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T. Scott Plutchak, director of the Lister Hill Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been an important part of this developing story. We worked closely together on the Roundtable and shared the sentiment that the open access debate had been dominated by polarized and vocal segments of both the library and publishing communities. The worsening of this relationship had affected the ability of both parties to identify and build support for anything resembling a consensus solution. Plutchak played a crucial role, helping this multi-stakeholder group to find common ground and to compromise. He continues to help push the Roundtable recommendations toward practical policies that funding agencies could implement . . . with support from partnerships founded on strong publisher—librarian relationships.
Since the Roundtable, Scott and I have both been on the circuit in each other's camps to help publishers and librarians understand each other's viewpoints on the overlapping issues of public access to publicly funded research, open research, and open access business models for publications. We noticed that for routine business transactions, such as negotiating subscription and licensing arrangements or joint participation in publication standards meetings, both groups tend to interact reasonably to the benefit of both parties. But two-sided discussions on "open issues" at conferences tended to be weighted to the side that convened the meeting. Scott and I have made it a personal mission to change this dynamic at our respective gatherings. I have helped arrange for Scott to chair panel discussions of librarians at meetings of the two major publishing trade associations: the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, and the International STM Publisher's Association. Scott invited me to talk at the Medical Librarian Association and moderated an interview between me and another Roundtable colleague, Paul Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Michigan at the Charleston (Library) Conference.
Last March, Scott and I were seated at opposite ends of the witness row for the congressional hearing on public access and helped steer the discussions to the figurative middle. Last week we were invited to present the opening and closing plenaries at the largest meeting for librarians and publishers in the United Kingdom: The UKSG Annual Conference.
My talk was a requested review of the rapidly evolving public access policy situation in the US. However, I opened with emphasizing the need to return the publisher—librarian relationship to the healthy synergy that I witnessed during my days as a working scientist and before the irritations of the public access debate. Publishers, researchers, research funding agencies, and librarians all share the fundamental goal of widely promoting and curating the results of research. It would be counterproductive for these seminal products of research to be hidden and not widely accessible. In the conference's closing plenary address, Scott reinforced this theme. As the conference closed with the three days of talks on the "conference shelf," we both liked the metaphor and appreciated the opportunity of providing the conference "bookends."
New AIP Publishing logo unveiled
AIP Publishing's Marketing Department introduced a new logo last week. Identifying closely with the AIP brand, AIP Publishing's logo will use the same colors and typography. The new logo will start appearing on AIP Publishing's stationary and marketing collateral.
Interact with students at Six Flags Day
Each year, high school teachers are invited to bring their physics, science, and math students to a nearby Six Flags theme park on a Friday when the park is not open to regular visitors for a chance to experience centripetal force, velocity, and gravity on a scale they can't replicate in the classroom. The SPS National Office will join with staff from several of the AIP Member Societies and undergraduates from SPS chapters in the region at the Six Flags facility in Bowie, MD, to host information tables, provide accelerometer stations near popular rides (and assist with analyzing fun roller coaster data), and show off a variety of physics demonstrations. Most importantly, this group of dedicated volunteers will spend the day talking to interested students about the benefits of studying physics.
If you are interested in interacting with the thousands of students who will take advantage of this amusement-park-as-science-lab on Friday, April 26, register here! Volunteers are briefed on all accelerometers and demonstration setups and receive a free t-shirt for their efforts. And yes, volunteers will also have plenty of time to play on the rides after the physics stations close! If you are unable to volunteer but would like to provide some giveaways for the information tables, please contact an SPS staff member.
Lake Shore video captures Physics Today
Physics Today was featured in a video prepared by Bethany Lee from Lake Shore Cryotronics, capturing her company's experience at the APS March Meeting. Lake Shore is a strong supporter of and frequent advertiser in Physics Today. The video is available through Lake Shore's blog. See Randy Nanna's interview in the PT Exhibitor Lounge at 3:00 minutes into the video.
To help staff members of the Physics Resources Center get to know one another better and to learn about the work accomplished by its various divisions, PRC is holding a series of informal lunches to discuss our programs and services and how they address the needs of different audiences. A secondary goal is to look for collaboration opportunities. Small group discussions will center on various groups of stakeholders, such as Member Societies, journalists, students, policy makers, etc.
IOMP announces International Day of Medical Physics
From the AAPM website: To raise awareness of our profession, the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) will celebrate this year, on November 7, the International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP). On that day in 1867, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, known for her pioneering research on radioactivity, was born in Poland. The theme of IDMP 2013 is "Radiation Exposure from Medical Procedures: Ask the Medical Physicist!" This is an excellent opportunity to promote the role of medical physicists in the worldwide medical scene.
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Your mysql database should have a root password. Not your system root password but a dedicated mysql root user password.
If your system is behind a router or some other machine (and it definately should be) the databases communicate with each other locally and you can keep ports closed in your router until you are satisfied with your setup.
The users we add to the master are like this:
root at 192.168.1.100 with password
root at server2.example.com with same password
Then you can log into phpmyadmin and remove those two users when you have finished installing ISPConfig3
To open and close ports in your router then you can use a browser to log into your router interface. given above example the address would be 192.168.1.1
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Sílvia Vidal
Born in Barcelona, Catalonia in 1970, Sílvia discovered climbing when she was 24-years old, and from that moment onward life was full of surprises.
She quickly became intrigued with big wall climbing, and passionately enjoys spending multiple days moving up, and living on some of the biggest walls in the world. She is especially driven by solo ascents; thriving upon the solitude, silence, and the challenges that she finds on the wall and within the process. Alone, high up on remote walls she lives comfortably on her portaledge, calling it: "A house with a great panoramic view."
Sílvia has climbed in many of the world's most remote regions, repeating difficult routes or completing first ascents in the Himalayan range (India and Pakistan), Mali (West Africa), Baffin Island (Canada), Yosemite Valley (USA), and many others. She is always searching for big walls, but includes international travel as a big part of her adventures.
SHORT TERM CLIMBING GOALS: Baffin Island expedition
SHORT TERM PERSONAL GOALS: Convey the calm and the patience that Big Wall climbing gives to me into my day by day life. When I'm not in the mountains, when I'm in town, and other kind of situations surrounded me, be able to maintain those qualities.
LONG TERM CLIMBING GOALS: Keep having climbing goals
LONG TERM PERSONAL GOALS: Maintain friendships
Favorite Climbing Areas: Montserrat (Catalonia) and Picu Urriellu-Naranjo de Bulnes (Spain)
Best day of climbing: As I'm not a sport climber, and as the activities I do are done in many days, I cannot talk about one single special day. Luckily there are many great days.
Your favorite climb: Almost all the expeditions I've done are my favorite climb. For one or another reason. Each one has something different that makes it special.
