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Fermentation happens when the usual process of respiration through which an organism produces energy is inhibited in some way, changing the chemicals that are produced. Yeast fermentation occurs when there is a lack of oxygen. It produces carbon dioxide and alcohol.
Fungus Used for Fermentation
Fermentation is a process commonly used in food production. It is basically an enzymatically controlled anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound. Yeast and other fungi can be used to ferment food.
Yeast or Saccharomyces is a fungus that is commonly used in fermentation.
Yeast is added to bread to make it rise. Fermentation produces carbon dioxide gas that makes the dough swell. Alcohol is also produced but it evaporates while the bread is baked.
Yeast is used to produce alcohol in wine and beer. Yeast, together with another fungus, Aspergillus oryzae produces alcohol in sake.
Other Fermentation Products
Different fungi can produce different chemicals during fermentation. The dye, carotene, is produced by Rhizopus stolonifer. Penicillin is the fermentation product of Penicillium chrysogenum. Aspergillus niger produces citric acid or vitamin C that is added to soft drinks.
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Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot coming to San Mateo
- K K Aug 1, 2007 11:47 AM
Not sure when, but the only other official location at Union City might know the opening date. As I drove by the other day the signage was already up.
It will be at 215 Ellsworth, across the street from Walgreens.
The Asian Gourmet free circulation July/Aug 07 edition has a huge feature article on the successful chain and a background on the CEO, with over 700 locations worldwide, several in Canada, and now 2 in the Bay Area. Supposedly in China this place outsells Mickey D's and The Colonels Fried goodness.
Looks like the former "Little Sheep" hot pot in Milpitas was a fake/imitation, and they have since changed their name.
According to the article, Little Sheep uses a herbal soup base that consists of dried longan (guei yuen), goji berry, and up to 10 more Chinese herbals for the base flavor.
Looking forward to trying their hand made meatballs, beef slices for hot pot (yes available), Mongolian beef pancake and Mongolian style noodles. This should be interesting also for those who don't like lamb/mutton for its gamey texture, although they say the hot pot herbal broth will help remove that taste.
Just called the Union City location and asked. The San Mateo location will open in late September.
re: Gary Soup
I'm sure the spicy broth would have a medicinal base as well (Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations episode where he goes to Sichuan, the mala hotpot he had was a mix of medicinal herbs with a load of hwajiao/peppercorns). I'm sure the crowds will have gotten bored of Shabuway around the corner by the time this place opens ;-).
re: vliang
Now that you guys jogged have my memory, I do recall the medicinal things visible in the spicy broth. Fortunately, the chilis masked out any medicinal flavors (and everything else0. We alway go for the ying/yang pot in the interest of family harmony (even when we do huo guo at home).
The ones we get in China look pretty much like this picture:
re: Gary Soup
Just had it in Hong Kong. This is a huge addition to Bay Area eating.
re: SarahKC
For sure in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, they source their lambs to somewhere in Mongolia (?) that is supposedly a government preserve (according to the article I read) ie hopefully no pollution of any sort, for the best quality lamb and raising/breeding practices. I'm hoping they use a similar source (or identical) for the Union City and soon to be San Mateo locations.
So who has the downlow on how the fake Little Sheep in Milpitas got busted and changed their name/logo? Or was that discussed already in a thread I missed?
re: K K
In a Kaiser clinic, of all places, I picked up a September issue of Asian Restaurant News, which had been donated for the waiting rooms. The article on Little Sheep's business said that the Little Sheep name was trademarked, but that confusion in its translation had already led to some problems.
The article noted that the Union City shop is called "Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot," and the business cards of its management team, the parent company is called "Inner Mongolian Little Lamb USA Corp." And, on the place set desciption of the restaurant, the company is called "Inner Mongolia Little Sheep Catering Chain Co."
It also said that Little Sheep uses New Zealand lamb in the U.S. because of "import regulations on raw materials," and that the meat from China is not ready yet for import, according to the Union City manager, Daniel Huang.
re: K K
It shouldn't take long to work out the kinks (other than hardware and logistics) since it's such a formulaic approach to a meal. (This is probably why most reports have found Xiao Feiyang's hot pot meals nearly identical and as good at US outlets as in China.)
In any event, the traditional start of hot pot season in China is the first day of winter ("li dong") which falls on November 8 this year, so it will be about 5 days left before I will get the urge :-)
re: ExtraCheese
I went today. I was *shocked* at how modern and trendy the decor was! From a distance, it could be mistaken for some trendy spot in the mission.
The staff and service was great. Water glass was never empty, only needed to make eye contact to get their attention, etc. We got the half/half broth, I'd say that the broth here is better than Sheep King down on 22nd ave in San Mateo. All the ingredients we got for the hotpot were of excellent quality and pretty well prepared.
I didn't get a chance to try any of the non-hotpot items on the menu, but I definitely plan to go back. Although it is a chain, I think it's a great addition to downtown San Mateo.
re: theSauce
I would not be surprised. When we were in China, we swore the building was swaying, but actually, we were so "poisoned" by the MSG in the food that it was affecting our balance. The stores had bags and bags of different brands of MSG next to the huge bags of sicuan pepercorns. If anyone can find out if they were MSG free, we'd love to try it to compare with the soup we had in Chongqing.
re: peppatty
No luck here. MSG scale is way off the chart at Little Sheep-- I was so thirsty and had a big headache afterwards from the MSG.
The prices are also very high compared to other similar places. We spent
about $25 a head and I was still not very full. I like the soup stock at Sheep King on El Camino so much better and Sheep King's portions
are much larger. The pork meat balls at Little Sheep does not
even come close to the homemade meat balls at SheepKing.
