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Copyright 2008
Internet Ministry Manager
Grace to You.
Modern religion is thriving in the world today.
Every day men bow at the altar of innovation, making sacrifices
to a god called Progress. Progress rewards its worshipers with
tangible rewards from the technological treasure chest—HDTV,
iPods, plasma screens, dual core processors. The production of
more sophisticated technology, and the money it generates,
justifies the pursuit and the sacrifice.
But Progress is a false god and a true antichrist. Its modern
religion has boldly given mankind an unwarranted promotion while
it has subtly marginalized the true God. And it has enslaved its
adherents with intangible chains, keeping them busy, distracted,
and entertained as they strive to lay hold of a pipe dream.
A Recent History: Moore's Law
In 1965, Dr. Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation,
wrote an article that anticipated the age of the personal
computer and established a model for the development of
technology. The article forecast the effective cost of computer
processing power would be cut in half every two years—more
complexity at a cheaper price.
Lower costs would enable manufacturers to increase the
complexity of an integrated circuit, and Dr. Moore predicted a
doubling of processing power and performance every two years.
That was a revolutionary idea at the time, an idea Caltech
professor Carver Mead called "Moore's Law."
Moore's Law wasn't merely an informed prognostication. Dr. Moore
had mapped out a formula for the technology industry that
demanded efficiency and speed in research, development, and
production. Technology companies that failed to adhere to the
two-year timeframe risked getting left behind.
Dr. Moore and his colleagues were among the first to wed
technology and business, first with Fairchild Corporation and
then with Intel Corporation. Soon, "every new idea that came
along created at least one new company," something Dr. Moore
calls the "Silicon-Valley effect." Moore's Law drove competitors
forward in a race to be the first company to release the newest
technology, resulting in rapid development of computing
Intel Corporation developed the first commercial microprocessor
in 1971, Intel's 4004 chip, which kicked off the revolution in
personal computers. That was only the beginning. Moore's Law
went beyond integrated circuits to advance the development of
hard disk storage, RAM storage capacity, fiber optic data
transmission, and digital imagery.
Central processing units (CPUs) enter the market every year, and
they are faster and smaller. Researchers recently set a
processor speed record of 500 GHz and simulations push the
possible speeds up to 1 THz—that's terahertz. In comparison, the
fastest dual-core processors available in today's personal
computers have a combined speed of 5-6 GHz. As for size, Intel
manufactured its latest processor, the Wolfdale, on a 45
nanometer (nm) chip (the diameter of an atom of silicon is
around .2 nm). Just ten years ago, chips were produced at 500
nm. Enter the age of nanotechnology.
The rate of development has been staggering; technology today is
faster, smaller, more powerful, and more efficient than ever,
and there are no signs of the trend slowing. Advancements in
technology continue to double every two years or less. Even
though Dr. Moore himself doubts Moore's Law can go on forever,
scientists are keeping the faith. Some hope carbon nanotubes and
quantum computing will replace silicon and transistor
technology. Salvation by innovation; Moore's Law lives on.
The Effect of Moore's Law
Moore's Law and the rapid evolution of computer processing,
especially the advent of the personal computer, have changed the
face of public and private life. The decreased cost to develop
more complex, more powerful computer processors has delivered
the benefits into every sphere of life—business, engineering,
science, medicine, the military, and beyond. Moore's Law has
given scientists, engineers, and programmers a reason to put
faith in the future—they've witnessed results and breakthroughs
that were once unimaginable. Impenetrable barriers continue to
disappear as scientists come closer to them.
The economic element of Moore's Law, especially the success of
Silicon Valley ventures, made Moore's Law an attractive standard
for other industries, even for society as a whole. Expectations
created by technology now fuel the insatiable consumer demand
for Progress, in every industry, and innovation has become the
key to every successful enterprise.
But is technology a Trojan horse? How does Progress benefit "the
faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3)?
What does innovation have to do with unchangeable truth and an
unchanging God? How does the modern, secular hope of future
advancement affect core doctrines of the Christian faith?
The demands of technology, progress, and innovation have
affected modern perceptions, which in turn animate the
antichrist spirit of the modern world. That's a strange thing to
say, especially since the benefits of technology are so
apparent. But the subversion of God and His truth has been
subtle because it's cloaked in the robes of Progress. More now
than ever, the Christian gospel battles against an entrenched
mindset of secularism in the popular culture. Man stands at the
center while God looks in from the periphery.
Subversion of Wisdom
Honoring the Aged
The Bible teaches, "You shall rise up before the grayheaded, and
honor the aged, and you shall revere your God" (Leviticus
19:32). "A gray head is a crown of glory" (Proverbs 16:31). Why?
Because the older generation is a repository of truth and
wisdom. Peter instructs young men to submit to their elders (1
Peter 5:5). Paul commands older women to teach the younger women
(Titus 2:3-5). Leaders in the church are to be older men, called
"elders," who stand apart for their time-tested maturity and
wisdom (1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9). From cover to cover, the
Bible promotes the honor of the aged because of their wisdom.
But technology favors the young. Technology advances so rapidly
that even experts struggle to keep up with the pace. New
products hit the market almost annually with new user
interfaces, new software, new updates, and young people with
energy embrace the challenge to learn new things. To them, the
novelty is almost euphoric.
Not so with older people. With age comes resistance to change
(and that's not always a bad thing). You can almost hear a
teenager's thoughts: "Why should I honor the older
generation—they can't even program a cell phone!" The perception
of youthful superiority enters popular culture via many
different avenues, but technology reinforces it in tangible
ways. A Bible that elevates the wisdom of the old appears to
support institutional power structures and suppress the bright
new thoughts of the young.
Maintaining Role Distinctions
The Bible clearly assigns different roles to men and women (1
Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:22-33; Titus 2:3-5). By God's
design, men are to be sacrificial leaders, faithful providers,
and courageous protectors in society; women are to be submissive
helpmeets, devoted homemakers, and nurturing mothers. That role
distinction between the sexes was almost unquestioned in human
history until technology started leveling the playing field in
the mid-twentieth century.
For centuries, physical strength and battlefield prowess made
the difference in provision and protection. Today, anyone can
program a computer, fly an airplane, and push a button to drop a
bomb. Because of technology, Peter's concept of women as the
weaker vessel (1 Peter 3:7) is a hard sell. As Jonathan Rauch
says in his article, "The Coming American Matriarchy," "If there
is a 'weaker sex,' it isn't female." A Bible that assigns the
leadership role to the man and the submissive role to the woman
appears outmoded (at best) and chauvinistic (at worst) in the
equalizing light of technology.
