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The Women of Troy Collective first came together for a site specific workshop of the play in the summer of 2010 as part of the Canadian Stage: Festival of Ideas and Creation. The high success, positive feedback of the three performances, the strong bond developed between the artists (many who had never worked together before) and a mutual recognition of need for the project inspired its continuation and further development.
"…like the Women,we had nowhere to turn to block out the horror…clear and devastating…"
– Audience Member
"…brilliant and inventive use of what is not usually a performance space…forcing us to confront the tragedy…packed a punch"
– Audience Member
"…an innovative and powerful presentation…"
– Susan Ferley, The Grand Theatre

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Registration for the Towpath Trilogy Race Series is now open! The race series consists of the Towpath Half (Virtual), the Towpath Ten-Ten (Virtual) and the Towpath Marathon. Sign up for one of these races or all three!
Please note due to state and federal guidance on the evolving Coronavirus situation, the Towpath Half Marathon, previously scheduled for April 5, will be a virtual race. Our full statement is available on the Towpath Half website.
The Towpath Marathon was established in 1992 to introduce the Towpath Trail as a new recreational amenity and to promote the establishment of the Ohio & Erie Canalway; in 1993, it was one of ten events that celebrated the completion of the Towpath Trail through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Since its inception the Towpath Marathon has grown to become one of Northeast Ohio's premier marathons, attracting an average of 1,200 participants and 3,500 spectators from more than twenty-seven states for a weekend of outdoor festivities and athletic competition!


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Speaking to North Carolinians at a town hall in Raleigh, the President made clear why health reform will benefit all American: "if you've got health insurance, then the reform we're proposing will also help you because it will provide you more stability and more security. Because the truth is we have a system today that works well for the insurance industry, but it doesn't work well for you." We all know the horror stories, which is why the health insurance consumer protections that are part of reform are so important.
At the town hall, the President outlined these core principles:
Let me be specific. We will stop insurance companies from denying you coverage because of your medical history. (Applause.) I've told this story before -- I will never forget watching my own mother, as she fought cancer in her final days, worrying about whether her insurer would claim her illness was a preexisting condition so they could wiggle out of paying for her coverage. How many of you have worried about the same thing? (Applause.) A lot of people have gone through this. Many of you have been denied insurance or heard of someone who was denied insurance because they got -- had a preexisting condition. That will no longer be allowed with reform. (Applause.) We won't allow that. (Applause.) We won't allow that.
With reform, insurance companies will have to abide by a yearly cap on how much you can be charged for your out-of-pocket expenses. No one in America should go broke because of an illness. (Applause.)
We will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies -- (applause) -- eye and foot exams for diabetics, so we can avoid chronic illnesses that cost not only lives, but money. (Applause.)
No longer will insurance companies be allowed to drop or water down coverage for someone who's become seriously ill. That's not right, it's not fair. (Applause.) We will stop insurance companies from placing arbitrary caps on the coverage you can receive in a given year or in a lifetime. (Applause.)
So my point is, whether or not you have health insurance right now, the reforms we seek will bring stability and security that you don't have today -- reforms that will become more urgent and more urgent with each passing year.
So, in the end, the debate about reform boils down to a choice between two approaches. The first is projected to double your health care costs over the next decade, make millions more Americans uninsured, bankrupt state and federal governments, and allow insurance companies to run roughshod over consumers. That's one option. That's called the status quo. That's what we have right now.
I want everybody to understand this. If we do nothing, I can almost guarantee you your premiums will double over the next 10 years because that's what they did over the last 10 years. It will go up three times faster than your wages, so a bigger and bigger chunk of your paycheck will be going into health insurance. It will eat into the possibility of you getting a raise on your job because your employer is going to be looking and saying, I can't afford to give you a raise because my health care costs just went up 10, 20, 30 percent. And Medicare, which seniors rely on, is going to become more and more vulnerable. On current projections, Medicare will be in the red in less than 10 years.
So that's the status quo. When everybody goes around saying, why is Obama taking on health care -- that's the answer. That's one option. I don't like that option. You shouldn't either. (Applause.) That plan doesn't sound too good. That's the health care system we have right now.
