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Teradata Acquiring Aster Data, Driving MapReduce Deeply Into Its Strategy
Posted by James Kobielus on March 3, 2011
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It was just a matter of time. Aster Data, one of the most innovative startups in the enterprise data warehousing (EDW) arena, is moving rapidly into the ranks of leading vendors in this hotly competitive space. Just this morning, Teradata, one of the longtime EDW powerhouses, announced that it is acquiring San Carlos, California-based Aster Data. This $263 million all-cash deal, expected to close in the second quarter, will bring Aster Data's well-regarded brand, exceptional team, growing product portfolio, and sophisticated intellectual property (IP) fully into Teradata.
For starters, the acquisition further substantiates several market trends that we called out in the recent Forrester Wave™ on EDW platforms:
- Vendor consolidation proceeds apace. The EDW market has largely consolidated, though startup activity remains strong. Customer demand for one-stop shopping has driven consolidation and demand for completely integrated appliance-based EDWs, and, increasingly, for cloud- and software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based access to the same functionality. The past year has seen SAP acquire Sybase, IBM purchase Netezza, EMC buy Greenplum, HP announce its intention to absorb Vertica — and now this latest bombshell deal. Clearly, Teradata — the long-ago first mover in EDW appliances — is acquiring Aster Data in part for a strong appliance-based offering of its nCluster platform, which is architected for modular scaling of MapReduce operations.
- Cloud/SaaS EDWs come into the enterprise. Over the next two to three years, cloud/SaaS EDWs will gain greater enterprise adoption as a complement or outright replacement for appliance- and software-based EDWs. Already, Teradata stands out through its ability to offer the most mature and comprehensive range of cloud/SaaS-based EDW offerings on the market, while Aster Data has been one of the leading pure plays with a predominant focus on cloud/SaaS deployments for Web 2.0, social media, and other hot new applications. In this regard, the architectural synergies of Teradata and Aster Data are considerable. Both offer petabyte scale-out shared-nothing massively parallel processing, support elastic resource provisioning for mixed workloads in federated EDW deployments, and integrate with external Hadoop Distributed File System clusters for analytics against unstructured sources. In addition, what Aster adds to Teradata's solution portfolio is an increasingly important cloud EDW capability: optimization of massively parallel "graph analysis" against clickstreams, social media messages, and other event data types. This functionality will prove invaluable in the new age of social commerce.
- In-database analytics and transaction processing transform the EDW's roles. Increasingly, EDWs are deployed at the heart of the next-generation customer relationship management (CRM) environment, executing and integrating analytics and transactional computing functions to enable pervasive next best actions in multichannel customer service, sales, and marketing. The current best-of-breed EDW platforms support analytics-driven multichannel CRM through features such as MapReduce, in-database function pushdown, embedded statistical algorithm libraries, predictive modeling integration, and mixed workload management. Both Teradata and Aster Data are especially strong in these areas. Teradata already has a strong multichannel campaign management portfolio, which it strengthened recently by acquiring Aprimo. What Aster adds is the ability to support further scaling and acceleration of next best actions by integrating both types of next-best-action workloads —analytics and transaction processing — in a unified cloud architecture. In this important new architectural paradigm, which Forrester calls the "analytic application server," Aster's closest competitor has been Oracle's Exadata platform. Clearly, Teradata now has an important new asset for fighting off this formidable rival.
- Social media drive unstructured data and real-time architectures into the EDW. Marketing, sales, and customer service professionals everywhere integrate social media into their business-to-consumer customer-facing processes. A key application is social media analytic dashboards to monitor customer awareness, sentiment, and propensities in real time. To address these requirements, and the convergence of in-database data mining and text analytics, both Teradata and Aster Data have incorporated support for unstructured sources, hybrid storage architectures, in-memory execution, distributed cache, and real-time processing into their architectures. In addition, both have partnered with SAS Institute and other advanced analytics vendors that provide the algorithm libraries to support high-volume low-latency mining of social-media-sourced customer intelligence from disparate sources. What Aster brings to Teradata is one of the deepest libraries of MapReduce algorithms to bootstrap customer development and deployment of social media analytics in "Big Data" cloud EDWs.
In addition, the acquisition will address what has increasingly become a Teradata competitive vulnerability: its ability to only offer customers a single, proprietary (albeit highly scalable and robust) database management system (DBMS) within its EDW portfolio. As we noted in the recent Forrester Wave, EDW customers increasingly require a choice of DBMS so that they can deploy and tune the optimal database architecture to each analytic node, server, or cluster. With Aster nCluster, Teradata is acquiring a DBMS that, like Teradata's core DBMS, is row-based relational, but which is evolving into a virtualized platform with agile integration of graph database and other "No SQL" architectures.
No, the acquisition of Aster Data will not improve Teradata's standing in the growing midmarket for EDW solutions. But that's not as critical as it had been just a year or two ago for Teradata, which has addressed this challenge reasonably well through aggressive price-cutting and its strong go-to-market push on the 2600-series EDW appliances. What the Aster Data acquisition will reinforce is Teradata's growing stature as a true innovator in the EDW arena, as opposed to a longtime incumbent resting on past laurels. Forrester expects Teradata to inject considerable R&D monies into its newly acquired product group and to bring Aster Data's development team into close collaboration with Teradata Labs.
For Aster Data, the acquisition is precisely what it needs to strengthen its product portfolio and expand its reach in this hypercompetitive and rapidly evolving marketplace. Just as Netezza has benefited from access to new parent IBM's global professional services force and partner ecosystem, Aster Data is joining a vendor that has built a formidable consulting force and strategic alliances of its own. Professional services, provided through Teradata's consulting organization and ecosystem, will be absolutely essential for positioning Aster Data platforms into increasingly complex enterprise applications in CRM, marketing, and advanced analytics.
