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Mark Twigg, 23, spent almost six months learning the ropes on a traineeship with communities’ charity Groundwork South Tyneside and Newcastle.
It taught Mark, of Horsley Hill, South Shields, how to safely clear gardens of waste, tidy and improve local green spaces, and operate machinery and hand tools.
His fast learning and enthusiasm have now won him a one-year environmental apprenticeship with Groundwork’s Land Team, which works to improve underused or neglected urban areas.
Funding has come from Big Local Central Jarrow, a Big Lottery Fund-backed initiative to bring environmental improvement to the town over a decade.
Mark, who had been unemployed for two years, said: “The experience I gained with Groundwork on my traineeship was excellent.
“I’ve enjoyed the variety of work, met a lot of new friends and learnt about the importance of teamwork.
“I was working as part of a small team and felt so committed to the good work we were doing, that I often worked voluntarily at times when I should have finished for the day.”
More information on Big Local Central Jarrow is available from project co-ordinator Anne Corrigan by emailing anne.corrigan@groundwork.org.uk | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/skilled-apprentice-joins-team-improving-south-tyneside-s-green-spaces-1-8091790 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/57499bc724ed6e5d5ed4cc45176c6907d9cc218cf46d59165cd8a0b249b37977.json |
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Headteacher Claire Mullane is bursting with pride after pupils at Mortimer Community College in South Shields picked up their exam restyles today.
These are our best ever English and maths results. Claire Mullane
Staff have seen a 12% increase in the number of teenagers who gained five A* to C grades including English and Maths taking this year’s figure up to 58%.
Plus 65% of youngsters gained GCSes in both English and Maths.
Ms Mullane said: “These are our best ever English and maths results, there’s been significant levels of progress which is all down to sheer hard work.
“Also a third of our pupils are averaging with B/A or A* grades which is just amazing.
“We would like to wish all of our students the very best for the future.” | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/best-ever-gcse-results-for-students-at-mortimer-1-8088895 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/5924c137c6464bc5b826f765309360bd999bc1c4ebcd96b284f52500275a8d91.json |
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The charity says 12.6 million would struggle to fill out an online job application form while a further five million cannot carry out one or more of a range of tasks including using a cash machine, writing a message or understanding household bills.
In many Western countries young people outperform their older counterparts, but the JRF says that in England older adults achieve higher literacy and numeracy scores than teenagers and those in their early 20s.
The charity analysed data gathered in 2011 and 2012 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
It found that 23 per cent of people aged 16-18 and 17 per cent of those aged 19-24 achieved the lowest score on the literacy skills scale used by the department.
The North East was among the worst faring regions in terms of both literacy and numeracy. It is also the region of England that consistently performs worst in terms of A-level and GCSE grades.
The charity said the figures painted a “troubling picture” of people being “let down” the education system or left behind in the modern economy.
The charity will next month publish a strategy aimed at eradicating poverty in the UK.
The organisation wants to see millions of pounds of additional government investment to ensure all adults meet basic skills requirements, including in IT, by 2030.
Its proposals include incentivising more adults to take night classes and encouraging employers to offer on-the-job training.
It also wants young people to be taught skills “grounded in the real world” such as financial planning and household budgeting.
Stephen Evans, deputy chief executive of the Learning and Work Institute, said: ‘’Everyone needs a set of basics for life and work in modern Britain. It’s shocking that so many people lack these core capabilities.”
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “Everyone, regardless of background or ability, should have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
“That’s why we have strengthened the national curriculum to ensure all children leave school having mastered the basics in literacy and mathematics early on. Alongside this our new gold standard qualifications and high quality apprenticeships will match the best education systems in the world and keep pace with universities’ and employers’ demands.
“To support lifelong learning and ensure we have a workforce with the skills to succeed we are investing £1.5bn in adult learning, have introduced tuition fee loans for part time students and published a dedicated skills plan so that more people gain the knowledge and skills to get on in life and help build a stronger country.”
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Toni Pandeles, of Dean Road, South Shields, had enjoyed a boozy session to mark her dad’s milestone 50th birthday on Saturday, July 30 when troubled flared outside a South Shields night spot.
She accepts her behaviour was utterly deplorable. Christopher Brown
Police were alerted to a disturbance involving a group of men and women outside Buzzers Sports Bar, in Victoria Road, South Shields, and found Pandeles in a drunken state.
While other revellers responded to a request to disperse, the 27-year-old hurled a volley of foul-mouthed abuse at cops.
She was arrested for being drunk and disorderly and taken to South Shields Police Station after failing to heed warnings to curb her behaviour - but in custody she spat at a police officer, hitting him in the trousers.
Pandeles admitted being drunk and disorderly and assaulting a police sergeant at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court.
Rebecca Laverick, prosecuting, said: “During interview she said she said what she did was the lowest of the low.”
Christopher Brown, defending, added; “She accepts her behaviour was utterly deplorable.”
Pandeleswas given a community order with 80 hours unpaid work and must pay compensation of £50.
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Yes, we can all crouch under the sun umbrella, but it’s just not very pretty, is it? And I’m afraid I don’t go for canvas gazebos either, even if they are practical, what with all those metal poles and coach bolts.
So how else can you create shade in a sunny spot?
Awnings are another option and can add a splash of colour if you need it. But they have to be situated in the right spot, can be expensive and if your patio is windy, they may be vulnerable.
One idea which can be effective is to train leafy climbers over an arch to create a retreat.
If you have a wooden bench, you could place some sort of arch over it and grow climbers in pots or in the earth on either side, to train up it and provide colour as well as some shade.
A light-roofed structure, such as a pergola, can also provide relief from the sun, as you can train climbers over the crossbeams, providing more hours of shade.
Pergolas are usually made from timber or metal, with a horizontal trellis laid on top.
They are usually built out from the house or a wall, often positioned directly above a patio and, as well as providing shade, they also put paid to nosey neighbours who may want to know what you’re up to. Ideal trailers to use on pergolas include sweet-smelling roses, honeysuckle or clematis.
You can buy kits from DIY stores and big garden centres consisting of timber uprights and cross pieces to put together yourself, or alternatively have a local builder do it.
If plants aren’t creating your shade, you can add colour and texture to a shady spot with hostas and ferns, heucheras and hydrangeas, adding further splashes of colour with shade-tolerant Busy Lizzies, stocks, violas and nicotiana.
Climbers which grow over a freestanding structure in the sun often do better than when planted against a wall or fence because there is no restriction of light.
If the structure - arch or pergola - is big enough, virtually any climber will be suitable, but if the gap is only small, avoid roses with sharp thorns or other bushy plants.
And remember that a combination of climbers which flower at different times will provide colour to your patio for longer and create an attractive mix. For big structures, you could train wisteria, laburnum and a late-flowering clematis.
Trellis is another useful commodity to help create shade in a sunny spot. Panels with curved tops are available to make useful screens to shelter the patio.
Arbours are another option for shade. They are open-sided structures, usually set over a sitting area in an informal part of the garden, and while they may not suit the patio area, you could always move down the garden to sit in an arbour smothered with fragrant climbers.
Remember before you start, though, to experiment with temporary shade before investing in time and money to create permanent shade.
If you have that old sun umbrella, move it around the patio to find out where it is most effective.
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Headliners Reef and British Sea Power are topping the bill at this year’s Lindisfarne Festival, which takes place in the shadow of Holy Island from September 1-4.
Also performing at the festival at Beal Farm, Northumberland, is C Duncan, The Cuban Brothers, Fatherson, Beardyman and Pinact while Sunderland’s Social Room, Cattle and Cane, Beth Macari, Little Comets and Kathryn Tickell and Superfolkus will be flying the flag for local music.
Jack Bessant from rockers Reef said: “Reef are going to really enjoy the Lindisfarne festival this year in September. I have visited this place before and it has such beautiful nature and interesting history, it’s really inspiring. I can’t wait to be playing there with Reef and hopefully ride some waves on some of the Northumberland beaches.”
As well as a host of live music, the festival will feature food stalls, creative arts and a range of workshops.
Conleth Maenpaa, founder at Lindisfarne Festival, said: “With only a week to go until Lindisfarne Festival 2016 gets underway, we are really excited with how plans are shaping up as it promises to be our biggest and best event yet. We are certainly putting in plenty of graft behind the scenes to make it something special.
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“With a diverse range of music across different genres, quality entertainment and refreshments, there really is something for everyone and we encourage people to come along and join in the fun.
“There will certainly be no shortage of party vibes with our acts including headliners Reef and British Sea Power tearing up the stage.”
The over-18s festival, which is in its second year, will also provide a showcase for up-and-coming North East talent through partnership with BBC Introducing.
On Saturday, September 3, between noon-6pm an eclectic mix of up-and-coming local acts, specially selected by the BBC, will also take to the stage to showcase their musical talent.
Nick Roberts, presenter at BBC Introducing in the North East, said: “I’m absolutely delighted that BBC Introducing is going to be a part of this year’s Lindisfarne Festival. The inaugural event last year was a huge success. This year, with ‘BBC Introducing in the North East Presents’ we bring the best emerging artists from the area to the festival.
“Headlining our Saturday afternoon take over we have Coquin Migale. Recently signed to Fierce Panda, the band have received Radio 1 plays and amazing reviews from their stint at The Great Escape. We also have super producer and re-mixer Dom Zilla playing his new material. Other acts include A Festival, A Parade, RnB/ Pop band SoShe and the North East’s rap and beats band The Great & The Magnificent.
“It’s a great line-up from across the genres and will make ‘BBC Introducing in the North East Presents’ one of the highlights of another amazing Lindisfarne Festival.”
Conleth added: “Out of all the festivals taking place in the region we are privileged to be one of the only few to have this platform at our event. Putting the North East on the map and showcasing local talent has always been a key part of Lindisfarne Festival.”
•Weekend tickets are available to buy at £85 for a weekend ticket and £50 for a Saturday ticket. Ten tickets for the price of eight are also on offer for group bookings and all tickets include free camping. The festival runs from the Thursday evening, September 1, to the early hours of Sunday, September 4.
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But now our new ‘one nation’ Prime Minister has said that she is going to bring back grammar schools. This seems to be at odds with everything she has said previously about not wanting to have a society for the privileged few.
Selective education works well for the privileged few but not for the rest, my own Granddad was exceptionally intelligent but was unable to go to the local grammar school because the family couldn’t afford the uniform, he was denied a place based on income not ability.
Many children such as my own parents’ futures were marked out at an early age because of their class, again not their ability.
Education can be a huge driver for social mobility if it is equally accessible to all, the Tory myth that grammar schools and selection are a tool for social mobility needs to be challenged at every opportunity as it was a process that was damaging to too many young people and served to entrench inequalities. Grammar schools take relatively few children from poor backgrounds, therefore it is the children of the advantaged who are successful in the selection process.
This can be borne out by the Sutton Trust’s research into social mobility which shows that less than 3% of grammar school entrants are entitled to free school meals, compared to 18% in other schools operating in those areas where grammar schools exist.
The single biggest predictor of how a child will do at the age of 16 is the educational qualifications of their parents.
That stark fact ought to dominate education discussion in England, and any Secretary of State for Education should therefore have it as their priority to ensure that every child can succeed regardless of background.
There are still huge gaps between the poorest and richest children which begin from the moment of birth and increase through early years and primary education.
The Government should work tirelessly to improve every school in the country and not hark back to this mythical golden age of grammar schools. It must work with teachers to drive up standards and to give schools the investment they need to give our children the best start possible in life.
Any new generation of grammar schools will only help a very small number of the richest children whilst the needs of millions of less advantaged children will be ignored.
This Government has spent endless amounts of money and time so far on tinkering with school structures, instead of addressing the crisis in school places, teacher shortages and funding cuts.
Inequality has continued to rise under this Government in all spheres, Theresa May’s plans for education will only create a bigger chasm between the have and have nots, but then I fear that is her intention.
Grammar schools are a thing of history, they have no place in modern society. There must be no going back. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/emma-lewell-buck-grammar-schools-belong-in-history-1-8061419 | en | 2016-08-11T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/d3790605b399043bb929e63e56d1ce8f36601150d3279af1d29a04c9d42e7f3a.json |
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The Halloween haunt, based in Teesside, has a special place in the heart of two newlyweds, who made the venture part of their big day.
Jay and Katy Tate. Picture: GASP Photo Co.
Jason and Katy Tate, who married on July 1 at Durham's Crook Hall, made the most of their wedding finery by dressing up as zombies following the celebrations.
And this truly was a ceremony with a difference.
The pair put on their scariest faces for a zombie-themed photo shoot, ahead of the attraction opening for its 2016 season, which will begin on October 21.
Jason, 29, is one of the directors at Scream Factory - a family-run venture which stemmed from the Tate family's flood restoration business.
Auditions are being held for roles at the Scream Factory this weekend. Picture: GASP Photo Co.
Now in its fifth year, the spooky shack employs more than 50 people who work on the event - and this year, you could be in with a chance to take part.
Speaking about their unique photographs, Katy, also 29, said: “People kept asking whether there was going to be anything Scream Factory related at our wedding.
"Jason had some big ideas of having zombies turn up on the big day but I put my foot down.
“Our photographer, Jade from Gasp Photo Company suggested doing a trash the dress shoot, and Jason thought that would be a good way of doing something Scream Factory related.
“It was a bit of a compromise.”
She added: "I think the pictures are really fun. It was a bizarre experience and really quite terrifying because the sets are really scary even during the daylight.
“But it was great fun, and something we will look back at forever."
Based behind Kirkleatham Museum, the Scream Factory offers two kinds of tours - so you can test yourself this Halloween. One, The Twilight Tour, is suitable for children ages 3 and up.
On Saturday, the team is holding open auditions for more than 50 acting roles available for the spooky season - which will finish on October 31, the creepiest night of the year!
Have you got what it takes?
Jay, who works alongside brother Tom, sister Leanne and dad Stephen, managing director, said: "My role at Scream Factory is usually very much behind the scenes and though I have acted on a couple of occasions supporting at the event, this was a totally different experience.
"I am really proud of what we have achieved. It’s great seeing people come back year on year and enjoying themselves. This felt like a great way to honour the event.”
For more information, and to book tickets, visit the Scream Factory website here.
The auditions are taking place from 10am on Saturday, and will be held at The Innovation Centre, Vienna CT, Kirkleatham Business Park, Redcar, TS10 5SH. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/feeling-brave-head-down-to-the-scream-factory-for-a-scare-1-8097663 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/c176246aaa774048d0da3d8b03063e9b8c98d846ae37e4c33ac58c0bfb2801aa.json |
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Terriers have had mixed fortunes in the league so far this season but have scored a few goals with leading marksman Jonathan Wright hitting four against Crook Town only to still end up on the losing side.
The visitors started the game eager to feed Wright and he brought out a terrific save early on from young James McGregor, making his debut in Hebburn’s goal.
He then sent a couple of speculative shots into the cemetery before opening the scoring in the 12th minute.
Chris Smith headed just wide of the post from a corner by Alan Pegram shortly after, but for a time the pattern of play continued with Bedlington sending long balls over the Hebburn defence for Wright.
Then Hebburn started to play a passing game, and driven by Pegram they retained possession and pushed the Terriers back for the remainder of the first half.
Hebburn went close with a couple of efforts, Glen Hargrave puttng one effort narrowly wide, before being awarded a penalty five minutes from half-time when Pegram was fouled in the box.
But Jason Blackburn’s well struck kick was well saved by former Hebburn keeper Phillip Holgate, and the home side went into the half-time interval trailing 1-0.
Hebburn started the second half brightly but Wright again broke free and bore down on goal and with only the keeper to beat, but McGregor pulled off a top drawer save to deny the striker.
Bedlington continued to frustrate Hebburn until two minutes from time when Channon North smashed a cross home from eight yards.
Then with time running out the Hornets pushed forward and were rewarded with a well-earned stroke of luck.
A shot by Pegram in time added on hit a Terriers defender and was diverted wide of the keeper to give Hebburn all three points.
On Tuesday Hebburn are away to Durham City (at Consett’s ground, kick-off 7.30pm. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/local-football/local-leagues/hebburn-hit-two-late-goals-to-beat-bedlington-1-8093562 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/e6eda067bfe8bd39b5435b8d5c210305598ebd6f3c4483d7d08c72c99dd98588.json |
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Its owner the Restaurant Group booked pre-tax losses of £22.5million for the first half of the year as it took a hit from a £59.1million exceptional charge linked to the store closures and writedowns.
The closures will affect up to 1,000 jobs, although it is understood that the company will redeploy the vast majority of staff in other outlets.
Like-for-like sales fell 3.9% as the group, which has issued a string of profit warnings, flagged a "challenging trading period".
Chairman Debbie Hewitt said: "The board has moved quickly to undertake a review of the operating strategy and we now have clarity on the issues facing our leisure brands, particularly Frankie & Benny's.
"The brand remains relevant and popular, and we are confident that improved performance will be achieved by being more customer-focused and data-driven, and through better operational execution."
The Restaurant Group admitted it has lost value-conscious customers at Frankie & Benny's after "significant price increases".
The firm pledged to "look at the pricing architecture of the menu" and "reinvigorate the value offer" in a bid to attract more families to its outlets.
The next phase of the review will look at stablemates Chiquito, Coast To Coast, Joe's Kitchen and Garfunkel's.
Earlier this month, the company ousted chief executive Danny Breithaupt, replacing him with the former boss of Paddy Power, Andy McCue.
Frankie & Benny's has a dozen restaurants in the region, in Sunderland, Washington, Boldon, Newcastle, Gateshead, Dalton Park, North Shields, Cramlington, Stockton and Middlesbrough. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/what-s-on/eating-out/frankie-benny-s-staff-fear-for-jobs-as-33-restaurants-to-close-1-8090454 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/3270f47598863a621a8fe23f7319c336ee0d0618e22692f2c9e9a6bc28ae8182.json |
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Hughton’s previously unbeaten Brighton and Hove Albion side lost 2-0 at St James’s Park on Saturday.
The result moved Newcastle up to fourth in the Championship.
Hughton – whose name was chanted by United fans late in the game – was the last man to guide the club out of the division.
United, under Hughton, won the division by a 12-point margin in 2009-10.
And he feels that Benitez has assembled a powerful team capable of challenging for promotion.
I think he (Benitez) has built a team here that he thinks can get them promotion. And I’m sure they’ll go very, very close. Chris Hughton
“One thing that Rafa has, even though he’s never managed at this level in this country, is great experience,” said Hughton.
“He’s bought players who will be top players in this division – all good types, quality, workmanlike – and I think they’re very strong at centre half.
“I think he’s built a team here that he thinks can get them promotion. And I’m sure they’ll go very, very close.”
A crowd of almost 50,000 was at St James’s Park to see Brighton beaten in the league for the first time since February.
It was the highest attendance of the day in England, and Hughton believes the stadium can again be a fortress for the club, beaten 2-1 at home by Huddersfield Town earlier this month.
“It’s a tough place, and I think it’ll be a tough place for every team that comes here,” he said.
“Possibly Huddersfield caught them at a good time when they were still trying to get into a bit of rhythm.
“But I think they’ll be very strong this season and I think it’ll be a very tough place to come.
“It doesn’t matter what division you’re in, there’s a support here who want to see the team winning.
“That’s why there’s still such a massive crowd here.
“It’s nice for this support, not for me (on Saturday), to see the team winning again.”
Asked if he heard his name being chanted, Hughton added: “Yes, I did and it’s always very nice.
“It’s a very special place for me. If we’re very close to where Newcastle are at the end of the season, we won’t be too far away.”
Newcastle have spent tens of millions of pounds in the transfer market this summer – the club has also banked more than £40million from the sales of Georginio Wijnaldum, Daryl Janmaat and others – and the outlay contrasts sharply with the minimal funds Hughton had in 2009-10.
“My time here was completely different,” said Hughton, whose Brighton side missed out on automatic promotion by goal difference last season.
“What I had, although we lost a lot of players, was a lot of stability.
“We didn’t sign so many players, but the players who did it for me were the players who were here and who decided they wanted to be here and do it.
“Rafa is completely different, he’s having to mould a team, but what he’s able to do is bring in very good players.”
Asked what the difference could be between success and failure in the Championship, Hughton said: “The obvious one is having enough of what you need in this division.
“I didn’t think Newcastle were great, but they were very efficient at what they do. They’ve got good people, good players on the ball and they also showed they can score from set plays.
“A lot of what you saw today in Newcastle is what’s needed in this division.
“This was a home performance from Newcastle.
“What you’ve got to be able to do is go away from home and be as efficient as Newcastle were.