Why do you like Sterling Rope? semi static ropes; the variety of colors that make things easier in a big wall, where there are lots of ropes everywhere
This last summer, Youri Cappis (from Switzerland but living in Catalonia) and I went to the East face from Huascaran Norte (Cordillera Blanca, Peru). This last years I've been climbing some solo ascents and sometimes also with climbing partners, but this time it was something different. And it was a different experience because it was the first time that I've been in a wall ascent with someone that has no idea about big wall climbing. Youri use to climb (sport and some traditional climbing) but he had never been in really high altitude and the first time he had use ice axes was at 17th pitch. There! Also no idea about jumars, portaledge... So, it was a different experience. Really positive and sometimes hard. He wanted to come to help as much as he could and also to enjoy and experiment what means to live in a wall during days, in height and without any connection with "civilization". We didn't have radio or phone with us, and nobody at the Base camp. From 23rd July to 9th August, after 7 days carrying up all the stuff, acclimatizing and fixing the first 200 meters of the route, we moved onto the wall, and spent there 18 days, no descending. This had been a really bad season in Peru, although we had some sunny moments, almost always we had lot of fog and some snow. That's why we called the route "Entre boires" (in Catalan means more or less "Inside the fog"). There was an intense cold that froze our water bottles, and that caused some troubles with our feet, hands and nose. So, during several days, Youri was resting at the portaledge when I was climbing (soloing) the pitches. During all the activity he helped with the gear carries, cleaning some pitches and helping during the haulbags hoist and rappels. And I really appreciate it. The intention was to climb the wall (a rock triangle) and then continue to the top. But it was not possible to reach the summit because of the weather, the ice conditions and basically because it was too difficult to return to the portaledge. Not so difficult to go up but to rap down. Because we were climbing in capsule style and we must return to Wall Camp 3 to descent with the haulbags, the same route. And the way to the top was a labyrinth.
I didn't thought it was a good idea to keep going. So... It took us two days and a half to rap down the route. Because of the traverses, the ice sections and the roofs. About the route: There's a first part with many roofs that we should avoid or climb through. The middle part, with snow and ice until 80º, was very laborious when hosting and rappelling with haulbags. And there is a final wall very overhanging and with very changeable rock quality; really good or really bad. But here the route's way is very direct. The access to the wall is pretty dangerous because of the avalanches from the serac in between the two Huascaranes. But the route is pretty safe because of the big roofs and the overhangs. Last day a small condor came to the Base Camp (5.200m.) it was like a present for our goodbye from the mountains.
The last book you read? The collector of worlds (Iliya Troyanow)
Your favorite book/story? The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel)
Your favorite bands? Not a concrete one
List 5 favorite movies? I don't have a movie list.
Your favorite types of music? Spanish music
Other sports/activities you like to do? (Other than climb) Before starting to climb I used to practice all kind of sports (I studied PE -Physical Education-, at the University) and before it I was practicing athletics (since I was 7 years old). Then, when I "discovered" climbing (I was 23) I quit everything else...Anyway, I enjoy all kind of sports in relation with nature. I practice ski.
What do you feel is you best accomplishment (other than climbing)? To try to live without a routine
Your favorite beverages? Tea, all kind and anytime
One favorite personal quote? "Why not?"
What do you want to do in the next 5 years? Uff! I really don't know what I want to do in the next 5 days...
Where do you want to be 5 years from now? I want to be still here!


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Rosenthal's Latest: Marlins, ChiSox, Headley, Orioles
Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports has a bunch of new rumors for us today in a pair of videos. Let's round 'em up…
- Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria may soon be faced with the question about selling at the deadline, something he wanted to avoid in the first year of the club's new ballpark. The best thing they could do to improve their farm system likely involves trading guys like Anibal Sanchez, Omar Infante, and the newly acquired Carlos Lee.
- White Sox GM Kenny Williams always thinks big and it would not be surprising to see him get in on pitcher such as Zack Greinke. The problem is that his farm system doesn't have much to offer and they don't want to give up pieces off the big league roster while contending.
- The best guess right now has the Padres keeping Carlos Quentin and trading Chase Headley. Rosenthal says it's simple supply-and-demand; as many as ten teams have shown interest in the third baseman Headley. The team isn't sure they can get more for Quentin in a trade than they would by letting him walk as a free agent and recouping draft picks after the season.
- The Orioles are clearly buyers. They're willing to trade any prospect not named Dylan Bundy or Manny Machado, but they probably don't have enough to get Greinke. They do have interest in lesser arms like Joe Blanton and Jason Vargas, as well as leadoff man Juan Pierre.
- The Brewers could pit the Rangers and Angels against each other in the Greinke sweepstakes. Texas is unwilling to trade Mike Olt, Jurickson Profar, or Martin Perez for a rental, which could create an opening for the Halos if they're willing to deal Major League talent.
- The Phillies do not intend to trade Cliff Lee to create payroll room for Cole Hamels. If they do keep Hamels long-term, they could have $140MM tied up in just eight players going into next season.
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NL East Notes: Chipper, Blanton, Utley
Baseball America recently ranked all 30 organizations based on how much talent has passed through their systems since the end of the 2008 season and the Nationals and Braves place third and sixth, respectively. The Marlins (11th) and Phillies (12th) were also better than average, but the Mets were 28th. Here are today's NL East-related links…
- The Phillies are less motivated to trade Joe Blanton than they were earlier in the spring, when Joel Pineiro was around, Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com reports (Twitter links).
- The Phillies are cautiously optimistic about Chase Utley and hopeful that Ryan Howard will play in early May, Knobler writes.
- Braves third baseman Chipper Jones told reporters that his upcoming retirement will be final, ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick writes (Twitter link). "I'm very comfortable with this decision and I'm ready to stick to it," Jones said this morning while discussing his decision.
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Red Sox Links: Oswalt, Blanton, Beltran
It was on this day in 2000 that six Boston pitchers (including starter Pedro Martinez) combined to throw a perfect game against the Blue Jays in a Spring Training matchup. While perfect games in the spring obviously aren't nearly as prestigious as those during the regular season, it was still an opportunity for Martinez to finally be involved in a recognized perfecto. Martinez threw nine perfect innings against the Padres on June 3, 1995 but his performance isn't considered a perfect game by MLB rules since (shades of Harvey Haddix) the 0-0 game went into extra innings and Martinez allowed a hit to the first batter of the 10th inning.
Here's the latest from Fenway….
- The Red Sox have "their radar up on Roy Oswalt," writes Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe as part of a reader mailbag. Carfardo thinks if Oswalt wants to pitch for Boston, the club will sign him. Oswalt was reportedly holding out for a team closer to his Mississippi home but recently said he's willing to pitch anywhere, though perhaps not until midseason. Also in Cafardo's piece, he says the Sox aren't going to make a move for a pitcher until they see what they have in Daniel Bard and internal fifth starter candidates like Felix Doubront.
- Scouts from the Red Sox and Orioles have joined the contingent of scouts at Joe Blanton's spring starts, reports Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com. The Phillies are reportedly willing to pay up to $2MM of Blanton's $8MM salary as part of a trade, but Boston makes another move, even $6MM might be too much for the Sox, who are trying to keep payroll down to avoid a big luxury tax hit.
- Carlos Beltran was interested in joining the Red Sox this winter, reports Brian MacPherson of the Providence Journal, but ultimately signed with the Cardinals since Boston's focus was on working out a deal with David Ortiz. "We talked a little bit, and they had interest," Beltran said. "They were trying to get something done first with David. At the end of the day, I wasn't going to wait until they got that done." As MacPherson points out, it may have been a moot point since the Sox wouldn't have been able to afford Beltran once Ortiz accepted salary arbitration.
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Phillies Notes: Blanton, Gillies, Thome
The latest the the Phillies, who are looking for a sixth consecutive NL East title in the increasingly competitive NL East…
- The perception among most baseball people is that Joe Blanton is available for the right price, David Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News writes.
- Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. said outfielder Tyson Gillies has the skillset to play in the Major Leagues, according to Phil Sheridan of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He has better tools than a lot of the guys we've got," Amaro said. "He just needs to play. The poor guy hasn't gotten a chance to play. He's still young." Gillies, 23, missed all but three games in 2011 and played in only 28 games in 2010.
- The Phillies' projected 25-man roster consists of many older players, but Sheridan writes that "it's more important to get better than simply younger." The Phillies added players such as Jim Thome (41), Ty Wigginton (34) and Chad Qualls (33) this past offseason.
- Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer explains why Thome's defensive work will affect the Phillies' ability to work him into their lineup.
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Cafardo On Phillies, Blanton, Lannan, Ramirez
In this morning's column, Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe takes a look at some of the emerging storylines in the American League East. In New York, Francisco Cervelli is set to be the backup catcher, but could become trade bait for the Yankees with Austin Romine knocking on the door. The catching situation with Tampa Bay is also worth keeping an eye on as Jose Molina needs a backup. The Rays could pick up Ivan Rodriguez or deal from their pitching surplus to fill the vacancy. If they trade Jeff Niemann or Wade Davis, Cafardo writes that it would be for a catcher. Here's more from Cafardo..
- The Phillies are making it clear to teams that they would eat as much as $2MM of Joe Blanton's $8MM deal in a trade. Moving Blanton would allow the Phillies to have payroll flexibility and bump Kyle Kendrick into the No. 5 spot in the rotation. Yesterday, Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos scouted the Phillies game and left after Blanton's exit.
- Meanwhile, the Nationals continue to dangle left-hander John Lannan. The club is spreading word that the 27-year-old is available in a deal, particularly one for a center fielder.
- The Braves are in need of a left field power bat and right-hander Jair Jurrjens could be the trade bait for one.
- At some point, Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar will have to move to second base to make room for Cuban shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria. Escobar loves being a shortstop, so there is a bit of trepidation among some in the organization as to how he will accept this.
- Meanwhile, many feel that the Marlins' Hanley Ramirez won't stay happy for long at third base and eventually will demand a trade.
- With several teams in the market for a center fielder, Cafardo asked a National League scout if the Yankees would entertain a deal for Brett Gardner. Gardner is currently slated to start in left field for the Yanks but a National League scout said that at some point the club might seek out a more traditional left field option.
- The Red Sox are impressed with Chris Carpenter's live fastball but privately they are not happy with what they wound up getting in exchange for Theo Epstein.
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AL East Notes: Blue Jays, Blanton, Yankees, Pineda
On this day in 1966, the Orioles acquired catcher Cam Carreon from the Indians in exchange for leftfielder Lou Piniella. Sweet Lou became an everyday major leaguer in 1969 with the Royals and made his way back to the American League East with the Bombers in 1974. Here's what's happening in the AL East today..
- Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos scouted today's Phillies game and left after Joe Blanton exited the game, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports.
- Even though Brandon League has blossomed into an All-Star closer for the Mariners, Anthopoulos has no regrets about the trade that shipped League to Seattle and brought Brandon Morrow to Toronto, writes Tyler Kepner of the New York Times. The Blue Jays signed Morrow to three-year, $21MM contract extension this winter with a team option for 2015.
- Red Sox right-hander Michael Bowden is out-of-options and fighting to make the big league roster, writes Alex Speier of WEEI.com. The 25-year-old appeared in 14 games for the BoSox last season.
- There's a great deal of excitement surrounding Michael Pineda as he gets set for his first year in pinstripes, but GM Brian Cashman is looking to pump the brakes on fans' expectations for him, writes Jeff Bradley of the Star-Ledger. Cashman doesn't view Pineda as an "instant number two" but instead as a long-term asset with a great deal of promise.
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NL East Notes: Phillies, Wright, Mets, Blanton
This morning we learned that Mike Cameron has decided to retire after 17 seasons in the majors. The 39-year-old played for eight different teams during his career and won three Gold Gloves. Here's more on the Nats and other notes from around the National League East..
- Last week, the three-way trade the Phillies were looking to send Joe Blanton to the Angels for Bobby Abreu, then flip Abreu to the Yankees for A.J. Burnett, sources tell Buster Olney of ESPN.com (via Twitter). The Phillies' thinking was that two years of Burnett would have provided at least a bit of a safety net if they lost Cole Hamels to free agency, Olney tweets.
- Cameron's retirement will force the Nationals to get creative in center field and possibly look for another right-handed hitter at the position, writes Mark Zuckerman of Nats Insider. Alternatively, Washington could let either Rick Ankiel or Roger Bernadina take the job outright or move Jayson Werth to center field and put Bryce Harper in right.
- Bill Ladson of MLB.com (via Twitter) spoke with Cameron who said Nationals GM Mike Rizzo tried to talk the veteran out of retiring. The center fielder said that he made up his mind last Wednesday.
- Third baseman David Wright's future with the Mets is likely independent of the club's performance, writes Dan Martin of the New York Post. The Mets hold a $16MM team option on the 29-year-old for next season, but Wright can void that option if he is traded.
- Phillies pitcher Joe Blanton isn't worried about hearing his name in trade rumors, writes Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Phillies have reportedly shopped Blanton in order to create payroll flexibility and explored a three-way trade to land A.J. Burnett before he was traded to the Pirates.
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Phillies Considered Oswalt; Deal Unlikely
The Phillies have called around to determine trade interest in Joe Blanton, ESPN.com's Jayson Stark reports (all Twitter links). Moving Blanton and part of his $8.5MM salary would create payroll room for Roy Oswalt, but GM Ruben Amaro Jr. doesn't expect to be able to free up money to sign the right-hander. Though the Phillies have had dialogue about bringing Oswalt back to Philadelphia, a deal seems unlikely.
We heard yesterday that there's no traction between the Red Sox and Oswalt, that the Reds haven't had serious talks with him, and that he doesn't want to play in Pittsburgh. Oswalt, the top free agent pitcher remaining, is likely to sign a one-year deal for 2012. I doubt teams would commit $8.5MM to Blanton, who pitched just 41 1/3 innings last year.
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Stark On Tigers, Blanton, Bartlett, Kazmir
As ESPN.com's Jayson Stark points out, the NL Central will look considerably different in 2012, now that Prince Fielder, Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa have moved on. Ryan Braun could miss 50 games with a suspension that would make the division even less recognizable. Here are Stark's latest notes and rumors:
- Scouts and executives doubt Miguel Cabrera will be able to play third base with much skill in 2012.
- One AL executive suggests the Tigers would have to eat a lot of money to trade Victor Martinez next offseason. Insurance will likely cover approximately half of the switch hitter's 2012 salary of $13MM, Stark writes.
- Stark hears that the Phillies have sent signals that they might make Joe Blanton available this spring.
- Jason Bartlett has been available this winter and the Red Sox could pursue him, Stark writes. However, the shortstop will earn $5.5MM in 2012 and the Red Sox aim to stay below the luxury tax threshold.
- Scott Kazmir intends to pitch in 2012, but his fastball velocity is in the 84-85 mph range. The 28-year-old appeared in one game for the Angels last year and they released him after a rough stretch at Triple-A.
- There's every indication that the commissioner's office will discipline Juan Carlos Oviedo/Leo Nunez and Roberto (Heredia) Hernandez/Fausto Carmona for using false identities.
- Though many have told Bud Selig that adding a second Wild Card team to each league this year will create scheduling issues, the commissioner seems intent on expanding the playoffs in 2012, and Stark expects him to get his wish.
