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The one thing that's become clear as I stumble my way through the green renovation of Sheep Dog Hollow: Insulation is king.
Forget spending a fortune on solar power or geothermal if you're thinking of greening up your current home. Every green expert I speak with always emphasizes the importance of dealing first and foremost with insulation in two forms: attacking air infiltration (sealing up all air leaks and drafts in a house) and increasing the amount of R-value (essentially the thickness of the blanket of insulation in the house.)
Doing so can save homeowners as much as 20 to 30 percent in their annual heating bills.
There are plenty of people who could benefit from a simple insulation upgrade. According to the site Simply Insulate, there are 46 million American homes that are "under-insulated."
"If your home as little as 5 to 10 years old, you likely have one of the 46 million under-insulated homes in the US," according to the Harvard University School of Public Health. "Adding more insulation is easy. Plus, insulation is one of the lowest cost options for improving the energy efficiency of your home. It pays off fast and keeps paying off with better comfort and energy savings for as long as you own your home."
At Sheep Dog Hollow, we opted to put in highly efficient spray foam insulation. It seals the house tight – think vacuum-packed house with foaming plastic. Once it's done, we'll be eligible for a federal tax credit of up to $1,500 as well as rebates from our local electric company for upgrading the insulation. ("Upgrade" is a generous term, though. When we bought Sheep Dog Hollow, the house had no insulation at all…)
But not every homeowner can do the kind of gut renovation we did – we stripped the house down to its bare studs so the spray foam, which is cutting edge in cutting down air infiltration, will be easy to install.
But most homeowners who an insulation upgrade have to work with what they have, and in the industry, that's called a "retrofit." So I called our local Anchor Insulation provider to find out what those homeowners can do.
"To incorporate spay foam in a retrofit, traditionally the roofline can be done, crawl spaces, or any kind of basement perimeters," says Anchor's Marek Ropiak. "Walls can also be done, but there can't be any insulation in them at all."
For houses that already have some insulation, but not enough, there are plenty of other options. The Energy Star website lists them, from increasing the amount of fiberglass batts to blowing in extra insulation through the walls.
Simply Insulate also has a handy tool that can help homeowners find the various state incentives that can help pay for an insulation upgrade. I was surprised when Mr. Ropiak mentioned that, at least here in Connecticut, sometimes the incentives and rebates can end up paying for the upgrades.
"There are phenomenal programs for existing homeowners through local electric providers," he says. "A lot of these programs have been around for years. Now, with the cost of energy, they're marketing it more significantly."
The federal government, in a public-private partnership, also hopes to spur more homeowners to insulate with a proposed program that's been called "Cash for Caulkers." Its formal title is Home Star. The head of the coalition pushing it recently explained how it could work in a commentary on Forbes.com:
The exact structure of the Home Star program is still being worked out in Congress. The general idea is to provide near-term financial incentives that, in combination with private-sector investment, will stimulate a sharp increase in consumer demand for home energy improvements. The incentives were designed for rapid deployment in all 50 states, with rigorous standards and procedures in place to assure quality workmanship and prevent fraud.
I had heard there was an attempt to get the "Cash for Caulkers" program included in the current proposed jobs bill, but I still haven't heard back from various sources as to whether that will happen or not.
I'll let you know in the next blog what I can find out.
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What a barnburner of a season finale that was.
MLOhawks wrote:I do. It just got renewed for a 5th season, so I for one am looking forward to seeing what Rayland's 'buddy' will do next season with all that cash from his new 'job'. And yes I left it vague on purpose in case someone who hasn't watched it all was unwise enough to open a thread on a show they haven't seen yet and get spoiled.


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ROCKFORD - Rosecrance plans to convert a vacant downtown building to house two types of emergency services for people in psychiatric crises.
The agency is working to buy a former plasma donation facility at 605 Mulberry St. and turn it into a stabilization center that would include its triage center and crisis residential program.
The deal is in the works because Winnebago County bought the Ware Center, 526 W. State St., where adult outpatient mental health and triage services are offered. Rosecrance must move out of that building by Nov. 1.
President/CEO Phil Eaton said patients will benefit from having two closely linked services under one roof. The triage center opened in 2012, around the time Singer Mental Health Center closed.
Triage services - crisis intervention, stabilization, screening, assessment and referrals - are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients stay at the center 23 hours or fewer and are often brought to the center by police or referred from hospital emergency rooms.
Crisis residential services are at two of Rosecrance's facilities. The program is voluntary for patients who need time to stabilize but who do not need inpatient care; the maximum length of stay is 14 days.
Eaton said the combined model will be unique for Illinois, but Rosecrance officials have researched similar programs in Phoenix and Seattle.
"The uniqueness of this is that it puts under one roof 24-hour crisis stabilization available that we've never had in this community before," he said. "It's truly designed to address the specific needs of adults experiencing psychiatric crises."
The space will function as a psychiatric ER.
"We think this will really bring our region into the 21st century of care for individuals who suffer from serious mental illness. It'll be warm and welcoming. It will be a comfortable environment."
The Mulberry Street building has been vacant for several years, and Rosecrance plans to do a full remodel. It has a parking lot, which the Ware Center doesn't have, and about 5,500 square feet of space.
Rosecrance needs a special-use permit because of the residential component. The request is expected to go to the Rockford Code & Regulation Committee for Monday's meeting at City Hall, 425 E. State St.
The crisis residential program will have 16 beds, including four for people who need detoxification services. The triage center typically sees four to eight people a day.
Rosecrance received a $1.5 million state capital grant to help pay for the project, and Eaton is hoping project costs will not exceed that amount.
The agency is moving its outpatient mental health services to the former Sun View Market grocery, 2704 N. Main St. Rosecrance closed on the building Jan. 7 and is working with architects Larson & Darby Group on the interior design and layout.
Robin Garvey, president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Northern Illinois chapter, is excited to see an expansion of services, especially the plan to offer detox at the new site.
"It really speaks to the growing awareness of treatment of co-occurring (mental health and substance abuse) disorders being so critical," Garvey said.
Garvey said both projects emphasize Rosecrance's commitment to behavioral health services in the community.
"Their funding stream for those services aren't guaranteed forever, yet they're making a large capital commitment, and that impresses me. That makes me feel like they really do think about what the community needs are."
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You know the first time in December when you buy milk and the "use by" date is after Christmas and it gives you a little fright? You think, "That's just around the corner. I better get moving." Well, today I had a frightening moment.
I went to make some frozen fish for dinner and the "use by" date said June 10, 2014. It occurred to me that Jake will have graduated from high school by that time! Holy smokes. I know it's not milk and it's more than a year away but it shook me up a bit nonetheless. "That's just around the corner and there's A LOT to be done between now and then..."
What lessons do I need to teach before then? What values have I missed imparting? Will he know where to turn when things are complicated? Will I know how to help an "adult"? Almost scarier than a room full of unwrapped presents in the middle of December...
Just my thoughts this cold January evening...plus the thought that I need to find some vegetables to serve with these fish and chips.


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New Study Finds UV Lamps NOT a Skin Cancer Cause
According to a new study conducted by The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, UV lamps commonly used for drying nail polish do not increase skin cancer risk.
