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Six Extinctions in Six Minutes
Six scientists at the American Museum of Natural History explain what we know, and what's still mysterious, about the disappearance of six different species/genera. [more inside]
"Led by The New York Academy of Medicine, the Color Our Collections event invites you to download images from library and cultural institution collections, color them, and share them on social media using the event hashtag #ColorOurCollections."To start with, check out the natural history offerings from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the medieval offerings from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library. [more inside]
The Stories The Museum Tells
The whale is so big, the frogs are so bright, the Hall of Biodiversity an astonishing swarm of life. The planetarium space show tells a story, but it holds your attention by engulfing your senses with an experience. And then maybe this excitement inspires a little girl to go home and learn the names of the constellations and all the planets and their moons, and the night sky is no longer spooky darkness, but a beautiful realm full of things she can name. The museum today teaches you about science, but it makes you care by getting you to fall in love.
"with the door locked; because of the morals of the maids''
7.5 Million Wasps
As well as founding the field of sexology, Alfred Kinsey was an avid entomologist who collected 7.5 million specimens of gall wasps and plant galls. After his death his collection was donated to the American Museum of Natural History.
After 11 Years, Excavation of Persistence Cave Finally Begins
Untouched cave in South Dakota to provide clues to history The cave's location has been kept secret since its discovery in 2004. Now, it is finally being excavated and its contents catalogued.
#maybe she's born with it #maybe it's bear blood
Historie of Beafts combs through Medieval bestiaries to bring you the finest in olde-tyme animal facts. [more inside]
Model organisms in the wild: beyond the laboratory
In biology, model organisms are the workhorse species in which most biological science gets done: fruit flies (D. melanogaster), house mice (M. musculus), shale cress (A. thaliana), zebra fish (D. rerio), nematodes (C. elegans), yeast (S. cerevisiae), and bacteria (E. coli.) They are science's heavy hitters... in the lab. But most scientists know almost nothing about how these species behave in the wild, outside of the context of humans. ELife's new series on the natural history of model species aims to change that. So far, they have published on the natural history of zebra fish, E. coli, and nematodes, with more to follow.
The creek the city loved to hate
Charlotte, NC is unusual in not being located on the coast of an ocean, lake, or major river. Instead, it has Little Sugar Creek: The creek the city loved to hate
You are an ecosystem
Some of the real monsters of the mite world live in soil, where one can find predatory mites armed with a medieval arsenal of mouthparts. Some have jaws with sharklike teeth; others bear smooth blades that snap together with tremendous force; still others stab with sharp and deadly sabers. These beasts stalk the tunnels of worms and the tiny holes between grains of sand.Not to mention the hairs of your eye lashes...
'Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence'
The Ecological Society of America will mark its 100th anniversary in 2015, and to celebrate, the ESA is asking people to weigh in with their ideas about the biggest ecological innovations over the past century. Brian McGill at Dynamic Ecology presents a thoughtful summary of the most important concepts and methods over 100 years of ecological research, and many other ecologists are weighing in as well. [more inside]
The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass
Francie Diep on why natural history museums are taking down their indigenous cultures dioramas—and what can take their place.
Visitors and museum staff say that by displaying American Indian cultures alongside dinosaur fossils, gemstones and taxidermied animals, dioramas make their subjects seem less than fully human. And because they depict a culture in a freeze-frame moment in time—often during the seventeenth century, around when many tribes first contacted Europeans—they make children think that all the American Indians are dead.
It seems this genet is making a habit of riding large herbivores.
A genet in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa has been photographed by camera traps for several weeks running, riding around on the backs of cape buffalo and rhinoceros . Researchers agree: this is weird! (via.) [more inside]
OK: Now explain midichlorians.
With growing fascination for the large land vertebratomorphs that are so startlingly diverse on Tatooine, I secured Imperial funding for an expedition to Tatooine, to survey the exotic megafauna and search for fossils of Tyrannodraconis that might further illuminate their evolution. My ensuing report summarizes my trilogy of investigations and discoveries from this "holiday in the suns." [more inside]
Moa's Ark
Moa's Ark (1990) [more inside]
Minnesota Birdsong: An interactive poster Cute interface with birdsong content provided by the always amazing Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Naturalis Historia
"My subject is a barren one – the world of nature, or in other words life; and that subject in its least elevated department, and employing either rustic terms or foreign, nay barbarian words that actually have to be introduced with an apology. Moreover, the path is not a beaten highway of authorship, nor one in which the mind is eager to range: there is not one of us who has made the same venture, nor yet one Roman who has tackled single-handed all departments of the subject."Naturalis Historia was written by Pliny the Elder between 77 and 79 CE and was meant to serve as a kind of proto-encyclopedia discussing all of the ancient knowledge available to him, covered in enough depth and breadth to make it by a reasonable margin the largest work to survive to the modern day from the Roman era. The work includes discussions on astronomy, meteorology, geography, mineralogy, zoology and botany organized along Aristotelian divisions of nature but also includes essays on human inventions and institutions. It is dedicated to the Emperor Titus in its epistle to the Emperor Vespasian, a close friend of Pliny who relied on his extensive knowledge, and its unusually careful citations of sources as well as its index makes it a precursor to modern scholarly works. It was Pliny's last work, as well as sadly his sole surviving one, and was published not long before his death attempting to save a friend from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, famously recounted by Pliny's eponymous nephew Pliny the Younger.
Here is a reasonable translation that is freely available to download from archive.org for your edification.[more inside]
Where My Ladies At?
Recently Emily Graslie, of the fantastic natural history tumblr and youtube series TheBrainScoop, was asked a question about whether she had personally experienced sexism in her field. Her response is fucking amazing.
Inside is her goldmine of awesome female science educators online with channels that focus on Science Technology Engineering and Math. My work day is fucked.[more inside]
Jadu Ghar: The house of magic in the heart of Calcutta
Established in 1814 by founding curator, the Danish botanist Nathanial Wallich at the premises of The Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum of Calcutta* is the oldest museum in Asia and the 9th oldest in the world. Referred to as a "museum of museums", considered outdated and obsolete, its Victorian Era majesty dimmed by modernization, the grande dame of Indian history still manages evoke paeans to its otherworldly wonders:
With collections to rival the Smithsonian and the British Museums, it isn't just a storehouse of countless artifacts from the world over. The building seems to be a tiny world, an island in the midst of a busy street. The tall gates with their spikes are the doorways to different recorded ages. All those entering through the high steps are travelers in a time machine. But this is not all that Kolkata's Jadughar or "House of Magic" has to offer. Its jadu lies in the magic with which it houses portions of man's past. The high ceilings seem to stretch to infinity. Amid the silence there is vibrant life. Showcasing essential elements of different cultures, the dark, often dank, interiors show up the objects more sharply. Gradually the eyes grow used to the absence of light; the smell seems natural. It is this ambience that gently draws you in and makes the textbook history we are used to, a tangible living reality.It remains a wonderful time-warp with plenty of mangy-looking stuffed animals, fish and birds, together with fossils so beloved of Victorian collectors, as well as fascinating Indian friezes, bas-reliefs and stone carvings and art.
AMNH Podcasts Selected Lectures
Science & the City is the public gateway to the New York Academy of Sciences. We publish a comprehensive calendar of public science events in New York City, host events featuring top scientists in their fields, and produce a weekly podcast covering cutting-edge science. Meanwhile, the American Museum of Natural History presents over 200 public programs each year including workshops, seminars, lectures, cultural events, and performances. Museum lectures are presented by scientists, authors, and researchers at the forefront of their fields. These engaging sessions often reveal the findings of the Museum's own cutting-edge research in genomics, paleontology, astrophysics, biodiversity, and evolutionary biology and complement the science behind the Museum's world-famous cultural and scientific halls and special exhibitions. Now many are available in podcast form. [more inside]
See Monkeys
Thousands of illustrations and photographs for all your primate picture needs. [more inside]
Panoramic Virtual Tour of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Take a Panoramic Virtual Tour of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Available as a full-screen virtual tour starting entry rotunda and navigating from there, or jump to individual rooms.
1 1 2 3 5 Eureka!
13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels. [more inside]
Digitized Darwin
More than 300 heavily-annotated books from Charles Darwin's personal library have been digitized in a collaboration between Cambridge University, which holds the collection, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a project that has so far digitized nearly 50,000 titles from the natural sciences. And if you're looking for what Darwin wrote, rather than what he read, the University of Oklahoma has digitized the first edition of each of his 22 books.
