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No More Eye-Gouging, Please
Earlier this month we told you about the man in Italy who stood up during mass and gouged out his eyes right there in front of all his fellow worshipers. Then last weekend, a bull gored Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla through the face and the eye and rendered Padilla blind in that eye.
And now comes the story of a 28-year-old California woman who, the Orange County Register informs us, "reportedly ran naked through a motel, inhaled fumes from a fire extinguisher and attempted to gouge out one of her eyes." Police found her "scratching at one of her eyes so intensely that it was nearly ripped from the socket." She did not succeed in her endeavor, but police found blood on the floor. The authorities say they're not sure if she was trying to kill herself or get high off the fire extinguisher or what, but in any case, scratching at her eyes seems completely unnecessary and is probably something she wouldn't have been doing had someone been there with her.
Aside from this new California case, we've recently read about eye-gougings in Cairo, in Malawi, and on the soccer ("football") fields. Maybe eye-gougings happen every day and we don't hear about them, but the number of high-profile cases in such a short time period has opened our eyes to this problem, and now we feel obligated to address it.
So: Everybody please stop gouging out your eyes. Stop putting your eyes in situations where they might be gouged out for you, by some irate creature or a flying object. And don't—seriously, DON'T!—gouge out other people's eyes. (This applies to you too, horned animals.) These stories are disgusting and horrific and freak out lots of people at a time when many of already have enough worries and fears to overwhelm us. Mutilating other living things is criminal. Mutilating yourself is no better. Sometimes people have mental issues that cause them to mutilate themselves; if you know such a person please do something to help them, if you can, so they don't harm themselves by gouging out their eyes.
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|What Can We Expect from the World Summit?
|Ernest J. Wilson III, Michael L. Best
|pp. iii–v
Research Articles
|Internet Use in Uzbekistan: Developing a Methodology for Tracking Information Technology Implementation Success
|Beth E. Kolko, Carolyn Y. Wei, Jan H. Spyridakis
|pp. 1–19
|"Lift and Shift": Moving the Back Office to India
|Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
|pp. 21–37
|Creating the Legal Framework for Information and Communications Technology Development: The Example of E-Signature Legislation in Emerging Market Economies
|James X. Dempsey
|pp. 39-52
Research Reports
|Diffusion of Innovations as a Theoretical Framework for Telecenters
|Raul Roman
|pp. 53-66
|Information Technologies and International Development: Conceptual Clarity in the Search for Commonality and Diversity
|Catherine L. Mann
|pp. 67-79
|Cross-Sector Information and Communications Technology Funding for Development: What Works, What Does Not, and Why
|Jonathan Peizer
|pp. 81-88
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You can really tell the difference immediately between natually scented Jasmine teas and those sprayed. The real deal is so nice while the sprayed is quite bleh to disgusting.
Is there any way to describe how you can see the difference (For example by how it looks, or how taste? The place where I buy Jasmine Silver Needle - the taste is ok ( although i like Bai Hao without jasmine better ). But neither me , neither my friend who is also fan of white tea - cannot understand wheather it's sprayed or it's natural.


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I've been going over this thought constantly for the past month...
HOW can God claim to be Omnipotent AND Benevolent at the same time? I mean, if he's so all-powerful and well-meaning, why is there hunger, war, disease, crime, and corruption in the world? I asked my mother this, and she went into some ranbling rant about how God is all-powerful and well-meaning simplybecause that's how he is, and I as a human am not meant to understand it yet.
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Thursday 8/6
Miami Art Museum has reinstalled its exhibit "Recent Acquisition" featuring works from the museum's permanent collection. The exhibition includes pieces by local artists Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Pablo Cano as well as such artists as Emilio Perez and Marucha. Ends Oct. 11. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 375-3000 or www.miamiartmuseum.org.
The Bass Museum hosts the exhibit "The Endless Renaissance." The collection, which brings historical works from the Bass Museum of Art together with contemporary works borrowed from local and national collections, shows what contemporary art and art of the Renaissance have in common. Ends Aug. 18. Bass Museum, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 673-7530 or www.bassmuseum.org.
The Jewish Museum of Florida hosts Marilyn Cohen's collage exhibit "Capturing Memories." She creates an entire universe from tiny scraps of historical information while highlighting her subjects' mood, character, emotion and stature. Ends Oct. 9. Jewish Museum of Florida, 311 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 672-5044 or www.jewishmuseum.com.
"Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami" explores the impact of African-Americans, Africans, black Caribs and black Hispanics on Miami through historic photographs, oral histories, memorabilia, film and artifacts related to black pioneers, families, laborers, communities and organizations spanning the 100-year history of black migration to Miami. Ends Jan. 24. Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 101 W Flagler, Miami. Details: (305) 375-1657 or www.hmsf.org.
"NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith," organized by the Menil Collection and PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address the use of rituals in the artistic process and the implications of spirituality in contemporary art. Ends Sept. 13. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 375-3000 or www.miamiartmusem.org.
