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The 32-year-old actress, who tied the knot with actor Saif Ali Khan in October last year, says she has friends outside Bollywood and she tries to keep her personal life separate from her work.
"The key is to realise that we are here to work in this industry. I'm not over-friendly with anyone, I don't get into anyone's personal space because I don't want people to get into mine. I have a life outside of films," Kareena told PTI.
Having faced huge media curiosity surrounding her marriage to Saif, Kareena says she prefers her work to make more news than her personal life.
"Some of my friends are from the industry but most of them are not. So that is a part of life that I cherish. I go to work and come back. I want to keep it like that - go to work, come home and let my work talk more than anything else," she says.
Post marriage the actress has been super busy shooting for brand endorsements while Saif has been shooting for Bullet Raja.
"Saif has been shooting for Bullet Raja and I have shot for Dabangg 2 song and promoted Talaash. I have also shot for eight brands since the wedding. We actors sign up brands then we forget that we have to give them four days each to shoot. I have been shooting every day. Work is my passion and Saif respects that," says Kareena.
Kareena, who did Dabangg 2 item number Fevicol for "good friend" Salman Khan, says she shares a warm relationship with the actor since the days her elder sister Karisma used to work with him.
"Salman and Karisma go back 12-16 years, they started with movies like Nishchay (1992) and I used to be on the sets. I was 8 or 9 years old then. He has that kind of love for me, as Karisma's younger sister. He was friendly during 'Bodyguard' and he respects the kind of person that I am. You can see the warmth between us and that's what I love."
Salman's father, veteran scriptwriter Salim Khan had specially called Kareena to praise her performance as Rosie in her latest release Talaash.
"When a living legend like Salim saab, who has written such great films and characters, calls you, it's something else. In my decade long career, no one has given me the compliment that he has for Talaash.
"He never called me after Jab We Met. He said I have been studying your work, I think you are one of the best that we have, so please continue doing such roles. That's a great compliment."
Ending the year with an Aamir-Khan starrer film, Kareena is set to begin 2013 with his nephew Imran Khan as well as Prakash Jha's Satyagraha.
"I ended the year with Aamir, I'm going to start the year with Imran. Life's always a full circle, I've got to work with both. In January I start shooting for a film with Imran Khan and then I have Satyagraha with Ajay Devgn. We start shooting for that on February 1."


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Depending on how you look at it, the combination of a large sensor and large aperture in a small camera body is either the Holy Grail of photography... or its the unicorn. The Sony DSC-RX100 III is probably the closest thing to that ideal, having a maximum aperture range of f/1.8-f/2.8. It's easy to be seduced by numbers; this is a fairly bright lens, but it is mated to a sub-DSLR/mirrorless sensor. As large as the 1" 20mp Sony sensor is for a small camera, how "fast" is the RX100M3 in terms of equivalent aperture and depth of field in comparison to the "real thing" (i.e, enthusiast-level APS-C cameras)?

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Changes in the physiology of the cotton plant could make future fiber easier to clean in the ginning process, says Rick Byler, research leader at the USDA Cotton Ginning Laboratory at Stoneville, Miss.
"One of the issues we're interested in is the effect of variety on ginning," he said at the annual meeting of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, held in conjunction with the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show at Memphis.
"It's something we've known about for a long time, but we don't feel it's been studied well enough. "Cliff Boykin, research engineer, has been working on this with some of the geneticists at Stoneville, the University of Arkanasas, and Mississippi State University.
"For example, cotton plants have hairs — different cultivars have different amounts, most notably on the leaves, some on the bracts — and these hairs have an impact on cleaning in the ginning process.
"The hairs on the leaves are useful to help keep insects off the plant," Byler says, "One of the concepts they're looking at is to perhaps develop varieties that retain hairs on the leaves, but remove them from the bracts to make the cleaning process more efficient."
Another example is the impact that variety has on energy requirements for ginning, he says.
"Bill Meredith, USDA cotton geneticist at Stoneville, has observed that in some varieties the fiber is attached more tightly to the seed, while in others it separates very easily. We're doing tests in the lab to determine how much energy it takes to pull fiber off the seed and how that relates to variety."
These projects have been partially supported by Cotton Incorporated.
Work is also in progress, Byler says, on a gin dust study,
supported by each of the regional ginner groups, Cotton Incorporated, and state and federal funding.
The Environmental Protection Agency sets standards for limits of fine dust (PM2.5), based on how much dust it takes to cause health problems, he notes.
"State regulatory agencies then had to estimate gin emissions of fine dust, which are higher than some previous ginning research suggests. Most dust from a cotton gin is large dust that doesn't affect health.
"The problem is the lack of fine dust data associated with sampling agricultural dust, such as from gins — which is quite different from urban dust.
"We wanted to include the entire cotton belt in this study, and all the ginning labs are working on it. We're getting close to being ready to analyze the data and come up with some numbers."
Bobby Hardin, an engineer at the ginning lab, has been measuring energy use by gins in a project also supported by Cotton Incorporated, Byler says.
"Data we've accumulated thus far should encourage you to keep your gin stands loaded. For an individual gin, as bales ginned per hour increases, the amount of electricity used per bale decreases. Keeping your gin stands fully loaded will allow the most efficient use of your electricity."
And, Byler says, the time required to deal with a gin breakdown can also have an impact on energy use and labor costs.
"If your breakdown is short, less than 12 minutes, you should go ahead and let the gin continue running. But if it's going to take more than 12 minutes to correct the problem, you should shut the gin down, then restart it when the repair is done."
Ginners should also work with their producers to try and have cotton at a proper moisture content for ginning, Byler says.
"When cotton is a bit wet, it slows the gin. Work with your producers to protect the cotton so it can enter the gin at the proper moisture level to insure optimum efficiency of ginning and fuel use."
In another project, Byler says, a study was conducted at a commercial gin where they were reclaiming usable lint rejected by seed cotton cleaners.
"They averaged about 19 pounds of reclaimed material per bale. About 36 percent was loose lint, 37 percent was motes, and 12 percent was partially-ginned seed cotton by weight.
"This is a fair amount of weight being lost per bale," Byler says. "When we looked at quality, this material was shorter and had more neps, but it was still of fairly good quality. When mixed in with other fiber before the lint cleaners, there was no detectable difference in HVI readings. We don't have spinning data yet – which will be the ultimate test as to whether there is a quality difference."