“That’s the key in this division.
“We had to wait until January last season to win a game by more than one goal – that’s how tough this league is.” | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/newcastle-united/latest-nufc-news/chris-hughton-s-fascinating-verdict-on-newcastle-s-promotion-hopes-1-8093648 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/da307d5c9d750f789e820b578ab7d0e632db68d0ad6827584bfc4720d9060478.json |
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The Chelsea winger is on Tyneside for a medical after the two clubs yesterday agreed a deal for a season-long loan.
Newcastle have also been offered West Bromwich Albion winger Callum McManaman.
Cheick Tiote was in Turkey over the weekend for talks with Galatasaray.
But a proposed move to the Istanbul club broke down and the unsettled midfielder could instead move to a Greek club before Wednesday night's transfer deadline.
Striker Emmanuel Riviere is close to joining Spanish club Osasuna on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent £6million move.
Meanwhile, midfielder Mohamed Diamehas revealed what Rafa Benitez told United's players before Saturday's game against Brighton and Hove Albion, which Newcastle won 2-0 to move up to fourth place in the Championship.
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The Met Office has confirmed that families can look forward to barbecue weather for the Bank Holiday Monday and throughout the rest of the week, as temperatures look set to peak at 21C on Tuesday and will stay around 18C until Sunday.
Although remaining mainly warm and dry, the Met Office has warned that the best of the weather will be at the start of the week, as some showers are expected on Friday.
Met Office operational meteorologist Martin Bowles said: "Monday is looking like a good day.
"Most people are going to have dry weather with plenty of sunshine conducive to enjoying the Bank Holiday outside.
"The rest of the week is also looking quite good."
Experts say that despite Tuesday getting off to a cloudy start, that cloud is expected to thin and break to allow some bright or sunny spells. Then on Wednesday rain will spread from the west, clearing to showers during afternoon.
Thursday will also be warm and cloudy but remaining dry through to Friday when rain will arrive from the west .
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Transport information supplier Inrix said some stretches of road could have twice as many vehicles between Friday and Monday compared with a normal weekend.
The North east should be okay, but hotspots to avoid for those going further afield including sections of the M25, M5, M27 and M6.
The combination of rail engineering work and a forecast of potentially warm weather is expected to boost the number of journeys over the popular getaway weekend.
Inrix traffic analyst Greg Hallsworth said: "This bank holiday could see the worst congestion in recent years.
"A perfect storm of conditions will lead to increased traffic as carmageddon blights the long weekend.
"With some uncharacteristically good weather forecast and potential rail disruption, holidaymakers could find roads gridlocked far more than usual.
"We have already seen delays of up to 90 minutes during the bank holidays earlier this year but we could see delays of more than 120 minutes for some of the worst affected roads this weekend."
The RAC estimates that 20.7 million cars will be using major roads for leisure trips between Thursday and Monday.
Based on a survey of 1,579 motorists, it expects Saturday is set to be the busiest day with five million leisure journeys planned - double the figure for the same day last year.
Sunday is also set to be busy on the roads with 4.4 million getaway trips.
Road congestion could be made worse with nearly 1,000 engineering projects being carried out across Britain's rail network, meaning some lines will be closed.
Martin Frobisher, route managing director for Network Rail, said: "Work takes place 365 days a year as part of our Railway Upgrade Plan, but we carry out larger upgrades over bank holidays when there are fewer passengers travelling."
Forecasters at the Met Office said temperatures could reach 30C in some places this week, with inland parts of south-east England and East Anglia expected to enjoy the warmest weather.
* These are the top 11 congestion hotspots to avoid over the bank holiday weekend (expected delay in brackets), according to Inrix:
1. M25 between J9 Leatherhead and J21 Winch Hill Wood (90 minutes)
2. M5 southbound from J14 Thornbury and J22 Highbridge (90 minutes)
3. M25 between J4 Orpington and Dartford Tunnel (50 minutes)
4. M27/A31 between Southampton and Ringwood (50 minutes)
5. M4 westbound from London to the West Country (50 minutes)
6. M6 between J19 Knutsford and J22 Warrington (45 minutes)
7. M6 northbound from Keele to Knutsford (40 minutes)
8. A303 westbound from Andover to Amesbury (40 minutes)
9. M5 between J4a Bromsgrove and J7 Worcester (30 minutes)
10. M25 between J29 Codham Hall Wood and the QEII Bridge (30 minutes)
11. M60/M62 between J8 Carrington and J20 Rochdale (20 minutes)
Highways England announced that almost 98% of England's motorway and major A roads will be clear of roadworks over the weekend.
Some 373 miles of roadworks will either be completed or suspended ahead of the holiday.
The decision was welcomed by the Freight Transport Association, which said lifting "such a significant number of roadworks" was good news for all motorists. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/lifestyle-etc/get-aways/bank-holiday-carmageddon-looms-with-worst-road-congestion-for-years-1-8084155 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/85d85cd385159bd94fa692f52f3dab2bd274b3ab2920e885623c4ea2a924d1c0.json |
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The school, in Field Terrace, saw 54% of its mainstream pupils (not including post-11 education) scoop five A* to C grades including maths and English, an 11% increase on last year.
Jarrow School pupils, from left, Niamh Chapman, Adrienne Kearvell and Beth Lawson, are all off to Newcastle College Sixth Form after collecting their GCSE results.
Overall, 55% of mainstream pupils earned five A* to C grades.
Headteacher Jill Gillies said: “We’re absolutely delighted with the results. The number of pupils achieving five A* to C grades including maths and English has increased by 11% this year, which demonstrates the hard work and determination of our students.”
Among the high achievers was Joseph Barclay, 16, from Jarrow, who earned an A*, six As and three Bs.
He’s off to Harton Sixth Form and hopes to go into medicine.
Jarrow School pupil Matthew McGregor collects his GCSE results.
He said: “I felt relieved when I opened them and I was surprised that I’d done so well in some of the subjects.
“I did better than I thought I was going to and I’m just glad it’s all over now.”
Blane Stamps, 16, from Jarrow, also hopes to go into medicine after studying A-levels at Harton Sixth Form.
He picked up nine As, one B and one C at GCSE.
He said: “I was over the moon, it didn’t feel real, I was shocked.
“In some subjects I did a lot better than I thought I was going to. I’m looking forward to sixth form now.”
Niamh Chapman, 16, from Hebburn, picked up two As, five Bs and three Cs, and is off to Newcastle Sixth Form College.
She said: “I was nervous before I opened them but then really pleased for myself, it’s been hard work but it was all worth it in the end.”
Adrienne Kearvell, 16, from Jarrow, scooped four As, six Bs and one C.
She’s going to Newcastle Sixth Form College in September and hopes to become a vet.
She said: “I couldn’t have been happier when I opened my results, I did a lot better than I thought I was going to do and now I’m really excited about going to college.”
Beth Lawson, 16, from Jarrow, earned an A*, four As, four Bs and one C. She’s also going to Newcastle Sixth Form College.
She said: “I was really relieved when I opened my results because I’d been panicking about them. I’m so happy with them.”
Matthew McGregor, 16, from Jarrow, picked up an A*, five As, three Bs and a C.
He’s going to Newcastle Sixth Form College to study A-levels.
He said: “I was nervous but really excited to get my results, and I was so pleased with them.
“It’s been a hard year so I’m glad that it’s all over now. The hard work was worth it in the end.” | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/education/gcse-results-jarrow-school-pupils-shocked-by-great-results-1-8088507 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/c972c7cc065b43df2f188d297518e5a8747ece8cacbd75aff8f45ae7eb7953f5.json |
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Zeera in Ocean Road, South Shields, proved their spice is right after winning the title at this year’s English Curry Awards, held at the Mercure Hotel in Manchester.
Held annually to celebrate the country’s best curry houses, the competition is based around nominations and Zeera came out top among tough competition in the North East region.
The restaurant was also shortlisted nationally in the Best Marketing campaign section on the back of its successful sponsorship of this year’s South Tyneside Festival.
Restaurant owner Shah Choudhury said: “All the team here are on cloud nine and we would like to thanks all our customers for their kinds words and support in helping us achieve this major accolade.
“We were happy to be nominated alongside some of the best restaurants in the region so to take the top honour is amazing. The award is reward for the Zeera team who work so hard to bring our customers the best and we already working on exciting plans for 2017 to make the experience an even better one.”
“The award is reward for all the hard work we put in to make the Zeera experience an excellent one. We will strive to continue to bring our the best in Indian Cuisine and we have exciting plans for 2017.”
The restaurant opened back in December 2007 after brothers Shahanoor, Kohinoor and Abadur Choudhury decided to go it alone and open their own place.
Zeera quickly became a favourite haunt for curry lovers visiting Ocean Road from across the region and head chef Kohinoor went on to win South Tyneside Chef of the Year twice in 2009 and 2011 and North East Curry Chef of the Year 2012.
In 2012 Zeera also doubled in size to cope with demand and now caters for up to 80 people in two adjoining contemporary Bollywood-style dining areas. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/what-s-on/eating-out/north-east-restaurant-picks-up-oscar-of-the-curry-world-1-8091064 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/9ee03decf8f3b5816803209d2c4dcffda517625ca0b9ae70a2e6b61739103b60.json |
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As part of Jamie Oliver’s ‘Food Team’, the bubbly brown-eyed Londoner cooks for a living, dreaming up and styling recipes for Oliver’s books, magazine and TV shows. But she also cooked her way through a traumatic maternity leave, after her son Archie died just before birth two years ago.
“I can’t remember what happened for the first few months. I think we must have lived off food from nice people. I don’t think I cooked for a while. I really scared myself. I thought, ‘I just don’t care, I actually don’t care about food or anything’,” she recalls. “You feel really vulnerable and I didn’t want to go out... Then it sort of went full circle.”
Fearing she’d lost her love of food, Hayden gathered all her cookbooks together - including Honey & Co’s book, the Middle Eastern cafe where we meet today - and started thinking about food for her and husband Pete.
“After a few months of calming down, I thought, ‘Let’s start again... You’re going to sit down and start making a weekly meal plan’. Then I would drive myself to the supermarket and do the shop, and that’s actually what got me out again - having a purpose got me back into doing something and being a bit more confident.”
The familiarity and routine of cooking was like therapy and slowly eased Hayden, 34, through her bereavement.
What started out as a simple project has been gently nurtured into Hayden’s first cookbook, Stirring Slowly: Recipes To Restore + Revive. With chapter titles such as ‘A Sunny Start To
The Day’, ‘Bowl Food’, and ‘Bake Yourself Better’, it’s a book to turn to when you’ve had a long, tough day - full of warming, comforting and revitalising recipes.
In his foreword, Jamie Oliver says he loves Hayden ‘like a sister’, and she is equally full of praise for her mentor, with whom she’s travelled the world for work.
“After my maternity leave, I went back part-time, because I needed to sort my life out a bit. He said, ‘Whatever you need to do, we’ll make it work’. He’s phenomenal and he really cares.
It sounds cheesy, but the Food Team is family and it’s the most inspiring place to be.”
Hayden’s real family has had a huge impact on her love of food, too. Born to Greek Cypriot parents, her childhood memories are of Saturday pilgrimages from their home above her grandparents’ Greek restaurant to the ‘smelly shop’ - an Italian deli packed with hanging salami - around the corner.
Her dad worked in the family restaurant while her mum stayed home, teaching Hayden and her sister to bake. It sparked a lifelong passion - and she remembers shadowing both her grannies, determined to learn all the traditional Cypriot family recipes before they were lost.
“I still cook with my granny,” she says. “She’s amazing. She’s had such an influence on me.”
Hayden’s already planning her next cookbook - full of Cypriot food - but for now, she’s pleased to have created a legacy for Archie with her first one.
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Haven Point in Pier Parade is shut to the public due to “unforseen circumstances.”
As yet it is unclear what has forced the closure of the venue which was opened less than three years ago at a cost of £16m.
However, is has been rumoured there are problems with the water tank.
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Arca, who joined Shields last September, has snubbed interest from elsewhere to extend his stay at Mariners Park.
The Argentinean was a key part of last season's Northern League Division Two title-winning squad.
So far, he has made 37 appearances for the Mariners, scoring 13 goals. He has also taken on the role of vice-captain this season.
Arca said: "It's good to commit to the club even more.
"I'm really enjoying my football and it's the logical next step to reaffirm that commitment by signing the contract.
"The club is trying to be as professional as it can be and I want to be a part of that. I've thoroughly enjoyed the last year.
"I'm really looking forward to the rest of the season in Division One, which is going to be difficult.
"We've done really well over the last three games, though, especially the match at Penrith on Monday.
"We totally dominated the game and were very patient with the ball. It was a pleasure to be involved in that and hopefully we can continue to do well."
Meanwhile, Arca and Shields manager Jon King will deliver a coaching course at Mariners Park this Thursday and Friday for children aged between four and 14.
Places can be booked by texting your child's name, age and the words 'Mariners Park' to 07795 024333.
Arca and his Shields team-mates are next in action on Saturday, with the Mariners hosting Whitley Bay on what is non-league day. Kick-off is at 3pm. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/local-football/non-league/julio-arca-commits-future-to-south-shields-by-signing-contract-1-8097886 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/24d4acdd65aa948857c0d0abafa2ad68f57fb7d7751a532d5548aad51ceaea9d.json |
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But what will the 24-year-old bring to Rafa Benitez's side? We take a look at the former Porto man's career so far:
STARTING OUT
Atsu began his career at Porto and caught the eye of then manager Andre Villas-Boas. He spent the 2011-12 season on loan at Rio Ave in the Portuguese Primera Liga, making 27 appearances and netting six times on his way to being named as Ave's Player of the Season.
His form at Estadio Do Rio Ave caught the eye of the Ghana national team, and he won his first senior cap against Lesotho in June 2012, scoring his first international goal in the same game.
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Atsu returned to Porto for the 2012-13 campaign, but was on the move in the summer of 2013 as Chelsea came calling, as he signed a five-year contract for a reported fee of £3.5million. He was quickly sent out on loan though, spending the season at Vitesse and making 28 appearances for Chelsea's feeder club as he again picked up a Player of the Year award.
He then spent the 2014-15 season at Everton, but struggled to hold down a starting place as he made only five appearances at Goodison Park.
Last season saw Atsu join Bournemouth on loan but, after a lack of appearances on the South Coast, he was recalled to Stamford Bridge before being loaned out to Malaga.
INTERNATIONAL EXPLOITS
With 42 caps and nine international goals to his name, Atsu has become an established part of Ghana's side.
He played in all his nation's games at the 2014 World Cup before starring in the 2015 African Cup of Nations – picking up Player of the Tournament and Goal of the Tournament as Ghana lost in the final.
PLAYING STYLE
Although naturally a winger, Atsu has also been deployed in a more central role, most notably during his time at Vitesse.
This will offer Benitez plenty of versatility and cover in several positions, while also giving him options to switch things around during a game.
An attack-minded player equipped with pace, skill and good delivery, Atsu is your typical energetic winger and he will certainly look to provide United's centre forward with plenty of goalscoring opportunities while chipping in with goals himself. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/newcastle-united/latest-nufc-news/profile-versatile-christian-atsu-will-bring-goals-to-newcastle-1-8097728 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/84c69b14d24b39b0951bcf30969bb3229e554259c32f4e59c2c58e99c6db11a1.json |
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The 27-year-old centre-back, who is wanted by Everton, has been out with a back injury and missed the games against Middlesbrough and Shrewsbury Town.
Manager David Moyes has been adamant Kone - who turned down the offer of a new improved contract 24-hours before complaining of a bad back - will not be leaving the club this summer.
Kone partners new £8million signing Papy Djilobodji at the heart of Sunderland's defence, with Javier Manquillo making his debut at right-back.
Steven Pienaar and Fabio Borini have shaken of knee and toe injuries, respectively, to start today's game at St Mary's Stadium.
Jeremain Lens, who missed the EFL Cup win with a foot injury, returns to the bench.
Southampton (4-2-3-1): Forster, Cedric, Fonte (C), Van Dijk, Targett, Emile-Hojbjerg, Davis, Tadic, Romeu, Redmond, Austin.
Subs: McCarthy, Yoshida, Clasie, Long, Rodriguez, Ward-Prowse, Bertrand.
Sunderland AFC (4-2-3-1): Pickford, Manquillo, Djilobodji, Kone, van Aanholt, Rodwell, Pienaar, Gooch, Borini, Januzaj, Defoe (C).
Subs: Stryjek, Khazri, Watmore, Lens, McNair, Love, Asoro.
Referee: Lee Mason (Greater Manchester) | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/sunderland-afc/latest-safc-news/southampton-v-sunderland-afc-team-news-everton-target-lamine-kone-returns-to-the-starting-line-up-1-8092402 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/aff848c5ee9f1b9e12beeeb39464c3eaf85f08f565c4b80172c50534d2201386.json |
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The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents dozens of councils and fire and rescue authorities across the country, has reported a summer holiday surge in the activity known as tombstoning.
Figures suggest tombstoning has led to two deaths a year over the last decade.
A number of incidents in South Shields have been reported over the past few years.
The LGA is calling on the Government to raise awareness of the dangers of jumping into water by extending a campaign run by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to schools.
At the moment the campaign is targeted at men aged between 18 and 29, but the LGA believes it should be rolled out to schools.
Simon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA’s safer and stronger communities board, said: “Tombstoning is extremely dangerous and grim statistics show that anyone doing it could kill themselves or end up with life-changing or serious injuries.
“Jumping into water may appear enticing during warm weather, but you should never jump off any structure directly into the sea or a river as you can never be sure how deep the water is below.
“Shallow water, unseen objects under the water, hitting something on the way down or simply landing badly can lead to people being killed or paralysed.
“The message is clear - if you don’t know that the depth of the water is safe or you cannot see what is below the surface, don’t jump.” | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/danger-warning-to-tombstoning-youngsters-in-south-tyneside-1-8094093 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/780cd89f42386193cbd1d8f9017539c0fe7f74db976cae67c3c6047fd0484395.json |
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South Tyneside music fans have turned out in force to see top tribute acts at the latest Fake Festival.
More than 1,000 people descended on Bents Park in South Shields for the event, where acts paying homage to groups such as the Stone Roses and Kasabian performed.
The Total Stone Roses on stage at Fake Festival at the Bent Park, South Shields.
The weather has stayed dry for the gig, although the bands played under the cover of a marquee.
Bec Evans, local event organiser for the Fake Festival, told the Gazette: “This is the last festival for 2016 so we wanted to make sure we went out on a high and thankfully it’s been a really good day.
“We started off holding the festivals in 2012 we’ve expanded ever since then to meet the demand. There have already been festivals in Whickam, Tynemouth and Chester-le-Street this year and they’ve all gone well.
“We tend to pick locations where there is a night time economy where there are bars and restaurants close by and that tends to work.
Crowds enjoy the Fake Festival at the Bent Park, South Shields.
“There’s a big catchment area in the North East so you get people from all over coming to see the acts, have a drink and enjoy themselves.
“Of course we’ve got loads of people from South Tyneside here but there are plenty from the rest of the region too.
“We try and pick bands that cover groups who have a big fan base and appeal to a lot of people and the likes of the Stone Roses are huge at the minute after they released a new single for the first time in more than 20 years.
Taking to the stage on Saturday were The Total Stone Roses, Kazabian (Kasabian), Blondie tribute act Blondied, The Middens, Crying Lions, Doors Open and Outlander.
Crowds enjoy the Fake Festival at the Bent Park, South Shields.
“We’ve got space for 2,000 people and tickets have sold really well especially with the weather staying hot,” added Bec.
“It’s perfect for people having it over this weekend because the Bank Holiday Monday gives them a chance to recover!”
Bec also said that the organising team are already looking ahead to another festival in South Shields next year. “We don’t know what dates we’ll get from the council as to when we can use the park but we should know soon and we’ll go from there.
“But hopefully we can sort another festival for 2017 here as it’s clearly something people want to come to.”
Crowds enjoy the Fake Festival at the Bent Park, South Shields.
The Total Stone Roses on stage at Fake Festival at the Bent Park, South Shields. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/south-shields-fake-festival-a-hit-with-music-fans-1-8092731 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/e420c3316847db1175db9aa5da96494134e7630548e725c4175e7ae125b6bbee.json |
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD’s) are the world’s biggest killer, causing over 17 million deaths a year, and many of these deaths are preventable through lifestyle changes.
A Healthy Heart Breakfast Bagel.
During World Heart Day I’m calling out everyone to focus on their health and work together to help prevent them becoming another fatality statistic.
