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Tonight in midtown Manhattan, 14 pingpong balls numbered 1 to 14 will descend into an air-mixing lottery drum. The machine will turn on, sending the white spheres in different directions.
After 20 seconds, one pingpong ball will be drawn. After another 20 seconds, one more pingpong ball will be drawn. And so on, until there are four pingpong balls altogether.
The team that has been assigned all four numbers, in any order, wins.
This is the Orlando Magic's equivalent of the Super Bowl: the 2014 NBA Draft Lottery, where the bounces of pingpong balls can help transform a losing team into a winner for the next decade.
"It's very important," Magic general manager Rob Hennigan said. "We've made a commitment to try to build our team through the draft — not exclusively through the draft, of course. But anytime you're in a position to select in the draft at a high position like we're slotted for, it's critical that we make the right decision."
Because the Magic finished this past season with the league's third-worst record, they will have the third-best odds of winning the top pick in the star-studded 2014 NBA Draft. The Magic have been assigned 156 combinations of numbers.
In addition, as a result of the mid-2012 trade that sent Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Magic will receive either the Denver Nuggets' pick or the New York Knicks' pick, whichever is less desirable.
With their own choice, the Magic will have approximately a 47.0 percent chance of receiving a top-three pick: a 15.6 percent probability of winning the top pick, a 15.7 percent chance of winning the second pick and a 15.6 percent probability of winning the third pick. The Magic can receive no worse than the sixth pick.
Many NBA scouts believe three players in the 2014 draft class stand out above all the rest: Kansas swingman Andrew Wiggins, Duke swingman Jabari Parker and Kansas center Joel Embiid, as long as Embiid's back is healthy.
The next tier of prospects is comprised of Australian guard Dante Exum, Arizona power forward Aaron Gordon, Kentucky power forward Julius Randle, Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart, Indiana big man Noah Vonleh and Croatian forward Dario Saric.
The Magic have won the lottery three times in their 25 seasons: in 1992, 1993 and 2004.
After they posted a league-worst 20-62 record in 2012-13, they finished second in the lottery. The Cleveland Cavaliers selected UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first overall, allowing the Magic to pick the top-rated player on their draft board, Indiana guard Victor Oladipo.
Pat Williams, the Magic's co-founder, represented the franchise at all three of its lottery wins and also last year.
He'll sit at a podium during ESPN's telecast tonight.
The pingpong balls already will have been drawn three separate times to determine the top three picks. The final 11 picks will be determined by the remaining teams' records; the worse a team's record, the earlier it will pick.
"All eyes will be focused on the Magic," Williams said. "Can they do magic again?"
Williams' reputation as a good-luck charm will be tested.
The Magic will face astronomical odds of winning two of the top-three picks.
According to Larry Winner, a statistics professor at the University of Florida and an expert in probability, there's a 1-in-13,167 chance that the Magic, the Nuggets and the Knicks will simultaneously win top-three picks in the lottery. Expressed as a percentage, the probability of that scenario occurring is 0.0076 percent.
Williams recently joked that he visited a "pingpong ball farm" for tonight's drawing.
"All we need is one angry, nasty, aggressive pingpong ball that needs to do some damage in that machine," Williams said.
Actually, the Magic need four.
Israeli recognition may offer Ugandan Jews protection from the persecution they have suffered since the 1970's, when the late Idi Amin forbade Judaism and outlawed Jewish practice.
Uganda's small Jewish community hopes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit will improve their ties with the rest of the Jewish world, AFP reported Monday as the Israel's prime minister embarked on a five-day visit to the continent.
The community, known as the Abayudaya, was established in the early 20th century by military officer Semei Kakangulu. Followers dwindled in number after he died in 1928, but have grown again since that time.
Last year the Jewish Agency recognized the community, and many look forward to having restrictions lifted so they can study and pray in Israel, community member Israel Siridi was quoted as saying.
Just ahead of Netanyahu's visit, an Israeli rabbi informed the group that Israel's Interior Ministry would "formally recognize the Abayudaya as Jews," community leaders told AFP.
Recognition by Jerusalem may offer the Abayudaya protection from persecution. The late Ugandan leader Idi Amin had turned on the group in the 1970s.
Joab Jonadab, mayor of the group in Mbale, told AFP that: "When Idi Amin was president, he forbade Judaism and outlawed Jewish practice. His soldiers destroyed our synagogue, our elders were thrown in jail, tortured and killed."
