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Due of the rise of Hadoop, many enterprises are now deploying their first small clusters of 10 to 20 servers. At this small scale, the complexity of operating the cluster looks and feels like general data center servers. It is not until the clusters scale, as they inevitably do, when the pain caused by the exponential complexity becomes apparent. We've seen this problem occur time and time again.
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Greg Bruno, Vice President of Engineering and co-founder of StackIQ, describes why clusters are so different from farms of single-purpose servers that reside in traditional data centers, and why without an automated solution that can address the cluster requirements, real pain is coming and failure is certain.
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Greg Bruno is the Vice President of Engineering and co-founder of StackIQ. Prior to joining StackIQ, he co-founded the open-source Rocks Cluster Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCSD where he researched parallel file systems. Prior to the Rocks Cluster Group, he worked for 10 years at Teradata Systems where he developed cluster management software for the systems that supported the world's largest databases.
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The 15th International Cloud Expo has just expanded its conference program, to bring together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC at one location.
The show now has three tracks devoted exclusively to the IoT (with WebRTC present in one of the tracks), a full single track focusing on Big Data, and a two-track DevOps Summit, in addition to four tracks devoted exclusively to Cloud Computing in the enterprise.
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More than 150 all-star faculty members will discuss the hottest technology topics in November. In addition to the expanded APM and API coverage, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will offer a variety of Linux containers and Docker sessions.
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To Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker 5 April [1851]
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Dear Sir
At last I am able to return you your valuable specimens, & those belonging to Mess Roemer Philippi & Koch.1 Pray accept my most cordial thanks for your great kindness & communicate the same to the above three distinguished naturalists. When you return the specimens, will you be so good as to present each of the above gentlemen with a copy of my small Monograph.2 —with which I am not well satisfied, though I have done it as well as I could.—
Pray believe me with much respect, | Yours much obliged | C. Darwin
Returns fossil cirripede specimens to WD, Friedrich Adolph Roemer, R. A. Philippi, and F. C. L. Koch.
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University of Canberra - School of Law and Justice
Criminal Law Journal, 36: 19-37, 2012
This article considers international responses to infant abandonment, neonaticide and infanticide in the context of the recent conviction of Keli Lane for the murder of her newborn daughter and the Children's Protection (Lawful Surrender of Newborn Child) Amendment Bill 2011 (SA). The article considers three responses currently in operation internationally: safe haven laws, baby hatches, and anonymous birth. Arguments about these models, including effectiveness, whether they target the "wrong" women, and the rights of children to know their genetic origins, are examined.
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Keywords: infanticide, neonaticide, safe havens, baby hatches, anonymous birth
Date posted: December 14, 2012 ; Last revised: November 12, 2015
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IF THERE is one thing you can say about Australians, they are not fools.
Years ago, they came up with an ingenious solution, when the Common Market
established legislation for wines, stating that if the label bore a vintage or
the name of a grape variety, it must also bear the name of a region of
production. Thus, you cannot sell a wine here simply as "Australian Shiraz".
The Australian response was to create the artificial region of South-Eastern
Australia, which includes 97 per cent of the total production of the country.
If you look at the label, you will see that all the major Australian brands
show this, because it gives a wide range of possibilities for
sourcing grapes.
One result of this is that the consumer tends to forget that there is a host
of vineyard areas in Australia (70 with official recognition, at the last
count), each producing wines with an individual style. In addition, there is a
broad variety of grape varieties beyond the everyday Shiraz, Cabernet
Sauvignon, and Chardonnay.
Here are some examples that I encountered at a recent tasting. Among the
white wines that stood out were: Windy Peak Riesling 2004 from the Yarra Valley
(Unwins, £6.99), which has a vibrant nose; a full, soft and smoky Clare Valley
Sémillon from Tim Adams (Tesco, £8.99); and, for those who like their wines
soft and opulent, the D'Arenberg Money Spider Roussanne 2004, with flavours of
ripe nectarines (Oddbins, £8.99). As a dessert wine, it is hard to beat Brown
Brothers Orange Muscat and Flora 2003, which is widely available at £5.99
for the half-bottle. It has a distinct flavour of sweet oranges.
The same winery has an experimental vineyard, where it tries out a broad
range of grape-varieties. Among its reds are: the Italian Barbera 2002 ("sweet
and spicy, long in the mouth", say my notes) (Morrisons, Asda, Booths and
Londis, £6.99); and the soft, elegant, black-cherry-flavoured Spanish Graciano
2001 (Asda, Booths, £7.99).
From Argentina, by way of Kirihill Estates in the Adelaide Hills, comes the
soft but firm Lizards of Oz Reserve Malbec 2002 (Asda, £6.99). I can also
recommend the Bleasdale Langhorne Creek Malbec 2002 from Oddbins at the same
price. This is in a fuller, meatier Australian style, a great "barbie" wine.
The Shiraz (or Syrah) is not the only Rhône variety to find favour in
Australia. The Grenache is widely planted, and one of my favourites is Booarra
2003 (Asda, £5.99). It has also been blended with the Australian varieties
Barbera and Sangiovese for Novello 2003 (Somerfield, Booths, £6.49).