Venezuelan artist Nela Ochoa's multimedia exhibit "Genetic Portraits" combines video art, sculpture and performance to explore the genetic code of the human body. Ends Sept. 6. Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th St., Sweetwater. Details: (305) 348-2890 or www.frostartmuseum.org.
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the group exhibition "Convention," which examines the effects and roles of conventions, festivals and other social and professional gatherings through the use of performances, workshops, site-specific installations and video projects. Ends Sept. 13. Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami. Details: (305) 893-6211 or www.mocanomi.org.
The Lowe Museum of Art presents "Through the Lens." The exhibition features 100 photos from the museum's collection of more than 1,000. The collection spans the development of the art form from its earliest years to the present day, with genres including early travel, landscapes, international modernism, the world of celebrity and more. Ends Oct. 4. 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. Details: (305) 284-3535 or www.lowemuseum.org.
The Bass Museum of Art will open a collection of Renaissance and Baroque artwork from its permanent collection. The museum's collection spans work from the last 500 years and this exhibition will feature 16th-century tapestries as well as pieces that were once owned by King Henry VIII. Ends Sept. 13. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 673-7530 or www.bassmuseum.org.
The Americas Collection hosts the opening of "BODY of Works: Capturing the Human Figure." Ends Aug 31. The Americas Collection, 214 Andalusia Ave., Coral Gables. Details: (305) 446-5578 or www.americascollection.com.
Cernuda Arte gallery, along with the Rudman family of the Dominican Republic, has acquired and will display the iconic Cuban painting "Fuego en el Batey" by modern artist Mario Carreño. The painting, purchased for more than $2 million, was created in 1943 and was thought to be lost until discovered in the home of a New York City collector. Ends Aug. 15. Cernuda Arte, 3155 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables. Details: (305) 461-1050.
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University offers "Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear." The collection of swimsuits, bathing caps, accessories, illustrations and promotional materials explores the role fashion and design played in shaping conceptions of glamour and health through an examination of innovations in swimwear design. Ends Oct. 11. Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: www.wolfsonian.org.


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As the name implies, this is my first Pygame project. Made out of 100% concentrated boredom. When I made this game, I was more focused on learning the language than good style or how to distribute the program. The code is some really sloppy stuff, and the README isn't particularly helpful. I plan on using this program as my personal sandbox to learn new Pygame features, so if anyone sees any mistakes at this point, I'd appreciate advice/critique of any kind. It's an honor to be here! I really hope to learn a lot!
Version 0.3's here already! Normally I don't like to upload files so quickly, but I made a huge addition to the game. We can now load variable size maps (rather than everything being 10x10 tiles) and we've got a nice camera that follows the alien without being a pain. I also implemented Andy's idea and made it possible to destroy scientists (stick figures) by pushing them between a red block and the wall. Note that this update makes old map files obsolete. Very sorry about that. I hope you find the upgrades worth it!
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An Oxford Massachusetts lawyer is "seriously considering" a run for the US Senate seat recently vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry. Jennie Caissie is a Republican member of the Governor's Council, an elected body which vets judicial and other appointees. Caissie says the two Democrats in the race – Congressman Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch – have spent too much time on Capitol Hill.
"You got two guys running on the Democratic side who've been in DC close to 50 years. I think people want some real people I DC in terms of representing real middle class issues."
Caissie describes herself as a fiscal conservative and social moderate. She says her Worcester County roots would serve her well in a statewide race. Other potential GOP candidates include Representative Daniel Winslow, a western Massachusetts native who lives now in Norfolk, Cohassett businessman Gabriel Gomez, and Senate Minority leader Bruce Tarr.


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After months of contentious negotiations, Congress approved a last-minute debt-limit compromise Monday and Tuesday that prevented the federal government from fiscal default – though South Carolina Republicans were not among those voting yes.
The state's sole Democrat, however, voted for the bill, which was based on negotiations between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders over the weekend.
INDIAN LAND – Sun City Carolina Lakes resident says he is frustrated and getting nowhere fast trying to find someone to help him with flooding issues on his property and the street in front of his home.
Larry Campbell of Yosemite Way lives in an area of the immense active adult community that is still under development. His home is located near several vacant properties and home sites under construction.
The Diabetes Education Clinic at the University of South Carolina Lancaster recently hosted Camp CLAD (Children Learning About Diabetes), a summer day camp for children with Type 1 diabetes and their siblings.
The free camp was July 18-20 at USCL's Carole Ray Dowling Health Services Center and the Gregory Health and Wellness Center.
by MaryBeth Rowell/For The Lancaster News
James Pringle has been working diligently over the last several years on a project that's dear to his heart.
The Lancaster resident said the county has more homeless people than have been reported in official studies – and he's looking to do his part to curb those numbers.
Pringle wants to open a transitional shelter for local single men who have been evicted or otherwise displaced. The shelter will be known as the Robert J. Osborne Compassion Project.
A man was attacked with a screwdriver as he walked home from work Tuesday evening, and police are still searching for the assailant.
Lancaster police officers were called to the Springs Memorial Hospital emergency room shortly after 5 p.m. about a stabbing victim.
