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The Pistons were able to get back into the game in the third quarter behind a huge game from big man Greg Monroe. Monroe finished with 28 points and 14 boards in one of his best games this season. This was the type of game everyone knows Monroe is capable of, we just haven't seen it consistently enough from the third year pro from Georgetown.
Detroit was finally able to seize control of the game in the fourth quarter behind a 12-0 run keyed by Josh Smith. Smith put in eight of the 12 points during the run including a 3-pointer and a three point play. Both plays were massive energy boosts for the Pistons and got the building back into the game. Smith was certainly the determining factor during a tight fourth quarter. He scored 15 of his 26 during clutch time to lead the Pistons to a much needed 116-111 victory.
Milwaukee got good minutes from their starters as they all had at least 12 points led by Brandon Knight with 25. Giannis "The Greek Freak" Antetokounmpo also chipped in 14 points in 30 minutes off the bench. The rookie shot 4-6 from the field including a perfect 2-2 from the 3-point line.
The Pistons were able to score at will against a bad Bucks defense, but once again struggled on the defensive end of the floor giving up 111 points. The best teams in the NBA play defense, and this Pistons team simply doesn't. The talent is there, the length is there, but many nights their defensive intensity is left in the locker room. This is something the Pistons are going to need to fix if they are going to compete on a consistent basis in today's NBA.
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Our Torah tradition seems to present us with two kinds of enemies—those who are "other" like Amalek and the Philistines, attacking Israel and threatening its survival from without; and those who transform from "us," to "other" as their words and actions threaten to unravel the very spiritual and moral fabric of the community from within. In this week's parashah we witness the painful and disturbing swiftness with which the unity of the Israelite people can shatter, swiftly reconfigured to "us" and "them," when Korakh, a community leader of impeccable lineage separates himself from the kahal, drawing other leaders of the community into a rebellion against the authority of Moses and Aaron. In the ensuing spiritual showdown, orchestrated by Moses, the earth splits open, swallowing Korakh, the members of his household, and all their possessions, while 250 other leaders of the community who had stood with Korakh are consumed by G~d's fire as they offer incense. When the people protest, G~d's fury is unleashed upon them in a plague. One classic interpretation of this troubling story is expressed in a passage from the Mishnah (Avot 5:17): "Controversy for the sake of heaven (makhloket she'hi l'shem shamayim) will in the end yield fruitful results, while that which is not for the sake of heaven will not. An example of controversy for the sake of heaven: that of Hillel and Shamai. An example of controversy not for the sake of heaven: that of Korakh." The sages imply something very profound here: the disastrous result of Korakh's mutiny stems not from the relative merit of his complaint, but from the way he conducts the dispute. For is there not, after all, truth in Korakh's claim, that we are all One before G~d, all holy? Had not the mishkan been built so that G~d's Presence could manifest within each one of the Israelites and in the midst of the community, as well as through its prophetic and priestly leaders? Contemporary Biblical scholar Avivah Zornberg invokes Levinas' image of "the voice from another shore" to further unpack Korakh's failure. In her analysis, Moses, heavily invested in speaking, tries until the last moment to engage Korakh in an interaction that might have a chance of restoring the integrity of the kahal. But after making the initial accusation, Korakh remains silent, unwilling to engage with the "voice from another shore" that irritates and annoys him, unwilling to enliven the space between Moses and himself because, the Midrash suggests, he is afraid of being won over. A controversy for heaven's sake, as my colleague Rabbi Shelly Lewis wrote last week, "assumes a bond of trust and affection between the interlocutors. It also assumes a willingness to listen, to learn, and to accept the perspective of another if it proves to be the best. The sides seek the best, the most wise solution." Refusing to engage, to take even a single step into the gap that separates him from Moses and Aaron, Korakh generates an irreparable crack in the community, one that is mirrored by the crack in the earth that opens under the him, swallowing all that he is and has. In his disengagement, his fear to let his challenge be challenged, he controverts the very truth he seeks to assert, invoking heaven in a way that, ultimately, is not for heaven's sake. These past ten days, following news of the situation currently unfolding off the shores of Gaza, I've read many passionate, conflicting interpretations and felt the painful, unsoothable tension of a seemingly intractable conflict once again escalating, both in the Middle East and within our own communities. I've been tempted to ask, as I imagine the community of Israelites in the wilderness, exhausted and traumatized, must also have been asking as they witnessed the confrontation between Korakh and Moses: who has the ear of heaven? who speaks with the voice of heaven? who can be trusted? But to ask these kinds of questions ultimately pulls me back from a terrifyingly shaky edge on which I need to stand—the place where I have to admit that I don't know what's going on. This is the groundless ground of true engagement, the Void between polarities from which, our mystics teach, all Creation was birthed. Korakh's name, which comes from the Hebrew root meaning "bald" or "absent," hints at his inability to stay present in the face of this very Void (Ayin) in which opposites dissolve and something new can emerge. And so he falls, leaving a hole in the heart of the world, depriving the community of the richness he might have offered in service of the Holy, if only all parties had been able to stay engaged, present, and vulnerable. I pray that we may somehow learn at last to rest together in the place of Ayin, with humility and love, inviting the Light that can shine only through the broken shards of our certainties, our self-righteousness, our most dearly held convictions.