I'll not pay a premium for nicer decor and worse food.
re: theSauce
Whether MSG causes or doesn't cause adverse reactions is purely speculative. The discussion of a particular restaurant is not the place to bring a personal crusade.
re: Xiao Yang
There's no personal crusade here. I use MSG sparingly in my own
cooking if I believe that the dish can benefit from it. I'm
simply reviewing my experience at the restaurant.
Poked ourselves inside to take a peek after an overpriced dinner at Sushi Sam's on Friday where the appetizer/cooked food from the Japanese only wall menu shined more than the sushi....
Holy smokes the inside of this place looks soooooooooo high end and fancy. It could have easily passed for a SF haute posh trendy gourmet dining place decor wise. Very impressive and of course the whole restaurant was packed with a lot of adventurous eaters. If you thought Shabuway was fancy, this place is a gazillion times more so.
Took a quick peek at the menu, a ton of variety. Not all you can eat of course, so that's where they make $$$, by charging you for everything other than water and chopsticks/napkins. I noted "dipping sauce" was 50 cents :-/.
One very noticeable thing when you walk past the door, a very pungent odor of potentially the hot pot broths. Pungent not in a bad way but it makes you take note. At least the broths are herbal and supposedly healthy (MSG cough cough cough salt).
Will definitely check this place out sometime.
We ate here Saturday Jan 12, 2008. We arrived at 5:30 p.m. and departed at 7 p.m. The restaurant was virtually empty when we arrived and there were several empty tables when we left (contrary to what we heard about lines being out the door).
We enjoyed our meal here very much. The decor is very pretty and the service was attentive. We ordered the half spicy/half mild broth. The spicy side was not very spicy (not like at Ninji Hot Pot, Newark where our mouths are burning and our eyes are watering the entire time). We got the fatty beef (good), Lamb shoulder (our favorite), udon noodles (excellent), potatoes (ok), bok choy (good once we tore it in bite size pieces before adding to broth), chicken skewers (ok), and some steamed rice on side.
I loved eating the whole garlic cloves in the broth.
We wanted to order the dipping sauces but the waiter would not let us. He said *we don't want anyone to order those sauces for their first time here as we think the broth is enough seasoning - we only have them on the menu for those grumpy customers that INSIST on it*
Well, we really missed having some dipping sauces (cause like I said, the broth was not that spicy). We especially miss the sauce cart at Ninji Hot Pot, in Newark (where we would get up 3-4 times to refill our sauce tray at their cart.
I loved the decor but the food was pretty bland. I must say though, that I felt fantastic the next day. Like it energized me or something. Maybe it was all the garlic. Anyway, I would love to go back but everyone in my party wants to go back to Ninji Hot Pot, in Newark
re: BarbaraBell
When I went here, it was not crowded at all around 6:30. But it got really busy when I left at 8pm. I guess people like eating hot pot later in the evening.
After having eaten here twice for dinner (San Mateo location) here are some observations:
- the third broth, other than spicy and regular, is mushroom and does not contain any herbal stuff.
- The broth is a lot tastier after you cook all those other dishes you cook in the broth.
- Certain items are standouts, others are major yawners. Lamb is a must. Beef is a bit meh for me. Tong Ho is a great veg to go with the hot pot, but then that's pure opinion, plus the fact that my tastebuds for hot pot are a bit more Taiwanese inclined these days.
- The beef pancake....super good and toasty, eat while it is hot. The sweet potato cake is nice too.
- Forgettable: beef tendon meatball (arguably not hand made in house vs the other ones like regular meatball and lamb meatball) and the $10.95+ mixed mushroom platter, does little to enhance the broth.
-Great are frozen tofu (compacted from temperature, and absorbs more broth, be careful when consuming), the bamboo "pith" or ju seng (ditto on broth absorption), bow tie "konbu" seaweed which tastes better cooked in the broth.
This is defnitely a different experience than Taiwanese hot pot at Ninji in Newark.
For hardcore Chinese hotpot fans, I read that Spicy Town in the East Bay/Fremont area has a specialized mala spicy hotpot style from "Chung Hsing"/Chung Hing (w/o looking it up, it seems to suggest a part of Sichuan, of which the more famous city is Chengdu). Chung Hsing might be more known character wise as Chung King, as in Wong Kar Wei's movie Chungking Express (which has nothing to do with Sichuan but a slum ghetto building in Hong Kong called Chunking Mansions).
But I'd have to say there is definite MSG in Little Sheep's broth. It's unfortunately inevitable. The 2nd dinner here the sodium levels seemed to have shot way up, so yes there's inconsistency too.
I'd say your mileage may vary here, but it's still a very warm welcome specialized kind of Chinese cuisine, great during cold nights like these of late, and definitely a better experience if you have more people in your party. Just don't do any double dipping ;-).
re: K K
Chongqing used to be part of Sichuan Province (and more famous than Chengdu, in my knowledge) and was the capital of free China during the Japanese occupation. It is now an autonomous municipality (like Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin) It's long been synonomous with very spicy hot pot.
re: Xiao Yang
Thanks for the rundown and for the proper pingyin spelling of Chongqing.
The latest issue of the bimonthly East West Chinese (local) gourmet mag has a cover story of Spicy Town's hotpot and also an article on the 9 important things you must know about Chongqing style hot pot. A great read but the main articles are in Chinese only (even it's a bit too hardcore for me to properly translate).
re: SoupNoodles
SoupNoodles: I was just looking at their menu and found this:
Are these the "chewy lamb ribs" you're talking about??? This sounds like a place I have to try and it's closer than Zone 88!