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Red Sox Seek Rotation Depth
The Red Sox have five proven starters and a handful of viable alternatives, but that's not stopping GM Theo Epstein from looking for more possibilities for the rotation, according to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe. The Red Sox are looking for starting pitching depth and would love to add a veteran who's open to pitching at Triple-A until he's needed.
"We've learned that we can never have enough starting pitching, but we like the depth provided by [Tim] Wakefield, [Alfredo] Aceves, and [Felix] Doubront," Epstein said.
Wakefield, Aceves and Doubront are the team's primary alternatives to the starting five of Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, John Lackey, Josh Beckett and Daisuke Matsuzaka. It also appears that the Red Sox will start Andrew Miller at Triple-A and stretch him out as a starter in the minors.
Though some starting pitching is available, none of it appears to be a logical fit for the Red Sox. The $16MM remaining on Joe Blanton's contract makes him an unattractive option; it seems doubtful that the Red Sox would meet the Twins' asking price for Kevin Slowey only to stash him in the minors and the Red Sox don't appear to have much interest in Jeremy Bonderman.
I listed a number of potentially available starters earlier in the week.
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Brief Introduction into Partitioning in #Oracle
Partitioning is a great way to deal with large tables. This post will give you a quick start with examples that you can reproduce easily for yourself. Focus will be on Range-Partitioning, which is still the most popular kind.
First things first: You should only consider to implement partitioning for really large (GB range or more) objects, because it is an extra charged option and the benefits do not show significantly with small objects.
The two major reasons why you may want to use partitioning are Performance and Manageability. Let's look at this picture:
Above table is partitioned by the quarter. You will see that the table name and the columns are known by the application layer (INSERT and SELECT statements come from there), while the partitioned nature of the table needs to be known by the DBA only. I'm going to implement this on my demo system:
SQL> grant dba to adam identified by adam; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect adam/adam Connected. SQL> create table sales (id number, name varchar2(20), amount_sold number, shop varchar2(20), time_id date) partition by range (time_id) ( partition q1 values less than (to_date('01.04.2012','dd.mm.yyyy')), partition q2 values less than (to_date('01.07.2012','dd.mm.yyyy')), partition q3 values less than (to_date('01.10.2012','dd.mm.yyyy')), partition q4 values less than (to_date('01.01.2013','dd.mm.yyyy')) ); Table created.
From the viewpoint of the application, this is transparent, but the value of the TIME_ID column determines into which partition the inserted rows will go. And also, if subsequent SELECT statements have the partition key in the WHERE clause, the optimizer knows which partitions need not to be scanned. This is called Partition Pruning:
I'll show the application perspective first:
SQL> insert into sales values ( 1, 'John Doe', 5000, 'London', date'2012-02-16' ); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> select sum(amount_sold) from sales where time_id between date'2012-01-01' and date'2012-03-31'; SUM(AMOUNT_SOLD) ---------------- 5000 SQL> set lines 300 SQL> select plan_table_output from table(dbms_xplan.display_cursor); PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SQL_ID crtwzf8j963h7, child number 0 ------------------------------------- select sum(amount_sold) from sales where time_id between date'2012-01-01' and date'2012-03-31' Plan hash value: 642363238 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 14 (100)| | | | | 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 22 | | | | | | 2 | PARTITION RANGE SINGLE| | 1 | 22 | 14 (0)| 00:00:01 | 1 | 1 | |* 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | SALES | 1 | 22 | 14 (0)| 00:00:01 | 1 | 1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 3 - filter(("TIME_ID">=TO_DATE(' 2012-01-01 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') AND "TIME_ID"<=TO_DATE(' 2012-03-31 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')))
Notice the PSTART=1 and PSTOP=1 above, which indicates Partition Pruning. So only one quarter was scanned through, speeding up my Full Table Scan accordingly. When the table is partitioned by the day, that SELECT on a large, even filled table would run 365 times faster – which is not at all unusual, many customers have hundreds, even thousands of partitions exactly therefore.
Now to the Maintenance benefit: DBAs can now get rid of old data very fast with DROP PARTITION commands. DELETE would be an awful lot slower here – if millions of rows are deleted, that is. Or some kind of Information Life-cycle Management can be implemented like compressing old partitions. They can even be moved into other tablespaces that have their datafiles on cheaper storage:
SQL> alter table sales move partition q1 compress; Table altered.
When you put indexes on a partitioned table, you have the choice between GLOBAL and LOCAL like on the next picture:
The LOCAL index partitions follow the table partitions: They have the same partition key & type, get created automatically when new table partitions are added and get dropped automatically when table partitions are dropped. Beware: LOCAL indexes are usually not appropriate for OLTP access on the table, because one server process may have to scan through many index partitions then. This is the cause of most of the scary performance horror stories you may have heard about partitioning!
A GLOBAL index spans all partitions. It has a good SELECT performance usually, but is more sensitive against partition maintenance than LOCAL indexes. The GLOBAL index needs to be rebuilt more often, in other words. Let's implement them:
SQL> create index sales_id on sales (id); Index created. SQL> create index sales_name on sales (name) local; Index created.
We have Dictionary Views for everything, of course :-)
SQL> select table_name, tablespace_name from user_tables; TABLE_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME ------------------------------ ------------------------------ SALES SQL> select table_name, partitioning_type, partition_count from user_part_tables; TABLE_NAME PARTITION PARTITION_COUNT ------------------------------ --------- --------------- SALES RANGE 4 SQL> select table_name, partition_name, tablespace_name, pct_free, compression from user_tab_partitions; TABLE_NAME PARTITION_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME PCT_FREE COMPRESS ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- -------- SALES Q1 USERS 0 ENABLED SALES Q4 USERS 10 DISABLED SALES Q3 USERS 10 DISABLED SALES Q2 USERS 10 DISABLED SQL> select index_name, tablespace_name, status from user_indexes; INDEX_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME STATUS ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------- SALES_ID USERS VALID SALES_NAME N/A SQL> select index_name, partitioning_type, partition_count from user_part_indexes; INDEX_NAME PARTITION PARTITION_COUNT ------------------------------ --------- --------------- SALES_NAME RANGE 4 SQL> select index_name, partition_name, tablespace_name,status from user_ind_partitions; INDEX_NAME PARTITION_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME STATUS ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------- SALES_NAME Q1 USERS USABLE SALES_NAME Q4 USERS USABLE SALES_NAME Q3 USERS USABLE SALES_NAME Q2 USERS USABLE
This should be enough to get you started. We have much more to say about partitioning, of course: VLDB and Partitioning Guide. The pictures in this posting are from an LVC demonstration that I have done recently to convince potential customers to use this new training format, and I thought to myself: There must be something additional that I can do with this stuff :-)
I hope you find it useful – feel free to comment, also if you'd like to share some of your experiences with partitioning that would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
Conclusion: Partitioning can be a very powerful tool in the DBA's arsenal to transparently speed up applications and to ease maintenance. It is no silver bullet, though, so as always: Don't believe it, test it :)
Related postings about Partitioning:
Partition Pruning & Interval Partitioning… shows Partitioning Pruning performance benefit with a larger table and how new range partitions are created automatically
Reducing Buffer Busy Waits with Automatic Segment Space Management & Hash Partitioning… shows why Hash Partitioning is often used for large OLTP tables to reduce contention
Partitioning a table online with DBMS_REDEFINITION… shows how to change the structure of a table while it is permanently accessed by end users
CELL_PARTITION_LARGE_EXTENTS now obsolete… shows that you get 8 MB initial extents for partitioned tables in recent versions
Partition-Pruning: Do & Don't… shows how the SQL code determines whether Partition Pruning can be used or not
Brief introduction into External Tables
As an Oracle DBA, you will sooner or later encounter the task to deal with interface files (Flat Files) from some other application that you need to process in your Oracle Database. External Tables, introduced in 9i already, are usually the tool of choice for that and can be considered as the successor of the ancient SQL*Loader for that purpose.