In search of the rococofish
In 1719, Louis Renard published Poissons, écrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des terres australes. The book documented the newly discovered marine life of the East Indies in images of astonishing beauty, but dubious accuracy.
Have a ball with this one ...
"Snowball Cam has no visible moving parts but [is] able to roll across most terrains, even up hill." A new generation of spycams - very mobile spycams - have been prowling the northern arctic islands of Norway for an upcoming BBC TV program on polar bears. Bilzzard Cam has two electric motors that propel it across the snow - on skis - at speeds up to 40 mph. When threatened by the bears, it releases the onboard decoy device - the Snowball Cam - seen in action here.
Stuffed Animals
Ravishing Beasts is a blog about all kinds of taxidermy. From taxidermy as fashion to pet taxidermy to taxidermy dioramas.
Animal Logic
They have cameras. And lions. And penguins. And sharks. And...
Wild Film History is a guide to over 100 years of wildlife filmmaking, highlighting landmark films (1959's Serengeti Darf Nicht Sterben, aka Serengeti Shall Not Die - Clip 1, Clip 2) as well as historical relics (1910's The Birth of a Flower - Clip). Check out the links on the Key Events page for an overview of how the genre developed. The site also features biographies and oral history interviews with pioneers (mostly U.K.-based) in the industry. A project of Wildscreen.
Hammerstone from Kenya, Handaxe from India
View, rotate, and interact with fascinating 3D scans of some of humanity's oldest artifacts. [more inside]
On specialization in biology
An Outsider's View "Over the past fifty years, factions of biologists have had a complex relationship. Some scientists have continued to carry out relatively traditional natural history work, with little need to delve into molecular (or computational) biology. Others have given little attention to natural history, focusing their efforts instead on deciphering the complexities of a membrane channel, or building new algorithms for identifying open reading frames. In some cases, biologists have bridged this divide, and the result has been a fruitful collaboration. But in other cases—such as the DNA studies on whales and hippos—one group moves into the other's traditional territory, sparking new conflict."[via]
Wiring the Castle
Circuits are flipping on in the nation's attic. A couple of weeks ago, 31 "digerati" -- like Clay Shirky, Chris Anderson, and George Oates -- dropped in to the Smithsonian Institution for the invitation-only conference "Smithsonian 2.0: A Gathering to Re-imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age". Dan Cohen of the Center for History and New Media provides a great summary (and continues to pose provocative questions) on his own blog. Those whose invitations were somehow lost in the mail can play fly-on-the-wall by watching the keynotes, paging through the Flickr pool of envymaking glimpses of their behind-the-scenes lab and collections tours, reading the blog (where Bruce Wyman of the Denver Art Museum lays out a succinct road map for museums using social media), and poking around in the SI's website gallery. Want to cheer on the USA's favorite 163-year-old "Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge" without taking the trip to DC? Thanks to their recent efforts, you can now follow the SI on Twitter, listen to its podcasts, watch its YouTube channel, visit the Latino Virtual Museum in Second Life, or use the FaceBook gifts page to send your best friends their very own pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers, Hope diamond, Negro Leagues baseball, or coelocanth.
Gomphotheres, megafauna, and anachronistic fruits
Osage orange, avocado, papaya, honey locust, paw paw, persimmon, and many more: fruits that have outlasted the gomphotheres and other megafauna. These "anachronistic fruits" can be a key to understanding their intended consumers. More. More. More. And even more.
American Museum of Natural History Photo Collection
going forward with the "true eye of a lynx" to study the very anatomy of nature
"While we are generally horrified by monstrosities in the case of human beings, we love them in fruit" - Giovanni Battista Ferrari (naturalist, "discoverer" of the blood orange and the cure for scurvy). Illustrations in Ferrari's book Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura (1646) are based on close collaboration with Cassiano dal Pozzo and his Paper Museum, called one man's project to "commission drawings of all known antiquities, and to attempt to systematically categorize this vast repertory of visual images." [more inside]
The Strangest Shop in All of Paris
Deyrolle: The Strangest Shop in All of Paris. "Paris has many unusual shops, but one of the most unusual has to be Deyrolle."
The River Above
Alabama has many beautiful rivers, but the Cahaba is special. Its biodiversity is impressive. Boasting 131 different fish species, no other river in North America has more species of fish per mile. It's also the longest free-flowing river remaining in Alabama. It is home to a considerable number of rare plants*, including the Cahaba lilly. The proximity of Birmingham has taken a toll, but recovery efforts are underway, and the Cahaba remains popular with river and wildlife enthusiasts. *Page contains embedded quicktime
Skulls and Skeletons
A collection of bird skeletons (with 3d rotating skeleton goodness). The site also has tips on cleaning your own, and identifying those you might, uh, stumble across. Comparative pictures and anatomy of orangutan, chimp, marmoset, and lemur skeletons. Will's Skull Site, with close to 100 skulls and details (Cougar!). The California Academy of Sciences site on skulls, including this cool animal-to-skull match tool. Skeleton specimen tutorials from the Vetrinary Museum. The Human Osteology pages. A x-ray anatomy of the human skeleton. The Human Skull module at CalState Chico. And, you know, dragon physiology. And previously, the skeletal systems of cartoon characters.
Owls are rad.
Owls are rad. Sometimes they look kind of metallic and scary, sometimes wise, sometimes puzzled, and sometimes like skulls, (Index); sometimes they sound like dogs or pigs, sometimes they sound like a little train, sometimes they sound alarmed, (Index of MP3s); sometimes you come across an extensive gallery of Central and North American owls with pictures, ranges, video, and even a description of the '04-'05 Northern Owl Invasion; sometimes it's a dynamic range map of Owls of the Western Hemisphere; sometimes it's the OwlCam homepage with downloadable owl movies, sometimes it's a series of articles on all things owl; sometimes at BiologyBase it's a printable owl sighting lifelist, sometimes it's Ruru, the morepork, New Zealand's native owl at NZBirds. Or, w0t! w0t!, it's attracting barn owls and building nest boxes at World Owl Trust. Previous MeFi birding FPP.
Romantic Natural History
Romantic Natural History: "A website designed to survey relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)." Including links to various natural historians from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, illustrations and illustrators, literary figures in Romanticism, and, of course, much more.
Blogging through life, natural history illustration, and the past 65 million years.
Carl Buell, natural history illustrator, has started a blog. Interview with the man here.
John Day's Orchids
The orchid scrapbooks of John Day. Over the course of 40 years, John Day participated in the popular Victorian pursuit of orchid collection. He collected his stunning paintings of the plants into 53 scrapbooks, a selection of which is available online at the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens. [via the remarkable BibliOdyssey]
Digitized Central American Biological History
Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana is a collaboration between the Smithsonian, Missouri Botanical and Kew Gardens, the British Natural History Museum and various other institutions which has enabled the digitizing of 58 volumes of natural history about central America produced between 1880 and 1920. It includes descriptions of more than 50,000 species with images of more than 18,000 birds, more birds, snakes, turtles, centipedes, spiders, more spiders, plants, mollusks, more plants, butterflies, orthoptera insects, more butterflies and their family's (moth-like) families, mammals and even some historic maps of the region. There is a parallel project attempting to provide access to much more scientific data and specimens between these institutions. Note: 'next' button at top +/- bottom of these large thumb pages; large high resolution jpegs work (in most cases) but zoom and .pdfiles are not yet enabled. I've only just scratched the surface.
Vintage Ornithology Illustrations
"A natural history of birds. Most of which have not been figur'd or describ'd, and others very little known from obscure or too brief descriptions without figures, or from figures very ill design'd." [1743] and "Birds of North America" [1903] Samples (the last 15 from each link): [1743]: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. [1903]: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. [MI]
New York's Natural History Museum Pioneers Use of Internet2
New York's Natural History Museum Pioneers Use of Internet2 "Sebastien Lepine, a post-doctoral fellow at the museum, had figured that it would take him a year, using the commercial Internet, to finish downloading two 360-degree digital sky surveys for his study of fast-moving stars. But that was before the museum connected to Abilene." This indication of how the "commmercial Internet" has become so clogged with crap annoys me intensely. Particularly when the article points out just a few of the research projects that need high bandwidth.
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By Army Pfc. Jaime Mial, Task Force Spartan Public AffairsMarch 2, 2007
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 1, 2007 - As they near the end of their second deployment together, Army Sgt. 1st Class Richard Pyles, Air Defense Air Management platoon sergeant; Army Staff Sgt. Edson Caupp, ADAM assistant operations noncommissioned officer; and Army Sgt. Eugene Sefranek, ADAM cell assistant noncommissioned officer; all of whom serve with Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, have become "like a family."