Preferring the Original and the Steady
Technology also creates the perception that faster is better
than slower, newer is better than older. Quick repentance is
prudent (Proverbs 28:13-14; Isaiah 55:6-7; 2 Corinthians 6:2),
and a new heart and a new spirit are better than the old
(Ezekiel 11:19; 18:31; 36:26), but, generally speaking, speed
and novelty are not wise. How do passages like Psalm 27:14
("Wait for the LORD") make sense to an impatient generation
weaned on instant results? What taste does a society that
hungers and thirsts for the new have for an old gospel that has
never changed? A Bible that lists patience as a product of
spiritual growth (Galatians 5:22) and advocates the original to
the exclusion of the new-and-improved (Genesis 3:1-7; Galatians
1:8-9; 1 John 1:1-4) runs contrary to the spirit of the age.
All those things (and there are others) create the perception,
albeit an unwarranted one, that the Bible has nothing to say to
the modern generation. The values that accompany technology,
progress, and innovation are turning biblical wisdom on its
head; and, according to that thinking, the replacement doesn't
look like folly at all.
Subversion of God
The most damning aspect of this modern, secularized religion is
the subversion of God. As men continue to innovate for the sake
of Progress, they produce new technologies that create the
perception that man is pretty smart and God is pretty dumb. To
many, the Bible is outmoded, outdated, and out of touch with
reality. The new clerics are the scientists, the engineers, and
the programmers.
Every new scientific and technological breakthrough reinforces
the popular sense that salvation comes through human innovation.
Human genius and hard work will overcome every obstacle.
Conversely, God is marginalized, diminished, and ignored in the
modern world.
Dr. Moira Gunn, host of NPR's Tech Nation and BioTech Nation,
conducted a fascinating question and answer session with Dr.
Gordon Moore at the 2007 Intel Developers Forum. At the end of
the session, she gave him a refrigerator magnet that cited one
of her basic tenets: "If God didn't make it, it's Technology."
You can't miss the intentionality of the capitalization in that
Dr. Gunn's dictum is nothing new or novel—it's as old as Romans
For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or
give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and
their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they
became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God
for an image in the form of corruptible man. (Romans 1:21-23)
Belief in a god isn't wholly incompatible with this new form of
religion, but it's a god without weight, power, or glory. The
true God is kept at arms length, and technology keeps extending
the arm. It offers distractions, entertainments, new gizmos and
whiz-bangs, and all of it keeps the eyes of humanity diverted
from the heavens and focused on the earth. Modern religion herds
humanity into an ever-tightening circle, closer to the self and
farther from the God of salvation.
The apostle Paul foretold the effects of this modern religion
long ago:
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will
come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful,
arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without
self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless,
conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding
to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. (2
Timothy 3:1-5)
On one level, technology is morally neutral. Phones, computers,
databases, silicon semiconductors, plasma televisions, and iPods
are just wires, electricity, and bits of silicon encased in
plastic—completely harmless. On another level, a more subtle
level, pieces of technology carry beliefs like parasites; they
create perceptions like clever magicians. Those beliefs,
perceptions, and assumptions are not neutral—they breathe
"according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that is now working in the sons of disobedience" (Ephesians
Walking Carefully
As Christians, we walk a razor's edge—we are in the world but
not of the world (John 17:11, 14). We use technology to work and
develop and produce, but we must be wary of technology. Progress
is not our god, innovation is not our salvation. We worship the
Lord Jesus Christ and follow His Word, even though that puts us
on a collision course with modernity.
But today's idolatry charms many Christians. Many find
themselves subtly distracted and gently allured by the benefits,
entertainments, and conveniences technology brings. Christians
in the modern world must wake up and listen to an old warning:
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone
loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all
that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the
eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but
is from the world. And the world is passing away, and also its
lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever. (1
John 2:15-17)
Living in the world and using its technology is dangerous
business. The forces that accompany technology are becoming more
powerful, ubiquitous, influential, and consuming. But there is a
God who stands above it all, watching it fade away, who will one
day call every individual to account. "There is no wisdom and no
understanding and no counsel against the Lord" (Proverbs 21:30).
When we realize it's all passing away, we'll anchor ourselves in
the bedrock truth of the immutable God. We'll subvert the world
and its wisdom with the true wisdom of God's Word. We'll
proclaim the gospel of eternal salvation in Christ to a world
that seeks temporal salvation in Progress. And we'll worship the
unfading glory of the immortal God and scoff at the fleeting
twinkle of the latest technological toy.
Soli Deo Gloria!
© 2008 by Travis Allen
Internet Ministry Manager
Grace to You
[1] Gordon E. Moore, "Cramming more components onto integrated
circuits," Electronics Magazine 38:2 (April 19, 1965), http://download.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespaper.pdf.
[2] Moore, "The Accidental Entrepreneur," Nobelprize.org
(December 3, 2001), http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/moore/index.html.
[3] Manek Dubash, "Moore's Law is dead, says Gordon Moore,"
Techworld (April 13, 2005), http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=3477.
Dr. Moore once asked renowned physicist Stephen Hawking what
barriers existed that would limit the growth of the integrated
circuit. According to Hawking, there are two—the speed of light
and the atomic nature of matter. Researches are already looking
for a way around those barriers.
[4] Michael Kanellos, "Gordon Moore on 40 years of his processor
law," CNET News.com (April 7, 2005), http://www.news.com/Gordon-Moore-on-40-years-of-his-processor-law/2008-1006_3-5657677.html.
[5] Jonathan Rauch, "The Coming American Matriarchy: The fairer
sex gets ready to take over," National Journal (January 15,
2008), reasononline, http://www.reason.com/news/show/124402.html.
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Does renters insurance cover hotel stay and other unexpected questions
Most people know renters insurance covers their space. But what about its other perks? We review additional protections it may provide.
Whether your landlord requires it or a near-miss tornado prompts you to purchase it, renters insurance is a smart investment. A renters policy will typically provide replacement cost coverage for personal property damaged by a covered loss such as fire, smoke, covered water damages, theft and it likely offers many other protections you've not considered.
Here are answers to a few common questions about the unexpected uses of renters insurance.
Does renters insurance cover temporary housing?
Yes, if your rental is rendered uninhabitable as a result of a covered loss. Loss of use or additional living expenses coverage pays for temporary housing until you can return to your rental or move into a new one.
Does renters insurance cover hotel stays?
Yes, loss of use coverage typically pays for hotel stays if your residence is uninhabitable as a result of a covered loss.
Does renters insurance cover my food or gas?
Yes, your plan likely covers the increased costs you incur as a result of your home being uninhabitable. Food and gas costs associated with living in temporary housing may be more than what you incur at your home. If staying in a temporary location or hotel increases your commute or causes you to dine at restaurants for meals, your plan will likely reimburse the extra expenses you incur up to your coverage limits. And when you're back in your own dwelling, does renters insurance cover refrigerator food loss? It's possible. If the food in your refrigerator is spoiled due to a power outage or failed appliance, it may be covered under your policy.