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One of the biggest new stars of 2009 Agnes follows her incredible UK debut single 'Release Me' with the even bigger 'I Need You Now' on November the 15th. Here is a preview of the fantastic video for the release
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The follow up to the smash hit 'Release Me' is due for release on the 16th november. 'I Need You Now' originally a ballad on her Love Dance Pop album has been re sung and completely re produced into an amazing uptempo masterpiece.
Its first UK radio play was on Friday the 11th September on Scott Mills – Floorfillers. The reaction on the show and since on the internet have been enormous – could this see Agnes going 2 better than her number 3 chart position with 'Release Me' and top the charts come Novermber?
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Replying to Terraformer: 3 kg to escape is to be the nominal "ML-2" capability as mentioned in the March 31 post.
It should have the propulsion means to land 1 kg total mass onto lunar surface using chemical rocket. It could carry 2-3 50 gram rovers and go for GLXP, except the entry for that is closed and the rules are weird.
For high delta-v, it looks like a colloid thruster using glycerol or other low vapor pressure liquid. The experimental ones seem to develop an Isp of 1000-1500. This is about ideal for effective use of limited energy and ability to rendezvous with NEOs.
The emitter can be a tapered glass tube of hypodermic needle and require 1 watt or so--the examples are clusters of emitters of about one watt each.
A selected NEO can be orbited (orbital velocity a few meters/sec), and while the data link is kept aimed at Earth, small probes could be ejected by a spring so to fall directly to the surface.
A short range RF link could be used to communicate to the orbiter (NEOs rotate with an average period of 4-8 hours), which then passed data on.
The JPL site listing current NEOs lists in the right column the velocity relative to Earth. Ones with less than 5 km/sec would be chosen first.
For last year I have been in Las Vegas, and progress with networking, finding a core group to get the hardware phase going is much more rapid than when at Mojave CA.
It looks like the NASA Nanosatellite Challenge, with the $2 million prize is going to happen, about a year late. I will be using that in trying to get together the core group, sponsors or angel investors.
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From the president with the shortest inauguration speech to the one who had special white, red, and blue jelly beans made, here's a few interesting facts about our country's inaugural tradition.
The word inauguration, in Latin, means "installment under good omens."
In the olden days when news was sent via horse messenger, the inauguration used to be held on March 4 to allow adequate time for the election votes to be counted and officially reported. However, with advances in technology, that lengthy four-month period was cut short so the outgoing president wouldn't be a "lame duck" for too long, and was added as the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the last president to be sworn in on the old date of March 4 and the first to be sworn in for his second term on January 20, 1937.
Coming in at a mere 135 words, Washington took a no-frills approach to his second inauguration speech, reflecting on how seriously he took his position as commander-in-chief.
There was a snowstorm on the day of Harrison's ceremony and the president refused to move the proceedings indoors. Instead, he endured the frigid temperature—sans coat and hat—to deliver his two-hour, 8,445 word speech. Not long after, Harrison contracted pneumonia and died just one month into his term, becoming the first president to die in office.
It wasn't until March 1801 that the government move to DC, so on inauguration day, Jefferson walked to the Capitol Building's Senate chamber to take the oath of office with just a few attendees as witnesses. After giving his speech, he walked back to the boarding house where he was staying to eat.
It was the 1809 event that the tradition of having an inaugural ball began. First Lady Dolley Madison hosted the soirée at Long's Hotel in DC, with four hundred tickets offered at $4 a piece.
After his presidential term, Taft served as Chief Justice of the United States and gave the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge in 1925 and Herbert Hoover in 1929.
An estimated 10 million Americans across the country were able to witness, for the first time, the swearing in of a president when Truman took the oath of office in 1949.
In order to quit pipe smoking during his run for governor in 1966, Reagan developed an affinity for Jelly Beans. For his 1981 inauguration, the maker of Jelly Belly® jelly beans, Herman Goelitz, Inc., shipped three and a half tons of red, white, and blue treats to DC and continued to provide the president with the candy during the course of his two terms.
During his swearing-in ceremony in 2009, President Obama, the country's first African-American president and first one born in Hawaii, used the same bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in with in 1861. For his 2013 inauguration, he added Martin Luther King Jr.'s King James Bible along with Lincoln's.
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Heya Cameron,
I'm not that interested in the "culture-war" talk either - my fault for
bringing up Ken Miller at all, even with the qualifications. It was just a
handy example of what kind of "compatibility" talk would be
ridiculous/absurd by my view, regardless of who is or is not actually
advocating it.
I'm fascinated about the talk of where these words have come from
(stochastic in particular) and what they mean now. But if there's one point
I want to stress to everyone here, particularly Rich Blinne, it would be
I agree that "truly random", "truly unguided", etc is unscientific, and not
what any scientific theory does or can say (not while also remaining
'scientific' at least). But I think Cameron has made a very strong case in
the past that as far as Darwin was concerned, these things were *essential*
to his "theory" - such that, if you strip out these claims (on the grounds
that they are not scientific), you're left with a theory that, however
useful, is not what Darwin was driving at. Not by a longshot.
I'd further agree that "What TEs today intend is another matter, but that is
not what Darwin intended, nor what Mayr intended, nor what Gaylord Simpson
intended, nor what Carl Sagan intended, nor what Stephen Jay Gould
intended." And I see the greater problem here being that, at least if I take
Rich Blinne right, he regards all this as inconsequential. Meaning, it
doesn't matter if Sagan, Gould, Mayr, Dawkins, Coyne, etc, claim that
evolution is truly random and unguided (and this is a scientific statement),
or that science has shown evolution to be truly random and unguided, because
they're wrong, and that's that. I say a problem remains, and the problem
isn't that ID proponents are overreacting.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Cameron Wybrow <firstname.lastname@example.com>wrote:
> I don't want to get involved in the culture-war aspect of the post below,
> but perhaps I can provide a few philological notes that may be useful in
> clearing up some misunderstandings:
> First, regarding the English word "random". It may interest people to know
> that it probably originally comes from a French word meaning "gallop", and
> naturally came to apply to actions done at high speed. It also took on the
> sense of actions done impetuously or hurriedly, and from there to actions
> done carelessly, and from there, to actions done without aim or plan. (This
> is all from the full-sized, 16-volume Oxford English Dictionary.) In other
> words, "random" did not originally have anything to do with "chance" or
> "accident", and only came to have those associations later. This does not
> affect what I will argue below, but I think it is interesting nonetheless.