OMG. Fantastic experience at Little Fat Sheep today. Can anyone tell me about the fantastically crazy little items(medicinal?), that make your tounge feel like its on PCP, in a good way? I identified the goji, longan, chopped chili, jujube & black peppercorns.
I am especially interested in the 2" long stick/twig thing with dark bark, the nutty looking little menthol fiber ball shaped like a cardamom seed but not green, and last, but most insane LSD ride, the beige, approx 1/8", looks a lot like the pepper corn. Sometimes it was in twos on a wee stem. That thing is like a rollercoaster for your mouth-wheeeeeeeee!
re: mmerino
Anyone know if we need reservations for a Saturday dinner? I called but no one picked up there.
re: mmerino
The tongue numbing is from the sichuan peppercorn.
re: mmerino
I am not sure what the items are in the broth. I was hoping someone would respond to you. I felt like I was walking on air thru the next day after eating here. I want to go back but I don't think they have Hot Pot for one?
Anyone tried the 9.95 "mini hot pot" lunch special? Heckuva deal choice of meat and a mini sampler platter or other sides including tofu, fish ball, veg and beautifully fresh enoki and shitake mushrooms. I really like this place - the broth (in addition to being delicious) seems to be the elixir of life. Decor and service are way above the norm for the location.


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"For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports."
– Sandra Postel, National Geographic Society and Global Water Policy Project
Every May on the heels of Earth Day, we celebrate wetlands and their enormous value in protecting our health, quality of life and property. This is the first in a series of blogs that will explore the importance of wetlands and what the Patrick Administration is doing on many fronts to study, understand and protect them.
Massachusetts is blessed with a diversity of wetland resources from our inland red maple and cedar swamps, our rivers, creeks, lakes and ponds, to our coastal salt marshes, dunes and beaches. Wetlands filter and cleanse pollutants to protect our drinking water, absorb flood waters and buffer the effects of coastal storms to protect our homes and properties from increasingly frequent and intense storms. In addition to these benefits, wetlands provide critical nurseries and habitat for wildlife, fish and shellfish that are essential to a healthy and vibrant economy. They are also unique places for us to explore and enjoy the wonders of the natural world.
The most recent and compelling research in wetland science reveals the extraordinary role wetlands play in mitigating climate change. Increasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide gas is the major cause of global warming – the engine of climate change. Wetland plants, and in particular their soils, function as "carbon sinks" that bind, store and lock up carbon, inhibiting its chemical conversion to carbon dioxide gas. Wetlands occupy 3-7 percent of the global land surface yet store 30 percent of the world's carbon, and are responsible for 25 percent of the methane emissions each year. Wetlands store an estimated 300 to 700 billion tons of carbon.
Methane gas emissions, another contributor to global warming, are minimized by temperate zone wetlands such as those in Massachusetts. In addition, a recent study from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) determined that salamanders (including those that breed in wetland vernal pools), serve as nature's climate protecting "vacuum cleaners." That is because leaf litter from deciduous trees contains an average of 47.5 percent carbon. This carbon, along with methane, tends to be released into the atmosphere, when shredding invertebrates eat them. Salamanders do us a big favor by eating those invertebrates, thereby keeping the carbon in the leaf litter. USFS estimated that the woodland salamanders in their study could store an estimated 179 pounds of carbon per acre of forest litter in the soil, rather than releasing this carbon into the atmosphere. Without wetlands, many salamanders could not provide this unique contribution to slowing global climate change.
Similarly, the urgency of protecting coastal wetlands was emphasized in a 2011 World Bank report that found the drainage and degradation of coastal wetlands released centuries of accumulated carbon, which you can read more about at https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/edocs/2011-009.pdf.
Protection and preservation of coastal wetlands, such as tidal marshes, sea-grass, wet meadows and mangrove swamps help to hold and maintain carbon in these coastal plants and soils. Of the 15 coastal deltas studied in this report, seven were found to have released more than 500 million tons of carbon dioxide each since the wetlands were drained and destroyed. Coastal wetlands destruction also compromises these wetlands' ability to protect against storm surges, rising sea levels and other extreme weather events. With our better understanding of why wetlands are so important – my next blog will focus more specifically on recent field research and wetland assessments being undertaken by MassDEP in collaboration with other organizations that will inform our future policy and regulations. Stay tuned.
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Who Else Wants the Heftiest, Manliest Coffee Mug Ever Made? (+Giveaway)
Posted By Brett & Kate McKay On June 6, 2014 @ 4:10 pm In Blog,Giveaway | Comments Disabled
Theodore Roosevelt's son said that his father's favorite coffee mug was "more in the nature of a bathtub."
Well, the new Art of Manliness Coffee Mug [1] would certainly get TR's grinning approval.
Since we started the AoM Shop [2], the most requested item that we add to the line-up was a coffee mug. So I started my search for just the right vessel to bear the AoM name. I didn't want it to be some boring, generic white mug with our logo slapped on there. I wanted something with rugged heft that held man-sized amounts of coffee [3] (or virile quantities of hot cocoa [4]). We searched far and wide (for nearly a year!) for a coffee mug that fit the bill. I think we reached our goal with this mug. Many of you have told us that you enjoy the latest Art of Manliness article while drinking your coffee in the morning. Now you've got the perfect accompaniment for reading your daily dose of manly wisdom and know-how. And the guys at the office will have no doubt that you mean business when you show up with the AoM Mug in tow.
