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Borla Performance Industries
Phone number: 8052466000
500 Borla Dr.
Johnson City, TN 37604
Specializing in:
DynoMax Performance Exhaust
Phone number: 734-84-7806
1 International Drive
Monroe, MI 48161
DynoMax offers the widest selection of high performance exhaust products on the market today. DynoMax has it all sound, performance and durability.
Specializing in: Accessories| Exhaust|
Paramount Automotive
Phone number: (866) 988-8348
1410 E. Holt Blvd
Ontario, CA 91761
Specializing in:
Rancho Performance Suspension and Shocks
Phone number: 734-384-7804
6925 Atlantic Ave
Long Beach, CA 90805
Rancho® a popular brand of suspension, shocks and more worldwide was born in the 1950s in Long Beach, Calif., as Rancho Jeep Supply, and quickly grew into a thriving off-road and performance suspension components manufacturer. In 1988, Rancho launched what would later become its best-selling shock absorber: the RS5000. In 1990, Rancho was purchased by Tenneco Inc. and quickly expanded to include the world's first five-way adjustable shock absorber, allowing off-road enthusiasts to adjust the level of compression/rebound damping to suit their riding style, and launched the first "intelligent" shock, the RSX shock absorber. Rancho continued to grow and add fully engineered, industry-leading shock absorbers like RS9000XL, Loaded quickLIFT, Pro Series and more plus suspension systems to one of the world's most recognizable and technologically leading brands. Rancho suspension systems, shock absorbers, accessories and other related products deliver rugged performance for work and play in any on - or off-road environment. Rancho products are manufactured and marketed by Tenneco Inc (NYSE: TEN) a $5.9 billion manufacturing company best known for its ride control and emission brands, including: Monroe® shocks and struts, Walker® Exhaust, Gillet® and Clevite® Elastomers, and DynoMax® Performance Exhaust.
Specializing in: Accessories| Parts| Suspension|
Phone number: 1-800-505-3274
1 Corporate Drive
Cranbury, NJ 08512
Need to customize or repair your Jeep Wrangler? Check out our selection of parts and accessories at CARiD.com, or give us a call at 800.505.3274 for professional advice www.carid.com
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Clutches| Detailing| Engine internal/external| Exhaust| Exterior| Forced Induction| Interior| Oils/lubrication| Parts| Racing Equipment| Restoration| Suspension| Tires| Transmissions- automatic| transmissions- manual| Tuning| Wheels|
Phone number: (928) 771-8422
2266 Crosswind Drive
Prescott, AZ 86301
Specializing in:
DieTech Offroad
Phone number: (678) 423-2876
102 Automation Drive
Carrollton, GA 30116
We specialize in manufacturing steel accessories and armor for the JK and TJ models. Our flagship product is our mirror bracket solution that offers unparalleled stability and visibility.
Specializing in: Accessories| Exterior| Interior|
Expedition One LLC
Phone number: 801-627-2921 877-366-3099
113 N. 700 W. Bldg 5C
Ogden, UT 84404
Bringing innovative designs to the off-road market for Jeeps, FJ Cruisers, Tundra, Tacoma, Chevy, Ford and Dodge. Manufacturer of winch bumpers, rocker guards, innovative tire carrier systems, Mule Equipped racks, and Geri cans. Expedition One also carriers Superwinch products, PIAA and Hella lights, Rock Monster wheels, Eezi-Awn tents, and a host of off-road accessories.
Specializing in: Accessories| Exterior| Wheels|
Full Traction
Phone number: 800-255-6464
12539 Jomani Dr
Bakersfield, CA 93312
Specializing in:
Phone number: 9166318071
3290 Monier Circle
Rancho Cordova, CA 96742
Specializing in:
Northridge 4x4
Phone number: 866-601-5340
Specializing in:
Off Road Evolution
Phone number: 714-870-5515
1829 W. Commonwealth Ave
Fullerton, CA 92833
Specializing in:
Off Road Warehouse
Phone number: 1-800-341-7757 Ask for John
7915 Balboa Ave
San Diego, CA 92111
We have been involved in some form of off road racing or events for more than 30 years. Started in 1973 to service the local off road racers, who at one time could not easily find the parts and components needed to compete in events such as the Baja 500 and Baja 1000. We have competed and won multiple events in different classes. Our combined experience totals well over 100 years. Off Road Warehouse has many Truck, Jeep & Off Road enthusiasts in its employ, we love what we do and strive to make every effort at customer satisfaction. We are into what we do. If you have a club and would like help with an event you are putting on, contact us at email@example.com. If you have some images of your Truck, Buggy, Jeep and want them on the website Email them to firstname.lastname@example.com. Located in Southern California with four retail stores, we have over 1,000,000 in inventory with easy access to millions more. We currently have more than 600 different product lines, including some unusual or hard to find items. We strive to deliver honesty, integrity and value through exceptional customer service and product knowledge. In the process we hope to keep you as a long term customer.
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Clutches| Engine internal/external| Exhaust| Exterior| Forced Induction| Interior| Oils/lubrication| Parts| Racing Equipment| Suspension| Tires| Wheels|
OPTIMA Batteries Inc
Phone number: 1-888-8-OPTIMA
5757 N Green Bay Ave X-33
Milwaukee, WI 53209
OPTIMA® Batteries represent the ultimate in quality & innovation in the battery market. If you need help with your battery, please call 888-8-OPTIMA.
Specializing in: Parts|
OR Fab
Phone number: 928-636-3100
3651 N. Highway 89
Chino Valley, AZ 86323
OR-Fab is a business built around our passion for producing protective gear for the "Jeeping" market. All of our products are manufactured in Chino Valley, Arizona and shipped to Distributors and Specialty shops worldwide. Our intent is to produce the finest quality Jeep protective gear at a price literally everyone can afford. All OR-Fab employees are enthusiasts and gain much satisfaction seeing our products on people's Jeeps. It is the same type of pride which bonds the Jeep community!
