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Chargers knock Hawks from perch, win title
Bishop Hendricken did all it could at Saturday's indoor track state meet.
For the first time in 18 years, it wasn't enough.
Despite a host of solid performances by the Hawks, Chariho's dominant distance runners were too much, and the Chargers snapped Hendricken's streak of 17 consecutive state titles. The Chargers racked up 68 points to Hendricken's 63. It was the first time since 1994, when St. Raphael won, that the Hawks didn't leave with the championship.
On the girls' side, Pilgrim and Toll Gate tied for seventh.
"We did what we could do," said Hendricken head coach Jim Doyle. "We chipped away, but we knew Chariho was going to be tough to beat."
The Hawks have viewed themselves as underdogs before, including last year, when a big day carried them to a victory over La Salle.
This year, they knew they might need an even bigger day. The Chargers beat the Hawks for the outdoor track state championship last June and were a close second at the cross country state championships in the fall. Hendricken knew that the indoor meet would highlight Chariho's distance strength.
Unfortunately for the Hawks, that's exactly what happened.
Chariho compiled every single one of its points from the 4x800 relay, the 3,000, the 1,500 and the 1,000. The Chargers had just one other competitor outside those events, but their distance strength proved to be enough.
Drew Turner, Dan Kilcoyne, Bryce Kelly and Mike Gilligan teamed up to win the 4x800 relay, the first event of the day on the track. That gave the Chargers 10 quick points, and they kept tacking on more. Mike Marsella and Jake Kilcoyne went one-two in the 3,000 for 18 more points before Kelly and Dan Kilcoyne did the same thing in the 1,500 to run Chariho's total to 46. The Chargers then put things out of reach when Marsella, Kelly and Dan Kilcoyne took first, second and fourth in the 1,000 for 22 points and a total of 68.
The Hawks just tipped their hats.
"We knew that it would be tough to stop those Chariho distance runners," Doyle said. "They just continued to roll right through the distance events. They covered those four distance events exactly the way we thought they would."
While the Hawks were disappointed to see the streak end, they were thrilled with the effort. Reuben Horace took first in the weight throw, while the 4x200 and 4x400 relay teams won close races against tough competition. The Hawks also picked up key points in other events as they tried to chip away at Chariho's lead. Though the effort fell short, it wasn't for lack of trying.
"The performances we had were great," said assistant coach Dan Brennan. "Could we have benefited from a couple of other strengths in other areas? Yes, but to do as well as we did and to lose by five, it's just something you kind of have to take. We had a great day. It just wasn't enough."
Horace was the top individual performer for the Hawks. He came in seeded second in the weight throw to Classical's Joe Velez, who was ranked No. 1 in the country. Velez ended up throwing well below his seeding mark, and Horace stepped into the void. The senior's toss of 71 feet, 10.25 inches was more than a foot better than his seeding mark and it gave him the title.
"Reuben came up big and got us 10 big points," Doyle said.
The Hawks also shined in the relays. Alex Perreault, Ryan Brannigan, Kyle O'Connell and Power Kanga won the 4x200 relay in 1:33.28. They had been seeded second. Kanga, a freshman, held off Central's Jose Ortiz on the anchor leg.
In the 4x400, Jordan Barboza joined Perreault, O'Connell and Brannigan for another win in 3:29.32. Brannigan held off stiff challenges from Central and North Kingstown to seal the victory.
The 4x400 came after the 1,000, so the Hawks knew they couldn't catch Chariho. They still came up with their best performance of the year.
"Our kids gave an incredible performance going out there and fighting until the end," Doyle said. "Going into the 4x4, those guys knew the meet was over and they still went out there and won. To walk away with a 4x4 and a 4x2 title against the teams we were up against is great."
The Hawks had 11 other place-winning performances. O'Connell took third in the hurdles and Perreault finished third in the 300 in addition to their relay success. Tyler Henseler and Colin Tierney went fourth and fifth in the 3,000, Mark Vuono and Henseler placed fourth and fifth in the 1,500, Mike Pecchia and Nick DeCiantis finished fifth and sixth in the shot put, Barboza took fifth in the high jump and fifth in the hurdles and Billy L'Europa finished fifth in the 55-meter dash.
"Little by little, we were chipping away," Brennan said. "We had some really good performances. We just kind of ran out of events."
And that meant an end to the streak, but it won't be long before the Hawks get to thinking about starting a new one.
"We've always got a target on our backs so it was bound to happen," Doyle said. "Chariho did a great job. Our goal is to come back strong. We've got some young guys. They'll be back next year, and they'll be back in outdoor in the spring."
The Pilgrim and Toll Gate boys didn't score at the meet but both had some strong performances. The Pats were led by Dylan Gardner, who took eighth in the weight throw, and by sprinters Derek Daluz, Carl Sjogren and Steve Croft. That trio just missed qualifying for the finals of the 55-meter dash, finishing ninth, 10th and 11th in the preliminaries. Sjogren added a 14th-place finish in the 300, while Mike Mallozzi finished 10th in the long jump. Matthew Enos took 20th in the hurdles and Peter Golish was 18th in the weigh throw.
Toll Gate was led by its 4x800 relay team. Evan Carley, Joseph Frost, Pat Rocchio and Henry Smithers finished seventh, just outside of the medals. Smithers was the top individual performer with a 10th-place finish in the 1,000. Carley added a 12th in the 600 and Tom Martella took 15th in the hurdles. The Titans also finished 10th in the 4x400 relay.
Warwick Vets did not have any competitors on the boys' side.
Pilgrim, Toll Gate lead girls' teams
La Salle cruised to its sixth consecutive girls' team title, but both Pilgrim and Toll Gate had strong individual performances and tied for seventh with 15 points along with Mount St. Charles.
The Pats were led by Maggie Dufault, Destinee Barrette and Becca O'Donnell, who all took home medals. Dufault took third in the weight throw, Barrette finished fifth in the shot put and sixth in the weight throw, and O'Donnell took fourth in the long jump.
Dufault took home a medal for the second year in a row. The senior finished fourth at states last year, and this time bumped to third with a throw of 49 feet, two inches.
Barrette joined Dufault in the weight throw, and her best of 45-08.75 was good for sixth. The junior then threw 33-07.25 in the shot put to take fifth.
O'Donnell, a sophomore, took fourth in the long jump with a best of 17-01.00. She had been seeded eighth with a mark of 16-08.75.
Also for Pilgrim, Maddison Caron took 10th in the weight throw, Dufault grabbed 12th in the shot put, Melanie Brunelle tied for ninth in the high jump and took 15th in the 1,000, Breyon Brown finished 10th in the preliminary round of the 55-meter dash, O'Donnell took 16th in the dash, Natalie Tocco took 13th in the 3,000, and Emma Mascoli finished 16th in the long jump as well as 14th in the hurdle prelims.
Toll Gate took home four individual medals and two from relay events. Rylee Candon finished sixth in both the high jump and long jump, clearing five feet in the high jump and logging a best of 16-11.25 in the long jump.