An External Table is Metainformation that is stored in the Data Dictionary together with a pointer on the concrete Flat File, placed on the Database Server. We can access this External Table with the same SELECT statements as we would use against ordinary Tables. I have prepared a demonstration with the Flat File ulcase2.dat in the directory /home/oracle/interface on my server:
-bash-3.00$ pwd /home/oracle/interface -bash-3.00$ ls -al total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 28 14:34 . drwxrwxrwx 30 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 28 14:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 372 Oct 28 14:11 ulcase2.dat -bash-3.00$ cat ulcase2.dat 7782 CLARK MANAGER 7839 2572.50 10 7839 KING PRESIDENT 5500.00 10 7934 MILLER CLERK 7782 920.00 10 7566 JONES MANAGER 7839 3123.75 20 7499 ALLEN SALESMAN 7698 1600.00 300.00 30 7654 MARTIN SALESMAN 7698 1312.50 1400.00 30 7658 CHAN ANALYST 7566 3450.00 20
This is just an ordinary ASCII file that we want to access from our Oracle Database:
SQL> grant dba to adam identified by adam; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect adam/adam Connected.
That's my demo user. Granting the role dba makes the demo easier – no need to grant create/read/write directory privileges especially. Next step is to create a directory as a Database Object, pointing to the OS directory:
SQL> create directory interface_dir as '/home/oracle/interface'; Directory created.
The same directories are needed when we use Data Pump to put Database Objects into binary files. Now here comes the External Table:
SQL> create table interface_table ( empno number(4), ename varchar2(10), job varchar2(9), mgr number(4), sal number(7,2), comm number(7,2), deptno number(2) ) organization external ( type oracle_loader default directory interface_dir access parameters ( records delimited by newline characterset we8iso8859p1 badfile 'INTERFACE_DIR':'interface.bad' logfile 'interface.log_xt' fields ldrtrim ( empno (1:4) integer external(4), ename (6:15) char(10), job (17:25) char(9), mgr (27:30) integer external(4), sal (32:39) integer external(8), comm (41:48) integer external(8), deptno (50:51) integer external(2) ) ) location ( 'ulcase2.dat' ) ) reject limit unlimited; Table created.
This is no ordinary table made up by extents and blocks but merely a description of the Flat File:
SQL> select * from user_segments; no rows selected SQL> select table_name,tablespace_name from user_tables; TABLE_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME ------------------------------ ------------------------------ INTERFACE_TABLE
Apart from that, we can access it with SELECT like an ordinary table:
SQL> select * from interface_table; EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR SAL COMM DEPTNO ---------- ---------- --------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- 7782 CLARK MANAGER 7839 2572.5 10 7839 KING PRESIDENT 5500 10 7934 MILLER CLERK 7782 920 10 7566 JONES MANAGER 7839 3123.75 20 7499 ALLEN SALESMAN 7698 1600 300 30 7654 MARTIN SALESMAN 7698 1312.5 1400 30 7658 CHAN ANALYST 7566 3450 20 8 rows selected.
We can put functions into the query, can add where condition to filter the result set, can choose only some columns etc. That is why External Tables are much more flexible to use as the old SQL*Loader was.
But never the less, SQL*Loader is still useful today to teach us how to create External Tables :-) If you look into the Online Documentation of the 9i version, you can still find the SQL*Loader case studies there – that vanished in 10g and above. You see the most common cases of interface files there together with a SQL*Loader controlfile to load them.
If you call the SQL*Loader then with the parameter external_table=generate_only, it gives you the create statement for an External Table – a thing that is not so easy to derive from the External Table Online Documenation, unfortunately.
Another nice usage of External Tables is, that we can access the Alert Log file with them from inside the Database without having to logon to the Database Server:
SQL> show parameter background_dump_dest NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- -------------------------------- background_dump_dest string /u01/app/oracle/admin/orcl/bdump SQL> create or replace directory bdump as '/u01/app/oracle/admin/orcl/bdump'; Directory created. SQL> create table alert_log (line1 varchar2(4000)) organization external (type oracle_loader default directory bdump access parameters (records delimited by newline fields missing field values are null) location ('alert_orcl.log') ) / Table created.
Conlusion: If you need to process Interface Files in your Oracle Database, take a closer look at External Tables for that purpose – the SQL*Loader is a little old fashioned compared to them
Brief introduction into Materialized Views
This week, I am teaching an Oracle Database 11g Data Warehouse Administration course in Munich. One of the focus areas of that course are Materialized Views, and I have developed some examples for that course that I like to share with the Oracle community. Other themes of that four days course are Partitioning, ETL and Parallelization.
Materialized Views have the ability to speed up queries (even dramatically) while being transparent for the queries in a similar way as indexes resp. partitioned tables are. That means that we do not have to modify our queries in order to benefit from these structures. Unlike an ordinary view which is only a stored select statement that runs if we use the view, a materialized view stores the result set of the select statement as a container table. Let me demonstrate the benefit of that. I have a (for my little database) relatively large table and do an aggregation query on it:
SQL> desc sales Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- PROD_ID NOT NULL NUMBER CUST_ID NOT NULL NUMBER TIME_ID NOT NULL DATE CHANNEL_ID NOT NULL NUMBER PROMO_ID NOT NULL NUMBER QUANTITY_SOLD NOT NULL NUMBER(10,2) AMOUNT_SOLD NOT NULL NUMBER(10,2) SQL> select count(*) from sales; COUNT(*) ---------- 7350744 SQL> select bytes/1024/1024 as mb from user_segments where segment_name='SALES'; MB ---------- 286 SQL> show sga Total System Global Area 373293056 bytes Fixed Size 1219496 bytes Variable Size 134218840 bytes Database Buffers 234881024 bytes Redo Buffers 2973696 bytes SQL> set timing on SQL> select channel_id,sum(amount_sold) from sales group by channel_id; CHANNEL_ID SUM(AMOUNT_SOLD) ---------- ---------------- 2 210770739 4 109654416 3 463002085 9 2219410.08 Elapsed: 00:00:04.51
As you can see, the aggregation takes round 5 seconds. Now I will speed that up using a Materialized View:
SQL> create materialized view mv1 enable query rewrite 2 as select channel_id,sum(amount_sold) from sales group by channel_id; Materialized view created. Elapsed: 00:00:05.69 SQL> select channel_id,sum(amount_sold) from sales group by channel_id; CHANNEL_ID SUM(AMOUNT_SOLD) ---------- ---------------- 2 210770739 4 109654416 3 463002085 9 2219410.08 Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
The very same statement now takes way less time! Why is that so?
SQL> set autotrace on explain
SQL> select channel_id,sum(amount_sold) from sales group by channel_id;
---------- ----------------
2 210770739
4 109654416
3 463002085
9 2219410.08
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 2958490228
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time
Because the optimizer transparently rewrote the query on the Materialized View! But what if we now change the content of the base table sales?
