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Lt. Miller Worsley of the British Royal Navy was in a tight situation and he knew it. From his position at the mouth of the Nottawasaga River looking out onto Georgian Bay, he could see the sails of three warships approaching. They were not flying the British Union Jack, but the Stars and Stripes of the infant republic to the south. It was August 13th, 1814 and Great Britain had been at war with the United States for two years. From the narrow strip of land on which Worsley lay, the Nottawasaga River curved behind him running almost parallel to the lakeshore for about four miles, a piece of waterfront, which to future generations would become a popular tourist destination. But now it was war and Worley's main concern was the schooner Nancy which sat anchored in the river behind him, her masts concealed by the trees. She was his to command along with 21 seamen of the Royal Navy, 23 Indians and 9 French Canadian Voyageurs. This was Nottawasaga Landing an important British supply post. It was guarded only by one crudely built blockhouse on the inland side of the river and was the only means of defense which stood between the Americans and the Nancy, if she was to be discovered. The American ships Niagara, Tigress and Scorpion, under the command of Captain A. Sinclair had sailed to the mouth of the Nottawasaga River and dropped anchor. They believed the Nancy whom they were seeking, was still on route from Fort Michilimackinac. Perhaps the Nancy and her crew would escape the Americans after all...
Wasaga under Siege "A War of 1812 Experience" is an annual living history festival commemorating a War of 1812 battle between Americans, British and First Nations which resulted in an American victory with the sinking of the British schooner Nancy. This historic event eventually led to the modern day creation of Nancy Island Historic Site located in present day Wasaga Beach, Ontario. This three day heritage festival managed and operated entirely by volunteers' features authentic War of 1812 tactics, historical battles, marine assault landings, artillery, and much more. A professional public address announcer narrates each battle event as a series of fictional and historical battle scenarios are presented to the public. The Grand Encampment at Nancy Island Historic Site features over 300 re-enactors opening their living history encampments to the public along with 19th century merchants, artisans, demonstrators, entertainers, live period musical entertainment and much more. Wasaga under Siege "A War of 1812 Experience" allows the local community the opportunity to come together and commemorate its rich local history and in turn creates long-lasting sustainable community bonds through the promotion and preservation of local history.


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usatf friday evening
the finals set for the men's and women's 100 meters. almost all of the favorites made it. who is this monzavous edwards guy ? he is the big surprise to me thus far. the finals are in about 90 mins. i will not sign on until tomorrow so i can watch the two races on tv on nbc. also angelo taylor got eliminated in the first round of the 400 h, what a waste of talent this guy is.
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Do you think Gail Devers can give Kelli White a run for it? Torri Edwards looking great too. I pick Kelli.
Sandra Glover, Lashinda Demus, and Raasin Macintosh could give us the best 400h team since Kim Batten's glory days. I pick Demus to upset Glover.
Angelo Taylor a disappointment. Justin Gatlin a mystery.
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>Do you think Gail Devers can give Kelli White a
>run for it? Torri Edwards looking great too. I
>pick Kelli.
i pick inger miller, she has battled a lot of injuries the past few years, i believe her perseverance will pay off in athens 2004 if not paris in august, good luck inger.
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Very fast time for Kelli White into a 1.1mps wind!
1 Kelli White NIKE 10.93 -1.1
2 Torri Edwards adidas 11.13 -1.1
3 Gail Devers NIKE 11.16 -1.1
4 Inger Miller NIKE 11.17 -1.1
5 Chryste Gaines NIKE 11.21 -1.1
6 Angela Williams NIKE 11.23 -1.1
7 Lauryn Williams Miami 11.34 -1.1
8 Angela Daigle Southern Cal 11.39 -1.1
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angela Wiiliams
everyone has forgotten
how she dominated college
the [ast 4 years
and how as a freshman in high school
beat kelli white
and went on to win 3 national championships in high as well
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track is very fickle - we haven't forgotten - she just peaked very early in her career. Her 6th place finish was higher than I would have thought.
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the relal team will be good though with the top six with PRs of 11.1 or less. will the experience of devers, miller and gaines be enough to put them on the team regardless of their finish. will white be the anchor (i think she should) ? if devers makes the team in the hurdles wouldn't she again be running too many races ? in the heats williams should lead off, with edwards on the backstretch, miller on the curve and gaines as the anchor. in the final (assume we dont screw up our passes) gaines should lead off, then edwards, miller and white as the anchor. our main competition will be france (eeewww), jamaica and bahamas if they can get two runners to complement fynes and sturrup and ferguson.
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Trey Phillips, Lucas Ford, Jacob Harrelson, Sam Prickett and Daniel Faucett all played on the varsity team last year. Unfortunately, injuries have already dealt Preston a blow as Harrelson has not played yet because of an injury and in the second game of the season Faucett suffered a season ending injury. "He will be missed tremendously," said Preston of Faucett, "but we have the kind of kids that will step up and get the job done."
Two other seniors on the roster, Dustin Andrews and Hunter Carr have never played before but Preston says both players have stepped in and have done a great job.
"I have a total of 14 on the roster," said Preston, "and each and every one of them is capable of contributing to this team in a positive way. This team has a great attitude and work ethic and they are fun to coach.
"I have a great group of seniors that have done a fantastic job of leadership through the adversity that we have already faced this season."
The Raiders will play in the same area as Ranburne, Woodland, Wellborn and Ohatchee, all who have returned several starters from last year making it a very competitive area.