The Journal of Investigative Dermatology compared the UV rays emitted from three popular brands of nail lamps to low-risk phototherapy devices used in dermatology treatments (each dermatology treatment consists of 15-30 sessions). Researchers found that a salon client would need approximately 250 years of weekly manicures that involve the use of UV nail lights to develop the same risk of exposure as just one round of phototherapy sessions used to treat various skin conditions. Based on these results, researchers concluded that nail lamps do not significantly increase the risk of getting skin cancer.
Further investigation into a possible connection between nail lamps and cancer has been conducted by leading photobiologist and creator of the SPF system, Dr. Robert Sayre. In numerous interviews and his soon-to-be-published research, Dr. Sayre has similarly stated that the use of UV nail lamps does not contribute to the risk of getting skin cancer and that the emissions from UV nail lamps are safer than that of natural sunlight.
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BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart Opens at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on March 12, 2010
All-new BODY WORLDS exhibition reveals the intricacies of the cardiovascular system.
Four years after BODY WORLDS 2 brought record crowds to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, a new blockbuster exhibition, BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart, will open to the public on March 12, 2010, with a special media preview on March 11. Tickets for the general public go on sale February 1 at http://www.dmns.org/.
BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart, an all-new exhibition, will reveal—through the lenses of anatomy, cardiology, psychology and culture—how the heart nourishes, regulates and sustains life. The exhibition will give Museum visitors profound insight into the human body, health and disease, and the intricate world of the cardiovascular system. The exhibition will awe visitors with more than 200 human specimens, including whole-body plastinates, organs and translucent body slices.
BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart puts human anatomy in clear context. The exhibition is organized according to the major systems of the body, including the locomotive, nervous, reproductive, digestive and cardiovascular systems.
The striking whole-body plastinates in BODY WORLDS allow visitors to see inside the staggeringly complex and interconnected network of muscles, tendons and blood vessels that make up our bodies. The specimens on display reach the public through the Institute for Plastination body donation program: all of the donors agreed before their deaths that their bodies could be displayed for public education purposes. More than 10,000 individuals have bequeathed their bodies to Dr. Gunther von Hagens' Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany.
More than 687,000 visitors came to see BODY WORLDS 2 at the Museum during its 19-week run from March 10 to July 23, 2006, and the Museum broke the daily attendance records of all previous North American venues that hosted BODY WORLDS 2. Due to its popularity, the exhibition remained open for 64 consecutive hours during the final weekend in Denver, when nearly 30,000 people flocked to see the exhibition before it closed.
"This is a remarkable new opportunity for our community," said Dr. Bridget Coughlin, the Museum's vice president of strategic partnerships and programs and curator of human health. "Visiting BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart is a compelling experience that makes us appreciate the complexity and beauty of the human body. Not only is the exhibition awe-inspiring, it transforms us, increasing our understanding of health issues and motivating us to make healthier life choices. We anticipate tremendous interest in this exhibition. The response when we exhibited BODY WORLDS 2 was overwhelmingly positive, and the exhibition appealed to a diverse audience."
BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart will run from March 12 to July 18, 2010. The exhibition will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with extended hours from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets for the general public go on sale February 1 at dmns.org. General visitors pay $25.50 for adults, $16 for children/students (age 3-18 or with a student ID) and $19 for seniors (age 65+); this ticket price includes admission to both the Museum and the BODY WORLDS exhibition. The exhibition will be time-ticketed and advance reservations are strongly encouraged; the Museum anticipates that popular times will sell out. For additional information on pricing, including group rates and special extended hours rates, visit dmns.org.
Museum members receive first access to BODY WORLDS tickets, beginning January 7, and a discount of up to 52 percent on admission. Tickets for members are $12 for adults, $8 for children/students and $10 for seniors. For more information on membership, visit www.dmns.org/join.
About the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is the Rocky Mountain Region's leading resource for informal science education. A variety of engaging exhibits, discussions and activities help Museum visitors celebrate and understand the natural wonders of Colorado, Earth and the universe. The Museum is located at 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO, 80205. To learn more about the Museum, check http://www.dmns.org/, or call 303-322-7009. Many of the Museum's educational programs and exhibits are made possible in part by generous funding from the citizens of the seven-county metro area through the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District.
About Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS
Dr. Gunther von Hagens invented Plastination in 1977, in an effort to improve the education of medical students. He created the BODY WORLDS exhibitions to bring anatomy to the public. Since 1995, 30 million people in Asia, Europe and North America have visited the BODY WORLDS exhibitions.
The organs and whole-body plastinates were derived from generous body donors, individuals who designated that upon their death their bodies could be used for educational purposes in the BODY WORLDS exhibitions. More than 10,000 donors have bequeathed their bodies to Dr. von Hagens' Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, including 1,000 Americans. As of January 2010 there are forty-three donors from Colorado. For more information on BODY WORLDS, please visit http://www.bodyworlds.com/


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DANBURY, Conn. - Despite a late second half surge men's basketball (6-19, 0-4 Little East) was unable to pullout the victory as they were handed an 86-82 Little East Conference loss by Western Connecticut State University (16-8, 8-6 Little East) Saturday afternoon at Feldman Arena.
The loss marks the fourth straight game that UMass Boston was defeated by 10 or fewer points as they overcame a double-figure deficit to come within four before the final horn sounded. UMass Boston will enter next week's conference tournament as the eighth seed and will travel to Willimantic, Connecticut to take on the top-seeded Warriors of Eastern Connecticut State University, who just completed a perfect 14-0 conference schedule, to become the first team ever in the history of the Little East Conference to achieve that mark. The first round game will be played on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Western Connecticut State University who is the fourth seed in this year's tournament will host the fifth seeded Panthers of Plymouth State University on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Feldman Arena.
For the Beacons senior Kadeem Coulter (Boston, Mass.) put together the best performance of his college career as the big-man finished with a double-double of 20 points and 12 rebounds. The 6'9" senior led UMass Boston's inside game as they scored 56 of their 82 points in the paint. From the field the Boston native was 8-for-15 and 4-for-5 at the line. Of his 12 boards, five came on the offensive glass. Defensively he handed out a career-best seven blocked shots, which ties the program record for most blocks in a single game.
Junior Carl Joseph (Brockton, Mass.) ended an impressive regular season with 13 points and eight boards, while off the bench Sam Freeman (Boston, Mass.) and Nick Guerriero (Naples, Fla.) recorded 12 and 11 points respectively. Guerriero, who was red hot in Tuesday's loss to Southern Maine, set a new career best points mark as he went 5-for-7 from the floor and 1-for-1 at the line.
Western Connecticut was led by Kendall Marquez and Ronnie Underwood. The duo combined for 43 points respectively and were 17-for-30 from the field. Claudy Casseus finished with a team-best 11 rebounds, while Joseph Setaro grabbed six boards of his own while also finishing with five points.
After a sluggish first half, which saw Western Connecticut leading 44-35 going into the halftime break, the Beacons came out firing in the second. The two teams battled back-and-forth throughout the final 20 minutes of play, but it was a 16-6 run in the final six minutes and 25 seconds of play that UMass Boston found itself right on the edge of taking their first lead of the contest since the start of Saturday's contest. Coulter and Joseph were the driving force behind the Beacons late run, along with a key lay-up by Quadry Allen (White Castle, La.) which at the time made it a five-point affair.
