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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 2731
LTTE launches its "final war" despite angry protests by Truce Monitors
H. L. D. Mahindapala
After sending Yashuhi Akashi, the special envoy of the Japanese government, empty handed from Killinochchi, and after Velupillai Prabhakaran's refusal to meet him, the Tamil Tigers yesterday opened fire on Sri Lankan naval vessels carrying troops and Truce Monitors. A flotilla of Tamil Tiger suicide boats attacked Sri Lankan Dvoras and "Pearl Cruiser", a ship ferrying 600 troops off the coast of Jaffna.
In a pitched naval battle Tigers lost 50 of its cadres and 17 sailors are reported missing, according to official sources. Tiger attack sank one Dvora. Another damaged Dvora limped home. Pearl Cruiser ferrying forces returned to base in Trincomalee. The whereabouts of the Truce Monitor on boat the Dvora that sank is not clear.
The Sri Lankan government retaliated by bombing Killinochchi, the stronghold of the LTTE for the first time. It hit the suburbs of Killinochci and the casualties are not known. It is reported that the Sri Lankan Kfir jets were targeting the Vanni airstrip. The jets also hit LTTE boats, sinking eight boats, according to official sources.
"This is war whichever way you look at it," said a leading military analyst. "LTTE escalation of violence has gone beyond the mere violations of the Ceasefire Agreement perhaps to its "final war". The war that he promised in his last annual speech has come at last. The one he was about to launch earlier was stopped by the Tsunami. Not even the Co-chairs have been successful in stopping Prabhakaran this time.
He has launched this war and he should be held responsible for the losses by the international community," he said.
Quoting the Truce Monitors the BBC said this morning that they are now reduced "to monitoring a war and not a ceasefire".
Analysts agree that the latest LTTE escalation of violence has gone beyond the low-intensity undeclared war into an unrestrained targeting of Sri Lankan forces which is tantamount to an all out war. If this intensified attack and counter attack goes on both sides will have to take heavy losses. Both sides will want to go to the talks with victories in the battle field to dictate terms at the talks.
But from the responses to the latest round of violence unleashed by the LTTE it is also clear that the LTTE has lost the last bits of international sympathy. The emerging consensus of opinion is that the LTTE is deliberately provoking the Sri Lankan forces, among other objectives, to gain the upper hand in the battle field.
The Truce Monitors has released a blunt attack on the LTTE in their latest press release. It said: "The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed gross violations of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) in recent days by moving at sea with the aim of provoking the Sri Lankan navy and now finally embarking on an offensive operation against the navy sinking one vessel and putting SLMM monitors in grave danger."
The Truce Monitors added: "The sea surrounding the Sri Lanka is a Government Controlled Area. This has been ruled so by the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in line with international law. Non-state actors cannot rule open sea waters or airspace. The LTTE has therefore no rights at sea."
Earlier the LTTE told the Truce Monitors not to board Sri Lankan naval vessels. LTTE is clashing head-on not only with the Sri Lankan government but also with the Truce Monitors and the international community.
However, Lt.Gen. Ulf Henricsson, the Head of Truce Monitors is due to meet with the LTTE leadership to discuss the latest crisis in Killinochchi today.
He is concerned about the threat to Truce Monitors and the future of the peace process.
LTTE is concerned about the firm stand taken by the Truce Monitors on a range of issues, starting from the refusal to obey LTTE orders not to board Sri Lankan naval vessels to declaring the surrounding the sea and air space as out of bounds to the Sea Tigers.
The Truce Monitors are facing the flak from the LTTE as never before. Henricsson is not likely to back down, according to informed sources. Demanding that the LTTE "immediately ceases all activities and operations at sea as they are a serious violation of the CFA" the Truce Monitors have expressed their anger at the threats made by the Tigers to their monitors on board Navy vessels". They said: The LTTE has made, what the SLMM feels are threats to our monitors warning them not to
participate in patrols in Navy vessels.
The SLMM takes these threats very seriously and would like to remind the LTTE of its responsibility as an equal partner to the Ceasefire Agreement to do everything in its power not to jeopardise the monitors' safety."
Truce Monitors emphasized that "This sort of reckless behaviour can only lead to a dangerous escalation resulting in growing hostilities and jeopardising any possibility for future peace
Neither the international community nor the general public - both in Sri Lanka and in the diaspora - believe that the LTTE has been genuine about pursuing peace through negotiations. The opinion poll of theâ€Asian Tribune†concluded yesterday with 83.23% saying that the LTTE is NOT genuine in achieving peace through negotiations.