Does renters insurance cover damage to a landlord's property?
It depends. Landlords have their own insurance policies to protect their buildings from things like fires and storms. If you cause damage, however, the costs could fall on you. Your insurance may cover accidental mishaps, but you'll be on your own for any intentional damage. Also, your plan won't cover a lost security deposit. Check your policy or speak with your insurance agent to better understand what coverages your policy provides.
Does renters insurance offer medical coverage?
Typically, yes, if a guest is hurt in your home as a result of a covered claim, whether they fall or your dog bites them, renters insurance may cover their medical bills up to your policy limits. A typical renters policy does not provide coverage if you, or someone who lives with you, is hurt at your home.
Does renters insurance provide legal liability protection?
Yes, typically a renters insurance policy provides liability protection for covered claims. For example, if someone is hurt in your home and sues you, renters insurance may cover any claims or lawsuits brought against you including your legal fees, up to policy limits.
Does renters insurance cover car theft?
Yes and no. Typically, automobiles are excluded from coverage under a renters policy. Auto insurance covers the car itself, but renters insurance may cover possessions stolen from your car.
Do roommates need separate renters insurance?
It's a good idea. While the policy provides coverage for the insured and their resident relatives, any non-related roommates would need to be listed on the policy to have coverage. If relatives or roommates are listed, you may want to increase the limits to ensure appropriate coverage limits. Another option is for each roommate to purchase their own separate policy.


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Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification and taxonomy.
[edit]- For me biology is my life, my motive to life and is in my blood and even my soul.let is way to live. It's a connection between you and your God.
- You can't fight biology. Only push at the rules, here and there.
- David Brin, Glory Season (1993), chapter 5
- I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
- Rachel Carson Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
- The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
- Francis Crick (1966) Of Molecules and Men. p. 10.
- What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology.
- Francis Crick (1988) What Mad Pursuit
- [A]ll of modern biology is an affirmation of this relatedness of the many species of living things and of their gradual divergence from one another over the course of time.
- Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes Biology 5th ed. 1989, Worth Publishers, p. 972
- Biology is Engineering.
- Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.
- Theodosius Dobzhansky (1972) "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"
- Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.
- George Kubler The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 8
- Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists.
- Richard Lewontin (1995) "Sex, Lies, and Social Science" in New York Review of Books (4/20/95)
- Despite the beliefs and teachings of religion and psychology, impulses are biological and psychic directional signals to nudge the individual toward his or her greatest opportunities for expression and development privately, and also to insure the person's contribution to mass social reality.
- Jane Roberts in The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto, p. 17
- When you study science, and especially these realms of the biology of what makes us human, what's clear is that every time you find out something, that brings up ten new questions, and half of those are better questions than you started with.
- Robert Sapolsky (2003) Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech
- science asks us to learn about organisms, traditional knowledge asks us to learn from them.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview on On Being podcast (2022)
About biologists
[edit]- Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact.
- Neil A. Campbell, Biology 2nd ed., 1990, Benjamin/Cummings, p. 434
- Today, the central and still fascinating questions for biologists concern the mechanisms by which evolution occurs."
- Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes, Biology 5th ed. 1989, Worth Publishers, p. 972
- Any competent biologist is aware of a multitude of problems yet unresolved and of questions yet unanswered. After all, biologic research shows no sign of approaching completion; quite the opposite is true. Disagreements and clashes of opinion are rife among biologists, as they should be in a living and growing science. Antievolutionists mistake, or pretend to mistake, these disagreements as indications of dubiousness of the entire doctrine of evolution. Their favorite sport is stringing together quotations, carefully and sometimes expertly taken out of context, to show that nothing is really established or agreed upon among evolutionists. Some of my colleagues and myself have been amused and amazed to read ourselves quoted in a way showing that we are really antievolutionists under the skin.
- Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973) Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution, 1973 [1]
- There are two kinds of biologists, those who are looking to see if there is one thing that can be under stood, and those who keep saying it is very complicated and that nothing can be understood... You must study the simplest system you think has the properties you are interested in.
- Cyrus Levinthal, at the 1958 Conference on Biophysics at Boulder. Quoted in Platt, J. R. (1964). Strong Inference. Science, 146 (3642), 347–353
- More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.
- Ronald Fisher 1959 "Natural selection from the genetical standpoint". Australian Journal of Science 22, 16-17, .
- No biologist today would think of submitting a paper entitled "New evidence for evolution;" it simply has not been an issue for a century.
- Douglas J. Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology, 2nd ed., 1986, Sinauer Associates, p. 15
- Complexity has always been difficult to resolve and to understand. Evolutionary biologists were among the first scientists to recognize this problem, when they dug their way toward new theories about evolution. They discovered that matter does not lack purpose.
- L.K. Samuels,In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 129.
- Posing questions about the living world and seeking answers through scientific inquiry are the central activities of biology, the scientific study of life. Biologists' questions can be ambitious.
- Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, et al. Campbell Biology (10th ed., 2014), Ch. 1. Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry
- What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world — temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.
- When he meets a simple geometrical construction, for instance in the honeycomb, he would fain refer it to physical instinct, or to skill and ingenuity, rather than to the operation of physical forces or mathematical laws; when he sees in a snail, or nautilus, or tiny foraminiferal or radiolarian shell a close approach to sphere or spiral, he is prone of old habit to believe that after all it is something more than a spiral or a sphere, and that in this "something more" there lies what neither mathematics nor physics can explain. In short, he is deeply reluctant to compare the living with the dead, or to explain by geometry or by mechanics the things which have their part in the mystery of life.


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Just about everything that we do in the water makes noise. When we ship goods from country to country, when we explore for oil and gas and minerals, when the military trains with explosives or intense sonar systems -- the noise travels.
But these man-made noises are making it impossible for sea creatures to communicate with themselves, something that is integral to their survival. Michael Jasny, the director of the Marine Mammal Protection Project for the Natural Resources Defense Council, says we have to quiet down.
The Defense Council and other conservation groups reached an agreement with a number of oil and gas companies in June to tackle one aspect of this potentially dangerous cacophony.
'Blinding' Marine Life
Jasny is reminded of an old English science-fiction story in which the people of the world wake up one morning to find that they're all blind. "That's what we're doing to whales and other animals in the sea," Jasny tells NPR's Jacki Lyden. "We haven't blinded them completely, but we've diminished their sight, we've made it much harder for them to live in their world."
It wasn't always this way. Jasny says there was a time when a blue whale calling off the coast of Massachusetts could be heard by other blue whales straight across the Atlantic Ocean.
But ever since the advent of the propeller engine 150 years ago, that's changed. The noise put into the sea has kept growing.
"We have created a kind of smog in the seas," Jasny says. This smog affects every aspect of the lives of whales and dolphins and other creatures. It causes animals to abandon their habitat, to go silent, deaf and in some cases, to die. "It affects every aspect of their survival and their ability to reproduce," he says.