Trailing by two following a Joseph free throw and with 1:18 left on the clock the Colonials scored five straight points to push their lead to seven (85-78). Guerriero made it a two possession game on a jumper with eight seconds left in the contest. Marquez sealed the victory for WCSU with a jumper to make it a six-point deficit, but just as time expired Sam Freeman scored a lay-up to make it 86-82.
UMass Boston led the contest on the glass with a +4 advantage (43-39) and shot 45.2% (33-73) from the field. WCSU finished shooting 46.9% (30-19) from the field and 36.8% from behind the arc (7-19).
The Beacons will be making their second straight appearance in the Little East Conference tournament on Tuesday as they look to pull off the upset of the year.


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The Bank of England is expected to leave interest rates untouched on Thursday despite fears over surging inflation and commodity prices.
The feeble nature of the economic recovery means the Bank is unlikely to raise its base rate from its all-time low of 0.5 per cent this week.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation rose to 3.3 per cent in November, driven by the rising cost of oil, clothes and food, and the Bank admits it could rise as high as 4 per cent by the spring.
But the Bank's policy setters, who are tasked with keeping CPI at 2 per cent, would rather brave above-target inflation than risk tipping the economy back into a "double-dip recession", said economists.
A further round of quantitative easing, or money printing, is also not expected because this would further add to inflationary pressures.
Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee are now in a very difficult position.
"Although the UK market achieved very decent growth in the second and third quarters it is still in a very fragile state following the deep recession.
"We suspect most committee members will be reluctant to adjust policy until they get a clear idea of how the economy is reacting to fiscal policy being tightened from the start of 2011."
The recovery appears to have faltered in December, hindered by the Arctic weather.
Markit/CIPS data showed that the construction sector fell further into decline in December, while the powerhouse services sector contracted marginally for the first time in 20 months, leaving only the manufacturing sector in growth.
Markit economists downgraded their expectations for the UK's GDP growth in the fourth quarter from 0.5 per vent to 0.4 per cent following the announcements.
GDP figures for the second and third quarters were also revised down from 1.2 per cent to 1.1 per cent and from 0.8 per cent to 0.7 per cent respectively, adding to fears over the strength of the recovery.
Putting up interest rates may help reduce inflation but it would also reduce the spending power of homeowners with tracker mortgages and people repaying other debts and further endanger the recovery.
The Bank also believes that most of the inflationary pressures are temporary and should fall back in a year's time.
But that will be little comfort to consumers whose pay packets are not keeping up with inflation.
There has been a barrage of bad news for cash-strapped consumers in recent weeks as petrol, gas and clothes all rose in price, and last week's VAT rise from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent pushed up the cost of most goods and services.
Economists disagree on when interest rates, which have been at their current level since March 2009, will rise.
Vicky Redwood, UK economist at Capital Economics, said interest rates were unlikely to be changed until 2013.
Howard Archer, and Malcolm Barr of JP Morgan Chase, do not expect interest rates to rise until late 2011.
However, last month the CBI warned that rates would start to rise by the spring and the base rate would hit 2.75 per cent by the final quarter of 2012.


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HOUSTON - A push to rid local communities of graffiti helps cut down on violent crime, law enforcement says.
According to crime statistics from the Houston Police Department, nonviolent and violent crimes have dropped more than 30 percent since a graffiti abatement program was launched to restore surfaces to their original conditions.
Great East End Management District trucks are a welcome sight to residents who believe graffiti plagues a community's aesthetic appeal.
"I really don't like to see it because it makes the neighborhood look like a slum. It is unsightly. They painted up our stop signs, our street signs, our lights our wooden fences," resident Jim Chadwick said.
The cleanup truck crews use solvents, paint and a pressure washer make the graffiti disappear from cityscapes. Not only is it an eye sore, but some said crime associated with the graffiti is bad for business.
"Customers are reluctant to come into business when there is graffiti on the front of the store," said Diane Schenke, president of the Great East End Management District.
According to law enforcement, graffiti is often used by gangs to communicate with rival gangs and mark territory.
"If you have one group tagging or marking, of course the other group is going to try to cover it up and the cycle continues. One group gets caught striking the other one off and you could have violence there and it has happened before, so we need to get it cleaned up as soon as possible," said Daniel Medoza, a senior officer with the Texas City Police Department.
On Thursday, the Greater East End Management District celebrated a milestone in their graffiti abatement program: 100,000 graffiti sites cleaned.
With four trucks roaming the city, the company hopes graffiti will be taken down just as fast as it was sprayed on.
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by Hugh Gilmore
Many people who read a lot of books emphatically do not like reading fiction. Their reasons for this aversion vary enormously but most seem to distill down to this: they want to read a story that is "true."
Sometimes they add the justification that they want to "learn something" from what they read. After all, since life is too short, why waste time on mere entertainment? Other readers have said things like, "I was really enjoying that book – in fact, I was halfway through it – when I learned it was a novel and not a true story. Boy, was I disappointed!"
I don't think my brain is working well enough today to even begin to explain the complexities behind such ideas, but I do want to take some time out to enjoy the entire truth-versus-fiction phenomenon. Perhaps my interest in this issue stems from my shock this week about the Subway sandwich controversy.
Subway has been promoting a "Five-Dollar Footlong" hero sandwich successfully for a few years. Recently, however, an Australian boy, a middle-school-child, of course, got the big idea to measure the sandwich and found it was actually eleven inches long. He posted his finding on Subway's Facebook page, asking in effect, What gives? The posting went viral, gathering millions of hits.
Many people suggested that Subway had been cheating them. One twelfth of a foot-long sandwich would be 12.5 percent of five dollars (so they should be advertising the "$4.38 eleven-incher," but some might say that slogan is not as catchy). At least two people from New Jersey threatened to sue, seeking compensatory damages, possibly for the pain and suffering caused by their mortification at being deceived.
Subway issued a defense through their marketing and publicity departments, saying that "Footlong" was merely a catchy trade term and was never meant to refer to the actual length of the sandwich. After enduring the recent national political campaigns, I don't think most Americans are quite ready to endure the angst of another labeling scandal. Stay posted.
You might think I've lost my way on this little excursion, writing about a hero scandal, but I haven't. I now segue from Subway to Subterfuge. Yes: the Lance Armstrong hornswoggle-that-won't-lie-down has now spread to the world of book publishing.
On Jan. 22, in Federal Court in Sacramento, according to Bloomberg News, a man named Rob Stutzman filed a formal complaint of interest to the publishing industry. (Stutzman v. Armstrong, 13-00116, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California [Sacramento].) At issue: Stutzman claims that he never would have bought Armstrong's book, "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life," (2000) had he known it was not true.
Stutzman and his co-plaintiff, Jonathan Wheeler, said in their complaint about that book, and its sequel, "Every Second Counts," (2003), that Armstrong denied all the doping rumors about himself and attributed his successes to "superior physical training, proper diet and an extraordinary spirit and drive to succeed," among other things. Both of the California plaintiffs say they were severely disappointed when Armstrong's books were exposed as fraudulent.
And, they say they never would have bought the books if they thought they weren't telling the truth. In effect, they had been sold fiction when they thought they were buying memoirs.