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In 2258 he and his men made a business transaction with Ambassador Londo Mollari. The Ambassador received The Eye, an ancient Centauri artifact, in exchange for a large sum of money payed for by the Centauri government. When questioned about the means by which Reno and his men found The Eye, Reno told Londo that he wouldn't want to know. [1]


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lucky napoles, out in two years?
i usually give fearless forecasts by astrologers and other fortunetellers a wide berth at this time of year, i.e., i am never critical — some of these psychics are quite good — rather i'm just interested in gleaning whether or not their prognostications are consistent or not with each other. when consistent, across tarot, feng shui, chinese and western astrology readings, no matter if as vague as "trouble in the second half of the year," then in my mind it's worth noting…
but here i'm taking note, before i forget, of one reading by astrologer henry palacios a few days ago in atom araullo's ANC show Hiwaga, where after warning of possibly another, maybe even stronger, yolanda, and maybe a big earthquake maybe in september, and some huge problem na kakaharapin ng gobyerno, possibly corruption-related, he ends on a very definitely upbeat note on, of all things, of all people, janet napoles of PDAF-scam fame now under detention in a police camp in sta. rosa, laguna.
say ni palacios :
Matindi ang suwerte ni Napoles. Two years, she'll get out. Because hindi lang naman siya e. May follow-through yan, may effect di ba, kung hindi lang … dahil sa kanya biglang umikot lahat. So may purpose siya para sa bansa. Wag mo sasabihin na masama siyang tao, may purpose siya.
on facebook palacios assured a group of astrologers that his statements were based on napoles's birthchart. i wished that araullo had said so, and shown us the birthchart, and asked palacios to elaborate a little. after all, he's practically saying that napoles will be exonerated, and i can't imagine that happening, given COA's truckload of documentary evidence, and the testimonies of benhur luy et al, UNLESS she turns state witness and tells all.
and when palacios says, don't say she's a bad person, may purpose siya para sa bansa, what does he mean? that napoles's motives for stealing PDAF funds were good, maybe a la robin hood? or does he mean that her purpose for nation is to be the instrument for uncovering corruption? again, that could only be true if she were to spill the beans and tell on the senators and congressmen who raked in millions and millions of pesos in kickbacks with her help. which would entail nothing less than a change of heart vis a vis her refusal to answer incriminating questions in the senate hearing pre-yolanda.
as for the matinding suwerte, napoles's birthchart, posted on the blog of astrologer col. romy solina, is indeed the birthchart of a very lucky and powerful native. we have no way of knowing, though, whether palacios' napoles chart uses the same birthtime. but even if not, even without a birthtime, the zodiacal positions of planets and other elements, and the angles they make to each other, are enough to indicate extraordinary potentials for power and prosperity, especially if, like marcos and reagan in their heydays, she was, is, getting advice from astrologers.
in two years she'll be free? in two years it's 2016, election year, which means she'll be wheeling and dealing with the next prez. can't wait to see how she plays her cards. maybe she could teach gloria, the other "lucky bitch," a trick or two.
7 Responses to lucky napoles, out in two years?
January 15, 2014 at 9:55 pm
kung gipit na gipit na talaga at alam na ni napoles na wala na siyang lulusutan at malaki ang tsansa na maco-convict siya ng non-bailable na plunder, aysus, kakanta na iyan at magsusumamo na gawin siyang state witness. lusot ang hitad.
That's one trick that Gloria can't learn, :).
January 15, 2014 at 9:58 pm
iyan ang sinasabi ng aking bolang crystal. at bihirang magmintis ang aking bolang crystal.
January 16, 2014 at 7:56 am
Lucky Napoles is personally visited by the Black Nazarene (c/o Msgr. Josefino "Pepe" Ramirez, well, the image, that is. That is according to Benhur Luy et al's affidavits.
Presently, Quiapo church has two pilgrim images of the black Nazarene called Callejeros, one made by Estonactoc and the other carved by Maglaqui.
The Estonactoc carving was commissioned by a Msgr. Ignacio, I believe.
The Maglaqui creation was a donation from someone. Was it commissioned by Napoles that is why it is being brought personally to her home on occasions???
I guess, not only does Napoles is lucky, she is continually blessed by 'holy' men on account of her huge bankrolling of the church. (The bankrolling was used for church's activities even Bishop Tobias declared.)
January 17, 2014 at 11:44 pm
Naniniwala po ako sa "takda" o destiny. Kung mapa walang sala si Janet napoles sa hinaharap nyang kaso ng "pangdarambong" sa tulong ng mga "holy men" ng simbahan, ito ay isang masamang pangitain
sa ating laban sa corruption at tuluyang malugmuk ang ating bansa sa
"takdang" paglubog ng ating pampolitikang moralidad at isang kabihisnan (culture) walang kahalagang panlipunan. Ka unos unos ang kinabukasan ng ating henarasiyon tungo sa isang pamantayang naniniwalang taliwas sa kasabihang "crime does not pay".
January 16, 2014 at 5:58 pm
Quite possible, too many corrupt judges


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MORE THAN A SKELETONA Novel
By PAUL L. MAIER
Thomas NelsonCopyright © 2003 Paul L. Maier
All right reserved.
