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VALUE-BASED, DEPENDENCY-AWARE INSPECTION AND TEST PRIORITIZATION by Qi Li A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Qi Li
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|As two of the most popular defect removal activities, Inspection and Testing are of the most labor-intensive activities in software development life cycle and consumes between 30% and 50% of total development costs according to many studies. However, most of the current defect removal strategies treat all instances of software artifacts as equally important in a value-neutral way; this becomes more risky for high-value software under limited funding and competitive pressures. ❧ In order to save software inspection and testing effort to further improve affordability and timeliness while achieving acceptable software quality, this research introduces a value-based, dependency-aware inspection and test prioritization strategy for improving the lifecycle cost-effectiveness of software defect removal options. This allows various defect removal types, activities, and artifacts to be ranked by how well they reduce risk exposure. Combining this with their relative costs enables them to be prioritized in terms of Return On Investment (ROI) or Risk Reduction Leverage (RRL). Furthermore, this strategy enables organizations to deal with two types of common dependencies among items to be prioritized. This strategy will help project managers determine "how much software inspection/testing is enough?" under time and budget constraints. Besides, a new metric Average Percentage of Business Importance Earned (APBIE) is proposed to measure how quickly testing can reduce the quality uncertainty and earn the relative business importance of the System Under Test (SUT). ❧ This Value-Based, Dependency-Aware Inspection and Testing strategy has been empirically studied and successfully applied on a series of case studies within different prioritization granularity levels: (1). Prioritizing artifacts to be reviewed in 21 graduate-level, real-client software engineering course projects; (2). Prioritizing testing scenarios to be applied in an industrial project at the acceptance testing phase in Galorath, Inc.; (3). Prioritizing software features to be functionally tested in an industrial project in the China-NFS company; (4). Prioritizing test cases to be executed in 18 course projects. All the comparative statistics analysis from the four case studies show positive results from applying the Value-Based, Dependency-Aware strategy.
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|VALUE-BASED, DEPENDENCY-AWARE INSPECTION AND TEST PRIORITIZATION by Qi Li A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Qi Li


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As activities in our world become more integrated, the rate of data growth is increasing exponentially. This data explosion is referred to as big data, which renders current data management methods inadequate. IBM® is preparing the next generation of technology to meet these data management challenges.
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Business value
IBM InfoSphere BigInsights makes it simpler to use Apache Hadoop and to build big data applications. It enhances this open source technology to withstand enterprise demands, by adding administrative, workflow, provisioning, and security features, in addition to best-in-class analytical capabilities from IBM Research. The result is a more developer-friendly and user-friendly solution for complex, large-scale analytics.
By using InfoSphere BigInsights, enterprises of all sizes can cost effectively manage and analyze the massive volume, variety, and velocity of data that consumers and businesses create every day. InfoSphere BigInsights can help increase operational efficiency by augmenting the data warehouse environment. You can use it as an archive that can be queried so that you can store and analyze large volumes of multistructured data without straining the data warehouse. You can also use it as a preprocessing hub so that you can explore your data, determine what is the most valuable, and extract that data cost effectively. In addition, you can use it for ad hoc analysis so that you can perform analysis on all of your data.
The InfoSphere BigInsights offering provides a packaged Apache Hadoop distribution, a simplified installation of Hadoop, and corresponding open source tools for application development, data movement, and cluster management. InfoSphere BigInsights also provides more options for data security, which is frequently a concern for anyone who is contemplating incorporating new technology into their data management ecosystem. InfoSphere BigInsights is a component of the IBM Big Data Platform and, therefore, provides potential integration points with the other components of the platform including the data warehouse, data integration, and governance engines, and third-party data analytics tools. The stack includes tools for built-in analytics of text, natural language processing, and spreadsheet-like data discovery and exploration.
Solution overview
These days, high velocity data sources, such as streaming video or sensor data, continuously send data 24x7. When considering current data warehouse and analytics-intensive environments, data volume is a key factor. Considering that, now and in the future, we will be working with hundreds of terabytes (and in many cases petabytes (PB)), this data has to reside somewhere.
Some might say big data can be addressed by the data warehouse. They might suggest that their data warehouse works fine for collection and analysis of structured data and that their solution works well for their unstructured data needs. Although traditional data warehouses do have a role in the big data solution space, they are now a foundational piece of a larger solution. A consideration in data warehouse environments is the I/O that is required for reading massive amounts of data from storage for processing within the data warehouse database server. The ability of servers to process this data is not usually a factor because they typically have significant amounts of RAM and processor power, parallelizing tasks across the computing resources of the server. Many vendors have developed data warehouse appliances and appliance-like platforms (called data warehouse platforms), specifically for the analytics-intensive workload of large data warehouses. IBM Netezza® and IBM Smart Analytics Systems are examples of these types of platforms.
Although these data warehouse platforms are optimized for analytics-intensive workloads, they are highly specialized systems and are not cheap. At the rate that data continues to grow, it is feasible to speculate that many organizations will need petabyte-scale data warehouse systems in the next 2 - 5 years. For example, HD video generates about 1 GB of data per minute of video, which translates to 1.5 TB of data that is generated daily per camera. If five cameras are in use, 7.5 TB per day are being generated, which extrapolates to 2.52 PB/year.