And the plaintiffs do not just hold Armstrong responsible for this bait-and-switch. They are also suing Penguin Group (USA) Inc., publisher of "It's Not About the Bike," and Random House, Inc., publisher of "Every Second Counts." They seek to represent California buyers of the books to recover unspecified damages. The spokespersons for Armstrong, Penguin and Random House made no immediate comments to the suit.
So, once again, the world has proved to be not only stranger than we imagine, but also stranger than we can imagine. Certainly some interesting questions have been raised about the difference between history/memoirs and fiction.
To begin with: Are lying and fiction the same thing? Or, turning the question around: Are fiction and lying the same thing? What if we dignify the word "fiction" by giving it upper-case treatment and calling it the literary term, "Fiction"?
Perhaps those are petty questions since the legal issue here is truth in labeling. But I'm trying to get at this idea: When do a memoir's inaccuracies, if they do not slander another person, make the author legally liable to a lawsuit? I'm betting, along with Mark Twain, that most autobiographies of famous persons, especially heroes, are trumped up collections of exaggerations and, often, downright lies.
Armstrong's two autobiographical books would probably be recommended to children down through the ages had they not been exposed as dishonest. As they say, however, history lies in the hands of the person holding the microphone.
In the meantime, there are those who believe that good literary fiction is "true" in a deep and significant way, truer than even the best history or biography books. "True" because it is true about life, i.e., human nature. True because it gives us "aha" moments, rather than "a-hah" or "ha-ha" moments. If you don't agree, I suppose you could sue.
Note: Hugh Gilmore's new twisted romance/traveling philosopher novel, "Last Night on the Gorilla Tour," is climbing the sales charts in Kindle format on Amazon.com and will be released soon in paperback.


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DISCLAIMER: Hive has only been tested on unix(linux) and mac systems using Java 1.6 for now – although it may very well work on other similar platforms. It does not work on Cygwin.
Installation and Configuration
- Java 1.6
- Hadoop 0.20.x.
Installing Hive from a Stable Release
Start by downloading the most recent stable release of Hive from one of the Apache download mirrors (see Hive Releases).
Next you need to unpack the tarball. This will result in the creation of a subdirectory named
$ tar -xzvf hive-x.y.z.tar.gz
Set the environment variable
HIVE_HOME to point to the installation directory:
$ cd hive-x.y.z $ export HIVE_HOME={{pwd}}
Finally, add
$HIVE_HOME/bin to your
$ export PATH=$HIVE_HOME/bin:$PATH
Building Hive from Source
The Hive SVN repository is located here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk hive $ cd hive $ ant clean package $ cd build/dist $ ls README.txt bin/ (all the shell scripts) lib/ (required jar files) conf/ (configuration files) examples/ (sample input and query files)
In the rest of the page we use
build/dist and
<install-dir> interchangeably.
Compile hive on hadoop 23
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk hive $ cd hive $ ant clean package -Dhadoop.version=0.23.3 -Dhadoop-0.23.version=0.23.3 -Dhadoop.mr.rev=23 $ ant clean package -Dhadoop.version=2.0.0-alpha -Dhadoop-0.23.version=2.0.0-alpha -Dhadoop.mr.rev=23
Running Hive
Hive uses hadoop, so:
- you must have hadoop in your path OR
export HADOOP_HOME=<hadoop-install-dir>
In addition, you must create
/tmp and
/user/hive/warehouse (aka
hive.metastore.warehouse.dir) and set them
chmod g+w in HDFS before you can create a table in Hive.
Commands to perform this setup:
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp $ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse $ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /tmp $ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse
You may find it useful, though it's not necessary, to set
$ export HIVE_HOME=<hive-install-dir>
To use the hive command line interface (cli) from the shell:
$ $HIVE_HOME/bin/hive
Running HCatalog
To run the HCatalog server from the shell in Hive release 0.11.0 and later:
$ $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/sbin/hcat_server.sh
To use the HCatalog command line interface (cli) in Hive release 0.11.0 and later:
$ $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/bin/hcat
For more information, see HCatalog Installation from Tarball and HCatalog CLI in the HCatalog manual.
Running WebHCat (Templeton)
To run the WebHCat server from the shell in Hive release 0.11.0 and later:
$ $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/sbin/webhcat_server.sh
For more information, see WebHCat Installation in the WebHCat manual.
Configuration management overview
- Hive by default gets its configuration from
- The location of the Hive configuration directory can be changed by setting the
HIVE_CONF_DIRenvironment variable.
- Configuration variables can be changed by (re-)defining them in
- Log4j configuration is stored in
- Hive configuration is an overlay on top of hadoop – it inherits the hadoop configuration variables by default.
- Hive configuration can be manipulated by:
- Editing hive-site.xml and defining any desired variables (including hadoop variables) in it
- From the cli using the set command (see below)
- Invoking hive using the syntax:
$ bin/hive -hiveconf x1=y1 -hiveconf x2=y2
this sets the variables x1 and x2 to y1 and y2 respectively
- Setting the
HIVE_OPTSenvironment variable to "-hiveconf x1=y1 -hiveconf x2=y2" which does the same as above.
Runtime configuration
- Hive queries are executed using map-reduce queries and, therefore, the behavior of such queries can be controlled by the hadoop configuration variables.
- The cli command 'SET' can be used to set any hadoop (or hive) configuration variable. For example:
The latter shows all the current settings. Without the
hive> SET mapred.job.tracker=myhost.mycompany.com:50030; hive> SET -v;
-voption only the variables that differ from the base hadoop configuration are displayed.
Hive, Map-Reduce and Local-Mode
Hive compiler generates map-reduce jobs for most queries. These jobs are then submitted to the Map-Reduce cluster indicated by the variable:
While this usually points to a map-reduce cluster with multiple nodes, Hadoop also offers a nifty option to run map-reduce jobs locally on the user's workstation. This can be very useful to run queries over small data sets – in such cases local mode execution is usually significantly faster than submitting jobs to a large cluster. Data is accessed transparently from HDFS. Conversely, local mode only runs with one reducer and can be very slow processing larger data sets.
Starting v-0.7, Hive fully supports local mode execution. To enable this, the user can enable the following option:
hive> SET mapred.job.tracker=local;
In addition,
mapred.local.dir should point to a path that's valid on the local machine (for example
/tmp/<username>/mapred/local). (Otherwise, the user will get an exception allocating local disk space.)
Starting v-0.7, Hive also supports a mode to run map-reduce jobs in local-mode automatically. The relevant options are
hive.exec.mode.local.auto.inputbytes.max, and
hive> SET hive.exec.mode.local.auto=false;
Note that this feature is disabled by default. If enabled, Hive analyzes the size of each map-reduce job in a query and may run it locally if the following thresholds are satisfied:
- The total input size of the job is lower than:
hive.exec.mode.local.auto.inputbytes.max(128MB by default)
- The total number of map-tasks is less than:
hive.exec.mode.local.auto.tasks.max(4 by default)
- The total number of reduce tasks required is 1 or 0.
So for queries over small data sets, or for queries with multiple map-reduce jobs where the input to subsequent jobs is substantially smaller (because of reduction/filtering in the prior job), jobs may be run locally.
