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i'm gonna cry for naruto if he dies
at the end of the movie naruto will still be among the living (or will be among the living AGAIN). otherwise it wouldn't be canon.
the movie looks promising. it's not like i can't wait until next summer (i guess that's when the dvd release will be), it's just a filler (altough movie stories are more interesting than the episodes).
it's probrably one of naruto shadow clones that got stabbed, because he got stabbed twice in the trailer
only movie exclusive characters can die.
i dont see sasuke in this movie like in the other 3 movie that i dont see orochimaru
i think that girl can see the future and she sees naruto died sad sad cry cry
and then she try to stop it
i hope there is a lot of rock lee fights in the 4th movie ,,,,,,, rock lee kick ass and takes names so watch yourself
Its probally something stupid instead of him dieing, like "Naruto DIES!!!!...on the inside".


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Vigneto del Bino Winery is a boutique winery specializing in "Wines grown from local Vines". The winery sits on one acre of a 10 acre property surrounded by 2,300 grapevines. Vigneto del Bino specializes in producing unique wines from grapevines that grow here in Illinois. The winery building encompasses the manufacturing of the wines, a tasting room and gift shop. Relax and shop for gift items; while sampling our crisp and refreshing wine selection.
A unique, contemporary and nostalgic restaurant offering food that is created with heart and soul in a 'from-scratch' kitchen. Serving locally grown products, whenever possible, to create great meal choices. From hamburgers to steak, soup and salad, sandwiches, Friday night fish fry, and Sunday's Build Your Own Bloody Mary Bar, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
Vigneto del Bino Winery is a boutique winery specializing in "Wines grown from local Vines." The winery sits on one acre of a 10 acre property surrounded by 2,300 grapevines. Vigneto del Bino specializes in producing unique wines from grapevines that grow here in Illinois. The winery building encompasses the manufacturing of the wines, a tasting room and gift shop. Relax and shop for gift items; while sampling our crisp and refreshing wine selection.
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Contemporary restaurant that showcases hearty, American cuisine and features rustic-chic decor. The cozy and elegant homespun feel celebrates the rustic American food and design.
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Authentic Irish Pub in the northwest suburbs. The attention to detail has paid off both in its decor and its delicious fare. Enjoy many Irish favorites and live entertainment on the weekends.
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Downtown Arlington Heights Shopping & Entertainment District
Diverse collection of charming local shops and major retailers. Outstanding restaurants, theaters, nightlife, and entertainment, all within walking distance.
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Gatsby's was established in 1973. Interior pieces bring that old town look to Arlington Heights. Gatsby's has found its unique way of incorporating the new with the old, including the addition of 80 plasma TVs for everyone's viewing pleasure. It's a neighborhood "cheers" bar with specials, trivia nights, and beer of the month!
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Help yourself to a wide variety of choices for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And don't forget dessert! Try something new and stick with your favorites, all in the same visit. At Old Country Buffet, there's always something delicious waiting for you.
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Javier's Sabor Mexican is an everyday celebration of fresh food, margaritas, and a large selection of fine tequila. This Mexican restaurant has been around since 1967. Consistency, quality, and generous portions are what keeps everyone coming back. Javier's Sabor Mexicano features four separate dining rooms and a full service bar for your dining pleasure as well as private parties and special events.
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After four years of planning and construction, Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant opened in 2005 in Orland Park, a south suburb of Chicago. The concept was unique. We would create a signature menu with a selection of dishes designed to pair perfectly with our own Cooper's Hawk wines, made in our own private winery. With sophisticated food and exceptional wines, our concept was born. The Cooper's Hawk concept includes four distinct components: an upscale casual dining restaurant, full-service bar, private barrel-aging room, and Napa-style tasting room and retail gift store…all under one roof. Each Cooper's Hawk location is distinctive in layout and décor, but carries the same warmth and elegance that guests have come to expect.
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Harry's of Arlington is a local's favorite bar and restaurant. Located in downtown Arlington Heights it is where fun is had by all! Come on by with family and friends for dinner and one of our many drink options.
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I recently read a nice review article on the topic: Diagnosis and Management of Foreign Bodies in the Skin. Most humans at one time or another will have an experience with a foreign body – splinters, thorns, broken glass, etc.
Physicians see the worst ones. The ones that aren't easily removed or only partially removed.
The history of the injury is always the starting place. It is important to know when (recent, days or weeks ago), where (home, farmyard, ocean, etc), how (sharp object, fist to mouth, blunt object), and if known the possible foreign body (splinter, fish spine, teeth, glass).
Remember fragments of the foreign body can be left in the wound even if you or the patient think it was removed. Check to make sure the "needle" is complete, etc.
It is also important to remember with blunt penetration other materials may be embedded along with the offending agent.
If a nail penetrates both the shoe and the sock, it may also force leather, rubber, or sock material into the foot. A blunt object may push a plug of epidermis deep into the dermis. This traumatic implantation results in an epidermal inclusion cyst.
When assessing the patient remember 4 P's: pain, pulselessness, paresthesia, and pallor.
Pain to palpation over an embedded foreign body can help you locate it, especially when located under the skin but above the muscle layer as is the focus of this article.
Pulselessness and pallor can indicate a vascular injury. Paresthesia can indicate a nerve injury.
The article has a nice section on radiologic evaluation of foreign bodies under the skin which can be very important in localization of the object. Especially important when it's an old injury with healed skin (visualization impossible), infected wound (patient won't allow adequate palpation exam), foreign body deeper than 5 mm, etc.