You could be adding over 2 PB of data annually to your warehouse that is separate from typical day-to-day, business-centric data systems on which you might already be capturing and performing analytics. The costs of capturing and analyzing big data swell quickly. What if you could use commodity hardware as a foundation for storing data? What if you could use the resources of this hardware to filter data, and then use your existing data warehouse to process the remaining data for its business value? That approach could be more cost effective than expanding your data warehouse platform to a size large enough to perform analytics on all of the data.
Solution architecture
The IBM InfoSphere BigInsights solution is based on the widely used Hadoop framework. Fundamentally, Hadoop consists of two components: a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which provides a way to store data, and MapReduce, which is a way of processing data in a distributed manner. These components were developed by the open source community based on documents that were published by Google in an attempt to overcome the problems faced when trying to deal with an overwhelming volume of data. Google published papers on its approach to resolve these issues. Then, Yahoo! started work on an open source equivalent named after a child's toy elephant called Hadoop.
Hadoop consists of many connected computers, called DataNodes, that store data on their local file system and process the data as directed by a central management node. The management nodes consist of the following processes:
- NameNode
This process maintains the metadata that relates to where the data is stored on the DataNodes. When a job is submitted, this metadata is accessed to locate the data blocks that are needed by the job. The NameNode is also used, and the metadata is updated if data is saved. No other processing during a MapReduce is carried out on the NameNode. Depending on the version of Hadoop that you are running, the NameNode can be a single point of failure within the Hadoop cluster, and the cluster requires manual intervention if it fails.
- Secondary NameNode
The Secondary NameNode holds a checkpoint of the metadata on the NameNode and an "edits" file that logs all changes that are made to the locations of the data. This process is not a redundancy for the NameNode but significantly speeds up the process should the NameNode fail.
- JobTracker
When a MapReduce job is submitted, the JobTracker decides on which nodes the work is to be carried out. The JobTracker coordinates the distributed processing to ensure that nodes local to the data start to carry out the map and reduce functions. Where possible, the JobTracker also ensures that work is carried out simultaneously over multiple nodes.
- TaskTracker
Each DataNode has a TaskTracker, whose role is to accept jobs from the JobTracker and create a Java virtual machine (JVM) process to do each task.
Figure 2 illustrates the processes within the Hadoop architecture.
Figure 2. Hadoop architecture
HDFS stores the data in Hadoop by using the following approach:
- When a file is saved in HDFS, it is broken down into blocks with any remainder data occupying the final block.
The size of the block depends on the way that HDFS is configured. At the time of writing, the default block size for Hadoop is 64 MB. To improve performance for larger files, InfoSphere BigInsights changes this setting at the time of installation to 128 MB per block.
- Each block is sent to a different DataNode and written to the hard disk drive (HDD).
- After the DataNode writes the file to disk, it sends the data to a second DataNode where the file is written.
- The second DataNode sends the data to a third DataNode.
- The third node confirms the completion of the write to the second node and then to the first node.
- The NameNode is then notified, and the block write is complete.
After all blocks are written successfully, the result is a file broken down into blocks with a copy of each block on three DataNodes. The location of all of this data is stored in memory by the NameNode.
Figure 3 illustrates this approach.
Figure 3. HDFS process
Usage scenarios
If someone says they like your product, what is that statement worth to you? What actions would you take upon learning this information? How much would you pay to learn it? You need a deeper level of understanding, in context, and within a period where responding makes business sense. Today's social media data flow can help.
As an example, consider the IBM big data platform and the results of an effort with a company that makes movies. By using InfoSphere BigInsights as a starting point, a connection is made to multiple social media aggregators. Instead of collecting data manually from each website, the aggregators perform this action from thousands to millions of websites everyday. With this approach, the focus is on the analysis instead of the collection of the data. Comments and details are pulled from the web through these aggregators to collect text-based comments for over 130 movie titles as a baseline.
After the comments are collected, they are processed by the InfoSphere BigInsights text analytics engine to determine sentiment (good or bad) and additional levels of information, including demographics and more detailed topics about the movie trailer. For example, such comments as "the plot was confusing" or "I liked the music a lot" are discovered automatically in the data at rest. The marketing department can use more details, such as "plot" and "music," to change their message by tweaking the movie trailer before the release of the movie.
When it comes to running an advertisement (movie trailer) during a large event, such as a professional football championship game, the stakes are even higher. Typically, the cost for running an ad is high. If the advertisement (ad) is not received well, the cost can go beyond just the expense of running the ad. If you know in real time that the plot was confusing for ad #1, you might run a tweaked ad #2 later in the show to win your viewers back almost immediately.
Figure 4 provides an overview of the data flow and processing.
Figure 4. Usage scenario with social media data
The data from the social media aggregators flows into the big data platform. The need to gauge the positive and negative details about the trailer are determined and displayed on a real-time dashboard. Next, the raw data is stored in InfoSphere BigInsights for future processing. This area provides the baseline for the quantity of comments for each detailed topic. Then, depending on the details in the text data, the demographic data is stored in the IBM Netezza 1000 system as structured data. This type of data is analyzed by using IBM Cognos software to produce reports for users to gain a better understanding of the audience that is commenting on their marketing efforts.
This solution is also beneficial in the following use cases:
- Transportation, by incorporating traffic data, weather patterns, logistics, and fuel consumption to optimize travel logistics
- Utilities
By incorporating weather and energy usage patterns, they can continually update the efficiency of power generation. By monitoring energy usage patterns and weather data, they can decipher the best way to incorporate reusable and renewable energy sources (for example, wind and solar).