Simultaneously, 75.99% agreed that the Sri Lankan government is genuine about achieving peace through negotiations.
Indian media too reported that Delhi had told Mangala Samaraweera, during his visit to the Indian capital last week, that the LTTE is not genuine about peace talks.
Besides, LTTE claymore mines and suicide bombers have spoken louder than words about its intentions, strategies and goals. Political analysts agree that the LTTE has been merely buying time at negotiations for its next offensive. Fronting up at the negotiations was merely a façade to cover up its preparations for its "final war".
Prabhakaran's ultimate political goal of being the "sole representative of a Tamil state" has confined him only to one methodology: violence.
It has been its strength and weakness. His commitment to a separate state, against all objections from the international and national communities, made peaceful negotiations a non-starter. He avoids negotiations fearing that he will be boxed in each time he goes in for talks. Dropping out of negotiations is the only way out for him to survive in Tamil politics. And the more he takes to violence the more he loses credibility and the sympathy.
Tamil Tiger violence had some acceptability initially. Now he has to rely on provoking the Sri Lankan government and the
south into retaliatory attacks to justify his violence. With President Mahinda Rajapakse refusing to bite the LTTE bait for a considerable time Prabhakaran was forced to escalate his violence. The latest round of violence is to provoke the war that he has been itching to have ever since he quit the talks with Ranil Wickremesinghe. His determination to start Eelam War IV was placed on record in his last annual speech he delivered on his birthday, November 27. He said that he was about to launch a war when the tsunami hit him. Political analysts agree that he is bent on kick-strating the war he postponed because of the tsunami.
The New York Times reported that April was the bloodiest month in which 191, most of them civilians were killed. The NYT added: "President Mahinda Rajapakse casts himself as a man ready to walk the road to peace, but equally prepared to face down his enemies in battle, as his country dives into open civil war.
"I'm not a warmonger," he said in his interview Tuesday evening in his heavily fortified residence. "I am ready for talks, I'm ready for peace. But we will also be ready to defend our country. This is not a weakness. Our patience is not weakness."
Detailing the current plight of the Tamils Douglas Devananda said: "We are on the brink of a major catastrophe which will affect the Tamil-speaking people on a scale never experienced before.
In recent times, there has been an escalation of guerrilla attacks against the security forces by the LTTE, with the deliberate intention of provoking a backlash from them against the innocent Tamils and creating civil commotion in the south, so that they could benefit from the spill over of events."
The international backlash against the LTTE has demolished LTTE's credibility as a geunine peace-maker committed to abandon violence. Furthermore, the earlier advantages it had in the eighties and nineties, mainly through almost a near monopoly of propaganda, has been eroded by a plethora of anti-LTTE Tamil websites exposing its fabrications.
Independent international NGOs like Amnesty International and Human rights Watch, highlighting the Tamil Tiger crimes against humanity and war crimes, have undermined its claim to be a liberation front. Dissident Tamils have exploded the myth that the LTTE is the "sole representative of the Tamils".
The banning by the international community has blasted the moral base on which it launched its violence in the seventies. So for how long can the LTTE go on defying the people yearning for peace and the international community maneuvering to restore peace in Sri Lanka? The results of the escalating violence are bound to define the future contours of the peace process.
Peace monitors' statement
Here is the full text of the statement by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) issued on 11 May 2006, shortly after the LTTE launched its attacks on the Sri Lankan Navy off the coast of Jaffna.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed gross violations of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) in recent days by moving at sea with the aim of provoking the Sri Lankan navy, and now finally embarking on an offensive operation against the navy sinking one vessel and putting SLMM monitors in grave danger.
The sea surrounding Sri Lanka is a Government Controlled Area.
This has been ruled so by the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in line with international law.
Non-state actors cannot rule open sea waters or airspace. The LTTE has, therefore, no rights at sea.
The LTTE has made what the SLMM feels are threats to our monitors, warning them not to participate in patrols in Navy vessels.
The SLMM takes these threats very seriously and would like to remind the LTTE of its responsibility as an equal partner to the Ceasefire Agreement to do everything in its power not to jeopardise the monitors' safety.
We therefore demand that the LTTE immediately ceases all activities and operations at sea, as they are a serious violation of the CFA.
This sort of reckless behaviour can only lead to a dangerous escalation resulting in growing hostilities and jeopardising any possibility for future peace talks.
We would also like to urge the Government of Sri Lanka not to be pushed by these provocative acts and to show as much restraint as possible.
