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Elba Montesdeoca, 82, pushes a lever on her toy elephant and it emits a mighty roar.
"It's a Canadian elephant," she says needlessly, pointing out the maple leaf sticker on the toy's head. Once a dark turquoise or green, its color has faded after so many years of pulling bingo duty. But its good luck has not.
She moves quickly through the rest of her lucky charm collection, introducing each one like a friend whose virtues are apparent.
"This is 15 years old," she says, holding one of the six troll-headed daubers spread before her. "The head is made in China. OxiClean's supposed to clean anything but that's bullshit. It doesn't clean this. And this is my frog (pill holder), for my pill, which I already took. Elephants are for luck, frogs are for money."
Several Buddha figurines and stuffed animals round out the menagerie that Montesdeoca is counting on to bring her a jackpot during $60,000 Bingo Extravaganza at the Gold Coast on a recent Tuesday.
Montesdeoca is the stereotypical bingo player: the little old lady with her good luck trinkets, superstitious attitude and a decades-old bingo habit that goes beyond a desire to win. She used to play daily until a health scare forced her to cut down to twice a week.
But one glance across the bingo room shows that players like her have become nearly the exception than the rule. For the past few years — some bingo experts say 10, others say three or four — bingo's draw has reached across generations, appealing to people as young as their 20s and as old as, well, Montesdeoca.
And that's no accident.
Once considered a loss leader, bingo has become a potential moneymaker to casinos. The game brings people into a property where they spend money not only on bingo games but on food, entertainment, slots and other gaming.
"Bingo is extremely important to the company," says Weldon Russell, director of ancillary gaming for Station Casinos. "The truth of it is, you know, if you bring 200 people to the property eight times a day, there's residual value there."
Recognizing that bingo needed a face-lift to attract a broader demographic and increase its popularity, local resorts came up with ways to satisfy the regular bingo crowd while appealing to a younger player.
Casinos have added more electronics to their bingo rooms and created a variety of games that offer larger payouts.
"What we've done recently is put some stuff in to interest the younger generation," Russell says.
Earlier this year, Station Casinos hosted million dollar bingo, a two-day event during which a total of $1 million was paid out. Gold Coast's Bingo Extravaganza also was spread out over two days with $30,000 given out on each day. Such events are popular, Gold Coast bingo manager Kathy Veltre says.
For this one, the casino had to double the number of seats and electronic bingo machines to accommodate more than 700 people. Players came from across the country, including Justin Pedrosa, 29, of Colorado. He joined a group of friends who come to town a few times a year just to play bingo. On the first day of the bingo event, Pedrosa won $500.
Winning tends to solidify your interest in bingo, he says.
Bingo used to pervade the Strip, with the Riviera, Sahara and other resorts featuring it prominently. During the 1990s and early 2000s, those bingo halls were replaced by nightclubs, gourmet restaurants and other attractions. The New Frontier, across from Wynn Las Vegas, was the last Strip hotel to host bingo. The hotel was imploded in 2007.
Some were quick to proclaim bingo a dying game that has lost its appeal, says Kerrie Burke, general manager of the Gold Coast. But it's probably the most stable form of gaming right now for locals casinos.
"Bingo has been popular but never more so than it is now," Veltre says. "Head counts aren't what they used to be but that's because there are so many bingo rooms."
When Veltre moved to Las Vegas in 1990, the valley had five bingo halls. Now, there are 28.
The reasons for bingo's appeal tend to be universal no matter a player's age. It's a cheap form of entertainment — a typical buy-in costs about $4 — where people have the chance to win some money, bingo players say. The buy-in also includes free drinks, and morning games often come with doughnuts.
The game requires no skill and is largely social, allowing people to interact between sessions. It also comes with its share of thrills, says Pedrosa's friend, Steve Varnell, 39.
Varnell started playing bingo 20 years ago in California. Now living in Colorado, he plays bingo weekly and comes to Las Vegas for big bingo events. Once, his wife won $5,000. They tend to stick with Gold Coast, he says, because that's where they've had their best luck.
"I also play poker and this is right up there for me," Varnell says. "Winning a bingo is like hitting a full boat on the turn."
Bingo is believed to have originated as a lottery game in Italy during the 1500s. Over the centuries, it grew and spread until finally arriving in the United States in the 1920s. Then, it was called Beano, referring to the beans players used to mark their cards. The story goes that a winner one day shouted "bingo!" instead of "beano!" and the modern game was born.
The game has been played on card stock or hard cards, paper and now, computers. Players often develop a preference for the medium, some demanding only hard cards while others prefer paper and save their superstitions for their daubers, the giant colored markers used to check off the numbers. Somewhere along the way, lucky charms became a part of the game with troll dolls representing a large percentage of them. Players like Montesdeoca still rely on them, certain that they bring luck.
Then there are players like local Lori Fortner, 47. She's a mix of modern player and traditional. She started playing bingo more than 20 years ago at the El Rancho on the Strip. Fortner doesn't use a charm or totem and prefers the stationary computers to paper bingo cards. But Fortner wasn't always like that.
"I used to make fun of the people who used the computers. I said, 'Why even bother coming to bingo?' Now I love it," Fortner says.
When electronic bingo machines started appearing in rooms across the valley, they made up a small percentage of format options. Now, the ratio is about 70 percent bingo machine to 30 percent paper, hotel representatives say. The computers can hold potentially thousands of bingo cards, which increase a hotel's profits when players buy multiple cards.
The computers automatically read the numbers as they're called, so Fortner can read the paper or socialize during the game. She has to attend to her electronic card only when the computer beeps, alerting her to an impending bingo. The computers also enable players to watch television, play solitaire or other games during the actual bingo game.
Like many other bingo devotees, Fortner really got hooked after she hit a $26,000 jackpot at the Gold Coast a few years ago. On this night, at the Bingo Extravaganza, she hopes for a win, even though she isn't sitting in her usual spot.
On the days she plays, at least a couple of times a week, she and her co-workers eat lunch at Panda Express. There, they get a handful of fortune cookies and go through them, looking for a sign. The lucky ones go right into her wallet.
It doesn't always work but on the days she wins, she attributes some of her luck to those efforts.
"Whatever it takes, right?" she says.
Contact reporter Sonya Padgett at firstname.lastname@example.com or 702-380-4564.


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Greek club Panathinaikos will play a fine for his fans entering the pitch against Qabala.
After the European elimination by Qabala, Panathinaikos fans entered the pitch. UEFA informed the Greens that they have been fined and at the same time will be under surveillance because of their fans.
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OREGON CITY -- Loren Parks, the conservative Nevada industrialist, has donated $15,000 to a Clackamas County group that submitted petition signatures Monday to put an anti-light rail initiative on the September ballot.
Parks donated the money to Clackamas Rail Vote, a group registered with Lake Oswego City Councilor Mary Olson, who is one of the chief petitioners of the initiative effort along with Damascus Mayor Steve Spinnett and Oak Grove resident Jim Knapp. Knapp on Tuesday filed to run for a Clackamas County commission seat.
Parks is a longtime contributor to conservative causes. Last fall, he donated $10,000 to an urban renewal initiative that voters overwhelmingly passed in November, beating a competing county-sponsored measure. That measure requires countywide voter approval before a new urban renewal district is created or an existing one is substantially changed.
Other contributors to Clackamas Rail Vote include the Oregon Transformation Project, which donated $2,456 in-kind for signature gatherers. The Oregon Transformation Project is a conservative group largely backed by timber companies that has also given $30,600 to John Ludlow, a former Wilsonville mayor running for Clackamas County chairman.
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Thomas P. Rowe, AIA
Principal, Architecture
With the firm since 1984, Tom Rowe's experience encompasses from small, focused interventions within existing facilities to large-scale, free-standing buildings. Tom excels at integrating complex program requirements and designs buildings tailored to the needs and cultures of his clients. Guided by an understanding that each project, regardless of its size, is an opportunity to improve efficiencies, Tom develops long-term client relationships and has earned national awards for design excellence. With extensive experience in civic and academic architecture, Tom is member of the U.S. Courthouse Access Advisory Committee.