- Law enforcement, by implementing for real-time, multimodal surveillance
- Rapid detection of cyber security breaches (computer forensics, real-time monitoring of cameras, situational awareness)
- Information technology (IT)
- Analysis of historical log data to discover past data breaches or vulnerabilities
- Analysis of log data across the entire data center for indications of the overall health of the data center
- Financial services
- Analytics of customer data to determine behavior patterns
- Detection of incidences of potential identity theft or fraud
- Improvement of risk management models through the incorporation of additional data, such as a change in a life situation
The following products (shown in Figure 4) are among other IBM products that can be used for a comprehensive BigInsights solution:
- IBM InfoSphere Streams
InfoSphere Streams can perform analytics on continuously streaming data before it lands inside a data warehouse. InfoSphere Streams computing is ideal for high-velocity big data where the ability to recognize and react to events in real time is helpful.
- IBM Cognos
Cognos can analyze structured data and produce reports for users for a better understanding of events.
- IBM Big Sheets
IBM Big Sheets is a browser-based analytics tool to extend the scope of your business intelligence data. With Big Sheets, you can easily view and interact with massive amounts of data into consumable, situation-specific business contexts.
- IBM Netezza
The IBM Netezza 1000 appliance is designed for rapid and deep analysis of data volumes that scale into PB, delivering a performance improvement of 10 - 100 times, at a fraction of the cost of other options.
Supported platforms
This solution is supported by platforms with the following features:
- x86 64-bit systems with a minimum of 4-GB memory
- Minimum 40 GB of disk storage
The following reference architecture is supported:
- Management node: IBM System x3550 M4
- Data node: IBM System x3630 M4
Ordering information
This product is available only through IBM Passport Advantage®. It is not available as a shrink wrapped product.
- License function title: BigInsights
- Product group: IBM InfoSphere
Table 1 shows the ordering information.
Table 1. Ordering part number and feature code
|Program name
|PID number
|IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition V2.0
Related information
For more information, see the following documents:
- Implementing IBM InfoSphere BigInsights on System x, SG24-8077
- Big data
- BigInsights product page
- IBM Offering Information page (to search on announcement letters, sales manuals, or both):
On this page, enter InfoSphere BigInsights, select the information type, and then click Search. On the next page, narrow your search results by geography and language.
- BigInsights Information Center Page
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WASHINGTON — The huge explosion that destroyed a major missile-testing site near Tehran three weeks ago was a major setback for Iran's most advanced long-range missile program, according to American and Israeli intelligence officials and missile technology experts.
In interviews, current and former officials said surveillance photos showed that the Iranian base was a central testing center for advanced solid-fuel missiles, an assessment backed by outside experts who have examined satellite photos showing that the base was almost completely leveled in the blast. Such missiles can be launched almost instantly, making them useful to Iran as a potential deterrent against pre-emptive attacks by Israel or the United States, and they are also better suited than older liquid-fuel designs for carrying warheads long distances.
It is still unclear what caused the explosion, with American officials saying they believe it was probably an accident, perhaps because of Iran's inexperience with a volatile, dangerous technology. Iran declared it an accident, but subsequent discussions of the episode in the Iranian news media have referred to the chief of Iran's missile program as one of the "martyrs" killed in the huge explosion. Some Iranian officials have talked of sabotage, but it is unclear whether that is based on evidence or surmise after several years in which Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated on Tehran's streets, and a highly sophisticated computer worm has attacked its main uranium production facility.
Both American and Israeli officials, in discussing the explosion in recent days, showed little curiosity about its cause. "Anything that buys us time and delays the day when the Iranians might be able to mount a nuclear weapon on an accurate missile is a small victory," one Western intelligence official who has been deeply involved in countering the Iranian nuclear program said this weekend. "At this point, we'll take whatever we can get, however it happens."
In addition to providing a potential deterrent to attackers, Iran's advances in solid-fuel missile technology, and the concern it could eventually have intercontinental reach, have been at the heart of the Obama administration's insistence on the need for new missile-defense programs.
As concerns about Iran's intentions have deepened in the West, intense surveillance efforts have been turned on suspected Iranian weapons sites. Iran has frequently accused the United States and Israel of spying and sabotage programs, and on Sunday made another such claim, saying it had shot down an advanced American RQ-170 drone in eastern Iran.
That particular drone is among the most sensitive in the American fleet, and if the report is true it would mean Iran had gained at least partial access to closely guarded American technology. A stealth version of the drone was flown for hours, on repeated occasions, over Osama bin Laden's hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, earlier this year, without being detected by Pakistani air defenses, American officials said. There have been reports for months, all unconfirmed, that the same drone was being used regularly over Iran, presumably to hunt for hidden nuclear or missile sites.
In a statement on Sunday, the American-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said that the drone "to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week." It added that operators of the remotely controlled drone aircraft lost control of it "and had been working to determine its status." The statement did not say what kind of drone was lost, or what might have caused the loss.
The statement would seem to suggest that the craft wrongly flew across the border into Iran. If a drone was used for intelligence gathering in Iran, it presumably would not belong to the military — since there are no open hostilities with Iran — but rather to the C.I.A. or another intelligence agency, acting under a presidential finding about the Iranian nuclear program.
One of the many theories swirling around the explosion at the missile base is that it could have been hit by a weapon, including one fired from a drone, setting off the huge explosion that followed. But since no outsiders can approach the base or gather evidence, it is unclear whether it will ever be known publicly what triggered the explosion.
Even if the cause was an accident — and the United States has suffered some with its own solid-fuel motors — several officials said that it was a major setback for Iran's effort to focus much of its industrial prowess on that kind of missile.
