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To win the Scottish Cup the Edinburgh side are 3/1 second favourites, while the Highlanders are 16/1 to pick up the trophy they did in 2015. |
Is he ready for the arena of cloud computing? |
It could be some heavy portfolio millionaires who might have delayed Larry Ellison and caused him a breathless entry at the Oracle Open World 2018 just before his keynote speech presenting second generation of Oracle Cloud. It is widely known that the company in the post Amazon era faces difficulties in the transition ... |
It goes without saying that the Open World stage would not be smooth sailing, Ellison would have to perform tactical exercises to adjust the sails and maximize the benefits coming from the strong cloud computing winds that sweep the market. And that is exactly what he did. He hugely relied on both the latest A.I. advan... |
Two main features of Oracle Generation 2 Cloud are a perimeter of computers functioning as defensive shields to invaders in the forefront and an army RoBots that Ellison called as 'Star War Defenses'. |
Defying all the other companies, such as Microsoft and Google, both of which share a big percentage of the cloud market, Ellison hits Amazon where it hurts. More than the half of his speech was focused on a juxtaposition between speed and cost of use of the Oracle Cloud and the Amazon’s products. Moreover to augment th... |
Could AI be the Ace up the Oracle's sleeve? |
The forefront of upgraded Oracle Cloud is a dedicated computers network monitoring cloud service. But the super gun against cyber criminals is 'Star Wars cyber defense' an army RoBots incorporating A.I. shutting automatically all the software holes the intruders had used to enter. 'Our robots against their robots' said... |
From all the cloud components Ellison distinguished the New Autonomous Database which Oracle had already announced in the last Open World. Additionally, Oracle gave their clients the opportunity to a fully isolated cloud inside the Oracle Cloud. To be more specific clients have full control over a dedicated Exadata clo... |
Ultimately, tangible results are delivered beyond the lights of Open World 2018. For new customers Second Generation Cloud is available now. The others will have to wait for the new year but they will receive the upgrade for free. Possibly in the third quarter of 2019, we will have the chance to see if Oracle’s strikin... |
HAVE you got experience cooking for a lot of people? And by a lot, we mean A LOT. |
The Glastonbury Festival is recruiting for the crew catering team at the 2019 event, which runs at Worthy Farm, Pilton, from June 26 to 30. |
The festival is looking for chefs and kitchen/service assistants to work throughout the event - and beyond - and is keen to stress the positions are 'hard work, rather than just an easy way into the festival'. |
Chefs must have experience in cooking for large numbers, as well as 'some knowledge of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes'. |
They will be working between May 30 and July 19. |
Meanwhile, kitchen/service assistants are full-time roles, with applicants needing to be available between May 30 and July 19. |
"You will be required to work some shifts over the festival weekend as crew catering will be open during this time," the ad says. |
"This is hard work, rather than just an easy way into the festival. |
"The role will involve assisting the catering manager and chefs by performing duties such as food preparation and front of house service. |
"Relevant experience will be essential and you must be aged 18 years or over." |
Anyone applying for the roles is reminded they have to bring their own camping equipment, although showers, food and washing machines are provided. |
Application forms and details are available online at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. |
Long a medical necessity for those at risk for deep-vein thrombosis or blood clots, compression tights are now beginning to thrive in fashion among stylish women who suffer on uncomfortably cramped airplane seats during long-haul flights. |
"Nike 4.5" 10K Running Shorts - Plus, Womens, Size 3x, Black" |
Women's Active 2-fer Woven Gym Short features an inner short, inner waistband pocket and reflective logo. |
88%Nylon 12%Spandex MACHINE WASH COLD WITH LIKE COLORS, ONLY NON-CHLORINE BLEACH WHEN NEEDED, TUMBLE DRY MEDIUM, MEDIUM IRON. |
Following the UK General Election on May 7, the Liberal Democrats have taken stock, rallied the membership and elected a new Party Leader, Tim Farron. With 20,000 members having joined the Party since May and 3 recent council election victories, the #libdemfightback is well underway. Liberal parties across Europe have ... |
In order to kick-start this debate, the Liberal Democrats International Office brought together a distinguished panel, including Hans van Baalen, ALDE Vice President, MP and MEP for VVD and former President of Liberal International, Annelou van Egmond, the D66 Director of Communications and key architect of the Party’s... |
With the EU-referendum likely to be less than a year away and the prospect of a Brexit a real and frightening possibility, the question of Britain’s role in Europe is more pressing than ever. The European Union was one of the most widely discussed issues at the conference, including the official launch of the Lib Dem R... |
In order to bring a more international perspective and explore the issues further, the Liberal Democrats International Office brought together a distinguished panel consisting of Sir Graham Watson, President of the ALDE Party and former Liberal Democrat MEP, Andrew Duff, Former Liberal Democrat MEP, Catherine Bearder, ... |
Opening the debate in front of a huge audience in a packed room, Iain Gill, Head of the Lib Dems International Office, emphasised the importance of EU membership to the UK, and the crucial role that liberal networks such as ALDE and Liberal International will play in campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU. |
If you are a young transgender person still at school, struggling to come to terms with your gender identity, you need specialised help pretty quickly. You should not have to wait a minimum of 7 months to see a specialist. If you are older, you should not be told that the waiting list is a year. |
