one and with seventeen albums behind him, there isn't much we haven't gleaned from Waits but the sheer energy that he continues to extol puts his much younger admirers to shame…still.
18. Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin':
no stranger to critical praise, Saadiq will no doubt heap on more with one of the best R&B album of the year. The slick opener aside, he hits dizzying stride immediately after with Go to Hell. At his best, he can conjure up Al Green-like testimonials that utterly burn. At other times he seems to be digging into Terence Trent D'aby pop/rock terrain, with mixed results. It's an ambitious attempt but one rooted within his capabilities. That is at times exciting, predictable but also versatile. It means that we hear actual instruments been featured in songs, something most soul brothers tend to forget.
19. Willie Evans Jr. Introducin':
bookended by fantastic skits, Introducin' is Evan's re-entry into Southern hip/hop. Here, by himself and not with his Asamov clan, Evans hits the ground running with the title track. The album posits an interesting concept: a little boy (Willie) journals his experiences as he tries to learn music while always appreciative of it. The beats and instruments are sharp and quirky. Take 2 slurs it vocals yet the beats add great freshness. His use of samples works seamlessly too as witnessed on Cyber Sheik while Mega flows nicely. And there's no throw-away to misogyny or sex and drugs either, just Evans Jr. spinning his inexhaustible talent and drive.
20. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues:
the follow-up to the hugely successful debut of the Seattle band rumbles loudly and assuredly. We're now familiar with the folk-blues blend but the band's ambition becomes clear by the time Bedouin Dress begins. The hooks on Helplessness Blues are deeper, more nuanced even if they sacrifice a little emotion. Lead singer, Robin Pecknold is shouldering more responsibility here and his range is at time downright beautiful ('Sim Sala Bim') and affirming ('Battery Kinzie', the standout track). If the lyrics get a little shuffled then get lost within the production which has no equal—save one—this year.


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There's only four performances to go on our "Michi" 2018 tour.
We had a cast change for the second half of the tour to swap over the youngest members. Every day is fulfilling for all of us.
Our physical and mental state is different for each performance.
On stage, each and every one of us has different roots and brings our own unique experience to the performance. We give it all we've got, right until the last beat, sharing heart and soul as we play our resounding instruments together.
Today, we have a performance in my hometown, Iwaki.
I moved to Sado Island ten years ago to become a Kodo apprentice.
Rather that trying to say my feelings with a lot of words to the special people in my hometown, I'll try to say what I want to say through my sound on stage.


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Can we come up with something new?


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Escape Pod 509: Broken
Author : Jason Kimble
Narrator : Mat Weller
Host : Alasdair Stuart
Audio Producer : Mat Weller
Escape Pod 509: Broken is an Escape Pod original.
Contains a couple intimate moments.
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by Jason Kimble
My favorite part about skimming is that I'm not broken when I do it. It doesn't matter that I don't have levels, that I'm on or off, because that's how everything's supposed to be when you're in the hypernet. Even if I'm not supposed to be in the hypernet.
I'm only able to skim because Kaipo left my interface node on. That was the day he told me I could call him Kaipo instead of Dr. Singh. His eyes are different than mine, but that's not because of the Skew, and even if it is I wouldn't care, because they're pretty and dark and they twinkle a little bit when he smiles. We'd had sex twice when he told me I could call him Kaipo if we're alone. Sex is almost as good as skimming, only it doesn't last as long, and sometimes I'm stinky afterwards, which I'm not a fan of. Sometimes Kaipo smells like pumpkin, which I'm totally a fan of.
"Overshare."
"Hi, Heady," I say, rolling onto my side on the bed to look at her. I frown, which I know because the muscles at my jawbone ache a little when I frown. "Did you hear all that?"
Heady raises an eyebrow and purses her lips. Heady's my big sister. Like, really big. Eight and a half feet big. That's what the Skew did to her, blew her up bigger than life, but I think it suits her. She's not as tough as she looks to most people, though. She's totally as tough as she looks to me right now.