Jordan Gray, who was second in the 300 last year, took home another medal with a fourth-place finish. She crossed in 41.82, behind Hope's Royal Cheatham, East Greenwich's Jaimee Dorsey and Classical's Dara Falaye.
Katie St. Amand grabbed a fourth-place medal in the shot put for the second year in a row. Her best throw was 33-10.00.
The Titans also got a fifth-place finish from Haley Moen, Erika Pena, Gray and Kathleen Morlock in the 4x400 relay and a sixth from Moen, Pena, Shannon Garvey and Tess Russo in the 4x800.
Also for the Titans, Moen took seventh in the 600, Nicole Fraser finished eighth in the shot put, Morlock took 10th in the hurdles, Meg McNulty finished 13th in the shot put, Garvey was 16th in the 600 and 21st in the hurdles, and Pena took 16th in the high jump.
Warwick Vets had one competitor. Senior Megan Merlino finished 16th in the shot put.


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grantw wrote:Yes, have tried all of the above. I even gave it a firm talking to... Looks like its the dreaded "fault"
Update - Appears I wasn't hard resetting it correctly, it appears to be all OK now
Lucky you, I had to send mine back to Garmin.
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Yesterday, I argued that public consensus exists regarding the two major non-budgetary legislative issues of the day, immigration and guns. I added, however, that political consensus may be thwarted due to the use of "comprehensive" legislation to address these issues.
This raises the question of why Congress should tackle issues "comprehensively." As a friend — a high-level congressional staffer and experienced Washington hand — recently wrote to me:
Nothing good comes of comprehensive bills. They are bad for democracy; they are bad for the cause of small government; they are bad for sound policy.
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Our [party] — the party of limited, responsible government — should simply not put its weight behind comprehensive bills. The House should stand up on those grounds.


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Goodwill Industries International has made a habit of paying their disabled employees well below the minimum wage. As President and CEO you earn $729,000 a year, but according to Labor Department records Goodwill has been paying disabled employees as little as 22¢, 38¢ and 41¢ an hour! This is not only offensive it is exploitative.
I understand you are using a loophole in the 1939 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and what you are doing is "legal". However, it does not make it right. Goodwill is a symbol of so many good programs, yet denying your disabled employees a dignified workplace is unacceptable.
I ask you to immediately develop a company-wide policy that requires all branches of Goodwill Industries international to pay all employees the federal minimum wage.
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My name is Nick and I was born with one hand. I've always been treated fairly and I've never felt exploited or demeaned for having a disability. I'm one of the lucky ones. What Goodwill is doing...
My name is Nick and I was born with one hand. I've always been treated fairly and I've never felt exploited or demeaned for having a disability. I'm one of the lucky ones. What Goodwill is doing to employees with disabilities could technically happen to me. Under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), my employeer could legally pay me less because I type slow with one hand. Goodwill is using a loophole in this act to exploit workers and pay them pennies. However, just because it's "legal" doesn't make right!
Goodwill is paying disabled employees far below minimim wage. Records acquired by NBC from the Labor department show that Goodwill has paid employees with disabilities as little as 22¢ an hour. On the other hand Goodwill President and CEO Jim Gibbons brings in over $500,000 annually.
Goodwill has justified their actions by saying it is "legal" and that these employees would not be able to find any work if they were not being exploited by Goodwill. You can read the entire statement here.
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There are many IT vendors that are either launching or reinvigorating their AR program for the IT industry analysts (e.g., Gartner, Ovum and Yankee Group). It is typical for nascent AR programs to have a small budget to work with. This heightens the importance of spending decisions because when there is little money the margin for error shrinks considerably.
The first priority for AR managers is that they demonstrate effectiveness early to get more support for AR. This requires a ruthless focus on the key success factors and how money spent can help achieve those factors. While there are many reasons why IT vendors invest* in AR, more often than not the initial reason is to obtain increased visibility with the analysts talking to their prospects. This post focuses on that premise.
First, spend your money with the right analysts. There are three primary types of analysts: end-user advisory, market research, and white paper for hire. It is the end-user advisory firms that have the hundreds of thousands of personal interactions with IT buyers every year. Thus, dollars spent with those analyst firms will have the biggest payback by obtaining relationship-building tools. Advisory firm contracts provide the ability to do inquiries on a frequent basis, which are invaluable for gaining insights into the analysts' thought processes and research agenda, getting "top of mind" presence, doing spoken word audits, and developing a personal relationship. These types of activities will greatly enhance an IT vendor's visibility with their primary analysts leading to analysts being more comfortable recommending the vendor to their clients.
Market research firms are less important because their clients are vendors and financial firms. The exception is when the market researchers are affiliated with an end-user advisory firm (e.g., Dataquest and Gartner) where a well-crafted and keenly executed "market driver" study can be used to influence the advisory analysts. In this case, the AR program might be able to leverage their company's research/competitive intelligence's market research budget for this project.
White paper for hire firms should NOT get any of your meager AR budget. These analysts' primary clients are vendors' marketing and Continue reading
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Course handbook
This course explores creative and technical processes in video, sound, radio, web-based and multimedia productions. It requires students to develop an individual project in one of these media forms or in a combination of them, with the exception of video projects, which will usually be achieved collaboratively in a small group. Innovative linking between media forms is encouraged. This course is given a weighting of 20 units to allow for substantial creative and technical effort in the achievement of the production. The development of the project and the associated exegesis will prepare students for the transition to professional practice or to further study.
- Semester 2 - 2019
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Enable students to conceive, plan, prepare and produce a major work, or collection of works, in either video, sound, radio, web-based on-line or multimedia productions.
2. Allow students to realise ideas and practice skills and techniques learned in earlier years of their program.
3. Enable students to make and present an individual media project, or in video to collaborate in the making of a project, which demonstrates their capacity to grow into adaptable professional practitioners.
Topics covered include:
- Pre-production planning processes, including researching content, identifying and working to a brief and working to an audience.
- Organisational aspects of media productions, including administration, budget, OHS, insurance and legal matters.
- Examining and creating the conditions for effective production.
- Workshopping and delivering completed media production projects.
- Media productions as academic research.
- Considering presentation requirements in the context of intended audience.
- Writing an exegesis inclusive of theoretical, technical and aesthetic aspects of the project.
This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Communication, Bachelor of IT, Bachelor of Visual Communication, Bachelor of Natural History Illustration, Bachelor Fine Arts and Bachelor of Communication/Bachelor of Laws.
Students must have completed a minimum of 50 units of courses at the 2000 level or above, and 20 units at 3000 level from the majors in the B Communication or associated degrees to enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
Demonstrable production skills and techniques in any of the following areas: video, sound, radio, web-based, online or multimedia production gained from courses within the Media Production Major in Bachelor of Communication. Successful completion of 50 units of courses at the 2000 level or above, and 20 units at 3000 level from the majors in the B Communication or associated combined degrees.
