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Building a Hybrid Data Pipeline for Salesforce and Hadoop
My team embarked on building a data lake for our sales and marketing data to better understand customer journeys. This required building a hybrid data pipeline to connect our cloud CRM with the new Hadoop Data Lake. One challenge is that IT was not in a position to provide support until we proved value and marketing did not have the experience, so we embarked on the journey ourselves within the product marketing team for our line of business within Progress.
In his session at @BigDataExpo, Sumit Sarkar, Product Marketing Engineer at Progress, will discuss how the key to delivering on this was using standard interfaces using a bi-directional data pipeline to connect the systems. On the Salesforce side, we were able to get frictionless access to the data lake using clicks-not-code via OData. On the Hadoop side, we were able to ingest data from Salesforce using JDBC for Apache Sqoop. Join us to hear best practices and lessons learned.
Speaker Bio
Sumit Sarkar runs product marketing for Progress' DataDirect business line. As a geek-turned-marketer, he has experience in standard connectivity and integration with cloud data for analytics, and has presented related sessions at industry conferences such as Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, and Hadoop+Strata World.
His interests include performance tuning of the data access layer for which he has developed a patent-pending technology for its analysis; and data connectivity and ingestion for analytics with data of all shapes and sizes in the cloud or ground with a focus on standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, GraphQL and OData.
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Financial Technology - or FinTech - Is Now Part of the @CloudExpo Program!
Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming 20th Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY and October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA will find fresh new content in a new track called FinTech, which will incorporate machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and blockchain into one track.
Financial enterprises in New York City, London, Singapore, and other world financial capitals are embracing a new generation of smart, automated FinTech that eliminates many cumbersome, slow, and expensive intermediate processes from their businesses.
FinTech brings efficiency as well as the ability to deliver new services and a much improved customer experience throughout the global financial services industry. FinTech is a natural fit with cloud computing, as new services are quickly developed, deployed, and scaled on public, private, and hybrid clouds.
More than US$20 billion in venture capital is being invested in FinTech this year. @CloudExpo is pleased to bring you the latest FinTech developments as an integral part of our program, starting at the 20th International Cloud Expo June 6-8, 2017 in New York City and October 31 - November 2, 2017 in Silicon Valley.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that EnterpriseTech has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. EnterpriseTech is a professional resource for news and intelligence covering the migration of high-end technologies into the enterprise and business-IT industry, with a special focus on high-tech solutions in new product development, workload management, increased effi...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devic...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SourceForge has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SourceForge is the largest, most trusted destination for Open Source Software development, collaboration, discovery and download on the web serving over 32 million viewers, 150 million downloads and over 460,000 active development projects each and every month.
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Multiple data types are pouring into IoT deployments. Data is coming in small packages as well as enormous files and data streams of many sizes. Widespread use of mobile devices adds to the total. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists looked at the tools and environments that are being put to use in IoT deployments, as well as the team skills a modern enterprise IT shop needs to keep things running, get a handle on all this data, and deliver...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named "Diamond Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
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We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA
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SYS-CON Events announced today that CHEETAH Training & Innovation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CHEETAH Training & Innovation is a cloud consulting and IT training firm specializing in improving clients cloud strategies and infrastructures for medium to large companies.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that TMC has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo and Big Data at Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Global buyers rely on TMC's content-driven marketplaces to make purchase decisions and navigate markets. Learn how we can help you reach your marketing goals.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organi...
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"MobiDev is a Ukraine-based software development company. We do mobile development, and we're specialists in that. But we do full stack software development for entrepreneurs, for emerging companies, and for enterprise ventures," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation.
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IoT solutions exploit operational data generated by Internet-connected smart "things" for the purpose of gaining operational insight and producing "better outcomes" (for example, create new business models, eliminate unscheduled maintenance, etc.). The explosive proliferation of IoT solutions will result in an exponential growth in the volume of IoT data, precipitating significant Information Governance issues: who owns the IoT data, what are the rights/duties of IoT solutions adopters towards t...
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With the introduction of IoT and Smart Living in every aspect of our lives, one question has become relevant: What are the security implications? To answer this, first we have to look and explore the security models of the technologies that IoT is founded upon. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nevi Kaja, a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company, discussed some of the security challenges of the IoT infrastructure and related how these aspects impact Smart Living. The material was delivered interac...
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No hype cycles or predictions of zillions of things here. IoT is big. You get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jay Mason, Associate Partner at M&S Consulting, presented a step-by-step plan to develop your technology implementation strategy. He discussed the evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data analytics considerations, edge-to-cloud tec...
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When growing capacity and power in the data center, the architectural trade-offs between server scale-up vs. scale-out continue to be debated. Both approaches are valid: scale-out adds multiple, smaller servers running in a distributed computing model, while scale-up adds fewer, more powerful servers that are capable of running larger workloads. It's worth noting that there are additional, unique advantages that scale-up architectures offer. One big advantage is large memory and compute capacity...
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February in Colorado. The sky was the cold steel grey that forces both a yawn and a shiver. My chance of success was dismal. Indeed, my survival was starting to seem improbable. I pressed ahead because I had no other choice.
"So, who did your homework?" I asked rhetorically because I knew the answer. Nobody responded. "Who wants me to set my pants on fire?" No response.
