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Functional Programming in Scala and Python, you should be ready to sink your teeth into a few practical Spark problems
Getting Spark
The first step to running Spark is to get a standalone instance to play with on our machines.
Go to the Spark homepage: https://spark.apache.../downloads.html
We'll be using version 1.4.0. Select that version from releases, and select Pre-built for Hadoop 2.6 and later (unless you currently have another Hadoop / HDFS instance at a different version.)
Go ahead and download / unpack that into the directory of your choice, and cd into it.
Getting our wordlist
We'll be using an english wordlist from SIL for the following exercises. Make sure to save wordsEn.txt somewhere where you can load it later.
Spark REPL
The last tutorial mentioned the concept of a REPL as a way to play with code interactively. Handy enough, Spark implemented its own REPL over Scala and Python (and not Java.)
For Scala that would be bin/spark-shell
For Python, it's bin/pyspark
You should see something like this (snipped for length):
Welcome to ____ __ / __/__ ___ _____/ /__ _\ \/ _ \/ _ `/ __/ '_/ /___/ .__/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\ version 1.3.1 /_/ Using Scala version 2.10.4 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_31) Type in expressions to have them evaluated. Type :help for more information.
or this:
Welcome to ____ __ / __/__ ___ _____/ /__ _\ \/ _ \/ _ `/ __/ '_/ /__ / .__/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\ version 1.3.1 /_/ Using Python version 2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014 22:15:05) SparkContext available as sc, HiveContext available as sqlContext.
There will be a considerable amount of other debugging and logging statements than that, but for the point of this those will do as things to look for.
Spark Context
In the Spark shell, we're given the entirety of the Spark library as sc to interact with. We can use that to load in our text file:
scala> val wordList = sc.textFile("/Users/lemur/dev/wordlist/wordsEn.txt") // ...debugger output
>>> wordList = sc.textFile("/Users/lemur/dev/wordlist/wordsEn.txt") # ...debugger output
**WARNING** - Remember last time when I mentioned Spark was Lazy? If you type that path in wrong, it's not going to tell you anything until you try and run commands on it. This is the same for a lot of functions in Spark, you won't know it's broken until you run it.
Now we have our files loaded into memory to do some experimentation with as RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets), Spark's abstraction for distributed data.
Let's try a basic one to start, how many lines are in the file? (I'm going to be trimming output so we don't fill the page with debugger info)
scala> wordList.count() // ...debugger output res0: Long = 109583
>>> wordList.count() # ...debugger output 109583
With that you've just run a Spark job. Simple as that, and not much different than how you'd interact with anything else.
Starts with
Now, since this is a dictionary, each word is in there once. That makes a wordcount a bit pointless, so instead let's get a list of what letters they start with:
scala> wordList.filter(_ != "").map(word => (word(0), 1)).reduceByKey(_+_).foreach(println) (w,2714) (s,12108) (e,4494) (a,6541) (k,964) (i,4382) (y,370) (u,3312) (o,2966) (q,577) (g,3594) (d,6694) (z,265) (m,5806) (c,10324) (p,8448) (x,79) (t,5530) (b,6280) (h,3920) (n,2475) (f,4701) (j,1046) (v,1825) (r,6804) (l,3363)
letterCounts = wordList \ .filter(lambda w: w != "") \ .map(lambda w: (w[0], 1)) \ .reduceByKey(lambda a,b: a + B)/> \ .collect() # Force the result to run >>> for count in letterCounts: ... print count ... (u'a', 6541) (u'c', 10324) (u'e', 4494) (u'g', 3594) (u'i', 4382) (u'k', 964) (u'm', 5806) (u'o', 2966) (u'q', 577) (u's', 12108) (u'u', 3312) (u'w', 2714) (u'y', 370) (u'b', 6280) (u'd', 6694) (u'f', 4701) (u'h', 3920) (u'j', 1046) (u'l', 3363) (u'n', 2475) (u'p', 8448) (u'r', 6804) (u't', 5530) (u'v', 1825) (u'x', 79) (u'z', 265)
Spark SQL
On occasion we'll have the niceties of structured data such as JSON, and Spark has just the way to deal with it using Spark SQL.
**WARNING** - Spark guide has been quoted as saying:
Note that the file that is offered as a json file is not a typical JSON file. Each line must contain a separate, self-contained valid JSON object. As a consequence, a regular multi-line JSON file will most often fail.