> Second, neither did the root of the word "stochastic" originally have
> anything to do with chance or accident (or "randomness" in the modern
> sense). "Stochastic" is from a Greek verb (stochazomai) pertaining to
> aiming at a target, and therefore was originally aligned with notions of
> intentionality or design; in modern science it is used with quite a
> different meaning, in some cases almost the opposite meaning, since
> "stochastic" processes involve many misses before they get a hit, or only
> achieve a hit through the collective action of large numbers. This usage of
> "stochastic" can be justified from the original Greek root in the following
> way: sometimes when we aim at a target we miss, and sometimes when we are
> trying to find an answer, we guess, and guesses can be wrong. (The Greek
> verb can also mean "guess", in intellectual matters.) Nonetheless, current
> usage conceals the teleological associations of the original root.
> Third, "random" may well have special senses in various special sciences,
> but the general modern usage of the word, again from the OED, is: "Not sent
> or guided in a special direction; having no aim or definite purpose; made,
> done, occurring, etc. at haphazard". It is this definition that Gage and
> West have in mind when they say that God cannot guide "random" events. If
> there are "random" events in the universe in this sense (and I am not saying
> that there are, but if there are), then by definition they cannot be guided
> by anyone -- not even by God. That follows from the definition. Hence the
> remark made below about God not being able to make a square circle. God
> cannot guide a random event if "random" is meant in the sense above.
> Fourth, God could of course guide *apparently* random events, events which
> from our observational point of view meet the criteria of the definition of
> randomness above, but which are in fact controlled. Thus, a mutation which
> gives a finch a longer beak might be caused by the striking of a finch
> genome by a "random" cosmic ray which is not really random, but either
> steered by God to hit the genome at that exact point, or perhaps was set up
> by God, from the beginning of creation, to strike the earth at that time and
> place, when God knew the finch would be there. Needless to say, Darwin
> would have called this cheating. It slips in design either via invisible
> steerings of God or by temporal remote control. This was not what he
> intended by his theory. What TEs today intend is another matter, but that
> is not what Darwin intended, nor what Mayr intended, nor what Gaylord
> Simpson intended, nor what Carl Sagan intended, nor what Stephen Jay Gould
> intended. "God-guided apparent neo-Darwinian evolution" is not the same as
> "neo-Darwinian evolution".
> Fifth, the Biblical passage quoted is given in English translation, and it
> does not appear that those who are employing it below (Randy or Richard or
> both; I'm not sure from all the layers of quotation and commentary) have
> taken the time to ascertain the original expression used which is here
> translated "at random". In the original Hebrew, it is said that the man
> strikes "in his wholeness". The word "wholeness" ("tom", long o) can also
> be translated as righteousness, purity, moral perfection, integrity, etc.
> It has nothing intrinsically to do with chance, randomness, etc. It is
> unclear why the Hebrew writer uses this phrase. It is possible that it
> means "innocently", i.e., not intending to hit the king specifically, and
> therefore that he hit the king by accident. But even if so, "by accident"
> does not mean exactly the same as "at random"; presumably the archer was
> aiming at *some* target, not just firing his arrow anywhere, hoping to hit
> something. "By accident", would suggest that maybe he was aiming at the guy
> next to the king, and hit the king instead. Thus, "at random" is an
> over-translation. The King James and Revised Standard have "at a venture",
> which would be better. But even this translation is questionable. Why
> would the archer's "innocence" be stressed here? Wouldn't an enemy archer
> *want* to hit the king, and knock out the motor of the opposing army? And
> this leads us to consider the Septuagint translation. The Greek Jews who
> translated this expression used the adverb *eustochos*, related to the verb
> *eustocheo*, which means "aim well (and therefore hit)". That is, the
> archer intended to hit the king, and, with a "well-aimed" shot, did so. So,
> if the Septuagint translators had our current Hebrew text, they must have
> interpreted it the noun *tom* as meaning something like "perfection" in a
> non-moral sense: "in his perfection", i.e., "in the perfection of his aim",
> he hit the king. I suspect that the Greek translators have hit upon the
> intended meaning of the original. But in any case, the translation "at
> random" is highly questionable, and should not be used as a "killer
> argument" in the way that it is used below. More generally, it is not
> safe to rely upon English translations of the Bible when a "loaded" word is
> involved.
> Sixth, I'm sorry, but I don't see where Randy or anyone else was
> "slandered" in Logan Gage's posts. Someone will need to point me to the
> spot.
> Cameron.
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Rich Blinne <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> *To:* Schwarzwald <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> *Cc:* asa <firstname.lastname@example.com> ; Randy Isaac <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:20 AM
> *Subject:* Re: What my tiny little brain was thinking... [was Re: [asa]
> Two Amino Acid Difference in Gene May Explain Human Speech]
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 3:34 AM, Schwarzwald wrote:
> Rich,
> I gave you the link to (at least part of) West's own discussion with Barr.
> http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/07/clarity_and_confusion_stephen.html -
> I'd say you should give it a read if you haven't yet. It really is
> interesting.
> Anyway, I don't think West is referring to that single line from Miller's
> textbook, but from Miller's writings on this subject specifically - and as I
> said, I'm unaware of them, so I can't testify to the accuracy of West's
> claim here. Now, I will definitely agree that the transcript you provide has
> Miller claiming that "utterly unguided and without purpose" is not something
> science can say. But let me be specific: My point of bringing that claim up
> was not to say "Aha, Miller is crossing the bounds between science and
> philosophy". I don't care if Miller says that view is entirely philosophical
> - if that's the "compatibility" being offered, leave me out of it.
> I mention that only as an aside to the larger discussion, and with the
> qualification that I don't even know if it's a view Miller actually claims
> to hold. I do recall Ayala holding a similar view in the past, hence my
> recent (pleasant) surprise at his stated views at Templeton's site.
> So as you see the specific examples the imputation of a wrong-headed
> definition of what science thinks "random" is again disproven. One of the
> reasons why I am very skeptical West and Logan Paul Gage are accurately
> describing the views of people I don't know is that they are getting
> completely wrong the views of people I do. Randy Isaac and myself have had
> in the past a fairly long discussion of what it means to be random
> particularly from a scientific viewpoint. (This is analogous of the
> difference to what a scientist refers to as a theory and the lay public
> does. To a scientist a theory is a well-tested explanation of a set of
> phenomena. Here Miller is helpful in his book Only a Theory.) In November
> 2007, Logan Paul Gage wrote a review of the Alistair McGrath's *Dawkin's
> Delusion*.
