If it sounds like a party, then it can mean only one thing: Lettuce is ready to funk n’ roll. The premier psychedelic funk ensemble brought their “Sounds Like A Party” tour to Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, OK, treating middle America to some fresh grooves all the while. The band is not only touring behind their acclaimed 2015 release Crush, but has a follow-up EP Mt. Crushmore due out this Friday, November 11th. They’ll also be celebrating the EP release with two shows at the PlayStation Theater in New York, NY on November 11th and 12th, with support from Red Baraat and The Floozies. Find out more about those shows here.The band kept the jams flowing from start to finish at their Tulsa show, opening with “Egyptian Secrets” and keeping the set rocking with some serious funky chops. Fortunately, Jeremy Scott Photography was on hand to capture the funky magic in photographic form, so check out the setlist and a full gallery below.Setlist: Lettuce at Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK – 11/6/16Egyptian Secrets, Get Greazy, Bowl Warmer, Last Suppit, Luck to Lucien, 4 on 6, Don’t Change, Breakout, Ready to Live, Silverdome, Nyack, Trillogy, Let it Gogo-Bangra, Squadlive, Sounds like a PartyEncore: Madison Square, Do It Like You Do Load remaining images read more
In today’s data-driven business landscape, knowledge is power. Companies that use business intelligence and analytics tools more effectively than their competitors are best poised to succeed in the months and years ahead. Thankfully, there is an IT strategy to support the modern analytics-driven business. It outlines how to optimize deployment of analytics ready infrastructure. For example, analytics tools can identify “high-value” customers for the business to focus on. These tools can also identify products with poor performance that should be improved or eliminated.Unfortunately, far too many organizations are still using legacy systems and software incapable of working with the large quantities of data that need to be processed. This problem becomes a double whammy as data grows. IDC predicts that the total amount of data in the “digital universe” will grow to nearly 50 zettabytes (50 trillion gigabytes) by 2020. It’s estimated to more than triple by 2025, growing to 180 zettabytes.In order to combat these difficulties, IT needs a strategy to update aging infrastructure. The solutions should be able to democratize analytics across your entire organization. The goal should enable not only experts, but also “citizen data scientists” to complete powerful and insightful projects.One of the most popular business intelligence platforms is Microsoft SQL Server. The latest version of SQL Server includes more features to support analytics capabilities. Of course, SQL Server must also be paired with a high-performance servers that can handle the elevated levels of demand on processing and memory. Ideally, these servers should support the latest technologies for analytics, such as hyper-convergence and non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM).Companies that upgrade to the latest version of SQL Server must answer one important question: Do we deploy the new version on new servers, or make it fit with its existing infrastructure instead? For most, using new hardware will be the right choice. Why? Trying to upgrade existing servers is a time-consuming and difficult task. The process creates frustrations among your employees and takes up effort that could be spent elsewhere. In addition, the presence of other unexpected workloads running on the server can cause your initial capacity estimates to be incorrect. When this happens, you may be forced to start over from square one – which wastes time and effort.Using new servers allows your IT team to install and test SQL Server before it’s put into production. This mitigates any adverse effects to your existing workloads. Using existing infrastructure requires a good deal of guesswork. On the other hand, pre-configured and pre-tested servers such as Dell EMC’s Ready Solutions come with known levels of performance and capability. Think about how much valuable time and effort you could save.The new Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are perfectly suited for the performance demands of modern analytics platforms. For example, we tested SQL Server 2016 on the PowerEdge R730 and the newest R740. The R740 delivers a blistering 41% improvement in transactions per second and cuts average query response time in half.[1]Dell EMC provides PowerEdge servers to run your business. We also offer a suite of services to support these servers throughout their lifecycle, from consulting to installation and deployment to support and maintenance. Dell EMC assists companies that seek to digitally transform their operations, making it easier to process the ever-growing quantities of data and mine them for critical business insights.To read more about the IT strategy to support the modern analytics-driven business, download the Tech Target white paper.To learn more about Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, visit dellemc.com/servers[1] Based on a Dell EMC Engineering study using the TPC-E benchmark to test Microsoft SQL Server 2016, August 2017. Actual performance will vary. read more
Georgia’s non-irrigated peanuts may have a very low yield potential due to a prolonged summer drought, said University of Georgia Extension peanut agronomist Scott Monfort.“I think with the non-irrigated acres for most of the growing area, the yield potential has definitely diminished the last three to four weeks. How much is hard to say,” Monfort said. The rainfall Georgia received last week has been overshadowed by a month-long drought that covered parts of the state in August. The dry weather left peanut vines wilting and some farmers scrambling to salvage what crop they could.“Going out and looking at a lot of these fields, some of the vines are starting to collapse and, therefore, some people are going to have to start digging early or earlier than they need to or would like to,” Monfort said. “Some of them, in a few sporadic cases, have stopped putting resources into them because they don’t think they’re going to get it back out.”Monfort estimates that 40 to 50 percent of Georgia’s peanuts are non-irrigated. Half of the state’s crop could have a drastic reduction in yield potential when peanuts are harvested.“There is still a crop out there, I will say that. Just how big of a crop it is, I just don’t know. We hope the quality is going to be better than what we anticipate it to be,” Monfort said. Some farmers only grow non-irrigated or dry land peanuts. But “a good many” still grow both irrigated and dry land peanuts, Monfort said. Georgia leads the nation in peanut production, accounting for almost half of the country’s crop. Peanuts generate $891 million in farm gate value and account for 27 percent of Georgia’s row and forage crops.For more information about peanuts in Georgia, go to extension.uga.edu/agriculture/crops/peanuts. read more
FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailPrint分享Renew Economy:Australia’s installed capacity of solar is expected to double to 18GW in the next two years as a wave of new large scale projects are completed and as households and businesses continue to turn to solar to reduce their electricity bills.Industry statistician Sunwiz says Australia is recording record installations in both rooftop solar and large scale installations in 2018, with more 1.6GW installed until the end of September, nearly half from large scale solar. The annual total will be around 2.3GW to 2.4GW.Green Energy Markets’s Ric Brazzale says he is expecting up to 4GW installed in 2018 alone, although that number depends on the speed of commissioning and could be lower if project completion is delayed.By the end of 2020, Sunwiz says, the current capacity of 9GW is expected to double to 18GW, with another 4GW of large scale solar, another 4GW of small rooftop solar, and another 1GW of large rooftop solar installations (over 100kW). That would represent a doubling also in the share of renewables of delivered electricity from around 5 per cent to 10 per cent.As we report elsewhere, another three big solar farms have joined the grid just in the past week – the largest solar installations in their respective states – South Australia (Bungala), Victoria (Bannerton) and NSW (Colleambally).The question for many is the future of policy, both in large scale and small scale. The large scale renewable energy target (33,oooGWh) will be met by 2020, ending the obligation of big retailers to contract or build a certain amount of renewables, and the only state-based initiatives coming from Victoria and Queensland, and the growing corporate market.More: Australia installed solar capacity to double to 18GW by 2020 Australia on track to double solar capacity by 2020 read more
Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York Lou Reed, Velvet Underground founder, poet, successful solo artist and Long Island native, died Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013.A candlelight vigil and musical performance honoring the life of Lou Reed, who died this weekend, will be held on the Nautical Mile in his childhood hometown of Freeport.Family, friends fans and musicians are expected to gather for the tribute to the Long Island-native rock legend, who died Sunday at age 71 at his home in Amagansett following a liver transplant earlier this year.Reed, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who graduated Freeport High School in 1959, sold millions of records as co-founder of The Velvet Underground and is considered one of the most influential performers in rock history with such classics as “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Sweet Jane” and “Pale Blue Eyes.”The memorial luncheon is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hudon’s on the Mile on Woodcleft Avenue. There will be a performance in his honor at the ceremony, organizers say. read more
continue reading » ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr Chip cards are increasingly becoming the norm as usage and acceptance has continued to grow since the EMV standard was first introduced in 2011. That’s good news for everyone but fraudsters. The latest data shows that Visa payment cards with an embedded EMV® chip has had a significant impact on counterfeit fraud, which is when criminals copy your payment card data onto a fake card and re-use it without your permission.The infographic below explains the latest data about chip card usage, its impact on fraud and how other Visa risk and security technologies help keep payments secure.The same security technology, in fact, that chip cards use to fight counterfeit fraud is also available in contactless payment cards. These allow you to simply “tap” on a payment terminal to make a payment. Click here to learn more about contactless payments. read more
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) — The New York State Liquor Authority has suspended the liquor license of Water Street Brewing Co. in Binghamton. The State Liquor Authority says the bar’s license was suspended due to the owner having people in the establishment and refusing to allow Binghamton Police inspect the bar on April 22. Water Street Brewing Co. was charged with failing to comply with with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order demanding bars and restaurants close dine-in services, failure to supervise licensed premises and failure to permit an inspection, the Liquor Authority says. Police arrested the owner and another employee. Water Street Brewing Co. said in a Facebook post that it takes the governor’s order very “seriously” and the people inside the bar on April 22 were employees. Both the owner of the bar and the employee were issued appearance ticket returnable to Binghamton City Court. read more