Assessment items
Project: Development of Individual or Group Project
Project: Project WIP Seminar and Production
Written Assignment: Individual Crew Role Paperwork
Written Assignment: Individual Exegesis Proposal and Exegesis
Compulsory Requirements
In order to pass this course, each student must complete ALL of the following compulsory requirements:
General Course Requirements:
- Workshop: Induction Requirement - Students must attend and pass the induction requirements before attending these sessions. - In order to participate in this course, students must complete a compulsory safety induction (equipment usage).
Contact hours
Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Self-Directed Learning
Self-Directed 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Access to production facilities will be allocated for self directed learning component. Three hours per week is suggested minimum time.
Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per Week for 12 Weeks starting in week 2
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It's helpful to keep the following in mind:
- Your goal is to end up with one large piece of essentially boneless turkey meat; the finished product will contain only the tip end of each leg bone and the first two joints of each wing. You will end up with one piece of completely boneless duck meat and one piece of completely boneless chicken meat.
- Be careful not to pierce the skin except for the initial slits. (Cuts in the skin tend to enlarge during cooking and make the end result less attractive as well as drier.)
- Allow yourself plenty of time, especially if you're a beginner. And even if you are experienced, approach the de-boning procedure with a gentle, careful touch - - the meat is not tough and you want to end up with as much of it as possible.
- De-bone one side of each bird - - either the left or right - - before doing the other side.
- Use a sharp knife and use mainly the tip; stay close to the bone at all times with the knife.
- It's worth the time and effort!
Place the turkey, breast down, on a flat surface. Make an incision the entire length of the spine through the skin and flesh. Starting from the neck end and using the tip of the knife, follow as close to the bone as you can cut, carefully teasing the skin and meat away from the frame. Toward the neck end, cut through the meat to expose the shoulder blade (feel for it first and cut through small amounts of meat at a time if you have trouble locating it); cut the meat away from around the bone and sever the bone at the joint so you can remove the blade.
Disjoint the wing between the second and third joint; free the heavy drumstick of the wing and remove it, being careful to leave the skin intact. Continue teasing the meat away from the backbone, heading toward the thighbone and being careful to keep the "oyster" (pocket of meat on the back) attached to the skin instead of leaving it with the bone.
Cut through the ball-and-socket joint to release the thighbone from the carcass; you should now be able to open up the bird more in order to better see what bones are still left to deal with. Continue teasing the meat away from the carcass until you reach the center front of the breastbone. Then, very carefully separate the skin from the breastbone at the midline without piercing the skin (go slowly because the skin is very thin at this point).
Repeat the same de-boning procedure on the other side (left or right) of the turkey, with the turkey still breast down. When both sides are finished, carefully remove the carcass. Then remove the thighbone and leg bone on each side as follows. Being careful not to break through the skin, use a small hammer to break the leg bone completely across, about two inches from the tip end. Then manipulate both ends of the bone with your hands to be sure the break is complete. Leave the tip of the bone in, but remove the leg bone and thighbone as one unit. To do this, cut the meat away from around the thighbone first, using the knife tip; then, holding the thighbone up with one hand, use the other hand to carefully cut the meat away from around the leg-thigh joint. (Don't cut through this joint, and don't worry if it seems as if you're leaving a lot of meat around the joint - - it can't be helped and, besides, it will add flavor when you make the stock with the bones!) Then use the blade of the knife to scrape the meat away from the leg bone; remove the leg-thigh bone. With your hands or the knife, one by one remove as many pin bones from the leg meat as possible; then, if necessary, pull the tip of the leg bone to turn the meat to the inside (so the skin is on the outside and it looks like a turkey again). Lay the de-boned turkey on a sheet pan and immediately place in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
NOTE: Reserve the bones and neck for making the Poultry Stock.
NOTE: Reserve and refrigerate the giblets for making the Cornbread Dressing.
Place the duck, breast down, on a flat surface and follow the same procedure as you did to de-bone the turkey, except this time you will remove all the bones, instead of leaving in part of the wing and leg bones. To de-bone each wing, cut off the first two joints of the wing (and save for stock), leaving the wing's drumstick; cut the meat from around the drumstick and remove this bone. When you reach the thigh, follow the thigh-leg bone with the knife blade to release the bone as one unit, again being careful not to cut through the skin. Lay the de-boned duck on a sheet pan and immediately place in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
NOTE: Reserve the bones and neck for making the Poultry Stock.
NOTE: Reserve and refrigerate the giblets for making the Cornbread Dressing.
Use precisely the same procedure to de-bone the chicken as you used to de-bone the duck. Lay the de-boned chicken on a sheet pan and immediately place in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
NOTE: Reserve the bones and neck for making the Poultry Stock.
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Let's start with the laptop. Apple calls it the next generation MacBook Pro, and the best way to describe it is probably a 15" MacBook Pro Air. It's got either a quad-core Core i5 or i7 processor, an Nvidia Kepler GeForce GT 650M GPU, a maximum of 8GB of RAM, a beautifully thin shell, and, of course, that gorgeous 2880x1800 15" display. Battery life is still solid at 7 hours. It's also rocking USB 3.0.
Such a machine doesn't come cheap - the thing starts at $2199 (or a whopping €2279 in The Netherlands), with a 2.3Ghz quad-core Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256 GB SSD. It's interesting to note that the refreshed regular MacBook Pros did not get a resolution bump, so they're still rocking 1280x800 (!) for the 13" and 1440x900 for the 15" - and it's obvious why. If Apple upgraded its regular MacBook Pros to resolutions a little less laughable, the difference between them and the Retina MBP would become too small.
Of note: a pixel density of 220ppi is impressive, but the Asus ZenBook Prime is already rocking a 1920x1080 11.6" display, which comes down to a ppi of 190. Thanks to Asus and Apple, we're slowly but surely entering the high-ppi display era, and as far as I'm concerned, it's about damn time. OS X applications have to be adapted to make proper use of the new display, by the way.
Moving on, iOS 6 adds a lot of cool new little features, but many of them have been staples on other mobile operating systems for a while now, so nothing revolutionary going on here. The biggest - and most anticipated - change is the arrival of a new Maps application, replacing Google Maps.
It finally brings turn-by-turn navigation to iOS by default, and, most interestingly, adds a 3D mode which is exactly the same as what Google demonstrated a few days ago. Google stated its 3D feature would begin roll-out over the "coming weeks", which netted the company criticism for announcing something without actually having anything to ship. Apple will launch iOS 6, with the new Maps application, coming Fall. Let's wait and see if the same people - rightly so - criticizing Google will also criticize Apple. I doubt it.
Other new features in iOS 6 are Siri coming to the iPad, and, of course, new functionality for Siri as a whole, making the tool a little bit smarter. Rotten Tomatoes, for instance, has been integrated. It'll also come with a faster JavaScript engine and the ability to sync tabs across devices. iOS 6 also finally brings Facebook integration.
As far as hardware requirements go, it will be available for the iPhone 3GS and up, the iPad 2 and up, and iPod Touch 4th gen. and up. Why the original iPad is left out in the rain and the 3GS isn't remains an exercise for the viewers. The iPad is only 2 years old, and hardware-wise, more capable than the 3GS. Sure, compared to many Android upgrade cycles it's still pretty good, but compared to the rest of the PC industry - what the iPad supposedly belongs to, everybody keeps telling me - this is downright criminal.