> McGrath recounts surveys showing many scientists to be theists.
> Unfortunately, this does nothing to establish the compatibility of Darwinism
> and theism. Humans hold incompatible beliefs all the time.
> To see why Darwinism and theism are incompatible, consider random mutations
> and natural selection—the two elements of modern Darwinian theory. Random
> mutations are, well, random. By definition, random mutations are unguided.
> "Mutations are simply errors in DNA replication," according to University of
> Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne. "The chance of a mutation happening is
> indifferent to whether it would be helpful or harmful." If a mutation is
> harmful, the organism with the mutation will leave fewer offspring; but if
> the mutation is beneficial for reproduction, the mutated gene will be passed
> to many offspring. This is the "natural" selection part. Theistic Darwinists
> claim that this process creates life's diversity and is also "used" by God.
> While theists can have a variety of legitimate views on life's evolution,
> surely they must maintain that the process involves intelligence. So the
> question is: Can an intelligent being use *random* mutations and natural
> selection to create? No. This is not a theological problem; it is a logical
> one. The words *random* and *natural* are meant to exclude intelligence.
> If God guides which mutations happen, the mutations are not *random*; if
> God chooses which organisms survive so as to guide life's evolution, the
> selection is *intelligent* rather than *natural*.
> Theistic Darwinists maintain that God was "intimately involved" in
> creation, to use Francis Collins's words. But they also think life developed
> via genuinely random mutations and genuinely natural selection. Yet they
> never explain what God is doing in this process. Perhaps there is still room
> for him to start the whole thing off, but this abandons theism for deism.
> So there is a danger in the approach of theistic Darwinists such as
> McGrath. He is surely right that the religious and scientific worldviews are
> compatible. Harmony can be found. But this is not because theism can concede
> a materialist origin story and escape unscathed. Rather, it is because the
> materialist story is false and, further, is contradicted by mounting
> physical evidence in physics, chemistry, and biology.
> Both Randy Isaac and myself quickly picked up on this. I said this on list
> on November 20:
> We don't draw a distinction between them. But, we do it in the same way the
> Bible does not draw a distinction between Providence and so-called "ordinary
> events", even "random events". For example from 2 Chronicles 18:
> 27 Micaiah declared, "*If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken
> through me.*" Then he added, "Mark my words, all you people!"
> Ahab Killed at Ramoth Gilead 28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king
> of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. 29 The king of Israel said to
> Jehoshaphat, "I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal
> robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
> 30 Now the king of Aram had ordered his chariot commanders, "Do not fight
> with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel." 31 When the chariot
> commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, "This is the king of Israel." So
> they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped
> him. God drew them away from him, 32 for when the chariot commanders saw
> that he was not the king of Israel, they stopped pursuing him.
> 33 *But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between
> the sections of his armor.* The king told the chariot driver, "Wheel
> around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded." 34 All day long
> the battle raged, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot
> facing the Arameans until evening. Then at sunset he died.
> So, by drawing a distinction and in essence denying God guides even random
> events, the Intelligent Design Movement denies Scripture and the
> providential care of God, just like Richard Dawkins. If Dawkins was there to
> observe he would say God didn't do it because it was "random". The author of
> Chronicles denies this.
> But, IDM just doesn't get this. Note this review of Alister McGrath's *Dawkins
> Delusion* ( http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/35.79.html)<http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/35.79.html%29> and
> note how the reviewer denies the providence of God:
> While theists can have a variety of legitimate views on life's evolution,
> surely they must maintain that the process involves intelligence. So the
> question is: Can an intelligent being use random mutations and natural
> selection to create? No. This is not a theological problem; it is a logical
> one. The words random and natural are meant to exclude intelligence. If God
> guides which mutations happen, the mutations are not random; if God chooses
> which organisms survive so as to guide life's evolution, the selection
> is intelligent rather than natural.
> Theistic Darwinists maintain that God was "intimately involved" in
> creation, to use Francis Collins's words.* But they also think life
> developed via genuinely random mutations and genuinely natural selection.
> Yet they never explain what God is doing in this process. Perhaps there is
> still room for him to start the whole thing off, but this abandons theism
> for deism.*
> One could also say that the Bible doesn't explain how God uses random
> events to His providential ends. Yet, I don't believe any IDM proponent
> would accuse the Bible of abandoning theism for deism. Both the Bible and
> evangelical TEs argue for the polar opposite of deism.
> Randy Isaac said this:
> The November 2007 issue of Christianity Today includes a book review
> titled "Deconstructing Dawkins" in which author Logan Paul Gage critiques
> McGrath's book "The Dawkins Delusion." I don't think it's available online
> yet so let me just type in two paragraphs of the article which I think
> deserve discussion. My point is not to agree or disagree but to say that
> this is an articulation of a critical point of difference within our
> communities that needs to be clearly addressed.
> "While theists can have a variety of legitimate views on life's evolution,
> surely they must maintain that the process involves intelligence. So the
> question is: Can an intelligent being use *random* mutations and natural
> selection to create? No. This is not a theological problem; it is a logical
> one. The words *random* and *natural *are meant to exclude intelligence.
> If God guides which mutations happen, the mutations are not *random*; if
> God chooses which organisms survive so as to guide life's evolution, the
> selection is *intelligent* rather than *natural*.
> "Theistic Darwinists maintain that God was "intimately involved" in
> creation, to use Francis Collins's words. But they also think life developed
> via genuinely random mutations and genuinely natural selection. Yet they
> never explain what God is doing in this process. Perhaps there is still room
> for him to start the whole thing off, but this abandons theism for deism."
> This is essentially the same argument that Lee Strobel used on the radio a
> few weeks ago when he firmly but respectfully rebuked Francis Collins.
> Evolution is inherently random and without guidance and is therefore
> mutually exclusive with divine guidance, he said.
> Randy
> Randy went on to correspond with ASA Fellow Francis Collins about this and
> then write a letter to the editor of Christianity Today. I cannot find the
> original letter but here is Evolution News and Views on February 14, 2008
> where DI member Logan Paul Gage response to it this way:
> The January 2008 issue of *Christianity Today* contained a letter from
> Randy Isaac titled "Providence and Evolution."