Patrick Burke, AIA
Principal, Architecture
With the firm since 1982, Patrick Burke has been the lead designer for projects ranging from master plans for eco-sensitive resort developments to building designs that uniquely reflect both the identity and cultural character of the local environment. Recently, Patrick has been the Principal-in-Charge of Resorts World at Sentosa, a $4.4 billion integrated resort in Singapore. In addition to hotels and resorts, Patrick has extensive experience planning and designing high profile museums and other institutional, civic and corporate buildings. Currently, Patrick is developing master plans for several large scale projects in China.
Karen Nichols, FAIA
Principal, Architecture
With the firm since 1977, Karen Nichols has been an integral member of multiple project teams. She was the Principal-in-Charge for the renovation and expansion of The Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, the master plan of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2003, Karen was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the practice of architecture. Karen sits on the NJIT School of Architecture Board of Visitors. She has designed more than 35 exhibitions, and has edited seven monographs on the work of the firm.
Donald Strum, IDSA
Principal, Product Design
With the firm since 1984, Donald Strum is the Principal in charge of product, furniture, and graphic design and has played a key role in the development and the success of the firm's product design practice. His first project for the firm was the now ubiquitous "Whistling Bird Teakettle" for the Italian manufacturer, Alessi. In 1997, under the leadership of Mr. Strum, the firm began a relationship with Target Stores that led to what many in the critical press have hailed as "the democratization of design". In 2005, after witnessing firsthand the issues Michael Graves was experiencing with an illness that left him paralyzed, Mr. Strum and the product design group made a commitment to transform healthcare design services for the aging and physically disabled population, as well as for the people who care for them. Mr. Strum and his product design group have brought over 2,000 consumer products to market over the past three decades.
Rob Van Varick
Principal – Design, Insights & Strategy
With the firm since 2003, Rob passionately believes design has the power to positively impact people's lives. His mission is to apply the right blend of research, psychology, creativity and strategy so that root causes are identified, allowing the best solution to be designed. Well-rounded solutions require multi-disciplinary input and collaboration. As a partner at MGA&D, Rob works with architects, interior designers, product designers, graphic designers, researchers and strategists all focused on one goal: enhancing the human experience at every scale. Great design is humanistic, familiar, accessible and intuitive. If you share the same ideals, let's make the world better together!
Ben Wintner
Managing Principal, MGD
Since joining the firm in 2002, Ben Wintner has been part of the leadership team responsible for general management of Michael Graves Architecture & Design's multidisciplinary practice. He has played a critical role in the development and implementation of the firm's healthcare design strategy, which was driven by Michael Graves' personal health crisis and subsequent passion for patient centered healthcare design. Wintner is responsible for the business functions of Michael Graves Design, with a focus on strategy, brand management and growth. More so than ever before, businesses understand the power of the product design methodology to identify, define and solve a multitude of challenges that transcend the look, feel and function of an object. Wintner is passionate about helping clients utilize design's disruptive power to lead business strategy forward.
James Wisniewski, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Associate Principal
Joining the firm in 2001, James Wisniewski offers experience designing for private, not-for-profit and public sector clients. His ability to work with stakeholders at all levels of a project and translate their needs and goals to his teams and eventually into physical space makes him an integral part of any project team. Although often tasked with the pragmatic role of project manager, James is also focused on the intangible elements of design and space planning that elevate a project from simply being a space or building to becoming a transformative piece of architecture. As a LEED Accredited Professional, James infuses sustainable design into each step of the design process.
Matt Ligas, AIA, LEED AP
Associate Principal
Joining the firm in 2001, Matt's deep understanding of all aspects of project design and delivery, combined with a "roll-up-his-sleeves attitude," allows him to excel in managing teams through the dynamic process of design and construction. He enjoys collaborating with each of his clients to ensure their organization's values, business goals and project expectations are achieved. In addition to leading project teams, Matt's expertise in digital media, CAD and BIM has been instrumental in establishing drawing standards that allow the firm to work internationally with a broad range of consultants.
Robert Blaser, AIA
Associate Principal
Joining the firm in 1998 with degrees in both architecture and engineering, Robert Blaser brings a unique perspective to each of his projects. Having worked on many of the firm's overseas projects, as project manager and architect, Robert ensures that each project remains on time and on budget by enforcing project deadlines, coordinating communications between all parties, and rigorously tracking project costs. His hands-on involvement runs from schematic design through completion of construction and post-occupancy.
Gordon Horvath
Chief Financial Officer
Gordon Horvath joined Michael Graves Architecture & Design in 2008. As Chief Financial Officer, Gordon is responsible for the financial management of MGA&D. He oversees all functions of the accounting department, in addition to human resources and administrative staff. Gordon works closely with the firm's Principals and senior staff on short term and long range strategic planning. Prior to joining MGA&D, Gordon held various roles with increasing responsibility at Computer Sciences Corporation, culminating as Senior Finance Manager. Gordon enjoys participating in a variety of outdoor sports and activities outside of work. Gordon received his B.S. in Accounting from Kean University and Master of Accountancy from Rider University.
Kathy Dy
Senior Associate, Project Architect
Joining the firm in 1997 as an architectural intern, Kathy quickly became an integral part of the firm and has offers expertise in K – 12 and Higher Education. A Senior Associate, Kathy is experienced in all phases of a project, from surveying and programming to construction administration and punch-list development. Kathy has contributed to the successful completion of buildings for private clients and public institutions, including three schools for the New York City School Construction Authority. She also has residential experience, including the design of two high-rise residential towers in New York City.
Peter Neilson Hague, AIA, LEED AP
Senior Associate Project Architect
Joining the firm in 1983, Peter has overseen the technical development of dozens of complex projects encompassing numerous building types and both new construction and the adaptive re-use and restoration of historic structures. He is particularly skilled at working out complex design and technical problems. In addition to his own proficiency in technical design and construction documents, he has significant experience working with local architects to ensure that the designs produced in the early phases are executed faithfully in the final documents and construction phase.
Yuka Midorikawa
Director of Product Design
Joining the firm in 1999, Yuka manages the firm's product design teams. Having worked on numerous projects ranging from durable medical equipment to furniture to housewares, Yuka interfaces closely with the graphics group . Born and raised in Japan, she learned traditional furniture making in Hokkaido and came to the United States to study industrial design. Her goal is to provide design solutions to clients and improve user accessibilities and experiences through field research and concept generation.
Julie Yurasek
Director of Interior Design
Julie Yurasek brings over 15 years of experience designing the interiors of hotels, spas, restaurants and offices. At MGA&D, Julie has been responsible for leading interior design teams on several large hospitality and residential projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her designs evolve from truly listening to each client's needs, a vast knowledge of materials and industry products, and her inspiration to create unique and memorable environments. Prior to joining MGA&D in 2005, she was an Associate at Rockwell Group and designer at Skidmore Owings and Merrill in New York. Julie has a Bachelors of Architecture and BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and additionally studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Architecture and Syracuse University.
Stephanie Pryor
Art Director
Stephanie believes that graphic design represents the intersection of business and art. Her mission as Art Director at MGA&D is to successfully communicate information and inspire individuals through graphic design. She brings close to 10 years of knowledge to her role, including print and advertising design, exhibition, signage and branding experience. Her exhibition design for The Franklin Institute was featured in the New York Times and won an excellence in exhibitions award from the American Alliance of Museums. Having learned the joy of solving problems creatively at Drexel University, Stephanie embraces MGA&D's integrated design philosophy, believing that good design is human-centric. She collaborates with architects, interior, and product designers and enjoys watching the creative expression evolve into a successful solution.
Megan Luce
Senior Interior Designer
Joining Michael Graves Architecture & Design in 2007, I bring over 13 years of experience in the design of office spaces, hotels, restaurants and residences and has worked on several of the firm's signature hospitality projects, including the Nile Corniche and Sentosa World Resorts in Singapore. I design with the goal of integrating interiors into the architecture of the building to create seamless and unique solutions. Recognizing the importance of sustainable design, I believe that carrying the vision of the client through all the stages of design is critical and that a successful design solution is defined by the integration of sustainable concepts with cost effective and beautiful design solutions. I work closely with associate architects and consultants located overseas throughout the design and construction process.
Jessica Hurwit
Senior Product Designer
After receiving her BID from Syracuse University, Jessica gained a diverse range of experience in design from point of purchase displays to consumer goods before joining the product design team at MGA&D in 2013. She has been predominantly involved in the development of projects in healthcare that the firm has recently begun working on, and is excited to be contributing to this work that she believes will have a profound, positive impact on both the design and healthcare industries.