Lastly, Apple announced that Mountain Lion will be available in July, for a mere $19.99. Another good deal - I may not like OS X, but as far as pricing goes, Apple nailed that one down.
Overall, the new display is nice, but the rest doesn't really strike me as particularly special or noteworthy. Spending close to 2 hours on this seems excessive, at best, but then again, these press events - not just Apple's - have been suffering from a serious case of inflation for years now. In any case, I refused to postpone my evening co-op zombie killfest for writing this one.


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Terrail Lambert, David Grimes among Notre Dame free-agent signees
Just one former Notre Dame player -- safety David Bruton -- heard his name called over the NFL Draft weekend.
He won't be the only one with a chance to make a roster, though, as teams sifted through the scads of undrafted free agents and agreed to terms with five ex-Irish players. They are:
David Grimes, Denver Broncos
Pat Kuntz, Indianapolis Colts
Terrail Lambert, San Francisco 49ers
Asaph Schwapp, Dallas Cowboys
Mike Turkovich, Dallas Cowboys
According to a release from Notre Dame, as of roughly 9 p.m. CT on Sunday, defensive end Justin Brown and linebacker Maurice Crum, Jr., were "close to finalizing their plans with respective NFL teams."
As for Bruton, here are comments Denver coach Josh McDaniels made about him Sunday, as McDaniels wrapped up draft weekend with local media:
"He's one of the finest special teams players in the draft, period. He was a great gunner for the punt team, getting down there and getting to the returner before the ball was caught, many times forcing a lot of fair catches. He's got great speed. I think he's the fastest safety in the draft. He could really impact us on three or four teams: punt, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return. I think he's blocked a kick or two in his career, or certainly has the capability to do that. He's got great range in the deep part of the field as a safety also."


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Last year's event drew more than 250 islanders who enjoyed the 125 creatively carved pumpkins.
Maryann Toppa is in the process of wrapping up the planning for this year's Spooktacular. There is no admission fee, but donations will be accepted. Stay tuned!!
Kudos to the Jamestown School's fifth grade for donating $300 to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Teacher Pat Cook reports that the money was sent to Ed Booth for distribution directly to people in immediate need. Great job!
If we were to judge actors by honks, say one to five, we'd have to give 9-year-old Dana Larkin five big honks for the progress she has made in the Jamestown Community Theatre since joining when she was 7.
"Honk!", to be staged by the JCT next month at the Jamestown Community Center is the Jamestown School fourth-grader's fourth play with the group. She appeared as a crab in the JCT's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland," was a student in "Anastasia," and in the chorus for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
"This is my biggest role yet," she told us, explaining that on stage she is Bonnie the Bullfrog and does most of the singing in one scene. She added that she "pretty much" knows her lines
from the scene.
The song she sings is "Warts
The Friends of the Jamestown Animal Shelter are in
need of volunteers to help at its fund-raiser "A Day at the Park" Saturday, Oct. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lt. Col. John C. Rembijas Memorial Pavilion at Ft. Getty.
The group was formed by Paws & Claws owner and Town Councilor Barbara Szepatowski, who wants to convert garage and storage facilities behind the Town Offices into an animal shelter. She told us on Saturday that volunteers are needed at the event to man booths and to help where ever possible. She urged people who don't have dogs to come anyway. If you can help, call her at the shop, 423-9677, or on her cell, 354-9200.
Activities will include a yard sale. Tables are available at $15 each, and there will be refreshments.
Featured events will be a doggie fortune teller, "OPI" doggie manicures, pet photos, paw print plaster of Paris plaques, pet adoptions, Frisbee toss and dog jumping competition, bobbing for bones, animal blessings, and airbrush tattoos for kids. It's a great cause. WOOF!!
The hit of last year's Halloween season will be back again.
The second annual Boy Scout Troop 1 Pumpkin Spooktacular will take place Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29 at the Toppa residence on Beach Avenue. and All" and it's directed at Ugly, the play's lead. "It tells him that it's OK to be ugly and not to worry about his looks because bullfrogs are ugly, too. Someone will find him attractive," Dana explained.
The play has become a family affair for the Larkins. Dana's sister, Talley, 10, is working backstage, mom, Durga, is house manager, and dad, Michael, is working the public relations end.
Dana has been studying voice with the play's musical director, Patty Vandal. "I love to sing, and this play is the most fun yet. It's a very funny show."
Dana pointed out, though, that a very important part of the play is its lesson that "it's OK to be different." Five honks for Dana!
Our weekly Sunday morning runs to the dump are always brighter when we pass the horticultural delights at the Froberg compound.
The Jamestown Baseball Association will be holding a series of informal informational meetings throughout the remainder of this year and into January and February.
Tony Rafanelli, chairman of the association, said the purpose of the meetings is to give baseball parents a chance to receive information on the league, know the various age group divisions, and answer questions about how players are picked and what the league looks for in determining player divisions.
"We are doing this over the next few months in order to help get parents' questions answered earlier than later when the season begins.The meetings will be held on different days of the week in the evening in order to give parents with different schedules an opportunity to attend. They should not last more than an hour, but league representatives will stay as long as necessary. Parents need to attend only one of the meetings. Check the Press for information about when and where the meetings will be held," Tony said.
He added that parents can call him anytime at 423-3954.
Young Jamestown women of almost a century ago were as admired by young men as they are today.
A reader sent in an article from a 1907 issue of the Newport Daily News that pointed out young ladies from the island were much sought after by young Navy officers.
The paper said, "The men with brass buttons all look for the Jamestown girls at the dances at the ORT or on board a visiting battleship. Jamestown is noted for its spirit of wholesome fun. The Jamestown girl is characteristically American. Often she comes from St. Louis: she will receive you cordially. The Jamestown girl will hold out her hand and smile at you trustingly. She is quite unaffected: she never tries to be English in her speech or offensively Parisian in her dress. The Jamestown girl plays golf, sails a knockabout, and can drive her own machine, which, by the bye, is the only word permissible in society when speaking of automobiles. The Jamestown girl never speaks French when everyone present understands English. Chocolate ice cream soda is her favorite drink. As for cocktails, she takes only the cherry from the bottom of her brother's glass. Her evening frocks are fluffy, with girlish ruffles and frills. They are innocently coquettish with a Dutch neck, and perhaps she wears a single string of pearls. Often her hair is naturally curly, but seldom marcelled. She is a winsome, wholesome American girl." Yes, she is!
Perhaps if the Town Council delays a decision long enough, we can corral the island deer in to the new highway barn.
Keller DiLuglio e-mailed regarding our lyrics quiz, "five minutes more, now I can't stop singing that old Frank Sinatra classic."
You may think you're doing your pet a favor by "dropping" a table scrap during dinner, but Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic in his Pet Tip of the Week urges you to think again.