> In his critique<http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/35.79.html> of
> Alister McGrath's *The Dawkins Delusion?* ["The CT Review," November],
> Logan Paul Gage fails to distinguish between scientific randomness and
> metaphysical randomness. By insisting that these two concepts are
> inextricably linked, Gage concludes that McGrath (and Francis Collins)
> maintain a position that precludes divine providence. Evolution is not a
> purely random process,
> Ahem: something I never denied. But I interrupt.
> though as with all natural processes, there are underlying random events
> involved. But even if evolution were completely random, God's action is not
> limited by randomness, just as human creative activity may involve random
> actions.
> Issac continues, illustrating his point and posing a question to me:
> The Bible records several instances when God's guiding action was expressed
> through the casting of lots. Does Gage have a better explanation than
> McGrath and Collins have provided for how God carries out his sovereignty
> through means that appear to us as scientifically random? *Randy Isaac
> Executive Director, American Scientific Affiliation Ipswich, Massachusetts
> *
> Let's tease apart the distinction Issac wishes to make between *scientific
> * (perhaps physical) and*metaphysical* randomness. I have claimed<http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=4450>
> *not* that all forms of evolution are incompatible with theism but rather
> that neo-Darwinian evolution is incompatible with robust theism. For to
> involve intelligence in the creative process, either random mutations or
> natural selection must be manipulated. And once you do that, you are no
> longer speaking of neo-Darwinism. In fact, you are speaking of some sort of
> guided evolution—a form of design.
> Back to randomness. I think Isaac's distinction unhelpful. Consider Isaac's
> own example: Does he really want to hold that the apostles' casting of lots
> was physically random but metaphysically determined? What would that even
> mean? Would it mean that the physical lot could have physically gone to
> anyone?
> While defending true randomness at first ("even if evolution were
> completely random, God's action is not limited by randomness"), later Isaac
> avoids contradiction by claiming that the random mutations of neo-Darwinian
> theory are not truly random but rather only *appear* so from our limited
> vantage point. But notice that he had to abandon orthodox evolutionary
> theory to keep intelligent guidance. Thus, he unknowingly accepts my point
> and abandons his early distinction.
> Isaac would better serve his Christian community by being clear that in
> claiming that mutations only *appear* random, he denies neo-Darwinism. He
> is still an evolutionist, but of a very different sort than the
> neo-Darwinists who dominate our universities.
> If Isaac actually thinks an intelligent being can guide randomness, then it
> is up to HIM to explain how that works—not the other way around. I have
> claimed that it is impossible. Providence can certainly reign over random
> events; and Providence can certainly know the outcome of future contingents;
> but all that is different from saying that Providence can guide truly random
> events.
> "Even if evolution were completely random, God's action is not limited by
> randomness," wrote Isaac. While this may sound like he is coming to God's
> defense, this is like saying that God is not limited by square circles.
> Providence is, of course, not limited by these things because they are
> contradictions, and hence they do not exist.
> As for having a better explanation than Collins and McGrath as to how
> Providence interacts with randomness, yes, I do. When intelligent beings
> direct events, the events are not random either physically or
> metaphysically, and thus the agency is potentially detectable. And events
> that appear random may or may not actually be random. They cannot be both
> random and non-random at once.
> As far as I know, Collins and McGrath don't offer ANY such explanation as
> to how an intelligent being could guide random events. Collins's *The
> Language of God* argues for neo-Darwinism and then slaps God on top
> without telling us what is left for Him to do. And while I have only read a
> few of McGrath's numerous tomes, I have yet to find any detail as to how an
> event could be truly random and guided at the same time. Because I think
> such an explanation is impossible, I am not holding my breath.
> ID proponents do not have a clue of how the word random is used in the
> scientific context nor do they have a clue of what theory means nor
> macroevolution. They take standard terms and abuse them and in turn use this
> to slander people like our Executive Director and fellows. This is why there
> isn't rapprochement between ID and TE, not because there is much difference
> between us -- there isn't -- but because *some* ID proponents behave in a
> shameful fashion like the above example. A counter example is ASA President
> Walter Bradley. If all ID proponents were like him there wouldn't be a
> problem.
> Rich Blinne
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As if the usual horde of Philadelphians and assorted bandwagoners outnumbering the Nats fans in DC weren't enough, they found a way to impose themselves on the action. After Danny Espinosa's home run in the fifth landed in a section of Phillies fans, one chucked the ball back on to the field as if it were a visitor's.
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Exactly eight months after a badly decomposed body was found near a UCSB dorm, campus police announced Thursday that the remains have been identified as those of a local homeless man.
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The purpose of the Coaching program at Evangel University is to train up coaches who are willing and able to educate students on good nutritional and physical behaviors, creating physically active, healthy young people. Its goal is also to create coaches who understand the broad scope of the impact of athletics and who are committed to creating quality experiences, influenced by God's will and their desire to serve others.
Students choosing this minor will be prepared through theory of coaching courses. After taking these courses, students will be knowledgeable in sport rules and strategies. They will also be able to develop advanced sport philosophies as well as have a broader understanding of day to day coaching responsibilities. Students will also gain useful skills in personnel management.
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In what Big Vision Entertainment boasts as the Necro Butcher's "first interview ever!" on the recently released DVD, Choose Death: Inside the Mind of a Wrestling Madman, Dylan Summers said, "When I was a kid, I was a little Hulkmaniac -- trainin' sayin' my prayers and eatin' my vitamins."
These days, Dylan Summers -- known to hardcore�wrestling fans around the world as the Necro Butcher -- is more likely to be eating fluorescent light tubes and�stomping barefoot on thumbtacks�during death matches deemed, "too violent for TV!"
The DVD�package�states: "For 10 years he has been known as the most insane wrestler in the world of wrestling. Too violent for mainstream wrestling companies like the WWE, the man known as Necro Butcher has toiled in the more underground leagues throughout the world shredding both his blood and that of others throughout the United States, Japan and Europe.
"His battles are legendary and no other individual has ever been awarded more 'King of the Death Match' titles! Content to live in the shadows, loved by wrestling fans but ignored by the mainstream media, Necro has honed his craft. But the world is about to know the Butcher a whole lot better!"
Throughout the interview, the mild-mannered Dylan Summers shared his earliest memories of watching pro wrestling at the age of six or seven, shortly after his parents divorced. "Wrestling was only on (television) on the weekends, so I began to associate wrestling with my dad -- who I'd only see on the weekends," said Summers. "After he died, I missed him and got even more into wrestling, going to live shows and buying all the magazines.