Diagnostic tests used to determine the location of a foreign body in the skin, include x-ray, computed tomography (CT) scan, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
X-ray -- A plain film should be ordered first if a suspected foreign body is not visible to the eye during the initial exam.
Metal, aluminum, bone, some types of fish spines, teeth, graphite (from pencils), some types of plastics, glass, gravel, stone, wood, and sand are visible on plain x-ray.
Multiple projections can also be used to help estimate the location of the foreign body after placement of radiopaque skin markers, such as paper clips, on the skin at the wound site.
CT Scan may be more sensitive than plain-film x-ray, but they also cost more and have an increased radiation dose.
Ultrasonography is a great tool to use to locate foreign bodies made of wood, plastic, and radiolucent materials that are larger than 4 to 5 mm.
Ultrasonography has a sensitivity of 50% to 90% and may be used to estimate the depth and size of a foreign body, as well as determine its relationship to surrounding anatomic structures.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging should not be used on foreign bodies suspected to be gravel or metal-containing. As with CT scans, this choice can be more expensive and has a higher radiation dose than plain x-rays.
One of, if not the most important thing, to remember in removing foreign bodies is to inspect the removed object and try to assess whether is has been removed entirely rather than leaving part of it.
Otherwise, it's good basic wound care – clean, irrigate, closure, tetanus status, antibiotics or not, etc.
Diagnosis and Management of Foreign Bodies in the Skin; Winland-Brown, Jill E., Allen, Sandra; Advances in Skin & Wound Care. 23(10):471-476, October 2010; doi: 10.1097/01.ASW.0000383220.72147.e2


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FERRON - Bonnie Jean Boren, age 69, passed away Sept. 1, 2012 in Provo, Utah. Bonnie was born May 6, 1943 in Salt Lake City to Walter Oscar and Anna Jacoba Stuurman Sjogren. She married Darrell Boren in Salt Lake City. She enjoyed fishing, camping, and just being a Grandma. Her family was her number one enjoyment.
Bonnie is survived by her children: Boyd (Rose) Nielsen of Riverton, Barry (Stacey) Nielsen of Taylorsville, Barbi Nielsen of South Carolina, Walter Roy Schexnider of Ferron, Holley Boren of Huntington, Tracey Boren of Nebraska, and Chris Boren of Ferron; a sister, Bobbie (Lyle) Anderson of Phoenix, Ariz; a brother, Don (Lisa) Sjogren of St. George; 21 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and one more great-grandchild on the way.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Darrell; parents, Walter and Anna Sjogren; and one grandson, Jonathan Boren.
Graveside services were held Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. at the Ferron City Cemetery. A viewing was held that same day from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Fausett Mortuary (720 North Center Street, Castle Dale). Services were in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Family and friends may sign the guest book and share memories of Bonnie at www.fausettmortuary.com.


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In this video, a mouse with a fiberoptic cable implanted into his brain explores a four-arm maze. The animal has been genetically engineered to express light-sensitive proteins in a specific part of the amygdala, a brain region linked to fear. Mice are naturally afraid of open spaces, and at the beginning of the video, the mouse spends most of his time in one corner of the maze, occasionally dashing out to explore his environment. Turning on the light (as indicated by blue text) activates a specific neural circuit, which appears to make the mouse much braver, continually exploring all the parts of the maze. The video is shown at ten times normal speed.


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Fantasy Hockey Bargains
Jonathan Willis
October 13 2011 03:50PM
The launch of a new hockey season also means the launch of a new fantasy hockey season. For those who like something a little more interactive than hockey pools, Yahoo! Fantasy Hockey is a popular and ever-growing option.
While most teams have already made tweaks, some will still be looking for a little help on the waiver wire or from the free agent pool – so today, we look at some of the best players still available for nothing in 50% or more of Yahoo! Leagues.
First Team
|Tomas Fleischmann
|Andy McDonald
|Ales Hemsky
|Brian Campbell
|Marek Zidlicky
|Michal Neuvirth
|Mike Smith
There's a surprising amount of talent still available in half or more of Yahoo! Leagues. Tomas Fleischmann finished the year on a near point-per-game run with Colorado, and he's picking up heavy ice-time in Florida – and has two points in two games to show for it so far. Andy McDonald generally gets dismissed as a 50-point player, but his true talent level is much higher – in two of the last three seasons he's flirted with the point-per-game mark. Finally, Ales Hemsky's under the radar this year, probably thanks to two consecutive season with major chunks of time lost, but he's also a near point-per-game player. The issue with all three is injuries, but in a system where players can be dropped or added as the year goes along that shouldn't be a major concern.
On defense, Brian Campbell is playing massive minutes for the Panthers – in their first game, he eclipsed the 30:00 mark. Sure, he's overpaid, but he'll play a lot and largely in key situations. Marek Zidlicky's plus/minus is something of a concern, but he's been a reliable offensive option since prior to the lockout and will be relied on more than ever with Minnesota's lack of high-end defenders; it is unconscionable that he's owned in just one of three leagues.
In net, Michal Neuvirth is an intriguing option – Tomas Vokoun has never really been a heavy load goaltender, so even if he remains in the backup role Neuvirth will get minutes, but the possibility exists that he could steal the starting job from Vokoun outright. Mike Smith, meanwhile, is the starter in Phoenix and after allowing six goals in his first game played much better in his second outing. Dave Tippett's defensive system should keep the goals against down even if the Coyotes struggle this season.