The three have served together since arriving at Fort Drum, N.Y., between 2001 and the summer of 2002. The three soldiers started their military life together in 3rd Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Regiment, also part of the 10th Mountain Division.
After the formation of the 3rd BCT, they transferred over to the new brigade together, Sefranek said.
"It's easier to work with them after four-and-a-half years. You learn their mood swings, their habits," said Caupp.
The bond persisted from Fort Drum to Bagram Airfield, where they served during their first deployment, to Forward Operating Bases Salerno and Jalalabad, where they served during their current rotation.
"We have gotten so close, we can communicate without words," said Pyles.
"Being together that long, you learn the ins and outs of your teammates, you really get to know each other," Sefranek said.
While still in the 3-62nd, they went on their first deployment together, Operation Enduring Freedom IV.
The three recalled moving through a vastly different country three years ago.
"Convoying from Bagram to Kabul was something," Safranek said.
"Last time we were in Afghanistan we had to take our radar to Kabul, and while we were driving through downtown Kabul, the power steering went out," Caupp added. "The three of us were freaking out, especially when on the way back we got cut off by a truck, but we were just real careful and nobody else noticed. It's shared experiences like that that really bond you."
The team members shared not only adventures, but a large part of their military lives, watching each other develop from junior enlisted soldiers to noncommissioned officers.
"I got Sgt. Caupp when he was an E-2 and I watched him grow to a staff sergeant," Pyles said.
"Caupp came to 3-62, and I was his team chief - I took him to his E-5 board," Sefranek said. "When I first started working with Sgt. Pyles he was a specialist - we've all been together a long time."
"We're all at the point where we'll find stuff hilarious that no one else will," Caupp said.
History repeated itself in early 2006, when the tightly knit team once more deployed to eastern Afghanistan, this time in support of Operation Enduring Freedom VII.
"The shared history made it a lot easier to deploy together again," said Pyles.
With months still ahead of them, they have their Army family to keep them going and are ready to fulfill their duty and complete the mission.
"It is definitely more than just a professional work relationship -- we are a family," said Caupp.
The ADAM team members manage airspace to facilitate brigade fires and effects efforts. As they close in on the end of their second OEF tour, they said they remain committed to their mission and the people of eastern Afghanistan.
"The Afghan people need help and it feels really good to help them," Sefranek said. "And knowing each other so well, it is easier for us to work together and get it done."

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Hypernasal speech
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|It has been suggested that Nasality (disorder) be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since June 2013.
Hypernasal speech (also hyperrhinolalia or open nasality; medically known as Rhinolalia aperta from Latin rhinolalia: "nasal speech" and aperta: "open") is a disorder that causes abnormal resonance in a human's voice due to increased airflow through the nose during speech. It is caused by an open nasal cavity resulting from an incomplete closure of the soft palate and/or velopharyngeal sphincter.[citation needed]
The palate comprises two parts, the hard palate (palatum durum) and the soft palate (palatum molle), which is connected to the uvula. The movements of the soft palate and the uvula are made possible by the velopharyngeal sphincter.[clarification needed] During speech or swallowing, the uvula lifts against the back throat wall to close the nasal cavity. When producing nasal consonants (such as "m", "n", and "ng"), the uvula remains relaxed, thereby enabling the air to go through the nose.
The Eustachian tube, which opens near the velopharyngeal sphincter, connects the middle ear and nasal pharynx. Normally, the tube ensures aeration and drainage (of secretions) of the middle ear. Narrow and closed at rest, it opens during swallowing and yawning, controlled by the tensor veli palatini and the levator veli palatini (muscles of the soft palate). Children with a cleft palate have difficulties controlling these muscles and thus are unable to open the Eustachian tube. Secretions accumulate in the middle ear when the tube remains dysfunctional over a long period of time, which cause hearing loss and middle ear infections. Ultimately, hearing loss can lead to impaired speech and language development.[1][2]
The general term for disorders of the velopharyngeal valve is velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD). It includes three subterms: velopharyngeal insufficiency, velopharyngeal inadequacy, and velopharyngeal mislearning.
- Velopharyngeal insufficiency can be caused by an anatomical abnormality of the throat. It occurs in children with a history of cleft palate or submucous cleft, who have short or otherwise abnormal vela. Velopharyngeal insufficiency can also occur after adenoidectomy.
- Velopharyngeal incompetence is a defective closure of the velopharyngeal valve due to its lack of speed and precision. It is caused by a neurologic disorder or injury (e.g. cerebral palsy or traumatic brain injury).
- Sometimes children present no abnormalities yet still have hypernasal speech: this can be due to velopharyngeal mislearning, indicating that the child has been imitating[clarification needed] or has never learned how to use the valve correctly.[3][4]
There are several methods for diagnosing hypernasality.
- A speech therapist listens to and records the child while analysing perceptual speech.[5] In hypernasality, the child cannot produce oral sounds (vowels and consonants) correctly. Only the nasal sounds can be correctly produced.[6] A hearing test is also desirable.[7]
- A mirror is held beneath the nose while the child pronounces the vowels. Nasal air escape, and thus hypernasality, is indicated if the mirror fogs up.
- A pressure-flow technique is used to measure velopharyngeal orifice area during the speech. The patient must be at least three to four years old.
- A video nasopharyngeal endoscopy observes velopharyngeal function, movements of the soft palate, and pharyngeal walls. It utilises a very small scope placed in the back of the nasal cavity. The doctor will then ask the child to say a few words. The patient must be at least three to four years old to ensure cooperation.
- A cinefluoroscopy gives dynamic visualisation and can easier be applied to younger children, though it has the disadvantage of exposing the patient to radiation.[8]
- A nasometer calculates the ratio of nasality. The patient wears a headset, where the oral and nasal cavities are separated by a plate.[clarification needed] On both sides of the plate are microphones. The ratio calculated by the nasometer indicates the amount of nasality, with a higher ratio indicating more nasality.[9]
Speech therapy[edit]
In cases of muscle weakness or cleft palate, special exercises can help to strengthen the soft palate muscles with the ultimate aim of decreasing airflow through the nose and thereby increasing intelligibility. Intelligibility requires the ability to close the nasal cavity, as all English sounds, except "m", "n", and "ng", have airflow only through the mouth. Normally, by age three, a child can raise the muscles of the soft palate to close to nasal cavity.
If a child finds it difficult to blow, pinching the nose can help regulate airflow. The child should then practice speech sounds without pinching the nose. These exercises only work as treatments if hypernasality is small. Severe deviations should be treated surgically.[10]
The two main surgical techniques for correcting the aberrations the soft palate present in hypernasality are the posterior pharyngeal flap and the sphincter pharyngoplasty. After surgical interventions, speech therapy is necessary to learn how to control the newly constructed flaps.[11]
Posterior pharyngeal flap[edit]
Posterior pharyngeal flap surgery is mostly used for vertical clefts of the soft palate. The surgeon cuts through the upper layers of the back of the throat, creating a small square of tissue. This flap remains attached on one side (usually at the top). The other side is attached to (parts of) the soft palate. This ensures that the nasal cavity is partially separated from the oral cavity. When the child speaks, the remaining openings close from the side due to the narrowing of the throat caused by the muscle movements necessary for speech. In a relaxed state, the openings allow breathing through the nose.[11]
Sphincter pharyngoplasty[edit]
Sphincter pharyngoplasty is mostly used for horizontal clefts of the soft palate. Two small flaps are made on the left and right side of the entrance to the nasal cavity, attached to the back of the throat. For good results, the patient must have good palatal motion, as the occlusion of the nasal cavity is mainly carried out by muscles already existing and functioning.[11]
Sound sample of snoring
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The most common complications of the posterior pharyngeal wall flap are hyponasality, nasal obstruction, snoring, and sleep apnea. Rarer complications include flap separation, sinusitis, postoperative bleeding, and aspiration pneumonia. Possible complications of the sphincter pharyngoplasty are snoring, nasal obstruction, difficulty blowing the nose.
Some researches suggest that sphincter pharyngoplasty introduces less hyponasality and obstructive sleep symptoms than the posterior pharyngeal wall flap. Both surgeries have a favourable effect on the function of the Eustachian tube.[4] [12][11][13]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Specifieke informatie over schisis per type schisis" [Specific information on each type of cleft lip and palate cleft] (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging voor Schisis en Craniofaciale Afwijkingen. 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ Stegenga, B.; Vissink, A.; Bont, L.G.M. de (2000). Mondziekten en kaakchirurgie [Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery] (in Dutch). Assen: Van Gorcum. p. 388. ISBN 9789023235002.