How will Teradata and Aster Data rationalize their respective solution portfolios? Clearly it's too early for these companies to comment, but Forrester believes that it's safe to assume that neither company's customers or partners need to worry that they'll be cut off or end-of-lifed. Forrester expects that Teradata will establish a standalone product group around Aster Data, to focus on social-facing customer analytics. We expect that Teradata will waste no time integrating Aster Data's sales, service, and partner programs into its own global operations. And, once the deal is closed, we also expect the vendors to roll out a joint road map for integrating their respective IP and R&D across all future offerings.
At the very least, we expect Aster Data's SQL-MR API to become a Teradata-wide standard for access to MapReduce functionality from the vendor's growing portfolio of customer and marketing analytics tools. It's also very likely that we will see a more comprehensive Hadoop integration road map from the combined Teradata/Aster Data by this fall's Teradata Partners conference, if not sooner.
Now we wait to see how Teradata's nearest competitors on EDW and CRM analytics — Oracle, IBM, and SAP — will respond. You best believe they're all evaluating further acquisitions in "No SQL," social network analytics, and graph analysis.
Comment from Warren Davidson (not verified) on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 23:30
James, do you really think an RDBMS can perform "massively parallel "graph analysis" "? A graph that is so simple it doesn't really constitute a network of data, but perhaps simple links between two objects. Seems like you're believing the Aster Data marketing sheets.
Re Graph Analysis in DBMS
Comment from James Kobielus on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 08:12
Short answer: no.
That's why these vendors need to scout for strategic acquisitions in the graph database segment. As I said in the last sentence of the blog.
Re Graph Analysis in DBMS
Comment from Warren Davidson (not verified) on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 12:48
Agreed, but I've spoken with folks at Teradata and I think they're a long ways from understanding the benefits of graph databases. They are from what I can tell among the throngs of people that see simple analytics of two links being 'graph'. Kind of like the key value pair linking Twitter does and calls it graph. The Aster Data folks have been in a mad scramble on their own product so they've not been focused outside their technology.
But in general I think you're right, people will start figuring out the value of a graph database because I don't think it will be that long before you see some bigger names implementing commercial graph databases in some pretty interesting applications.
They've come around, to a degree
Comment from James Kobielus on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 12:52
Based on my discussions with them, Teradata, yesterday with respect to this acquisition, they seem to have started to come around to understand the benefits of graph databases for social network analysis. But it really feels like the Aster Data team who'll be the number #1 champions for social graph analysis, and the underlying DBMSs, within Teradata going forward.
They've come around, to a degree
Comment from Warren Davidson (not verified) on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 18:59
Good to hear, I don't see them being first to market for real graph data but every little bit helps move things in the right direction. Great blog and thanks James!
BI implications
Comment from Boris Evelson on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 10:08
Great post, Jim. Next, Teradata needs to realize that DW without BI is incomplete, and acquire a BI vendor like MicroStrategy. That'd be an awsome combination. Or HP or EMC will beat them to it.
Hey Boris, let's play DW-BI M&A connect-the-names
Comment from James Kobielus on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 11:58
Obviously this is pure speculation, but MicroStrategy is clearly getting a lot of attention from potential suitors. They are clearly one of the strongest BI pure plays, and I, like you, would not be surprised to see them get an offer from....from who?....from any of the DW vendors who don't have their own BI product portfolio. Teradata, for one. HP (with Vertica now) for another. EMC (with Greenplum) a third. I also think MicroStrategy's BI-integrated predictive analytics and data mining tools are top-notch, and would be a great fit with any of these DW vendors' advanced analytics portfolios.
Teradata will buy Tableau?
Comment from Andrei Pandre (not verified) on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 10:39
Aster Data in a good relationship with Tableau Software and Tableau can read Aster Data nCluster and Teradata (as Data Sources), see it here: http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/6.0
Also traditional BI is not growing as fast as Data Visualization sector of it and Tableau is fastest growing company in BI and Data Visualization business (123% YoY as latest result). Recent LinkedIn poll about Data Visualization Tools got 1340 votes and gave Tableau 2nd place in it, see it here:
So it will be natural for Teradata to unite with Tableau one way or another.
Have you heard any rumors, or are you spreading one?
Comment from James Kobielus on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 11:50
Sounds plausible, but it's not any rumor that I've heard. I think it's "natural" for Tableau or any other BI/analytics visualization tool vendor to hitch their wagon to a full-suite data warehousing and analytics firm, such as Teradata--or pretty much any of Teradata's competitors.
I am not spreading, but I am making a guess, can I?
Comment from Andrei Pandre (not verified) on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 12:06
Nothing to rumor about. And I heard nothing and I do not spread rumors. Rumor by definition is something which cannot be confirmed. So answer on your question is NO.
However if I will be a decider from Teradata, I will seriously consider an acquisition of Tableau, because soon it will be too late to do that.
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"Hardball" host Chris Matthews lurched even further off the deep end on Wednesday's "Imus in the Morning." After praising the "great job" Rudy Giuliani did in cleaning up New York City — which Matthews again suggested was done with just "a pinch" of "fascism" — the MSNBC star went on a rant declaring how he's "sick of southern guys with ranches running this country."
Losing control, Matthews dropped the F-bomb on national television: "I want a guy to run for President who doesn't have a fucking — I'm sorry, a ranch." As host Don Imus began to snicker, Matthews plowed ahead with his Democratic talking points: "Wouldn't that be good, Don, a guy who wasn't on the ranch during Katrina, he was on the street corner answering questions?"