I’m so tired of the many lectures and rants about hatred and respect from the Trump-supporting hypocrites. Thank you to Josh Hermance (March 15 letter) for exposing some of that flagrant hypocrisy.Hatred and disrespect poured out of your mouths constantly for Obama. Don’t pretend it was his politics that bothered you. I bet you never once said, “We have a black man for president — so what?” People who supported Hillary Clinton don’t think she’s perfect, but she had a political resume — not an evil agenda. Trump had no political resume and offered vulgarity, arrogance, lies and racism promising to make America “white” again. You criticize Bill Clinton, yet Trump has at least 19 counts of sexual misconduct against him and he’s still in office with no investigation. You want the Hollywood elite held to a standard you won’t even hold your own president to. Are Robert Mueller’s prosecutions to date based on fiction too? We all know you would criticize Trump-style behavior if it were coming from any Democratic president. To Toni Ann Kinsella (March 15 letter), Trump makes you feel safe? No wonder our country is a huge mess. Every day is sickening and draining with the latest Trump scandal and the circus of an inexperienced administration. We are failing because Trump himself is a failure. Our lives got worse by Trump’s own hands and power, not ours. If only our disdain for him was that powerful. We have no control. Shame on Republicans for putting party before country and for telling us that “Trump may go about things the wrong way but so what, it’s okay.” You are delusional from drinking that Hannity Kool-Aid. It’s not OK and it never will be, and your deranged tirades are as destructive and hypocritical as Trump himself.Michele B. KoesterGlenvilleMore from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Urgent: Today is the last day to complete the censusEDITORIAL: Beware of voter intimidationFoss: Should main downtown branch of the Schenectady County Public Library reopen?EDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homesEDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motorists Categories: Letters to the Editor, Opinion read more
Institutional investors are making many of their investment decisions chasing ideas that are unsuitable for them and reflect past return trends, according to Cambridge Associates.The consultancy’s global head of pensions practice, David Druley, said this kind of attitude could once again be seen in the growth of smart-beta strategies in Europe, the UK and the US.Smart beta – the term used to describe equity or fixed income investing that follows a systematic, rules-based strategy to achieve exposure to beta factors – has been growing in popularity.Research from asset manager State Street Global Advisors suggested 40% of institutional investors across the US and Europe already allocate to smart beta strategies, while a further one-quarter are thinking to make allocations. Further data from intelligence provider Spence Johnson has estimated European funds will have around €211bn in smart-beta allocations by 2018.Durley, while acknowledging the effectiveness of some smart-beta strategies, warned that a rush of capital into these strategies would immediately make them more expensive and produce lower returns, two of the decisive factors when investors allocate capital.“If enough people put significant amounts of money into various smart-beta strategies, it can very quickly become overvalued beta,” Druley said.“Therefore, it will likely neither be lower risk nor generate higher returns, which is what these strategies are promising.“How many of the strategies are really smart beta? And how many are just differing factor bets such as an overweight to small and mid-cap stocks, or low-beta stocks or to quality stocks?”He said the rush of capital to the strategy was simply another example of investors chasing lost returns and evaporated ideas, not unlike pension funds moving to a value overweight after the market crash ended in 2003.In the 2000-03 bear market, institutions became convinced value strategies carried less risk because they protected capital well as tech stocks burst, significantly affecting pension funds riding the equity wave.The funds believed these strategies would outperform the market because they had done so over longer periods of time.However, it was more down to the strategy being under-owned, and subsequently undervalued, before the crash, Druley said.By the time the next next crash came in 2007, pension funds had allocated large sums to value strategies, believing the investment style would help protect capital in the long-run.However, during the last downturn, value strategies in some cases lost more than other investments, according to Druley.He said this was due to many of the component investments being financial stocks, which were also undervalued during and after the 2003 crash.“Value strategies did worse than the market, in some cases dramatically,” Druley said.“The cheapest-looking stocks were in many cases financials that got hit the hardest, and other value stocks weren’t unusually cheap.“We saw how surprised everyone was in the last financial crisis that value didn’t offer great protection from the bear market. A similar thing is likely to happen again in the future. We are always fighting the last war.” read more
Photo credit: Flickr.comWILLEMSTAD, Curacao — As of Friday, August 5, 2011, Curacao-based airline InselAir will extend its special fare of NAF 270 to Caracas until Monday, August 8, 2011The travel period will be extended until August 15, allowing customers to benefit from this special fare an extra three days.Tickets are available at all InselAir sales points, travel agents or online. After August 8, tickets for the Curacao – Caracas route will be available at a starting price of NAF 391.The airline was recently ordered to stop operating the route between Curacao and Caracas by the Caracas airport authority shortly after the inaugural flight Monday, July 18, 2011.The service was resumed on Monday July 25, only to have to return to Curacao without disembarking passengers. The Department of Civil Aviation of Venezuela however confirmed to both InselAir and the Caracas airport authorities that all documents were in place and InselAir should have been able to disembark and embark passengers and resume all its flights.On Tuesday July 26, InselAir operated a successful flight between Curacao and Caracas.“We are very glad to be able to resume this route without any more delays, InselAir has done its upmost to accommodate all passengers accordingly, and would like to apologize for any inconvenience,” chief general manager E. Heerenveen stated.The airline will resume as previously announced, providing flights between Curacao and Caracas each weekday.Caribbean News Now Share 27 Views no discussions Share Share Tweet Sharing is caring! InternationalLifestylePrintTravel InselAir extends its special fare to Caracas by: – July 29, 2011 read more