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The deterrent effect of executions: A meta-analysis thirty years after Ehrlich
AbstractIn 1975, Ehrlich published a seminal paper in American Economic Review which argued that executions prevent murders in America. Subsequent empirical studies varied in their methodology and the time-period/region/country covered, and therefore it is difficult to draw a clear conclusion about the deterrent effect of executions. This article applies a meta-analysis to combine the results from refereed studies in order to summarize objectively the findings. The overall results of the meta-analysis supported the deterrent effect of executions, but the evidence for a deterrent effect depended on the type of study carried out (time-series and panel data versus cross-sectional data and the effects of publicity).
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Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 3 The sun was close to rising, by the time that Damien had finished feeding. He ended up in the country side, sucking the blood of a cow that was in the pasture with a bunch others. He didn't even phase the large bovine, which walked off as if nothing happened by the time that Damien was done. He wiped his mouth and then looked at the lightening sky. He didn't fear the sun. He was in no hurry to get back to his lair, because he didn't fry or turn to dust when the sun hit him. Instead, Damien's elongated vampire fangs shrank, making him look completely normal. Damien walked home from the cow farm. He lived in an old house much like Anna's. However his was on the opposite end of town, and surrounded by trees. It was much more run down and more abandoned looking then Anna's house. When he arrived, he walked right through the unlocked door. He bypassed the dusty floors of the living room, trail
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 2 They couldn't talk for long, for Anna had to return back to her home. It was getting really late, and dawn would approach soon. Damien stood, and gave her a light hug. He felt her stiffen a moment, but relaxed after a moment. He pulled from her then, and looked into her face. "You sleep well Anna." He said and brushed her bangs aside. She looked up at him innocently with her blue eyes. "Will
I see you again?" she asked with her soft voice. She looked a bit hopeful as she searched his face, while waiting for an answer. He smiled at her. "Of course. I can meet you here again tomorrow night. Is that alright?" he asked. She nodded and gave a little smile of her own. "Yes, its fine. My parents are never home, so I know I can sneak away." She said. "I'll see you tomorrow then. Goodnight Damien." She said as she began walking away. She gave a little wave and then took off with light run back towards her house.
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 6 Anna and Damien, didn't know that they were being watched at that very moment. In the shadows behind a few trees there in the park, was Xavier. He was returning home from feeding, when he saw Damien walking into town. He wasn't creeping through the shadows, like a vampire on the hunt. No, he was going somewhere with a purpose. Xavier was curious as to where the young vampire was headed. Xavier stalked him, being sure to stay down wind from Damien's keen sense of smell as he followed. Where Damien ended up shocked him. He watched in the shadows as he sat there and talked with a mere human. He was even more shocked when Damien presented his fangs to her. She didn't run away, but she did look frightened, but only for a moment. The human was then shown by Damien, his super strength. Xavier scowled at this display. Damien was breaking all sorts of Vampire rules, and he needed to be punished. A
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 5 After spending the day with Kay, Anna returned home later that afternoon. It was almost 5 o'clock by the time she got home. She kicked off her boots when she entered her room, and flopped onto her bed. Her phone began to vibrate as she lay there. She pulled it out of her bag and opened it to see who it was from. It was her mother calling. Anna answered it "Hi mom," Anna said to her mother. "Are you coming home soon?" she asked. She already knew the answer. Her mother was calling to say that she was busy on some case and she needed to be there at the office. "Not yet hon." Her mother said on the other end. "I'm working really hard for my client and I'm stuck here in the office trying to prove his case before we go to trial." She said, sounding like she was bit distracted. "I just called to see how you were doing." Her mother continued. Anna sighed and then closed her eyes from staring at the ceiling. "I'm fine."