Note that there may be differences in the runtime environment of hadoop server nodes and the machine running the hive client (because of different jvm versions or different software libraries). This can cause unexpected behavior/errors while running in local mode. Also note that local mode execution is done in a separate, child jvm (of the hive client). If the user so wishes, the maximum amount of memory for this child jvm can be controlled via the option
hive.mapred.local.mem. By default, it's set to zero, in which case Hive lets Hadoop determine the default memory limits of the child jvm.
Error Logs
Hive uses log4j for logging. By default logs are not emitted to the console by the CLI. The default logging level is
WARN and the logs are stored in the folder:
Note: In local mode, the log file name is "
.log" instead of "
hive.log". This is a bug which will be fixed in a future release (see HIVE-5528).
If the user wishes – the logs can be emitted to the console by adding the arguments shown below:
bin/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console
Alternatively, the user can change the logging level only by using:
bin/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,DRFA
Note that setting
hive.root.logger via the 'set' command does not change logging properties since they are determined at initialization time.
Hive also stores query logs on a per hive session basis in
/tmp/<user.name>/, but can be configured in hive-site.xml with the
hive.querylog.location property.
Logging during Hive execution on a Hadoop cluster is controlled by Hadoop configuration. Usually Hadoop will produce one log file per map and reduce task stored on the cluster machine(s) where the task was executed. The log files can be obtained by clicking through to the Task Details page from the Hadoop JobTracker Web UI.
When using local mode (using
mapred.job.tracker=local), Hadoop/Hive execution logs are produced on the client machine itself. Starting v-0.6 – Hive uses the
hive-exec-log4j.properties (falling back to
hive-log4j.properties only if it's missing) to determine where these logs are delivered by default. The default configuration file produces one log file per query executed in local mode and stores it under
/tmp/<user.name>. The intent of providing a separate configuration file is to enable administrators to centralize execution log capture if desired (on a NFS file server for example). Execution logs are invaluable for debugging run-time errors.
For information about WebHCat errors and logging, see Error Codes and Responses and Log Files in the WebHCat manual.
Error logs are very useful to debug problems. Please send them with any bugs (of which there are many!) to
DDL Operations
The Hive DDL operations are documented in Hive Data Definition Language.
Creating Hive Tables
hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING);
creates a table called pokes with two columns, the first being an integer and the other a string.
hive> CREATE TABLE invites (foo INT, bar STRING) PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING);
creates a table called invites with two columns and a partition column called ds. The partition column is a virtual column. It is not part of the data itself but is derived from the partition that a particular dataset is loaded into.
By default, tables are assumed to be of text input format and the delimiters are assumed to be ^A(ctrl-a).
Browsing through Tables
hive> SHOW TABLES;
lists all the tables.
hive> SHOW TABLES '.*s';
lists all the table that end with 's'. The pattern matching follows Java regular expressions. Check out this link for documentation http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html.
hive> DESCRIBE invites;
shows the list of columns.
Altering and Dropping Tables
Table names can be changed and columns can be added or replaced:
hive> ALTER TABLE events RENAME TO 3koobecaf; hive> ALTER TABLE pokes ADD COLUMNS (new_col INT); hive> ALTER TABLE invites ADD COLUMNS (new_col2 INT COMMENT 'a comment'); hive> ALTER TABLE invites REPLACE COLUMNS (foo INT, bar STRING, baz INT COMMENT 'baz replaces new_col2');
Note that REPLACE COLUMNS replaces all existing columns and only changes the table's schema, not the data. The table must use a native SerDe. REPLACE COLUMNS can also be used to drop columns from the table's schema:
hive> ALTER TABLE invites REPLACE COLUMNS (foo INT COMMENT 'only keep the first column');
Dropping tables:
hive> DROP TABLE pokes;
Metadata Store
Metadata is in an embedded Derby database whose disk storage location is determined by the hive configuration variable named
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL. By default this location is
./metastore_db (see
Right now, in the default configuration, this metadata can only be seen by one user at a time.
Metastore can be stored in any database that is supported by JPOX. The location and the type of the RDBMS can be controlled by the two variables
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL and
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName. Refer to JDO (or JPOX) documentation for more details on supported databases. The database schema is defined in JDO metadata annotations file
package.jdo at
In the future, the metastore itself can be a standalone server.
If you want to run the metastore as a network server so it can be accessed from multiple nodes, see Hive Using Derby in Server Mode.
DML Operations
The Hive DML operations are documented in Hive Data Manipulation Language.
Loading data from flat files into Hive:
hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH './examples/files/kv1.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE pokes;
Loads a file that contains two columns separated by ctrl-a into pokes table. 'LOCAL' signifies that the input file is on the local file system. If 'LOCAL' is omitted then it looks for the file in HDFS.
The keyword 'OVERWRITE' signifies that existing data in the table is deleted. If the 'OVERWRITE' keyword is omitted, data files are appended to existing data sets.
- NO verification of data against the schema is performed by the load command.
- If the file is in hdfs, it is moved into the Hive-controlled file system namespace.
The root of the Hive directory is specified by the option
hive-default.xml. We advise users to create this directory before trying to create tables via Hive.
hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH './examples/files/kv2.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE invites PARTITION (ds='2008-08-15'); hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH './examples/files/kv3.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE invites PARTITION (ds='2008-08-08');
The two LOAD statements above load data into two different partitions of the table invites. Table invites must be created as partitioned by the key ds for this to succeed.
hive> LOAD DATA INPATH '/user/myname/kv2.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE invites PARTITION (ds='2008-08-15');
The above command will load data from an HDFS file/directory to the table.
Note that loading data from HDFS will result in moving the file/directory. As a result, the operation is almost instantaneous.
SQL Operations
The Hive query operations are documented in Select.
Example Queries
Some example queries are shown below. They are available in
More are available in the hive sources at
SELECTS and FILTERS
hive> SELECT a.foo FROM invites a WHERE a.ds='2008-08-15';
selects column 'foo' from all rows of partition
ds=2008-08-15 of the
invites table. The results are not stored anywhere, but are displayed on the console.
Note that in all the examples that follow,
INSERT (into a hive table, local directory or HDFS directory) is optional.
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '/tmp/hdfs_out' SELECT a.* FROM invites a WHERE a.ds='2008-08-15';
selects all rows from partition
ds=2008-08-15 of the
invites table into an HDFS directory. The result data is in files (depending on the number of mappers) in that directory.
NOTE: partition columns if any are selected by the use of *. They can also be specified in the projection clauses.
Partitioned tables must always have a partition selected in the
WHERE clause of the statement.
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/tmp/local_out' SELECT a.* FROM pokes a;
selects all rows from pokes table into a local directory.