...and it will crash if you pass it actually valid JSON. If any reader knows the reasoning behind this particularly confounding piece of work, I'd love to know.
We'll be using fake people data: (people.json) (right click to save)
Let's go ahead and load it up using the sqlContext:
scala> val people = sqlContext.jsonFile("/Users/lemur/dev/wordlist/people.json") people: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [_id: string, address: string, age: bigint, balance: double, company: string, email: string, eyeColor: string, gender: string, guid: string, index: bigint, isActive: boolean, latitude: double, longitude: double, name: string, phone: string, picture: string, registered: string] // Make SURE to register it as a table scala> people.registerTempTable("people")
>>> people = sqlContext.jsonFile("/Users/lemur/dev/wordlist/people.json") >>> people DataFrame[_id: string, address: string, age: bigint, balance: double, company: string, email: string, eyeColor: string, gender: string, guid: string, index: bigint, isActive: boolean, latitude: double, longitude: double, name: string, phone: string, picture: string, registered: string] # Make SURE to register it as a table >>> people.registerTempTable("people")
Let's start with something fairly basic on the SQL, getting the index of people who are inactive with a balance greater than $2000:
// Note I'm calling on SQL Context here scala> sqlContext.sql(""" | SELECT index | FROM people | WHERE isActive == false AND | balance > 2000.00 | """).count() res1: Long = 75
>>> sqlContext.sql(""" ... SELECT index ... FROM people ... WHERE isActive == false AND ... balance > 2000.00 ... """).count() 75
Triple quotes are a life saver when making larger SQL-like strings.
Like SQL, you can join, count, group, and various other operations all in a big data context. It's a shame it won't play nicely with actual JSON, but the features are handy nonetheless.
Further reading
Spark MLLib - Statistics
Spark even comes with its own Machine Learning libraries, but for the sake of brevity we're only going to look into some of the basic statistical options. Later tutorials will address this in some depth.
We'll be looking into the column stats of our wordList from earlier:
// Make SURE to import it scala> import org.apache.spark.mllib.stat.Statistics scala> import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vectors scala> val wordList = sc.textFile("/Users/lemur/dev/wordlist/wordsEn.txt") scala> val wordLengths = wordList.map(w => Vectors.dense(w.length)) wordLengths: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector] = MapPartitionsRDD[6] at map at <console>:32 scala> val summaryStatistics = Statistics.colStats(wordLengths) summaryStatistics: org.apache.spark.mllib.stat.MultivariateStatisticalSummary = [email protected]a // Let's take a look inside shall we? scala> summaryStatistics.mean res22: org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector = [8.533905806557591] scala> summaryStatistics.max res23: org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector = [28.0] scala> summaryStatistics.min res24: org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector = [0.0] scala> summaryStatistics.variance res25: org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector = [6.448337984119102]
# Make SURE to import it >>> from pyspark.mllib.stat import Statistics >>> wordList = sc.textFile("/Users/lemur/dev/wordlist/wordsEn.txt") # Python will take a standard list in >>> wordLengths = wordList.map(lambda w: [len(w)]) >>> summaryStatistics = Statistics.colStats(wordLengths) # Let's take a look inside shall we? >>> summaryStatistics.mean() array([ 8.53390581]) >>> summaryStatistics.max() array([ 28.]) >>> summaryStatistics.min() array([ 0.]) >>> summaryStatistics.variance() array([ 6.44833798])
Further reading
Wrapping Up
We've taken a cursory look at some of the features and basic operations of Spark. Here's the question though, what do you as readers want to know more about? Vote on Strawpoll to let me know: http://strawpoll.me/4701594
Think of it as a choose your own adventure of sorts. I'll be writing about all of the above in more detail, but in the order you want to see it happen.
Further tutorials will show up first on my blog and be persisted back here within a few days.


