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Cuevas de la Blanca es una pedanía española perteneciente al municipio de Benamaurel, en la provincia de Granada (comunidad autónoma de Andalucía). Se encuentra situada a una altitud de 680 m. y cuenta con una población de 66 habitantes (INE 2009).

Se encuentra situada a orillas del río Guardal, a la altura de la confluencia de éste con el río Cúllar. Destaca la forma de vivienda en cuevas, y el tradicional Molino de los Burgos.

Cuevas de la Blanca celebra sus fiestas de forma conjunta con Huerta Real (también pedanía de Benamaurel) el último fin de semana de agosto, en honor a San Agustín.

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Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer with an incidence that is rising rapidly. It is estimated that 80,000 patients will be diagnosed with melanoma in 2016 in the United States, with over 10,000 patients dying of metastatic disease. The impact of this on society is significant, costing a significant number of life years lost per cancer-related death (melanoma is 2nd in this ranking) and draining the US economy by $3.5 billion per year. Thus, melanoma is an aggressive disease with a rising incidence and a significant public health burden. Though early stage disease may be cured with surgery, late stage disease is often fatal. Research is an important part in fighting this cancer.
Exploring the role of the tumor microbiome in response and resistance to molecularly targeted therapy for melanoma. The major goal of this project is to establish a new dimension in cancer treatment targeting the microbiome with the potential to combine this strategy with molecularly targeted therapies.
Exploring molecular and immune mechanisms of response and resistance to combined BRAF / MEK inhibition in patients with high-risk resectable metastatic melanoma. The major goals of this project is determine the influence of treatment with neoadjuvant / adjuvant BRAF/MEK inhibition in patients with high-risk resectable BRAF-mutant melanoma. Characterize molecular mechanisms of resistance to combined BRAF/MEK inhibition and correlate with response to treatment and relapse-free survival.
Exploring the Synergy of Combined BRAF-Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy for Melanoma. The major goals of this project are (1) to better understand the downstream signaling responses and immune responses to oncogenic BRAF and the BRAF/MAPK pathway inhibition in melanoma; and (2) to study these responses in vitro and in an in vivo model of BRAF-mutant melanoma, as well as in patients with metastatic melanoma being treated with BRAF/MAPK pathway inhibitors.
An immune repertoire deep sequencing companion diagnostic for ipilimumab. The major goal of this project is to test the hypothesis that the pre-treatment TCRB repertoire of peripheral and tumor infiltrating T-cells predict late stage melanoma patient's response to ipilimumab.
Our findings are published in high-impact scientific research journals.


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Q: Connect Android Emulator to local network Does anyone know how can I connect my android emulator to my local host network. I am trying to test web services. I can test services in my local host using 10.0.2.2 but I cannot test a local server in my host network. I have searched all day yesterday and today with no good results. Thanks for any help.

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Web Host News – LONDON, UK – OnApp has launched new cloud management apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The new apps provide a wide range of cloud management capabilities for cloud hosts powered by OnApp, and for their customers. iPad and Android are supported for the first time, as well as the ability for cloud providers to rebrand the app on iPhone/iPad. This enables hosts to give their customers a bespoke cloud management app without the time and expense of developing their own.
The apps are free to download. They enable anyone using clouds built with OnApp Cloud software to manage and monitor cloud services on the move. The new app for iPhone/iPad includes the ability to create virtual machines; track disk, RAM, CPU and bandwidth usage; change virtual machine RAM and CPU resources; and view logs and other details. Hosts can also customize the app with their own logo, look and feel and language. The version for Android is the first release for the platform, and provides a range of cloud monitoring capabilities.
"A smartphone app is an important differentiator for cloud providers," said Roger Nolan, CTO of OnApp. "It's a way for a cloud host to add value to its service, and of course it means end users and system administrators have instant access to their cloud, wherever they are. Fixing a problem, adding more CPU and RAM to cope with a spike in traffic, or spinning up a new VM can be done anywhere."
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Dediserve is an incredibly successful cloud hosting provider based in Ireland. The company is a long-standing user of OnApp Cloud software, offering Virtual Datacentre (private cloud) and flexible Cloud Machine services powered by OnApp. Dediserve has just released its own branded version of the app for iPhone/iPad.
Dediserve's Managing Director, Aidan McCarron, said: "Using OnApp Cloud software we grew our cloud business from scratch to €1 million+ revenue in the first year. The OnApp cloud app is another great way for us to continue that growth. We could create a unique branded app specifically for Dediserve customers, free of charge and without having to develop our own. That's an incredible value-add for us, and really attractive to our customers. It's another reason why OnApp is the best bet for any host that's serious about the cloud."
OnApp Cloud for iPhone/iPad – key features
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The app is free and available now at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id405042545#
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OnApp provides a Rebranding Package that gives hosts access to the configuration files used to change the app's look and feel. This is being rolled out to select customers immediately, and will be freely available to customers with a paid OnApp license.
OnApp Cloud for Android – key features
The new app for Android devices is the first release of OnApp Cloud for the platform. It provides basic cloud monitoring functions, including the ability to view cloud resource usage and monitor CPU and bandwidth used by individual virtual machines. These features will be enhanced in future releases to provide equivalent functionality for iPhone, iPad and Android users.
The app is free and available now from http://onapp.com/files/android/onapp.apk, and will be available on the Android Marketplace in the near future.
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Sonoma County is widely known as wine country – home to award-winning vineyards and a weekend wine tasting destination for tourists.
This recent article in the New York Times talks about how with the passage of Prop. 64, many questioned whether the wine industry would find a step decline in revenue because consumers would find weed to be a new, interesting intoxicant they could now purchase without difficulty.
It turns out that many local wine growers have no problem with marijuana at all; some of them even welcome it.
To underscore how not worried these Sonoma County winemakers are, in August a Wine & Weed Symposium will be held in Santa Rosa, where growers, fans, and consumers of both can meet and discuss both industries, and what the future may hold.