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Radio listeners were spared Matthews' cursing, but no such luck for those watching the MSNBC simulcast. After saying goodbye to Matthews about three minutes later, Imus and his crew mocked their MSNBC colleague. MSNBC's on-screen file photo of Matthews was altered to include a black censor bar over his mouth. Executive Producer Bernard McGuirk suggested Matthews was the sort who would "put on a diaper and drive 900 miles to abduct Dick Cheney or somebody," and someone else offered that "he's crazy."
Imus was the diplomat: "But isn't that what we like about him? I love his energy, his passion."
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"We love good mayors because we love our cities and Giuliani is the city guy, and I'm so sick of southern guys with ranches running this country. I want a guy to run for president who doesn't have a fucking — I'm sorry, a ranch. Wouldn't that be good, Don, a guy who wasn't on the ranch during Katrina, he was on the street corner answering questions?"


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Oleshansky is racing in the women's four and Idoni in the women's pair for USRowing. Oleshansky won her heat, and Idoni placed second in her race on Monday (June 24). The final day of competition for both competitors is Wednesday morning. The top place will receive the bid to the world championships.
Oleshansky and Idoni raced in the Wolverines' first varsity eight throughout the season. Idoni earned Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Scholar-Athlete recognition for the second straight season, and Oleshansky picked up Academic All-Big Ten accolades for the third consecutive year.
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Toronto has never been closer to having a rail link from Union Station to Pearson airport. Metrolinx has awarded a contract worth up to $53-million for 12 two-car trains from Sumitomo, piggybacking on an order from Marin County, Calif.
They would run every quarter hour, stop at Bloor and Weston GO stations along the way, and deposit you 25 minutes later on the roof of the parking garage at Terminal 1. And they'd start running in time for the Pan Am Games, in the summer of 2015. By the standards of infrastructure development in this city, that's practically yesterday.
Alas, in a quintessentially Torontonian combination of legitimate concern, NIMBY-ism and the perfect triumphing over the good, many of us remain dead set against this plan because the trains will be so-called "clean diesels," not electric.
The good news is that the Sumitomo trains are convertible to electric, should Metrolinx's plan to electrify the line come to pass — a 10-year project at least, according to a study it released in January.
But that's not good news to councillor Frances Nunziata (York South-Weston). To her, the cost of converting the trains is a waste of money. "Why not [electrify] now rather than later?" she asks.
She's tabled a motion, which city council will consider this week, asking the provincial Ministry of Transportation to "consult with international rail electrification experts" to see if the line could in fact be opened, electrified, by 2015. If the answer is no, the motion recommends that "alternative transportation plans be made" for the Pan American hordes. It is, as she says, a pro-electrification motion rather than an anti-rail link motion. But in the near term, the effect would likely be the same.
Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig objects to the premise of Ms. Nunziata's motion. "We did have international experts working with us over the past year to come up with the electrification study and the proposed implementation plan," he says.
And the conclusion was, it can't be done by 2015. Due respect to Ms. Nunziata's hunch to the contrary, but I'm with the experts. For one thing, Metrolinx doesn't have the $440-million it expects electrification to cost, and who knows if it ever will? It does have the money to conduct an environmental assessment for the electrification project, but neither that nor the community consultation process is likely to be smooth, quick sailing.
Which of the Weston residents who fought the diesel trains so passionately do you suppose will volunteer to have a power substation located just behind his backyard fence? Asked why electrification takes so long, Mr. McCuaig explains that all land within 200 metres of the right of way will have to be surveyed "for everything from garden sheds to other metal objects in people's back yards … to make sure everything is properly grounded, so that there's no stray current that transfers from the electrified corridor into an adjacent area."
Stray current? Yikes. I can see the petitions now. Ms. Nunziata convincingly argues that the city needn't feel obliged to deliver the rail link in time for the Pan Am Games (despite having committed to it in its bid), and I agree it's an arbitrary deadline.
Far more appropriate deadlines included the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Ed Mirvish's 80th birthday, the opening of SkyDome and (at latest) the dawn of the new millennium. We are so disastrously behind the times on this that every day a rail link — any rail link — doesn't get built constitutes wretched failure.
Ms. Nunziata laments that if we'd just built the Eglinton subway to the airport, or committed to an electrified link five years ago, we wouldn't be in this fix. I agree. But if we'd insisted on electric trains in the 1960s, when they were already all the rage in Europe, there might still be no such thing as GO Transit.
If we continue to insist on adopting the absolute latest in fare-payment technology, we'll never adopt anything. We'll be stuck with tokens until global nuclear war destroys humankind and the apes conquer the planet. The rail link is funded. The contract is out. Once it's built, it can be electrified. If it's not built now, there's no guarantee it ever will be. Our grandchildren could be heading to the airport in diesel-powered buses and gasoline-powered cars. Please, councillors. Ignore the perfect for once, and let this good thing happen.


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Mitt Romney's late push to win Pennsylvania is a "desperate ploy," White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Sunday.
"I mean, to win Pennsylvania, Governor Romney would have to win two-thirds of the independents," Plouffe said on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos." "He's not going to do that anywhere, much less Pennsylvania. So the truth is, they are throwing some ads up and Governor Romney is traveling in the state he's not going to win."
Recent polls have generally showed Obama leading slightly in Pennsylvania, but Romney is making a stretch run effort there to steal the state away from the Democrat. The Republican nominee is stumping in the state on Sunday, while running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) campaigned there Saturday.
Romney campaign political director Rich Beeson said the Romney campaign is optimistic about its chances in the Keystone State. "Pennsylvania is very fertile ground for us," Beeson said on "Fox News Sunday."