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Newcastle United boss Rafa Benitez has hinted that January loan signing Kenedy could well provide competition to Paul Dummett and his left-back role when he wants his side to be more expansive in attack.
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Well, the day has finally come for my sweet little girl to start dance! I'm so excited for her, but I can't believe she is actually old enough for this! I swear I just gave birth to her yesterday. I know everyone tells you that once you have kids the time flies by, but nothing can prepare you for the true light speed you experience. Somehow those days become months and years so fast that...
it seems like one big blur. I know I only have a three year old, but where did those 3 years go? It's bittersweet. I know I can't keep her little forever, but does it have to go so fast?
As we walked into to her first dance class today, I was a little nervous. Will she like it? Will she make friends? Will it be everything she hoped it would be? It was quite humorous standing among the first time dance mommies all huddled around the one small window, just trying to catch a peek at our little girls. With each move I watched as she came alive with excitement. I couldn't help but smile. Whether this is the beginning of something she continues for years to come, or it's a one-time thing, all I want is for her to be happy.
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Sometimes I find myself questioning if I'm really savoring these moments the way I should. She won't always want to play with mommy or help mommy fold laundry. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, do I really stop and give her my undivided attention? One day in the near future that sweet little girl, the reason I became a mommy, will walk into her first day of school. No longer will we get to spend all day together. No longer will I be the biggest influence in her life. No longer can I shelter her from the cruelty of the world.
I can tell you, today for one hour she had my undivided attention. I couldn't take my eyes off of her. Every time she looked around to make sure I was still there, I just waved. Each twirl and smile reassured me that letting her take dance was the right decision. I'm so proud of my little ballerina! Each week I get to look forward to watching her just be happy. This is time well spent!
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Was this System Restore or Factory Restore (System Restore shouldn't have touched your own stuff)?
You could try Recuva (free) - it might find some of them:
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Which version of Windows; XP/Vista/Win7/Win8.
As Derek said, a Windows system restore wouldn't touch your files. A factory restore may have reformatted the drive or overwritten your data.
A slight glimmer of hope is if you have Vista, WIn7 or Win8, a Factory restore may have left the old copy of Windows on your hard drive.
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The first calculations for monitoring technical conditions in the high-voltage grid were done with punch cards 50 years ago. Calculations were performed on NTNU's mainframe computer and one calculation took a whole night.
"These days, the power industry can produce power and deliver it to customers with very little loss. Norway is a world leader in this area and much of this is due to innovative technology developed in Trondheim," says Borthen of Powel.
The electrical engineer's career began at the Norwegian Electric Power Research Institute, which later became SINTEF Energy, on 1 January 1969. But Karl Petter and his colleagues did not stay at SINTEF for the rest of their lives. The technology was so attractive to business that Borthen and his 37 colleagues formed the company Powel AS in 1996. The software company has grown from 37 employees in 1996 to 400 in 2019, with offices in eight countries and a sales turnover of half a billion kroner.
On 15 January, Powel celebrates Karl Petter and the company's symbolic 50 birthday.
"We have been in the driving seat in the technological development of the energy industry for over 50 years. We are proud of that," says Trond Straume, CEO of Powel, who is grateful that there are still people like Karl Petter in the company to maintain that continuity.
Karl Petter Borthen was honored with Norges Vels Honor for a long and faithful service, employed by the same employer for half a century.
"Without Karl Petter and his colleagues, his expertise and development of software, Powel would never have existed. Since that time, we have contributed to a more secure, environmentally friendly and efficient energy sector in Norway, in the Nordic region and also a number of countries in Europe. Now that Karl Petter is retiring, his experience and knowledge will be continued in new and attractive solutions. This is a responsibility we take seriously," says Straume, who began his career at Powel in August 2018.
The new CEO sees many new challenges for the software house, which is headquartered in Trondheim and has clients in over 19 countries, mainly in the Nordic region and Europe.
"The aim is to continue to grow internationally and to be a leader in industrial IT and domain knowledge. We have 50 new and exciting years ahead of us," smiles Straume.


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Once this adware program enters your operating system, your web browser will almost instantly start functioning in an abnormal way. You will notice an unusual amount of third-party commercial ads and annoying pop-ups every time you browse the web. To provide you with such ads and pop-ups RotaryTurners implements a browser extension to major browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer. The malicious browser add-on is used to trigger connections to various adware servers that are the primary source of those unwanted ads and pop-ups. In some cases, ads and pop-ups could fill your browser to an extent that it could become virtually impossible to use. This is so because you might be forced to fight through tons of ads every single time you decide to browse the web. In fact, this activity will make browsing the web the way you are used to virtually impossible. In order to stop this activity permanently you will need to remove the malicious extension and RotaryTurners as a whole; otherwise the invasive activity will continue to bother you.