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 4 The sun had risen, and had been up for quite some time, when Anna decided to wake up. The sun filtered through her curtain and hit her in the face. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, smearing some of her make up. She stood and went into the bathroom to shower and get washed up. When she dressed, she chose a white button down blouse with capped sleeves, and a black and red plaid skirt. She grabbed her choker and her black arm warmers and then put another pair of fishnets on, as well as her boots. She reapplied her eyeliner and then headed into the kitchen. She breakfasted on a couple pieces of toast and some milk. She peered around the kitchen looking to see of there were any hints of her parents return from wherever they went off to this time. She placed the carton of milk back into the refrigerator and let it close as she headed into the living room. Upon not seeing her mother's briefcase n
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 8 Damien glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost exactly ten o'clock. He managed to run fast enough all the way across town, to Anna's house from where he was at delivering hurt on a client of his fellow vampire, Xavier. He had no idea that Xavier was a loan shark, and that he preyed on innocent families like that. He shook his head and approached the porch of Anna's house. He saw an old door knocker that rested its golden beauty on the deep red wood that made the door. He admired it a moment and then picked the knocker part up and then tapped it a few times, to herald to Anna that he was there. Anna heard the knock at the door and she rushed to shove the cleaning supplies she had been working with back into the kitchen closet. She wheeled the vacuum back into the hall closet and then brushed down her skirt and hair before she walked casually to the door. Anna had been spending most
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 9 Damien left Anna's house and headed in towards town. He noticed some man dressed in black who was about to rob one of the stores. He frowned at the knowledge that someone was about to try and rob some place, but he decided that this robber would be the source of his meal. He snuck up behind the man who was trying to cut the wires on the security system. He grabbed him, and then sunk his fangs into the man's jugular. He took his fill, but didn't kill the man. He did however gave his mind a little 'nudge' on the fact that what he was about to do was wrong, and not worth it. He hoped that the man would take the hint when he woke up. Damien lowered the still living body of the man onto the ground before he headed home. Xavier was waiting for him, when he returned to the house. "It took you long enough." He said bitterly. "Where is my money?" He asked. He didn't see Damien carrying an envelope
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 11 The vampire council met on an uncharted island that was off the coast of Australia. Nobody knew of the island but the vampires. Since they're flitting was so fast, they could go over water like it was nothing. The island was unapproachable by boat or plane. For there was a series of confusing currents, an impassible reef as well as a series of storms that all kept the humans away from the island. A large stone castle rested on a hill on the center of the island. It was larger then most castles, since it had to hold and sleep hundreds of vampires. When Sethander and his sired charges arrived on the island, they headed inland immediately. Xavier and Damien carried their belongings through the forest and up the incline of the hill where the castle rested. The other vampires, which arrived from different areas of the globe, were a
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you busy today? I have stuff I wanna tell you!' she wrote and then hit send. She sat on her bed and waited to see if Kay would reply right away. Her phone chimed and she read the text. 'Not real
Look Into Your Heart Ch. 1 Look Into Your Heart The story behind Damien Dawn and Anna Blue Chapter 1_____________________________________________________________________________________ Her name was Anna Blue. In her own opinion, the name suited her-especially her last name. Anna had a hard life, ever since she was 6 years old. You see, when Anna was only 6 years old, her parents were brutally murdered. At the time, young Anna had been at a friend's house. When Anna came home, she found both of her parents lifeless bodies lying on the floor of their bedroom. The strange thing was...was that their bodies-were completely drained of blood. It was only a few months later, that Anna realized her parents were killed by a vampire. From that point on, she made an oath to hate all vampires, and to defe
Damien Dawn, and Anna BlueDamien and AnnaA love storyChapter 1 Piercing blue eyes peered through the window looking in at the young woman sleeping in her bed. It was night and the shadows helped hide him from being seen, if she had been awake. He watched as her long lashes caressed her face. Her dark bangs would fall into her eyes with a turn of her head. How he ached to gently push those bangs aside. He continued up the wall of her house and went up to her roof. He slid down and rested his back against the decorative railing of the house. He sighed and looked up at the full moon. His name was Damien Dawn, and he was a vampire. He had been a vampire as long as he could remember. He wasn't born a vampire
no, he was created. He was sired by a true vampire many, many years ago. He eventually lost count, but he thought it to be a couple centuries ago, at least. But, just because he was a vampire didn't mean he had to wear clothes from some other century. Damien
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Pride and Poetry
[This scroll holds within it a small collection of poems, each one scribed in such a way that they take on the form of an image. The first, a lion rampant; the second, a Crab surrounded by a mandala, and the third, a kneeling kirin.]