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE events SELECT a.* FROM profiles a; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE events SELECT a.* FROM profiles a WHERE a.key < 100; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/tmp/reg_3' SELECT a.* FROM events a; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '/tmp/reg_4' select a.invites, a.pokes FROM profiles a; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '/tmp/reg_5' SELECT COUNT(*) FROM invites a WHERE a.ds='2008-08-15'; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '/tmp/reg_5' SELECT a.foo, a.bar FROM invites a; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/tmp/sum' SELECT SUM(a.pc) FROM pc1 a;
selects the sum of a column. The avg, min, or max can also be used. Note that for versions of Hive which don't include HIVE-287, you'll need to use
COUNT(1) in place of
hive> FROM invites a INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE events SELECT a.bar, count(*) WHERE a.foo > 0 GROUP BY a.bar; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE events SELECT a.bar, count(*) FROM invites a WHERE a.foo > 0 GROUP BY a.bar;
Note that for versions of Hive which don't include HIVE-287, you'll need to use
COUNT(1) in place of
hive> FROM pokes t1 JOIN invites t2 ON (t1.bar = t2.bar) INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE events SELECT t1.bar, t1.foo, t2.foo;
FROM src INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE dest1 SELECT src.* WHERE src.key < 100 INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE dest2 SELECT src.key, src.value WHERE src.key >= 100 and src.key < 200 INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE dest3 PARTITION(ds='2008-04-08', hr='12') SELECT src.key WHERE src.key >= 200 and src.key < 300 INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/tmp/dest4.out' SELECT src.value WHERE src.key >= 300;
hive> FROM invites a INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE events SELECT TRANSFORM(a.foo, a.bar) AS (oof, rab) USING '/bin/cat' WHERE a.ds > '2008-08-09';
This streams the data in the map phase through the script
/bin/cat (like hadoop streaming).
Similarly – streaming can be used on the reduce side (please see the Hive Tutorial for examples).
Simple Example Use Cases
MovieLens User Ratings
First, create a table with tab-delimited text file format:
CREATE TABLE u_data ( userid INT, movieid INT, rating INT, unixtime STRING) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' STORED AS TEXTFILE;
Then, download and extract the data files:
wget http://www.grouplens.org/sites/www.grouplens.org/external_files/data/ml-data.tar.gz tar xvzf ml-data.tar.gz
And load it into the table that was just created:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'ml-data/u.data' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE u_data;
Count the number of rows in table u_data:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM u_data;
Note that for versions of Hive which don't include HIVE-287, you'll need to use COUNT(1) in place of COUNT(*).
Now we can do some complex data analysis on the table
import sys import datetime for line in sys.stdin: line = line.strip() userid, movieid, rating, unixtime = line.split('\t') weekday = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(float(unixtime)).isoweekday() print '\t'.join([userid, movieid, rating, str(weekday)])
Use the mapper script:
CREATE TABLE u_data_new ( userid INT, movieid INT, rating INT, weekday INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'; add FILE weekday_mapper.py; INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE u_data_new SELECT TRANSFORM (userid, movieid, rating, unixtime) USING 'python weekday_mapper.py' AS (userid, movieid, rating, weekday) FROM u_data; SELECT weekday, COUNT(*) FROM u_data_new GROUP BY weekday;
Note that if you're using Hive 0.5.0 or earlier you will need to use
COUNT(1) in place of
Apache Weblog Data
The format of Apache weblog is customizable, while most webmasters use the default.
For default Apache weblog, we can create a table with the following command.
More about !RegexSerDe can be found here in HIVE-662 and HIVE-1719.
CREATE TABLE apachelog ( host STRING, identity STRING, user STRING, time STRING, request STRING, status STRING, size STRING, referer STRING, agent STRING) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.RegexSerDe' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( "input.regex" = "([^]*) ([^]*) ([^]*) (-|\\[^\\]*\\]) ([^ \"]*|\"[^\"]*\") (-|[0-9]*) (-|[0-9]*)(?: ([^ \"]*|\".*\") ([^ \"]*|\".*\"))?" ) STORED AS TEXTFILE;


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Fan Forum Star
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 102,412
Getting to 10,000 Posts #82: Sad Songs Say So Much
Intro by Pika:
Our banner is by Joce!
Welcome! This is the Getting to 10,000 Posts thread, where we all post incessantly until we reach our personal posting goals! Somehow a little thread about wanting to get to ten thousand posts turned into this huge frenzying monster! (...okay, we did it. Alea and Joce and I. But don't tell anyone. )
What is this thread about? POSTING! This is the place to talk about what your post-count goals might be--"for the day, the week, even the month! It's also a place where you can make milestone posts, and be applauded by all who are here. Whether you're trying to make 500 posts to get that custom avie, or are well past 10,000 posts and headed for the ranks of FF's busiest posters, this is the place to be!
So, what is this thread really about? Isn't it just "star posting"? This thread is not a place to make completely random posts, just to increase your post count. It's also not a place where double- or triple-posting is encouraged, though it can happen accidentally. However, this is often what is known as a "conversation (or convo) thread." People are here to chat about anything and everything, to get to know each other, and to create solid FF friendships. You'll find everyone here to be friendly and supportive. We're just one big Bunny family!
Who's who around here? Our mods are quarterley (Cindy) and Sick Boy (Los, or Carlos). They drop by semi-regularly to participate in the festivities. You'll also find plenty of mods from other boards just stopping in to post awhile. While we don't have formal "thread owners" or anything, by consensus the BBOT's (Big Bunnies On Thread) are Wild Pikachu (yours truly, Pika), roswellian_chick16 (Joce), Alea, and goldenpuppies at heart (Sharon). They are usually responsible for starting new threads, keeping things going, and generally minding the thread.
What is this "Bunny" thing? Around thread #8, when it was becoming clear that this "10,000 Posts" concept wasn't going to just fade away, Alea came up with the idea of starting a list of people who just post and post and post here. She also came up with the name "Energizer Bunnies," and so that's what we are.
Our Smilies:
Since the site where we used to get our smilies from won't let us use them anymore, I have been uploading some of the more popular ones to Imageshack. You can look up the codes to use for those smilies here. And if anyone has a smiley that they want added, just ask.
The Energizer Bunnies (We keep posting and posting and posting...):
Honorary Head Bunny: LittleMilkJug (Devon) for starting the original 10,000 Posts thread.
Honorary Super Bunny: Tech Support Manager Johnnie - 100,000 posts and counting!
1) Alea
2) Wild Pikachu (Pika)
3) roswellian_chick16 (Joce)
4) Lemurian
5) blueschild007 (Julie)
6) Avatar (Dan)
7) barbeegurl00 (Carrie)
8) paintedxlie (Val)
9) *Ledi* (Eda)
10) A.Film.By.Tiff
11) Rainstorm18 (Jenny)
12) SweetPea345 (Jess)
13) A Buffy & Spike dreamer (Lily)
14) Dark Half Undine (Danie)
15) Angela12
16) Beautiful Angel (Sarah)
17) oth/ggfan (Jenn)
18) anastasia.k
19) goldenpuppies at heart (Sharon)
20) quarterley (Cindy)
21) QueenBitch (Aly)
22) Kismet16 (Karla)
23) Mind Warper (Tahra)
24) gackasplash37 (Rachel)
25) LadyMela (Melanie)
26) -.cathy.-
27) *Kaylee*
28) Evchy (Eva)
29) Sick Boy (Carlos)
30) truth takes time (Karen)
31) **Courtney**
32) Scare Queen (Jo)
33) Chantelly
34) film fan (Vicky)
35) DJPuReMaGiC (Nath)
36) OTH_Mexican_FAN (Lizzy)
37) Prue_Halliwell (Kelanie)
38) Berkie
39) Allyru (Ru)
40) Caleon
41) **Carrie**
42) Anna-Liisa
43) silver_lined_cloud (Lulu)
44) Ms. Fiction (Leslie Ann)
45) ~~TvAddict~~ (Gunvor)
46) Uh Blah (Louis)
47) Katka
48) Sadeyes9074 (Sherry)
49) ~*Cubby*~ (Patti)
50) ALittaM (Ale)
Bunnies are posters who have 30 or more posts on one of the 10,000 Post threads, or 10 or more posts on three different 10,000 Post threads. Special to Devon for colorizing the List!