Uganda's current president, Yoweri Museveni, follows a much friendlier policy toward the Jews. He's "a good Pharaoh for us," Jonadab said.
Still the community's leader, Rabbi Gershom says: "It is not safe for us to live as a small group of isolated Jews in the heart of Africa. That's why recognition by Israel means so much to us. If anything bad happens to the Jews of Uganda the whole world will know."
Durham clinched the final qualifying spot in the NatWest T20 Blast North Group after edging out fellow contenders Derbyshire by 13 runs.
Mark Stoneman and Calum MacLeod shared Durham’s record Twenty20 stand of 141 as the hosts amassed 193-2 after being put into bat at Chester-le-Street.
Paul Collingwood’s men will now visit Gloucestershire in the quarter-finals on Wednesday, August 10.
The total proved beyond Derbyshire, despite Neil Broom’s 68 from 43 balls, and victory gave Durham fourth spot as they leapfrogged Warwickshire, who were beaten by Lancashire at Old Trafford.
Both teams went into the match knowing a win would see them through to the knockout stages and Durham’s hopes were boosted by Stoneman and MacLeod’s efforts with the bat.
Stoneman batted through the Durham innings for an unbeaten 82 off 56 balls, with eight fours and one six, while MacLeod’s 83 came off 50 deliveries and included three maximums.
Stoneman hit four fours through the off side in the first three overs, two of them in the third as Ben Cotton conceded 14.
Keaton Jennings, taking Phil Mustard’s place at the top of the order, also began to find the boundary in a stand of 48.
Stoneman, on 23, survived a steepler to Neesham, backtracking from mid-off, in an eventful sixth over from Shiv Thakor.
Jennings followed up by twice driving the medium pacer down the ground, but when he tried for a third wide of mid-off Chesney Hughes flung himself to his right and held a sensational catch.
Jennings’ exit halted the boundaries until MacLeod hit the last two balls of the 10th over for four and six.
He swept Wes Durston’s off-spin behind square then lifted him over long-on to take the score to 89 at the halfway mark.
Thakor conceded only six runs in the 16th over, but then went for 17 in the 18th, leaving Neesham with the best figures of 1-25 after conceding only seven in the final over, when he also had MacLeod caught at short fine-leg.
Derbyshire lost Hamish Rutherford for one in the first over, when he pulled straight to midwicket as Chris Rushworth picked up 2-14 in three overs. His other victim was Hughes, who chipped the first ball to midwicket.
The visitors were up with the rate while skipper Wes Durston was making 44 off 26 balls, but when he was third out in the eighth over they lost momentum.
It looked too tall an order by the time Jimmy Neesham holed out at long-on for six with the visitors requiring 99 off the last eight overs.
Thakor revived hopes with three sixes off the spinners in making 26 off 10 balls, but once he had skied Scott Borthwick (3-33) to cover, it was as good as over.
Although Broom showed his class, Derbyshire threw wickets away in desperation and slipped to 150-8 before debutant wicketkeeper Alex Mellor, on loan from Warwickshire, helped to put on 26. However, Broom was well caught by MacLeod at long-on in the final over and Derbyshire finished on 180-9.
BOSTON, Oct. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced collaboration with Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent solid-state array vendor, to deliver the new AppFlash DevOps Platform which accelerates the provisioning and refresh of databases for more rapid application development and testing.
The Actifio AppFlash DevOps Platform, which runs on Pure Storage, enables developers to deliver high quality applications faster by giving them the ability to instantly self-provision full point-in-time virtual copies of applications and data. The result is a more than 30 percent faster development time and, because of availability of full data sets, significant reduction in defects and lower cycle time. The solution is available in 10TB, 20TB and 40TB configurations.
"By combining the performance of our highly-available, scalable all-flash arrays with Actifio's copy data virtualization platform, we're able to deliver advanced data management solutions for application teams that dramatically reduce time to market, yet are also extremely cost-effective," said Michael Sotnick, Global Vice President of Channels and Alliances, Pure Storage.
