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The emotions of war can be hard to describe.
And for those that never see a battlefield, combat can only be experienced through personal stories, movies, TV shows and, of course, books.
The Pritzker Military Library, located in Chicago, annually honors an author for their debut military-themed book with the William E. Colby Award, which "recognizes a first work of fiction or non-fiction that has made a major contribution to the public's understanding of intelligence operations, military history, or international affairs," according to the library's website.
This year's winner is "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes. The novel follows Waino Mellas, a young 2nd Lt. charged with leading a platoon in building a mountain base near Vietnam's border with Laos. As the narrative progresses, and the body count rises, the men must deal with conflicting orders, a lack of trust between company members and the intense Vietnamese weather.
The book was inspired in part by Marlantes' service as a Marines Corps. officer in the Vietnam War. During his military career, Marlantes was awarded 2 purple hearts, the Navy Cross and the bronze star, among other commendations.
Marlantes will receive a $5,000 award presented by the Tawani Foundation and the Pritzker Military Library on Oct. 22 during the library's 2011 Liberty Gala at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel.
The Pritzker Military Library has a large collection of books, films, audio files and artifacts on variety of subjects in American military history. For more information visit www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org.
The Tribune's cultural critic Julia Keller wrote an article about her reaction to "Matterhorn" in May.


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Who loves Scott Skiles? I do!
In fact, I'm ecstatic the ball club in my adopted city has picked him up. I'm only a two hour drive away from seeing his bald head gleaming along the sidelines. His menacing, dinosaur-like glare gives me goosebumps.
Goosebumps in the way of R.L. Stine. God, I love Scott Skiles.
And R.L. Stine.
Thanks to John Hammond, Skiles is coaching the very team that drafted him as a player. The man can help the lowly Milwaukee Bucks win. In each of Skiles' full seasons, his teams all finished over .500. He can coach and it's exactly what the Milwaukee franchise needs.
Is Skiles a rethread? Yes, but lots of other NBA coaches are. If Larry Brown's name comes up every now and then in the coaching carousel, those same teams should do their due diligence on Skiles.
John Hammond is Joe Dumars' protege. Hammond can allow Skiles to resuscitate the franchise much like how Dumars used Rick Carlisle to jump start the Detroit Pistons.
The knock on Skiles is that he's an old-school coach; he's too tough and he doesn't mess around. Every professional sport is a players' league so Skiles' style can create dissonance within a team. But all of Skiles' drawbacks double as his strong points.
John Hammond is no fool. He's seen Larry Brown, Flip Saunders and Carlisle coach. Non-player positions in the NBA are like revolving doors. Given the unpredictable nature of Hammond's position, it says something that he's willing to put his eggs in the Scott Skiles basket.
The man is one tough cookie. He demands as much from his players as he does from himself. Jeff Van Gundy once said that Skiles was one of the best-prepared coaches in the NBA come game day.
Skiles owns a 281-251 record as a coach with 15 playoff wins. This may have been a questionable move if the Bucks were an established, playoff team. But they're not. They have no identity and forging a defensive mindset is the way to go.
Maybe Charlie Villanueva will think he's playing for Jim Calhoun. That way, he'll forget that he's supposed to lose every game.

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Sprint Nextel Corp.'s nationwide fitness challenge racked up significant participation and poundage in 2011.
Initially 40 percent of the telecommunication company's 39,700 eligible employees joined the 12-week challenge, shedding a combined total of 40,000-plus pounds. They were given access to nutrition and other wellness services and their physical activity was tracked—participants burned nearly 22 million exercise minutes and their pedometers approached 5 billion steps.
Best of all, the average weight loss—eight pounds for the nearly 6,300 employees who completed all 12 weeks—moved some workers down the weight staircase, from obese to overweight, or from overweight to normal weight, says Collier Case, Sprint Nextel's director of health and productivity. The Overland Park, Kansas-based company estimated $1.13 million in annual savings, primarily related to weight loss.
"Health care costs are just one of our concerns," Case says. "Our other concern is making sure that people are strong and feel vibrant and have the energy to perform, day in and day out on their jobs."
It's no surprise that weight loss initiatives such as Sprint's are proliferating, as studies continue to highlight the cost of heavy employees to the corporate bottom line. But some researchers who study weight and related stigma issues question if well-intentioned employers might be venturing into risky territory. Depending upon how these programs are designed, they can potentially jeopardize better health, by heightening weight-linked pressures that already exist in the workplace, they say.
Extensive research shows that it's very difficult, once weight is gained, to both lose and keep off pounds, says Rebecca Puhl, director of research at Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. "There is no magic pill, there is no magic program," she says.
"And we know from a number of studies that when people feel shamed or are made to feel stigmatized about their weight, they actually engage in unhealthy behaviors that reinforce obesity," she said, ticking off binge eating as one example.
Obese adults can be costly, racking up an average health bill that runs even higher than for smokers, according to a study published in March in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The researchers found that obese adults cost $1,850 more annually than normal-weight individuals, according to the findings, based on seven years of data from more than 30,000 Mayo Clinic employees and retirees. By comparison, smoking employees averaged $1,274 more in annual health costs compared with non-smokers.
But in combating these trends, when do corporate wellness initiatives cross the line from motivation to stigmatization? Overweight employees already are 12 times more likely to report weight-related discrimination, and obese employees are 37 times more likely compared with their normal weight counterparts, according to a 2007 study in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
By broadcasting the health costs of obesity, during benefits and other presentations, employers might further amplify those workplace dynamics, even creating stress among fellow employees, says Mark Roehling, one of the study's authors and a professor of human resource management at Michigan State University. "The risk is that you are promoting looking at overweight people as someone who is costing your company or you directly," he says.
In Donna Cornwell's experience, though, employees are seeking out assistance. "They say, `Help us lose weight.' says Cornwell, corporate human resources manager at O'Neal Steel Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama.
And the company has tried, through various short-term fitness or weight loss efforts. But in 2011, leaders at O'Neal Steel and its affiliates, which employ about 3,000 U.S. workers, decided to develop a more long-term wellness approach by teaming up with Alabama dietitian and consultant Rebecca Kelly.
The program involves taking annual health measurements, including weight, and then pairing employees with a health coach every three months. The coaches can then revisit the health goals and provide encouragement and ideas for the next three months, Cornwell says. "I just think there is just a different level of accountability there that helps keep the employee on track."
Team-based initiatives like Sprint's are another common employer approach, but can present a bit of a mixed bag, says Kelly, who also directs health promotion and wellness at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
The advantages are significant, as the teams do promote accountability, thus encouraging more employees to join and stick with their goals, she says. "If you know you're meeting someone [to exercise], you're not going to push the snooze button." Still, some employees can feel unduly pressured to join, or to reach a particular fitness goal, she says.
At Sprint, where teams could run as large as 11 employees, a few corporate emails kicked off the challenge, Case says. "It was really up to employees to recruit their peers to participate."
John Alexander, then a 40-year-old IT account manager at the time of the 2011 challenge, recalls that he got "some ribbing from my VP." The vice president suggested that they sign up together.
"It didn't bother me at all," says Alexander, who was carrying an extra 80 pounds on his nearly 6-foot-tall frame, and had a family history of heart disease. "I knew in the back of my head that I had to do something."