The seventh-period English II sophomores had banded together to overwhelm me with apathy. Skimming the empty looks in the room, I amused myself by contemplating the paradox of actually accomplishing something with apathy. Paradox. In past years, I would have discussed this term with the kids, given examples from literature, looked at Macbeth's inability to see the paradoxical nature of the witches' predictions, etc. We'd have discussed how life presents us with confusing double meanings and how we need to be careful in unraveling them.
Not this year. These kids had beaten me with their sheer I-don't-give-a-shit attitude. I had, for the first time in my career, started not to give a shit, either. These brain-dead little mongrels couldn't tell the difference between a paradox and a pair of shoes.
Wait, had I said that out loud? Well, they weren't listening anyway.
I caught a sympathetic stare from Michelle in the front row. She had done her homework, read the chapters, maybe even gone ahead—but dared not admit it. And she, this very sweet teenager, was feeling sorry for me!
Though every teacher hits a wall from time to time, after months of it, I found the poison burned in my gut. My job felt brutal, and I felt ineffective, so I quit.
My life was uncluttered enough to allow me to give up some comforts very easily, and cast out for new terrain, physical and emotional, even at the risk of finding the grass dead and brown on the other side.
A completely selfish life of climbing fulltime again, not just in the summers, would save me. I was sure of it. This decision effectively dismantled a seven-year attempt to create security. Probably because I was looking for it, the books that I was reading kept telling me to be courageous and to change, not grunt and toil under a weary life. I held tightly to this quote in the opening of Dalva, by Jim Harrison: "It was today—rather, yesterday, I think—that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation."
Would I wake up one day wondering where it all went, thinking, "What a waste"?
Six months later: The beach party turned out to have been a hoax. Or maybe the police had shut it down because they had not been properly bribed. Whatever, we gringos were all trying to get back to town—Montanita, Ecuador—to continue the party in the streets. An overflowing bus was pulling away, my new lady friends from the U.K. on board. In desperation, I ran and leapt onto the bumper, and found a solid pair of crimpers above the emergency door.
As the bus accelerated over the sand, I hiked my flip-flops up on an edge formed by the taillights, and whipped a mantel onto the roof. It was the first time I'd climbed in six weeks. It felt good, maybe better than the buzz I'd been cultivating since noon. I found two local teenagers already up there swilling a cerveza. The surf and the beach blurred past.
As we arrived in Montanita, the ladies were impressed, or so I liked to believe, when I hopped down off the roof of the bus. We followed a distant thumping bass to a bamboo shack bursting with sweaty, gyrating Eurotrash with nickel-sized pupils. The party was completely going off. I was a bit out of my league but, not wanting to be a stick-in-the-mud American, joined in till dawn (with the dancing, anyway).
As we arrived in Montanita, the ladies were impressed, or so I liked to believe, when I hopped down off the roof of the bus. We followed a distant thumping bass to a bamboo shack bursting with sweaty, gyrating Eurotrash with nickel-sized pupils. The party was completely going off. I was a bit out of my league but, not wanting to be a stick-in-the-mud American, joined in till dawn (with the dancing, anyway).
Wait. Wasn't this supposed to be a climbing trip? I had started my climbing trip to South America in Ecuador. This is pretty stupid because (with all due respect to the handful of climbers I met) there isn't much rock climbing in this otherwise fine country. My miscalculation was no surprise, really. The whole continent was virtually unknown to me. I had packed the essentials: climbing gear, camping gear, clothes. Ecuador had mountains, I knew that much. I did virtually no research, and did not even glance at a Lonely Planet guide. I just figured I would find some climbers when I got there. If not, I would go somewhere else. I was bound to make mistakes and relished the challenge. I boarded the plane with all the uncertainty ahead of me, and you have no idea how free and powerful I felt.
While I was taking Spanish classes and testing the limits of my liver in Ecuador, my old friend Jim Nigro was in Bariloche, Argentina, on furlough from Exum Mountain Guides, and also wrestling with el idioma de Español.
Something of the climbing-bum archetype, Jim, in his 50s, had been sending almost longer than I had been alive. He was around for early ascents in the Black Canyon and Indian Creek. He had spent most of his life alternating between being a gypsy, banging nails and guiding. It was a path that allowed him to feel a level of freedom to which he had become devoted. People locked into 50-week-a-year jobs tend to envy the likes of Jim, but in return for this freedom, he had traded relationships, steady income and many creature comforts.
Nigro and I had made nebulous plans to hook up and climb near Bariloche, a great little resort town situated on the northern edge of Patagonia. After a month in Ecuador, I looked forward to drying out. In a last attempt to leave the country with a couple of memories that did not include a hangover, I finally did go rock climbing, first at a scruffy granite cliff near Quito, and then squeezing slippery basalt in a town called Baños with Willy Navarette, master guide, and his climbing team. Several pretty poor kids had to share a couple pairs of shoes and a couple harnesses, but they were unbelievably amped about climbing. They reminded me of why I loved it, too.
It was time to move on. Jim had been living large down in Bariloche in a beautiful lake house owned by a friend from the States, but he was antsy to get on the rock. As soon as I arrived, we marched up the trail towards Refugio Frey, situated below the needle-studded ridge on the shores of Laguna Toncek. Though not too high in altitude at 5,600 feet, Frey is very much an alpine venue. The granite is bullet, with featured slabs and cracks.