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After staying for a couple of days in a Medieval castle perched on a rock in the sea, as one does, our Big Fat Greek Roadtrip led us to the little town of Stoupa, located on the Mani Peninsula (find it on a map, pals, it's in the Pelopponese part of Greece), where my lovely pal Ezza Fez had been living for about a year. (Her actual name is Erin, just in case you're confused by the whole Ezza Fez thing.) Having navigated our way through an exceedingly high mountain-range and round approximately 536 hairpin bends to reach the tiny seaside resort, it became very clear why despite the area's incredible beauty- surrounded by olive groves and with it's backdrop of mountains- it receives far fewer visitors in comparison to other parts of Greece. It's all about that isolated location isn't it!? But let me tell you, the distinct lack of hordes of tourists was a leading factor in why I'd say the Pelopponese was the part of Greece that I'd revisit again and again.
Stay in an AirBnB
We went with AirBnB the entire time we were gallivanting around Greece, and for the Stoupa section of the gallivants we chose a beaut two bedroomed stone house which turned out to be halfway back up a mountain, just when we thought we were over all that mountainous business.
On the day of our arrival we were instructed by our host George to wait for him in a supermarket car park, from where he would lead us to the top secret location of our AirBnB house. Now if that seems a bit on the dodgy side to you pals, then I'm glad because I thought it sounded dodgy too. But it turns out that round those parts the roads have no names, making locating a house rather tricky business; so thank god for our supermarket meeting with George as otherwise we would have been driving round all evening. (On a side note, this also means that receiving post is even trickier; if you're expecting any mail it doesn't go to your house but instead to one of several different collection points in and around the town, the tricky part being that there's no way of knowing which point it's going to go to or when the post has arrived)
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The whole mountain-top thing did also mean that we had to be rescued a couple of times when it became apparent that driving around winding and very steep roads in pitch darkness was a more than petrifying prospect. It's true that Rachel (my fellow Big Fat Roadtrip-participator and sole driver of our hire car) was well on her way to becoming a professional cruiser of Greek roads, but I do not blame her one bit for questioning whether it was really a sensible idea to be cavorting down a mountainside with minimal visibility. So All Hail Ezza Fez!! As she drove up and down the mountain several times like a true rally driver to ensure we could still go back and forth to appreciate Stoupa by night. What a good'n.
BUT perilous drives aside (and I'm only slightly exaggerating on the perilous point), as well as the fact that the house was lovely, the true beauty of the whole halfway-up-a-mountain thing was that the view from the garden was nothing short of spectacular, particularly when the sun was setting. There's nothing like a good old fashioned sunset is there for goodness sake!?
Related: Our Big Fat Greek Roadtrip
Explore the water!!
Now guys I'm sorry for going on quite so much about my pal Erin but she's pretty much a hero in my eyes as she's one of those people who just decides they're going to do something and then just bloody well gets on and does it. In this case, Ezza Fez all of a sudden decided she wanted to move to Greece and train to be a diving instructor. So that is exactly what she did. Not only does that mean she's really full on good at diving, it also follows that she's rather skilled at driving boats around and knowing a thing or two about the waters around these Pelopponesian parts.
So when she said she was taking us out on the boat we were naturally rather excited. I mean; what a lovely and legendary thing to do!
We located Erin, the boat, and her cousin and boyfriend, and then sped onwards all the way along the rocky coastline, bouncing up and down to the max as it turned out the sea was actually surprisingly choppier than it appeared. The wind was in our hair and the sun was beating down! It was glorious! I was also beginning to feel mildly nauseous.
(Now let's face it, that is a less than ideal feeling to feel when you're on a boat with some pals you've not seen in a long old time. How very awkward.)
The first stop was near to a rocky outcrop jutting upwards from the sea, which as it turns out was perfect for a bit of cliff jumping. I say perfect- but I am what is commonly known as A Massive Chicken- so stayed in the boat appreciating the scenery and concentrating very hard on not throwing up while the others, who are way braver than I am, went to fling themselves joyously into the ocean. It did look proper awesome, I'm just a scaredy-cat with seasickness so what can ya do?
The coastline of that area is a rather rugged and beautiful sight to behold, every now and then punctuated with the mouth of a cave swallowing the sea, or a little church (I'm pretty sure I saw at least 84 churches the day of our arrival), perched on a tiny piece of rock. There's also a fair few towers in the Mani area, which back in the day were not only home to the families of that part of the world but were also a way of settling- or exacerbating- feuds. If you were a bit angry at someone, you could go and have a bash at knocking their tower down just to prove your rage and fury. What a laugh! And speaking of caves, we went to one patch of the sea which isn't seawater at all; an underwater cavern feeds freshwater into the ocean from a natural spring, meaning that the water also suddenly feels a bit on the chilly side.