SQL> update sales set amount_sold=amount_sold+1 where rownum<2; 1 row updated. SQL> commit; Commit complete.
The materialized view is now stale and will no longer be used for query rewrite (as we can already determine by query runtime):
SQL> select mview_name,staleness from user_mviews; MVIEW_NAME STALENESS ------------------------------ ------------------- MV1 NEEDS_COMPILE SQL> set timing on SQL> select channel_id,sum(amount_sold) from sales group by channel_id; CHANNEL_ID SUM(AMOUNT_SOLD) ---------- ---------------- 2 210770739 4 109654416 3 463002086 9 2219410.08 Elapsed: 00:00:04.52
In order to get statements rewritten against the materialized view again, we must refresh it by some method.
One method is on demand with a procedure call like in this example:
SQL> exec dbms_mview.refresh(list=>'MV1',method=>'C') PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Elapsed: 00:00:04.62 SQL> select channel_id,sum(amount_sold) from sales group by channel_id; CHANNEL_ID SUM(AMOUNT_SOLD) ---------- ---------------- 2 210770739 4 109654416 3 463002086 9 2219410.08 Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
Now the MV1 can get used again, as we see by runtime. That was a complete refresh – which can take a long time. We would like to get this done faster.
One comfortable method to get a fast refreshable materialized view is the usage of the package DBMS_ADVISOR:
SQL> vari t varchar2(50) SQL> begin 2 dbms_advisor.tune_mview(task_name=>:t, 3 mv_create_stmt=>'create materialized view mv1' 4 || ' refresh fast as' 5 || ' select channel_id,sum(amount_sold)' 6 || ' from sales group by channel_id'); 7 end; 8/ PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> set long 5000 SQL> select statement from user_tune_mview where task_name=:t order by action_id; STATEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG ON "ADAM"."SALES" WITH ROWID, SEQUENCE ("CHANNEL_ID ","AMOUNT_SOLD") INCLUDING NEW VALUES ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG FORCE ON "ADAM"."SALES" ADD ROWID, SEQUENCE ("CHANNE L_ID","AMOUNT_SOLD") INCLUDING NEW VALUES CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW ADAM.MV1 REFRESH FAST WITH ROWID DISABLE QUERY REWRIT E AS SELECT ADAM.SALES.CHANNEL_ID C1, SUM("ADAM"."SALES"."AMOUNT_SOLD") M1, COUN T("ADAM"."SALES"."AMOUNT_SOLD") M2, COUNT(*) M3 FROM ADAM.SALES GROUP BY ADAM.SA LES.CHANNEL_ID STATEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW ADAM.MV1 SQL> exec dbms_advisor.delete_task(:t) PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Usually, we need Materialized View Logs on the base tables and special expressions in the materialized view query to be able to do a fast refresh.
I simply take the coding from above now:
SQL> CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG ON "ADAM"."SALES" WITH ROWID, SEQUENCE ("CHANNEL_ID","AMOUNT_SOLD") INCLUDING NEW VALUES; 2 3 Materialized view log created. SQL> CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW ADAM.MV1 REFRESH FAST WITH ROWID enable QUERY REWRITE AS SELECT ADAM.SALES.CHANNEL_ID C1, SUM("ADAM"."SALES"."AMOUNT_SOLD") M1, COUNT("ADAM"."SALES"."AMOUNT_SOLD") M2, COUNT(*) M3 FROM ADAM.SALES GROUP BY ADAM.SALES.CHANNEL_ID; Materialized view created.
After again modifying the base table sales, I will then try a fast refresh of the MV1:
SQL> set timing off SQL> update sales set amount_sold=amount_sold*1 where rownum<2; 1 row updated. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> select mview_name,staleness from user_mviews; MVIEW_NAME STALENESS ------------------------------ ------------------- MV1 NEEDS_COMPILE SQL> set timing on SQL> exec dbms_mview.refresh('MV1','F') PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Elapsed: 00:00:00.62
It worked! But do I always have to refresh manually? No, we can also schedule a regular refresh like this:
SQL> alter materialized view mv1 refresh start with sysdate next sysdate + interval '1' minute; Materialized view altered. SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='hh24:mi:ss'; Session altered. SQL> select MVIEW_NAME,LAST_REFRESH_TYPE,LAST_REFRESH_DATE from user_mviews; MVIEW_NAME LAST_REF LAST_REF ------------------------------ -------- -------- MV1 FAST 10:40:05 SQL> select MVIEW_NAME,LAST_REFRESH_TYPE,LAST_REFRESH_DATE from user_mviews; MVIEW_NAME LAST_REF LAST_REF ------------------------------ -------- -------- MV1 FAST 10:41:04
Of course, a one minute refresh interval is extraordinary short. An other possibility to refresh the MVs very comfortably is on commit:
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW ADAM.MV1 REFRESH FAST on commit WITH ROWID enable QUERY REWRITE AS SELECT ADAM.SALES.CHANNEL_ID C1, SUM("ADAM"."SALES"."AMOUNT_SOLD") M1, COUNT("ADAM"."SALES"."AMOUNT_SOLD") M2, COUNT(*) M3 FROM ADAM.SALES GROUP BY ADAM.SALES.CHANNEL_ID; Materialized view created. SQL> select MVIEW_NAME,LAST_REFRESH_TYPE,LAST_REFRESH_DATE from user_mviews; MVIEW_NAME LAST_REF LAST_REF ------------------------------ -------- -------- MV1 COMPLETE 11:16:28 SQL> update sales set amount_sold=amount_sold*1 where rownum<2; 1 row updated. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> select MVIEW_NAME,LAST_REFRESH_TYPE,LAST_REFRESH_DATE from user_mviews; MVIEW_NAME LAST_REF LAST_REF ------------------------------ -------- -------- MV1 FAST 11:19:56
But this may (although done in asynchronous fashion) slow down the DML on the base table, so it requires testing whether the slow down is noticeable or neglectable. So far for now about Materialized Views. There is of course much more to say, but I think that this is enough for a brief introduction of that theme.
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- Interviews & Profiles:
- Dark Scribe Magazine interviews Ellen Datlow, editor of Lovecraft Unbound.
- @Innsmouth Free Press: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Burning Shadows).
- The Chronicles of the Necromancer author Gail Z. Martin talks with author A.J. Hartley about publishing, creating believable historical thrillers and his newest novels, Act of Will and What Time Devours. (Also of interest: Gail's reports from Dragon*Con,Parts one, two, and three.
- BookBanter podcast-interviews Mike Carey (Dead Men's Boots).
- Sci-Fi Talk podcast-interviews Leonard Nimoy.
- At Suite101: In one of his last interviews prior to his death in 2003, hard science-fiction pioneer Hal Clement discusses his final book, Noise, and his approach to world building.
- In the newly-compiled list of 101 Fantasy Books, Tolkien comes in at #12 with The Fellowship of the Ring. The top 11 positions are held by J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. No, really!
- Brenda Cooper liked Anathem…eventually.
- In case you were wondering, Jeff VanderMeer WILL read your f***ing script.
- Richard Matheson's Somewhere in Time coming to Broadway, the way he intended it, I'm sure.
- The Mid-September 2009 issue of the SF Site is now online.
- VIZ Media announces the release of Zoo and Usurper of the Sun, the latest two books to be published by its Haikasoru imprint, the first U.S. based imprint dedicated to translating Japanese science fiction and fantasy.