Second Team
|Ray Whitney
|Marcus Johansson
|Daniel Alfredsson
|Marc-Andre Bergeron
|Marc-Andre Gragnani
|Tuukka Rask
|Devan Dubnyk
Thirty-nine year old Ray Whitney may seem like an odd name to include on this list, but with Phoenix thinner than ever up front he will keep getting a lot of ice-time – he's hovering around the 20:00 mark through two games and would have had 60 points if he'd been healthy all of last season. Daniel Alfredsson is another aging star, and while his plus/minus won't be great this season it's worth remembering that prior to 2010-11 he'd been a 70-point player or better for nine straight years. Marcus Johansson is something else entirely, a real gamble; the 21-year old spent much of the preseason centering Alex Ovechkin, but was a healthy scratch for Washington's first game. In their second outing, however, he recorded two points and was a force. Johansson had six points in nine playoff games last year and could shock with his offensive output this season.
A pair of Marc-Andre's fill the blue line slots. Marc-Andre Bergeron has been a consistent performer on the power play and looks to be getting regular time with Tampa Bay. Gragnani is also getting regular power play minutes – he leads the Sabres' blue line in that category – and was a point-per-game player in the NHL playoffs last season, as well as in the AHL during the regular season. He's highly capable and worth consideration for teams that need a defenseman.
In net, Tuukka Rask's situation is similar to Neuvirth's – he's a highly competent backup playing behind a traditionally low-games played starter on a good team. Devan Dubnyk is more of a risk, but also represents a potentially better return – he's playing for an awful team, but has a better than 50/50 shot at being the starter and has the potential to put up acceptable numbers on a team in need of a goalie.
October 13 2011, 03:59PM
This could have been my fist fist, but I'm not an @$$hole so I won't go there.
October 13 2011, 04:17PM
Glad to see that I managed to steal a lot of these players in late rounds in my pools.
Does this mean you'll be running a fantasy series throughout the season JW? I'd love that. Only good place I know for this kind of information is puck daddy and even then sometimes the fantasy stuff isn't that great.
From the players you listed there are a lot of older players with some potential. Currently I'm looking for some still available players who will put up a few points and sog but mostly that will rack me up some hits and PIMs as this is where my team looks like its lacking the most. Any tips on these types of players?
October 13 2011, 04:36PM
I just entered my first fantasy hockey league this year and off to a so-so start (10th out of 19 and only have 3 goals scored with my players) But what I really dont understand with using these online leagues and stuff is the % owned? What does that percentage mean? I have Kuelemin and he is a 94.6 owned with a -2.4% right now? Could someone help out a rookie and let me know what that means.
it means out of every league on that site, Kulemin is owned by 94.6% of them and -2.4% means he has been dropped from someone's team and is now a FA for that league
October 13 2011, 05:30PM
Perfect thanks!!
October 13 2011, 07:36PM
Having a hard time letting Alfredsson be an FA in my points league... might....drop....boyes....arghh
I blame JW and this article for tonight's events.
bet hemsky doesn't look like quite as much of a bargain after tonight :)
October 14 2011, 11:34PM
Thanks for this JW. I'm a long-time fantasy football guy and just getting into fantasy hockey so this is helpful once in a while as I try to get a hold on the value of players.


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The Rebels made a fine start to their campaign when they claimed a 35-14 victory over the Cheetahs in Melbourne on Friday.
The Rebels made a fine start to their Super Rugby campaign when they claimed a 35-14 victory over the Cheetahs in Melbourne on Friday.
The hosts started brightly and showed their intent from the outset by running the ball from deep inside their half. Their adventurous style was rewarded as early as the fifth minute when Lachlan Mitchell rounded off a superb team try.
This after the hosts' forwards and backs combined brilliantly in the build-up, from deep inside their half, before Luke Burgess spun the ball wide inside the Cheetahs' 22.
There was still work to be done, however, and Bryce Hegarty and Mitch Inman did well to draw in a couple of defenders before Inman offloaded to Mitchell who scored in the right-hand corner.
Jason Woodward failed with the conversion and also missed a kickable penalty five minutes later. The Cheetahs got their first genuine points-scoring opportunity shortly afterwards but Johan Goosen also failed with his shot from the kicking tee.
The Rebels doubled their lead in the 22nd minute thanks to enterprising play from their captain Scott Higginbotham. The Wallaby back row opted to play quickly, after the Rebels were awarded a penalty right in front of the posts, and delivered a perfectly-weighted cross-kick which Woodward gathered inside the visitors' in-goal area before dotting down.
Both sides continued attacking during the rest of the half but the poor-goal kicking continued as Goosen missed another shot at goal, two minutes before half-time, after the Rebels' backs were penalised for straying offside.
That miss proved costly as the Rebels struck back with their third try shortly before half-time. Burgess, playing his first Super Rugby match since a stint in France, got his name onto the scoreheet when he broke around the fringe of a ruck, close to the Cheetahs' try-line, after Sean McMahon – who was superb throughout – laid the groundwork with a bullocking run which caught the Cheetahs defenders napping.
After their lethargic first half display the visitors showed greater urgency after half-time. They took the game to the Rebels and were rewarded, five minutes after the break, when Jean Cook scored from the back of a driving maul after a line-out 15 metres from the Rebels' try-line.
Goosen added the extras, and with 35 minutes left the Cheetahs had their tails up. The Rebels did not retreat into their shells, however, and continued to attack.
The homeside suffered a setback in the 52nd minute when Scott Fuglistaller was sent to the sin bin for punching Jean Cook at a scrum.
But despite their numerical disadvantage, they extended their lead when Bryce Hegarty scored their bonus-point try under the posts, after running onto a pass from Tamati Ellison, who set up the score with a clinical line break.
Hegarty dusted himself off to add the conversion but despite trailing by 17 points, the Cheetahs continued in their bid to salvage something from the game.