"Not all treats and table foods are as safe as we would like to think for Fluffy. There has been new data compiled regarding toxicity from grapes and raisins in dogs (and probably cats and ferrets, too) and you should avoid using these as treats. Currently, it does not appear that all dogs are susceptible, but do you want to take that chance?
"Other common food items that can cause poisonings are items with caffeine, chocolates, garlic, and onions. So, please, do your best to stick to treats intended for dogs or clear any table food with your animal's doctor before feeding it to your precious Fluffy!" WOOF!
The Knights of Columbus Council #9197 will offer a Primo Pasta dinner from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15, in the St. Mark Church Hall.
Grand Knight David LeDoux said that all islanders are welcome to attend.
Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for children 4 to 12 years old, and free for youngsters 3 and under. Two parents and all their children under 12 years old can purchase a family ticket for $18. Mangia!!
Members of Jamestown Boy Scout Troop 1 participated in the Quequatuck District's annual Webelos Jam at Camp Aquapaug the weekend of Sept. 23.
Scoutmaster Dave Volpe said that event is put on by the Boy Scout troops with the Quequatuck District to introduce the Webelos cubs to Boy Scout activities.
"Each Boy Scout troop puts on a project to engage the Webelos in teamwork. This year Troop 1 ran the radioactive isotope event during which a team of eight Cubs must move a canister of 'radioactive waste' using seven 10-foot pieces of rope attached to a rubber ring. Seven Webelos each grab one piece of rope and one must call out the instuctions on what to do. The object is to get the rubber ring around a can by maneuvering the ropes. After this is accomplished, the can must be moved 10 feet and placed in an 18-inch circle. All this while, the people holding the ropes are blindfolded," Dave explained.
He said the event teaches the Scouts communication and teamwork.
Troop 1 Scouts participating were Sal Morenzi, Devon McMaster, Dylan Walsh and Madison Hansen. There were no Webelos from Jamestown. Great job, guys!
Wednesday is Columbus Day! Do something Italian.
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- China, in 1990 had 168 miles of paved Interstate.
- China today has 53,000 miles of paved Interstate.
- China in 1990 had 5 1/2 million cars.
- China today has 200 million vehicles on the road.
- It takes 121,600 gallons of oil to pave 1 mile of road.
- By comparrison the U.S. has 47,000 miles of paved interstate.
Same goes for their crude oil imports, which hit a record high of 23.41 million metric tons this past January, up 7.4 percent year-over-year.10 The so-called experts have a habit of downplaying these numbers, but it seems pretty clear to us: China isn't waiting around for next QE program. They are accelerating their move away from paper currencies and into hard assets.~Sprott
[7 barrels to a MT so 23,410,000 * 7 =163,870,000 barrels.]
China is shunning its Bernanke food---an unintended consequence of QE, a side effect, quite possibly---worse---than a devalued dollar is demand on limited resources.
Globalization was a genius idea.


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Louise Roe & Cara Santana: Nylon & Nicole Miller Private Dinner!
Cara Santana and Louise Roe step out in style for the private dinner hosted by Nylon Magazine and Nicole Miller held at The Little Door on Wednesday night (January 15) in Los Angeles.
The two ladies were joined at the event by Bella Thorne, Troian Bellisario, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Holt, Ryan Newman, and Jackson Guthy.
"Thank you @nylonmag and @louiseroe for a lovely time celebrating @nicolemillernyc ! cc @jaredeng and @callicholo" Cara posted on her Instagram.
"@CaraASantana @NylonMag @louiseroe @JaredEng great night! -Xxx, Nicole" designer Nicole Miller tweeted.
For more from the party, visit NylonMag.com!
FYI: Bella is wearing a Milly skirt and top, Nicholas Kirkwood shoes, Emm Kuo clutch, and Unearthen jewels. Louise, Troian, Gillian, and Cara are wearing Nicole Miller.


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Ever since it was announced a few weeks back that Walt Disney Pictures had bought Lucasfilm and that they were going ahead with producing Star Wars: Episode VII for 2015, it's pretty much been all the internet has been buzzing about, particularly who might direct the continuation of George Lucas' popular space opera.
Spotting producer Frank Marshall, husband of Lucasfilm's new president Kathleen Kennedy, at the The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 premiere last night, MTV tried getting him to talk about whether he knows who they may be approaching and his response is somewhat heartening that we'll get an answer to that burning question soon.
"I do (know) but I can't reveal it, or I won't be alive tomorrow," he said. "I'm really excited about this. I didn't grow up with it, but I was a big fan and have been since the series started. I'll always remember seeing that big mothership go over the screen. I've never forgotten it. I can't wait to see what's next."
He did tell them that they've narrowed the search down to "a couple of candidates" as well, but not when they'll be announcing their choice to the public. You can watch the video of Marshall's response at MTV.
Meanwhile, Erik Davis, editor-in-chief at Movies.com, gave an impassioned suggestion that Jurassic Park III and Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston should be hired to direct the first Star Wars movie in ten years, and Mike Ryan from The Huffington Post followed up on that suggestion by asking Johnston himself what he thought of that idea.
Johnston told him: "A lot would depend on what 'it' is. I am very glad to see Lucasfilm cranking up to get productive again, regardless of who ends up doing it."
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Police are looking for two white males in their twenties after the Mansfield Bank was robbed shortly before 2 p.m. Monday.
Eva Lepine saw two helicopters flying overhead as she parked her car outside the Life Care Center of West Bridgewater about 3 p.m. Monday, the start of her work shift.
Lepine, a nurse at the nursing home facility on Route 106, saw a police officer carrying a rifle. Several more federal, state and local authorities were walking the perimeter of the facility with police dogs.
Authorities were searching for two armed men who had robbed a nearby bank at gunpoint several minutes earlier.
"I pulled in here and I was like, 'Oh my gosh,'" Lepine said. "And then I saw the guns. It is scary. You come out to work to see everybody with guns and everything."
Shortly before 2 p.m., two men wearing black ski masks walked into Mansfield Bank at 728 West Center St. (Route 106), demanding money, police said. Each man was armed – one with a pump-type shotgun and the other, a handgun.
Police described the robbers as white males who wore black hooded sweatshirts, ski masks and sunglasses. No arrests had been made as of 7 p.m. Monday.
The two men fled west on Center Street with an unknown amount of cash in a dark-colored Ford sedan – the same car police believe was found in the parking lot of the Life Care Center.
The car had been reported stolen in Braintree on Sunday, police said.
Randolph Police Sgt. William McNamara said he was off-duty and visiting his mother inside the Life Care Center when the facility was locked down Monday afternoon.
"We just saw all the police activity and the helicopters. Obviously, everybody was curious about what was going on," McNamara said.
Officials wouldn't let people enter or exit the facility for about a half hour as authorities searched inside, he said.
Alan Richman, senior executive director for the Life Care Center, said authorities looked through the building and declined further comment.
The brazen daytime robbery occurred in a heavily-traveled corridor on Route 106 that includes several restaurants, a veterinary clinic and offices for Shaw's supermarkets.