Chapter OneSome weeks earlier, Jonathan Weber was enjoying the morning drive to his office at Harvard. It was May Day in Massachusetts—though hardly a distress call, he mused, in one of his less successful attempts at humor. He was piloting a blue BMW Z4 convertible through balmy air along the Charles River; the car was the one big luxury he had allowed himself since his book Jesus of Nazareth became an international best-seller. But should a man holding the distinguished Reginald R. Dillon Professorship of Near Eastern Studies at Harvard University be sporting about in a transportation toy that better suited a pampered college undergrad? his Lutheran conscience inquired.
Ah, there it is, he reflected, the proper sense of guilt so befitting a Lutheran. No one celebrated divine grace and forgiveness better than Lutherans, but the celebration was always more exquisite when preceded by a decent dose of guilt. When an adoring coed remarked that the blue of his BMW perfectly matched his eyes and that he looked like a maturing Robert Redford, Jonathan Weber worried that he may innocently have flirted with her. Still, he had finally learned to talk back to his nagging conscience and enjoy more of life on its own terms.
That morning, the drive to Harvard from his home in suburban Weston had taken exactly a half hour—right on schedule. Crossing the Charles River, he headed northward on J. F. Kennedy Street, carefully maneuvering through the trademark traffic radiating out of Harvard Square. His Beamer was doubly safe, he knew, because of its superb German engineering and his own meticulous care while driving. Not the faintest scratch had marred its enameled surface since he took delivery. At Mount Auburn Street, for example, he gave no thought whatever to outrunning the light that had just flashed yellow, but braked defensively to a stop. And that may have been his undoing.
Brakes shrieked, and a shattering crash from behind hurled Jon into his cream leather seat, then whipped him forward in reaction. Fortunately, he was wearing a seat belt and was only stunned, not injured. The same could not be said of his Z4. The rear-ending had driven its tail end into a configuration not intended by the engineers in Munich.
Storming out of his car, Jon saw a lanky, red-faced lad climbing out of the gray PT Cruiser that had assaulted him. A woeful look of anguish twisted the young man's features—and, of course, his grille. Before any confrontation, Jon walked to the rear of the Cruiser to record its license number. It was then that he noticed a large white sticker with red lettering on the back end of the car just above its plastic bumper: Warning: in case of Rapture, this car will be left driverless!
"So," Jon snapped at the driver. "Apparently your car is driverless: have you just been raptured? And if so, what in blazes are you doing back here on earth?"
"I'm ... awfully sorry about this," the youth drawled. "I was looking over at the river—it's such a beautiful day—and I just ... couldn't stop in time."
After exchanging the usual insurance information, Jon tried a few pleasantries to calm the shaken fellow, obviously a university undergrad. He really wanted to ask him why anyone would buy such an ugly imitation retro as a PT Cruiser, but thought better of it. "That bumper sticker of yours," he said. "Do you really believe that bit about being raptured out of your driver's seat?"
"I sure do!" The lad brightened, adding, "I've read all the books in the Left Behind series, and I think that—"
"But they're fiction!"
"Yes, but they're based on fact—on what Christians believe will surely happen during these end times."
"Not this Christian!" Jon objected. "Here's my card. Why not come to my office sometime and we'll talk about it?"
"Love to," the young man replied, finally managing a sheepish smile. "Again, I'm awfully, awfully sorry about this!"
By the time he reached his office, not far from Harvard's immortal Yard, Jon was angry—less about his wounded BMW and more about how end-times mania had beset the minds even of university undergrads, or at least one poor driver among them. He was scheduled to have an interview with a journalist from Newsweek later that morning, during which he had every intention of being cool, dispassionate, and tolerant. Now he wondered if he could actually manage it.
At exactly ten-thirty there was a knock on his office door. There stood the tall, distinguished figure of Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek's veteran religion editor, who had come to Cambridge to interview Jon for a cover story on the end-times mania sweeping the nation. The two were well acquainted from previous interviews.
"You know the drill, Jon," said Woodward, while opening his attaché case, pulling out a tape recorder, and placing it on a small table between their chairs. "I'll let you see my copy before we publish. We hardly ever do that, but I make special exceptions in the case of persnickety professors!"
Jon chuckled. "Just be sure you translate my comments into English, Ken!"
"Always difficult in your case!"
"I'm sure! But why me? How do you think I can help your story?"
"Well, isn't that obvious? Aren't you The Man Who Saved Christianity by exposing that 'skeleton in God's closet' several years ago? The Christian world's been grateful to you ever since, so your input on our story should have rather strong impact."
Jon held up his hands to object. "I've never known you to exaggerate, Ken. Why start now? But let's unpack what you have so far."
Woodward cleared his throat and began. "Well, you can guess where we're going with our end-times feature, and I'm sure you know the stats: millions upon millions of copies sold in the Left Behind series and end-times fanaticism abounds."
Woodward paused for effect, then continued, "There hasn't been a flurry like this since Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth. That book, you'll recall, was the number one international bestseller throughout the 1970s—after the Bible itself.
"What we want from you, Jon, is a critique of the whole end-times thinking—fact and fiction. The authors of Left Behind based their series not only on their own nonfiction works on prophecy, but also on the writings of Hal Lindsey, John Walvoord, and other prophecy specialists."
