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There was a meeting of rock legends at the Golden Gods Awards, as Alice Cooper joined Slash for a spirited rendition of Cooper's classic, 'School's Out.' (lower video).
Slash and his band began their set with 'Nothing to Say' and 'Back to Cali' from his 2010 self-titled debut. They then went into their current single, 'You're a Lie,' from 'Apocalyptic Love.' But unlike the other bands on the night, they didn't leave the stage after their third song, an indication that something big was about to happen.
After asking for "11 seconds of noise" in memory of the late Jim Marshall, Slash introduced Cooper as "a good, dear friend of mine for a lot of fucking years" and "one of the great rock n' roll icons." We presume their friendship is based on their shared love of great rock music and top hats.
Cooper came out to rapturous applause wearing a "No More Mr. Nice Guy" leather jacket and carrying a riding crop. Although Cooper's voice was ragged, he still had plenty of energy. Slash threw out some typically blistering solos as the crowd captured it all on their smartphones.
The entire Golden Gods Awards show can be streamed on the show's Facebook page.
Watch black carpet highlights in the YouTube clip below:
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Art market, physical or figurative venue in which art is bought and sold. At its most basic an art market requires a work of art, which might be drawn from a very wide range of collectible objects; a seller; and a buyer, who may participate directly in negotiations or be represented by agents.
Historically, some of the most significant art transactions have taken place outside the framework of what is now understood as an art market. The most common of these transactions involved the artist or craftsman and a patron, who might be either a private individual or, as was often the case in the European Middle Ages (approximately 450–1400 ce), an institution such as the Roman Catholic Church. In such cases the work of art might be site-specific, as with a fresco or an altarpiece. These works of art would not, and indeed could not, be traded on the open market, and the artist was not the "owner" in the modern sense. Instead, the patron and the artist would draw up a contract in which the price of materials, the subject of the piece, and the number of figures were generally determined in advance. The price of the artist's skill and labour was often agreed upon separately, through an external adjudication. In addition to these and other direct commissions, there was an open market of growing importance in more portable commodities, such as textiles, curiosities, and antiquities.
The development of the art market per se depended crucially upon three factors: the emergence of collectors, the production of movable works of art, and the development of mechanisms for selling these works of art, either directly by the artists—through fairs, markets, and exhibitions in their shops and studios—or via intermediaries such as dealers and auctioneers. Since the 17th century ce, these professional intermediaries have dominated the art market and have been joined by other intermediaries such as art consultants. Auctions, which were rare before the 17th century, are now the major determinants of art values. In addition, the market has expanded enormously through cultural globalization, satellite communication, and the development of the Internet.
Collecting before the Renaissance
The earliest substantial evidence of an art market in the West is from ancient Greek civilization and includes a cup by Phintias dating to approximately 500 bce that shows a young man buying a vase—possibly the earliest depiction of an art transaction. Although the most important Greek art of this period was created for temples and other public buildings, a lively art market also developed in smaller commodities such as vases and small bronzes. Such items were often traded in shops in the harbours of Piraeus and Olbia.
The Hellenistic Age (323–30 bce) saw a considerable boom in collecting as art moved increasingly from the public to the private domain. During this era, works of art came to be appreciated for aesthetic reasons in addition to religious ones. The city of Sicyon became the centre of the Hellenistic art market until its collapse in 57 bce.
The expansion of the Roman Empire caused a huge influx of artwork into the Italian peninsula, much of it spoils of war. An area of Rome near the Villa Publica became a centre for dealers in books, paintings, and antiquities. By the era of Augustus (approximately 43 bce–18 ce), most sizable villas boasted a room dedicated to the exhibition of paintings and sculpture, and sculpture gardens became fashionable. The most famous of these was at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (completed in 134 ce), now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The first evidence of art auctions also dates to Roman times. Sales were generally held either to resolve cases of insolvency or to dispose of war booty and slaves. The latter were conducted sub hasta ("under the spear") by agents who accompanied the Roman armies for this purpose.
The Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the state religion in the 4th century ce, and this led to widespread iconoclasm and the destruction or burial of numerous statues. However, during the 8th century Charlemagne's policy of reviving Roman traditions led to the assimilation rather than destruction of classical art, and monasteries and cathedrals became vitally important repositories.
The principal impetus behind collecting and artistic patronage throughout the later Middle Ages was religion. The veneration of relics and the development of pilgrimages exerted particularly strong influences on the arts. Chartres Cathedral, for instance, was built to house a relic of the Virgin Mary's tunic, the presence of which in turn supported a very profitable trade with pilgrims from across northern Europe. There was also a high demand for luxury items such as ivory combs and chessboards, which by the 14th century were being sold throughout Europe.
East Asia
China's tradition of art collecting dates to the Qin (221–207 bce) and Han (206 bce–220 ce) dynasties, which were periods of increasing social and political complexity. From the Qin onward, the literati who controlled China's very powerful civil service played an increasingly important role in artistic patronage and collecting. They held calligraphy—the Chinese "art of arts"—in such high esteem that by the 3rd century ce the most respected historical calligraphers had acquired sufficient cachet to be worthy of forgery. By the 8th century ce collectors had become concerned enough about provenance to add seals to sheets of calligraphy and scroll paintings, anticipating by about 900 years the collector's marks found on the works of Western Old Masters.
During the Song dynasty (960–1279 ce), jade carvings and inkstones began to be valued. This period also saw developments in porcelain technology—new glazes such as celadon, as well as the ability to create forms echoing the shapes of archaic bronzes—that enabled less-wealthy consumers to purchase pieces that simulated genuine jade and bronze.