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10 Unforgettable Moments Every Pregnant Woman Goes Through
My pregnancy is rounding out now, with just about six weeks left until this baby greets the world with a bang. It's gone by so fast, and while there are some strains in my pregnancy right now that are making me wish time would speed up a bit, I don't want it to go by too quickly. I love being pregnant - side effects and symptoms and all - and as I reflect on the past 32 weeks of pregnancy, I am thankful for this experience. This will likely be my last, because this will be our fourth child, and with all the complications we've encountered with this pregnancy, my husband and I are finally feeling that closure we've heard others talk about. It's hard to close that door. But when you know, you just know. So today, as I reflect on my past three pregnancies and my fourth now, I can recount all the unforgettable moments I'll always carry with me - even if I'll never experience them firsthand again. Here are 10 unforgettable moments in pregnancy that I hope you all get to experience, even if it's just once. -By Devan McGuinness
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I would like to distinguish between a vector of betas and the individual betas
I want to use bold, rather than an error, to indicate the vector
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The Top 50 Design Blogs for Mom, 2012
In the world of blogging, moms have got it going on -- and in the world of design, moms rule the roost. Each year, Babble celebrates the women curating the most creative and innovative finds in style, décor, and craft. They're designers, crafters, hostesses, and stylists who juggle it all with after school play dates, dirty laundry, family meals, and bedtime.
This year's list boasts perennial favorites and also showcases new moms who are taking the scene by storm, one perfectly coordinated outfit – and room -- at a time. If you're on the hunt for the latest and greatest ideas, tips, or tutorials, these are them.
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A diet high in antioxidants may help increase insulin sensitivity and enhance the effects of metformin, according to a small study.
Antonio Mancini, MD, of Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, reported that, among a group of 29 obese patients, those who ate an antioxidant-rich diet, homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA IR) fell from 4.20 to 3.13 (P<0.05) after three months, while those eating the same diet who also took metformin saw their HOMA-IR scores drop from 5.71 to 3.06 (P<0.05).
"Our suggestion is that five servings a day of fruits and vegetables can lower insulin levels," Mancini said at a press briefing at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society.
"It is well known that antioxidants exert beneficial effects, but, in our opinion, there is not sufficient scientific support for this theory," he continued. "There is a need for a well-controlled study to give it statistical significance."
Oxidative stress is an imbalance between damaging free radicals and antioxidant defenses in the body, Mancini explained. "Free radicals are unstable molecules ... they can transfer instability to the molecules they meet, so there is a propagation of the chain of oxidative damage."
But antioxidant defenses can repair or prevent the damage and can break that damage chain, he said. "Oxidative stress is not an innocent bystander or consequence of metabolic syndrome -- in our opinion it's a contributing factor to insulin resistance. Therefore we try to influence the antioxidant defense of the body and to observe what happens in insulin resistance."
To see what happens when antioxidant defenses are shored up, Mancini and colleagues enrolled 29 obese patients in their study. Of those, 16 were male; the patients ranged in age from 18 to 66, and their average body mass index was 36 kg/m2.
Patients were divided into four groups: one group ate a typical Mediterranean diet with 400 to 500 mg of antioxidants per day, and the second group ate the same diet but also received metformin. A third group ate an antioxidant-enhanced diet with 900 to 1000 mg of antioxidants per day, and a fourth group ate the enhanced diet and also received metformin.
The enhanced diet included antioxidant-rich foods such as wild berries, orange juice, tea, chicory, carrots, capers, and tomatoes.
Parameters measured before and after the study included plasma glucose and insulin levels after an oral glucose tolerance test; total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides; uric acid, albumin, and total antioxidant capacity; and FT3, FT4, TSH, cortisol, ACTH, IGF-1, and testosterone (in males).
In addition to the decrease in HOMA-IR, the researchers also found that the insulin peak declined from 181.61 to 157.62 in the group that was fed the Mediterranean diet plus metformin (P<0.05) and from 246.44 to 141.73 in the group that was given the antioxidant-rich diet plus metformin (P<0.05).
No differences were observed in glucose area under the curve or in lipid values and weight loss did not differ among the study groups.
Mancini noted that the improved results the researchers found when metformin was added to the diets indicate that the antioxidants increase the response to the drug, "but they also had an effect when administered alone." He said his group intends to expand the study, enrolling a total of 30 patients in each group.
* Note that this small study (29 patients) suggests that an antioxidant-rich diet helped to increase insulin sensitivity and enhance the effects of metformin.
Source: http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9491&catid=53&Itemid=8, A Mancini, et al "Oxidative stress and metabolic syndrome: Effects of natural dietary antioxidants in obese patients with insulin resistance" ENDO 2010; Abstract P3-428.
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Add my condolences, also.
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It's tough to lose friends, particularly those who have shaped you into the person you are.
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I was hoping it was a wrong number but no...
It was my sister-in-law calling to let us know here husband (my brother-in-law)
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and then some other complications he was battling set in.
Long story... I won't get into it, but his death was totally unexpected.
I'm OK, just that we lost a great guy who was like a big brother to me....
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jamiebk wrote:TM....I am so sorry for your loss. It's always difficult dealing with such things and more so around the holidays. My wife's mom passed away last year on Christmas eve. This year was tough too...and so it will be I fear from now on.
Hopefully time will heal all and you will find your joy again. My condolences.
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Mindy Weisel
The first baby born in the Displaced Persons Camp at Bergen-Belsen right after the war, Mindy Weisel grew up with the responsibility to "be everything" to her parents, who had survived Auschwitz.
Today, she is an acclaimed abstract artist, working in paint and glass. She has had international commissions and exhibitions; her pieces are in the permanent collections of the Israel Museum, Vad Yasem, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, among others.
Mindy's parents were hard-working immigrants in New York City until they moved their family to Los Angeles when she was eleven. She studied at California State University and received a BFA from George Washington University in 1977.