"Okay, I'll have at it," Jon said. "But you may have to tone down what I say. You know I have an overactive tongue in an over-opinionated mouth."
"Don't worry. We'll run it by our lawyers."
Jon proceeded to summarize the popular claims of the prophecy enthusiasts as fairly as he could. At the start of their end-times scenario, so they taught, true believers would be physically taken up to heaven in a Rapture that would leave their non-Christian relatives and friends behind for a second chance at genuine faith. A seven-year period of Tribulation would follow, during which terrible things would afflict the new believers and unbelievers alike, many of them caused by an Antichrist figure at the summit of a one-world government with a single currency, who would lord it over subjects branded with "the mark." (Other prophecy specialists argued that the Rapture would take place in the middle of the seven-year Tribulation period or at its end.) Next, a final, horrendous battle at Armageddon would follow, and only then would Jesus return in His second coming, bringing on the Millennium—a thousand-year period of His reign—ending with the Final Judgment. The whole scenario would also be peopled with mysterious witnesses, beasts, demons, and apocalyptic figures mentioned in such biblical books as Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation.
"Christians agree on the Second Coming itself," Jon continued, "but they disagree on the rest of these claims. They're really based on overliteral interpretations of what's clearly symbolic material in the Bible. Much of that material published these days is also mistranslated, misunderstood, or misapplied by projection from the first century into the twenty-first. Just a second, Ken ... see if this helps."
Jon walked back to his desk, pulled out a large plastic card from the center drawer, and handed it to Woodward. "You really can't keep the prophecy claims straight without a scorecard." "The version on top—what's called dispensational premillennialism," Jon continued, "is the current rage, with most of the prophecy specialists teaching that chain of events. Those farther down, in my estimation, get more and more biblical until we come to amillennialism—nonmillennialism. This is arguably the traditional view of the church ever since its founding: the belief that 'the thousand years' is merely symbolic for the age of the success of Christianity. But take it literally? Why? A thousand years is just a drop in the bucket against the background of eternity!"
"Can you attach numbers to those views, Jon?" Woodward wondered. "How many Christians believe which scenario?"
Jon thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I can't give you exact figures, but the great majority of Christians across the world believe in the uncluttered version at the bottom: amillennialism."
"Really?" Woodward's face registered surprise.
"Roman Catholicism will have no part of millennialism, and that's a billion for openers, half of Christendom. Nor will Eastern Orthodoxy, another 350 million. Nor will Lutherans. Nor will Episcopalians or Reformed or Presbyterians. Nor will—"
"Okay, point taken. By the way, is it true that some prophecy specialists have actually changed their earlier predictions in later editions of their books after their forecasts failed?"
Jon nodded.
Woodward frowned for a moment, then asked, "Well, what's the antidote? Why don't you write a book blasting such shoddy tactics?"
"Already been done. There are a number of excellent books out that skewer the more bizarre claims on the basis of proper biblical evidence and sound scholarship."
"Such as ...?"
"Anthony Hoekema's The Bible and the Future, Gary DeMar's End Times Fiction, and Jerry Newcombe's Coming Again—But When? for openers. And, of course, the prophecy mania doesn't do too well in my book on Jesus."
"Has Christianity always had these alternative views about the end times?"
"Oh, anything but! Dave MacPherson's The Rapture Plot shows how dispensationalist Rapture theology is only a recent novelty when it comes to church history."
"Recent?" Ken pursued. "How recent?"
"A little Scottish girl named Margaret MacDonald claimed a revelation in 1830, and a traveling evangelist named J. N. Darby took it as his own and marketed it successfully to the nineteenth-century American church—to our detriment ever since, in my opinion. An American preacher, Cyrus Scofield, edited a Bible that amplified Darby's views—and many evangelicals have yet to pull out of this eschatological blind alley. I guess they figure the church had it all wrong during its first eighteen centuries!"
Both men chuckled. Then a lingering grin crossed Ken's face as he asked, "What about that southern evangelist with the big following, Dr. Mel Merton? You haven't mentioned him."
"Melvin Morris Merton!" Jon groaned. "Three Ms for the Master! He's the one who called me the Antichrist during the Rama crisis in Jerusalem! Merton Ministries has made a cottage industry out of the end times: syndicated TV, radio, books, journals, tapes."
"In Merton's latest book, he claims that you deny the Second Coming of Christ."
"No, just Merton's timetable for the same. That's a standard response from the prophecy crowd whenever you question their scenarios. Most of them begin with the dire things Jesus predicted on the Mount of Olives while overlooking Jerusalem and claim they will soon take place, probably in our generation. Wrong! They already took place when the Romans conquered Jerusalem. 'This generation will not pass away until all these things are accomplished,' said Jesus around A.D. 33. Jerusalem was indeed destroyed thirty-seven years later in the year 70. Perfect fulfillment! But the prophecy pack transfers most of this from the first to the twenty-first century! You have to interpret all biblical prophecy passages in their historical context, and not project them two thousand years later."
"All right," Woodward probed, "if the bad things Jesus prophesied took place when Jerusalem was destroyed, what about the good things He predicted for believers—salvation, a new heaven, and a new earth?"