Be a beach bum and have a read of a good book
Just chilling the hell out is an art form which I'm trying to get better at, particularly when exploring new places. So on our first full day there, Rachel and I decided to head down to the beach- which is a very cute little cove of sand featuring parasols and a small collection of restaurants and gift shops- and chilled the hell out. The last few days had involved several stressful but exhilarating drives, and a hike up a large rock without any water to prevent our deaths, and as exciting as that had all been it was definitely time to hang back and relax a little bit.
Sometimes a beach day is all you need to refresh your mind and soul, know what I'm saying!? The water was so lovely and warm, with fishing boats bobbing up and down a little way off, and the vibe on the beach was quiet but still family-filled.
Now obviously if you're going to be chilling out maxing relaxing on a beach, you're going to need a book to accompany you. I was a bit frustrated that I hadn't bought Zorba the Greek when I'd seen a copy in Atlantis Books on Santorini, as it turned out that Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba's adventures, lived in Stoupa many years ago and was full on inspired by the area he lived in. Well pals, my luck was in, as yet again Ezza Fez saved the day when she announced that she had a copy of the exact same book and brought it on down to the beach for me to have a gander. Reason number 46 of why Erin is a legend: she can read minds about what books you might need to read. Somebody give that girl a medal.
Take a trip to Kardamili
We set off for Kardamili on our second day, driving along a swooping and swerving road which led us right past the sea on our left and mountains and gorges on our right, which as you can imagine is pretty downright spectacular. About five minutes into this spectacular drive, after a moment of thoughtful silence Rachel announced,
'I have a question'
Well I was rather concerned about what that question might be as Rachel seemed rather on the nervous side. The world sped by outside, at this point an almost flat rock face sloping steeply upwards above us and on the other side a steep drop into the crystal water twinkling in the sun. Rachel took a deep breath, and a gulp, both hands clutching the steering wheel.
'What do we do…if when we're driving along this road…there is an earthquake?'
Well my friends I did not really have an answer for that as in all honesty what would probably happen in that unlikely event is that we'd either get crushed by the mountain or plunge into the ocean, or both. If you're gonna go, you're gonna go, you know? Still, it's good to be safety conscious and at least we were able to mentally prepare for any impending earthquakes that might have befallen us on our twenty minute drive to Kardamili.
Kardamili, as it happens, is one of the prettiest little places I ever did see. Filled with crumbling houses with olive trees knotted around the doors, it's got a much more olde worlde feeling to it than it's neighbour Stoupa, and therefore attracts a few more visitors. We stuck to exploring the main town, wandering in and out of the odd boutiquey shop and taking a look at the harbour-front, and sat down in a cafe with some tiny colourful birds twittering away in a cage on the wall and a little terrace looking across the water towards some distant lands. That place had a downright delicious orange cake which was unlike anything I've ever tried before, so just FYI if you're ever in Greece and you see an orange cake on the menu you should probably order one on the double. Gradually a large black cloud lolloped across the sky in the distance, a few large spots of rain had a go at falling, and then the cloud rolled away again. Even the rain clouds of the Peloponnese have a relaxed air about them, it appears!
Sitting above the little seaside village up a sloping pathway are the very well-preserved buildings of Old Kardamili, including a few towers like the kind I mentioned earlier, and the village is also a great starting point for hiking through the Viros Gorge. If we'd have had a bit more time, I probs would have appreciated giving this a go, but on this occasion it was not to be!
Walk along the beach (and look for the local CrossFit while you're at it)
Now my pal Rachel is something of a CrossFit superstar, and when visiting another country she often seeks out a CrossFit in her locality so she can keep up the good work. Apart from being a good way of keeping fit, it seems to me like a pretty good way of being sociable and meeting a few locals. She had done her research and discovered that there was a CrossFit at the Melitsina Village Hotel which was further along the seafront than the main town of Kardamili, but not too far that we couldn't have a go at walking it. So that is precisely what we did.
And what a lovely walk it was too. The beachfront road from Kardamili to the hotel was so tranquil and filled with a hundred different things to marvel at; bright white pebbled beaches and turquoise water, crumbling brick walls and olives surrounding groves of olive trees, and then when we were almost there a whole plateau of porous rock which had formed into strange fissures and miniature jagged ravines, caves and cliffs. Steps or ladders had been placed strategically every now and then along the edges of these mysterious rock formations so that if you fancy a dip in the sea you can do it with a bit more ease than just jumping and praying for the best.
