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Bassist Patrick O'Hearn's path to New Age electronic composition may seem an unlikely one. Raised in Oregon by musician parents, O'Hearn began playing instruments at an early age and veered toward the bass as a means of accompanying his parent's lounge act. He went on to collaborate with Frank Zappa and a host of jazz greats before joining the Los Angeles space-age pop outfit Missing Persons in the early '80s. (The band scored a hit with the underground perennial "Walking in L.A.") Not long after, O'Hearn accepted an incongruous invitation from a friend to join in the establishment of an electronic-ambient record label, and as if by the simple flip of a switch his musical course was changed forever. His 1985 solo debut, Ancient Dreams, found unexpected success and inaugurated a rich and prolific discography that has spanned more than two decades. O'Hearn's 2001 release So Flows the Current may even be the finest of the lot, a late-period classic that find the musician in top form, focused but experimental, restful yet highly imaginative.
The disc builds from ambient glows and organic repetition, reaching planes of harmonic bliss. The title tracks pushes forward on a lightly rattling rhythm, far off in the mix, as a synthesizer alternates its tones like twinkling celestial lights. As the track hits a softly soaring groove, it feels like flight through the night sky, the stars spinning and shining in all directions. "Panning the Sands" comes on more slowly, carefully unfolding from a dark, beating instrumental bed. Shakers shift like sand on the dunes, while above the synthesizer casts bright trails across the firmament.
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This Issue on popular culture was conceived to begin the conversation around the question: whither popular culture today, in post-pandemic 2022 Kenya?
The study of the popular in Kenya is not new, and indeed, vibrant scholarship and reportage around popular culture in general has existed for about two decades now.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to a halt most activities that spur, facilitate, and mediate popular culture, including the making of music, film, television, art, theatre, dance, and even transportation which, in Kenya, is a source of the artistic and the musical. This Issue therefore sought to act as a check on the current state of the popular.
Jahazi on Popular Culture brings a diverse range of articles that speak to both the wider debates around popular culture, as well as practical work being done by practitioners of art and culture on the ground.
This Pan-African edition of Jahazi tackles head-on recent debates and discussions around the restitution of cultural heritage stolen from the African continent and the global south in general.
The title of the Issue, Reclaiming Our Cultural Heritage, infers that the global south is, and should actively seek return of its looted heritage currently held in museums and private collections in Europe and America
This is a Special Issue of Jahazi, published with the support of the African Land Policy Centre, that focuses on Land Governance, Culture and Heritage. Specifically it carries articles derived from papers presented at the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa.
The articles capture the intersections between land and spirituality in the African socio-cultural context; education and knowledge systems in inclusive land governance; women perspectives to secure tenure rights; land in African cultural heritage and creative industries; decolonization and social change, among others.
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Check out Bank Holidays in month of September
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Nowadays, almost all banking activities are done through internet banking. Still for some work you have to run to ...
Nowadays, almost all banking activities are done through internet banking. Still for some work you have to run to the nearest branch of the bank. In such a situation, before going to the bank, it is necessary to know on what date the banks have a holiday, i.e. the banks will be closed. Banks will be closed on special occasions in September, according to the RBI.
According to the list of holidays posted on the Reserve Bank's website, banks will be closed for a total of 12 days in September. It also includes the weekly holidays that come on Saturdays and Sundays. However, there will be a few bank holidays in some states due to state-wise holidays. This means that these holidays will be applicable in that state.
According to the list released by the Reserve Bank, banks have 12 days off in September, of which 7 days will be for banks in Maharashtra. Therefore, banks in Maharashtra will be closed for seven days.
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September 5 - Sunday
September 8 - Shrimant Shankardeva Tithi (Guwahati)
September 9 - Teej Haritalika (Gangtok)
September 10 - Ganesh Chaturthi, Sanvatsari (Chaturthi), Vinayak Chaturthi, Varsiddhi Vinayak Vrat (Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji)
September 11 - Second Saturday of the month, Second day of Ganesh Chaturthi (Panaji)
September 12 - Sunday
September 17 - Karma Puja (Ranchi)
September 19 - Sunday
September 20 - Indrajatra (Gangtok)
September 21 - Shri Narayan Guru Samadhi Day (Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram)
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- Add oil to a pressure cooker and sauté onions till it turns translucent.
- Add turmeric. Now add the marinated pork. Add salt if needed. Stir well.
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Moldovan interior minister suggests putting tycoon Plahotniuc on int'l wanted list
CHISINAU. July 22 (Interfax) - Moldovan prosecutors should open a criminal case against businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc and declare him an international fugitive, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Andrei Nastase said.
"I am calling for the immediate launch of a criminal inquiry into power usurpation in our country, a process that was protracted by the former prosecutor general and by the current acting prosecutor general. I demand revocation of parliamentary immunity from Ilan Shor, Vladimir Plahotniuc, and others, and their placement on the wanted list," Nastase told a press conference in Chisinau on Monday.
"Once independent prosecutors have done what they should, once all procedures are complied with, my colleagues from the Interior Ministry will bring Plahotniuc to account. We will definitely bring him over to Chisinau," Nastase said.
The former prosecutor general, Eduard Harunjen, should also be held to account for concealing the reply from the Prosecutor's Office III of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, regarding Plahotniuc's involvement in a money-laundering scheme, he said.
"This is a very serious case, which requires an immediate internal inquiry by the Prosecutor General's Office. According to data from the Swiss federal police and justice department, Moldovan authorities were to confirm that they'd received the information about Plahotniuc's money laundering detected by Zurich prosecutors," Nastase said.
He said that he had learnt about the Swiss letter during a separate inquiry.
"The letter was sent to Eduard Harunjen, who passed it on to Adriana Betsisor of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. A reply was due by June 21. They concealed the document in order to impede criminal and international inquiries into Plahotniuc, a suspect in a number of grave crimes. These circumstances need to be investigated. All culprits must be identified and held to account," he said.
"[This case] is demonstrating the resistance to domestic change on the part of prosecutors and judges who are still within the corrupt and controlled system that existed in Moldova over the past ten years and was created by Plahotniuc and his entourage," Nastase said.
The Prosecutor General's Office did receive a letter from Swiss prosecutors, the agency's press service confirmed to journalists earlier on Monday. The reply is ready and being translated into English, it said.
It was reported earlier that Harunjen categorically refused to step down for a month after the new government came to power.
The parliamentary majority accused him of involvement in the power usurpation during the June 8-15 period when the Democratic Party and government were refusing to recognize the new government approved by parliament on June 8.
Harunjen resigned last week.
By law, Plahotniuc, Shor, and several other individuals involved in the theft of a billion dollars from the national banking system cannot be prosecuted without the prosecutor general. All were elected to parliament in the February 24 elections and thus enjoy immunity. Only the prosecutor general has the power to request that parliament strip them of immunity.