Flowing crimson locks,
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Temple of Osano-WoPrivate Notes of Isawa Shoken, Imperial Cartographer, Hatamoto to Hantei Naresu-sama
Today has been a day that has left me in awe. Fate seems to have dictated that I complete the pilgrimage of the Crab clan. Let me begin at the start.
Utaku Naomi-san led us to where the Iuchi bloodmage was conducting a foul ritual. Three Tsuno stood with her, bearing tainted blades and tainted magic. Utaku-san laid her quest to rest with the Iuchi's corpse, but not before one Tsuno escaped and the other buried its blade in Matsu Orihime-san. Matsu-san knew the risk of taint with the blade shards still in her was high, so when the roar of an Oni was heard, the ground shaking with its steps, she stayed behind, seeking death with honor as her clan does. The rest of us rode north.
And there, on the horizon, Ito-san spotted a place within the Shadowlands where we rode that was not tainted. A pocket of sanctity that could not be tainted.
For we had found the place where lay the bodies of Hida-kami and Otaku-sama of the Thunders.
The hungry dead watched us here as we prayed, hidden from the power of the Shadowlands around us. Moshi-san told a story of the flaws of each clan and how those flaws had created oni. His story continued on, telling of their strengths as well and the spirits that matched each oni. The world seemed to listen and then light swallowed us up. We had decided to transport the preserved bodies of these honored dead back to their clans, but something, the Dragon of Thunder perhaps, had chosen our path for doing so. We stood with the carefully wrapped bodies outside of the Temple of Osano-Wo, far from the Shadowlands.
Utaku-san was angered by this as her duty bound her to the movements of her legion, even now possibly engaging with the roaring oni by her commands, and the light took her away again. I hope she is with them. I feel rather overwhelmed by all of this. It is one thing to see the human manifestations of divinity and power in the Emperors; it's another to be moved by the whims of the Heavens like a piece on a board.
My duty to my school and to this holy task demands I return Hida-kami's body back to the Crab. Surely the rest of the world, led by the competent heirs, can manage without insignificant me for as long as that takes?
A mother had nine children,but the mother grew sickAnd her ninth son rebelled.He went through the empire causing mischief.He dreamed up many horrible things, and delivered vile lessons through the empire.To the Scorpian he taught Betrayal.To the Phoenix he taught Death.To the Dragons he taught Regret.To the Crab he taught Fear.To the Unicorn he taught Chaos.To the Lion he taught Hatred.To the Mantis he taught Larceny.To the Crane he taught Desire.The clans learned their lessons well, and the Empire started to slip towards ruin.But the mother woke from her fevered slumber, and walked around the empire, teaching the clans anew, and correcting the errors of the wayward son.To the Scorpian she taught that even betrayal comes with a purpose, and must be done to protect those that they are truly loyal to.To the Phoenix she taught that from death life can begin anew.To the Dragons she taught that from regret grows the seed of wisdom and change.To the Crab she taught that without fear there can be no courage.To the Lion she taught that Hatred must be directed and tempered with purpose.To the Mantis she taught that larceny was misdirected ambition, and that with ambition corrected the empire will prosper.To the Crane she taught that desire without purpose only leave you hollow.
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The Monkey and the Gourd
As I pack up another box for a garage sale, I look around to see if I have made a dent in the amount of "stuff" I am trying to reduce. I seem to collect all kinds of things--sheep (statues only), books, snowmen (stuffed, of course), teacups, books, cats, kitchen utensils, old bottles, books, and blankets to name a few! Okay. I am NOT getting rid of the cats; they are family, but, really, how many blankets (throws, etc.) can one couch hold (at this point the number is five and counting).
I appreciate family history, and I display several precious items (those few remaining) which were "brought over" with my Irish ancestors many generations ago. They are meaningful and allow me to share both personal and historical background with my children and grandchildren. Those can stay (until, of course, they are passed on to the next generation). But all the other things?