"All of them, including the Rapture, are part of the general resurrection of the dead at the end of time when Jesus returns. The church has always had it right in the Creed: 'I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen!' There it is: pure, sublime, and simple ... no additional clutter necessary from overactive imaginations in the last two centuries."
"What about Merton's prediction that the Rapture will take place on New Year's Day three years from now, and that Jesus will return exactly seven years after that?"
"Not worthy of comment. They had false prophets in biblical times, and we have false prophets today. Someone has counted 1,338 predictions of Jesus' 'imminent return' across church history, all of them wrong, obviously. Remember, it was Jesus who said, 'Of that day and of that hour no one knows: not the Son—not modern doomsday prophets—but the Father.'"
"One of those phrases I don't recall from the Gospels," said Woodward, with a wink. "So, would 'false prophet' be a good label for Merton?"
"Of course! But if you quote me, better make that my opinion, not my statement of fact. Otherwise Merton may sue my pants off. He once called me 'the Apostle of Arrogance'—though he could well be right about that!"
Woodward chuckled and said, "Well, Jon, I certainly have enough material here. Any final thoughts?"
"Just this: ordinarily, I'm very tolerant of differing biblical interpretations among genuine scholars, but not in the case of a pseudoprophet like Merton. His kind hurt Christianity—in several ways. First, people get so hung up on apocalyptic predictions that they panic and prepare for the end when there is no end. Remember the lunacy that took place toward the close of 1999? Even some respectable Christian leaders warned believers about 'the great Y2K menace,' advising them to store up survival supplies. And in the Ruby Ridge tragedy in Idaho, a lot of alarmist prophecy literature was found inside the home of Vicki and Randy Weaver after the FBI raid—"
"Which may explain their doomsday outlook," Woodward commented, while scribbling on his notepad.
"Okay, that's one couple," Jon resumed. "But how about whole movements, like the 'Israel First Millennialists' who are totally pro-Israel and anti-Arab, even though most Christians in the Holy Land are Arab? They want to see a new Jewish temple built in Jerusalem so that the Antichrist can sit inside it. This will supposedly bring on the last days and Jesus' triumphant return. As though poor Jesus needs us to help Him along!"
"Fair enough. Other reasons?"
"Secondly, what happens when prophecy believers see such prophecies fail? Some become disillusioned and abandon the faith entirely, all for the wrong reasons. Thirdly, the heart of Christianity—the gospel of Jesus Christ—gets displaced in favor of amateurish forecasting of the future. And finally, most of these wrongheaded prophecies are an insult to our intelligence. What thinking person can believe in a god who gleefully watches airliners crash because he has raptured Christian pilots out of their cockpits? Or credit a scenario in which Russia attacks Israel, yet its bombs explode harmlessly? Or believe that the United Nations headquarters will be transferred from New York City to Babylon, the archaeological ruin in Iraq? Or find millions destroyed by demonic—"
"All right, all right!" Woodward held up his hands. "I didn't write that stuff!"
"Sorry, Ken! I got carried away." Jon chuckled. "I'll stop preaching to the choir!"
Woodward smiled, put down his notepad, and said, "By the way, can you think of anything positive to say about the prophecy crowd? Just to balance the record?"
"Sure," Jon said, nodding. "I believe they're all genuine Christians, after all. And people like Lindsey, LaHaye, and Jenkins have more than proved that Christian authors are no longer limited to some evangelical ghetto, as used to be the case ... not when their books reach the number one spot on secular best-seller lists!"
"True enough. Well, I think that's a wrap, Jon."
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Le 08/11/2012 02:03, Phil Steitz a écrit : > IIUC, Cocoon (and others?) also need this, so it makes sense for it > to be a component on its own and - assuming it stays small - in > Commons. I have not looked carefully at the code, but it does not > look so much like "a crawler" to me as a framework for managing > things like crawlers. I think it would be better for the project to find a home where the other developers have an expertise in the same domain. Commons is the perfect home for components that are not related to the main concern of many other projects (logging, configuration, pooling...). But in this case there is a project, Nutch, whose core functionality is exactly the goal of the component. That why I think this solution should be preferred. Cocoon could then have a dependency on a nutch-crawling component. Emmanuel Bourg
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Friday, December 28. 2007
Stored Procedures in PostgreSQLPrinter Friendly
Recommended Books: Fundamentals of Database Design
Question: Does PostgreSQL support stored procedures?
Short Answer: Sort Of as Stored functions.
Longer Answer:
For all intents and purposes, PostgreSQL has less of a need for CREATE PROCEDURE than other databases aside from looking more like other databases. For example in SQL Server -> 2005 - although you can write functions that return tables and so forth, you have to resort to writing CLR functions marked as unsafe to actually update data in a stored function. This gets pretty messy and has its own limitations so you have no choice but to use a stored procedures, which can not be called from within an SQL query. In MySQL 5.1 the abilities of functions are even more limiting - they can't even return a dataset. In PostgreSQL, you can write a function marked as VOLATILE that updates data and that can do all sorts of wacky things that are useful but considered by some to be perverse such as the following:
Another thing stored procedures can usually do that functions can not is to return multiple result sets. PostgreSQL can simulate such behavior by creating a function that returns a set of refcursors. See this .NET example Getting full results in a DataSet object: Using refcursors way down the page, that demonstrates creating a postgresql function that returns a set of refcursors to return multiple result sets using the Npgsql driver.