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Delhi on Monday received only 44 per cent, or 433 metric tonnes, of its required daily oxygen supply, according to a bulletin issued by the state government this evening.
The national capital - battling an oxygen shortage triggered by the second Covid wave - had requested 976 MT per day to maintain a regular supply to dozens of private and state-run hospitals in the city.
The 44 per cent shortfall was on a day the centre - which has claimed responsibility for managing oxygen supply during this crisis - was warned by the Supreme Court to correct the deficit to Delhi by midnight. And that was a day after a similar warning to the centre from the Delhi High Court.
According to the Delhi government bulletin, the average daily supply of oxygen is 393 MT. This is despite the centre having raised the daily supply quota to 590 MT.
The average daily consumption in Delhi is 976 MT.
On Monday more than 40 hospitals - with over 7,000 beds between them - had sent out SOS messages over falling oxygen reserves, and the subsequent threat to patients' lives.
On Friday, when the Supreme Court heard this matter, the centre was told it had a "special responsibility towards Delhi". The court also warned the centre that similar crises were developing in other parts of the country, and asked if there were plans to deal with them as well.
On Saturday 12 people died at Delhi's Batra Hospital because of a lack of oxygen (File)
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Oxygen supplies to Delhi hospitals - and Covid and non-Covid patients in critical need of the gas - has become a major, and tragic, headline over the past fortnight.
Last week 12 people died at a private hospital in the city, and horrific stories have emerged of desperate family members being forced to run around for oxygen cylinders.
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The zEnterprise IBM computer was announced in July 2010 and it can run any workload. Yes any workload! Your company can now run mainframe, UNIX and some Windows applications within the new environment. The new zEnterprise is designed with performance and capacity for large-scale consolidation of any workload. As has been done recently with consolidating UNIX systems into the mainframe environment, it’s now possible to consolidate the myriad of Windows based systems with the integration of z/VM 6.1. This new computing architecture helps consolidate performance, integrate data better and improve overall management of the computing environment with unified standard performance security and optimization facilities for better overall availability.
The zEnterprise takes consolidation one step further as any workload can be implemented within its standard environment with dramatic energy savings using workload optimizers through zEnterprise’s integration of the IBMPOWER7 and IBM System x blades, allowing the consolidation of diverse application workloads.
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Consolidated computing through the new zEnterprise system is just beginning. Now all architectures, systems and applications can truly be evaluated for their performance. Regardless of the operating system, programming language or network protocol, your company can get it all done with the lowest total cost of ownership with 96 of the potentially newest and fastest CPUs (5.2GHz) available on any computer in the world through the new zEnterprise system.
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Within all database systems there are tables that hold transactions or some type of data based on time. These transactions unfortunately build up over time to handle regulatory compliance, infrequent access or support development of historical and trending reports.
Within your database design, this time-based transaction data builds up quickly and managing it so the volume does not affect performance is critical. Sometimes the frequency or grain of transactions such as web clicks, banking transactions, stock transactions or other transactions build up to terabytes of data per day, quickly overwhelming robust storage arrays.
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DB2 10 Temporal Tables with their built-in functionality automatically understand the business time or system time that the data was entered into the system. This functionality is great for finding out the condition of the business as of a certain time. There are two new BUSINESS_TIME and SYSTEM_TIME table period definitions columns available. These new time period column definitions are used for the new DB2 temporal table definitions to provide system-maintained, period-maintained or bi-temporal (when both system and period maintained) database tables.
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The North American IDUG Conference and the IOD EMEA conference highlighted all the functionality and features within DB2 10. The more you hear about these functions and features, the more you realize they are really going to save your company money right away.
Justifying a DB2 upgrade is always necessary for management and for the new DB2 10 it is going to be a lot easier with its many CPU-saving features. With all the new features saving from 5-7% right out of the box in conversion mode, DB2 10 offers existing systems and applications immediate savings. Add in all the new options such as Hash Access, Index Include Columns and other features and developer and DBA activities become a lot easier, reducing your overall DB2 CPU capacity requirements possibly up to 20%. Think of getting a 20% decrease in your costs and the costs of the associated third party software and you can see why management is going to push for getting DB2 10 installed as soon as possible.
One of first ways DB2 10 reduces your CPU within your systems and applications, is through a new access path called Range-List Index Scan. This new access path should immediately assist many of your applications that have multiple WHERE predicates that reference the same index. In DB2 9 the access paths scanned the index for each of the WHERE predicate references. Within DB2 10 the Range-List Index Scan scans the index only once to retrieve all the RIDs, saving the extra CPU and I/Os of multiple separate scans, RID consolidation and elimination of duplicate RID entries. This can be a huge improvement for applications that have paging or other types of searching SQL WHERE predicates
When your applications are being prepared for migration to DB2, the plan stability features started in Version 9 and improved with DB2 10 will assist you. Within DB2 10 this enhancement lets the application manager lock down any package for a particular access path. If the access path is changed through an attempt to rebind the package, the process can supply an error or provide a warning within the Bind process. This protects your access paths against access path problems and alerts your developers to a possible problem.
So if you want a 20% decrease in your CPU demand or just want to start thinking about staying up with your competition, start your plans for DB2 10 now
Dave Beulke is an internationally recognized DB2 consultant, DB2 training and DB2 education instructor. Dave helps his clients improve their strategic direction, dramatically improve DB2 performance and reduce their CPU demand, saving millions in their systems, databases and application areas within their mainframe, UNIX and Windows environments.
DB2 upgrades are not the same in any two companies and may not even be the same within the same company. As multiple DB2 systems sometimes support different applications with varying requirements, the Return on Investment (ROI) is completely different. Also, comparing DB2 z/OS or DB2 LUW to Oracle system upgrades also does not even begin to be similar or comparable as all these databases have completely different contract clauses, ROI requirements and upgrade factors. Apples and oranges are both edible, but that is where the comparison and similarities stop.
DB2 upgrades depend on the technology. First-hand experience has shown that bad research, poor database design, poor application development techniques, bad choices in third party vendor tools and an assortment of other factors make ROI equations for upgrades complex or almost impossible. Having helped fix bad technology decisions, redesigned bad database designs and fixed SQL application performance problems, I know that reducing costs is always on everyone’s mind. Upgrading any software especially raises cost consciousness.
To minimize upgrade costs, strive for better understanding and knowledge of the DB2 technology. This will help everyone avoid unnecessary costs and bad decisions. Work on minimizing the DB2 10 upgrade costs through better management of your DB2 systems today. I’ve mentioned the considerations of SMS environments and improving your security definitions to get ready to separate security data access.