The collecting of antiquities had become widespread by the 14th century, a trend reflected in the writing of the first connoisseur's manual, Cao Zhao's Geguyaolun (1388; "Essential Criteria of Antiquities"). It included advice on handling dealers and other collectors.
The Renaissance
The 15th century
Europe's rediscovery of the classical world during the Renaissance was intimately connected with a growing interest in antiquities and classical manuscripts. Following the example of the Italian poet Petrarch, who in the late 14th century had not only assembled a famous library and collection of antique coins but also turned his study into a shrine to the Muses, it became fashionable for rulers to create a room, or suite of rooms, known as a studiolo. The most celebrated example was created by Isabella d'Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga III, at the ducal palace in Mantua (see also House of Este; Gonzaga dynasty). Decorated with paintings by Andrea Mantegna and other court artists, d'Este's studiolo was designed to show off her remarkable collection of jewelry, antique cameos, and sculptures.
Venice and Florence
Venice was the most important trading centre in northern Italy at this time and thus a magnet for artists, who went there to sell their work and to buy rare pigments such as lapis lazuli. From as early as the late 14th century, there is evidence of a free market operating: paintings were offered for sale on the Rialto Bridge, and there were sales fairs during the feasts of the Ascension and San Rocco. Auctions also occurred, not only in Venice but in Florence as well.
From the 14th century onward, both cities had confraternities of secondhand dealers, known as rigattieri or strazzaruoli. These vendors originally traded in old clothing and leather but also came to deal in objects pertaining to the bedchamber: cassoni (marriage chests), tables, chairs, tapestries, statuary, and painted images. By the early 15th century, Florence had become a tough mercantile republic in which artists competed fiercely for commissions. From about 1430 there was a substantial open market for small devotional pictures and items of domestic furniture such as mirror backs and marriage chests. Although the art trade was increasing, prices for paintings remained low in the 15th century. It was not until the 16th century that notions of "artists" being more elevated than "artisans" began to gain currency.
The members of the Medici family were the most famous 15th-century art patrons and collectors in Florence. Lorenzo de'Medici and his father avidly collected Flemish manuscripts and tapestries, whose influence can be felt in Paolo Uccello's famous battle paintings and Bennozo Gozzoli's frescoes of the Journey of the Magi in the Medici-Riccardi Chapel. Lorenzo's greatest enthusiasm was for collecting antiquities, particularly cameos and gems. He also created a sculpture garden where the young Michelangelo Buonarroti worked early in his career.
The Low Countries and Iberia
In northern Europe the art market started to develop in the late 14th century. It centred on the great mercantile cities of Flanders, such as Bruges; a court verdict of 1466 refers to shops, counters, and art dealers in that town. While the most prestigious works of art were painted on commission, they represented a small and dwindling proportion of the overall artistic output in the Low Countries. Tapestries remained the favoured form of wall covering in the Netherlands and Flanders and in the 16th century accounted for a considerable proportion of the total value of exports from those regions, in large part because of the Medici penchant for collecting.
In Spain a booming economy and high demand for luxury goods brought a huge influx of works of art, artists, and artisans. Important art markets sprang up along the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela, where a brisk business developed selling devotional books, small-scale religious paintings, and carvings from Germany and the Netherlands.
Beginning in the late 15th century, improvements in navigation and naval architecture enabled the Portuguese and the Spanish to begin a period of intensive trade with East Asia. Goods that had been quite rare during the heyday of caravan-based trading, such as silks, ivories, and porcelain, were suddenly available in large quantities; porcelain was especially valued because the techniques for its creation were not yet known in Europe. The opening of trade with the Americas kindled a similar interest in ethnographic and natural history specimens.
The 16th century
The rise of Rome
Beginning about 1450, Rome started to challenge the supremacy of Florence and Venice. Over the next several decades, Rome became an increasingly important centre of artistic and architectural patronage, primarily as a result of the munificence of a succession of powerful popes. This trend reached a high point during the pontificate of Julius II (1503–13). The late 15th and early 16th centuries were also marked by an astonishing boom in the collecting of antiquities. A series of remarkable archaeological discoveries culminated in the spectacular rediscovery, in 1506, of the Laocoön. It was displayed with the Belvedere Torso in the Vatican, which effectively became the first postclassical semipublic museum.
Julius II is celebrated for his patronage of Michelangelo, who by age 30 was on his way to becoming the highest-paid artist of the era; he died leaving real estate valued at 12,240 florins, more than was paid for the Pitti Palace, while just a generation earlier the most Sandro Botticelli had received for an altarpiece was 100 florins. This astonishing increase was a reflection of the extraordinary economic circumstances of early 16th-century Rome and the unprecedented rise in the status of artists.
During the 16th century, dealers and agents emerged as specialized art professionals. This is reflected in the appearance of the first portraits of collectors, beginning with Lorenzo Lotto's Andrea Odoni of 1527 and culminating with Titian's splendid Jacopo Strada of 1568. This period also saw the beginnings of formal Western art history, as marked by the 1550 publication of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists and the expansion of art criticism and theoretical writing. Associated phenomena include the establishment of the first academies of art and the collecting of drawings, an activity pioneered in print by Vasari in his Book of Drawings and followed in the round by the Medicis with the foundation of the Florentine Gabinetto dei Disegni, the first print room in Europe.
Northern Europe and the Austrian Empire
There were marked differences between the situation in Italy and that north of the Alps, where artists were still treated as artisans. One solution to this relative stagnation in worth was printmaking, which freed the artists from wealthy patrons and their demands regarding the subject matter and composition of commissioned works. Artists such as Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer reveled in the resulting freedom of self-expression and were able to sell their prints to a very wide audience.