I remember a story once told to me by a missionary who had served in India. You know those cute little monkeys we see in pictures with organ-grinders? Poor little things. Anyway, how they are caught is interesting. (There is a connection here; hang on). Small holes are drilled into gourds--just the right size for a little monkey hand to wiggle in. Next, peanuts or other desirable treats are placed in the gourds. These gourds are then situated in areas where the unsuspecting monkeys live. Being curious by nature, the monkey finds a gourd and wants the treat inside. What does he do?
He (or she, of course) pushes his hand into the gourd, finds the treat, and grabs it. When he tries to remove the prize, he cannot because his fist is too large to fit back through the hole. He refuses to let go and is easily caught since he only has one hand to use in an escape (the other, of course, is encumbered by the gourd). It doesn't occur to the monkey that he could release the peanut, hit his prey on the head with the gourd (I added this part because that's what I would do!), and swing away. No. He is caught because he won't let go. Got it?
I think I am like that. My stuff weighs me down. However, I am discovering another truth in my journey with God and that is to learn to be grateful and satisfied with what I have. Paul uses the word content:
...for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:11-13 NIV)
I once lived in a house with a large dining room, so I bought a large dining room set. Now that I live in a smaller house, my small dining room is wall-to-wall furniture. It is still lovely (mostly) and completely serviceable. Do I really need a different, smaller, dining room set? No. Do I want one (my fist is in the gourd here)? Yes. Am I going to buy one? No. I am learning.
My comments are not meant to induce guilt; women are nest-builders, and we love to create beautiful nests, right? God created us with this desire. In this country it is so easy to satisfy this desire, but I am talking about the "additions" we make to our nests which sometimes crowd out more important opportunities for our spiritual lives. Letting go of many of our "wants" allows us to be more flexible and have more financial resources to share (and support) with others. Can we be content in all things? It is a question worth asking ourselves.
Well, If you need anything, let me know. I probably have at least two of whatever you need. I never want my stuff to mean more to me than you. Life in Christ is an interesting (and challenging) journey. Perhaps you are further along on yours.
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For "Project 50: Four walls and a bed," our latest Notable Narrative, reporter Christopher Goffard spent two years following a Los Angeles-area program aimed at finding the most at-risk homeless and giving them a place to live. Goffard, who has had several stories selected as Notable Narratives across the years, is also a novelist, and in 2007 was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. In these excerpts from our email interview, Goffard shares his thoughts on rendering unsympathetic characters likeable, his distaste for sentimental stories about the homeless, and his ideas on "giving stories the engines they need."
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It had been in the news, but it seemed to scream for a deeper treatment. Skid row's our back yard, a few blocks from the Times building, and this was a chance to explore not just the lives of the people there but this increasingly widespread approach to chronic homelessness. All we had was a question, really: If you give the most damaged people keys to their apartments, could they keep them?
I'd read Malcolm Gladwell's piece, "Million-Dollar Murray," which is as fascinating as any Gladwell story but is essentially an ideas story, a top-down piece about how it's cheaper to house the chronic cases than allow them to remain on the streets. Murray himself, being dead, couldn't be interviewed.
So I wanted to know what this story looked like from the street level, from the vantage of the homeless themselves. I told the L.A. County government bosses, "We'd like complete access to this project and all its participants, please." All these departments and agencies and nonprofits were involved, and they were very skittish, afraid of lawsuits, and the county gave us these very restrictive waivers that they wanted the people we interviewed to sign. The waivers basically said, "We agree to talk to the L.A. Times, but we can withdraw permission to use our names, quotes and photos at any point." Which is obviously unworkable. I said, "Look, we're prepared to invest serious time in this, and this sabotages the whole effort."
So there was a lot of back and forth, weeks of it, maybe months, before we could get in. And then I started going down to the Project 50 headquarters and just hanging out once or twice a week between other stories, trying to gain people's trust, making my face familiar to people. At the start I didn't take out my notebook. They had a chess set, and I played chess with whoever was there. If you draw the game out, you can have an uninterrupted 45-minute conversation. That's how I had my first real talk with Cliff Butler.
You have a number of central characters whose fates you follow, from the program coordinator to a half-dozen of the homeless who were given shelter. What kinds of things did you do to manage several stories simultaneously?