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One of the leaders of the Taliban movement, Mullah Qayum Zakir, has put forward a new plan that includes negotiations with the officials of Kabul and the United States.
Mullah Qayum Zakir is considered to be one of the supreme commanders of the organization. He issued a message in which he pointed out the need for a response to internal and external policy challenges. Among the 12 points of the document are an indication of negotiations with the West, the implementation of Sharia law, and the use of military strategy and coordination within the group.
In addition to the supporters of the negotiations within the Taliban, there is a wing that is not ready to negotiate. From the proposed strategy, they recognize only sharia. Zakir previously considered himself to be beyond the control of the main Taliban leader Mullah Mansour. However, about a month ago, Zakir said that he personally swore allegiance to Mullah Mansour.
It is likely that among the Taliban there is an attempt to reorganize and strengthen the organization, but it may take some time. Establishment of control is particularly difficult for grass-roots organisations, as well as a set of cells using the technique of "leaderless resistance" when tactical actions occur at the sole discretion of the Taliban on the ground. In addition, there are ethnic and tribal divisions within the Taliban.
The country is still hosting 10,000 US troops, as well as deployed NATO bases. The Taliban are at the war with them because after the occupation of the country in 2001, they were removed from power. After 15 years of war, thousands of Afghans have been killed, many of them civilian victims killed by drone strikes conducted by the US.
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Saturday was pink-ribbon day of the year for me. Imagine the bear sneaking out of his lair, close shaven, decently clad and discreetly XS'ed, going by the river to wait for the green-yellow flagged express boat that would take him to distant Pakkret and a wedding celebration – not his, poor lonesome boorish bear these days with a love interest half a world away, but that of two erstwhile underlings who have belatedly seen the light of impending doom and decided to yoke up and make sparks fly.
There were plenty of orange flagged express boats as I waited at the Pinklao bridge landing, but no sign of a green-yellow one – the PAD must have shamed them out of service –, so eventually I jumped onto one of the orange flagged ones, knowing it would take me to the Nonthaburi pier, one stop short of Pakkret, and then I'd take a taxi and arrive on time: it was 5:10, the boat trip upstream would take less than 40 minutes, the party was due to convene by 5:30 but the fun wouldn't start for another hour or so if I knew anything of the local scene.
In Nonthaburi, stubbing out a half-smoked cigarette, I hopped into a taxi.
Wrong choice of a driver.
The young man hadn't a clue where Suan Thip was but didn't let on. The map that came with the invitation was close to illegible except with the magnifying lens I hadn't brought along. Anyway, the restaurant by the river was close to the Rama IV bridge, this much could be ascertained, so the taxi kindly took me on a sightseeing trip to three bridges in the vicinity separated by lengthy chunks of chock-a-block roads until we found the right lane – altogether, over the next hour, a fourteen kilometre trip, so said the meter, that should have taken four at most. The fellow didn't protest when I reduced his fare by a quarter.
Suan Thip is no mere restaurant by the river, but a small enclave at the end of a long winding lane through a vast estate which, I am told, is owned by the retiring daughter of dear old dictator Thanom Kittikachorn, RIP.
Hello Nick! Hello Mem!
'Khun Marcel, you haven't changed a bit!' 'No, why should I? It's against my principles.'
Mem, whom I always took the trouble to call Khun Uayphorn, was my very sprightly secretary when I was running Manager, the business fortnightly magazine that lasted all of thirteen exhausting months under my fussy care twenty years ago. Nick, son of famed anthropologist Charles Keyes, was one of my favourite reporters, as he had a way with words (see '(Pen)ultimate' elsewhere on this blog).
Well-permed Mem has matured into a very personable Thai woman, and goateed Nick turned twice as portly as his well-knit father, so that one almost wonders who's father to whose son.
Mem and Nick: theirs is a case of love at second sight.
In my days, it was known that they were an item, but their romance somehow petered out after a couple of rows – years, I mean. Nick went back to the States, Mem drifted into some other raison de vivre. And then almost two decades later, Nick and Mem found themselves again working in the same office here in Bangkok, as they still do. A common trip to Penang, we were to be told tonight, rekindled smothered ambers and, two years later, both of them well into their forties, here they are in all their finery, flushed and grinning as they welcome dozens of guests under a half-moon and no stars in the sky.