This week the suggestion for preparing for DB2 10 is to begin analyzing your DB2 application techniques. The first thing to analyze is how your plans and packages are put together. IBM’s DB2 engineers have been telling everyone to get to DB2 packages within their environment for many releases. In DB2 10 the old plan management technique of DBRMs going directly into plans needs to be replaced by collecting them within COLLIDs and then binding into your DB2 plans. It is a small difference but it has big implications. If your shop still uses the technique of putting DBRMs directly into plans, it is time to start a process to migrate to the new method.
Next, the compliers that your applications utilize also need to be current. DB2 10 changes within the COBOL pre-compiler generate new SQLCA and SQLDA structures along with generating COMP-5 binary data attributes instead of COMP-4 or COMP. Even though there are still some ways to handle old compilers it is best to review your COBOL compiler versions to make sure they will be ready for your eventual DB2 migration.
Dave Beulke is an internationally recognized DB2 consultant, DB2 trainer and education instructor. Dave helps his clients improve their strategic direction, dramatically improve DB2 performance and reduce their CPU demand saving millions in their systems, databases and application areas within their mainframe, UNIX and Windows environments.
Whether you are currently using DB2 Version 8 or Version 9, getting ready for all the CPU efficiencies in DB2 10 is easy. Your company may not be thinking about migrating to DB2 10 yet, but DB2 10 is getting huge industry wide support as the cost savings began to be realized by management. Everyone wants to save money and with everyone trying to squeeze their budgets, a faster adoption of DB2 10 is in your future. It is best to be prepared, so here are a few things you can do
in DB2 Version 8 that will make it easier to get to DB2 10.
Embrace System Managed Storage SMS
No, I am not Darth Vader telling you to embrace the dark side, but to let you know that DB2 10 catalog and directory use SMS. Using SMS is a hard thing to do for many companies and personally, I am not a real big fan of SMS. DB2 10 and additional improvements in storage have made me think twice and SMS may be more help than a problem. Being a performance geek, I recommend limiting or not sharing storage volumes within the DB2 SMS definitions. The SMS performance key, if possible, is to segregate the DB2 SMS definitions completely, yes completely, away from other storage definitions. SMS horror stories about the I/O troubles are well known and through my consulting clients I see SMS at the center of many I/O problems. Embrace SMS but be diligent guarding your DB2 system’s I/O performance and especially your DB2 catalog and directory data sets.
Sharpen Your Security
I am a big supporter of compliance, protecting data assets, security audits and all the security team’s efforts for protecting the company and all the business information. DB2 10 offers more privileges and authority granularity in your DB2 systems and security experts will need to embrace these features to separate out your data access, utility operations and day-to-day work. Start auditing your security usage of your systems area, various DBA support groups, different local and distributed applications, and analyze their needs. Do the activities require data access? Could the DB2 DBA work maybe been done using a different security level such as DB2 SYSOPR or another security authority? More DB2 10 security privileges and authority granularity improvements are going to affect your security profiles. Get ready and start the security analysis now.
Learn more about DB2 10 through the replay of Roger Miller’s and my 2010 webcast: DB2 10 for z/OS – Helping you improve operational efficiencies and gain competitive advantage. The webcast replay is available here…
After the original post of “Reminding Management of the Advantages of System Z,” many people commented on how their management is increasingly out of touch with the mainframe. Also, comments also stated that the System Z environment is really processing almost all of the transactions in their company and how all the Windows platform systems continue to have scalability issues.
Although the mainframe revenue for IBM suffered in 2009 because of its upgrade cycle, the introduction of the z10 System platform demonstrates it is the best open system. Yes, that is correct, the mainframe is the most open system available because it runs all types of workloads: the legacy standards of Assembler, COBOL, PL1 etc. but also C++, C#, Java, PHP and the rest of the languages that run on UNIX and Windows boxes.
Also, some people are starting to run “virtualized” windows on the mainframe environments. PCWORLD highlighted this capability in early 2009With the System Z speed, scalability and network, the mainframe continues to be the best solution for all types of workloads. A nice short demo of z/Vos is on YouTube along with many other videos that you can show to your iPhone-obsessed boss, demonstrating that consolidating those hundreds of MS SQL Server instances is also possible.
The story of virtualization continues to drive UNIX consolidation to the mainframe. In 2009 Allianz consolidated 60 servers into a single mainframe, saving substantial operating, licensing and energy costs while improving scalability. This story detailed in this ComputerWorld article is being repeated at many companies as the mainframe IFL, zIIP and zAAP specialty engines continue to bring processing power at PC or minimized prices. This consolidation activity has a very short term return on investment as these efforts pay for themselves usually in the first year and reduce power consumption dramatically making it a “green” project.
The next time the hundreds of windows or UNIX server configurations need an OS, database or other software upgrade make sure to mention how System Z is saving other companies time and operating costs and overall costs through consolidating these environments to the best cost alternative -- the mainframe System Z.
During the 2010 IBM Z Summit road show, there were several presentations detailing the mainframe platform advantages over UNIX and Windows platforms such as the lowest total cost of ownership, the best availability and unparalleled scalability. These presentations cut through the rumors with detailed facts and figures of different platform configurations. Download these presentations and distribute them to your management for a little reminder why the mainframe continues to be the best platform for your enterprise applications.
The Windows and UNIX platforms proponents always discount and minimize the total cost of ownership, availability and scalability topics. It is our duty to periodically remind management of the extra costs of these UNIX and Windows systems with their huge power consumption costs, software license fees, and software maintenance costs of working with several hundred or thousands of disparate systems. The mainframe quietly continues to process the majority of the transactions at the Fortune 500 companies and everyone, especially younger management types who think the world can run on an iPhone, needs to understand that the System Z infrastructure is the best backbone for any company.
The System Z mainframe is also evolving since it now has specialized processors such as the IFL, zIIP and zAAP to reduce overall operational and licensing costs. These specialty processors, along with the smaller configuration of the System Z offer a single small platform that can consolidate any number of UNIX workloads into a single footprint with a smaller greener energy footprint and better licensing configuration.
The presentations detail benchmarks, licensing fees and labor costs of various mainframe versus UNIX platform configurations. The figures show it sometimes takes double the number of processor cores on a UNIX configuration to start to scale out a configuration. Even more UNIX processors are required to achieve transaction rates that are still only performing one-fourth of what the mainframe System Z executes. These UNIX systems are also dedicated to the production transaction environment with no thought of supporting testing, QA or failover facilities that have yet to be priced or considered, features that come standard within the System Z environment.
System Z also continues to grow because of its faster chips. Ask any PC or UNIX platform personnel “what platform has the fastest clock speed processors” and you will quickly find out who keeps up with the industry information. The chip clock speeds of the System Z and other IBM platforms have improved like the rest of the PC industry. In fact, the System Z z10 chip operates at 4.4 GHz and comes in a 64-way quad core configuration that can speed up any application performance problem. This is almost twice as fast as the HP Superdome processors and a third faster than the Intel Nehalem chips.