Matt Schmitt
Senior Product Designer
Matt Schmitt has been a part of the MGA&D team since 2010. As a Senior Product Designer, Matt works with a variety of clients to enhance the lives of the people who use our products. Matt's work focuses on human interaction and relies extensively on design research to drive innovative ideas. Matt fluidly blends a solid research and design process with creativity to find intuitive solutions to problems that have not yet been solved. Matt also plays a key role during the manufacturing process, managing the evolution of a product to hit key business goals and maintain the original design intent in the final product.
Michael Graves, FAIA
Few are credited with spearheading a single design movement; Michael Graves, well known throughout the world for design excellence, led three.
In the 1980s, Michael redirected the architectural conversation away from abstract modernism toward a more humanistic approach to architecture and urban planning, that among other things, brought color and art back into the experience of architecture. In the 1990s, his partnership with Target defined America's expectation that great design should be available to everyone. And design became a corporate strategy. Over the past decade, Michael became a passionate advocate for the disabled and used the power of design to improve healthcare experiences for patients, families and clinicians. Michael Graves transformed the role of the architect in society and left the world a better place than he found it.
Michael Graves received prestigious awards including the 2015 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, the AIA Gold Medal, the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton, The Richard H. Driehaus Prize, and the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The Center for Health Design named Michael Graves one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Healthcare Design, and in 2013, President Obama appointed Graves to the United States Access Board. Michael Graves was the first architect to be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, and the first recipient of the Michael Graves Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey AIA.
A native of Indianapolis, Graves received his architectural training at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard University. In 1960, he won the Rome Prize and studied for two years at the American Academy in Rome, of which he became a Trustee. In 1962, Graves began a 39-year teaching career at Princeton University, where he was the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture. Graves received 14 honorary doctorates and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.


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Editors: Dr. Alex Ryan and Peter Jones. Published by: Systemic Design Research Network. ISBN: 978-0-9950245-0-2
With the fourth RSD symposium at Banff, Canada the conference turned a corner, moving from Oslo to North America and enlarging the scope of papers and talks from previous years. 40 authors across a range of related fields of design and systemics.
The proceedings are published and available online as open access documents. All copyrights belong to the authors.
RSD4 Editorial Board: Jodi Forlizzi, Peter Jones, Harold Nelson, Alex Ryan, Birger Sevaldson
Keynote Speakers
Five keynote speakers presented a range of compelling intellectual engagements, from Don Norman's provocations to develop a design practice capable of dealing with significant complexity, to Lia Patricio's resonant case study and model of integration in the Portuguese health records system, to AP-J's cutting-edge architectural models. Ursula Tischner and and Mugendi M'Riitha shared leading sustainability approaches.
- Don Norman - Can HCD Help with Complex Sociotechnical Systems? (1 hour, 6 minutes)
- Lia Patricio - A Framework for Co-creating Service Platforms
- Ann Pendleton-Jullian - Designing for Emergence for Radically Contingent Problems (1 hour 24 minutes)
- Mugendi M'Riitha - Renewing Africa's Quest for Sustainable Energy
- Ursula Tischner - "Crowd" based Systemic Design and Innovation for Sustainability (1 hour, 12 minutes(


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Details of talk
|Annulus and Pants Thrackle drawing
|Grace Omollo Misereh (La Trobe University)
|Grace Omollo Misere and Yuri Nikolayevsky
|Geometry and Topology
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A thrackle is a drawing of a graph in which each pair of edges meets precisely once. Conway's Thrackle Conjecture asserts that a thrackle drawing of a graph on the plane cannot have more edges than vertices. We prove the Conjecture for thrackle drawings all of whose vertices lie on the boundaries of $d\leq 3$ connected domains in the complement of the drawing. We also give a detailed description of thrackle drawings corresponding to the cases when $d = 2$ (annular thrackles) and $d = 3$ (pair of pants thrackles).


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As we cover the official release of Tele-Watch, our comprehensive mobile phone management and general telecom expense management solution, we want to get down to brass tacks and tell you exactly why it works for existing clients (who've been using Tele-Watch in various forms over nearly three years of development) and why it can work for you. Let's look at three of the ways Tele-Watch's telecom savings software, experts and ClientCare staff routinely save clients up to 50% on their wireless costs.
Tele-Watch Detects Billing Errors
Billing errors run rampant through major carriers – and they're rarely errors in your favor. Errors come from a host of sources, from erroneously tabulated minutes to carriers applying a billing policy that doesn't apply to your agreements. Tele-Watch software and auditing staff monitor your bills for errors, administer corrections and apply refunds to error-ridden bills. All you have to do is read the reports after logging in to Tele-Watch's cloud reporting. We perform all of the management tasks needed to correct (and reduce) your wireless costs.
Tele-Watch Makes Administration Simple
Telecom, and particularly wireless costs, represents the largest expense after payroll for many companies. Businesses are often reluctant to roll out a wireless phone fleet for staff use because they fear abuse and the challenged involved in tracking the ROI for legitimate use. Tele-Watch's mobile phone management software allows you to track users, the user groups you define, and entire accounts for usage volume (minutes, data transfers, etc.) the type of use (such as voice, text or data) and the associated costs. You can find your heaviest users with a single click and examine their usage patterns.
This not only allows you to easy detect employee abuse, but gives you the tools to associate usage with specific business activities. You'll know how every phone in your fleet gets used and why. Best of all, you can do it all through any device that features full internet access, from office computers to personal smartphones.
Tele-Watch Reduces Staff Time Spent on Wireless Issues
One of the biggest hidden wireless costs disguises itself in your payroll. That's the time your staff spends calling carriers for tech support on a price of hardware, disputing suspicious charges, or asking questions about the services your company is entitled to. Tele-Watch ClientCare handles all of these tasks through direct one to one communication with a focus on providing you with the highest quality, least expensive solutions available. Our team provides on the spot hardware support and will contact carriers for you, take care of any issues with them and contact you with the results. No matter how many carriers or handsets you deal with, you only have to call one number and you never need to wait on hold with a carrier.
Tele-Watch Does More
Beyond these three examples, Tele-Watch does a whole lot more – it really is a total wireless cost solution. Analysts apply new savings based on the latest developments in the industry. ClientCare manages hardware procurement and upgrades on your behalf. Its mobile phone management software displays charts, graphs and other accessible data comparison methods, and can even manage internet VoIP and landline services. It all depends on your needs, because we developed Tele-Watch software and management solutions to respond to the needs of real businesses – organizations like yours who need telecom savings to prosper to their full potential.
We're excited about the possibilities. We want you to get excited, too, so click here for a free 60 day trial to investigate Tele-Watch yourself.


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Jonathan Lanman – Atheism Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Atheistic Thought
In partnership with the NSRN (Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network), it is our pleasure to bring you the audio recordings of five very important lectures. Please follow this link for details of the other four lectures – by Grace Davie, Humeira Iqtidar, Callum Brown and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr – and details of the relationship between the Religious Studies Project and the NSRN.
This podcast presents the NSRN's first annual lecture, delivered by Jonathan Lanman at St Mary's University College, Twickenham in April 2011, entitled Atheism Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Atheistic Thought.
Dr Jonathan Lanman is a Lecturer in Cognition and Culture, and Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast. He previously taught as a Departmental and College Lecturer at the University of Oxford from 2009-2011 (when he delivered this lecture, amongst other things). He is interested in applying the theories and tools of both social and cognitive anthropology to issues in the study of religion, atheism, morality, and intergroup relations. His DPhil research yielded both a descriptive and explanatory account of atheism in the contemporary West, which he is writing up as a monograph. At present, he is collaborating with anthropologists and psychologists on an ESRC Large Grant, entitled Ritual, Community, and Conflict, to ascertain the effects of ritual on in-group cohesion and out-group hostility across a range of contexts. Recent publications include "On the non-evolution of atheism and the importance of definitions and data" in the Journal Religion, Brain, and Behavior (2012), and "The Importance of Religious Displays for Belief Acquisition and Secularization" in the Journal of Contemporary Religion (2012). You can also read a report on this lecture on the NSRN's website by their deputy web editor, and frequent RSP contributor, Katie Aston.