In a survey conducted by analyst firm IDC and published in a white paper, sponsored by Actifio, entitled "Common Gaps in Data Control: Identifying, Quantifying, and Solving Them Using Best Practices," IDC estimates the average organization holds as many as 375 data copies, including backups of backups and multiple versions of files. The IDC researcher says copy data comprises as much as 60 percent of what is stored in data centers, costing companies as much as $44 billion to manage worldwide. In 2016, in an IDC report titled "Copy Data Management Is Not Management of Copy Data" (doc #US41335616, June 2016) IDC stated, "We believe that Copy Data Management (CDM) will be as impactful to storage management as deduplication has been and will be implemented just as widely. The financial benefits are so compelling that IT organizations are advised to investigate CDM solutions."
A joint customer of Actifio and Pure Storage, Lifescript, operates the leading website dedicated to women's health, attracting an audience of 15 million unique visitors per month and has become an invaluable health resource for women everywhere. As a digital media company, Lifescript's revenue is generated from web traffic and visibility of their advertisers, so application uptime and performance are mission-critical.
"As a technologist and long time customer of both companies, I see the combination of Actifio and Pure as a big win for performance on top of simplified management. This also drives dramatic data scale improvements in terms of cost per GB reduction based on Pure's dedupe and compression capabilities and Actifio's unmatched Copy Data Management, which can be deployed to have multiple copies of data with little to no additional storage requirements," said Jack Hogan, CTO of Lifescript. "It really is a perfect integration of two complementary technologies that deal with the demands of massively scaling data that needs high speed performance and recovery along with quick deployments for continuous development needs."
Recognizing the need for reliability and speed, Lifescript adopted the Actifio Copy Data Virtualization platform combined with the deployment of an all-flash Pure Storage data center for high-performance. Actifio, as a storage-agnostic data platform, provides Lifescript the freedom to move data according to business needs, and Pure Storage enabled the migration of workloads off of legacy storage platforms for massive performance gains, smaller data footprint and significant cost savings.
"The industry is waking up to the reality that the copy data 'overhang' in the enterprise, combined with a variety of technologies and processes that were designed in another era of IT, can no longer keep up with the needs of the digital enterprise," said Brian Reagan, Vice President of Global Alliances, Actifio. "Fast is the new big, and the AppFlash DevOps platform compresses the time enterprise customers need to develop, test, release, and run the next-generation digital applications. We will continue to pursue partnerships that make it faster and easier for customers to tap the power of Actifio, and are excited about this first step with the fantastic team at Pure."
The AppFlash DevOps Platform is now generally available and can be purchased through an Actifio authorized channel partner. Click here to learn more about this new solution.
Is Fairfax In The Running To Snap Up Ten?
It seems Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon could have an unlikely competitor in their quest to take over Ten, with Fairfax Media reportedly signing up to take a peek at the embattled broadcaster’s financial figures.
Fairfax is understood to be one of at least nine parties that have signed a non-disclosure agreement and picked up an information memorandum (IM) detailing Ten’s business and financials, according to the Australian Financial Review.
However, the AFR’s source suspects the Fairfax merely wanted the IM to look at Ten’s numbers, rather than use them to calculate a serious bid for the company.
Murdoch and Gordon engaged the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to review their takeover bid for Ten in July, which hinges on the media reforms coming to fruition, as both shareholders are prevented from controlling the asset along with all their others (Murdoch owns NOVA Entertainment and is co-chairman of News Corp, while Gordon owns WIN Television) under the current laws.
Ten’s administrator, Korda Mentha, said in June that it had received expressions of interest from multiple parties to buy or recapitalise the broadcaster.
Mike Tindall’s best man Iain Balshaw is on the way back after a knee injury which has kept him out for seven weeks.
The former England wing scored two tries in Biarritz’s 28-21 defeat by Ospreys in Swansea, but he refused to talk about his troubled colleague.
Balshaw, who left Gloucester three years ago, said his fitness was improving. ‘I’m getting there. I just keep plodding on,’ he said.
Wales fear flanker Dan Lydiate could miss next month’s game against Australia in Cardiff after he suffered a recurrence of an ankle injury in Newport Gwent Dragons’ 33-3 Amlin Challenge Cup win over Cavalieri Prato.
Leicester are worried by the failure to gain a bonus point in the 28-12 win over Aironi in Monza.
A good start put them 20-6 up, only for the match to descend into a frustrating squabble.
Director of rugby Richard Cockerill was left pointing the finger at Scottish referee Neil Paterson.
Scarlets centre Jonathan Davies is hoping their ‘high-risk’ running strategy will pay off at Northampton on Friday.