- ^ Kummer, Ann W. "Speech Therapy for Cleft Palate or Velopharyngeal Dysfunction (VPD)" (PDF). Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
- ^ a b Biavati, Michael J.; Sie, Kathleen; Wiet, Gregory J. (2 September 2011). "Velopharyngeal Insufficiency". Medscape Reference. WebMD LLC.
- ^ Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. "Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat)". Columbia University Medical Center.
- ^ Gelder, van J. (1957). "De open neusspraak, pathogenese en diagnostiek". Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde [Netherlands Journal of Medicine] (in Dutch) 101: 1005–10.
- ^ Department of Otolarynology/Head and Neck Surgery. "Hypernasality – Velopharyngeal Insufficiency". Columbia University Medical Center.
- ^ Probst, Rudolf; Grevers, Gerhard; Iro, Heinrich; Telger, Terry (translator); Baum, Karin (illustrator) (2006). Basic Otorhinolaryngology a step-by-step learning guide (revised ed.). Stuttgart: Thieme. p. 401. ISBN 9783131324412.
- ^ KayPENTAX. "Nasometer II, Model 6450". PENTAX Medical Company.
- ^ "Spraak en taal" [Speech and Language] (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging voor Schisis en Craniofaciale Afwijkingen.
- ^ a b c d de Serres, Lianne M.; Deleyiannis, Frederic W.-B.; Eblen, Linda E.; Gruss, Joseph S.; Richardson, Mark A.; Sie, Kathleen C.Y. (April 1999). "Results with sphincter pharyngoplasty and pharyngeal flap". International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 48 (1): 17–25. doi:10.1016/S0165-5876(99)00006-3.
- ^ Sloan, GM (February 2000). "Posterior pharyngeal flap and sphincter pharyngoplasty: the state of the art.". The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 37 (2): 112–22. doi:10.1597/1545-1569(2000)037<0112:PPFASP>2.3.CO;2. PMID 10749049.
- ^ Spawen, P.H.M.; Huffstadt, A.J.C.; Schutte, H.K.; Ritsma, R.J. (1987). "De invloed van chirurgische behandeling van open neusspraak op horen en spreken". Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde [Netherlands Journal of Medicine] (in Dutch) 131: 161–6.


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Moms started showing? When she I expect to
Show? I'm 8 weeks! Thanks and congrats!
Mommy to Adrian Julez- June 3, 2011
Welcoming baby Isis Isabella- Sept 5, 2013
Jenn-32 Joe-34 SAHM to J - Born 2-8-12
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Baby #2 Due September 2013!
This is #3 for me. I've lost weight, but have to wear maternity pants, so I think my belly is swelling a bit. Probably from some bloat, but my muscle tone in my mid-section was never very good and after 2 kids, it has very little tone (LOL), so I think for myself it popped much quicker.
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Princess 01/16/12 + Princess 09/16/13 + Angel 12/03/14 + Rainbow EDD 02/14/16 = Blessed Family of 6 :)
Princess 01/16/12 + Princess 09/16/13 + Angel 12/03/14 + Rainbow EDD 02/14/16 = Blessed Family of 6 :)
My MIL was feeling my stomach the other day ( which bothers me ALOT) and informed me that she could feel baby. Ummm.... I was only about 8 weeks and with a tilted uterus I doubt very much that all that fat you're grabbing is the baby. lol... I told her it's bloating and poop since I hadn't gone in DAYS. She stopped...lol
I'm hoping the belly I'm getting now is baby... but I'm still pretty bloated. Soon though!!!
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Sarah Hodges Lee, 88, of Colonial Beach, passed away at her home on Tuesday, May 6, 2104.
She was the widow of Charles Edward Thurston Lee, a member of Colonial Beach UMC, a retired teacher from Colonial Beach Public Schools, a 1947 graduate from Longwood College, and a member of American Legion Post #148, Colonial Beach, VA. She is survived by a son, Charles Edward Lee, of Colonial Beach, a grandson, Thomas Lee, a sister, Phyllis Lewis, a sister-in-law Jane Hodges, both of Nathalie, VA. Also surviving are many nieces and nephews, and many dear friends and fellow teachers.
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Energizer Holdings has announced the executive leadership teams for the Personal Care and Household Products businesses following the planned separation of Energizer, expected to occur by July 1, 2015.
The new Hy-Vee new store in Springfield, Ill., which marks the grocer's 238th store in eight Midwestern states, is part of an aggressive growth plan, according to a local news report.
Hallmark Cards will lay off up to 250 people and drop its party wares line as sales for the category decline, according to published reports.
A value-based benefits project saved a group of employers in Kansas City, Mo., nearly $11 million in direct healthcare costs.
Hannibal Regional Medical Group has announced that on Sept. 13 it will open its first "The Clinic at Walmart" inside a Walmart in Hannibal, Mo.
CVS Caremark has donated approximately $40,000 in monetary and in-kind donations to support residents of Joplin, Mo., including some of the company's pharmacy benefit manager clients and their members who were impacted by the recent tornado, the company announced on Friday.
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Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.
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METAIRIE — The New Orleans Saints released veteran defensive end Bobby McCray on Monday, abruptly parting ways with a playoff starter who helped New Orleans capture its first Super Bowl title.
McCray started all three of the defending champions' playoff games last season, making six tackles and a memorable block that flattened Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner after an interception.
He appeared to be in line to compete for a starting job in 2010 when the Saints released former starter Charles Grant, who had missed the postseason with a torn triceps. However, New Orleans signed former Chicago Bears starting defensive end Alex Brown, along with former Tampa Bay lineman Jimmy Wilkerson, who has the versatility to play on the interior or on the outside of the defensive line.
During minicamp in early June, McCray saw a lot of action with the first team while Brown was still new to the Saints' scheme and Wilkerson was limited in practice while continuing to rehabilitate a left knee injury.
The Saints appear to have decided to move forward with Brown and Wilkerson rotating at left defensive end and Will Smith playing most of the snaps on the right side.
McCray did not immediately respond to voice and text messages left on his mobile phone.
The 28-year-old has played six years in the NFL. The Saints used the quick, 6-foot-6 lineman mostly as a speed rusher in passing situations. He played in all 32 of the Saints' regular season games during the past two seasons, starting eight, and was credited with 41 tackles, 7½ sacks and a forced fumble.
Earlier this month, McCray said he expected to have a significant role with New Orleans again in 2010, regardless of whether he or Brown started. He remained with the club for its entire offseason program, which ended last Thursday, and had been spending much of his free time in the New Orleans area with Brown, a friend since they were college teammates at Florida.
The Saints are off now until they report for training camp on July 29.
In other moves Monday, the Saints waived reserve cornerback Glenn Sharpe, who spent the end of last season on the practice squad.
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How to Make a Gingerbread House | Expert Advice
If you've never attempted to make a gingerbread house before, MaryJane Robbins has some words of advice: It can be addicting. "Some people are even doing it year-round," she says. "For Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, even Halloween."
A baker for much of her life, Robbins has, for the past eight years, worked the phones at King Arthur Flour, helping fellow bakers sort out issues with pizza dough, piecrust, and, yes, gingerbread houses. For a couple of years she even taught classes on the fine art of gingerbread decorating. She loves the creativity it brings out in people. "In my classes, everyone got the same candies, but nobody ever built the same house," she says. We caught up with Robbins between calls at her King Arthur office.
Starting Out
For beginners, the kit route is perfectly suitable. It's one-stop shopping, complete with pre-baked walls, roof, icing, and decorative candies. For hardcore DIYers, making a house from scratch starts with a recipe for construction gingerbread, not gingerbread cookies. "The cookies, they're crispy on the outside but soft on the inside, and once you start to put the thing together, it will fall apart," Robbins says.
Simpler Still
No kit? No problem. Robbins suggests using a small milk carton or cardboard box as the home's base. Cover with icing, layer with graham crackers, add another round of icing, then start decorating. "With little kids it can be really easy," Robbins says.
Make It Stick
Royal icing is literally the glue behind any well-made gingerbread house. The recipe: well-beaten egg whites, confectioners' sugar, and a little bit of lemon juice. The final substance should resemble paste. "You want it soft so that you can press candy into it," Robbins notes, "but stiff enough so that it will dry and hold." The same mixture can be used on the exterior of the walls, too, to hold candies and other decorations. You'll find pre-made icing mixes at craft stores and party-supply outlets.