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume has highlighted this as another area in which the Scottish Government is failing to meet its 18 week target for referrals. This one will take a lot of thinking about as there are so few specialists in the gender identity field. They will have to come up with some long... |
One of the highlights of Conference for me was the Liberal Democrat Voice fringe meeting. We wanted to do something a bit more serious this year and, as foreign policy is a key interest of several of our team members, we decided to discuss how we forged a liberal foreign policy in these challenging times. What is liber... |
We are extremely grateful to our four speakers. Baroness Julie Smith stepped in at the very last minute so we especially appreciate her thoughtful contribution. We also heard from Lord William Wallace, from our Lords Foreign Affairs team, Nick Tyrone, now at British Influence, and Hannah Bettsworth, President of Libera... |
Hannah’s speech was described by one member of the audience as one of the best on foreign policy he’d heard in a long time, so we thought it might be a good idea to reproduce it here. Hannah wants to credit Tim Oliver for his help and advice in pulling it together. Enjoy. |
It was a little weird leaving Bournemouth a week past on Wednesday to think that the Greens would be moving into the same space a couple of days later. |
The Liberal Democrat Conference had a super atmosphere and was always very busy. I couldn’t believe the number of people who attended those 9am sessions to do such things as scrutinise the financial accounts and most times when I went into the hall for speeches or policy debates the only seats left were in the gods. |
All the fringe meetings were packed to capacity as the Conference was the biggest we’d ever had in terms of members attending. It was great to meet so many new members, too and all I spoke to were having a great time. |
What an amazing conference it had been. An opportunity to meet great human beings and take back wonderful memories. Never have I been so inspired or so proud to be part of a movement. A liberal movement. |
This year conference was the most attended, compared to previous years. I myself attended conference for a day or two. As a student I did find it somewhat grudging to pay nearly £500 for three days to attend. I did however not find it massively damaging to my wallet, this is not the case for many members of the party. |
Due to the fact I could afford to go (and as a voting rep) it meant that I as an individual had more of a voice than those who couldn’t travel to Bournemouth. One member one vote passed which is great! But it still means that only those who can afford to take time off work, and the cost, will be able to make use of thi... |
People have been requesting this clip. Click below for the three minutes of Tim’s conference speech when he spoke about refugees. The video starts when the passage starts. The passage ends at 31’32 with a standing ovation and then the video continues with the rest of the speech if you want to see it. |
I believe in giving praise where praise is due, and so I would like to congratulate all the party staff, companies, businesses, volunteers and particularly the members of Federal Conference Committee (FCC) on their delivering the most enjoyable, welcoming and member friendly conference I have attended in my 27 years in... |
In the fringe meetings every acronym and every bit of jargon was explained, it isn’t just the new members who are helped by that everyone benefits. |
Tim’s speech – Did you have to be in the hall to get it? |
Yesterday I had to work so I couldn’t be at Bournemouth to watch Tim’s speech. |
So, through the miracles of the smartphone, the BBC and the car auxiliary connection point, I listened to Tim’s speech on the way to work this morning. |
I therefore had a chance to test how the speech came over via audio only on the M4 in Berkshire. Were all these rave reviews coming from people in the hall yesterday mere hype? The result of mass hysteria which would not catch on outside the immediacy of the hall? |
It is no surprise that Tim Farron can make a decent speech. It’s what he does. Today, though, he took the tried and tested formula for leaders’ speeches. You know the Rules, where they slag off the other parties, they carefully talk about a few issues considered to be the key interests of the electorate, utter a few pl... |
It’s all a bit contrived sometimes, way too polished, and leaves the listener wanting a bit of genuine discourse and emotion. |
Not today. Liberal Democrats are not known for their deference to their leader. It’s impossible to imagine any of us being as devoted to our leader as SNP activists are to Nicola Sturgeon. We don’t always do their bidding and we usually answer back if they do something we don’t like. We are definitely not the sort of p... |
And what we’ve had from David Cameron is a careful calibration of what it will take to manage that story, the minimum effort for the maximum headlines. |
And a policy which will not directly help a single one of the hundreds of thousands currently on the move across Europe. |
It’s pitiful and embarrassing and makes me so angry. |
Because I am proud to be British and I am proud of Britain’s values, so when Mr Cameron turns his back on the needy and turns his back on our neighbours. |
I want the world to know, he does not speak for me, he does not speak for us, he does not speak for Britain. |
When I was growing up my school didn’t have a sixth form. I guess that’s because most of us didn’t do A levels. So I went to a separate sixth form college – Runshaw in Leyland – and, in my first week, I joined the Liberal Party. |
I also joined a band. |
I’m assuming you may have seen the photos. |
The only good thing I can say is that because the photos are pre-digital they are so low resolution that you can’t make out the eye-liner. |
Whether you are physically in Bournemouth or are following what is happening from home, this is your place to talk about the public face of the Conference – in other words, all the debates and speeches that are going on in the main auditorium. Please use the comments below to add your reports on policy and constitution... |