"Sorry," I say, sitting up. "Sometimes I get confused about outside and inside my head." That's what the Skew did to me: broke my head. You can see that when I cut my hair or trim my beard, because the hairs change colors each time. Other people tell me it's silly, but I like it. I can never decide if I like red or blue or green or purple or yellow more, and this way I get to have them all, and all's better than some.
Heady sighs.
"Don't worry, Sy," she says, because Sy's my name. "You never have to apologize to me."
She smiles, and the muscles in my cheeks tense up so I know I'm smiling, too. She's a good big sister, Heady. Even if she's not real.
Well, Heady's real, but she's not real here. She used to be. The room felt even smaller and tighter back then, because my interface node was turned off and no one would turn it back on. The world was only four walls, and they were right on top of me. The window didn't matter; it was just part of the wall, wasn't it?
The door, now that mattered. Heady came through the door. She left through the door. One of those times, she introduced me to Dr. Singh. That was before he let me call him Kaipo.
"Neuroelectro therapy," I said after Kaipo did. It was just sounds.
"It means your node turns back on, Sy," Heady said. She smiled. She has a good smile, too. Not the same way as Kaipo. It's not like that. The muscles in my cheeks ached a little.
"I've been looking over your files since I was assigned your case, and … I think we can actually use our interactions through the node to re-map some pathways."
"My node turns on," I said.
"For our sessions, anyway," Kaipo said. It was the first time I saw his smile. My ears tingled.
He left us alone after Heady signed some paperwork, and then she sat us down on my bed.
"Sy, I have to go away for a while," she said. Her voice was soft, like all her hair. Her hand was light on my shoulder even though it could swallow mine.
"How long's a while?" I asked. I'm good with time. It's a pattern. I'm very good with patterns. While isn't a good pattern. It isn't time. It's pretend, like a code loop that never finishes.
"I don't know," Heady said, still soft. She hugged me to her, and I could hear her heart pounding. I remembered how mine slammed in my chest when I was trying to think of what I should say to Pointy Teeth and Bone Knuckles. Heady always knew what to say. She let me go, kneeled in front of the bed, then wrapped her sprawling hands on my shoulders. Her round eyes were a little wet, but she smiled as she looked me in my eyes. It wasn't quite as pretty as usual.
"But Dr. Singh is going to take care of you," she told me. "And once I've got things sorted out, I'm coming back for you."
I bit my lip. Not enough to hurt, which I sometimes do.
"But you have to stay here so I can find you, understand?"
"And then no more doctors or secrets, just you and me. I promise."
I didn't talk. I hugged her. It's not always easy, wrapping my arms around her, but I did it. I didn't squeeze too tight, because Heady's bones aren't as tough as normal-sized people. I held on until she hugged me back. Her hair fell around us and made the world go away. She smelled like ginger and cumin, which don't go together, except with Heady they do. I listened to her heart pounding, to the little sniff she made. I held her with my arms, then I let her go with my arms, and then she walked out the door.
"How about that doctor?" the other Heady said after the door clicked closed. That's when the other Heady started, because I'm very good with patterns, and I only let Heady's go with my arms.
"He's a cutie, right?" Heady prodded, smiling. "There's definitely potential there."
The muscles in my cheeks ached again, but only a little.
Kaipo has access to turn my interface node on and off because that's how we do neuroelectro therapy. That's when I have to call him Dr. Singh.
"It's getting more tranquil here, Sy," he says with a smile when he joins me in the closed server where we do therapy.
"That's totally good, right?" I ask.
"It totally is," he says with a little laugh. He smiles. I really like his smile. Right now it's simulated through the code, but the real one is nice, too. He shows all his teeth, even the canines that are a little crooked. It's open, his smile. I'm totally a fan of that.
So I've been practicing, smoothing out the abstract shapes and the code mutations that make being in the server interesting. They worry Kaipo. If I'm ever going to build filters, real filters and coping whatchamahooies, I have to listen to him. Plus, my chest gets a little tight when he cocks his head and frowns that worried frown. I like the smile more.
Kaipo takes us through the exercises. I make the right shapes and say the right things. I'm very good with patterns, so this feels natural. When we're done and we're back outside the server box, but inside the room box, he taps notes into his tablet.
"You weren't too good at the coding bits?" Heady asks. I bite my lip. It hurts a little this time. I shake my head.