We spent about 10 days on two trips climbing and camping at Frey. I got schooled on thin slabs and face climbing, which I vaguely remember being able to do back on Lumpy Ridge, before Rifle and Indian Creek ruined my footwork. I was positively spanked on a thin 5.11 face climb, and backed off a 5.10. So much for the Don Whillans' drink-hard, climb-hard regimen.
In the refugio, we ran into several old friends from Colorado, including two women from Gunnison. Just out of college, Lynsey Shelar and Laura Chase had spent several months in Nepal on a project to train local women climbers for lucrative guiding work. Now they were simply climbing and traveling like we were. We made plans to climb around Bariloche in the coming weeks.
Soon, I met most of the really psyched climbers in Bariloche, including the two mas loco: Lucas "Luquitas" Bonangelino and Lucas Kopke. The diminutive Luquitas was psyched to climb or train all the time. His English was buttered with quotes from Pulp Fiction. The quiet Kopke had learned to climb as a kid by traversing the rounded log siding on his house, and now can hang onto the smallest holds for hours. James Bracken, originally from Silverton, Colorado, also took to showing me around. With all sorts of partners, I had finally put together the climbing trip I had dreamed of while handing out detentions back in Colorado.
Soon, I met most of the really psyched climbers in Bariloche, including the two mas loco: Lucas "Luquitas" Bonangelino and Lucas Kopke. The diminutive Luquitas was psyched to climb or train all the time. His English was buttered with quotes from Pulp Fiction. The quiet Kopke had learned to climb as a kid by traversing the rounded log siding on his house, and now can hang onto the smallest holds for hours. James Bracken, originally from Silverton, Colorado, also took to showing me around. With all sorts of partners, I had finally put together the climbing trip I had dreamed of while handing out detentions back in Colorado.
This is about the time the quilombo started. After hiking down from our second trip to Frey, Jim and I joined a couple of new friends for dinner in Bariloche. Jim seemed a bit out of it, but we had been up in the mountains climbing every day and doing as many pitches as possible, so we both thought he was just exhausted. But as I got ready to move on to Chile, the black clouds began to gather.
Day One: Jim felt sick and achy.
Day Two: Immobile in bed. Fever. Severe back pain.
Day Three: All conditions worsened. A doctor came to the house, said a bad flu was going around, prescribed medicine, etc. Said flu was probably aggravating Jim's slipped discs from a previous injury.
Day Four: No improvement. Jim couldn't keep food down.
Day Five: Second doctor. Decided to fix his back. Gave an anti-inflammatory and painkillers.
Day Six: Some improvement. Jim was out of bed a little, eating, and the fever seemed to have broken.
Day Seven: Fever came and went. We decided that we should probably go to the hospital as opposed to hosting roaming cash-only doctors. We received one more visit for more anti-inflammatories. This doctor admitted that the fever was baffling.
Day Eight: We carefully loaded Jim in a pickup and took off to the hospital.
Jim could hardly bear to sit up in a wheelchair as we checked him in. "The only thing I could feel was pain," he later recalled. "I was so delirious, I was just fucking scared and confused." The fact that this hospital was one of the few outside of Buenos Aires with an MRI machine probably saved Jim's life. As it turns out, Jim had a massive staph infection in his spinal cord (the conus medullaris, to be exact), probably the result of a lingering contusion left over from the herniated disc. Where the staph came from, nobody seemed to know, other than it simply exists on and around our bodies waiting to slip into a cut and attack. Jim was run down and maybe initially did have the flu, allowing the staph to get a toehold and multiply. The prognosis was paralysis or death if they didn't operate immediately.
I actually went climbing for the weekend after we admitted Jim, before they knew about the infection, and he was out of surgery when I came back.
It was time for a reality check. How the hell did all of this happen so fast? Mistakes? Yeah, we had made a bunch. When Jim first got sick, I had offered him some antibiotics I had gotten from the travel doc. Jim declined, worrying that antibiotics were somehow a cure worse than the disease. I didn't push the idea, because I wasn't sure, either. I now know that the drugs were tailored for just such an infection. Next, our American hubris made us distrust a foreign hospital. And did I mention Jim did not have health insurance?
Luckily, the surgery seemed to have been successful. Jim's recovery would depend on whether or not antibiotics could quell what was left of the infection. The new prognosis was for a rocky recovery, starting with two weeks in the hospital: one that he would spend entirely prone, and the other in which he would be allowed to sit up in bed. It would be six to eight weeks before he walked normally. Initially, even reaching the bathroom would pose a problem. A month would pass before Jim could prepare meals. Traveling home was out of the question for at least six weeks.
So I resigned myself to the fact that I would be in Bariloche for a while. Jim did not ask me to stay. His years of stoic self-reliance ruled that out. But in my mind there really was no choice. I mean this quite literally: I did not make a choice. It was simply part of dealing with the unexpected, which is what I had hoped to encounter on my trip, and which was, for the time being, my life—for better or worse. Jim couldn't function alone, so I would stay until he could. As it turns out, we both would have a ton of help from all sorts of people who seemed to be waiting in Bariloche for just such an opportunity to be kind and generous.