Missiles powered by solid fuels rather than liquids have no need for trucks to fill them with volatile fluids, and can be fired on short notice, making them hard for other nations to destroy before they are launched. That would add to Iran's ability to protect its nuclear sites from an Israeli strike — a subject of renewed debate in Israel in recent weeks — because Iran could threaten to retaliate before many of its missiles were struck. Solid-fuel missiles are also easier to hide. For those reasons, modern militaries rely on solid fuels for their deadliest missiles.
Moreover, at a time Iran is being squeezed by sanctions, the country has succeeded in making the solid-fuel engines with indigenous technology. For liquid-fueled engines, many key components come from abroad.
In a recent report, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London called Iran's shift to solid-fuel engines "a turning point" with "profound strategic implications" because the technology also brings Tehran closer to its goal of making long-range missiles. In its report three weeks ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency laid out, for the first time in public, detailed evidence it says suggests that Iran worked at some point in the past decade on designing a nuclear warhead that would fit atop its missile fleet.
Partly for that reason, Western officials said, many of the sanctions imposed on Iran by the United Nations Security Council seek to block its import of rocket parts.
Last week, the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington, released a commercial satellite image of the destroyed base.
It called Iran's labors there integral to "a major milestone in the development of a new missile."
Government and private analysts described the blast at the military base, which occurred Nov. 12 and killed Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the head of Iran's missile program, as a major setback — not just because of the extensive damage to the site but also because of the loss of expertise from the specialists working there.
General Moghaddam's funeral was attended by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "That was a statement of how central Moghaddam's work was," one American intelligence official said.
The sprawling complex where the blast took place has expanded dramatically in the last few years. Michael Elleman, a main author of the International Institute's 148-page report on Iranian missiles, examined the public images of the destroyed base and said in an interview that the damage and other evidence was consistent with solid-fuel technology.
Mr. Elleman added that the desert area around the base bristled with military compounds and networks of buildings and bunkers — all plainly visible in Google Earth images. Security cordons ringed the bases.
He noted that the region south of the destroyed base, roughly one and five miles distant, held two separate complexes that carried the distinctive signature of a firing range for solid fuels.
The closer of the two sites has eight test stands in a row, and the desert next to them had been clearly scorched by fiery plumes. In such tests, missile engines are mounted horizontally and shoot their blasts straight out.
The more distant complex has three test stands in a row, the middle one bearing bold scorch marks from a recent firing.


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Have a lovely weekend!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Ski Chalet in Chamonix
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Dino Buzzati was an Italian journalist who wrote reasonable, matter-of-fact horror stories. I almost chose "Catastrophe" -- about commuters heading north on a high-tech train who, looking out their windows, see every living thing on the planet heading south as fast as they can.
But "The Seventh Floor" strikes a little closer to home for me. It's about, in my opinion, the scariest thing in the world -- hospitals.
Think about hospitals. They're the home for super-viruses. The doctors and staff are exhausted and impatient. And, if you're one to believe in ghosts? Hospitals and battlefields, logically, have got to be lousy with them. No one dies in a graveyard.
Maybe the protagonist in "The Seventh Floor" has something worse than death waiting for him when he checks into a hospital with a minor complaint. But, through a series of bureaucratic mishaps (and a VERY friendly, helpful staff) he's moved, floor by floor, to the dreaded Seventh Floor.
And no one comes back from the Seventh Floor.


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Rapid City Junior Wins Covenant Award for Community
Mari Stensgaard, a junior from Rapid City, S.D., is the recipient of the 2010 Augustana Covenant Award for Community. The award for Community is given to those individuals who have been committed to serving the Augustana community.
Students to Present Posters at National Symposium
Seventeen Augustana students will be presenting posters at the National American Chemical Society Meeting and Symposium March 21-25 in San Francisco, CA. All the Augustana students attending the conference were involved in summer research projects in 2009.
Three from Augustana Nominated for YWCA Awards
Three women from Augustana are among the 54 nominees for the YWCA Tribute to Women Awards. The nominees include Dr. Julie Ashworth, asst. professor of Education; senior Jamie Horter from Bristol, S.D., and Joyce Stuelpnagel Nelson, retired professor of Nursing.
Augustana Basketball Featured on WCCO-TV in Minneapolis
Augustana College Viking basketball standout Cody Schilling and Head Coach Tom Billeter were featured on LifeTouch Media's "Life to the Max" show on Minneapolis' WCCO TV on Saturday, February 27. The show is hosted by WCCO radio and television personality, Mike Max.
Five Finalists Chosen for the Annual Concerto-Aria
Five Augustana students have been chosen to perform with the Augustana Orchestra for the annual Concerto-Aria to be held May 8 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. An outside panel of three judges selected the students during auditions held Sunday in Kresge Recital Hall.
Patrick Hicks Fifth Poetry Collection Published
Dr. Patrick Hicks, associate professor of English/Journalism at Augustana, has had a fifth poetry collection published. This London was published recently in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is now available in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Augustana Physics Professor Interviewed by SDPB
Dakota Life, produced by South Dakota Public Broadcasting, includes an interview with physics professor, Dr. Drew Alton. The segment focuses on the Davis-Bachall scholarship program at the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory.
WCCO-TV in Minneapolis to Feature Augustana Basketball
Augustana sophomore basketball standout Cody Schilling from Ellsworth, Minnesota is Mike Max's featured guest on "Life to the Max," to be broadcast this Saturday evening, February 27 at 11:00 p.m. on WCCO TV, Channel 4, Minneapolis.