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Hampshire College has been designed as a residential learning community, because our founders knew that many important lessons are learned from peers through lively discussions and late night debates. Most new students live in our traditional-style dorms, Dakin and Merrill, which consist of single and double rooms in halls with shared bathrooms (see details below). Residency in these dorms is a rite of passage and an invaluable part of acclimation to the social life of the Hampshire community.
Each new student is required to submit a housing preference form, which is available on TheHub in the months preceding the student's enrollment. Forms should be submitted by July 1 for students entering for the fall term, and by January 1 for students beginning at Hampshire in the spring term. In keeping with our mission to provide and uphold a system based in fairness, all housing preference forms submitted by the deadline will be randomized to determine the order in which room assignments will be made. Forms submitted after the deadline will be considered in the order in which they are received. Please understand that we are rarely able to meet all of a student's preferences, but we strive to balance the needs of all students in order to create healthy residential communities.
Consider Your Options
New students should be sure to read all of the questions on the housing preference form and consider all of their housing options before selecting their preferences. Please note some options have specific instructions, and that choosing certain options may restrict other preferences.
Singles vs. Doubles
About 25% of the entering class will be housed in a double room. Much time and effort goes into making the most appropriate roommate matches. Starting with all students who select "dorm, double" as their first choice, then those who say they have no preference as to single or double, roommates are matched according to any lifestyle and personality information gleaned from the housing preference form. If there are still vacancies in double rooms, students are chosen randomly from the rest of the class, and then carefully matched to their best-fitting counterpart, until all doubles are filled. Due to enrollment levels, we often need to house some first year students in triple rooms for the beginning of the fall semester. These students will have priority for moving as other rooms become available on campus, but will also have the option to remain in the room if they wish.
Roommate matches are currently made utilizing the legal sex of students. "F"s are matched with "F"s and "M"s with "M"s.
Older and transfer students who select "apartment, double" may be placed in Greenwich, Enfield, or Prescott as space permits.
Every dorm hall has one bathroom for the use of all its residents. There are toilet stalls with locking doors as well as shower stalls with private, locking changing areas. The bathrooms on all-gender halls are open to students of all genders. The residents of women's and men's halls will decide among themselves if their bathrooms will be available for use by guests of other genders. The apartment-style residences, Greenwich, Enfield, and Prescott, have at least one bathroom per five students.
Though every effort will be made to meet students' preferences, medical information disclosed in the context of the housing preference form cannot be shared with other departments, and may not be considered in the student's housing assignment. If a student has a medical need that must be accommodated by the College in order for the student to have a successful residential experience, that student must receive an accommodation from the office of accessibility resources and services in order to ensure the student's needs are met.
Changing Preferences After the Deadline
If a student's housing preferences change significantly after the form has been submitted, the student may contact the housing operations office, and we will do our best to accommodate these changes.
Finding Room Assignments
Room assignments will be available on TheHub no later than one week prior to new students' arrival. Students should contact the helpdesk if they have trouble accessing their accounts. Students assigned to doubles will see their roommate's name below their room assignment, and may contact them at their discretion (contact information can be found in the Hampshire directory). Room assignments are listed in the format of DAK K407; the first three letters designate the building, the letter designates the section, the first number designates the floor, and the last two numbers are the room on that hall. For more information on each hall, see the Housing Designations page. For more information on each building, see the Residences page. Please contact housing with any specific questions!
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Vocal Jazz Summit Debuts in Virginia Beach
At the Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach, Va., between April 8 and 10, the Vocal Jazz Summit convened in person for the first time. Created by vocalist Alexis Cole in partnership with Elizabeth Terrell (also a vocalist known professionally as Liz Terrell) and the team at Zeiders, the event was a hybrid of festival, conference, and workshop with performances, master classes, panels, and jam sessions all targeted at vocalists as well as vocal jazz fans. Among the artists who appeared as performers and/or clinicians were Kurt Elling, René Marie, Samara Joy, Melanie Charles, Dominique Eade, Stephanie Nakasian, and Jocelyn Medina.
Cole, who is also the founder and director of the online community jazzvoice.com, created the event to further that site's impact and enable singers to share ideas and resources, both in-person and virtually. More than 100 vocalists and vocal jazz fans attended the events held over three days at the theater's two state-of-the-art venues: a main stage with a capacity of 300 and a smaller room, the Studio Theater, that held about 100. The sessions were all streamed live, and participants from around the world commented and asked questions during the workshops and panels.
Kurt Elling kicked off the Summit on Friday night with a performance by his SuperBlue band featuring Charlie Hunter, Corey Fonville, and DJ Harrison. This electric, groove-oriented group might have seemed out of place at an event in which scattering and repertoire choice were certain to be hot topics. However, Elling did Do a lot of scatting, perhaps more than he would have done at other SuperBlue shows, what with an audience of jazz vocal enthusiasts listening intently. And his much-heralded adaptations of jazz tunes with either his own lyrics or those of a noted poet offered plenty of lessons for singers wanting to create engaging music. Besides, there would be plenty of opportunities in the next few days to discuss how best to scat and how to handle the challenges of repertoire.
Kurt Elling performing with SuperBlue at the Vocal Jazz Summit in Virginia Beach (photo: Mark Robbins)
Indeed, one opportunity came right away during the first session on Saturday, a master class presented by Melanie Charles, who talked at first about her own evolution as a vocalist, explaining that she eventually realized "I don't have to scat to call myself a jazz singer." Other advice from the Brooklyn-born singer with Haitian family roots included advocating for yourself with sound people, learning how to record yourself, accompanying yourself on piano or guitar, and listening to different versions of a song when learning it and thereby looking for spaces that aren't necessarily jazz. Charles then asked three different singers to come up to workshop a tune they've been wrestling with. Carolyn Lee Jones came up to sing "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" and asked for input on scatting. What cellables would work best? Melanie said her Haitian background makes certain sounds appropriate for her and recommended that Carolyn explore her own Norwegian background for the sounds that felt right.