Hospital staff told officers a man walked into the ER with a stab wound in his back, according to a police department incident report.
Lancaster County was spared as the U.S. Postal Service announced last week it is looking to close thousands of post offices, mostly in rural areas.
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But the residents of Fort Lawn, Heath Springs and Van Wyck have been arguing for years that the post office is central to their small communities.
Investigators closed the book on two burglary cases last week with the arrest of two people at a Lancaster home.
John Benjamin Bernard Davis, 25, 2143 Pressly Road, Chester, and Lakia Laquanda Watts, 23, 603 Cunningham Road, Lancaster, were both arrested July 29 in connection with burglaries reported at homes on South Hughes and South French streets.
Davis was charged with two counts of first-degree burglary, while Watts was charged with accessory to burglary after the fact.
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Database Technology for Large Scale Data
posted 6 years ago in Dev Platform category by Park Kieun
What do we know about the Database Technology used today for Large Scale Data?
Vast variety of services around the world are accessible by users anywhere at any point of time, thus accelerating the increase of the amount of processed data in a very short period of time. For example, bus route finder applications for Smartphones are overwhelmed by data-traffic as the number of Smartphone users rises. In addition, the rapidly evolving Web service technologies challenge the traditional theories and approaches to databases. Overall efficiency and flexibility have become more crucial than the individual process result between a transaction and a record, as these days it is not just a couple of DB servers that access the SAN storage.
Many argue that the traditional database theories and the current RDBMS are inappropriate for handling large-scale data (more commonly known as big data). Michael Stonebraker, a database guru, points out such facts in The End of Architectural Era, a paper that he wrote for The VLDM Journal in 2007. In the paper, he claims that relational DBMS technology, which began to flourish in late '70s and reached its height in late '80s, was a project to develop a universal Database Management System (DBMS) that could be used in any field for any application, including the fields of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Database Warehousing (DW), science and the Web, but it is perhaps time to leave this 25-years-old 'one size fits all' approach and its dusty code, and come up with a new approach that is needed to handle the large-scale data.
In the past 5 years many specialized DBMSs have been introduced, as well as database systems with new storage schemes [1]. These can be categorized by the type of the applied technology. In this article we will explain the four most popular types of database systems currently used by top corporations like Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Misrosoft, Amazon, etc.
- Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or parallel DBMS – A system that parallelizes the query execution of a DBMS, and splits queries and allocates them to multiple DBMS nodes in order to process massive amounts of data concurrently.
- Column-oriented database – A system that stores the values in the same field as a column, as opposed to the conventional ow method that stores them as individual records.
- Streaming processing (ESP or CEP) – A system that processes a constant data (or events) stream, or a concept in which the content of a database is continuously changing over time.
- Key-value storage (with MapReduce programming model) – A storage system that focuses on enhancing the performance when reading a single record by adopting the key-value data model, which is simpler than the relational data model.
RDBMS Characteristics
Before we go on, let's see the characteristics of the current relational database management systems. RDBMS is characterized as:
- Has relational data model – All data is shown in tables, and its correlation can be expressed.
- Uses SQL – Has advanced technologies in optimizing queries, as it is a declarative language.
- Disk-based storage - Records are stored in consecutive disk blocks. Implements B-tree, a disk-based indexing method.
- Concurrency control and log-based recovery – Ensure integrity while allowing multiple accesses to a single piece of data simultaneously, by means of the lock or multi-version.
Universal DBMSs that pursue the 'one size fits all' approach while satisfying all the characteristics described above are somewhat lacking when compared to systems that specialize in a specific area, such as text processing or Database Warehousing. As they are operated by Web log analyses and BIs that handle massive amounts of data, or through IDCs around the globe, the commercial RDBMS alone – the hero of conventional database technologies – cannot meet the demand of large Web services in which data response speed is crucial. New database technologies are being researched to find ways to analyze logs, amounting to several hundred gigabytes each day, or to allow a user in the U.K. to access a blog (through a Web server) that has been stored (in a DB server) by a user in the US in real time.
Below we explain each of four types of contemporary solutions for large scale data management.
Massive Parallel Processing / Parallel DBMS
As database management systems use a single CPU, they have inadequate processing power to handle data in terabytes at 10,000 TPS. For this reason, many technologies have been introduced to implement 'parallel query processing' on the SMP hardware since the '80s.
For example, the sort and hash join functions are often parallelized because they are some of the most time-consuming operations of a DB.
Another important technique in parallel processing is the pipelining, which parallelizes each step of a series of long and complex SQL queries. Parallelization is widely used in data analysis such as BI. Such parallel DBMS technology has surpassed the single-node SMP hardware and is being advanced to the massively parallel database system, which is based on clusters in the 'shared-nothing' structure.
For example, the 6.5 petabyte-scale DW database of Ebay or the Everest Architecture of Yahoo for 10 petabyte-scale data analysis are based on the MPP structure and technologies.