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Headliner: A deal-maker, and company shaper
Anna Protopapas
President, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Co.
EVP, global business development, Takeda
Various roles, business operations, Millennium/Takeda
Oncology, as of mid-2013, had been on pace to dominate a dozen or so other therapeutic areas in terms of both the number of clinical-stage in-licensing pacts between life-sciences companies and total deal value. And thanks to this year's hot IPO market, small cancer-focused biotechs have been able to play tough at the bargaining table, raising money from the public markets if they don't get a sweet deal.
"Companies that have…had successful IPOs, the cash they've been able to raise gives them more strategic options, more degrees of freedom," observes Anna Protopapas, president of Millennium Pharmaceuticals. But, she adds, that doesn't make sell-siders totally independent of the buy side. "The fundamentals driving partnering are still there: the access to global markets, cost of risk-sharing, increasingly more expensive clinical trials."
Cambridge, MA-based Millennium, which became the oncology unit of Takeda in 2008, is a good example, Protopapas says, of how those fundamentals will continue to spur deal-making between pharma and biotech in 2014.
"We wouldn't be spending as much in R&D and oncology without our parent company," she says, adding, "Takeda will continue to spend 30+% of the R&D budget on oncology programs."
Protopapas joined Millennium in 1997, four years after its founding. In 2003, the firm launched its first homegrown cancer drug, Velcade. She was part of the discussions that led to Millennium's sale to Takeda in 2008. As global head of biz dev, she then led the effort to acquire Nycomed, a deal which let Takeda fully globalize. She was named president in May of this year.
For Protopapas, born and raised in Cyprus, the island in the Eastern Mediterranean, it's been quite a trip. "A series of complete coincidences led me to win a scholarship to come to study in the US," she recalls.
She quickly found her footing, went to Princeton as an undergrad and then to MIT for grad work. She loved science, but didn't want to devote her career to it. She left MIT after a master's degree, eventually heading to business school at Stanford.
Shortly before Protopapas rose to her newest post, Millennium had an overhaul in which Takeda CEO Yasuchika Hasegawa integrated the firm's autonomous cancer R&D unit into the larger organization. Then-CEO Deborah Dunsire left, taking the reins of biotech EnVivo Pharmaceuticals in August. While Karen Ferrante, chief medical officer, heads R&D, Protopapas leads the still-autonomous commercial side, selling Velcade in the US as well as products from the unit's pipeline. (Partner J&J sells Velcade outside the US; global sales of the drug reached $2.3 billion in 2012.)
Velcade faces stiffer competition now, from two drugs that have since won approval for multiple myeloma: Celgene's Pomalyst and Kyprolis, developed by Onyx Pharma, which was bought by Amgen this year for $10.4 billion. Millennium countered in 2012 with a subcutaneous form of Velcade that patients can self-administer, and it's testing an oral compound, the Phase-III proteasome inhibitor MLN-9708 for multiple myeloma. Velcade is also in late-stage testing for front-line mantle-cell lymphoma and for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
The evolving science behind the drug facilitates detailing to oncologists, who, research shows, have the most restrictive policies toward rep access. "Our sales force has been able to go into physicians with new information and to continue to provide educational materials for the physician, because it's based on a continued and more refined understanding of the drug," she notes.
While Protopapas stepped back from daily biz-dev activities, she still oversees the group. Keeping one foot in M&A has advantages: The Boston-area resident is married with three children, whom she says "keep me on my toes, whether negotiating with them or whether they are pointing out all the reasons I am not perfect, which they are quite good at."


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After publishing my last blog, I participated in a panel discussion on Sports Asset Management at the Sports Video Group's (SVG) Summit, "The Business of Sports Production." While I waited for my afternoon panel session, I attended several of the other sessions in the "Asset Management" track. Each session I attended eventually focused on Object Storage and the promise it holds for media content.
When my session rolled around, there were five panelists in our group all representing different vendors of storage solutions. I fielded the first question, which was what should the audience watch for from NetApp in the way of new technologies for media, to which I answered, "You need to check out our new iteration of the StorageGRID Webscale Object Storage solution." That one comment seemed to focus the rest of the session, as the audience wanted to know more about what we were doing.
Obviously, the other four vendors on the panel could not be expected to go quietly. They all had their own flavors of object storage solutions, albeit some were licensed solutions from other companies. It was interesting how each one had a different focus, so I thought I would discuss a few of these differences and show you why we think NetApp has the most complete vision in object storage solutions.
Software versus Appliance
As I have pointed out in earlier blogs, most people have an old idea of what object storage really is. They think that it is mainly a way to use cheap commodity disk instead of more expensive storage arrays. They ignore the fact that the old model also required several full copies of the content to protect it. The new model for object storage is one of maintaining content across geographies through a technology called geo-dispersed erasure coding, which requires several data sites and a sophisticated data network to provide data protection and business continuity.
To mask the complexity of this new object storage model, most vendors offer appliances for their customers. This means buying a new storage platform that differs from your existing SAN and NAS storage. When you fill up this new object storage appliance, you simply buy another appliance and hook the units together.
This might work for new environments or smaller operations, but it ignores the fact that most media companies already have petabytes of storage solutions that work well for them today. Can an object storage solution vendor really expect that their customers are going to replace everything they have for one vendor's object storage solution appliance? Most have fought for years to avoid the "one vendor" solution set.
NetApp StorageGRID Webscale is Software-defined Object Storage. You do not need to buy our disks or disk arrays to get it up and running. The software runs on a standard server or virtual machine and can control disk arrays from a variety of enterprise storage vendors. Don't get me wrong, we do want you to buy our storage, usually as the first target for the new object storage solution you put in place, but we know that you need to be able to reuse the disks you already have to more easily test and adopt the solution. And with Webscale software-defined object storage, you can do just that!
NetApp has plans to introduce an appliance for StorageGRID Webscale in 2015, but that is for those who only need an appliance. We firmly believe that one size does not fit all and that software-defined object storage is what most media companies will want.
The Interface to Object Storage
NetApp's StorageGRID Webscale object storage solution interface is S3 and CDMI. Our competitors hype NFS and CIFS interfaces to allow utilization of existing media applications with their object storage. We agree, but only somewhat.
First of all, NFS and CIFS gateways are available today to run with almost any vendor's object storage. It is not a reason to buy someone's specific object storage solution. NFS and CIFS utilize metadata from a file system to tell them where the content is to be found on the disk. That means every read request requires a metadata search to access the data. Object Storage works similarly; you request an object using the unique identifier tag and the object storage solution uses its metadata to find the object on the disk. If you add NFS and CIFS on top of an object storage solution, you require TWO metadata look-ups, not one. That adds latency to the asset reads. This is one of the leading reasons that object storage systems are much slower to access data than a standard storage solution.
NetApp believes that object storage is a new construct; that it is best implemented as a new solution. That way, you can get the maximum benefit and maximum performance from this new technology. How do we solve the problem of incompatibility with existing media solutions? Honestly, we believe that problem is going away rapidly anyway. All cloud storage environments are object storage already (you get a unique URL for each asset). Most media applications (such as MAM systems) are becoming cloud aware today, which means that they are becoming object storage aware as well.
One member of the audience at our panel discussion asked how NetApp was planning to get media application software vendors to support these cloud interfaces, I replied that we cannot get these vendors to do anything that their customers have not asked them to do first. This will be like any other change in our industry (think IP video); you the customer need to put pressure on your application vendors to support S3 or CDMI. Think of the storage options that will open up for you when they do!
Information Lifecycle Management and Data Mobility
Lastly, I brought up the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Data Mobility issues I talked about in my last blog. With geo-dispersed erasure coding, our competitors claim that your file is everywhere, or at least accessible everywhere. But, in fact, the file as a full and separate asset is not anywhere. The object storage solution relies on the WAN and the data stored in other sites to read a complete file at any location. This requires significant WAN bandwidth and relies on all of the multiple sites being up and available. While it's a great protection scheme, the performance characteristics are not going to be a good match for most media workflows.
Without the ability to automatically put the full content asset where it is needed or to store the full content asset on a platform that matches the value of the content, object storage is just another storage interface without much benefit. That is why NetApp focused on adding Information Lifecycle Management capabilities controlled by a policy engine to its StorageGRID Webscale object storage solution. With Webscale, you get the ability to protect data through erasure coding while also having the ability to move entire copies of the content asset data to the location and storage platform that fits your media workflow needs.