Sela Foster, a 17-year-old high-school junior, came up to sing a surprisingly mature "The Nearness of You," after which Charles suggested redoing the tune, this time thinking more about the meaning of the lyrics. Finally, a retired music teacher initially struggled with her version of "If I Should Lose You" but was coached through it by Charles and the pianist Daniel Clark. She also had some trouble with an original but soared after Charles suggested that she sing it a cappella. That sort of personal and hands-on feedback would typify subsequent master classes conducted by René Marie and Stephanie Nakasian.
Later that same day, Marie opened her class by singing "Smile" a cappella, demonstrating the importance of bringing emotion to the delivery of a song. She discussed how things that are beneath the surface affect your singing. "It's about being vulnerable," she explained, and she proceeded to address vulnerability by asking the audience where they felt most comfortable singing. Naturally, the usual familiar locations—shower, car, kitchen—were suggested. Comfort zones all. She also recommended that they think of when they were children and sang without worrying about what anyone thought. "What did you feel then?" she asked. Marie explained that singers "can go to bed with our instrument and wake up with it as well, and that any criticism about our voice is a criticism about ourselves, so when we come up to the mic, we have internalized all these doubts and judgments ." But how to get out of them? She said that for her, the relationship with the audience is a key factor. "There's a space between the singer and the audience," she noted. "So how do you bridge the space between the singer and the audience?" There were all sorts of ideas from the singers in the audience, including an inverse of that old public-speaking saw of thinking of the audience as naked. In this version, it's the performers who think of themselves as stripped—a notion that would resurface over the next few days, but one that not everyone felt comfortable with.
René Marie (right) with Kelly MacKenzie-Thurley, a voice professor at Northern Kentucky University, in a master class at the Vocal Jazz Summit in Virginia Beach (photo: Mark Robbins)
Marie also strongly recommended that singers practice by taking one tune in as many different keys and tempos as possible. She illustrated that approach when Sally Terrell came up to sing a powerful Carole King-style original called "Blue Piano" about her relationship with her father. Marie suggested that she try it as a bossa nova, and then in 6/8 time. The song seemed to have a new life.
When asked about choosing a repertoire, Marie (known for her wide-open use of songs across many genres) told the story of an early encounter in her career with a noted Chicago jazz club owner, who reprimanded her to stay still and just sing standards. Though initially conflicted, the physically expressive and intellectually creative Marie said that she ignored his advice, did her own originals and moved about the stage for the rest of her run at the club—and was, ironically, rewarded with a favorable review by the noted jazz critic Howard Reich in the Chicago Tribune. The message: Be true to yourself. Marie would even turn that experience into an "answer" song, "This for Joe," which she recorded on her 2011 album Black Lace Freudian Slip.
In the next master class, Stephanie Nakasian took a more technical approach, offering instruction from two of her books—her singing text You Already Know How to Sing and her jazz rhythm manual It's Not On the Page—all enhanced by her fast-paced commentary and colorful aspects. One of her central messages was that the goal of a singer is to tell a story and to connect with words, rhythm, and timing. A true singer's singer, Nakasian also succinctly demonstrated how a singer could use pulsing quarter notes and sustain in a clear and distinct way.
In addition to the master classes, there were performances by the hosts in a series of teacher showcases, in which each vocalist would sing two songs with a house rhythm section of pianist Daniel Clark, bassist Chris Brydge and drummer Imre Katari, all players of note from the Richmond and Virginia Beach area. For instance, Nakasian showcased all that technique during her renditions of "Nica's Dream" and "Close Your Eyes." In most cases, these performances were followed by a vocal jam in which the attendees got onstage for a song or two in what was clearly a safe and supportive space. To name just one example, Liz Terrell ran through an original adaptation of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman," with an arrangement she had been working on but hadn't fully developed.
Both Cole and Samara Joy presented full-fledged concert sets on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Cole, who accompanies herself on piano, was backed by bassist David Finck and drummer Kenny Hassler. Her set featured a mix of standards like "Bye Bye Blackbird," "God Bless the Child," and "The Girl from Ipanema" with originals, including a few from her album Sky Blossom, in which she revisited material from her time served in the US Army. "American Anthem" was a particular highlight. Her duet with Finck on "Jitterbug Waltz" was also impressive.
In her event-closing concert, Joy was accompanied by that same rhythm section along with a longtime collaborator, guitarist Pasquale Grasso. Like Cole, Joy couldn't resist doing a vocal/bass duet with Finck, in her case on "Say You Love Me." Her chemistry with Grasso was particularly evident in their performance of "'Round Midnight." The aptly named Joy has an old-soul quality with a deep affinity for the jazz tradition, as evidenced by her writing lyrics to notable jazz instrumental solos. The show culminated with a group scat that Joy set up as a competition, knowing full well that she had an audience ready and willing to sing in full voice. In just a few years, Joy has become an in-demand performer at clubs, theaters, and festivals all over the world, following a career path similar to those of singers like Cécile McLorin Salvant, Cyrille Aimée, Veronica Swift, and Jazzmeia Horn. But as much as these vocalists may share, they're all individuals with their own distinct voices, which bodes well for the future of the music.
Samara Joy performs at the Vocal Jazz Summit in Virginia Beach (photo: Mark Robbins)
Earlier that day, in a panel moderated by Dominique Eade and featuring nearly all of the vocalist hosts, Joy—who studied with Cole at SUNY Purchase and is a product of the New York City public school system—talked about her recent experiences as an emerging artist dealing with the industry. She also shared that she didn't get into jazz until her senior year of high school. The panel discussed the necessity of formal music education for vocalists; Marie pointed out that all of the great vocalists of the past had none and had to learn on the bandstand. However, she added that there are no shortcuts and that the learning process continues off the bandstand and out of school. Marie also responded with emotion and conviction to a query from a vocalist about how she could command respect from her sidemen: by the tunes as well as they do and, more importantly, by not calling them sidemen, regardless of their gender. "The band doesn't need you, they can play without you," she said. "But you need them, so treat them as equals on the bandstand." Another panel featured jazz radio hosts Jae Sinnett, Mary Foster Conklin, and Jack Frieden, who discussed the ways and means of airplay for vocal jazz recordings. Each explained their process for programming their shows.