They struck back with another converted try from a driving maul in the 70th minute. This time Ryno Barnes was the man who got up with the ball, under a pile of bodies, but the Rebels sealed the win with a drop goal from just outside the visitors' 22 by Angus Roberts, in the 77th minute.
Roberts added a penalty shortly before full-time and Higginbotham put the final nail in the Cheetahs coffin when he scored the Rebels' fifth try, in the right-hand corner in injury time, after they launched a counter attack from deep inside their half.
The scorers:
For Rebels:
Tries: Mitchell, Woodward, Burgess, Hegarty, Higginbotham
Cons: Hegarty 2
Pen: Roberts
Drop goal: Roberts
Yellow card: Fuglistaller (52 mins – punching)
For Cheetahs:
Tries: Cook, Barnes
Con: Goosen 2
Melbourne Rebels: 15 Jason Woodward, 14 Lachlan Mitchell, 13 Tamati Ellison, 12 Mitch Inman, 11 Tom English, 10 Bryce Hegarty, 9 Luke Burgess, 8 Scott Higginbotham (captain), 7 Scott Fuglistaller, 6 Sean McMahon, 5 Luke Jones, 4 Hugh Pyle, 3 Laurie Weeks, 2 Pat Leafa, 1 Toby Smith.
Replacements: 16 Steve Fualau, 17 Max Lahiff, 18 Paul Alo-Emile, 19 Cadeyrn Neville, 20 Colby Fainga'a, 21 Ben Meehan, 22 Angus Roberts, 23 Tom Kingston.
Cheetahs: 15 Willem le Roux, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 Johann Sadie, 12 Francois Venter, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Shaun Venter, 8 Philip van der Walt, 7 Pieter Labuschagne, 6 Johannes Prinsloo, 5 Francois Uys, 4 Lodewyk de Jager, 3 Coenraad Oosthuizen, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Caylib Oosthuizen.
Replacements: 16 Ryno Barnes, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Nicolaas van Dyk, 19 Rynhardt Landman, 20 Jean Cook, 21 Sarel Pretorius, 22 Elgar Watts, 23 Hennie Daniller.
Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia)
Assistant referees: Matt O'Brien (Australia), Michael Hogan (Australia)


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The new analytics is the art and science of turning the invisible into the visible. It's about finding "unknown unknowns," as former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously called them, and learning at least something about them. It's about detecting opportunities and threats you hadn't anticipated, or finding people you didn't know existed who could be your next customers. It's about learning what's really important, rather than what you thought was important. It's about identifying, committing, and following through on what your enterprise must change most.
Achieving that kind of visibility requires a mix of techniques. Some of these are new, while others aren't. Some are clearly in the realm of data science because they make possible more iterative and precise analysis of large, mixed data sets. Others, like visualization and more contextual search, are as much art as science.
This article explores some of the newer technologies that make feasible the case studies and the evolving cultures of inquiry described in "The third wave of customer analytics" on page 06. These technologies include the following:
A companion piece to this article, "Natural language processing and social media intelligence," on page 44, reviews the methods that vendors use for the needle-in-a-haystack challenge of finding the most relevant social media conversations about particular products and services. Because social media is such a major data source for exploratory analytics and because natural language processing (NLP) techniques are so varied, this topic demands its own separate treatment.
Enterprises exploring the latest in-memory technology soon come to realize that the technology's fundamental advantage—expanding the capacity of main memory (solid-state memory that's directly accessible) and reducing reliance on disk drive storage to reduce latency—can be applied in many different ways. Some of those applications offer the advantage of being more feasible over the short term. For example, accelerating conventional BI is a short-term goal, one that's been feasible for several years through earlier products that use in-memory capability from some BI providers, including MicroStrategy, QlikTech QlikView, TIBCO Spotfire, and Tableau Software.
Longer term, the ability of platforms such as Oracle Exalytics, SAP HANA, and the forthcoming SAS in-memory Hadoop-based platform1 to query across a wide range of disparate data sources will improve. "Previously, users were limited to BI suites such as BusinessObjects to push the information to mobile devices," says Murali Chilakapati, a manager in PwC's Information Management practice and a HANA implementer. "Now they're going beyond BI. I think in-memory is one of the best technologies that will help us to work toward a better overall mobile analytics experience."
The full vision includes more cross-functional, cross-source analytics, but this will require extensive organizational and technological change. The fundamental technological change is already happening, and in time richer applications based on these changes will emerge and gain adoption. (See Figure 1.) "Users can already create a mashup of various data sets and technology to determine if there is a correlation, a trend," says Kurt J. Bilafer, regional vice president of analytics at SAP.
Figure 1
Addressable analytics footprint for in-memory technology
To understand how in-memory advances will improve analytics, it will help to consider the technological advantages of hardware and software, and how they can be leveraged in new ways.
Figure 2
Memory swapping
For decades, business analytics has been plagued by slow response times (also known as latency), a problem that in-memory technology helps to overcome. Latency is due to input/output bottlenecks in a computer system's data path. These bottlenecks can be alleviated by using six approaches:
To process and store data properly and cost-effectively, computer systems swap data from one kind of memory to another a lot. Each time they do, they encounter latency in transmitting, switching, writing, or reading bits. (See Figure 2.)
Contrast this swapping requirement with processing alone. Processing is much faster because so much of it is on-chip or directly interconnected. The processing function always outpaces multitiered memory handling. If these systems can keep more data "in memory" or directly accessible to the central processing units (CPUs), they can avoid swapping and increase efficiency by accelerating inputs and outputs.