Well, after winning access and some trust, the next big challenge is how to pick the people you are going to follow. You obviously can't follow 50 people, and any choice you make is going to be a gamble. Between us, Genaro and I paid close attention to probably 10 or 15 people, and some of them didn't work out. They were arrested, or they got hostile, or their stories repeated stuff we already had, or nothing happened. Addicts are not inherently interesting, dramatically speaking, because their lives are consumed by one thing, and so they're kind of static.
People who are striving for something are dramatically interesting. Paul Sigler wanted his business back, and Maurice Lewis wanted his seaman's license back, and some of the others were striving to get straight, so they seemed natural picks. Millie Quan was my editor on this, and the six clients we picked for the narrative had to justify their place in it, to propel the story or illustrate an important point. And we knew that Carrie Bach would be the force tying it together structurally. She's not just the person most readers will identify with – our bridge to this world – but also the narrative spine.
In an email to me, you mentioned the challenge of rendering unsympathetic characters sympathetic. What were your strategies for doing that?
Well, you're striving to convey a sense of the inner life of the characters, the kind of thing novelists do and the great nonfiction writers like Gary Smith do. When you're writing about drug addicts with mental illness, some of whom are career criminals and hustlers, some of whom may be giving you false or delusional or self-serving accounts of their lives, you have to be very careful. There are barriers, and you don't want to counterfeit an intimacy you can't legitimately claim. So the narrative's very sparing in getting inside their heads. As a narrative writer, you're losing a crucial weapon, and you have to find other methods.
In the case of Paul Sigler, we used the mystery about his past – was he a millionaire or is he delusional? – as an engine for the story. And we used Carrie Bach's uncertainty about the clients to stand in for our own. As for whether they're sympathetic to the average reader, I don't know. I wound up liking a lot of them. But I really dislike maudlin, soft-focus homeless stories that ascribe a sense of special nobility to them. I wanted to write about them in a way that didn't judge them but didn't apologize for them or sentimentalize them. I wanted to respect the complexity of their lives. I mean, I can't explain why Cliff Butler won't give his landlord 30 percent of his government check, which is all he needs to do to keep his room. Human will is a stubborn and mysterious thing.
While the homeless remain invisible to many people, there have been a lot of well-done narratives on homelessness. Were you hoping to do anything specifically new with yours?
It's a rare chance to tackle the macro and the micro in one story. You're seeing social policy at work, and you're getting a close look at hidden lives you almost never read about. I've seen a lot of stories about people rendered desperate by the economy, people tumbling into hotels and shelters, but this is a different type of homelessness, one that seems almost independent of the economy's vicissitudes.
I see that the Los Angeles County Supervisor called for a report on some of the events he read in your story. Did that surprise you?
That particular supervisor had misgivings about the program from the start, so not really.
How did you and the photographer, Genaro Molina, divide your work? Were you thinking of the print stories as interlocking with or independent of the slide shows?
We tried to make the stories and the slide shows as harmonious as possible, but Genaro and I shadowed different people at different times, and his best stuff wasn't always my best stuff. He got great shots of the outreach workers, for instance, but they got almost completely dropped from the final draft of the narrative.
Is there anything else you'd like to say about how the project came together or your own thoughts on rendering two years of reporting down to a four-part story?
For a few years now I've been thinking consciously about how to apply the idea of giving stories the engines they need. The same thing that's going to make people sit through a movie will make them sit through a 10,000-word series. If it's a murder story, you want to know who did it. If it's a medical story, you want to know whether the surgery worked. In this case, the overarching question is, "Will this program work?" And embedded in the stories are smaller mysteries – mini-engines. "Is Paul Sigler who he says he is?" "Will Maurice pass his test?" "Why is Carrie Bach's desk empty?"
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"We're not finished"
There are still major hurdles Parkland must overcome before its CMS survey, which will be unannounced but complete by April 2013.
For example, the hospital still hasn't found someone to fill the position of a newly-created Chief Patient Rights and Safety Officer (CPRSO), which according to Alvarez & Marsal's CAP analysis would help Parkland "elevate the role of protecting patient rights and safety within the organization."