Kaipo says being accelerated too much in one area puts me out of balance in the others. There's a middle. He's helping me find out how to present it. I can't talk out loud to Heady, though, when Kaipo is around. That definitely gets a frown and isn't what I ought to present. So I keep my mouth closed, because if I don't say anything, I can't lie. Which I'm bad at, anyway.
"This is maddening!" Heady calls out, walking around behind Kaipo. She leans down to see what's on his screen.
"Just tap in already," she says, pointing to me and then pointing to the tablet. She knows she can't really see what I can't. I shake my head.
"Come on," she drawls, kneeling next to Kaipo. She leans her head on his shoulder. "Just one little skim and you can see–"
I feel a pinch in the muscles on both the top and the bottom of my mouth, and that's how I know I'm pursing my lips. I try to wave Heady off.
"Sy?" Kaipo looks up. It's not a frown or a smile or even pursed lips exactly. That arch at his eyebrow means he noticed. He walks over. "Are you all right?"
Heady throws her hands in the air.
"If you just listened to me, you wouldn't have to–"
I stand up and smile at Kaipo and bite my lip just enough. He smiles. I like his smile.
"Okay, fine. You got this," Heady says, and walks sideways until she's not here any more.
Kaipo taps the tablet to put the security feed on a loop. I let him think I didn't do that a minute and a half ago.
I touch his fingers with mine. My cheeks feel warm. Other places, too.
I don't just like Kaipo's smile. Or his eyes. Or how he sometimes smells like pumpkin. I like that his skin is a kind of pale, not-exactly copper. I like that there's a little bit of hair around each of his nipples, and a tiny dusting of it on his sternum, but not much anywhere else under his shirt. I like the feel of his waist when my legs are wrapped around it. I like the rough sides of the spine ridges the Skew gave him. I like how soft his lips are on mine, and on my neck, and on my nipples even though they have more hair than his. I like that I don't have to talk but he knows what I need and want, and I know the same for him.
I don't like how tight my chest feels when I think about what he'll need and want once I've run away.
When they first brought me (I'm not supposed to talk about them), Heady — real Heady — came to visit every day. She held my hand, and told me what she'd done that day, only not everything, because she knew if she told it all, I might open my mouth and it would all come out.
That was how I got put in to begin with. We're special, Heady and me. It's hard — like, super duper hard — for people to have babies up here on the Rim, because one of the ways the Skew hurt just about everybody is that they can't make babies. One baby is a party. Two babies is the kind of new that's scary.
They didn't want scary, because scared makes people do even more scary. They raised us separate for a while, helped us figure out what we were good at. Heady was good with people. I was good with not-people, with patterns. They fitted me with an interface node, and it felt right. At first I could just tap the local network, and I felt less cramped in my head, but it was still small. Pycha Gol is supposed to be one of the better roids, but home was still just a floating rock in the Rim. Everything was cramped and close and slow and stinky, which I'm not a fan of.
But the planet below? They've got the hypernet, which is big and bright and open and has more to know floating around inside it than I think anyone could ever know. Even any-one-hundreds could probably never know it. I'm totally a fan of that. Which is why I started learning to skim.
I'm good with not-people, but Kaipo's been teaching me: talent is different than perfect. Especially when you're excited about something and don't really get that you have to be careful. And aren't very good at being careful even when you know to be.
The woman who came first was big. Not as big as Heady, but the Skew gave all her teeth points, which made her scarier. Her partner was a man who rode in a chair. He had bone on the outside of his knuckles. I think maybe the Skew knew they wanted to be in security. Which is weird, because everyone tells me diseases can't think.
The room was cramped and close. All smudged metal and streaky glass. The chair hurt my back, but I think maybe it was supposed to. Heady and I were eighteen. The hair at my scalp was orange from my most recent haircut. There was still some purple on the tips, though, and all the green and pink from the two cuts before that. It helped me feel a little brighter when I saw it in the smudged mirror, but then Bone Knuckles crunched his fist into the table, and Pointy Teeth leaned in and smiled. Her breath was stinky, which I'm not a fan of.