"My first live show was in '85 at the Wheeling Civic Centre in Wheeling, West Virginia, and the main event was Terry Taylor vs. Black Bart for the National Heavyweight title. I remember I was in the second row and Terry Taylor dropped Black Bart throat-first on the guardrail -- you see that happen in the opening match these days -- but back then, I remember being floored and thinking, 'I can't believe these guys are fighting like this.' I was shocked at the level of brutality I was seeing at that point in my young life, and I realized that you had to go see (wrestling) live -- TV wasn't good enough."
Summers then told his story of "accidentally" breaking into the business in Texas, being trained by Black Bart, and his first matches in January 1998. With humility, Summers spoke of his beginnings as a jobber trying to learn the ropes under the persona of Private Dylan Summers, working various promotions, and the invaluable feedback he would later receive from hardcore veterans like Ian Rotten, whom he sent tapes of his matches. Rotten told him over the phone from Kentucky, "You need some polish, but I can't afford to use you unless you're local." So Summers moved to Louisville, Kentucky -- home to the IWA Mid-South wrestling promotion, owned by Ian Rotten.
Summers then shared one funny story after another about sleeping on Ian Rotten's couch for three months as he continued to hone his craft in IWA Mid-South, while building his reputation as the most violent of death match wrestlers.
Both articulate and insightful, Summers shared stories of his first matches in IWA Mid-South, wresting the likes of Corporal Robinson and Madman Pondo. When asked of his memories of IWA Mid-South, Summers laughed, "The building was really hot and really dirty, and guys were beating the s**t out of each other."
Of his infamous time wrestling for CZW (Combat Zone Wrestling) based in New Jersey and Delaware, Summers said, "Coming into CZW for the first time, I remember thinking I'm gonna get f*****' hurt! (Those were) mean, angry f*****' bloodthirsty fans. Some of the fans in IWA, they would want to see you get f***** up, and I remember thinking, 'Well, maybe they care about me.' But those fans in Philly, where they came from, they gave me the impression that they wanted to see someone get f***** up and they did not care what happened -- they wanted to see somebody die."
Highly entertaining, Summers attempts to shed some light on the enduring popularity of hardcore wrestling. "When you punch someone in the f****** mouth, everyone can identify with that -- and we try to appeal to the lowest common denominator. When someone like Toby (Klein) and I are (having a match) we don't try to reinvent the wheel out there. Keep it simple."
Unfortunately, it's during these segments of the shoot interview that the interviewer feels the need to smugly show that he's "in the know," making references to a personal history he obviously has with Summers, as he voices his own opinions about certain wrestlers. "Justice Pain is a f****** douche bag," the interviewer said to Summers. As well, the interviewer annoyingly finishes Summers' sentences repeatedly throughout the second half-hour of the shoot. It's a bad habit�he should consider shedding for any future productions as it detracts from the overall professional quality of the DVD, with its great picture and top-notch sound.
Having said that, the interviewer moves the interview along at a good pace and the entertainment value really picks up when Summers is asked about his time traveling with Madman Pondo, Mitch Page and Zack Gowen from Boston to Los Angeles, wrestling for JCW (Juggalo Champions**t Wrestling). From there, Summers spoke about having stability in the business, wrestling everywhere from Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Dragon Gate to Ring of Honour and Big Japan Pro Wrestling.
Summers was then asked about his memories wrestling Samoa Joe, and their highly anticipated first encounter in 2005 in the main event of IWA Mid-South's debut at the ECW arena. "The atmosphere in the crowd is something I have not seen since," said Summers. "Everyone had some kind of personal interest in that match. It created an unbelievable atmosphere. (I remember thinking) I'm representing all the so-called 'death match guys' in this match, and people wouldn't take us seriously and say, 'All they can do is bleed.'
"I wanted to be like Rocky (Balboa) and stay on my feet 'til the end of the match. I'm not going to let this guy just knock me out." Summers then made some interesting analogies between his 2006 rematch with Samoa Joe and how the movie Rocky II didn't live up to the first Rocky.
From there, Summers was asked about wrestling the legendary, Abdullah the Butcher . "Abdullah and I have had three matches now," said Summers. "He knows that I'm not going to do anything that's going to make him look bad. He appreciates that, and therefore makes me look good. He speaks highly of me because I speak highly of him.
"I hope I won't be wrestling as long as him, but I can only hope that if I have to, some of the young bad ass guys will go to the lengths that I have, that I have for some the older guys that I've worked with. I think that's how its supposed to work around here -- I'm not sure."
In a nice transition, the interviewer asked Summers about his role in the movie The Wrestler. Here, Summers tells a charming and self-effacing story of getting "double-teamed" by his mother and wife as they worked to convince him to try out for the part. Summers, in telling the story, clearly didn't think he would be considered for the part as many of the younger, more physically impressive wrestlers were auditioning as well.
Summers shared the hilarious story about showing up for the audition, high as a kite, after driving across the country with his brother, "smoking weed all along the way." Summers said when he got to the audition, he learned that the writer had written the role with him specifically in mind.
"So when they saw me, they said, 'That's our f*****' guy!'" Summers laughed. "Originally, (my character) was going to be called Hillbilly Cannibal. Yeah, they wrote that role with me in mind.
"It was fun doing that movie, but it was a lot of work -- it really was. Of all the crazy shit I've done in my life, I had never jumped off a ladder before. I've been hit with ladders and had kids jump off of ladders on to me many times -- but I'd never actually climbed up a f*****' ladder and jumped off. And I had to do that six times with a bunch of movie people watching!"
The back of the DVD case states: "It was a performance so powerful it inspired a shout out of 'Necro Butcher!' from James Franco on the world's biggest movie awards show! For (Mickey) Rourke, it was a one-time movie role. But for the man known as Necro Butcher, this is a common day in a not-so-common profession."
As the interview winds down, the interviewer offers up a fun round of name association with wrestlers made famous on the independent circuit like Chris Hero, Homicide, Tyler Black, Super Dragon, Bull Pain, Nate Webb, and Eddie Kingston. "I hated (Kingston's) guts when I first met him, but now I love him."
When Gypsy Joe's name is brought up, Summers said, "That's who I want to be.