Alumni Involved in Creating "We Are The World" Web Site
Michael Lehmkuhl, Augustana class of '97, and Stefan Hartwig, class of '99, partners at the Sioux Falls web development firm Electric Pulp, recently built the new "We Are The World" web site that premiered during the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Dr. Harry Thompson Named CWS Executive Director
Augustana President Rob Oliver has appointed Dr. Harry Thompson executive director of the Center for Western Studies (CWS). He succeeds Dr. Arthur Huseboe, who became director emeritus on July 31, 2009.


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92nd running of the Race to the Clouds Champion
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- Colorado Springs, CO
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I am thankful for the day off today for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I am also thankful for his dream that love would triumph over hatred and evil. That is my dream, too. And like King, I believe God when He promises that one day this dream will be reality.
In honor of this day and this dream, I decided to post a great song by MercyMe called Crazy Enough. Call me crazy, but I believe in the dream of love triumphant.


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A lawsuit filed this week claims that Greenetrack management and directors used company money for trips to Las Vegas, a Caribbean island and President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington D.C.
A lawsuit filed this week claims that Greenetrack management and directors used company money for trips to Las Vegas, a Caribbean island and President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington D.C.
The suit filed in Greene County Circuit Court on Tuesday on behalf of four minority shareholders also claims that CEO and president Luther Winn Jr. used Greenetrack funds to buy a Toyota Corolla and Toyota Highlander for friends, groceries and supplies for a friend's convenience store. Others used a company gas card for personal use, the suit claims.
An attorney with Birmingham law firm Baddley & Mauro, LLC filed the suit demanding a jury trial on behalf of plaintiffs Deborah Harris, Addie Lee, Ronnie Lavender and Harvey Jones.
Winn, Emma Sugars, who has served as secretary and treasurer of Greenetrack and as Greenetrack director; Jimmie Paster, who has served as director, employee and third-largest shareholder; Rodney Pham, who has been Greenetrack's vice-president, a member of the Board of Directors and a shareholder; and Elizabeth Byrd, who has been a director, employee and shareholder, are all named as defendants.
The suit claims that they engaged in a pattern of mismanagement, negligence, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, oppression and squeeze-out of the plaintiffs.
Plaintiff Deborah Harris worked in the bookkeeping office and discovered that bookkeepers were concealing records and other financial transactions, according to the complaint.
"Plaintiffs observed the repeated issuance of checks to Greenetrack directors and upper management, including Winn, Pham, Byrd, Sugars, and Pasters, for expenses that were not related to their positions or Greenetrack's business," the suit states.
The suit requests a judge to remove all of the defendants from control of the company and appoint a receiver to control day-to-day activities and manage business operations of the company.


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Focus on Scholarship: Dr. Peter Kraska
Dr. Peter Kraska, Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies, also coordinates the graduate program in that department. He has published numerous books and journal articles since coming to EKU in 1994. His scholarship has most recently focused on developing criminal justice theory and examining trends in crime control. He continues to pursue his interest in the blurring of U.S. military and police forces, particularly in light of recent terrorist activities. This work has been featured heavily in the media, including news pieces featuring his research in The Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, Peter Jennings's World News Tonight, and the Jim Lerher News Hour.
Hear what Dr. Kraska has to say about his scholarship in his interview for the Focus on Scholarship webcast series.


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MCLA Salutes County's Adams Scholars
Adams Scholars are applauded at Saturday morning's reception at MCLA.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nearly two dozen seniors from Berkshire County high schools got some advice on Saturday about taking opportunities as they come.
Go with the flow, advised Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts junior Joshua Mclean. "Just take the opportunities as they come to you."
The students and their parents were guests at the annual reception given by MCLA to recognize the seniors academic achievements in earning John and Abigail Adams Scholarships.
"I remember sitting in the exact same seats three years ago," Mclean, now an environmental studies major, told those who had traveled that snowy morning to Murdock Hall.
The college began the annual receptions several years ago both the recognize the student achievement and to encourage local students to consider the state's higher education systme.
Adams Scholars must score advanced and proficient on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests and be in the top 25 percent of their graduating class. Tuition is waved for up to four years at state schools for Adams Scholars.
Harvard have a fancy name, said state Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, "but you can get just as good an education in our college system."
The Lenox Democrat, dean of the Berkshire delegation, was joined by Reps. Gailanne Cariddi of North Adams and Tricia Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, and Mayor Richard Alcombright in congratulating the those students in attendance.
Some 320 seniors in Berkshire County qualified for the Adams Scholarships.
Proud parents snapped photos as the seniors posed with the school and state officials.
"I'm very proud of her," said Anna Berti of her daughter Christianna, currently a student at Berkshire Arts and Technology Public Charter School. "She worked very hard to get that award."
The Bertis were on their way to a workshop on financial aid being offered by the college. Christianna Berti was't sure where she was going yet but she knew — or was at least pretty sure at this point — that she wanted to work in costume design.
"I'm going in undecided," she said. "I'll do two years of general studies and get those classes out of the way. ... Then I'll decide."
Aliza Ahlen of Taconic High School knew she was going to take advantage of the scholarship by attending the University of Massachusett's equine and farm programs with the goal of becoming a large animal veterinarian.
"Every little bit helps when you have to go to school for the next eight years," said the 4-Her.
"We're very proud of her, she's worked very hard," said her mother, Koren Ahlen.