Specializing in: Exterior|
Baja Designs Inc
Phone number: 7605602252
185 Bosstick Boulevard
San Marcos, CA 92069
Specializing in:
Dynatrac Performance Axles
Phone number: 714 596 4461
7392 Count Circle
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
For over 20 years, Dynatrac has been the industry leader in high performance axle and drivetrain assemblies. Our products are designed using the finest materials, processes, and engineering available. Plus, we proudly manufacturer each component in the United States and back our products with the best service and warranty in the business. No matter what type of vehicle you have or driving you do, Dynatrac Products put the confidence underneath you to get the job done, saving you time, money and headaches. Dynatrac was founded to provide off-road enthusiasts, small businesses, and corporate fleets with a dependable source for high-quality drive axle equipment. By offering the highest quality alternative to stock, used and inferior rebuilt axles, Dynatrac has become the industry leader in performance axles. Our continuing commitment to quality craftsmanship, engineering excellence, and unsurpassed customer service, ensure you the best possible experience when it comes time to repair or upgrade your truck.
Specializing in: Brakes| Parts| Racing Equipment|
ExtremeTerrain Jeep Outfitters
Phone number: 800-988-4605
7 Lee Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
ExtremeTerrain.com is dedicated to offering you high quality Jeep Wrangler aftermarket parts and accessories at great prices. We've got you covered whether you're crawling canyons, climbing mountains, or just cruising the open road with our full inventory of Jeep parts and accessories for every Jeep Wrangler model. And if you're not quite sure yet just how you want to modify your Jeep, give us a call and our experts will help sort, filter, and recommend products to fit your project and budget with the most bang for your buck, after all, we are the Jeep Wrangler Experts!
Specializing in: Accessories| Exterior| Suspension| Tires| Wheels|
High Lift Offroad
Phone number: 513-285-4001
100 Security Dr
Faifield, OH 45014
Specializing in:
Icon Vehicle Dynamics
Phone number: (951) 689-4266
7929 Lincoln Ave.
Riverside, CA 92504
Specializing in:
Ignite Offroad
Phone number: 336-688-76-84
Trinity, NC 27370
Specializing in:
Inspired Engineering
Phone number: 3058145331
13800 sw 142 ave #11
Miami, 33186
Specializing in Offroad lighting solutions from LED lights to custom brackets. We also sell the full line of Rough Country, Teraflex, and many other brands products! We have a full service shop in the Miami Fl area, and have capabilities of building your dream Jeep. Tools include a CNC machine, CNC press, Tig and Mig welders, and much more...
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Clutches| Engine internal/external| Exhaust| Exterior| Forced Induction| Interior| Oils/lubrication| Parts| Racing Equipment| Suspension| Tires| Transmissions- automatic| transmissions- manual| Wheels|
JeepSWAGcom Dominion OffRoad aka Woods Products
Phone number: (626) 872-4571
160 22nd Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Vetted Best of Breed Jeep JK Products & Dominion OffRoad Factory Store We try it, before you buy it!
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Exhaust| Suspension| Wheels|
JKS Manufacturing
Phone number: 517-278-7144
491 W. Garfield Ave
Coldwater, MI 49036
Specializing in:
Phone number: 877-628-8665
Staten Island, NY
Made In USA NavTool Back-Up Camera & Smartphone Mirroring Interfaces.
Specializing in: Accessories|
Off Road Warehouse
Phone number: 858-565-7792
7915 Balboa Ave
San Diego, CA 92111
Specializing in:
Power Tank
Phone number: 2093662163
43 Commerce St. #103
Lodi, CA 92540
Specializing in:
Rare Parts Inc
Phone number: 800-621-2005
621 Wilshire Ave
Stockton, CA 95203
If you are looking for heavy-duty USA-made steering and suspension components, then look no further. Rare Parts has manufactured rare and obsolete suspension parts for the last 30 years, and has a full testing facility for both destructive, and cycle tests. Our inventory consists of over 3 million steering and suspension parts all guaranteed to meet or exceed OEM quality. Any Make, Any Model, Any year from 1920 to today. If we dont have it, we will build it.
Specializing in: Parts| Suspension|
Phone number: 866-900-8841
JK-Forum's Expert Built Consultants. Headquartered in Orange County, CA we are known for the biggest Jeep Wrangler JK builds in the industry plus shipping parts all over the world.
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Clutches| Engine internal/external| Exhaust| Exterior| Forced Induction| Interior| Oils/lubrication| Parts| Racing Equipment| Restoration| Suspension| Tires| Transmissions- automatic| transmissions- manual| Tuning| Wheels|
Rock Hard 4x4
Phone number: 844 762 5427
1005 Twin Fork Lane
St. Paul, NE 68873
Specializing in:
Rough Country
Phone number: 1-800-222-7023
Specializing in:
Phone number: 714-988-3303
Garden Grove, CA 92841
Specializing in Automotive Replacement Parts and Products. TUFFSHADE, TUFFMATS, exactafit, BLASTER, RT Dead Pedal
Specializing in: Parts|
Smashboogie 4x4
Phone number: 973-440-0047
Dover, NJ 07801
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Clutches| Exhaust| Exterior| Oils/lubrication| Parts| Racing Equipment| Suspension| Tuning| Wheels|
So Cal4x4
Phone number: (619)504-3958
Lakeside, CA 92040
Specializing in:
Switch Pros
Phone number: (949) 581-2991
23111 Antonio Parkway, Suite 210
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
Specializing in:
Tasca Parts
Phone number: 800-598-1484
66 Stamp Farm Road
Cranston, RI 02921
Specializing in:
Phone number: 1-888-837-2359
5241 Commerce Dr.
Murray, UT 84107
TeraFlex has been professionally involved with Jeeps since the 1950s and our experience has taught us how to make them perform their best. Since the beginning of TeraFlex we have constantly added unique and innovative products to make our line what it is today. TeraFlex was started in the fall of 1996 to meet the needs of the growing market for heavy duty off road equipment and suspension enhancements. Since that time TeraFlex has had a dominant hold on the Jeep market. TeraFlex was the first aftermarket manufacturer with a suspension system for the TJ Wrangler, and is still the only aftermarket company to offer a solution for the venerable 231 transfer cases low range gearing. In 2001 the entire off road industry was stunned at the CRD60 - an off road specific high-pinion 60 differential that took innovation to a new level, and reinforcing our position in the industry. Continuing our stronghold, we offer the most comprehensive list of performance components for the JK Wrangler of any other manufacturer to date. For complete performance with unsurpassed dependability - Get the TeraFlex Advantage today.