Puhl lauds such success stories, but reminds employers that personal willpower is not the sole weight loss driver. Numerous other factors, including an individual's own biology, access to healthy food, even the physical activity and food promoted at a work site, can play a role, she says. (See box below.)
And feelings of failure can boomerang, Puhl adds, pointing to a study she conducted with Yale colleagues. The research, published 2011 in the journal Obesity, found that overweight women watching a video with weight-stigmatizing images consumed three times as many calories as those watching a video with neutral images.
But Sprint's Alexander doesn't recall any negative drag on his effort, instead praising his teammates for supporting each other to keep moving.
By the end of the 2011 challenge, the father of two weighed in 75 pounds lighter, thanks to jogging and an intense low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet. These days he no longer needs a cholesterol medication, his blood pressure drug has been cut to its lowest dose, and Alexander can be found in the wee morning hours training for his first half-marathon.
Charlotte Huff is a writer based in Fort Worth, Texas. Comment below or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This is a tribal design that I worked on before but I never went anywhere with it. The original sketch was from last year and it looked a whole lot different from the one you see now. Dolphins are a loved sea species that holds a lot of charm, beauty, mystery, and grace. They are said to be one of guardians of the ocean and have the ability to fight off sharks. Here you will find that drawing a tribal design in the form of dolphins is going to be as beautiful as midnight sky with a full moon as part of the canvas. Today, I will teach you "how to draw tribal dolphins", step by step. The concept for the two tribal dolphins that you see before you was created based on love, harmony, and togetherness. As you see the dolphins are circling each other in a yin yang type of style. Now because the body of one of these animals isn't too bendable, I couldn't actually draw them in a perfect circle. Instead, they are joined in a mutual manner and represent the harmony of true love. If you are a big dolphin and tribal animal lover, you will absolutely enjoy learning how to draw tribal dolphins too. Just take your time as you tackle this lesson because as you know drawing tribal art can be difficult. Have fun and I will meet you back here in a jiff with some more drawings that you will enjoy!
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Ride bus for free on New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve can be an expensive and dangerous on the roads, but an annual safe ride program is helping to curb drunken driving.
A year ago, a New Berlin couple stopped at a light at 27th Street and St. Paul Avenue was killed by a drunken teenager.
In 2010, at 35th Street and Interstate 94, a wrong-way drunken driver smashed into a woman in the eastbound lanes, killing her.
Milwaukee County Transit System and Miller Coors are offering free rides on New Year's Eve.
"It's better that the bus is handling the driving than people drinking and driving," said Jennifer Morrill, who rides the bus every day.
Milwaukee County Transit System spokeswoman Jackie Janz said she expects more than 20,000 people to climb aboard on New Year's Eve.
"It's a way to encourage people, if you're going to go out and celebrate, great we want you to have a good time, but do it responsibly," Janz said.
Starting at 8 p.m. Monday, there will be bags over the fare box on the bus, letting riders know it's a free ride.
That goes for all 30 routes in Milwaukee County and 10 Metro Transit routes in Waukesha.
Thirteen of the Milwaukee routes will run until 4 a.m. The Waukesha routes will run from 7 p.m. to 3:30 a.m
Milwaukee County Transit System hopes the free rides help everyone start off the new year safe.
For all the routes and times, go to http://millerlitefreerides.com/Default.aspx.


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May 24, 2012
Concert Band celebrates Columbus Bicentennial next week
The Columbus State Concert Band, directed by Thomas Lloyd, will perform its spring concert on Tuesday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom on the fourth floor of WD.
The free concert will offer several selections celebrating the city of Columbus Bicentennial.
The opening march, Neddermeyer Triumphal, composed by Ohio born Karl King in 1911, was dedicated to his mentor and the most important musician in Columbus in the early 20th century, band director Fred Neddermeyer.
African-American composer William Grant Still began his career as a professional musician here in Columbus in 1915 after leaving Wilberforce College. The band will play the selection "Entrance of the Porteuses" from Still's 1926 ballet.
The contributions of Battelle Memorial Institute to the space program will be saluted in a new composition by Vincent Oppido. The band will perform the work while a video display entitled "The Hubble Space Telescope: Exploring Space and Beyond" is projected.
Euphonium soloist and long-time band member Julie Byas will be featured in John Steven's "Benediction." Three members of the band will perform solos in a Dixieland number entitled "The Ramble Stomp."
The concert will conclude with the first published work by Julie Giroux. "Mystery on Mena Mountain" was written when the composer was only sixteen. Columbus State recently joined in a consortium to commission Giroux to write a new work which will receive its Ohio premiere next year as part of the Columbus State Concert Band's Festival of Music by Women Composers.
Don't miss this exiting free concert commemorating the Columbus Bicentennial!
Last call for Quality Team nominations!
The 3rd Annual Quality Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, August 1, recognizing the winners of the Distinguished Teaching Awards, the Distinguished Full Professor Awards (new last year), the Staff Employee of the Year, and the Continuous Quality Improvement Team Awards.
The event will honor teams and individuals from across the college whose work exemplifies continuous quality improvement—the kind of work that will lead to the college's reaccreditation in 2013 by the Higher Learning Commission.
To nominate a team for a 2012 Quality Team Award, please read through the judging criteria, and then fill out the application and submit it by Friday, June 1 at 4:00 p.m.
A total of $8,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the top three winning teams, with the Gold Award of $4,000 to be divided among members of the top team and two Silver Awards of $2,000 each being divided among the runner-up teams!
Feedback requests on Dean Candidates
Employees who attended Open Forums to meet the candidates for Dean of Advising and Student Support Services are invited to give their feedback on the candidates by clicking on the links below. If you were unable to attend the open forums with the candidates, you may view their interviews online here:
May 17 forum video: http://youtu.be/BbLLHqRB394 Feedback: Desiree Polk-Bland
May 18 forum video: http://youtu.be/tkLcIXclL6M Feedback: John Fisher
May 21 forum video: http://youtu.be/ngCGwLAwu18 Feedback: Jonathan Baker
May 22 forum video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1BNYRQZnxo
Feedback: Melanie Carter
Update your Cougar Rewards information to keep receiving benefits!
The Columbus State Bookstore is moving to a new data management system for Cougar Rewards, and is requiring all of our Cougar Rewards members to update/provide their personal information. Click here to complete and submit this email to assure that your Cougar Rewards continue without interruption.
Not a Cougar Rewards member? Fill out the form to enroll and begin receiving your benefits!
To keep your Cougar Rewards account active, we MUST receive your updated information by May 31, 2012. Please complete all of the fields below and submit this email today. If your information is not received by May 31, your account will be closed as we move to our new system.
Windows printing migration to be completed next week
During the last week of May, the IT Department will move employee printing to new print servers. The actual migration of the printers to the new servers will be transparent and require little or no user interaction.
There are two changes you will notice:
To install a new printer you will now go to print.cscc.edu. This new address will replace empprint.cscc.edu.
The desktop icon will be:
Please refer to Windows Printing - FAQ's on the Intranet for questions you may have or contact the I.T. Support Center at ext. 5050 with any problems.
Mac users: Please contact the Help Desk at ext. 5050 to schedule a time to install a printer. This needs to be completed by July 1, 2012.
Summer Quarter 2012 deadline for Fee Waivers is June 6
The deadline for Employee/Dependent Fee Waivers for Summer Quarter is June 6. A Request for Fee Waiver form must be turned into Human Resources by 4:30 p.m. to guarantee that fee waivers will be processed before late fees are assessed.