Need breaking news content to flow to each and every news bureau in your operation? Just put a metadata tag into the asset telling the system that this content is breaking news and Webscale does the rest (based on what policy you set). What if you want the content to move to a public, private or hybrid cloud environment after a certain length of time? It's automatic! How about moving old data onto tape? StorageGRID Webscale can do that as well. We doubt that any one appliance will meet the variety of workflow performance demands found in any major media company. With Webscale, you decide what storage platform and performance level (tier 1, tier 2, cloud, tape) is required.
The other vendors on the SVG panel mentioned integrating third party software to provide ILM functionality, but that's always a difficult proposition. NetApp believes that the tools should natively be a part of the Software-defined Object Storage solution.
How do you find out more about NetApp's StorageGRID Webscale? We'll have lots to say about it at NAB 2015 in April (South Hall, Lower Lever, Booth SL13309). Until then, keep watching this blog site for more about the Webscale Story as well as what else we'll be showing at NAB this year!
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SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1830-1953, numbers well over one thousand pieces. The bulk of the correspondence falls between 1853 and 1910. The material is arranged in subseries by writer or recipient. The major subseries is correspondence from Henry F. Hills to his wife, Adelaide Spencer Hills. Henry's frequent absences from home on business trips as Purchasing/Sales Agent for the Hills Company account for his steady correspondence. Despite his warm conclusions, his letters have a general, newsy quality. Another significant subseries is correspondence to Adelaide Spencer Hills from Mary Hollister Pitkin, her grandmother, by whom she was raised. Grandma Pitkin, as she was commonly called, wrote poignantly to her granddaughter about aging (she lived to be almost 100) and her failing health. Mary (Mamie) and Emily, Henry and Adelaide's daughters, wrote numerous letters home while attending boarding school in New York.
There is also some correspondence from Henry F. Hills to his father, Leonard M. Hills and to other members of his family, and letters to Henry from various correspondents, including Austin Dickinson; several folders of correspondence to Adelaide Spencer Hills from other family members and friends; a small amount of Gay Family correspondence (Henry F. Hills' mother, Amelia Gay Hills' Family); and correspondence to Susan Clapp Hills (Skillings), about her engagement to David Skillings and her wedding.
SERIES 2: DIARIES, COMPOSITIONS, ESSAYS AND EXAMINATIONS, 1852-1920, contains a partial diary for 1871 and compositions written while at Monson Academy by Henry F. Hills; compositions written at Monson Academy by Leonard M. Hills, Henry's son; mechanical drawings by an unidentified Hills; essays and examinations for International Correspondence School; and an original comedy by Barrett Whitman. Material is arranged by creator and then by type.
See box 1, folder 1 for transcripts
SERIES 3: LEGAL PAPERS, 1785-1948 (bulk 1840-1890), is arranged in three subseries: Deeds, Estate Papers and General. Deeds contains primarily deeds and correspondence which document the exchange of numerous tracts of land in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island, arranged alphabetically by state. Estate Papers includes wills and papers relating to the estates of several Hills family members and others, arranged alphabetically by person. The General subseries includes papers relating to the founding and finances of Massachusetts Agricultural College; letters; contracts; wills; and miscellaneous documents arranged by type.
SERIES 4: FINANCIAL RECORDS, [1818]-1956, contains predominantly personal records arranged in two sequences: General Financial Records and Susan Hills Skillings Records. The General Financial Records Subseries is arranged by type or individual and includes stocks, bonds, bills, receipts, checks, promisory notes, insurance papers, notary public papers. This subseries also contains two folders of financial papers for the Henry Hills Company, which document Hills' frequent loans from Amherst College. The Susan Hills Skillings Records subseries contains personal financial records including bank statements, cancelled checks, deposit slips, promissory notes, trust fund and tax material, arranged by type.
SERIES 5: MEMORIALS AND OBITUARIES, 1861-1909, contains printed memorial volumes, poems and obituaries of Hills family members and friends, which are arranged alphabetically by name.
SERIES 6: MEMORABILIA, 1850-1957, contains miscellaneous materials created or kept by members of the Hills' extended family, which reflect their interests and activities. This material has been organized in four sub-series: Personal Material, Subject Material, Hills Company, and Hills Homestead.
Personal Material, arranged alphabetically by person, includes Adelaide Spencer Hills' cookbooks; Henry F. Hills' passport; David Nelson Skillings, Jr.'s phrenograph and the Pitkin coat of arms. Subject Material, arranged alphabetically by name or type, includes address books, cemetery maps, cookbooks and travel guides. The Hills Company subseris includes a description of the hat factory (c. 1909) and forms. The L.M. Hills Homestead subseries includes building specifications and blueprints.
See Oversize Box 27, Folder 1
See also: Adelaide
SERIES 7: PRINTED MATERIAL, 1864-1955 includes books, pamphlets and speeches, arranged alphabetically by author or title; newsclippings about Amherst town or Hills family business, arranged alphabetically; and clippings about weddings and engagements arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 8: SCRAPBOOKS, 1883-1932, contains scrapbooks compiled by Leonard M. Hills, Susan Clapp Hills Skillings and [Henry Hills Skillings], arranged by person. For photographs removed from scrapbooks, see Series 9.
SERIES 9: PHOTOGRAPHS, c. 1873-1930, n.d. contain a wealth of visual information about the Hills family and friends. Many of the photographs, however, remain unidentified or undated. Forms include glassplates, metal plate and paper prints, and one folder of miscellaneous negatives. The photographs have been arranged into four subseries: Portraits, Group Photographs, Subjects and Scrapbook Photographs. Portraits have been divided into identified photographs, including many members of the Hills family, and arranged alphabetically by person; and unidentified photographs organized into three sub-subseries: Children, Female and Male portraits. Group Photographs have been divided as follows: Identified and Partially Identified photographs, arranged alphabetically Identified Persons; and Unidentified Photographs, divided into Children, Couples, Females, Males and Activities, including picnics and winter scenes, all arranged alphabetically. The Subjects subseries contains both identified and unidentified photographs arranged alphabetically by name of subject including animals, buildings, Hills Hat Factory, houses, views and miscellaneous photographs arranged by type, including commercial photographs, postcards and stereographs. Scrapbook Photographs include loose photographs from Leonard M. Hills' and Susan Clapp Hills Skillings' scrapbooks, divided by person.
See Caroline Cheney Hills Allen: Box 18, Folder 4, 1909 photograph
See also Oversize Box 27, Folder 6 for large portrait
See also: Oversize Box No. 27, Folder 11 for print
See also: Oversize Box No. 27, Folder 12
See also: Oversize Box No. 27, Folders 15-16
SERIES 10: REALIA, contains an unusual variety of objects owned by the Hills family. These objects are identified and arranged by type. Some of the more interesting objects include: Henry F. Hills' calling card plates, a "pince-nez," jet beads, a "sewing bird," and a leather bridle for horses.


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YAAPHA provides HIV/AIDS prevention, education, counseling, care and support in Tanzania and was established as a response to the problem of HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and educational challenges among children and adults.
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Hunter Art Professor Mongrain Selected for Smithsonian Oral History Program
Hunter Art Professor Jeffrey Mongrain has been invited to join America's most acclaimed artists as a contributor to the oral history program of the Smithsonian Institute's Archives of American Art. Professor Mongrain, a sculptor, called the invitation "one of the most significant, and somewhat intimidating, honors I've received."
To take part in the program, Mongrain will spend three days in Washington talking about his life and work to two Smithsonian oral historians. The recorded conversations will become part of a permanent collection that the Institute launched in 1958 and now includes the voices of some 2,000 major artists. The Archives invite about 30 artists a year to become part of the groundbreaking project.
An art professor at Hunter since 1995, Mongrain creates both gallery-based works and site-specific pieces. One critic described his work as bringing "a human dimension to abstracted yet iconic forms," while another said he "takes the viewer on a journey to the world of experience and meaning on several... levels."
Among the exhibitions including Mongrain's work this year are those at the Icheon Museum in Korea; the KulturZentrum in Austria; the Tampa Museum and Harn Museum in Tampa, Florida; and Hunter's Leubsdorf Gallery. In 2012 his work will be represented at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia; the St. James Cathedral in Seattle; and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.