Specializing in: Accessories| Brakes| Suspension|
TOTL Innovations
Phone number:
We make the most functional Jeep JK hood on the market today. Our hood features two types of vents designed to expel heat from the engine bay at both high and low speeds greatly reducing under hood temperatures.
Specializing in:
Warn Industries
Phone number: 800-543-9276
12900 SE Capps Rd
Clackamas, OR 97015
Warn Industries is the worlds most recognized brand in off-road products such as hub locks and vehicle recovery winches. The company designs, manufactures and markets a full line of off-road equipment and accessories that enhance the performance of four-wheel-drive and powersport vehicles.
Specializing in: Accessories| Exterior|
Warrior Products
Phone number: 503-691-8915
16850 SW Upper Boones Ferry Rd. Suite A
Durham, OR 97224
Warrior Products specializes in Jeep and 4x4 Aftermarket parts and accessories. Come join the Warrior Nation!
Specializing in: Accessories| Exterior| Interior| Parts| Suspension|
Welcome Distributing LLC
Phone number: 425-316-8830
Everett, WA
Wish you had some help getting in and out of your Jeep other then grabbing the steering wheel or your seats? Look no more... Our 3/4" solid steel (not tubing) GraBars are perfect for getting in & out of your Jeep, or for holding on while going down a trail.
Specializing in: Accessories| Interior|


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Now you can save up to 75% off the price of prescriptions with the free NeedyMeds iPhone app.
(Vocus) August 21, 2009 -- NeedyMeds, the premier source of information on programs that help people who can't afford their medicine and health care costs, has released an iPhone version of its drug discount card. Simply by showing the pharmacist an image on their iPhones, people can save up to 75% off the price of their prescriptions. The app includes instructions for the patient and pharmacist. The savings are immediate and apply when you fill your prescription.
The NeedyMeds Drug Discount Card has helped thousands of people save on the cost of their prescription medications. The card is accepted at 53,000 pharmacies including all the major national chains. There is no registration process or fee. Anyone can use the card without regard to income, insurance status, residency, or age. If you have insurance or receive drug benefits from a state or federal program, you can use the card for a drug that is not covered by your insurance or program, or if using it in place of the insurance will cost less.
With many Medicare Part D participants now falling into the dreaded "donut hole" with no hope of spending enough to get out, the NeedyMeds Drug Discount Card can help them save on prescription costs.
The NeedyMeds Drug Discount Card can be used for over-the-counter medicine if you doctor writes a prescription for it and for pet prescription medicines purchased at a pharmacy.
A paper version of the card can be downloaded from the
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Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac Courage Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Line)
Quote #7
CYRANO (beside himself)
I – I am going to be a storm – a flame –
I need to fight whole armies all alone;
I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel
Too strong to war with mortals –
(He shouts at the top of his voice.)
For Cyrano, courage is driven by love.
Quote #8
CYRANO (With a gesture presenting the Cadets to De Guiche, declaims:)The Cadets of Gascoyne – the defenders
Of Carbon de Castel-Jaloux:
Free fighters, free lovers, free spenders –
The Cadets of Gascoyne – the defenders
Of old homes, old names, and old splendors –
A proud and a pestilent crew!
The Cadets of Gascoyne, the defenders
Of Carbon de Castel-Jaloux.
Hawk eyed, they stare down all contenders –
The wolf bares his fangs as they do –
Make way there, you fat money-lenders!
(Hawk eyed, they stare down all contenders)
Old boots that have been to the menders,
Old cloaks that are worn through and through –
Hawk eyed, they stare down all contenders! –
The wolf bares his fangs as they do!
Skull-breakers they are, and sword-benders;
Red blood is their favorite brew;
Hot haters and loyal befrienders,
Skull-breakers they are, and sword-benders.
Wherever a quarrel engenders,
They're read and waiting for you!
Skull-breakers they are, and sword-benders;
Red blood is their favorite brew! (II. 298-321)
Cyrano makes up an impromptu song celebrating the bravery of the Gascon Cadets. Many of the qualities that Cyrano lives by are present here in these lyrics. The song is made even bolder because Cyrano sings it to Comte de Guiche.
Quote #9
A CADET (Enters with a drawn sword, along the whole blade of which is Transfixed a collection of disreputable hats, their plumes draggled, their crowns cut and torn.
Cyrano! See here –
Look what we found this morning in the street –
The plumes dropped in their flight by those fine birds
Who showed the white feather! (II. 347-351)
Throughout the play, white plumes represent courage. So here, the fact that Comte de Guiche's 100 men dropped their plumes while they retreated in fear from Cyrano shows their cowardice.


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WarTech: Senko no Ronde
- Genre:
- Shooter
- Release Date:
- 5/22/2007
- Publisher:
- Ubisoft
- Developer:
- G.Rev
- Gamesite:
- Click Here
By: qwerasdf11
SENKO NO RONDE unofficial Trailer(JAPANESE) WARTECH:SENKO NO RONDE(aka SENKO NO RONDE Rev.X) , an arcade fighter for XBOX360 http://stage6.divx.com/user/qwertyui/video/1006287/ size(640x360)
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By: Guppy
This was at the request of a friend. I just got the game so sorry if I don't quite know how to control the B.O.S.S. modes well.
Views: 1,255 | Posted: 12/25/2008
Short on content and repetitive, only hardcore fans of the anime will be satisfied with this experience.
Views: 31,987 | Posted: 06/18/2007
The bigger they are, the harder they blast you out of the sky.
Views: 16,907 | Posted: 06/18/2007
Immerse yourself in a full-scale war where your mech piloting expertise will decide the fate of a nation.
Views: 25,044 | Posted: 06/07/2007
A violent war is raging across the galaxy and only the most powerful mech pilots will survive!
Views: 75,017 | Posted: 06/07/2007
Mechs fighting in space. Simply amazing.
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Normal-Tension Glaucoma: Glaucoma is usually high pressure inside the eye that damages the optic nerve and can result in permanent vision loss. Normal-tension glaucoma (also called low-tension glaucoma) is a unique condition ...
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Cloudera's announcements this week
This week being Hadoop World, Cloudera naturally put out a flurry of press releases. In anticipation, I put out a context-setting post last weekend. That said, the gist of the news seems to be:
- Cloudera continued to improve various aspects of its product line, especially Impala with a Version 2.0. Good for them. One should always be making one's products better.