Most people know someone affected, or have themselves been directly affected, by heart disease and the saddest part is that a lot of times it is avoidable by changing lifestyle habits.
Simple changes in diet by reducing your salt intake and eliminating processed foods from your diet and doing a little bit of exercise every day can make a huge difference.
A healthy diet reduces the risk of coronary heart disease and prevents weight gain which puts pressure on your heart. The introduction of a healthy diet also helps to prevent further worsening of existing heart disease, and it’s not too late to start eating healthily.
To help prevent heart disease I have come up with five simple ways to change your lifestyle and take better care of your heart.
Eat more vegetables and good fats.
A 2013 study showed that a Mediterranean-style diet reduces the risk of coronary heart disease by 30% and prevents weight gain which puts pressure on your heart. This type of diet also helps to prevent further worsening of existing heart disease and it’s NEVER too late to start eating healthily.
Reduce salt
Too much salt can cause high blood pressure, which increases the risk of developing coronary heart disease. Check the salt content of any pre-packaged food you buy.
No processed foods
There are lots of hidden saturated fats, sugars and salts in processed food, fast food, and ready meals. I would strongly advise people to check the content of the ingredients of any food they buy and start cooking from scratch together.
Quit smoking
Smokers are twice as likely as non-smokers to have heart disease. With all the health issues it causes, it is the most important thing you can do for your heart.
Joining a boot camp
The heart is the most important muscle and just a small amount of intense exercise will keep it functioning properly. Workouts as little as ten minutes a day can make a huge difference. If you would like to come and work with me you can try a week of boot camp for only £7. www.eastcoast-fitness.com/7daykickstart
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Healthy Heart Breakfast Bagel
This breakfast bagel is a great way to get healthy fats and protein into your diet to promote a healthy heart. It’s quick and simple to make and tastes so good, it’s my favourite breakfast on a weekend.
Ingredients:
Smoked salmon, 2 slices
1/2 plain bagel
1/2 avocado, sliced
2 eggs
1 tsp olive oil
Method:
Put the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Beat the eggs in a bowl and pour into the pan. Keep stirring the eggs until they are cooked to your liking.
Meanwhile, cut the bagel in half and place under the grill until lightly toasted.
While the bagel is toasting, cut the avocado in half and cut into 1/2 cm thick slices.
To serve place the bagel on a plate and then top with avocado, scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. Season with black pepper.
It also goes well with honey mustard dressing.
HEALTHY HEART WORKOUT
The aim of this workout is to raise your heart rate and keep it elevated for five minutes.
Work for five minutes by completing the ten exercises below for 30 seconds with no rest in between.
30 seconds STAR JUMPS
30 seconds SQUATS
30 seconds HILL CLIMBS
30 seconds PRESS UPS
30 seconds SIDE STEPS
30 seconds BURPEES
30 seconds GET UPS
30 seconds HIGH KNEES
30 seconds LUNGES
30 seconds CRUNCHES
Once you have completed a five-minute round take 60 seconds break and then complete another three rounds. Total time = 23 mintues
Go to www.eastcoast-fitness.com for a full demonstration of the workout.
LIFESTYLE TIP
You don’t have to do intense workouts every day. Aim for four intense workouts per week with three recovery days. But stay active on those rest days. Go for a walk or try some yoga to help recovery.
GET IN TOUCH
Your Trainer: Graham Low, owner of East Coast Fitness, is an award-winning personal trainer based in Seaham. The ex-professional footballer was nominated for the Small Business of the Year and Leisure Awards at the Sunderland Echo Portfolio Awards last year. Graham won the Leisure Award at the North East Hotels Association Awards while working as gym manager at Seaham Hall in 2012. For personal training, boot camps, small group training and online programmes email graham@eastcoast-fitness.com or visit www.eastcoast-fitness.com | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/health/shaping-up-five-steps-to-a-healthier-heart-1-8094318 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/430663b55c53769a13a1df23002eee2c8b47e1c97bf0bdc4c0a0d1e15ade3a72.json |
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Ravers danced in the rain as the hedonism of famous Manchester nightclub Haçienda came to Herrington Country Park.
Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
Sounds that shaped the iconic club, which spun its last track in the late 90s, rang out as DJs who helped make it a dance institution took to the decks once more.
Even the soggy weather couldn’t dampen this summer of love.
With original Haçienda DJs Graeme Park and Mike Pickering at the helm, the thousands who attended the gig were taken on a nostalgic trip back to the 80s and early 90s when the dance revolution took clubs by storm. The jumping sea of outstretched arms were almost as entertaining as the entertainment itself as they gyrated their way down memory lane with giddy nostalgia – even if the style was a little more ‘dad dance’ all these years later.
A surprise appearance from Happy Mondays legend Bez had everyone twisting their melons in tune to his trademark moves – this was Herrington Country Park, but not as we know it.
Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
But those expecting it to be purist acid house and tracks from the Madchester era were wrong.
I doubt a string section was ever associated with Fac51 back in the day, but for this interpretation Manchester Camerata orchestra and the AMC Gospel choir added another dimension to the dance tracks. How do the heavy beats of dance music gel with the more intricate subtleties of a 70-strong orchestra?
At times, they didn’t, and it was hard to hear the orchestra over the heavy bass. The fact the gig was outdoors maybe didn’t help.
But on tracks with a stronger focus on vocals, such as Get Back to Love and Ride on Time, it was a perfect, rich blend. And you couldn’t fault the spectacle of the stage with its central DJ tower flanked by talented musicians as lasers streamed across the audience.
Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
Park and Pickering spun a continuous set of classics proving they still know how to work a crowd, with tracks from the archives that defined the Manchester glory days, such as Move Your Body, which had everyone dusting off their glo sticks.
Happy Monday’s singer Rowetta lent her distinctive sonorous tones to Candi Staton’s You Got The Love which had the ravers closing their eyes in joyful reminiscence.
They don’t make superclubs like the Haçienda anymore, but though the dancefloor may be demolished, the music lives on as a legacy to those halcyon nights.
Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
Crowds enjoy Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw.
Crowds enjoy Hacienda Classical at Herrington Country Park, Penshaw. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/what-s-on/gigs-music/sunderland-goes-mad-for-it-at-hacienda-classical-1-8079729 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/e39458c6b169e84bb3e0af8c408f0882eceb0ddf056e53ee9e99f9dbcbdd0e1b.json |
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The defender has joined from Italian club Palermo in a £3million deal.
Lazaar was at St James's Park on Saturday to see his new club beat Brighton and Hove Albion 2-0 in a Championship fixture.
The 24-year-old Morocco international said: "I am very happy to be at Newcastle United.
"I'm proud to sign here because Newcastle is a great team in England."
Lazaar will compete with Paul Dummett for a place at left-back.
Newcastle United manager Rafa Benitez added: "Achraf is a good, young player with international experience who has grown his game in Italy.
"He gives us width on the left, has a good left foot and will add great competition to the squad."
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They should have a motto of their own: ‘Smaller, Tighter, Skimpier.’
Those eye-watering trunks are the only sporting garments that double as a medical tourniquet. (I read that in The Lancet.)
And what, can anyone tell me, is the score with those diver’s towels? Why do they have to be skimpy too?
I know some of the lesser sports struggle with funding, but you’d think they’d stretch to luxurious fluffy bath towels. Instead, the divers have to make do with squares of material no bigger than a large handkerchief. Pitiful.
A work colleague pointed out that they are not towels but shammies (or chamois leather to you and me).
Dear me. Times really are hard. It explains why you never see them shampooing their hair in the showers or scrubbing their backs with a loofah. Can’t afford it.
I expect it’s the same story with the women’s beach volleyball. Judging by the frugal use of material to make their team kits, money must be in short supply. I expect it’s the same story for the men’s beach volleyball teams. If anyone’s watched the men, please write in and let me know.
It’s perhaps a godsend that the women’s hammer throwers are well supported financially. The women in that competition were dressed in Lycra long johns and big roomy vests. If the hammer throwers had to squeeze into the beach volleyball kits, well, it would be some sight and, at a push, an Olympic sport in itself.
Our girl Sophie Hitchon grabbed a bronze in the hammer, but couldn’t get near gold medal winner Anita Włodarczyk who reportedly scoffed eight boiled eggs for her breakfast before producing a world record throw. A fantastic performance, but you wouldn’t want to sit next to her on the team bus back to the hotel.
In the Ord household, the Olympics motto of Faster, Higher, Stronger has served only to deflate my ego.
My eldest son, Bradley, 15, claims to have me whupped in all three.
He has for some time now been a faster runner and, after filling out this summer, proved himself to be stronger in the time-honoured tradition of the beach piggyback challenge. I picked him up and staggered a few yards down the beach with him on my back, while he jogged back with me on his back, barely breaking sweat.
Faster and Stronger, but what about Higher? Was our boy taller than his dad?
At a family barbecue this weekend, the claim was put to the test with me and the boy standing back to back with my brother as the judge. (After years of sibling rivalry, my young bro was possibly the least independent adjudicator, but there you go.)Our kid managed to get revenge for years of Chinese burns and wedgies, by declaring Bradley taller than his dad. He was now Stronger, Faster, Higher. Another parenting watershed moment had been reached. Slower, Lower, Weaker … the inevitable result of the parenting Olympics. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/richard-ord-rio-2016-it-s-faster-higher-skimpier-1-8071989 | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/c0407ac62452b1262477c835e56e65fa523c3f326706769a043f5a3d0927b54d.json |
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Teenager Ava Napper really is a star pupil after achieving a full house of A*s in her GCSE's
The 16-year-old, a pupil at Whitburn Church of England Academy, says she wasn't expecting the grades she achieved as she opened the envelope containing her results.
Star student Ava Napper achieves 12 A*s in her exams
The hard work of the teenager's year group has helped the school in Rackley Way hit it's best results to date when it comes to pupils achieving at least a C grade in both English and Maths.
Speaking of his pupil's achievements Principal Alan Hardie says he is "thrilled" with the students who have "exceeded all expectations."
Mr Hardie said: "I am absolutely thrilled at the results the pupils have achieved this year. They have exceeded all expectations.
"The headline figures is 86 per cent of our pupils have gained at least a C grade in both English and Maths which is the best results we have ever achieved.
Pupils celebrate their GCSE results
"It reflects the hard work of such a talented group of young people supported by amazing staff. Everyone is thrilled and delighted by the results."
He added: "This is the best day of the year for me. It's wonderful to see the pupils celebrating their success. There's always tears, they are generally happy tears.
"I always find it amazing that some of our more able pupils really doubt themselves and then they open the envelope and it's all grade As and A*s, they are genuinely amazed but it just reflects the abilities we have seen all along."
Meanwhile, Ava was still in shock after finding out she had achieved A*s in all of her 12 exams. She plans to remain at Whitburn Academy to study Maths, further Maths, physics and chemistry at its sixth form.
Whitburn Church of England Academy GCSE results From left Anna Horrabin, Sam Hall and Lucy Bell
She said: "I just wasn't expecting it at all. I had to double check that I read it right in the first place.
"I had heard that the grade boundaries had changed so I thought it would be a lot harder, so I was really nervous.
"I feel great that it is all over, it's just like a weight has been lifted off my chest. It's all good."
Her mum Bridgitte who was waiting outside in the car was left in tears when her daughter revealed her results.
Whitburn Church of England Academy GCSE results
She said: "I'm just in tears, we just weren't expecting it - not across the board.
"I just can't believe it, I'm so proud of her."
Other star pupils at the school include Anna Horribin, 16, from Boldon who achieved 10 A*s and one A. She said: "I just feel good, as all the hard work has paid off.
"I feel a bit overwhelmed. I'm not sure what I want to do yet."
Lucy Bell, 16. from Boldon, achieved nine A*s and three As. She said: "The night before was really stressful, I was really worried. I was really nervous opening up the results but it was good that everyone was here. I'm just really relieved that all the work I put in has paid off and everything is okay. I've got no idea what I want to do."
Sam Hall, 16, from Whitburn, was one of the academy's highest achieving boys with 10 A*s and two As. He said: "I'm really happy. I didn't think I'd get the results. I've worked hard for a long time and it has been hard worl.
Relieved pupils after finding out their results
"I'm pretty happy about it - I'm not really sure what I think about it to be honest. I think my parents will be happy."
Whitburn Church of England Academy GCSE results Ava Napper
Pupils are glad it's all over after receiving their results
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After Mr Crookston’s son, also called Charles, identified the band, other people have made contact to name many of the All Stars or simply to say how wonderful their music was.
One of them was Maureen Buckingham who wrote: “After seeing the photo of the dance band in the Gazette, I can help out with the names of the musicians.
“My dad was Jimmy Reed,he was the drummer, though he is no longer with us as he passed away in 1993.
“He, along with my mam, who played accordion and piano, played in bands since their teens.
“There was also Stan Stokes, on guitar; Bobby Alton, clarinet;Charlie Crookston, on bass and Ronnie Simpson, on piano.
“I’m not sure about the man on the front row, right hand side, but he could be Ronnie Nesbitt. I believe the man with the accordion was Bill Marley (though Charles thinks it was his dad).
“I hope I was of some help.”
Anne Pellow remembers the All Stars with a real affection.
“It was a fantastic band,” said the 76-year-old.
“They played everything, from the London sounds of the 60s to every type of dance music you could imagine, such as the quick step.
“I got the shock of my life when I saw the picture of the band in the Gazette, it brought back lots of happy memories.
Anne, whose maiden name was Spowart, said she remembers the band when they played in the 1960s, when she was 18 or 19 years old.
“I went to the dances for about seven or eight years. Everyone could do all the dances.
“Everybody dressed most beautifully, both the men and the women.
“The mean wore shirts and ties, with polished shoes and lovely hair cuts.”
The women, she added, were just as dapper.
I asked Anne who was her favourite singer from that time, and she was quick to answer Frankie Laine.
Frankie Laine, who was born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, was an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years.
His hits included That’s My Desire,Mule Train, Cry of the Wild Goose, Jezebel, High Noon and Rawhide.
Who was your favourite singer from yesteryear?
Lance Liddle wrote: “I’m pretty sure the pianist was Ronnie Callaghan, who earlier had led his own band, The Ronnie Callaghan Big 8, to the national finals of the Melody Maker Dance Band contest.
“Because of union differences between the British MU and the American AFM, American bands didn’t play in England until the mid fifties when bands such as Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie and others played regularly at the Newcastle City Hall.
“On a different tack, I remember Marcelle Oley from when I was about 15. I think the last time I saw her was in The Latino club where she may have been a waitress.”
Bobby Burn took to Facebook to say: “I’m sure the Kings Hall was at the back of the Golden Lion and next to the Black and Grey.” | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/time-of-our-lives/your-memories-of-the-all-stars-band-1-8058100 | en | 2016-08-09T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/42d70619eba0932021bab414617d602bb068fc716fc89247f9d6d76a53788e0d.json |
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The forward will be allowed to leave St James’s Park before the transfer deadline if another striker arrives on Tyneside.
He knows that we’ll sign an experienced striker and has been in contact with some clubs that can maybe get him on loan. Rafa Benitez
Armstrong – who signed a new long-term contract this week – scored 20 goals for Coventry City last season.
And the League One club is keen to take the 19-year-old back to the Ricoh Arena.
“We extended the contract of (Rolando) Aarons, Armstrong and (Jamie) Sterry, because we wanted to be sure that these young players will be here and will grow with us,” said United manager Rafa Benitez.
“But he knows that we’ll sign an experienced striker, and has been in contact with some clubs that can maybe get him on loan.
“I think he is doing well and he has confidence that he can do well, but the problem when you are in the Championship and you want to go up quickly is that you need experience.
“If you have young players you know that they have the talent, but maybe it’s not the right time.
“They need more experience and then they can give what they have all season.”
Meanwhile, defender Sterry – who made his full debut in Wednesday night’s EFL Cup tie against Cheltenham Town – has signed a new four-year deal at Newcastle.
The 20-year-old said: “I’ve worked really hard to get here, and this week has been really good for me.
“I’ve learnt a lot, especially under the manager but also under every coach and every manager, and I’d like to thank my family and girlfriend.” | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/newcastle-united/latest-nufc-news/rafa-benitez-reveals-his-plan-for-adam-armstrong-at-newcastle-1-8091919 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/dc62adc9c00ce309383e6d4f87466bb83970af177561e1f90036eb5f8f9e1767.json |
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Confronted with acres of wobbling flesh (well, I say acres, in truth is was about 84 square foot, but who’s counting?) I really didn’t know where to put my face. The contestants did. And they were happy to tell the world.
Lowbrow it certainly was. And if there were such a thing as a lowbrow, these contestants would have had it shaved.
Tattoos and body hair topiary were much in evidence as singleton contestants had to choose a suitable romantic date based, not on personality, but bare body parts.
You could imagine the Channel Four TV executives listening to the pitches for new shows.
“We’ve got a documentary about Theresa May’s husband: a through-the-keyhole look at Sir Philip Green’s luxury yacht; and this idea about a nude dating show…”
“Nude dating show, you say. Tell me more…
“There is no more.”
“We’ll take it. When can they start?”
What surprised me most about Naked Attraction was that I’d never heard about it earlier … or since really.
There was a time when a nude dating show would have dominated the front pages of national newspapers with demands to ‘ban this filth.’
Instead, only silence, bar some barely audible grumblings from a handful TV reviewers and a faint whirring sound in the distance. That’ll be Mary Whitehouse spinning in her grave.
Who is today’s Mary Whitehouse? Where is our self-appointed moral guardian waging war against the permissive society? And do we need one?
She served a purpose did Mary. I only started watching The Singing Detective in the Eighties after she blasted its lewd content.
Anything she railed against was instantly put on my ‘to watch’ list.
There was no better publicity for a show than a public dressing down from Mary Whitehouse and her Clean-up TV campaigners.
Thanks to her, naked flesh on TV was a rarity when I was a youngster. The only place to find nudity was fleeting (and mostly imagined) glimpses through the doors to the girls’ changing rooms in school or via the occasional page from Playboy found in parkland bushes.
The hunt for ‘dirty mags’ in public parks was, for teenagers in 1979, the equivalent of today’s Pokemon Go. While kids go crazy for a Pikachu, back then we went nuts for the lesser-spotted peekaboo lace bra in a discarded edition of Knave. Still, got us out the house.
I don’t know, maybe I’m turning into more of a prude in my old age. Perhaps, I just haven’t moved with the times. For all I know, Body Hair Topiary may be a demonstration sport at the next Olympics.
If so, you can bet Channel Four will have the TV rights covered. It’ll follow the Monkey Tennis. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/richard-ord-ban-this-filth-erm-if-it-is-filth-that-is-1-8035741 | en | 2016-07-27T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/92689e9f2a6a9d6ae0e9f10cc88296b2048943ab476adbb98af35c8319bba895.json |
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Achraf Lazaar, set to join from Palermo, was at St James's Park to see Rafa Benitez's side beat 10-man Brighton and Hove Albion 2-0 in a keenly-contested game.
Lazaar today underwent a medical ahead of a proposed £3million move to the club, which has also agreed terms with Ipswich Town striker Daryl Murphy.
Captain Jamaal Lascelles and Jonjo Shelvey were on target for Newcastle, who have now won their last three league fixtures.
It was also the club's third clean sheet in the space of a week.
United are four points behind surprise leaders Huddersfield Town going into the international break.
The game also saw new signing DeAndre Yedlin, signed from Tottenham Hotspur this week, make his debut for the club.
Brighton, making their first visit to St James's Park since March 1992, made a positive start, but Lascelles settled the nerves with a fine headed goal from a 15th-minute free-kick from Matt Ritchie.
Yoan Gouffran struck the bar from 30 yards in the 24th minute.
The rest of the half was punctuated by a series of controversial decisions and bookings from referee Keith Stroud, who was booed off the field by Newcastle fans at the break.
Stroud infuriated Brighton, and their 1,800 travelling fans, early in the second half with a decision that saw them go down to 10 men for the final 35 minutes.
The Hampshire official sent off Brighton's Sam Baldock for a second bookable offence in the 55th minute.
Baldock, booked before the interval, clattered Newcastle goalkeeper Matz Sels, who needed treatment.
And Shelvey put the game beyond Chris Hugthon's side in the 64th minute with a superb free-kick after Mohamed Diame was fouled just outside the box.
Yedlin replaced Gouffran late in the game, and former manager Hughton's name was sung by Newcastle's supporters in the dying minutes.
United resume their Championship campaign with a fixture against Derby County at the iPro Stadium on September 10.