A movement known as Mannerism also arose in the early 16th century, and both art and collecting began to favour the unusual, the bizarre, and the ambiguous. Collections (also referred to as cabinets) were formed that were far more wide ranging than those of the 15th-century studiolo and whose purposes were more scientific than humanistic. North of the Alps these were known as Kunstkammern or Wunderkammern, from Kunst ("man-made objects"), Wunder ("natural curiosities"), and Kammern ("chambers, rooms").
Greatest of all the Mannerist collectors and patrons was Rudolf II, the Holy Roman emperor from 1576 to 1612. Italian craftsmen flocked to his court, which moved from Vienna to Prague, bringing with them the secrets of gemstone carving, glass engraving, and pietra dura, a form of mosaic art.
Rudolf II also sponsored Netherlandish artists such as the sculptor Adriaen de Vries and the painter Roelandt Savery. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, another court artist, painted a series of bizarre proto-Surrealist heads, including a portrait of Rudolf II as Vertumnus. Rudolf was an omnivorous collector of art and curiosities who attracted to Prague wizards and alchemists and who patronized pioneering scientists such as Johannes Kepler. These interests were reflected in Rudolf's collections, which included astonishingly ornate instruments and automata by German and Swiss goldsmiths and clock makers and a vast assemblage of natural history specimens.
The 17th century
During the 17th century art collecting became a much more visible activity. It also became more specialized and less encyclopaedic: the development of the gallery as a specialized viewing or display area encouraged collectors to concentrate on paintings and sculptures rather than the acquisition of an omnium gatherum of works of art and natural curiosities.
This trend is apparent in the large number of Netherlandish paintings that depicted art galleries. The most famous of these were the views of the collection of Leopold William von Habsburg, archduke of Austria and regent of the Spanish Netherlands (see House of Habsburg). These were painted by David Teniers the Younger after his 1651 appointment as keeper of the art collections. Teniers continued in this position after the regency changed hands in 1656 and was able to publish an important compendium of engravings based on the collection in 1660.
Rome as an art centre
Rivalries between powerful papal families such as the Barberini, the Borghese, and the Farnese were an important impetus for artistic patronage and collecting in 17th-century Rome. Some of the most notable commissions came from worldly cardinals such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini's patron, Scipione Borghese, who was also an avid collector of Classical antiquities and Old Master paintings.
Rome was comparatively slow to develop a free market for contemporary art, though Caravaggio started his career by creating still-life paintings for the open market in the 1590s. By 1635 picture dealers were sufficiently numerous to be worth taxing, and by the 1650s the Neapolitan painter and etcher Salvator Rosa was exhibiting his works for sale in his own studio. By the end of the 17th century, a variety of annual sales exhibitions had been established in Rome.
The rise of Antwerp and Amsterdam
Despite the prestige of Rome, the centre of gravity in the 17th-century art world shifted increasingly toward the northern cities of Antwerp and Amsterdam. During the 16th century, Antwerp had been a major centre of artistic production, exporting paintings throughout Europe. It was similarly renowned for the manufacture of luxury items such as collectors' cabinets. The city was also home to a number of important merchants, such as Peter Paul Rubens's friends Cornelis van der Geest and Nicholas Rockox, whose collections were recorded in the "gallery pictures" in which artists such as Frans Francken II (1581–1642) specialized. Within this lively collectors' circle Rubens himself played a prominent part, building a magnificent Italianate house in Antwerp and filling it with an impressive collection of paintings and antique sculpture. By about 1640, however, Flanders was in decline artistically and economically. Its swansong was the aforementioned collection of paintings assembled by Archduke Leopold William.
During the 1630s, Amsterdam had begun to rival Antwerp as a centre of the art trade. Because there was little in the way of court or church patronage in northern Europe, most Dutch artists painted for the open market and an essentially middle-class clientele. Having moved to Amsterdam in 1631, Rembrandt van Rijn was shrewd in the sale of his own prints, appealing to the era's collectors' market and selling copies of "Christ Healing the Sick" for 100 guilders or more, a considerable sum at the time; the work thus acquired the alternative title "The Hundred Guilder Print." He was himself an avid collector, spending such large sums at art auctions that the habit contributed to his eventual bankruptcy.
When Rubens visited London in 1629, he was astonished by the quantity and quality of art he saw. Outstanding pieces were featured in the collection of Charles I, whom Rubens described as a great connoisseur of paintings. Other important collections included that of Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of Arundel—the first serious English collector of classical antiquities and Old Master drawings—and those of the late George Villers, 1st duke of Buckingham; the earl of Pembroke; and James Hamilton, 3rd marquess and 1st duke of Hamilton.
The outbreak of the English Civil Wars (1642–51) cut short this flowering of connoisseurship, and many of the great English collections were dispersed as quickly as they had been formed. Following Charles I's execution in 1649, Parliament arranged for the sale of his collection. Held at Somerset House (which now houses the Courtauld Institute Galleries), the disappointing results highlighted the fact that there was no appropriately developed mechanism for selling art in London. During the reign of Charles II this began to change, especially when a huge influx of Netherlandish artists gave a boost to the production and distribution of art. Booksellers and printsellers from the Low Countries introduced innovations such as auctions and spurred the development of an active retail market in the Covent Garden neighbourhood of London.
Spain and France
The Spanish royal collection was one of the greatest in 17th-century Europe. The product of 200 years of patronage and collecting, it included masterpieces by Titian that had been commissioned by Philip II and Charles V, as well as an unusually fine representation of Flemish 15th- and 16th-century paintings. Philip IV, who became Charles I's principal rival as a collector, continued to add to this collection through purchases and through his enlightened patronage of Diego Velázquez, who was sent on two important missions to Italy to acquire paintings and antique sculpture for the Spanish royal collection. Other important Spanish collectors were Don Luis de Haro, Don Gasparo de Haroy y Guzman (the Spanish viceroy to Naples), and the marquis de Leganes.