Other examples of MPP DBMS are Greenplum and Aster Data, both of which are developed by using PostgreSQL, an open-source DBMS. The Greenplum system has an advantage in the DW market; it gained popularity when it was adopted by eBay [2]. Both Greenplum and Aster Data process massive amounts of data with parallel clusters, while utilizing existing tools such as the relative data model and SQL. In these systems, the data is properly distributed (partitioned or shared) to each DB node and the data analysis SQL is executed at each node in parallel.
It is similar to the MapReduce programming model, which has been frequently used as of late. Both Greenplum and Aster Data provide a feature of combining SQL and MapReduce. The following is a description of the SQL used by Greenplum and the manner in which it is processed.
Each node in a DB executes SQL for the local data (similar to what happens in the mapping phase) and then merges the results in sequence. This is possible because the data is separated by condition (similar to what happens in the reducing phase).
The MapReduce method [3] announced by Google is one of the technologies used for analyzing massive amounts of data such as MPP or parallel DBMS. Hadoop is an implementation of the framework that uses the MapReduce method in Yahoo. The following table shows the comparison of a parallel database and the Hadoop system.
|Parallel Database
|Hadoop (MapReduce)
|Designed for structured relational data
|Designed for unstructured data
|Query Interface
|MapReduce programs Java, C++, Script, SQL-like
|Query Execution
|Pipelines result between operators
|Materialized results between Map and Reduce phrase
|Job Granularity
|Entire query
|Determined by data storage block size (Runtime scheduler)
|High performance (Query on structured data)
|Scalability (thousands of nodes)
HadoopDB is one of the noteworthy open-source projects that combine Hadoop and RDBMS. HadoopDB is based on SQL and the Hadoop system, and uses RDBMS, whereas Greenplum or Aster Data with MapReduce use HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). While HadoopDB adds the SQL functions on top of the MapReduce engine, Aster Data uses the MapReduce functions inside an SQL query, a method called 'In-Database MapReduce.' To be more precise, HadoopDB uses the functions provided by Hive, a scripting engine developed by Facebook that can execute pseudo-SQL queries in the HDFS/Hadoop system, while using an RDBMS file, instead of an HDFS file, to execute the map function.
The following is an example of an SQL/MR used by Aster Data. In the example, the sessionize() MR function is implemented with Java and then used for an SQL query.
The SCOPE project, announced by Microsoft, implements a MapReduce process such as Hadoop in the Windows and .NET environment.
Column-Oriented Databases
Column-oriented DBMS is a system that stores data in a sequence of columns, instead of rows. For your reference, the RDBMS storage system [4] stores and manages the rows of the table (or records) as shown in the figure below.
In this structure, several records are stored in a single disk page.
The column-store stores the identical column values found in a table in succession,and manages them. A file is created for each column, and the identical values found in a column are stored in a disk page in sequence.
The characteristics of row store and column store listed in the following table show that the latter is more suitable for the application of a massive database in which most operations involve data reading. However, column store is unsuitable when frequent writing is required. It is also inefficient when there are several columns to be processed, as the size of an intermediate result in a query is larger than that of row store, and more steps are involved when compared to row store. These shortcomings are due to the fact that column store processes one column at a time even when there are several conditions. The following table shows a comparison of Row Store and Column Store.
|Row Store
|Column Store
|Suitable for adding or deleting records.
|Has an advantage in reading related data.
|Reads unnecessary (unused) column values causing disk I/O.
|Several entries need to be modified to change a record causing disk I/O.
|Relatively low record-level compression rate.
|Compression rate is good as the columns of a domain can share the same value.
|Has an advantage in performing random access because indexes are configured at record-level (such as B+- trees).
|Has an advantage in performing range quries.
To overcome these drawbacks, a variety of methods are used, including:
The figure below illustrates the SQL execution process in column store.
In conclusion, column store and row store are complementary, and neither is superior to the other. For this reason, they are often used in conjunction with each other. The write of data is executed in a row store DBMS. When a certain amount of data is collected, that data is moved to column store (after data compression and other tasks are executed) for read-heavy analysis or other tasks.
Stream Processing / ESP or CEP
Stream processing, event stream processing, and complex event processing derived from an effort to process dynamic data in a database. The StreamSQL standard, an extension of SQL, has been proposed for this purpose. One of the forerunners is Truviso, who came up with the 'continuous analysis' concept with the support of the snapshot query and continuous query features [7]. Other commonly-used data processing techniques adopt the 'store-first-query-later' method, in which an external event is converted and stored in a database and then a query is executed.
When SQL processes a table with a fixed number of records, StreamSQL processes a table at which infinite tuples are generated. That is, not all data is present in a table at any given time. The following figure illustrates the system architecture of Aurora, the forerunner of what is now StreamSQL.
It has become a common practice to apply the concept of stream processing to Web services. In normal operation of a Web service, the DB is rarely modified, as the service merely presents prepared content in the DB or queries the UCC data that already exist in it.
(See the figure above) However, it is not uncommon to create a Web service with a system that engages in data I/O process even before all the input data is given, as it is preferable to handle a massive amount of data in real time when searching or analyzing logs.