NEWCASTLE UNITED: Sels; Anita (Gamez, 72), Lascelles, Mbemba, Dummett; Hayden, Shelvey; Ritchie, Diame (Colback, 81), Gouffran (Yedlin, 88); Perez. Subs not used: Darlow, Clark, Hanley, Armstrong.
BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION: Stockdale, Bruno, Duffy, Dunk, Bong; Knockaert, Kayal, Sidwell (Norwood, 68), Skalak (LuaLua, 68); Baldock, Murray (Hemed, 68). Subs not used: Maenpaa, Hunt, Stephens, Murphy.
Goals: Lascelles 15, Shelvey 64
Bookings: Shelvey 22, Perez 34, Ritchie 34, Baldock 45, 55, Lascelles 54, Knockaert 85
Sent off: Baldock 55
Referee: Keith Stroud (Hampshire)
Attendance: 49,196
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So here are some more of your letters and emails, covering a wide range of stories and subjects.
We start with a letter from June Muller, of Glenthorpe House, South Shields.
June writes: “I remember New Green Street shops (as featured in Time Of Our Lives recently).
“My friend worked in Thompsons Stores, myself and my mam used to help Doris West who had fruit shops.
“There was a fresh fish shop called Mitchelsons, they also had a fish and chip shop next door. The lady was lovely, they called her Lily.
“There used to be china craft on the corner and a sweet shop called Cuthbert Stores, three nice sisters owned that.
“I used to go in Tullys Machine Shop. There was a model shop call Guy, Mr Black, who owned it was a character. My man used to send me to Bullocks Bakery for a box of cream cakes, they called the tea lady who worked in there Nora.”
Meanwhile, Norman Elliott got in touch via email to shed light on one of our recent school meal pictures.
He said: “Re your article in the Gazette, I was a pupil at the Boys Grammar School.
“I think the boy in the middle of the line was called David Lawson, and the pupil behind him may be Graeme Young.”
Meanwhile, Joe Robinson, is hoping readers can help solve a puzzle, prompted by a picture featured recently.
Joe writes: “Regarding your column in the Shields Gazette, on June 23, I was wondering if you have had any comments about the two men on what looks like a demolition job.
“My family are divided about the man with the beret, is he our father?
“I was only five years old when he died in 1966, and have lost the few photos of him that existed in a fire in the late 1980s, and we now only have one photo of him left.
“His name was Edward Robinson, who was born in South Shields, in 1926, and as I said died in 1966. He worked as a steel erector and on demolition sites around the area.
“If anyone has any information about the photo I would appreciate it if you could let me know.”
So come on,please get in touch with me if you can help.
Regarding the series of articles in relation to the recent anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, a reader, who asked to remain anonymous, contacted me to make mention of a memorial in a South Tyneside church.
“If you are interested, after talking about the Battle of the Somme, there is an interesting object in St Hilda’s Church, in South Shields market place.
“In the 1914/18 war, 1,100 miners from St Hilda’s colliery fought in that war.
“Of these, 117 were either killed or reported missing in action. On top of this, I think there were five Military Medals awarded to these men. The brass memorial is well worth looking at, and it might be of some interest to maybe relatives of the men mentioned.”
Alex Close emailed to say: “Firstly I would like to say thank you for your articles on the Somme. As a major history nerd it is always nice to see when our history is put into the forefront of people’s minds.
“My great great grandfather, James Morgan, died on the first day of the Somme. I’m trying to get some more information on him for my nanna, as her father was only 10 when he died, and his mother never really talked much about it, so her knowledge of her grandfather is very limited.
“His name is on the war memorial, in front of St Hilda’s. I don’t know if you have any info on James, but if you do I would love to read it.”
Once more, I would appeal to any readers who can help Alex, to get in touch.
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Liam, from the Southwick area of Sunderland, had been with a group of friends when they got into difficulty yesterday.
He was rescued by the RNLI after a sea rescue operation.
Northumbria Police confirmed that he had been taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infimary (RVI), with serious injuries, and he has since died.
Three other teenagers who were involved in the incident remain in a stable condition.
Two 17-year-old boys were seen in the water at the mouth of the Wear near the Old Pier at Sunderland Yacht Club at 3.22pm yesterday.
It is thought they had been in a dinghy and then entered the water to swim, subsequently getting into difficulty.
One of the males was rescued, along with two 17-year-old girls who were also in the dinghy.
A search operation was launched missing Liam, and our team reported seeing a boy being pulled from the water by rescue crews.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "Police can identify the 17-year-old boy that died during the incident as Liam Hall, who was from the Southwick area of Sunderland." | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/police-name-17-year-old-who-died-in-sunderland-sea-tragedy-1-8098094 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/f947116faa237f2ada2ba3f28dc2cf541a2c8cc26dbe87176d454bb22847dd0a.json |
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The club will today confirm the signing of Atsu on a season-long loan from Chelsea.
Atsu yesterday underwent a medical on Tyneside.
And Saif Rubie, one of the winger's representatives, last night posted a photograph on Twitter of Atsu at St James's Park.
Atsu joined Chelsea from Porto three years ago.
And the 24-year-old has had loan spells at Bournemouth, Everton, Vitesse Arnhem and Malaga.
Atsu has not made a competitive first-team appearance for Chelsea.
The Newcastle loan deal includes the option to make the move permanent next summer. | http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/newcastle-united/latest-nufc-news/first-photo-christian-atsu-at-st-james-s-park-after-completing-newcastle-move-1-8097067 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.shieldsgazette.com/11fb7f25446b43479bc7d98457ad2b47381b080279484792680ecca19901076c.json |
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"Express Computer",
"Abhishek Raval"
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Offers UPI in ‘Pockets’ for use by anyone including non-ICICI Bank customers; Also available on ‘iMobile’ for its mobile banking customers; One can instantly transfer funds to anyone round-the-clock on all days
ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, announced the launch of ‘Unified Payments Interface’ (UPI) on two of its customer facing mobile banking applications – ‘Pockets’ and ‘iMobile’. UPI enables bank account holders (of banks participating in UPI) to send and receive money using a Virtual Payment Address (VPA) without entering additional bank account details. UPI is available on ‘iMobile’, the bank’s mobile banking application for its customers and on ‘Pockets’, its digital bank for peer-to-peer and e-commerce payments by users including non-ICICI Bank customers. It is the simplest mode of making payments that aims to provide users with the convenience of completing transactions in lesser steps than earlier, thereby reducing the transaction time. Anyone, including non-ICICI Bank customers can access UPI by creating their VPA on ‘Pockets’.
Chanda Kochhar, MD & CEO, ICICI Bank said, “UPI is a path-breaking concept which will enable convenient person-to-person and merchant payments using mobile phones. I believe that it will revolutionise the landscape of electronic payments in India and go a long way in reducing the usage of cash in the economy. It is the first time in the world that a project of such a scale is being introduced to customers. ICICI Bank is delighted to have partnered with NPCI to introduce UPI. We are the largest player on the IMPS and NUUP platforms and have also played a key role in conceptualising this new initiative along with NPCI. We have already received encouraging responses from users including non-ICICI Bank customers on creating their VPA using ‘Pockets’.
For using UPI, both ‘Pockets’ and ‘iMobile’ users need to create their own Virtual Payment Address (VPA; ‘xyz@pockets’ &‘xyz@icici’ respectively ) on one of ICICI Bank’s mobile application. This will link the VPA to the customer’s bank account. The VPA acts as their financial address without having to reveal the 16 digit bank account number and the 11 digit IFSC code. Once registered for VPA, users can send & receive payments instantly from any bank account using their mobile phone instantly in a safe and secure way. They will also be able to make payments to merchants from their mobile phones where UPI is accepted as a payment mode. Users can make payments using UPI 24×7 on all days including bank holidays upto a maximum of Rs 1 lakh. Users on ‘Pockets’ can link their bank accounts with other banks (who are also on UPI) and make payments from that account as well using their VPA on ‘Pockets’. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/icici-bank-launches-unified-payments-interface-upi-for-its-mobile-banking-applications/18937/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/e2b9410afdb5cc819742d4e3b43099daa724336420374e4b2919ff123e3bcffc.json |
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"Express Computer"
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In conversation with Express Computer, STMicroelectronics’s Vishal Goyal told about how the company is establishing itself as a one stop MEMS shop. Goyal is Senior Manager – Technical Marketing, Analog MEMS and Sensors [AMG], India, Asean and ANZ, STMicroelectronics.
STMicroelectronics, the global semiconductor player and is establishing itself itself, as a one-stop Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS shop in a big way – with all of the products, IP, sensor-fusion software, manufacturing expertise and other skills and capabilities that the market needs and wants. The company’s range of products includes motion MEMS, environmental sensors, MEMS mics, touch sensors, etc to low power and secure processors for connectivity, interfaces and power management. ST’s consumer motion MEMS roadmap includes ultra-low-power devices which enables always-on sensor systems.
ST’s Finger Tip technology is well positioned to address wearables, security and active pen applications. STMicroelectronics supports the Intel RealSense depth camera, with eight products already in the market. Smart homes are estimated to be the biggest market for Bluetooth Smart devices.
The company has also developed the voice over BLE. This allows voice commands to be transferred from wearable device to Smart. Typically it can be used to control the devices, SOS signal, replacing push buttons etc. STM32 Open Development Environment provides easy access to portfolio for developers. The developers can develop prototype on ST products without the need of even developing custom PCB.
Sensors are now bringing exciting ways of interacting with the world and is core to connected applications and a key building block of the Internet of Things (Smart Things, Smart Cities, Smart Industry, and Smart Home) and Smart Driving (Connected Car). According to Gartner, MEMS-based smart sensors are set to gain maximum traction in the worldwide smart sensor market that is forecast to grow to $57.77 billion by 2022; at 18.1% CAGR. Market is primarily driven by factors such as growing concern toward security & surveillance, rising need for energy-efficient devices, growing consumer electronics sector, surge in automotive industry on a global basis, favorable government initiatives, and growing trend of miniaturization in sensors.
The market for MEMS-based smart sensor is expected to hold the largest share of the studied market during the forecast period. MEMS help smart sensor to work in a smarter way by allowing it to handle huge amounts of data in a fraction of seconds. The APAC market is expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2016 and 2022.
Top tap this market, ST has designed a range of products keeping energy efficiency and size considerations in mind, which ensure the optimum performance for wearable device with ultra-low-power processing and connectivity, power and energy management, and sensors. The wide range of products are on the lines of new age tech users such as Wesu Smart Watch platform, which provides a complete framework to build wearable applications, using inertial and environmental sensor drivers, battery profile measurements, and Bluetooth low energy for data communication; or Lechal, a haptic footwear that offers hands-free navigation. Their products contain ST microcontrollers, MEMS sensors, Bluetooth connectivity and power management devices. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/features/stmicroelectronics-aims-to-become-ecosystem-enabler-for-mems-sensors/18931/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/9ed19fcb86c929299e33e1cbe0efa4b147963042450b14a39b3b22ef0f4d5b8a.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T06:46:46 | null | 2016-08-30T11:03:00 | Every victim of Ransomware — malware that encrypts files and demands a payment for their release — is given a unique wallet to transfer money into. Once paid, some ransomware gangs move the bitcoins to a central wallet. | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fransomware-gangs-move-bitcoins-to-central-wallets%2F18928%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/social_header_en.jpg | en | null | Ransomware gangs move bitcoins to central wallets | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | Every victim of Ransomware — malware that encrypts files and demands a payment for their release — is given a unique wallet to transfer money into. Once paid, some ransomware gangs move the bitcoins to a central wallet.
Bitcoin has not only changed the economics of cybercrime by providing crooks with an encrypted, nearly anonymous payment system autonomous from any central bank. It’s also changed researchers’ ability to track how much money criminals are making.
“Bitcoin is based on Blockchain, and Blockchain is a public ledger of transactions. So all Bitcoin transactions are public,” explains Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer. “Now, you don’t know who is who. But we can see money moving around, and we can see the amounts.”
Every victim of Ransomware — malware that encrypts files and demands a payment for their release — is given a unique wallet to transfer money into. Once paid, some ransomware gangs move the bitcoins to a central wallet.
“We’ve been monitoring some of those wallets,” Mikko says. “And we see Bitcoins worth millions and millions. We see a lot of money.”Watching crooks rake in so much money, tax-free, got him thinking: “I began to wonder if there are in fact cybercrime unicorns.”
A cybercrime unicorn?
A tech unicorn is a privately held tech company valued at more than a billion dollars. Think Uber, AirBNB or Spotify — only without the investors, the overhead and oversight. (Though the scam is so profitable that some gangs actually have customer service operations that could rival a small startup.)
“Can we use this comparison model to cybercrime gangs?” Mikko asks. “We probably can’t.”
It’s simply too hard to cash out.
Investors in Uber have people literally begging to buy their stakes in the company. Ransomware gangs, however, have to continually imagine ways to turn their Bitcoin into currency.“They buy prepaid cards and then they sell these cards on Ebay and Craigslist,” he says. “A lot of those gangs also use online casinos to launder the money.” But even that’s not so easy, even if the goal is to sit down at a online table and attempt to lose all your money to another member of your gang.
“If you lose large amounts of money you will get banned. So the gangs started using bots that played realistically and still lose – but not as obviously.”
Law enforcement is well aware of extremely alluring economics of this threat. In 2015, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received “2,453 complaints identified as Ransomware with losses of over $1.6 million.”
In 2016, hardly has a month gone by without a high-profile case like Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paying 40 Bitcoin, about $17,000 USD at the time, to recover its files. And these are just the cases we’re hearing about. The scam is so effective that it seemed that the FBI was recommending that victims actually pay the ransom. But it turned out their answer was actually more nuanced.
“The official answer is the FBI does not advise on whether or not people should pay,” Sean Sullivan, F-Secure Security Advisor, writes. “But if victims haven’t taken precautions… then paying is the only remaining alternative to recover files.”
What sort of precautions? For Mikko, the answer obvious.
“Backups. If you get hit you restore yesterday’s backup and carry on working. It could be more cumbersome if it’s not just one workstation, if your whole network gets hit. But of course you should always have good, up to date, offline backups. And ‘offline’ is the key!”
What’s also obvious is that too few people are prepared when Ransomware hits. Barring any disruptions to the Bitcoin market, F-Secure Labs predicts this threat will likely persist, with even more targeted efforts designed to elicit even greater sums.
If you end up in an unfortunate situation when your files are held hostage, remember that you’re dealing with someone who thinks of cybercrime as a business. So you can always try to negotiate. What else do you have to lose? | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/ransomware-gangs-move-bitcoins-to-central-wallets/18928/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/c96cee049c581ca4ac6e185e7c942140cc4b8024aeb603c1eb093d8b58d2c5ac.json |
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"Express Computer",
"Srikanth Rp"
] | 2016-08-26T12:50:08 | null | 2016-08-26T15:03:00 | Developers can start MCU software development immediately at the API level so that they can focus on differentiating their own product instead of doing repetitive non-differentiating work | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Frenesas-electronics-expands-renesas-synergy-platform-for-iot-markets-in-asia-pacific%2F18920%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IOT2.jpg | en | null | Renesas Electronics expands Renesas Synergy platform for IoT Markets in Asia Pacific | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | Developers can start MCU software development immediately at the API level so that they can focus on differentiating their own product instead of doing repetitive non-differentiating work
Renesas Electronics Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced that the Renesas Synergy Platform is now available in Asia Pacific markets. Renesas Synergy is a complete and qualified platform with fully integrated software, a scalable family of microcontrollers (MCUs), and unified development tools to speed embedded system developers’ time to market as they innovate new products for IoT device applications.
At the heart of the Synergy Platform is the Synergy Software Package (SSP), which is qualified, supported, warranted, and maintained by Renesas. The SSP consists of a real-time operating system (RTOS), extensive middleware, communications stacks, and more – all accessible through a robust Application Programming Interface (API) to free customers from struggling with lower-level details.
Developers can start MCU software development immediately at the API level so that they can focus on differentiating their own product instead of doing repetitive non-differentiating work. Additionally, system developers can lower their total cost of ownership, and remove many obstacles that prevent them from starting new designs.
System developers in South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and India can now access the full service of the Synergy Platform, using the Synergy Gallery website where simple click-through licensing is all that is needed for immediate download of professional software and development tools with no fees or royalties. In October this year, the launch will be extended to Mainland China/Hong Kong region and Taiwan region, completing global availability of the Synergy Platform.
Since its initial launch in the US market in October 2015, and subsequent launches in Europe and Japan, the Synergy Platform has continued to expand in capability and grow in unique value through expansion of features and business partnerships. The SSP is mature and already contains hundreds of sophisticated and integrated functions to ease MCU software development with more functionality coming with each SSP release. Developers using the Synergy Platform now have the choice of using either of two professional software development environments, both of which provide full step-by-step guidance and code generation: the IAR Embedded Workbench, the most widely used development tool chain in the world that is now integrated into the Synergy Platform, or e2studio, Renesas’ long-standing Eclipse-based development tool. Business expansion includes new partners participating the Verified Software Add-on (VSA) Program enabling Synergy Platform customers to browse and download third party software components from the Synergy Gallery that are pre-tested and verified by Renesas to be compatible with the SSP. Developers can add specialized functions to their SSP projects with confidence in the areas of secure communications, cloud services, home and industrial automation communication protocols.
“In the rapidly evolving IoT industry, those who cannot get to market first with products that have differentiated value are at an immediate disadvantage,” said Ronnie Ho, Director of General Purpose Marketing, Renesas Electronics Singapore. “By enabling developers to start at the software API level and enjoy a connected real-time system without the need to build and maintain baseline functionality, the Synergy Platform empowers our customers to drive innovation and differentiation in their own end-products to succeed in a very competitive market.” | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/renesas-electronics-expands-renesas-synergy-platform-for-iot-markets-in-asia-pacific/18920/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/a09b38a6d3e6f15cca4f681363c1fe9c051675db83600269c6153135068b5c34.json |
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"Srikanth Rp",
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] | 2016-08-26T12:48:42 | null | 2016-08-26T12:20:00 | UPI is a payment solution which empowers a recipient to initiate the payment request from a smartphone. It facilitates 'virtual payment address' as a payment identifier for sending and collecting money and works on single click 2-factor authentication | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fnpcis-unified-payments-interface-goes-live%2F18918%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ewallet.jpg | en | null | NPCI’s Unified Payments Interface goes live | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | UPI is a payment solution which empowers a recipient to initiate the payment request from a smartphone. It facilitates ‘virtual payment address’ as a payment identifier for sending and collecting money and works on single click 2-factor authentication
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) today said the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is live and currently available for customers of 21 banks. UPI is a payment solution which empowers a recipient to initiate the payment request from a smartphone. It facilitates ‘virtual payment address’ as a payment identifier for sending and collecting money and works on single click 2-factor authentication.
“Real-time sending and receiving money through a mobile application at such a scale on inter-operable basis had not been attempted anywhere else in the world. Now the UPI app will be made available on Google Play Store by banks,” NPCI Managing Director and CEO A P Hota said in a statement.
Some of the banks which are going live with UPI are – Andhra Bank, Axis Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Bhartiya Mahila Bank, Canara Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Union Bank of India and Vijaya Bank, among others. The soft launch of UPI was announced by the outgoing Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan in April this year and was under pilot run, mainly with employee-customers, for some time.
The purpose of pilot run was to ensure that technical glitches, if any, are fixed and the product gives a smooth experience for immediate pay and collect with Virtual Payment Address (VPA), NPCI said. After assessing the success of pilot run, RBI had accorded its final approval for public launch of the product. NPCI had decided that only the banks with 1,000 pilot customers, 5,000 transactions and success rate of around 80 percent would be permitted to go live.”Such a threshold criteria helped banks to refine their systems and procedure,” Hota said.
UPI also provides an option for scheduling push and pull transactions for various purposes like sharing bills among peers. One can use UPI app instead of paying cash on delivery on receipt of product from online shopping websites and can pay for miscellaneous expenses like paying utility bills, over the counter payments, barcode (scan and pay) based payments, donations, school fees and other such unique and innovative use cases. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/npcis-unified-payments-interface-goes-live/18918/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/7662e6339fce2dc75b4dfd75e6bc004b38e770132135fdb67fa5c023c4fef11b.json |
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"Srikanth Rp",
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] | 2016-08-26T12:51:15 | null | 2016-08-26T17:57:00 | With VMware in rapid expansion mode, its CIO, Bask Iyer, is playing a crucial role in the company’s transformation. As Iyer leads VMware’s global information and technology organization (a group that manages critical technology systems supporting the company’s worldwide business operations), his team is the first sounding board and the first customer for any new technology before the company releases it externally | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Ffeatures%2Fit-has-not-been-challenged-sufficiently-bask-iyer-cio-vmware%2F18915%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Bask-iyer.jpg | en | null | IT has not been challenged sufficiently: Bask Iyer, CIO, VMware | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | In an era of digitization, VMware is looking to transform itself into a player beyond its dominant image of virtualization, and is seeking to position itself as an end to end solutions provider. This positioning has helped the firm diversify its revenues. For example, in Q1, standalone vSphere license bookings were less than 35% of total license bookings – a strong indicator of growth coming from an expanded set of product offerings from VMware such as NSX, EUC, vSAN and vCloud Air.