You may also pay your fees first and be reimbursed within 30 days from the start of the quarter by completing the Request for Fee Waiver form and submitting an official payment receipt into Human Resources by July 18. If you have any questions, please contact Susan Thompson or call ext. 2406.
Chef Apprentice and Baking students win Golden Spoon
Hospitality students (from left) Ben Kroeker, Adam Hagar (instructor), Matthieu Henry, Chad Arn Devault, and Deja Johnson display The Golden Spoon award they won as Favorite Food Establishment at the annual Taste to Remember fundraiser, sponsored by Children's Hunger Alliance and American Culinary Federation Columbus Chapter on May 17. Guests at the fundraiser were able to pick their favorite of more than 20 establishments, and they chose the Columbus State food station!
Got Socks?
Columbus State Early Childhood Development student Tara Brown has recently been deployed in the Army National Guard to Afghanistan. She has been placed in charge of a program to help women and children in Afghanistan with some basic needs, and one of those needs is for socks! Tara says that the program is desperately in need of new or gently used socks for women and children. The Early Childhood Development program will collect any donations through the end of the quarter and send them after June 8 to the Army National Guard for distribution. If you have some you can donate, bring them to the ECD Lab in Union Hall, Room 141!
TRiO students earn Success Scholarships
Nine TRiO-Student Support Services participants and two Trio-Student Support Services alumni were selected for the Scholarship Opportunities for Success Scholarship (SOS). SOS is a volunteer grass-roots organization that awards scholarships to Columbus-area students who have faced obstacles such as poverty, childhood abuse, domestic violence, loss of a partner, and discrimination on the job. Students selected for the scholarships have strong ambitions to further their education in order to improve life for themselves and their families, despite such obstacles.
Columbus State TRiO students who earned the 2012 SOS scholarships are Kaliah Bradberry, Amy Cunningham, Izetta Davis, Teresa Griffin, Torya Ross, Jolene Easterling, Chynell Gram, Tiya Mitchell, Victoria Surber, and alumni Tara Harte and Brittany Whit.
Upcoming ITDL Seminars
Grade Center (2 Hours)
BB9 160 is an introduction to the Blackboard Grade Center, including creating a manual column and manually entering grades, creating a Total column, creating a Weighted Total column, downloading grades, modifying and creating custom grading schemas, modifying and creating custom categories, organizing columns, and sending email through the Grade Center.
Prerequisites for this session: BB9 101 Introduction to Blackboard 9.1
Date: Friday, May 25
Time: 10:00 a.m. Click here to register
Blogs and Journals (1 hour)
BB9 153 discusses two of Blackboard's built-in collaborative tools: Blogs and Journals. Learn what they are, how they work, and how they may be used in a course. Participants will also learn how to create, manage, edit, and grade both Blogs and Journals.
Prerequisite: Transition from Blackboard 7.3 to Blackboard 9.1
Date: Friday, May 25
Time: 2:00 p.m. Click here to register
The SPOKEN Word: What do our Students Have to SAY?
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn about a variety of free tools (SCREENR, JING, VOICE THREAD) that can be used to orally capture students' thoughts and responses. These tools can also be used as a convenient and effective method for instructors to disseminate feedback and to deliver various announcements.
Who can use this software? Everyone! Foreign language instructors can use such technologies to capture oral exams. ESL instructors can use these tools to help students practice pronunciation and speaking. Any instructor who has students doing oral presentations can use such software to encourage practice and to provide feedback. Web instructors are encouraged to incorporate such technologies in their online classes, in order to build community and teacher-student presence. Anyone who wants to vocalize an announcement (versus typing it) or wants to create short training videos will find this session helpful.
Presented by: Melissa Logue, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
When: Tuesday, May 29 (8:00 - 10:00 a.m.) - Register
Turn your PowerPoints into Videos
Have you ever viewed a PowerPoint that has been posted online? It seems one-dimensional. There is no voice behind the slides to provide context and feedback. Consequently, a posted PowerPoint may lose some of the point of the presentation.
Why not convert your existing PowerPoint to a video (with audio recording) that can be embedded in your Blackboard course? We can actually accomplish a conversion from PowerPoint to video in just one click!
In this hands-on workshop, participants will convert one of their own PowerPoint presentations (so don't forget to bring one!) to a video by using a free software called iSpring. During the presentation, attendees will learn how to download the appropriate software and will discuss best practices regarding creating voice recordings on PowerPoint, as well as editing, saving, and uploading recordings into Blackboard.
Presented by: Melissa Logue, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
When: Friday, June 1 (9:00 - 11:00 a.m.) - Register


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What's in a name? Oldsters get into the dream
at Miller's
August 21
Five reasons prompted me to see the band Dreamcar at Miller's last Saturday night, and they were, in order of increasing importance:
* If I don't know the bands performing on a night I want to review shows, I pick the one with the most something name– it can be the most interesting or most inane.
* The show was cheap. I was told $3, though in actuality no cover was charged.
* It's a place where I'm probably not going to see anyone I really want to avoid.
* Miller's was a little less than halfway between my house and a party I was planning to attend.
* I didn't have a review for the week, and as Sunday is The Dead Zone for live music, Saturday was my last chance to avoid a timely piece on my latest CD purchase, She's So Unusual, by Cindi Lauper.
The crowd at Miller's was not the usual one for a Saturday night– in place of disaffected youth sat a mixture of somewhat disaffected-mixed-with-contented middle age, who seemed to be having a jolly old time drinking the establishment's many quality alcoholic beverages and making jokes about who was going to pay the tab.
After what seemed an unusually long setup time, the mostly acoustic duo launched into their first tune, or at least I believed they did– the din in Miller's and the fact that the pair's two acoustic guitars and vocals needed a good boost made comprehension of anything besides the occasional strum impossible.
I was able to tell that the female vocalist was fine, with slight Sheryl Crow overtones, and as it was the loudest part of the song, her male counterpart could play a mean lead solo. After the table in front suggested turning everything up, things got a little better, and I was introduced to a slightly alt country, slightly pop, mostly folk band.
After changing to electric, the guitarist held notes on his fretboard with one hand and tried to get the mix right for his female cohort's pipes with his right. Even though the act was louder on this song, most of the audience had its attention elsewhere, though the few who were attending did hear some bizarre and brilliant echo-y lead work– triplets rained down from his instrument, but rather than '80s shredding, they brought to mind something in the background of an Enya song.
The group's song I found most endearing was #4, with its on-the-beat punctuation during the verse and "got that flimflam love, to get me through the night" chorus (not to mention the $10 couplet, "...playing on the radio /... three legged dog, Jethroe"). On this tune, the vocalist/guitarist seemed to lose a certain nervousness that was holding her back, and let loose with some vocal antics that would have made Houston proud.
Maybe it was the fact that the song was good, or maybe she just took a while to lighten up, but there was something in this tune that grabbed me through the evening to come.


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Seahawks honored as part of Mariners home opener
SEATTLE (AP) — Russell Wilson, Malcolm Smith and coach Pete Carroll walked out from behind the center field fence to an ovation that rivaled anything heard across the street at CenturyLink Field.
Even though it was opening night for the Seattle Mariners, they made sure the Super Bowl champion neighbors were recognized.