Lynsey and Laura from Gunnison were still in town and eager to help out, but since Jim was under hospital care, we decided to head out to a sport-climbing area about an hour northeast of Bariloche. Vazhé is accessed by a river crossing and serves up steep pocketed tuft.
On the first day, we ran into some Montana climbers enjoying the low-commitment sport climbing after a tough stint in Patagonia. Around the fire that night, the gringos outnumbered the locals, who were having trouble keeping up with the English slang, which we did our best to explain. After a conversation about the difference between a cracker you eat and an ignorant white boy, Luquitas slapped me with the moniker "Galleta"—cracker/cookie in Spanish. The Montanans thought this was hilarious. Afterward, all of Bariloche seemed to know me as Galleta, a small step towards local status.
On the second day, Laura and Lynsey saddled up on a short, fairly vertical 5.11. A crowd of folks casually looked on and shouted encouragement between sips of mate. Laura climbed into the crux several times but down-climbed and hung. Finally, as Luquitas and I yelled bits of advice, she punched it and took an unremarkable, teensy, weensy, sport-climbing fall, which, despite being short and boring, left her holding her leg and begging to be lowered. Watching her collapse in pain on the ground, I ran over, thinking, "Here we go again!"
Laura sat holding her ankle and squeezing back tears. "It's not broken. Fuck! It can't be broken!"
I felt a wave of nausea as she tried to stand and fell.
"I think I feel bones grating."
After we wrapped her ankle, a burly Chilean offered to piggyback Laura a quarter-mile to the river to soak in the ice-cold water. All of us were in full denial—especially Laura, who kept repeating, "My ankle cannot be broken." So while she worried by the river, we returned to climbing as if nothing had happened.
"I think Jim is going to have a roommate," Luquitas said a little while later.
"I think Jim is going to have a roommate," Luquitas said a little while later.
The next day, X-rays showed both ligament and bone damage, but the surgeon elected to simply cast the foot and send Laura on her way, a mistake that wouldn't be revealed until she was back in the States. For now, Laura moved into the lake house to recuperate next to Jim.
Gringo number two was down for the count.
It was time to reassess this wonderful climbing trip I was having. Was there really something else important besides climbing?
The four gringos shelved the rest of our travel plans for now. Far from being a disappointment, the changes opened up unexpected opportunities. As we spent more time in Bariloche, we realized that traveling from spot to spot—a week here, a week there—is not really getting to know a country or a culture. We now had time to get to know some folks from different walks of life. We were invited to house parties and for home-cooked meals. After my months of furtive glances at the stunningly beautiful Argentine mujeres, I actually mustered the courage to talk to a few—in Spanish!
Luquitas made it a mission to get his boy Galleta climbing as much as possible, so that I wouldn't totally lose my mind. We built a campus board in his backyard. During the first sesh, we nearly got in a fistfight with a neighbor over the Guns 'N' Roses blasting from an old guitar amp that doubled as a boom box. Despite my lifelong loathing of training, Luquitas insisted we hit the board several times a week.
I also joined Luquitas, Kopke and James for quick missions to some of the nearby cliffs. Cerro Ventana offers short, steep bolted routes on edgy volcanic rock. As with virtually all the climbing around Bariloche, Cerro Ventana sits above the enormous lakes that fan out below the Cordillera. Morehaupi is another spot perched above crystal-clear water. This little volcanic crag boasts only 10 pocketed routes, but nine of them are 5.11+ or harder. James and I rounded out the experience with some new routing on the granite of Cerro Lopez. Luquitas also took me on the occasional road trip back to Vazhé, both of us sparring with Pulp Fiction quotes: "Luquitas, tell me again about the hash bars."
The days at the lake house turned into weeks, and every week was a parade. Carlos, the caretaker, lived just up the hill with his wife, three daughters and a son. This beautiful, generous family took us four wayward gringos in as their own. They constantly came down, usually bringing food, to check up on the two patients. Colorado James drove Jim to physical therapy. Climbers stopped by to do what they do best: spray about climbing (yes, it's a worldwide phenomenon). Jim's professors from language school sent notes and gifts. Friends of friends that had simply heard about Jim's plight sent greetings or stopped by. Soon we were sipping mate with visitors, hosting asados and jam sessions, while Jim slowly got stronger. My 35th birthday came and went.
Through it all, Lynsey, Laura, Jim and I depended on each other and cared for each other like family.
When it finally came time to leave Bariloche, it had been nearly a year since I had abandoned teaching. I had spent six months adrift in South America. Lynsey and Laura had hobbled on a week before. Jim had courageously survived weeks of pain and bleak contemplation and was nearly ready to get on a plane back to the United States.
My climbing trip had been derailed from the get-go, but the journey that replaced it had made me a student once more. I learned (again) that a solely selfish life may be the "brutal approximation" that Harrison wrote about. Jim had reminded me several times that I had no obligation to stop my travels to help him. At times, I harbored resentment. Yet I finally realized that helping was not a sacrifice I made for Jim or anyone else. I did it because it felt right, and ultimately it was enlightening. As people came out of the woodwork to help and my friendships grew, I was rewarded over and over.
My climbing trip had been derailed from the get-go, but the journey that replaced it had made me a student once more. I learned (again) that a solely selfish life may be the "brutal approximation" that Harrison wrote about. Jim had reminded me several times that I had no obligation to stop my travels to help him. At times, I harbored resentment. Yet I finally realized that helping was not a sacrifice I made for Jim or anyone else. I did it because it felt right, and ultimately it was enlightening. As people came out of the woodwork to help and my friendships grew, I was rewarded over and over.