I myself didn't got to any CrossFit classes. (Classes? Sessions? Not sure what the technical term is), but when we found the hotel it looked like probably one of the most awesome spots on earth to be doing CrossFit in…I mean, it was outside, looking over the actual sea! Rachel confirmed that it was indeed, an awesome spot, when she returned from her class/session/gathering which happened to take place just before sunset. Apparently the hotel is going to start up some CrossFit and generally active retreats right there on the seafront in Kardamili which I'd say is a downright brilliant plan.
Experience true Greek dancing in a true Greek restaurant
One full on brilliant thing about visiting Ezza Fez (I mean, one of an infinite list, evidently), is that whenever we went anywhere, and I mean literally anywhere in Stoupa with her, it was a bit like how I imagine it is to be walking around with royalty or at the very least a local celebrity. Stoupa is a tiny town where it seems most people know most people, but throw into the pot the fact that Greeks are generally a very hospitable bunch of people and you've got a recipe for a very warm welcome and a whole load of people that have got your proverbial back.
Going out for dinner or for a classic cocktail or two was always a joy, partly because the food was so full on delicious and partly because it seemed like everyone genuinely wanted us to have a really nice time. We went to a few different bars and restaurants around the area, including one bar that served potentially the best waffles I have ever sampled in the history of my entire life, but my most favourite evening of all was the night that we went to Erin's boss's restaurant at Kalogria beach.
This is for several reasons, which I will explain right here, right now. Firstly, Erin's family had arrived in Stoupa that day, including her proper cute niece, so we were joining them for dinner at the restaurant. Secondly, Erin's boss (who classic Greek gent) was intent on making sure that everyone had a jolly good time and was doing a grand job of being a generally brilliant host of his restaurant. Thirdly, the food was full..on…DELICIOUS. We managed to sample just about every dish in the history of Greece as we were served simultaneously with an infinite platter of treats, and as fast as we finished each one, something new was brought out to us. It was MENTAL. It was AWESOME. I was LOVING IT.
Reason number four was that there was a small troupe of musicians performing some rather enchanting traditional music in one corner of the little outdoor terrace. I'm the type of person who, if I'm out and about and hear music in the distance, I immediately have to follow the sound until I reach the source; live music (particularly if it's a style of music I've not heard a lot of before), is just a very interesting and awesome thing to behold. In this case there were several chaps who may or may not have been related to one another, each either playing a mysterious instrument or singing in a very unique style. One of the instruments was made out of an actual goat. I WAS FASCINATED.
Reason number five, and perhaps the most important reason of all, became apparent when an entire table of German ladies stood up, the tables were cleared, and they proceeded to Greek-dance their way around the room. They had come prepared, as some of them were even wearing jazz trainers to aid their movements. I have never witnessed Greek dancing before, and I'm not sure exactly how authentic this particular night's dancing was, given that it was after all performed entirely by middle-aged German women. But let me tell you this for free, it was nothing short of spectacular.
Mostly they wound their way around the room in a sideways conga line but with very clear steps to match the strange beats of the music, and bonus points went to whoever was at the head of the line as they got to perform some solo moves separately from the rest of the group, maybe adding in a turn or a sweeping of an arm. When the male singer got involved, things really escalated; if a man is leading the line (according to Ezza Fez), it's pretty standard practice that the guy goes all out leaping and lungeing all over the place like there's no tomorrow. This man reminded me most of how a majestic rooster would dance, if roosters were actually able to. And I mean that with the greatest of compliments, pals. The best part of all was one particular dance involving some handkerchiefs, where the women all had to simultaneously make 'weeeeeh!!!!' sounds and wave their hankies around at specific points in the song. I'm not gonna lie, it was sort of an odd moment to bear witness to- fifteen German ladies waving hankies around a restaurant in Greece and shrieking 'weeeeeh!!' at the tops of their voices- but quite honestly a moment I will treasure forever thanks to its downright bizarreness. I mean, guys…the whole thing came as quite a shock so we could barely breathe from trying to hold in confused laughter…but I was loving every second, for goodness' sake! What a way to end our time in Stoupa.