"It's been great. Obviously everyone enjoys winning a world championship and just having fun with that," Seattle tight end Zach Miller said. "I think everyone is excited about the opportunities coming ahead to bring it back together and a new season a new team."
Smith, the MVP of the Super Bowl victory over Denver, carried the Vince Lombardi Trophy out as the Seahawks made their way to the infield where they were honored during the pregame ceremony. The tribute included a giant banner unveiled in center field and a lengthy video highlighting key moments from the Seahawks run to the first title in the four major professional sports for the city since 1979.
Wilson, Smith, Carroll and Miller were joined by wide receiver Jermaine Kearse, and linebackers Bobby Wagner, Mike Morgan and K.J. Wright.
Wilson has had a whirlwind offseason that included a day at Texas Rangers spring training, the club that owns his baseball rights, and throwing out the first pitch before a Rangers game last week. He also spoke to the Wisconsin basketball team at the Final Four last week and got the honors to throw out the ceremonial first pitch Tuesday to Mariners ace Felix Hernandez.
Wilson said he hasn't gotten any backlash for taking part in activities with the Rangers, even though they are an AL West rival of the Mariners.
"I don't pay attention to all of that. I'm blessed to obviously be drafted by the Rangers and that's a great experience for me," Wilson said. " ... It's a great organization. Obviously I love to come to Mariners games as well and supporting my city where I play in the National Football League."
Soon the attention will turn back to football. The Seahawks can begin their offseason program on April 21, but Wilson and Seattle's offensive players are headed to Southern California soon for a players-run offseason workout similar to what they did last offseason.
"Obviously the goal is to do it again," Wilson said. "We're not satisfied with what we've done. We have a great football team again next year and we're looking forward to it."


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We had the opportunity to attend the new Medieval Times show with the kids. We went for the twins 3rd Birthday so they were just at the age of needing a ticket, but barely. It is pretty expensive for newly turned 3yr olds, but I was glad they had their own seat. They would have been okay sitting on my lap and sharing on my plate, but we have two.
The food. I was worried about the food because of my picky twins. They are toddlers for sure. It was ALL delicious to me. Only one didn't eat much of it. The older kids enjoyed most of it too. It was way too much for them, but they ate it. I do wish there were cheaper prices for the kids especially the 3-6 range and less food. We had SO much chicken leftover. Thankfully, we could take it home. I basically used my plate to pile on the stuff I knew the kids wouldn't be able to eat. The food we took home was never touched by the kids so it was like new take out. :P The soup was great, the bread, potato, and corn too. I didn't think the kids would like the soup. 3 out of 4 liked it. I did sneak in a butter knife to cut the corn off the cob for my daughter with braces. I knew she'd be upset if there was something she couldn't eat even if she isn't the biggest corn fan. I also brought a smaller cup for the twins with a lid just to avoid spilling the big cups of water. Our dessert was ice cream. They provided booster seats for the twins which was perfect to help them see better! Just be sure to ask.
|3yr old H. enjoying the tomato soup!
The show. I'll admit that I missed some of the story line because...well...kids. It has been many years since we had gone before. I think it was over 5 years ago at the Myrtle Beach location. It's been hard to get out much with the twins. There is now a Queen instead of a King. I won't spoil the story line, but there is still plenty of Knight fighting. The horses and Knight's did great. I may be a little biased, but our Knight, the Red Knight, was the best and he won too. I'm not sure how I'd feel if ours was the "not so nice" Knight.
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Gov. Palin Recommends Thomas Sowell's 2-Part Series on the Fiscal Cliff
Posted by Dr. Fay on December 6, 2012
Governor Palin posted links to 2 articles by Thomas Sowell on her Facebook page this morning.
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Thomas Sowell's Fiscal Cliff Notes Part 1…
townhall.comAmid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting..
From Part I of Thomas Sowell's series:
Fiscal Cliff Notes
Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting.
First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the top two percent will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the government for ten days.
And what will the government do to pay for the other 355 days in the year?
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting "the rich" to pay "their fair share" is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. Taxing "the rich" will produce a drop in the bucket when compared to the staggering and unprecedented deficits of the Obama administration.
No previous administration in the entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion dollar deficit. The Obama administration has done so every single year. Yet political and media discussions of the financial crisis have been focused overwhelmingly on how to get more tax revenue to pay for past and future spending.
The very catchwords and phrases used by the Obama administration betray how phony this all is. For example, "We are just asking the rich to pay a little more."
This is an insult to our intelligence. The government doesn't "ask" anybody to pay anything. It orders you to pay the taxes they impose and you can go to prison if you don't.
Then there are all the fancy substitute words for plain old spending– words like "stimulus" or "investing in the industries of the future."
The theory about "stimulus" is that government spending will stimulate private businesses and financial institutions to put more of their money into the economy, speeding up the recovery. But the fact that you call something a "stimulus" does not make it a stimulus.
Stimulus spending began during the Bush administration and has continued full blast during the Obama administration. But the end result is that both businesses and financial institutions have had record amounts of their own money sitting idle. The rate of circulation of money slowed down. All this is the opposite of stimulus.
What about "investing in the industries of the future"? Does the White House come equipped with a crystal ball? Calling government spending "investment" does not make it investment any more than calling spending "stimulus" makes it stimulate anything.
What in the world would lead anyone to think that politicians have some magic way of knowing what the industries of the future are? Thus far the Obama administration has repeatedly "invested" in the bankruptcies of the present, such as Solyndra.
Using lofty words to obscure tawdry realities extends beyond the White House. Referring to the Federal Reserve System's creation of hundreds of billions of new dollars out of thin air as "quantitative easing" makes it seem as if this is some soothing and esoteric process, rather than amounting essentially to nothing more than printing more money.
Debasing the value of money by creating more of it is nothing new or esoteric. Irresponsible governments have done this, not just for centuries, but for thousands of years.
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
All the pretty talk about how tax rates will be raised only on "the rich" hides the ugly fact that the poorest people in the country will see the value of their money decline, just like everybody else, and at the same rate as everybody else, when the government creates more money and spends it.
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Thomas Sowell's Fiscal Cliff Notes Part 2…
townhall.comOne of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media–
From Part II of Thomas Sowell's series:
Fiscal Cliff Notes: Part II
One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media– nor, apparently, by the Republicans.
A key lie that has been repeated over and over, largely unanswered, is that President Bush's "tax cuts for the rich" cost the government so much lost tax revenue that this added to the budget deficit– so that the government cannot afford to allow the cost of letting the Bush tax rates continue for "the rich."
It sounds very plausible, and constant repetition without a challenge may well be enough to convince the voting public that, if the Republican-controlled House of Representatives does not go along with Barack Obama's demands for more spending and higher tax rates on the top 2 percent, it just shows that they care more for "the rich" than for the other 98 percent.
What is remarkable is how easy it is to show how completely false Obama's argument is. That also makes it completely inexplicable why the Republicans have not done so.
The official statistics which show plainly how wrong Barack Obama is can be found in his own "Economic Report of the President" for 2012, on page 411. You can look it up.
You may be able to find a copy of the "Economic Report of the President" for 2012 at your local public library. Or you can buy a hard copy from the Government Printing Office or download an electronic version from the Internet.
For those who find that "a picture is worth a thousand words," they need only see the graphs published in the November 30th issue of Investor's Business Daily.