With VMware in rapid expansion mode, its CIO, Bask Iyer, is playing a crucial role in the company’s transformation. As Iyer leads VMware’s global information and technology organization (a group that manages critical technology systems supporting the company’s worldwide business operations), his team is the first sounding board and the first customer for any new technology before the company releases it externally. Express Computer caught up with Bask Iyer, who explains his key challenges as a CIO, and why he believes that IT teams must be challenged more for innovation to thrive.
Some edited excerpts:
What are your biggest challenges as a CIO?
I think the biggest challenge still continues to be attracting the best talent, because in IT what I tell people is you can buy every software that everybody sells, I mean you can buy what VMware sells, Microsoft sells, Google sells, Amazon sells, the decision is not just buying the tools or the software or the hardware, it is available for a lot of folks to buy, it is how do you actually implement it.
To implement that you need to have the best talent and in IT, I always believe one person can do the job of a 1,000 people and most CIOs and more IT professionals look at their team as if they have more people, then they feel more empowered and they think they can get a lot done.
I actually think it is the opposite, sometimes having a lot of people in your team prevents you from moving fast and IT industry is full of people who have done the job of 10,000 people. If you look at Linux very few people started that, MS-DOS was started by Bill Gates and Apple was founded by a couple of people, VMware was founded by a couple of people, Juniper was founded by Pradeep Sindhu and a few other people. So the history of technology companies has a lot of revolutions, lot of major technology has been founded with a small team. So talent becomes the most important thing, it is not the number of people you have, it’s the kind of people you have. So that’s the biggest challenge and as we go forward it is going to get even worse because the same people I have is what everybody else seems to want.
So one of the things I have learned after a long time is in IT one person can do the work of 1,000 people, but you need to get the special person who can do the work of 1,000 people. Every other technology company, everybody seems to want to get the same person– for example, if you pick something like cloud computing there is a finite number of people who know how to do cloud computing. Lot of people have titles to say that they are running cloud computing because they just call the datacenter job as cloud now and people are saying that’s cloud, but in truth there are very, very few people who know how to run a cloud system, a private cloud or a public cloud and everybody from Amazon to VMware to Google to Facebook and so on are just going for that talent. So how do you attract that talent, how do you keep them motivated, how do you keep them plugged in, I think that’s the biggest challenge in technology. It always has been, it’s actually even worse now.
From a technology point of view, what are the biggest challenges?
I think if we look at it right now, couple of things that is not quite happening is in the mobile industry. Enterprise mobility has not kept up with the mobility in consumer, it’s just night and day and if you look at the number of mobile applications you depend on for just your private work, there are thousands, at least 20 of them you use pretty regularly. On the enterprise side we are still using mainly for email and calendar. That’s what 99% of the people do.
So, I think enterprise mobility has not kept up. And two reasons I think are- the IT departments are just trying to buy solutions from vendors, they are not spending their time actually thinking creatively of how to add value. So they are generally shopping around to see what the big vendors have and they even sometimes implement the ecosystem or they buy all the software. But it does not mean that you create a big environment where you can actually use it to generate value. So, I think this is a big gap and I see elements of it getting caught up.
Even in a company like VMware, when I started about six quarters ago, the number of mobile applications available for general employees were not much, so generally people just used the email and calendar. So we had to challenge our team and now they have developed about 10 and they have road mapped to do 40 and they are really critical applications that can really improve productivity and people love it when you roll it out to them. But I think that has not taken off. I mean when I ask other companies what are those critical mobile apps they say we have an expense reporting system which is not really I think that they have developed, it’s pretty much they would have bought a company which has a mobile client. That is not thinking through, people are getting buried with email, almost everyone of the approvals for systems comes through some email and it gets lost in an email.
What is the kind of innovation you expect? Can you give me some examples?
Let me give you this example on the same topic. Typically a day in a manager’s life these days would look like- you have got to approve some expenses, you have to approve a headcount, you have to approve some purchase order requisitions, you have to approve some new vendor who is signing, some legal document, etc and it goes on and on. If you look 20 years back, the way you did approvals or 30 years ago when I did my business in Bangalore, my assistant or somebody in the office would give me a vanila folder with all the things I need to sign, in one place. So I could just take a pen and sign it. Believe it or not, what has happened now is while we have automated all of them. So I am going into the Concur Expense System on my mobile, download the client, put it on my computer and then I have to log in and approve for expense report. I download something called BrassRing on my computer again, log in to approve a headcount. I download a Workday client to go log in and approve my workday salary increase and then I go into a DocuSign, I mean it goes on and on, so it may take me a full half a day and people are chasing me saying all these approvals are in your queue, either I have to go through my email, try to approve them from my email or log on to these various systems.
So, some clever guys what they do is they tell their assistants to do it just because they can’t deal with this. So what we have done is we’ve looked through this problem as an IT team and my team developed in a very, very short time a universal approval application that you download this, all the approvals I have to do comes in one system, it is pushed to me on my mobile and it takes me two seconds to approve, it works with the restful APIs, Concur, Kupa and Ariba and DocuSign and everybody else has and you do all the approval from one end. It’s probably one of the most productive applications.
So, when I’m travelling to India, on my way from the airport I could approve million dollars worth of purchase orders or people’s requisitions and so on, so much easier, but we don’t have those kind of apps developed. So that’s one example and I have several like that, that we have developed and we have pipeline of 40 odd applications that people are going to just love.
Do you believe IT is not being challenged enough?
I think IT has – I mean I’m generalizing here, because I run up across lot of CIOs who are extremely innovative, but in general IT has still been stuck on back office systems, our jobs have been pretty much set on- let’s implement the ERP, let’s implement the new financial system, there is a new regulatory system that we have to do, there is a new revenue recognition system, here’s new sales system, sales automation system and then we finish all of them and by the time we finish it is time to start all over again saying there is a new HR system, new sales system and so on and so forth.
So we are implementing versions on our vendor’s calendar rather than saying- how can I move the business forward. So it is okay to have older version of software if it doesn’t really do anything. I mean you don’t have to update it just because the vendor says they have to update it. How does it move the two things? That is- are you cutting cost, are you increasing revenue, are you reducing friction for your employees.
So I think we have not challenged ourselves sufficiently to use those technologies. The second thing is, also I just generally feel like we’ve become too conservative, in the sense we wait for a long time to ascertain whether it’s a trend or not. For example, if there is a new software or product out, we wait till 80% of the people implement it before we even look at it. So somehow we become too skeptical in looking at new product introductions faster and being innovative, so we’re still doing it but we are waiting for everybody else to do it before we boldly go for it. Lot of the software sits on the shelf and are not implemented. So those are two places I’ll push pretty hard.
I just talked about the talent and the challenges and then we talked about what are the IT folks not doing and I think we’re not pushing innovation hard enough is what I was saying and what I mean by that is we get so buried in just the back office functions that we do. It’s almost like Y2K over and over.
What are the kind of innovations as a CIO you would like IT to do?
I mean the first two things I always talk about the CIO’s role is to kind of be like a surfer, because there are so many waves coming in IT and you have to be riding those waves. So some people just sit on the surf board, they don’t ride the wave, they wait for the next wave, the next wave, the next wave and some people just jump on the first wave they get and they crash out.
So I always believe like you have to ride the wave and then ride the next wave and the next wave and the next wave. We can’t look too far ahead and too far beyond. Now what’s happening in technology is, the waves are coming faster and faster and that’s what people are not able to handle. Previously you get one wave and then a year later you get another wave, now the waves are coming in three months and two months and so on. You see, I like it, lot of people like it, I want it to come even faster. So I think unless you like it and ride it, it gets stressful. So I tell people, if you don’t want to ride the wave you have to sit on the beach. You can enjoy watch somebody else playing it but you have to go ride it. So the two waves that are in front of you that we haven’t ridden well still is mobile and cloud. Everybody talks about the cloud and say that they have written a lot about it, but people are not taking advantage of it.
So people believe cloud and they just immediately go into Azure or Amazon. Okay, that’s fine, that’s a big trend. But your datacenters that people have are still not run the way those data centers are run and 80-90% of your compute will still be on your private cloud, so how do you really run a private cloud most efficiently. So one of the things I spend time with my CIOs is to talk about how VMware runs a private cloud and how we also put things in public cloud. But don’t forget that you still have to run this efficiently and how very, very few people can automate and run it. You have to give an Amazon like experience or Azure like experience for your internal users as well regardless of where the actual compute is and then you need to be able to hook up to the different clouds as they happen. So that’s still not completely exploited yet.
The second thing is the mobile- the wave has not started like I explained to you-but then when I talk to everybody and say what you have on mobile most people have not thought through that. You would like to have an app store for mobile- when there are 2 million applications for consumers, you should have at least 100 for enterprises, because not everybody would use all the application.
The approval application I talked about, you know you may not download it, it may not make sense to you, but you may download something we call People Search where you can find anybody, who he reports to, where does he sit, how can I get to his office etc. You may like that but I may not use that. So you need to have a cross-sectional application that majority of the people would like and use on a regular basis.
So mobile is not still exploited completely. The next few waves that are coming and I talked to people is the whole thing on Internet of Things. Even I looked at it a few years ago and I said this looks like a lot of buzz and hype and so on, but what is happening now is – all these things and gateways are getting connected to the internet.
So if the CIO and the IT department are not jumping into it early, your customers are going to hook up to it. So what I tell them is in mobile computers what happened is the IT department didn’t take control of it early, so people started bringing their own phones, just tried to get on the corporate network and then we had to figure out how to make it work and then we got AirWatch and other kind of tools. It was still a reactive play instead of proactively saying if you have a phone connected to my network, here are 50 applications you can use. That would have been an innovative IT. IoT is in a similar space where we are all saying- well let’s just go to a conference, let’s see what somebody else is talking about, let’s see what GE says, and let’s learn. I think it’s dangerous because now everything in the company, every factory is going to be hooked to the internet and the IT function is going to be bypassed if they are not. So I think that’s the next one I tell people to get involved, set the architecture, define the standards, pay attention, you can add tremendous value to the business. I think that is coming and as I look at it I also run facilities and buildings and so on. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/features/it-has-not-been-challenged-sufficiently-bask-iyer-cio-vmware/18915/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/45ef320e7dc54c59932d9f7509b189f3ab28a50c58039cb3f8f1112e6c7abc50.json |
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"Abhishek Raval",
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] | 2016-08-29T06:46:32 | null | 2016-08-29T10:30:00 | IBM Watson to help the hosuing finance company get deeper into the consumer psyche and design thinking will allow to get deeper insights into the requirements of the various stakeholders like customers, brokers and others | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fdhfl-groups-tech2-0-ibm-watson-and-design-thinking-to-lead-the-way%2F18923%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/analytics5.jpg | en | null | DHFL Group’s Tech2.0: IBM Watson and Design Thinking to lead the way | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | IBM Watson to help the hosuing finance company get deeper into the consumer psyche and design thinking will allow to get deeper insights into the requirements of the various stakeholders like customers, brokers and others
Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL), One of India’s largest home loan and housing finance company is heading towards the end of its two year long technology transformation programme. Tech2.0. “A couple of years back, there was an understanding in the group that the current technology platform while it has served us well for many many years is not going to sustain with our aggressive growth targets,” says Jayesh Shah, EVP & Head – Technology Initiatives, DHFL, Financial Services Group. This drived the housing loan company to undertake the Tech2.0 transformation programme. The benefits visualised from the programme are – better customer experience, reduced turnaround time, improved efficiency, higher productivity – to future proof the organisation for another five years against technology obsolescence. DHFL has hired IBM as the transformation partner. There is a separate Programme Management Office (PMO) manned by IBM’s consultancy Services division.
An important component of the programme is the PoC being run with IBM Watson. “We are doing a PoC on cognitive analytics using the IBM Watson platform. The objective is to get deeper insights into our data and help the business make more informed decisions,” informs Shah. DHFL is a thirty year organisation and the data generated over these years has been humongous. The cognitive engine of Watson helps derive deep insights into what the data is trying to convey about the customer psyche. The data outside of the organisation will also be pooled in the cognitive engine – to decipher the data footprint left on the Internet and what it means for DHFL. The company is in the second month of the PoC.
An extensive web portal design is also being worked upon to make it easier for the prospective customer to easily navigate through the web interfaces. “DHFL is completely sold on the concept of ‘Design Thinking’,” says Shah. IBM’s design thinking team from Bengaluru has been hired. They are associating with DHFL to develop the web portal. The design thinking workshops are on. The customers, brokers, partners are included in the workshop. The exercise is to understand the demands after a deep consultative dialogue from all the relevant departments and then create the web platform.
Shah is looking at Blockchain very closely. There are no plans as yet. The use cases has to be identified first.
(Please read the detailed interview with Jayesh Shah, EVP & Head – Technology Initiatives, DHFL, Financial Services Group in the september issue of the Express Computer magazine) | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/dhfl-groups-tech2-0-ibm-watson-and-design-thinking-to-lead-the-way/18923/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/ec2c83f43e784bc82a35ec9e4fed038a4408c68ab7b1a2ce7356d64a5edc2d3e.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T08:46:54 | null | 2016-08-31T12:22:00 | National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organization for all retail payments system in India launched the pilot project for Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) with 26 Bharat Bill Payment Operating Units (BBPOUs). | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fnpci-initiates-pilot-project-for-bharat-bill-payment-system-bbps%2F18942%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ThinkstockPhotos-170886334.jpg | en | null | NPCI initiates pilot project for Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organization for all retail payments system in India launched the pilot project for Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) with 26 Bharat Bill Payment Operating Units (BBPOUs). In the first phase, BBPS will cover repetitive payments for everyday utility services such as electricity, water, gas, telephone and Direct-to-Home (DTH).
A P Hota, MD & CEO, NPCI said, “BBPS, in due course of time would link all major billers in the country with all their consumers which will simplify bill presentment and bill payments electronically. Currently the volume of bills being paid by cash is so large that even if 25 percent of the bills get paid electronically, impact would be visibly enormous.”
BBPS is the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandated system which will provide interoperable bill payment services to customers. It is an integrated platform connecting banks and non-bank entities in bill aggregation business like billers, payment service providers, retail bill outlets etc. As on date 62 entities have received in-principle approval from RBI to function as Operating Units (OU), out of which 52 are Banking entities and 10 are Non-Banking entities.
NPCI functions as the authorised Bharat Bill Payment Central Unit (BBPCU) which will undertake clearing and settlement activities related to transactions routed through BBPS. The RBI authorised BBPOUs will on-board billers, aggregators and payment gateways. They would also set up agent network and customer touch points to handle bill payments through different delivery channels including self-service, assisted, electronic and manual modes.
Pilot Participants BBPOUs among Bank BBPOUs incluide AP Mahesh Co-operative Urban Bank, Axis Bank, Gopinath Patil Parsik Janata Sahakari Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Indian Bank, IndusInd Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative Bank, Punjab National Bank, RBL Bank, State Bank of India, The Saraswat Co-Op Bank, TJSB Sahakari Bank and YES Bank.
Non-Bank BBPOUs include Avenues India Pvt. Ltd, Common Service Centre, Euronet Services India Pvt. Ltd, IndiaIdeas.com (Billdesk), ITZ Cash Card Ltd, One97 Communications Ltd (Paytm), Oxigen Services India Pvt. Ltd, PayU Payments Pvt. Ltd, Spice Digital Ltd and TechProcess Payment Services Ltd. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/npci-initiates-pilot-project-for-bharat-bill-payment-system-bbps/18942/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/1fa11cfcaa9f1fb99d90c745ab6da37ec94f9d91f64b851ba424e67352c6df0f.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T06:46:44 | null | 2016-08-30T10:18:00 | Researchers from the Sinclair School of Nursing and the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri have developed a sensor system that can measure walking patterns in the home, and use this information to predict and prevent falls for senior citizens | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fhow-iot-can-help-in-preventing-falls-for-senior-citizens%2F18926%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Senior-Citizen-Walking-Stick.jpg | en | null | How IoT can help senior citizens | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | Each year, millions of people–especially those 65 and older–fall. Such falls can be serious, leading to broken bones, head injuries, hospitalizations or even death. Now, researchers from the Sinclair School of Nursing and the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri found that sensors that measure in-home gait speed and stride length can predict likely falls. This technology can assist health providers to detect changes and intervene before a fall occurs within a three-week period.
“We have developed a non-wearable sensor system that can measure walking patterns in the home, including gait speed and stride length,” said Marjorie Skubic, director of the MU Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology and professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Assessment of these functions through the use of sensor technology is improving coordinated health care for older adults”
To predict falls, researchers used data collected from sensor systems at TigerPlace, an innovative aging-in-place retirement residence, located in Columbia, Mo. The system generated images and an alert email for nurses indicating when irregular motion was detected. This information could be used to assist nurses in assessing functional decline, providing treatment and preventing falls.
“Aging should not mean that an adult suddenly loses his or her independence,” said Marilyn Rantz, Curators’ Professor Emerita of Nursing. “However, for many older adults the risk of falling impacts how long seniors can remain independent. Being able to predict that a person is at risk of falling will allow caretakers to intervene with the necessary care to help seniors remain independent as long as possible.”
Results from an analysis of the sensor system data found that a gait speed decline of 5 centimeters per second was associated with an 86.3 percent probability of falling within the following three weeks. Researchers also found that shortened stride length was associated with a 50.6 percent probability of falling within the next three weeks.
Additional research led by Rantz and Skubic recently received an award from Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging. Their research has found that by integrating care coordination and sensor technology at TigerPlace, residents are able to live independently on average of four years compared to the national average of 22 months.
“Using embedded sensors in independent living to predict gait changes and falls,” recently was published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research. Future research on the sensor systems will focus on how nurses can best use the fall prediction statistics to intervene before the fall occurs. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/how-iot-can-help-in-preventing-falls-for-senior-citizens/18926/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/e863b31113960d7d5b2155d43f76263a65962db3062ac1ec5d6b271b0e5900e7.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T12:46:46 | null | 2016-08-30T16:37:00 | The CIO Crown 2016, a two day CIO centric congregation got over in Mumbai. The event saw presentations from CIOs, vendors and panel discussions for the CIO community to take learnings from. A separate healthcare track was organised on day two, witnessing a good turnout from Hospital CIOs. | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-growth-of-healthcare-sector-will-be-exponential-and-not-linear%2F18935%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/favicon.ico.jpg | en | null | The growth of healthcare sector will be exponential and not linear | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | The CIO Crown 2016, a two day CIO centric congregation got over in Mumbai. The event saw presentations from CIOs, vendors and panel discussions for the CIO community to take learnings from. A separate healthcare track was organised on day two, witnessing a good turnout from Hospital CIOs.
C. S. Suryanarayan, Country Sales Manager HPE, Aruba spoke about ‘Mobile-first Healthcare’. “The Availability, Security, Manageability and affordability of the IT systems is essential for serving the patients with optimum healthcare services, at the right time,” says Suryanarayan.
On the point of availability, all the necessary staff should be made available with reliable network services to provide patient care with utmost consistency. The importance of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) cannot be overemphasised here.
On security he spoke about the implications of BYOD, IoT, compliance and regulations like HIPPA; the importance of role based access to doctors, nurses, patients, guests and medical equipments.
Post deployment, the IT systems should be made manageable. Thus comes the point of Manageability. The hospitals should have the ability to centrally control the network; the importance of a single dashboard of all the applications running in the hospital. Aruba has also tied up with Microsoft for API integration for Skype related features.
Suryanarayan also stressed upon the importance of point of care decision support for e.g. the doctors having all the patient related data on his tablet during the regular patient visit.
The next presentation was by Girish V, Founder and MD, Numarga Services. The topic was on the ‘Next 10 years in Healthcare’, how technology is going to grow exponentially, spurred by startups – the growth would not be linear but a big leap forward.