Shooting For Oil
One of the biggest culprits of underwater noise is the technique used to prospect for oil and gas offshore. Companies use high-volume air guns that are so loud, you can see the water rise and fall when the guns go off.
"Imagine someone setting off a sound like dynamite in your neighborhood, again and again and again, every 10 to 12 seconds, for weeks and months," Jasny says. "This is what we are forcing whales and dolphins to live with."
The settlement reached in June, which Jasny wrote about in The Christian Science Monitor, requires the industry to take several steps to reduce the noise around whale and dolphin habitat in the Gulf of Mexico, and use less invasive forms of exploration.
Copyright 2013 NPR. To see more, visit www.npr.org.


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by Dr. V.J.M. de Silva
Introduction - That the World Health Organisation (WHO) has certified Sri Lanka as a malaria-free nation is indeed a truly remarkable achievement. Sri Lanka has now completed 3 consecutive years without any case of indigenous malaria, an achievement never seen before, and is now eligible for WHO certification as a malaria- free country. Only the Maldives and Singapore have been declared free of the disease in the region; but both countries have less than a quarter of Sri Lanka's 21 million population.
Some historical facts – The discovery that malaria is spread by mosquitoes is usually regarded as recent. But actually it is not so. Malaria, or disease resembling malaria, has been noted for more than 4,000 years. Deriving its name from the Italian for "bad air" (mal/aria), the disease has probably had a great influence on human populations and human history. As an example, the construction of the Panama Canal could not be completed until malaria (and yellow fever) was controlled, due to the high morbidity and mortality among the workers. The symptoms of malaria were described in ancient Chinese medical writings. The Indian physician Susruta (6th Century BC) mentions types of fevers, and attributes some to insects like mosquitoes. But, as so often happens, these ancient ideas were ignored and forgotten, and they had to be rediscovered many centuries later.
Following their arrival in the New World in the 17th century, Spanish Jesuit missionaries learned from indigenous Indian tribes of the medicinal properties of the bark of a tree they used for the treatment of fevers. With this bark, the Countess of Chinchón, wife of the Viceroy of Peru, was cured of her fever. The bark from the tree was then called Peruvian bark and the tree was named Cinchona after the countess. The medicine from the bark is now known as quinine, which along with artemisinin (isolated from the plant Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood, a herb employed in Chinese traditional medicine) is anti-malarial. Quinine is one of the most effective anti-malarial drugs available today.
Discovery of the parasite – Alphonse Laveran (1845 -1922), a French army surgeon stationed in Constantine, Algeria, was the first to notice the parasites (protozoa, like amoeba), in the red blood corpuscles of a patient suffering from malaria. This occurred on the 6th of November 1880. He showed that in successive blood smears the parasite grew and changed their shape. With each new brood of parasites in the blood, a fresh bout of 'ague fever' began. For his discovery, Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907.
The parasite has been named as Plasmodia species. There are four main types –the two common types: Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum causing respectively benign tertian and the more clinically dangerous malignant tertian; one less common type P.malariae, quartan malaria; and there is also a rare one: P.ovale. Another type P. knowlesi has been seen in a long-tailed macaque monkey. The first documented human infection with P. knowlesi was in 1965. The periodicity of the fever is characteristic of each species. In P.falciparum, P. vivax and P. ovalemalaria, a brood of schizonts mature every 48 hr, so the periodicity of fever is tertian ("tertian malaria"), whereas in P malariae disease, fever occurs every 72 hours ("quartan malaria").
Discovery that mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites – The next person to advance our knowledge of malaria was Ronald Ross (1857 -1932), a British army officer in the Indian Medical Service. Whilst he was on leave from India, he met Sir Patrick Manson (1844 -1922), called the "Father of Tropical Medicine". He appraised Ross about his own findings in filariasis, and the cycle in the mosquito. He advised Ross to be on the look-out for something similar in the parasite of malaria. On his return to India, Ross examined various types of mosquitoes under the microscope. He finally found dark spots (cysts) in the walls of the stomach of the female Anopheles mosquito on August 20th, 1897. These cysts were alive and multiplying. He was the first to demonstrate that malaria parasites could be transmitted from infected patients through mosquitoes. In further work with bird malaria, Ross showed that mosquitoes could transmit malaria parasites from bird to bird. This necessitated a sporogonic cycle (the time interval during which the parasite developed in the mosquito) giving rise to sporozoites. These sporozoites then migrate into the salivary glands. When the infected mosquito takes her next blood meal, they are injected into the human. Thus the problem of malaria transmission was solved. For his discovery, Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902.
The Vectors of human malaria – The 'carriers' of malaria are Anopheles mosquitoes, which can be distinguished from others by the stance they adopt in the resting position. They rest with the mouth part and body in one straight line, making an acute angle with the resting surface. Non-Anopheles mosquitoes hold their bodies parallel to the resting surface. Also, the wings of Anopheles have dark scales which form distinct markings on the upper margin of the wing.
The transmission of infection is not merely mechanical; the parasites must grow in the mosquito before infection of another human can take place. The time interval for this varies with the temperature. Below 60 F (16 C), it does not happen. Above this, at about 90 F (32 C) it is 8 to 10 days; longer (about 25 days) at lower end of the scale. Optimal is 70-80 F (21-27 C).
In Sri Lanka, the most important is Anopheles culicifacies. Other documented vectors are An. subpictus and An. tessellatus.
Clinical features – In P. vivax malaria after an incubation period of 8-17 days, there is a classical fever which has three phases:
Cold stage – Chills and rigors lasting 30 minutes to 2 hours, preceded by headache, nausea, vomiting and backache
Hot stage – Fever 39 to 42 C lasting 30 minutes to 4 hours.
Sweating stage – with this, the temperature falls to normal.
After a fever-free period of about 48 hours, fever recurs on the third day.
With P. falciparum malaria, symptoms are more severe.
The Exo-erythrocytic (hepatic) cycle in man - The life cycle in humans, however, remained incompletely understood and nobody knew where the parasites developed during the first 10 days or so after infection, during which they could not be seen in the blood. This question was not resolved until 1947 when Henry Shortt and Cyril Garnham, working in London, showed that a phase of division in the liver preceded the development of parasites in the blood. In 1948 when I was studying Zoology for the University Entrance, we had not heard of this cycle. In 1949, in the 1st MBBS at the Science Faculty, Thurstan Road – (those days one had to sit this before entering the Medical Faculty, Kynsey Road), Dr. Hilary Crusz lectured to us in Biology. I remember him telling us that we were the first in this country to be lectured to on the hepatic (pre-erythrocyte) cycle of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium vivax. He had just come back from England and I believe, had worked with Prof. Shortt.