What both the statistical tables in the "Economic Report of the President" and the graphs in Investor's Business Daily show is that (1) tax revenues went up– not down– after tax rates were cut during the Bush administration, and (2) the budget deficit declined, year after year, after the cut in tax rates that have been blamed by Obama for increasing the deficit.
Indeed, the New York Times reported in 2006: "An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy is driving down the projected budget deficit this year."
While the New York Times may not have expected this, there is nothing unprecedented about lower tax rates leading to higher tax revenues, despite automatic assumptions by many in the media and elsewhere that tax rates and tax revenues automatically move in the same direction. They do not.
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
This has happened as recently as the George W. Bush administration and as far back as the Reagan administration. Moreover, tax revenues went up when tax rates went down, as far back as the Coolidge administration, before there was a Congressional Budget Office to make false predictions.
The bottom line is that Barack Obama's blaming increased budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts is demonstrably false. What caused the decreasing budget deficits after the Bush tax cuts to suddenly reverse and start increasing was the mortgage crisis. The deficit increased in 2008, followed by a huge increase in 2009.
So it is sheer hogwash that "tax cuts for the rich" caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. Moreover, "the rich" paid a larger amount of taxes, and a larger share of all taxes, after the tax rates were cut.
That is because people change their economic behavior when tax rates are changed, contrary to what the Congressional Budget Office and others seem to assume, and this can stimulate the economy more than a government "stimulus" has done under either Bush or Obama.
Yet there is no need to assume that Barack Obama is mistaken about the way to get the economy out of the doldrums. His top priority has always been increasing the size and scope of government. If that means sacrificing the economy or the truth, that is no deterrent to Obama. That is why he is willing to play chicken with Republicans along the fiscal cliff.
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Orlando Johnson scored 25 points and Alan Williams had a career-high 19 to pace UC Santa Barbara to an 85-70 Big West Conference win at Cal State Northridge on Thursday night.
The Gauchos (12-7 overall, 7-2 in the Big West) trailed the Matadors (6-14 overall, 2-7 in the Big West) 9-2 in the opening minutes before Johnson and Williams combined for all 15 points during a 15-4 run that gave them a 17-13 lead. UCSB built the lead to 13 points, 34-21, before settling for a 38-31 halftime lead. Johnson and Williams each finished with 13 points in the first 20 minutes.
Northridge started the second half with a 6-1 run to narrow the Gauchos' lead to 39-37 with 17:27 left in the game. Stephan Hicks, the Matadors leading scorer who was scoreless in the first half, scored all six points in the run.
Santa Barbara pushed the lead back to 47-38 on a three-pointer by James Nunnally with 16:10 left in the game, but a three by Vinnie McGhee narrowed it back to 47-41 with 15:56 to play.
The Gauchos then went on a decisive 10-2 run to break the game open. Jaimé Serna made a free throw line jumper, Taylor drilled a three-pointer from the left side and Serna took a perfect feed from Johnson for a slam dunk. After John Hayward-Mayhew made a short jumper to stem the tide, Johnson answered with a three-pointer from above the key, giving UCSB a 57-43 lead with 13:27 left.
The lead never dipped below 10 the rest of the way and got to 85-68 in the final minute.
Williams, a freshman, had a game-high nine rebounds to go with his 19 points. After a scoreless first half, Nunnally scored 14 points in the pivotal second half. Taylor, also a freshman, matched his career-high with five assists to go with six points and four rebounds.
As a team, the Gauchos shot 55.6% for the game, including a red-hot 68.0% in the second half. The Matadors shot 38.5% for the game and became the eighth opponent in nine league games to shoot below 40.0% against UCSB.
"It was a slow start, but I thought we played well tonight, particularly in the second half," said Gaucho head coach Bob Williams. "Any time you can play against their style and have only 10 turnovers, you've done something right."
Williams sited Taylor as one of the main reasons.
"For a freshman to come in here and face the type of pressure they put on you and turn the ball over only once, that's outstanding, he said.
Josh Greene had 15 points and a team-high seven rebounds while Hicks finished with 12 points for Northridge.
UCSB has now won three straight games and five of the last six.
Santa Barbara remains on the road for one more, traveling to Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, Feb. 4 for a 6:00 p.m. game that will be televised on ESPNU. The Gauchos return home on Saturday, Feb. 11 for a 7:30 p.m. game against UC Riverside. The game against the Highlanders will be televised on Prime Ticket.
All Gaucho games are broadcast live on KZSB AM 1290 in Santa Barbara. The pregame show starts 30 minutes before the opening tip. Gerry Fall, The Voice of the Gauchos, calls all the action with former UCSB and Los Angeles Laker Don Ford handling the color. Santa Barbara News-Press Senior Sports Writer Mark Patton lends his insight to the pregame and halftime shows. The broadcast can also be accessed live online by clicking here.


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Q: Why do I need to test for carbonate hardness in my lake or pond? – Jose in Michigan
A: A number of pond treatments, including some algae-control formulas and other herbicides, contain copper. In certain conditions, the copper chelate may break down and release copper ions, which could cause your pond or lake's alkalinity to rise.
If you use these treatments in a pond or lake stocked with trout, koi or goldfish that are sensitive to high alkalinity levels, you need to test your hardness regularly to ensure the health of your fish population.
What is Carbonate Hardness?
Carbonate hardness, or alkalinity, is the measure of carbonate and bicarbonate concentrations in your pond or lake's water. Alkalinity is a measure of the ability of a solution to neutralize acid without changing the pH. It both controls and maintains water pH.
Alkalinity is related to the amount of dissolved calcium, magnesium and other compounds in the water, so alkalinity tends to be higher in harder water. It naturally decreases over time through bacterial action that produces acidic compounds that combine with and reduce the alkalinity components.
In a pond or lake, the alkalinity of the water is critical to the health of the fish – especially for trout, koi and goldfish. For these fish, the carbonate hardness of your pond or lake must exceed 50 ppm for the fish to survive, ideally falling between 50 ppm and 200 ppm.
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Carbonate hardness is measured in degrees (KH) or in parts per million (ppm). Because the water hardness test kit will give its results in degrees, you'll need to convert your findings from KH to ppm to determine whether the levels in your lake are safe for your fish. Use this formula to figure it out: 1 KH = 17.848 ppm. So if your test kit reads 5 KH, you would multiply 5 times 17.848, which equals 89.24 ppm.
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My own Sweet darling,
Yesterday (Sunday) I determined to go out to the
Battery and see if any one had received letters from Oxford, of later date
than mine, (June 13th) for I was very anxious to hear from home. I
rode to the camp of the Artillery, about three miles from here, but
was disappointed in seeing any members of the battery, for
they went to the river on picket the day before. On my return to
camps I found two letters for me from my darling wife and
you may be assured that they were welcome messengers – one [was]
dated June 19th and the other the 26th, also one enclosed from
Dr. Harper. Many thanks darling for your kind and loving letters –
I began to think I was almost forgotten at home, for you know
love is jealous, but your letters dear fully satisfy me that my
treasured wife is ever mindful of her absent husband. I hope
dear you are receiving my letters regularly, although I fear not, for the
mails are very uncertain but you may feel confident my sweet one
that I shall write you at least once every week whither I receive
your letters promptly or not – I don't know what I will do when you
go to Locust Grove, for your letters have been so much comfort to me
that it will be very hard for me to reconcile myself to the
deprivation, yet I have not doubt there will be less difficulty
in your sending them than you will have in receiving mine.