More students weren't quite sure of the educational paths yet, with only scattering of hands going up indicating they had applied to colleges.
College President Mary Grant told them they couldn't go wrong with a liberal arts education.
"It really helps to shape your future because we don't know what the future may hold."
The students who had RSVP'd the reception were presented with small certificates acknowledging their scholarships. Not all the students listed attended.
Aliza Ahlen, Taconic High School; Jaclyn Aubin, Drury High School; Katherine Bernal, Pittsfield High School; Christianna Berti, Berkshire Arts and Technology Public Charter School; Timonty Brames, McCann Technical School; Marinna Burzimati, McCann Tech; Kaitiin Cook, Wahconah regional High School; Dean Covert, BArT; Naomi Day, Mount Greylock Regional High School; Makala Dean, Mount Greylock; Emily Eastman, Drury; Emma Gregory, Drury; Jared Grise, Pittsfield; Molly Howe, Drury; Skyler Jones, Mount Greylock; Micayla Kolis, Hoosac Valley High School; Ian Kuttner, Mount Greylock; John LeClair, McCann; Joshua Majunder, Mount Greylock; Nathan Majunder, Mount Greylock; Casey McKeever, BArT; Courtney McKeever, BArT; Brooke Moore, Pittsfield; Matthew Nesti, Pittsfield; Deanna Nesti, Pittsfield; Helen Overstreet, Mount Greylock; Amanda Ramsdell, Drury; Sarah Royal, Drury; Victoria Torres, Pittsfield; Monica Vogel, Pittsfield; Rachel Ward, Taconic; Jake McNicol, BArT; and Shannon Moon, Taconic.
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Congrats on your retirement. Hope to follow you soon.
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Congrats Hugh,
Enjoy it, you'll wonder where the darn time goes.
I was able to do it after 30+ years at age 52 and have never been more relaxed...and busy. But it's MY busy.
Treat yourself to a ice cream at the Dairy Queen on the Wing
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Be decisive, right or wrong.The road of life is paved with
flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision~unknown
One thing that I did: I retired in 2009 but tossed out my watch in 1998. Bought a Navaho bracelet at Missoula rally and wore it 24/7 since. Psychologically retired then I suppose but the point is: time. Throw away any time keeping device that is on your wrist. What do you need it for? Reverse/modify the thinking about the concept of time. - Bob
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"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell
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Congratulations! I am less than 5 years away myself, and as each month passes, the anticipation grows stronger. I plan to spend an entire summer touring the western US as soon as I put in my last day of work. I am sure I will have to do it on the "cheap" in order to be able to afford it, but I enjoy camping anyway, so I will be enjoying the best bike trip ever, regardless of the travel style.
Osbornk has it right. Once you have enough money to be relatively comfortable in retirement you need to pull the plug. Working any longer is just trading time for money and there may come a day when you would trade all of your money for just a little more time and that's a bad deal. Enjoy it. You've earned it and you deserve it.
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I just turned 60 in November and had planned on retiring at 62 and had been working towards simplifying, getting debt free, etc for the past couple of years.
Unexpectably I lost my job in October, and following the initial shock, I readjusted my thinking, evaluated my situation, and decided that I will classify this as "early retirement". If I can bridge the two year gap until SS kicks in, I will be successful.
Having been a junior enlisted man for the first four years after I first got married, and then 4 years of college with the GI Bill as my only income, my wife and I know how to live on the cheap. Our time together to pursue our interests is much more valuable than the lost income! BTW we are celebrating 40 happy years of marriage tomorrow.
1. Figure out most of the things you think you would like to do when you retire - then do them as much as possible BEFORE you retire. Far too many people go from the boredom of a job they hate to the boredom of retirement with nothing they really want to do. (We all share ONE thing we like to do, but it's good to have a few more irons in the fire.) Pretty common for people without compelling interests that they developed before retirement to end up in the ground within 12 months of retirement.
2. With some jobs you don't have to go from 40 hours a week to zero. As a musician, I retired the part I liked least (private teaching) when I was about 50. At 64, I'm still playing principal clarinet in a small but professional orchestra and plan to continue as long as my playing meets the musical standards of that group - and hope I know when it no longer does. The challenge of playing classical music really well, as well as the social aspect means that this "job" still has more pluses than minuses for me and the least of the "plusses" is the pay check. I also still play jazz and R&B sax, again for musical satisfaction and social interaction more than the meager pay. So, if you LIKE doing whatever has been keeping you financially afloat, maybe you should keep doing it - just less, and on your terms.
3. If possible, stay reasonably physically fit or gradually get that way. (Tried cross-country skiing with wife and grandkids yesterday. A 25 year hiatus from that activity equalled three falls and a sore body today.) But I can still walk and ride a bicycle. Vow to do both much more regularly!
Given the demographic of the MOA, bet this thread doesn't die any time soon!
The greatest lesson I've learned from not having a regular job is how valuable a responsible person with free time is. The world is full of people with high paying jobs that don't have the time to do the things they want to get done, and they are willing to pay someone very well to do them. Imagine, getting paid to sail down to Cozumel and spend the Winter; who'd of thought someone would pay for that, but they did.
Life is full of opportunities. All you need is the time to pursue them.
Hey MARS,please keep me in mind to lay in on one of these sails as a hired hand/no pay hand etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As to above comments, r.e., "being in the ground within 12 months", I disagree, as modern medicine keeps some really unhealthy people alive for a long, long time-look around you! It is true that many retire w/o any real hobbies & the time in retirement is hard for them. There are also the ones that I hear say" I'm not going to "do" anything. While I cannot relate to that whatsoever, I guess it works for several I know that basically do nothing.