Mansfield Bank, a yellow-colored building, is located steps from Chili's restaurant and several feet away from Lowe's Home Improvement.
Teams of FBI, state and local police and four K9 units searched a wooded area near the the Life Care Center, looking for the two bank robbers.
"This place is usually quiet," McNamara said. "It's scary for the poor people in here. The staff did an excellent job in keeping everybody calm."
Maria Papadopoulos may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow on Twitter @MariaP_ENT.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Bernanke offered a broad defense Tuesday of the Federal Reserve's policies under his leadership a little over two months before his eight-year tenure ends.
Bernanke said the Great Recession made it essential for the Fed to become more publicly transparent so it could explain why record-low interest rates were needed to support the economy.
The recession meant that the Fed's communications had to evolve in ways he didn't envision when he became chairman in 2006, Bernanke said. Still, he became leader with a long-held view that a less secretive Fed was in the public's interest.
"I believed then, as I do today, that transparency in monetary policy enhances public understanding and confidence," Bernanke said in his remarks at the annual dinner of the National Economists Club.
Some critics have argued that the Fed's efforts to provide more information to the public have sometimes confused more than clarified the central bank's intentions.
In his comments, Bernanke endorsed remarks Janet Yellen made last week at a Senate hearing on her nomination to succeed him. Yellen, now vice chair, said the surest path to normal rate policies will be for the Fed to keep doing all it can to promote a robust recovery.
Bernanke's remarks Tuesday and Yellen's last week suggest that the Fed has no plans to scale back its $85-billion-a-month in bond purchases when it next meets Dec. 17-18. The bond purchases are intended to keep long-term borrowing rates low to spur spending and economic growth.
"The economy has made significant progress since the depths of the recession," Bernanke said. "However, we are still far from where we would like to be, and, consequently, it may be some time before monetary policy returns to more normal settings."
Bernanke's remarks had something of the tone of a valedictory address. He reviewed, and broadly defended, the many unorthodox decisions the Fed made under his guidance as it confronted the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930s.
"We have had to contend with the persistent effects of the seizing-up of the financial system, the collapse of housing prices and construction, new financial shocks in Europe and elsewhere, restrictive fiscal policies at all levels of government, and, of course, the enormous blows to output and employment associated with the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression," Bernanke said.
In response to these challenges, Bernanke noted that the Fed cut its key short-term rate to a record low near zero in December 2008 and left it there. It then launched programs to buy Treasury and mortgage bonds to try to lower long-term rates to energize the economy.
Those efforts have driven the Fed's investment portfolio to nearly $4 trillion — more than four times its level before the financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008.
Critics have raised concerns that the size of the Fed's bond holdings risks inflating asset bubbles in stocks or real estate and triggering market instability. But Bernanke said the bond purchases were essential given the severity of the recession and high unemployment.
He said that while the bond purchases pose risks, the Fed thinks the greater risks remain elevated unemployment and lingering economic fragility.
In his speech and during a question period after his remarks, Bernanke defended his announcement last June that the central bank could begin trimming back its bond purchases before the end of the year as long as the economy kept strengthening and producing more jobs.
This announcement jolted financial markets and sent stock prices tumbling for a brief period and pushed interest rates higher. Bernanke blamed part of the rate increase on a mistaken view in markets that the Fed would begin tightening credit policies sooner than investors had anticipated. He said that he believed investors now have a better view of the Fed's resolve to keep supporting the economy after the central bank passed up chances at recent meetings to start reducing the bond purchases.
Bernanke, who has yet to reveal what he plans to do after leaving the Fed when his term ends on Jan. 31, noted in response to a question that he had worked as an academic studying many of the issues he confronted as Fed chairman. Bernanke was a highly regarded economics professor at Princeton before joining the Fed.
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The IT industry is increasingly adopting Apache™ Hadoop® for analytics in big data environments. SanDisk® investigated how the performance of Hadoop applications could be accelerated by taking advantage of solid state drives (SSDs) in Hadoop clusters.
For more than 25 years, SanDisk has been transforming digital storage with breakthrough products and ideas that improve performance and reduce latency, pushing past the boundaries of what's been possible with hard disk drive (HDD)-based technology. SanDisk flash memory technologies can be found in many of the world's largest data centers. (See product details at www.sandisk.com.)
This technical paper describes the TestDFSIO benchmark testing for a 1TB dataset on a Hadoop cluster. The intent of this paper is to show the benefits of using SanDisk SSDs within a Hadoop cluster environment.
CloudSpeed Ascend™ SATA SSDs from SanDisk were used in this TestDFSIO testing. CloudSpeed Ascend SATA SSDs are designed to run read-intensive application workloads in enterprise server and cloud computing environments. The CloudSpeed™ SATA SSD product family offers a portfolio of workload-optimized SSDs for mixed-use, read-intensive and write-intensive data center environments with all of the features expected from an enterprise-grade SATA SSD.
Summary of Results
Summary of Flash-Enabled Hadoop Cluster Testing: Key Findings
SanDisk tested a Hadoop cluster using the Cloudera® Distribution of Hadoop (CDH). This cluster consisted of one NameNode and six DataNodes. The cluster was set up for the purpose of measuring the performance when using SSDs within a Hadoop environment, focusing on the TestDFSIO benchmark.
For this testing, SanDisk ran the standard Hadoop TestDFSIO benchmark on multiple cluster configurations to examine the results under different conditions. The runtime and throughput for the TestDFSIO benchmark for a 1TB dataset was recorded for the different configurations. These results are summarized and analyzed in the Results Summary and Results Analysis sections.
The results revealed that SSDs can be deployed in Hadoop environments to provide significant performance improvement (> 70% for the TestDFSIO benchmark1) and TCO benefits (> 60% reduction in cost/job for the TestDFSIO benchmark2) to organizations that deploy them. This means that customers will be able to add SSDs in clusters that have multiple servers with HDD storage. In summary, these tests showed that the SSDs are beneficial for Hadoop environments that are storageintensive.
Apache Hadoop is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large datasets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from a few servers to several thousands of servers, if needed, with each server offering local computation and storage. Rather than relying on hardware to deliver high-availability, Hadoop is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, thus delivering a highly available service on top of a cluster of computers, any one of which may be prone to failures.
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the distributed storage used by Hadoop applications. A HDFS cluster consists of a NameNode that manages the file system metadata and DataNodes that store the actual data. Clients contact NameNode for file metadata or file modifications and perform actual file I/O directly with DataNodes.
Hadoop MapReduce is a software framework for processing large amounts of data (multi-terabyte data-sets) in-parallel on Hadoop clusters. These clusters leverage inexpensive servers – but they do so in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner, given the characteristics of the Hadoop processing model.