In the end, the Vocal Jazz Summit offered a wealth of ideas, experiences, and career strategies for the attendees—who, it must be noted, were mostly women. Why there weren't more men attending or, in a larger sense, why there aren't more male vocalists in the field was never discussed. Nonetheless, the predominantly female composition of the event made for a supportive environment, which enabled the participants to take chances and explore new possibilities in their approach to singing jazz, whether they scatted or not. In much the same way that Roseanna Vitro has done in the past with her panel sessions and interviews, Cole and Terrell are well on their way to building a jazz vocal community, which should produce welcome benefits in the future.
Next year's Vocal Jazz Summit will be held March 31 – April 2, 2023. For more information about the event, visit their website here.
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Cowards Bend the Knee (Again)
Published on February 14, 2021 May 3, 2021 by thekingsnecktie
When 2020 ended, I was among many who celebrated the end of that annus horribilis. 2021 is already better under the stewardship of Biden & Harris. Even so, amid that improvement, it has also brought us, in just six short weeks, two of the darkest days in modern American history.
One of course was January 6th, when we saw a bloodthirsty mob sack the US Capitol and try to murder a slew of federal officials and overturn a free and fair election. The other was February 13th when the Republican Party refused to hold accountable the president who fomented that attack.
Worst President's Day weekend ever.
No one really thought there were going to be 17 Republican votes to convict; how could there be, when so many Senate Republicans told us outright both before and during the trial that they had already made up their minds? (So much for their oath as jurors.) How could there be, when Senators like Graham, Lee, and Cruz openly and brazenly coordinated with the defense team?
Hell, I was surprised we got seven. I've been very hard in these pages on Collins and Sasse in particular, and while their votes to convict do not absolve them of their past shamefulness, let's give credit where it's due, along with Romney (again), Murkowski, Toomey, and—surprises—Burr and Cassidy.
It is deliberately hard to remove a US president via impeachment. For context, this was still the largest and most bipartisan vote to convict in US history, covering four Senate trials over 152 years (half of which starred Donald Trump). Indeed, for the first time ever, a bipartisan majority of US Senators decreed that an American president is guilty of high crimes and unfit for office. I would venture that with the passage of time, the power of the House managers' case will loom even larger than just the 57-43 number.
And so will the cowardice of the 43 votes to acquit.
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There is little to say about Trump's "defense" that hasn't already been said. The retired Florida man and his lawyers were so contemptuous of the process that they barely bothered to mount one, using less than three hours to engage in shameless whataboutism (while denying they were doing so), showing a montage of random, out of context sound bites (while openly accusing the House managers of doctoring their own footage, which is an outrageously slanderous allegation), and arguing—irrelevantly—that the President has extra-special First Amendment rights above anyone else's.
But a collage of clips from Madonna, Johnny Depp, and Maxine Waters that had zero practical impact isn't remotely comparable to the aggressive propaganda campaign and solicitation of violence that Trump and his enablers engaged in over months, let alone the lethal results. Also: none of them are President.
But there was a subtext to that, video, which Jake Tapper dubbed "a Sean Hannity mixtape." In The New Yorker, Amy Davidson Sorkin quotes House manager Del. Stacey Plaskett, of the Virgin Islands, who said, "It is not lost on me that so many of (the speakers in the videos) were people of color. And women—Black women." Sorkin adds: "As Trump surely knows, that message won't be lost on his supporters, either."
In a twist worthy of a John Grisham thriller, we also got the eleventh hour revelation of a screaming match between Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in mid-riot, in which Kevin called the White House pleading for help, and Donald replied, "Well Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," prompting McCarthy to scream back, "Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?"
I think he knew, Kev. Because he owns you.
As Jennifer Rubin notes, just how low is Kevin McCarthy that even after all that, in the weeks following January 6th he still kept silent about what he knew, voted against impeachment, and even trekked down to Florida to kiss Trump's ass, er, ring.
In prison they have a word for people like that, but I won't use it because I'm too woke. (#sexismisbad, amirite?)
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As far as Trump's defense goes, the conventional wisdom is that Republican Senators needed cover to justify why they voted to acquit….but do they? Their base already believes this is a witchhunt. All they needed was the flimsiest of fig leafs, and Trump's legal team seemed to dead set on giving them the flimsiest leaf humanly possible.
Which brings us to Mitch McConnell, whose bizarre and infuriating speech at the end of the proceedings was a master class in utter hypocrisy and howling cynicism, even by his own Olympian standards in those arenas.
McConnell affirmed Trump's guilt as established by the House managers, but insisted that the Senate had to acquit him on a technicality, which is to say, timing, because he is no longer in office.
First of all, that issue was settled with very first vote of the trial, in which the historical precedent for trying a former official was firmly established, and the Senate voted to affirm it. Mitch, of course, is not a constitutional scholar, but 144 people who are wrote an open letter during the trial confirming that position. The Constitution leaves it to the Senate to decide its own rules when it comes to impeachment, and once it did so, the jurors are supposed to abide by that and rule on the evidence, as Richard Burr (R-NC) did. But Mitch has never been big on rules that are inconvenient for him.
More to the blood-boiling point, even if it were true that a former president can't be tried, McConnell himself is responsible for that timing, by refusing to allow this trial to happen before January 20th. In so doing, he personally created the conditions he now claims tie his hands. To state the bleeding obvious, would he and the others have stood on this specious technicality—let alone created it—if it had been a former Democratic president?
So Mitch's grave, sanctimonious closing statement condemning Trump was so much bullshit. MSNBC legal analyst Ari Melber tidily summarized his position: "Trump did it, but the only time we could try him was when I prevented it."
It was largely a speech aimed at corporate donors, the backbone of the old school plutocratic wing of the GOP, who need a pretext to continue supporting a Republican Party that would forgive Donald Trump for a sin like this….which they are glad to do, but know it's shitty PR, absent the facade of Captain Renault-like posturing like Mitch's.