I happen to be one that could have been happy on my farm & in my shop with not working, a long time ago, as my ego turned loose of any aspirations to be "important" way in the past.Also I gradually come to know that there are some rides I'll never afford or have time for and just focus on whats doable. Another version is the person that must talk about their past work as they move through retirement, and in exacting detail. My wife & I both, we just walked away for the most part...enjoy your time that you can now prioritize yourself!
And YESSSSSSS! I want to cruise, always been on my bucket list!
Good health is obviously the main ingredient to an active & enjoyable retirement.
got a company pension, a military pension. social security and an ira.
sad thing is, i doubt that my grand kids will ever be able to retire...
freekin' country is broke. jobs being outsourced. taxes gooing up to pay the debt. more and more retired old farts (like me) less and less productive workers.
no money to pay law enforcement (they gotta pay the retired guys). violence/food prices going up.
think your pention (entitlement) is bullet proof? think again.
sthe only people with bullet proof pentions are in congress, pardners.
don't see anything on the horizon that's likely to turn this around
i'm afraid what's gonna happen is a major scio/political adjustment like a big war.
i hope it's not with china because they probably won't lend us the money to go to war with them.
did i mention that the state of health car for the unwashed masses is unlikely to improve? what about neculear insecurity?
i don;t see any ideas in congress other than
"we need to create jobs and be competitive in the world market".
what are we gonna build that the world wants to buy and let the workers retire at 55 or even 65?
do the math. i've been trying hard to be optomistic. might work if i go back to drinking.
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Please, tone down on the trend towards political discussions...this can be a slippery slope.
Let's get back to discussing the joy and freedom of being retired and being able to ride everywhere all the time!!
/mod hat off/
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Arabian Business looks at the leading candidates as Egyptians go to the polls today
Egyptians vote on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.
The contest is a novelty for a nation where elections during the 30-year rule of a man some called "Pharaoh" were thinly attended rigmaroles in which the result was a foregone conclusion.
Click here to see the leading candidates in Egypt's presidential election
This time Egypt's 50m eligible voters are expected to turn out in force to determine who will lead the country after the generals who have overseen a transition marred by violence, protests and political deadlock formally hand over by July 1.
"Of course I will vote. I want change. We can't stay in this messy situation for the rest of our lives," said Wael Azmy, an accountant, who has taken Wednesday off work to give him time to join the queues he expects to form outside polling stations.
Voters have been blitzed by three weeks of official campaigning, which ended on Sunday. Egypt held its first US-style televised presidential debate. Newspapers have carried interviews and campaign adverts. Banners and posters festoon the streets.
With none of the 12 candidates expected to secure more than half the votes to win outright in the first round on Wednesday and Thursday, a run-off between the top two is likely in June.
It will be the first time that ordinary Egyptians, ruled down the centuries by pharaohs, sultans, kings and military officers, will have a genuine chance to choose their leader.
But whoever wins faces a huge task to deliver changes that Egyptians expect to relieve a grim economic outlook. The military that was a pillar of Mubarak's rule is likely to remain a powerful political force for years.
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The army, whose senior ranks also have extensive commercial interests, insists it does not want to hang onto power.
"With these elections, we will have completed the last step in the transitional period," General Mohamed el-Assar told a news conference on the eve of voting.
There is little reliable survey data to give any indication of which candidate will emerge as head of state.
The West, long wary of Islamists, and Israel, worried about its 33-year old peace treaty with Egypt, are watching to see if proponents of political Islam add to their gains after sweeping most seats in a parliamentary vote that ended in January.
Many Gulf states are equally concerned about who will lead the regional heavyweight after their long-time ally Mubarak was ousted. Their conservative monarchies have so far emerged from a wave of Arab uprisings relatively unscathed.
Seeking to allay such worries, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohamed Mursi, pledged in a final rally on Sunday that "we will not export our revolution to anyone".
Mursi was pitched into the race at the last minute after the Brotherhood's first-choice candidate was ruled out. He may lack charisma, but he can rely on the Brotherhood's vote machine.
His rivals include Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, an Islamist who has drawn support ranging from liberals to hardline Salafi Muslims; former foreign minister and Arab League chief Amr Moussa, who has been a public figure for years with strong name recognition; and Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's last prime minister, who like his former boss, once commanded the air force.
Making a late surge is Hamdeen Sabahy, a leftist inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose "Free Officers" overthrew King Farouk in 1952 and set up the system that has put military men in the presidency for the past 60 years.
Under pressure from Washington, his key ally and financial sponsor, to open up politics, Mubarak in 2005 staged Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential race. But rules barred any realistic challenge to him. Another vote had been due in 2011 but he was toppled by a popular uprising before that.
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March 22nd is World Water Day – a global observance of our planet's most precious resource. In recognition of World Water Day, the Surfrider Foundation is unveiling a robust offering of events and activities, including the launch of a new water quality and management-related program, a new educational video, an exciting water quality-themed online contest, and a one day-only membership offering.
Founded in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, World Water Day was created to help focus public attention on the critical water issues facing our global community. The theme for this year's World Water Day is "Clean Water for a Healthy World."
"Water is the foundational basis for all life on the planet," says Matt McClain, Surfrider Foundation's Director of Marketing and Communications. "How we interact and manage water has a direct affect on not only our marine resources, but the whole of our world as well."