The CPRSO will head, also newly-created, the department of Patient Rights and Safety, which requires a reorganization of the hospital's Quality department. Laxton says Parkland is actively interviewing recognized leaders for the CPRSO position; however, even job candidates are questioning exactly what they'd be responsible for since it requires gathering so much information that isn't currently shared.
Laxton says the hiring delay is purposeful. "So that we get the role right; we are not alarmed by it."
Other, more serious recommendations that haven't yet been implemented are in the case management area. Parkland hasn't been able to improve the volume of patients discharged before 11 AM, and it has only completed 17% of measures recommended to improve patients' continuum of care beyond the acute setting.
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When Alfred Hitchcock began work on a film adaptation of the French novel, "D'entre les Morts" in the late 1950s, Paramount did not like his selected title: "Vertigo." Studio executives sent the director a list of strongly suggested alternatives that includes a bevy of melodramatic choices:
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Aren't you glad the master of suspense stuck to his gut with "Vertigo"?
The film was recently in the news when star Kim Novak protested the use of Bernard Herrmann's "Vertigo" score for the climax of Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist." She wrote: "I want to report a rape. I feel as if my body -- or, at least my body of work -- has been violated by the movie, 'The Artist.'" Hazanavicius responded gracefully to her lament, praising Herrmann's melancholic score and confirming that his use of the score was homage, not theft.
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Terrible titles. Reminds me of the story about the title for Beetlejuice. Everyone liked it... until it tested and then Warners were suddenly worried. They wanted a name change and Burton suggested... 'Scared sheetless.'
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I have a source table with column name CITY having 100
I want target table with column name start with 'A'
and 'B',remaining columns as reject outputs.
how can achieve this by data stage?please help me?????
Job design will be:
seq --- Tx ---- target.txt
|_____ reject.txt
IN transformer use below constraint for target.txt
Left(city,1)='A' or Left(city,1)='B'
Check the otherwise and send it to reject file.
Job design will be:
seq --- Tx ---- target.txt
IN transformer use below constraint for target.txt
Left(city,1)='A' or Left(city,1)='B'
Job design will be:
seq --- Tx ---- target.txt
IN transformer use below constraint for target.txt
City[1,1] = 'A' or City[1,1] = 'B'
IN transformer use below constraint for reject.txt
Hi friends,Two input files, wants to validate only if the reference data has '0' otherwise no validation should be done..how to do this??
perform lookup operation
Hi Friends,
I have a input data like,
class_id Marks
101 50
101 60
101 40
102 90
102 35
And i want my output data like
class_id Marks Rank
101 50 2
101 60 1
101 40 3
102 90 1
102 35 2
how to do this in datastage?
Sort1-->Declare class_id and Marks as key column and sort
in descding order.
Sort2-->Declare class_id and Marks as key column(Sort Mode
to Dont sort previously sorted for both) and set clustered
key change column to true.
Otuput for Sort 2 will be
class_id Marks Rank
102 90 1
102 35 0
101 60 1
101 50 0
101 40 0
In the Transformer declare stage variable temp and
initialize to o
Derive temp--> If Rnak=1 then Rank else temp+1
Derive output columns as --->
class_id ---> class_id
Marks ----> Marks
Rank----> temp
If you think ur solution is correct just try out with below
input and recheck ur solution..
Src>> Sort1 >> Sort2 >> Transfrmr >> Trgt
Sort1 --> sort with class_id and marks as well.
Sort2 --> declare key as id and select Dont Sort(Previously Sorted) and set create cluster key change column as True.
Transfrmr --> set two stage variables.
StageVar1=If Clusterkeychange=1 then Clusterkeychange else StageVar+1
Create a new row as rank in transfrmr output and map StageVar1 to rank
you are use
transformer if (Marks > 50 or 40 <Marks ) then rank=2 else
if Marks > 60 then rank=1 else rank=4
output should be in three targets
1 3 5
2 4 6
how to do this? can any one help?
Follow this:
Since we have less data to sort and to remove duplicates use
hash partition and unique option at input link.
Thats it.
I wonder why such a goofy question asked by capegemini?