We will be running a similar thread each day, so please confine your comments today to what is actually happening today. Tomorrow’s instalment will appear at 8.30am tomorrow morning. |
We will also be running a thread each day on fringes, so use that one for anything going on outside the main show. |
So what is happening today at Conference? |
Sssshhh! Don’t tell anyone. This is a secret and we need to keep it that way. |
If you want to watch any bits of conference in “catch up mode”, head over to the party’s YouTube channel here. |
The last couple of years have shown us that traditional assumptions about politics are useless. |
Our world is being turned upside down, and, unpredictable even to the pundits. |
So much so that Lloyd George’s famous comment “The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by the lunatics”. That was over 110 years ago – perhaps some things never change! |
We faced our hardest results in decades on 7 May, made much harder in recent weeks by watching David Cameron and the Tories undoing many of the things that we achieved in Government. |
A large number of people – not just Lib Dems – have said to me that they now understand what we did in Parliament as the Tories undo them, one by one. The shock of losing so many colleagues has been compounded by the Tories making cuts to the most vulnerable in our society. |
Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie gave his speech to Conference yesterday. Unlike Kirsty, he didn’t dwell on the coalition years. He did, however, offer a devastating critique of the SNP Government, citing its illiberal and centralising instincts. |
Our election campaign will be about liberal values. |
At our heart we want every individual to achieve their potential. |
So we will bring in childcare and the pupil premium for children who need it, wherever they live in Scotland. Giving opportunity to every child to get up and get on – no matter the circumstances of their birth. |
We stand with the powerless against the strong. Mental health will be taken seriously. No more six month waits. Professionals on standby in every A&E. |
We say power is safer when it is shared and will trust communities and individuals with the power to control their own lives – putting an end to the Holyrood-knows-best mentality. |
So we will put democracy back into the police and return to traditional Scottish policing by consent. |
Stripping back top-down targets, controls, league tables and testing to give them the freedom to do their job. |
A federal system is a positive, unifying future for Scotland and the rest of the UK. |
We hope you’ve spotted the open thread on the action taking place in the main auditorium today. In comparison, this thread is for you to talk about fringe meetings, the exhibition and all the other things going on around the main business. |
At 7:45 tonight, Norman Lamb is interviewed by Helen Duffett, the editor of the party’s all member Ad Lib magazine. She’ll be asking him about his plans for the future. |
Norman will also be on a panel at lunchtime with our Stephen Tall at a Resolution Foundation fringe meeting discussing the need to rethink the Liberal Democrat approach to social justice. |
At the same time Jo Swinson joins polling experts on a panel looking into why the polls got it so very wrong in the election. |
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams gave her keynote speech to Conference yesterday and she did not mince her words. |
She was candid about the failings of the coalition, saying that it looked like we’d never even tried to keep the pledge on tuition fees, and that our identity had been lost. |
She also said that one of the best ways to improve gender balance in parliamentarians was to help in Wales to make sure the Liberal Democrats did well as female candidates had been selected in many winnable seats. |
Most other parties can achieve some of those principles, but none combine them. |
The Human Rights Act, the green agenda, mental health – we fight for the underdog, we fight for what is right, leading on the issues that no-one else will. |
We have got there! We have at last completed our arduous journey over mountain, through thick jungle and through crocodile infested waters. We have at last arrived in the Elysian Fields! |
Here follows the text of the motion passed by conference this afternoon at the end of the debate entitled “Scrapping Trident” on the agenda. |
Conference voted in favour of amendment 1 to the “Scrapping Trident” motion this afternoon. |
Please click below to see the whole of Tim Farron’s Question and Answer session at conference yesterday. Tim was in extremely impressive form for his first such session – which can be extremely demanding for a party leader. He was relaxed, confident, funny where necessary and very passionate. |
What is going on today? |
After Vince’s foray into the fringe yesterday, it’s Nick Clegg’s turn today. Anyone who stays till the end of the One Member One Vote debate is unlikely to get a seat. He talks to Phil Collins from the Times in the Trouville Hotel at 6:15. He makes a speech to Conference just before lunch and then goes straight to a fr... |
Given his longstanding commitment to EU, it is appropriate that today is heavily focused towards Europe and particularly to getting the Lib Dems’ campaign to stay in Europe under way. Tim Farron and Catherine Bearder will be speaking at a fringe meeting at which activists will be urged to throw themselves into recruiti... |
Click below to see last night’s “standing room only” conference rally. |
A new format hit conference yesterday. At the end of Saturday’s session, we had a “Policy Pitch” section. This is a new idea whereby members submit ideas to the conference commitee and three of those ideas are accepted for discussion at the conference. |
The chosen members gave a short speech outlining their policy proposal. Then they sat down in a comfy chair on stage with three “assessors”, who were: Julie Smith, Jeremy Hargreaves and Willie Rennie. There was then a little interviewing of each proposer from the three assessors. |
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