- We reached Stoupa by car- I mean, we were on a Big Fat Greek Roadtrip after all- but the closest airport is Kalamata, which is just over an hour's drive away.
- If you're interested, our AirBnB is right here! (It's a beaut house, though there are other options if perilous mountain drives aren't your thing)
- We didn't go diving ourselves, but if you read the word 'diving' earlier on and thought 'ooooh!' the name of the place with all the diving courses is Dive Code, located at Kalogria so there ya go.


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Tips To Find The Best Burn Attorney
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A case of accidental burns is often complex and involves hundreds of unique aspects. Thus, it is better not to represent yourself at the court of law and let an experienced burn attorney handle the matter. This will help you to get all the time you need to get healed from the injuries. You will also rest assured that your case is being handled by an expert, who will bring you justice, legal rights, and maximum amount of compensation. But, you need to be very careful while choosing a burn attorney. Given below are a few pointers that will help you to find the best professional:
These days when it comes to searching for the best burn attorney, you can rely upon the Internet. Almost all reputed attorneys have their official website wherefrom you will be able to gather loads of information regarding the lawyer you are choosing. Finding a lawyer online is easy and convenient. You do not have to leave the comforts of your home to search for a legal professional. You will be able to search on the search engines with appropriate phrases. This will give you loads of results, wherefrom you can compare and find the lawyer of your choice. By searching online you will be able to make an informed decision about choosing a burn attorney. Finding information like case studies, and client reviews is also easier on the Web. You will be able to read the feedback and the testimonials of the previous clients of the attorney you are choosing and will be able to get an idea of the reputation and quality of services offered. In addition to this, Internet is the best medium to contact the lawyer of your choice directly.
Not just the Internet, but, reputed lawyers also have a good media presence. Check whether the burn attorney you are choosing advertises for his/her services on television and newspapers. You can also look for advertisements on the Internet. Check Yellow pages. Generally, all registered and licensed professionals have their details in the Yellow book USA Inc. do not choose a professional who does not advertise for his/her services. You can find almost all reputed injury lawyers in such a directory.
You will also be able to find the best attorney with the help of recommendations and references of experienced people. You can ask your neighbors, friends, or any other person, who also had become the victim of an accidental fire. They will be able to help you in finding the best burn attorney.
Nevertheless, you should remember, that when it comes to the best burn attorney, Hanford is the place to be.
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I intern at a label that specializes in metal, but I will admit readily that I know nothing about straight up metal aside from the historical details of welding accidents and missing fingers. The history of drop tuning doesn't exactly help me determine whether or not a band is good, though. So I'm gonna have to keep this review pretty simple, lest I make a judgment that doesn't even apply to the music.
I'm not super into it, just because I'm not super into metal. I like metalcore, but that's kind of the punk baby of metal, or the punk niece or nephew. But just because I'm not into it doesn't mean Schemata Theory isn't a good band-- in fact, they're great. It's good music with a great reaction from listeners (I surveyed the youtube comments, sue me), which, in my book, means a positive review.
Ahhhh, pop rock, I know what I'm talking about again.
I like Jocelyn, they're fun, but still kind of angsty, like me (I love talking about myself, can you tell?) My only real complaint was that the lead singer Alex sounds a little out of key when he sings. His voice just doesn't sound quite right with the music. And it's pretty much your standard pop rock band. I feel like I'm being mean. Good thing I didn't become a teacher, I would have graded so harshly...
Lauren Elizabeth of Theody
I was obsessed with Flyleaf when I was seventeen. Like, I didn't listen to anything else for weeks at a time. I distinctly remember baking cookies while hardcore jamming to "Cassie." Lucky me, Theody came knocking, and I get to relive those glory days. And I have to apologize for going with the obvious comparison-- another female-fronted Christian rock band-- but Lauren's vocals are more melodic than Lacey's (yes, I'm still using Lacey as the point of comparison, I'm an early Flyleaf fan, I haven't adjusted to the changes in lineup just yet), and Theody utilizes keys and programming in a way that Flyleaf didn't. So I'm distinguishing. There.
Again, I have to draw a tiny issue with the vocals not meshing fantastically with the music. Her voice sounds a little strained, too, although my ear is untrained and I also strain my vocals all the time so I'm not exactly a great coach for these sorts of things.