In her interview, she talks about how she felt when she realized that not every father had a number on his arm and that other children had grandparents and extended families. She describes the impact on her life and work of discovering the only drawing her father ever made—a sketch of a sunrise at Bergen Belsen in 1946 — and her fascination with her father's number.
Mindy speaks about trips to Germany, where she visited Dachau and met with grandchildren of Nazis, and to Cairo, where she told her story to a group of Egyptian women. Mindy believes deeply that person-to-person connections are what make it possible to move forward with hope.
While her life story informs her work, her art is not about the tragedy and horror of the Holocaust. She has said that she hasn't done Holocaust paintings since 1979. Instead she conveys the tension between darkness and light and above all, seeks beauty.
At the age of 18, she married a modern Orthodox man, Sheldon Weisel, now a Washington, D.C. attorney; they have three daughters and five grandchildren.
I wanted to be an artist
I don't know what came over me, I had to get the sun coming up
I thought I was rid of the darkness
The actual living a life of a painter was not easy because I was mothering as seriously as I was painting
What's very important to me is my Jewishness…
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Contest starts at 9:00 a.m. E.S.T. on March 27, 2013 and ends at 11:59 p.m. E.S.T. on July 1, 2013, "Promotion Period".
ELIGIBILITY: Open only to legal residents of the (50) United States and the District of Columbia who, at the time of entry; are licensed drivers, 21 years or older and who are an owner of a small business. Promotion is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Employees of Nissan North America, Inc. ("Sponsor") including its Dealership owners/employees and their related and affiliated companies and advertising and promotional agencies and entities involved in the implementation and production of the Contest and their immediate families (spouses and parents, siblings, children and spouses) and persons who reside in the same household are not eligible. As used in this Contest, a "Small Business" is defined as a business that is in compliance with all applicable laws and maintains between one (1) and nine (9) motor vehicles or purchases and/or leases five (5) or fewer motor vehicles within one (1) fiscal year that are designated for use in the day-to-day operation of that business.
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Late last year, The Wall Street Journal published a list of "50 Women to Watch" in the world of business. The newspaper wrote that this "new generation of women leaders who grew up watching pioneering women break into the executive suite has moved into the corner offices of some of the world's largest companies." UVM alumnae made their mark, earning two spots on the WSJ honor roll: Charlene Begley '88, a senior vice president at General Electric (GE), was one of them.
Begley says she's always approached jobs like a college class: "Massive cramming in the beginning — get every book I can, learn as much as I can. When you have a leadership position, you have the advantage of being able to call people in your office and say, 'Teach me about this, teach me about that.' I've always approached every job as a massive learning experience. I ask a thousand questions. I really try to understand the process, how things work, the technology. I get out to customers really early and learn from them what we're good at, what we need to get better at, what our competitors are better than us at. And so it is just a big cram to try to accelerate the learning."
From cramming during the college years to cramming on the job, Begley says that it was her UVM business experience that has helped her shine. "My experience at the business school was awesome. Later in life, as I've gone through my career at GE, the classes I took at UVM were right on," says Begley. "Whether it was the IT classes, Lauck's class (Professor Lauck Parke), statistics, Laber's class (Professor Eugene Laber) — they were absolutely spot on. Obviously, I didn't fully appreciate it at the time. But as I've gone on through my career, I learned a little bit about all of this at UVM. So, in that sense, I couldn't have asked for a better education."


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Welcome to the website of the American Rhodes Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarships are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world. Each year 32 young Americans are selected as Rhodes Scholars, through a decentralized process representing the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Applicants from more than 300 American colleges and universities have been selected as Rhodes Scholars. In most years, even after a century of competition, a Rhodes Scholar is selected from an institution which has not formerly supplied a successful applicant.
Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead. The Rhodes Trust, a British charity established to honor the will and bequest of Cecil J. Rhodes, provides full financial support for Rhodes Scholars to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in partnership with the Second Century Founder, John McCall MacBain and other generous benefactors. The first American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904.
This website provides information about the annual competition for the Rhodes Scholarships available to United States citizens, and is an introduction to the community of American Rhodes Scholars. Rhodes Scholarships are also available to citizens of certain other countries. For information about the global Rhodes Scholarships, and further information about the Rhodes Trust and Oxford University generally, see the links below. There you will also find a link for further information about American Rhodes Scholars and their alumni community.
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Each year, on the Saturday preceding the Thanksgiving holiday, a new American Rhodes Scholar class is elected. These outstanding students are selected from a pool of candidates nominated by their colleges and universities. They commence their studies at Oxford the following October, widely across the University's academic disciplines.
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Aortic stenosis occurs when the heart valve becomes stiff or narrowed, forcing the heart to pump harder to get blood through it. The decreased flow of blood increases pressure inside the heart and can cause blood to back up into the lungs. In severe cases, the brain and the body don't receive enough blood.
Some valve problems are harmless, but more serious cases can lead to heart failure, which accounts for approximately 300,000 deaths each year. Timely and appropriate treatment is the key to successful outcomes.
Symptoms: Breathlessness, chest pain, fainting, weakness, dizziness and heart palpitations.
Heart Center of the Rockies just became the second heart program in the Rocky Mountain region to perform a new, minimally-invasive procedure that replaces damaged aortic valves in patients who are too sick for open-heart surgery.
Heart Center of the Rockies, northern Colorado's largest heart program with 23 cardiologists and surgeons practicing at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland and Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, performed three transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures last week at Medical Center of the Rockies. University of Colorado Hospital in Denver last month became the first in the state to perform the procedure.