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You can go as bare-bones as you like. Ziploc bags make excellent pastry bags—just fill with icing and snip off the ends. Parchment paper and a good, flat baking surface are musts, as is a sharp knife to cut out the walls. For finer detail, pick up an icing tip (about $1) to give your roof and walls an intricate design. Robbins also uses a microplane grater to carefully shave off the sides of her walls to make them fit better.
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Making a gingerbread house isn't a one-day thing. One year, when her daughter was young, Robbins made a house that had two sections connected by a breezeway. The baking took a couple of days. At the very least, Robbins recommends gluing the house together the day before you decorate. The icing will need time to dry, and if you're working with kids, it will let them home in on what they like best: dressing up the house with candy.


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SWIFT BOAT LIES send this to 5 people! "Like most bloggers, I have my beefs with the mainstream media. But you know what? They produce an awful lot of damn fine original reporting. Case in point. In August the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth charged that John Kerry had lied about the events that led to his Silver Star. In order to figure out if the SBVT account was true, Nightline sent a crew to Vietnam, where they visited the hamlets of Tran Thoi and Nha Vi and interviewed the local villagers to get their recollections of what really happened 35 years ago. You can read the resulting story yourself, but it's summarized pretty easily: Kerry was right and SBVT honcho John O'Neill wasn't. But there was also this:..."
John Kerry's Official Naval Records
John Kerry's Official Naval Records Time to put to rest the nonsense coming out of the hate groups. And when you hear about the Swift Boat group who have put out an ad and now a book denouncing Kerry, then turn to this URL to find out about that group of patriots http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth
Really Angry Veterans
The Swift Boat Veterans video you didn't hear about. Shown on CSPAN-2, now available on their website (downloadable video in WMV format), but not widely reported by any major news service. The angriest group of Vietnam vets you might ever see--men who served with and around John Kerry, united in their opposition to his becoming President. Part 1 Part 2
How Kerry Earned His Decorations
How Kerry Earned His Decorations For all the loud mouths who shout out that Kerry is a traitor, a guy who did not earn his medals, read this and then compare your medals with his! Did he turn against the war? Sure. Many soldiers did too. The nation also turned against the war and, finally, some responsible for getting us into the war admitted their mistake. "Kerry is one of the Senate's most decorated veterans — though he has far fewer medals than friend John McCain — and his record is impressive for an officer who spent just 10 months in Vietnam. Each of the medals below came with a matching ribbon. Kerry wore his ribbons when he testified before a Senate committee in 1971; the next day, joining hundreds of other vets, he lobbed them at the Capitol. "
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Woody Allen's first dramatic writing published in years, Riverside Drive, Old Saybrook, and Central Park West are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do).
These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen's continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception all of it revealed in Allen's quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.
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I talked with Cloudera shortly ahead of today's announcement of Cloudera 5.5. Much of what we talked about had something or other to do with SQL data management. Highlights include:
- Impala and Kudu are being donated to Apache. This actually was already announced Tuesday. (Due to Apache's rules, if I had any discussion with Cloudera speculating on the likelihood of Apache accepting the donations, I would not be free to relay it.)
- Cloudera is introducing SQL extensions so that Impala can query nested data structures. More on that below.
- The basic idea for the nested datatype support is that there are SQL extensions with a "dot" notation to let you get at the specific columns you need.
- From a feature standpoint, we're definitely still in the early days.
- When I asked about indexes on these quasi-columns, I gathered that they're not present in beta but are hoped for by the time of general availability.
- Basic data skipping, also absent in beta, seems to be more confidently expected in GA.
- This is for Parquet first, Avro next, and presumably eventually native JSON as well.
- This is said to be Dremel-like, at least in the case of Parquet. I must confess that I'm not familiar enough with Apache Drill to compare the two efforts.
- Cloudera is increasing its coverage of Spark in several ways.
- Cloudera is adding support for MLlib.
- Cloudera is adding support for SparkSQL. More on that below.
- Cloudera is adding support for Spark going against S3. The short answer to "How is this different from the Databricks service?" is:
- More "platform" stuff from the Hadoop stack (e.g. for data ingest).
- Less in the way of specific Spark usability stuff.
- Cloudera is putting into beta what it got in the Xplain.io acquisition, which it unfortunately is naming Cloudera Navigator Optimizer. More on that in a separate post.
- Impala and Hive are getting column-level security via Apache Sentry.
- There are other security enhancements.
- Some policy-based information lifecycle management is being added as well.
While I had Cloudera on the phone, I asked a few questions about Impala adoption, specifically focused on concurrency. There was mention of: Read more
|Categories: Benchmarks and POCs, Cloudera, Data warehousing, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Market share and customer counts, Petabyte-scale data management, Predictive modeling and advanced analytics, SQL/Hadoop integration
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Wants vs. needs
In 1981, Gerry Chichester and Vaughan Merlyn did a user-survey-based report about transaction-oriented fourth-generation languages, the leading application development technology of their day. The report included top-ten lists of important features during the buying cycle and after implementation. The items on each list were very similar — but the order of the items was completely different. And so the report highlighted what I regard as an eternal truth of the enterprise software industry:
What users value in the product-buying process is quite different from what they value once a product is (being) put into use.
Here are some thoughts about how that comes into play today.
Wants outrunning needs
1. For decades, BI tools have been sold in large part via demos of snazzy features the CEO would like to have on his desk. First it was pretty colors; then it was maps; now sometimes it's "real-time" changing displays. Other BI features, however, are likely to be more important in practice.
2. In general, the need for "real-time" BI data freshness is often exaggerated. If you're a human being doing a job that's also often automated at high speed — for example network monitoring or stock trading — there's a good chance you need fully human real-time BI. Otherwise, how much does a 5-15 minute delay hurt? Even if you're monitoring website sell-through — are your business volumes really high enough that 5 minutes matters much? eBay answered "yes" to that question many years ago, but few of us work for businesses anywhere near eBay's scale.
Even so, the want for speed keeps growing stronger.
3. Similarly, some desires for elastic scale-out are excessive. Your website selling koi pond accessories should always run well on a single server. If you diversify your business to the point that that's not true, you'll probably rewrite your app by then as well.
4. Some developers want to play with cool new tools. That doesn't mean those tools are the best choice for the job. In particular, boring old SQL has merits — such as joins! — that shiny NoSQL hasn't yet replicated.
5. Some developers, on the other hand, want to keep using their old tools, on which they are their employers' greatest experts. That doesn't mean those tools are the best choice for the job either.
6. More generally, some enterprises insist on brand labels that add little value but lots of expense. Yes, there are many benefits to vendor consolidation, and you may avoid many headaches if you stick with not-so-cutting-edge technology. But "enterprise-grade" hardware failure rates may not differ enough from "consumer-grade" ones to be worth paying for.
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Things I keep needing to say
Some subjects just keep coming up. And so I keep saying things like:
Most generalizations about "Big Data" are false. "Big Data" is a horrific catch-all term, with many different meanings.
Most generalizations about Hadoop are false. Reasons include:
- Hadoop is a collection of disparate things, most particularly data storage and application execution systems.
- The transition from Hadoop 1 to Hadoop 2 will be drastic.
- For key aspects of Hadoop — especially file format and execution engine — there are or will be widely varied options.
Hadoop won't soon replace relational data warehouses, if indeed it ever does. SQL-on-Hadoop is still very immature. And you can't replace data warehouses unless you have the power of SQL.
Note: SQL isn't the only way to provide "the power of SQL", but alternative approaches are just as immature.
Most generalizations about NoSQL are false. Different NoSQL products are … different. It's not even accurate to say that all NoSQL systems lack SQL interfaces. (For example, SQL-on-Hadoop often includes SQL-on-HBase.)
Dave DeWitt responds to Daniel Abadi
A few days ago I posted Daniel Abadi's thoughts in a discussion of Hadapt, Microsoft PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse)/PolyBase, Pivotal/Greenplum Hawq, and other SQL-Hadoop combinations. This is Dave DeWitt's response. Emphasis mine.
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Some notes on new-era data management, March 31, 2013
Hmm. I probably should have broken this out as three posts rather than one after all. Sorry about that.
Performance confusion
Discussions of DBMS performance are always odd, for starters because:
- Workloads and use cases vary greatly.
- In particular, benchmarks such as the YCSB or TPC-H aren't very helpful.
But in NoSQL/NewSQL short-request processing performance claims seem particularly confused. Reasons include but are not limited to:
- It's common for databases or at least working sets to be entirely in RAM — but it's not always required.