The AoM Coffee Mug is made of ceramic and is thick-walled to keep your soups, stews, and beverages hotter, longer. This bad boy weighs in at a hefty 1.3lbs and holds a healthy 15oz. Its vintage-shape and speckled finish is reminiscent of old camping mugs that grizzled cowboys would use on the trail. And the large, three-finger handle makes for comfortable holding even for hands so big and meaty that one alone could span a large cast iron skillet.
Emblazoned on the outside is 19th century bare-knuckled pugilist John L. Sullivan with the phrase "Semper Virilis" — Always Manly — above his head. And unlike most branded coffee mugs with a chintzy printed-on design, we've deep-etched our artwork right into the ceramic, giving it a unique look that will never fade with use or wash off over time. It's destined to become a vessel of manliness that will be passed down to your posterity for generations.
You can get your Art of Manliness Coffee Mug [1] in the AoM Shop for $19 + shipping. It even comes packaged and ready to gift. Get 'em while they last. They're selling fast.
Speaking of gifts, Father's Day is just around the corner. While coffee mugs have certainly become the cliche Father's Day gift, the Art of Manliness Coffee Mug breathes new life into this timeworn gifting tradition. Make sure your dad is drinking from a coffee mug as manly as he is. If you'd like to get the mug in time for Father's Day the safest bet would be to order by June 10 and ship USPS Priority. (Keep in mind USPS doesn't guarantee on-time delivery.)
Update: Wow! We sold out of our first batch of 350 mugs in just a day. We'll have a new batch in the store in two weeks. We'll be sure to double the order this time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We've also recently worked with our shipping and fulfillment partner, ROBYN, to lower shipping costs by switching from UPS to USPS.
While you're in the store getting your Art of Manliness Coffee Mug, make sure to check out our other new AoM products. We've got a new line of tees from the folks at TankFarm [5] as well as new Know Your Lifts Posters [6] and even a vintage-inspired baseball cap from Ebbets Field Flannels [7]. Stay tuned throughout the year, as we have several more unique and manly products coming out soon.
To celebrate the release of the Art of Manliness Mug, we're giving away one item from the AoM Shop [2] to some lucky Art of Manliness reader. You don't have to choose the mug (though it will take some mighty manly willpower to resist) — choose anything you'd like.
To enter, just leave a comment below telling us what AoM curio [2] you'd like to take home should your name be drawn as the winner.
One entry per person.
Deadline to enter is Friday, June 13, 2014 at 5PM CT.
PS – What are you waiting for?! Get your mug already! If you win the giveaway, you can double-fist coffee in the morning.
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[3] man-sized amounts of coffee: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/08/03/brewing-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee/
[4] virile quantities of hot cocoa: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/12/17/the-surprisingly-manly-history-of-hot-cocoa/
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NORTH PORT, Fla. - WINK News is learning an incident over the weekend has prompted an internal investigation at the North Port Police Department.
The Police Chief tells WINK News two of his officers are on paid administrative leave until investigators get answers.
Two officers here are at the center of an internal affairs investigation launched by Chief Kevin Vespia.
"I understand the rumors and the speculation but right now it's all speculation until we get the facts of the case," says Chief Kevin Vespia.
Chief Vespia could not go into detail but says he received information that those officers might have committed misconduct over the weekend. He says there may be criminal implications.
"I asked for the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office to assist us with the criminal investigation. Reason for that is our policy dictates that and also it kind of replaces any concern about any bias or perception of bias," he adds.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office would not comment on the case. But Chief Vespia says both agencies are working hard to get answers and take whatever action is necessary.
"We follow a set of core values that we believe in. Unfortunately, sometimes there's allegations made that contradict those core values and this is the result... just like the public wants to know we would like to know also what happened," he says.
Less than two years ago, another North Port Police Officer was the subject of a criminal investigation. He was terminated after his arrest for a domestic violence incident.


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7 of 8 Ivy League Schools Report Lower Acceptance Rates
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Penn Acquires the Archives of the Vermont Marble Company
The archives of the marble company that provided material for the Lincoln Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, the United Nations and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has been acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
University Gets $10M for Global Hub
A gift from trustee Richard Perry and wife Lisa will establish the Perry World House and the Richard Perry Endowed Professorship.
Penn Announces 2013-14 Financial-aid Budget, Tuition
The University of Pennsylvania today reaffirmed its commitment to an all-grant, no-loan financial-aid program as its Board of Trustees authorized a $188 million financial-aid budget for 2013-14 while increasing total undergraduate charges by 3.9 percent.
Penn to Create Perry World House to Enhance Global Initiatives
The University of Pennsylvania will establish a central home on campus for global activities and initiatives to be known as the Perry World House, President Amy Gutmann announced today.
Top Law Schools Boost Scholarships and Loan Repayment Assistance
Dean Michael Fitts and Tory Messina of the Law School are quoted about the school's loan-repayment-assistance program.
Vice President Biden to Speak at Penn Commencement
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University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and other experts will explore online learning and what it may have in store for higher education at the Silfen University Forum at Penn on April 5.
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Vice President Biden will deliver this year's Commencement address.
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- Security camera footage has been released of former WWE Superstar Daivari taking down an unruly passenger on a Minneapolis, Minnesota train last month. Below is local news video on the incident: Minneapolis News and Weather KMSP FOX 9 - ECW Original Jerry Lynn has said he's retiring at the end of this year and had what was billed as his UK retirement match on October 14th in Sittingbourne, England for the Revolution Pro Wrestling Uprising promotion. Lynn received a standing ovation from the fans and all of the wrestlers came out to congratulate him. - As noted before, WWE camera crews recently visited the home of Shawn Michaels to film him for Mick Foley's 2013 DVD. We now know that the reason Vader was at WWE headquarters last week was to film for the Foley DVD. WWE crews also visited the home of Shane Douglas to interview him for the DVD last week. Other names expected to be interviewed for Foley's DVD are Triple H, Randy Orton, CM Punk and Jim Ross. Partial source: PWInsider
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Hadapt is moving forward
I've talked with my clients at Hadapt a couple of times recently. News highlights include:
- The Hadapt 1.0 product is going "Early Access" today.