(See the second figure below) Stream processing will become a necessity even for Web services, as is already the case in web services in which a sensor device generates a never-ending stream of data, or Smartphones, in which multiple user-content providers create content data for other user-consumers.
Key-Value Store / MapReduce
The byword of the recent key-value stores is either the BigTable from Google or the Dynamo (simpleDB) from Amazon. Key-value store is an old storage system that predates RDBMS. For example, the DBM library of UNIX or more advanced BerkleyDB came out quite some time ago, and some would go as far as to consider them the precursors of RDBMS. The most recent entry in this field is Tokyo Cabinet, a new iteration of the DBM library of UNIX.
It is my opinion that the newer key-value stores differ from the traditional ones in that they are based on DFS. BigTable, Dynamo, and Yahoo's PNUT also work in the distributed environment. As the size of processed data increased, it exceeded the performance and capacity of single-server systems or storage systems similar to the SAN system. The answer to this situation was distribution storage using a large number of servers which is more service-ready and cost-effective, and has a better work load-distribution capacity than RDBMS. What ultimately born was the distributed key-value store in the form of an extendable hash, which is used for processing Web services or single data processes at the performance level of the single key-value pair.
However, as the characteristics of the key-value store prevent it from utilizing well-developed declarative queries such as SQL, a programming model called MapReduce was introduced to circumvent this limitation. It becomes clear, when one looks into Amazon's Dynamo (simpleDB) or Yahoo's PNUT, that the key-value store has an architecture suitable for catering cloud DB services that are used for developing Web services. This is the case because the key-value store can be operated by using only basic functions such as Get/Set, for most of the actions involve single value retrieval, and that it is convenient to provide interfaces by using Web service protocols such as HTTP or REST. The key-value store is extremely useful when ease of operation, good performance, scalability and availability are crucial. It is a database technology for areas where RDBMS cannot cover.
It must be noted as well that much effort has been invested in a variety of disciplines to enhance the performance of databases so that they can meet the ever-growing demand. However, this effort does not yet translated into the phasing-out of commercial open source RDBMSs, such as Oracle or MySQL, as they are being widely used in more areas than ever before. On the contrary, many RDBMS-based solutions are being suggested. Still, the fact remains that many of the key-value stores such as Google's BigTable, Amazon's Dynamo, BerkleyDB and Tokyo Cabinet, and distributed key-value stores in particular, are found useful in many new ways.
- There are many other successful cases of open-source or commercialization that are past the research phase as well. Also, it is known that numerous large corporations develop and use in-house systems. However, these in-house systems can hardly challenge Oracle, the most popular commercial RBDMS of today.
- According to the information provided by Greenplum, it processes about 17 trillion records (6.5 petabyte in size, 150 billion new records are inserted every day) with 96 DB nodes.
- It would be more appropriate to consider MapReduce as a type of programming model, or a pattern and a framework rather than a new technology or system. When the paper was patented, the originality of MapReduce's algorithm was challenged, as it looked the same as the decades-old divide & conquer algorithm.
- A DBMS consists of a storage system and a query processor. The storage system has features such as transaction logging and concurrency control to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of its file structure.
- A technique that reduces physical data-read costs through materialization, in which a list of the positions of the values passes to the next process, rather than creating individual intermediate result when processing queries.
- Also known as the vector-ized processing.
- Truviso also uses an expanded PostgreSQL, an open-source DBMS.
By Park Kieun, the CUBRID Cluster Architect.
Massive Parallel Processing / Parallel DBMS
- Aster nCluster In-Database MapReduce, Aster Data Systems.
- SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions, Eric Friedman (Aster Data), VLDB 2009.
- Greenplum DW Appliance: Technical View, Sun.
- Sun Oracle Exadata and Database Machine Overview, Oracle, 2009.
- MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data, Jeffrey Cohen (Greenplum), VLDB 2009.
- HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads, Azza Abouzeid (Yale), VLDB 2009.
- Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerace in a Shared-Nothing Distributed Database, Christopher Tang (MIT), http://www.dbms2.com.
- Parallel Database Systems: The Future of Database Processing or a Passing Fad?, David J. DeWitt (UW), 1991.
- Parallel Database Systems: The Furture of High Performance Database Processing, David J. DeWitt (UW), 1992.
- Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework, Ashish Thusoo (Facebook), VLDB 2009.
- HIVE Data warehousing using Hadoop, Facebook Data Team.
Column-Oriented Databases
- C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS, Mike Stonebraker (MIT), VLDB 2005.
- Column-Oriented Database Systems, VLDB 2009 Tutorial.
- Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?, Daniel J. Abadi (Yale) , SIGMOD 2008.
- A Comparison of C-Store and Row-Store in a Common Framework, Alan Halverson (UW), VLDB 2006.
- Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth, Allison L. Holloway (UW), VLDB 2008.
- Integrating Compression and Execution in Column Oriented Database Systems, Daniel J. Abadi (MIT), SIGMOD 2006.
- Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems, Daniel J. Abadi (MIT), MIT 2008.
- Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases, Stavros Harizopoulos (MIT), VLDB 2006.
- Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct, Stefan Manegold (CWI), VLDB 2009.