- Cloudera announced a variety of partnerships with companies one would think are opposed to it. Not all are Barney. I'm now hard-pressed to think of any sustainable-looking relationship advantage Hortonworks has left in the Unix/Linux world. (However, I haven't heard a peep about any kind of Cloudera/Microsoft/Windows collaboration.)
- Cloudera is getting more cloud-friendly, via a new product — Cloudera Director. Probably there are or will be some cloud-services partnerships as well.
Notes on Cloudera Director start:
- It's closed-source.
- Code and support are included in any version of Cloudera Enterprise.
- It's a management tool. Indeed, Cloudera characterized it to me as a sort of manager of Cloudera Managers.
What I have not heard is any answer for the traditional performance challenge of Hadoop-in-the-cloud, which is:
- Hadoop, like most analytic RDBMS, tightly couples processing and storage in a shared-nothing way.
- Standard cloud architectures, however, decouple them, thus mooting a considerable fraction of Hadoop performance engineering.
Maybe that problem isn't — or is no longer — as big a deal as I've been told.
|Categories: Cloud computing, Cloudera, Hadoop, Hortonworks
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Context for Cloudera
Hadoop World/Strata is this week, so of course my clients at Cloudera will have a bunch of announcements. Without front-running those, I think it might be interesting to review the current state of the Cloudera product line. Details may be found on the Cloudera product comparison page. Examining those details helps, I think, with understanding where Cloudera does and doesn't place sales and marketing focus, which given Cloudera's Hadoop market stature is in my opinion an interesting thing to analyze.
So far as I can tell (and there may be some errors in this, as Cloudera is not always accurate in explaining the fine details):
- CDH (Cloudera Distribution … Hadoop) contains a lot of Apache open source code.
- Cloudera has a much longer list of Apache projects that it thinks comprise "Core Hadoop" than, say, Hortonworks does.
- Specifically, that list currently is: Hadoop, Flume, HCatalog, Hive, Hue, Mahout, Oozie, Pig, Sentry, Sqoop, Whirr, ZooKeeper.
- In addition to those projects, CDH also includes HBase, Impala, Spark and Cloudera Search.
- Cloudera Manager is closed-source code, much of which is free to use. (I.e., "free like beer" but not "free like speech".)
- Cloudera Navigator is closed-source code that you have to pay for (free trials and the like excepted).
- Cloudera Express is Cloudera's favorite free subscription offering. It combines CDH with the free part of Cloudera Manager. Note: Cloudera Express was previously called Cloudera Standard, and that terminology is still reflected in parts of Cloudera's website.
- Cloudera Enterprise is the umbrella name for Cloudera's three favorite paid offerings.
- Cloudera Enterprise Basic Edition contains:
- All the code in CDH and Cloudera Manager, and I guess Accumulo code as well.
- Commercial licenses for all that code.
- A license key to use the entirety of Cloudera Manager, not just the free part.
- Support for the "Core Hadoop" part of CDH.
- Support for Cloudera Manager. Note: Cloudera is lazy about saying this explicitly, but it seems obvious.
- The code for Cloudera Navigator, but that's moot, as the corresponding license key for Cloudera Navigator is not part of the package.
- Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Edition contains:
- Everything in Cloudera Basic Edition.
- A license key for Cloudera Navigator.
- Support for all of HBase, Accumulo, Impala, Spark, Cloudera Search and Cloudera Navigator.
- Cloudera Enterprise Flex Edition contains everything in Cloudera Basic Edition, plus support for one of the extras in Data Hub Edition.
In analyzing all this, I'm focused on two particular aspects:
- The "zero, one, many" system for defining the editions of Cloudera Enterprise.
- The use of "Data Hub" as a general marketing term.
|Categories: Cloudera, Data warehousing, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Hadoop, HBase, Hortonworks, Open source, Pricing
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Streaming for Hadoop
The genesis of this post is that:
- Hortonworks is trying to revitalize the Apache Storm project, after Storm lost momentum; indeed, Hortonworks is referring to Storm as a component of Hadoop.
- Cloudera is talking up what I would call its human real-time strategy, which includes but is not limited to Flume, Kafka, and Spark Streaming. Cloudera also sees a few use cases for Storm.
- This all fits with my view that the Current Hot Subject is human real-time data freshness — for analytics, of course, since we've always had low latencies in short-request processing.
- This also all fits with the importance I place on log analysis.
- Cloudera reached out to talk to me about all this.
Of course, we should hardly assume that what the Hadoop distro vendors favor will be the be-all and end-all of streaming. But they are likely to at least be influential players in the area.
In the parts of the problem that Cloudera emphasizes, the main tasks that need to be addressed are: Read more
|Categories: Cloudera, Complex event processing (CEP), Data warehousing, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Hadoop, Health care, Hortonworks, Log analysis, Specific users, Splunk, Web analytics
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An idealized log management and analysis system — from whom?
I've talked with many companies recently that believe they are:
- Focused on building a great data management and analytic stack for log management …
- … unlike all the other companies that might be saying the same thing …
- … and certainly unlike expensive, poorly-scalable Splunk …
- … and also unlike less-focused vendors of analytic RDBMS (which are also expensive) and/or Hadoop distributions.
At best, I think such competitive claims are overwrought. Still, it's a genuinely important subject and opportunity, so let's consider what a great log management and analysis system might look like.
Much of this discussion could apply to machine-generated data in general. But right now I think more players are doing product management with an explicit conception either of log management or event-series analytics, so for this post I'll share that focus too.
A short answer might be "Splunk, but with more analytic functionality and more scalable performance, at lower cost, plus numerous coupons for free pizza." A more constructive and bottoms-up approach might start with: Read more
Teradata bought Hadapt and Revelytix
My client Teradata bought my (former) clients Revelytix and Hadapt.* Obviously, I'm in confidentiality up to my eyeballs. That said — Teradata truly doesn't know what it's going to do with those acquisitions yet. Indeed, the acquisitions are too new for Teradata to have fully reviewed the code and so on, let alone made strategic decisions informed by that review. So while this is just a guess, I conjecture Teradata won't say anything concrete until at least September, although I do expect some kind of stated direction in time for its October user conference.
*I love my business, but it does have one distressing aspect, namely the combination of subscription pricing and customer churn. When your customers transform really quickly, or even go out of existence, so sometimes does their reliance on you.