A MapReduce job splits the input data-set into independent chunks that are processed by the map tasks in a completely parallel manner. The framework sorts the outputs of the maps, which are then input to the reduce tasks. Typically, both the input and output of a MapReduce job are stored within the HDFS file system. The framework takes care of scheduling tasks, monitoring them and reexecuting the failed tasks. The MapReduce framework consists of a single (1) "master" JobTracker and one "slave" TaskTracker per cluster-node. The master is responsible for scheduling the jobs component tasks on the slaves, monitoring them and re-executing the failed tasks. In this way, the slave server nodes execute tasks as directed by the master node.
Typically, Hadoop environments use commodity servers, with SATA HDDs used as the local storage, as cluster nodes. However SSDs, used strategically within a Hadoop environment, can provide significant performance benefits due to their NAND flash technology design (no mechanical parts) and their ability to reduce latency for computing tasks. These characteristics affect operational costs associated with using the cluster in an ongoing basis.
Hadoop workloads have a lot of variation in terms of their storage access profiles. Some Hadoop workloads are compute-intensive, some are storage-intensive and some are in between. Many Hadoop workloads use custom datasets, and customized MapReduce algorithms to execute very specific analysis tasks on the datasets.
SSDs in Hadoop environments will benefit storage-intensive datasets and workloads. This technical paper discusses one such storage-intensive benchmark called TestDFSIO.
TestDFSIO is a standard Hadoop benchmark. It is an I/O-intensive workload and it involves operations that are 100% file-read or file-write for Big Data workloads using the MapReduce paradigm. The input and output data for these workloads are stored on the HDFS file system. The TestDFSIO benchmark requires the following input:
The testing discussed in this paper used the enhanced version of the TestDFSIO benchmark, which is available as part of the Intel® HiBench Benchmark suite.
In order to attempt stock TestDFSIO on a 1TB dataset, with 512 files, each with 2000MB of data, execute the following command as 'hdfs' user with number of files, file size and type of operation (whether to perform read or write operations). Note that the unit of file size is MB:
# hadoop jar /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-4.6.0-1.cdh4.6.0.p0.26/lib/hadoopmapreduce/ hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient-2.0.0-cdh4.6.0-tests.jar TestDFSIO [-write | -read ] -nrFiles 512 -fileSize 2000
A Hadoop cluster using the Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop (CDH) consisting of one NameNode and six DataNodes was set up for the purpose of determining the benefits of using SSDs within a Hadoop environment, focusing on the TestDFSIO benchmark. The testing consisted of using the standard Hadoop TestDFSIO benchmark on different cluster configurations (described in the Test Methodology section). The runtime for the TestDFSIO benchmark on a 1TB dataset (with 512 files, each with 2000MB of data) was recorded for the different configurations that were tested. The enhanced version of TestDFSIO provides average aggregate throughput for the cluster for read and writes, which was also recorded for the different configurations under test. The results of these tests are summarized and analyzed in the Results Analysis section.
Test Environment
The test environment consists of one Dell® PowerEdge R720 server being used as a single NameNode and six Dell PowerEdge R320 servers being used as DataNodes in a Hadoop cluster. The network configuration consists of a 10GbE private network interconnect that connects all the servers for internode Hadoop communication and a 1GbE network interconnect for management network. The Hadoop cluster storage is switched between HDDs and SSDs, based on the test configurations. Figure 1 below shows a pictorial view of the environment, which is followed by a listing of the hardware and software components used within the test environment.
Figure 1: Cloudera Hadoop Cluster Environment
Technical Component Specifications
|Software if applicable
|Dell® PowerEdge R320
|Dell® PowerEdge R720
|NameNode, Secondary NameNode
|Dell® PowerConnect 2824 24-port switch
|1GbE network switch
|Management network
|Dell® PowerConnect 8132F 24-port switch
|10GbE network switch
|Hadoop data network
|500GB 7.2K RPM Dell SATA HDDs
|Used as Just a bunch of disks (JBODs)
|DataNode drives
|480GB CloudSpeed Ascend™ SATA SSDs
|Used as Just a bunch of disks (JBODs)
|DataNode drives
|Dell® 300GB 15K RPM SAS HDDs
|Used as a single RAID 5 (5+1) group
|NameNode drives
Table 1: Hardware components
Technical Component Specifications
|Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
|Operating system for DataNodes and NameNode
|Cloudera® Manager
|Cloudera Hadoop cluster administration
|Cloudera® Distribution of Hadoop (CDH)
|Cloudera's Hadoop distribution
Table 2: Software components
Compute Infrastructure
The Hadoop cluster NameNode is a Dell PowerEdge R720 server with two hex-core Intel® Xeon E5- 2620 2GHz CPU (hyper-threaded) and 96GB of memory. This server has a single 300GB SSD as a boot drive. The server has dual power-supplies for redundancy.
The Hadoop cluster DataNodes are six Dell PowerEdge R320 servers, each with one hex-core Intel® Xeon E5-2430 2.2GHz CPUs (hyper-threaded) and 16GB of memory. Each of these servers has a single 500GB 7.2K RPM SATA HDD as a boot drive. The servers have dual power supplies for redundancy.
Network Infrastructure
All cluster nodes (NameNode and all DataNodes) are connected to a 1GbE management network via the onboard 1GbE Network Interface Card (NIC). All cluster nodes are also connected to a 10GbE Hadoop cluster network with an add-on 10GbE NIC. The 1GbE management network is via a Dell PowerConnect 2824 24-port 1GbE switch. The 10GbE cluster network is via a Dell PowerConnect 8132F 10GbE switch.
Storage Infrastructure
The NameNode uses six 300GB 15K RPM SAS HDDs in RAID5 configuration for the Hadoop file system. RAID5 is used on the NameNode to protect the HDFS metadata stored on the NameNode in case of disk failure or corruption. This NameNode setup is used across all the different testing configurations. The RAID5 logical volume is formatted as an ext4 file system and mounted for use by the Hadoop NameNode.
Each DataNode has one of the following storage environments depending on the configuration being tested. The specific configurations are discussed in detail in the Test Methodology section:
In each of the above environments, the disks are used in a JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configuration. HDFS maintains its own replication and striping for the HDFS file data and therefore a JBOD configuration is recommended for the data nodes for better performance as well as better failure recovery.
Cloudera® Hadoop Configuration
The Cloudera Hadoop configuration consists of the HDFS configuration and the MapReduce configuration. The specific configuration parameters that were changed from their defaults are listed in Table 3. All remaining parameters were left at the default values, including the replication factor for HDFS (3).
|Configuration parameter
/data1 is mounted on the RAID5 logical volume on the NameNode.
|Determines where on the local file system the NameNode should store the name table (fsimage).
|/data1/dfs/dn, /data2/dfs/dn
Note: /data1 and /data2 are mounted on HDDs or SSDs depending on which storage configuration is used.
|Comma-delimited list of directories on the local file system where the DataNode stores HDFS block data.
|Number of tasks to run per Java Virtual Machine (JVM). If set to -1, there is no limit.
|Compress the output of MapReduce jobs.
|MapReduce Child Java Maximum Heap Size
|The maximum heap size, in bytes, of the Java child process. This number will be formatted and concatenated with the 'base' setting for 'mapred.child.java.opts' to pass to Hadoop.
|The maximum number of map tasks that a TaskTracker can run simultaneously
|The maximum number of reduce tasks that a TaskTracker can run simultaneously.
|mapred.local.dir (job tracker)
|/data1/mapred/jt, /data1 is mounted on the RAID5 logical volume on the NameNode.
|Directory on the local file system where the JobTracker stores job configuration data.
|mapred.local.dir (task tracker)
|/data1/mapred/local, which is hosted on HDD or SSD depending on which storage configuration is used.
|List of directories on the local file system where a TaskTracker stores intermediate data files.