Here is a copy of the spreadsheet I use for the Bunny List. It shows everyone who has had double-digit posts on any thread.
Bunny Birthdays:
*Kaylee* - January 7
Prue_Halliwell - January 20
oth/ggfan - January 29
Beautiful Angel - February 2
blueschild007 - February 10
SweetPea345 - February 20
roswellian_chick16 - February 28
Berkie - March 4
Dark Half Undine - March 11
Katka - March 13
Mind Warper - March 23
A.Film.By.Tiff - April 8
quarterley - April 9
**Courtney** - April 16
Johnnie - May 7
LittleMilkJug - May 25
~~TvAddict~~ - May 25
gackasplash37 - June 28
Sadeyes9074 - June 28
DJPuReMaGiC - July 9
paintedxlie - July 18
ALittaM - July 19
Alea - July 21
Evchy - August 1
Uh Blah - August 6
OTH_Mexican_FAN - August 16
Sick Boy- August 21
Scare Queen - August 23
Allyru - August 27
Rainstorm18 - September 11
Wild Pikachu - September 12
goldenpuppies at heart - September 16
Ms. Fiction - September 17
A Buffy & Spike dreamer - September 19
silver_lined_cloud - September 20
Chantelly - October 20
LadyMela - November 21
Avatar - November 23
truth takes time - November 24
Kismet16 - December 5
QueenBitch - December 6
Anna-Liisa - December 15
anastasia.k - December 21
Caleon - December 24
Birthdays were taken from Bunnies' public profiles. Not all members choose to make their birthday visible; if you are a Bunny who has not made their birthday public but you want it known here, just let us know and you'll be added.
Thread History:
I Make no bones about wanting to reach 10,000 posts...
10,000 Posts #2 - We Keep Posting and Posting and..
10,000 Posts #3-We Keep Posting and Posting and
10,000 Posts # 4 : Sleep? What's Sleep? We're Posting Whores!
10,000 Posts #5: Posty, Post, Post, Post, Post, POST!
10,000 Posts # 6: We're like the energizer bunnies!
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Dr. Charlie Rush, a Regents Professor and Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist in Amarillo, was named a Senior Faculty Fellow at the annual Texas A&M AgriLife Conference Jan. 8 in College Station.
AgriLife Research established the Faculty Fellow honor in 1998 to recognize outstanding and productive faculty who have contributed to the scholarly creation and dissemination of new knowledge. Once named a Faculty Fellow, an individual may be nominated as a Senior Faculty Fellow to reflect continued scholarly contributions through leadership in a research program.
Rush was recognized as an AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow in 2006 and the following year, with the Texas A&M Regents Fellow Service Award.
His nomination stated: "While Dr. Rush may have been successful in receiving both of these distinguished awards, he did not rest on his laurels. Quite the opposite. Dr. Rush has spent the past five years expanding his plant pathology program to take on the leading crop disease threats faced by Texas producers.
"In his effort to help farmers, he has garnered more than $16 million in grants to conduct the applied research needed to provide practical solutions. He has continued to expand his national and international recognition as a plant pathology research leader and is often sought out as an expert speaker."
Rush's work, outlined in the nomination, includes more than 25 years addressing the needs of Texas farmers and threats to U.S. agriculture, including sorghum ergot, karnal bunt of wheat and rhizomania of sugar beet. During the past five years, he has focused on zebra chip of potato and triticum mosaic of wheat.
"He tries to be early on the scene and early with the solutions to evolving biotic stress problems in High Plains crops, finding common grounds with researchers in other regions," said Dr. John Sweeten, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center resident director at Amarillo.
When sorghum ergot first entered the state, Rush and his research team worked closely with the Texas seed sorghum industry and developed a disease forecasting model, based on climatic conditions that were identified to be conducive for disease development.
When karnal bunt of wheat was first detected in the state, Rush established a diagnostic lab to detect the pathogen and provide farmers with documentation needed to certify a "disease-free crop" before it could be sold. He conducted research on pathogen distribution and potential for spread, which resulted in several publications that were used to develop a pest risk assessment, and ultimately to help provide the documentation necessary to deregulate quarantined farms.
With rhizomania of sugar beet, Rush initiated research to understand the interactions between irrigation frequency and duration on disease incidence and severity. Based on this work, recommendations were made to revise irrigation scheduling practices, resulting in water savings and reduced losses to disease. While the sugar beet crop and industry have left Texas, the industry still supports Rush's research, evidenced by acquisition of approximately $800,000 for research in the last five years.
With zebra chip of potato, Rush's research again was early and at the forefront of a disease that almost destroyed the potato industry in Texas, when Frito Lay could not find answers and had started moving its potato-chipping processing out of the state. Rush secured a $6.9 million federal grant to focus on pathogen/vector ecology and epidemiology for this disease. He continues to collaborate with researchers across the state and nation on this issue.
Rush's wheat research program focuses on mite-vectored virus diseases such as wheat streak mosaic, triticum mosaic and High Plains disease. Recently, he was named as a part of a $3.3 million collaborative grant to look at adoption of integrated pest management practices for this complex of diseases. His lab has developed crop-loss models that quantify economic losses to these diseases, as impacted by incidence and severity, and provide growers with information needed to make informed management decisions.
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Whitmyer & Onorato Tied At The Top After First Day In Talamone
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Talamone, Italy - Three races are complete in Talamone at the 2014 Audi Melges 20 Audi-Tron Sailing Series with American Wes Whitmyer on Slingshot and Achille Onorato on Mascalzone Latino Jr. battling it out to land first and second respectively in the overall standings tied with equal points. Seated third is current Series leader Dario Levi on Fremito d'Arja, Pasquale Orofino on Raffica in fourth and Mirko de Falco's Peccere is fifth.
With a steady breeze from the Northwest, the larger-than-life Audi Melges 20 fleet reveled in a pleasant 8-14 knots with periodic peaks over 20. Although Onorato aggressively won the first race of the day, Whitmyer came back to win Race Two. It was no surprise to see Guido Miani's Monaco Racing Fleet/Out of Reach team powered up and in full force to take the win of Race Three.
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2.) Achille Onorato/Malcolm Page, Mascalzone Latino Jr.; 1-8-5 = 14
3.) Dario Levi/Nicolo Bianchi, Fremito D'Arja; 6-5-6 = 17
4.) Pasquale Orofino/Branko Brcin, Raffica; 9-6-3 = 18
5.) Mirko de Falco/Guglielmo Giordano, Peccere; 5-4-11 = 20
6.) Richard Davis/Charlie McKee, Section 16; 3-3-16 = 22
7.) Guido Miani/Gabriele Benussi, Monaco Racing Fleet/Out of Reach; 8-21-1 = 30
8.) Andrea Bruschi/Davide de Maio, Sailing Lab; 2-16-13 = 31
9.) Marco Franchini/Sandro Montefusco, Mezza Luna; 18-15-2 = 35
10.) Manfredi Vianini Tolomei/Lorenzo Bodini, Maolca; 7-18-10 = 35
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7xtptx/stmicro) has announced the addition of the "STMicro Wafer-Level Camera - WLP CIS + Heptagon WL-Optic Reverse Costing" report to their offering.