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And think about Jesus, His cross on the hill,
And all that He suffered and did for me;
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I think of the miles He walked in the dust,
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Friendship and Charity
Doing some travel for work, I visited an old friend. We don't see each other often, not usually even once a year. We don't share the same religion or culture, nor do we speak the same native language. He has always been philosophically far out of my league. Yet somehow, years ago, we became friends. I think it was over pizza at 3:00 am when I couldn't sleep because of jet lag and he was up for whatever reason. But it has been long enough that I'm not sure whether that's when we first felt the friendship we share. However it happened, we became and have remained friends, and we are very different than one another.
It makes no sense to say that we are friends because of our differences, but it is equally if not more impossible to say that we are friends in spite of them. "In spite of" suggests that the differences create a barrier that must be overcome. Yet there is not and has never been such a barrier. We are just friends. It is as simple—and as complicated—as that.
I do very little for my friend, and he has done a great deal for me. Yet I don't feel a debt to him beyond the great debt of friendship itself. Nor do I think that he feels that I owe him something beyond friendship. He has stayed at my house. I have stayed at his. We have frequently eaten meals together and argued over who will pay the bill. I read his work regularly. He has been kind enough to read mine occasionally and would read it more often if I would let him. He helped me get an appointment as a visiting professor. I have invited him to speak a few times where I teach. We do things for each other, but not in order to accomplish or get something. We do them because we are friends.
Seen from the outside it would appear that our relation is much the same as that which I have with other colleagues. I call them friends, too, though in that case, acquaintance and friend are closer in meaning, though not the same. But from the inside something different is going on in this friendship.
What that is involves emotions, feelings toward another person. But it would be a mistake to think that the difference between friendship and other relationships is a matter of the emotions I feel. Emotions are consequent on the relationships, but they aren't constitutive of them: I feel this way because I am his friend; I'm not his friend because I feel this way.
My friend once expressed the internal difference that marks friendship by saying, "You are a friend whose funeral I will attend." From the outside that may seem slightly macabre. It is probably, though not certainly, hyperbolic. I like to think he would come to my funeral. I hope that I could attend his if he were to predecease me. In truth our circumstances—age and distance, for example—might make either impossible. Yet my friend's attestation perfectly says the truth of our relationship.
Among the "seven corporal works of mercy" of medieval Catholicism the last was burying the dead. (The others: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, sheltering strangers, clothing the naked, visiting the sick, and ministering to prisoners.) As an act of mercy, burying the dead is strange. Every other act of mercy involves doing something that helps another person, but the dead are not helped by our burying them. Unlike the other acts of mercy, care for the dead is useless.
Another friend, Paul Moyaert, has argued that though burying the dead is useless in itself, it serves as a reminder that Christian love is about something more than achieving utilitarian ends. The other corporal works of mercy render some benefit to the recipient, but not burying the dead.
James Faulconer is a Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, where he has taught philosophy since 1975.
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President Obama on Friday declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric a "major blow to al-Qaeda's most active affiliate" and vowed a vigorous U.S. campaign to prevent the terror network and its partners from finding a haven anywhere in the world.
"Make no mistake, this is further proof that al-Qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world," Obama said.
Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born al-Qaeda leader operating in Yemen, was killed Friday morning.
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Al-Awlaki was killed in a drone attack, a U.S. official said. The official, who was briefed on the matter, was not authorized to speak publicly.
Yemen's Defense Ministry says another American militant, Samir Khan also died in the airstrike . Khan, in his 20s, was an American of Pakistani heritage from North Carolina who produced Inspire, an English-language Web magazine that spread al-Qaeda ideology and promoted attacks against U.S. targets, even running articles on how to put together explosives.
Details of al-Awlaki's killing remain murky, but his death marks a significant blow to al-Qaeda.
By Robert Ahrens, USA TODAY
"He directed the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in 2009. He directed the failed attempt to blow up U.S. cargo planes in 2010," Obama said. "And he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda."
Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent time as the imam of a mosque in Northern Virginia, isn't as big a fish as bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader killed in a stealth strike by Navy Seal Team 6 in May. But he might have been a more significant threat to the United States in recent years.
Up to the time of his death, U.S. officials remained concerned about his ability to inspire homegrown terrorists. The Obama administration even put him on the kill or capture list, allowing for an unprecedented lethal strike against a U.S. citizen.
The 40-year-old al-Awlaki is believed to have inspired and even plotted or helped coordinate some of the recent attacks on the USA, including the failed Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner heading for Detroit, Mich., and the unsuccessful plot to send mail bombs on planes from Yemen to the United States in October.
Timeline: al-Awlaki's life
Here are the most prominent dates in the life of Anwar al-Awlaki:
• April 22, 1971, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents.
• In 1978, family returns to Yemen where father serves as agriculture minister, professor at Sanaa University.
• In 1991, al-Awlaki returns to U.S. to study civil engineering at Colorado State University, then education studies at San Diego State University and later does doctoral work at George Washington University in Washington.
• In 2000, al-Awlaki starts preaching in San Diego mosque where he met two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.
• Al-Awlaki becomes preacher at Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, outside Washington.
• After Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, al-Awlaki was interviewed at least four times in two weeks about his dealings with three of the hijackers aboard the flight that slammed into the Pentagon. The Sept. 11 Commission report said al-Awlaki was also investigated by the FBI in 1999 and 2000. None of the investigations led to criminal charges against him.
•Returns to Sanaa in 2004.
•In 2006, Yemeni authorities arrest al-Awlaki with a group of five Yemenis suspected of kidnapping a Shiite Muslim teenager for ransom. He is released without trial after a year in prison following the intercession of his tribe.