"Gypsy Joe is my dream. He's like 70-years-old and still wrestlin', always beating the s**t out of somebody, always smoking pot and has good weed on him, always has a hot ass girlfriend with him who is like 30 or 40 years younger than him -- and sometimes she's pregnant!" Summers laughed.
"I hope I don't have to still wrestle when I'm 70, but if I want to, it would be nice to know that I can. (Black) Bart always told me it doesn't matter what you do in the ring, but you gotta make people give a s**t," Summers concluded. "I never thought I'd have one match, let alone sign a f****** five-digit contract -- that hangs on my wall -- with Antonio Inoki's name at the bottom of it. And the movie (The Wrestler), I never thought that s*** would have ever happened.� But it's like what Bart always told me, this s**t wouldn't have ever happened if people didn't give a s**t about my matches."
For fans of the Necro Butcher, the two DVD set offers over five hours of insanely violent matches, many of which involve chairs, tables, ladders, barbed wire, baseball bats, cacti, thumbtacks, and staple guns. There's even an "Ultraviolent Underground Cage Deathmatch," deemed "not even viewable for a live audience." Then there's the memorable clash between Necro Butcher and Madman Pondo involving 200 light tubes, which ends with Pondo screaming at the top of his lungs, "Call a f****** ambulance!"
And for those looking to sway wrestling purists to the allure of the Necro Butcher, there are two high profile brawls that are both wildly entertaining and extremely brutal -- one with Low-Ki, and the other with Samoa Joe (with CM Punk providing commentary). As far as hardcore matches go, the first encounter between Samoa Joe and Necro Butcher is a tremendous match where the only weapons involved are a chair and a guardrail, proving that Necro Butcher can deliver a compelling match without deathmatch weaponry. This match alone is worth the price of the DVD as the Necro Butcher takes the beating of a lifetime, and keeps coming back for more.
Like the back of the case states: "What takes a humble, 24-year-old from Morgantown, West Virginia named Dylan Summers and turns him into the Necro Butcher? What makes a man spend 10 years wrestling barefoot on thumbtacks, being thrown into barbed wire, and chomping on fluorescent light bulbs?"
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Comcast has grown and changed so much over the last 15 years that many expect this wave to continue. It may, but for that to happen Comcast must realize the marketplace is changing and steer through the upcoming rapids. Can it do that?
My Pick of the Week is AT&T's plan to stop texting while driving.
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Back in the 1990s, Comcast was a small cable television company. Back then, its competition was limited to a couple of newer satellite television companies. It didn't compete with the local phone companies or Netflix or Amazon. Today it does -- and competition is heating up.
As an analyst, I like to pull the camera back and look at where a company has come from, consider where it is today, and then look forward.
I have worked on a consulting basis with just about every competitor in the space over the last 25 years, so I understand much of the change that has occurred. Some companies succeeded while others have not. The industry has been evolving. Back in the 1980s, there were several different sectors, including local and long distance telephone, and cable television.
Over the years, the industry has changed. Long-distance companies faded, other companies merged, and sectors like wireless, Internet and television grew. Many times, we tried to bring competition to the cable television industry.
In the 1990s, cable television was an industry full of small providers. Then the Baby Bells introduced a new competitor, called "Americast." At that time it looked like the local phone companies were going to be in the television business, competing with the cable TV companies. Then the seven Baby Bells started merging, and Americast was put on the back burner.
The cable television industry at the time was an industry full of many, smaller service providers. Back in those days, Comcast was just a little company. Back then, AT&T was enormous, but it was changing as well.
I remember in 1999, the long distance giant AT&T was run by CEO Mike Armstrong, and it acquired Denver-based Telecommunications Inc (TCI), then one of the largest cable television companies in the United States, run by Leo Hindery.
Overnight, this acquisition turned AT&T into the largest cable television company. It seemed to fit: the largest long-distance giant, the largest wireless company, and then the largest cable television company. Things went sour pretty quickly, however. AT&T failed at cable television. In fact, it started to fail at everything, losing its long-distance consumers to the Baby Bells.
That started the unraveling of the old AT&T, and it happened pretty quickly for what was the world's best-known brand. AT&T sold its TCI cable television business to Comcast. It spun off its wireless phone business, then called "AT&T Wireless." Then AT&T was acquired by SBC, about eight years ago. SBC took the name and now calls itself "at&t." The acquisition by Comcast changed it from one of the smaller players to the largest cable television company in the country, overnight.
The deal that transformed Comcast was struck thanks to Brian Roberts, the current CEO. Brian took the helm from his father Ralph Roberts who led the company until then. That transformed Comcast into a giant, overnight. A small family business suddenly became an industry-leading giant. But it still had further to grow.
Over the last few years, Comcast has been a Fortune 100 company with more than 24 million customers and 100,000 employees. It owns various networks and television stations. It also took majority ownership in NBC Universal.
So Comcast is growing and changing -- it is not the same company it was just 15 years ago. I expect to see it continue to grow and to change. In fact, other companies like Time Warner and Cox also grew.
That's the good part.
PR's Crucial Role
The growth has not been painless, however. While Comcast grows and succeeds on many levels, it struggles on many others. One of several areas where Comcast seems to have a missing link is public relations and relating to the customer. Comcast seems to expect the world to understand it and change to accommodate the company. Is that working?
That's why it failed at wireless a few years ago. That's why its new brand Xfinity is struggling today. Like I have told so many CEOs and executives over the years, if you don't have good public relations, and if you don't tell the marketplace not only your news, but also your position on your news, then they will fill in the blanks themselves. And more times than not, you will not be happy with the results.
Now Comcast is starting to focus on public relations and brand-building, which is a great idea and opportunity. The company absolutely needs it. Will it work? It depends. It has the big box of crayons -- now let's see if it can draw.
One question: Why hasn't it taken this path already over the last 10 years? Good question. I don't know either. Perhaps it's because until the early 2000s, Comcast never had competition. In fact none of the cable television companies had competition. But what about the last 10 years?
Since then, the local phone companies have gotten back into television with their IPTV service. AT&T uVerse and Verizon FiOS are very heavy hitters, and to this date, telephone companies have proven to be better marketers than cable TV companies.
In addition, satellite television services are now large competitors, and there are new competitors using the Internet like Netflix and Amazon, which are rapidly growing and changing the industry. To save money, a growing number of customers are buying plain old television antennas and getting channels for free. They can then download other television shows or movies from a variety of services, like Amazon, and they are happy and pay next to nothing.
