Remembered for courage, grace, compassion (13)
 You were the shining star and I applaud you for your courage and grace and compassion. As the stage lights dim, the orchestra plays your song and the seats will be empty soon. But your memory will never fade,'' she said. Afterwards, guests gathered in the sunshine on the chapel's lawns. The scene could have been a garden party, save for the nearby burgundy hearse containing the white coffin and white roses which belonged to a more austere occasion. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday in Sydney at the West Epping Uniting Church at 2pm. Family requested no flowers at either the Perth or Sydney services. Instead, donations can be made to Hope For Children at ww...
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Want to build a business? You need an IT ecosystem. — Cloud Computing News (13)
You also need simplified, cost-effective, real-time access to a wide range of partners and solution providers, otherwise known as your technology ecosystem. This group of providers will be a veritable marketplace of vendors that are proprietary and open source, but whom together create a combination of technologies and services that allow the buyer to mix and match for any solution requirement. The technology ecosystem has always been important. Even in the days when a minority of companies had a single mainframe, you still needed parts, skills, power, data centers, tools, and ideas, etc. But that ecosystem was smaller and moved more slowly. The technology ecosystems of the 60s thro...
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IPL Cricket l Doug Bracewell braces for IPL bids (12)
Brendon McCullum and Doug Bracewell are the two Black Caps to earn new IPL contracts - for dramatically different prices. McCullum was sold to the Kolkata Knight Riders, after a brief biding war with the Rajasthan Royals, for US$900,000 (NZ$1.077 million) at the player auction in Bangalore overnight (NZT). His base price was US$400,000. The Black Caps vice captain played for the Knight Riders between 2008 and 2010, before representing the now-defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala in last year's tournament. Of the other Kiwis among the 144 registered at the auction, only pace bowler Bracewell was snapped up, for his base price of US$50,000 by th...
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