So the mainframe continues to lead the industry. Does your management know the cost savings and performance figures of System Z? Tell them and show them the presentations before someone tries to “replace the mainframe” again with a more troublesome, power hunger, bad performing clustered iPhone configuration.
The previous Part 1 and Part 2 discussions highlighted and discussed the various DB2 Data Warehouse DSNZPARMS for z/OS within Versions 8 and 9. With the new DB2 Temporal Tables the system needs all the DB2 Data Warehouse DSNZPARMS to be enabled and all the other new and improved DB2 10 DSNZPARMS for maximizing performance. To ensure the new DB2 DSNZPARMS are enabled, below is a listing of the Depreciated, Improved or new DB2 DSNZPARMS to make sure your data warehouse and other applications get the best performance available within your DB2 10 environment.
Since the storage model of the new DB2 10 system has moved much of the processing components above the 2GB memory line, most of these new and improved DB2 DSNZPARMS deal with new maximum memory settings. If you are monitoring system paging, running on hardware that has enough memory or running on one of the new 196 hardware platforms, leverage the new DB2 memory capabilities and the new hardware as soon as possible.
Remember even with a number of the DB2 10 components moving above the 2GB memory bar, there are still many components (sometimes as much as 25%) below the bar. Monitor your system paging and the size of DB2 memory footprint and adjust your settings incrementally and carefully.
Remember that monitoring, analyzing, improving and repeating in small increments is the best way to provide the best DB2 Data Warehouse DSNZPARMS and a stable high performance environment.
To access the DB2 10 DSNZPARM data warehouse chart in PDF format, please go to DB2 Information on www.davebeulke.com.
Previously we talked about the first alphabetic group of DB2 data warehouse DSNZPARMS that can improve your access paths and overall application performance. This week the second set of DSNZPARMS are discussed. Many of the data warehouse DSNZPARMS discussed are somewhat hidden within the regular DSNZPARM install panels. All of these DSNZPARMS discussed are available in DB2 for z/OS DB2 Version 9. Some are available in DB2 Version 8 or DB2 Version 10.
Caution needs to be taken with all system settings and especially these data warehouse DSNZPARMS. These DSNZPARMS are meant to change access paths and improve them, but each data warehouse design is unique along with each application access path, so results will vary. If the data warehouse DB2 subsystem is shared with other OLTP or operational applications, I highly recommend fully documenting and setting up a full PLAN STABLITIY plan and package management structure for your current access paths before changing any DSNZPARMS. This documentation along with a good PLAN STABILITY DB2 plan and package management implementation and back out practices helps your environment quickly react and back out any detrimental access paths encountered through unexpected rebind of any program.
Some of the comments I’ve received regarding this issue highlighted the resurgent of data warehousing on the z/OS platform and why running a data warehouse on z/OS provides many advantages over other platforms. One that was noted from several people is when your data warehouse runs on z/OS, the huge ETL processes usually don’t have to transmit the data over a network. Even though the network bandwidth is robust, avoiding this extra bottleneck can sometimes save hours of extra overhead, guaranteeing that your refresh data jobs have enough time every day to provide critical refreshes of you data within your data warehouse.
Additionally most of your source data warehouse data comes from the z/OS operational systems and can quickly be put into operational business intelligence data warehouses. This fresh data increases sales, provides real time inventory or product availability updates and, the most important factor, removes latency for all your critical single point master data source of record for the enterprise.
Improve your system and application performance by adjusting these data warehouse DSNZPARMS to improve your access paths and by using the superior DB2 optimizer technology and most efficient performance available.
Previously, I’ve talked about the new DB2 10 temporal tables and how they are great for data warehousing applications. To leverage the temporal tables and data warehousing applications within the DB2 for z/OS environment the system needs the proper DSNZPARM settings. Since everyone has too many systems, some organizations only review system DSNZPARMs during migrations, meaning that many of the new settings might not be set up or enabled. It’s a good idea to review the DSNZPARMs on a regular basis and get them set up to maximize the performance of your data warehousing application SQL by leveraging all the DB2 optimizer capabilities.
First, get a listing of the current DSNZPARMs for your data warehouse system’s settings. This can be done a number of different ways: through your performance monitor, through the JCL that creates the DSNZPARMs or through the IBM REXX exec of the DB2 stored procedure DSNWZP. This DSNWZP stored procedure routine is one of the many DB2 administration procedures and is set up during the system install.
The data warehouse DSNZPARMs affect the performance of the DB2 system and its applications in many different ways, from the DB2 optimizer’s access path choices to the number of parallel processes DB2 will perform during data retrieval. To make sure that all DB2’s performance features and functions are available to improve performance I've created an alphabetic list of DB2 data warehouse DSNZPARMs. Making sure these data warehouse DSNZPARMs are enabled and adjusted for your system will help your application fully exploit DB2 and get the best performance possible for your data warehouse.
Well the votes are in, 22 billion rows is big enough data. It’s not the billions of web logs rows of a Google or Facebook but its big enough for everyone. One of the comments that struck me was that one in a million happens 22,000 times. So whatever your criterion is for big data, it is more a state of mind about the amount of data as opposed to the actual terabyte amounts or the number of rows. Regardless of what database systems you work with, big is a relative term. Just ask your SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase DBA friends what they consider a big system. Usually the answer is nowhere near what you get for DB2 z/OS or even DB2 LUW systems. I talked about this a last year in my blog ("Performance is Relative").
Other comments and questions received about last week’s blog asked for more clarification on the idea of keeping a database design simple. So below are three different ways to keep your big data data warehouse design simple.
First: There are reasons Bill Inmon’s and Ralph Kimball’s decentralized and centralized data warehouse ideas are so popular, those design patterns work. Design patterns for all types of IT applications, Java/.NET MVC (model view controller), various business models and standard processes have been extensively analyzed and endorsed over many years through the design pattern books, conferences and government studies. The decentralized and centralized data warehouse design patterns work and your design should use them for your data warehouse performance. Big data or not, there is no reason to do something more complex. Starting with these types of design patterns, using and optimizing simple Fact table(s) surrounded by Dimension tables(s) design pattern will provide you data warehouse performance. Decentralize or extend these design patterns with as many Fact tables and slow moving Dimension tables will optimize and minimize the amount of big data referenced in typical transaction and your data warehouse performance won’t be an issue.