•In 2007, after release from prison, al-Awlaki moves to the Awalik tribal heartland in eastern province of Shabwa, an al-Qaida stronghold, living in his family home in the mountain hamlet of Saeed and occasionally preaching in a local mosque.
• Exchanged up to 20 emails with U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, alleged killer of 13 people in the Nov. 5, 2009, rampage at Fort Hood.
• On Dec. 24, 2009, al-Awlaki was believed to be at a gathering of al-Qaida figures in Yemen's Shabwa mountains, a day before the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up the airliner near Detroit. Yemeni warplanes, using U.S. intelligence help, struck the tents but al-Awlaki and others were believed to have driven off hours earlier.
•In New York, the Pakistani-American man who pleaded guilty to the May 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt said he was "inspired" by al-Awlaki after making contact over the Internet.
•Al-Awlaki is believed to have had a hand in mail bombs addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, packages intercepted in Dubai and Europe in October 2010.
• In March 2010, an al-Awlaki tape was released in which he urged American Muslims to mount attacks in the U.S.
• In April 2010, President Obama makes al-Awlaki the first American placed on the CIA target list.
• In May 2011, as Yemen is gripped by an uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime, a U.S. drone targets al-Awlaki but again the mission fails.
Source: The Associated Press
While the United States has made significant progress in degrading al-Qaeda's capabilities in recent years, intelligence officials have noted that the terror organization has increasingly focused on seeking U.S.-born collaborators to carry out attacks. In that sense, the death of al-Awlaki — who was valued by the terrorist organization for his charisma and his proven ability to recruit sympathizers in the West — marks a significant blow to al-Qaeda.
"The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki is a great success in our fight against al-Qaeda and its affiliates," said Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. "For the past several years, al-Awlaki has been more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden."
In Yemen, reaction was mixed. Nemah Morshid, a 45-year-old housewife, said she was "happy to hear the news of the death of the terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. He caused a lot of problems to Yemen because of his crazy and evil ideas."
But Shamsan Morshid, 25, a student in a school where al-Awlaki once lectured, called the killing a "big mistake committed by the enemies of Allah, the Americans. Al-Awlaki was a cleric calling for the cause of Allah."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, said Friday that it had repeatedly repudiated al-Awlaki's call to violence as contrary to Islam but questioned whether the targeted killing of an American overseas is legal.
"While a voice of hate has been eliminated, we urge our nation's leaders to address the constitutional issues raised by the assassination of American citizens without due process of law," CAIR said in a statement.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul also compared the killing to an assassination and warned the American people not to casually accept such violence against U.S. citizens, even those with strong ties to terrorism. At a campaign stop Friday at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, he said America's leaders must think hard about "assassinating American citizens without charges."
Al-Awlaki's father, knowing his son would be a top U.S. target, challenged the government's authority to carry out the killing of a U.S. citizen outside a war zone. A federal judge in December dismissed the the lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which had argued that targeted killings violate the Constituion and international law because they allow the government to execute its own citizens without judicial process.
"The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific, and imminent," ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said. "It is a mistake to invest the president — any president — with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country."
Just last month, Obama said that while al-Qaeda's ability to carry out a major attack on U.S. soil has been reduced, he remained concerned about "lone wolf" attacks.
"The biggest concern we have right now is not the launching of a major terrorist operation, although that risk is always there, the risk that we're especially concerned over right now is the lone wolf terrorist," Obama said in an interview with CNN.
In unveiling the White House's updated counterterrorism strategy in June, the administration noted in an unclassified report that it believed that al-Qaeda is less of a danger than it is in peripheral battlegrounds, such as Somalia and Yemen, where post-Arab Spring civil strife has pushed the nation to precipice of collapse.
John Brennan, the White House top counterterrorism adviser, also said that the new strategy will put particular emphasis on combating al-Qaeda and its affiliates' ability to inspire people within the United States to carry out attacks on American soil. In a speech laying out the strategy, Brennan noted in particular the threat of al-Awlaki as well as Adam Gadahn, another U.S.-born operative operating out of Yemen.
In addition to the death of al-Awlaki and bin Laden, Obama administration officials have boasted that U.S. and international forces have eliminated more key al-Qaeda leaders and their affiliates than at any time since the Sept. 11 attacks, with the killings of al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader, Sheikh Saeed al-Masri; Ilyas Kashmiri, one of al-Qaeda's most dangerous commanders; and Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.
As the American-born son of Yemeni parents, al-Awlaki rose to prominence as al-Qaeda's English-speaking voice and electronic messenger, spreading its terrorist credo via a blog, social media posts and e-mail exchanges with such people as the U.S. Army major accused of a murderous shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
Al-Awlaki exchanged up to 20 emails with U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, alleged killer of 13 people in the Nov. 5, 2009, rampage at Fort Hood. Hasan initiated the contacts, drawn by al-Awlaki's Internet sermons, and approached him for religious advice.
Al-Awlaki has said he didn't tell Hasan to carry out the shootings, but he later praised Hasan as a "hero" on his website for killing American soldiers who would be heading for Afghanistan or Iraq to fight Muslims.
The Pakistani-American man who pleaded guilty to the May 2010 Times Square failed car bombing attempt told interrogators he was "inspired" by al-Awlaki after making contact over the Internet. Al-Awlaki was further believed to have had a hand in mail bombs addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, packages intercepted in Dubai and Europe in October 2010.