Jim's plight also forced me to think about my future. I certainly could sustain a life on the road: climbing all the time, living for myself. But where and what would that get me in the end? Jim's lack of security spoke to me. He was facing an uncertain future. Jim would be able to climb after his back healed, but maybe not guide. "I was dope-slapped," he later said. "There needed to be a change."
So I thought about teaching again.
I had started teaching because it seemed a noble pursuit and a good career. Teaching feels good and powerful when the students connect. Up until that last year, I actually had been good at it, too. Maybe I was ready to think about it for the fall.
But then I remembered kids like Tyler.
"Mr. Kalous?"
"Can we just do nothing today?" A few sounds of agreement from the class.
"What do you mean by do nothing?"
"You know, like, hang out. Talk. Just sit around."
"Aren't all those things, technically, doing something?"
Childish semantic arguments have always entertained me.
"Well, I guess. But you know what I mean. Like, we don't feel like doing anything."
"But, Tyler, isn't doing nothing a little boring?"
"Not as boring as what you want to do!"
And then, mi hermano de Bariloche, Luquitas, suggested that Galleta join him—climbing in Spain.
The classroom? It could wait one more year.
Chris Kalous is working on his teaching résumé. Jim Nigro's surgery was successful. He rehabbed all year, and began climbing again about four months after returning to the States.


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Schizophrenia has a genetic component. People who have a close relative with schizophrenia are more likely to develop the disorder. An identical twin of a person with schizophrenia has the highest risk (40%-50%) of developing the illness. A child whose parent has schizophrenia has about a 10% chance. The risk of schizophrenia in the general population is only about 1%.
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Surgery can be used to remove tissue to disrupt factors that cause arrhythmias. It may also involve implanting devices that trigger and maintain regular rhythm.
- Ablation —An area of the heart that is responsible for an abnormal rhythm may be surgically removed or altered (ablated) with different techniques.
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Apr 16, 2014
DCCC and Democratic Candidates Bank Momentous Resources for Midterms
As the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee continued its blistering fundraising pace in the first quarter – raising $10.3 million and banking $40.2 million – Democratic candidates around the country also put millions of dollars in the bank, outraising their Republican counterparts and putting their campaigns in a strong position for November. According to the Wall Street Journal: "In the 53 most competitive House races, the Democratic candidates combined are …Read More »
Apr 15, 2014
No More Excuses: DCCC Sends 39 Republican Candidates A Copy of Their Republican Budget
After dodging reporters' questions about Washington Republicans' budget, Republican candidates across the country are running out of excuses to hide where they stand on their party's spending priorities. To help them make a decision, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent 39 Republican candidates in 24 districts a hard copy of the entire 102-page Republican budget. "Republicans running for Congress around the country are throwing out a lot of excuses about why they …Read More »
Apr 11, 2014
Three Things Millionaire Partydude Stewart Mills III Would Rather Discuss Than the Ryan Budget
It's no surprise that Millionaire Stewart Mills III won't talk about his support for Congressman Paul Ryan's budget. Mills says he's "personally offended" when millionaires like himself are asked to pay their fair share. Here are three things Mills has spoken to Minnesota reporters about, rather than his support for Congressman Paul Ryan's budget that would raise taxes on the middle class and cut taxes for millionaires like …Read More »
Apr 10, 2014
Web Ads Against House Republicans: Don't Drop the Ball on the Unemployed
After a bipartisan Senate vote on Monday, House Republicans are the barrier to more than 2 million hardworking Americans restarting their unemployment benefits while they look for work. Middle class families are being squeezed and left out in the cold by Republicans in Congress – and whatever Republicans says about helping people who are trying to find a good job, his actions tell …Read More »
Apr 08, 2014
Budget Vote Puts House and Senate Republicans in a Bind
Budget Vote Puts House and Senate Republicans in a Bind To: Interested Parties From: DCCC Communications and DSCC Communications Date: April 8, 2014 Re: Budget Vote Puts House and Senate Republicans in a Bind This week when House Republicans vote for Congressman Paul Ryan's latest budget, they will be handing Democrats the most effective electoral weapon of the 2014 election. This is a budget only the Koch brothers could love, and …Read More »
Apr 02, 2014
NEW PAID ADS: DCCC Launches First 'Battleground: Middle Class' Ad Against Republicans' Budget
As Republicans in Congress unveiled their destructive budget, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Steve Israel announced the DCCC is launching the first phase of a sweeping nationwide paid effort – "Battleground: Middle Class" – to communicate with voters in every competitive race that Republicans' new budget is selling out the middle class in favor of special interests and the ultra-wealthy. The "Battleground: Middle Class" project will reach voters through paid …Read More »
Apr 01, 2014
DCCC Debuts 'The SCANDALous Republican Budget'
With Republicans set to announce the fourth installment of their reckless Republican budget that hurts the middle class and seniors while protecting big tax breaks for special interests and the wealthy, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a preview of what to expect in the latest version of their scandalous budget. "One word comes to mind when you take a look at the latest version of the …Read More »
Mar 11, 2014
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel's Statement on FL-13 Special Election
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel released the following statement about Florida's 13th Congressional District special election. "I want to congratulate Alex Sink on a hard-fought campaign. Alex has spent her career fighting for Florida families and bringing people together to get results – and this campaign was no exception. Alex put this district in play despite Republicans spending $5 million against her, and she came closer to victory in a …Read More »
Mar 11, 2014
Siren to Women: Mike Huckabee to Host NRCC Lunch
National Republicans are doing their best to dig a deeper hole with women, inviting Mike Huckabee to headline their major fundraising lunch later this month. In his most recent high-profile public appearances, Huckabee made headlines for his offensive comments demeaning women, so it defies comprehension that the NRCC would put him front and center at one of their biggest events of the year. "Republicans …Read More »


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Passenger with Loaded Pistol at DFW – Using imaging technology, a .380 pistol loaded with seven rounds and one chambered was discovered in the pocket of a passenger at DFW. After resisting arrest, the Dallas/Fort Worth Department of Public Safety arrested him on a state charge.