I don't think she liked the face I made when I smelled her and tried to turn away. She grabbed me by the cheeks and made me look right at her.
"So, you're going to tell us who hooked you up with hypernet access codes, and then maybe we can see about making sure you don't have to do rehab time at a conversion station."
"That's a deal you want, kid," Bone Knuckles said, wheeling his chair around to my other side. "I've been in the atmocite plant. For a place that makes our air, it is damn hard to breathe inside."
"Scrawny thing like you?" Pointy Teeth said, "I figure you might not even make it through a term before you wind up too damaged for life after." She stood back up and moved over to the wall, leaning against it. That made me feel better, because then I couldn't smell her breath. I thought how bad it'd be if I had to work in the conversion station, where it would be stinkier than anything.
"I just asked nice," I told them, because that was the truth, and I thought that's what people wanted. Bone Knuckles wheeled his chair back again and laughed.
"You hear that, Sonja?" he said. "Asked nice. That's all."
"I had to ask a lot," I clarified. Which was true. I knew it was called encryption, and I knew what I was doing with protocols and algorithms, but I knew that none of that made sense to most people the way it did to me. I was trying to make it easier for them to understand. They were still mad and confused, though. I wasn't good with people. Heady was.
That's all I was thinking when I said, "Maybe we can call my sister, and she can help me explain better, because Heady's good with–"
"Woah," Pointy Teeth said. She looked to Bone Knuckles, and he wheeled closer again while she stalked in from the other side. They looked at each other, and I looked at them, then they looked at me.
"You have a sister?" Bone Knuckles asked. I'd already remembered by then that I wasn't supposed to tell about having a sister, but it was too late. I wanted Heady there more than ever. Heady's really good at lying, but I'm no good at it at all. I'm either talking, or I'm not talking.
I didn't talk. They didn't like that. There was yelling and shaking, and Pointy Teeth threw a chair.
Since I didn't talk, I still don't know how Heady found me, but she did. And she smiled down at Pointy Teeth and Bone Knuckles.
"Adopted," she said, calmly. "Sy's my cousin, really, but his folks were in a horrible … " she sniffed and covered her eyes, and even I wanted to hug her and make her feel better for my parents who were dead, but who really she just invented on the spot.
Bone Knuckles reached into a compartment on his chair and gave Heady a handkerchief. She dabbed her eyes. They apologized. They said things about trouble and heartache even though my chest didn't hurt. They promised to track down whoever sold me skim codes, who was me but they were letting me go, because Heady and I walked out the door together.
The next day they committed me. That was three years ago.
"This is, really, the worst idea ever," Heady says. People keep walking where I put her, so I move her around. It's much more crowded outside than I remember. And stinky. I'm not a fan of that.
"Then we should go back," Heady hisses, stooping down to try to pull me out of line for the jumper. "We can still go back."
It took me a long time to get here. First Dr. Singh had to become Kaipo, and even though I liked his smile and all the other things, I had to remember about the next piece. He had to leave my node on, and even that was a tiny step.
I had to remember to be careful this time. Had to remember talent wasn't skill. That if you go too fast, they catch you. Just fast enough. Find the pattern. Fall into it. I didn't want Pointy Teeth and Bone Knuckles to drag me away again three years later.
When the orderlies thought I was sleeping, I skimmed. I started small because, Kaipo taught me you always do. You have to pick up bricks to build a wall to build a house to build a city. When you skip the normal steps, people notice.
First, I asked the internal net nicely if I could sit quiet in my little corner. I watched the bits and bobs moving around. Made a map of my tiny piece of things while the code got used to me being there.
The security systems are very territorial, which is good for a security system but was bad for me. I squeezed myself small and made my edges soft. You have to let them know you aren't mean or angry and won't try to make them let you places that belong to them. The security system hissed once or twice, and sniffed me over a few times, but eventually it stopped looking at me. I was part of its territory, so it didn't need to guard against me.
I could move around, then, and smile nice at the video feeds. Video feeds aren't like security systems. They want you to look, as long as security isn't nearby. The feeds were fans of mine, because I didn't make them pick and choose. I let them show me everything, not just the fights and the screaming and the people when their clothes came off. The feeds said the orderlies kept making them show just that last bit and ignoring empty halls, which made the hall feeds sad and lonely. But I curled up with them and didn't yawn even once when they showed me the quiet between the night patrols.