And there was still more hypocrisy in McConnell's attempt to have it both ways. He railed self-righteously against Trump's Big Lie, but it's a lie that he actively abetted. Transparently, he passed the buck to the criminal justice system for further prosecution of Trump's transgressions, throwing the onus onto the Biden Justice Department (ironically, to be led by Merrick Garland) which he knows will be a fundraising extravaganza for Republicans as they rail against the never-ending Democratic vindictiveness. Indeed, that fundraising effort began within minutes of the acquittal, MSNBC reported.
In closing, McConnell claimed that in coming to this conclusion he engaged in "intense reflection." Which I always thought vampires were incapable of.
Most Republican Senators predicated their not guilty vote on the idea that Trump's actions did not constitute incitement, or short of that, in any way render him unfit for office.
These same Republicans are members of a movement that believes Hillary's email protocol merited "locking her up," that Benghazi justified two years of multimillion dollar investigations at taxpayer expense (yielding nothing), and that Bill Clinton deserved removal for lying about an affair…..but fomenting a violent insurrection gets a pass? Again, the Republican defense is that Trump did no such thing, but it's risible. Even if one takes the indefensible position that his actions didn't constitute "incitement," and that he is somehow still fit for public office, the majority of the GOP refuses even to criticize him on the matter or acknowledge its gravity. Such is the behavior of pathetic, shit-scared little weasels.
George Conway is among many who have said that Republican cowardice in Trump's first impeachment is what led to January 6. There can be no doubt. Indeed, it was Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead House manager in that trial, who told us in his closing statement a year ago that, if left in office, Trump would soon do something like he did in Ukrainegate yet again.
And he did. In fact much much worse.
In The New Yorker, Susan Glasser writes:
Trump alone never could have wreaked such mayhem on our democracy, on our Capitol. His mob is not just the thugs who attacked cops with flagpoles on January 6th; it also includes some of the elected officials inside the besieged building, the ones in suits who advanced and promoted Trump's election lies, just as they had advanced and promoted so many of his other lies for the previous four years. Of course, they are standing by him now.
Lead House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) hit the nail in his closing statement, addressing a group that likes to describe itself as "the world's greatest deliberative body":
This is almost certainly how you will be remembered by history. That might not be fair. It really might not be fair. But none of us can escape the demands of history and destiny right now. Our reputations and our legacy will be inextricably intertwined with what we do here and with how you exercise your oath to do impartial justice.
SEE DONNY RUN
As Tim Miller writes in The Bulwark, we now live in a world where Donald Trump might very well be president again. Miller specifies that that is not a prediction that he will run, let alone win, or that the odds favor it (which they don't), but merely that it is now a possibility in purely practical terms, since the US Senate did not see fit to prevent it.
On that front, my friend Scott Matthews has pondered whether the failure to convict and bar Trump from office might actually come back to haunt the GOP, not only in terms of public demonstration of its shamefulness, but by keeping a Trump candidacy in the mix for the next three-plus years, cockblocking other Republican hopefuls (like the conniving Nikki Haley) or at least severely complicating the situation. Only time will tell, as I used to say at the end of my undergraduate history papers, when I wrapped them up at 4:30 a.m. on the morning they were due.
But does Trump even want to be president again? Or does he just wanna be on Twitter? He loves to be the center of attention, of course, but he is also lazy and selfish, and would prefer to play golf and raw dog porn stars than have to, ya know, work.
Maybe he will run just for the legal protections the office provides, 'cause he's gonna need it. As even McConnell pointed out, Trump still faces criminal prosecution at the federal, state, and municipal levels over this and many other crimes. (I would add the International Criminal Court to that list.)
And of course there's future conduct to consider as well. I've compared Trump to OJ before, in numerous ways, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump follow his lead again in squandering his acquittal with new crimes, just as he did after skating on Russiagate and Ukrainegate. Guard your trophies, folks.
Since Trump has not been barred from running again, the practical impact of the impeachment will largely be to lay down a marker that at least some members of the body politic will not tolerate insurrection—an important point, even if you'd think it was self-evident—and to (further) stain Trump as the worst US president ever. Though conviction and disqualification would have been preferable, that's still no small thing, even if in terms of concrete impact, his de-platforming from social media may well have a more severe repercussions.
If Trump does choose to run again, he will have to do so without the help of Jack Dorsey and his preferred megaphone, and while bearing the scarlet "I" of twin impeachments, and our collective memory of all the horrors he wrought, from caged children to half a million dead to a violent attempted self-coup.
Still, watching the behavior of right wing America through all this, I am not ready to write that off as an impossibility.
TRAVESTY REPEATED
Here's Heather Cox Richardson:
Republican Senators willing to excuse Trump for his incitement of an insurrection that attacked our peaceful transfer of power are tying the Republican party to the former president and to an ideology that would end our democracy.
What led the rioters on January 6, 2021, to try to hurt our elected officials and overturn the legal results of the 2020 election was Trump's long-time assertion that he won in a landslide and the presidency had been stolen from him.
This big lie, as observers are calling it, is not one of Trump's many and random lies, it is the rallying cry for a movement to destroy American democracy. He is building a movement based on the idea that his supporters are the only ones truly defending the nation, because they—not the people who certified the 2020 election—are the ones who know the true outcome of the election. He is creating a narrative in which he is the only legitimate leader of the nation and anyone who disagrees is a traitor to the Constitution.
As (House manager David) Cicilline noted, even after the riot Trump refused to repudiate that big lie. And now, even in the face of impeachment he has not repudiated it. Indeed, he has doubled down on it, refusing to admit he is a "former" president. His supporters haven't admitted it, either, including his supporters who sit in Congress. None of those who challenged the counting of the electoral votes on January 6 and 7 has admitted it was a political stunt. Now, they are arguing that impeachment is a partisan attack on the part of Democrats.
Trump is not trying to win just this trial: he is trying to win control of the Republican Party and, through it, the country.
I've recycled the title of this essay from the last time craven Senate Republicans let the worst president in American history off the hook, the final installment in a four-part series on the Ukraine impeachment collectively titled "Travesty." At the time I had no idea there would be a reprise just a year later, with even higher stakes.