He explained the future of healthcare dividing the ten year period into three year slots and which technologies will take shape in the respective year range – (2017 – 2020), (2021 – 2023), (2024 – 2026). Interestingly, Numarga is working on each of the technologies mentioned.
By 2017 – 2020, the healthcare institutions would have completely absorbed the mobility, IoT, digital wallets, UPI technologies; full MR digitisation; Paid and on demand medical record access; collaborative second opinion services; first responder services
In the next range ((2021 – 2023), ICUs will be driven by IoT; on demand and interactive healthcare programmes on TV and virtual reality goggles; extended coverage through augmented care solutions; usage of machine learning for capacity optimisation; Decision Support System (DSS) report submission for instant insurance claims; voice based health; Evolution of Patient Care As a Service (PCAAS).
The event also witnessed the pre-event launch of ‘Hospital Tech’. A common platform for hospital CIOs to discuss the latest happenings in the hospital information technology space. It’s also to share learnings within the healthcare CIO community. The Theme of the platform is ‘Adapting and Implementing Healthcare IT’, the website has been launched (www.hospitaltech.co.in), the members also have an ongoing whatsapp group.
The two-day event saw the country’s leading CIO IT innovators and thinkers come together to explore the existence of a digital revolution of transformation – Disruption – Acceleration.
Some of the prominent CIOs who participated at CIO Crown 2016 include – Anil Garg, CIO, Dabur, Jagdish Belwal, CIO, Tata Motors, Sankarson Banerjee, CTO Projects, National Stock Exchange of India, Anil Shankar, Customer Care Associate and VP – Solutions and Tech, Shoppers Stop, Prasad Patil, CTO, JM Baxi Group, Angshuman Dutta, Head of IT Solutions, Shyam Group, Manas Mati, Executive Director and Head of Technology, Walt Disney India, and Jayantha Prabhu, Group CIO, Essar, Venkat Iyer, Global CIO, Wockhardt, Kalpana Maniar, President and CIO, Edelweiss, Sanjay Mehta, Investor, CIO Angel Network, and Veneeth Purushotaman, CIO, Fortis Healthcare, | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/the-growth-of-healthcare-sector-will-be-exponential-and-not-linear/18935/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/c8a83ed279c39480b66120f4d6f2bf159081773c24e458b36d8fb3c737ecec84.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:54:16 | null | 2016-08-25T15:46:00 | NPCI's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is going live for customers with 21 banks | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fnpcis-unified-payments-interface-upi-set-to-go-live%2F18912%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/mobile1.jpg | en | null | NPCI’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) set to go live | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organisation for all retail payments system in India has announced that the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is going live for customers with 21 banks. On April 11, 2016, the soft-launch of UPI was announced by Dr Raghuram Rajan. For the last few months it was under pilot run mainly with employee-customers. The purpose of a pilot run was to ensure that technical glitches, if any, are fixed and the product gives a smooth experience for immediate ‘Pay’ and ‘Collect’ with Virtual Payment Address (VPA).
UPI is a unique payment solution which empowers a recipient to initiate the payment request from a smartphone. It facilitates “virtual payment address‟ as a payment identifier for sending and collecting money and works on single click 2 factor authentication. It also provides an option for scheduling push and pull transactions for various purposes like sharing bills among peers. One can use UPI app instead of paying cash on delivery on receipt of product from online shopping websites and can pay for miscellaneous expenses like paying utility bills, over the counter payments, barcode (scan and pay) based payments, donations, school fees and other such unique and innovative use cases.
The interface is the advanced version IMPS which is a 24X7 funds transfer service. UPI will allow a customer to have multiple virtual addresses for multiple accounts in various banks. In order to ensure privacy of customer‟s data, there is no account number mapper anywhere other than the customer’s own bank. This allows the customer to freely share the financial address with others. For example, a customer can also decide to use the mobile number as the name instead of the short name for
the virtual address like 1234567890@xyz.
“This is a success of enormous significance. Real-time sending and receiving money through a mobile application at such a scale on interoperable basis had not been attempted anywhere else in the world. Now the UPI App will be made available on Google Play Store by banks,” said AP Hota, MD & CEO, NPCI.
After assessing the success of pilot run, RBI had accorded their final approval for public launch of the product. NPCI had decided that only the banks with 1000 pilot customers, 5000 transactions and success rate of around 80 percent would be permitted to go live. Such a threshold criteria helped banks to refine their systems and procedure. The UPI app of 19 banks
will be available on the Google Play Store in next two to three working days for the customers to download and start using. The relevant details of the service would be available on the website of 21 banks.
The Indian banks Banks providing UPI enabled mobile app on Google Play Store include Andhra Bank, Axis Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Bhartiya Mahila Bank, Canara Bank, Catholic Syrian Bank, DCB Bank, Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, TJSB Sahakari Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Karnataka Bank, UCO Bank, Union Bank of India, United Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, South Indian Bank, Vijaya Bank and YES Bank
IDBI Bank and RBL Bank are on-boarded as issuers. It enables their customers to download any UPI enabled Apps mentioned above and link their account. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/npcis-unified-payments-interface-upi-set-to-go-live/18912/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/bfdf688075c3f3be9016fb3ba962e791b2cb063ca5fa3897cd85be26dbbb2671.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T06:46:52 | null | 2016-08-31T11:54:00 | By Ranjit Satyanath, CIO, Infiniti Retail I have often wondered why we balk at the prospect of having to work on a new enterprise application. IT project teams have to conduct extensive training and workshops during the rollout phase and even then they cannot take adoption as a given especially... | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fenterprise-versus-personal-applications%2F18940%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/apple-ipad.jpg | en | null | Enterprise versus personal applications | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | By Ranjit Satyanath, CIO, Infiniti Retail
I have often wondered why we balk at the prospect of having to work on a new enterprise application. IT project teams have to conduct extensive training and workshops during the rollout phase and even then they cannot take adoption as a given especially if their rollout is competing with Excel.
On the other hand, in our personal lives we can’t have enough apps to try out and play with and the only problem we seem to have is the space on our device. Even on home PCs & laptops, we have several sophisticated applications like movie and image editing software, high-end games, and applications for sound editing that have more than a simple learning curve.
The dichotomy exists for the following reasons:
Need
Enterprise applications are thrust upon us often by Project Teams that do not spend adequate time with the end users or involving them enough in the design phase. The result is a solution that often only partially solves problems but is sure to create new ones. These issues then require additional phases to resolve. In some cases if the project does not get any traction the result is an Orphan Application.
User Experience
Personal Applications have great UX. The colour schemes, font size, wire-frames and other aspects are usually designed by experts. On the other hand, Enterprise Applications seem to be designed for nerds. In their defence, while the enterprise has started to give importance to this aspect the scale has not yet started to kick in. Building great UX requires investments of time and money. How many times have we heard the timeline mandated when the need for a solution is articulated? The project team is advised to work backwards and deliver it within the stipulated period – much akin to setting the marriage date before the courtship has even begun.
No prizes for guessing which aspect is taking the hit here.
Speaking of hits, the other thing that mostly gets side-lined is the testing process. Most projects would assign time for testing functionality and data accuracy. However, regression testing, browser, multi-device and battery drain tests (for mobility projects) are not yet the norm in very many enterprise implementations. All of this leads to a less than desired end user experience.
Scalability
Enterprise Applications are designed to leverage the best hardware available. Personal Applications are designed to also work on even very low-end devices. Due to this approach, most users get a favorable user experience if they possess a mid-line device. Also, Personal applications go through several rapid upgrades with each version squashing a batch of bugs and adding functionality. Customers get a sense that they are getting better app every time they upgrade. Enterprise application release cycles are much more modest and their users have to wait longer for their problems to get resolved.
Enterprise applications are built for security – probably rightly so. However very often while building Enterprise applications, processes are designed to address some border line security risk which has impacts on performance, screen design and overall usability.
Customization
Enterprise applications due to their very nature allow high degrees of customization which personal Applications don’t. This is a double-edged sword because too many organisations end up customizing the soul out of a COTS application which has impacts on the OOB User Experience that it came with.
Finally, Enterprise Applications are designed to get work done and most personal applications are intended for play to towards accomplishment of a personal goal or objective. If Enterprise IT teams approach their development cycles giving equal importance to their users as they do to functionality, security and project management, adoption of Enterprise Applications could be a lot faster. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/enterprise-versus-personal-applications/18940/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/9852dfc8085ed8de647c926951f3abf9ee1d34d56f1da274eb2dcf37e321d8de.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:47:32 | null | 2016-08-26T13:45:00 | The change in people’s mindset of choosing digital options over the traditional ones has played a huge role in creating the digital revolution | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fcolumns%2Fmoocs-the-next-big-thing-in-distance-education%2F18919%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/education-goes-digital.jpg | en | null | MOOCS, the next big thing in distance education | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | The change in people’s mindset of choosing digital options over the traditional ones has played a huge role in creating the digital revolution
By Beas Dev Ralhan
Computer and the Internet have captured everyone’s interest across geographies. The available digital options are moulding the consumer’s decisions around the globe. Computers are now helping scientists experiment with DNA and chromosomes in genetic engineering, robot-guided hands are operating in hospitals and the conventional newspapers and magazines are being replaced by e-papers and e-magazines. The change in people’s mindset of choosing digital options over the traditional ones has played a huge role in creating the digital revolution. And the education sector hasn’t remained untouched by this revolution.
One of the most talked about technology-driven, educational tools are the Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs as they are popularly called. The MOOCs came into the limelight back in 2012, raising many eyebrows in the teaching fraternity concerning its effectiveness. Still it managed to cut a niche for itself partly because its pedagogy is akin to conventional instructional techniques and mainly due to its accessibility. Therefore, with the continuous increase in the popularity and hunger for technology, MOOCs have become the next big thing in distance education / higher learning.
Current scenario and big player / data
According to Class Central, a website that aggregates MOOC listings from providers around the world, Coursera was the leading distance-education provider, registering 17 million users in 2015, followed by FutureLearn which grew 275% in the same year with an estimated 3 million users. More than 500 universities are offering courses which are focused on fee-based credentials, including those leading to academic credit or full degrees. According to a report by Marketsandmarkets, the MOOCs industry is estimated to become $8.5 billion worth globally by 2020, growing from $1.83 billion today.
Currently, MOOCs have become well-defined online courses aimed at large-scale participation and open access via web. Major players like Udacity, Coursera and edX claim that though the enrollment worldwide is yet to be counted, it’s a well-known fact that more than a million people across the globe have viewed videos, submitted assignments and taken quizzes using these platforms.
How MOOCs are helping students
MOOCs are easily available and accessible to anyone with Internet connectivity, resulting in millions of enrollments around the world. Courses offered by colleges and universities constitute videos, presentations, automated assessments, digital resources, peer-assessed assignments and peer discussions. Courses are available in fields like computer programming, mechanical engineering, agriculture, music, philosophy, literature and law making. MOOCs is a useful tool for career advancement.
Majority of the courses available are self-paced and require discipline. Hence, there should be an urge of self-motivation and commitment in an individual aspiring to complete an online course. Furthermore, MOOCs on subjects like Science and Maths may require hands-on research while applying formulas, etc, giving a broader boulevard to distance learning. Acceptance of MOOCs is evolving continuously, benefitting many career-changers and lifelong learners, who desire to improve their knowledge and perspective throughout their lives.
MOOCs impact in India
MOOCs have become a gateway to those who do not have the opportunity or means to avail high-quality education. It gives millions of people access to higher education who are less privileged and in far flung areas and are, therefore, unable to afford conventional means of education. Moreover, MOOCs will help empower people and boost their career prospects in India.
MOOCs have given Indian academics a better sense of creating a framework of lesson plan, short lectures and self-contained segments for student engagement. In 2014, the Ministry of Human Resource and Development also launched a MOOC platform SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) to provide standardised education to the aspirants.
Furthermore, recognising the effectiveness of MOOCs, the government has proposed that the Union Budget FY17 should focus on providing training, education and entrepreneurship. Also, the budget includes the launch of the digital literacy scheme to reach 6 crore rural households in the coming three years.
MOOCs in K–12
The K–12 sector has also started exploring the possibility of using open content, competency-based education, learning analytics and personalised instructions. The trend will continue, since the cost of the technology has significantly dropped and the access to the device and connectivity continues to increase. Pedagogically, K–12 education differs from higher education as teacher quality and classroom instructions are necessary in this sector. However, MOOCs can be of help in the K–12 sector by the following means:
Schools can bridge the shortage of teacher through MOOCs platform, particularly in math and science.
MOOCs platform can also provide numerous courses as per individual interests such as foreign language, history, nature or technology.
MOOCs’ lectures and regular quizzes can be challenging and alluring to the classroom.
Blended learning: Traditional classrooms are no longer motivating for students. However, a combination of both technology and classroom method can enhance learning. This is called blended learning.
Lastly, in a developing country like India, the majority of the population resides in rural areas where people lack access to quality education, infrastructure and education material. Learning through online mediums like MOOCs can be considered a cost-effective game changer in distance learning / higher education. Moreover, students can acquire knowledge, read, and connect with the like-minded people globally sitting in the comfort of their homes.
The author is a CEO & Co-founder of Next Education India Pvt Ltd | http://computer.financialexpress.com/columns/moocs-the-next-big-thing-in-distance-education/18919/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/4b4022d6c5a8457361eabc33c095fa6f64244dd93c5267391164f1d8f48ec1c4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:52:46 | null | 2016-08-25T17:09:00 | IBM Cloud and Analytics Solution Powers End-to-End Digital Marketing Campaigns | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Findusind-bank-transforms-customer-engagement-with-ibms-multi-channel-digital-marketing-services%2F18893%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bank-case-study.jpg | en | null | IndusInd Bank transforms customer engagement with IBM’s multi channel digital marketing services | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | IBM Cloud and Analytics Solution Powers End-to-End Digital Marketing Campaigns
IBM announced that one of India’s leading private sector banks, IndusInd Bank ,will use its IBM’s Cloud commerce solutions to transform customer engagements and enhance its cross-sell platforms, in line with the bank’s strategy. As a part of a three year strategic agreement, IBM will provide a cloud and predictive analytics based multi-channel campaign management solution that enables IndusInd Bank to strengthen its online banking presence while improving the product holding per customer.
In the highly competitive Indian retail banking space, businesses need digital marketing solutions capable of sifting through large amounts of transactional and interaction data from various touch points as well as strong analytical capabilities capable of evaluating customer behavior from the call centre, branch locations, website, mobile app, ATMs and more. Using customer behavior analysis and real-time contextual marketing, banks can ensure that customers connecting with the bank on any channel will receive relevant and timely communications and offers that address their unique needs.
In this first of its kind project for Indian industry, IBM combines its Digital Marketing and Analytics consulting, hardware, software, cloud, and business process services offerings to provide digital marketing as a service which helps centralize and standardize activities such as campaign planning, execution and management, while infusing deep analytics and process expertise. As a result companies can better understand customer behavior and increase quality of campaign execution without having to incur the cost of setting up full infrastructure in-house.
Sameer Gupta, Head Personal Banking & Decision Sciences, IndusInd Bank said, “Our objective is to build a cognitive framework powered by an automated marketing platform in conjunction with advanced analytical models which enables us to engage with our clients in a relevant and timely manner. This unique managed marketing partnership with IBM helps us leverage their market leading UNICA platform as well as their proven expertise in technology delivery. It allows us to focus on our client and business delivery without having to worry about technology components, capital costs, operations management and talent management. The solution will also enable us to engage across whichever channels the client may prefer from the contact centre to their relationship manager in real time where relevant.”
“The financial services sector is constantly looking at innovative marketing methods to enhance customer outreach. IBM’s digital marketing-as-a-service model combines powerful cloud and predictive analytics capabilities with our extensive experience in this sector which together can disrupt and transform how businesses such as IndusInd Bank meet the changing needs of their customers,” said Sachin Seth, Executive Director / Partner , Banking and Financial Services, IBM India SouthAsia. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/indusind-bank-transforms-customer-engagement-with-ibms-multi-channel-digital-marketing-services/18893/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/29951a53e257392da8f44b1517674c77e8b105bae92a8c7939098af664cd7adf.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:49:36 | null | 2016-08-25T17:36:00 | The loon tech will enable to transfer the footage from CCTVs and data from sensors to be analysed to keep tabs on Rhino poachers in Kaziranga National Park. | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fgovt-mulling-to-use-loons-to-check-poaching-at-kaziranga-national-park%2F18891%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/projectloon-main.jpg | en | null | Govt mulling to use loons to check poaching at Kaziranga National Park | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | The loon tech will enable to transfer the footage from CCTVs and data from sensors to be analysed to keep tabs on Rhino poachers in Kaziranga National Park.
The Government of India is thinking on a proposal to use Google’s loon technology to check the rampant poaching of Rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. “The loons will be used to transfer footage from CCTVs, sensors deployed on the trees of the Kaziranga National Park to the data centre to keep tabs on poachers. They will be tracked using the CCTVs,” says a source who knows about the development.
The data will be transferred on 2.5 and 5.8 Mhz spectrum. The loons will be flying approximately over 3 to 5 Km above the land surface area. The data from the sensors and CCTV will be moved to the loon. Subsequently, it will passed to the data centre via fibre optic cable. The data transfer rate will be in milliseconds because Kaziranga National Park being a forest area, the spectrum is most of the time vacant. It’s only used by the citizens for listening to radio.
Wildlife authorities in 2013, started using unmanned aerial vehicles to keep an eye on poachers however The National Park was barred from using the UAVs by the defence ministry due to security reasons.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had set up a Rhino Task force (RTF) in 2015 to suggest ways to conserve the Rhino population. The report submitted by the RTF also mentioned as one of the recommendations to use more intelligence based advanced technologies for field monitoring. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/govt-mulling-to-use-loons-to-check-poaching-at-kaziranga-national-park/18891/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/414fac00e6f04b153cb0bd84b7bc611e277c52b023f7a5b98fad7c0a2de7a80a.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T08:46:55 | null | 2016-08-31T13:35:00 | First Southeast Asian bank to work with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Labs, empowering DBS to innovate and operate at start-up speeds | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fdbs-partners-with-pivotalto-accelerate-innovation-for-customers%2F18943%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dbs1.jpg | en | null | DBS partners with ‘Pivotal’to accelerate innovation for customers | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | First Southeast Asian bank to work with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Labs, empowering DBS to innovate and operate at start-up speeds
DBS Bank announced it is stepping up its digital transformation journey and accelerating innovation for customers through a collaboration with Pivotal®, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises. DBS is the first bank in Southeast Asia to run cloud native applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, progressing from traditional legacy systems to a highly scalable and flexible environment.
Through the adoption of Pivotal’s leading modern cloud platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, DBS will have the foundation to innovate at a speed and velocity primarily associated with Internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Netflix. More specifically, by leveraging Pivotal’s cloud platform in its banking architecture transformation, DBS is now able to operate and deliver services to its customers exponentially faster, as well as build next-generation applications and user experiences rapidly, and update them with new features that will evolve with customer needs.
Through this collaboration, DBS is set to reinvent banking and redefine the banking experience for over 6 million consumer and corporate customers across Asia.
Said DBS Head of Group Technology and Operations David Gledhill: “Like many traditional industries, the banking sector is being disrupted by agile start-ups and fintech companies that are delivering a differentiated experience to customers. To compete effectively against these new entrants, DBS must have the ability to be responsive to customers. Pivotal Cloud Foundry gives us the software platform to think and act like a technology company and innovate at start-up speeds.”
The built-in automation of Pivotal’s cloud platform also means DBS can now focus on delivering differentiated value, instead of being caught up with systems management and IT resource procurement. As a start, DBS is leveraging the Pivotal solution to build next-generation credit risk management systems and funds transfer pricing systems for the bank, as well as other systems.
The move to adopt the cloud platform for application development underlines DBS’ commitment to digitally transform its operations from the front office to back-end processes, advancing its march to become a software company. As part of the collaboration, Pivotal is also working with DBS to equip the bank’s application development team with the next-generation software development services of Pivotal Labs, entrenching the culture of software innovation, usually associated with Silicon Valley’s most influential companies, right in the heart of a Singapore-headquartered bank.
“The banking industry has long been saddled with legacy systems that can hinder the speed of innovation,” said Lionel Lim, Vice President and Managing Director, APJ, Pivotal. “DBS is a progressive bank that is laying the right foundation to digitally transform their operations to innovate like a software company. We are pleased to collaborate with DBS on this important transformation milestone.” | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/dbs-partners-with-pivotalto-accelerate-innovation-for-customers/18943/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/6811a0913ead9aadcfacb71cc2353f56558ab7fb5f3a5b7bf10be13f73d7641d.json |
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Sonata Software, a global technology services and solutions company, today announced it formed an alliance with Aeris, a pioneer and leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, for next-generation IoT and mobile solutions for enterprises. The alliance brings together expertise in IoT platform and solutions from Aeris with the mobile platform and software development expertise of Sonata. The result of Sonata and Aeris working together is an ideal alliance for enterprises seeking to execute next-generation mobility and IoT solutions by leveraging the combined domain experience and technology platforms of both companies.