- Events:
- Forbidden Planet is hosting the UK Launch of Angry Robot Books on Saturday 10th October at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR. Featured guests include Dan Abnett (Triumff), Andy Remic (Kell's Legend), and Colin Harvey (Winter Song).
- Eoin Coifer, author of And Another Thing…, the sixth book in the Hitchhikers' trilogy, will be attending Hitchcon '09 at the Southbanke Centre in the UK on October 11th. The event will include a live, radio-style stage play with Simon Jones and Mark Wing-Davey of the original radio cast
- Chris Roberson asks: What if Raiders of the Lost Ark had been a 50s film serial? What, no Broadway play version? Get to work, Internets!
- Matthew Sanborn Smith has posted episode 5 of his podcast Beware the Hairy Mango.
- The Wertzone takes a look at the new Douglas Adams and Kim Stanley Robinson book covers, for the Hitchhikers and Mars books, respectively. (Though, irrespectively, it makes me wonder what if their serie were written by the other writer…)
- Speaking of Kim Stanley Robinson, the new fan site KimStanleyRobinson.info is live.
- Gary Farber notes that NetFlix lists the 2007 documentary The Polymath: The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman. Cool! And Bummer! The availability is currently listed as "unknown". "No Delany for you!"
- In honor of Halloween, Super Punch announces the Horror of Star Wars art contest! Love the vampire Leia, though not as much as a metal bikini vampire Leia, if you know what I mean. (As if there was any ambiguity.)
- I'm so psyched for the new season of Fringe that even this Season 2 photo shoot video feels linkable.
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"In the newly-compiled list of 101 Fantasy Books, Tolkien comes in at #12 with The Fellowship of the Ring. The top 11 positions are held by J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. No, really!"
Man, this REALLY pisses me off. Were only teenagers and sheep allowed to vote?
Or maybe teenage sheep?
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I could have seen that Delany movie at the NY Film Festival where it premeired but the tickets were $25! So I opted to wait for the DVD which has been in that "unknown" status forever. WTF? I don't know who I'm more mad at, myself for not spending the 25 bucks, or whoever it is who isn't releasing to movie.
At the Delany group on Yahoo several people have bought the DVD of "Polymath" this week. Distribution seems somewhat random, so best bet is probably to special order it.
"…four…" effing script? How about if I just have one effing script?
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Our LO rests his legs in the froggy position when he lies on his back. Anybody else's LO do that? He can straighten them out and kick and play with his legs but his comfort seems to be the froggy style position. He will be 4 months on the 2nd of July.
DH and I think it's cute but I did the unthinkable and googled it and although some people where saying their LO does or did the same thing and all was well, I began to see links on spine and hips issues. I decided not to click on any of those because new mothers have enough to worry about.
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Watch this couch go over 100 mph for a world record
Answer: When that couch is powered by an internal combustion engine. Or when you need a full leather race suit, gloves, boots and a helmet to sit on it. Or when it requires an attached front desk to serve as an aerodynamic element. Or when you need an airport runway to take it up to its full top speed.
Regardless of our reasoning, there is apparently a record being held for the World's Fastest Couch. If you're splitting hairs, we suppose there's nothing in the actual definition of the word couch that precludes the addition of an engine, and we also suppose the truly far-out-there among us could indeed use such a piece of furniture in his or her living room.
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Yeezus - Kanye West
- Band Name: Kanye West
- Record Label: Def Jam
- Release Date: Jun 18, 2013
- Summary: Chief Keef, Daft Punk, Frank Ocean, Kid Cudi, King L, Rick Rubin, RZA, and Justin Vernon are some of the producers and artists the rapper worked with on his sixth solo release influenced by such genres as industrial, new wave, and Chicago house music.
- Record Label: Def Jam
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 43 out of 46
Mixed: 2 out of 46
Negative: 1 out of 46
Jun 28, 2013Yeezus is the complete affirmation of an artist willing to try new endeavors and wholeheartedly nail it.
Jun 17, 2013Kanye West doesn't give the listener a second to realize the album is more a masterly response to a masterpiece than a masterpiece itself. With one sweep of the hand, West brushes away expectations. And then he sticks you squarely across the face
Jun 19, 2013Yeezus is a divisive album, one that contains some of West's most inspired samples, collaborations, and racial observations to date while at times being insufferably misogynistic and confoundingly lyrically lazy.
Jun 17, 2013It's not quite godlike, but Yeezus certainly feels like it was created by a higher power.
Jun 20, 2013With Yeezus clocking in at a short 40 minutes, Kanye achieves his goal of creating a stripped-down, minimalist project; there's nothing extra or out of place here. More importantly, Kanye makes it abundantly clear that he's still got a lot to say, and a lot of new ways to say it.
Jun 18, 2013It's a beautiful blast of humanity on an album--a perplexing, fascinating, absorbing album--that often feels outside normal human grasp.
Jun 21, 2013Yeezus is ultimately most repugnant in how it heedlessly collapses all the value dichotomies that Kanye has mined so fruitfully over the years into one bottomless cesspool of narcissism.
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Positive: 190 out of 262
Mixed: 23 out of 262
Negative: 49 out of 262
Dec 15, 2014This album is perfect production is remarkably excellent. The songs and personality led him to become a "Yeezus" of music although it is tooThis album is perfect production is remarkably excellent. The songs and personality led him to become a "Yeezus" of music although it is too egocentric. I think his selfishness led him to create this perfect album. The best are: "Black Skinhead", "I Am a God", "Bound 2", "Blood On The Leaves".… Expand
Jun 18, 2013Ok everyone, if you don't like Yeezus, it's either you have a hatred for Kanye, you didn't give it a chance, or you want another collegeOk everyone, if you don't like Yeezus, it's either you have a hatred for Kanye, you didn't give it a chance, or you want another college dropout album. Personally I think that this album is great not only for the incredible amount of time Kanye puts in, and not for the unmistakable genius throughout the entire album. This album also proves that Kanye can make any style of music. he had gone from soul to pop to straight up rap to industrial. He has made a great album in every genre of rap. This album is an easy 10, especially when you consider the risk he took in creating a whole new style. He could have easily made another fantastic album like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but instead, he did his own thing and created my personal favorite album of all time. By the way, the purpose of that American Psycho video was to show that I am a god is not a song about how amazing Kanye is, it's about him going crazy and convincing himself that he is god.… Expand
Jun 18, 2013Listening to this album is the equivalent of licking iggy azalea's clean, then shoving your tongue into the small hair follicle opening (orListening to this album is the equivalent of licking iggy azalea's clean, then shoving your tongue into the small hair follicle opening (or pore) of your favorite gay porn stars nipple. "I just talked to Jesus, He said what up Yeezus" The sheer imagery of Mr. West calling to the son of god on an iphone makes me cum sperm biscuits. If you give this album anything less than a 100, I will personaly shove my up your dick hole, trust me, this is pure pleasure, but from the reaction of your father, it wasn't for the reciever. Never the less, MBDTF was getting by a sheer excellence, but this, this is like getting by the raunchiest, most dirtiest you've ever gazed upon, truly a magnificant symmetrical veins, proportionate tip, shaft. I swear to god i have literally a massive turd and licked it and this album is still better. I also played this while i was stroking my massive shrivled up and even with the condom on I have had sperm fly into my eyes on few occasions) i lasted less than 10 seconds max, i also farted while i came if that alters anyones mind on wether this album is great or not. Thank you yeezus christ, for the greatest album i've ever heard. 100/100… Expand
Mar 12, 2014The album is an angry, muddled, ignorant, slapped-together heap of vulgar expression that works better than anyone else in music could'veThe album is an angry, muddled, ignorant, slapped-together heap of vulgar expression that works better than anyone else in music could've done. It's an album so angrily sure of itself it'll have you convinced that a man worth 100 million dollars faces oppression comparable to that of a slave.… Expand
Jul 21, 2013West's new album still suffers from dumbfounded lyrics and pretentious segments, but has a lot of excellent collaborators (such as Frank OceanWest's new album still suffers from dumbfounded lyrics and pretentious segments, but has a lot of excellent collaborators (such as Frank Ocean and Daft Punk) and simplistic but masterful beats. Most of the songs are very distinctive and show that Kanye is back in the game.… Expand
Jul 24, 2013Following his highly successful collaboration album with Jay-Z ('Watch the Throne'), rapper Kanye West is back with what will most likely beFollowing his highly successful collaboration album with Jay-Z ('Watch the Throne'), rapper Kanye West is back with what will most likely be the most polarizing album of 2013. The original reception for this album ranged wildly from hailing it as the greatest rap album of all time, to dismissing it as the worst record Kanye has ever put out. Unfortunately, I find it hard to stray away from the latter.