Medical Center of the Rockies and University of Colorado Hospital are both part of the new University of Colorado Health, which combines the best of community health with the best of academic medicine.
The Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve received Food and Drug Administration approval in November 2011. Heart Center of the Rockies was among a short, select list of heart programs chosen to offer the procedure.
"The people who benefit most from TAVR procedure are our more senior and frail patients with heart valve blockage," said Dr. Justin Strote, an interventional cardiologist with Heart Center of the Rockies. "TAVR reduces recovery time and helps save the lives of those within our sickest patient population. It's cutting-edge heart health innovation, and I am proud to be part of the team that was first to bring it to northern Colorado."
During the procedure, the replacement valve is crimped on to a catheter, inserted through a small incision in the upper thigh and then guided by a wire to the heart. The valve is then expanded by a balloon and implanted to replace the diseased aortic valve.
"TAVR provides an effective solution for many patients who require a replacement for their diseased aortic valve, but were previously deemed inoperable," said Dr. Mark Guadagnoli, a cardiovascular surgeon with Heart Center of the Rockies.
While there are some surgical components to the procedure, they are minimal and less invasive than open-heart surgery, said Dr. Mark Douthit, Heart Center of the Rockies cardiovascular surgeon.
Over the past few months, a Heart Center of the Rockies' TAVR team comprised of interventional and non-invasive cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and cardiac clinical support staff have been preparing to offer the procedure to patients in northern Colorado. Preparation included a hands-on, comprehensive training program at trial sites in both the United States and Canada.
"The selection had positive implications for our local patients," said Dr. Brad Oldemeyer, an interventional cardiologist at Heart Center of the Rockies. "We had known about the procedure but were forced to send patients clear across the country to have it done. This was a tremendous inconvenience to our patients and their families."
Individuals interested in learning if they might be a candidate for the TAVR procedure may contact the Heart Center of the Rockies valve clinic at 970.624.1833.
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France said on Tuesday it would vote in favor of Palestinian non-member status at the United Nations, an important boost in Palestinian efforts to secure greater international recognition.


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Stefanie has co-hosted a monthly cooking show on Time Warner Cable's NEON channel entitled "Dinner and Drinks". She has appeared on local television programs including, Studio 3, Channel 3 Noon News, and Fox 8 News in the Morning, and Live on Lakeside. Stefanie was a contestant on Season two of the Food Network's Sweet Genius. She was a regular guest on Channel 3's Good Company and was a frequent guest co-host. She is an avid world traveler and is fluent in Italian.


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Pilsner Urquell introduces new packaging for 11 bottles (Translation)
8 September 2010
Plzeň, September 6, 2010 - Plzeňský Prazdroj is launching new refundable beer packaging. The new packaging is for the so-called half case of Pilsner Urquell, which contains 11 traditional refundable bottles of the lager from Plzeň. The advantage of the new packaging is mainly its light weight and easy maneuverability and manipulation.
"The new half case is definitely half the weight of the traditional one. This way, we are trying to offer our consumers a more convenient shopping experience of Pilsner Urquell, in refundable packaging, which means that it is more ecological," said Karel Kraus, manager of the Pilsner Urquell brand.
While the traditional case of 20 bottles weighs more than 17 kg, the half case with its 11 beers weighs only about 9 kg. This means that the weight of the half case is nearly identical to the weight of six 1.5-liter mineral waters, which our consumers often carry or move using only one hand.
Refundable packaging means more ecological packaging. Consumers can return the case to a store together with the empty bottles, and the price for the case is fifty crowns ($2.60 U.S.). Abroad, these half cases are readily used for packaging, and the Czech Republic probably won't be an exception.
In the near future, distribution of new half cases of Pilsner Urquell will begin with delivery to some supermarket chains. The first will be the hypermarket chain Globus, where consumers can already buy beer in this new packaging this weekend. Starting in October, the half cases will be available in other supermarket chains.
For more information:
Vladimír Jurina, Plzeňský Prazdroj, Ph.no: 257 287 209, 724 617 219
Notes to editors:
- With total sales of 10.5 million hectoliters in the 2009 calendar year (including licensed production abroad) and with export to more than 50 countries, Plzeňský Prazdroj is the largest producer of beer in the region and the largest exporter of Czech beer.
- Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s., is a member of the SABMiller PLC Pilsner Urquell global group. It is an international flagship of SABMiller portfolio of brands.
- SABMiller PLC is one of largest beer companies in the world, with activities and distribution in more than 60 countries on six continents. SABMiller includes important international brands such as Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Pilsner Urquell, and close to 200 successful regional and national brands.
This SABMiller subsidiary news release has been translated from its local market language to English language for publication on www.sabmiller.com. We have attempted to provide an accurate translation of the original material but due to the difficulties of translation slight differences may exist.
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Social Studies Credential Program
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1820
"The preparation of social studies teachers is crucial not only to the idea of a good education, but even more broadly, to the cultivation of a healthy democracy and the growth of our nation's citizens."
--Ms. Jackie Purdy, Executive Board Member; The Southern California Social Studies Association
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For the past 50 years, CSUN's Michael D. Eisner College of Education has successful, trained social studies teachers in varied areas of the field such as: U.S. History, World History, Government, Geography, Economics, Psychology, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology. Our graduates take a leadership role in all social studies departments found throughout the Nation. Social Studies students are prepared in effective ways to make History Come Alive!, in both private and public schools social studies curriculums, grades 6-12. In addition, our graduates integrate 21st Century curriculum and technology into their training. Special attention is given to inclusion and meeting the needs of English Language Learners. PACT Requirements, No Child Left Behind Standards, California State Content Standards are a significant part of the social studies credential training program.