In France, by contrast, there had been very few additions made to the royal collection since the time of Francis I in the early 16th century. In 1630 the collection comprised barely 200 paintings—a number hardly comparable to the inventory of more than 5,500 paintings in the Spanish royal collection at the end of the 17th century. France's pioneers of change were two enormously acquisitive cardinals, Richelieu and Mazarin. The former acquired many of the paintings that Charles I failed to secure from Mantua, the two Michelangelo slave sculptures (The Dying Slave and The Rebellious Slave) now in the Louvre, and an enormous quantity of jewelry and smaller precious objects. Mazarin's acquisitiveness was such that even exile by the Fronde did not keep him from procuring several prize paintings from Charles I's collection after the monarch's execution.
The collections of both Mazarin and Richelieu passed to the Crown. During the 1660s Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a favourite of Mazarin's and by that time a statesman in his own right, was directed by Louis XIV to take charge of the development and expansion of the arts in France. Colbert instigated the foundation of the French academies of painting, sculpture, and architecture and brought the patronage of the arts firmly under state control, appointing painter Charles Le Brun as artistic dictator.
European trade with East Asia
The foundation of the English and Dutch East India companies in 1600 and 1602, respectively, brought a huge increase in trade between Europe and East Asia. This relatively sudden increase in demand had a particular impact on the market for porcelain and lacquerwork; during China's Ming dynasty (1368–1644), large factories were created to supply the market for linglong (pierced porcelain) and other wares. Although approximately 3.2 million pieces of porcelain were shipped to Holland between 1604 and 1657, the trade was not a simple pipeline from East to West: the greater proportion of what the Dutch shipped out of East Asia was in fact destined for their warehouses in Southeast Asia and thence to India and the Islamic countries of the Middle East.
The arrival of so much imported porcelain had a seminal impact on European ceramic production at centres such as Meissen (Germany). It also affected interior decoration: a fashion for massed displays of porcelain, started by the Dutch in the 1670s, led to a vogue for "rooms of porcelain." Among the most amazing displays of the fashion was the so-called Trianon de porcelaine, built by Louis XIV for his mistress Mme de Montespan on the site now occupied by the Grand Trianon (see Palace of Versailles). It was faced with faience tiles of a blue-and-white chinoiserie pattern. Augustus II, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, was another aficionado of porcelain. Not only did he trade a regiment of dragoons for a shipment of Chinese porcelain, but he also built a "Japanese" palace in Dresden to house his collection, which had grown to more than 50,000 pieces.
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Selena Gomez Poses With Little Sister Amid Fake Pregnancy Rumors [PHOTO]
Babies are the hot topic when it comes to Selena Gomez. Amid ridiculous (and false) rumors that she is pregnant with Justin Bieber's twins, she posed for an adorbs pic with her baby sis Gracie.
The singer and actress shared an image where she is laying on her back with little Gracie in her arms. Look at her precious face. Gracie was born last June and judging from this pic, big sisterhood agrees with Sel. She looks like the best big sis, doesn't she? We're glad she took some time to share one of her simple joys with Selenators.
Now about those ridic preggo rumors? A sonogram labeled "S. Gomez," stamped in Austin, Texas, hit the web this week, and fans went nuts, thinking it was Selena's and that she was pregnant with Da Biebs' twins. It was created by a hoax site and was therefore fake. A lot of fans fell for it, but some also saw right through the nonsense.
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As if the country hasn't had enough of the Clintons' narcissistic need for the limelight, we are now deluged with the "why I lost" book campaign of Hillary Clinton.
She's making sure she hits all the liberal news channels, which will never ask any important or meaningful questions. You name it, she's blaming it.
In our society these days, people are always harping on the negative, so I want to share a story about something good in our community.
Mr. Mike Gilmore is the owner of the UPS Store in Lancaster, and I utilize his store's services often. At the beginning of August, I shipped my son a nice pendant and necklace, but the package was lost in the warehouse in Tennessee. When I realized my son did not receive his package, I contacted the UPS Store in Lancaster, and they investigated the matter.
Editor's note: This letter was sent to Kurtis Bullard, the Postal Service official tasked with locating Indian Land's new post office. Bullard has suggested a site near the neighborhood's entrance.
We are writing to you on behalf of the Rosemont Owners Association. The Rosemont community is located off Highway 160 and Rosemont Drive in Indian Land, S.C.
We would like to request that you find a different location for the proposed 15,000-square-foot USPS facility off Rosemont Drive.
In a time when political, racial and cultural tension abounds, it is rare to hear of two community groups from different generations and backgrounds coming together to honor our nation's veterans.
The Ladies Auxiliary from the Capt. John P. Monahan VFW Post from Indian Land came to teach the American Heritage Girls of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church proper flag care and ceremonial etiquette.
The girls demonstrated what they've learned at the Veteran's Flag Ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 16, at Our Lady of Grace.
In 2013, I wrote the following in a letter to the editor:
"Every school day, my daughter and I stand in the dark near the end of the driveway and watch her bus come to a stop on the opposite side of the road.
During Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview, President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon gave his spin on "economic nationalism." Here is mine.
Mr. Bannon is correct that America's 19th century expansion was guided by American citizens, although many of those citizens were immigrants or close descendants of immigrants.
I have never seen so many young men in Lancaster city and county being out-and-out murdered – some by their own friends. I am 73 years old, and my goodness life is changing for the worse.