I've written extensively about Hadapt, but to review:
- The HadoopDB project was started by Dan Abadi and two grad students.
- HadoopDB tied a bunch of PostgreSQL instances together with Hadoop MapReduce. Lab benchmarks suggested it was more performant than the coyly named DBx (where x=2), but not necessarily competitive with top analytic RDBMS.
- Hadapt was formed to commercialize HadoopDB.
- After some fits and starts, Hadapt was a Cambridge-based company. Former Vertica CEO Chris Lynch invested even before he was a VC, and became an active chairman. Not coincidentally, Hadapt had a bunch of Vertica folks.
- Hadapt decided to stick with row-based PostgreSQL, Dan Abadi's previous columnar enthusiasm notwithstanding. Not coincidentally, Hadapt's performance never blew anyone away.
- Especially after the announcement of Cloudera Impala, Hadapt's SQL-on-Hadoop positioning didn't work out. Indeed, Hadapt laid off most or all of its sales and marketing folks. Hadapt pivoted to emphasize its schema-on-need story.
- Chris Lynch, who generally seems to think that IT vendors are created to be sold, shopped Hadapt aggressively.
As for what Teradata should do with Hadapt: Read more
|Categories: Aster Data, Citus Data, Cloudera, Columnar database management, Data warehousing, Hadapt, Hadoop, MapReduce, Oracle, SQL/Hadoop integration, Teradata
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Notes and comments, May 6, 2014
After visiting California recently, I made a flurry of posts, several of which generated considerable discussion.
- My claim that Spark will replace Hadoop MapReduce got much Twitter attention — including some high-profile endorsements — and also some responses here.
- My MemSQL post led to a vigorous comparison of MemSQL vs. VoltDB.
- My post on hardware and storage spawned a lively discussion of Hadoop hardware pricing; even Cloudera wound up disagreeing with what I reported Cloudera as having said. Sadly, there was less response to the part about the partial (!) end of Moore's Law.
- My Cloudera/SQL/Impala/Hive apparently was well-balanced, in that it got attacked from multiple sides via Twitter & email. Apparently, I was too hard on Impala, I was too hard on Hive, and I was too hard on boxes full of cardboard file cards as well.
- My post on the Intel/Cloudera deal garnered a comment reminding us Dell had pushed the Intel distro.
- My CitusDB post picked up a few clarifying comments.
Here is a catch-all post to complete the set. Read more
Hardware and storage notes
My California trip last week focused mainly on software — duh! — but I had some interesting hardware/storage/architecture discussions as well, especially in the areas of:
- Rack- or data-center-scale systems.
- The real or imagined demise of Moore's Law.
- Flash.
I also got updated as to typical Hadoop hardware.
If systems are designed at the whole-rack level or higher, then there can be much more flexibility and efficiency in terms of mixing and connecting CPU, RAM and storage. The Google/Facebook/Amazon cool kids are widely understood to be following this approach, so others are naturally considering it as well. My most interesting of several mentions of that point was when I got the chance to talk with Berkeley computer architecture guru Dave Patterson, who's working on plans for 100-petabyte/terabit-networking kinds of systems, for usage after 2020 or so. (If you're interested, you might want to contact him; I'm sure he'd love more commercial sponsorship.)
One of Dave's design assumptions is that Moore's Law really will end soon (or at least greatly slow down), if by Moore's Law you mean that every 18 months or so one can get twice as many transistors onto a chip of the same area and cost than one could before. However, while he thinks that applies to CPU and RAM, Dave thinks flash is an exception. I gathered that he thinks the power/heat reasons for Moore's Law to end will be much harder to defeat than the other ones; note that flash, because of what it's used for, has vastly less power running through it than CPU or RAM do.
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The Intel investment in Cloudera
Intel recently made a huge investment in Cloudera, stated facts about which start:
- $740 million …
- … for 18% of the company …
- … as part of an overall $900 million round.
- SEC filings coming soon with more details.
Give or take stock preferences, etc., that's around a $4.1 billion valuation post-money, but Cloudera does say it now has "most of $1 billion" in the bank.
Cloudera further told me when I visited last Friday that the majority of the Intel investment is net new money. (I presume that the rest of the round is net-new as well.) Hence, I conclude that previous investors sold in the aggregate less than 10% of total holdings to Intel. While I'm pretty sure Mike Olson is buying himself a couple of nice toys, in most respects it's business-as-usual at Cloudera, with the same investors, directors and managers they had before. By way of contrast, many of the "cashing-out" rumors going around are OBVIOUSLY absurd, unless you think Intel acquired a much larger fraction of Cloudera than it actually did.
That said, Intel spent a lot of money, and in connection with the investment there's a tight Cloudera/Intel partnership. In particular, Read more
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Cloudera, Impala, data warehousing and Hive
There's much confusion about Cloudera's SQL plans and beliefs, and the company has mainly itself to blame. That said, here's what I think is going on.
- Hive is good at some tasks and terrible at others.
- Hive is good at batch data transformation.
- Hive is bad at ad-hoc query, unless you really, really need Hive's scale and low license cost. One example, per Eli Collins: Facebook has a 500 petabyte Hive warehouse, but jokes that on a good day an analyst can run 6 queries against it.
- Impala is meant to be good at what Hive is bad at – i.e., fast-response query. (Cloudera mentioned reliable 100 millisecond response times for at least one user.)
- Impala is also meant to be good at what Hive is good at, and will someday from Cloudera's standpoint completely supersede Hive, but Cloudera is in no hurry for that day to arrive. Hive is more mature. Hive still has more SQL coverage than Impala. There's a lot of legacy investment in Hive. Cloudera gets little business advantage if a customer sunsets Hive.
- Impala is already decent at some tasks analytic RDBMS are commonly used for. Cloudera insists that some queries run very quickly on Impala. I believe them.
- Impala is terrible at others, including some of the ones most closely associated with the concept of "data warehousing". Data modeling is a big zero right now. Impala's workload management, concurrency and all that are very immature.
- There are some use cases for which SQL-on-Hadoop blows away analytic RDBMS, for example ones involving data transformations – perhaps on multi-structured data – that are impractical in RDBMS.