Application to the Program. Students who are interested in earning a social studies credential should contact: Dr. David Moguel. You should also attend the information session offered by the CSUN credential office and submit the appropriate paperwork.
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It really couldn't be easier. New recycling stations have been positioned throughout UW-1 and will soon be placed in every building on campus. The stations (made of 100 percent recycled materials) have three openings for waste in three categories: landfill, compostable, and recycle. If you are unsure which category your item is in, there are handy visual guides to assist.
"We have been working to increase our recycling for a long time," says Tony Guerrero, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services. "Thanks to Sabrina Combs with the City of Bothell, we received a grant to install a pilot recycling station in the Commons, which we observed for three months. We found that students didn't like to open the lid on a big container. So we cut holes in them. But then we found that people didn't know which container to put items in. We would see people looking back and forth at the holes trying to decide what item to put where."
Thus far, the new recycle stations have been placed in the Commons and throughout UW-1. Eventually, they will be in every building on campus. Aside from reducing its carbon footprint, UW Bothell can benefit financially from reducing the amount of waste it sends to the landfill. UW Bothell has a contract with Waste Management, which charges the college only for the landfill waste it collects. Waste Management also picks up recycled matter from the college, but does not charge a fee.
The bottom line: The more the college recycles, the more it saves.
The new air hand dryers in campus bathrooms save money and labor, Guerrero says. About 80 percent of the waste the college was sending to landfills was paper towels, which cannot be recycled.
"Including the cost of installation, and the savings we achieve by not buying paper towels, these machines will pay for themselves within five years." Guerrero says.
He estimates more than 848,000 paper towels per year will be saved in UW-1 and UW-2 once the paper towel dispensers are replaced by the air hand dryers.
As any custodian knows, paper towel dispensers are a common target of vandalism and theft in any public bathroom. Fewer dispensers allow custodial staff more time to focus on cleaning.
Towels will remain in some areas, including staff lounges, kitchens and laboratories.
Guerrero and his team have been working for years to reduce the amount of water used on irrigation. UW Bothell uses a smart watering system which uses sensors to determine if watering is needed. "Most systems run on timers that turn on whether it needs to or not, Guerrero says. Our system won't come on if it's raining or already wet."
As summer progresses, the college will save water and nurture the grass by deliberately not watering certain sections of grassy campus areas. "We are letting some sections of the grass go dormant over the summer. It's not that we don't care … it's that we DO care," Guerrero says. Last year, the college saved more than 700,000 gallons of water by not watering the grass.
From worm composting to saving water, the University of Washington Bothell's sustainable practices helped the University of Washington rank fourth in Sierra magazine's annual ranking of green colleges.
Sustainability efforts from each of the University of Washington's three campuses (Bothell, Tacoma and Seattle) were considered in the university's ranking.
Schools were ranked on a variety of factors provided through an in-depth survey, which includes questions regarding energy consumption, transportation, waste, investments and student engagement.
"As a university, we're committed to the principle of sustainability," says Tony Guererro, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services. "UW Bothell has a long list of demonstrable practices that protect the environment."
A commitment to environmental and human sustainability is one of seven campus priorities identified in the 21st Century Campus Initiative, which serves as a roadmap for the university.
The campus of UW Bothell and Cascadia Community College includes a 58-acre wetland that ranks among the largest floodplain restorations in the Pacific Northwest. UW Bothell plants more than 3,000 trees each year in the wetland and other areas around campus.
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Friday, 15 June 2012
Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0
Hortonworks has announced the 1.0 release of the Hortonworks Data Platform prior to the Hadoop Summit 2012 together with a lot of supporting quotes from companies like Attunity, Dataguise, Datameer, Karmasphere, Kognitio, MarkLogic, Microsoft, NetApp, StackIQ, Syncsort, Talend, 10gen, Teradata, and VMware.
Some info points:
Hortonworks Data Platform is a platform meant to simplify the installation, integration, management, and use of Apache Hadoop
- HDP 1.0 is based on Apache Hadoop 1.0
- Apache Ambari is used for installation and provisioning
- The same Apache Amabari is behind the Hortonworks Management Console
- For Data integration, HDP offers WebHDFS, HCatalog APIs, and Talend Open Studio
- Apache HCatalog is the solution offering metadata and table management
Hortonworks Data Platform is 100% open source—I really appreciate Hortonworks's dedication to the Apache Hadoop project and open source community
- HDP comes with 3 levels of support subscriptions, pricing starting at $12500/year for a 10 nodes cluster
One of the most interesting aspects of the Hortonworks Data Platform release is that the high-availability (HA) option for HDP is based on using VMWare-powered virtual machines for the NameNode and JobTracker. My first thought about this approach is that it was chosen to strengthen a partnership with VMWare. On the other hand, Hadoop 2.0 contains already a new highly-available version of the NameNode (Cloudera Hadoop Distribution uses this solution) and VMWare has bigger plans for a virtualization-friendly Hadoop environment with project Serengeti.
You can read a lot of posts about this announcement, but you'll find all the details in Hortonworks's John Kreisa's post here and the PR announcement.
Original title and link: Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 ( ©myNoSQL)
Friday, 8 June 2012
Performance Evaluation of HBase and How Hardware Changes Results
Two posts by Oliver Meyn on measuring the performance of two HBase clusters—first results on the original cluster and results on the upgraded cluster— using
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PerformanceEvaluation, the resulting performance charts, Ganglia charts, and some thoughts and feedback from the HBase community.