There remained, however, one further question; what caused the long prepatent period between infection and the appearance and reappearance of parasites in the blood, seen in some temperate strains of P. vivax? This led to the discovery of a dormant exo-erythrocytic stage, hypnozoites, by Wojciech Krotoski, working with Garnham's team, in 1982.
The Life cycle of Plasmodium – To summarize this in brief: there are 2 cycles, one in the mosquito, and the other in the human.
A. Human - The life cycle in humans begins with the introduction of sporozoites into the blood. They enter the liver cells within 30 minutes to start the exo-erythrocytic phase. Sporozoites multiply and differentiate into merozoites. These merozoites flood out into the blood and invade red blood cells where they initiate a second phase of asexual multiplication (erythrocytic schizogony) resulting in the production of about 8-16 merozoites which invade new red blood cells. As the infection progresses, some young merozoites develop into male and female gametocytes that circulate in the peripheral blood until they are taken up by a female anopheline mosquito when it feeds on humans.
In P.vivax and P.ovale, maturation of liver-stage schizonts may be delayed for as long as 1 to 2 years. These quiescent liver-phase parasites are called hypnozoites.
B. Mosquito – Each of the gametocytes in the RBCs ingested by the female Anopheles mosquito develop further within her gut. The female gametocyte into a female macrogamete, and the male gametocyte into 8 sperm-like male microgametes. After fertilization, the diploid zygote differentiates into a motile ookinete that burrows into the gut wall, where it grows into an oocyst within which are many haploid sporozoites. These are released and migrate to the salivary glands. They complete the cycle when the mosquito takes her next blood meal and injects them into the bloodstream of the human.
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So how did a year that began with such thunder for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR), and that culminated in the mid-year passage of a massive reform bill in the Senate, end with such a thud? Chronicler Aura Bogado ably and graphically recounts key immigration events of 2013 that show how CIR ultimately died in the House.
A chronological description of events, however, reports what happened but not necessarily why. For that, no matter how daunting the task, NationOfImmigrators is at your service, hereby conferring its 2013 IMMI Awards.
Just as in years past (2010, 2011 and 2012), the rules are the same: There are no rules. These awards are merely one immigration insider's opinions formed from the outside -- before, during and after a recent trip to Ellis Island (it had only partly reopened five weeks earlier after suffering damages from Hurricane Sandy). Our national immigration monument, quite fittingly, is a substantial remove from Foggy Bottom and environs, the epicenter for most of the year's action and inaction.
Modest Effrontery. For all his huffing and puffing about taking action this year on CIR, President Obama seemed like just another old wheezer who bloviated at his teleprompter while failing to blow the House down. He deserves kudos and an IMMI, however, for his decision to reach into his executive powers and extend the remedy of Parole-in-Place to undocumented immigrant relatives of military personnel. If only he'd shown more verve and expanded the class of PIP beneficiaries. Too bad as well that he had to fib to hecklers that he lacked the power to stop deportations. But at least the annual pace of removals is down by 10% and we will not be awarding the "Deporter in Chief" IMMI this year. Maybe he should receive an IMMI for Illegal Reentry Prosecutor of All Time. Let's wait and see how he earns new stripes in 2014.
Profiles in Dithering. The IMMI goes jointly to House Speaker John Boehner (who knew full well that the bipartisan votes to pass the Senate's CIR bill were there in the House but lacked courage to bring it to a vote) and to Tea Party Republicans (TPRs) in the House (who let kowtowing to their Districts prevail over patriotism, the nation's interest, and the welfare of the GOP). At least Speaker Boehner has shown some spine of late in confronting his TPR wing on fiscal and other matters and hiring the former immigration policy advisor of the Gang of Eight's John McCain.
Devouring One's Own. The IMMI goes to advocates for immigration reform who began attacking one another in social and traditional media over tactics (some labeling the stratagems as publicity stunts and others describing them as classic civil disobedience) while losing sight of the overarching need for CIR and creating head fakes to move the eyes of the public away from all temporizing in the House.
Judges Got to Be Free. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) shares this IMMI with the Immigration Section of the Federal Bar Association (FBA). The BIA receives it for demonstrating repeatedly that despite their members' unfortunate positioning as Justice Department employees who report to the Attorney General rather than truly independent jurists, they can and do rule on the law against the federal government regularly. See, e.g., Matter of Douglas, 26 I&N Dec. 197 (BIA 2013)(child citizenship rights); Matter of E-S-I-, 26 I&N Dec. 136 (BIA 2013)(rights of incompetent respondents); and Matter of Lee (E-2 spouse's statutory right of employment authorization without need to apply for a work permit). The FBA Immigration Section earns the IMMI because it developed an extensive proposal for an independent immigration court no longer yoked to one party to the controversy, and secured the approval of the FBA Board of Directors to adopt as its formal policy on issues/advocacy an "Article I Immigration Court" proposal which can now be considered by Congress as part of CIR. Honorable mention goes to the Immigrant and Refugee Appellate Center which has dutifully indexed unpublished BIA immigration cases for all to see.
Private, Off-the-Shelf Organization. Epitomizing lawlessness in government, this IMMI is conferred in recognition of Oliver North's observation during the Iran-Contra Affair that then-CIA Director Casey had a "private, off-the-shelf organization" to run covert operations in lieu of nation's own spy agency. The IMMI goes to the self-aggrandizing adjudicators at one or more regional service centers and at consular posts abroad who take the law into their own hands, concoct new extralegal evidentiary and procedural requirements, and deny requests of individuals and firms who deserve to receive the immigration benefits they seek. The prime 2013 examples are the snitches who instigated a Homeland Security Department, Office of Inspector General (OIG), investigation of USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas through Sen. Charles Grassley -- an investigation assailed for its partisan and ham-handed methods by Judiciary Committee Chair, Patrick Leahy.
Lifetime [of] Achievement. This IMMI goes to USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas (since confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) who achieved more than any previous Director of USCIS or Commissioner of the legacy agency, Immigration and Naturalization Service, in my 35+ year lifetime as an immigration attorney. A lawyer's lawyer, Mr. Mayorkas transformed the agency from a DHS backwater to a leader in public engagement and customer service, vastly improving stakeholder outreach, policy articulation, technological resources, and the speedier delivery (and concomitant reduction in backlogs) of new and existing benefits programs, while maintaining the integrity of the immigration system and allowing his agency to serve as a welcoming beacon to immigrants and nonimmigrants, petitioners and beneficiaries alike. Mr. Mayorkas never veered from his duty to make sure that all cases are decided solely on the facts and the law, without fear or favor. While we often disagreed, I know he will be sorely missed and that his salutary legacy will be felt for decades.