- Consistency and durability models vary. What's more, in some systems — e.g. MongoDB — there's considerable flexibility as to which model you use.
- In particular, there's an increasingly common choice in which data is written synchronously to RAM on 2 or more servers, then asynchronously to disk on each of them. Performance in these cases can be quite different from when all writes need to be committed to disk. Of course, you need sufficient disk I/O to keep up, so SSDs (Solid-State Drives) can come in handy.
- Many workloads are inherently single node (replication aside). Others are not.
MongoDB and 10gen
I caught up with Ron Avnur at 10gen. Technical highlights included: Read more
YCSB benchmark notes
Two different vendors recently tried to inflict benchmarks on me. Both were YCSBs, so I decided to look up what the YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) actually is. It turns out that the YCSB:
- Was developed by — you guessed it! — Yahoo.
- Is meant to simulate workloads that fetch web pages, including the writing portions of those workloads.
- Was developed with NoSQL data managers in mind.
- Bakes in one kind of sensitivity analysis — latency vs. throughput.
- Is implemented in extensible open source code.
That actually sounds pretty good, especially the extensibility part;* it's likely that the YCSB can be useful in a variety of product selection scenarios. Still, as recent examples show, benchmark marketing is an annoying blight upon the database industry.
*With extensibility you can test your own workloads and do your own sensitivity analyses.
A YCSB overview page features links both to the code and to the original explanatory paper. The clearest explanation of the YCSB I found there was: Read more
|Categories: Aerospike, Benchmarks and POCs, NewSQL, NoSQL, NuoDB, OLTP, Yahoo
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Notes on HBase 0.92
This is part of a four-post series, covering:
- Annoying Hadoop marketing themes that should be ignored.
- Hadoop versions and distributions, and their readiness or lack thereof for production.
- In general, how "enterprise-ready" is Hadoop?
- HBase 0.92 (this post)
As part of my recent round of Hadoop research, I talked with Cloudera's Todd Lipcon. Naturally, one of the subjects was HBase, and specifically HBase 0.92. I gather that the major themes to HBase 0.92 are:
- Performance, scalability, and so on.
- "Coprocessors", which are like triggers or stored procedures.
- Security, as the first major application of co-processors.
HBase coprocessors are Java code that links straight into HBase. As with other DBMS extensions of the "links straight into the DBMS code" kind,* HBase coprocessors seem best suited for very sophisticated users and third parties.** Evidently, coprocessors have already been used to make HBase security more granular — role-based, per-column-family/per-table, etc. Further, Todd thinks coprocessors could serve as a good basis for future HBase enhancements in areas such as aggregation or secondary indexing. Read more
|Categories: Benchmarks and POCs, Cloudera, Hadoop, HBase, MapReduce, NoSQL, Open source, Storage, Theory and architecture
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Exasol update
I last wrote about Exasol in 2008. After talking with the team Friday, I'm fixing that now. The general theme was as you'd expect: Since last we talked, Exasol has added some new management, put some effort into sales and marketing, got some customers, kept enhancing the product and so on.
Top-level points included:
- Exasol's technical philosophy is substantially the same as before, albeit not with as extreme a focus on fitting everything in RAM.
- Exasol believes its flagship DBMS EXASolution has great performance on a load-and-go basis.
- Exasol has 25 EXASolution customers, all in Germany.*
- 5 of those are "cloud" customers, at hosting providers engaged by Exasol.
- EXASolution database sizes now range from the low 100s of gigabytes up to 30 terabytes.
- Pretty much the whole company is in Nuremberg.
|Categories: Benchmarks and POCs, Columnar database management, Data warehousing, Database compression, Exasol, Market share and customer counts, Pricing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Specific users, Sybase, Workload management
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Eight kinds of analytic database (Part 1)
Analytic data management technology has blossomed, leading to many questions along the lines of "So which products should I use for which category of problem?" The old EDW/data mart dichotomy is hopelessly outdated for that purpose, and adding a third category for "big data" is little help.
Let's try eight categories instead. While no categorization is ever perfect, these each have at least some degree of technical homogeneity. Figuring out which types of analytic database you have or need — and in most cases you'll need several — is a great early step in your analytic technology planning. Read more
The Vertica story (with soundbites!)
I've blogged separately that:
- Vertica has a bunch of customers, including seven with 1 or more petabytes of data each.
- Vertica has progressed down the analytic platform path, with Monday's release of Vertica 5.0.
And of course you know:
- Vertica (the product) is columnar, MPP, and fast.*
- Vertica (the company) was recently acquired by HP.**
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NC commission to crack down on uninsured business
Published: Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 8:37 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 8:37 a.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Industrial Commission is cracking down on companies that fail to carry insurance to pay the claims of injured workers.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported (http://bit.ly/J3VGKy) that more than a dozen businesses have been ordered to attend a hearing next month and settle claims.
The commission plans to send employers to jail if they can't settle at least part of the claim.
Officials say police will be sent to find companies that fail to attend the May 22 hearing.
The newspaper reported earlier this month that thousands of businesses fail to provide the required insurance.
The panel plans other hearings to deal with lingering injury cases.
The panel also plans to contact more than 100 employers who have refused to follow orders to pay claims.
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While Congress and the White House maintain their standoff, the shutdown's effects continue to ripple. (File photo).
Beyond the financial pinch of stalled contracts and delayed payments, federal IT contractors are beginning to face hiring and regulatory compliance issues as the partial government shutdown wears on.
Shuttered online services at Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) and the Commerce Department, for instance, are on TechAmerica's list of top shutdown-related problems.
E-Verify — the service that allows employers to confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. for new hires via I-9 employment forms -- won't be available until CIS gets its funding restored. E-Verify is the only operation at CIS funded by an appropriation.
Although use of E-Verify is generally voluntary, federal contractors are required to participate, and several states require participation as well. CIS said on its web site that employers still have to complete I-9 forms within three days of an employee starting to work. It said it would extend time periods to resolve disputes after the shutdown ends.
Because forms aren't being processed, contractors are caught between complying with the law and facing the loss of employees if they don't pass CIS's post-shutdown database check.
"It's a problem," said Julie Pace, a contract and immigration law attorney at The Cavanagh Law Firm in Phoenix. She said federal contractors can hire while E-Verify is down, but advised that I-9 forms for new employees be kept readily available and the information on them filed to E-Verify as soon as the shutdown is resolved. It could take as long as two days, she said, for CIS to restart E-Verify once funding is restored.
Technical difficulties for private companies have also cropped up in which automated payroll systems won't issue checks for newly hired personnel that haven't been given the OK by E-Verify, Pace said. Companies with E-Verify capability wired into their payment systems "never envisioned a time when E-Verify wouldn't be available."
Online functions at other federal agencies have also been stilled by the shutdown. The loss of the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) could begin to affect private companies trying to do business beyond the federal marketplace, TechAmerica noted.
For instance, companies that sell potentially sensitive IT and other tech goods to countries on which the U.S. has placed export controls, such as China and India, can't get the proper approvals to ship because BIS' online Simplified Network Applications Process, or SNAP-R, isn't working during the shutdown. SNAP-R allows uniform processing for users to submit export license applications, commodity classification requests, encryption registration and re-export license applications via the Internet.
According to Liz Hyman, CompTIA vice president of public advocacy, the shutdown is disproportionately hurting smaller managed services providers, which have a tougher time dealing with even brief interruptions in cash flow from government contracts.
"It all boils down to cash reserves," she said. "Access to capital for services-oriented companies is different. They don't have inventories," leaving them with not much leverage in cash-strapped times.
That doesn't mean smaller companies don't have any alternatives, however. Small firms subcontracting to a larger prime supplier "could reach out to the prime and find other opportunities," Hyman said.
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Me again! Got an odd one in that a couple of posts have disappeared on the front end when IMAGuard is enabled.
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All other posts (that I can see) show up but this one just wont appear. All the content is there in the backend and it displays when IMAGuard is disabled. Anything obvious I should try?


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An inspection of work under way on the Siskiyou grade was made Sunday by Judge Tou Velle, Engineer William Gerig, State Highway Engineers Bowlby and Kittridge, Samuel Hill, father of the good roads movement, and others who walked over the construction work accomplished and under way, and were entertained at dinner at the Siskiyou camp by Contractor J.W. Sweeney. The work is about one-third finished, with three months of good weather ahead. Over 300 men and eighty teams are employed, and the men and teamsters applying are put to work.