Original title and link: Performance Evaluation of HBase and How Hardware Changes Results ( ©myNoSQL)
Thursday, 17 May 2012
HBase 0.94 Released: What's New
With over 350 enhancements and bug fixes, 0.94 is the new major release of HBase. This Cloudera blog post does a good summary of the most interesting improvements:
- Read caching improvements
- Seek optimizations
- WAL writes optimizations
- added functionality to HBck: fixing orphaned regions, region holes, overlapping regions
- simplified region sizing
- atomic Put & Delete in a single transaction
Original title and link: HBase 0.94 Released: What's New ( ©myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Notes on the Hadoop and HBase Markets
Curt Monash shares what he heard from his customers:
- Over half of Cloudera's customers (nb 100 subscription customers) use HBase
- Hortonworks thinks a typical enterprise Hadoop cluster has 20-50 nodes, with 50-100 already being on the large side.
- There are huge amounts of Elastic MapReduce/Hadoop processing in the Amazon cloud. Some estimates say it's the majority of all Amazon Web Services processing.
Original title and link: Notes on the Hadoop and HBase Markets ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.dbms2.com/2012/04/24/notes-on-the-hadoop-and-hbase-markets/
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Apache Bigtop: Apache Big Data Management Distribution Based on Apache Hadoop
The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the packaging and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects. This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, etc…) developed by a community with a focus on the system as a whole, rather than individual projects.
Currently packaging:
- Apache Hadoop 1.0.x
- Apache Zookeeper 3.4.3
- Apache HBase 0.92.0
- Apache Hive 0.8.1
- Apache Pig 0.9.2
- Apache Mahout 0.6.1
- Apache Oozie 3.1.3
- Apache Sqoop 1.4.1
- Apache Flume 1.0.0
- Apache Whirr 0.7.0
Apache Bigtop looks like the first step towards the Big Data LAMP-like platform analysts are calling for. Practically though it's goal is to ensure that all the components of the wide Hadoop ecosystem remain interoperable.
Original title and link: Apache Bigtop: Apache Big Data Management Distribution Based on Apache Hadoop ( ©myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Here Is Why in Cassandra vs. HBase, Riak, CouchDB, MongoDB, It's Cassandra FTW
Brian ONeill:
Now, since choosing Cassandra, I can say there are a few other really important less tangible considerations. The first, is the code base. Cassandra has an extremely clean and well maintained code base. Jonathan and team do a fantastic job managing the community and the code. As we adopted NoSQL, the ability to extend the code-base and incorporate our own features has proven invaluable. (e.g. triggers, a REST interface, and server-side wide-row indexing)
Secondly, the community is phenomenal. That results in timely support, and solid releases on a regular schedule. They do a great job prioritizing features, accepting contributions, and cranking out features. (They are now releasing ~quarterly) We've all probably been part of other open source projects where the leadership is lacking, and features and releases are unpredictable, which makes your own release planning difficult. Kudos to the Cassandra team.
Everything sounds reasonable except for Riak being the "new kid on the block" and not finding support for it. Basho, where were you hidding?
Original title and link: Here Is Why in Cassandra vs. HBase, Riak, CouchDB, MongoDB, It's Cassandra FTW ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/2012/04/cassandra-vs-couchdb-mongodb-riak-hbase.html
Monday, 2 April 2012
The HBase Roadmap: Where Do We Want HBase to Be in Two Years?
The HBase project management committee:
After further banter, we arrived at list: reliability, operability (insight into the running application, dynamic config. changes, usability improvements that make it easier on a clueful ops), and performance (in this order). It was offered that we are not too bad on performance — especially in 0.94 — and that use cases will drive the performance improvements so focus should be on the first two items in the list. […] To improve reliability, testing has to be better. This has been said repeatedly in the past.
EMC has announced a 1000+ nodes cluster for Apache Hadoop testing, so maybe a similar initiative is needed for HBase too. Considering how many large organizations are using HBase it shouldn't be difficult to get these resources as long as someone will assume ownership and leadership for it.
Original title and link: The HBase Roadmap: Where Do We Want HBase to Be in Two Years? ( ©myNoSQL)
via: https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/hbase_project_management_committee_meeting
Architecture of HBase-based Lucene Implementation
Boris Lublinsky and Mike Segel:
The implementation tries to balance two conflicting requirements - performance: in memory cache can drastically improve performance by minimizing the amount of HBase reads for search and documents retrieval; and scalability: ability to run as many Lucene instances as required to support growing search clients population. The latter requires minimizing of the cache life time to synchronize content with the HBase instance (a single copy of thruth). A compromise is achieved through implementing configurable cache time to live parameter, limiting cache presence in each Lucene instance.
Besides existing Solr scaling approaches and the work to make Solr scalable, there's also the recently released DataStax Enterprise which integrates Solr on top of Cassandra.
Original title and link: Architecture of HBase-based Lucene Implementation ( ©myNoSQL)
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
ACID in HBase: Row Level Operations Explained. Plus Something New
Lars Hofhansl:
HBase employs a kind of MVCC. And HBase has no mixed read/write transactions. […] When a write transaction (a set of puts or deletes) starts it retrieves the next highest transaction number. In HBase this is called a WriteNumber. When a read transaction (a Scan or Get) starts it retrieves the transaction number of the last committed transaction. HBase calls this the ReadPoint.
Understanding the behavior of read and write operations in HBase is definitely useful. Learning that an upcoming HBase version will support atomic multi operations (HBASE-3584) and even multi-row local transactions (HBASE-5229) is priceless.