It seems like you are joining gangs to be in a "family." What about your own mamas? You are breaking their hearts. What has happened to make you want to destroy everything good and kind? Drugs? Do you have a death wish?
According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, including 86,000 here in South Carolina.
In 2017, caring for individuals living with Alzheimer's or other dementias will cost $259 billion – including $175 billion in direct costs to Medicare and Medicaid.
In a letter to the editor responding to my Aug. 18 column, Ronald Hopkins made an incorrect assumption.
Mr. Hopkins doesn't know me, so I'll give him a pass on his assumption that I supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and that I'm still nursing some bitterness over her loss.
My thanks to Lancaster County Council member Brian Carnes for insisting on delaying the third and final reading of the stormwater ordinance.
I consider it insulting that a 30-page document was handed to those who hadn't seen it just prior to the vote, and I consider that behavior thoughtless at best, unethical at worst.
I applaud council members Terry Graham, Jack Estridge and Larry Honeycutt for standing with Mr. Carnes. I regret that council members Charlene McGriff and Billy Mosteller chose not to support this obvious solution.
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It's bad enough when anything falls off of a moving truck, but this is somewhat of a worst-case scenario for delivery drivers of everywhere. A truck in China was passing through a tunnel when a bunch of fireworks fell off the back of it. They started going off and the result was a total barrage of explosions, like the grand finale of a fireworks display set off indoors! It's not quite as wild as the fireworks display that was set off all at once, but it's still a pretty lively show—and a far more dangerous one. Fortunately, no one was injured, but it did take firefighters three hours to get the situation under control.
Accidental fireworks in China tunnel [Reuters]


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Oracle and IBM fight for the heavy workload
Seconds out
Netezza in the net
If you want to do data warehousing, IBM acquired Netezza in September 2010 for $1.7bn, and for good reason. Netezza is an upstart data warehouse appliance maker which has heavily customised the open source PostgreSQL database and created a field programmable gate array (FPGA) co-processor that does SQL pre-processing, much like Oracle does with the Exadata storage servers inside its Exadata clusters.
Not only that, the company built its TwinFin appliances on IBM's BladeCenter blade servers and looked to be getting just a bit too cosy with Japanese server maker NEC. IBM could not afford to let Netezza fall into the hands of competitors. It stands to reason that over the long haul, IBM will be able to take some of the techniques used in the Netezza appliances and apply them to its various parallel database systems.
The original Netezza appliances were based on Power architecture (and did not come from IBM, but one of its OEMs). The TwinFins, based on IBM's blades, came out in August 2009. They pair an HS22 two-socket Xeon 5500 blade with a co-processor blade which has eight FPGAs on it – one for each x86 core.
This combination is called an S-Blade; the FPGA speeds up the filtering of data moving off storage before being passed on to the PostgreSQL database, as well as doing complex sorting and joins of database tables and managing compression.
In the wake of the acquisition, IBM rebranded this parallel database machine the Netezza 1000. A single rack of the Netezza 1000 offers 12 of these S-Blades, which have a total of 96 x86 cores (the same as the Exadata X2-2). The machine has 32TB of usable data space uncompressed, and offers load rates of 3TB per hour and backup rates of 4TB per hour.
The HS22 blades run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, and IBM has tools to port databases from DB2, Informix, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Teradata, Sybase and Red Brick databases to the Netezza variant of PostgreSQL.
The Netezza 1000 appliance can scale up to ten racks in a single image, two more racks than the Exadata appliances.
In June IBM fattened up the Netezza appliances with a C1000 machine, which has four S-Blades and a dozen disk enclosures in a rack with 144TB of uncompressed database space. (There are obviously a lot fewer processors to chew through this data per rack.)
The machine scales up to eight racks, offering 32 S-Blades with 256 cores and FPGAs and 1.15PB of user space. Netezza gets a little less than a 4:1 ratio with data compression, boosting that user capacity.
IBM charges about $2,500 per terabyte for the high-capacity Netezza appliances and about $10,000 per terabyte for the regular appliances. Disks are cheaper than CPUs and FPGAs.
The other IBM machines
While Oracle was busy eating Sun Microsystems and before IBM had acquired Netezza, IBM rolled out a line of parallel data warehousing and analytics machines call the Smart Analytics System.
The original machines were based on clusters of mid-range Power 550 servers configured with dual-core Power6 processors, 32GB of memory and Gigabit Ethernet switches from Juniper Networks linking the nodes together. Fibre Channel adapters linked out to shared DS5300 disk arrays, cross-coupled to four server nodes.
The server nodes in the original Smart Analytics System ran AIX 6.1 and IBM's General Parallel File System, as well as Tivoli System Automation to manage each node. One node in the cluster is equipped with Cognos 8 modules, including BI Server, Go Dashboard and BI Samples.
The other three machines are carved up into a dozen logical partitions that run IBM's InfoSphere Warehouse variant of DB2 V9.5 database and offer 12TB of user space. The setup could expand to 53 database nodes, supporting about 5,000 named users and offering 200TB of space in 19 racks.
In April 2010, IBM widened the Smart Analytic System fleet to include a Power7-based system cluster. It also added variants based on System x x86 servers and System z mainframes, while updating the underlying database to the DB2 V9.7 release and offering flash storage as an option to boost performance on I/O heavy SQL processing.
The Smart Analytics System 5600 is based on IBM's System x3650 M3 server, a 2U rack server that has two Xeon 5600 series processors from Intel. IBM is plunking the six-core Xeon X5670 running at 3.33GHz into the server nodes, with 8GB, 32GB or 64GB memory options.