- General availability of Hadapt 1.0 is targeted for an officially unspecified time frame, but it's soon.
- Hadapt raised a nice round of venture capital.
- Hadapt added Sharmila Mulligan to the board.
- Dave Kellogg is in the picture too, albeit not as involved as Sharmila.
- Hadapt has moved the company to Cambridge, which is preferable to Yale environs for obvious reasons. (First location = space they're borrowing from their investors at Bessemer.)
- Headcount is in the low teens, with a target of doubling fast.
The Hadapt product story hasn't changed significantly from what it was before. Specific points I can add include: Read more
|Categories: Hadapt, Hadoop, MapReduce, PostgreSQL, SQL/Hadoop integration, Theory and architecture, Workload management
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Hadapt update
I met with the Hadapt guys today. I think I can be a bit crisper than before in positioning Hadapt and its use cases, namely:
- Hadapt is additional software on a cluster that also runs fully functional Hadoop/HDFS. (Cloudera Hadoop more than straight-from-Apache Hadoop to date, but that's not a requirement.)
- The cluster also runs a DBMS on every node, such as PostgreSQL or one of Infobright/Vectorwise.
- Hadapt's software manages parallel SQL queries by distributing them to the DBMS living on each node. Hadapt says that the resulting query performance far outshines Hive's.
- Hadapt further says that, by exploiting the partner DBMS, its SQL functionality outpaces Hive's as well.
- Target Hadapt use cases are centered around keeping machine-generated or other poly-structured data in Hadoop, and extracting, enhancing, or otherwise deriving some of it to live in the relational store.
- In particular, Hadapt seems like an interesting choice when you want to use that relational data as you work on other data that's still in HDFS, or if you want to keep using the relational data in other kinds of MapReduce jobs.
- That all fits well with my thoughts about the importance of derived data.
Other evolution from what I wrote about Hadapt a few months ago includes:
- Hadapt is in beta now.
- Hadapt has added adult supervision in the form of Philip Wickline, late of Endeca.
In other news, Hadapt is our newest client.
|Categories: Analytic technologies, Cloudera, Data models and architecture, Data warehousing, Hadapt, Hadoop, Infobright, MapReduce, Open source, PostgreSQL, SQL/Hadoop integration, VectorWise
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Hadapt (commercialized HadoopDB)
The HadoopDB company Hadapt is finally launching, based on the HadoopDB project, albeit with code rewritten from scratch. As you may recall, the core idea of HadoopDB is to put a DBMS on every node, and use MapReduce to talk to the whole database. The idea is to get the same SQL/MapReduce integration as you get if you use Hive, but with much better performance* and perhaps somewhat better SQL functionality.** Advantages vs. a DBMS-based analytic platform that includes MapReduce — e.g. Aster Data — are less clear. Read more
|Categories: Analytic technologies, Data warehousing, Hadapt, Hadoop, MapReduce, MySQL, Open source, Parallelization, PostgreSQL, SQL/Hadoop integration, Theory and architecture, VectorWise
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Notes, links, and comments January 20, 2011
I haven't done a pure notes/links/comments post for a while. Let's fix that now. (A bunch of saved-up links, however, did find their way into my recent privacy threats overview.)
First and foremost, the fourth annual New England Database Summit (nee "Day") is next week, specifically Friday, January 28. As per my posts in previous years, I think well of the event, which has a friendly, gathering-of-the-clan flavor. Registration is free, but the organizers would prefer that you register online by the end of this week, if you would be so kind.
The two things potentially wrong with the New England Database Summit are parking and the rush hour drive home afterwards. I would listen with interest to any suggestions about dinner plans.
One thing I hope to figure out at the Summit or before is what the hell is going on on Vertica's blog or, for that matter, at Vertica. The recent Mike Stonebraker post that spawned a lot of discussion and commentary has disappeared. Meanwhile, Vertica has had three consecutive heads of marketing leave the company since June, and I don't know who to talk to there any more. Read more
|Categories: About this blog, Analytic technologies, Data warehousing, GIS and geospatial, Investment research and trading, MongoDB and 10gen, OLTP, Open source, PostgreSQL, Vertica Systems
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dbShards — a lot like an MPP OLTP DBMS based on MySQL or PostgreSQL
I talked yesterday w/ Cory Isaacson, who runs CodeFutures, makers of dbShards. dbShards is a software layer that turns an ordinary DBMS (currently MySQL or PostgreSQL) into an MPP shared-nothing ACID-compliant OLTP DBMS. Technical highlights included: Read more
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Stakeholder-facing analytics
There's a point I keep making in speeches, and used to keep making in white papers, yet have almost never spelled out in this blog. Let me now (somewhat) correct the oversight.
Analytic technology isn't only for you. It's also for your customers, citizens, and other stakeholders.
I am not referring here to what is well understood to be an important, fast-growing activity — providing data and its analysis to customers as your primary or only business — nor to the related business of taking people's data, crunching it for them, and giving them results. That combined sector — which I am pretty alone in aggregating into one and calling data mart outsourcing — is one of the top several vertical markets for a lot of the analytic DBMS vendors I write about. Rather, I'm talking about enterprises that gather data for some primary purpose, and have discovered that a good secondary use of the data is to reflect it back to stakeholders, often the same ones who provided or created it in the first place.