Five working camps have been established, one near the California line, one some three miles this side, one near Siskiyou station, one at Steinman and one near Barron at the end of the grade. There is a total of between 12 and 13 miles of grading, with between four and five miles completed, some of the heaviest cuts being finished.
The completed sections are 4,000 feet at Barron, nearly a mile at Steinman, and between two and three miles at the California line. The California contractors are already at work upon the road in Siskiyou County.
The road will be one of the scenic drives of America. The grade does not exceed 6 per cent. The minimum curve radius is 200 feet. The divide is crossed some three or four miles south of the present road. At the summit can be seen the upper end of the Rogue River valley on one side, and the California panorama on the other. The snow-capped summits of Mount McLaughlin, Mount Shasta, the peaks of the Cascades, Sierra Nevadas and the Siskiyous stretch on either side in endless succession.
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I've installed, uninstalled and reinstalled Press This Reloaded and still do not get an option to 'select' an image from the site I use Press This on. For example: if I go to our Fickr page and do the Press This bookmark, it pulls up the blog editing page but if I click on the 'image' frame, it wants me to upload from somewhere--doesn't give me a selection of our images from Flickr.
Also, doesn't auto add the hyperlink--I have to go to html make it a link.
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Nine bomb disposal experts kidnapped by separatist rebels in Senegal in May were released on Friday in neighbouring Guinea-Bissau.
The hostages -- all Senegalese -- were handed to the Guinea Bissau army in Cassalol, a village near the border shared by the west African nations, according to a journalist from AFP who was at the scene.
"I am freeing the bomb disposal experts in the name of Casamance," said Cesar Atoute Badiate, head of the kidnappers, a rebel group fighting for autonomy in the southern Senegalese region.
The men, all looking healthy, made no statement as they were handed to representatives of Mom Ku Mom, an organisation involved in conflict mediation in Guinea-Bissau.
The nine were part of a group of 12 experts abducted on May 3 by the Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces, which has been fighting for independence for some three decades.
Three female hostages were already released on May 27.
The fighting has claimed thousands of lives and displaced thousands more, but no precise figures are available.
Hundreds of the casualties have been caused by anti-personnel and anti-tank mines.


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I have been using AspectJ for a while and it works great on object scope fields containing annotations. I just ran into a situation where I want to annotate a variable of method scope that will work with my pointcut but I am having trouble with it.
Here is the pointcut that I am using. It works fine if my variable is a field for the object, but if I reduce the scope to a method (variable declared inside the method), then it doesn't work anymore and I am not sure why. Let me know what I can do, thanks.
after(final Trigger trigger): set(@Triggereable * *) && args(trigger)
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I'm evaluating formidable forms now and they seem really great! I'm held up on one thing though...
At the end of my form , before a user submits it, I needs to have them agree to a set of terms and conditions. Naturally I would simply use the "radio button" feature, then add the question "Do you agree to the Terms & Conditions", with one option that reads "Agree" and then make it a required question. Simple.
The problem is I cannot imbed a link into question text so that the user could click "Terms & Conditions" in order to view the terms and conditions before agreeing to them. Anyone else experienced this or have a recommendation for a work around?
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The fun part about doing comic book reviews is when something comes completely out of nowhere, provides a sharp, entertaining read and leaves me wanting more. âMemorialâ by Chris Roberson and Rich Ellis is one of those books.
Roberson has introduced a young lady who goes by the name âEm,â which may or may not be her real name. That's an unimportant detail, at least for now. What is important is that she has suspended complete disbelief of her situation.
Em stranded on an island with a talking cat named Schrodinger. The two of them came through a door at the end of the first issue. That door, like Em and Schrodinger, is still on the beach of the island. Roberson writes delightful dialog for the two (yes, the cat can talk) and sets them off on an adventure. That adventure involves finding something to eat and Schrodinger explaining to Em the nature of things.
Those things put a twist into this story and make this book a queer blend of ideas and concepts that flirt with notions presented by the works of L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis. Things donât get topsy-turvy âdrink meâ crazy, but they do get weird. Shadows come to life, offering transportation via light from candlestick. Cats talk. And memories take the shape of murderous statues.
Rich Ellis keeps the story grounded, giving Em a real world to turn to and a fastastic other place to discover. Ellisâ art is almost exactly what one would expect to see at the phrase âtypical comic book art.â Thereâs not a great deal of flashy panel layouts or dynamic character appearances, but there are plenty of fine details, expressive faces and body language, and wondrous imagery to investigate. Ellis keeps the artwork wonderful without pushing it into mind-boggling, and that works wonderfully for this story. Grace Allisonâs colors also give some zip to Ellisâ drawings.
âMemorialâ is a lovely looking book with some memorable scenes and a mystery adventure waiting to be investigated. There isnât a great deal of information shared about Em, but the lands of Is, Was, and Maybe offer seemingly limitless potential. Roberson has a nifty concept here that is smartly brought to paper and waits to be expanded into your minds. If youâre looking for something off the beaten path that provides a breath of fresh air from the relaunches, cancellations and crossovers elsewhere in comics, give this book a look.


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The strange thing is I just recently started getting this too, it didn't happen last night or this morning, but since this evening if I am not in a queue, or getting a can not create error, I get in game and get booted fairly quickly, and then it is start all over again. I am actually in the Origin Help Queue.. I am going to ask for a refund. Ain't nobody got time for this.
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10 Classic and Luxury Gift IdeasMonique Frausto
If you're like me and still have your Christmas shopping to do, hopefully I can offer you a little inspiration. Today, it's going to be in the form of classic and luxury gift ideas. We all know someone who loves the finer things in life. Whether it's a fragrance, slippers, or a handbag, you don't have to search very far for that perfect gift.
You know I'm here to help you out! I put together a gallery of 10 classic and luxury gift ideas. And yes, I want them all for myself. Which one of these goodies below will make it onto your wish list?
Chanel 1 of 10
Chanel N°5 Parfum is the epitome of classic luxury. Nothing compares.
3.1 Phillip Lim 2 of 10
Leave them drooling with this navy 3.1 Phillip Lim Pashli Medium Pebbled Satchel.
Burberry 3 of 10
This Burberry Giant Check Fringed Cashmere Muffler is the perfect gift for the designer lover in your life.
Tiffany & Co. 4 of 10
Tiffany & Co. really knows jewelry. This Bead Bracelet is a keeper.
Michael Kors 5 of 10
Gloves make an excellent gift. Check out this pair of MICHAEL Michael Kors Logo-Buckle Leather Gloves.
Kate Spade 6 of 10
Make her stand out with this Kate Spade On the Town Necklace.
Donna Karan 7 of 10
No one will turn down a robe like this Donna Karan Laundered Satin Faux-Fur Robe & Tank Gown.
Charlotte Olympia 8 of 10
Have a little fun with the classic slipper gift. The Charlotte Olympia Satin Kitty Slippers & Eye Mask Set is super chic!
Maximilian 9 of 10
Winter gear never looked so stylish. These Maximilian Fox Earmuffs are a favorite.
Movado 10 of 10
The Movado 'Bold' Roman Numeral Index Bracelet Watch is classic in rose gold.


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So as the title says, any scent out there that has its base as a continuation of 1270's top notes?
I dislike the base of 1270 but love the opening. Tried 1670 and I find that rather heavy.
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So as the title says, any scent out there that has its base as a continuation of 1270's top notes?
I dislike the base of 1270 but love the opening. Tried 1670 and I find that rather heavy.
I'm heading back up to Sydney this Saturday (on uni holidays) :(
Hopefully, another one will be arranged in the new year and I'll come along! Unfortunately, all my perfumes + samples are in...
They have been discounted up to 50% since late last year.
I think the unpopular ones are still around i.e. Andy Warhol.
How much do the Killian's and Amouage's go for in hong Kong? Will be there in 2 weeks time so would be nice in advance how much cash to bring.
Also anywhere in Hong Kong stock Parfumerie Generale?...
Oh she's French?
She was beautiful to talk to, I think I fell in love.
Try Lyric Man by Amouage.
Just as smooth as LN.
Thanks for the heads-up.
I've ordered Terre D'Hermes and Issey Miyake's L'eau for a total of $80 bucks.
Awesome price, but I agree, the online store is terrible. I sent them off an email...
Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist
Montale Black Aoud
Montale Red Aoud
Wow! Cheers mike! :D Her store seems quite exquiste in itself as well. I'll have to message her and see what she says. Thanks again! :)
Anyone have a more constructive answer than this? My original question implied this. Not to mention that not everyone owns a money tree allowing them to fly around the world.