Although bin Laden and al-Awlaki espoused violence in the name of Islam, the two took quite different approaches. While bin Laden kept a low profile, al-Awlaki has hundreds of sermons on the Internet. Bin Laden's past statements issue threats and orders to Muslims to kill; al-Awlaki's sermons explain to potential followers why the West is evil and are pocked with references to pop culture given in disarming American English.
In one sermon that has been viewed hundreds of thousands of time on YouTube, al-Awlaki uses an anecdote about the late pop star Michael Jackson to make a point about the inevitability of death and to suggest jihadists should not fear dying for their faith. In another lecture, he makes the case that the U.S. military's efforts in Bosnia and Kuwait in the 1990s were made under the false pretext of human rights, and the only just war is one fought for Islam.
Terrorism experts say al-Awlaki's fluency in English, credentials as a cleric and his intimate familiarity with American culture have allowed him to successfully recruit followers in the USA — something bin Laden has had little success doing.
"He's particularly adept having lived in the United States for so many years in understanding Americans — particularly understanding the ambivalence felt by some Muslims in the United States," Robert Grenier, former director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, told USA TODAY in a 2010 interview.
Experts and officials say al-Awlaki's death sends a message from the U.S. government to terrorists worldwide. Said former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh, who led the Oklahoma City and Beirut bombing investigations: "You can run, but you can't hide. We're going to continue to pursue those terrorist elements no matter where they are in the the world. The United States is going to search them out and eliminate them as a problem."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said in a statement that the killing of al-Awlaki "another great step forward in breaking the back of Al Qaeda. Another very dangerous terrorist has been eliminated today, but there is still work to be done."
Former U.S. representative Jane Harman, D-Calif., who served as ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, called the strike "an intelligence and counter-terrorism success."
"I think this is huge. I've been calling Yemen 'ground zero' for a long time, and this guy is the bull's eye in ground zero," Harman said. "I don't think there's anybody with dirtier hands out there."
In a statement, Yemen's government says al-Awlaki was targeted and killed 5 miles from the town of Khashef in the Province of al-Jawf. The town is located 87 miles east of the capital Sanaa.
The statement says the operation was launched on Friday around 9:55 a.m. It gave no other details.
Contributing: Nasser Arrabyee in Yemen; Associated Press
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It's a well-known fact that material possessions don't ultimately make us happy.
There are a number of reasons for this. First of all, it is things such as connection with people and meaningful activity that make a big difference to our well-being. Additionally, there are various mechanisms that underpin the fleeting nature of the thrill that comes from getting the stuff we crave.
One is that the acquisition of material goods is often quickly followed by anxiety about losing or damaging them. Think of the first scratch on a new car. Another is what's known as hedonic adaptation – the fact that we simply get used to things and stop noticing their beneficial impact.
That's all true. And yet, I've come to think that the issue is slightly more nuanced. There seem to be certain things that continue to make a little bit of difference to daily life for a long time. In my case, the prime example is my iPhone, which never ceases to amaze me. I don't live in fear of losing or damaging it, nor have I stopped noticing its benefits.
One distinction that can be made is whether the item is functional and something we really use, rather than just own. An expensive watch, for instance, wouldn't in itself necessarily make the same kind of difference. You only really get a thrill when it's new.
Another important point is whether we manage to keep material goods in perspective and avoid giving them more value than they deserve. Apart from the fact that they can often be replaced, we should aim to enjoy things in the genuine understanding that they will not last for ever or give meaning to our life. If we do this, we may be able to avert excessive fear of losing them.
It would be completely wrong to let our well-being hang on an iPhone, or to think that it could bring about a deep existential transformation. But there's nothing wrong with noticing and appreciating what it can do for us, practically and aesthetically.The Sage
"Laughing always turns to crying" – or so my uncle used to say. He may not have known that his homespun wisdom had a classical pedigree. Plato thought that we will naturally return to a kind of neutral state. So if we feel pleasure, we will inevitably feel a corresponding pain as we regain equilibrium; and if we feel pain, we will feel pleasure when we are restored to normality.
Some experiences fit this description but, in general, levels of pain and pleasure are not regulated by immutable, mechanical laws, like the conservation of energy. That also means that if something makes you happy, more of it won't necessarily make you even happier. Worse, as you get used to the things that make you feel good, they may lose their power to do so.
One popular folk theory to explain this, often dignified by references to Taoism, is that the yin of happiness requires the yang of misery. "He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness," as Alexandre Dumas put it. From this principle many draw the same conclusion he did – that happiness and misery have a measure of relativity: "There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another."
There is some truth in this, but good and bad cannot be defined purely relative to expectation and experience. Many things or states of affairs really are better or worse than others. Poverty, for example, is terrible, even when people around you are even poorer.
Nothing has the power of the first time, so as we get used to good things, it is inevitable that many will have less impact. But familiarity need not make us lose sight of their real value. Remembering how lucky you are to eat well every day and how easily things could be different, for instance, can lead to more, not less, satisfaction with life. The way to appreciate improvements in life is never to allow ourselves to get so used to them that they are no longer noticed.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis elevated 20 Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops to the rank of cardinal at a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday.
Cardinals, the red-hatted "princes" of the church, are the pope's closest advisers in Rome and around the world. Fifteen of the new cardinals are under 80 and known as "cardinal electors," because they can enter a secret conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis after his death or resignation.
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Last Updated on Friday, 30 August 2013 12:25
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Friday, 30 August 2013 12:25
Speaking of summer events out west, Burning Man started this week.
What is Burning Man?
Burning Man went from a small festival on the beach of San Francisco in the 1990′s to a 48,000+ member week-long event in Black Rock City, Nevada. Participants journey out to the Black Rock Desert to be a part of an experimental community where they are challenged to express themselves and rely on themselves. They set up a makeshift city and end the week with the burning of a massive effigy – the burning man.