Second: Make sure to normalize your big data design. It’s typical to try to consolidate everything within a data warehouse performance design. Unfortunately having too many elements in a table forces too much data into an application transaction and data warehouse performance can suffer. Just as decentralized and centralized data warehouse performance design patterns have been used for years, database table normalization has been around for even longer because it logically optimizes your design. The database design normalization process has been documented everywhere over the years and it is effective for making sure the table elements relate to the whole database table key(s). Combining table keys or designs causes excessive repeating data or data groups and over-normalization leads to excessive application joins. Normalization is striking a balance and no one does it perfectly the first time. Normalize your data warehouse performance design several times and your transaction performance can strike a balanced performance for all critical applications.
Third: Design, test, redesign test and repeat. Schedule enough database and application meetings and testing time to understand all the application transactions and reports. Data warehouse performance and modeling big data can get unwieldy, so testing your design early is vital. Sometimes big data table population numbers cause tools to abort. Cut the number of zeros down and model all your application transactions against your database design, build it and run applications against it. Data warehouse performance requires real life testing and actual running of the code or SQL that interfaces with the design. No one has any time to do it perfectly but everyone will be mad if you have to redesign and do it all over right before implementation. Know your performance before production through thorough testing. Big data and data warehouse performance requires design and testing. Make sure to do these several times during your development with as much big data as possible.
These are only some of the simple truths that insure your data warehouse performance for your big data system is a success.
Was 22 billion rows Big Data? As I began the new data warehouse project, I knew that the data warehouse performance needed to be designed from the very first data element. The new project was very interesting with complex calculations, cross referencing reports and Big Data implications and big data warehouse performance challenges. Many standard reports that affected whole industries and government policies were depending on data warehouse performance for timely reports and 100% not even 99.999% accuracy of every bit of the Big Data.
Another consideration was the implementation deadline for this high performance Big Data data warehouse system was only 120 days away and wasn’t movable. All of these reasons made this Big Data system quite the challenge. Our small team of business users, SQL analysts and technical staff were committed and we were successful in completing the implementation using agile scrum development techniques. The data warehouse performance was so improved that some of the processes went from 37 hours to under 7 minutes and some reports come back in seconds. Complex calculations and report verification done during our data quality testing found bugs in the old system’s existing reports that had been trusted for over 20 years, so we knew everything was 100%. Our overall performance, 100% accuracy and overall quality implementation were a testament to the commitment of a winning team effort.
There were many success factors that drove the team, the design, development and successful implementation of this 22 billion row Big Data system. Three success factors drove the data warehouse performance.
First: Keep it simple. Yes I know everyone talks about keeping it simple in every development and system design. Designing it and doing it simply can be much harder. Instead of endless discussions and meetings, design the big picture and then see how all the reports, every type of interface and users interact with the warehouse. Data warehouse performance is achieved through computing power. Simple designs that leverage parallelism, that drive I/O and calculation computing power for quickly producing reports are key.
Second: Leverage all existing infrastructure and processes. The tight 120-day schedule from start to finish did not allow the team to have issues, only time delayed solutions. Since we used an agile scrum type of development methodology the agile scrum stories and the data warehouse performance of the Big Data reports were tested several times during the short development period. All used the same standard corporate testing procedures, documentation and approval processes that had been used for years. The team contacted everyone that needed to guarantee the data warehouse performance, got them involved early and got their requirements, feedback, improvements and eventual approval for all the components and implementation. Everyone knew the Big Data project schedule ahead of time so all infrastructure and processes were ready. Issues were worked on until solutions were approved and implemented.
Third: Don’t be intimidated by Big Data. I have been fortunate to design, develop, deploy and study data warehouse performance since back in 1988 when I implemented my first “Big Data” system for the financial firm E.F. Hutton. At least back then it was considered Big Data and it seems that all the other data warehouse systems I have dealt with over the many years have had bigger data then the previous one. Big Data will keep getting bigger and it is just another couple of zeros on the end of your table population and design considerations. Data warehouse performance is built on the same principles as many years ago. As I mentioned with the first success factor, design for both I/O and CPU parallelism in every single item of your system. Only then can your Big Data system have the data warehouse performance it needs to speed up your processes and reports from hours to just minutes or even seconds making everyone, especially your users, happy
To figure out the best temporal table design aspects you need to think of the various options and considerations that will affect its performance. The most important aspect for your temporal table is the answers that your applications or users are expecting from it. The best way is to figure out the time aspect that the application is trying to capture. Are your applications looking for the financial value, the insurance coverage level, enrollment status, customer value or something else?
The temporal table status can be contingent on two types of settings: business time or the system processing time. If the processing is delayed and the system time is later than expected, does that affect your temporal table status? Or are you using the temporal table in a real time scenario where either the business or system time will affect the meaning of the data? There are many ways to respond to the situations and questions, but the design decision should be based on the application and user questions that need to be answered. So it is best to test both SYSTEM_TIME and BUSINESS_TIME scenarios out and see which design provides the best answers with the best performance.
The next design point is to figure out your timestamp type. Do your temporal table application answers require distinct timestamps throughout the system? Your DB2 10 system now has new capabilities to provide a column that is unique within the table system wide. This DB2 syntax is defined WITHOUT OVERLAPS and can be used for your temporal table only for your BUSINESS_TIME values. After the temporal table is created, an index is defined for it using your unique columns and the BUSINESS_TIME WITHOUT OVERLAPS keyword. BUSINESS_TIME is the only option the WITHOUT OVERLAPS keyword works with.
When BUSINESS_TIME WITHOUT OVERLAPS is specified, the columns of the BUSINESS_TIME period must not be specified as part of the constraint. The specification of BUSINESS_TIME WITHOUT OVERLAPS adds the following to the constraints:The end column of the BUSINESS_TIME period in ascending orderThe start column of the BUSINESS_TIME period in ascending orderThe minimum value of a TIMESTAMP(12), the value is 0001-01-01-00:00:00.000000000000The maximum value of a TIMESTAMP(12), the value is 9999-12-31-24:00:00.000000000000
For DATE the minimum is 0001-01-01 and the maximum value is 9999-12-31.
A system generated check constraint named DB2_GENERATED_CHECK_CONSTRAINT_FOR_BUSINESS_TIME is also generated this definition process to ensure that the value for end-column-name is greater than the value for start-column-name. BUSINESS_TIME WITHOUT OVERLAPS must not be specified for a PARTITIONED index.
There are a number of considerations when creating your DB2 10 temporal table. When your application needs it to be unique, the system wide the BUSINESS_TIME option provides the capabilities with some cautions. Check out other posts on temporal tables via Developer Works or at my site, www.davebeulke.com.
It is usually pretty easy to quickly implement new DB2 features. DB2 makes it easy to improve your database performance with a new zParm or table space definition. Unlike most of these new features, however, DB2 temporal tables need research before you implement them. DB2 temporal tables offer great flexibility and many data warehouse design options that can be leveraged very effectively--or be abused--with the wrong application design.