- MonetDB/SQL Meets SkyServer: the Challenges of a Scientific Database, M. Ivanova (CWI), SSDBM 2007.
- Sybase IQ, An Evaluation paper by Bloor Research, 2006.
- The Vertica® Analytic Database Technical Overview White Paper, Vertica Systems Inc, 2008.
Key-Value Store / MapReduce
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Google, OSDI 2004.
- BigTable: A Distributed Storage System for Structued Data, Google, OSDI 2006.
- Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework, Ashish Thusoo (Facebook), VLDB 2009.
- HIVE data warehousing using Hadoop, Facebook Data Team.
- Hadoop Architecure and its Usage at Facebook, Dhruba Borthakur (Apache), 2009.
- Data Intensive Super Computing, Randal E. Bryant (CMU).
- Cloud Architecture, Jinesh Varia (Amazon Web Services).
- GAIA & Neptune, Joon Kim.
- Hadoop과 오픈소스 소프트웨어를 이용한 비지니스 인텔리전스 플랫폼 구축, 김영우 (다음 커뮤니케이션).
- Stream Processing.
- Toward a Streaming SQL Standard, Namit Jain (Oracle), VLDB 2008.
- Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics, Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), 2009.
- Aurora: A New Model and Architecture for Data Stream Management, Daniel J. Abadi (Brandeis University), VLDB 2003.
- Continuous Analytics technical whitepaper, Truviso, 2010.
- Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions, Jeff Dean (Google).
- Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems, Jeff Dean (Google), WSDM 2009.
- A Large Scale Search Engine System in 2010, Shihua Ming (Yanbian), 2010.
- PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform, Brian F. Cooper, (Yahoo! Research), VLDB 2008.
- Sherpa: Cloud Computing of the Third Kind, Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo! Research and Platform Engineering Team).
- PNUTS - Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage, http://research.yahoo.com/project/212.
- Sherpa: Hosted Data Serving | Yahoo! Research, http://research.yahoo.com/node/2139.
- http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sqlazure.
- Overview of Microsoft SQL Azure Database, Microsoft, 2009.
- Simiarities and Differences of SQL Azure and SQL Server, Microsoft, 2009.
- Introducing the windows azure platform, David Chappell, 2009.
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Local woman brings cancer boot camp to area
Summer program under way at West Wood Fitness
Down, One. Down, Two. Down, Three.
Colleen Sonderman couldn't believe her eyes and ears - participants at a boot camp counting military style for pushups, pullups and situps in the heat of Tucson, Ariz., a few years ago. But these individuals weren't military members.
They were members of another sorority who were combating another enemy: cancer.
It was Anita Kellman's Beat Cancer Boot Camp, a fitness-based support program created to help cancer survivors stay active during cancer treatment and beyond.
"I just watched them do pushups longer than I could ever (do them), and I was like, 'Wow,' " said Sonderman, a physical therapist with a specialty in breast cancer rehabilitation at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, who was watching her sister-in-law, a breast cancer survivor, excel in the program. "When I saw that, I thought this was something we needed to have here."
So she made it happen.
Sonderman, a Brookfield resident, received a grant from Waukesha Memorial and partnered with the West Wood Health and Fitness Center in Pewaukee. And now, after months of planning, the boot camp has begun.
The classes run every Wednesday, rain or shine, through Aug. 8 at West Wood.
Fifty people, mostly from Waukesha County, are signed up for the summer session.
Many of these individuals were at the Beat Cancer Boot Camp Kickoff on June 2, when they got a glimpse at what boot camp would be like.
Sonderman relays to her patients that regular exercise can help relieve stress, anxiety and some of the side effects common to cancer treatment, such as nausea and fatigue.
"This is something you can proactively do to fight the cancer," Sonderman said. "Depression is very high, especially when going through chemotherapy, where you feel so sick that you just want to lay around.
"But research shows exercise makes you feel better and helps your immune system. I see it every day."
So does Kellman, who started the Beat Cancer Boot Camp in 2004.
Kellman has worked in the medical field for more than 30 years, but when she met a woman who recently had been diagnosed with breast cancer at an outdoor Navy Seals-style boot camp, she became inspired. She, in turn, adapted the Navy Seals' techniques to start her own support group centered on physical fitness.
"I think it becomes a natural support group," Sonderman said. "Just the idea that they can fight this battle of cancer and that they don't have to fight it alone."
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My 10-year old, Craig, has a nasty case of bronchitis; the doctor said it was on the verge of turning into pneumonia. He's been home sick from school for the past two days, feeling awful.
Yesterday, I caught myself starting to feel depressed. I saw my poor little guy lying on the couch like a limp rag, and I felt helpless. Plus, I felt sorry for myself since I was sick all last week, my older son was sick, and now I have another sick kid to take care of, so I haven't gotten any work done in awhile.
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The TERA site has been updated with a new post from En Masse Entertainment Producer Chris Hager. In it, Hager lays out some of the big changes in store for TERA as the fall progresses. He hints at small-scale live events, weekend "TERA-wide" events and seasonal activities as well as the continued addition of new content to the game.