Prior to PostgreSQL 8.1, people could yell and scream, but PostgreSQL doesn't support Output Parameters. As weird as it is for a function to support such a thing, PostgreSQL 8.1+ do support output parameters and ODBC drivers and such can even use the standard CALL interface to grab those values.
At a glance it appears that PostgreSQL functions do all that stored procedures do plus more. So the question is, is there any reason for PostgreSQL to support bonafide stored procedures aside from the obvious To be more compatible with other databases and not have to answer the philosophical question, But you really don't support stored procedures?.
There must be some efficiency benefits to declaring something as a store procedure and having it called in that way. Not quite sure if anyone has done benchmarks on that. So for the time being PostgreSQL functions have the uncanny role of having a beak like a duck and the flexibility of a beaver, but having the makeup of a Platypus.
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Thursday, December 27. 2007
CrossTab Queries in PostgreSQL using tablefunc contribPrinter Friendly
Recommended Books: PostgreSQL 8.4 Internals and Appendixes (contribs) SQL Queries for Mere Mortals SQL Visual Quick Start
The generic way of doing cross tabs (sometimes called PIVOT queries) in an ANSI-SQL database such as PostgreSQL is to use CASE statements which we have documented in the article What is a crosstab query and how do you create one using a relational database?.
In this particular issue, we will introduce creating crosstab queries using PostgreSQL tablefunc contrib.
Installing Tablefunc
Tablefunc is a contrib that comes packaged with all PostgreSQL installations - we believe from versions 7.4.1 up (possibly earlier). We will be assuming the one that comes with 8.2 for this exercise. Note in prior versions, tablefunc was not documented in the standard postgresql docs, but the new 8.3 seems to have it documented at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/tablefunc.html.
Often when you create crosstab queries, you do it in conjunction with GROUP BY and so forth. While the astute reader may conclude this from the docs, none of the examples in the docs specifically demonstrate that and the more useful example of crosstab(source_sql,category_sql) is left till the end of the documentation.
To install tablefunc simply open up the share\contrib\tablefunc.sql in pgadmin and run the sql file. Keep in mind that the functions are installed by default in the public schema.
If you want to install in a different schema - change the first line that reads
Alternatively you can use psql to install tablefunc using something like the following command:
We will be covering the following functions
There are a couple of key points to keep in mind which apply to both crosstab functions.
Setting up our test data
For our test data, we will be using our familiar inventory, inventory flow example. Code to generate structure and test data is shown below.
Using crosstab(source_sql, category_sql)
For this example we want to show the monthly usage of each inventory item for the year 2007 regardless of project. The crosstab we wish to achieve would have columns as follows: item_name, jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, dec
--Resulting crosstab query
--Note: For this we don't need the order by month since the order of the columns is determined by the category_sql row order
The output of the above crosstab looks as follows:
Using crosstab(source_sql)
crosstab(source_sql) is much trickier to understand and use than the crosstab(source_sql, category_sql) variant, but in certain situations and certain cases is faster and just as effective. The reason why is that crosstab(source_sql) is not guaranteed to put same named buckets in the same columns especially for sparsely populated data. For example - lets say you have data for CSCL for Jan Mar Apr and data for Phenol for Apr. Then Phenols Apr bucket will be in the same column as CSCL Jan's bucket. This in most cases is not terribly useful and is confusing.
To skirt around this inconvenience one can write an SQL statement that guarantees you have a row for each permutation of Item, Month by doing a cross join. Below is the above written so item month usage fall in the appropriate buckets.
In actuality the above query if you have an index on action_date is probably more efficient for larger datasets than the crosstab(source, category) example since it utilizes a date range condition for each month match.
There are a couple of situations that come to mind where the standard behavior of crosstab of not putting like items in same column is useful. One example is when its not necessary to distiguish bucket names, but order of cell buckets is important such as when doing column rank reports. For example if you wanted to know for each item, which projects has it been used most in and you want the column order of projects to be based on highest usage. You would have simple labels like item_name, project_rank_1, project_rank_2, project_rank_3 and the actual project names would be displayed in project_rank_1, project_rank_2, project_rank_3 columns.
Output of the above looks like:
Tricking crosstab to give you more than one row header column
Recall we said that crosstab requires exactly 3 columns output in the sql source statement. No more and No less. So what do you do when you want your month crosstab by Item, Project, and months columns. One approach is to stuff more than one Item in the item slot by either using a delimeter or using an Array. We shall show the array approach below.
Result of the above looks as follows:
Building your own custom crosstab function
If month tabulations are something you do often, you will quickly become tired of writing out all the months. One way to get around this inconvenience - is to define a type and crosstab alias that returns the well-defined type something like below:
Then you can write the above query as
Adding a Total column to the crosstab query
Adding a total column to a crosstab query using crosstab function is a bit tricky. Recall we said the source sql should have exactly
3 columns (row header, bucket, bucketvalue). Well that wasn't entirely accurate. The crosstab(source_sql, category_sql) variant of the function
allows for a source that has columns row_header, extraneous columns, bucket, bucketvalue.
Don't get extraneous columns confused with row headers. They are not the same and if you try to use it as we did for creating multi row columns, you will
be leaving out data. For simplicity here is a fast rule to remember.