The GOP has now told future presidents, "If you don't like the results of a given election, feel free to send a mob to try to overturn it." It has also given the green light to violent political intimidation at the everyday level.
One of the reasons that the abortive decision to call witnesses was hastily reversed, we are told, is that the House mangers discovered that numerous would-be witnesses were too afraid for their lives to testify. No doubt some Republican Senators were afraid too. In the words of former Assistant US Attorney Daniel Goldman (one of the prosecutors in the last impeachment), we have gone from a point where Republicans feared a mean tweet from Trump, to one where they fear for their physical safety from an army of thugs that Trump commands…..and that is surely emboldened by his acquittal yet again.
When you let a criminal off the hook, what do they usually do? Commit more crimes of course. Within hours of his acquittal Trump was already firing up his followers and talking about holding new rallies as part of his Nixonian-style comeback. Those followers, similarly emboldened, are no doubt getting their zipties and tasers and tactical gear ready.
Former Republican strategist Kurt Bardella, now of the Lincoln Project, has opined that the GOP is now a domestic terrorist party and should be treated as such. (In this he is echoing Noam Chomsky, who has been saying something like that for years.) It's impossible to look at what just happened in the past six weeks and offer a rational rebuttal.
If and when there comes more violence, what will these Senate Republicans say?
"Not my fault," I presume, as all cowards do.
In the meantime, the rest of us will be left with the damage that they have done to the republic, and the shame that they brought on us all.
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Troubling, very troubling but from my perspective these cowardly actions were hardly surprising.


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Rick Kurtzbein at 451 Research® has written a comprehensive article assessing Infomart Data Centers' expansion of its U.S. footprint since Fortune Data Centers and the Dallas Infomart combined assets under a single operating entity and rebranded less than two short years ago. Infomart Data Centers' strategy includes offering premium wholesale colocation services to IT service and cloud hosting providers, as well as content and media companies — firms that require concurrently maintainable data center services supported by low-latency, dense connectivity services to align with their business objectives.
Since launching operations under its current, unified shingle, Infomart Data Centers completed an expansion in Dallas, kicked off a major expansion in Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, and acquired a data center in Ashburn, Virginia, which it's currently renovating to enter its fourth multi-tenant data center (MTDC) market in North America. Infomart reports it has inked $240 million in leasing activity with existing and new customers, including Equinix and Nimbix in Dallas, and LinkedIn in Hillsboro, since the merger.
As the 451 Research report attests, Infomart's market expansion has benefited from sound strategic decision-making and ownership by the ASB Allegiance Real Estate Fund. In Dallas, for example, Infomart reinforced its wholesale data center services offering by investing in a speculative data hall, launching a Meet-Me Room (MMR) and eliminating monthly recurring interconnect charges, all of which played a pivotal role in winning the Nimbix deal. 451 Research, in fact, predicted that Infomart will experience continued success leasing premium wholesale and colocation space supported by dense connectivity services.
In 2008, Fortune Data Centers launched its first wholesale data center in San Jose, and in 2012 launched a second facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. The company also announced the acquisition of AOL's Ashburn data center, which added a fourth market and effectively created a national footprint with facilities in Silicon Valley, Portland, Dallas and Ashburn.
Infomart first added wholesale capacity and wholesale services in Dallas, building out a data hall with 3MW of critical load. This was phase one of a multiphase plan to build out 30MW of critical load on the 1.6 million gross-square-foot Dallas landmark property, which is the wholesale supply leased, in part, by Nimbix. Infomart also launched a carrier-neutral meet-me-room (MMR) to facilitate interconnection between customers and 70-plus carriers at the facility. It then disrupted the Dallas interconnection market by waiving monthly cross-connect fees typically charged by carrier hotels. This move has proved to be a market game-changer.
Infomart also leases space for customers to develop into data centers. Equinix, for example, announced a $20 million expansion of its data center complex at Infomart Dallas in the fall of 2015. Four of Equinix's existing five Dallas data centers are now located within the Infomart building.
Infomart next freed up 7MW of contiguous space available for immediate leasing at its Silicon Valley wholesale facility. On the sustainability front, Infomart now uses 'gray water' for 100% of the mechanical infrastructure and irrigation surrounding the facility, increasing its energy efficiency while also reducing costs. This move aligns with the company's history of implementing energy-efficient and sustainable technologies, which had already led to an award of $500,000 from Energy Trust of Oregon for the efficiency measures it took when building its Portland site.
Infomart Ashburn is located in the largest North American MTDC market. The 180,000 gross-square-foot data center was previously owned by AOL and provides 90,000 square feet of raised floor. The first phase of renovations will add 5.6MW of critical load, and upon completion, the facility will have 11MW of critical load. The building is fed from two separate substations. The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), generators, cooling towers and centrifugal chillers are all from the AOL data center, and all critical systems are configured to a minimum of N+1 redundancy, and are concurrently maintainable.
Last fall, Infomart announced it will build out a two-phase expansion of its Hillsboro data center with 16MW of critical load. Currently, half of the new capacity is preleased. The first phase will complete the build-out of the original facility in the existing shell with 4MW, which will become available in this month. The second phase involves designing and building out a dedicated 100,000-gross-square-foot data center shell that will attach to the original shell and provide another 12MW of critical load, with 8MW available for new customers. The second phase will be complete in mid-summer of this year.
While Infomart Dallas is considered the crown jewel in terms of connectivity services, Infomart also touts the low-latency connectivity and eco-friendly models of its Silicon Valley and Portland facilities to the Asian market. Now, with its East Coast presence firmly entrenched in the Internet hub of Ashburn, the firm has clearly targeted connectivity as a critical component of its North American strategy.
Readers interested in the complete report authored by 451 Research can view it here.


Josh Frydenberg protests that the Turnbull government is on track to achieve climate goals. Unfortunately that's not the same as cutting emissions.
Annual average global surface temperatures over the past 40 years, derived from NASA and Copernicus data.
If you're feeling relieved that the average temperature in 2017 around the world and in Australia was slightly lower than that of the record-breaking year of 2016, stop right now.