Less swapping reduces the need for duplicative reading, writing, and moving data. The ability to load and work on whole data sets in main memory—that is, all in random access memory (RAM) rather than frequently reading it from and writing it to disk—makes it possible to bypass many input/output bottlenecks.
Figure 3
Write-behind caching
Systems have needed to do a lot of swapping, in part, because faster storage media were expensive. That's why organizations have relied heavily on high-capacity, cheaper disks for storage. As transistor density per square millimeter of chip area has risen, the cost per bit to use semiconductor (or solid-state) memory has dropped and the ability to pack more bits in a given chip's footprint has increased. It is now more feasible to use semiconductor memory in more places where it can help most, and thereby reduce reliance on high-latency disks.
Of course, the solid-state memory used in direct access applications, dynamic random access memory (DRAM), is volatile. To avoid the higher risk of data loss from expanding the use of DRAM, in-memory database systems incorporate a persistence layer with backup, restore, and transaction logging capability. Distributed caching systems or in-memory data grids such as Gigaspaces XAP data grid, memcached, and Oracle Coherence—which cache (or keep in a handy place) lots of data in DRAM to accelerate website performance—refer to this same technique as write-behind caching. These systems update databases on disk asynchronously from the writes to DRAM, so the rest of the system doesn't need to wait for the disk write process to complete before performing another write. (See Figure 3.)
The additional speed of improved in-memory technology makes possible more analytics iterations within a given time. When an entire BI suite is contained in main memory, there are many more opportunities to query the data. Ken Campbell, a director in PwC's information and enterprise data management practice, notes: "Having a big data set in one location gives you more flexibility." T-Mobile, one of SAP's customers for HANA, claims that reports that previously took hours to generate now take seconds. HANA did require extensive tuning for this purpose.2
Appliances with this level of main memory capacity started to appear in late 2010, when SAP first offered HANA to select customers. Oracle soon followed by announcing its Exalytics In-Memory Machine at OpenWorld in October 2011. Other vendors well known in BI, data warehousing, and database technology are not far behind. Taking full advantage of in-memory technology depends on hardware and software, which requires extensive supplier/provider partnerships even before any thoughts of implementation.
Rapid expansion of in-memory hardware. Increases in memory bit density (number of bits stored in a square millimeter) aren't qualitatively new; the difference now is quantitative. What seems to be a step-change in in-memory technology has actually been a gradual change in solid-state memory over many years.
Beginning in 2011, vendors could install at least a terabyte of main memory, usually DRAM, in a single appliance. Besides adding DRAM, vendors are also incorporating large numbers of multicore processors in each appliance. The Exalytics appliance, for example, includes four 10-core processors.3
The networking capabilities of the new appliances are also improved. Exalytics has two 40Gbps InfiniBand connections for low-latency database server connections and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections, in addition to lower-speed Ethernet connections. Effective data transfer rates are somewhat lower than the stated raw speeds. InfiniBand connections became more popular for high-speed data center applications in the late 2000s. With each succeeding generation, InfiniBand's effective data transfer rate has come closer to the raw rate. Fourteen data rate or FDR InfiniBand, which has a raw data lane rate of more than 14Gbps, became available in 2011.4
In-memory technology makes it possible to run queries that previously ran for hours in minutes, which has numerous implications. Running queries faster implies the ability to accelerate data-intensive business processes substantially.
Take the case of supply chain optimization in the electronics industry. Sometimes it can take 30 hours or more to run a query from a business process to identify and fill gaps in TV replenishment at a retailer, for example. A TV maker using an in-memory appliance component in this process could reduce the query time to under an hour, allowing the maker to reduce considerably the time it takes to respond to supply shortfalls.
Or consider the new ability to incorporate into a process more predictive analytics with the help of in-memory technology. Analysts could identify new patterns of fraud in tax return data in ways they hadn't been able to before, making it feasible to provide investigators more helpful leads, which in turn could make them more effective in finding and tracking down the most potentially harmful perpetrators before their methods become widespread.
Competitive advantage in these cases hinges on blending effective strategy, means, and execution together, not just buying the new technology and installing it. In these examples, the challenge becomes not one of simply using a new technology, but using it effectively. How might the TV maker anticipate shortfalls in supply more readily? What algorithms might be most effective in detecting new patterns of tax return fraud? At its best, in-memory technology could trigger many creative ideas for process improvement.
Improvements in in-memory databases. In-memory databases are quite fast because they are designed to run entirely in main memory. In 2005, Oracle bought TimesTen, a high-speed, in-memory database provider serving the telecom and trading industries. With the help of memory technology improvements, by 2011, Oracle claimed that entire BI system implementations, such as Oracle BI server, could be held in main memory. Federated databases—multiple autonomous databases that can be run as one—are also possible. "I can federate data from five physical databases in one machine," says PwC Applied Analytics Principal Oliver Halter.
In 2005, SAP bought P*Time, a highly parallelized online transaction processing (OLTP) database, and has blended its in-memory database capabilities with those of TREX and MaxDB to create the HANA in-memory database appliance. HANA includes stores for both row (optimal for transactional data with many fields) and column (optimal for analytical data with fewer fields), with capabilities for both structured and less structured data. HANA will become the base for the full range of SAP's applications, with SAP porting its enterprise resource planning (ERP) module to HANA beginning in the fourth quarter of 2012, followed by other modules.5
Better compression. In-memory appliances use columnar compression, which stores similar data together to improve compression efficiency. Oracle claims a columnar compression capability of 5x, so physical capacity of 1TB is equivalent to having 5TB available. Other columnar database management system (DBMS) providers such as EMC/Greenplum, IBM/Netezza, and HP/Vertica have refined their own columnar compression capabilities over the years and will be able to apply these to their in-memory appliances.