According to the festival website, there are no rules about how everyone should behave or express themselves as long as they protect the health, safety, and experience of the rest of the community. Each individual decides for themselves how they will contribute to the community.
What's to love about Burning Man?
What's not to love about a festival that requires its participants to be one with the desert and with each other? The sheer amount of passion and creativity in one place results in incredible art throughout Black Rock City.
Burning Man also places heavy emphasis on taking care of the environment. While festival members camp in the desert for a week, they have a "leave no trace" policy, meaning that once the festival is over, there is literally no evidence that anyone has been there.
If you pare it down, Burning Man gives its participants the opportunity to experience something rare – self-discovery in the context of a safe, creative community. The journey to Black Rock City is like a pilgrimage, and the week spent there is life-changing for nearly everyone who experiences it.
Burning green at Burning Man
Something unexpected – Burning Man has actually been called the MOST dangerous place to do or share drugs in the United States.
Cannabis and Burning Man have a long history together, which comes as no surprise considering the relationship between cannabis and the artistic community (and the fact that Burning Man is known as a "hippie" festival). Tokers look at Burning Man as a place to let go and see where their art will take them.
Although the festival boasts freedom from rules to encourage self-expression, in the past few years, the marijuana community has found Burning Man to be a dangerous place to express themselves through that particular medium. The scent is everywhere, but the law enforcement that patrols Black Rock City will crack down if they know where it's coming from. Smoking marijuana is still a felony in Nevada, and the state (and federal government) will not recognize medical marijuana cards.
Anyone ever made the journey out to Black Rock City? How was your experience? Let us know on Facebook, or come tell us your stories in person!
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The city's police chief confirms that the force has launched an internal investigation into allegations that a police officer assaulted an arrestee at the city police station.
Brandon Police Service Chief Ian Grant said the public needs to be assured that such allegations are taken seriously.
"I have complete confidence in our process, the processes that we use to complete such investigations — that there will be a thorough, complete and professional investigation that will be conducted," Grant said during an interview on Friday.
Police wouldn't get into details of the allegations, citing the need to protect the integrity of the investigation.
Anthony Paul Blais says a police officer stabbed him in the leg with a drill bit that was found in his pocket during a search.
Blais, who was arrested on Jan. 2 following a dramatic police pursuit in the city, outlined the following allegations during a phone call from the Brandon jail where he's being held.
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Blais says that following his arrest, he was taken to the Brandon police station where he was placed in a cell and searched.
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|2013-11-02, 10:19
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Interesting episode. It's rather odd though how so many of the girls are missing and everyone just chalks it up to "they must be taking the day off" (even though at this point some of them would have been missing for multiple days, if not weeks). How irresponsible of them.
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All the new Little busters have disappeared save for the only one I don't like, Komari. Dammit >_<
The mastermind was revealed, and to the surprise of absolutely nobody, it was Kyousuke. Riki doesn't seem to have realized the trials were meant to make him grow up as well.
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I was quite surprised when the storm brewing at the end of last episode was gone in this one. I expected it to be used for the dramatic scenes, so as to truly dub this the successor of Sad Girls in the Snow.
Am I supposed to take that ending literally or is it just an artistic portrayal of someone fading into the darkness? He's kind of a jerk for letting poor Riki lie there either way.
That was another interesting episode, but I am worried that this one might have unintentionally told me much, much more than it should have. Or maybe it was intentional.. though it would strike me as rather strange to reveal the what I think will be the crucial plot point only 5 episodes in.
And yeah, Kyousuke was so obvious I couldn't help but suspect a red herring until this very episode.
And another week to wait.. alas that the story is gripping me so hard it feels like the episodes are over in 5 minutes.
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As I watched the monologue preceding and leading up to the point where Rin and Riki get into an argument, I kept thinking that the entire premise behind Riki's decision to urge Rin to go is very flawed. Rin did not make that circle of female friends by herself - Riki was the initiator of all those friendships in those cases, and Rin merely tagged along. The only way for Riki's thought process to remain believable, would be for Riki to be remarkably blind as to the dynamics of the newer members of the Little Busters.
The more I think about it, perhaps Riki just isn't that privy to what goes on with the girls, and leads to the assumption that the fact that Rin's friendship with the girls that in truth befriended Riki first, implies that Rin can make friends, without Riki as the initial mediator. It's a wrong assumption to make - perhaps, it also reflects the problem that Riki tends to sell himself a little short, and fail to really grasp that it's not Rin that's holding the girls together as friends. Yes, she appears to have initiated events, but that group of friends was won over by Riki, not Rin. Furthermore, I think that the girl holding the females of the Little Busters as a common clique (and they are, to an outsider) is not really Rin. And it's not completely Riki either, when Riki is not around.
Sometime ago, I commented that Kurugaya takes an analogous role that Kyousuke does among the boys, among the girls However, after looking at some of the Komari scenes, I think the place Kyousuke occupies among the boys (as heart and head) is split into two among the girls, with Komari as the heart.Infact, I am leaning towards Komari as the girl who turns the "friend of my friend Riki" group of females, into an actual group of female friends. I think it's rather unfortunate that they choose such a absurdly childish voice for Komari. Yes, it's meant to fit her character, but a voice closer to her age group would probably made her status as the emotional heart of the female Little Busters, and a elder sister figure in the group much more clearer. I suspect most of the female only Little Busters initiatives got in all the females, because Komari seems to be the one who convened all the girls together for those girls only activities- but that's just a theory of mine, and better informed readers could correct me of that.