For HBase atomic multi-operations:
Delete d = new Delete(ROW);
Put p = new Put(ROW);
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Original title and link: ACID in HBase: Row Level Operations Explained. Plus Something New ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/03/acid-in-hbase.html?spref=tw
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Hadoop and HBase: Configuring the Number of Server Side Threads (Xceivers)
Prepare yourself for a very long and detailed article by Lars George explaining how to correctly configure the number of server side threads (and sockets used for data connections)— the HDFS
dfs.datanode.max.xcievers configuration option. Even if I'll be giving you the final secret formula, I strongly encourage you to read the details:
Original title and link: Hadoop and HBase: Configuring the Number of Server Side Threads (Xceivers) ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.larsgeorge.com/2012/03/hadoop-hbase-and-xceivers.html
Thursday, 8 March 2012
What HBase Learned From the Hypertable vs HBase Benchmark
Every decent benchmark can reveal not only performance or stability problems, but oftentimes more subtle issues like less known or undocumented options, common misconfigurations or misunderstandings. Sometimes it can reveal scenarios that a product hasn't considered before or for which it has different solutions.
So even if I don't agree with the purpose of the Hypertable vs HBase benchmark, I think the benchmark is well designed and there were no intentions to favor one product over the other.
I went back to two long time HBase committers and users, Michael Stack and Jean-Daniel Cryans, to find out what the HBase community could learn from this benchmark.
What can be learned from the Hypertable vs HBase benchmark from the HBase perspective?
Michael Stack: That we need to work on our usability; even a smart fellow like Doug Judd can get it really wrong.
We haven't done his sustained upload in a good while. Our defaults need some tweaking.
We need to do more documentation around JVM tuning; you'd think fellas would have grok'd by now that big java apps need their JVM's tweaked but it looks like the message still hasn't gotten out there.
That we need a well-funded PR dept. to work on responses to the likes of Doug's article (well-funded because Doug claims he spent four months on his comparison).
Jean-Daniel Cryans: I already opened a few jiras after using HT's test on a cluster I have here with almost the same hardware and node count, it's mostly about usability and performance for that type of use case:
Automagically tweak global memstore and block cache sizes based on workload
Hypertable does a neat thing where it changes the size given to the CellCache (our MemStores) and Block Cache based on the workload. If you need an image, scroll down at the bottom of this link:
Soft limit for eager region splitting of young tables
Coming out of HBASE-2375, we need a new functionality much like hypertable's where we would have a lower split size for new tables and it would grow up to a certain hard limit. This helps usability in different ways:
- With that we can set the default split size much higher and users will still have good data distribution
- No more messing with force splits
- Not mandatory to pre-split your table in order to get good out of the box performance
The way Doug Judd described how it works for them, they start with a low value and then double it every time it splits. For example if we started with a soft size of 32MB and a hard size of 2GB, it wouldn't be until you have 64 regions that you hit the ceiling.
On the implementation side, we could add a new qualifier in .META. that has that soft limit. When that field doesn't exist, this feature doesn't kick in. It would be written by the region servers after a split and by the master when the table is created with 1 region.
Consider splitting after flushing
Spawning this from HBASE-2375, I saw that it was much more efficient compaction-wise to check if we can split right after flushing. Much like the ideas that Jon spelled out in the description of that jira, the window is smaller because you don't have to compact and then split right away to only compact again when the daughters open.
If someone is faced with similar scenarios are there workarounds or different solutions?
Michael Stack: There are tunings of HBase configs over in our reference guide for the sustained upload both in hbase and in jvm.
Then there is our bulk load facility which by-passes this scenario altogether which is what we'd encourage folks to use because its 10x to 100x faster getting your data in there.
Jean-Daniel Cryans: You can import 5TB in HBase with sane configs, I've done it a few times already since I started using his test. The second time he ran his test he just fixed mslab but still kept the crazy ass other settings like 80% of the memory dedicated to memstores. My testing also shows that you need to keep the eden space under control, 64MB seems a good value in my testing (he didn't set any in his test, the first time I ran mine without setting it I got the concurrent mode failure too).
The answer he gave this week to Todd's email on the hadoop mailing list is about a constant stream of updates and that's what he's trying to test. Considering that the test imports 5TB in ~16h (on my cluster), you run out of disk space in about 3 days. I seriously don't know what he's aiming for here.
Quoting him: "Bulk loading isn't always an option when data is streaming in from a live application. Many big data use cases involve massive amounts of smaller items in the size range of 10-100 bytes, for example URLs, sensor readings, genome sequence reads, network traffic logs, etc."
What are the most common places to look for improving the performance of a HBase cluster?
Michael Stack: This is what we point folks at when they ask the likes of the above question: HBase Performance Tunning
If that chapter doesn't have it, its a bug and we need to fix up our documentation more.
Jean-Daniel Cryans: What Stack said. Also if you run into GC issues like he did then you're doing it wrong.
Michael Stack also pointed me to a comment by Andrew Purtell (nb: you need to be logged in on LinkedIn and member of the group to see it):
I think HBase should find all of this challenging and flattering. Challenging because we know how we can do better along the dimensions of your testing and you are kicking us pretty hard. Flattering because by inference we seem to be worth kicking.
But this misses the point, and reduces what should be a serious discussion of the tradeoffs between Java and C++ to a cariacture. Furthermore, nobody sells HBase. (Not in the Hypertable or Datastax sense. Commercial companies bundle HBase but they do so by including a totally free and zero cost software distribution.) Instead it is voluntarily chosen for hundreds of large installations all over the world, some of them built and run by the smartest guys I have ever encountered in my life. Hypertable would have us believe we are all making foolish choices. While it is true that we all on some level have to deal with the Java heap, only Hypertable seems to not be able to make it work. I find that unsurprising. After all, until you can find some way to break it, you don't have any kind of marketing story.