No stars in the sky but plenty of mosquitoes under and around the outlay of round tables laden with a modicum of cold food served with a miserly spoonful of rice by lackadaisical waiters, next to a gaudily decorated stage from where a succession of distinguished speakers will take turns making the predictable jokes and toasts before the multitier cake is duly mutilated and a songstress in a preposterously bouffant outfit belts out Thai protracted gargles that pass for songs and effectively kill any urbane conversation and it's time to leave. But then, in fairness, I've suffered worse.


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Chapter 14: The Ecstasy of the Lord and His Devotees
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Teachings of Lord Caitanya
Even the transcendental relationship experienced by a devotee of Näräyaëa in Vaikuëöha is incomplete in that it is not realization of a relationship with Kåñëa in Goloka Våndävana. The devotees of Kåñëa do not relish devotional service to Näräyaëa because devotional service to Kåñëa is so attractive that Kåñëa's devotees do not desire to worship any other form. Thus the gopés of Våndävana do not like to see Kåñëa as the husband of Rukmiëé, nor do they address Him as Rukmiëéramaëa. In Våndävana Kåñëa is addressed as Rädhäkrñëa, or Kåñëa, the property of Rädhäräëé. Although the husband of Rukmiëé and Rädhä's Kåñëa are on the same level in the ordinary sense, still, in the spiritual world, the names indicate different understandings of various aspects of Kåñëa's transcendental personality. If one equalizes Rukmiëéramaëa, Rädhäramaëa, Näräyaëa or any other name of the Supreme Lord, he commits the fault of overlapping tastes, which is technically called rasäbhäsa. Those who are expert devotees do not accept such amalgamations which are against the conclusions of pure devotional service.
Although Çré Kåñëa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, embodies all superexcellence and beauty, when He is amongst the damsels of Vraja, He is known as Gopéjanavallabha. The devotees cannot relish the beauty of the Supreme Lord more than the damsels of Vraja. In Çrémad-Bhägavatam (10.33.7) it is confirmed that although Kåñëa, the son of Devaké, is the last word in superexcellence and beauty, when He is amongst the gopés it appears that He is a sublime jewel set amongst divine golden craftsmanship. Although Lord Caitanya accepted this as the highest realization of the Supreme Lord as conjugal lover, He nonetheless requested Rämänanda Räya to proceed further.
Upon hearing this request, Rämänanda Räya remarked that this was the first time that he had been asked to go further than the gopés in an attempt to understand Kåñëa. There is certainly transcendental intimacy between the damsels of Vraja and Kåñëa, Rämänanda pointed out, but out of all the relationships, the relationship between Rädhäräëé and Kåñëa in conjugal love is the most perfect. No common man can understand the ecstasy of transcendental love between Rädhäräëé and Kåñëa, nor can he understand the transcendental flavor of the transcendental love between Kåñëa and the gopés. Yet if one tries to follow in the footsteps of the gopés, he may become situated in the highest stage of transcendental love. Thus one who wants to be elevated to the transcendental stage of perfection should follow in the footsteps of the damsels of Vraja as an assistant maidservant of the gopés.
Lord Caitanya exhibited the mode of Çrématé Rädhäräëé when She was contacted from Dvärakä by Çré Kåñëa. Such transcendental love is not possible for any common man; therefore one should not imitate the highest perfectional stage exhibited by Caitanya Mahäprabhu. If, however, one desires to be in that association, he may follow in the footsteps of the gopés. In the Padma Puräëa it is stated that just as Rädhäräëé is dear to Kåñëa, similarly the kuëòa known as Rädhäkuëòa is also very dear to Him. Rädhäräëé is the only gopé who is dearer to Kåñëa than all the other gopés. In Çrémad-Bhägavatam (10.30.28) it is also stated that Rädhäräëé and the gopés render the highest perfectional loving service to the Lord and that the Lord is so pleased with them that He does not wish to leave the company of Çrématé Rädhäräëé.
Spiritual sex is of two kinds: one in accordance with the constitutional position of the self and the other in accordance with the object. When one understands the truth about this life but is not completely cleansed of material contamination, he is not factually situated in the transcendental abode, Våndävana, although he may understand spiritual life. When, however, one becomes free from the sex urges of the material body, he can actually attain the supreme abode of Våndävana. When one is so situated, he can utter the käma-gäyatré and käma-béja mantra.
In His spiritual form, Kåñëa enjoys His spiritual energy, and that is the sum and substance of the Rädhä-Kåñëa pastimes. These pastimes can only be understood by elevated devotees. One should not try to understand the Rädhä-Kåñëa potencies and pastimes from the mundane platform. Generally people misunderstand these as being material.