More adaptive and efficient caching algorithms. Because main memory is still limited physically, appliances continue to make extensive use of advanced caching techniques that increase the effective amount of main memory. The newest caching algorithms—lists of computational procedures that specify which data to retain in memory—solve an old problem: tables that get dumped from memory when they should be maintained in the cache. "The caching strategy for the last 20 years relies on least frequently used algorithms," Halter says. "These algorithms aren't always the best approaches." The term least frequently used refers to how these algorithms discard the data that hasn't been used a lot, at least not lately.
The method is good in theory, but in practice these algorithms can discard data such as fact tables (for example, a list of countries) that the system needs at hand. The algorithms haven't been smart enough to recognize less used but clearly essential fact tables that could be easily cached in main memory because they are often small anyway.
Generally speaking, progress has been made on many fronts to improve in-memory technology. Perhaps most importantly, system designers have been able to overcome some of the hardware obstacles preventing the direct connections the data requires so it can be processed. That's a fundamental first step of a multi-step process. Although the hardware, caching techniques, and some software exist, the software refinement and expansion that's closer to the bigger vision will take years to accomplish.
One of BI's big challenges is to make it easier for a variety of end users to ask questions of the data and to do so in an iterative way. Self-service BI tools put a larger number of functions within reach of everyday users. These tools can also simplify a larger number of tasks in an analytics workflow. Many tools—QlikView, Tableau, and TIBCO Spotfire, to name a few—take some advantage of the new in-memory technology to reduce latency. But equally important to BI innovation are interfaces that meld visual ways of blending and manipulating the data with how it's displayed and how the results are shared.
In the most visually capable BI tools, the presentation of data becomes just another feature of the user interface. Figure 4 illustrates how Tableau, for instance, unifies data blending, analysis, and dashboard sharing within one person's interactive workflow.
Figure 4
Data blending
One important element that's been missing from BI and analytics platforms is a way to bridge human language in the user interface to machine language more effectively. User interfaces have included features such as drag and drop for decades, but drag and drop historically has been linked to only a single application function—moving a file from one folder to another, for example.
To query the data, users have resorted to typing statements in languages such as SQL that take time to learn.
What a tool such as Tableau does differently is to make manipulating the data through familiar techniques (like drag and drop) part of an ongoing dialogue with the database extracts that are in active memory. By doing so, the visual user interface offers a more seamless way to query the data layer.
Tableau uses what it calls Visual Query Language (VizQL) to create that dialogue. What the user sees on the screen, VizQL encodes into algebraic expressions that machines interpret and execute in the data. VizQL uses table algebra developed for this approach that maps rows and columns to the x- and y-axes and layers to the z-axis.6
Jock Mackinlay, director of visual analysis at Tableau Software, puts it this way: "The algebra is a crisp way to give the hardware a way to interpret the data views. That leads to a really simple user interface." (See Figure 5.)
Figure 5
Bridging human, visual, and machine language
Psychologists who study how humans learn have identified two types: left-brain thinkers, who are more analytical, logical, and linear in their thinking, and right-brain thinkers, who take a more synthetic parts-to-wholes approach that can be more visual and focused on relationships among elements. Visually oriented learners make up a substantial portion of the population, and adopting tools more friendly to them can be the difference between creating a culture of inquiry, in which different thinking styles are applied to problems, and making do with an isolated group of statisticians. (See the article, "How CIOs can build the foundation for a data science culture," on page 58.)
The new class of visually interactive, self-service BI tools can engage parts of the workforce—including right-brain thinkers—who may not have been previously engaged with analytics.
At Seattle Children's Hospital, the director of knowledge management, Ted Corbett, initially brought Tableau into the organization. Since then, according to Elissa Fink, chief marketing officer of Tableau Software, its use has spread to include these functions:
Business analytics software generally assumes that the underlying data is reasonably well designed, providing powerful tools for visualization and the exploration of scenarios. Unfortunately, well-designed, structured information is a rarity in some domains. Interactive tools can help refine a user's questions and combine data, but often demand a reasonably normalized schematic framework.
Zepheira's Freemix product, the foundation of the Viewshare.org project from the US Library of Congress, works with less-structured data, even comma-separated values (CSV) files with no headers. Rather than assuming the data is already set up for the analytical processing that machines can undertake, the Freemix designers concluded that the machine needs help from the user to establish context, and made generating that context feasible for even an unsophisticated user.
Freemix walks the user through the process of adding context to the data by using annotations and augmentation. It then provides plug-ins to normalize fields, and it enhances data with new, derived fields (from geolocation or entity extraction, for example). These capabilities help the user display and analyze data quickly, even when given only ragged inputs.
The proliferation of iPad devices, other tablets, and social networking inside the enterprise could further encourage the adoption of this class of tools. TIBCO Spotfire for iPad 4.0, for example, integrates with Microsoft SharePoint and tibbr, TIBCO's social tool.7
The QlikTech QlikView 11 also integrates with Microsoft SharePoint and is based on an HTML5 web application architecture suitable for tablets and other handhelds.8
Sports continue to provide examples of the broadening use of statistics. In the United States several years ago, Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics baseball team, as documented in Moneyball by Michael Lewis, hired statisticians to help with recruiting and line-up decisions, using previously little-noticed player metrics. Beane had enough success with his method that it is now copied by most teams.