To prepare you need to evaluate whether the application is appropriate for temporal tables. First with DB2 temporal tables it is even more important to determine the frequency of the inserts, updates and deletes that are going to happen. Frequencies are always a good design point for any application but it is especially important for DB2 temporal tables because of the way BUSINESS_TIME or SYSTEM_TIME is maintained and how all the data changes are captured within the associated history temporal table. Every data change could really be two processes because rows need to be replicated into your history table. That could be a major performance consideration.
The next research points are the restrictions with DB2 temporal tables and history tables. The temporal table must be a regular table with the added BUSINESS_TIME or SYSTEM_TIME. No clone table capabilities, column masks, row permissions or security label columns are allowed. The same restrictions are in place for the history table.
The temporal table and its associated history table must be kept in sync. Restrictions also exist regarding the altering, adding or removing columns into the temporal table and the history table to guarantee integrity. Also backup and recovery for the temporal table and its history table must be kept in sync and there are restrictions around DB2 Utilities that could delete data from these tables. In addition once the history table is defined, its table space or table cannot be dropped. So make sure the columns desired in your DB2 temporal tables are stable and well defined for the application.
There are several resources that should be reviewed before designing your first application using DB2 temporal tables. The first is the IBM DB2 10 manuals. By reading these friendly manuals you get a good understanding of the syntax, various examples and details about all the restrictions. Next there have been some presentations about DB2 temporal tables at past IDUG conferences and IOD conferences. Track down you colleagues that went to the conferences and get the CD or access to the website for the presentation downloads.
The improvements in DB2 10 technology are definitely making building performance into business intelligence systems easier. Additional SQL data warehousing extensions such as Rank, Dense_Rank, and Materialized Query tables (MQTs) were great when they came out in DB2 8 and DB2 9. DB2 10 takes another giant step with data warehousing additional features.
Use a DB2 10 Temporal Table
DB2 10 provides Temporal and Bi-Temporal database tables along with the OLAP capabilities of moving sums, averages and aggregates. These additional improvements within the DB2 engine, SQL and table designs provide faster result set capabilities for overall business intelligence performance. Also the DB2 10 enhancements with the new scalar and table functions can provide performance for all types of OLAP activities.
Since these business intelligence performance features are built directly into the DB2 10 engine, temporal designs, moving sums, averages and aggregates will become standard calculations and properties for all reporting requirements. Calculations will be done using different groups of temporal time periods or location-based data for product sales, store location or other common data warehouse criteria. Data warehousing performance will improve dramatically as DB2 data warehouse applications are quickly designed to leverage these common built-in features and functions for all types of business intelligence performance requirements.
By using a temporal data warehouse design along with partitioning, time frame or common table design, the standard OLAP functions can provide quick calculations for complex or simple data warehouse reporting requirements. Also given the improvements within SQL, moving sums, averages and aggregates can be included in common table expressions, SQL SELECT lists or ORDER BY statements to satisfy any application requirements
Leverage DB2 10 for Business Intelligence Performance
Business Intelligence performance always improves when the designers and developers leverage the DB2 engine built in functions. Use temporal tables, bi-temporal, moving sums, averages and aggregates so your business intelligence performance will only get better with DB2 10.


*With last week's front-runners, Machine Gun Kelly's "Peso" and Black Hippy's "U.O.E.N.O. (Remix)," making the jump to our Top Hip Hop and R&B Chart, J. Cole's "N*ggaz Know" (a new addition) and Lupe Fiasco's "Animal Pharm" (formerly 13th) take the lead.
*Debuting this week along with Lupe's cut, Fabolous' "When I Feel Like It" and Wale's "LoveHate Thing" snag third and 19th.
*Birdman Presents: Rich Gang's "Tapout," T.I.'s "Memories Back Then," Travis Scott's "Upper Echelon" and Kendrick Lamar's "B*tch Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)" drop from our Top Picks to land in seventh, 12th, 14th and 17th.
*Drake's "5AM in Toronto," Jay-Z's "Open Letter," Vado's "Don't Make Me Do It" and Lil Wayne's "Rich as F**k" make their exit from our charts.
*Big Sean's "Switch Up," Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y's "Toast" and Fat Joe's "Love Me Long Time" narrowly miss appearing on the chart. Your feedback and ratings will determine whether they make the cut next week!
1. J. Cole - N*ggaz Know
2. Lupe Fiasco - Animal Pharm
3. Fabolous ft. 2 Chainz - When I Feel Like It
4. French Montana - Ain’t Worried About Nothin
5. Young Jeezy ft. Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown & YG - R.I.P. (Remix)
6. 50 Cent ft. Kendrick Lamar - We Up
7. Birdman Presents Rich Gang ft. Lil Wayne, Future, Mack Maine & Nicki Minaj - Tapout
8. Fat Joe ft. Wiz Khalifa & Teyana Taylor - Ballin'
9. Juicy J ft. The Weeknd - One of Those Nights
10. Tyga ft. Chris Brown - F**k for the Road
11. Gucci Mane ft. 2 Chainz - Use Me
12. T.I. ft. Kendrick Lamar, B.o.B & Kris Stephens - Memories Back Then
13. Ice Cube - The Big Show
14. Travi$ Scott ft. T.I. & 2 Chainz - Upper Echelon
15. Snoop Lion ft. T.I. - No Regrets
16. Ludacris ft. Young Jeezy - Raised in the South
17. Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay-Z - B*tch Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)
18. Future ft. Rick Ross, Birdman & French Montana - Karate Chop (RichMix)
19. Wale ft. Sam Dew - LoveHate Thing
20. Jay-Z - $100 Bill
21. Big Sean ft. Common - Switch Up
22. Wiz Khalifa x Curren$y - Toast
23. Fat Joe ft. Future - Love Me Long Time


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Thanks to the advanced optical technologies which allow us to explore otherwise unreachable majesty of the world through a lens. However, thanks to talented artists who manage to capture and remind us about the beauty of it. One of those artists, Vadim Trunov, doesn't look far – most of his macro photos are taken just on his doorstep in Voronezh, Russia. Masterpiece photography by Trunov provides a new perspective to our surroundings by portraying the uniqueness, diversity and vitality of the micro nature. In his pictures, vibrant creatures in their colourful environment expose supremely picturesque lands and create fairy-tale atmospheres. Surprisingly, some of them replicate common human life situations. Can you relate to any of these characters? For more beauty please visit Vadim Trunov's portfolio. I'm sure your eyes deserve it!
Over the course of the last 10 years the British Wildlife Photography Awards have done a wonderful job of showcasing some of the most extraordinary natural wonders of this island.