Resulting output of our cross tabulation with total column looks like this:
If per chance you wanted to have a total row as well you could do it with a union query in your source sql. Unfotunately PostgreSQL does not support windowing functions that would make the row total not require a union. We'll leave that one as an exercise to figure out.
Another not so obvious observation. You can define a type that say returns 20 bucket columns, but your actual crosstab need not return up to 20 buckets. It can return less and whatever buckets that are not specified will be left blank. With that in mind, you can create a generic type that returns generic names and then in your application code - set the heading based on the category source. Also if you have fewer buckets in your type definition than what is returned, the right most buckets are just left off. This allows you to do things like list the top 5 colors of a garment etc.
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Saturday, December 15. 2007
PostGIS for geospatial analysis and mappingPrinter Friendly
Recommended Books: PostGIS In Action PostgreSQL 8.4 Official The SQL Language PostgreSQL 8.4 Server Administration
In later issues we'll be covering other PostgreSQL contribs. We would like to start our first issue with introducing, PostGIS, one of our favorite PostgreSQL contribs. PostGIS spatially enables PostgreSQL in an OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant way. PostGIS was one reason we started using PostgreSQL way back in 2001 when Refractions released the first version of PostGIS with the objective of providing affordable basic OGC Compliant spatial functionality to rival the very expensive commercial offerings. There is perhaps nothing more powerful in the geospatial world than the succinct expressiveness of SQL married with spatial operators and functions. Together they allow you to manipulate and analyze space with a single sentence. For details on using Postgis and why you would want to, check out the following links
Just as PostgreSQL has grown over the years, so too has PostGIS and the whole FOSS4G ecosystem. PostGIS has benefited from both the FOSS4G and PostgreSQL growths. On the PostgreSQL, improvements such as improved GIST indexing, bitmap indexes etc and on the FOSS4G side dependency projects such as Geos and Proj4, and JTS, as well as more tools and applications being built on top of it.
In 2001 only UMN Mapserver was available to display PostGIS spatial data. As time has passed, UMN Mapserver has grown, and other Mapping software both Commercial and Open Source have come on board that can utilize PostGIS spatial data directly. On the FOSS side there are many, some being UMN Mapserver, GRASS, uDig, QGIS, GDAL/OGR, FeatureServer, GeoServer, SharpMap, ZigGIS for ArcGIS integration, and on the commercial side you have CadCorp SIS, Manifold, MapDotNet, Safe FME Data Interoperability and ETL tools.
In terms of spatial databases, PostGIS is the most capable open source spatial database extender. While MySQL does have some spatial capabilities, its spatial capabilities are extremely limited particularly in the selectivity of the spatial relational functions which are all MBR only, ability to create spatial indexes on non-MyISAM stores, and lack a lot of the OGC compliant functions such as Intersection, Buffering even in its 5.1 product. For details on this check the MySQL 5.1 docs - Spatial Extensions.
When compared with commercial spatial databases, PostGIS has most of the core functions you will see in the commercial databases such as Oracle Spatial, DB2 Spatial Blade, Informix Spatial Blade, has comparable speed, fewer deployment headaches, but lacks some of the advanced add-ons you will find, such as Oracle Spatial network topology model, Raster Support and Geodetic support. Often times the advanced spatial features are add-ons on top of the standard price of the database software.
Some will argue that for example Oracle provides Locator free of charge in their standard and XE versions, Oracle Locator has a limited set of spatial functions. Oracle's Locator is missing most of the core spatial analysis and geometric manipulation functions like centroid, buffering, intersection and spatial aggregate functions; granted it does sport geodetic functionality that PostGIS is currently lacking. To use those non-locator features requires Oracle Spatial and Oracle Enterprise which would cost upwards of $60,000 per processor. Many have heard of SQL Server 2008 coming out and the new spatial features it will sport which will be available in both the express and the full version. One feature that SQL Server 2008 will have that PostGIS currently lacks is Geodetic support (the round world model so to speak). Aside from that SQL Server 2008 has a glarying omission from a current GIS perspective - and that is the ability to transform from one spatial reference system to another directly in the database and is Windows bound so not an option for anyone who needs or is thinking of cross-platform or in a Unix environment. SQL Server 2008 will probably come closest to PostGIS in terms of price / functionality. The express versions of the commercial offerings have many limitations in terms of size of database and usually limited to one processor use. For any reasonably sized deployment in terms of database size, processor utilization, replication, or ISP/Service Provider/Integrator this is not adequate and for any reasonably large deployment that is not receiving manna from heaven, some of the commercial offerings like Oracle Spatial, are not cost-sensible.
Note that in near future versions PostGIS is planning to have geodetic support and does provide basic network topology support via the PgRouting project and there are plans to incorporate network topology as part of PostGIS.