You can read more about the President's eight health insurance consumer protections here, and figure out how reform will directly affect you and your family.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The President Highlights Health Insurance Consumer Protections
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Snapchat's co-founders probably wish this lawsuit would disappear just like photos shared on their app.
Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy are facing new allegations in a suit brought by a former college buddy, Frank Reginald Brown IV, who claims he came up with the idea for the wildly popular app — and has the text messages to prove it.
One purported text message from Spiegel appears to acknowledge Brown came up with the original concept of disappearing messages, which is the fundamental basis for the app.
"I want to make sure you feel like you are given credit for the idea of disappearing messages," according new court papers that quote from the alleged text.
The documents depict a deteriorating relationship between Spiegel and Brown, who met at Stanford and later recruited Murphy to their then nascent business in 2011.
Brown, without any real tech experience, claims to have done the legwork for getting Snapchat off the ground, including filing for patents and other legal tasks.
The court papers suggest there was a falling out after Spiegel took issue with Brown's listing him last in the patent filing as a co-inventor.
Spiegel later tried to reconcile and messaged Brown with the text giving him credit, the suit claims.
Snapchat just raised $80 million from major Silicon Valley players, including Institutional Venture Partners.
Spiegel and Murphy cashed in some of their shares in the company for $10 million each, according to reports.
Brown's attorney, Luan Tran, is seeking to get Snapchat's attorneys barred from the case, according to the latest filing in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Brown claims law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan represented him last year for a brief period, in which he shared information he considered confidential.
The firm did not return request for comment.
The Snapchat saga is shaping up to be yet another drag-out fight among college kids turned tech titans.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Harvard alums, sued and later settled with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a battle over Facebook's founding.
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Alfred Peet brewed a better coffee in America
By David Saito-Chung
Alfred Peet was convinced that Americans would pay up for a better-tasting cup of coffee. This was back in the 1950s and '60s — way before today's gourmet coffee shops.
He also saw hardly anyone willing to travel the globe in search of excellent coffee beans, teach the public how premium-quality coffee should taste and explain that with coffee beans, where they're grown matters.
So the Dutch-born expert in coffee and tea made it his mission to serve an excellent product that was priced at a premium over the marketplace yet still was affordable enough to enjoy repeatedly...
He also inspired other entrepreneurs to build bigger markets in food and beverage products.
"I always like to say that my company would not be half of what it is today if it weren't for Peet's," Elana Rosenfeld, founder of Kicking Horse Coffee, told IBD.
The British Columbia-based roaster ranks No. 1 in Canada in sales of organic coffee certified as Fair Trade, referring to compensation paid to coffee bean farmers.
"They were really that first wave of bringing awareness to specialty, high-end coffee to the marketplace," she said. "They started with their stores, educating customers and really introducing them to the idea of where coffee came from, what geographical regions there were. People didn't just think about that. Look now. It's crazy!"


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This was happening in our yard on Saturday while we were moving out of the house.
I'm sure going to miss their little faces.
Also, speaking of things I'll miss. Sadly, we've experienced the death of another dog. (That's three in three years, plus a cat. Man, this place is harsh.) Nyeusi, our sweet puppy (she was maybe 3 years old) died on Monday. We are so sad that she left us so early and that she won't be free to roam the neighborhood with her pal Taquilla as we had originally planned.
She loved attention and would flop on her back to have her belly rubbed at any opportunity.
We're gonna miss you, buddy.


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Born John Roger Stephens in 1978, John Legend he began playing piano at age three. Although he was home schooled until high school, he graduated Salutatorian and opted to attend University of Pennsylvania instead of Harvard. There he was introduced to Lauren Hill. She hired him to play piano for her on her album, The Miseducation of Lauren Hill. It was the beginning of his collaboration with many artists. He has worked with Kanye West, Sade, Brittany Spears, Sergio Mendes, Black Eye Peas, Mary J. Blige and others.
His stage name was given to him by poet J. Ivy. Saying "I heard your music and it reminds me of that music from the old school. You sound like one of the legends. As a matter of fact, that's what I'm going to call you from now on! I'm going to call you John Legend." The name stuck.