Would anyone know...
I've also smelt all the SL you have listed (I'm from Australia as well), but have a hard time getting a full bottle of Iris Silver Mist.
I love anything with Iris in it but I have no idea how to...
I've been putting off getting Note Vanille as I already have SDV.
But since you've said its apparently discontinued, may I ask where did you hear this from? What's the source?
Harrods at Martin Place stocks Creed. You can go in there and have a sniff. But unlike the departmental stores, they are held behind the counter.
So the clerk will spray onto a piece of paper then...
i get compliments with this one, if not, it definitely gets noticed i.e. people comment on it ;) i like it but don't love it.. like others have said, its a bit too peppery/woody for my taste, leans...
This is kinda a high-jack, but where did you guys get the EDP from?
I think luckyscent stocks the EDT but no EDP.
I live in Australia so this one has to be bought online. Which sites stock the...
thanks for the suggestions!
ill go and have a look around at those i haven't heard before and see if i can procure samples online.
i do have Rose 31 (sample) and I do like it. But I want...
So as the title says, does anyone have suggestions of a scent that smells like a fresh rose garden from top down to basenotes?
I'm on a rose craze at the moment and have smelt most of the common...
It'll take about 3-4 weeks (sydney)
Sucks having to wait that long, on top of reading the crappy reviews, but I got my Creeds' in mint condition *touchwood*
Just a heads up, went to DJ's last weekend (sydney, cbd) and saw them have the Amouage line on display, which i believe is very recent (~couple of weeks) and Costume National as well as Vanclef and...
Noir de Noir tied with Tobacco Vanille.
Harrolds at Martin Place sells Creed.
Full retail price as well and you have to ask the SA to spray for you on paper i.e. you can't hold the bottle and spray whatever the hell you want.
Tonka Imperiale by Guerlain
I have heard about Ajmal, but not the others.
Is there any way to get a hold on samples frm these mid-eastern houses? Australia is quite far frm there lol.
I'm taking a liking to TF's Noir de Noir. At first, I didn't like it as I thought it was too rosey, but it has finally grown with me.
However, I was wondering if there are similiar scents out...
Kouros. massive headache
MPG's Ambre Preciuex. After reading reviews about it and saying how it was a nice powdery amber, I was set to buy it. I love my ambers.
Luckily, I ordered a sample from luckyscent and wore it for...
Full bottle of Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille. I'm SO happy! Been putting off getting it for 6 months and today was THE day!
I got my sample today in the mail and to me, it smells very similiar to Black Orchid, albeit the opening is much less sweet but slightly more spice.
The dry-down between the both of them is very...
so is sunessense completely different from IceMen?
I really disliked Icemen as it smelt like a cheap conventional deodorant spray, and nothing really special.
by the sounds of it so far, it...
Hmm.. I've smelt AMen and Rochas before and they don't really resemble Fudge at all. If anything, I find the fudge alot more sweeter than the two.
Come to thnik of it, the other day, the gym had...
When I was young, I used Fudge hair shaper wax/gel. Everytime someone wears it, it has this distinct smell, I have a good feeling the wax itself has vanilla in it, but I'm not too sure.
Real Patchouly by Bois 1920
Chez Bond by Bond No. 9
Although a belated reply, I thank you all for your suggestions.
I will have to find time and try TDC's Bois D'Iris, as the reviews do say it has a "lipstick quality".
I recently tried Bois...
oooo~ I love creamy scents! Def wanna give this one a try :)
Apart from getting this online, an BNers from Sydney know if there are places to try this in person? :)
Hey all,
I'm after a frag with an empahsis on the powdery nature of Iris. I LOVE the powdery iris note in Dior Homme and Dior Homme Intense (actually, I love all the Dior Homme's) and was...
d'Infusion Homme smells quite different to DH.
The best description I can give of the Prada offering is that it smells very much like Johnson's No Tears Shampoo with of course, the lingering Iris...
I love my Dior's :) Most of their scents are wonderful and lovely.
@mr_reasonable: where are the Amouage line sold currently in Aus? I'm from Sydney and would love to get my hands on some!
Really?! They have it already?! Crikey, thought it would take them at least another 6 months till they get it down here.
I should head down there when I have time and soon! Is assin the only...
I definitely need to go get the Bois when i get the time (and money!)
Though there is no definitive Dior Boutique only in Sydney except the DFS one? :(
Cheers! Lovely to know another place to get exclusive Dior perfumery :) I wonder when they'll get in the Ambre Nuit just released :confused:
Do you have the number of the Dior place in sydney btw? I've been googling and don't know whereabouts this Dior boutique is, let alone the contact number.
I've smelt it the other week, however, since that was a while ago, I fail to remember how to smells like.
Though I do recall thinking to myself that it is a unique scent, something that you don't...
I'm a guy :) Thought that was implied in my original post when i mentioned colgone.
I tried YSL L'Homme on the weekend and it smells very nice! Smooth and soft, not sure about the warmth part yet...
Thank you all very much, for your suggestions.
I went into the store to try out the suggested Estee Lauder BronzeGoddess (the lady told me the Eau Fraiche was discontinued now and that Tom Ford no...
Since my last post, I've been hunting down fragances that smell beachy. I've tried Bond No. 9 Fire Island, Tommy Bahama and Creed Virgin Island Water.
After smelling these, I'm still...
Thanks for the suggestions and others as well.
After reading online about these three fragrances, I certainly would like to try them out.
I checked perfume-connection's website to see if they...
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could point me into the right direction for a particular scent.
The other day I walked past a guy and he was wearing the nicest smelling fragrance.
It smelt...
Hi all!
I'm a newbie to the forum and yep, my first post!
Anyway, at the place I work at, there is this female co-worker that wears this very nice scent that I'm trying to see what type of...


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Bruins forward Marco Sturm could miss the rest of the season because of a left knee injury.
Sturm has seven goals and six assists in 19 games this season.
Reaction: His loss will hurt, but the Bruins have a lot of depth this year on offensive end. With Patrice Bergeron set to return at some point this season, the Bruins will still be scoring goals as long as the rest of the team is healthy.
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You Guys Are Awesome.....Enjoyed "Playing Man"....Great Sound
Cheerz & have a HUGE day!
had a listen to "Playing man " and really enjoyed the song, arrangement, melody, fab voice, lyrics and super cool country style..good stuff!..your new friend dean..blessings and peace!
I didn't know you guys were on ReverbNation. I just enjoyed watching your videos. I finally got around to making one myself, called Caylee's Song (Hang 'Em High)..
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Articles About Mills Lawn School
Interpreting Yellow Springs Schools' report card
Ohio released its 2014–2015 school report cards last month, which are measures of student and school performance based on an array of state tests.
Root causes
Every Arbor Day since 1982, the Yellow Springs Tree Committee has planted at least one tree on the Mills Lawn School grounds.
Art & Soul: Art both high-quality and affordable
Those who can embrace the idea of a high-caliber art fair in an elementary school gym will be treated this Saturday to some of the finest and most striking pieces of local and regional art.
Mills Lawn on the move to innovate
When Mills Lawn School opens its doors this Friday, it will serve more students than last year, a growth trend that Principal Matt Housh sees as steady.
Peace piece
At last Friday's exhibition of the school-wide Project Peace Initiative at Mills Lawn School, third-graders performed a conga drum performance, as part of D.R.U.M Code.
A lesson in black and white
Last Friday the Mills Lawn fourth, fifth and sixth grade students performed a varied program of songs, readings, poems and a skit to celebrate the end of Black History Month.
VIDEO — New climber at Mills Lawn School
The beloved wooden Big Toy was partially destroyed by a falling silver maple during a storm last July. In its place last week arose a mighty, multi-piece structure.
Mills Lawn teacher to play civil rights icon
Mills Lawn music teacher Jo Frannye Reichert plays the role of Rosa Parks in a production about the life of the civil rights icon at Mills Lawn this Saturday.
Mills Lawn puts on 1940s radio show
The silly laughs and sensational songs heard on 1940s radio will be re-performed live in the Mills Lawn biennial all-school musical, The Albert Brown Show, which opens Friday.
Artist in residence at Mills Lawn—Students redesign their sign
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Kiss My Lingerie, a specialty adult shop in Gonzales, Louisiana, has posted a sign on it's door indicating that it accepts most credit cards and EBT cards, which is federal-issued card for welfare and food stamps. The owner of the store says she began accepting EBT cards, better known as Louisiana Purchase cards, eight months ago because she didn't want to "discriminate against customers."
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