Sonata’s mobility platform, Halosys, is a single Unified Enterprise Mobile Enablement Platform that enables businesses to connect, build, secure, manage and deploy an enterprise-wide mobile applications portfolio. The platform seamlessly extends existing enterprise security, identity and business applications. This simplifies, accelerates and ensures a reliable way to execute mobility programs at scale, with an underlying architecture that adheres to emerging mobile and IoT standards and technology trends.
The Aeris IoT solutions platform is a comprehensive, patented and end-to-end enabler for enterprises to bring IoT solutions to market quickly, cost-efficiently and with the highest security.The platform consists of AerPort™ connectivity management platform, AerCloud™ applications enablement platform, AerCore IoT network and AerVoyance IoT analytics platform.
“We are thrilled to have Aeris as an IoT alliance. The complementarity between Aeris and Sonata’s enterprise mobility platform solutions provides a great way for enterprises to expedite both B2B and B2C IoT connected mobile and web application and also provide solutions and services to their customers by leveraging Sonata’s global delivery and support capabilities,” said Avinash Harsh, Head of enterprise mobility platform, Sonata Software.
Mark Aylor, Senior Director of partner channel, Aeris, said, “The alliance between Sonata and Aeris will bring simplicity to the enterprise as they make the journey into the complex IoT world. Aeris’ comprehensive IoT Platform Solutions coupled with Sonata’s deep Information Technology and Software knowledge can provide enterprise organizations the resources and tools to deploy and scale their IoT Solutions to the global marketplace.
“The combination of Aeris and Sonata Software will help enterprises build profitable IoT and mobile applications,” said Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar, President, Aeris India. “Hundreds of enterprises are already relying on Aeris every day to power their mission-critical deployments. We look forward to the opportunity to help many more enterprises through our strategic alliance with Sonata.” | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/sonata-software-announces-alliance-with-aeris/18939/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/14c415cd9cdc37407033a77f3f14a151ae51876dfef1439a657f79fb371aacd4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:49:08 | null | 2016-08-26T16:33:00 | India is home to close to 31 lakh NGOs, which is more than double the number of schools in the country. While the number of NGOs is growing fast, it is also a fact that most of them are struggling to maintain their operations in an effective way. | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fsynergyconnect-hopes-to-solve-issues-of-ngos-with-technology%2F18921%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/favicon.ico.jpg | en | null | SynergyConnect hopes to solve issues of NGOs with technology | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | India is home to close to 31 lakh NGOs, which is more than double the number of schools in the country. While the number of NGOs is growing fast, it is also a fact that most of them are struggling to maintain their operations in an effective way. NGOs have to deal with a lot of data, and most of them do not have the visibility that is needed for running an efficient operation. With minimal staff, many NGOs have a herculean task in preparing the documentation with respect to project planning, expenditure and managing approvals.
Understanding the unique needs of NGOs, a technology solutions firm, SynergyConnect, has developed a comprehensive system for NGOs. “Most NGOs in India lack a comprehensive system that can take care of the financial accounting, the human resources part, the donations, communicating to all stakeholders and the compliance required from a statutory point of view. We have built a centralized system that helps NGOs capture data effectively, document the same and monitor project progress using a dashboard,” states Nitin Naik, Founder, SynergyConnect.
The platform is designed to help NGOs and Corporates to manage their projects in a professional way so that they can adhere to Government guidelines. Data can be captured via surveys which are in-built into the platform. NGOs can also create a baseline and map projects according to the cost. Data capture can be done using tablets and also in an offline mode. This helps NGOs fill in data in remote areas, where telecom connectivity may be poor.
To ensure accuracy of data, the system allows granular data to be captured about every entity or project. “In one of our big projects, there is a provision to capture 500 data points about an entity. NGOs can also use this platform to create a systematic approach to manage their objectives. For instance, they can assign variables such as time, person costs to every milestone and the overall project,” states Naik. The platform helps in managing documentation, in data collection, and in the final analysis and presentation. The most important aspect lies in maintaining compliance in terms of certification, audit and project based reporting.
Donors also have access to the same documentation with respect to skills, affiliations or milestones achieved. For the NGOs, securing funding using this platform is much more easier as they can show transparently the progress of various projects along with milestones met. This is useful as grants are released periodically and tied to the progress of the objectives achieved.
Naik believes that the opportunity for NGOs to transform themselves using technology is huge, and hopes that his firm can be part of the transformation. The opportunity for his firm is also huge as India has more than half a million NGOs, and most of them do not have the resources or the technological capability to streamline their operations. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/synergyconnect-hopes-to-solve-issues-of-ngos-with-technology/18921/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/1f63883d3dff25c0ecc18c4169d6fb6ac22f023befcce1a63350ee51c08e905d.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T12:46:45 | null | 2016-08-30T17:23:00 | PernixData and Calm.io Augment Data and Control Fabrics of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fnutanix-announces-two-strategic-acquisitions%2F18936%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cloud-e1436100633458.jpg | en | null | Nutanix Announces Two Strategic Acquisitions | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | PernixData and Calm.io Augment Data and Control Fabrics of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
Nutanix, an enterprise cloud computing company, announced that PernixData and Calm.io will join the Nutanix family.
Nutanix has executed a definitive agreement to acquire PernixData, a pioneer in scale-out data acceleration and analytics. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. In addition, Nutanix has closed the acquisition of Calm.io, an innovator in DevOps automation.
By adding world-class technology, products and engineering talent, Nutanix can accelerate the delivery of an Enterprise Cloud Platform that rivals the agility, automation and consumer-grade simplicity of the public cloud but with the control, security and attractive long-term economics of on-premises infrastructure. These additions will enable Nutanix to pioneer new software stacks for storage-class memory systems, enhance its Application Mobility Fabric (AMF) with cross-cloud workload migration and bring rich, cloud-inspired orchestration and workflow automation to its Prism management software.
The New Data Fabric for the post-Flash Era
Nutanix and PernixData share an architectural design philosophy that next-generation datacenter fabrics must keep data and applications close in order to drive the fastest possible performance and to deliver flexible, cost-effective infrastructure scaling. With this common vision, the two companies will develop an advanced data stack to replace traditional storage silos and high-latency networks with newer storage-class memory and advanced interconnects. These planned strategic investments in new server and storage technologies will provide customers with a re-imagined data fabric for a post-flash era of enterprise computing.
The combined teams will also focus on reducing the inertia of application data that inhibits workload mobility across virtual and cloud environments. Planned enhancements to Nutanix App Mobility Fabric (AMF) will deliver the flexibility to run any application in any environment, without business-critical data being held hostage to a legacy infrastructure.
“PernixData software has helped hundreds of customers virtualize their applications without compromising performance and visibility,” said Poojan Kumar, CEO and co-founder, PernixData. “With highly aligned cultures, ambition and talent, we are genuinely excited to join the Nutanix team. And, with our common devotion to 100% software-driven solutions, will look forward to helping customers accelerate their journey to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.”
Unleash DevOps in the Enterprise Cloud
The Calm.io and Nutanix teams will work to bring an application-first approach to choosing, managing and consuming IT infrastructure – enabling customers to pick the right cloud for each application. Nutanix plans to add cloud automation and management capabilities to its existing software stack to deliver application and service orchestration, runtime lifecycle management, policy-based governance, comprehensive reporting and auditing services to support all application environments, including virtual machines, containers and microservices. Together, Calm.io and Nutanix plan to bring together clouds, platforms and people, on an elegantly simple pane-of-glass.
“We have shared a similar vision as Nutanix since day one – datacenter infrastructure must be fully automated, simple to deploy and easy-to-use,” said Aaditya Sood, Calm.io CEO and founder, “We are excited to join the Nutanix team to work together to eliminate the daunting complexity of legacy datacenters by taking a radical, application-centric view of IT infrastructure.”
“Today is a very special day in Nutanix’s history,” said Dheeraj Pandey, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Nutanix. “PernixData and Calm.io both have exceptional technology, solid engineering teams, and visionary leaders with the ‘Founder’s Mentality’; they have dreamt big and persevered against great odds to build phenomenal products. We are honored to welcome them into the Nutanix family, and build the next generation of innovative products and truly helping our customers realize the vision of the Enterprise Cloud.” | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/nutanix-announces-two-strategic-acquisitions/18936/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/a8f27c13dcb35d4c87bb3706eb6be09ffba9a2e95e729d9a77aa64f9f657a4a5.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:53:17 | null | 2016-08-25T15:27:00 | Over 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Flinux-turns-25-today%2F18910%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Linux-Open-Source.jpg | en | null | Linux turns 25 today | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Linux, the Linux Foundation recently released its seventh edition of the Linux Kernel Development Report. This analyzes the work done by over 13,500 developers since the kernel’s early days, as well as more recent trends.
Some of the key findings include:
Over 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since the adoption of Git made detailed tracking possible. Since the last report, just shy of 5,000 developers from 400 companies have contributed to the kernel; nearly half of these developers contributed for the first time
The Top 10 organizations sponsoring Linux kernel development since the last report include Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, Samsung, SUSE, IBM, Renesas, Google, AMD, Texas Instruments and ARM. The Outreachy program, which provides open source internships to underrepresented groups, ranks #13 for contributions to the Linux kernel during this last cycle with the interns contributing 1.4 percent of the patches since Linux kernel 3.18. The complete top 30 contributing organizations can be seen in the full report.
The rate of Linux development continues to increase, as does the number of developers and companies involved in the process. The average number of changes accepted into the kernel per hour is 7.8, up from 7.71 in the last report, which translates to 187 changes every day and nearly 1,310 per week. The average days of development per release remained steady at 66 days, with every release spaced either 63 or 70 days apart, providing significant predictability.
The number of unpaid developers continues its slow decline, as Linux kernel development proves an increasingly valuable skill sought by employers, ensuring experienced kernel developers do not stay unpaid for long. The volume of contributions from unpaid developers in the period covered by this report has fallen to 7.7% from 11.8% in 2014.
“Even after 25 years, Linux still serves as an example of how collaborative development can work, which can be applied to other open source projects,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. “This report provides insight into the development trends and methodologies used by thousands of different individuals collectively to create some of the most important software code on the planet.”
The full report can be accessed here: http://go.linuxfoundation.org/rd-2016-linux-kernel-report-pr | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/linux-turns-25-today/18910/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/0cec58766a3e64896c21c9ec36c81d2ebe27f458a167bc0d2eacb7ac1af6a54c.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T06:46:45 | null | 2016-08-30T11:34:00 | Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk | http%3A%2F%2Fcomputer.financialexpress.com%2Fnews%2Fartificial-intelligence-improves-breast-cancer-risk-prediction%2F18929%2F.json | http://computer.financialexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Big-Data-Artificial-Intelligence.jpg | en | null | Artificial intelligence improves breast cancer risk prediction | null | null | computer.financialexpress.com | Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk. According to a new study published in Cancer, the computer software intuitively translates patient charts into diagnostic information at 30 times human speed and with 99 percent accuracy.
“This software intelligently reviews millions of records in a short amount of time, enabling us to determine breast cancer risk more efficiently using a patient’s mammogram. This has the potential to decrease unnecessary biopsies,” says Stephen T. Wong, Ph.D., P.E., chair of the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute.
The team led by Wong and Jenny C. Chang, M.D., director of the Houston Methodist Cancer Center used the AI software to evaluate mammograms and pathology reports of 500 breast cancer patients. The software scanned patient charts, collected diagnostic features and correlated mammogram findings with breast cancer subtype. Clinicians used results, like the expression of tumor proteins, to accurately predict each patient’s probability of breast cancer diagnosis.
In the United States, 12.1 million mammograms are performed annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fifty percent yield false positive results, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), resulting in one in every two healthy women told they have cancer.
Currently, when mammograms fall into the suspicious category, a broad range of 3 to 95 percent cancer risk, patients are recommended for biopsies.
Over 1.6 million breast biopsies are performed annually nationwide, and about 20 percent are unnecessarily performed due to false-positive mammogram results of cancer free breasts, estimates the ACS.
The Houston Methodist team hopes this artificial intelligence software will help physicians better define the percent risk requiring a biopsy, equipping doctors with a tool to decrease unnecessary breast biopsies.
Manual review of 50 charts took two clinicians 50-70 hours. AI reviewed 500 charts in a few hours, saving over 500 physician hours.
“Accurate review of this many charts would be practically impossible without AI,” says Wong. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/artificial-intelligence-improves-breast-cancer-risk-prediction/18929/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/09d19cc21e764f65d2dfb5695beded86e05b52c49ec00d13388651b9eab135a0.json |
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Work is on to make 100 government websites differently-abled friendly and 16 such websites are ready, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said recently Optical fibre measuring 1.39 lakh kms to connect village panchayats with internet has been laid since last two years as against 398 km from 2011-14 during the UPA.
He claimed nearly 104 crore people, comparable to the size of population of Italy and France, are in the ambit of the Aadhar and mobile connections in India since last two years. “What is Digital India? We are seeking to bridge the divide between Digital Haves and Digital Have-nots,” he said while listing the achievements of Modi government since last two years. “Of 125 crore people 104 have Aadhar card. They are digitally verifiable. With one click, you can view your face, your iris and finger-tip. It has happened in a completely secure condition and we have are the first ones to have done this,” Prasad claimed.
He was speaking at the launch of Sugamya Pustakalaya- an online library for persons with visual disabilities. The online library was launched by Prasad, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot, and his two deputies Krishan Pal Gurjar and Ramdas Athawal.
Books are available in accessible formats for people with visual impairment and other print disabilities.
People can access over two lakhs books in diverse languages, integrating libraries across India and the globe, including the largest international library ‘Bookshare’. “We have linked ‘divyangjans’ with the common service centres in our country.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) is in the process of making 100 Government websites divyang’ friendly of which 16 have already been made ‘divyang’ friendly,” Prasad said, as he urged NGOs and citizens to use ‘My Gov’ to provide valuable inputs on central schemes.
Prasad said in order to help children suffering from autism, an e-learning tool has also been developed by the National Institute of Mentally Handicapped and all the scholarships will be under one banner. Javadekar said there are 23 lakh people special ability under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
As the HRD Minister, Javadekar said, he receives invitations for convocations, but he has accepted the first invitation from the University meant for differently abled in Thiruvanathapuram. Gurjar said people with special abilities don’t need sympathy of the people but deserve their love, affection and support. | http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/egovwatch-100-government-websites-to-be-differently-abled-friendly-soon/18908/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | computer.financialexpress.com/b86264f748551eb30a8cb90db9d8b7b7f366c20808001943991ee97ebd08db8d.json |
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Back in 2008, Dropbox was struggling to get new users. They were running an Adsense campaign, unsuccessfully. For every $300 they spent, they’d acquire a user who paid for the $99 product. After going at this for a while, Drew Houtson and his team decided to try something different. | http://nigeriaindependent.com/how-startups-such-as-dropbox-airbnb-groupon-and-others-acquired-their-first-users/ | en | 2015-03-07T00:00:00 | nigeriaindependent.com/3f0befc5cb0e044903f2f23832359ee63d7e462f2a4edb8fbcd239e6f5a8ac2f.json |
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:12 | null | 2015-06-01T05:03:33 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriaindependent.com%2Fbuhari-seeks-to-crush-godless-boko-haram%2F.json | http://nigeriaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Buhari4-1-300x210.jpg | en | null | Buhari seeks to crush ‘godless’ Boko Haram | null | null | nigeriaindependent.com | ABUJA – New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Friday to eradicate the “mindless, godless” militants of Boko Haram and rescue hundreds of women and children held captive, including 200 girls taken from the town of Chibok a year ago. In his inaugural address as elected leader of Afric…
Link: Buhari seeks to crush ‘godless’ Boko Haram via ewn.co.za | http://nigeriaindependent.com/buhari-seeks-to-crush-godless-boko-haram/ | en | 2015-06-01T00:00:00 | nigeriaindependent.com/fc16b054d64012e0c51d0dcf96921819576f5d66764b7259dd10be271a4a2369.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:43 | null | 2015-03-07T12:40:28 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriaindependent.com%2Frwandas-smartphones-and-smart-policy%2F.json | http://nigeriaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/3e16f6ba-84d0-4df8-ac47-33c6a3007a78.jpg | en | null | Rwanda’s smartphones and smart policy | null | null | nigeriaindependent.com | Rather than wait for companies to invest in 4G networks, the government is taking a leading role in expanding internet coverage and developing a knowledge-based economy. | http://nigeriaindependent.com/rwandas-smartphones-and-smart-policy/ | en | 2015-03-07T00:00:00 | nigeriaindependent.com/4fa88bc57c8cf9994dcbc5e76b748575e19bc59be91bca095f5bfa024fcef82f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:52:45 | null | 2015-03-07T13:14:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriaindependent.com%2Fthis-bearded-guy-has-unintentionally-become-the-face-of-tech-startups%2F.json | http://nigeriaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/6b8944fb-1767-48fc-a618-2a94fa9f76cb.jpg | en | null | This Bearded Guy Has Unintentionally Become the Face of Tech Startups | null | null | nigeriaindependent.com | You might not recognize Adam Lisagor by name. But you’ve probably seen his face before. Once, maybe twice or more. He’s the promotional video guy. | http://nigeriaindependent.com/this-bearded-guy-has-unintentionally-become-the-face-of-tech-startups/ | en | 2015-03-07T00:00:00 | nigeriaindependent.com/10a4b32a1080d7e99159621d6eb1f84ed4f173a24199335087b62041f86e5700.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:06 | null | 2015-05-16T12:57:40 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriaindependent.com%2Flessons-in-military-leadership-for-entrepreneurs%2F.json | en | null | Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs | null | null | nigeriaindependent.com | The military was like a father to me. In many of the same ways that my rich dad taught me about money, the military taught me about leadership. I wrote my new book 8 Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs to remind everyone that the great leadership skills taught in the military are transferable to entrepreneurship. But these skills are not just for those who served in the military. If you’re an entrepreneur you must lead.
Link: Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs via succeedasyourownboss.com | http://nigeriaindependent.com/lessons-in-military-leadership-for-entrepreneurs/ | en | 2015-05-16T00:00:00 | nigeriaindependent.com/e91365bfb4469fdf0e8d99688fd91c8475a2faed0c54369409924c5b2d273683.json | |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:48:10 | null | 2015-02-19T17:29:49 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriaindependent.com%2Fwhy-obasanjo-is-not-an-elder-statesman%2F.json | http://nigeriaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/wpid-curata__1f722bed8e3c2bdf20382d4a2118d942.png | en | null | Why Obasanjo Is Not an Elder Statesman | null | null | nigeriaindependent.com | This week, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo tore his party card in a public display of dissociation from the ruling PDP. Obasanjo’s reason for dumping the party that supported him through two consecutive presidential terms was his desire to become an elder statesman devoid of partisan sentiments.
A week prior, Obasanjo endorsed the presidential bid of opposition candidate and fellow one-time dictator Muhammadu Buhari against his now estranged ally—Goodluck Jonathan whom he helped ascend to leading the country four years ago. Obasanjo’s bid for elder-statesmanship is not uncommon among African leaders, especially the long ruling and elderly; the late Muammar Ghadafi of Libya saw himself as the King of the United States of Africa, deposed Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso was to himself (and many in the West) Africa’s sheriff of peace and security, 90 year old Robert Mugabe recently became the head of African Union- an added feather to his 35 year Zimbabwean crown. But, unlike most African chieftaincy titles, the recognition as an elder-statesman cannot be self-ascribed; it can only be acquired through a life of tangible contributions to society and achievements in service of humanity. Living a legacy, commitment to a cause or causes and bipartisan reverence are among the traits that determine elder-statesmen. Obasanjo, like Ghaddafi, Compaore and Mugabe, come short in all of these, laying waste to his urging for that honourable seat.