The machine can have up to 288GB of main memory and has room for 16 disks or SSDs. These server nodes are paired with IBM's DS3500 disk arrays. They have 24 x 2.5in media bays, can support up to 192 devices using add-on enclosures, and can attach to the servers through Fibre Channel or SAS adapters.
The server nodes run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. The software stack includes the same InfoSphere Warehouse extensions to DB2 and Cognos 8 analytical tools as the original Smart Analytics System, and Fusion-io SSDs are options to disks for boosting IOPs.
IBM is also offering an x86 variant of the Smart Analytics System called the 5710, which is based on the System x3630 M3 server. This is a 2U rack server with 14 x 3.5in or 28 x 2.5in disks. The machine is based on 3.06GHz Xeon X5667 processors and maxes out at 192GB of main memory. So you can put more disks in this 5710 node but less memory than in the 5600 node.
The Smart Analytics System 7700, announced in October 2010, is an upgrade of the original cluster, and is based on IBM's entry Power 740 server announced in August 2010. The Power 740 is a two-socket server that can be equipped with Power7 processors with four, six or eight cores running at between 3.3GHz and 3.7GHz. The machine tops out at 256GB, but should be able to do 512GB once IBM supports 16GB DDR3 memory sticks in the box.
Depending on the model, you can have six or eight 2.5in 600GB SAS drives in the unit. This 7700 parallel system uses the same DS3500 external disk arrays and runs the InfoSphere Warehouse and Cognos 8 stack on AIX – interestingly, on AIX 6.1 still, not on the AIX 7.1 that was announced last year and tuned for Power7 iron.
IBM's Smart Analytics System 7700 DW/BI cluster
Finally, because IBM has to show love to its mainframe base, it also rolled out the Smart Analytics System 9600, which uses z/OS partitions on a System z mainframe as the database server and z/Linux partitions to run the Cognos analytics.
In a base configuration, the setup is based on the System z10 BC midrange mainframe. (It has not yet been updated to the System zEnterprise 114 announced in July with faster mainframe engines.)
The mainframe version of the Smartie box has two partitions on an entry BC-class mainframe, one running z/OS and DB2 and the other running Linux and the Cognos tools. The machine can run databases up to 100TB in size, and you can expand capacity with Parallel Sysplex clustering as needed. IBM tosses in some DS8700 external storage arrays to hold the data, and says that the 9600 box can support up to 10,000 users.
Pricing information was not announced for the Smart Analytics System 9600, but a rack of the 5600-class machines runs to $2.14m, while the 7700-class racks costs $4.49m. If you want to flesh out the 5600-class rack with Fusion-io SSDs, then you are in for $3.68m.
IBM is not yet offering SSDs on the Smartie 7700s, but probably will when the Power7+ processors come out.
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text: Hi, People: I have a small question regarding PBS in beowulf , I setup my walltime and cput time both 12:00 Hours for my queue. My program itself can run more than 12 hours and output results periodically. All my nodes are exact same. But I met situation that some nodes send back results much much more output than others.Thus it makes my programs very inefficient, say, I used 32 nodes, but 16 nodes will give me back enough data but 16 nodes only feedback very little results, I know that each computing node actually save the output in local storage and send back the output to the master node later according to some protocols (that i donot know). Since these nodes are same, I assume some nodes hold the results in local and did not send them back. My question is, how can I make sure that all the computing nodes can send the output that stored in their local storage back to the master when walltime or cput time is reached...... Is there any people ever met the similar situation and provide some suggestion? Thanks, Jerry


text: >Have you checked in the baseboard management log to see if it is >throwing an error. Apparently the SC1435 does not have OpenManage. "Simple Computing" is too simple to warrant that, I was told. They do have dset to look at the ESM logs but not for CentOS nor Fedora. Redhat is their "validated" [sic] OS. That's the only one they support. So I'm sort of stuck there. > Also check on the temperature of the machines. We >have had some pretty wierd issues with ram and CPU quirkyness when >they reach a high internal temperature. If you can do some poling >using ipmi on the nodes to record the current temp and fan data over >time so that you could see what it was at just before a crash you >might be able to point it to an environmental situation. I'll try ipmi. I was trying lm_sensors but apparantly it does not have a driver for this chipset / motherboard combination. Not sure if its an AMD Opteron specific driver issue or a vendor-not-relesing-motherboard-specs issue (heard both versions on the net). Anybody else had success using lm_sensors on the SC1435? -- Rahul


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by Clark Groome
At a critical point in Lionel Bart's popular musical "Oliver," Fagan, the leader of the gang of London's young pickpockets, sings about "reviewing the situation."
It's likely that the Philadelphia Phillies honchos, and especially general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., are doing just that.
The 2011 Phillies were, from the time last December when pitcher Cliff Lee was re-signed, viewed as the best team in baseball. Lee joined a starting staff that included Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels. Roy Oswalt, aces all, and the reliable, innings-eating Joe Blanton.
The regular lineup also had the power and the history to strike fear into the opposition, with the only question mark being in right field after Jayson Werth departed for oooooodles of money from the Washington Nationals.
As often happens over the 162-game regular season, things didn't work out exactly as planned. Injuries to Oswalt and Blanton changed the starting rotation. The bullpen's Brad Lidge, J.C. Romero, Danys Baez and Jose Contreras all had injury problems. None played the roles that were originally expected.
First baseman Ryan Howard, third baseman Placido Polanco, shortstop Jimmy Rollins, second baseman Chase Utley, center fielder Shane Victorino and catchers Carlos Ruiz and Brian Schneider all spent time, some of it significant, out of the lineup.
And then there were the surprises. On the negative side, no one – not the highly touted rookie Domonic Brown or the veteran Ben Francisco – was able to adequately fill the gap Werth left in right.