This can be done using change capture stage:
Seq1,Seq2 ----> change capture (here keep Drop Output for
copy : False) ---> Filter ----> seq1,seq2,seq3
from this above output will get
Using change capture stage:
File1(Master),File2----> change capture---> Filter ---->
In Filter,
Change_code=1 then send then to T1-->(Insert records)
Change_code=0 then send then to T2-->(Copy records)
Change_code=2 then send then to T3-->(Delete records)
My input has a unique column-id with the values 10,20,30.....how can i get first record in one o/p file,last record in another o/p file and rest of the records in 3rd o/p file?
As you have a single text file as Source. Use folloowing
approach to get the desired output.
Head1 Target1
Seq. File Copy Tail2 Target2
Head3 Tail Target3
1.> Read your source file using sequential file stage.
2.> Pass the records to copy stage and take 3 output link.
3.> 1 to Head stage head1, 2nd to Head2 and 3rd to Head3.
4.> In the 1st Head Stage Head1, in the properties specify
1, it will pick up the 1st record and make that record to
target 1.
5.> Similarly, to capture last record in target2, in Tail
stage property mention 1. It will take last record and pass
it to target2.
6.> To load rest records 1st using head stage, capture top
records say, if u have 10 records in the source pick top 9
records using head stage then use tail stage followed by
head stage and mention 8, it will pick all records except
1st one. then u can load these to target3.
If u get confused ask me ....
We can do in this way as well:
In the same job,
for Target1,
add Filter condition in the SeqFile as below:
Head -1
for Target2,
add Filter condition in the SeqFile as below:
Tail -1
for Target3,
add Filter condition in the SeqFile as below:
sed '1,$ d'
What is the Difference between Change capture stage and
Difference Stage ? What are its significance individually ?
There is not much difference between cdc stage and difference stage.Both the stage similar.
Difference between cdc stage and difference are following:-
1.In CDC stage,we should have same number of columns and same column name from both the input link.However,In difference stage we can have different number of column and Different column name.
2.The CDC stage takes two input data sets, denoted before and after, and outputs a single data set whose records represent the changes made to the before data set to obtain the after data set.However,Difference stage performs a record-by-record comparison of two input data sets, which are different versions of the same data set designated the before and after data sets. The Difference stage outputs a single data set whose records represent the difference between them.
How can we read latest records in a text file named
file1.txt using seq file stage only?
file1 having 100 records in that 5 record sare latest
records.How can we read that latest records?
Use change Capture stage.
by using seq file how we can?
Question is not clear... Be more specific.
As my asumption, the letest records might be the last 5 records in the Sequential file. If so...
In Sequential File stage,
In Filter option Give the Command "tail -5 File_name".
It will give last 5 records.
Correct me if I wrong ...
Hi guys,
please design a job with derivation(solution).
write exact conditions.
My requirement
Source table
emp_no qualification
1 a
1 c
2 a
3 c
3 b
Target table
emp_no qualification
1 b
2 b
2 c
3 a
Here every employer have three qualifications i.e a,b and c.
what ever source table dont have some qualification, that
will be move to target table.
Like above.
Hope u get the point.
Here as my knowledge
In Tx by using stage varible we can do dis.
Take source as emp_no,qualification 1,b 2,b 2,c 3,a and
reference as date as emp_no,qualification 1,a 1,b 1,c 2,a
2,b 2,c3,a3,c 3,b now take lookup for both
emp_no,qualification columns and reject the date. This Worked.
Since Each Employee should have 3 qualification then Primary
file should be like below because Primary is always Static.
In which terms it should be like this.
Primary file:
And this is our Reference data we have.
Primary,ref-->lookup-->output & Reject.
and match the empno and qua and set lookup failue = reject
at reject file
U will get desired output.
Thats it.
A) Read distinct emp_no we get 1,2,3 add a new column and populate as 1
B) read qualification, we get a,b,c add add a new column and populate as 1
Inner join A and B on new columnâ¦
we get 1-A,1-B,1-C 2-A,2-B,2-C and 3-A,3-B,3-C
Change capture with input file and drop all records with no change.
how does work server jobs?
When we have lots of functionality to implement for lower volume and hardware is less and ease of implementation we can go for Server jobs.