Elder Statesmen have one thing in common—an indelible legacy; for Nelson Mandela, it was his transition of South Africa from an apartheid country steaming with racist hate to a Rainbow nation bubbling with multiracial socio-political participation. Kofi Annan revitalized the UN, redirecting its priority to human rights and a frontline battle against global health challenges like HIV, efforts for which he won the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano led the southern African nation from decades of civil war into a stable functional democracy, little wonder he is one of only four African heads of government to have received the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
Olusegun Obasanjo’s bid for elder-statesmanship is hurt by the obvious lack of such a momentous legacy. His political career began with great promise as a dictator—quickly transiting Nigeria from military rule to a full democracy in 1979, but this was stained by his disappointing 8 year civilian presidency four decades later, which culminated in a botched bid to cling onto power. Given that Nigeria has leaped in socio-economic progress since its return to Democracy in 1999, many of such achievements made during Obasanjo’s tenure which ended in 2007, make it is easy for him and his supporters to seek praise for the country’s limited successes. However, the opportunities he wasted or misused in office mean the country only realised a fraction of its real potential during his time in office.
Obasanjo’s liberalization policy became a major harbinger for corrupt practices that ended up grounding state-owned companies like the state-owned telecom NITEL and Delta Steel Company. While oil wells in the Niger delta created more money in Nigeria than ever before, this new wealth was only used to feed economic inequality- part of the reason for the country’s security challenges. His anti-corruption campaign, which kicked off with great expectations, later became a machine to witch-hunt rivals, picking and choosing “bad guys” to pursue in the name of a warped sense of morality. In security, his administration failed to bring the perpetrators of the several high profile assassinations during his presidency to justice. Inept in one hand, his security campaigns were callous in the other—the mass human rights atrocities committed by soldiers in Odi and Zaki Biam stain his hands with blood. Obasanjo’s political career struggles to shine especially when compared to the great African leaders mentioned earlier. Unfortunately for him, their pedestal is the real barometer for measuring an elder statesman, not the tearing of a party membership card.
Elder statesmen such as Nelson Mandela demonstrate a life long commitment to freedom. In addition, Kofi Annan devoted his life’s work to building a more effective people-oriented committee of Nations, and Chissano fought for peace, and then against poverty. These three men share a steadfast and pragmatic belief in their cause, but Obasanjo’s life long pursuit is not recognizable. His faith in democracy is killed by his lagging works to actualize it; in 1979, like in 2003 and 2007, he failed to deliver free and fair elections. Political impunity by his allies—Lamidi Adedibu in Oyo State and the Uba brothers in Anambra state—and blatant disregard for court judgments, like withholding of the funds meant for local governments in Lagos State despite the Supreme Court judgment, belie Obasanjo’s respect for the rule of law on which democracy is built. If the legislature determines the strength of a country’s democracy, then Obasanjo did a great job of weakening it. His eight year presidency produced five Senate presidents and three Speakers of the Federal House of Representatives; these changes were largely due to political fracas in the National Assembly instigated by or incited for him. Aside the quest for power, there is little to pinpoint as Obasanjo’s lifelong societal cause, and dumping his political party and godson cannot make up for this.
Obasanjo also lacks bipartisan respect. Elder-statesmen are known for their stubborn choice of peace and compromise even when against mass appeal; Mandela’s was his dogged commitment against retribution even when a significant population of his black supporters were outraged. Kofi Annan tried his best against overwhelming pressure to negotiate peace and compromise in Iraq and Syria. Chissano went out of his way to sign a peace deal that ended the civil war in Mozambique, even when it meant that he had to grant 50 percent of the seat in the government and military to the rebels he had been fighting against. Obasanjo’s national image is as divisive as his rhetoric: in the South-East, late literary legend Chinua Achebe accused him of destabilizing his home state of Anambra. In the South-South the killings and maiming in Odi hangs over his head, same with the raising of villages in Zaki Biam in the North Central region. Obasanjo’s recent political participation also shows someone more comfortable in the game of divide and rule. Last year he published scathing letters to President Goodluck Jonathan, and last week endorsed the opposition candidate after a long while of hobnobbing with the opposition. These moves tell more of a person dumping a sinking boat to catch sail with the perceived stronger ship, rather than an elder-statesman doling out nuggets of wisdom to all and sundry. Mandela (before his death), Kofi Annan, Joaquim Chissano, Desmond Tutu etc. are today the front line activists for issues bigger than partisan politics, such as world peace and the fight against health epidemics. Thus, instead of in the mold of the aforementioned, Obasanjo comes off as a ‘power-glutton’ scavenging for sustained relevance in a country sadly still dominated by leaders of failed pasts.
Read the source article at Ventures Africa | http://nigeriaindependent.com/why-obasanjo-is-not-an-elder-statesman/ | en | 2015-02-19T00:00:00 | nigeriaindependent.com/a264a4d31f23de1043b2f028755f25a830a8e46c99213d8e17fefe25dc85a4c7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:16 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | HAVILLAH - The Pickens North fire has burned an estimated 600 acres, according to the state Department of Natural Resources. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F25%2Fpickens-mountain-blaze-reaches-20-acres%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/videothumbs/2016/08/24/Screen_Shot_2016-08-24_at_10.37.42_PM_t180.png?370a03faaa4bde2115f371a02430eb3e6a451be5 | en | null | Crews work to line Pickens North fire | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | Update as of 1:18 p.m. 08/25/16
HAVILLAH - The Pickens North fire has burned an estimated 600 acres, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.
"The fire did not grow in size overnight," officials said. "The increase was due to more accurate assessment."
A Type 3 team that was staged in the Colville area earlier this week has relocated to the Tonasket Rodeo Grounds late last night to manage the fire.
Fire officials said the fire is lined with the exception of a quarter-mile on the back, north side where the fire is not pushing on.
Officials said there has been no structures lost or injuries.
As of noon today there were two dozers, 2 helicopters and several strike teams assigned to the blaze.
"As a reminder the team and fire fighters are self-contained and do not need any donations," Okanogan Emergency Management officials said.
Update as of 8:03 a.m. 08/25/16
HAVILLAH - State Department of Natural Resource crews have lined the Pickens North fire and plan to rework the line today, checking for any weak areas.
The fire remains to be about 250 acres.
As of press time there were no reports of structure losses.
"As crews get eyes on it during the daylight we will provide an update," Okanogan County Emergency Management officials said early Thursday morning.
The blaze started yesterday afternoon after a vehicle apparently caught fire and spread to nearby grass and sagebrush, according to officials.
Initially reported at about 5 p.m. in Pickens valley Road and Round-Up Road area east of Ellisforde, by 8 p.m. the fire grew from 35 acres to 250 and moved to the south toward the Whiskey Cache Creek and Split Rock area near Havillah.
Update as of 10:35 p.m. 08/24/16
HAVILLAH - A blaze that started from a vehicle fire earlier this afternoon has reached 250 acres as of late Wednesday evening, according to Okanogan County Emergency Management officials.
Video Live wildfire coverage
According to fire officials, the blaze began around 5 p.m. east of Ellisford near the intersection of Pickens Valley Road and Round-Up Road.
By 7 p.m. this fire was estimated to be about 35 acres and moved to the southeast toward the Whiskey Cache Creek and Split Rock Road area.
As of press time there were no repots of structure losses.
Update as of 7:02 p.m. 08/24/16
ELLISFORDE - Okanogan County Emergency Management officials said state Department of Natural Resource crews are advising a wildfire burning east of town near the intersection of Pickens Valley Road and Round-up Road has reached 35-plus acres.
There are two heavy air tankers that have dropped their loads and are heading back to reload. Four dozers on scene and three air attack aircraft are en route, according to Okanogan County Emergency Management.
Original story as of 6:38 p.m. 08/24/16
ELLISFORDE - A wildfire burning east of town near the intersection of Pickens Valley Road and Round-up Road has reached 20 acres, according to fire officials.
Officials said the blaze is moving to the south west. Okanogan County Sheriff deputies are in the area notifying residents, officials said.
Okanogan County Emergency Management officials are advising residents to stay clear of the area.
State Department of Natural Resource crews and local fire agencies are working to contain the blaze.
According to the Northeast Washington Interagency Communications Center, the fire was reported shortly after 5 p.m. this evening. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/25/pickens-mountain-blaze-reaches-20-acres/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/15d32e6625f286e4595771b8a0c1f93e42b80abb63a6d05a83a4490a58ca5b17.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:43 | null | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | TONASKET — Fire crews responded to multiple smoke reports following a lightning storm that blanketed northern Okanogan County Saturday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F17%2Ffire-crews-called-multiple-fires-following-lightni%2F.json | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/fire-crews-called-multiple-fires-following-lightni/ | en | null | Fire crews called to multiple fires following lightning storm | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | TONASKET — Fire crews responded to multiple smoke reports following a lightning storm that blanketed northern Okanogan County Saturday night.
Whitestone, Cayuse and Palmer Mountain were among areas where fires were located, according to U.S Forest Service spokeswoman Shannon O’Brien.
O’Brien said the Tonasket Ranger District confirmed a small fire on Palmer Mountain, within Bureau of Land Management property.
The complete story is available in the Aug. 17 issue of The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle, available at news stands or in our e-edition. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/fire-crews-called-multiple-fires-following-lightni/ | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/3b2c313609b48acd152b1b243268d805f032a1d8701373b2cd4943ed31be72e0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:19 | null | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | (2016-346 Aug. 17, 24) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F24%2F810-2016-346-aug-17-24-notice-contractors%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | 810 (2016-346 Aug. 17, 24) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | (2016-346 Aug. 17, 24) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Brewster, will open sealed proposals and publicly read them aloud on or after 10:00 A.M. on August 31, 2016 at the City of Brewster in Brewster Washington for the Indian Avenue/1st Street Preservation Project. This contract provides for the construction a Light Bituminous Surface Treatment, street sweeping, and other work, all in accordance with the attached Contract Plans, these Contract Provisions, and the Standard Specifications.
SEALED BIDS MUST BE DELIVERED BEFORE 10:00 A.M.
Sealed proposals must be delivered to the City of Brewster (105 S. 3rd Street, Brewster WA 98812) by 10:00 A.M. on the date specified for opening, and in an envelope clearly marked “SEALED BID FOR Indian Avenue/1st Street Preservation Project, TO BE OPENED ON OR AFTER 10:00 A.M. ON August 31, 2016”.
All bid proposals shall be accompanied by a bid proposal deposit in cash, certified check, cashier’s check or surety bond in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of such bid proposal. Should the successful bidder fail to enter into such contract and furnish satisfactory performance bond within the time stated in the specifications, the bid proposal deposit shall be forfeited to the City of Brewster.
The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive informalities in the bidding.
Informational copies of maps, plans and specifications are on file for inspection in the office of the Department of Public Works in Brewster Washington, Copies of the plans and specifications are also available for purchase at J-U-B ENGINEERS, 422 W. Riverside, Ste 304 Spokane WA, 509-458-3727 for a non-refundable fee in the amount of $25.00, payable to J-U-B ENGINEERS Inc.
Published by Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/24/810-2016-346-aug-17-24-notice-contractors/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/ec6fe4f748450937fbf442e1661d2d02a4f0a07728f394d628f989bae6431d3a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:34 | null | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | (2016-343 Aug. 17) Notice of Public Hearing | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F17%2F810-2016-343-aug-17-notice-public-hearing%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | 810 (2016-343 Aug. 17) Notice of Public Hearing | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | (2016-343 Aug. 17) Notice of Public Hearing
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN The City of Omak Planning Commission will conduct an open record public hearing on the application from K&M Rentals for Rivers Landing Condominium Long Plat September 7, 2016, at 7:00 P.M. to be held in the City of Omak City Council Chambers located at 2 North Ash Street, Omak WA 98841.
The complete application, related drawings and documentation is available for inspection and/or copies may be obtained by purchase or electronically by request at the City of Omak Building Department, City Hall, during normal business hours.
Published by Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/810-2016-343-aug-17-notice-public-hearing/ | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/7b3199e6aa59018d47ae30787db385380163962c8862f6bcff83f128be888dc5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:43 | null | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | (2016-346 Aug. 17, 24) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F17%2F820-2016-346-aug-17-24-notice-contractors%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | 820 (2016-346 Aug. 17, 24) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | (2016-346 Aug. 17, 24) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Brewster, will open sealed proposals and publicly read them aloud on or after 10:00 A.M. on August 31, 2016 at the City of Brewster in Brewster Washington for the Indian Avenue/1st Street Preservation Project. This contract provides for the construction a Light Bituminous Surface Treatment, street sweeping, and other work, all in accordance with the attached Contract Plans, these Contract Provisions, and the Standard Specifications.
SEALED BIDS MUST BE DELIVERED BEFORE 10:00 A.M.
Sealed proposals must be delivered to the City of Brewster (105 S. 3rd Street, Brewster WA 98812) by 10:00 A.M. on the date specified for opening, and in an envelope clearly marked “SEALED BID FOR Indian Avenue/1st Street Preservation Project, TO BE OPENED ON OR AFTER 10:00 A.M. ON August 31, 2016”.
All bid proposals shall be accompanied by a bid proposal deposit in cash, certified check, cashier’s check or surety bond in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of such bid proposal. Should the successful bidder fail to enter into such contract and furnish satisfactory performance bond within the time stated in the specifications, the bid proposal deposit shall be forfeited to the City of Brewster.
The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive informalities in the bidding.
Informational copies of maps, plans and specifications are on file for inspection in the office of the Department of Public Works in Brewster Washington, Copies of the plans and specifications are also available for purchase at J-U-B ENGINEERS, 422 W. Riverside, Ste 304 Spokane WA, 509-458-3727 for a non-refundable fee in the amount of $25.00, payable to J-U-B ENGINEERS Inc.
Published by Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle.
(2016-336 Aug. 10, 17, 24)
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY
In Re the Estate of:
PERRY I. BADGER,
Deceased.
Case No.: 16-4-00069-9
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.030)
The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (4) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.
Date of First Publication: August 10, 2016
Personal Representative: Candy Badger
Attorney for Personal Representative: Smith & Derting, PLLC
Mary E. (Bess) Derting
Address for mailing or service: P.O. Box 845, Okanogan, WA 98840
Mary E. (Bess) Derting, WSBA #37452
Attorney for Personal Representative
Published by Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/820-2016-346-aug-17-24-notice-contractors/ | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/4ced5408b70dc526de0fd0c5b87ec365bc69355993453b842df3f8c73e6f1de3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:36 | null | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | (2016-348 Aug. 24) Notice The Okanogan County Transit Authority Board | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F24%2F820-2016-348-aug-24-notice-okanogan-county-transit%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | 820 (2016-348 Aug. 24) Notice The Okanogan County Transit Authority Board | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | (2016-348 Aug. 24) Notice The Okanogan County Transit Authority Board
will hold a special meeting Thursday August 25th at 6:00pm to consider approval of the 2016-2021 Transit Development Plan and to consider approval of a construction contract. The meeting will be held at 2 N Ash St, Omak, WA 98841 (Council Chambers of Omak City Hall).
Published by Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/24/820-2016-348-aug-24-notice-okanogan-county-transit/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/a16a723e1f4086bd75c00786eb8642005f7e852cd9d7f1e69405b7e1ef2de7a6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:21 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | NESPELEM – Donations are being collected by the Colville Confederated Tribes to help those living in the Wellpinit area of the Spokane Indian Reservation affected by the Cayuse Mountain Fire. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F26%2Fdonations-sought-wellpinit-fire-victims%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | Donations sought for Wellpinit fire victims | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | NESPELEM – Donations are being collected by the Colville Confederated Tribes to help those living in the Wellpinit area of the Spokane Indian Reservation affected by the Cayuse Mountain Fire.
So far the fire has burned across more than 18,400 acres and has destroyed 14 houses and nine other structures. The fire was about 50 percent contained as of late Thursday.
The Colville tribe’s Nespelem Recycling Program will take supplies to Wellpinit on Saturday morning, Aug. 27. Donations will be accepted until 4 p.m. today, Aug. 26 at the recycling center on Nespelem School Loop Road.
Items sought for residents include toiletries, laundry soap, towels, sheets, pillow cases and pillows, blankets, non-perishable food, men’s and women’s clothing and shoes, socks and underwear in adult sizes, youth and children’s clothing, household items, bottled water, coffee and creamer and sports drinks.
Meanwhile the Nespelem Trading Post, off Highway 155, is accepting donations for after-hours storage.
A fundraiser is planned Saturday at the Omak Community Center, 601 Benton St. Hot dogs will be sold and bouncy houses will be set up. All proceeds go to the Wellpinit community. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/26/donations-sought-wellpinit-fire-victims/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/7ed96fdb9f2dd1e7dfc0ad5ba973daf140c75a514da74d59522da2c208cfcd0e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:52 | null | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | OKANOGAN - Only one incumbent for the two Okanogan County Commissioner spots up for grabs will move on to the General Election on Nov. 8.
Election officials certified election results on Tuesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F17%2Fkennedy-branch-hover-and-thrasher-move-general-ele%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | Kennedy, Branch, Hover and Thrasher move on to General Election | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | OKANOGAN - Only one incumbent for the two Okanogan County Commissioner spots up for grabs will move on to the General Election on Nov. 8.
Election officials certified election results on Tuesday.
Okanogan County Commissioner Sheilah Kennedy led wire-to-wire in primary voting results in her bid for re-election.
Kennedy, who is running as a Republican, narrowly edged out Chris Branch by only one vote. The two will now move on to face each other in the General Election.
Kennedy received 615 votes – or 27.04 percent. Branch received 614 votes (27 percent). Former Omak Police Chief Larry Schreckengast, who had led Branch after initial counts dropped into third place in recent counts, finished with 607 votes (26.69 percent). Okanogan attorney Ted Reinbold, who was running as an independent, received 438 votes (19.26 percent).
In the race for the District 2 spot, Andy Hover and Ashley Thrasher had a clear victory over incumbent Ray Campbell and will face off in November.
Hover, who is running as a Republican, received 1,458 votes – or 40.04 percent. Thrasher, who stated no party preference, followed with 1,227 votes (33.7 percent). Campbell failed to make the general election ballot, receiving only 764 votes (20.98 percent). Republican Stan Kvistad received only 192 votes (5.27 percent).
Unlike primary voting (voters only cast ballots for candidates running in their districts), all voters in Okanogan County will vote for candidates in each race, regardless of which district they reside in. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/kennedy-branch-hover-and-thrasher-move-general-ele/ | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/0ee8d6a7a1ceb1b9767a98138e74959ed6d4638c3d72e5366794c2177a5e882d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:19 | null | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | TONASKET – People wanting lap dances in town will have to find them somewhere else. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F17%2Ftonasket-may-soon-have-strip-club%2F.json | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/tonasket-may-soon-have-strip-club/ | en | null | Tonasket strip club just a rumor | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | TONASKET – People wanting lap dances in town will have to find them somewhere else.
Last week handwritten signs plastered the front windows of the Texas Family Diner, 220 Whitcomb Ave. – formerly The Maverick Bar and Grill– proclaiming “Tonasket’s first private strip club” was coming soon to the building.
John Ritchie, co-owner of the building, said there is no chance that the building will be used for that purpose.
The Chronicle attempted to reach out to Texas Family Diner owner Windy Dorgan Josely, Ritchie's sister and co-owner of the building, but she did not respond by press time.
“As far as I know that is not true,” Ritchie said. “That’s not something that I would ever have in there.”
Ritchie said he is under the impression that kids put the sign in the window as a joke. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/17/tonasket-may-soon-have-strip-club/ | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/07bd06d0106e6cb0515703c50e90ddab01b63d124487a031dbf61a600a426e61.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:24 | null | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | (2016-336 Aug. 10, 17, 24) IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY
In Re the Estate of:
PERRY I. BADGER,
Deceased.
Case No.: 16-4-00069-9
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omakchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Faug%2F24%2F2016-336-aug-10-17-24-superior-court-washington-ok%2F.json | http://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/omakchronicle/images/omak-logo.png | en | null | (2016-336 Aug. 10, 17, 24) IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY | null | null | www.omakchronicle.com | (2016-336 Aug. 10, 17, 24) IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY
In Re the Estate of:
PERRY I. BADGER,
Deceased.
Case No.: 16-4-00069-9
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.030)
The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (4) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.
Date of First Publication: August 10, 2016
Personal Representative: Candy Badger
Attorney for Personal Representative: Smith & Derting, PLLC
Mary E. (Bess) Derting
Address for mailing or service: P.O. Box 845, Okanogan, WA 98840
Mary E. (Bess) Derting, WSBA #37452
Attorney for Personal Representative
Published by Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle. | http://www.omakchronicle.com/news/2016/aug/24/2016-336-aug-10-17-24-superior-court-washington-ok/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.omakchronicle.com/0cc3372398656c0cf60974ea237cca13f3c0c15995a3d76c339732d3139e9a45.json |
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