New competitors are getting ready to pounce into the cable television business with new breakthroughs as well. Companies like Google and Apple look serious -- and they have already changed other industries, like wireless.
In a strange new partnership, Comcast and Verizon Wireless have gotten together. Walk into any Verizon store and you may find Comcast cable television products for sale. This was a result of Comcast selling its wireless spectrum to Verizon Wireless. So are they partners or competitors? Not sure what will develop. We'll have to keep our eyes on this one.
The good news for Comcast is that cable television companies have grown and gotten stronger over the last decade. The bad news is that may be changing. The growth wave may be peaking. We may start to see traditional cable television companies shrink over the next few years unless they can fix the problem and maintain their lead.
The concern for Comcast is that competition is growing rapidly. What is it doing to answer that threat? Its quiet PR over the years has not helped it. The industry is now entering a new era of competition and technology. Think of the marketplace as a pie. Yesterday, it had no slices -- but today is has many slices, and new technology will make even more slices.
Perhaps some customers don't mind paying more every year for services, but others do. Many customers want to save money, and Comcast does not help them. Its rates go up regularly. What ever happened to the a la carte pricing the industry was was buzzing about a couple of years ago?
The new Comcast brand called "Xfinity" launched a year or so ago. It has not really worked well, because Comcast doesn't understand how to build this new brand. First you change and update the service; then and only then do you rename it and reintroduce it.
So, looking forward, things are both exciting and challenging for Comcast. Which future path will the company take? Will it continue to grow, or is its wave cresting? You have to understand what customers think about you and why. You have to know how they feel about you -- and you have to change and improve that.
Only then should you invite customers, investors, the media and analysts to follow along on the journey with a new brand name and identity. One of Comcast's weakest links is its PR. Over the last decade, it has just not been successful.
In this new world of technology, the question is this: Will existing leaders continue growing, or will they give way to new competitors? I believe Comcast faces a choice in a changing marketplace. One way will lead to continued strong growth. If it takes the other way, it will start to fall. Will it understand what is happening, make the changes, and continue to grow? It's all in the hands of Comcast.
My Pick of the Week is AT&T's plan to stop texting while driving. When this whole idea of don't text while driving began, I thought it was crazy. After all, we all do so much behind the wheel every day -- from eating burgers to putting on makeup.
However, texting is something that we do too often while driving, and ever second your eyes are not on the road can result in a terrible accident and loss of life. Thousands of people die every year -- mainly young adults who don't really have a good feel for driving yet anyway. If you are texting, there is a 23 percent higher risk of getting into an accident.
Got your attention?
So, I congratulate AT&T for this plan to raise the awareness of everyone. AT&T is not only running countless ads, but also sending three vehicle simulators to U.S. colleges to make its point. It has also created a free app for Android and BlackBerry, called "DriveMode," that automatically replies to incoming texts with an "I'm driving" message.
In fact, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are offering a similar app.
So follow this good advice, and save lives. Don't text while you drive.


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IVFConnections is a site that has been around since 1999. It is an info/support news and discussion site for women who are dealing with infertility. The site used to be THE go-to site for infertility, but the former owners let it languish and it didn't get any updating for years. The community thrived, but the building crumbled around them.
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In a move that could shake up both the commercial and open source database management system markets, Facebook announced on Thursday that it has worked with fellow Internet giants Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter to develop WebScaleSQL, an open source, web-scale branch on top of Oracle's publically available MySQL Community Edition.
"Our goal in launching WebScaleSQL is to enable the scale-oriented members of the MySQL community to work more closely together in order to prioritize the aspects that are most important to us," wrote Facebook software engineer Steaphan Greene in a draft blog post shared with InformationWeek. Greene explained that the group wants to "help companies leverage the great features already found in MySQL 5.6, while building and adding more features that are specific to deployments in large-scale environments."
[Want more on Facebook's contributions to high-scale hardware? Read Open-Source Hardware: Prepare For Disruption.]
Over the last few months, the collaborators have built a community structure for sharing and reviewing WebScaleSQL contributions, and engineers from all four companies have contributed code and provided feedback to each other "to develop a new, more unified, and more collaborative branch of MySQL," Greene wrote.
MySQL is the most popular open source database management system (DBMS) in the world, accounting for one quarter of all multi-client DBMS deployments, according Evans Data Research. In choosing to build on MySQL, the WebScaleSQL community has opened up an avenue for hundreds of thousands of MySQL developers to grow their deployments to unprecedented scale.
The move also poses a threat to certain NoSQL and NewSQL DBMS upstarts that have gained many of their customers among organizations frustrated by the difficulty of managing MySQL at high scale. According to Greene, the WebScaleSQL community has already developed components, including:
WebScaleSQL is a set of patches on top of Oracle's publicly available MySQL Community release. The plan is to follow changes to MySQL Community Edition to ensure the latest features are available in WebScaleSQL. Like MySQL, WebScaleSQL is available under GPL licensing.
Conspicuously absent from WebScaleSQL's announcement was any mention of Oracle, which owns MySQL and offers Enterprise and Cluster editions of MySQL aimed at high-scale needs. WebScaleSQL is building on publically available Community Edition software. "As long as the MySQL community releases continue, we are committed to remaining a branch -- and not a fork -- of MySQL," a spokesperson told InformationWeek in an email interview.
WebScaleSQL will welcome other scale-oriented members of the MySQL community to contribute, according to Greene. The group is currently working on:
The introduction of WebScaleSQL is not an immediate threat to commercial or open source products in the enterprise market. For starters, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter are all self-supported IT shops, whereas smaller enterprises would want a commercial support provider. It's also unclear where "Web-scale" begins and whether MySQL Enterprise and MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition would be more practical and cost-effective products for current customers looking to scale up. Commercial database vendors including IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, meanwhile, might learn new tricks on how to scale up their own enterprise-oriented database products.
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Of course, everyone is always all about gymnastics and the swimming. Oh, the swimming. Sure I knew who Michael Phelps was, but who knew he had a teammate who was as easy on the eyes as Ryan Lochte? Sure, when he talks he may not sound like the sharpest tool in the shed, but oh, those baby blues! So imagine my shock/horror/dismay/sadness/insert drmatic word here when I was stalking him online and found out that he may or may not be seeing K. Michelle. Yes, that K. Michelle. Of train wreck Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta fame. That one. Gahhh!