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Unless the city makes drastic changes, the Consolidated Government will end the current fiscal year $6.5 million in the red, and that could mean layoffs, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson told Columbus Council on Tuesday.
Tomlinson outlined the city's current financial state and shared forecasts for further deficits during a 25-minute presentation that highlighted downward trends in property tax digest growth and sales tax revenues over the last few years.
She also pointed out that for the last six consecutive years, the city government has spent more than it has taken in.
The result of the consistent deficit spending is a dwindling reserve fund, which has dropped from 130 days to down in the 60s, perilously close to the point at which bond rating companies could lower the city's bond rating.
"We've been living off our savings account," Tomlinson told councilors. "When that happens, our general fund reserves are depleted."
She also reminded council that not only have they added a total of $4.15 million to the three budgets she has so far submitted, but that they have snubbed several cost-saving proposals her administration has brought forward, which she said would have saved the city about $4.5 million a year.
At-large Councilor and Budget Review Committee Chairman Skip Henderson said council was "investing" in city projects that it hoped would pay off when it dipped into reserves.
"Most of the deterioration in the fund balance has been the result of a conscious decision made by this council to invest in instances that were designed to make more revenue for the city," Henderson said. "For example, we invested heavily in NCR, and that came out of the fund balance. We invested in the Housing Authority, with the idea that some of the Hope VI grants that we were leveraging were going to stem some of the crime in public housing area. We also invested in whitewater, which we're seeing some returns on."
Henderson called the city's financial situation "alarming," and said the council will be faced with tough choices in the near future.
"Some of the decisions we're going to be faced with are not going to be easy. But we've known they were coming," Henderson said. "We're getting to a point now where some of the decisions we're going to have to evaluate will be 'What is going to do the minimum amount of damage to the employees and to the citizens?'"
Another cost-saving proposal Tomlinson threw out would be to cut off supplements given annually to city affiliates, such as Keep Columbus Beautiful, the Civil War Naval Museum and Uptown, Inc. That, she said, would save the city about $300,000 a year.
Judy Thomas, the city's other at-large councilor, agreed that a series of smaller cuts such as those supplements could add up to substantial savings and might be the best way to address the chronic deficit spending.
"Those are wonderful programs," Thomas said. "But can we afford $300,000 to supplement them? I don't think so. So we're going to have to say to them and to the people who support them, 'We think you have a wonderful program, but we can't continue to pay for it.'"
Going forward, the Tomlinson administration will bring individual department heads, at least from the larger city departments, before council to present ideas for possible cuts in spending and scenarios on what budget cuts would do to their personnel and level of services.


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PBXT benchmarks
The PBXT Storage Engine (http://www.primebase.com/xt/) is getting stable and we decided to benchmark it in different workloads.
This time I tested only READ queries, similar to ones in benchmark InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon
The difference is I used new sysbench with Lua scripting language, so all queries were scripted for sysbench.
New sysbench you can get from svn repository:
svn co https://sysbench.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sysbench
The used LUA script for sysbench
The mysql.start script with startup parameters for InnoDB and PBXT
and script to run whole loop of benchmarks
The special thanks to Benjamin Grant, John Glass and Paul Elliott for access to modern multiCPU servers, without them I would not be able to run benchmarks.
Description of benchmark:
We used table "normal" table structure which corresponds to typical structure you would see in OLTP or Web applications – medium size rows, auto increment primary key and couple of extra indexes.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `$tableName` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
`email` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
`password` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
`dob` date default NULL,
`address` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
`city` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
`state_id` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`zip` varchar(8) NOT NULL default '',
`country_id` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`),
KEY `country_id` (`country_id`,`state_id`,`city`)
In this benchmark we used only read (SELECT) queries with different typical data access patterns:
primary key single row lookup, primary key range lookup, same access types for primary key and full table scans.
To highlight different properties of storage engines we tested ranges with and without LIMIT clause, and tested queries which
need to read the data or can only be satisfied by reading the index.
This benchmark is so called "micro" benchmark which concentrates on particular simple storage engine functions and we use it to see performance and scalability in this simple cases. We also use CPU bound workload in this case (no disk IO) to see how efficient storage engines are in terms of CPU usage. In real life workload results are likely to be very different.
The schema and queries are described here
Used hardware
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
2 Ñ… Quad Core Intel XEON
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 3192.222
cache size : 8192 KB
32GB of RAM
Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
2 Ñ… Dual Core AMD Opteron
cpu family : 15
model : 65
model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1800.163
cache size : 1024 KB
4GB of RAM
MySQL version
We used MySQL 5.1.16-beta sources for MyISAM / InnoDB
and pbxt-0.9.85-beta.tar.gz
Compilation parameters:
For MyISAM / InnoDB
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysqltest/mysql-<RELEASE> --with-innodb
Method of benchmark:
1. Prepare table with 1,000,000 records (about 350Mb of data on disk)
2. Run each query for 1, 4, 16, 64, 128, 256, 512 concurrent threads.
3. For each thread perform a warm-up run (duration 180 sec), and then
run three effective runs (duration of each is 60 sec).
As the final result we get a maximal result of three runs.
The raw numbers are available here:
(Note: This benchmark is synthetic micro benchmarks focusing on particular simple data access patterns. Results for your workload are likely to be different.)
There are interesting results I want to show graphics with comments
Query: SELECT name FROM $tableName WHERE id = %d
Query: SELECT name FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d
Query: SELECT name FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d LIMIT 5
The same query as previous but with LIMIT clause.
Query: SELECT state_id FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d
This query is similar to previous READ_KEY_POINT with only different the values of accessed column is stored in key.
Interesting InnoDB scalability is pretty bad for this query. The result with 4 thread is worse then with 1 thread on both 4CPU and 8CPU boxes
Query: SELECT state_id FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d LIMIT 5
The previous query but with LIMIT.
Query: SELECT id FROM $tableName WHERE id = %d
Simple but very quick query to retrieve value from PK.
Query: SELECT min(dob) FROM $tableName WHERE id between %d and %d
Access by range of PK values.
PBXT is much worse here because of InnoDB clustering by primary key. InnoDB does not need an extra lookup to access to data.
Query: SELECT count(id) FROM $tableName WHERE id between %d and %d
The same comment as for previous query.
Query: SELECT name FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d and state_id between %d and %d
Interesting PBXT is better here by 50-80%
Query: SELECT name FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d and state_id between %d and %d LIMIT 50
Query: SELECT city FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d and state_id between %d and %d
Query: SELECT city FROM $tableName WHERE country_id = %d and state_id between %d and %d LIMIT 50
Query: SELECT min(dob) FROM $tableName
The hardest query performs a scan of all million rows.
General notes
In general PBXT looks pretty good. To be honest I did not expect such results. The one problem comparing to InnoDB is the access to data by Primary KEY, as I understand PBXT will not support clustering and will not able to reach InnoDB results, but I hope PBXT team will improve performance to make the difference a bit better.
Unfortunately InnoDB shows bad scalability for 8CPU box, in many cases the transition from 16 threads to 64 is too hard for InnoDB even with all scalability fixes exist in 5.1.16 tree. I think InnoDB team should solve this problem, I do not know Oracle plans about.
It is also interesting to check PBXT performance on INSERT/UPDATE queries taking into account PBXT way to handle such queries, I hope I will be able to test it soon.
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Excellent, thanks for the tests! Yes, INSERT/UPDATE benchmarks would be very interesting – the way PBXT handles them is very peculiar.
Vadim, Ulrich Drepper of glibc fame started a recent thread on lkml explaining what he thought was the root cause behind the innodb scaling issues
Great, very interesting!
I did a few tests re. speed of INSERTs to compare InnoDB, PBXT, MyISAM (and Archive and CSV). These were all single thread tests and I don't dare to claim a general applicability of the test, but:
Although somewhat slower than MyISAM, PBXT was in all cases relatively very close as compared to InnoDB. Also, whereas the difference between PBXT and MyISAM remained quite constant as more rows where inserted (I went up to 4G rows) InnoDB seemed to take increasingly more time.
thanks for pointing that out. That seems indeed to be an important difference.