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Call it a meeting of the minds - minds from universities, farming operations and agribusiness who will come together to learn and share about growing canola on the southern Great Plains.
The Fifth Annual Oklahoma-Kansas Winter Canola Conference is set for July 21 in the Hoover Building at the Garfield County Fairgrounds in Enid, Okla., said canola breeder Mike Stamm. Stamm, who works for both Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University, is one of the conference speakers.
The day begins at 8:30 a.m. with registration, coffee and doughnuts. The program starts at 9 a.m. There is no charge for registration, refreshments at the breaks or the sponsored steak lunch.
"This conference is truly about how `working together works better,´" said Stamm, who described the theme of the conference. He said that the array of researchers, agronomists, producers and commercial vendors planning to be part of the conference ensures that participants will learn new things about canola and have their questions answered.
"The conference is about teaching farmers how to grow the crop profitably."
The conference will include 19 short presentations on such topics as: Winter canola in 2008-2009 - Surviving the Weather, Making Good Money; Marketing of Winter Canola; Winter Canola Variety Test Results in Oklahoma and Kansas; Aphid Control in Winter Canola; Tillage for Canola in Kansas; Seeding Date and Fertility Timing Effects; Swathing, Pushing and Direct Harvesting: What worked on the farm in 20008-09; Update on Multi-Peril Crop Insurance for Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas; Great Plains Canola Association Progress Report; Emerging issues in Okla.-Kan. crop production, and more.
The last session, which begins at 1:55 p.m., will be an open forum featuring questions and answers and moderated by Roger Gribble, Oklahoma State University area agronomist, based in Enid.
Five continuing education credits are available for crop consultants, and more than $1,500 in door prizes will be given away by sponsors.
More information about the conference is available at the Web site: http://www.canola.okstate.edu/ or by contacting Thomas Peeper at 405-744-6417.


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The pilot will help determine the operating limits of the proprietary process, which relies on a patented catalyst to selectively crack methane and produce structured graphitic platelet fibers and pure hydrogen, with no other byproducts.
While numerous companies claim to have a process to produce carbon nanomaterials from methane, Catalyx Nanotech is believed to be the first to produce the nanomaterials on a large scale from methane, especially from landfill gas.
The company has decided to embrace a corporate social responsibility and sustainability attitude and optimize, rather than maximize, profits by using renewable sources of methane, such as landfill gas and biogas, for feed materials.
"Previously, we have operated a commercial-scale nanofiber plant using natural gas as the feed. We wanted to use this 'downtime' in the economy to achieve our next milestone of using renewable sources of methane as the feed to produce 'green' nanofibers and hydrogen," said Mustafa Jangbarwala, vice president of Business Development.
"We understand that landfill gas and biogas may end up costing us a bit more than natural gas, but the difference in costs is affordable, and regard for our environment is far more important than capturing that difference," Jangbarwala added.
"Our advantage is that we are able to produce nanofibers at greater than 99 percent purity, as well as 100 percent green hydrogen in a one-step process," says Yinan Jin, chief research scientist. "Purification of nanomaterials from typical carbon batches is an extremely expensive undertaking for commercial applications.
"Catalyx Nanotech is eliminating the extra work and, consequently, the expense of separating nanofibers from byproducts, such as amorphous carbon, soot, etc., that make nanomaterials so costly today. We expect to commoditize nanoscale graphite materials at prices comparable to high quality synthetic graphite used in electrodes and refractory applications. After some preliminary test runs, we will also integrate a small fuel cell to demonstrate how the electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen can produce electrical energy, as opposed to the direct combustion of hydrogen and oxygen to produce thermal energy. This in situ generation of green electricity with a zero-carbon footprint is just one possible use of the hydrogen."
"The key to the success of a hydrogen economy is affordability and the availability of the hydrogen infrastructure," explains Juzer Jangbarwala, company founder and chair. "By default, the number of landfills is directly proportional to urban population centers. These landfills could provide local sources of low-cost 'green' hydrogen to nearby filling stations. By using renewable landfill gas, not only is the carbon footprint of the hydrogen production process eliminated, but also much of the footprint associated with transportation of hydrogen -- often hundreds of miles -- is also eliminated.
Catalyx Nanotech's approach all but eliminates the transportation that accounts for approximately 50 percent of hydrogen's cost and the 10 percent lost to leakage, according to the company's press release.
Juzer concludes, "Our approach offers a viable way to a greener transportation economy while employing environmentally friendly production processes."


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An armed man posing as a police officer was arrested amid an Anne Arundel prostitution sting designed to net would-be johns, authorities said.
Steven James Gravley Jr., 27, of the unit block of Stockmill Road in Pikesville was charged with attempted robbery, police impersonation and prostitution, Anne Arundel County police said.
Police said Gravley answered an Internet ad that officers had placed as part of sting targeting customers of prostitutes in Linthicum and Hanover.
But Gravley arrived at a hotel room where he thought he was meeting a prostitute with a BB gun in his waist band, police said. He carried no money and wore a shirt with an embroidered gold badge, according to authorities. Police charge that Gravley intended to rob the prostitute, but found the officers instead.
The sting — which occurred during second and third weeks of January — also resulted in the arrest of six other men on prostitution charges.


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CNN has an interesting article on firewalls that should give noobs an idea of how they work and what they are.
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"February 27, 2002 Posted: 8:48 a.m. EST (1348 GMT)
By Robert L. Hummel
(IDG) -- A personal firewall is technology that helps prevent intruders from accessing data on your PC via the Internet or another network. It achieves this by keeping unauthorized data from entering or exiting your system."
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/interne...idg/index.html


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Genealogy Gems Podcast – Branching Out
Have you heard Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems podcast? If not, take a listen to "Going Back to Family History School" episode. At about minute 34, she interviews Jennifer Holik, Sort Your Story Blogger, about her Branching Out series of curriculum books for kids, adults, and genealogy societies. The interview is about 10 minutes long.
Have you purchased and used Jennifer's books? What do you think of them?
© 2012 Lorel Kapke, 19201 Sonoma Hwy. #341, Sonoma, CA 95476-5413


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5. Will the secondary struggle against double-move patterns?
Cornerback Cary Williams and free safety Ed Reed were susceptible to double-move patterns, with a glaring breakdown against deceptively fast Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker in the first game. Decker's 51-yard touchdown reception caught Williams and Reed flat-footed. He also caught seven other passes for another 82 yards, winning the individual matchup with Williams, the Ravens' top healthy cornerback. As much as the Ravens need to learn their lessons from that first game against Decker, they can't allow Demaryius Thomas to get hot against them.Corey Graham limited Thomas to four receptions for 13 yards, but he and Manning were clearly out of sync and there were a few drops and overthrows. If both Decker and Thomas get on a roll, this could be a long day for the Ravens' defense. The biggest plus for the Ravens secondary is they've seen these routes already and they get back their enforcer in the middle of the defense: intimidating strong safety Bernard Pollard. Pollard could make a difference for the Ravens with his hitting ability, but he will also need to maintain his composure and stay within the rules as the officials figure to keep an eye on him after his illegal hit on Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne last week.
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