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Buckle up kiddos, Emily has a new favorite album and you're probably never going to hear the end of it. As always, my reviews come in two phases: phase 1, I scribble down profanity-labelled nonsense that barely counts as English as a way to cope with my feelings; phase 2, I try to make some insightful comments that kind of constitute an album review.
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Let's talk about Ghost Town. There are enough vocal layers to swim through, and I would if I could. And the intro gets you thinking- oh it's a nice strings/vocal intro like on their last album, that's nice. And then, what... what... drop tuning... is that double bass drum (seriously is it?)... is that programming... is this THE BEST SONG YOU'VE HEARD IN LIKE FIFTY YEARS? It goes from pop to metalcore and back and then everything kind of congeals together and oh look I accidentally made a masterpiece. Oops.
I've listened to A Mess Made Temporary about a thousand times already, and once again, it's the layers that get you. That's a factor that's become integral in setting Messenger Down apart-- every single inch of your sonic experience is going to be covered. There are never moments of "oh, I wonder what else they could have done" because every level has been considered and executed.
Even better, roads are crisscrossed so you can take the scenic route and the fast lane at the same time. Soft vocals and hard instrumentation, and then one song flows right into the next so you're basically just cruising along on a sonic cloud passing all the traffic and congestion of lackluster songs.
I keep attempting to draw comparisons, but I can't-- for a split second I'll think Fall Out Boy, and then I'll say, no, no it's All Time Low, but that, of course, is completely wrong, it's Mayday Parade, no it isn't, it's Panic! at The Disco if they had figured their shit out after Pretty. Odd... no that's not right. And that's what makes this album so exciting, what makes me say it's got the spark that makes it my new favorite new album. There's nothing derivative but everything I know I love (and didn't know I loved).
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On the off chance you were wondering where I've been the past week and a half, here's your answer: I was on tour! Kind of. The tour involved a lot of staying at my apartment and my parents' house.
By now you all know about my deep love and devotion for Messenger Down, but what you may not have known was that I was helping them book their first tour outside of North Carolina. I mean, I wrote about it, but I don't know how many of you actually read all the nonsense I put up on this blog.
Due to a lot of things going wrong and a lot of things going right, the tour ended up being confined to New Jersey and New York, which happens to be my personal terrain. Since my ultimate life goal is to tour manage, Messenger Down's manager Amanda and I discussed the possibility of me joining the guys while they did their short run of the area. Everything was in hypotheticals until a few weeks ago, when all of my wildest hopes and dreams came true.
The guys let me join them on their first tour, acting as a tour manager/ travel agent/ hostess with the mostest/ videographer/ merch girl. Obviously, I made a binder. And spreadsheets. That's what I do.
I learned a lot on tour, but not the way I expected. I assumed my lessons would be in things like negotiating, keeping track of money, managing other people. In a nutshell, controlling things. Instead, they came in the form of me learning to just let shit happen.
I'm of the school where I expect myself to do everything perfectly on the first try. Guess what? On tour, that ain't gonna fly. You can't control how many people show up to a show, you can't control the other bands, you can't control anything but how you respond to the obstacles that pop up in your path along the way. And, to my own surprise, I responded well. I kept my head (most of the time) and got shit done. Yes, there were times when I felt like a failure, and wanted to just be a failure and leave it at that, but you know what was even better? Getting over it and moving on.
Anyway, this is turning into a bit of a diary entry, so I'll be a bit more concise: be prepared, expect things to not go according to plan, and really take the time to love where you are. I could have chalked the experience up to a loss, but I had so much fun and loved the people I was with, so it was easier to see the wins. And this experience was a win.
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This is a recipe that I have grown up with, eating it after cereal every morning at my grandparents house in Devon. It is delicious spread with just butter, or a small amount of honey, next to a cup of hot tea. Grandma's mornings bread is a family favorite, and always present in the freezer.
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Posted by: Shaba Nabi25 October 2016
A close friend of mine had to undergo coronary artery stenting recently. Unfortunately, the puncture site bled in the middle of the night and the scene was somewhat akin to Nightmare on Elm Street. He had three nurses around his bedside trying to stem the bleeding and it wasn't until a fourth, of the more burly variety, practically sat on him, that the bleeding subsided. The nocturnal activity didn't stop there, though. He continued to have half-hourly pulse and blood pressure checks to ensure there was no haemodynamic compromise.