In 2012, there's a debate over whether US football teams should more seriously consider the analyses of academics such as Tobias Moskowitz, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, who co-authored a book called Scorecasting. He analyzed 7,000 fourth-down decisions and outcomes, including field positions after punts and various other factors. His conclusion? Teams should punt far less than they do.
This conclusion contradicts the common wisdom among football coaches: even with a 75 percent chance of making a first down when there's just two yards to go, coaches typically choose to punt on fourth down. Contrarians, such as Kevin Kelley of Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas, have proven Moskowitz right. Since 2003, Kelley went for it on fourth down (in various yardage situations) 500 times and has a 49 percent success rate. Pulaski Academy has won the state championship three times since Kelley became head coach.9
As in the sports examples, statistical analysis applied to business can surface findings that contradict long-held assumptions. But the basic principles aren't complicated. "There are certain statistical principles and concepts that lie underneath all the sophisticated methods. You can get a lot out of or you can go far without having to do complicated math," says Kaiser Fung, an adjunct professor at New York University.
Simply looking at variability is an example. Fung considers variability a neglected factor in comparison to averages, for example. If you run a theme park and can reduce the longest wait times for rides, that is a clear way to improve customer satisfaction, and it may pay off more and be less expensive than reducing the average wait time.
Much of the utility of statistics is to confront old thinking habits with valid findings that may seem counterintuitive to those who aren't accustomed to working with statistics or acting on the basis of their findings. Clearly there is utility in counterintuitive but valid findings that have ties to practical business metrics. They get people's attention. To counter old thinking habits, businesses need to raise the profiles of statisticians, scientists, and engineers who are versed in statistical methods, and make their work more visible. That in turn may help to raise the visibility of statistical analysis by embedding statistical software in the day-to-day business software environment.
Until recently, statistical software packages were in a group by themselves. College students who took statistics classes used a particular package, and the language it used was quite different from programming languages such as Java. Those students had to learn not only a statistical language, but also other programming languages. Those who didn't have this breadth of knowledge of languages faced limitations in what they could do. Others who were versed in Python or Java but not a statistical package were similarly limited.
What's happened since then is the proliferation of R, an open source statistical programming language that lends itself to more uses in business environments. R has become popular in universities and now has thousands of ancillary open source applications in its ecosystem. In its latest incarnations, it has become part of the fabric of big data and more visually oriented analytics environments.
R in open source big data environments. Statisticians have typically worked with small data sets on their laptops, but now they can work with R directly on top of Hadoop, an open source cluster computing environment.10 Revolution Analytics, which offers a commercial R distribution, created a Hadoop interface for R in 2011, so R users will not be required to use MapReduce or Java.11 The result is a big data analytics capability for R statisticians and programmers that didn't exist before, one that requires no additional skills.
Particularly for the kinds of enterprise databases used in business intelligence, simple keyword search goes only so far. Keyword searches often come up empty for semantic reasons—the users doing the searching can't guess the term in a database that comes closest to what they're looking for.
To address this problem, self-service BI tools such as QlikView offer associative search. Associative search allows users to select two or more fields and search occurrences in both to find references to a third concept or name.
With the help of this technique, users can gain unexpected insights and make discoveries by clearly seeing how data is associated—sometimes for the very first time. They ask a stream of questions by making a series of selections, and they instantly see all the fields in the application filter themselves based on their selections.
At any time, users can see not only what data is associated—but what data is not related. The data related to their selections is highlighted in white while unrelated data is highlighted in gray.
In the case of QlikView's associative search, users type relevant words or phrases in any order and get quick, associative results. They can search across the entire data set, and with search boxes on individual lists, users can confine the search to just that field. Users can conduct both direct and indirect searches. For example, if a user wanted to identify a sales rep but couldn't remember the sales rep's name—just details about the person, such as that he sells fish to customers in the Nordic region—the user could search on the sales rep list box for "Nordic" and "fish" to narrow the search results to just sellers who meet those criteria.
R convertible to SQL and part of the Oracle big data environment. In January 2012, Oracle announced Oracle R Enterprise, its own distribution of R, which is bundled with a Hadoop distribution in its big data appliance. With that distribution, R users can run their analyses in the Oracle 11G database. Oracle claims performance advantages when running in its own database.12
Integrating interactive visualization with R. One of the newest capabilities involving R is its integration with interactive visualization.13 R is best known for its statistical analysis capabilities, not its interface. However, interactive visualization tools such as Omniscope are beginning to offer integration with R, improving the interface significantly.
The resulting integration makes it possible to preview data from various sources, drag and drop from those sources and individual R statistical operations, and drag and connect to combine and display results. Users can view results in either a data manager view or a graph view and refine the visualization within either or both of those views.
R has benefitted greatly from its status in the open source community, and this has brought it into a mainstream data analysis environment. There is potential now for more direct collaboration between the analysts and the statisticians. Better visualization and tablet interfaces imply an ability to convey statistically based information more powerfully and directly to an executive audience.
The new analytics certainly doesn't lack for ambition, vision, or technological innovation. SAP intends to base its new applications architecture on the HANA in-memory database appliance. Oracle envisions running whole application suites in memory, starting with BI. Others that offer BI or columnar database products have similar visions. Tableau Software and others in interactive visualization continue to refine and expand a visual language that allows even casual users to extract, analyze, and display in a few drag-and-drop steps. More enterprises are keeping their customer data longer, so they can mine the historical record more effectively. Sensors are embedded in new places daily, generating ever more data to analyze.