Rush to Pre-Ordained Judgment. The IMMI is awarded to the DHS OIG for its recent report on the USCIS's administration of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor "Regional Center" program. The OIG has long packaged immigration baloney, while claiming to produce an objective and impartial study of a particular government program or practice. This new EB-5 report, if it is to be swallowed, should likewise be slathered liberally with mustard or another masking condiment of choice. The report focuses on the gripes of low-level officers, interviews no one outside of government, largely disregards the views of senior EB-5 program leaders at USCIS, and ignores multiple improvements to the adjudication of regional center cases and enhancements to promote consistency, detect and prevent fraud and promote the program's mission of job creation (well documented in the accompanying memorandum of USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas). It suggests, preposterously, that USCIS lacks legal authority to revoke a regional-center designation request based on fraud or national-security grounds, and that USCIS should study the program's effect on job creation (even though such a study is clearly outside of the agency's mission). To be sure, the EB-5 program would benefit from greater regulatory clarity and closer liaison with the SEC and Commerce Department as the OIG proposed. But it is as if this new OIG report essentially studied an old pre-op photo of a patient revealing an aquiline snout, disregarded the marvelous post-op results of rhinoplasty, and concluded that the patient has a big, ugly nose. Clearly, the OIG has a nose for baloney; but it should not be given credibility as a pretext to eliminate the valuable EB-5 program.
DOMA's Wake and Post-Mortem. This IMMI goes jointly to the Supreme Court for invalidating most of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) in U.S. v. Windsor, and to the federal immigration agencies (USCIS and the State Department) that quickly responded by according equal treatment under the immigration laws to same-gender bi-national couples as have long been enjoyed by heterosexual spouses.
Immigration Champions. The IMMI goes to the American people (documented and otherwise), from all walks of life and every political persuasion, who are way ahead of their government leaders in supporting immigration reform and to countless advocates who have protested, marched, attended Town Halls, been arrested, wrote letters to editors, visited Congress and the White House, convened forums, tweeted, blogged, found bittersweet humor, argued that immigration is "one of [the] biggest civil rights issues" of our time, and screamed to the rafters that the time is now to fix our dysfunctional system. It also goes to Pope Francis who has spoken widely on the plight of immigrants as well as to those who make the religious and moral case for immigration reform, and to all the think-tanks and studies that showed CIR would dramatically benefit our economy, create jobs and improve the lot of all who reside in America.
Best Random Immigration Quote. The IMMI goes to the fashion retailer Louis in Boston for the quote emblazoned on its stairwell wall: "We create boundaries only to trap ourselves within them." View image.
No More Traffic. The IMMI goes to the coalition of people, groups and agencies who have resolved that trafficking in humans must end.
Perp Walk Blooper. For insensitivity to cultural differences despite a shared ethnicity, the IMMI goes to the otherwise impressive Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The Indian government and many of its people challenge his justification for the post-arrest strip search of Indian consular officer, Devyani Khobragade, who claims full diplomatic immunity from visa fraud charges based on her status as adviser to India's permanent mission to the UN. Whatever the merits of the visa fraud charges, the U.S. should not undermine its adherence to diplomatic immunity, a privilege from prosecution which protects our diplomats abroad as much as foreign diplomats in the U.S. charged with crimes.
Jackboot Welcome. This IMMI goes to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the JFK port of entry who obliterated a permanent resident's livelihood by destroying his collection of musical instruments apparently claiming they were agricultural products.
We're not from DC - We Get It. Kudos and an IMMI go to the cities, states and regions that recognize the value of immigrants as contributors to their communities. Their welcome mats are out and, without waiting for Washington, they are taking tangible steps to be more inviting to the foreign-born while full-throatedly talking devolution.


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In time, gravity, sun exposure, and the stresses of daily life take their toll on our faces and necks. Deep creases appear beside the mouth, the jaw line slackens and becomes jowly, and the neck develops loose folds and fat deposits. Facelifts counteract these signs of aging by tightening muscle, removing fat, and trimming excess skin, giving your face a fresher, youthful look. After surgery, some patients look 10-15 years younger.
Facelifts, technically known as rhytidectomies (literally, "removal of wrinkles"), rejuvenate the mid- to lower face and neck. Facelifts are most effective for patients who want to correct:
Facelifts can produce a dramatic improvement in appearance for patients with the problems mentioned above. However, facelifts do not stop the aging process; in time, signs of aging will gradually appear once again.
Further, facelifts will not rejuvenate the brow, eyelids, nose, and some of the midface. Patients who want to improve these areas may consider combining a facelift with a brow lift or eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty).
Injectable soft-tissue fillers, facial implants and skin resurfacing can also enhance the effects of a facelift.
The best candidates for rhytidectomy:
During your consultation, your doctor will discuss whether a facelift is right for you.
Facelifts are typically outpatient procedures and may be performed in an office-based facility, surgery center or hospital. Patients may have a choice of IV sedation or general anesthesia. The procedure takes about two hours.
The way a facelift is performed varies depending on the surgeon, the patient's facial structure, and the extent of correction desired. The three most common incision techniques are:
In all three methods, incisions are closed with stitches or tissue glue. Scars are hidden in the hairline and natural contours of the face.
After your rhytidectomy, your doctor will wrap the incisions in bandages and may place drainage tubes in the area. The tubes will be taken out the next day, when your hair will be carefully washed. If surgical clips are used to hold the incisions closed, they will be removed one week after the facelift along with your stitches.
At first, you may experience swelling, numbness, bruising, and a feeling of tightness or tension in the face and neck. Your face may look uneven or distorted, and your facial muscles may feel stiff. Most of these usually resolve within 3-6 weeks, and sensation typically returns to normal within a few months. Scars become less red, raised, lumpy or itchy in time.
Many patients return to work by the third week. Camouflage cosmetics can be used to minimize the appearance of bruising.
You should be gentle with your skin and hair as you recover. Men may need to shave behind the neck and ears where areas of beard-growing skin have moved.
Results of a facelift do not last forever. You may want to have another procedure in five or ten years. But in another sense, the effects are permanent; years later, your face will continue to look better than if you had never had a facelift.
Possible complications of facelift include: bleeding, infection, bruising, uneven swelling or discoloration, allergic reaction to the anesthesia, skin blistering (usually only seen in smokers), and temporary or permanent loss of sensation in the face. Your doctor will discuss the risks and benefits of a facelift with you before your surgery.
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Are you thinking of Moving to Las Cruces New Mexico?? Use these helpful tips to stay on track during your upcoming relocation. Before you know it, you'll be putting out the welcome mat and making yourself at home.
Before the move:
Get organized. Start a "move file" to keep track of estimates, receipts and other information. You may be able to deduct your move and lower your taxes, so check with the IRS to see what expenses can be deducted on your next tax return.
Research your new community. The local Chamber of Commerce is a great place to find information about your new home.
Stay Healthy. Gather medical and dental records - including prescriptions and shot records. Ask your existing doctors if they can refer you to care providers in your new city.