The overly noisy and cacophonous production is just one of the things that hurts 'Yeezus'. On the majority of these tracks, it sounds like Kanye is just being different and loud for the sake of being different and loud, and not to reach a deeper musical meaning or theme. Sporadic outbursts of crazy randomness are all over the production of this LP, which in the end to me seem pretty damn uninspired. With the exception of a few tracks (see "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves"), a no point is Kanye able to generate any of kind of groove rhythm, melody, or really any real musical substance whatsoever. Perhaps the highlight of the album production-wise is the closer "Bound 2", which really sounds like a bonus track from Kanye's previous solo album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'.
Although I've never been a huge fan of Kanye's lyrics and flow, this album even perhaps reaches a new low. With again the exception of a few tracks, almost practically every song on 'Yeezus' is composed of cheap, egotistical, and overall pretty stupid lyricism. If after 'Watch the Throne' you thought it was impossible for Kanye to be even more eccentric, you thought wrong (see 'I Am a God' lol). 'New Slaves' is one of the few songs on this album that contains a relevant lyrics and themes.
Overall, the only reason why this album is rated as a 5/10 is thanks to the presence of a few golden tracks, that don't feature annoyingly noisy production or stupid lyrics. And don't get me started on the auto tune.
'New Slaves'
'Black Skinhead'
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Jun 19, 2013This is a weed plate...Something I'd use to break buds on...The only people who would find this album "revolutionary" are people who aren'tThis is a weed plate...Something I'd use to break buds on...The only people who would find this album "revolutionary" are people who aren't familiar with anything outside of top 40...He's biting styles left and right, but his take on other genres is sub-par to put it nicely...and the lyrics...bwahaha!...Kanye is the type of guy that would have a baby with Kim Kardashian...enough said… Expand
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Tonight on American Idol, it was Mariah Carey night for the top 7. David Archuleta led off the show with ''When You Believe,'' originally performed by Carey as a duet with Whitney Houston. All three judges were impressed; Simon called the season's youngest contestant ''the one to beat.'' He was less complimentary of Carly Smithson's take on ''Without You,'' which he said fell short of his expectations, but Randy was more supportive, telling Smithson she consistently challenges herself by performing ''big songs.'' Syesha Mercado was next up; her choice of ''Vanishing'' split the judges Paula applauded the selection, while Simon was wary of Mercado's pick of a less-familiar Mariah song. Brooke White performed an unplugged version of ''Hero,'' which led Simon to say, ''It was a bit like ordering a hamburger and only getting the bun.'' Randy, however, thought the performance had substance, and countered that ''the meat was in the bun.'' Viewers were told that Kristy Lee Cook's ''Forever'' gave Mariah Carey chills during their rehearsal session together, but Simon wasn't on board. ''You didn't give me chills," he told Kristy Lee. ''It wasn't great.'' David Cook fared far better with his haunting rendition of ''Always Be My Baby,'' which made Idol history when it received a standing ovation from Randy. This time, he got no argument from Simon, who congratulated Cook for being ''original'' and ''daring.'' Jason Castro closed the night with ''I Don't Wanna Cry,'' which was well received by Simon and Paula, but failed to engage Randy. He likened the performance to something he'd hear at ''a weird beach luau.''
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Capistrano Unified has identified $31 million in possible cuts as it prepares to trim at least $12 million from its 2009-10 budget. In a worst-case scenario, the district could be forced to cut up to $45 million this year and next.
$13.64 million: No employee step salary increases, 1 percent salary rollback, and a furlough day
$8.25 million: Increase class sizes in grades 4-12 by three students each
$3.28 million: Eliminate all funding for co-curricular athletics and activities
$2.36 million: Eliminate the 20:1 ratio of students to teachers in grades 1-3
$2 million: Cancel block music program in grades 4-5
$0.65 million: Divert revenue from leased office space to pay down principal on the district's administration building
$0.45 million: Close one school
$0.34 million: Continue funding school supply budgets at 75 percent
Source: Capistrano Unified School District
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO - Bracing for at least a $12 million budget deficit next year, the Capistrano Unified School District has put forth a drastic cost-cutting plan that could completely eliminate the popular 20:1 student-teacher ratio in primary grades, increase class sizes in grades four through 12 and wipe out funding for music and sports.
Also on the chopping block could be raises and step salary increases for teachers and other district employees, plus closure of one or more smaller elementary schools.
Administrators said years of budget-cutting in the 52,000-student school district have pared it down to the bones, leaving only basic student programs left to cut.
"I don't know how we go about finding these types of dollars without completely sacrificing the educational process as we know it today," Superintendent A. Woodrow Carter told trustees Monday night. "There is no emotion attached to these (proposed cuts), there is no win-win. ⦠We can't run a school district like this."
Trustees last spring slashed $12.9 million from the 2008-09 budget, eliminating 70 percent of the district's bus routes and about 160 non-classroom positions, including groundskeepers, maintenance workers, instructional aides and district-level administrators. Smaller class sizes, which were also on the chopping block last spring, were preserved, in part, by a $1 million donation from district parents.
With a gloomy state budget outlook for public education, similar cuts next year are almost inevitable, administrators said, to the point that it might not even be worth combing through the budget to identify smaller, line-item reductions.
"We have such a dramatic amount of money to cut, that to surgically go in and remove a nickel here and a dime here, we won't get the cuts we need," said Ron Lebs, deputy superintendent of business and support services.
And the news could get worse. School districts across California were notified last week that public education could face a $2 billion to $4 billion shortfall before the end of the current fiscal year. For Capistrano Unified, it would mean slashing $16 million to $33 million from its $400 million budget in the middle of the school year.
How reductions of this magnitude could be accomplished has district officials "at a complete loss," said spokeswoman Julie Hatchel.
Employment contracts cannot be terminated mid-year, so less than $8 million in reductions identified by the district so far could legally be made before the end of the school year.
The possibility of mid-year reductions is scheduled to be addressed at a Jan. 10 meeting, while next year's cuts will be discussed again at a Dec. 8 meeting.
Trustees asked a few questions about the proposed cuts at Monday's meeting, but had few comments.
"This is really hard to do," trustee Mike Darnold said. "None of us want to hear this."
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