Content? We've got that coming too! Crafting quests are coming back next week, the long-awaited berserker patch will arrive shortly after that, and we're rebalancing instances and adding new achievements. We're also making significant changes to enchanting based on player feedback—changes we'll roll out over the course of a few builds later this fall (more specifics on this as we confirm changes). Another large content update (similar in size to Argon Queen) is in the works, but if I go into any more detail, I may not make it back for the next producer letter.
Read the full letter on the TERA site.
Just waiting for the day when Frogster finally gives up on the EU version and hands it over to En Masse. We really got the short straw on this one.
I just don't know why BlueHole chose Frogster for the EU, surely they would have researched a little before picking this simply awful company.
Heh...I thought from the title the article was going to discuss the closing of TERA.
Got to work on my negativity more.
Glad to hear they are continuing to improve and update the title. Who knows, one day I might give it another shot.
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Originally posted by Ozmodan
Well unless they are intending to include the f2p changes, they are wasting everyone's time. The game is just not worth a subscription, period.
Talk for yourself...
Originally posted by Czanrei
I don't consider temporary events as content. And more content is exactly what Tera needs. Right now it is only a eye-candy hack and slash.
....with what could be considered the best combat system in any MMO... which makes it all the rougher.
Tera has a lot of promise. However, I think it'll be stunted mostly because EME isn't responsible for its core development (bluehole is).
I have a feeling large updates will be few and far between unfortunately.
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Id be back if getting end game loot wasnt an insane grind multiplied by triple random.
Theres literally a ton of ways that En Masse could improve Tera but they cant do anything.
Originally posted by Ozmodan
Well unless they are intending to include the f2p changes, they are wasting everyone's time. The game is just not worth a subscription, period.
Totally agree
im playing Tera and i very like it but its korean game that mean grind/farm, enchant ,fail ,repeat that isnt the gameplay i was looking for but i enjoy the game untill got very bored of grind/farm/fail ><
the arqon queen can be nice.... if i can get a grpe to do it. server merge is ok not more. battleground are the worse pvp i ever saw (*need to do battleground to get best pve accesory stuff QQ) well tera is going down in population maybe in 3month this game was definetly died. i hope new non-korean mmo can learn from the aim system of tera cause they make the gameplay fun
More cash-shop, teases, and a surprise returned of lost crafting will not do much to improve the sinking ship this game is headed towards (and half-way there). They've already added Free-To-Play GM-Events that plenty MMO's without a subscription have. The game been handled around poorly by both publishers(including the now merged GameForge aka Frogster) and majority of players have left.
The game is simply not worth the subscriptions or impulse-buy cash-shops of the same aim and hit combat that can be found on older MMO's such as Dungeon and Dragons, Vindictus, or Dragon-Nest or Monster-Hunter.
Will defiantly be looking foward towards Blade and Soul, whom is actively communicating with their fans right now and promises that they will not be censoring their product(or insulting potential customers) but providing the best experiences and content for their players(and no boring grind-fests).
Tera may get a bit content here or there but ultimately it's being handled by the same guys who chose to selectively ignore their players since launch in a now last-minute save (or future F2P set-up).


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Ahoy, Splotters! One of the biggest movie series of all time, Pirates of the Caribbean, will release its 4th movie, On Stranger Tides (rated PG-13) starring Johnny Depp. He plays Captain Jack Sparrow (one of the best movie roles of all time!). He's captured by a ruthless con artist, Angelica (played by Penelope Cruz) and forced to sail with her and the pirate, Blackbeard and his crew of zombies. They are searching for the Fountain of Youth, and have all kinds of crazy adventures along the way.
We've got the scoop straight from mega-superstar producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and actors Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (Syrena) and Sam Claflin (Philip). Check out these behind-the-scenes interviews:
Q: How involved are you in shaping the story?
Jerry: I'm in there when the cards go up on the board. When the writers start formulating ideas, they will pitch them to me. I'll be involved and we will throw ideas around.
Q: Does Johnny Depp have input into the story as well?
Jerry: Absolutely. We will come up with a form of verbal outline, where we will pitch the story, and we will bring him in on it, and he will say, "No, I'm not sure about this," or "Why don't we do this?" He came up with the Philip character in the movie; it's really his idea to make him a missionary. So you know, he comes up with interesting ideas that we use.
Ratha: Although I read that when the first movie came out, studio executives thought he was basically crazy! His acting was not what was they planned for, but then it turned into a signature of the movie.
Q: What aspects of the film are you personally excited about?
Jerry: There's a mermaid attack, which is spectacular. There's The Fountain of Youth at the end of the picture, which is a big sequence. And I think bringing Captain Jack to London is so much fun—the fish out of water aspect of the pirate and the aristocracy, and the king.
Q: These films have gotten successively bigger and bigger and bigger. Do you ask yourself, "How will we top what we've done before?"
Jerry: No, it's all about story and your characters. And even though Disney cut the budget, it's still a huge movie. In Greenwich [England] we had 465 extras that had to be dressed, and fed, and in makeup and wardrobe every morning, And they were there for two weeks. That's a lot of people, and we are making a big, epic movie.