Prepare your children. Arrange to have school records transferred to your children's new school district and/or daycare. Involve your children in the moving process, from picking out the new home to packing their toys. Relocating can be a "scary" adventure, so make sure you talk to your family about the move. Visit about the new community and discuss how to make new friends.
Budget for moving expenses.
Tie up loose ends.
• Contact utility companies to disconnect, transfer or connect services. Plan on keeping current services through your move date and having new ones available prior to your move-in date.
• Return library books and pick up dry cleaning or items out for repair.
• Call your local newspaper and set a date to cancel your subscription.
• Call your insurance agent to see what changes to expect in your policies. Ask if moving is covered and arrange for insurance for your new home.
• Contact health clubs or other organizations to which you belong. Ask how you can end, sell or transfer your membership.
• Contact your bank and/or credit union to transfer or close accounts. Clear out safety deposit boxes. Pick up traveler's checks or cash for "on the road" expenses.
Keep in touch. File a change of address. If you don't know what your new address will be, ask the postal service to hold your mail in their office in your new city. Make a list of friends, relatives and businesses that will need to know of your move and send your new address to them as soon as possible. Postal forwarding time is limited.
Take inventory.
• Decide what items need to go before your move and plan a yard sale or contact your local charities. If you donate, be sure to get a receipt for income tax purposes.
• Make a list of things that are valuable or difficult to replace. Ship these items by certified mail or carry them with you.
Clean house.
• Start collecting boxes and other packing supplies at least a month before your move.
• Use up things that can't be moved, such as frozen foods, bleach and aerosol cleaners.
• Dispose of flammables, corrosives and poisons.
• Drain all gas and oil from your mower and other motors. Gas grills, kerosene heaters, etc. must be emptied as well.
• Empty, defrost and clean your refrigerator at least 24 hours before moving day.
Reserve your moving truck. Do this at least a few weeks before your move. If you need a ramp or other loading equipment, make reservations with a local equipment-rental yard.
Be prepared. As moving day gets closer, finish packing and prepare a box with the essentials. Keep these items handy, preferably in your automobile. Don't forget to include extra clothing, toiletries and snacks for the kids. Other things to consider are:
• Coffee cups, paper plates, paper towels
• Plastic forks, spoons, knives
• Dish soap, trash bags, towels
• Phone books, pencils and paper, your "move file"
• Telephone, radio, batteries
• Scissors, masking tape, utility knife, can opener
• Toilet paper, prescriptions, aspirin or other pain relievers
• Flashlight, light bulbs, hammer
• Toys for the kids
Finish up. Before leaving your old home, check every room, closet and cabinet one last time. Make sure everything is loaded. Leave a note with your new address in the house so future occupants can forward any stray mail.
After the move:
Get connected. Check to see if your mail is making it to your new address or pick up any mail being held.
Fill out the paperwork. Get a new driver's license and new tags for your automobile. And don't forget to register to vote. In many states, you can do this when you get your new license.
Stay up to date. Contact the local paper for a new subscription.
Make yourself at home.
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Data lake and data warehouse – know the difference
By: Phil Simon, author, speaker and noted technology expert
Over the past few years, you may have heard someone somewhere drop the term "data lake." The concept has increasingly gained traction as data volumes have increased exponentially, streaming data has taken off, and unstructured data has continued to dwarf its structured counterpart.
But what is a data lake anyway? Is it just marketing hype? And, generally speaking, how does it differ from the traditional data warehouse?
Understanding the traditional data warehouse
Odds are that at some point in your career you've come across a data warehouse, a tool that's become synonymous with extract, transform and load (ETL) processes. At a high level, data warehouses store vast amounts of structured data in highly regimented ways. They require that a rigid, predefined schema exists before loading the data. (It's almost always a star or snowflake schema.) Put differently, the schema in a data warehouse is defined "on write." ETL processes dutifully kick out error reports, generate logs, and send errant records to exception files and tables to be addressed at later dates.
Because of this rigidity and the ways in which they work, data warehouses support partial or incremental ETL. In other words (and depending on the severity of the issue), an organization can load or reload portions of its data warehouse when something goes wrong.
Organizations typically populate data warehouses periodically. Generally speaking, data refreshes via regular cycles – say every morning at 3 a.m. when employees aren't likely to be accessing the data and downstream systems. Employees arrive at work the next day with freshly squeezed data.
To be sure, the data stored in traditional data warehouses remains valuable today. Still, organizations and their leaders need to begin rethinking contemporary data integration. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT) and the analytics it makes possible. Sensors on vehicles, farm equipment, wearables, thermostats and even crops result in massive amounts of data that stream continuously. It's a good bet that even an industrial-strength data warehouse will struggle with these new streams of data.
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The rise of the data lake
Against this backdrop, we've seen the rise in popularity of the data lake. Make no mistake: It's not a synonym for data warehouses or data marts. Yes, all these entities store data, but the data lake is fundamentally different in the following regard. As David Loshin writes, "The idea of the data lake is to provide a resting place for raw data in its native format until it's needed." Data lies dormant unless and until someone or something needs it.
When accessing data lakes, users determine:
- The specific data types and sources they need.
- How much they need.
- When they need it.
- The types of analytics that they need to derive.
Are all of these possible in a data warehouse? Probably not. And even if they were possible, achieving them in a period of time that business users would find acceptable is unlikely – especially in today's rapidly changing environments. Beyond that, one particular schema almost certainly will not fit every business need. To wit, the data may ultimately arrive in a way that renders it virtually useless for the employee's evolving purposes.
A different kind of schema
For this very reason, a data lake schema is defined "on read." Put differently, a data lake still requires a schema. However, that schema is not predefined. It's ad hoc. Data is applied to a plan or schema as users pull it out of a stored location – not as it goes in. Data lakes keep data in its unaltered (natural) state; it doesn't define requirements unless and until users query the data.
When used correctly, data lakes offer business and technical users the ability to query smaller, more relevant and more flexible data sets. As a result, query times can drop to a fraction of what they would have been in a data mart, data warehouse or relational database.
Organizations will continue to integrate "small" data with its big counterpart, and foolish is the soul who believes that one application – no matter how expensive or robust – can handle everything. Phil Simon Author, speaker and technology expert
The increased flexibility of the data lake
The data lake emphasizes the flexibility and availability of data. As such, it can provide users and downstream applications with schema-free data; that is, data that resembles its "natural" or raw format regardless of origin.
While the jury is still out, many if not most data lake applications do not support partial or incremental loading. (In this way, the data lake differs from the data warehouse.) An organization cannot load or reload portions of its data into a data lake. It tends to be all or nothing.
A data lake analogy
If you're still struggling with the notion of a data lake, then maybe the following analogy will clarify matters. Think of a data mart or data warehouse as a storage facility rife with cases of bottled water. Those cases didn't just magically appear overnight. People and machines gathered and purified the water. After packaging it, only then was it ready for people to buy and drink.
