The victory was particularly sweet for the Scot as a highly partisan crowd cheered his transformation from local boy to national hero.

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The school's transformation will see it leave local authority control and be run by educational charity, the Cabot Learning Federation.

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The project calls upon the private sector to take part in the social transformation by providing construction or renovation of the local soccer fields, which will stay in the community long after the cup is over.

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The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local file system to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.

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