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Reed considers slider vital to second-year success
CHICAGO -- Addison Reed threw six sliders and nine fastballs Monday in his 15-pitch save to preserve a 1-0 Opening Day win against the Royals.
A slider induced a game-ending groundout to shortstop from Jeff Francoeur, stranding Eric Hosmer at second base as the tying run. To have even greater success than his single-season franchise rookie record 29 saves in 2012, Reed knows mixing in the slider will play an important role, even if those sliders Monday weren't perfect in his mind.
"It felt good. It's just that I was yanking off on it," said Reed, who threw sliders on 13.8 percent of his pitches last year, according to fangraphs.com. "I know exactly what I was doing. It felt good in the 'pen.
"When I got out there on the mound in the game situation, I was trying to do too much. Just transfer what I'm doing in the bullpen to the mound, and I think everything will be fine."
Although he didn't use any changeups to shut down the Royals in Game 1, Reed certainly hasn't dropped that pitch from his repertoire.
"No, that's still in there. If the situation comes up, I'm going to use it, but I'm still throwing and working on it," Reed said. "With anybody, a well-located fastball is the best pitch, even if the hitter knows it's coming. If you can locate it any time, that's your best weapon right there."
"If you throw about 96 [mph] with a cutter, you can survive a long time," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura, referring to Yankees closer Mariano Rivera and his primary pitch. "But again, it's a tough role. Not only the physical stuff of what you do, but the mental stuff that goes with it. You have to have both of them to be in that role, and Addison has the stuff to do it. It's just getting out there and getting comfortable."


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Drug testing is becoming more and more common in our society, and false positive results can have a devastating impact on an innocent person's career. Have you heard rumors that eating poppy seed pastries can cause positive test results for heroin? It's true! Opiates (such as heroine, morphine, and codeine) can be found in urine samples for as long as two days after eating poppy seed-containing foods, and for up to 60 hours if large quantities of the seeds are consumed. Hair analysis is a more accurate, but less commonly used method of testing for recent heroin use: in a hair analysis, a false positive test would not occur after eating poppy seed pastries.
Evidence for the Health Claim
Heroin is a derivative of morphine, the active ingredient in opium which is obtained from the opium poppy. Heroin also contains acetylcodeine, which your body converts to codeine. Traces of both morphine and codeine can also be found in the poppy seeds which are commonly used as ingredients in a variety of baked goods.
Until December 1, 1998, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) had set the cut-off concentration level for opiate urine tests at 300 ng/ml for the Federal Workplace Drug Testing Program. But this standard urine screening was not able to reliably differentiate between poppy seed eaters and opiate users based on concentration levels of opiates. That's because eating a poppy seed bagel will produce an opiate level of approximately 250 ng/ml three hours later, and ingesting three teaspoons of poppy seeds can result in a level of 1,200 ng/ml six hours later.
Studies have been conducted worldwide to verify the validity of what has been called "the poppy seed defense." In a variety of studies, subjects have shown initially negative test results for opiates, followed by positive results only a few hours later after having consumed cakes, rolls, muffins, bread, or bagels containing poppy seeds.
One high-profile demonstration of the validity of poppy seed drug test claims was conducted by the Discovery Channel television program called "Mythbusters." One participant ate a poppy seed cake and tested positive for opiates a ½-hour later. The other participant ate three poppy seed bagels and tested positive two hours later. Both parties continued to test positive for 16 hours.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) conducted a study that examined the results of 317,500 urine specimens that were tested for opiates and reviewed by three Medical Review Officer (MRO) groups, as well as 1.1 million specimens from five certified laboratories. The MRO's reportedly reversed 87% of all the positive urinalysis test results due to false positives attributed to poppy seed ingestion, prescription medication, or other reasons.
The laboratory results showed that approximately 81% of the specimens that tested positive for codeine and morphine had concentration levels under 2,000 ng/ml. As a result, NIDA guidelines have been amended and cut-off levels for opiates have been increased to 2,000 ng/ml. The US military has set the cut-off level at 3,000 ng/ml to avoid false positive results.
Evidence Against the Health Claim
Hair analysis is a more accurate means of testing for heroin use as it is impossible for poppy seed ingestion to produce a false positive result. That's because the opioid in poppy seeds does not stay in the bloodstream long enough or in high enough concentrations to be trapped inside hair follicles in measurable quantities.
Also, heroin can be best identified by the presence of the distinct heroin metabolite called 6-O-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM). The new NIDA guidelines require testing for the 6-MAM metabolite in urine. However, heroin is metabolized quickly in the body, so 6-MAM's presence can only be detected through a urine test on the same day that a person used heroin. This makes the likelihood of identifying heroin users through urine testing very poor. But 6-MAM is identifiable in the hair for months.
Recently there has been extensive research on the use of saliva in drug testing. The advantage is obvious, as the ease with which a sample can be collected makes it a really attractive for testing. Oral fluid drug testing is already used in the transportation and insurance industries. It will likely be introduced in the other places, as well. The major disadvantage of such testing is that it does not provide historical information about drug usage, as drugs disappear from saliva within hours of usage.
Some organizations have decided not to take any chances with poppy seeds and drug testing. Federal prisons do not allow prisoners to eat poppy seeds and require prisoners to sign a form agreeing to abstain from eating poppy seed products while taking authorized leaves of absence. Because different organizations may use different guidelines for testing, before you take a drug test, think about your recent poppy seed consumption. Maybe today is a good day to try a sesame seed bagel!


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As the title suggests, one of the challenges of new Netezza users is in learning about the product, what it can (and doesn't) do, and how it applies in data warehousing. When I first published the book (Netezza Underground on Amazon.com) the impetus for the effort was just that - people asking me lots of questions leading to fairly repetitive and predictable answers. It's an appliance after all. We can apply it to a multiplicative array of solutions but on the inside, certain things stand out as immutable truths.
Of course, lots of folks are running around down here in the catacombs, convincing people that they need to read the glowing glyphs on the ancient stone walls as guides on their quest for more information. This is entirely unnecessary. The title of the book (and the blog) is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the way that some might spin the story on the machine in their own favor. Some might claim that we need lots of consulting hours to roll out the simplest solution. Consultants can help, of course (I'm one of them). But it depends on the spin and the tale that is told, that will determine the magnitude and expense of those consultants..
I'll try to provide a balance that delivers value without extraordinary expense. Yet another source of misinformation is Netezza's competitors, who like to toss "innocent" bombs here and there to direct people down the path toward their own product. All is fair in business and war, as they say, but as we bring these issues out of the darkness and into the light, the objective is to become more informed.
I am neither a Netezza nor IBM employee, so apart from compensation for actual work performed in rolling out solutions, for which people would pay me regardless of technology, I don't have any other relationship with these companies. I am a huge fan of the Netezza product and architecture and make no secret of this.
So some may have come here to ask questions about the technology or read what some seasoned experts have to say. We can do all that and a lot more. For now, let's look at the counter-intuitive nature of the product's internals.