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Deerwood Station Guest Cabin ist eine schöne neue Hütte am Deerwood Ranch entfernt. Die Hütte liegt am Ufer des Middle Fork des Kleinen Laramie River. Unsere Gäste können sich einfach nur entspannen auf der Terrasse und genießen Sie die Landschaft, oder sie auf dem Grundstück oder Langlaufloipe im Winter wandern und angeln kann. Die Ranch ist ein Wild Horse Eco-Sanctuary so wild horse Betrachtung zur Verfügung. Einer privaten Ranch Tour kann bei Verfügbarkeit berücksichtigt werden. Die Tour dauert etwa 1. 5-2 Uhr und wird eine zusätzliche Gebühr. Die Kabine bietet Platz für bis zu sieben Personen.
Stichwort: Kabine, Gästekabine, wildes Pferdeschongebiet
My husband and I ventured off for a two week, 30th Anniversary vacation, with Deerwood Station Guest Cabin as our final stop. We enjoyed the quiet, peaceful surroundings and the solitude of the cabin. We also found plenty to do, as we chose! We traveled Hwy 130 and hiked up Sugar Loaf and Medicine Bow. We went into Centennial and ate at the Bear Tree Tavern and enjoyed ice cream at Country Junction. The cabin is well furnished, comfortable beds, and is spotless. Being here and enjoying the 75-80 degree temperatures when it was 100-110 back home...priceless! If you have never been to this area you will be amazed at how beautiful and close at hand activities are, but there are almost NO other tourists around. How has this area been such a well kept secret? The only down side is the mosquito population, which was plentiful since we were right on a creek. Janna and Rich provide spray and citronella candles, which were so helpful. The hosts are fantastic, the hideaway easily accessible and the adventures-easy to be had.
My family and I recently concluded a 3 night, 4 day vacation at Deerwood Station. What a truly remarkable destination. Our days were spent skiing, snowmobiling, and simply enjoying the incredible vistas surrounding the cabin. The cabin was truly a home away from home, fully furnished, including a full size washer/dryer. Rich and Jana were wonderful hosts, and we are already planning a return next year!
My son and I recently concluded a 5 night stay at the cabin and it was a great time. We have visited Centennial many times for the trout fishing, but this was our first time to stay at Deerwood Station. There is no question about where we will be staying for all future trips. The cabin is everything you could wish for when looking for a place to get away and just relax. Everything inside and out is very clean and well maintained. The kitchen is well stocked with not only the cooking items and dishes but some basic staples for preparing meals.
Rich and Jana are very friendly and will do everything they can to make sure you have a great experience on their property.
We stayed here during a snowmobiling trip with my sons and husband. While they explored the nearby trails, I enjoyed peaceful, relaxing days by the fire reading my book, crocheting, and watching giant snowflakes fall. The creek steps from the back door was picturesque. This cabin has all the amenities yet maintains the charm of a remote log cabin. The owner couldn't have been easier to work with and we enjoyed visiting with him Sunday morning. The first VRBO property we attempted to book for this trip was very rude and difficult to deal with. By contrast, the owners of this property couldn't have been nicer. We look forward to booking this property again!
This is a place that will bring you back again and again. The worst part is when you have to close the door on the end of your stay. This cabin is clean, exceptionally well-equipped kitchen, laundry facilities and all in western decor that couldn't be more welcoming and comfortable. We have stayed on more than one occasion and have brought our grandkids to take the tour of the wild horses. We had the added bonus of seeing cranes on the drive out. There are clear night skies for evening walks and the most relaxing back porch. And if you wait, the dogs will come for a visit and bring their own sticks to play fetch. Paisley loves to leave a stick by the door so you know she is ready to play. We head over to the nearby cross-country ski trails to ski or snowshoe and are never disappointed at the solitude and beauty. Kandi is always helpful, making sure you lack for nothing. The next trip we hope to experience the trail there on the ranch. We always cook in but there are a couple good places to eat within a few miles in Centennial or Albany and the ice cream at the local stop in Centennial is the best, according to my grandson.
My wife and I really enjoy the outdoors, especially anywhere in the western part of the US. We found the Deerwood Station website, then came to VRBO to obtain reviews. As a result, we booked the cabin from 8/25/2013 until 9/4/2013. We were not disappointed in the least. Not only is the cabin situated in a quiet part of the ranch, there is a (what we call a creek) (they call a river) in the back yard. On our first day, we were given a tour of the wild horses the ranch has provided a home for and shown the extent of the 5,000 plus acres. One cannot imagine the open space until you have been there. There are pronghorn, cattle, horses, deer with yearlings, an occasional moose (we didn't see him) and birds, lots of birds on the property. Every day we traveled to the Snowy Range Mountains and hiked several of the various trails where we did see moose, pika, long-tailed weasels and marmots. The cabin has everything you need for your stay. Kitchen is fully equipped including a dish washer! We did not use the Dish TV system, after all, we were there to relax and enjoy WY. The back porch (deck) is the highlight of the cabin and has two slated open skylights, a picnic table, comfortable chairs, couch and coffee table. I would say you cannot go wrong renting this cabin. The place was tidy, neat and clean when we arrived, so we tried hard to return the favor when we left. Last but not least, the owners were friendly and helpful during our stay.
Ranch-Touren sind auf Anfrage erhältlich. Wir haben fast 5.000 Morgen Berg / Farm Grundstück, das wir wirklich lieben, mit Leuten zu teilen. Nach der Führung unserer Gäste sind frei erkunden die Ranch selbst. Die Deerwood Ranch ist ein Wild Horse Eco-Sanctuary. Die wilden Pferde auf der Ranch und zu verschiedenen Zeiten des Jahres befindet, können innerhalb von Sichtbereich der Kabine sein. Wenn nicht von der Kabine aus sichtbar sind, können sie auf einer geführten Tour gegen Aufpreis zu sehen.
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Our rates are $200 per night per two people. An additional $20 per person for each additional person, per night. Our county lodging tax is 10%, that will be added on to the balance. Two night minimum stay. A 50% non-refundable deposit is required and will be collected at the time of reservation.
Payment is expected at the time of stay. A 50% non-refundable down payment will hold the reservation. We accept cash, check and credit cards.

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The Chief Director for the Ministry of Finance, Madam Eva Mends, has given assurance that the Ministry will partner with state institutions to deliver on their mandates.
She noted that about 700 staff of the Ministry of Finance devote their time and effort to ensure that the economy is on track, adding that the Ministry would complement this by associating with institutions that are working to put the economy back on track.
Madam Mends said this when a delegation from the Information Services Department (ISD) paid a courtesy call on her last Friday in Accra.
She commended the ISD for leaving up to its mandate over the years and assured the management of the government’s support for the ongoing retooling of the Department.
She urged ISD to partner with the Ministry’s Public Relations Unit to develop and implement communications programmes to maintain and sustain a positive image for the government.