And of course, as vendors so often do, Cloudera generally overrates both the relative maturity of Impala and the relative importance of the use cases in which its offerings – Impala or otherwise – shine.
Related links
- A survey of SQL/Hadoop integration (February, 2014)
- The cardinal rules of DBMS development (March, 2013)
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Spark on fire
Spark is on the rise, to an even greater degree than I thought last month.
- Numerous clients and other companies I talk with have adopted Spark, plan to adopt Spark, or at least think it's likely they will. In particular:
- A number of analytic-stack companies are joining ClearStory in using Spark. Most of the specifics are confidential, but I hope some will be announced soon.
- MapR has joined Cloudera in supporting Spark, and indeed — unlike Cloudera — is supporting the full Spark stack.
- Mike Olson of Cloudera is on record as predicting that Spark will be the replacement for Hadoop MapReduce. Just about everybody seems to agree, except perhaps for Hortonworks folks betting on the more limited and less mature Tez. Spark's biggest technical advantages as a general data processing engine are probably:
- The Directed Acyclic Graph processing model. (Any serious MapReduce-replacement contender will probably echo that aspect.)
- A rich set of programming primitives in connection with that model.
- Support also for highly-iterative processing, of the kind found in machine learning.
- Flexible in-memory data structures, namely the RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets).
- A clever approach to fault-tolerance.
- Spark is a major contender in streaming.
- There's some cool machine-learning innovation using Spark.
- Spark 1.0 will drop by mid-May, Apache voters willin' an' the creek don' rise. Publicity will likely ensue, with strong evidence of industry support.*
*Yes, my fingerprints are showing again.
The most official description of what Spark now contains is probably the "Spark ecosystem" diagram from Databricks. However, at the time of this writing it is slightly out of date, as per some email from Databricks CEO Ion Stoica (quoted with permission):
… but if I were to redraw it, SparkSQL will replace Shark, and Shark will eventually become a thin layer above SparkSQL and below BlinkDB.
With this change, all the modules on top of Spark (i.e., SparkStreaming, SparkSQL, GraphX, and MLlib) are part of the Spark distribution. You can think of these modules as libraries that come with Spark.
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Review: 'Falling Skies' - 'Prisoner of War': The wrong kid tried
A few quick thoughts on tonight's "Falling Skies" coming up just as soon as I read the stack of spy novels on my nightstand...
As I said last week, while I enjoy "Falling Skies," I'm not sure there's enough meat here to fuel weekly reviews. That said, there were some discussion-worthy things in "Prisoner of War," and I'm also curious to see ongoing reaction to the show, given how split the comments were between my post last week (mostly positive comments) versus Fienberg's review of the show (predominantly negative comments).
Mark Verheiden was brought in as showrunner after the "Falling Skies" pilot was produced, and his influence is pretty clear in "Prisoner of War," which has plenty of echoes of "Battlestar Galactica." Obviously there's the wall of photos of missing and/or dead children(*), but there are also the glimpses we get of the civilian population trying to make the best of their situation, here setting up daycare, a rudimentary school system, cooking(**), etc. On "BSG," the civilian part of the fleet was often an abstract, because we were spending all of our time on Galactica while most of the civilians were on other ships we never went to. Here, they're right down the hall from where Weaver and Tom are plotting strategy, so in a way, this show has a leg up on portraying that aspect.
(*) I've always been a Noah Wyle fan - playing John Carter was not nearly as easy as he made it look, as evidenced by the number of shows since then that have tried to feature callow young point-of-view characters who have been vastly less interesting - but it's been a while since I've watched him regularly in anything. So it's nice to get moments like Tom's reaction to the "Save Our Babies" sign as a reminder of what he can do without saying a word. Nice.
(**) On the other hand, any scenario whatsoever that involves giving Pope access to knives, or even forks, spoons and ladles, is incredibly stupid, even if he's under guard 24/7.
This episode also introduces Steven Weber as smug, sarcastic but talented Dr. Michael Harris. It's he kind of role Weber's been typecast in lately, but only because he's very good at it - good enough that I mostly was able to overlook the coincidence that Harris happened to know Tom's wife and was with her when she died. Given that this group still hasn't traveled very far from Boston, it's not completely improbable that these two would cross paths again, but it still seemed a little too dramatically neat.
Plus, Noah Wyle takes out a skitter singlehanded! Tom dragging the creature through the school was a nice moment (if, like most of the series, borrowed from another alien invasion story, in this case Will Smith in the desert in "Independence Day"), and I remain impressed by the effects work on the creature itself.
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choosing categories is still annoying if you have a couple of them. Scrolling and checking is needed. Tags are simpler to work with, but I think it would be extremely handy to use a category cloud / tag cloud to choose the categories/tags for a post/page. The category/tag cloud could be displayed in the metabox or, preferably, for space reasons, in a thickbox.
I used milestone 2.7 as there is so much admin work going on anyway and I'm not sure if the feature list is already definitive for the release.
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@youngmicroserf — 7 years ago
photoshop mockup of tag editing /category editing ida
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Cateory/tag selected for editing
@youngmicroserf — 7 years ago
Inline category/tag editing
comment:1 @youngmicroserf — 7 years ago
Come to think of it - why not use a tag cloud as primary interface for tag and category editing as well? Just attached some photoshop mockups of the idea.
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 @ryan — 7 years ago
See the wireframes, we have something similar in mind.
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See the wireframes, we have something similar in mind.
I checked the wireframes, thanks. A "popular tags" cloud is only proposed on the tag screen. And it doesn't propose inline editing but loading of the edit page. If possible, I'd at least propose to do a category cloud with a similar functionality as the tag one. But I think from a UI experience point of view inline editing is preferable to the edit screen.
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- Milestone changed from 2.7 to 2.9
Pushing back until reconsideration of tags and categories in 2.8
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Narrow Grip Bench Press. Reverse Grip Bench Press. Lots of top end chains/band tension on bench press. Db "rolling" skull crushers off the floor.
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Beginner's Guide to Trading Fixed Income: Part 2 - Process for trading fixed-income securities
Part 2 - Process for trading fixed-income securities
In the second section of this Beginner's Guide, we will examine more closely what a process for evaluating and trading fixed income securities might look like. This section will begin with an analysis of how an investor can screen the fixed-income universe in order to select an appropriate security or securities. We will then move on to discuss how an investor can determine what a fair price might be for the security he or she has chosen to purchase.