This remineded me of the quote from Jonathan Ellis's Dealing With JVM Limitations in Apache Cassandra:
Cliff Click: Many concurrent algorithms are very easy to write with a GC and totally hard (to down right impossible) using explicit free.
As I was expecting, there are quite a few good things that will come out from this benchmark for both long time HBase users, but also for new adopters.
Original title and link: What HBase Learned From the Hypertable vs HBase Benchmark ( ©myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
HBase Filters Explained: Let HBase Do the Data Selection Job for You
The naive approach that consists in getting all the required data at the Client in order to apply locally some processing should be limited in a distributed setting to trivial tasks operating on a tiny subset. There are two fundamentals reasons for that. First, this generates a lot of network exchanges, consuming without necessity a lot of resources and sometimes leading to unacceptable response time. Second, centralizing all the information then processing it, simply misses all the advantages brought by a powerful cluster of hundreds or even thousands machines. The lesson is simply: When you deal with BigData, the data center is your computer.
Great and concise explanation of the pre-packaged HBase filters and their advantages by Philippe Rigaux:
Compare with the well-known SQL world. When you express a SELECT-FROM-WHERE query, you restrict the number or rows (with the "WHERE" clause) and the number of columns for each row (with the "SELECT" clause). Filters in HBase let you do both: fully ignore some rows, and for those rows that pass, restrict the family, columns, or timestamps. This must be related to the underlying motivation: limit as much as possible the network bandwidth used to communicate withe the client application.
Original title and link: HBase Filters Explained: Let HBase Do the Data Selection Job for You ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://internetmemory.org/en/index.php/synapse/on_the_power_of_hbase_filters
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(CULTURAL PLANET SERIES) "Challenges to Livelihood Resilience in the Anthropocene: Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management in a New Guinea Mining Area" (Jerry Jacka)
Some in the environmental sciences argue that we have entered a new geological epoch--the anthropocene--in which humans are impacting the planet at a global scale. Dr. Jerry Jacka explores this idea among the Porgera people of Papua New Guinea, indigineous forager-farmers who host one of the world's largest glod mines on their lands. Mining development has transformed Porgera society and environment; Jacka assesses these impacts by looking at changes in Porgeran ecological knowledge and resource management practices.
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"Language and gender in an Amazonian society: male and female speech in Karajá (Macro-Jê, Brazil" (Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro)
Karajá, an indigenous language from Central Brazil, shows differences between female and male speech to a degree that is not found in other Brazilian languages. These differences, first mentioned by Ehrenreich (1891, 1894) and studied more recently by Fortune & Fortune (1975) and Borges (1994, 1997), can generally be accounted for by regular phonological rules. As in Koasati (Haas 1964), female speech can be considered as more conservative, male speech being characterized, in general, by the deletion of a velar stop occurring in the corresponding female speech form. This talk presents an up-to-date description of the differences between female and male speech in Karajá, taking into consideration for the first time data from all four dialects of the language and approaching facts that were not mentioned in previous studies. Social correlates and possible scenarios for the diachronic origin of such distinctions will also be discussed.
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"Fragments of a Language Practice: Documenting the Chinantec Whistled Speech Register" (Mark Sicoli)
Speakers of SochiapamChinantec of Oaxaca, Mexico have historically used a whistled linguistic register for long-distance communication. Whistled speech was once such an important element of the language-culture of the community that boys who could not effectively communicate through whistles upon reaching adulthood would be fined bi-annually until developing competence. Whistled speech organized the police force, and served the general community for distance communication across the mountainous landscape—needs fulfilled today by walkie-talkies and public address systems. In 2011, an interdisciplinary research team funded by a RAPID response NSF grant worked with five remaining community members who knew how to use whistled speech.
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"Jesuit Grammarians in the Chaco:
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"Encounter with the Harrington Collection: Building a New Generation of Access" (Candace Greene and Stephanie Christensen)
The John P. Harrington Papers, one of the largest collections in the National Anthropological Archives, has been extensively used by researchers as diverse as linguists, ethnobotanists, environmental scientists, cultural anthropologists, and Native scholars from Oklahoma to Oregon. The NAA has launched a new effort to make this material more accessible, moving from microfilm and audio tape to online access. Members of the team will speak about some of the challenges, achievements, and rewards of work with this complex and challenging collection.
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"Love Letters and Goodbyes in Nepal: The Case for Linguistic Anthropology" (Laura M. Ahearn)
This talk analyzes some of the many social transformations that the village of Junigau, Nepal, has experienced over the past several decades and demonstrates the benefits of close attention to language for analyzing social change. Focusing on shifts in courtship and marriagepractices, Ahearn shows how the advent of female literacy led to an unanticipated switch from arranged and capture marriage to "love" marriage in the 1990s. She then turns her current work on the process of leave-taking in Nepal, examining farewell routines at the micro level and leave-taking at more macro levels in order to illustrate the benefits of linguistic anthropology for understanding cultural meanings and social relations.
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"Cloud traces: Texts from the codices of our memories" (Víctor Cata and Emiliano Cruz Santiago)
This presentation focuses on texts recovered from Zapotec knowledge bearers considered to be living codices who safeguard the memory of the Peoples of the Clouds. The texts are from Juchitán in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and from San Bartolomé Loxicha in the Souther Sierra, in Oaxaca, both Zapotec towns but with distinct Zapotec languages and cultural practices. The voices recovered through these two language and knowledge documentation efforts bear witness to distinct philosophies, cosmogonies and literary traditions. Further, they provide evidence of the changes taking place among the Peoples of the Clouds and in their cultures and languages which are under pressure given the dominance of Spanish in Mexico.
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