We can improve the performance of server job by enabling inter process row buffering. This helps stages to exchange data as soon as it is available in the link. IPC stage also helps passive stage to read data from another as soon as data is available.
The choice of server or parallel depends upon time to implement, functionality and cost.
Server jobs do not run on multiple node.
server job runs on windows platform usually
server job runs on one node
Server jobs process in sequence one stage after other
Server jobs doesn't support partition parallelism
server jobs the transformer is compiled in Basic language.


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A New Educational Model For Criminality Prevention
AbstractSolon said that, in order to be free, a citizen had to study; education wasthe ground of democracy and in Athens there was no illiterate citizen. The education wasboth of the body as well as of the soul in a natural continuity... Plato was even awarethat in all that there was, there was a core of dissension (entropie) that sooner or laterled to the fall. He tried to set a fortress model that would minimize the effects of this coreof destruction. In the dialogue entitled Republica , he pointed out that it was in thepower of man to minimize the evil and to build a harmonious fortress that would preventthe destruction. The idea of harmony, which is to be found also in music andmathematics, is extended also to the relations between people... Man can complete itselfthrough education and culture. I feel sorry that people do not see these simple things andwe witness a rush of goods and pleasures, a hedonism that has been before. Thecontemporary man does not realize that the Humanity has already gone through suchsituations and is in danger to repeat them, danger that could be avoided throughknowledge and understanding , says today, a few thousand years since the release ofPlato's theory, our compatriot, Univ. Prof. Dr. Nicolae Sacalis-Calata1.
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CROWN POINT | Lake County Councilwoman Christine Cid, D-East Chicago, said Tuesday she won't rescue the county income tax if it's vetoed later this week.
The council passed a 1.5 percent personal income tax on all county residents and out-of-state residents working in Lake by a 4-3 margin Monday afternoon.
It now advances to the Board of Commissioners, which meets 8:30 a.m. Friday. If two of the three commissioners — Gerry Scheub, D-Crown Point, and Mike Repay, D-Hammond — follow through with promises to veto the tax package, it would return as early as Tuesday to the council, where it either dies or finds five council members in support.
Cid, one of three no votes against the income tax, said don't expect her to join any supermajority for the tax.
"It's not good for my constituents. I'm not changing unless they all come to me and tell me they want to pay an additional tax and not get any (property) tax relief," Cid said of the tax. "But, I don't see that happening. I just can't vote for that."
Councilman Eldon Strong, R-Crown Point, said he and Councilman Dan Dernulc, R-Highland, aren't changing their opposition to the income tax, either.
Strong said he hopes killing the income tax will force county officials to call in an outside agency to audit county government to search for significant reductions in a county budget that required a $15 million loan this year alone, just to stay in the black.
Commissioner Mike Repay, D-Hammond, said he is amused by a rumor he would allow the tax to pass by being unavailable for a veto vote. Repay said he is vacationing out of the country next week but will be present for Friday's veto session and plans to vote against the tax.
"I hope we can dispose of the matter without all the theatrics we've had," Repay said.
The council's Monday afternoon income tax meeting drew more than 200 to the Syd Garner Auditorium at the Lake County Government Complex. They cheered or razzed speakers who bashed the proposed tax, police and fire officials as well as elected officials who supported it as necessary to maintain public safety, and others who floated a variety of offbeat solutions to the county's fiscal crisis.
The tax would raise an estimated $90 million that would be earmarked for Lake County property tax reduction. The council members announced Monday state law required them to amend their original plan giving that relief solely to homeowners; property tax relief now would go to all classes of taxpayers, including businesses that don't pay the income tax.
Eric Krieg, a Munster Republican who ran for surveyor last year, said the council's property tax windfall for corporations explains The Times' editorial support of the tax.
Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson spoke in favor of an income tax to replace millions of dollars of property taxes the state's circuit-breaker system has taken from her city that are needed to pave streets and provide other needed services.
Some complained the tax would feed big-city north county political patronage, and one man suggested splitting Lake into two counties. St. John Republican Joe Hero said the county should declare bankruptcy. Karin Mason, of Crown Point, suggested replacing property tax with a sales tax, something the council has no authority to do, said Councilman Jerome Prince, D-Gary.


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