Ratha: Pretty cool, considering it all started because of a theme park ride. Pirates of the Caribbean was originally a ride at Disneyland; then it inspired the movie!
Q: Are you planning a fifth Pirates movie?
Jerry: We are already working on another story. We at the beginning stages of that.
Ratha: You heard it here, folks!
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey plays the mysterious mermaid, Syrena. Here is what she has to say. . .
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your character and how she fits into the story?
Astrid: She's a mermaid, and she spends a long time with the pirates because they need her. And she has a special relationship with Philip, who is played by Sam Claflin. I'd say she's very interesting because she is a mix between a creature and a human.
Q: Did you spend a lot of the time in the water?
Astrid: Yes, most of the time! I don't really have a physical tail because it's CGI [computer generated]. So I have a special costume—a CGI costume—and it changes depending on what I have to do. It depends on whether I'm completely in the water or only half in the water.
Q: What was it like when you met Johnny Depp for the first time?
Astrid: I remember when I came for an audition and saw the costume room. There were all Johnny Depp's costumes. The wigs, everything. And it was "Wow! That's Captain Jack Sparrow!" And Johnny keeps in character when he's on set as Jack. I've seen lots of Johnny's films – since I was a teenager – so it's wonderful to have the opportunity to work with him!
Finally, here is Sam Claflin who plays Philip, a young, idealistic missionary who gets caught up with the unholy alliance of Captain Jack and Barbossa to find The Fountain of Youth.
Q: How would you describe your character?
Sam: My character is a youthful missionary who is very naive to the ways of the world and how it works. Basically, through the journey to The Fountain of Youth his eyes are opened to reality.
Q: How does Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides compare with the first three films?
Sam: I like to think that this one is actually getting back to basics, in a sense. Philip believes that everything these pirates do is wrong. Then there's the fear that these people could kill me at any moment!
Q: Why do you think they chose you for the role?
Sam: I have no idea why they chose me—I'd love to know myself! I know that there was at least one other boy [up for the role] and it came down to him and me. I'd say we looked quite different, so at the same time, it's either one or the other.
Ratha: Wow – I wonder what made the final decision.
Sam: I actually had a really bad cold when I had my screen test. I was like, "Oh no, nobody is going to want a snotty Philip." But somehow I managed to pull it off. And I'm blessed to be offered the part.
Q: When did you first meet Johnny Depp?
Sam: I met Johnny at the read-through in Hawaii. We had two weeks of prep before we started filming. We all sat in a room around tables and read the script aloud. For the first time, we all heard each other and saw each other.
Ratha: I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for that!
Sam: And so I met Johnny that day and we went out for dinner that evening. Johnny is a really lovely guy – he couldn't be nicer. And obviously, he's a fantastic actor, one of the very best. It's a privilege to be working with him.
Are you guys planning to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides? I'm hoping it is as good as the first one. That was hands down my favorite of the series. Let us know what you think in the Comments below!
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now i deff think obito's body is tobis just because there has been at least one person out of the three man group that goes bad like i said in my orignal theory http://www.mangashare.com/forums/gra...ired-girl.html
OOO NICE SPOILERS.....!!! wo hooo!! gogo jiraya!!! kill em all... u die....then... kishi dies...
If this spoiler is true then Jariya had another team or they were simply under someone else's team, like Naruto calls Kurenai sensei. First of all the guy on the left is dark skinned, weird short dark gray or black hair, and has eyes so small they're just lines so no way is he Pain or Konan. The person in the middle I honestly can't even tell if it's a guy or a girl specially since this is Naruto and there was Haku before. Also he/she has black hair so I doubt he/she is either one of them either. And the last one is obviously Yondaime.
If Jiraiya can turn others into toads I'm sure that Konan can change her hair colour. Also AznDevil raised a good point, they didn't have to be directly under Jiraiya's guidance to be calling him sensei. I don't think that Pein would be from Konoha because he is a Rain nin (As seen from his forehead plate) so it's unlikely that Jiraiya taught Pein, in fact they don't even have to have a teacher-student relationship. They could have met when Jiraiya visited them during his travels searching for Orochimaru.
I hope this fight will be the best fight in Naruto I've ever seen....can't wait for the scanlation.
Anyway; Jiraiya looks confident.
NO GET THIS STRAIGHT ITS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE THAT PEIN WAS UNDER JIRAIYA GOD HE WAS FROM RAIN!!! but anw yea i think jiraiya had another team or something cause the age doesnt jive cause she shd look like naruto's mom if she is really that girl....
Yea that looks suspiciously similar to deidara...but deidara got his ass blown to bits by himself so there is no salvaging of any body...
i think the piercings are a part of a jutsu to control the bodies ..
damn, i can't wait for this chapter ..
lol thats pretty funny....spade closed 2 topics about blue hair (konan) being the girl in picture beside yondaime with jiraiya saying something along the lines its not gunna happen and theres no proof
well im excited....finally get to see jiraiya fighttt