23 Firearms Discovered This Week – 18 of those firearms were loaded and seven had rounds chambered. See a complete list and more photos at the bottom of this post.
Suspicious Image At PHL – An ominous image was discovered on the X-ray monitor at Philadelphia (PHL). It appeared to be a possible pipe bomb. While screening the bag, the passenger became upset and stated: "I can bring a bomb through here any day I want and you will never find it." The item ended up being a GPS watch inside a PVC pipe with two end caps. Philadelphia Police responded and arrested him on a state charge.
Items in the Strangest Places –It's important to check your bags prior to traveling. If a prohibited item is discovered in your bag, you could be cited and possibly arrested by local law enforcement. Here are a few examples from this week where prohibited items were found in strange places.
A knife concealed within an ink pen was discovered in a carry-on bag at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW).
A knife was discovered concealed in the lining of a carry-on bag at Columbus, Ohio (CMH).
Thirteen Batons – Thirteen 20" expandable batons were discovered in a carry-on bag at Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA).
Stun Guns –10 stun guns were discovered this week in carry-on bags around the nation: Three at Atlanta (ATL), two at Denver (DEN), two at San Francisco (SFO), and one each at Burbank (BUR), Detroit (DTW), and San Diego (SAN).
Unfortunately these sorts of occurrences are all too frequent which is why we talk about these finds. Sure, it's great to share the things that our officers are finding, but at the same time, each time we find a dangerous item, the throughput is slowed down and a passenger that likely had no ill intent ends up with a citation or in some cases is even arrested. The passenger can face a penalty as high as $7,500.00. This is a friendly reminder to please leave these items at home. Just because we find a prohibited item on an individual does not mean they had bad intentions, that's for the law enforcement officer to decide. In many cases, people simply forgot they had these items.
*In order to provide a timely weekly update, I compile my data from a preliminary report. The year-end numbers will vary slightly (increase) from what I report in the weekly updates. However, any monthly, midyear, or end-of-year numbers TSA provides on this blog or elsewhere will not be estimates.
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Lone Star Legal Aid (Belton Office)
Who We Are
Operating for more than 60 years, Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) is a non-profit law firm that now serves as the fourth largest legal aid organization of its type in the United States. The firm provides free civil legal help to low-income persons who have immediate needs but cannot afford an attorney. Headquartered in Houston, the organization operates another 12 branch offices and covers one-third of the state, including 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and also four counties of southwest Arkansas, and has an eligible client population of almost 1.5 million at 125% of federal poverty guidelines. LSLA is the only full-service civil legal aid provider in the region, and it offers advice/legal counsel, brief services, self-help clinics, community legal education, and referrals, as well as full representation in administrative hearings and county, state, and federal courts. Practice areas include domestic abuse, health care, housing, employment, income maintenance, unlawful trade practices, education, civil rights, and disaster relief. LSLA also manages special projects, such as food stamp outreach, language access, elder law clinics, and a legal help line. Cases are accepted on a priority basis, and current priorities include: (1) enhancing and protecting income/economic stability; (2) preserving housing and related needs; (3) improving child outcomes; (4) seeking and maintaining safety, stability, health and well-being; and (5) assisting populations with special vulnerability, such as those who have disabilities, or who are elder, homeless or have limited English language skills.
How to Get Help
You can contact this organization by:
- Contact Type
- Phone
- Phone Number
- 800-234-6606 or 254-939-5773
- Hours
- Monday
- 9:00 am-noon and 1:00-4:00 pm
- Tuesday
- 9:00 am-noon and 1:00-4:00 pm
- Wednesday
- 9:00 am-noon and 1:00-4:00 pm
- Thursday
- 9:00 am-noon and 1:00-4:00 pm
- Documents
Documents relevant to the legal matter
- Information
Mondays & Wednesdays: family law matters; Tuesdays & Thursdays: non-family law matters.
Walk-in appointments available for emergency matters.
- Contact Type
- Other
- Information
Domestic Violence Hotline, 888-674-4529, answered M-F, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Contact Type
- Walk-in
- Documents
Documents relevant to the legal matter
- Information
Phone applications encouraged; walk-in appointments for emergencies.
Who We Serve
- Area(s)
- Bell County
- Coryell County
- Hamilton County
- Lampasas County
- Milam County
- Language(s) Spoken
- Spanish / Español
- Cirumstances and languages in which interpreters are provided
Whenever needed.