On the plus side, bullpen youngsters Michael Stutes and Antonio Bastardo were lights out for most of the second half of the season. Ryan Madson, for years one of the game's premiere set-up eighth inning guys, turned into a strong, reliable closer.
Bench players Michael Martinez and Wilson Valdez did yeoman's work filling in for injured regulars.
Perhaps the most impressive – and to some surprising – performances came from John Mayberry Jr. and Vance Worley.
Mayberry did a tremendous job defensively and offensively when called for in the outfield or at first base.
Rookie Worley, a/k/a Vanimal, filled in as a starting pitcher. His performance was spectacular. He posted an 11-3 record and a 3.01 ERA.
Then at the trade deadline Amaro got the delightful manchild Hunter Pence from Houston. Not only did he fill the void in right field, he brought an energy to the team and to the city that was a joy to behold.
Once happily ensconced in the playoffs, the conventional wisdom was that they had a clear road to the World Series. As anyone with a pulse now knows, that didn't happen.
In the nail-biting five-game NLDS, the hot St. Louis Cardinals (a very good team about which nothing negative need be said) were the better team in games that mattered.
So, three years after winning the World Series, the Phils didn't make it past the first round. They're going backwards. Let's review: 2007: won the East, lost to the blazing hot Colorado Rockies in three; 2008: beat the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays to capture their second World Series crown; 2009: beat the Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers before losing to the New York Yankees in a six-game World Series; 2010: beat Cincinnati before losing to San Francisco in the National League Championship Series; 2011: well, you know, they went out in the first round.
The Phils are in a very similar position to what the Philadelphia Flyers were in after their 2010-2011 season, a season coming off an appearance in the Stanley Cup finals. It was widely felt to be one of the elitist of the elite and likely to return to the finals.
Didn't happen, for lots of reasons, most notably the lack of a world-class goalie and a captain who could actually communicate with his team.
The result? General Manager Paul Holmgren made several surprising moves. Among them he traded Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, long said to be the team's "future," for some good, strong, young players along with enough salary cap space to sign premiere netminder Ilya Bryzgalov.
Interestingly, while fans and hockey people around the country were surprised, stunned even, by the moves, they were almost all positive about the changes.
So don't be surprised if something similar – if for different reasons – happens to the Phillies this off-season. Rollins, Madson, Raul Ibañez, Lidge and Blanton all can test the free-agent market this year. Polanco's injuries and the uncertainty about how long Utley's tentative knees will hold out raise serious questions about their future, as does Ryan Howard's heartbreaking Achilles tendon tear suffered on the last play in Friday's loss to the Cards.
Oswalt and the Phils have to decide between them whether he wants to come back, or even stay in the game. And what do you do about the promising bullpen pitchers Bastardo and Stutes, both of whom faded as the season wore on?
We likely will see a very different Phillies team in 2012. But, as with the Flyers, good, smart people are in charge. Whatever moves are made may disappoint some fans, but I intend to view the Phillies' glass as half full. (After all they'll still at least have Halladay, Hamels and Lee as their top three starters.) The next few months should be fascinating, and likely filled with surprises.
A friend said to me Saturday at the gym that he was looking forward to Spring Training. I am too.


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Returning Home
Coming home after studying abroad can be quite a shock to the system. In many ways, it can be just as difficult and unsettling as starting out in a new country. Many students who study abroad experience the same kind of culture shock upon their return home that they did upon their arrival in their host country. It is important for students to be prepared for the shock, so that they can overcome it and readjust to home as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Culture shock is the emotional, mental, and physical adjustment to life in a new place. Many students experience this upon their arrival in a new country, and many experience it upon their return back home. Some students report that "reverse culture shock," as it is often called, is more stressful and difficult than the original culture shock.
Personal Growth
It is important to accept that your post-study abroad life is going to be different from your pre-study abroad life. You are not the same person you were when you left home. You have had a variety of exciting and transformative experiences, and have most likely returned with a more open mind, as well as new ideas about your life, education, and future. This is a good thing! Embrace these changes in yourself!
Friends & Family
That being said, your family and friends at home will most likely not be expecting any changes in you that you might experience. They probably expect you to return home as roughly the same person who left them. They may not be prepared for any major changes in you, as for you, the changes have happened very gradually over time, but they are being asked to accept these changes all at once. This can be extremely frustrating for everyone involved, and it is important to stay patient and understanding. Try not to shut your friends and family out in frustration. No one is at fault here.
Keeping in Touch
It is also important to make sure you stay in touch with the friends you made while abroad. Whether they be fellow study abroad students or native to your host country, these are relationships that can last you for the rest of your lives. Don't let distance get in the way of your friendships—email, Facebook, and Skype make maintaining long-distance relationships far easier than it used to be. These are also friends who have experienced many of the same events that you have during your time abroad, and so you will be able to reminisce with them and bond in a way that you cannot with your friends from home. You will be grateful to have people who understand your experiences more fully than your friends and family from home.
Readjusting to life at home can be extremely difficult and frustrating. It is important to take things one day at a time; things will begin to get easier very soon. Try to focus on the positives of being back home; everything from home that you've missed during your time abroad is suddenly available to you again!
Some students choose to keep a mementos from their time abroad with them after their return home. Something small that you can carry with you at all times is nice to have with you as a reminder of your experiences abroad. It can also serve as a reminder that you can go back, if you so choose.
After returning home, you can combat culture shock by putting your new global knowledge, experience, and intercultural skills to work. Colleges are historically great places for social, ecological, peace, and political movements to form and take root. Being surrounded by young, driven, like-minded people is a highly conducive environment for initiating change. Use your new-found take on life to make your world a better place!