Table 3: Cloudera Hadoop configuration parameters
Operating System (OS) Configuration
The following configuration changes were made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS parameters.
# sysctl -w vm.swappiness=20
/dev/sdb1 /data1 ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /data2 ext4 noatime 0 0
* Soft nofile 16384
* Hard nofile 16384
session include system-auth
Test Methodology
The purpose of this technical paper is to showcase the benefits of using SSDs within a Hadoop environment. To achieve this, SanDisk tested two separate configurations of the Hadoop cluster with the TestDFSIO Hadoop benchmark on a 1TB dataset (with 512 files, each with 2000MB of data). The two configurations are described in detail as follows. Note that there is no change to the NameNode configuration and it remains the same across all configurations.
[root@hadoop2 ~]# fdisk -S 32 -H 64 /dev/sdd WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to sectors (command 'u'). Command (m for help): c DOS Compatibility flag is not set Command (m for help): u Changing display/entry units to sectors Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First sector (2048-937703087, default 2048): Using default value 2048 Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-937703087, default 937703087): Using default value 937703087 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks.
For each of the above configurations, TestDFSIO read/write was executed for a 1TB dataset (with 512 files, each with 2000MB of data) with 100% read and 100% write options. The time taken to run the benchmark was recorded, along with the average throughput seen across the cluster for read/write.
Results Summary
TestDFSIO benchmark runs were conducted on the two configurations described in the Test Methodology section. The runtime for completing the benchmark on a 1TB dataset was collected. The runtime results are summarized in Figure 2. The X-axis on the graph shows the results of the 100% read runs and the 100% write runs — and the Y-axis shows the runtime in seconds. The runtimes are shown for the all-HDD configuration via the gray columns and the all-SSD configurations are shown via the red columns.
Figure 2: Runtime comparisons
The average cluster throughput in MB/s (megabytes per second) was also collected for the 100% read benchmarks and the 100% write benchmarks. The throughput results are summarized in Figure 3. The X-axis on the graph shows the 100% read and 100% write runs, and the Y-axis shows the throughput value in terms of MB/s. The throughput for the all-HDD configuration is shown via the gray columns and the all-SSD configuration is shown via the red columns.
Figure 3: Throughput comparisons
The results shown (runtime and throughput) above in graphical format are also shown in tabular format in Table 4:
|1TB read runtime (secs)
|1TB write runtime (secs)
|1TB read average cluster throughput (MB/s)
|1TB write average cluster throughput (MB/s)
|All-HDD configuration
|All-SSD configuration
Table 4: Results summary
Performance Analysis
Observations from the runtime results summarized in Figure 2 and Table 4 are as follows.
This testing showed that replacing all the HDDs on the DataNodes with SSDs can reduce the 1TB TestDFSIO benchmark runtimes for read and write by ~72% and 74% respectively, therefore completing the job faster compared to an all-HDD configuration. The 1TB dataset was comprised of 512 files, each of which had 2000MB of data.
TCO Analysis (Cost/Job Analysis)
Hadoop has been architected for deployment with commodity servers and hardware. So, typically, Hadoop clusters use inexpensive SATA HDDs for local storage on cluster nodes. However, it is important to consider SSDs when planning out a Hadoop environment, especially if the workload is storage-intensive and has a higher proportion of random I/O patterns.
SanDisk SSDs can provide compelling performance benefits, likely at a lower TCO over the lifetime of the infrastructure.
Consider the TestDFSIO performance for the two configurations, in terms of the total number of 1TB read or write I/O jobs that can be completed over three years. This is determined using the total runtime of one job to determine the number of jobs per day (24*60*60/runtime_in_seconds) and then over three years (#jobs per day * 3 * 365). The total number of jobs for the two configurations over three years is shown in Table 5.
|Runtime for a single 1TB read job in seconds
|#read jobs in 1 day
|#read jobs in 3 years
|Runtime for a single 1TB write job in seconds
|#write jobs in 1 day
|#write jobs in 3 years
|All-HDD configuration
|All-SSD configuration
Table 5: Number of jobs over 3 years
Also consider the total price for the Test Environment described earlier in this paper. The pricing includes the cost of the one NameNode, six DataNodes, local storage disks on the cluster nodes, and networking equipment (Ethernet switches and the 10 GbE NICs on the cluster nodes). Pricing, as shown in these tables, has been determined via Dell's Online Configuration tool for rack servers and Dell's pricing for accessories, as listed in Table 6 below.
|Discounted Pricing from http://www.dell.com
|All-HDD configuration
|All-SSD configuration
Table 6: Pricing the configurations
Now consider the cost of the environment per job when the environment is used over three years (cost of configuration / number of jobs in three years).
|Discounted Pricing from www.dell.com
|# read-intensive jobs in 3 years
|$ / read-intesive job
|# write-intensive jobs in 3 years
|$ / write-intesive job
|All-HDD configuration
|All-SSD configuration
Table 7: $ Cost/Job
Table 7 shows the cost per job ($/job) across the two Hadoop configurations and how the SanDisk all-SSD configuration compares with the all-HDD configuration. These results are graphically summarized in Figure 4 and Figure 5 below.
Figure 4: $/job for read-intensive workloads
Figure 5: $/job for write-intensive workloads
Observations from these analysis results:
SanDisk SSDs can be deployed strategically in Hadoop environments to provide significant performance improvement and TCO benefits. Performance was over 70% for the TestDFSIO benchmark3 and TCO benefits include over a 60% reduction in $/job for the TestDFSIO benchmark4.
SanDisk SSDs are beneficial for Hadoop environments, especially when the workloads are storageintensive. This technical paper discussed one such deployment of CloudSpeed Ascend SATA SSDs within Hadoop and provided a proof-point for the SSD performance and SSD TCO benefits within the Hadoop ecosystem.
It is important to understand that Hadoop applications and workloads vary significantly in terms of their I/O access patterns. Therefore all Hadoop workloads many not benefit equally from the use of SSDs. It is necessary for customers to develop a proof-of-concept (POC) for their custom Hadoop applications and workloads, so that they can evaluate the benefits that SSDs can provide to those applications and workloads.
1. Please see Figure 2: Runtime Comparisons
2. Please see Figure 4: $/Job for Read-Intensive Workloads and Figure 5: $/Job for Write-Intensive Workloads
3. Please see Figure 2: Runtime Comparisons
4. Please see Figure 4: $/Job for Read-Intensive Workloads and Figure 5: $/Job for Write-Intensive Workloads
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