Once I learned the patterns, I had to talk to the lock timers. Locks aren't as prickly as security, but they are stubborn. They slide into place and they fall dead asleep and they don't want to move until morning. They like their routine. They don't like to change. It makes them wobbly inside, which I am totally not a fan of, so I understand. I puzzled over that until I bopped myself for forgetting I wasn't starting small again. Little bits, little bobs.
Each night, I slipped just a little more into the timing algorithms for the locks. They batted at their noses a few times. Snorted, but not loud enough that security bothered to look, because it was busy slinking and hunting, and locks and me didn't move fast enough to catch its attention. Once a lock half rolled over, and I had to hum it back to sleep because it wasn't quite time yet.
I needed a place to go when I was outside. I couldn't stay on Pycha Gol. I'm not sure if roids are the bricks or the houses, but I needed a new one. I threw a jangly bit to distract the security system, then I skimmed out into Pycho Gol's net to the jumper system to pick a route and a ship, so that when the locks opened, I wouldn't have to wait any longer.
I picked this jumper after I accessed it. It's going to a roid where they fix things, not people. I think that's a good place for me. So I nudged here and there, and when the locks woke up early while the orderlies were busy watching people with no clothes, I picked up my bag and walked through the crowds and the stink to the line because now I have a ticket, linked up on my retinal scan. I lean down and don't blink at the flash.
"We'll buzz in a little while," the jumper security guard says, strapping a little plastic bracelet to me. It fits almost like the ones at the hospital. He waves me on with his flipper-hands.
"Kaipo will get in a lot of trouble for this," Heady says.
"He really cares for you," she adds. I look her in the eye, and she cocks her head to the side. If she were real, I think she might cup my cheek in her hand. The muscles at my jawbone ache.
"I think I was bad for Kaipo," I say.
"Sy, sweetie, that's not–"
"I'm bad with people. For people."
Heady's lips thin, but she doesn't say anything.
"Kaipo's a doctor. He wanted me to get better. I'm totally better now, you heard," I say.
"He'll hurt, Sy," Heady says. "It hurts when you leave people."
"I know," I whisper, hanging my head. My eyes burn a little, and it's hard to focus.
"Then you should stay," Heady says, kneeling down in front of me. She doesn't have real fingers, but my chin picks up when she puts her hand under it, anyway.
"If you leave, I won't know where to find you when I come back," Heady says.
"That's not true," I say.
"You can't leave a trail," she says, standing in front of me, hands hovering near my shoulders because she can't touch them. Her eyes are wet. "If you did, they'd find you and put you somewhere else where they'd never let me in to–"
"Not that part," I say. My chest is tight. "You're never coming back."
Heady stands there, towering over me. I feel extra small right now.
"Don't say that," she whispers. "I promised."
"You lied," I say, walking around her, putting her at my back. I can't look at her, even if she's not really there.
It's a long few minutes while I wait for them to buzz me. I try not to breathe too deep. Then I finally hear her say it. Soft, because I probably still don't want to hear it.
I sniffle, which is totally because the air's so dirty and stinky here. I'm not a fan. I look back at Heady and her big, wet eyes. I wish she really told me. Real Heady. I wish she trusted me. But she didn't, and now she's gone. One blink later, and the other Heady's gone, too, because I can't see her any more.
I can't stay for Heady. I can't stay for Kaipo. But I can do this much for them. I can let go. Of the promise we both knew wasn't one. Of one last piece of reshaped code that shouldn't be there. Flatten it all out. No more bad patterns. Just me.
The bracelet on my wrist buzzes. It's been a little while, I guess. Now it's time.
Categories: 13 and Up, EP Original, Podcasts
Genres: Space
Alasdair Stuart, asteroid, cyberpunk, EP Original, jason kimble, Mat Weller, sex, space
Jason Kimble
Jason Kimble is a science fiction writer who began publishing in 2015. To borrow from his blog's About section:
"I'm fascinated by how people put amazingness together. Or awfulness (Let's not pretend schadenfreude doesn't happen). What field's doing the assembly changes quite frequently. Sometimes I even try putting together some of it myself. I refuse to comment on which end of the A to A spectrum that falls on.