To help illustrate this point, the Surfrider Foundation is launching "Know Your H20" – a new program that focuses on the issues behind use and management of our world's water resources – on World Water Day.
"Know Your H20 is the next evolutionary step in Surfrider Foundation's long-running Blue Water Task Force monitoring program," says McClain. "Our goal is to move beyond telling people there are challenges to marine water quality, and towards educating them on how they can take steps to improve it."
The Surfrider Foundation officially launches the program with the premiere of their highly anticipated animated movie "The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water." The film, which was created by a cadre of Surfrider Foundation volunteer activists, is narrated by LOST star Zuleikha Robinson and focuses on the various challenges and solutions relating to water management.
Surfrider Foundation will also be kicking off an online contest for its Blue Note Karaoke event on World Water Day. Starting March 22nd, people can log onto MySpace and enter for a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to California to participate in Surfrider's Blue Note Karaoke event on May 6th.
Finally, the Surfrider Foundation will be offering a special one-day only World Water Day membership package on March 22nd. For the discount price of $20 (regularly $25), purchasers will receive a one-year membership to the Surfrider Foundation and their choice of either a reusable FilterForGood Nalgene bottle or organic tote bag.
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The best animated movies of all time are an assortment of animated movies that rank among the best movies ever made. While the characters might be brightly colored and possess abilities most real people could only wish to ever have, the stories and imagery speak to everyone and have set these movies up to become the best animated films ever.
Far from simply being movie versions of cartoons, these are movies with some of the best characters, most compelling stories, and some of the overall most memorable movies in the history of cinema. With great animated movies, the sky's the limit (literally, for characters in movies like The Incredibles and WALL-E) for the story being told. Many of these top animated and cartoon movies are comedies with a message (like Toy Story) while others are heartbreaking dramas (like The Lion King). There's no story that can't be told through these amazing animated films.
What are the best animated movies ever? What makes one animated film better than another? What is the greatest animated film? There are many varied answers to what makes good animated movies (story, characters, animation style), but there's no question that these are some of the best animated movies ever made. If you don't see your favorite animated movie on the list, make sure to add it to the list of the greatest animated films so that it might become someone else's favorite animated film someday.
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Sometimes we forget there are residents of Mississippi who don't remember when Thad Cochran was not a member of the United States Senate.
Cochran was reminiscing about his arrival in the Senate — in 1978 — during a speech at the National Cotton Council's annual meeting in Washington. Cotton farmers, he said, were responsible for his "head start" in the Senate.
After his election, Frank Mitchener, a cotton producer and former Council president from Sumner, Miss., called and suggested that then-Sen. James O. Eastland resign and allow the governor to appoint Cochran to finish his term.
"That's something that might sound reasonable and easy to do, but it really wasn't," said Cochran. "The governor had run for the Senate and he wasn't too keen on appointing me. If Senator Eastland resigned early, I think he told one of the cotton farmers that approached him, he might want to be in the Senate."
Reason prevailed, and Cochran was sworn in as Sen. Eastland's replacement in the Governor's Mansion in Jackson Dec. 28, several days ahead of other new members of the Senate. "I didn't know, and nobody could tell back then, exactly what the ramifications would be, but the reality was that it enabled me to get on the Agriculture Committee," he said. "It also enabled me to get on the Appropriations Committee as early as I did."
His recent confirmation as chairman of the Appropriations Committee also was "a direct result of those early decisions made by my friends in Mississippi, some of whom had helped in my election and some of whom had helped try to elect others who were running that year." Cochran's assumption of the Appropriations Committee chairmanship could also be coming at a fortunate time for farmers given off-the-record briefings on the budget proposals the president was scheduled to make Feb. 7.
The president was expected to ask Congress to reduce the payment limits on farm programs from the current $360,000 per person to $250,000. Direct payments would be cut by 5 percent and marketing loan rates by an unspecified amount. He would reduce federal crop insurance subsidies by $140 million to $3.6 billion
The proposals are part of a plan to slice farm programs by $5.7 billion over the next 10 years to help meet the president's goal of cutting the federal budget deficit in half. An administration official said 2006 savings would total $587 million.
Though not as severe as the $10 billion to $15 billion that was being bandied about earlier, the cuts would still hurt, particularly among larger farmers whose payments would be capped at $250,000.
Cochran said the Appropriations Committee would have its work cut out trying to reduce the budget deficit. But he also said he would work as "hard as I can to oppose any changes in farm bill payments to producers."
Frank Mitchener's phone call 26 years ago may pay some big dividends for cotton and rice farmers this year.


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Valve's head of research and development Michael Abrash has joined Oculus VR as its chief scientist.
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Valve's head of research and development Michael Abrash believes "compelling" consumer-priced VR hardware could make a splash by 2015.
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According to Valve engineer Michael Abrash, virtual reality gaming is up against a serious hardware limitation, and need a breakthrough moment before it can ever come into its own.
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If you believe there's no future for gaming in AR, VR and wearable computing, just think about the first time you saw a smartphone, says Valve's Michael Abrash.
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A blog post from Valve's Michael Abrash details one of his R&D concepts in the works which he describes as "wearable computing."
Valve headhunting pays off with three top hires
Gabe Newell has finally secured the services of his musch wooed ex-id Software buddy, Michael Abrash, along with two more high-profile hires.
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Gabe Newell has said id Software's John Carmack and Michael Abrash among others can be thanked for Valve getting started in the game space.
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