There is nothing in the latest temperature data to feel good about. While 2016 experienced an El Niño weather event, which tends to push global temperatures markedly higher, 2017 didn't.
Even so, the European Union's climate-monitoring service Copernicus says that last year was still warmer than 2015 and 2014 and all other years on the record going back to the mid-1800s. It was also half a degree warmer than the 1981-2010 average and 1.2C warmer than in the 1700s.
The Bureau of Meteorology announced last month that the world was in a weak La Niña phase, which may help ensure 2018 remains below 2016. But that's little comfort.
Nobody could be surprised by any of this. Science revealed 150 years ago that carbon dioxide retains heat energy. It's 70 years since we knew that carbon dioxide levels in the air were rising, and strong evidence that this was causing global warming surfaced in the 1980s.
In the 25 years since nations resolved to act in 1992, the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide has continued to climb ever more rapidly. It is now well clear of 400 parts per million everywhere in the world – 45 per cent higher than in pre-industrial times.
Some nations, notably European ones, are performing better than others, but China still depends heavily on coal to power its growth and Donald Trump and the US Congress continue to behave as if nothing is happening. Small successes are being dwarfed by monumental failure.
All nations are culpable, but as the only nation to ditch carbon pricing, Australia is especially so. We replaced a promising but deficient pricing scheme (it didn't tackle transport) with a mish-mash of ineffectual measures that skirt around the central problem, fossil-fuel emissions.
In the Hobart Mercury on 2 January, environment minister Josh Frydenberg took issue with my negative comments in December about his government's performance on climate, writing that I overlooked "significant action".
Frydenberg said I had belittled and "ridiculed" key measures of his government. I admit to angry words, but my message was that the schemes' emissions-cutting capacity was overblown. Ignoring transport emissions, for instance, is surely a shortcoming as it was under Labor's carbon price.
Frydenberg referred to my "latest polemic against the Turnbull government". This says a lot about the parlous state of climate policy in the government. Branding criticism as a polemic apparently gives licence to ignore the substance of the criticism, which gets us nowhere.
This should not be so personal. The PM and his environment minister may mean well, but they have fallen captive to a minority sentiment in their party that sees global warming as nothing more than politics, a leftist plot. Such a sentiment precludes rational discussion of climate issues.
With gung-ho Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke as his attack dogs, Donald Trump has presided over the systematic dismantling of previous administrations' climate measures, while also sacking or silencing government scientists.
So far successive Coalition governments have not rejected wholesale the advice of professional scientists and other specialists, although Tony Abbott as PM dipped a toe in this murky water.
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JT's Top Ten Murder Cases
September 20, 2015 by JT
In chronological order:
Jack the Ripper – 1888: First psycho-sexual serial killer came replete with the most evocative nickname ever and an unsolvable identity…
Lizzie Borden – 1892: America's first feminist eschewed poison and hacked her way to personal liberation via financial independence…
Hall/Mills – 1922: The "Minister and the Choir Singer" was a juicy story of adultery and murder which remains unsolved despite clear suspects…
Loeb/Leopold – 1924: America's first thrill killers murdered not for passion or greed but rather as a sociological experiment…
Lindbergh Baby – 1932: For decades investigators of the "Crime of the Century" have looked for a kidnapper instead of a baby killer…
Black Dahlia – 1947: The dismemberment of the pathetic butterfly may have been related to other similar LA crimes in the 1940's…
Marilyn Sheppard – 1954: A classic murder mystery that spawned intricate forensic evidence and a cadre of five solid suspects…
Kennedy Assassination – 1963: A Tsunami of conspiracy theories overwhelms solid evidence that Oswald acted alone…
Manson Murders – 1969: The end of the "Love Generation" when a criminal guru manipulated young followers into savage murders…
OJ Simpson – 1994: A modern day Othello collides with the media circus in a fascinating tale of murder, race, and sex…
Speck & Whitman
Boston Strangler
Sacco & Vanzetti
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St. Valentines Day Massacre
Joe Ewell
Jon Benet Ramsey
About JT Townsend
JT Townsend is a freelance writer, armchair detective, and lifelong resident of Cincinnati. He is the author of the regional true crime best-seller Queen City Gothic, and the follow-up, Queen City Notorious. His work has appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Magazine, Word Magazine, Crime Traveler and Clews. JT appeared in the 2008 British documentary, Conversations With a Serial Killer. His latest release, Summer's Almost Gone, is now available.
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As kids head back to school it's an ideal time to follow up on their vaccinations. Stan Spinner, MD, chief medical officer and vice president at Texas Children's Pediatrics and Texas Children's Urgent Care, explains which shots are due for children in the school years.
Spinner urges parents of school-age children to get them a flu shot every fall. Some children under 9 need two doses. Multiple flu strains circulate each year, and the vaccine can protect against several strains, but doesn't always cover all of them. "It may not prevent your child from getting the flu, but it will likely prevent them from getting hospitalized because of it," Spinner says. Flu can progress into pneumonia, a serious lung infection.
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Most children ages 4 to 6 need a DTaP booster, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. The polio vaccine has eradicated polio in the United States, but it still exists in other parts of the world and can cause paralysis and permanent disability. This age group also receives a dose of the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella. Measles is highly contagious, Spinner says, and can lead to complications including life-threatening pneumonia.
The varicella (chicken pox) vaccine is also recommended for the kindergarten crowd. Highly contagious, chicken pox is usually a mild illness with an itchy, uncomfortable rash that can lead to secondary skin infections. Contracting chicken pox raises your risk of developing the painful rash known as shingles at some time in your life, Spinner says.
Around age 11, kids are due for a DTaP booster, and their first vaccine against meningococcal disease, which can affect the bloodstream, brain, and spinal cord, and is a particular risk in college dorms.
At age 11, the American Academy of Pediatrics also recommends that all children -- girls and boys -- receive their first dose of the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine, although kids may receive it as early as 9, Spinner says. All kids need two doses separated by 6 to 12 months. HPV causes cervical cancer in women and head and neck cancers in both men and women. "To be clear, this is a cancer vaccine," Spinner says, which can protect your child against these cancers as an adult.