I'll paint an imaginary picture first. Let's say we have two boxes. In one box we have thirty-two circles and in the second box we have thirty-two drums. The circles are CPUs and the drums are disk drives. They are in separate boxes, and now we draw a pipeline between them. Make it as large as you want. This depicts a standard SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processor) hardware architecture that is the common platform for data warehousing. With the exception of Teradata and Netezza, this hardware configuration is ubiquitous.
Now let's draw another mental picture. This time we'll have one box. Each of the circles will be mated with one of the drums. Now we have thirty-two circle/drum combinations. In the Netezza machine each of these is called a SPU (snippet processing unit) and represent the CPU coupled with a dedicated disk drive. Some additional hardware exists to coordinate and accelerate this combination, but this is a simplified mental depiction of the fundamental difference between the prior SMP configuration and Netezza's, an MPP (Massively Parallel Processor) configuration.
Now I used thirty-two as a simple example. In reality, Netezza can host hundreds of these cpu/disk combinations, the largest standalone frame containing over eight hundred of them, scaling to over a petabyte in storage capacity. Those of us who regularly operate on these machines are accustomed to loading, scanning and processing data by the terabyte, the smallest tables in the tens of billions of rows.
Some notes on the difference in their operation:
SMP: Table exists logically in the database, but physically on the file system in a monolithic or contiguous table space.
MPP: Table exists logically in the database, but is physically spread out across all the SPUS. If we have 100 SPUs and want to load a table with 100,000 records, each SPU will receive 1000 records.
SMP: SQL statements are executed by the "machine" as a whole, sharing CPUs and drives. While the SQL operations may be logically and functionally "shared nothing" - the hardware is "shared-everything". In fact, CPUs could have other responsibilities too, which have no bearing on completing a SQL statement operation. In the above example, the SMP has to access the file system, draw the data into memory nearest the CPUs, then perform operations on the data. Copying data, for example, would mean drawing all the data from the tablespace into the CPUs and then pushing back down into another tablespace, but both tablespaces are on the same shared disk array.
MPP: SQL Statements are sent to all CPUs simultaneously, so all are working together to close the request. In the above example, each SPU only has to deal with 1000 records. Unlike an SMP, the data is already nearest the CPU so it doesn't have to go anywhere. The CPU can act directly on the data and coordinate as necessary with other CPUs. Copying data for example, means that the 1000 rows is copied to a locaton on the local drive. If 100 CPUs perform this simultaneously, the data is copied 100 times faster and it never leaves the disks.
SMP: Lots of overhead, knobs and tuning to make it go and keep it going. From the verbosity of the DDL to the declaration of index structures, table spaces and the like.
MPP: (Netezza) the overhead of adminstration is hidden from the user. In the above example, the user need only declare, load and utilize the table, not be concerned about managing the SPUs or disk allocation. The user's only concern is in aligning the data content with the hardware architecture, an easy task to perform and an easy state to maintain.
SMP: SQL-transforms, therefore, the insert/select operations that run so slow on an SMP platform, continue to run slow, and slower as data is added. They are not a viable option so usually would not occur to us to leverage them otherwise.
MPP: SQL-transforms leverage the MPP and do not slow as the data grows.
In fact, many people purchase the Netezza platform in context of its competitors, who don't (nor can they) use SQL transforms to affect data after arrival.
If we purchase Netezza as a load-and-query platform only, we have missed a special capability of the machine that differentiates it from the other products. If we leverage this power, we re-balance the workload of the overworked ETL tools, in some cases eliminating them altogether. Netezza calls this practice "bringing everything under air", that is, bring the data as-is into the machine and do the heavy-lifting transforms after it's inside.
The Brightlight Accelerator Framework is one example of a flow-based, run-time harness for deploying high-performance, metadata-driven SQL-transforms. While we have matured this capability over time, the consistency of the Netezza platform is the key to its success.
SMP:Scalability is through extreme engineering, leading to hardware upgrade.
MPP:Scalability is a function of data organization as it leverages the hardware's power. Upgrading hardware is therefore rarely the first option of choice.
SMP:Constrained by index structures and the shared-everything hardware architecture through which all data must pass
MPP:Constrained by human imagination, not index structures (there aren't any) and no shared hardware.
We have noted that with traditional SMP architectures, when the machine starts to run out of power, engineers will swarm the machine and start to instantiate exotic data structures and concepts that serve only as performance props, not the 'elegant' model once installed by the master modelers. As the box continues to decline, more engineering ensues, eliciting even stranger approaches to data storage and management. Soon it becomes so functionally brittle that it cannot handle any more functionality, so people resort to workarounds and bolt-ons. Functionality that should be a part of the solution is now outside of it, and functionality that never should have been inside (mainly for performance) has taken up permanent residence.
In a Netezza machine we have so much power available that traditional modeling approaches (e.g. 3NF and Dimensional) may have a defacto home, but now we can examine and deploy other concepts that may be more useful and scalable. Approaches that we never had the opportunity to examine before, because the modeling tool did not (and does not) support it and the natural constraints of the SMP-based engine artificially constrain us to index-based data management.
In addition, the Netezza machine operates on a counter-intuitive principle of finding information based on "where not to look". With this principle, let's say we have a terabyte of data and we know where our necessary information is, based on where-not-to-look. See how this won't change even if we add hundreds of terabytes to the system? If I add another 99 terabytes to the same system, the query will still return with the same answer in the same duration, because the data I'm looking for doesn't appear in those 99 terabytes and the machine already knows this.
For example, if we go over to Wal-Mart and we know where the kiosk is for the special-buys-of-the-day, we can find this easily. It's in a familiar location. What if tomorrow they expand the same Wal-Mart to ten times its current size? Will it affect how long it takes me to find that kiosk? Clearly not. Netezza operates the same way, in that no matter how much data we add, we don't have to worry about scanning through all of it to find the answer.
And when it boils down to basics, the where-not-to-look is the only way to scale. No other engine, especially not one that is completely dependent upon index structures to locate information, can scale to the same heights as Netezza.
Well, some of the stuff above is provocative and may elicit commentary. I'll continue to post as time progresses, so the data won't seem so much like underground information, after a while anyhow.


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Wall Street extended gains after the US House voted in favour of a plan that allows the Treasury to borrow beyond the US$16.4 trillion limit until May 19 to avoid the threat of default.
Republicans are seeking cuts to spending in return.
"The bill we are passing today, we think, will give us the ability to have a debate that will last a number of months about contrasting visions," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan told reporters before the vote, Reuters reported.
"We see this as a very defining moment for this session of Congress and our caucus on getting a down payment on the debt crisis, on averting it," Ryan said.
Earnings also helped propel gains. Shares of Google, IBM and Advanced Micro Devices rallied on earnings that surpassed expectations, last up 6.3 per cent, 4.9 per cent and 10 per cent respectively.
Sales forecasts of Texas Instruments, however, missed the boat, sending its shares 1.1 per cent lower. So did Coach and its shares sank more than 15 per cent as a result.
Apple is set to report earnings after the market close today. Its shares were last up 1.3 per cent at US$510.84, well below the record US$705.07 reached in September 2012.
"Pretty much all eyes are on Apple to see what they are going to do this evening. What happened to Apple is they had some misses in the second and third quarters of 2012 and the explanation was anticipation of the new iPhone 5, so this quarter they really have to deliver on that story," Troy Logan, managing director and senior economist at Warren Financial Service in Exton, Pennsylvania, told Reuters.