When the pleasure potency is further condensed, it is called mahäbhäva. Çrématé Rädhäräëé, the eternal consort of Kåñëa, is the personification of that mahäbhäva. In this regard, in Ujjvala-nélamaëi (4.3) Rüpa Gosvämé states that there are two competitors in love with Kåñëa, Rädhäräëé and Candrävalé. When they are compared, it appears that Rädhäräëé is superior, for She possesses mahäbhäva-svarüpa. Mahäbhäva-svarüpa, the personification of mahäbhäva, is applicable to Rädhäräëé only. Mahäbhäva is full of the pleasure potency, and it is an exhibition of the highest love for Kåñëa. Rädhäräëé is therefore known throughout the world as the most beloved of Kåñëa, and Her name is always associated with Kåñëa as Rädhä-Kåñëa.


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Fabless Labs CEO Piyush Govil isn't the loudest voice in the room but is often the smartest when it comes to Big Data. His work with VinSpin, an app that provides a new way to choose wine, was written up last year in the Harvard Business Review as an example of bringing Big Data to the consumer and the smaller enterprise. WIth a background in mathematical optimization, predictive modeling and a host of other disciplines, few people bring a broader set of experience than he does.
More recently, Piyush has been busy building his company's size and expertise and providing consulting services to several of the well-known software companies looking to build out their Big Data offerings. As much as everyone wants to claim a slice of the much-talked-about Big Data pie, the reality is that many of the players (names you know well) are scrambling to catch up to the few giants like Yahoo, Google and Facebook that build their capabilities in house and the boutique consulting firms that are deep in data science skills and trying hard to scale quickly.
Piyush will tell you that the landscape resembles more the Wild West than any pastoral scene.
The dark corners of Big Data
Piyush knows Big Data's lesser-known secrets and is very pragmatic about how to approach the requirements, organizational, and operational challenges that having so much data brings. He is quick to share great insights into buying versus building and how and where to use open source. I caught up with him today to talk about his speaking role at Interop next week in New York.
If there's one thing that's becoming increasingly clear, it's that there's a fundamental choice every organization faces when considering how to gain value from Big Data. Most tools are targeted to developers and accessing data is harder than people expect. Development cycles are still longer than most organizations think. Data refreshes are critical but also take time and lastly, data is often not clean and ready to be factored. Each organization that I work with needs to decide for themselves how much they can bite off and how much they need to rely on partners to get over these hurdles that few are talking about but everyone is experiencing.
Come see Piyush speak on the Big Data ecosystem next week at Interop in New York City. He'll be available for discussions off the stage and has fantastic experience in Big Data solutions.


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commenting, and good luck in your trading! In our example the warrant is exercisable at 5, and in return you get one share of common stock. All warrants have a specified expiration date, which is the last day the rights of a warrant can be executed. A warrant can also increase a shareholder's confidence, provided the underlying value of the security increases over time. In this scenario we will make 75 on our short position in the common (75 shares.00) and we will lose 50 on our long warrant position (100 shares.50) for a profit. Stock / Warrant Movement in a Percentage Hedge Now that we have a position lets see what happens as the stock first moves up and then as it moves down.
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Trading the Percentage Hedge As the stock moves from 10 to 11 and the warrant from 6.50 the premium is shrinking. The longer the period of time until expiration the higher the premium. If the stock cannot be shorted, a second option is to trade against your warrants using options (pun intended). Let's examine the types of warrants, their characteristics and advantages and disadvantages they bring to your portfolio. Typically, the share price will be low if the conversion ratio is high, and vice versa. Both warrants and options offer additional leverage over purchasing a stock outright. Assuming we make no further trades (well get to trading around the position in just a moment) if the stock moves from 10 to 11 we will lose 1 on 75 shares we are short,. In addition to speculative opportunities, warrants also provide hedging benefits. The biggest difference between the two is that the option is sold by the market - often the forex - whereas a warrant by the issuing company itself, usually a financial institution, but sometimes the corporate issuer of the stock.


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Eun-jung Ha is a rough yet passionate detective; a reticent yet thoughtful son. His father was once a detective, but after the incident of 1988, he quit his job and stuck to life on construction sites. Eun-jung became an officer of the law to understand his father and find out the truth. He meets Ah-mi Woo and gets swept up in a scandal that turns his world upside down. He finds out that his father is actually the man who kidnapped him. And amidst this revelation, he begins to learn true love.
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TaeHa Jang takes over his father-in-law's assets and his company after he passes away. Meanwhile Detective Myongeun Ha tries to control the demolition protest.