For now I'll call this category stakeholder-facing analytics, as the shorter phrase "stakeholder analytics" would be ambiguous.* I first picked up the idea early this decade from Information Builders, for whom it had become something of a specialty. I've been asking analytics vendors for examples of stakeholder-facing analytics ever since, and a number have been able to comply. But the whole thing is in its early days even so; almost any sufficiently large enterprise should be more active in stakeholder-facing analytics than it currently is.
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Notes on the evolution of OLTP database management systems
The past few years have seen a spate of startups in the analytic DBMS business. Netezza, Vertica, Greenplum, Aster Data and others are all reasonably prosperous, alongside older specialty product vendors Teradata and Sybase (the Sybase IQ part). OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) and general purpose DBMS startups, however, have not yet done as well, with such success as there has been (MySQL, Intersystems Cache', solidDB's exit, etc.) generally accruing to products that originated in the 20th Century.
Nonetheless, OLTP/general-purpose data management startup activity has recently picked up, targeting what I see as some very real opportunities and needs. So as a jumping-off point for further writing, I thought it might be interesting to collect a few observations about the market in one place. These include:
- Big-brand OLTP/general-purpose DBMS have more "stickiness" than analytic DBMS.
- By number, most of an enterprise's OLTP/general-purpose databases are low-volume and low-value.
- Most interesting new OLTP/general-purpose data management products are either MySQL-based or NoSQL.
- It's not yet clear whether MySQL will prevail over MySQL forks, or vice-versa, or whether they will co-exist.
- The era of silicon-centric relational DBMS is coming.
- The emphasis on scale-out and reducing the cost of joins spans the NoSQL and SQL-based worlds.
- Users' instance on "free" could be a major problem for OLTP DBMS innovation.
I shall explain. Read more
Greenplum Single-Node Edition — sometimes free is a real cool price
Greenplum is announcing today that you can run Greenplum software on a single 8-core commodity server, free. First and foremost, that's a strong statement that Greenplum wants enterprises to pay it for Greenplum's parallelization/"private cloud" capabilities. Second, it may be an attractive gift to a variety of folks who want to extract insight from terabyte-scale databases of various kinds.
Greenplum Single-Node Edition:
- Is free of charge, although you can buy support.
- Has no restrictions on use, production or otherwise.
- Has no restrictions on database size.
- Is closed-source.
For those who want free, terabyte-scale data warehousing software, Greenplum Single-Node Edition may be quite appealing, considering that the main available alternatives are:
- General-purpose open-source DBMS, such as PostgreSQL and MySQL (lacking analytic DBMS performance and features)
- Infobright Community Edition (the other best choice – Infobright's commercial sales success indicates the solidity of Infobright's technology)
- Rough research-project code and other other questionable open source offerings
- Crippleware from other commercial analytic DBMS vendors (e.g., Teradata)
For example, comparing PostgreSQL-based Greenplum with PostgreSQL itself, Greenplum offers:
- The ability to scale out queries across all cores in your box (and no, pgpool is not a serious alternative)
- Storage alternatives such as columnar (I am told that EnterpriseDB recently stopped funding a project for a PostgreSQL columnar option)
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Despite a thoughtful heads-up from Daniel Abadi at the time of his original posting about HadoopDB, I'm just getting around to writing about it now. HadoopDB is a research project carried out by a couple of Abadi's students. Further research is definitely planned. But it seems too early to say that HadoopDB will ever get past the "research and oh by the way the code is open sourced" stage and become a real code line — whether commercialized, open source, or both.
The basic idea of HadoopDB is to put copies of a DBMS at different nodes of a grid, and use Hadoop to parcel work among them. Major benefits when compared with massively parallel DBMS are said to be:
- Open/cheap/free
- Query fault-tolerance
- The related concept of tolerating node degradation that isn't an outright node failure.
HadoopDB has actually been built with PostgreSQL. That version achieved performance well below that of a commercial DBMS "DBX", where X=2. Column-store guru Abadi has repeatedly signaled his intention to try out HadoopDB with VectorWise at the nodes instead. (Recall that VectorWise is shared-everything.) It will be interesting to see how that configuration performs.
The real opportunity for HadoopDB, however, in my opinion may lie elsewhere. Read more
What could or should make Oracle/MySQL antitrust concerns go away?
When the Oracle/MySQL deal was first announced, I wrote:
I can probably come up with business practices that could make things very hard on Oracle/MySQL competitors … but I haven't found a compelling antitrust trigger on my first pass over the subject.
Subsequently, there's been a lot of discussion about whether or not Oracle can use control of MySQL to make life difficult for third-party MySQL storage engine vendors.
Now that the European Commission is delaying the Oracle/Sun deal, explicitly because of Oracle/MySQL antitrust fears. That is, the European Commission wants to be reassured that an Oracle takeover of MySQL won't unduly impinge upon the future availability of open source/low cost DBMS alternatives. This raises that natural question:
What could Oracle do to assure concerned parties that its ownership of MySQL won't unduly hamper open-source-based DBMS competition?
I think that's indeed the crucial question. The Oracle/Sun deal has enough momentum at this point that it both should and will be allowed to happen — perhaps with safeguards — rather than banned outright. If you have concerns about Oracle's pending acquisition of MySQL, you should speak up and outline what kinds of regulatory safeguards would alleviate the problems you foresee.
More or less obvious possibilities include:
- Divest MySQL. This is obviously an extreme measure, but it surely would work.