Of the 99 S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings so far, 67.7 per cent have topped expectations, above the 62 per cent average since 1994 and the 65 per cent average over the past four quarters, according to Thomson Reuters data.
In afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.53 per cent, while the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.38 per cent, and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.09 per cent.
In Europe, the Stoxx 600 Index finished the day with a 0.2 per cent increase from the previous close. National benchmark indexes in the UK and Germany gained as well, rising 0.3 per cent and 0.2 per cent respectively.
Spain's recession worsened in the final three months of 2013. Gross domestic product shrank 0.6 per cent in the last quarter of 2012 from the previous three months, according to an estimate by the Bank of Spain.
The International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for global economic growth to 3.5 per cent, from 3.6 per cent previously. In the update of its World Economic Outlook report, the IMF predicted the euro-zone economy will contract 0.2 per cent this year, compared with an October forecast for 0.2 per cent expansion.


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As the "Occupy Wall Street" movement catches fire, spreading copycat protests to towns and regions all over the globe, organizers and supporters say the mainstream media are not keeping pace.
Current TV's Keith Olbermann lashed out at what he called a "media blackout" more than a week ago, and activist Michael Moore joined him two days later to rail against traditional media's scant spotlight on the nascent protest movement.
But, polemics aside, is it really true that this revolution is not being televised? It turns out there are objective reasons the decentralized movement, which is protesting what it says is the undue political influence of major financial firms, has not generated more and better coverage.
According to the New York Observer, which has been keeping tabs on the media coverage of the Occupy actions, both broadcast and print media have been present from the inception, with ABC posting a blog and the local CBS affiliate airing a short clip on Sept. 17, the first day the group encamped around New York's financial center.
Fox News, too, aired a bit about the anti-Wall Street activists on Day 1.
Tom Rosenstiel, director of The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) at the Pew Research Center, notes that coverage of the events involving the Occupy protests represented 12 percent of the economic stories, or about 2 percent of all the news studied in PEJ's News Coverage Index last week.
"It is complicated and probably fraught to compare different news events that occur years apart," he says via e-mail, "but that is more than the tea party received initially when it held its first rallies in February 2009."
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However, the Observer points out, coverage is missing the bigger picture in favor of the simple narrative, noting, "when the shows started interviewing protesters, they were more focused on the actions of the police than what the protesters were fighting about." This includes the YouTube video of a New York policeman pepper-spraying young women and the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge over this past weekend.
No surprises there, says Mark Naison, a history professor at Fordham University in New York, who argues that broadcast media favor simple visual narratives. If the imagery does not lend itself to a quick explanation, and the subjects themselves intentionally represent many points of view, as is the case with the Occupy movements, then the journalist's task becomes complicated.
"The media has focused on the pepper spray incidents and the arrests on the bridge because these are familiar to them," he says, noting that there were issues of police mishandling of protesters in New York City when the Republican National Convention was held there in 2004.
But, he notes, the protesters themselves are not familiar.
"Middle-class, educated young people, many of them clearly countercultural in appearance – dreadlocks, tattoos, multicolored hair, etc., – all camping out in the heart of a city's financial district, is not something anyone expected to see in the US," he says. This is more familiar in Europe and Latin America, he notes, "but not in the USA."
There is confusion, he says, adding that people are wondering, "Where did they come from? Why are they doing this?"
What reporters for the print and broadcast media are only now starting to grasp as this spreads nationwide, says Professor Naison, is how many middle-class college-age kids in the US can't find jobs that secure middle-class status.
"In fact, there are enough of them to fuel a pretty big protest movement," he says.
If the Occupy groups desire better mainstream media attention, they need to polish their communication skills, says Richard Goedkoop, a communications professor at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
"Part of its initial problem in gaining media coverage was its lack of a charismatic and quotable leader, which would allow news outlets to cover more than groups of (mostly) young people in centers of commerce," he says via e-mail.
"Another problem is that the message behind these demonstrations have not been very quotable and precise," he says. "What are they about? What do they specifically want?"
While news coverage is building, there could be more, he notes. "Supporters cynically might choose to blame it on the conglomerates that own these media organizations: Comcast, News Corp., Disney, etc."
Because the brunt of the message is actually about them, he asks, "Is it in their best corporate interest to inform the public about their own failings?"
But if coverage is in fact skimpy, the reasons are likely more prosaic, says Mark Tatge, Pulliam distinguished professor of journalism at DePauw University in Indiana.
"The media that would normally cover this – mainstream media – is under severe economic pressure," he says, pointing out that upwards of 30 percent of the reporters and editors who used to work for newspapers, TV stations, and magazines have been laid off.
"Ironically," he adds, "some of these layoffs come at the hands of Wall Street investors who wanted fatter profit margins from media companies."
If this says anything about media it is this, says Professor Tatge: "We are getting less coverage about events that predict or foreshadow what is yet to come."


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Walt "Clyde" Frazier and John Sterling, for better or worse, respectively, are two of New York's most recognizable sportscasters. Sterling has called literally every Yankees game in my lifetime, and Frazier has been on Knicks games even longer. Putting these men in a booth together in 2011 would be some combination of redundant, horrifying, and wonderful. Think rhyming, personalized slam-dunk calls or thesaurus-aided Joe Torre hero worship.
But back in the late '80s, Clyde and Sterling were the Hawks' TV broadcasting team, and managed to call a shootout between Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins. You'd think that the synergy of excitement and verbosity would have leveled the building, but they seem relatively reserved. Sterling appears to know his basketball, casually identifying a 2-2-1 trap as it forms. He's still Sterling, though, as you can tell by his "Bulls-eye!" for big Hawks baskets. In any case, I think it's time for a reunion. Throw Barkley and Gus Johnson in there, too, and duck for cover.
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Harvey Unga, BYU's leading rusher, is withdrawing from school. So is his girlfriend, basketball player Keilani Moeaki. They're leaving because of a violation of BYU's notoriously strict honor code. Let's speculate!
Not many details in the BYU press release. Unga, who opted to forgo the NFL draft to return for his senior season, and Moeaki "made the decision to withdraw as a result of a violation of the BYU honor code." No one's spilling the dirt, but their respective coaches seem concerned about their personal issues:
I fully support Harvey and his decision regarding his personal situation," BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall said. "The possibility of not having Harvey on the field in the fall would certainly have an impact on our team, but my main concern right now is in supporting Harvey."
"Keilani has been a valuable contributor to our team the past three years," BYU women's basketball coach Jeff Judkins said. "She has my support while she takes time to address some important personal matters."
That honor code is rough, so let's admit it could be just about anything. Maybe they were caught sharing a soda (no caffeine). Maybe they bought matching tank tops (no sleveless shirts). Maybe they failed to get the endorsement of a bishop that's required to continue at BYU (seriously).
But when the two of them withdraw at the same time, we've got to assume it was something carnal. Sex out of wedlock is a huge no-no, but that's something private. How would they even get caught?
Perhaps they were doing it in public. Unlikely. Perhaps he was bragging about landing Keilani Moeaki. Very likely, judging from her photo.
Or perhaps someone is with child. (We've heard from multiple BYU sources who confirm that this is the most prevalent rumor on campus.)
Hey, we're not saying that's what happened. Like we said, we're just speculating. But if you go to BYU, and you've heard any dirt, please do send it our way. I checked; there's no mention of Deadspin in the honor code.
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