If you truly wish to resuscitate us, stop sticking plasters all over us
What my friend didn't have was a pretty little Finding Nemo plaster stuck on his arterial puncture site, with advice to talk to the other patients if the bleeding didn't stop. Neither was he asked to donate blood that morning, as it was his regular slot to do so. And the nurses chose not to go on their break, but to monitor him closely.
But that's because this is clinical staff we are talking about. These are dedicated professionals who are not interested in political soundbites or gongs, but have given a lifetime of humanity to the NHS. This is not NHS England, which can hide behind the rhetoric of its so-called 'rescue package' while practices are forced to close or merge on a daily basis.
The vast discrepancy between the financial haemorrhage and the tiny plasters of resilience funding would be comical if it were not so tragic. Vulnerable practices may secure a few thousand pounds at most as they reel from the onslaught of MPIG removal, PMS funding reviews and 300% increases in premises service charges. And even the paltry sums on offer must be spent on 'change managers' or 'project teams'.
Let's be clear on what this rescue package is really about. It's not about saving vulnerable practices at all. In fact, it seems they can all 'fail and wither' according to one NHS England director. If rescue was the aim, then the PMS review funding changes would have shifted everyone up to the highest-funded practice, and not the lowest. NHS managers would have halted the scandalous increase in service charges faced by many inner-city practices, rendering them unsustainable. And partnership seniority would have been retained and crown indemnity offered.
No, the objective of this rescue package Band-Aid is to keep practices on the life- support machine for long enough to facilitate working at scale. You see, NHS England will have a real problem on its bloody hands if too many practices hand back their contracts – the NHS would collapse before the fat cats could pounce. But keep plugging the holes with corks and they may last long enough to form takeover-friendly units of 100,000 patients.
So my message to NHS England is this – if you truly wish to resuscitate us, stop sticking plasters all over us. Give us a blood transfusion, take us to theatre and then care for us in the high-dependency unit. If not, why not put us out of our misery and pull the plug on us now?
Because if we 'fail and wither', so does the NHS. Maybe that's the hidden agenda?
Dr Shaba Nabi is a GP trainer in Bristol
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But before he sticking plaster arrives the CQC puts a pillow over his face. Then the astronomical funeral charges bankrupts the grieving relatives.
Here lies your local GP - Rest In Pieces.
This is a good article;
I think as a profession we need to start being realistic about the demise of the NHS and realities of a co-payment system like everywhere else.
I think we need to be realistic about the deliberate vandalism that has occurred to our NHS since about 2010.
There is a vast difference between an system that does not work and a system that is being deliberately undermined so that it does not work.
Reducing GDP funding year by year at a time when the population and demand is rising is clearly only going to have one result.
And us one of the richest countries in the world despite it all?
PS- I have not read the article in the Daily Telegraph because there is no longer any such thing as a 'good' article in the Daily Telegraph.
Unless you are in the top 1% of course.
@12.02 Read it you might be surprised.
The telegraph article is clearly supporting the Tory privatisation agenda. Starve a system of funds util it doesn't work .People want something better . There is the excuse to privatise . Capita confirms that this is the policy . Planned inefficiency. There is plenty of money out there it just needs distributing more fairly.
Please be careful when reading these articles - they come with an agenda. Having said that, if the Tories don't want to fund the NHS and the public are voting enthusiastically for their position we might have to accept something else.
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Recently, LG Anil Baijal visited this treatment facility and asked official to find out the possibilities of increasing the plant capacity. Currently the plant can process about 500 metric ton of waste per day. A proposal to acquire a surrounding 2.5-acre DDA plot, which has 1.8 lakh metric tonne debris lying on it, has been sent to LG's office. After acquiring this land the capacity of plant could be increased to 1000 metric ton per day.
This land has been a spot of bother for Shastri Park Plant as often complaints were received about fugitive dust emissions from this virtual mountain of Construction and Demolition waste material. Now after acquiring this land, waste could be well managed and more waste could be processed per day. This processed waste is converted into useful construction material, bricks, tiles and is saving both resources and energy. Apart from this plant, one other Construction and Demolition waste plant is located at Jahangipuri. To meet the rate of generation of C &D waste, several C & D Waste plant are also upcoming at Siraspur, Libaspur, Rani Khera, Chara Mandi.


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