- Provide some money and trademark rights to MySQL forkers. If MariaDB and Drizzle were put into strong competitive positions with MySQL today, it's hard to argue how regulators could object to any future Oracle maneuverings Oracle might envision with the GPLed side of MySQL.
- Offer a standard, attractive, long-term deal to MySQL bundlers. The commercial/non-GPL version of MySQL is a requirement for appliance vendors (surely), OEM vendors (probably), and storage engine vendors (maybe — I disagree, but I'm evidently in the minority).
- Strengthen PostgreSQL. Realistically, that's not going to be part of any Oracle/MySQL resolution, so I'll leave it as a subject for another time.
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Vikings speedy WR Bernard Berrian didn't play against the Chiefs last Friday night because of a leg injury he suffered in the team's 1st preseason game on August 14 at Indianapolis. But the 6-year pro has been back out on the practice field lately participating in portions of practice.
Head coach Brad Childress, like the rest of the NFL's head coaches, prefers not to address injuries in the preseason but when asked specifically about his star WR after practice on Friday he did say that Berrian has "a chance" to play on Monday night in Houston.
"He's progressing," Childress said. "To put a percentage on where he's at…you always have to be careful. Guys will tell you when they're ready to go back; them and the medical staff. He's pushing through."
With Brett Favre slated to play the 1st half on Monday, it would be beneficial for Berrian to be on the field for at least a portion of the first 2 quarters. The QB and WR haven't played in a game together since Favre's arrival a little more than a week ago, but the 2 have worked on the side before and after practice to begin developing a rapport.
However beneficial it might be for Berrian to get some reps with Favre during the preseason, it's clearly more of a priority to ensure Berrian is back to full strength once the regular season commences on September 13. Berrian was a vital piece in the Vikings passing attack in 2008, leading the team in receiving yards, hauling in 4 of the team's 5 longest TD passes and leading the league in yards per catch (20.1) among WRs with 40 or more grabs.
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By michael on Aug 29, 2009 | Reply
i think we bring wr brandon marshall to minnesota for bobby wade and sydney rice that will give us more of a sure thing every game,along with harvin,johnson and reynard.that gives our team more speed.bernard and marshall on each side and harvin in the slot sometime or wherever.now thats scary.champs…….!
By PurplePeopleEater on Aug 29, 2009 | Reply
Sounds like that isn't high enough of an offer for the Broncos to consider. They are looking for a 1st and 4th round pick for Marshall, and I don't know that they will see Rice and Wade adding up to that value.
By Brownicus on Aug 30, 2009 | Reply
At least a 1st and likely Rice, but if they were to make a trade they would have done it by now.
By joey on Aug 31, 2009 | Reply
We don't need a player like brandon marshall on our football team. He has big attitude problems and he wouldn't fit well with childress. Also I don't think I would just give up on Rice. If he can stay healthy I think he will be productive, especially now that he has a QB that can consistantely get him the football.
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Daily Schedule:
- Early in the morning after waking up, resolute for the way you want to pray for nine days.
- After bathing, daily worshiping must finish first.
Kalash Stahapana:
According to your family's custom, if you are doing Kalash Sthapana on the first day of the Navratri, then it would be done in the ABHIJINH MUHURAT. For different places Abhijinh Muhurat's time would be different, so you should do your Kalash Sthapana according to your nearest place's Abhijinh Muhurat.
- At the time of Kalash Sthapan you should reap the barley as per your family custom.
Worshiping Maa Durga
- Maa Durga should be worshiped with PANCHOPCHAR (Fragrances, Flowers, Inceses, Diayas and Rice) or Shodoshopchar.
Worshiping Maa Durga's incarnation as Shailputri
On the first day of Navratri Maa Durga's form of Shilputri is being worshiped. Maa Shilputri's meditation and Mantra's incantation is as follows:
Vande Vanchitlabhaya Chndrardhkritshekhram.
Vrisharoodhaam Shooldharaam Shailputreem Yashasvineem..
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Mantra: Om Shailputraye Namah
Kumari Pooja:
Kumari Pooja should be done on daily basis as per system. However, in this matter Family's custom is more important. The days are fixed for Kumari Poojan and it depends upon the custom of family or clan, it can be done from sixth day till ninth day of Navratri.
Saptshati Recitation:
In Maa Durga's worshiping recitation of Durga Shaptshati is very popular, it is done in Navratri.
It is having 13 chapters. By reciting the Durga Saptashati, deep wishes can be fulfilled. Here?s how you can do it:
1. All three Charitras should recite of Durga Shaptshati.
2. In a condition of inability, read first till middle Charitra.
3. In case of inability, you can only recite the following Mantra:
Namo Devyay Mahadevyay Shivaya Santatam Namah.
Namah Prkratyay Bhadraye Niyatayah Pranatah Smataam..
4. Read the Mantras by keeping the Shaptashati on a wooden stool, after putting the new cloth on it.
5. Reading should not be done silently and in hurry.
6. Read its third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh and twelfth chapters in sequence for peace, sickness of family member, nasty violence or epidemic and for the devastation of the enemy.
7. Read it for 100 times in case of distress, physical problem, ineffectiveness of medicine, distraction of age and clan, enhancement of illness, loss of property and to expand empire.
8. Those who reads Shaptshati on Sunday, get nine times benefit, on Monday get Thousand times benefit, on Tuesday get hundred times benefit, on Wednesday get one Lakh times benefit, on Thursday and Friday get two Lacs times benefit and on Saturday get one Cr times benefit by its reading.
9. The devotee who starts reading from sixth day till fourteenth day of Shukl Paksha, they get benefit in all areas of life.