Thanks 😉
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Well, sounds interesting to me. Thanks for submitting the figures showing the performance details. Do you ever use FreeBSD for MySQL benchmarks? To my dismay, I noticed that the 5.0.24 version breaks at around 100 CUC on my 1Gb RAM pentium 4 box running FreeBSD 6.2. I went through the Performance Tuning tips found at MySQL's website, but it doesn't seem to be helping to increase the CUC number without crashing the database engine. Any suggestions, monks?
I've encounterd completely weird results with mysql on an 8cpu server – it performed 3!! 🙁 times slower than on the same 4cpu server:
FreeBSD-6.2/7.0, amd64
both sched_4bsd an sched_ule tested
2xIntel Xeon(R) CPU E5335 @ 2.00GHz (quad core)
4GB ram
mysql-4.1.22/from FreeBSD ports
tests done with apache benchmark on a web page that does some 20 selects (one is select count(*) as count from … where … – the slowest one), and a couple of inserts/updates as well.
ab -c 125 -n 500 http://dumb-sql-design/dumb-sql-page.php
2 cores (kernel params.h modified with MAXCPU set to 2 and 4 to diable extra cores):
9-11 requests/s
4 cores:
18-20 requests/s
all 8 cores:
5-7 requests/s, whatever did I try to do – nothing really helped.
The kernel doesn't boot with 5 cores 🙂
6 cores gives 11-13 requests/s, which is way better
launching screen and 2x "top" with update interval set to 0 in a couple of its windows and renicing them to -20 (which significantly loaded 2 cores) + "screen" got a huge bytes flow as well – Did Not affect performance in any way, I was still getting the same 11-13 requests/s, even after renicing of mysqld and httpd to 20. (FreeBSD-7.0, sched_ule).
tried running super-smack on the server – the situation was not that bad for 8 cores, neither it was much better – 8 cores gave at most 20% more transactions than 4 or didn't give anything visible at all… So basically I hit both mysql scalability and FreeBSD scheduler issues…
./super-smack -d mysql update-select.smack 120 500
4 cpus:
Query Barrel Report for client smacker
connect: max=8ms min=0ms avg= 1ms from 120 clients
Query_type num_queries max_time min_time q_per_s
select_index 60000 12 0 7253.63
update_index 60000 23 0 7253.63
Query Barrel Report for client smacker
connect: max=63ms min=1ms avg= 31ms from 120 clients
Query_type num_queries max_time min_time q_per_s
select_index 60000 15 0 7464.76
update_index 60000 10 0 7464.76
./super-smack -d mysql select-key.smack 120 500
Query Barrel Report for client smacker1
connect: max=57ms min=0ms avg= 11ms from 120 clients
Query_type num_queries max_time min_time q_per_s
select_index 120000 17 0 23242.07
Query Barrel Report for client smacker1
connect: max=10ms min=0ms avg= 2ms from 120 clients
Query_type num_queries max_time min_time q_per_s
select_index 120000 8 0 27558.95
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Slalom Consulting grows 35% in 2012, almost four times the average industry growth rate
Feb 05, 2013, 12:00 EST
SEATTLE, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Slalom Consulting, the largest division of Slalom, LLC, reported record revenue of $350 million for calendar year 2012, an increase of 35 percent over 2011 and almost four times the average industry growth rate1. To fuel that growth, the company hired 685 professionals for a total of more than 2,000 consultants and opened its Boston office—its eleventh in the US in 12 years.
Slalom also launched several new service offerings and business to better serve the needs of its clients.
- National Delivery Network provides delivery centers and skilled professionals in support of Slalom's local markets by providing on-shore delivery capabilities, incubating new practice areas, and collaborating with alliance partners to help clients drive grow, achieve competitive differentiation, gain efficiency and cut costs.
- Virtual Services – For markets where the company does not yet have a physical office in the U.S., this organization of centralized community-based teams brings select Slalom services to clients in such markets as Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Detroit and Honolulu.
- SuperConnectSM is a product division of Slalom, LLC that creates enterprise SaaS products such as mLevel to transform corporate learning by leveraging mobility, social, and games to increase effectiveness of learning.
Rounding out a successful year, Slalom received 15 awards, including local and national Best Place to Work honors, Microsoft Partner of the Year, and other awards recognizing industry and individual achievements.
"We're so proud of all we were able to accomplish in 2012," said co-founder and National General Manager John Tobin. "I'm most proud of the fact that our fast growth has not detracted from our awesome culture. Widely recognized as a great place to work, Slalom continues to make this the best place for consultants to expand their careers. To further emphasize the employee focus of the firm, Slalom extended its innovative employee ownership program to allow more employees to prosper from the company's growth and profitability, and to ensure its success as a multi-generational business firm."
In 2013, Slalom is forecasting another year of double-digit growth, will open offices in Minneapolis and Houston, and is on pace to hire 900 consultants. Slalom expects to continue to open new markets across the US over the next several years and is planning to launch its first international market by 2015.
"We anticipate a strong 2013 from the perspectives of both client service and employee recruitment," said Tobin. "With the launch of our new offices and an emphasis on hiring talented individuals to help make Slalom more strategic and valuable to our customers, we're looking forward to the year ahead."
About Slalom Consulting
Slalom Consulting brings together business and technology expertise to help companies drive enterprise performance, accelerate innovation, enhance the customer experience and increase employee productivity. The firm delivers award-winning solutions in such areas as cloud, business intelligence, CRM, mobility and organizational effectiveness through a national network of local offices across 11 North American cities.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has rapidly grown to more than 2,000 consultants. The company has earned recognition from Microsoft as Partner of the Year five times, including 2012 Microsoft Office 365 Solution Partner of the Year, as well as one of the Top 10 Best Firms to Work For by Consulting Magazine. For more information, visit www.slalom.com.
1Source: Plunkett Research, LTD. http://www.plunkettresearch.com/consulting-market-research/industry-trends
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Tina O'Toole, Staff Writer
February has long been recognized as a month of romance, as store shelves are stocked with heart shaped cards and candy boxes in the colors red and pink. More importantly though, it has been recognized as American Heart Month—a time to learn about and focus on heart health.
With cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the United States, killing 2,200 people per day, it has become more important than ever to become informed. Every year, since its congressional approval in 1963, the president has issued a proclamation to declare February as American Heart Month.
In an effort to recognize heart disease as the number one killer of women, The American Heart Association has introduced its initiative, Go Red For Women. This initiative raises money to provide education about heart disease to women and to help customize medical strategies and treatments to meet the specific needs of women.
The good news is that even with these alarming statistics, there is more information available than ever to help the public to recognize warning signs of a heart attack or stroke and to prevent heart disease in the first place. The first step is learning about the risks and how they apply to you.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, one of the first steps to prevent disease is to know your ABCs: Asprin, Blood pressure, and Cholesterol. One should check with their doctor to see if they should be taking Aspirin. People also need to check their blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Finally, if you or someone you know smokes, you or that person should quit.
There are many ways to maintain cardiovascular health. Regular exercise or activity for just 30 minutes per day is a start. Eating a healthy diet, limiting the intake of alcohol and tobacco, lowering stress levels, and losing weight if you are considered overweight are the main steps you can take to limit the risk of heart disease.
Women are less likely to realize they are at risk because of the misconceptions about heart disease. This means it is everyone's responsibility to become educated about heart disease and to pass that information on to the women in their lives. It may save your mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, or friend.
This February, show you care about yourself and your loved ones by taking charge of your cardiovascular health. As you see the iconic heart of Valentine's Day plastered everywhere, think about the heart that really matters.


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Kalafina with producer Yuki Kajiura.Musical Group
Kalafina is a songstress project that started from female vocalist auditions held by hit maker Yuki Kajiura.
Many times during the auditions, the singers with voices that met with Ms. Kajiura's high expectations, performed each of the songs composed by Yuki Kajiura, and the best vocalists were selected forming the style of this group. Surely as each song differs, the charming music from these singers will begin to take shape.
Wakana, Keiko, and Hikaru, the three of them together, are Kalafina. The group put on a vivid debut on January 23, 2008 with their single "oblivious". The debut single "oblivious" reached #8 on the Oricon weekly chart, Japan's equivalent of the Billboard Music Chart, and following that, their second single "springer/ARIA" and third single "fairytale", part of a 3 title/CD series release, got them into the Oricon Chart Top 10.