"In slightly drier terms: I left the tornadoes of Michigan for the hurricanes of Florida, because spinning air is better when it's warm. I live there with my finally-legal husband. My most recent work appears or is forthcoming in venues such as Betwixt magazine, The Sockdolager, and Escape Pod."
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Mat Weller
Mat Weller is the servant to a lovely family in eastern Pennsylvania. After his wife and kids go to sleep at night, he sometimes re-watches old episodes of X-Files on Netflix and other times retires to his basement booth where he records noises that get played on the Internet. Rumor has it he also makes delightful chocolate chip cookies.
Oh, and in October 2014, he beat Metroid II for the first time since 1991.
Mat had the honor of producing for Escape Pod from 2010 to 2016. He is also a graphic designer, an amateur voice actor, an amateur father, and he narrates a growing catalog of books for ACX.
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On the 4th November, I talked about combining PRINCE2 and Agile (Scrum) at the Nordic Project Zone conference in Copenhagen. The audience consisted primarily of Project Managers and decision makers with a background in traditional project management. I was therefore very excited to see how my ideas on combining traditional project management and Agile, and especially my points about why you should think twice before doing it, would be received the audience. Luckily the feedback I got was very positive.
I preciously summarized my primary concerns on combining PRINCE2 and Agile in the post Be Careful Combining PRINCE2 and Agile. My slides from the conference can be found on Slideshare below.
Please feel free to leave a comment on the subject. What is your experience combining PRINCE2 with Agile?
Love the concept of PRINCE and Agile, we use these combined all the time. We've developed some tools to help check your progress with delivering PRINCE2 and Agile, they are free to use and located here http://www.totalprogrammecontrol.com . We are looking for people to help develop these further and create a PRINCE2/Agile check and guide.
Glad you likes it and good luck with your search.


Duke Bluebeard's Castle was first performed in Scotland on 30 January 1957 at the Lyric Theatre, Glasgow in a version of the score edited by Erik Chisholm for a chamber orchestra of fifteen players. This important Glaswegian musician had taken up an appointment as Dean, Professor and Principal at the College of Music, University of Cape Town in April 1946. He brought a group of his South African musicians to the UK, where they opened in London. Chisholm conducted and directed, with soloists Gregorio Fiasconaro and Desirée Talbot as Bluebeard and Judith. This intimate presentation was approved by the composer's son Peter, as an experiment, but was felt to lose more than it gained, and does not seem to have been repeated. It was given in a double-bill with Chisholm's own opera, The Inland Woman.
The full-sized score was heard at the 1963 Edinburgh Festival, in the first visit of the Hungarian State Opera and Ballet. They performed a triple-bill, following it with both Bartók's ballets, The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince. Since the whole evening was therefore regarded as ballet, it was performed not at the King's Theatre, but at the Empire – the only occasion when a Festival opera was seen there before the reconstruction of the building thirty years later. János Ferencsik conducted a staging by Kálmán Nádasdy, with András Faragó and Olga Szönyi as Bluebeard and Judith.
In 1973 this company returned with a production by András Mikó, again conducted by Ferencsik, this time at the King's Theatre. Only one ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin was seen this time. There was an alternating cast of singers, with György Melis and Katalin Kasza (soon to be a Covent Garden Brünnhilde) joining the previous pair.
On the final visit of Sadler's Wells Opera touring to Edinburgh in 1972, a new production by Glen Byam Shaw, in designs by Ralph Koltai, was conducted by Charles Mackerras. The singers were Don Garrard and Ava June. Scottish Opera's first staging of the work, in 1990, was, like the SWO version, sung in English and paired with Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. Monte Jaffé and Kathryn Harries were conducted by Vakhtang Matchavariani in a production directed and designed by Stefanos Lazaridis.
Scottish Opera's second production, in 2004, was conducted by Richard Armstrong and directed by André Engel. The two Hungarian soloists were Michele Kálmándi and Andrea Szántó. The pairing this time was Schoenberg's Erwartung.