Priscilla Osei-Wusu Nimako, ISD

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Axa slashes widow's pension
A WIDOW has been left with a tiny pension - thanks to a combination of appalling investment performance and ridiculous scheme rules applied by French-owned insurer Axa.
And Brenda Ersanilli wants to warn other women that the same could happen to them if their husbands have old-style pension policies from insurance companies and have the misfortune to die before retirement.
This is because, under the scheme rules, the insurer has only to return the husband's original investment with no interest, no matter how long the policy has been with them.
As a result, the insurer will be thousands of pounds better off - while the widow will be left with a tiny pension. And there's nothing she can do about it.
Mrs Ersanilli, 64, has been left with a cash sum of just £5,523.12 - the original amount that went into the policy 20 years ago when her husband Robert took the pension out with Sun Life, now Axa Sun Life.
Brenda also receives a pension of just £1,117.80 a year, the guaranteed amount the company has to pay her as an alternative to Robert's state earnings-related pension benefit.
Mother-of-three Brenda, from Ruislip, Middlesex, says: 'The amount we originally expected disappeared like snow in the desert.
'Losing my husband has been the most devastating event of our lives for me and my family. But it appears to be a trigger for Axa to enjoy a healthy policy bonanza.'
All seemed rosy in 1985 when Robert, a mechanical engineer, decided to transfer his nine years of pensions savings of £5,523.12 - worth more than £11,000 in today's money - out of his company scheme when he was made redundant. At the time, projections showed the pension pot should grow to £76,709 and pay an estimated pension of £9,985 a year when Robert reached 65.
But low interest rates and poor investment performance - last year the policy paid out no bonus - coupled with high charges cut these expectations dramatically.
Had he lived until retirement, Robert's fund would have been worth just £38,745.07. But even this lower figure was slashed by £9,483.54 to £29,261.53 following his sudden death from a brain tumour in January at the age of 62, just 30 months before his retirement date.
Had his money been in a tracker fund following average share prices with Legal & General, it would have grown to £43,909 after charges.
And worse, under the terms of the contract, Axa is only obliged to spend £24,710 to deliver its end of the contract for Mrs Ersanilli, pocketing the difference of £4,551.53. This £24,710 will give the £5,523 and buy an annuity to pay the £1,117.80 annual pension.
These policies, known as Section 32 plans and run by insurance companies, are specifically designed for those who want to transfer their pension benefits they have built up with a former employee out of that scheme.
Steve Muir, a spokesman for Axa says: 'This policy is designed to secure pension benefits and not to provide additional death benefits before retirement. With insurance, some people win and some lose.'
Tony Attubato, technical specialist at the Pensions Advisory Service, an independent service which gives free information and guidance on pensions, says: 'This plan was not generous to widows and reflects policies sold at the time.
'Products available now give much more flexibility, but it is still very important to check all the details.'
Since Mrs Ersanilli has complained vigorously, Axa has offered to pay her the £4,551.53 as an ex gratia payment. This is the difference between the £24,710 it paid out and the £29,261.53 which was the value of the fund in January.
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Brand new for 2023! The Vegan Fairs team are returning to Chepstow for the first time since 2018 with an exciting new outdoor market.
Taking place on The High Street right in the town centre, Chepstow Vegan Market will showcase the best vegan products from both local and national independent vegan businesses.
You can expect incredible street food through to indulgent homemade bakes and cakes. We’ll also have a number of non-food items on offer such as ethical fashion brands, cruelty-free skincare, eco-friendly homeware items and much more.
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Recent cyberattacks have network operators across the country asking themselves: “What am I missing?” Industry leaders Calix and Vantage Point Solutions team together to bring you the answers – and practical steps you can take to protect your network and your subscribers. In this webinar, you will learn about typical security vulnerabilities municipality and electric cooperatives must address in the core network, middle-mile, last-mile, and in-home networks, and how to mitigate them.
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Montenegro joined the International action "Let's Light a Candle of Memory!"
On October 9, 2018, Montenegro joined the “Let’s Light a Candle of Memory!” campaign, which is commemorating the victims of Holodomor-Genocide, the press service of the Ukrainian Embassy in Montenegro reports.
Commemorative events were joined by the staff of the Embassy of Ukraine in Montenegro, and the people`s deputies of Ukraine, who are the members of the parliamentary friendship with Montenegro group, headed by Andriy Shipko, and the representatives of the Ukrainian community.
During the action, 85 names of children from the Kyiv region who died from the Holodomor were ead out.
Also, on October 9, the action was held in London.
On September 1, the action “Let`s Light a Candle of Memory!” started at the National Museum “Holodomor Victims Memorial”.
You can follow the campaign, which will last for, 85 days on the page “The 85th anniversary of the Holodomor”.


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A man who called Hales Corners police Feb. 2 to complain about sauce spilling in his to-go bag was told it did not warrant police intervention.
According to the Hales Corners police report:
A man called police at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 2 to ask an officer to respond to Confucius Restaurant, 5394 S. 108th St., because they put his sauce upside-down in his to-go bag and sauce spilled all over his car.
The man was upset because the manager refused to do anything about it when he complained, so he wanted police to go to the restaurant first "before the cops are called on him."
The caller was advised it was a civil matter and did not warrant police intervention.
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Low-income families and individuals will have more access to healthy food through Second Harvest Heartland thanks to a new $250,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), the department announced.
Second Harvest Heartland is one of the nation’s largest food banks and serves 500,000 people a year in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
The department said that the grant will help fund Second Harvest’s Food Security project for people who need hunger relief.
“This grant recognizes the importance of nutritious food for those who need it most,” Human Services Commissioner Emily Piper said. “Helping low-income Minnesotans put healthy food on the table is the right thing to do, and we believe it’s a wise use of our resources.”
The Food Security includes the following services:
- Monthly food boxes for people with diabetes at Allina Health clinics in Cambridge, Coon Rapids, North Branch and West St. Paul.
- Monthly food boxes for people with diabetes and lipid metabolism disorder at CentraCare Family Health Center clinic in St. Cloud, as well as screening and food “prescriptions” through a Prevention Health Desk that provides food assistance and other services.
- An electronic system to identify and recruit families who need food assistance through Hennepin County Medical Center.
The U of M Food Industry Center found that the effect of hunger costs the state of Minnesota $1.6 billion every year in healthcare, hospitalization, medication, education and other costs, including lost productivity at work and in school.
Feeding America has a map that outlines every county in the nation and details the demographics and needs of those who are in need of food. You can click here to see details on Minnesota.
You can also visit the Second Harvest website if you are interested in donating or volunteering.


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Actors Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan explore depths far beyond Gabaldon’s Harlequin characterizations…an erotic and intensely romantic crowd-pleaser.
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