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Taeha tries to cover up his faulty construction by bombing it before it collapses. The building was supposed to be evacuated but Myongeun's son is still inside.
S01:E03 - Season 1, Episode 3
Eunjoong's parents are giving their best effort to find the kidnapper and their son. Detective Myongeun decides to resign from the police station.
S01:E04 - Season 1, Episode 4
3 years pass and Eunjoong is still with Myongeun. Hwayoung is about to leave Taeha's house for good to search for her son when she gets a call from an orphanage.
S01:E05 - Season 1, Episode 5
Sukbong is determined to prove that Eunjoong Jang is not Taeha's biological son. Myongeun decides to allow Eunjoong Ha to attend school.
S01:E06 - Season 1, Episode 6
Myongeun gives Kichan leverage to confront Taeha about his shoddy apartment construction. Myongeun runs into Hwayoung at the mental health clinic.
S01:E07 - Season 1, Episode 7
Detective Eunjoong Ha brings in Juha Jang to report her for the car accident. Taeha Jang is getting more impatient about retrieving the USB from Kichan.
S01:E08 - Season 1, Episode 8
Kichan's death is being ruled as a suicide, but something keeps Ami and Eunjoong Ha from believing so. Jupil finds out that Myongeun works at Taeha Constructions.
S01:E09 - Season 1, Episode 9
Myongeun tries to dissuade Eunjoong Ha from continuing his investigation on the murder of Kichan. Ami has a funeral service for Kichan.
S01:E10 - Season 1, Episode 10
Eunjoong Ha is transferred to another department for refusing to let go of Kichan's case. Eunjoong Jang finds out that Sooyoung is Eunjoong Ha's younger sister.
S01:E11 - Season 1, Episode 11
Eunjoong Jang goes to Sooyoung's home to get some answers from Myongeun. Eunjoong Ha discovers he is being watched by a private detective.
S01:E12 - Season 1, Episode 12
Eunjoong Ha continues his investigation of the cuff found in the fire. Myeongeun consults Hwayoung about the faulty construction going on at Taeha Constructions.
S01:E13 - Season 1, Episode 13
Eunjoong Ha introduces himself to Taeha Jang as Juha's boyfriend. Ami is adamant to clear her late-husband's innocence by any means necessary.
S01:E14 - Season 1, Episode 14
Eunjoong Ha loses consciousness after getting attacked in front of his home. Taeha gets in a fight with Hwayoung when she refuses to drop the case against Taeha Constructions.
S01:E15 - Season 1, Episode 15
Eunjoong Jang goes to Myongeun Ha for answers and records their conversation hoping for the truth. Taeha Jang hires a bodyguard for his wife to keep an eye on her.
S01:E16 - Season 1, Episode 16
Eunjoong Ha overhears a conversation between Myongeun and Jupil that he is not Myongeun's real son. Hwayoung and Eunjoong Jang stand on opposing sides of Taeha Construction's court case.
S01:E17 - Season 1, Episode 17
Eunjoong Ha makes an appointment to see Hwayoung to get concrete evidence for the case against Taeha. Eunjoong Jang decides that he will partake in his father's dirty work.
S01:E18 - Season 1, Episode 18
Eunjoong Jang plots a way to frame Eunjoong Ha as a corrupt detective. Taeha finds out that the man Hwayoung has been meeting at the hospital is Myongeun.
S01:E19 - Season 1, Episode 19
For Eunjoong Ha's sake, Attorney Yune decides to drop the case against Taeha Constructions. Eunjoong Ha discovers who Taeha killed in 1988.
S01:E20 - Season 1, Episode 20
Taeha overhears Eunjoong Ha's plans to arrest him and decides that he must get rid of him for good. Meanwhile Ju-ha gets more curious about who Ju-ran keeps referring to as "the fake".
S01:E21 - Season 1, Episode 21
After shooting Eunjoong Ha, Taeha Jang discovers he is his biological son. Juha confronts Hwayoung to confess her true intentions she had with Eunjoong Jang.
S01:E22 - Season 1, Episode 22
Ami tries to convince Eunjoong Ha to go back home with her. In preparation to bring Eunjoong Ha back to his side, Taeha tells Eunjoong Jang to move out and to return his name to his real son.
S01:E23 - Season 1, Episode 23
Eunjoong Jang is suspicious of Eunjoong Ha's motives in living as Taeha's son. Eunjoong Ha looks for Hwayoung after he finds out that she's been drugged by Taeha.