There is clear promise in harnessing the power of a larger proportion of the whole workforce with one aspect or another of the new analytics. But that's not the only promise. There's also the promise of more data and more insight about the data for staff already fully engaged in BI, because of processes that are instrumented closer to the action; the parsing and interpretation of prose, not just numbers; the speed that questions about the data can be asked and answered; the ability to establish whether a difference is random error or real and repeatable; and the active engagement with analytics that interactive visualization makes possible. These changes can enable a company to be highly responsive to its environment, guided by a far more accurate understanding of that environment.
There are so many different ways now to optimize pieces of business processes, to reach out to new customers, to debunk old myths, and to establish realities that haven't been previously visible. Of course, the first steps are essential—putting the right technologies in place can set organizations in motion toward a culture of inquiry and engage those who haven't been fully engaged.
1 See Doug Henschen, "SAS Prepares Hadoop-Powered In-Memory BI Platform," InformationWeek, February 14, 2012, http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/grid_cluster/232600767, accessed February 15, 2012. SAS, which also claims interactive visualization capabilities in this appliance, expects to make this appliance available by the end of June 2012.
2 Chris Kanaracus, "SAP's HANA in-memory database will run ERP this year," IDG News Service, via InfoWorld, January 25, 2012, http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/saps-hana-in-memory-database-will-run-erp-year-185040, accessed February 5, 2012.
3 Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine: A Brief Introduction, Oracle white paper, October 2011, http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/exalytics-bi-machine/overview/exalytics-introduction-1372418.pdf, accessed February 1, 2012.
4 See "What is FDR InfiniBand?" at the InfiniBand Trade Association site (http://members.infinibandta.org/kwspub/home/7423_FDR_FactSheet.pdf, accessed February 10, 2012) for more information on InfiniBand availability.
5 Chris Kanaracus, op. cit.
6 See Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, and Pat Hanrahan, "Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases," Communications of the ACM, November 2008, 75–76, http://mkt.tableausoftware.com/files/Tableau-CACM-Nov-2008-Polaris-Article-by-Stolte-Tang-Hanrahan.pdf, accessed February 10, 2012, for more information on the table algebra Tableau uses.
7 Chris Kanaracus, "Tibco ties Spotfire business intelligence to SharePoint, Tibbr social network," InfoWorld, November 14, 2011, http://www.infoworld.com/d/business-intelligence/tibco-ties-spotfire-business-intelligence-sharepoint-tibbr-social-network-178907, accessed February 10, 2012.
8 Erica Driver, "QlikView Supports Multiple Approaches to Social BI," QlikCommunity, June 24, 2011, http://community.qlikview.com/blogs/theqlikviewblog/2011/06/24/with-qlikview-you-can-take-various-approaches-to-social-bi, and Chris Mabardy, "QlikView 11—What's New On Mobile," QlikCommunity, October 19, 2011, http://community.qlikview.com/blogs/theqlikviewblog/2011/10/19
, accessed February 10, 2012.
9 Seth Borenstein, "Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball'," Seattle Times, February 3, 2012, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2017409917_apfbnsuperbowlanalytics.html, accessed February 10, 2012.
10 See "Making sense of Big Data," Technology Forecast 2010, Issue 3, http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2010/issue3/index.jhtml, and Architecting the data layer for analytic applications, PwC white paper, Spring 2011, http://www.pwc.com/us/en/increasing-it-effectiveness/assets/pwc-data-architecture.pdf, accessed April 5, 2012, to learn more about Hadoop and other NoSQL databases.
11 Timothy Prickett Morgan, "Revolution speeds stats on Hadoop clusters," The Register, September 27, 2011, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/27/revolution_r_hadoop_integration/, accessed February 10, 2012.
12 Doug Henschen, "Oracle Analytics Package Expands In-Database Processing Options," InformationWeek, February 8, 2012, http://informationweek.com/news/software/bi/232600448, accessed February 10, 2012.
13 See Steve Miller, "Omniscope and R," Information Management, February 7, 2012, http://www.information-management.com/blogs/data-science-agile-BI-visualization-Visokio-10021894-1.html and the R Statistics/Omniscope 2.7 video, accessed
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• Mom throws infant at deputy in getaway bid: How is it possible to rack up charges for shoplifting and child abuse at the same time? By tossing your infant daughter at the deputy coming to arrest you. That's exactly what police say a Pensacola mom did.
• On day he was to marry, teacher charged with rape: On his wedding day, John Azabache did say "I do" -- when he was asked by the judge whether he understood the order of protection that had been imposed on him after he was arrested in Ossining, N.Y., for allegedly raping one of his 16-year-old students.
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UMass Amherst announced this week that it's expanding the school's agriculture program. It will now offer a Bachelor's degree in sustainable food and farming. The program was formerly a concentration within the plant and soil sciences major. The program harkens back to the University's roots as an agricultural college.
UMass has grown considerably since its founding as Massachusetts Agricultural College – or "Mass Aggie" – in 1863. John Gerber, professor of sustainable food and farming, says over the past ten years there's been growing interest in local food, and that, he says, has brought about a renewal of agriculture programs at the university, specifically in the area of sustainable farming.
"We've gone from five students in 2003, to over 75 students today," Gerber says.
Gerber says in addition to core science classes like botany and chemistry, students in the major will study community-based farming, farm education, as well as public policy and urban farming. He says there are some job prospects for farming students at both for-profit and non-profit farms after graduation.
"But much more than that, people are creating their own work, maybe working with a local city council to create a new urban farm, partly a commercial farm and partly an educational farm center. These are the sort of thing our students are exploring."
Gerber says sustainable farming does not mean the program exclusively teaches organic methods of farming. Last summer the University established a working farm just north of campus. Two of the other five colleges also have established on-campus farms: Amherst College is opening one this season, and Hampshire College has operated one since the late 1970's.