By comparison, think of a data lake as a large body of natural water that you would only drink if you were dying of thirst. If you need 50 gallons of water to put out a fire, you don't need to buy cases of bottled water and empty them out one by one. It's all there, ready to go.
In keeping with this analogy, the "water" in a data lake flows from many places: rivers, tributaries and waterfalls. That is, the data lake doesn't hold only one type of water (that is, data). Data lakes can house all types of data: structured, semistructured and unstructured. Note, however, that filling a data lake with structured data means that it will lose at least some of its structure and – you guessed it – some of its value. To this end, if you're only interested in structured data, a data warehouse may still be your best bet.
There's little doubt in my mind that the data lake will occupy an increasingly key place in the future of data management.
Two schools of thought on data lakes
Because we're still in the early stages, today's opinion on data lakes is anything but universal. At a high level, there are two schools of thought. One group views the data lake as not only important, but also imperative for data-driven companies. This group understands the limitations of contemporary data warehouses – principally that they were not built to handle vast streams of unstructured data. What's more, the difference between "on write" and "on read" isn't simply a matter of semantics. On the contrary, the latter lends itself to vastly faster response times and, by extension, analytics.
That's one viewpoint and I happen to agree with it. To be fair, we have not reached industrywide consensus here – far from it. Skeptics of data lakes aren't shy about their opinions. The cynics view the data lake as a buzzword or the hype of software vendors with a serious stake in the game. Moreover, some consider the data lake a new name for an old concept with limited applicability for their enterprises.
Adding to the legitimate confusion around the topic, few folks use the term "data lake" in a consistent manner. Some folks call any data preparation, storage or discovery environment a data lake.
Parallels with Hadoop and relational databases
When conceptualizing the need for data lakes, perhaps it's best to think of Hadoop – the open-source, distributed file system that many organizations adopted over the years. Hadoop grew for many reasons, not the least of which is that it fulfilled a genuine need that relational database management systems (RDBMSs) could not address. To be fair, its open-source nature, fault tolerance and parallel processing place high on the list as well.
RDBMSs simply weren't designed to handle gigabytes or petabytes of unstructured data. Try loading thousands of photos, videos, tweets, articles and emails into your traditional SQL server or Oracle database and running reports or writing SQL statements. Good luck with that.
For decades, data warehouses have handled even large volumes of structured data exceptionally well: lists of employees, sales, transactions and the like. They feed countless business intelligence and enterprise reporting applications. It's unreasonable, however, to expect those same data warehouses to efficiently process fundamentally different data volumes, speeds and types.
A note on metadata
Data lakes rely upon ontologies and metadata to make sense out of data loaded into them. Again, methodologies vary. But generally speaking, each data element in a lake inherits a unique identifier assigned with extensive metadata (tags). Conclusion: The data lake is here to stay.
The bright future of the data lake
There's little doubt in my mind that the data lake will occupy an increasingly key place in the future of data management. Organizations will continue to integrate "small" data with its big counterpart, and foolish is the soul who believes that one application – no matter how expensive or robust – can handle everything.
When a business question arises, users will increasingly need answers faster than traditional data storage and reporting stalwarts can provide. When used properly, data lakes allow users to analyze smaller data sets and quickly answer critical questions.
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About the author
Phil Simon is a keynote speaker and recognized technology expert. He is the award-winning author of eight management books, most recently Analytics: The Agile Way. He consults organizations on matters related to strategy, data, analytics, and technology. His contributions have been featured on The Harvard Business Review, CNN, Wired, The New York Times, and many other sites. In the fall of 2016, he joined the faculty at Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business (Department of Information Systems).Recommended reading
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The Indian Health Service has been praised for the success of its vaccination campaign, but it has not reached every Native American. Tribes that aren't recognized by the U.S. government have received none of the federal help meant for Indian country. Ellis O'Neill of member station KUOW reports from southwest Washington.
ELLIS O'NEILL, BYLINE: The Chinook Indian Nation has about 3,000 members who mostly live near the mouth of the Columbia River. But they're not on the list of federally recognized tribes, so they get nothing from the Indian Health Service.
TONY JOHNSON: We have all the problems of Indian country, but no means of dealing with it.
O'NEILL: Chinook chair Tony Johnson says without recognition, they get no reservation, no housing allowance, no clinics. And during the pandemic, it's meant no testing supplies or vaccine allocations.
JOHNSON: So we rely on our neighboring tribes, which means that people are traveling an hour or two or three to be able to access vaccinations, testing and other resources.
O'NEILL: The nearby Shoalwater Bay Tribe, for example, gave Johnson his COVID vaccine. He says unemployment spiked in southwest Washington during the pandemic and with it, addiction problems. But the Chinook receive no federal funds for drug and alcohol programs. Johnson says no local tribal members have died of COVID, but several have died because of COVID - not only of addiction, but of untreated chronic conditions like diabetes.
JOHNSON: We have lost folks in the community over the last year that would not have been lost were Chinook to have been a federally recognized community. And that is unbearable.
O'NEILL: Many tribes are federally recognized because at some point they signed a treaty agreeing to give up their land. For complicated reasons, the Chinook Nation isn't recognized, even though they did at one point sign a treaty.
JOHN NORWOOD: It was an accident of history that left some off the list and included others.
O'NEILL: John Norwood, of the National Congress of American Indians, works on federal recognition issues. He says gaining federal recognition now can be nearly impossible regardless of a tribe's history. On paper, it's one thing...
NORWOOD: The regulations, as they stood, appeared to be just fine.
O'NEILL: ...But how they're used is a different story.
NORWOOD: The problem was their interpretation and application became more stringent, less transparent, very inconsistent, oftentimes punitive.
O'NEILL: Another western Washington tribe the U.S. government refuses to recognize is the Snohomish. They're the namesake of the county north of Seattle.
MIKE EVANS: We'll continue to be here as long as the mountains still exist and the rivers run through the forest out into the sea.
O'NEILL: The Snohomish Tribe's chair, Mike Evans, says today, the tribe has about 1,500 enrolled members, but...
EVANS: We don't have a clinic, we don't have the vaccines to distribute and there's no money to deal with that.
O'NEILL: And without federal recognition, there won't be any money in the future either. The most recent COVID relief package included more than $31 billion for the tribes on the federal government's list, adding to funds earmarked in the prior two relief bills. Tony Johnson, chair of the Chinook Nation, says tribes used those funds for unemployment relief, food programs and infrastructure projects.
JOHNSON: The once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-generation infusions of funds will be having impact on those communities generations to come.
O'NEILL: He says it's heartbreaking that his own Chinook Indian Nation won't have access to any of those resources. For NPR News, I'm Ellis O'Neill in southwest Washington.
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