It might be, that Kurugaya already takes the Anego status of the Little Busters female, so, the authors decided to make Komari childish in voice and appearance so as not to have a second "bigger" sister figure in the group. Which is the shame, because once you realize what kind of person Kurugaya is, you start realizing that she's not the actual "Anego" Figure, or the leading figure among the girls. Ironically, it might well be Komari instead, despite her voice. Is it also coincidence that she happens to be one of the taller and well endowed of the girls, despite her childish face and voice?
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I think it's interesting that in the anime, Riki is an insider to all the girls in the Little Busters, as a friend, but of the friendship between the girls themselves, he's very much an outsider. But while this might be too thin a thread to speculate on, I think from the brief glimpses of the internal dynamics of the Little Busters female, there's appears to be a very interesting parallel story going on here. From the outside, Kurugaya seems to take the same role as the leader of the girls, but inside, between them, Kurugaya isn't really capable of offering the same sort of emotional bedrock that Kyousuke provides for the boys, which Komari somewhat fills.
I think Riki somewhat fails to realize that within the Female Little Busters, Rin isn't the one keeping that group together. Riki's bridging the male and female portions of the Little Busters into one, but the females themselves aren't a collection of independent individuals bounded to Riki, but rather, a second group of female friends with a dynamics running often in parallel to the dynamics between the original group of male friends.
Perhaps Riki recognizes that this second cohesive group of female friendships exist in the new half of the Little Busters, but I think he fails to realize that the fact that such a group exist and that Rin now has a clique of females doesn't necessarily mean that Rin could make friends independent of Riki.
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That was much longer than I anticipated. I originally intended to write how stupid Riki's thought process sounded to me, when I started out, and it somehow drifted into a discourse into the dynamics of the Little Busters. But it's a very interesting dynamics here.
And yes. I am aware that there are smaller, one on one relationships between the girls, besides that overarching "clique" that the girls have become. Rin and Komari is one example, and then there's the more special friendship that Kurugaya and Haruka seems to have implied to posses. There's Kud insecurity of whether she really belongs into that group, and unfortunately, the anime doesn't really go well into where Mio fits into that group - only that she indeed is in that group.
You know, you could axe (or genderbend) Riki, and even if this was one of those cute girls doing cute things story, the relations and characters of the Little Busters girl could make it one of those very strong "female-friendship" shows, in the vein of K-on, Yuru-Yuri, GJ-bu, etc, etc. The character depth of the Little Busters girls and their personalities, and even their back-stories can probably carry that show strongly.
But that would take away what makes Little Busters unique, and that's where we really have a mixed friendship group of boys and girls, where the boys actually really matter - and in this day and age of harems where the males are joke characters, or all female friendship stories, it's rather refreshing. Still, I don't think it's Rin that's keeping the girls together. Riki is the central link where the Little Busters relationships is increasingly flowing through.
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Why is it no one wonders where Kurugaya went?
Did they just cut the scene where they started to wonder about it or is there something behind that oO?
And... Yeah...about that one sentence:
Masato: 'I decided to not say anything from the beginning'
Is it just my imagination or is he smarter than we all thought and actually managed to figure Kyousuke's plan out
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Kinda liked novanalysis' thoughts on Komari as a possible explanation to why she is one of the girls still around, though. Hadn't thought of her like that, but I certainly think it is a real possibility.
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In many ways, the problem I feel is that the Voice acting impacts our perception of Komari, If her voice was more age appropriate, but she was given the same lines, and even perhaps the same character design, she'd probably be regarded much more favorably as the most optimistic and positive of the girls, and the emotional heart among the Little Busters girls, rather than an annoyance that makes you want to choke the voice actress from across the screen everytime her nails on chalkboard voice fills the speakers.
As I understand it, the standard explanation is that Komari's friendship with Rin is deepest amongst the girls. Riki's mistake is to assume that Rin's the driving force among the Little Buster females - but that isn't necessarily the case. Even if Rin has appeared to have initiated activities before, she still cannot do it by herself. In that case, Riki's reasoning to me, only sounds believable, if it was product of misjudging the dynamics behind the girls.
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As an anime only viewer, this episode was good but nothing special.
We get confirmation that Kyousuke is the one behind the missions. They have been hinting strongly at that for several episodes so that was not as chooking at it might have been. Also, we did not really learn anything new about the mysteries. The only odd thing about that was that Kyousuke was willing to leave Riki behind while fleeing from the guard.
That the girls are disapearing is strange, but since the anime have not dealt with these things in the slightest there is no real emotional investment in this yet. It's just like "and there goes another"... I think that if the characters had atleast spent some time looking for them, being curious where they are, sad and angry and afraid that they can't find them, then there would be some emotional respons from the viewers. Now its just "meh".
Riki realized he was being selfish by influencing Rin to stay. To fix that he decided that he needed to force her to go?! I guess most of us have lived through situations like these, where close friends goes away for some time or forever. To me, the only way to hadle it is to point out that it is their choice and that I will love and support them either way. Had Riki and Rin been in love, truly, he should have done his best to make her stay though. But his feelings for her is not love, he simply cares alot about her.
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Oh boy, here we go. We are going to see a lot of tradegies now.
Is it me or am I seeing parallels with Angel Beats?
I have to ask why does Kyousuke need to do this anyway? I am guessing something horrible will happen to them that can potentially break Riki and Rin. He is just readying them for that.
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This has at least been hinted by the scene where he sits in the dark and said someting about when he is gone.
So I guess that void is LB's 'world that has already ended'
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Good episode. A lot happened during the episode, but it didn't feel rushed to me. The execution of the important scenes was really good.
I think Riki is underestimating Rin's feelings though. She might not know much about love, but it's clear that she has romantic feelings for him.
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