Your child will be ready for a booster of the meningococcal vaccine at age 16. Spinner adds that many families choose at this age to have their teens vaccinated against meningitis B as well.
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What can I do to make vaccinations less painful for my child?
Spinner recommends distraction at shot time: Chat with your child about their day or show them a funny YouTube video. Spinner once worked with a nurse who gave kids shots first thing during their appointment, giving them less time to feel nervous. Other doctors apply a topical anesthetic called 4% lidocaine cream on the child's arm before the shots.
What's at stake if I don't vaccinate my child?
Failure to vaccinate puts your child -- and the community -- at risk for potentially serious diseases, Spinner says. Ask your doctor what you can expect if your child contracts one of these diseases. "Vaccines are safe and provide significant protection," Spinner says. "Next to clean water, vaccines are the No. 1 thing that protects the health of the community."
Where can I get good information about vaccines and childhood diseases?
For reliable information, Spinner recommends healthychildren.org, the site for parents from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and cdc.gov, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Doug Henschen
Big Data Reshapes Weather Channel Predictions
The Weather Company builds a new forecasting platform using Basho's Riak NoSQL database and Amazon Web Services.
5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments
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"Weather is the original big data application," says Bryson Koehler, executive VP and CIO at the Weather Company. "When mainframes first came about, one of the first applications was a weather forecasting model."
Flash forward to today and the Weather Company ingests some 20 terabytes of data per day to spin out what Keohler bills as the world's most accurate forecasts. To stay ahead of its competition, the Weather Company is in the process of rolling out a new platform built on Basho's Riak NoSQL database and running globally in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. More than a year in the making, the new platform will bring the company's scale of analysis to a whole new level.
The Weather Company is the parent behind popular brands including the Weather Channel, WeatherFX, Weather Underground, and Intellicast. It serves hundreds of thousands of customers, including 30 airlines, emergency services, shippers, utilities, insurers, media giants, and the developers behind thousands of mobile weather apps. The demand adds up to billions of computer-based data requests per day. Performance expectations are as fast as 10-millisecond latency.
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The Weather Company's incumbent platform is more like a loose-knit collection of aging applications running across 13 data centers. Mainframes aren't on the list, but Koeler said the company uses a "one-of-everything" mix of databases, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. This generation of technology, which runs mostly on MySQL, captures 2.2 million current-weather-condition data points from around the globe four times per hour. The company's new consolidated platform, called SUN (Storage Utility Network), will capture 2.25 billion (with a "b") weather data points 15 times per hour.
"As with any large-scale, algorithmic-type modeling, the more data you have, the better the predictions will be," Koehler said, explaining the planned exponential increase in data capacity.
It's a big win for NoSQL technology and, in particular, Basho, which provides Riak Enterprise edition Multi-Datacenter Replication for ultra-high availability. NoSQL won out over relational databases primarily for its scalability, but Riak was chosen for its simplicity and ease of administration at high scale. It won out over Apache Cassandra, the runner-up choice, as well as MongoDB and Hadoop, which also got serious consideration, according to Koehler.
"When you're globally distributing massive amounts of data across Amazon nodes or Google Compute nodes, you want something that's simple to use and configure," said Koehler. "Cassandra, for example, is great at distributing data, but it's complicated and complex to run. Riak was built to handle massive data movement, replication, and data-synchronization on a cloud-based, globally distributed data platform."
The Weather Channel's new platform is also a win for Amazon, which highlighted the Weather Channel story at its Invent event in Las Vegas earlier this month. The SUN system will be deployed across four AWS availability zones: US East, US West, Europe, and Asia.
"We wanted to get away from our 13 data centers and move everything to an infrastructure-as-a-service model," Koehler said.
Amazon is the Weather Company's primary cloud provider, but the firm is also planning to add cloud capacity from Google and other providers.
"Competition in the compute space is important, so we're ensuring that we abstract ourselves from being stuck on any one platform," Koehler said.
The SUN system made its debut in August, powering WeatherFX, the company's advertising targeting engine, which matches ads with weather-driven demand patterns and forecasts. The platform was also rolled out in beta stage for the company's Forecast on-Demand platform. The Weather Underground site will move to the platform by Thanksgiving, according to Koehler, and The Weather Channel is expected to roll out between now and the first quarter of next year.
With the new platform in place, Koehler said, the Weather Company has divided the globe -- land, sea, ice caps, and all -- into more than 30,000 four-square-mile squares. It can accurately report current conditions and offer predicted weather for each square hours, days, or even weeks in advance.
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jgherbert,
11/30/2013 | 8:51:28 PM
Re: It's working
@Gary_EL: Interesting -- my own observation is that the weather forecasts around Atlanta have been getting progressively worse. In particular the 5-day forecast, which used to be reasonably accurate, has been further and further from reality as time goes on. I don't think that necessarily says that the modeling is getting worse, so much as that we're seeing weather patterns that are far more unpredictable, and we simply don't have the historical data to compare against, so the models can't do such a good job.
Gary_EL,
Whatever they are doing, it is certainly working. I've noticed that in the last year or so, weather predictions have been uncannily accurate. They still do miss now and again, but whether it's snow in Boston or hurricanes in the Midwest, people who pay close attention to the Weather Company's clients are seldom surprised.
cbabcock,
Basho Riak gets some respect
Basho's Riak is probably one of the most underestimated systems, for the reasons Bryson Koehler suggests: simplicity, ease of administration and multiple data center replication. Not surprising to find Bryson, formerly of InterContinental Hotels, on this pioneering front.
Laurianne,
Re: The Weather Company still uses one of everything
Sounds like an on-the-job big data master's degree for people who get to work on the Weather Channel's big data team. Quite the diverse tech portfolio. They must be drowning in resumes.
D. Henschen,
The Weather Company still uses one of everything
It's not that Riak is replacing every database at The Weather Company. It still has "one of everything" in use -- including Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB and more. It's just that Riak is the choice for the new, mega-scale SUN platform. Hadoop is also in use, but for high-scale analytics, not real-time weather data ingest and prediction.