- Income Guidelines
Household income must be 125% of the federal poverty level or below, however, with certain eligibility factors, we can go up to 200% of the federal poverty level.
Household income must be 125% of the federal poverty level or below, however, with certain eligibility factors, we can go up to 200% of the federal poverty level.
Generally, clients are not asked to advance fees for litigation; no fees for legal services.
- Your family's income should be at or below the following percentage of the federal poverty level
- 200
- Is this organization accessible by wheelchair?
- Yes
- Does this organization provide access for the hearing impaired?
- Yes
- Eligibility Restrictions
This program does not serve: Immigrant; Prisoner
Type of Help
- This group provides the following types of services based on your legal needs and its resources:
- Full Legal Representation
- Brief Advice
- Pro Se Legal Clinic
- Self-Help Materials
- Description of Services
Pro Se Clinics are coordinated through the Bell County District Clerk and required by the courts. Our attorneys staff it once a week on Tuesdays. Assistance is provided in post-filing; this is not a pre-filing clinic.
We prepare answers when not able to assist clients, provide brochures and forms, provide self-help in evictions and small claims.
- Emergency Instructions
What is an Emergency? An emergency legal matter is one where the person has been served with court papers; has a hearing scheduled; eviction set-out; utility cut-off; landlord lock-out; impending foreclosure; immediate termination from SSI, medicaid, or other governmental assistance without notice; domestic violence; abduction of child in some circumstances; and other situation considered on an individual basis.
800-234-6606 or 254-939-5773
General Contact Information
- Address
Lone Star Legal Aid (Belton Office)
512 South Main (map)Belton, TX 76513
- Phone
- 254-939-5773
- Toll Free
- 800-234-6606
- Fax
- 254-939-3767
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Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas
Who We Are
Get Help If you need help with a civil legal problem, you can Come to an evening legal clinic to get free legal advice from an attorney and apply for legal services through Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Click on Free Legal Advice for details. Find links to other legal and social service providers that have helpful information for your situation. Click on Helpful Links to find organizations that may be helpful. Please Note: VLS does not provide services for criminal matters. This website is intended for use by individuals living in Travis County, Texas or who have a case that could be litigated in Travis County, Texas. Forms and information may differ for individuals residing in different counties in Texas. This website is not intended for use by individuals who do not live in Texas because the laws may be different in another state.
Who We Serve
- Area(s)
- Travis County
- Language(s) Spoken
- Spanish / Español
- Cirumstances and languages in which interpreters are provided
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- Income Guidelines
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- Your family's income should be at or below the following percentage of the federal poverty level
- 125
- Is this organization accessible by wheelchair?
- Yes
- Does this organization provide access for the hearing impaired?
- Yes
- Eligibility Restrictions
This program does not serve: Prisoner; Community Groups
Type of Help
- This group provides the following types of services based on your legal needs and its resources:
- Full Legal Representation
- Brief Advice
- Pro Se Legal Clinic
- Self-Help Materials
- Emergency Instructions
What is an Emergency? only for cases currently waiting for placement with volunteer attorney
General Contact Information
- Address
Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas
816 Congress, Suite 701 (map)Austin, TX 78701
- Phone
- 512-476-5550
- Toll Free
- 800-707-5550
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Middle States Self-Study Review Visit
By Mary Beth Hanner, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
The Middle States reaccreditation site visit occurred on March 25 to 28, 2012. I am delighted to tell you that we are reaccredited until 2022! The report from the visiting team included 2 recommendations that we will need to address. They deal with the need to reduce the course loads of some of our full-time faculty program directors. The other recommendation was that the College review new capstone course data to ensure direct measures of student learning outcomes across all programs and to inform continuous improvement. I am pleased to tell you that both of these recommendations were listed in our own Self-Study as areas that we recognized as needing improvement. There were also 13 suggestions for improvement that are simply collegial suggestions that do not need to be acted upon unless we wish to do so. However, we will take all of our own suggestions for improvement, as well as the Middle States recommendations and suggestions, and examine every one to see how we can become better at serving our students.
Now for the really good news: I want to share some comments the visitors made about the College and, most especially, our faculty. The large conference room in which the report was presented was absolutely packed and when the report was read, the pride in the room was palpable.
- "The faculty are prepared and qualified. Overall quality ratings of instructional faculty are consistently above 5.5 on 7 point scales and typically at or above benchmarks."
- "Faculty are commended by students for the discipline-specific professional experiences they apply to instruction."
- "Stringent procedures for online course development, implementation, and evaluation ensure consistency in courses, currency, and rigor."
- "Enthusiastic instructional faculty members are committed to the College's mission of adult education and options for lifelong learning."
The team's summary was one of the best descriptions I have ever heard of this institution:
We have all been extremely impressed by what we have seen at Excelsior College. We applaud the pride that you show in your institution. You have created a culture here which is rare. You have a college which has an open access admissions policy, charges a low tuition, provides students with a high quality education, and operates with strong financials. You have a very dedicated faculty, administration, and staff, academically challenging programs, and satisfied students who truly feel that everyone at the college cares about them.
You have outstanding leadership from the board and the president. We commend you on the outstanding institution that you have fostered. We have all come to see that it is truly a special place. We congratulate you on 40 years of success.