The most recent Festival staging was by the Frankfurt Opera in 2013, when Robert Hayward and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner sang in Barrie Kosky's production, conducted by Constantinos Carydis. The first part of the evening could hardly have been a more complete contrast, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Concert performances at the Edinburgh Festival have undoubtedly been an effective method to increase audience familiarity and display artists who would not be available for full stagings. In 1984 the Royal Philharmonic appeared, with Walter Weller conducting Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Julia Varady. The BBC Symphony Orchestra with László Polgár and Michelle DeYoung were conducted by Pierre Boulez in 2001. Ilan Volkov and his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra appeared in 2004, with John Relyea and Petra Lang.


On Sloat Blvd. next to the tennis courts you will find a fantastic spot to spend a lazy afternoon with some friends getting fresh air and throwing horseshoes.
Most dogs are friendly. So in our play areas, the socializing always provokes a laugh. And often, the people make friends, too.
Practice your putt for the PGA or an outing at one of the 6 courses the San Francisco Rec and Park maintains for its citizens.
Bring your tot or your pup for an afternoon break at this small play area and off-leash dog run in Ingleside Heights.
This playground has a play structure, a large grass area with some nice shrubbery (perfect for the pooch to run around); in addition, there are three tennis courts and a basketball court.
Take a mini-break in this Ingleside green pocket. The bench is a convenient spot to relax or wait for the bus, and there's a small play structure to amuse kids.
Located on Eucalyptus Drive near Stonestown and Lowell High School, Rolph Nicol Park is a quiet three-acre green space in the Park Merced neighborhood surrounded by magnificent eucalyptus trees.


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Twitter's Boss in Greater China Kathy Chen Quits After 8 Months
Kathy Chen speaks at a forum in Shanghai, October 18, 2016. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Twitter Inc executive Kathy Chen, brought in to run Greater China just over eight months ago, has quit, according to a tweet sent by her over the weekend.
Twitter has been blocked in China since 2009 but is still used through virtual private networks (VPN).
Domestically, the Sina Weibo microblogging platform and Tencent's WeChat messaging app are more widely used. But Chinese entities, including the state news agency Xinhua, use Twitter to reach audiences abroad.
Chen, who previously worked at Microsoft and Cisco, was brought in to lure more Chinese advertisers to Twitter. At the time, social media criticism focused on her early work with Chinese state-affiliated enterprises.
"Now that the Twitter APAC team is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," she wrote.
Twitter grew its Greater China advertiser base nearly 400 percent over the past two years, she wrote, making it one of the firm's fastest growing revenue markets in Asia Pacific (APAC).
Twitter's top Chinese advertisers have included Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, online shopping giant Alibaba Group, white goods producer Qingdao Haier and flag carrier Air China.
"We remain committed to this market," Chen said, adding the company's Hong Kong office would remain open.
Twitter confirmed it would retain the Hong Kong office to serve Hong Kong-based clients, but declined to provide further details on Chen's departure.
QUESTIONING THE VALUE
The end of Chen's relationship with Twitter comes at a time when China is urging for greater internet curbs.
The country has condemned foreign social media as a hotbed for fake news and cyberterrorism, sending ominous signals to Western firms that are eyeing a piece of the Chinese market, home to the world's largest population of internet users.
"When China's economy was really on fire it created enough smoke to obscure the realities of what foreign tech companies were really going to be permitted to do here," says Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting.
" you are getting more companies who are beginning to question the value of the investments they are making here."
The popular but money-losing microblogging service Twitter has moved its Chinese ad sales and support activities to its APAC headquarters in Singapore.
Twitter has been undergoing a significant shakeup, and not only in Asia, announcing in October that it would cut more than nine percent of its global workforce to keep costs down.
Parminder Singh, managing director for India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, left the company in early November.
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We have seen business technology platforms evolve dramatically with the advent of the cloud. Tying down your technology platform to utilise and host a limited number of applications is the old world. To innovate and adapt, businesses require a platform and network that allows them to embrace the new app-driven world. However, IT leaders also want to retain control and manage access to their critical business data. A protective wrapper around your agile technology and applications is essential.


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