Screening the fixed-income universe
One of the primary challenges investors face in the fixed-income market is choosing which issue to focus on from among the plethora of available options. Screening the universe is necessary in order to narrow one's focus. The starting point for any screen of the fixed-income universe should be an investor's needs. First of all, you should consider what role within a portfolio the security you are considering will fill. Are you searching for safety, capital appreciation, tax advantages or income?
A full discussion of what securities might meet each of these primary needs is beyond the scope of this article, but briefly:
- Safety- if you're primarily interested in safety, you should focus on the highest quality securities in order to avoid credit risk and on shorter maturity securities in order to minimize interest rate risk. If safety is your goal, securities you might focus on include: U.S. Treasury and agency securities; CDs and other money market instruments; and perhaps short-term corporate debt or municipal bonds issued by the highest quality corporations and municipalities. If you are seeking safety, most of the issues you focus on should have maturities less than five years, and perhaps even under one year depending on your needs.
- Capital appreciation - if you are seeking capital gains, you are likely to focus on lower-rated securities, such as high-yield bonds or emerging market debt. You might also consider longer-maturity corporate or government bonds if you believe interest rates are likely to fall.
- Tax advantages - if you're in a high tax bracket and seeking to maximize your after-tax income, you will likely narrow your focus to tax-free municipal bonds most of the time. It still pays to consider other forms of fixed income, however, and to compare the after-tax yield on both taxable and tax-free securities.
- Income - many fixed-income investors are seeking income in their portfolio, and nearly all fixed-income securities will provide at least some income for investors (there are exceptions, such as zero-coupon bonds.) Depending on how much risk you are comfortable with, you might narrow your focus towards corporate bonds or mortgage-backed securities if income is your primary goal.
SEE: Are High-Yield Bonds Too Risky?
Another characteristic you will want to isolate is the credit rating you're looking for. Although the ratings supplied by the credit rating agencies are far from perfect, they do provide a useful starting point for credit analysis, and, in general, higher-rated securities tend to be safer than lower-rated securities. Other important characteristics that might help you narrow your search are whether you want a bond that is callable or non-callable, and in the case of corporate bonds, whether or not there is a particular industry you are seeking (diversification pays in the bond market as well as the stock market, and if you're building a portfolio of corporate bonds, you should try to diversify across industries.)
Once you determine the characteristics of the security you're seeking, you can narrow your search even further. There are two ways to do this. If you have access to a Bloomberg terminal or another sophisticated investment program, you can pull up all of the securities outstanding from a particular issuer and then narrow your focus to the one that best suits your needs. For example, if you decided that income is your primary investment goal, that taxes are not a consideration, that you want a bond with a 7- to 10-year maturity and an investment-grade rating, and you want a company in the banking industry, you might wind up focusing on several issuers.
SEE: How To Analyze Corporate Bonds With Bloomberg Terminals
In this hypothetical example, the issuers you come up with might be: Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. Let's say that you already own a Citigroup bond, a Bank of America bond, a Morgan Stanley bond and a Wells Fargo bond, and for whatever reason you're not interested in owning Goldman Sachs bonds. In that example, you have now narrowed your focus down to bonds issued by J.P. Morgan. You can then use your Bloomberg terminal to list all of J.P. Morgan's outstanding corporate bonds, focusing on those with maturities in the 7- to 10-year age. You can choose a particular issue based upon valuation, issue size or availability, and then go out and purchase it in the marketplace.
There are three potential flaws with using the prior method for selecting a particular security. The first is that not everyone has access to a Bloomberg terminal or similar system. The second is that even after performing the process described there may still be a number of bonds that meet all your criteria, and you may not have the inclination or ability to choose a particular bond. The third problem is that even after you have identified a particular bond you still need to go out and buy it, and there's no guarantee that you will eventually be able to find the bond you have focused upon at a reasonable price.
Therefore, many individual investors will find a better approach to be as follows. After having screened the universe down to a manageable size through the process listed above, you can then contact (either online or over the phone) the bond department of the brokerage firm you use in order to see what bonds they have in inventory. You can compare this inventory against your chosen criteria, thereby coming up with a shortlist of available issues that both meet your fixed income screening criteria and are available for purchase. At that point, you can choose whichever issue seems most attractive on a valuation basis and purchase it for your portfolio.
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Determining a fair price for a fixed-income security
One important step in the process discussed above bears looking at more closely. While the current market price for a stock is easily attained, finding what the "fair" value for a particular bond is at a given moment can be more difficult. Therefore, we will now look more closely at some of the methods individuals can use to determine what a fair price for a fixed income security might be.
There are two main ways to determine a fair price for a bond. The first is to see where it has been trading in the market, and the second is to calculate a fair value based upon its characteristics.
The easiest way to determine what a fair price would be is to see where the bond has traded recently. Prior to the early-2000s, this was extremely difficult if not impossible to do, particularly for individual investors. However, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) now requires broker-dealers to report trade prices shortly after execution for many types of bonds, through what is known as the TRACE system. These trade prices are publicly available. If you have access to Bloomberg, and are using the system to analyze bonds, you can find this TRACE data alongside the rest of the bond's characteristics. If you do not have access to Bloomberg, you can still access TRACE data through the FINRA website
Looking at the prices where a bond has traded recently will give you not only an idea of what level the bond should trade at, but also what the recent trend in price activity has been. It is important to keep in mind that if you're only interested in trading a small position of a bond, your pricing may be somewhat worse than that which you see in the TRACE data. This is because the best pricing in the bond market generally goes for executions of greater than $1 million, while smaller pieces are often penalized.
Looking at recent trade prices is a great start, but just as in the stock market, bond market trading may not accurately reflect what the "true" intrinsic value should be. Depending on market conditions, recent trades could be much higher or lower than where a bond's value actually is. Furthermore, some bonds do not trade very frequently, and if that is the case for the bond that you are seeking to buy or sell, there may not be any recent trades that have been reported to TRACE.
Under these circumstances, you might wish to calculate what you believe the fair value for a bond to be. There are a couple of ways to do this. Most bonds trade on a spread basis, because investors wish to receive additional compensation for taking risk beyond that which is inherent in Treasury securities (spread refers to the additional yield of a bond above that of a comparable Treasury security). Therefore, one way of valuing a bond would be to determine how much additional compensation you believe would be fair for the additional risk you are taking relative to a Treasury.