10. By disciplined recitation of Durga Shaptshati, all wishes can be fulfilled.
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Following are some important Mantras from Durga Shaptashati:
1. For relief from grief and poverty
Durge Smrata Harsi Bhitimsheshjantoh
Swasthayeha Smrata Matimteev Shubhaam Dadasi.
Daaridraya-Dukh-bhayaharini ka tvadanya,
sarvopkar-karnaay sadadrachitta..
2. For peace from various violences
Rakshansi yattrogravishashach naga, yatrarayo dastu balani yatra
Davanalo yatra tathabdhimadhye, tatra sthita tvam paripasi vishvam
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Karotu sanh shubhetureeshvari ,shubhani bhadranyabhihantu chaapadah
4. For destroying worldwide disasters.
Devi: prapanartihare praseed,praseed matrjagtokhilasya.
Praseed visheshvari pahi vishvam,tvameeshvaree
5. For objection savior
Sarvasyartihare devi, narayani,namostute
Recitation of Shri Ramcharitmanas
Devotees of lord Ram are reciting Ramayana in Navaratri. For this Tulsidas, Valmiki, lord Shiva and Hanuman should be worshiped on the first day. Thereafter, Shri Ram-Seeta and their brothers (Bharat, Laxman and Shatrughna) should also be worshiped. Afterwards, NAVANHPARAYANA should be recited, which is in Balkand as follows:
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Hiyam Harshe Kaamari Tab Sakar Sahaj Sujaan.
Bahu Bidhi Umahi Prsansi Puni Bole Kripanidhan..
At the end, do the Aarti of Shri Ram and Seeta ji.
Worship of Shree Hanuman:
Devotees of Hanuman are worshipping Shri Hanuman in Navratri. There are two ways of worship:
1. Sundarkand:
Devotion of Shri Hanuman?s is done by Sundarkand from Ramcharitmanas. There are two ways in prevalent. Reading one chapter of Sundarkand daily and increasing one chapter daily of Sundarkand in all nine days one by one. In second way, you recite one chapter of Sundarkand. Recitation of Sundarkand should start after 29th couplet of ARANYAKAND till 60th couplet.
2. Hanuman Chalisa:
Hanuman Chalisa is most popular way of worshiping Hanuman. It is being recited 108 times daily; in that way Hanuman Chalisa is being recited 1008 times in Navaratri. For this, it should be recited 111 times daily instead 108 times and 120 recitations on the last day of Navratri.
At the end Bajrang Baan, Sankatmochan Hanumanashtak and Aarti should be done.
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Boynton Beach Art Walk Is Back On
By Alex Rendon
Photos: RedEYE Reboot at ArtServe
By Monica McGivern
Photos: Caturday Masquerade Ball at Stache
By Michele Eve Sandberg
Boynton Beach Shuts Down Art Walk
By Alex Rendon
By Monica McGivern
The People of Florida Supercon 2014
By Ian Witlen
JAPAN: Kingdom of Characters at Young At Art Museum
By Christina Mendenhall
Thought Coalition at TATE'S Comics
By Michele Eve Sandberg
Library patrons have a sculptural surprise awaiting them in the lobby of the Broward County Library: the colorful, mixed-media animals and figures of Felix D. Gonzalez. Past the gift shop sits the Angler Fish, Gonzalez's most abstracted and unusual piece, comprised of found objects ranging from jagged pieces of metal, bicycle lights and pedals, spark plugs, cables, wires, and, as the lure on top of its head, a satellite dish. Bike tires make up the grotesque crescent-shaped mouth complete with voracious underbite. The piece captures the essence and ugliness of the anglerfish in a very attractive way. A more naturalistic, whimsical Giraffe, made of wood, steel, copper, and brass, stands near the shallow indoor pool. A few steps over is a cluster of sculptures, two of which have wooden posts for bases, with branches gently carved into the knobs of a coat rack. A parrot perches on one and a cutesy owl wearing a bow tie on the other. One piece of wood flows into an elegantly carved fish with brightly colored fins and gold detail. The works are kitschy, but at least two out of three are functional; any Florida resident will recognize and possibly resent how overdone the fish, dolphins, and parrots are. Gonzalez's naturalistic and figurative piece titled Tsunami is interesting in approach, with blades of grass and flowers carved from mahogany, climbing from the ground into a torso with plexiglass wings and a quizzical face. The name, however, changes the perception of it from what seems to be a gentle force of nature to the devastating destruction of it. (Through April 30, at Broward County Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave. Call 954-357-7444)
Now on Display
The dark, tattoo- and graffiti-influenced work of art student Patrick Maxcy covers a wall of the hallway leading to Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt Gallery, now presenting Picturing Florida. It's an interestingly intimate segue from the expansive surrounding campus to the almost bare gallery. Maxcy's approach differs from the usual paintings hanging on white walls, as he uses all of the space offered to him by applying complementary, mixed-media images directly to the typically blank space beneath his mounted works. At the end of the hallway is the gallery itself, where artists in residence Ellen Harvey and Marc Dean Veca have created their individual but associated wall pieces comprising Picturing Florida.Veca painted a colorful, large scale surfboard-shaped piece in a very Dr. Seuss-like style, spanning two adjoining walls and adding considerable dimension to the gallery. His digitally designed painting, Strangler, references Florida with not only its shape, but through mossy green twisted vines that allude to the native strangler fig, with several not so subtle Disney logos and a background of puffy pink clouds and blue skies added to the mix. Harvey's wall installation takes a corner of the gallery, but on a much smaller scale. She alternates 80 small paintings of photos submitted by local senior citizens with mirrors to create a checkerboard effect. (Through April 18. Visit 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Call (561-297-2966)