Thanks to all of you – our students, faculty, and staff – for your critical contributions to this institution and for helping to shape the Middle States visitors view of our college. We do have a culture at Excelsior which is a "rare" one, and you all contribute to our wonderful academic community.
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Follow these 5 tips for buying used cars
Before buying a used car, do your homework
For those who are not automobile experts, buying a used car can be a nerve-racking experience. Knowing what questions to ask and what avenues to investigate can be difficult.
Very few people actually enjoy the process of buying a car. Sure, we all like to have shiny, new-to-us rides to show off to our friends and family, but the actual act of walking the car lots and dealing with the stereotypical cheesy car salesman is another story all together.
In fact, more than one poll asking people to rank their least favorite place to visit has seen the car dealership land a top-three spot, usually with the dentist and a lawyer's office also in the mix.
But fear no more. Ashby Carter, general manager of seven Car X auto shops in the Minneapolis, Minn., area, said there are several things an auto novice can do to help ensure that a used car buyer is getting the best deal possible.
No. 5: Check models for common problems
Certain automobiles are known to have problems common to that particular make and model. This is where a trusted mechanic can be invaluable.
"(Buyers) can get information best by picking up the phone and talking with a mechanic and saying, 'I am looking at a Ford Focus-- what do you think about the Ford Focus?' and he can tell the buyer what the common things to look for," Carter said.
Also, knowing how new a certain model is can help a buyer avoid a car with common mechanical problems.
"If you are looking at a car that is the first model year of that vehicle, I don't buy those because the manufacturers don't have the bugs worked out of them," Carter said. "It is more likely just to have some inherent unusual engineering issues. I'm looking for second- or third-year models on the vehicle just to work out the things in the manufacturing process."
No. 4: Compare prices online
With so many websites selling used cars, it is much easier now than in the past for a buyer to get a good idea of what the market value is for a certain used car with a certain amount of miles on it.
There is the Kelly Blue Book website plus AutoTrader.com, Carsoup.com, craigslist.com, and many other websites that can help a buyer get a good idea of what a certain automobile should sell for.
Lisa Cafferty of St. Paul, Minn., said she failed to check car prices and overpaid for her Volkswagen Jetta.
"After I bought my Jetta, I went on several websites just to see what they were going for -- I saw similar cars with fewer miles on them -- for almost $1,000 less than I paid at the dealer," Cafferty said.
No. 3: Investigate the vehicle's history
Websites like Carfax.com can help a buyer find out the vehicle's history of accidents by entering the vehicle's identification number.
If there is no history available, look for evidence that the car has been in a major accident, and always look at the car in the daylight, not at night. Check out the chrome trim and windshield areas for signs of overspray from a recent paint job. Also, look for chrome parts that don't match. If the chrome on the front is all brand new, but rusted in the back, that can be an indicator it has been in a wreck.
A vehicle that has been in a major accident can cause problems if the frame was bent and not properly straightened.
"You take a car that's been in a bad accident, and it's had to have been put on a frame straightener, it takes a very good body man to get that vehicle square again, with the frame straight and the car going down the toad straight," said Carter.
No. 2: Ask a trusted mechanic
Before you buy a used car, be sure to first have a mechanic check out the vehicle and give his or her opinion on its reliability.
"You're looking for a willingness for (the seller) to let you take an extended test drive, with or without them, and a willingness to have an independent expert take a look at the vehicle. We do a fair number of car inspections for folks," Carter said.
Carter also said a novice should already have found a trusted mechanic before looking at automobiles.
"A mechanic ought to be like a doctor," Carter said. "I go to this doctor because I trust him. I go to this mechanic because I like him, and he may not always be the cheapest guy in town, but I know he always does good work and he always stands by his work."
No. 1: Check for odometer tampering
The No. 1 thing to look out for is evidence that the odometer has been tampered with to make the car appear that it has less miles on the road, Carter said.
"You're going to want to match tires to mileage," Carter said. "If you've got an odometer that says the vehicle's got 30,000 miles on it, then you should probably still have the original set of tires on that vehicle. If you don't have, then you might want to question whether the mileage on the vehicle is accurate."
Checking out the brake pedals and the rest of the interior can help determine if the car has more miles on it that advertised.
"If you've got an odometer that reads 40 or 50 thousand miles, but you see huge wear marks on a brake pedal or accelerator pedal, that's an indication that the mileage on the odometer is not accurate."
Carter said odometer tampering is less common these days, but that it is still happens more than people would think.
"You hear reports that 10 percent of the cars sold have had odometers tampered with," Carter said. "It's not as easy to do these days because you've got electronic odometers as opposed to mechanical. But those are sort of the numbers that have floated around the industry for a long time."
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After reading comments around the web this morning, I noticed some comments stating that walk through metal detectors would have found this pistol and that they're far less expensive than body scanners. While that's a true statement, the walk through metal detectors cannot detect non metallic items like explosives, which are the greatest threat to aviation today. Body scanners are far more versatile and can find both metallic and non metallic concealed dangerous items. Hundreds of dangerous, prohibited, and illegal items have been found with the scanners since January 2010.
You can travel with your firearms in checked baggage, but they must first be declared to the airline. You can go here for more details on how to properly travel with your firearms.
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