As the range of wines from Australia is broad, it is often worth paying that
bit more for something exciting. By no means am I knocking Jacob's Creek,
Rosemount, Oxford Landing, and other big Australian brands — I drink them all
with pleasure — but individuality rarely comes under a South-Eastern Australia
Fair-trade bargain. As a postscript to last month's column,
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£3.99 (rather than £4.99), for most of March. The supermarket and some other
retailers are donating ten per cent of the retail price on a range of wines to
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Part of me still worried that I would suffer another loss if I got pregnant again. At 42, the odds were that I would lose another baby. But all I could do was hope that I would not deal with the heartbreak again.
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With the twins, I did much more testing for two reasons: I had lost several pregnancies, and I had crossed the formidable 4-0 age barrier.
When you enter the health care system as a 38-year-old pregnant woman, you suddenly discover you're a bit of a problem. They've coined a rather insulting phrase for you and you hear it ad nauseum. You are a lady of "advanced maternal age," a term definitely not thought up by a woman.
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The agency has asked famous underground graphic designers to realize in a pure graphic-rock spirit, 7 advertising posters to denounce extreme bad conditions of housing. The posters were distributed on the occasion of the music festivals this summer. To conclude this operation, the Fondation Abbé Pierre is now going to sell , via eBay, a unique serigraphic edition of these posters.
This inovative initiative is the final part of the multimedia device BDDP Unlimited developed to inform young people who are among the 1st victims of bad conditions of housing. These posters come on top to the 2 TV spots
This strategy developed in the social spirit of rock has allowed the Foundation to receive a very strong reception from the young audience and to get 15,800 signatures, which will be soon sent to the Ministry of Housing.
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Also when I enlarge the screen so I can read the text, it is often, not always, blurry.
My favorite online magazine app is Vanity Fair. I never have to enlarge the page to read. Navigation is very easy. Some others I subscribe to have a "Text" button, which removes any graphics & renders the text automatically readable.
I'm a devoted Anglophile in the U.S. who has loved HELLO! Magazine for years, but it was a bit pricey for a subscription. I accidentally discovered the app a couple of days ago & have been reading almost non-stop since. I'm THRILLED to be able to read this great publication here. The quality of the graphics is unbelievable, and the writing is also excellent. Thanks for making it available!!!
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Having moved to the US from the UK and tried to persevere with the US trashy magazines Hello stands out from everything by far! When I found the app and downloaded it onto my iPad, a little bit of home was there at the touch of a button without having to bride colleagues of my husband to bring me out dated copies, (not that it was ever a problem reading out of date copies) to me on their return.
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Policyholders are told that if they fail to fill in the form, as requested by insurers, they could invalidate the terms of the cover they took out with the insurer.
Jeremy Warner, a journalist with The Independent, was hurt in a skiing accident and had to pay for his medical treatment while abroad.
When he claimed on his return to the UK, he was told to sign an E111 form on behalf of the insurance company. Mr Warner says: "It is pretty scandalous: taxpayers are in effect subsidising the profits of insurance companies."
E111 forms entitle UK citizens to recover from the Government a large share of emergency medical expenses incurred when using any European state health provision. Likewise, other European citizens can do the same in the UK, in theory. The agreement is geared so that EU states offer each others' citizens the minimum health-care available free to the local population in each country, with any extra paid by travellers themselves.
But although the individual's right to claim is waived if a private travel insurance policy is called upon to pay out, insurance companies are stepping in to claim the policyholder's entitlement.
Mr Warner's insurance was taken out through American Express, which places the cover with Europ Assistance.
When he objected to being asked to sign the E111 form on behalf of the insurer, he received a letter from the company. "It is a basic principle of insurance that the insured has a duty to minimise any claim and that insurers will seek recovery of costs wherever possible," it said.
"This would be the case on any type of insurance, not just travel policies. Such procedures do not normally affect the level of claim settlement for the individuals insured ... However, when setting the across-the-board price of policies, such matters as costs paid out and costs recovered do have to be taken into account."
A spokeswoman for Europ Assistance adds: "E111s are reciprocal so that insurance companies can claim back the medical costs from each country. The reason we do that is to provide cover cheaply.
"For example, insurance costs are higher for people travelling to the United States, not because there is much greater sickness but because there is no reciprocal agreement with the UK."
Julie Philpott, marketing director at Columbus Direct, which sells travel insurance by phone, says: "The thing people should bear in mind is that the vast majority of cover that we provide is not met by the E111. If people fall dangerously ill and have to be repatriated, for example, the cost of that will not be reclaimable under the E111 and is simply paid by us."
Ms Philpott points out that it was up to the company to determine whether it was willing to go the whole way and demand that the insured person sign the E111 waiver form on the firm's behalf.
"We leave that decision to the customer. But if they are prepared to sign the form, we are willing to ignore the excess, which we are not legally obliged to pay under the terms of our contract."
The Europ Assistance spokeswoman adds that her company operated in a similar way. "We have many policies where there is no obligation to sign the form. In this instance, the cover was through Centurion Assistance, an American Express policy which says people must do so. We are required to respect that decision."
The Department of Health says that under European subsidiarity rules, insurers had the right to ask their clients to claim. The principle was similar to that where in the event of the theft of a handbag abroad, both the travel insurer and the home contents insurance provider will agree to share the cost of replacing the stolen goods if the bag was potentially covered under both policies.
Mr Warner is unconvinced. In the face of seeing his claim being thrown out unless he put his signature on the E111 waiver form, he said he was likely to sign. But he adds: "I think this is a disgraceful state of affairs. Something should be done about it"n
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