There is a rise in the use of mapping and geospatial analysis in the world and it is moving out of its GIS comfort zone to mingle more with other IT Infrastructure, General Sciences, and Engineering. Mapping and the whole Geospatial industry is not just a tool for GIS specialists anymore. A lot of this rise is driven by the rise of mapping mashups - things like Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and Open data initiatives that are introducing new avenues of map sharing and spatial awareness. This new rise is what many refer to as NeoGeography. NeoGeography is still in its infancy; people are just getting over the excitement of seeing dots in their hometown, and are quickly moving into the next level - where more detailed questions are being asked about those dots and dots are no longer sufficient. We want to draw trails such as trail of hurricane destruction, avian bird flu, track our movement with GPS, draw boundaries and measure the densities of these based on some socio-ecological factor and we need to store all that user generated or tool generated information, and have all that transactional goodness, security and ability to query in an easy way that a relational database offers. This is the level where PostGIS and other spatial databases are most useful.
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Wednesday, December 05. 2007
How does CLUSTER ON improve index performancePrinter Friendly
CLUSTER Basics
One of the features in PostgreSQL designed to enhance index performance is the use of a clustered index. For people coming from MS SQL Server shops, this may look familiar to you and actually serves the same purpose, but is implemented differently and this implementation distinction is very important to understand and be aware of. In PostgreSQL 8.3 the preferred syntax of how you cluster has changed. For details check out 8.3 CLUSTER 8.2 CLUSTER 8.0 CLUSTER. A lot of what I'm going to say is somewhat of a regurgitation of the docs, but in slightly different words.
First in short - clustering on an index forces the physical ordering of the data to be the same as the index order of the index chosen. Since you can have only one physical order of a table, you can have only one clustered index per table and should carefully pick which index you will use to cluster on or if you even want to cluster. Unlike Microsoft SQL Server, clustering on an index in PostgreSQL does not maintain that order. You have to reapply the CLUSTER process to maintain the order. Clustering helps by reducing page seeks. Once an index search is done and found, pulling out the data on the same page is vastly faster since once you find the start point all successive data nearby is easy picking.
As a corrollary to the above, it doesn't help too much for non-range queries. E.g. if you have dummy ids for records and you are just doing single record select queries, clustering is fairly useless to you. It is only really useful if you are doing range queries like between date ranges or spatial ranges or queries where the neighboring data to an index match is likely to be pulled. For example if you have an order items table, then clustering on a compound index such as order_id,order_item_id may prove useful since neighboring data is something you likely want to pull for range and summations.
Now lets see how we create a clustered index and then talk about the pros and gotchas
Once a clustered index is created to force a recluster, you simply do this
To force a cluster on all tables that have clustered indexes, you do this
What is FillFactor and how does it affect clustering?
Again those coming from Microsoft SQL Server will recognize FILLFACTOR syntax. IBM Informix also has a FILLFACTOR syntax that serves the same purpose as the SQL Server and PostgreSQL ones. For more details here PostgreSQL docs: Create Index. FillFactor basically creates page gaps in an index page. So a Fill Factor of 80 means leave 20% of an index page empty for updates and inserts to the index so minimal reshuffering of existing data needs to happen as new records are added or indexed fields are updated in the system. This is incorporated into the index creation statement.
After an index is created on a table, this information is then used in several scenarios
Why should you care?
First for fairly static tables such as large lookup tables, that rarely change or when they change are bulk changes, there is little point in leaving blank space in pages. It takes up disk space and causes Postgres to scan thru useless air. In these cases - you basically want to set your FillFactor high to like 99.
Then there are issues of how data is inserted, if you have only one index and new data usually resides at the end of the index and the indexed field are rarely updated, again having a low fill factor is probably not terribly useful even if the data is updated often. You'll never be using that free space so why have it.
For fairly updated data that changes such that you are randomly adding 10% new data per week or so in middle of page, then a fill factor of say 90 is the general rule of thumb.
Cluster approach benefits and Gotchas
The approach PostgreSQL has taken to cluster means that unlike the SQL Server approach, there is no additional penalty during transactions of having a clustered index. It is simply used to physically order the data and all new data goes to the end of the table. In the SQL Server approach all non-clustered indexes are keyed by the clustered index, which means any change to a clustered field requires rebuilding of the index records for the other indexes and also any insert or update may require some amount of physical shuffling. There are also other consequences with how the planner uses this information that are too detailed to get into.
The Bad and the Ugly
The bad is that since there is no additional overhead aside from the usual index key creation during table inserts and updates, you need to schedule reclustering to maintain your fine order and the clustering causes a table lock. The annoying locking hopefully will be improved in later versions. Scheduling a cluster can be done with a Cron Job or the more OS agnostic PgAgent approach. In another issue, we'll cover how to use PgAgent for backup and other scheduling maintenance tasks such as this.
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How to create an index based on a functionPrinter Friendly
It is often handy to create indexes that are based on calculations of a function. One reason is that instead of storing the calculated value in the table along with the actual value, you save a bit on table scan speed since your row is thinner and also saves some disk space. It helps search speed if its a common function search.
Case in point, PostgreSQL is case sensitive so in order to do a simple search you will often resort to using upper or ILIKE. In those cases its useful to have an index on upper or lower cased text. Here is an example.
Here is another example taken from PostGIS land. Often times you provide your data in various transformation, but for space savings and row seek reasons, you want to only transform your data to the less used projections as needed. One way to do this is to create functional indexes on the commonly used transformations and create views or just write raw SQL that uses these alternative transformations.
So now when I do a select like this that lists all buildings within 100 meters of my NAD 83 MA Meter State Plane point of interest:
it will use indexes
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