In general, the greater the risk you are taking, the greater the additional compensation you should get. This means that you should receive more spread for purchasing a high-yield bond tha a very high-quality investment grade bond. Similarly, you should receive more spread for buying a less liquid issue than for a very large and liquid issue and you should receive more spread for purchasing longer maturity securities than shorter maturity securities.
The final method for calculating what your target price for a trade should be is to look for levels at which comparable bonds have traded. For instance, you might decide that Oracle and IBM have reasonably similar credit profiles and should therefore trade at reasonably comparable prices. If you cannot find recent trade data on the Oracle bond that you're trying to purchase, you could instead see where a comparable IBM bond has traded and use that as a rough approximation for what the value of the Oracle bond should be.
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With Twitter and its 140 characters limit leading all the trends, URL shortening services are in extremely high demand. We have seen TinyURL in the past, now Bit.ly, Is.gd, Tr.im and dozens of others are joining the party to share the cake. Honestly saying, to me they're all the same (except for ➡.ws for its cool name). With that being said however, it is interesting how they are doing it out there – what mechanism / algorithm / buzzword-here?
I curiously did some "research"es (well, another buzzword), and it seems in order to create the shorten URLs they are following the same steps:
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- In redir_script.php the value "am4k" is converted back into base10's 123456 and the corresponding URL is queried back from database
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'The Bachelor's' Jake and Vienna Fight About Their Break-Up (VIDEO)
Tonight, on a special episode of 'The Bachelorette' (Mon., 8PM ET on ABC), Vienna and Jake showed up to discuss their split -- and they fought, and fought, and fought some more.
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The pair discussed the break-up with host Chris Harrison, but Jake repeatedly grew angry with Vienna, and she ended up fleeing the interview in tears. The former couple started by bickering about who had dumped the other person first. Then, Jake seemed to weirdly confirm that he had refused to have sex with his fiancée. Or, at the very least, he said there was no "intimacy" in their relationship.
Throughout the interview, Jake continually got annoyed at Vienna for "interrupting" him. He kept trying to silence her, and finished by yelling at his ex. At this point, Vienna couldn't take it anymore, and began crying. She finally jumped off the couch, saying this to Jake: "You are the meanest person I've ever met in my life. ... I'm over it."
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I'm in grouchy mode too. Last year when everywhere in N America was having a heat wave, I was in the one area that wasn't. We had the never ending cool grey rainy spring, and summer didn't start until August (and only lasted for that month). So I'm just a little bit sensitive to such weather. Although I have to admit that it's been more 'normal' this year and we've already had more sunshine than we did last 'spring'. Stupid rain today.
I passed on your info and my friend has tried and can't stand the Daiya cheese. At least he's found a milk substitute (I think one of the unsweetened soy ones). I know he's dying for cheese and cheats once a month and has pizza. Limiting dairy is the only thing that's made any lasting difference to his sinuses.View Thread
Also where exactly were you xrayed and scanned? What blood tests have you had done and do you have a copy of the results?
I'd suggest starting with blood tests when checking your gallbladder, not only because it's easier, but also because your description doesn't sound like gallbladder problems (it could be but it doesn't seem likely). There's a list of tests here: http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/tests-diagnose-gallbladder-problemsView Thread
Just in case your doctor hasn't forwarded all the info, make a note of all the meds and anything else that your doctor has had you try already. If you've made any diet changes to try to deal with this, mention that too. It's much better to offer too much information than not enough.View Thread
You should consider taking fiber (Metamucil or another one) on a daily basis and not just in an emergency. Also you need to drink a lot of water when you increase your fiber intake. Senna is more of an emergency thing and not really encouraged to take on a regular basis (it's possible to become dependent on stimulant laxatives). Milk Of Magnesia is ok for daily use if needed.
The white mucus is normal. We all have it, but usually not enough to see it. It's there as a kind of lube to protect your intestines, so that the hard stool doesn't hurt you.View Thread
Gas is a really big sign that your body isn't digesting something properly - and as you say it happens a lot with "wheat and oat cereals" I suspect that's your true problem. Would you be willing to try a modified BRAT diet for a little while to see if the gas goes away?
That would be Bananas, Applesauce and Rice (drop Toast as wheat is a suspect), all plain with no added flavorings, sweeteners, etc. All you drink is plain water. Then if the gas and cramping go away, you very very slowly start adding other basic foods, one at a time to see if you get a reaction.
Also if you take any medication, vitamins, supplements, etc you'll have to look at them as many have wheat and/or dairy as filler.
Btw Lactaid milk still has some lactose, although it has less than untreated milk. It's really only a band-aid if you have to cut out lactose completely.
Have you had any allergy testing done? Others here will be able to tell you what tests to ask for that really work.View Thread
The easiest thing to do about it is to switch to non-dairy 'milk' products for the most part, so that your levels are low enough that your body can handle it when you do have some. That way you're not really giving much up and can still give into temptation from time to time.View Thread
The first thing I'd suggest you do is start a food/symptom diary. Write down everything that goes into your mouth (food, drink, meds, vitamins, etc) and any symptoms you have - even ones that don't seem like they're related. This will give the GI a good picture of what you've been going through and will help with diagnosis.
I know August seems a lifetime away, but it usually takes awhile to get in to see pretty much any specialist. On Monday call the GI's office and ask to be put on the cancellation list. Maybe you won't be able to get in any earlier, but there is a possibility you will. Other than that you'll just have to wait.
Personally I think the likelihood that you have cancer to be very very low.View Thread
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AFL-CIO - Sen McCain on Immigration
AFL-CIO - Sen McCain on Immigration
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- Hareth Andrade-Ayala Student University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Xavier Becerra U.S. Representative [D] California
- Ross Eisenbrey Vice President Economic Policy Institute
- Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin President American Action Forum
- John S. McCain III U.S. Senator [R] Arizona
- Terence M. O'Sullivan General President Laborers' Intl. Union of North America
- Manuel Pastor Jr. Director University of Southern California->Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
- Kelly Rodriguez Coordinator AFL-CIO->Office of the General Counsel
- Bill Samuel Director AFL-CIO->Government Affairs
- Jose Antonio Vargas Co-Founder Define American
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