They recorded a big hit with being asked to do the theme song for the animated movie series "The Garden of Sinners" (Kara no Kyokai). With more than 500,000 copies of the DVD sold, "The Garden of Sinners" (Kara no Kyokai) is currently the most widely noticed anime series in Japan.
On March 4, 2009, Kalafina will simultaneously release their first album "Seventh Heaven" along with their fourth single "Lacrimosa". "Lacrimosa" is the ending theme for the popular TV anime "Kuroshitsuji" (Black Butler).
Wakana was discovered by Ms. Kajiura and appeared as Fictionjunction WAKANA. She is the singer whose voice has quite a range and overflows with a refreshing feeling.
Keiko was discovered by Ms. Kajiura and appeared as Fictionjunction KEIKO. She is the singer who has a charming bass tone voice.
Hikaru was one of the people discovered by Ms. Kajiura from among 30,000 people who tried out for Sony Music's audition. She is the singer who has a voice that is blessed with a feeling of transparency and tension.
Yuki Kajiura
Yuki Kajiura is a multi-music composer who handles lyric and music composition and music arrangement and has experience with extensive music production for movies, anime, video games, musicals, TV, etc.
As a member of her own unit called See-Saw, Yuki Kajiura created the song "An'na ni issho datta noni" (Although We Were Always Together) for the ending theme of the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" and the song debuted at #5 on the Oricon chart. Also, See-Saw's album "Dream Field" reached #7 and as of last year, her CDs have surpassed 3,500,000 copies sold. In 2003, she released her solo album "FICTION" in America and Europe. From 2004 she began activities with her solo project called FictionJunction, and got the project going picking its first vocalist, YUUKA. They released 7 singles and 2 albums. Of special note, both albums made it into the best 10.
Since 2007, Yuki Kajiura has been in charge of the music for all 7 of "The Garden of Sinners" (Kara no Kyokai) film adaptations, and in addition to that started the music project she put together, Kalafina. In 2008, Yuki Kajiura held her first live. Also, she held a collaboration live with Revo of Sound Horizon in Kobe, Yokohama, and Tokyo which brought together around 10,000 people.
Other things Yuki Kajiura has done includes being in charge of the music for the movie "Akiresu to Kame" (Achilles and the Tortise) by internationally renowned movie director and lead actor, Takeshi "Beat" Kitano, and even now, she continues pursuing a Kajiura World.


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Name: 1971 Datsun 240Z
Year(s) Produced: 1970-1973
Number Built: 33,684
Class: Sports car
Body Type: 2-door hatchback coupe
Engine: 146.1 cui, Nissan L24 Line 6
Power: 151hp @ 5600 RPM
0-60mph: 7.8 seconds
Top Speed: 122 mph
Transmission: 4-speed manual
Length/width/height: 162.8 in./ 64.2 in./ 50.6 in.
Wheelbase: 90.7 in.
Base Price: US$3,596 (NADA)
Highest Price: US$50,000 (Hagerty)
For most of us the phrase, "Japanese muscle car" seems to be a joke that was lost in translation. While there is a grain of truth about the Toyota Corolla being Japan's national motoring identity rather than a Lexus, or being on the limelight as an affordable mass-market sedan rather than a stomping Italian supercar, those who are part of the enlightened will tell you with conviction that Japan has long produced the kind of cars that can make the pulse pound or the heart ache.
There are in fact a whole lot of cars in this category, from the Toyota 2000GT to the Nissan GTR, but none perfectly fits the title of being the authentic classic Japanese muscle car other than the Datsun 240Z.
In 1969, aware that his company had not kept pace with the changing habits of contemporary car buyers, Nissan's Yutaka Katayama convinced conservative management to establish a US division and introduce the 240Z to an uninitiated American populace. As the story goes, Katayama took great, even personal care to assure the brand (then known as Datsun internationally) would appeal to the American consumer. It was a firm belief that was burned deep into Katayama's soul that the Japanese motoring industry has the talent and skills to compete with the big boys of that time. With that, he was credited with the title of being the 'Father of the Datsun Z", almost single-handedly establishing Nissan's secure foothold in the United States, and forever changing the auto industry's perception of Japanese cars.
The New York Times run a beautiful tribute for Katayama when he died at the age 105 in February 19 of last year:
Perhaps the greatest boost Mr. Katayama gave the 240Z was its very name, which Nissan had intended only as a working model number. In the late 1960s, when the car was first introduced in Japan, a Nissan executive, enamoured of a certain Lerner and Loewe musical, named it the Fairlady Z.
When the first shipment of Fairlady Zs arrived in the United States, Mr. Katayama, judging the sobriquet horrifyingly effete for the American market, stripped the nameplate off each car with his own hands.
Car enthusiasts will forever remember "Mr. K" as the father of the Z-Car, a line that continues to this day.
Unfortunately, finding a good 240Z today is all about finding one that is rust-free. Many, many examples have succumbed to an oxidation affliction, but according to classic car insurer Hagerty, if you happen to find one in fair-to-good condition, that 240Z can be picked up for as little as $7,000 to $15,000. A real showpiece can fetch anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000. One excellent example is Korean-American actor and Fast & Furious star Sung Kang's restomodded 1973 Datsun FuguZ which we featured here in ClassicCarLabs a few weeks ago.
So if you happen to find one, consider it as a rare gem one that has a long and impressive history of Japanese passion and excellence.


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Looking back during this holiday season, we've come to realize that this past year has been both transformational and rewarding.
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Reward has come in the form new customers joining the Tealium family, with a record booking quarter after quarter.
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"With the continued support of the American public and our partners, we hope to see the numbers on the tote board climb higher than ever so we can continue to invest in research and services for our families," said MDA President and CEO Steven M. Derks.
TUCSON, Ariz., (PRWEB) August 31, 2013
For the first time ever, viewers tuning in to the 2013 MDA Show of Strength Telethon Sunday will be able to keep track of telethon donations through a new online tote board feature that will continuously update as the show airs on ABC stations nationwide at 9/8c.
Viewers will be able to check MDA's website, mda.org, for regular updates on how much is being raised through the telethon as the show airs from coast to coast.
The tote will consist of generous donations made by the American public through phone, online, text and direct marketing campaigns, and contributions made by national partners who help MDA through telethon-related fundraising campaigns. The tote starts on Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern and will go through Labor Day at midnight when the final tote will be posted online.
"The tote board is a longtime MDA telethon tradition that we are excited to now bring online for the first time in our 48-year history," said MDA President and CEO Steven M. Derks. "Supporters enjoy seeing the combined donations add up to a remarkable sum that fuels our lifesaving and life-enhancing mission. With the continued support of the American public and our partners, we hope to see the numbers on the tote board climb higher than ever so we can continue to invest in research and services for our families. Because of past support we are at a very hopeful time in the fight against muscle disease with more new drugs in development over the next 5 years than in the past 50 years combined."
MDA will also acknowledge donors and local partners on the website through Labor Day.
About MDA Show of Strength Telethon
The MDA telethon is one of America's longest-standing and beloved fundraising and entertainment events. For 48 years, funds raised by MDA telethons have contributed to the organization's worldwide research program. Today, through current clinical trials, there is growing excitement that new lifesaving treatments and discoveries are on the horizon for many of the disorders MDA is dedicated to defeating, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
As in the past, the entertainment event will raise funds and awareness to support MDA's mission to help children and adults affected by progressive and often fatal muscle diseases.
While the telethon has consistently enjoyed robust support from some of the biggest celebrities in show business, the real stars on the telethon are the individuals and families served by MDA.
MDA's first Labor Day weekend telethon was broadcast in 1966 on a single New York station and has become the most successful fundraising event in the history of television. The show, with Jerry Lewis as its iconic host through 2010, and with help from a legion of top celebrities and entertainers, has raised millions of dollars each year to provide life-enhancing support and services to the families MDA serves.
Visit mda.org/muscle to learn more about the 2013 MDA telethon.
About MDA
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the world's leading nonprofit health agency dedicated to finding treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neuromuscular diseases. It does so by funding worldwide research; by providing comprehensive health care services and support to MDA families nationwide; and by rallying communities to fight back through advocacy, fundraising and local engagement. Visit mda.org and follow us at facebook.com/MDAnational and @MDAnews.