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Does any NFL team have a more crowded trainer's room than the Buffalo Bills?
Coach Doug Marrone revealed Wednesday that three key starters underwent surgeries earlier this offseason.
Pass rusher Mario Williams (hip), linebacker Kiko Alonso (hip) and wide receiver Robert Woods (ankle) are all recovering from offseason procedures.
"We knew that we got (the procedure) done right away so he wouldn't miss any time," Marrone said of Williams' surgery, via ESPN.com's Mike Rodak. "We're just being progressive as we work this through camp with him."
Marrone didn't provide any specifics on Alonso. NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reports, via a source who has spoken with the linebacker, that Alonso's surgery was to repair a torn labrum in January.
That procedure typically comes with a four to six month recovery timetable. Agent Steve Caric tweeted Wednesday that Alonso's rehab is going great and the linebacker will be ready for training camp.
Marrone expects all three players to be healthy and available for the start of the 2014 season.
Those aren't the only players rehabilitating injuries, however.
Edge rusher Jerry Hughes (shoulder), cornerback Stephon Gilmore (hip), cornerback Leodis McKelvin (hip), tight end Scott Chandler (knee) and wide receiver Marcus Easley (knee) all went under the knife after the season, according to Mark Gaughan of The Buffalo News.
Safety Aaron Williams (shoulder) and wide receiver T.J. Graham (hip) are also recovering from surgeries, per ESPN.com's Mike Rodak.
It's not usual for veterans to spend offseason practices working off to the side with trainers. It is rare, however, for one team to have eight to 10 starters stuck in the injury ward.
The Bills will be a team to monitor in training camp.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" breaks down the news and discusses players who could be summertime trade targets.


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This picture was taken last February. A leaf tissue test was sent off and then the area immediately sprayed with manganese. The spray made no difference and the leaf tissue test came back low in manganese and magnesium. After advice from Plumbo, I gave it a dose of phosphite, manganese & magnesium. There was an almost immediate response, but a second dose was needed later on. What ever the problem, I think a bit of phosphite in the mix can give the plant a useful kick.
The field was wheat, direct drilled into OSR stubble, on light land. If you look carefully, the drill tractor wheelings can be seen, and also the combine wheelings running at a diagonal to the drilling. The black lump in the picture is top dressed compost!


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"What to Expect When You're Expecting"
Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lopez, Anna Kendrick, Brooklyn Decker, Chris Rock, Dennis Quaid and Kim "Tootsie" Fields star in this comedic adaptation of the bestselling book of the same name. Opens May 18.
We don't waste our time on anything not worth your time. We celebrate the best of what's coming on film and TV. We cheer when our expectations are met and criticize when we're let down.


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"Despite a continuing weak freight environment, Landstar continued to increase its revenue ... continues to generate outstanding returns." -Henry Gerkens, Landstar's president and CEO, from the company's first quarter earning statement.
Are things getting better in trucking? Are we turning a corner, so to speak? Well, more than a few carriers seem to think so, according to some of things I'm reading.
Take the Evans Network of Companies, for example - a conglomeration of several regional trucking companies. Albert "Bert" Evans, Jr., the company's president and CEO, recently said he expects Evans Network to realize a 15% to 17% increase in its trucking capacity this year - and is anticipating double-digit financial growth for 2008.
(Bert Evans thinks things are turning around in trucking ... at least for his company.)
"The combination of technology enhancements, process improvements and dedicated employees fueled Evans Network's growth in the past and will greatly influence the future of this company," he noted.
"[We] opened 20 new service centers last year and we are on pace for the same growth in 2008," added Matthew "Bo" Bates, vice president at Evans Network. He pointed out that in 2001, the Evans Network consisted of 600 independent contractors that today have more than doubled to 1,250.
(Matthew "Bo" Bates also has confidence in trucking's turnaround, where Evans is concerned ...)
Evans Network, a $185 million revenue operation with 80 service centers across the U.S., is growing in a couple of ways, expanding current operations while buying up some companies, too. The network acquired four companies in the last several years - West Motor, All Points, Hale Intermodal, and the most recent last year, Sanger - and has partnered with DW Whitebread and Bucks Inc. to offer more capacity and resources to their customers.
Henry Gerkens - Landstar's president and CEO, whose quote started off this entry - is also on the confident side of things. He noted that his company posted 6% consolidated revenue growth in the first quarter this year versus the same period in 2007. He added that revenue hauled by the company's truck brokerage carriers increased 11%, revenue hauled by rail carriers increased 25%, and revenue hauled by ocean cargo carriers increased 41%.
Landstar also improved its operating margin to 6.7% in the first quarter compared to 6.4% in the same period last year, said Gerkens - not too shabby, considering how fast the price of diesel has gone up.
Gerkens also pointed out that Landstar's trailing twelve month return on average shareholders' equity remained high at 53% and trailing twelve month return on invested capital, net income divided by the sum of average equity plus average debt, was 33%. The carrier also reduced debt by $17 million in the first quarter and increased cash and short-term investments by $21 million, ending the quarter with $105 million in cash and short-term investments on hand.
"I anticipate the second quarter to be similar to that of the first quarter of 2008," he noted in the company's earnings release. "As such, I would anticipate revenue for the second quarter of 2008 as compared to the second quarter of 2007 to increase in the mid to upper single digits."
That's a pretty bold statement, I must say. But Gerkens, like Evans, wouldn't be saying these things in such a public manner if there wasn't some pretty good data behind them - data that shows that things are improving out there in the freight world. Let's see if this confidence is borne out by reality.


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