John is an activist too. Whether working with Will.i.am on the "Yes I Can" video for the Barrack O'Bama campaign or doing Public Service Announcements to increase awareness of the problems caused by Hurricane Katrina or in the Tide Detergent "Clean Start" mobile laundromat in St. Bernard Parish in the aftermath of that storm, John has lent his voice and his hands to many tasks.
It's no wonder that with his history and talent, he was asked to work with rapper Common to compose and perform the music for the movie Selma. In the theme song "Glory," he starts at the piano, singing the lyrics:
One day when the Glory comes/It will be ours, it will be ours/One day when the war is won/We will be sure, we will be sure
Then with an orchestra behind him, Common, who also stars in the movie, raps about the struggle for equality, past and present. The effect is powerful. The song takes you back to the sixties and then forward to today in a split second.
Since the release in 2014, it has won best music from the African-American Film Critics Association, the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, the Georgia Film Critics Association and the Golden Globe Awards. It was the runner up at the Iowa Film Critics awards. It has been nominated for Best Song at the Houston Film Critics Society Awards and for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards.
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Dear Kettle fans,
Here is a problem: you want to process a large amount of data, coming from one or more CSV files. Suppose for example you have a file like this one: http://mattcasters.s3.amazonaws.com/customers-25M.txt (don't download all at once, it's 25 million rows or 2.4GB big)
Now, reading that file is a problem. You can do all sorts of interesting things in parallel, but unless you can read the file itself in parallel, you have yourself a nice bottleneck.
As such, we created the parallel CSV Input step to come to the rescue. While this works fine on ordinary file systems, it doesn't offer any help out on Amazon EC2. Over there, we don't really have a file system yet that offers parallel access in a scalable way. I investigated the promising s3fs project, but that one retrieved complete files in stead of chunks of data and always saves to local file first. That in itself then becomes the bottleneck.
After even more searching over the weekend, I ended up using the JetS3t Java API to create a new "S3 Csv Input" plugin (SVN: svn://source.pentaho.org/svnkettleroot/plugins/S3CsvInput/trunk) to read the data in parallel, unbuffered and in chunks using AWS (Amazon Web Services) in this case on the REST service they provide.
The plugin allowed us to learn some interesting things about EC2 and S3…
Performance throttling
The first thing we see is that a single node never consumes more than 40-something% CPU. We suspect that this is because of price/performance reasons. Remember, these servers cost $US0.10/hour. Even given this fact and the fact that we're basically running inside a virtual machine, we can still process around 30,000 rows/s on a single node.
It scales!
The performance of a single node isn't really all that interesting. What we want to know is : if we read the same file with 2, 5 or 10 nodes, how long does it take then?
Well, obviously I tried it and here are the results:
–> 1 node=842 seconds, 2 nodes=433 seconds, 5 nodes=170 seconds, 10 nodes=96 seconds
This means that on 10 nodes, you go 8.8 times faster which is actually quite nice considering startup costs, etc.
The transformation
The 10 nodes scenario transformation looks like this:
This means: A cluster schema with 10 slave servers (1 carte per server) and 4 step copies per slave server (total of 40 step copies each reading around 25M/40=625k rows).
The throughput of this solution comes down to a staggering 260,000 rows/second or 935M rows/hour.
If you would have processed these 935M rows, you would have spent $US 1,00 (EURO 0,64) in EC2 rental costs and a few cents extra for the data transfer costs.
I always make it a point to provide the technology for ETL developers to use, never to dictate how that technology should be used. However, in this case, I'm sure you'll agree that the possibilities are endless, certainly in those situations where you want to apply complex logic, heavy calculations on individual or aggregated rows, scoring, etc. Especially those situations where a single server isn't enough and you want to throw a bunch of servers at it. What we have shown is that you *can* split up the load over several servers to make it scale beyond a single machine.
The main limitation seems to be how fast you can get data to upload to S3 for processing on EC2… using Kettle… and how fast you can get the data back to your own servers. Obviously, if your services are already hosted on EC2, then that problem doesn't exist.
Until next time,