S01:E24 - Season 1, Episode 24
Eunjoong Ha decides to take his rightful place as the true Eunjoong Jang. Taeha continues to force Hwayoung to take medication.
S01:E25 - Season 1, Episode 25
Taeha discovers that Hwayoung is in Myongeun's house and tries to take her back home. Eunjoong Jang is trying to adjust to his new life when he is visited by one of Taeha's henchmen.
S01:E26 - Season 1, Episode 26
Taeha doubts Eunjoong Ha's intentions and confronts him about it. Hwayoung asks Eunjoong Jang to be her divorce attorney.
S01:E27 - Season 1, Episode 27
Hwayoung teams up with Myongeun to take down Taeha through his shoddy construction sites. The adopted Eunjoong officially changes his name to Jaein Gu.
S01:E28 - Season 1, Episode 28
Myeongeun and Hwayoung hold a press conference about Taeha's shoddy construction, but are interrupted. Jaein, Juha, and Eunjoong are all trying to buy up Taeha Company's stocks.
S01:E29 - Season 1, Episode 29
Eunjoong meets with Mr. Song to discuss his participation as a witness against Taeha. Juha has had enough of her father's antics and decides to fight Eunjoong for the company.
S01:E30 - Season 1, Episode 30
Taeha is shocked when he finds out that Jaein is not only fighting against him in court, but has also taken the stocks that were meant for Eunjoong. Jaein looks into the mysterious hacker, "Batman".
S01:E31 - Season 1, Episode 31
Ami calls Eunjoong to stand as a witness in court. Using Poonggi as leverage, Jaein threatens Eunjoong to confess to the truth to their Father.
S01:E32 - Season 1, Episode 32
Jupil attempts to recut the brakes in Eunjoong's car after he fails the first time. The hacker, Batman, tries to tell Hwayoung something when they meet at Jaein's apartment.
S01:E33 - Season 1, Episode 33
Eunjoong covers for Mr. Khang for the car accident. Taeha invites Jaein back home and reinstates him as Eunjoong Jang.
S01:E34 - Season 1, Episode 34
Eunjoong tries to find where Joonghyuk took Sooyoung. Jaein outwardly takes Taeha's side after Hwayoung fires him as her lawyer.
S01:E35 - Season 1, Episode 35
Eunjoong finds out about the Four City Project. Taeha walks in on Eunjoong confessing to the murder crimes against his father.
S01:E36 - Season 1, Episode 36
Jaein visits Taeha in jail to receive his power of attorney in order to take over Taeha constructions. Myongeun and Eunjoong go for a hike together.
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Derrick Rose scrimmages with Bulls as familiar routine continues
CHICAGO – Good news isn't bad news when it comes to No. 1 and more came the way of the Bulls on Tuesday.
After doing some light scrimmaging over the past few days at practice Derrick Rose returned to the real deal on Tuesday at the Advocate Center. Head coach Tom Thibodeau confirmed that Rose participated in a full 5-on-5 scrimmage with the team, another step in his recovery from medial meniscus tear in his right knee.
"It's just steady progress," said Thibodeau of Rose, who has still not set a date for his return. "He's got to continue to build. He's got a long way to go and we have to focus in on what our team needs to do."
Which is do what they've been doing since the fall of 2012-wait for Rose to recover in a set of specific steps. It's become somewhat of a dreaded routine for the Bulls as their former MVP has struggled through a number of knee injuries.
"We've been through this a lot of years," said forward Taj Gibson of Rose's rehabilitation from injuries and the routines that go into it. "We're used to it."
Thibodeau is and he's sure his guard-who didn't speak on Tuesday-is a well.
"He's been through it," said Thibodeau of Rose. "He understands what he has to do. This isn't anything new. This is a third rehab for him, he's made it through two. So this one was minor compared to the other ones.
"So he's in a good place."
Maybe even a better one considering he'll return to the lineup much quicker than the previous injury. Unlike the 2012 playoffs tear which cost him the whole next season and the one in November of 2013 that cost him the majority of that season, Rose will only end up missing 4-to-6 weeks.
Rose has been in 46 games with the Bulls this season, averaging 18.4 points and five assists a contest. That's 36 games more than Rose played in the previous two seasons.
"The fact that he played a good chunk of the season is a plus," said Thibodeau. "In the previous years, he was out the whole year, he played ten games the one season. This year is different, he played in almost 50 games.
"So that's a plus. They have a good idea how they have to play off them, how he has to play off them. The challenge for all our players is to bring out the best in each other and not only themselves."
It's getting the opportunity that is most important when it comes to No. 1.